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A63954	The speeches of Sir Edward Turner kt, before King, Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament, when he was presented speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, on Friday the tenth of May, 1661 together with the Lord Chancellors speeches in answer thereunto.	Turnor, Edward, Sir, 1617-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing T3365; ESTC R232992	8,345	23

the House may receive a benign Interpretation and be free at all times from Misconstructions The Lord Chancellor's last Speech in Answer to the Speakers second Speech Mr. SPEAKER THe King is well pleased with your Obedience and that you have so chearfully submitted to undergo that Province the House of Commons hath designed you to He promises Himself and the Kingdom as great Fruit and benefit from your Joynt-services as ever any of His Progenitors received from a Speaker and a House of Commons The King did His part by publishing the very day He intended the Parliament should meet a good time before the Writs were sealed by sending out the Writs much longer then was necessary before the day of Meeting that the Country might not be surprized in their Elections but that they might send up such a Representative unto Him as He might make a clear view and prospect of the Affections and Desires of His People And He is perswaded that the Commons of England were never more exactly represented then they are at present in you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses and yet I have a very particular command from His Majesty to tell you which in truth He meant to have said to you Himself the other day and which He hopes you will not take ill in point of Priviledge that His Majesty takes notice indeed He cannot chuse but take notice of one ill circumstance in many Elections which He imputes rather to the Vice of the Times a Vice worthy your Severity then to any corrupt Intention that is Excess of Drinking which produceth that other scandalous excess in the expence His Majesty doth very heartily recommend it to your Wisdom for the Honor and Dignity of Parliaments that you will take some course to prevent this Inconvenience for the future and if you think fit to call for any help from Him towards it you will be sure to have it You have made Mr. Speaker a very lively description of the extravagancy of that Confusion which this poor Nation groaned under when they would throw off a Government they had lived and prospered under so many Ages indeed from the time of being a Nation and which is as natural to them as their Food or their Rayment to model a new one for themselves which they knew no more how to do then the naked Indians know how to dress themselves in the French fashion when as you say all Ages Sexes and Degrees all Professions and Trades would become Reformers when the Common People of England would represent the Commons of England and abject men who could neither write nor read would make Laws for the Government of the Heroick and the most Learned Nation in the World For sure none of our Neighbors will deny it to have a full excellency and perfection both in Arms and Latters and it was the grossest and most ridiculous Pageant that great Imposture ever exposed to publick view when he gave up the Nation to be disposed of by a handful of poor Mechanick persons who finding they knew not what to do with it would he was sure give it back to him again as they shortly did which makes his Title compleat to the Government he meant to exercise No man undervalues the Common People of England who are in truth the best and the honestest I and the wisest Common People in the World when he sayes they are not fit to model the Government they are to live under or to make the Laws they are to obey Solomon tells us There is a time when one man rules over another to his own hurt we have had abundant instances of such a time It is the Priviledge if you please the Prerogative and it is a great one of the Common People of England to be represented by the Greatest and Learnedest and Wealthiest and Wisest Persons that can be chose out of the Nation and the confounding the Commons of England which is that noble Representative with the Common People of England was the first Ingredient into that accursed dose which intoxicated the brains of Men with that imagination of a Commonwealth a Commonwealth Mr. Speaker a Government as impossible for the spirit and temper and genius of the English Nation to submit to as it is to perswade them to give their Cattle and their Corn to other men and to live themselves upon Herbs and Roots I wish heartily that they who have been most delighted with that imagination knew in truth the great benefit under that Government There is not a Commonwealth in Europe where every man that is worth One thousand pounds doth not pay more to the Government then a man of a thousand pounds a year did ever to the Crown here before those Troubles And I am perswaded that Monster-Commonwealth cost this Nation more in the few years she was begot born and brought up and in her funeral which was the best expence of all then the Monarchy hath done these Six hundred years You have done well Mr. Speaker in taking notice of the great esteem the King hath of the memory of the last Parliament He takes all occasions Himself to do it and it deserved it at His hands But as the wisest Father takes joy in the hopes his Heir will be wiser then he and the greatest Monarch in the hopes that His Successor will be greater then He And if the Souls departed feel any joy upon what is done in this World it is in the case of such an Heir such a Successor so you may be confident the Ghost of the deceased Parliament will be much delighted much exalted to see your Actions excel theirs and your Fame exceed theirs It was a blessed Parliament but there are other and greater Blessings reserved for you They began many things which you may have the happiness to finish they had not time nor opportunity to begin many things which you may have the honor to begin and finish They invited His Majesty home restored Him to His Throne and Monarchy to the Nation It will be your glory so to establish Him in His Power and Greatness so to annex Monarcy to the Nation that He nor His Posterity shall be ever again forced to be abroad that they be mvited home nor in danger to be restored So to Rivet Monarchy to the hearts and to the understandings of all men that no man may ever presume to conspire against it Let it not suffice that we have our King again and our Laws again and Parliaments again but let us so provide that neither King nor Laws nor Parliaments may be so used again Let not our Monarchy be undermined by a Fifth Monarchy nor men suffered to have the Protection of a Government they profess to hate root out all Ante-Monarchical Principles at least let not the same stratagems prevail against us Let us remember how we were deceived and let not the same Artifices over-reach us again Let King and Church and Country receive more and greater advantages by the Wisdom and Industry of this Parliament Let Trade abroad and at home be encouraged and enlarged all Vices and Excesses be restrained and abolished by new Laws and Provisions Let prositable Arts and Industry finde so great encouragement that all thriving Inventions may be brought from all parts of the World to enrich this Kingdom and that the Inventors may grow rich in this Kingdom And upon this Argument of encouraging Industry I have a command from the King to recommend to you the encouragement or preservation of a great work of Industry in which the honor and interst of the Nation is more concerned then in any work this Age hath brought out it may be in any Nation and that is All the Drainings in England which have given us new Countries upon our own Continent and brought an inestimable benefit to King and People by an art of Creation making Earth and mending Air by Wit and Industry Let no waywardness in particular persons or consideration of private and particular advantage give disturbance to Works of so publick a nature muchless destroy such works but provide out of hand for the upholding and supporting them by some good Law in which due care may be taken for all particular interests when the publick is out of danger I have but one desire more Mr. Speaker to make to you from the King which the season of the year as well as your Inclinations to gratifie Him will dispose you to and that is that you will use such expedition in your Councels of most importance that the rest may be left to a Recess in the Winter after an Adjournment that His Majesty may have a time to bestow Himself upon His Subjects in a Progress which He would be glad to begin before the end of July I have leave to tell you the Progress He intends that He desires again to see His good City of Worcester and to thank God for His deliverance there and to thank God even in those Cottages and Barns and Haylofts in which He was sheltered and feasted and preserved and in the close of that Progress He hopes He shall finde His Queen in His Arms and so return to meet you here in the beginning of Winter Mr. Speaker all your Petitions are very grateful to the King you and your Servants in your Persons and Estates are free from all Arrests or Molestations your liberty and freedom of Speech is very willingly granted to you when you would repair to His Majesty you shall be welcome and His Majesty will be so far from jealousie of your Actions that He believes it is impossible for Him to be jealous of you or you of Him and if you please He will make it penal to nourish that unwholsome Weed in any part of the Kingdom FINIS LONDON Printed by Iohn Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty 1661. At the KING'S Printing-House in Black-Fryers