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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE SPEAKER's SPEECH To Their Excellencies THE LORDS JUSTICES In the LORD's HOUSE.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">At the Pre&s;enting of the POLL-BILL FOR THE ROYAL ASSENT, On <HI>Friday</HI> the Third of <HI>December,</HI> 1697.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e Your Excellencies.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es of this Kingdom, who &s;it in Parliament as Repre&s;entatives of the Publick Loyalty of the Nation, by Devoring their Hear|ty Endeavours to the Service of His Maje&s;ty, and Good of their Fellow Subjects, Do now Attend Your Excellencies as Repre&s;entatives of the
<PB REF="3">Publick Gratitude, in Returning their Humble Ac|knowledgments to His Maje&s;ty, for His Royal Fa|vours, and particularly for the many. Excellent Laws they have had, Others now ready to Receive Life, and More we are yet in hopes of under Your Ex|cellencies Ju&s;t and Prudent Admini&s;tration.</P>
<P>Our Religion and Civil Rights are Secured, our Remedies made Clear and Ea&s;ie; The Snares of Forms in Legal Proceedings Removed; The Way to Ju&s;tice mark'd out &s;o, that no Excu&s;e is left for &s;uch as &s;hall Tread be&s;ide it: And if, by an <HI>Over-Tenderne&s;s,</HI> we are not wanting to our Selves, we may &s;till hope for an Opportunity to Secure us and our Po&s;terity again&s;t the Danger of Future Rebellions.</P>
<P>To Crown All, We now enjoy the Ble&s;&s;ings of an Honourable and Glorious Peace; The Happy Effects of His Maje&s;ties Invincible Courage and Admirable Wi&s;dom.</P>
<P>And We cannot but E&s;teem, as an Extraordinary Mark of Princely Favour, and Encouragement to the Prote&s;tant Subjects of this Kingdom, His Maje&s;tys' Pla|cing Your Excellencies to be our Chief Governours; who in Times of Imminent Danger, have given Un|common Proofs of Your Firmne&s;s and Concern for the Prote&s;tant Religion, and Legal Con&s;titutions of Your Country, again&s;t Popery, and Arbitrary Power, to the Hazard of Both Your Lives, and Total Lo&s;s of One of Your Fortunes; And We reap the Fruit of Your Steady Principles by Your Unbounded Application, to provide Effectually for the Security of Our Reli|gion, and Properties.</P>
<P>By this His Maje&s;ty is plea&s;ed to give Us, and all His Subjects, an Undoubted A&s;&s;urance, that the Ad|vancement
<PB REF="3" MS="y">of the Prote&s;tant Religion is His Main Bu|&s;ine&s;s and Concern; and the Laws of the Land, the Mea&s;ures of His Government.</P>
<P><HI>May it plea&s;e Your Excellencies,</HI><LB> His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Faithful Commons, having Con&s;i|dered the Debt due to the Civil and Millitary Li&s;ts in this Kingdom, laid before them by Your Excellencies, have given His Maje&s;ty a Supply to be Rai&s;ed by way of Poll, to Compleat what they Granted at their Fir&s;t Sitting. Which they humbly offer to His Maje&s;ties Gracious Ac|ceptance, and be&s;eech Your Excellencies, to A&s;&s;ure His Maje&s;ty, That We are, and &s;hall always Continue Unal|terable in our Sincere Loyalty, and Dutiful Affections to His Royal Per&s;on and Government, and Intirely De|voted to His Service and Intere&s;t.</P>
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<P><HI>DUBLIN,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. Ray</HI> at the 3 <HI>Naggs-Heads</HI> next to the <HI>Cu&s;tom-Hou&s;e,</HI> for <HI>Jacob Milner</HI> Book&s;eller in <HI>E&s;&s;ex-&s;treet</HI></P>
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