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<P>THE SPEECH OF Sir <HI>EDWARD T&V;RNER</HI> KNIGHT,</P>
<P>SPEAKER of the Honourable Hou&s;e of COMMONS, TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,</P>
<P>On Monday the eleventh day of <HI>April,</HI> 1670. Upon the Adjournment of the Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Re-printed by <HI>Evan Tyler,</HI> Printer to the King's mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, 1670.</P>
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<HEAD>THE SPEECH OF Sir <HI>EDWARD T&V;RNER</HI> KNIGHT, SPEAKER of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS, To the KINGS mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, On Monday the eleventh day of <HI>April,</HI> 1670. Upon the Adjournment of the Parliament.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_AT the opening of this Se&s;&s;ion of Parlia|ment, your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> was plea&s;ed to &s;peak to your two Hou&s;es, and recommended three things e&s;pecially to us; Unity among&s;t our &s;elves, the Union of your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> two Kingdoms of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the &s;upply of your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> pre&s;ent and urgent Occa&s;ions. In obedience to your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Com|mands,
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 58 -->we have indu&s;triou&s;ly applyed our &s;elves to the con&s;ideration of the&s;e Matters.</P>
<P>By the ble&s;&s;ing of God, all differences are buried in oblivion; Your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> happy Expedient, hath like a &s;trong gale of Wind, blown up the Rouling Sands, and filled up all impre&s;&s;ions, <HI>Ve&s;tigia nulla retror&s;um:</HI> And as your People will univer&s;ally enjoy the fruit of this happy Union, So our united prayers to God &s;hall be, that your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> may be Crowned with the promi&s;ed Ble&s;&s;ing, <HI>Beati Patifici.</HI></P>
<P>In order to the Union of your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> two King|doms, both your Hou&s;es of Parliament have humbly be&s;ought your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> to name Commi&s;&s;ioners for this your Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> and we have prepared a Bill to Authorize them to Treat with Commi&s;&s;ioners to be appointed for your Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> upon &s;uch Grounds as &s;hall be thought conducing to that end, and to report them to your <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> and to both Hou&s;es of Parliament of this your Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> re&s;erving alwayes to your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> and the two Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment, the entire con&s;ideration of the whole, and the allowing or di&s;allowing thereof, or any part thereof, as they &s;hall think fit.</P>
<P>We have al&s;o con&s;idered of a Supply for your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Occa&s;ions; and I am commanded by the Knights, Ci|tizens and Burge&s;&s;es of the Hou&s;e of Commons, to pre|&s;ent your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> with this Bill, whereby we have given to your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> an Impo&s;ition upon all Wines and Vine|gar imported, after the rate of 8 <HI><ABBR>l.</ABBR> per</HI> Tun for all French Wines and Vinegar, and 12 <HI><ABBR>l.</ABBR> per</HI> Tun for all other Wines; and have granted this unto your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> for eight years, to commence from <HI>Mid&s;ummer</HI> next. And I am further commanded to acquaint your <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> that
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 58 -->we apprehended the Revenue ari&s;ing by the power of granting Wine Licences, &s;ettled upon his Royal High|ne&s;s by Act of Parliament, hath been prejudiced by the la&s;t Impo&s;ition upon Wines, and will be much more im|paired by this pre&s;ent Impo&s;ition: we therefore added the la&s;t year unto this Bill of Supply, with this Vote, That your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> be humbly de&s;ired therewith to re|compence his Royal Highne&s;s the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> for the damage he hath received, and &s;hall receive in his Revenue of Wine Licences, by this and the la&s;t Impo&s;ition.</P>
<P>Having thus in the fir&s;t place with all dutifulne&s;s obey|ed your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Commands, we held it nece&s;&s;ary to re|member tho&s;e that &s;ent us hither, and to pre&s;ent unto your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> &s;ome Bills that will be of publick u&s;e for all the People of the Nation.</P>
<P>There is fir&s;t a Bill for the prevention of Seditious Conventicles, whereby no man is hindred the u&s;e of his own Judgement, in the exerci&s;e of Religion by him&s;elf, or in his own Family, or in the pre&s;ence of four Strangers; but becau&s;e the Peace of the Nation may be endangered by more populous Meetings, contrary to the Liturgy and Practice of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> we have impo&s;ed a Penalty of 5 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> for the fir&s;t offence, and 10 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> for the &s;econd, and every other offence upon all &s;uch offenders, to be levyed by di&s;tre&s;s and &s;ale of the offenders Goods.</P>
<P>We are informed that your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> &s;uffers much by the &s;tealing and imbezilling of your Ordnance, Ammunition, Sail Cloaths and Stores; and likewi&s;e your good People are much damnified by a wicked &s;ort of people, who make it their practice in the night-time to &s;teal woollen Cloaths and Stuffs from off the Racks, and they are much encou|raged in this their wickedne&s;s, by rea&s;on they have their Clergy: We have therefore prepared a Bill for the tak|ing
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 59 -->away the benefit of Clergy, upon the conviction of all &s;uch offenders.</P>
<P>We have likewi&s;e prepared an additional Bill for the rebuilding the City of <HI>London,</HI> wherein we have revived the Judicatory of your <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> twelve Judges, im|powering them to hear and determine the remainder of Cau&s;es and Controver&s;ies, which have not already re|ceived a &s;ettlement by them. We have al&s;o made pro|vi&s;ion for the widening many more Streets than were mentioned in the former Act, and to enable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of <HI>London,</HI> to give &s;a|tisfaction to tho&s;e who&s;e Grounds &s;hall be taken from them. And al&s;o for laying the foundation at lea&s;t of the famous Cathedral of <HI>St. Paul,</HI> and towards the rebuild|ing of fifty one Pari&s;h Churches, we have added an Im|po&s;ition of 2 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> for every Chaldron of Coals that &s;hall be brought into the Port of <HI>London,</HI> for the &s;pace of &s;even|teen years to come.</P>
<P>We have likewi&s;e prepared a Bill for the a&s;certaining the Mea&s;ures of Corn and Salt, and provided that one Mea&s;ure &s;hall be u&s;ed in all the Market-Towns of this Kingdom.</P>
<P>We have found great inconveniences by the want of due repairing the Highwayes of this Kingdom, and have therefore taken care for time to come both to amend them, and to prevent the &s;poiling of them again, by car|rying exce&s;&s;ive Loads, and drawing them with extraordi|nary number of Hor&s;es and other Cattel.</P>
<P>Experience tells us, when the con&s;umption of Forreign Commodities exceeds the u&s;e and exportation of our Native Commodities, the Nation mu&s;t in&s;en&s;ibly grow poor, and our Trea&s;ure will be exhau&s;ted: We have therefore prepared a Bill for the encouragement of Til|lage,
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 59 -->by permitting the exporting of Corn, and al&s;o for the encouragement of other &s;orts of good Husbandry, by exporting of Hor&s;es, Swine and other Cattel, and of Butter and Chee&s;e, and have made them all free Merchan|dize, paying certain Duties to your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> upon the exportation.</P>
<P>There be &s;ome other Bills of a publick nature, and divers private Bills, all which are ready to be pre&s;ented to your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> for your Royal A&s;&s;ent, the which I &s;hall forbear to enumerate, for fear it may prove tedious to your <HI>Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
<P>Having given your <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> this Account of our pro|ceedings &s;ince our la&s;t meeting, in this our &s;hort, but happy Se&s;&s;ion, it is evident we have not mi&s;pent our time, but with the good Servant in the Go&s;pel, have gained many Talents; So that we may with comfort and &s;atisfaction return to our Hou&s;es, and we hope we &s;hall carry our Ma&s;ters Ble&s;&s;ing with us.</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS SPEECH.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_I</HI> Am unwilling to let you go away without telling you, that I am very well &s;atisfied with the &s;uc|ce&s;s of this Meeting; and that you have &s;o well complyed with My de&s;ires, both in the corre&s;pon|dence between the two Hou&s;es, and in the progre&s;s you have made towards an Union between the two Kingdoms. I heartily thank you for the Supply you have given Me; and I a&s;&s;ure you, I will make it go as far as I can, towards the &s;ati&s;|fying of My Debts. And becau&s;e you have been long from home, I am content you Adjourn your &s;elves till the <HI>24.</HI> of <HI>October</HI> next.</P>
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