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<P>INSTRUCTIONS Lately agreed on by the Lords and Commons A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT, For the Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;ent by them to the <HI>Hague,</HI> unto the <HI>Kings</HI> mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>Together with the SPEECH Made thereupon by the Honorable <HI>DENZELL HOLLES</HI><ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></P>
<P>One of the COMMISSIONERS, on Wedne&s;day the 16^t^h day of <HI>May,</HI> 1660.</P>
<P>Now Publi&s;hed for the taking off and di&s;proving tho&s;e fal&s;e Reports rai&s;ed by &s;ome malicious Per&s;ons, as if he had gone beyond his Commi&s;&s;ion, and the &s;aid In&s;tructions.</P>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Robert Clavel</HI> at the Stags-head in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard, 1660. <ADD>June 7</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>INSTRUCTIONS FOR <HI>Aubery</HI> Earl of <HI>Oxford, Charles</HI> Earl of <HI>War|wick, Lyonel</HI> Earl of <HI>Middle&s;ex, Lyce&s;ter</HI> Vi&s;count <HI>Hereford, George</HI> Lord <HI>Berkley, Robert</HI> Lord <HI>Brooke,</HI> the Lord <HI>Herbert,</HI> the Lord <HI>Mandevile,</HI> the Lord <HI>Bruce,</HI> the Lord <HI>Ca&s;tle&s;ton,</HI> the Lord <HI>Falkland,</HI> the Lord <HI>Fairfax, Denzell Holles</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Sir <HI>Ho|ratio Town&s;end,</HI> Sir <HI>John Holland,</HI> Sir <HI>An|thony A&s;hley-Cooper,</HI> Sir <HI>George Booth,</HI> and Sir <HI>Henry Cholmley.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_YOU are to begin your Journey towards his Maje&s;ty on Fryday next, and make a &s;peedy repair to &s;uch place where his Maje&s;ty &s;hall be, and humbly to pre|&s;ent the Letters wherewith you are re|&s;pectively intru&s;ted by both Hou&s;es of Parliament.</P>
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You are to acquaint his Maje&s;ty with what great Joy and Acclamation he was Proclamed, in and about the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> upon the Eighth day of <HI>May</HI> in&s;tant, and pre&s;ent the Procla|mation it &s;elf unto his Maje&s;ty; and to acquaint him with the Orders of both Hou&s;es to have the &s;ame Proclaimed throughout the Kingdoms of <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> and the Town of <HI>Barwick</HI> upon <HI>Tweed;</HI> And that both Hou&s;es have Ordered, <HI>That all and every the Mini&s;ters through|out the Kingdoms of</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland <HI>be enjoyned in their publique Prayers to pray for his mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, and for the mo&s;t Illu&s;trious Prince</HI> James <HI>Duke of</HI> Yorke, <HI>and the re&s;t of the Royal Pro|geny.</HI> And al&s;o that they have Ordered, <HI>That the a&s;&s;umed Armes of the late pretended Common-wealth wherever they are &s;tanding be taken down, and that his Maje&s;ties Armes be &s;et up in &s;tead thereof:</HI> And you are to communicate to his Maje&s;ty the Re&s;olutions of both Hou&s;es relating to this In|&s;truction.</P>
<P>You are to acquaint his Maje&s;ty with the earne&s;t de&s;ire of both Hou&s;es, That his Maje&s;ty will be plea&s;ed to make a &s;peedy return to his Parliament, and to the Exerci&s;e of his Kingly Office, and that in Order thereunto both Hou&s;es have given directions to General <HI>Mountague,</HI> one of the Generals at Sea, and other Officers of the Fleet, to ob&s;erve &s;uch Com|mands, as his Maje&s;ty &s;hall plea&s;e to give him or them for di&s;po&s;al of the Fleet, in Order to his Ma|je&s;ties Return; And you are to communicate to his Maje&s;ty the re&s;olutions of both Hou&s;es relating to this In&s;truction.</P>
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That the Committee from both Hou&s;es do be&s;eech his Maje&s;ty, That they may know where he purpo&s;eth to take Shipping, and to Land at his coming Over, that preparation may be made for his Reception; and which of his Maje&s;ties hou&s;es He intendeth to make u&s;e of at his fir&s;t coming to <HI>London;</HI> And whether he will come all the way by Land after he comes on &s;hoar, or whether he will plea&s;e to come by Water from <HI>Grave&s;end</HI> to <HI>London;</HI> And that his Maje&s;ty will declare in what manner he is plea&s;ed to be received.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Will. Je&s;&s;op</HI> Cl. of the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE SPEECH Made thereupon by the Honorable <HI>DENZELL HOLLES</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> One of the COMMISSIONERS.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dread Soveraign,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<Q><P>_YOur faithful Subjects the Commons of <HI>England</HI> a&s;&s;embled in Parlia|ment have &s;ent us hither, Twelve of their Number to wait upon your Maje&s;ty; and by their Commands we are here pro&s;trate at your Royal feet, where them&s;elves are all of them pre&s;ent with us in the &s;incere and mo&s;t Loyal affections and de&s;ires of their hearts, and would have been in their per&s;ons, if your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them by all the &s;eve|rall parts of the Kingdom did not nece&s;&s;arily require their attendance and continuance in the place where
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they now are, and where all their thoughts and endea|vors are wholly taken up, and imployed in tho&s;e two great and main works, which are the proper and genuine ends of all Parliaments, the Advancement of their Kings &s;ervice and the di&s;charge of their Coun|tries tru&s;t.</P>
<P>And certainly, Sir, we can &s;peak it with a great deal of Joy, and with no le&s;&s;e of Truth, that never Parliament made greater demon&s;trations of Zeal, Affection and Loyalty to any of the Kings of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> then this Parliament hath done, and doth, and we hope, and doubt not, nay we know it that it ever will do unto your Maje&s;ty, our Liege Lord and King. Their hearts are filled with a Veneration of you, Longings for you, Confidence in you, and De|&s;ires to &s;ee and &s;erve you, and their tongues do upon all occa&s;ions expre&s;&s;e it; and in &s;o doing they are (ac|cording to the Nature of Parliaments) the true Re|pre&s;entative of the whole Nation: for they but do that in a more contracted and regular way, which the Generality of the people of the Land, from the one end of it to another, do in a more confu&s;ed and di&s;orderly manner, yet as heartily and as affectionate|ly, all degrees, and ages, and &s;exes, high and low, rich and poor (as I may &s;ay) Men, Women, and Children joyn in &s;ending up this prayer to Heaven, <HI>God ble&s;&s;e King</HI> Charles, <HI>Long live King</HI> Charles; So as our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> air is not &s;u&s;ceptible of any other &s;ound, and ecchoes out nothing el&s;e; our Bels, Bone|fires, peals of Ordinance, Volleys of &s;hot, the &s;houts and acclamations of the People, bears no other Mo|ral, have no other Signification, but to triumph,
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triumphs of our King in the hearts of his people.</P>
<P>Your Maje&s;tie cannot imagine nor can any man conceive it but he who was pre&s;ent to &s;ee and heare it, with what Joy, what cheerefulne&s;&s;e, what let|tings out of the Soule, what expre&s;&s;ions of tran&s;por|ted minds, a &s;tupendious concour&s;e of people, atten|ded the proclayming of your Maje&s;tie in your Ci|ties of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> to be our mo&s;t po|tent, mighty, and undoubted King, the olde&s;t man living never &s;aw the like before, nor is it probable, &s;carce po&s;&s;ible, that he who hath longe&s;t to live will ever &s;ee the like again, e&s;pecially (and God forbid he &s;hould) upon &s;uch an Occa&s;ion, for we wi&s;h and heartily pray that your Maje&s;tie may be the la&s;t of men of the Generation now in being, who &s;hall leave his place to a &s;ucce&s;&s;or.</P>
<P>We have here the <HI>Proclamation</HI> it &s;elf to pre&s;ent unto your Maje&s;tie and the Order of the two Hou&s;es enjoyning it to be proclaimed throughout <HI>England, Ireland,</HI> and your <HI>Dominions of Wales;</HI> And like|wi&s;e their Orders for all Mini&s;ters in their publick Prayers to pray for your Maje&s;tie, and for the <HI>Illu|&s;trious Prince the Duke of York your Maje&s;ties Brother,</HI> and for the re&s;t of the <HI>Royall Progeny;</HI> and another Order of theirs for taking down every where the a&s;|&s;umed armes of the late pretended <HI>Common wealth,</HI> and &s;etting up the Armes of your Maje&s;tie in their &s;tead.</P></Q>
<P><HI>Here he tendred the Proclamation and the &s;everall Orders unto his Maje&s;ty, offered to read them, but then &s;aid, he thought that his Maje&s;ty had already received them from the Lords, and that therefore it</HI>
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<HI>would be but a trouble to his Maje&s;ty to hear them again. To which his Maje&s;ty an&s;wering that he had received them, was plea&s;ed further to enlarge him|&s;elf in &s;ome di&s;cour&s;e to this effect; Expre&s;sing his &s;ence of the mi&s;eries which his people had &s;uffered under tho&s;e unlawfull Governours which had ruled over them, and of his gladne&s;&s;e for their returning unto him, with tho&s;e good affections, which they now &s;hewed towards him; adding that he had al|waies made it his &s;tudy, and ever would to make them as happy as him&s;elf, which was the Summe and Sub&s;tance of what his Maje&s;ty &s;aid.</HI></P>
<P><HI>To which was replyed with humble thanks for tho&s;e gracious expre&s;&s;ions, That his Maje&s;ty would ever find both Parliament and People to be full of Loyalty and Obedience unto his Maje&s;ty: as his Maje&s;ty was of grace and goodne&s;&s;e towards them. And then he went on with his Speech, relating to tho&s;e orders and proceedings of Parliament; And &s;aid,</HI></P>
<Q><P>The&s;e are &s;ome te&s;timonies of their love and af|fection unto your Maje&s;ty &s;uch as can as yet be ex|pre&s;&s;ed by them, which are but as a picture in little of a great and large body, which farre exceeds in its true, and naturall dimen&s;ions, the whole com|pa&s;s of a &s;mall peice of cloth, on which notwith&s;tan|ding it is drawn and repre&s;ented to the life.</P>
<P>And may it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty to gives us leave to &s;ay, that as the affection, &s;o your Subjects expec|tations of you are high, and their longings after you, great and vehement. And both expectations and lon|gings have increa&s;ed by the long time; that your
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Maje&s;tie hath been kept from them. Hope defer|red makes the heart &s;ick. And the &s;ickne&s;&s;e &s;till augments till the thing hoped for be Obteyned.</P>
<P>You who are the light of their eyes, and the breath of their no&s;trils, their delight and all their hope, to have been &s;o long bani&s;hed from them in|to a &s;trange land, it is no wonder that the news of your return, &s;hould put a new life into them, what then will it be when their eyes &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed, with the &s;ight of <HI>your Royall Per&s;on?</HI> And therefore are we commanded humbly to acquaint your Maje&s;tie with the earne&s;t de&s;ires of both Hou&s;es for your &s;pee|dy return unto your Parliament, and the exerci&s;e of your Kingly Office; And that in order to it, they have given directions to <HI>Generall Montague</HI> one of the Generals at Sea and to the other Officers at Sea, to ob&s;erve &s;uch Commands, as your Maje&s;tie &s;hall plea&s;e to give them for the di&s;po&s;all of the Fleete; And we have it in our in&s;tructions further to be&s;eech your Maje&s;tie to let your Parliament know when, and where, your Maje&s;ty purpo&s;eth to take &s;hip|ping, and where to land; and after your comming on &s;hoare, whither to come all the way to <HI>London</HI> by land, or by water from <HI>Grave&s;end;</HI> And which of your Hou&s;es your Maje&s;tie intends to make u&s;e of at your comming to <HI>London,</HI> that accordingly pro|vi&s;ion may be made for your Maje&s;ties reception, for then, and not till then will be the compleating of your &s;ubjects rejoycing.</P>
<P>True it is (as your Maje&s;ty was plea&s;ed ju&s;t now to touch upon it) that in your ab&s;ence, other Lords have had Dominion over them, have reign|ned
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and ruled over their bodies, and e&s;tates; but their better part their hearts and mindes and &s;oules were free, and did abhor &s;uch Rulers, and &s;till conti|nued faithfull and loyall to your Maje&s;tie, their rightfull <HI>Lord</HI> and <HI>Soveraigne</HI> and with you and un|der you they now expect to re-enter into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|on of their antient rights, and priviledges, to enjoy again their Lawes, and Liberties, and which is a|bove all their Religion in purity, and truth; of all which tho&s;e Lords (who called them&s;elves &s;o, and made them&s;elves &s;o (that is, to be &s;o called, but in truth were not &s;o, for they were nothing le&s;&s;e, tho&s;e kind of Lords I &s;ay had &s;o long deprived them. This is our expectation from your Maje&s;tie and we are more then confident, we &s;hall not be deceived in it, but that your Maje&s;tie will an&s;wer and go be|yond all that can be expected from you: A King of &s;o many vowes, and of &s;o many Prayers, cannot but crown the de&s;ires of his people.</P>
<P>Sir to tell you what men think, and &s;ay, and wi&s;h, and even are a&s;&s;ured of in relation to your Maje&s;ty and the happine&s;s which your Government will pro|duce, would &s;eem a de&s;cription of the Golden Age, that Poets fancy.</P>
<P>Truly we dare not undertake it, in your Maje&s;tys pre&s;ence, lea&s;t we &s;hould be thought to flatter, and &s;hould offend the &s;acred mode&s;ty of your ears, and of your princely mind. Though it would all be but a reall truth; yet looking like that, which you do not like, we fear you would di&s;like it for the looke &s;ake, Great princes will not be flattered, but really, and truly &s;erved, and we de&s;ire to &s;erve your Maje&s;tie in your own way.</P>
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Your Maje&s;ty hath been plea&s;ed to declare your royall intentions unto your Parliament, in your gra|tious letters, to either hou&s;e and the two hou&s;es have &s;everally given unto your Maje&s;ty a faithful account of that gratefull &s;ence, wherewith they have recei|ved them, and of their humble &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion unto and complyance with, all-your Maje&s;tyes de&s;ires, which by their Letters in an&s;wer unto your Maje&s;ties they make bold to &s;ignifie. That from the Hou&s;e of Peers hath been already pre&s;ented and we who are before your maje&s;ty are intru&s;ted by the Hou&s;e of Commons with the delivery of theirs, an honour not more conferred upon us beyond our de&s;ervings, then embraced and received by us, with an exce&s;&s;e of joy and with all due re&s;pects, which is the errand upon which we are now come. That Letter and the Proclamation and the &s;everall Orders, together with our &s;elves, our lives and fortunes, and the vowes and &s;ervices of tho&s;e who &s;ent us, we do with all hum|blene&s;&s;e lay at your maje&s;ties feet, lifting up our hearts and hands to the God of Heaven, for your maje&s;ties long and happy reigne over us, and &s;pee|dy return unto us.</P></Q>
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