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<P>His MAJESTIES GRACIOUS LETTER To His Parliament of Scotland: WITH THE SPEECH OF HIS Royal Highne&s;s the Duke, <HI>His Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner,</HI> At the Opening of the Parliament at EDINBURGH, the 28th Day of <HI>July,</HI> 1681.</P>
<P><HI>TOGETHER WITH</HI> The Parliaments mo&s;t Loyal and Dutiful An&s;wer to His Maje&s;ties Letter.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by His Maje&s;ties &s;pecial Command.</P>
<P><HI>In the SAVOY:</HI> Printed by THOMAS NEWCOMB. 1681.</P>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties Gracious LETTER to His Parliament of SCOTLAND.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>CHARLES</HI> R.</SIGNED><LB>
<SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>OUR Inclination to embrace all Opportunities to expre&s;s Our con&s;tant Care of, and affection to Our Ancient Kingdom, hath moved Us to Call You together at this time, to Advi&s;e with Us what may truly conduce to the Security and Intere&s;t thereof: And as We have ever judged Our Own and the Intere&s;ts of Our Subjects to be un&s;eparable, and &s;uch as would divide them, to be in their Hearts Enemies to Both; (Experi|ence having &s;ufficiently evinced, that all Inva&s;ions upon, or Di|minutions of, the Rights and Prerogatives of Our Crown, prove fatal, and de&s;tructive to the Security and Property of Our People, which can only thereby be protected) &s;o are they then be&s;t ma|naged and &s;ecured, when provided for by Unanimous Coun&s;els and Joint Re&s;olutions. And as it is one of Our greate&s;t Sati&s;|factions that We have been always careful of that Our Ancient Kingdom, with a Tenderne&s;s &s;uitable to Our great Intere&s;t in it; &s;o when We remember the firm and dutiful Con&s;tancy which it hath always paid to the Royal Line and Family; and that now it is your Intere&s;t as well as Duty to adhere unto it with Un|&s;haken Loyalty as much as ever; We cannot doubt of your Ready and Zealous Compliance at this time, with what &s;hall be Propo&s;ed as fit for Our Service; which can never be divided from the Happine&s;s of Our People.</P>
<P>And &s;ince &s;ome (corrupted with the Rebellious Principles of the La&s;t Age, or the Blind Zeal of this) have at fir&s;t rai&s;ed Schi&s;ms and Separation in the Church, and afterwards frequent Rebellions again&s;t Us; We cannot but expect from your Pru|dent Con&s;ultations, effectual and adequate Remedies for curing the&s;e Violent Di&s;tempers at pre&s;ent, and preventing them for the future: And that you will not de&s;pi&s;e or connive at the &s;malle&s;t
<PB N="4" REF="4">Appearances of the&s;e Wicked and Seditious Principles, which (bow plau&s;ibly &s;oever they may be di&s;gui&s;ed under the old Pre|tences and fallacious Masks of Liberty and Religion, which are ever lea&s;t minded by the mo&s;t Clamorous Pretenders to them) yet in the I&s;&s;ue lead to &s;uch Mon&s;trous Effects, and Rebellious Extravagances, as nece&s;&s;arily tend to the Di&s;&s;olution of all Go|vernment <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Order: And of which you cannot chu&s;e but be deeply &s;en&s;ible.</P>
<P>This being once effectually done, We may rea&s;onably hope that Our Government in Church and State, as by Law pre&s;ently E&s;tabli&s;hed, &s;hall receive its due Reverence and Obedience, and that all Our good Subjects &s;hall be pre&s;erved in Peace, T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">anqui|lity and Happine&s;s. For promoting the&s;e Great Ends, &s;o ne|ce&s;&s;ary to the &s;ecuring the Prote&s;tant Religion, Our Authority and Government, and the Common Intere&s;t of Our People, by your Joint Advice, who are &s;o much concerned; and for Enact|ing of &s;uch laws as Experience hath di&s;covered to be wanting for di&s;tribution of Ju&s;tice in &s;everal Ca&s;es, which have emerged &s;ince Our la&s;t Parliament, We have called This; and as an Emi|nent Expre&s;&s;ion of Our Favour to You, have named Our mo&s;t Dear and mo&s;t Entirely Beloved Brother <HI>JAMES</HI> Duke of <HI>Albany</HI> and <HI>York, &amp;c.</HI> to be Our Commi&s;&s;ioner therein, whom We have found &s;o Affectionate to You, and to whom You have te|&s;tified &s;o much Duty during His long &s;tay among&s;t You, which have enabled Him &s;o well to under&s;tand the Affairs and Intere&s;t of that Our Ancient Kingdom. And &s;ince His Intere&s;t is &s;o un|&s;eparable from Ours, We &s;hall not doubt of Your Ready and Chearful Concurrence to render His Endeavours among&s;t You &s;ucce&s;sful for &s;ecuring Our Government, and your own Peace and Happine&s;s. By doing whereof you will an&s;wer the entire Con|&s;idence We have in your Prudence and Loyalty; and &s;o We bid you heartily Farewel.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Wind&s;or-Ca&s;tle,</HI> <DATE>the 12th Day of <HI>July,</HI> 1681. and of Our Reign the 33th Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By His Maje&s;ties Command. <HI>MORRAY.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Speech of His Royal Highne&s;s the Duke, His Ma|je&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner, at the Opening of the Parliament at <HI>Edenburg,</HI> the <HI>28th</HI> Day of <HI>July,</HI> 1681.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>AS I have had the Honour to Serve His Maje&s;ty in other Capacities, &s;o I e&s;teem it a great Honour and Happi|ne&s;s, that he hath been plea&s;ed to make Choice of Me to &s;erve Him as His Commi&s;&s;ioner in this His Ancient Kingdom; Since it &s;hows to all the World, the Goodne&s;s He hath for Me, as well as the Tru&s;t and Confidence He hath in Me, and puts Me not only in a Capacity of &s;erving Him as becomes a Dutiful and Loyal Subject, but al&s;o gives Me the Opportunity of letting You all &s;ee, the real Concern I have for the Good of this Country, and My readine&s;s to &s;erve it, and promote its true Intere&s;ts.</P>
<P>I do not doubt but that this will be a happy Meeting, and end to the Satisfaction of His Maje&s;ty, and all His Loyal Sub|jects; which I &s;ay with the greater Confidence, having now been &s;o long among&s;t You, and found &s;o great a Readine&s;s in all of You for the Advancing of His Maje&s;ties Service.</P>
<P>You have heard in His Maje&s;ties Gracious Letter, the Rea|&s;ons of his Calling you together at this time, and what He doth, and may, expect from this His Ancient Kingdom; of who&s;e Loyalty and Affection to His Service, He doth in no manner doubt.</P>
<P>He hath commanded Me to a&s;&s;ure You, That He will invio|lably Maintain and Protect the Prote&s;tant Religion, as now E&s;tabli&s;hed by Law in this His Kingdom; and that He will up|on the &s;ame Account, Protect and Maintain the Government of the Church by Arch-Bi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops, and will take their Per&s;ons, and all other their Concerns into His Royal Care and Protection: And doth &s;eriou&s;ly recommend to You, to fall up|on Effectual Cour&s;es, for Suppre&s;&s;ing tho&s;e Seditious and Re|bellious Coventicles, from whence proceed all Di&s;order and Confu&s;ion, and tho&s;e Horrid and Extravagant Doctrines, which are a Scandal to Chri&s;tianity, and a Subver&s;ion of all Publick and Private Intere&s;ts.</P>
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<P> I am al&s;o to Declare to You in His Maje&s;ties Name, that it <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> and was always His Intention, that Law &s;hould have its due Cour&s;e, for the Security of His Subjects Properties and Rights; and that He will always di&s;countenance all Cour&s;es contrary to, and incon&s;i&s;tent with the Laws of this Kingdom; none being &s;o much concerned for their due Ob&s;ervance as Him&s;elf.</P>
<P>And now He doth expect You will not be &s;hort of the Loy|alty of your Ance&s;tors, in vigorou&s;ly a&s;&s;erting and clearing His Royal Prerogative, and in declaring the Rights of His Crown in its Natural and Legal cour&s;e of De&s;cent&punc; and that You will take Care to &s;ettle and provide &s;uch &s;ea&s;onable and nece&s;&s;ary Supplies, which the Support and Intere&s;t of His Government call for and require.</P>
<P>And now I hope, that as the Councel have already begun to do their parts to promote the Trade of this Kingdom, that You will al&s;o do Yours, that at may Flouri&s;h.</P>
<P>My Lords and Gentlemen,<LB> A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Inclination I h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d to &s;erve and promote the Intere&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Kingdom hath been the chief Inducement to His Maje&s;ty to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ive Me thi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Opportunity to convince You of it, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> may <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> do what becomes Me to &s;atisfie You o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">th and I hope you will have that Con&s;ideration and Kind|ne&s;s for Me, as to enable Me to perform His Service.</P>
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<HEAD>The Parliaments mo&s;t Loyal and Dutiful An&s;wer to His Maje&s;ties Letter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your Sacred Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe manifold &s;ad Experiences of the fatal Mi&s;chiefs and Calamities which attend Rebellions, mu&s;t needs in due proportion, di&s;po&s;e all Your Maje&s;ties Subjects to higher mea|&s;ures of Loyalty, more particularly Us in this Your Ancient Kingdom; being &s;en&s;ible that as we have a more &s;pecial intere&s;t in Your Maje&s;ties Sacred Per&s;on and Family, &s;o mu&s;t we inevi|tably &s;hare the more deeply in all the Inconveniencies which may di&s;turb or &s;ubvert Your Royal Government: And therefore as
<PB N="7" REF="5">by our Allegiance we own it our Duty to be Obedient and Loyal to Your Maje&s;ty, and your Lawful Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors, &s;o Your Maje&s;ties extraordinary Kindne&s;s to &s;uch as have continued in their Duty, and Your wonderful Clemency (by Your repeated Indemnities) to &s;uch as have fallen from it, cannot but kindle in us &s;trong and ardent de&s;ires to &s;erve Your Maje&s;ty with all the Courage and Alacrity of which we are capable, and to let Your other Kingdoms and all the World &s;ee, that we e&s;teem our Lives and Fortunes to be be&s;t employed in maintaining of the ju&s;t Rights and Prerogatives of your Maje&s;ties Crown and Monar|chy; the Native Succe&s;&s;ion whereof cannot be invaded without the utter Subver&s;ion of the Fundamental Laws of this your Ma|je&s;ties Ancient Kingdom: And this our Loyalty we e&s;teem our alone Security to avoid tho&s;e Confu&s;ions and that Slavery which di&s;tracted and ruined us in the la&s;t Age, and &s;eemeth to threa|ten us &s;o apparently in this.</P>
<P><HI>SIR,</HI><LB> Though &s;ome Rebellious and deluded People have di&s;turbed your Maje&s;ties Government here, yet their Principles are &s;o ex|travagant, and &s;o few Per&s;ons of any Note or Quality are en|gaged with them, that we may ju&s;tly hope their Crimes cannot be imputed to this Kingdom, who&s;e Repre&s;entatives in this your Maje&s;ties Parliament will, no le&s;s for their Vindication as to what is pa&s;t, than for their own Security for the time coming, che<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">|fully provide &s;uitable and &s;ufficient Remedies; all of us being very &s;en&s;ible that tho&s;e Di&s;tractions and Di&s;orders would in the i&s;&s;ue tend to the Di&s;&s;olution, not only of your Maje&s;ties Govern|ment in Church and State, as the &s;ame is by Law E&s;tabli&s;hed, but even of all Humane Society.</P>
<P>It is a great &s;atisfaction to us, to find Your Maje&s;ty &s;o concer|ned for the Prote&s;tant Religion, not only in your Gracious Let|ter to us, but in the whole Conduct of your Royal Govern|ment; and we &s;hall with all Chri&s;tian Care and Duty, endea|vour to confirm it, &s;o as it may become a &s;olid and pious Sup|port to your Royal Family and Monarchy, and a &s;ure Fence in this di&s;turbed and divided Church, again&s;t all the U&s;urpations and Di&s;orders of Popery and Phanati&s;chim; that &s;o for the fu|ture the pretence of its In&s;ecurity may not be made (as former|ly) an Engine for carrying on di&s;loyal De&s;igns and Practices</P>
<P>We offer our mo&s;t humble and hearty Thanks to Your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty for calling us together at this time, to con&s;ult joyntly the Intere&s;ts of your Maje&s;ties Government, and of your
<PB N="8" REF="6">Subjects in this your Ancient Kingdom, which we tru&s;t &s;hall ne|ver be divided: And therefore as the Prerogatives and ju&s;t Rights of the Monarchy, are ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for the defence of our Properties and Liberties, &s;o in pur&s;uance of our own In|tere&s;t, and for further clearing of our Duty and Allegiance by po&s;itive Laws, we &s;hall not fail to declare our humble and hear|ty Acknowledgments of the ju&s;t Rights and Prerogatives of your Imperial Crown in its Ju&s;t, Native and Lineal Cour&s;e of De&s;cent, and to &s;ecure the ju&s;t Rights and Liberties of your Subjects, &s;o as may fully demon&s;trate our unalterable Re&s;olutions never to depart from our Duty to your Royal Family, and your Lawful Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors, to whom we are tied by &s;o many &s;acred Obligations</P>
<P>We do al&s;o with all humble gratitude acknowledg, the Grace and Honour done to this Kingdom, in naming Your Royal Brother to be your Maje&s;ties High Commi&s;&s;ioner in this pre&s;ent Parlia|ment; and indeed the beholding a Son of our Ancient Mo|narchs (under whom we and our Ance&s;tors have been &s;o long and happily Governed) in this Character, doth vigorou&s;ly awa|ken in us the remembrance of our native Kindne&s;s and Obliga|tion, as his ju&s;t Temper and &s;teady Equality in all our Concerns, cannot but extingui&s;h in us all fears and jealou&s;ies of Severity or Partiality, his Intere&s;t being in&s;eperable from your Maje&s;ties, and he being well acquainted with all our Concerns, and &s;o affectio|nate to and careful of them, your Maje&s;ty may ju&s;tly expect from a Parliament under the Conduct of &s;uch a Commi&s;&s;ioner, all that can be judged nece&s;&s;ary for the Honour and Support of your Royal Government and Authority, and for &s;ecuring the ju&s;t Rights and Liberties of your Subjects; and that, with all the Loyalty, Readine&s;s, and Sincerity which can be expre&s;&s;ed by Us.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Edenburg, <DATE>the 1&s;t of <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> 1681.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED><HI>Signed in Name and by Order of the Parliament,</HI> By Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Humble, mo&s;t Faith|ful, and mo&s;t Obedient Subject and Servant, <HI>ATHOL, J. P. D.</HI> Par.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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