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A32263	His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament together with the Lord Chancellor's, delivered in Christ Church Hall in Oxford, the 10th of October, 1665.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1665 (1665)	Wing C3052; ESTC R13900	10,740	22

C R HIS MAJESTIES Gracious SPEECH TO BOTH HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT Together with the LORD CHANCELLOR'S Delivered In Christ Church Hall in OXFORD The 10 th of October 1665. OXFORD Printed by L●●●ard Lichfield Printer to the Vniversity for ●ohn ●i●l and Christopher Barker Printers to ●i● Majesty 1665. HIS MAJESTIES Gracious SPEECH TO BOTH HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT My Lords and Gentlemen I am confident you all beleive that if it had not been absolutely necessary to consult with you I would not have called you together at this time when the Contagion hath so spread it selfe over so many parts of the Kingdom I take it for a good Omen to see so good an appearance this day and I doubt not every day will add to your number and I give you all my Thanks for your compliance so farre with my desires The Truth is as I entred Upon this Warr by your advice and encouragement so I do desire that you may as frequently as is possible receive information of the Conduct and effects of it and that I may have the continuance of your cheerfull Supply for the carrying it on I will not deny to you that it hath proved more chargeable then I could Imagine it would have been the addition they still made to their Fleets beyond their first purpose made it unavoydably necessary for Me to make proportionable preparations which God hath hitherto blessed with Success in all encounters And as the Enemy have used their utmost endeavours by Calumnies and fals Suggestions to make themselves friends and to perswade others to assist them against Us so I have not been wanting to encourage those Princes who have been wrong'd by the Dutch to recover their own by force and in order thereunto have assisted the Bishop of Munster with a Very great summ of ready Money and am to continue a supply to him who is now in the bowels of their Country with a powerfull Army These Issues which I may tell you have been made with very good conduct and husbandry nor Indeed do I know that any thing hath been spent that could have been well and safely saved I say this expence will not suffer you to wonder that the great supply which you gave me for this warr in so bountifull a proportion is upon the matter already spent So that I must not only expect an assistance from you to carry on this warr but such an assistance as may inable Me to defend my self and you against a more powerfull Neighbour if he shall prefer the Friendship of the Dutch before Mine I told you when I entred upon this warr that I had not such a Brutall appetite as to make warr for wars sake I am still o● the same minde I have been ready to receive any propositions that France hath thought sit to offer to that end but hitherto nothing hath been offered worthy My acceptance nor is the Dutch less insolent though I know no advantage they have had but the continuance of the Contagion God Almighty I hope will shortly deprive them of that encouragement The Chancellour will inform you of all the Particulars THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH To both Houses of PARLIAMENT My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons THe King is not content you see to leave you to your selves to make a state of this War and the success that hath attended it by your own Observations and the general Communication of all that hath fallen out which in truth hath left few Men ignorant of any thing who have had any curiosity to inform themselves but takes care that you be informed by Himself that you may know all that He knows that so you may be able to give Him your Councel upon the clearest Evidence In order to this it will not I hope be unseasonable or ingrateful to you to refresh your memory by looking some years backwards even to the time of His Majesties happy Restauration that we may take the better prospect of the Posture we are now in and how we have come into it What inclinations His Majesty brought home with Him to live in Amity with His Neighbors of Holland though He had received Indignities enough from them and in truth had been little less proscribed there then He had been in England needs no other manifestation then that He chose that place to imbark Himself in when He was pressed by the two Neighbor Kings from whom He had received more Civilities to have made use of their Ports It cannot be denyed but that His Reception in Holland was with great Civility and Lustre and a sufficient Evidence That they had a full sense of the high Honor His Majesty had vouchsafed to them and the departure from thence was with equal and mutual satisfaction in each other which made many Men the more wonder that albeit the Ambassadours who were to follow had been nominated before the King left the Hague there was so long an interval before their arrival here that the two Neighbor Kings and many other Princes had finished their Ambassies of Congratulation before we had heard any more from the Vnited Provinces You all remember how long it was before the Armies were disbanded and the Fleets paid off during which time His Majesty lived upon His credit and easily contracted a great Debt for the meer support of Himself and His houshold which was not so easily discharged afterwards There was one thing that exceedingly surprized Him when He found which will be incredible to Posterity that a Triumphant Nation that had made it Self terrible to Christendom by having fought more Battles then all the Neighbor Kingdoms and States together had ever done in so few Years and seemed to be in a posture ready to fight them over again That had so long reigned over the Ocean in formidable Fleets should at the time of His Majesties happy return as if on the suddain all their Arms had been turned into Plough-Shares and their swords into Pruning hooks not have in all the Magazins in all the Stores Armes enough to put into the hands of five thousand men nor Provisions enough to set out ten new ships to sea which his Majesty did not desire should be known to his best neighbours how little soever he suspected their affections nor did indeed so much as make it known to his Parliament but made it his first care without the least noise and with all imaginable shifts to provide for the full supply of those important Magazins and Stores which have been ever since replenished as they ought to be He had not the least imagination that any of his neighbours would want only affect to interrupt the happy calme that he and themselves enjoyed and therefore resolved to retrench the vast expence of the Navy under which he found the Nation even to groan and out of that good husbandry to provide for more necessary disbursments Yet that the world might not think that he had abandoned the

bring upon us so Prodigious an Expence and of which we can yet see no bottome insomuch as in one Place I think Colchester that Charge comes to Twelve hundred pound the Week I say such an Expence never came into our Computation The King tels you he hath enabled the Prince and Bishop of Munster to demand Justice from those who have so notoriously Oppressed him with such outragious circumstances of Insolence and Scorne as are enough known to the World and He hath demanded it Bravely in such an Equipage as hath not been made for little Money in which he can take as well ask satisfaction After all this since there is a justice due to the worst Enemies we must doe them this right that they doe not at all seem weary of the War they doe not discover the least inclination to Peace It is true the French King hath offered his Mediation and truly if he intends no more then a Mediation it is an office very worthy the most Christian King I wish with all my heart that as a Mediator he would make equall Propositions or that he would not so importunately press His Majesty to consent to those he makes upon an Instance and Argument that he holds himself engaged by a former Treaty of which we never heard till since the beginning of this War and had some Reason to have presumed the contrary to assist the Dutch with Men and Money if His Majesty doth not consent His Majesty tels you that he hath not an Appetite to make War for Wars-sake but will be alwayes ready to make such a Peace as may be for his Honour and the Interest of his Subjects and no doubt it will be a Great Trouble and Grief to him to find so great a Prince towards whom he hath manifested so great an Affection in Conjunction with his Enemies Yet even the Apprehension of such a War will not Terrifie him to purchase a peace by such Concessions as he would be Ashamed to make You Aquainted with of which Nature you will easily Believe the Propositions hitherto made to be when you know that the release of Poleroon in the East-Indies and the demolishing the Fort of Cabo Corso upon the Coast of Guinney are two which would be upon the matter to be content with a very vile Trade in the East-Indies under their Controule and with none in Guinney and yet those are not Propositions unreasonable enough to please the Dutch who reproach France for interposing for Peace instead of assisting them in the War boldly insisting upon the advantage the Contagion in London and some other parts of the Kingdom gives them by which they confidently say the King will be no longer able to maintain a Fleet against them at Sea as if God Almighty had sent this Heavy Visitation upon the Kingdome on their behalfe and to expose it to their Malice and insolence They Load us with such Reproaches as the Civility of no other Language will admit the Relation the Truth is they have a Dialect of Rudeness so peculiar to their Language and their People that it is high time for all Kings and Princes to oblige them to some Reformation if they intend to hold Correspondence or Commerce with them My Lords and Gentlemen You see in what posture we stand with reference to our Neighbours abroad who are our declared Enemies their Malice Activity to make others declare themselves so too the great Preparations they make even Declarations that they will have another Battail towards which they have in readiness an equal number of new greater and better Ships to those they have lost furnished with larger and greater Artillery so that if they were to be manned with any other Nation but their own they might be worthy our apprehension What Preparations are to be made on our part you can best judge I have fully obeyed the Command that was laid upon Me in making You this plain clear true Narrative of what hath passed I have no Order to make Reflection upon it nor any Deduction from it The King Himself hath told You that the noble unparalel'd Supply You have already given Him is upon the Matter spent Spent with all the Animadversions of good Husbandry that the nature of the Affair will bear What is more to be done He leaves entirely to your own generous understandings being not more assured of any thing that is to come in this World then that the same Noble Indignation for the honor of the King and the Nation that first provoked you to inflame the King Himself will continue the same Passion still boyling in your Loyal Breasts that all the World may see which they hoped never to have seen that never Prince and People were so entirely united in their Affections for their true joynt inseparable Honor as their onely sure infallible expedient to preserve their distinct several Interest My Lords and Gentlemen Having yet onely presented you a short view of your forraign Enemies it may not be altogether unseasonable that you take a little Prospect of those at home Those unquiet and restless Spirits in your own Bowels upon whose Infidelity I doubt your Enemies abroad have more dependance then upon their own Fleets I must appeal to every one of your Observations whether the Countenances of these Men have not appeared to you more erected more insolent in all Places since the beginning of this War then they were before In what readiness they were if any misfortune had befallen the Kings Fleet which they promised themselves to have brought the Calamity into your Fields and into your Houses is notoriously known The horrid Murtherers of Our late Royal Master have been received into the most secret Councels in Holland and other infamous prostituted Persons of our Nation are admitted to a share in the Conduct of their Affairs and maintain their Correspondence here upon liberal Allowances and Pensions Too many of His Majesties Subjects who were lent by this Crown to assist and defend this ingrateful State against their Enemies have been miserably wrought upon for the keeping a vile mean subsistance rather then livelyhood to renounce their Allegiance and become Enemies to their native Countrey some of whom have wantonly put themselves on Board the Enemies Fleet without Command or Office purely out of appetite and delight to rebel against their King and to worry their Countrey it is great pity these Men should not be taught by some exemplary Brand that their Allegeance is not circumscribed within the four Seas but that they have obligations upon them of Duty and Loyalty towards the King in what part soever of the World they shall inhabit Their Freinds at home Impatient of Longer Delays for the Successes they have promised themselves and for the Succours which others had promised to send to them made no doubt of doing the business themselves if they could but appoint a lucky day to begin the work and you had heard of them in all places upon the third of the last month their so much celebrated Third of September if the Great Vigilance and indefatigable Industry of the Good General who is always awake for the Kings Safety and the Peace of the kingdom had not two days before Apprehended the Seditious Leaders and given Advertisements for the Securing of others in most parts of the Kingdome by the Confessions of Many of Whom their Wicked Designe is enough Manifested and ready for Justice Yet some of the Principal Persons are not yet taken and some others got themselves rescu'd after they were apprehended My Lords and Gentlemen let it not I Beseech You be said of us what was heretofore said of the Senate of Rome when they were prosperous enough and when they had obtained greater Victories over their enemies abroad then We have done Excellentibus ingeniis citiùs defuit ars quâ civem regant quàm quâ hostem perdant Let not those Scorpions be Kept Warme in our Bosoms till they Sting us to Death let not those who Hate the Government would Destroy the Government be sheltred under the Shadow and Protection of the Goverment It is posssible and God knows it is but possible that some men who are not Friends to this or that part of the Government for you are not to Believe that they always discover what in Truth they are Most angry with who would not buy those Alterations they Most Desire at the Price of a Civil War they would bring it fairly about wait for a Godly Parliament and do all by their Consent yet those Persons must not take it ill that we cannot desire they should ever have it in their Power to bring those Alterations to pass by those means they now seem to abhor and I do heartily wish I am sure they will not be the worse Men nor the wore Subjects for it that they would a little reflect upon what is past remember how much they have once done more then they intended to have done nay what they heartily abhorr'd the thought of doing and they will then finde the onely way to preserve themselves innocent is to keep their Minds from being vitiated by the first Impressions by Jealousies Murmurings and Repinings and above all by their Conversations with those Men or Indulgence toward them who would Sacrifice the Peace of the Kingdome to their own Ambition Pride and even to their Humour If you carefully provide for the suppressing Your Enemies at home which will put You to little other Expence then of Courage Constancy and Circumspection you will find your Enemies abroad less exalted and in a short time more enclined to live in amity with You then to make War upon you especially when they see you doe In bello pacis gerere negotium and that you take the carrying on the War to Heart as the Best and the only Expedient to Produce a Happy and an Honest Peace FINIS