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A79232	His Majestie's gracious speech, together with the Lord Chancellor's, to both Houses of Parliament; on Saturday the 29th day of December, 1660. Being the day of their dissolution. As also, that of the speaker of the Honorable House of Commons, at the same time.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.; Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.; England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Lord Chancellor's Dept.	1661 (1661)	Wing C3074; Thomason E1075_26; ESTC R208597	13,941	34

Kingdom If after all this His Majesty doth not reap the full Harvest he expected from those Condescentions If some men by their writing and by their preachings endeavor to continue those Breaches and very rashly and I think unconscientiously keep up the distinctions and publickly justifie and maintain what hath heretofore been done amiss and for which the Act of Indempnity was the best defence I shall say no more then that I hope their want of Modesty and Obedience will cause them to be disclaimed by all pious and peaceable men who cannot but be well contented to see them reduced by Law to the obedience they owe to Law And His Majesty is confident that this His beloved City towards which His heart is so gracious and so full of Princely Designs to improve their Honor their Wealth and their Beauty will discountenance all those seditious designs and by returning and fixing themselves upon their good old Foundations make themselves the great example of Piety of Loyalty and of hearty Affection to the whole Kingdom This discourse puts me in mind to say to you that though the King wonders much more at the many great things you have done then that you have left any thing undone yet he could have wished and would have been glad that your other weighty Affairs had given you time to have published your opinion and advice in the business of the Militia that the People after so many disputes upon that Argument might have discerned that the King and His two Houses of Parliament are as much of the same mind in that as in all other things as no doubt they are But since that could not be done you may all assure your selves That the King will proceed therein in with all imaginable care and circumspection for the ease and quiet and security of His People And as He did before the last Recess by the unanimous advice of His Privy Council issue out His Commissions of Lieutenancy for the setling the Militia in the several Counties to prevent any disorders which many apprehended might arise upon the disbanding the Army so He will now again recommend it to them to keep themselves in such a Posture as may disappoint any seditious designs which are now on foot and there cannot be too much circumspection and vigilance to frustrate those designs You have heard of many suspected and dangerous persons which have been lately clapped up and it was high time to look about His Majesty hath spent many hours Himself in the examination of this business and some of the Principal Officers who before they came to His Majestie 's Presence could not be brought to acknowledge any thing after the King Himself had spoken to them confessed That their spirits were insensibly prevailed upon and subdued and that it was not in their power to conceal their guilt from Him They have confessed That there is a party of the late Disbanded-Officers and Soldiers and others full of discontent and seditious purposes and a resolution to attempt the change of the present Government and to erect the Republick they acknowledge that they did purpose to have made their attempt for the rescue of those Wretches who were so justly condemned at Newgate and so worthily executed and that Ludlow should then have appeared in the head of them that they made themselves sure at the same time by Parties and Confederacy to have surprized the Tower of London and the Castle of Windsor but that they found or at least apprehended that their design was discovered which so broke their spirits that they concluded they must acquiesce for the present and stay till the Army should be disbanded which they said was generally debauched that is Returned to an honest and fast obedience to the King and that it was evident they were betrayed by those who were most entirely trusted by them and they were in the right The King had notice of all their design what progress it made and the night they intended to surprize the Tower and Windsor and gave notice to the several Governors and so without any noise that mischief was by God's goodness prevented They acknowledge that they have since recovered their Courage and Resolution and were about this time to make their full attempt they have been promised some considerable Rising in the West under Ludlow and in the North under others but this place was the Scene of greatest hope they made sure of a Body here I think they say of Two thousand five hundred men with which they resolved in the first place to secure you know what that security is the Person of the General the Duke of Albemarle with whom they have so much reason to be angry and at the same time to possess themselves of Whitehal You know the method used in such possessing Kill and take Possession and this insupportable Calamity God hath again deverted from Us though I must tell you the poor men who seem to speak honestly and upon the impulsion of Conscience are very far from being confident that there will not be some desperate Insurrections and Attempts in several parts of the Kingdom within a short time which all possible care will be taken to prevent and in truth this very good City so well requites the Kings abundant Grace and Kindness to it That not onely by the unwearied Pains and Diligence of the worthy Lord Major but by the general temper and constitution of the whole City the discontented and seditious Party which can never be totally extirpated out of such a Metropolis is like to receive little encouragement to pursue their desperate Counsels The King doth not believe that all those persons who at present are apprehended and in custody will be found guilty of this Treason It is a vulgar and known Artifice to corrupt inferior persons by perswading them That better men are ingaged in the same enterprise and the King will make as much haste as He can to set those at Liberty against whom the evidence or suspicion is not too reasonable in the mean time they who are in truth innocent must confess that the proceeding towards them hath been very natural and full of Clemency and no man will wonder if His Majesty be very desirous that in this conjuncture and in order to prevent or suppress these too visible distempers and Machinations His Militia in all places be in good order and preparation And you may assure your selves That in the forming and conduct of it He will have so great a care of the ease and quiet of His People that if any person trusted by him shall through want of skill or want of temper satisfie his own passion or appetite in grieving or vexing his neighbours His Majesty will be so sensible of it that if it can be cured no other way His Trust shall be quickly determined and He is not at all reserved in giving those Animadversions and Reprehensions when there is occasion and His ears will be always open