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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32328	His Majesties most gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellors, to both Houses of Parliament to which is added, His Lordships several speeches : as also, those of Sir Job Charleton, at his admission of speaker to the honourable House of Commons, delivered at the opening of the Parliament, on Tuesday February 4, and Wednesday February 5, 1673.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1673 (1673)	Wing C3173; ESTC R24260	7,635	11

made Your Counsels the foundations of all His proceedings and hath been so tender of you that He hath upon His own revenue and credit endeavoured to support even foreign Wars that he might be least uneasie to you or burdensom to His people And let me say that though this Mariage be according to Moses's Law where the husband can give a Bill of divorce put her away and take another Yet I can assure you it is as impossible for the King to part with this Parliament as it is for you to depart from that loyalty affection and dutiful behaviour you have hitherto shewed towards Him Let us bless the King for taking away all our fears and leaving no room for jealousies For those assurances and promises He hath made us Let us bless God and the King that our Religion is safe That the Church of England is the care of our Prince That Parliaments are safe That our Properties and Liberties are safe What more hath a good English man to ask but that this King may long reign and that this Triple-alliance of King Parliament and People may never be dissolved THE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH February 4. 1673. My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons HIs Majesty hath commanded me to tell you that he hath many things to say to you but he thinks not this a proper time but will defer it till the House of Commons be compleated with a new Speaker For His Majesty hath since the last Session as a mark of His Favour to His house of Commons and that he might reward so good a Servant taken their late Speaker Sr. Edward Turner to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and called him by Writ to be an assistant to this House I am therefore commanded to acquaint you Gentlemen of the House of Commons that it is the Kings pelasure you repair to your House and Elect a Discreet Wise and Learned man who after he hath been by you Presented and that presentation by His Majesty admitted shall then possess the Office of your common Mouth and Speaker And the King is pleased to be here to Morrow in the Afternoon to receive the Presentment of him accordingly Sir Job Charlton's Speech Feb. 5. 1673. Most gracious Sovereign THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in Obedience to Your Royal Command have proceeded to the Choice of a Speaker They have among them many worthy Persons Eminently qualified for so great a Trust yet with too favourable an eye have cast it upon me who am really conscious to my self of many infirmities rendering me much unfit for so great an Imployment And although my endeavours of excusing my self before them have not been successfull yet they have been so Indulgent as to permit me to continue my endeavours therein before Your Majesties most piercing and discerning judgment The veneration due to Majesty which lodgeth in every Loyal Breast makes it not an easie matter to speak before Your Majesty at any time or in any capacity But to speak before Your Majesty in Your Exaltation thus gloriously supported and attended and that as Speaker of Your House of Commons requires greater abilities then I can pretend to own I am not also without fear That the Publick Affairs wherein Your Majesty and Your Kingdom in this juncture of time are so highly concerned may receive detriment through my weakness I therefore with a plain humble heart prostrate at Your Royal feet beseech That You will Command them to review what they have done and to proceed to another Election The Lord Chancellors Speech Feb. 5. 1673. Mr. Serjeant Charlton THe King hath very attentively heard your discreet and handsome Discourse whereby you endeavour to excuse and disable your self for the place of Speaker In answer thereof His Majesty hath commended me to say to you That he doth in no sort admit of the same For His Majesty hath had long experience of your Abilities good Affection Integrity and Resolution in several employments of great Trust and Weight He knows you have been long a Parliament-man and therefore every way fitted and qualified for the Employment Besides he cannot disapprove the Election of this house of Commons especially where they have expressed so much duty in choosing one worthy and acceptable to him And therefore the King doth allow of the Election and admits you for Speaker Mr. SPEAKERS SPEECH February 5. 1673. Great SIR SInce it is Your Gracious Pleasure not to accept of my humble Excuse but by Your Royal Approbation to fix me under this Great though Honourable Weight and to think me fit to be invested with a Trust of so high a nature as this is I take it in the first place to be incumbent upon me that I render Your Majesty all possible thanks which I now humbly do with a heart full of all Duty and affected with a deeper sense of Gratitude then I can find words to express Next from Your Royal Determination in this Affair whereby You have imprinted a new Character upon me I take courage against my own diffidence and chearfully bend my self with such strength and abilities as God shall give to the Service so graciously designed me no way doubting that Your Majesty will please to pardon my Frailties to accept of my faithful Endeavous and always to look favourably on the Work of Your own hands And now Sir my first Entrance upon this Service obliges me to make a few necessary but humble Petitions on the behalf of Your most Loyal and Dutiful House of Commons 1. That for our better Attendance on the Publick Service we and our Servants may be free in our Persons and Estates from Arrests and other Disturbances 2. That in our Debates Liberty and Freedom of Speech be allowed us 3. That as occasions shall require Your Majesty upon our humble Suit and at such times as Your Majesty shall judge seasonable will vouchsafe us access to Your Royal Person 4. That all our Proceedings may receive a favourable Construction That God who hath brought You back to the Throne of Your Fathers and with You all our Comforts grant You a long and a prosperous Reign and send You Victory over all Your Enemies and every good mans heart will say Amen THE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH February 5. 1673. Mr. Speaker THe Kings Majesty hath heard and well weighed your short and Eloquent Oration And in the first place much approves that you have with so much advantage introduced a shorter way of speaking upon this occasion His Majesty doth well accept of all those dutiful and affectionate expressions in which you have delivered your Submission to his Royal pleasure And looks upon it as a good Omen to his affairs and as an Evidence that the House of Commons have still the same Heart that have chosen such a Mouth The conjuncture of time and the King and Kingdoms affairs require such a House of Commons such a Speaker for with reverence to the holy Scripture upon this occasion the King may say He that is not with me is against me for he that doth not now put his Hand and Heart to Support the King in the common cause of this Kingdom can hardly ever hope for such another opportunity or find a time to make satisfaction for the Omission of this Next I am commanded by his Majesty to answer your four Petitions whereof the first being The freedom of you and your Servants in your Persons and Estates without arrest or other disturbance the King is graciously pleased to grant it as full as to any of your Predecessors The Second for Liberty and Freedom of Speech the Third for access to his Royal Person And the Fourth that your proceedings may receive a Favourable construction are all freely and fully granted by his Majesty EDINBURGH Printed by His MAJESTIES Printers Anno Dom. 1673.