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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140320.apex.</ITEM>
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<P> His MAJESTIES MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH To Both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT, On <HI>Saturday</HI> the <HI>30th.</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> 1685.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by His Maje&s;ties Command.</P>
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<FIGDESC>James II's arms</FIGDESC>
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<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROID</Q>
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<P><HI>Dublin,</HI> Reprinted by <HI>Benjamin Took,</HI> Printer to the King's Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; And are to be &s;old by <HI>Samuel Hel&s;ham</HI> at the <HI>Colledge-Arms</HI> in <HI>Ca&s;tle-Street,</HI> 1685.</P>
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<HEAD>HIS MAJESTIES MOST Gracious SPEECH To Both Hou&s;es of PARLIAMENT, On <HI>Saturday</HI> the <HI>30th.</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> 1685.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lords and Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Thank You heartily for the Bill You have pre&s;ented Me this day, And I a&s;|&s;ure you, the Readine&s;s and Chearfulne&s;s that has attended the Di&s;patch of it, is as accep|table to Me as the Bill it &s;elf; After &s;o hap|py a beginning, You may believe I would not Call upon you unnece&s;&s;arily for an ex|traordinary Supply; But when I tell You that the Stores of the Navy and Ordnance are extremely Exhau&s;ted, that the Anticipa|tions
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y"> upon &s;everal Branches of the Revenue are Great and Burthen&s;ome, that the Debts of the KING, My Brother, to His Ser|vants and Family, are &s;uch as de&s;erve Com|pas&s;ion, That the Rebellion in Scotland, with|out putting more Weight upon it than it really de&s;erves, mu&s;t Oblige Me to a con|&s;iderable Expence extraordinary: I am &s;ure &s;uch Con&s;iderations will move You to give Me an Aid to provide for tho&s;e Things, wherein the Security, the Ea&s;e and the Hap|pine&s;s of My Government are &s;o much con|cerned; But above all, I mu&s;t Recommend to You the Care of the Navy, the Strength and Glory of this Nation, That You will put it into &s;uch a Condition as may make Us Con&s;idered and Re&s;pected abroad: I cannot expre&s;s My Concern upon this Oc|ca&s;ion more &s;uitable to My own Thoughts of it, than by a&s;&s;uring You I have a true Engli&s;h Heart, as Jealous of the Honour of the Nation as You can be; And I plea&s;e My Self with the Hopes, that by God's Ble&s;|&s;ing, and Your As&s;i&s;tance, I may carry the Reputation of it yet Higher in the World
<PB N="4" REF="3"> than ever it has been in the Time of any of My Ance&s;tors; And as I will not Call upon you for Supplies, but when they are of U&s;e and Advantage; So I promi&s;e you, That what you give Me upon &s;uch Occa&s;ions, &s;hall be managed with Good Husbandry; And I will take Care it &s;hall be Employed to the U&s;es for which I ask them.</P>
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