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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P><HI>His Maje&s;ties</HI> GRACIOUS SPEECH To both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT, On <HI>Munday</HI> the 28^t^h of <HI>January,</HI> 1677/8.</P>
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<P><HI>EDINBURGH,</HI> Printed by <HI>Thomas Brown,</HI> one of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> Printers: <HI>Anno DOM,</HI> 1678.</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES GRACIOUS SPEECH To both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT, On <DATE><HI>Munday</HI> the 28^t^h of <HI>January,</HI> 1677/8.</DATE></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHen VVe parted la&s;t, I told you, That before VVe met again I would do that which &s;hould be to your Satisfacti|on; I have accordingly made &s;uch Alli|ances with <HI>Holland,</HI> as are for the Pre&s;er|vation of <HI>Flanders,</HI> and which cannot &s;ail of that End, unle&s;s prevented either
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 34 -->by the want of due A&s;&s;i&s;tances to &s;upport tho&s;e Alliances, or by the &s;mall regard the <HI>Spaniards</HI> them&s;elves mu&s;t have to their own Pre&s;ervation.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t of the&s;e <HI>I</HI> cannot &s;u&s;pect, by rea&s;on of your repeated Engagements to maintain them; and <HI>I</HI> know you are &s;o wi&s;e, as to con&s;ider, That a VVar, which mu&s;t be the nece&s;&s;ary Con&s;e|quence of them, ought neither to be pro|&s;ecuted by Halves, nor to want &s;uch A&s;|&s;urances of Per&s;everance as may give Me Encouragement to pur&s;ue it; be&s;ides, it will not be le&s;s nece&s;&s;ary, to let Our E|nemies have &s;uch a Pro&s;pect of Our Re|&s;olutions, as may let them &s;ee certain|ly, That VVe &s;hall not be weary of Our Arms, till <HI>Chri&s;tendom</HI> be re&s;tored to &s;uch a Peace, as &s;hall not be in the Power of any Prince alone to Di&s;turb.</P>
<P>I do acknowledge to you, That I have u&s;ed all the Means po&s;&s;ible, by a Medi|ation
<PB N="5" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 34 -->to have procured an Honourable and Safe Peace for <HI>Christendom;</HI> know|ing how preferable &s;uch a Peace would have been to any War, and e&s;pecially to this Kingdom, which mu&s;t nece&s;&s;ari|ly own the va&s;t Benefits it has received by Peace, whil&s;t its Neighbours onely have yet &s;marted by the VVar: But finding it no longer to be hoped for by fair means, it &s;hall not be My fault if that be not obtained by Force, which cannot be had otherways.</P>
<P>For this Rea&s;on I have recalled My Troops from <HI>France,</HI> and have con&s;i|der'd, That although the <HI>Dutch</HI> &s;hall do their parts, VVe cannot have le&s;s on Ours, then Ninty Sail of Capital Ships con&s;tantly maintained; nor le&s;s then Thirty or Fourty thou&s;and Land-men, (with their Dependencies) to be em|ployed upon Our Fleets, and el&s;ewhere. And becau&s;e there &s;hall be no fear of
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 35 -->Mi&s;-employing what you &s;hall give to the&s;e U&s;es, I am contented that &s;uch Money be appropriated to tho&s;e Ends, as &s;trictly as you can de&s;ire. I have gi|ven Te&s;timony enough of My care in that kind, by the Progre&s;s I have made in Building the New Ships, wherein, for the making them more u&s;eful, I have Directed &s;uch larger Dimen&s;ions, as will co&s;t Me above One hundred thou&s;and pounds more then the Act allows. I have gone as far as <HI>I</HI> could in Repairing the Old Fleet, and in Buying of Ne|ce&s;&s;ary Stores for the Navy, and Ord|nance; And in this and other provi&s;i|ons, for better Securing both My Fo|reign Plantations, and the I&s;lands nearer home, <HI>I</HI> have expended a great deal more than the Two hundred thou&s;and pounds you enabled Me to Borrow upon the exci&s;e, although <HI>I</HI> have not found &s;uch a Credit as <HI>I</HI> expected upon that Securi|ty.
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 35 --><HI>I</HI> have born the Charge both of a Rebellion in <HI>Virginia,</HI> and a new War with <HI>Algiers:</HI> I &s;tand Engaged to the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> for My Nieces Porti|on; and I &s;hall not be able to Maintain My con&s;tant nece&s;&s;ary E&s;tabli&s;hments, unle&s;s the New Impo&s;t upon VVines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> be continued to Me, which would otherwi&s;e turn only to their Profit, to whom VVe lea&s;t intend it.</P>
<P>I hope the&s;e things will need little Re|commendation to you, when you con|&s;ider your Promi&s;es in &s;ome, and the nece&s;&s;ity of the re&s;t; and to let you &s;ee, that I have not only employed My Time and Trea&s;ure for your Safety, but done all I could to remove all &s;orts of Jealou&s;ies, <HI>I</HI> have married My Niece to the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> by which I hope <HI>I</HI> have given full A&s;&s;urances that <HI>I</HI> &s;hall never &s;uffer his intere&s;t to be ruined, if <HI>I</HI> can be A&s;|&s;i&s;ted, as <HI>I</HI> ought to be, to pre&s;erve them.</P>
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Having done all this, I expect from you a plentiful Supply, &s;uitable to &s;uch great Occa&s;ions, whereon depends not only the Honour, but (for ought <HI>I</HI> know) the Being of an Engli&s;h Nation, which will not be &s;aved by finding faults afterwards but may be prevented by avoiding the chief Fault of doing weak|ly and by halves, what can only be ho|ped from a vigorous and through pro&s;e|cution of what VVe undertake.</P>
<P>The&s;e con&s;iderations are of the grea|te&s;t Importance that ever concerned this Kingdom; and therefore I would have you enter immediatly upon them, with|out &s;uffering any other Bu&s;ine&s;s what&s;oe|ver to divert you from bringing them to good Re&s;olutions.</P>
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