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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<PB REF="1" MS="y"> M^r^. PYM, HIS SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT, On Saturday the 19th of February Concerning the pa&s;&s;ing of the Bill in the Com|mons Hou&s;e, for the pre&s;ent Pre&s;&s;ing of 15000 men, to be immediately tran&s;ported for <HI>IRELAND.</HI></P>
<P>Which Bill was that Evening &s;ent up to the Lords for their a&s;&s;ent, and was by them al&s;o con&s;ented unto, and pa&s;&s;ed accordingly.</P>
<P><HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">N,</HI> Printed for R. C. 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>M^r^. PYM, His Speech in Parliament on Saturday the 190 February, concerning the pa&s;&s;ing of the Bill in the Commons Hou&s;e, for the pre&s;ent Pre&s;&s;ing of 15000. men for
<HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. SPEAKER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe indeavors and proceedings of this Honorable Hou&s;e, for the further &s;up|ply and aide of Ireland, is now brought to a happy Period and conclu&s;ion, His Maie|&s;ties mo&s;t gratious expre&s;&s;ions, containing his Royall and Princely intentions therein hath given much life and vigor to our perfecting the &s;ame, I per&s;wade my &s;elfe, there is no man of what degree or dignitie &s;oever hee be of, but will be ready to &s;pend his life and fortunes in &s;o iu&s;t and pious a cau&s;e, fighting under the Banners of &s;o indulgent and carefull a King, for the welfare and peace of his good people; The cau&s;e being God, and their Prince, Gods
<PB REF="3"> Vicegerent in earth, to vindicate his true Re|ligion, and his owne honour and Royall digni|tie in &s;ubduing &s;uch Rebellious and ob&s;tinate mi&s;creants, more cruell and &s;avage in their traiterous and rebellious Actions, then no &s;tories of the mo&s;t Heatheni&s;h and tiranicall warres in the world, can produce the like Cru|elties again&s;t the Saints and &s;ervants of God, profe&s;&s;ing his true and pure Wor&s;hip, agree|able to his Word.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. SPEAKER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I need not now reitterate the cau&s;es that have hindered from time to time our proceedings in the&s;e affaires, and the Authors of the &s;ame, Prelates and &s;uch per&s;ons as are altogether de|voted to the Romi&s;h Religion; for it is a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rea|dy made manife&s;t to all men that are not wil|fully blinde, or ob&s;tinately refu&s;e to take no|tice thereof, The di&s;tractions and di&s;tempers by them and their adherents, produced and rai|&s;ed in this State, hath been our chiefe&s;t endea|vors to avoide and remove; thereby to &s;ecure the King, and this his Kingdome of England from their malitious plots and de&s;ignes, daily practi&s;ed and agitated by them again&s;t the &s;ame; Wee have happily at la&s;t, through the mercy of God, the wi&s;edome of his Maje&s;tie, and of his High Court of Parliament, provi|ded for the &s;afety and defence of the King|dome,
<PB REF="3"> by the la&s;t Act for the &s;etling the Mili|tia of the Kingdome, and
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> al&s;o provided a|gain&s;t future lets and impediments in our pro|ceedings by Prelaticall bi&s;hop, and their fa|vourers, in removing their votes, and &s;itting in the Hou&s;e of Peers, have provided again&s;t fu|ture plots and practi&s;es by Papi&s;ts and Recu|&s;ants, by pa&s;&s;ing the Act for their di&s;arming and confinement to places of &s;afe cu&s;tody, di|&s;tant from their places of habitation, Al&s;o en|deavored the removall of Popi&s;h Lords out of the Hou&s;e of Peers, by all which di&s;tractions of this State, are &s;ome what appea&s;ed and qui|etted, a faire way made for ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> proceedings to the Triall and puni&s;hment of delinquents, and e&s;tabli&s;hing Religion, and &s;uch a Govern|ment in the Church, as may agree with the Word of God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> And now have
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ime to thinke and con&s;ider of the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed e&s;tate of the Pro|te&s;tants in Ireland, and to relieve them with timely ayd and a&s;&s;i&s;tance before it be too late. To which purpo&s;e wee have now happily con|cluded of the Bill for the Pre&s;&s;ing of men, both for &s;ea and land, for that &s;ervice.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. SPEAKER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Sit hence wee have &s;o farre proceeded in this Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, I conceive it nece&s;&s;ary to pro|tract no further time in Expediting the &s;ame,
<PB REF="4"> By &s;ending it to the Lords for their A&s;&s;ert thereunto, and pre&s;ently put the &s;ame in exe|cution; Wee &s;ee how dangerous delay hath proved to that Kingdome, and not only to that, but this State al&s;o; which hath beene occa&s;i|oned by the cau&s;es before Expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mr. SPEAKER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I conceive under favour of this Honoura|ble Hou&s;e, that if about 15000. men for Hard-&s;ervice, be pre&s;ently <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ewied, and tran&s;|ported under Command of able and experien|ced Officers, well-affected and grounded in the Prote&s;tant Religion, with a Convenient force likewi&s;e of Sea-men, well &s;hipped un|der Command al&s;o of good and Skilfull Of|ficers for the Guard of the Iri&s;h Seas, and the &s;everall Ports and Havens of that King|dome, The &s;ame may againe in &s;hort time be reduced to due obedience and &s;ubiection to his Maie&s;tie, and the Crowne of England, We &s;ee nothing but the &s;word mu&s;t decide the Controver&s;ie, The unrea&s;onablene&s;&s;e and Impudencie of their Demands Imports &s;o much, They know the &s;ame, nay not one par|ticular thereof can be granted neither with &s;a|fety nor honour to his Maie&s;tie and his King|domes; therefore mu&s;t they &s;ubmit to the King, or altogether tru&s;t to the merits of their
<PB REF="4"> cau&s;e, which to the conceivance of all men of &s;ound and right Iudgements, well &s;etled in the true Religion, de&s;erveth nothing but &s;hame and Confu&s;ion, which God grant accordingly to all &s;uch as &s;hall &s;till per&s;i&s;t in their Trai|terous and rebellious Actions; and that victory and pro&s;perity may Crowne the head of our Gratious Soveraigne, and peace and tranquil|lity be evermore to the Kingdomes and Do|minions over whom he is &s;upreame head and Governour.</P>
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