for the supplying of the said Vacancy and to be placed in such Order as the said Prelates so assembled or the major part of them shall think fit without regard to dignity antiquity or any other form which Writing shall be presented to the King who may thereupon appoint one of the three persous so to be named to succeed in the said Vacancy And the person so appointed or chosen shall by due form of Law according to the course now used be made Bishop of that See But if in 30 days after such presentment of such Names the King or Queen Regnant shall not Elect or appoint which of the said three persons shall succeed in the said vacant See or if after such Election or appointment there shall be any obstruction in pressing of the usual Instruments and formalities of Law in order to his Consecration then such person whose Name shall be first written in the said Instrument of nomination if there be no Election or appointment made by the King within the time aforesaid shal be the Bishop of the vacant See And if there be an Election or appointment made then the person so appointed shall be the Bishop of the vacant See And the Arch-bishop of the Province wherein the said vacancy shall be or such other person or persons who ought by his Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws to Consecrate the said Bishop shall upon reasonable demand and are hereby required to make Consecration accordingly upon pain of forfeiting trebble damages and costs to the party grieved to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster And immediately after such Consecration the person so consecrated shall be and is hereby Enacted to be compleat Bishop of the said vacant See and is hereby vested in the Temporalties of the said Bishop-prick and in actual possession thereof to all intents and purposes and shall have a Seat and Place in Parliament as if he had by due forms of Law been made Bishop and had the Temporalities restored unto him And in case the person so first named in the said Instrument of nomination or the person so Elected by the King or Queen Regnant shall then be a Bishop so that no Consecration be requisite then immediately after default of Election or appointment by the King or immediately after such Election or appointment if any shall be made within the said time and any Obstructions in pressing the Instruments and Formalities in Law in such cases used the Bishop so first Named or Elected and appointed shall thereupon ipso facto be translated and become Bishop of that See to which he was so nominated and appointed and shall be and is hereby vested in the Temporalties and actual possession thereof to all intents and purposes and shall have his Seat and Place in Parliament accordingly and his former See shall become vacant as if he had been by due Forms of Law chosen and confirmed into the same and had the Temporalities restored unto him And be it further Enacted That until the making the said Oath and Declaration in manner aforesaid the respective succeeding Kings and Queens that shall not have made and subscribed the same shall not grant or dispose of any Denary or Arch-Deconary Prebendary Mastership of any Colledge Parsonage Viccarage or any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion whatsoever to any other person but such person as shall be nominated for the same unto the said King or Queen Regnant by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury or Guardians of the Spiritualities of the said Arch-bishop-prick for the time being if the same be within the Province of Canterbury and by the Arch-bishop-prick of York or Guardians of the spiritualities of the said Arch-bishop-prick for the time being if the same be within the Province of York by writing under their respective Hands and Seals and in case any such as shall be accordingly nominated shall not be able to obtein Presentation or grant thereof within 30 dayes next after such nomination then the said person shall and may and is hereby enabled by force of the said nomination to require Institution and Induction from such person and persons unto whom it shall belong to grant the same who shall accordingly make Institution and Induction as if the said person were lawfully presented by the said King or Queen Regnant upon pain to forfeit to the party grieved trebble damages and costs to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts at VVestminster and in cases where no Institution or Induction is requisite the said person so nominated from and after the end of the said 30 dayes shall be and is hereby actually vested in the possession of such Denary Arch-Deaconary Prebendary Mastership Rectory Parsonage or Vicarage Donative or other Ecclefiastical Benefice or Promotion and shall be full and absolute proprietor and Incumbent thereof to all Intents and Purposes as if he had obteyned possession therof upon a legall grant by the said King or Queen Regnant and proceeding thereupon in due form of Law Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor of England or the Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being to pass presentations or grants to any Ecclesiastical Benefice under value in the Kings Gift in such manner as hath been accustomed any thing in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That during such time as any King or Queen Regnant shall be under the said fourteen yeares no person that shall be Lord Protector or Regent of this Realme During such minority shall in any wise either in the name of the King or Queen Regnant or in his own name grant confer or dispose of any Arch-Bishop-prick Bishoprik Deanary Prebendary Master-ship of any Colledge Personage Vicarage or other Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion whatsoever but the same shall be disposed of in manner above mentioned during such miniority untill such Lord Protector or Regent shall make and subscribe the said Oath and Declaration mutatis mutandis before such nine or more of the said Prelates as he shall call to Administer the same unto him which Oath and Declaration they are hereby Authorized and required to Administer under the penaltyes aforesaid when they shall be called thereunto by such Lord Protector or Regent for the time being And be it further Enacted That the Children of such succeeding King or Queen Regnant that shall not have made and subscribed the Oath and Declaration in manner aforsaid shall from their respective Ages of seven years untill the respective Ages of fourteen yeares to be under the care and goverment of the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York and Bishop of London Durham and VVinchester for the time being who are hereby enjoyned and required to take care that they be well instructed and Educated in the true Protestant Religion as it is now Established by Law and to the Intent that the Arch-Bishops and Bishops for the time being
and People of Religion and Government and how near they are in all humane probability to arrive Triumphant at the end of their Journey Yet that I may not be too abrupt and leave the Reader wholly destitute of a thread to guide himself by thorow so intriguing a Labyrinth I shall summarily as short as so copious and redundant a matter will admit deduce the order of affaires both at home and abroad as it led into this Session It is well known were it as well remembred what the provocation was and what the successe of the warre begun by the English iâ—… the Year 1665. against Holland what vast supplyes were furnished by the Subject for defraying it and yet after all no Fleet set out but the Flower of all the Royal Navy burnt or taken in Port to save charges How the French during that War joyned themselves in assistance of Holland against us and yet by the credit he had with the Queen Mother so farre deluded his Majesty that upon assurance the Dutch neither would have any Fleet out that year he forbore to make ready and so incurred that notable losse and disgrace at Chatham How after this fatall conclusion of all our Sea Champaynes as we had been obliged to the French for that warre so we were glad to receive the Peace from his favour which was agreed at Breda betwixt England France and Holland His Majesty was hereby now at leisure to remarke how the French had in the year 1667. taken the time of us and while we were imbroled and weakned had in violation of all the most solemn and sacred Oaths and Treatyes invaded and taken a great part of the Spanish Nether-Land which had alwayes been considered as the natural Frontier of England And hereupon he judged it necessary to interpose before the flame that consumed his next neighbour should throw its sparkles over the water And therefore generously slighting all punctilious of ceremony or peeks of animosity where the safty of his People and the repose of Christendom were concerned he sent first into Holland inviting them to a nearer Alliance and to enter into such further Counsells as were most proper to quiet this publick disturbance which the French had raised This was a work wholy of his Majestys designing and according to that felicity which hath allways attended him when excluding the corrupt Politicks of others he hath followed the dictates of his own Royal wisdom so well it succeeded It is a thing searse credible though true that two Treatyes of such weight intricacy and so various aspect as that of the Defensive League with Holland and the other for repressing the further progresse of the French in the Spanish Netherland should in five days time in the year 1668. be concluded Such was the Expedition and secrecy then used in prosecuting his Majesty particuler instructions and so easy a thing is it for Princes when they have a mind to it to be well served The Svvede too shortly after made the third in this Concert whether wisely judging that in the minority of their King reigning over several late acquired dominions it was their true intrest to have an hand in all the Counsells that tended to pease and undisturbed possession or whether indeed those ministers like ours did even then project in so glorious an Alliance to betray it afterward to their own greater advantage From their joyning in it was called the Triple Alliance His Majesty with great sincerity continued to solicite other Princes according to the seventh Article to come into the Guaranty of this Treaty and delighted himself in cultivating by all good means what he had planted But in a very short time these Counsells which had taken effect with so great satisfaction to the Nation and to his Majestyes eternal honour were all changed and it seemed that Treatyes as soon as the Wax is cold do lose their virtue The King in June 1670 went down to Dover to meet after a long absence Madam his onely remaining sister where the days were the more pleasant by how much it seldomer happens to Princes then private persons to injoy their Relations and when they do yet their kind interviews are usually solemnized with some fatlity and disaster nothing of which here appeared But upon her first return into France she was dead the Marquess of Belfonds was immediately sent hither a Person of great Honour dispatched thither and before ever the inquiry and grumbling at her death could be abated in a trice there was an invisible Leagle in prejudice of the Triple one struck up with France to all the height of dearnesse and affection As if upon discecting the Princess there had some state Philtre been found in her bowells or the reconciliation wiah France were not to be celebrated with a lesse sacrifice then of the Blood Royall of England The sequel will be suitable to so ominous a beginning But as this Treaty was a work of Darknesse and which could never yet be understood or discovered but by the effects so before those appeared it was necessary that the Parliament should after the old wont be gulld to the giving of mony They met the 24th Oct. 1670. and it is not without much labour that I have been able to recover a written Copy of the Lord Bridgmans speech none being printed but forbidden doubtlesse lest so notorious a Practise as certainly was never before though there have indeed been many put upon the Nation might remain publick Although that Honourable person cannot be persumed to have been accessory to what was then intended but was in due time when the Project ripened and grew hopeful discharged from his Office and he the Duke of Ormond the late Secretary Trevor with the Prince Rupert discarded together out of the Committee for the Forraign Affaires He spoke thus My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons WHen the two Houses were last Adjourned this Day as you well know was perfixed for your Meeting again The Proclamation since issued requiring all your attendances at the same time shewed not only his Majesties belief that his business will thrive best when the Houses are fullest but the importance also of the Affaires for which you are so called And important they are You cannot be ignorant of the great Forces both for Land and Sea-service which our Neighbours of France and the Low-Countries have raised and have now in actual Pay nor of the great Preparations which they continue to make in Levying of Men Building of Ships filling their Magazines and Stores with immense quantities of all sorts of Warlike Provisions Since the beginning of the last Dutch War the French have increased the Greatness and Number of their Ships so much that their Strength by Sea is thrice as much as it was before And since the end of it the Dutch have been very diligent also in augmenting their Fleets In this conjuncture when our Neighbours Arm so potently even
are Commissioned by him in pursuance of such Commission and yet neither is the Tenour or Rule of any such Commission specified nor the Qualification of those that shall be armed with such Commissions expressed or limited Never was so much sence contained in so few words No Conveyancer could ever in more Compendious or binding terms have drawn a Dissettlement of the whole Birth-right of England For as to the Commission if it be to take away any mans Estate or his Life by force Yet it is the Kings Commission Or if the Person Commissionate be under never so many Dissabilities by Acts of Parliament yet his taking this Oath removes all those Incapacities or his Commission makes it not Disputable But if a man stand upon his Defence a good Judge for the purpose finding that the Position is Traitorous will declare that by this Law he is to be Executed for Treason These things are no Nicetyes or remote Considerations though in making of Laws and which must come afterwards under Construction of Judges Durante Bene-placito all Cases are to be put and imagined but there being an Act in Scotland for Tvventy thousand Men to March into England upon Call and so great a Body of English Souldery in France within Summons besides what Forainers may be obliged by Treaty to furnish and it being so fresh in memory what sort of persons had lately been in Commission among us to which add the many Bookes then Printed by Licence Writ some by Men of the Black one of the Green Cloath wherein the Absoluteness of the English Monarchy is against all Law asserted All these Considerations put together were sufficient to make any honest and well-advised man to conceive indeed that upon the passing of this Oath and Declaration the vvhole sum of Affaires depended It grew therefore to the greatest contest that has perhaps ever been in Parliament wherein those Lords that were against this Oath being assured of their own Loyalty and Merit stood up now for the English Liberties with the same Genius Virtue and Courage that their Noble Ancestors had formerly defended the Great Charter of England but with so much greater Commendation in that they had here a fairer Field and the more Civil way of Decision They fought it out under all the disadvantages imaginable They were overlaid by Numbers the noise of the House like the VVind was against them and if not the Sun the Fire-side was allwayes in their Faces nor being so few could they as their Adversaries withdraw to refresh themselves in a whole days Ingagement Yet never was there a clearer Demonstration how dull a thing is humane Eloquence and Greatness how Little when the bright Truth discovers all things in their proper Colours and Dimensions and shining shoots its Beams thorow all their Fallacies It might be injurious where all of them did so excellently well to attribute more to any one of those Lords than another unless because the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shaftsbury have been the more reproached for this brave Action it be requisite by a double proportion of Praise to set them two on equal terms with the rest of their Companions in Honour The particular Relation of this Debate which lasted many dayes with great eagerness on both sides and the Reasons but on one was in the next Session burnt by Order of the Lords but the Sparkes of it will eterually fly in their Adversaries faces Now before this Test could in so vigorous an opposition passe the House of Peers there arose unexpectedly a great Controversy betwixt the two Houses concerning their Priviledges on this occasion The Lords according to their undoubted Right being the Supream Court of Judicature in the Nation had upon Petition of Doctor Shirley taken cognizance of a Cause between him and Sir John Fagg a Member of the House of Commons and of other Appeales from the Court of Chancery which the Commons whether in good earnest which I can hardly believe or rather some crafty Parliament men among them having an eye upon the Test and to prevent the hazard of its coming among them presently took hold of and blew the Coales to such a degree that there was no quenching them In the House of Peers both Partyes as in a point of their own Privilege easily united and were no lesse inflamed against the Commons and to uphold their own ancient Jurisdiction wherein neverthelesse both the Lords for the Test and those against it had their own particular reasons and might have accused each-other perhaps of some artifice The matter in conclusion was so husbanded on all sides that any longer converse betwixt the two Houses grew impracticable and his Majesty Prorogued them therefore till the 13th of October 1675 following And in this manner that fatall Test which had given so great disturbance to the mindes of our Nation dyed the second Death which in the language of the Divines is as much as to say it was Damned The House of Commons had not in that Session been wanting to Vote 300000 l. towards the building of Ships and to draw a Bill for appropriating the Ancient Tunnage and Poundage amounting to 400000 l. yearly to the use of the Navy as it ought in Law already and had been granted formerly upon that special Trust and Confidence but neither did that 300000 l. although Competent at present and but an earnest for future meeting seem considerable and had it been more yet that Bill of appropriating any thing to its true use was a sufficient cause to make them both miscarry but upon pretense of the quarrel between the Lords and Commons in which the Session thus ended The Conspirators had this interval to reflect upon their own affaires They saw that the King of France as they called him was so busy abroad that he could not be of farther use yet to them here then by his directions while his Armyes were by assistance of the English Forces severall times saved from ruines They considered that the Test was defeated by which the Papists hoped to have had Reprisalls for that of Transubstantiation and the Conspirators to have gained Commission as extensive and arbitrary as the malice of their own hearts could dictate That herewith they had missed of a Legality to have raised mony without Consent of Parliament or to imprison or execute whosoever should oppose them in pursuance of such their Commission They knew it was in vaine to expect that his Majesty in that want or rather opinion of want which they had reduced him to should be diverted from holding this Session of Parliament nor were they themselves for this once wholy averse to it For they presumed either way to find their own account that if mony were granted it should be attributed to their influence and remaine much within their disposal but if not granted that by joyning this with other accidents of Parliament they might so represent things to his Majesty as to incense him against them
may effectally have the Care and Government of such Children according to the true intent of this Law Be it Enected That after any such Children shall have attained their respective Ages of fourteen years no person shall have enjoy bear and execute any office service imployment or place of attendment relateing to their persons but such as shall be approved of in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Arch-Bishops and Bishops in being or the Major part of such of them as are there in being And if any person shall take upon him to Execute any such Office Service Imployment or place of Attendance contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act he shall forfeit the sum of 100 l. for every moneth he shall so Execute the same to be recovered by any person that will sue for the same in any Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information ' in any of his Majesties Courts at VVestminister shall also suffer Imprisonment for the space of six months without Bayle or Manieprize And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person born within this Realme or any other of his Majesties Dominions being a Popish Preist Deacon or Ecclesiiastical Person made or deemed or professed by any Authority or Jurisdiction derived challenged or pretended from the See of Rome or any Jesuite whatsoever shall be allowed to attend the person of the Queens Majesty that now is or any Quen Consort or Queen Dowager that shall be hereafter whilst they are within this Realme â—…or by pretence of such service or any other matter shall be Exempted from the penall Laws already made against such persons coming into being or remaining in this Kingdom but shall be and are hereby lyable to the utmost severity thereof Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawfull for Master John Huddleston being one of the Queens Majesties Domestique servant to attend her said Majesties service any thing in this Act or any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted That after the Death of the Queens Majesty to whom God grant a long and happy life all lay persons whatsoever born within this Realme or any other of his Majesties Dominions that shall be of the Houshold or in the service or Employment of any succeeding Queen Consort or Queen Dowager shall do and performe all things in a late Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers vvhich may happen from Popish Recusants required to be done and performed by any person that shall be admitted into the service or Employment of his Majesty or his Royal Highnesse the Duke of York which if they shall neglect or refuse to do and perform and neverthelesse after such Refusall and execute any Office Service or Employment under any succeeding Queen Consort or Queen Dowager every person so offending shall be lyable to the same penalties and disabilities as by the said Act are may be inflicted upon the breakers of that Law Provided alwayes That all and every person or persons that shallby vertue of this Act have or claym any Arch-Bishoprick Bishoprick Deanry Prebendary Parsonage Vicarage or other Ecclesiastical Benefits with Cure or without Cure shall be and is hereby enjoyned under the like penalties and disabilitys to do and perform all things whatsoever which by Law they ought to have done if they had obteyned the same and by the usuall course and form of Law without the help and benefit of this Act. And be it further Enacted That all and every Arch-Bishops Bishops appointed by this Act to Assemble upon the Demise of his Majesty or any other King or Queen Regnant in order to repaire and make humble tender of the Oath and Declaration aforementioned to any succeeding King or Queen be bound by this Act to Administer the same shall before such tender and Administration thereof and are hereby required to Administer the same Oath and Declaration to one another with such of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops at any time assembled as by the statute 31. H. 8. ought to have precedence of all the rest of them that shall be so assembled is hereby Authorized and required to administer to the rest of them and the next in order to such Prelates is hereby Authorized and required to administer the same to him and the same Oath and Declaration being Engrossed in other peice of Parchment they and every of them are hereby enjoyned to subscribe their names to the same and to return the same into the high Court of Chancery hereafter with their Certificate which they are before by this Act appointed to make And if any of the said Arch-Bishops or Bishops shall be under 〈◊〉 same penalties forfeiture and disabilities as are hereby â—…ointed for such Arch-Bishops and Bishops as neglect or refuse to make any tender of the said Oath and Declaration to any succeeding King or Queen Regnant And be it further Enacted That the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or Arch-Bishop of York or such other Bishop to whom it shall belong to issue forth summons to all the Bishops of England and Wales requiring to meet and consult concerning the Nomination of fit persons for the supply of any Arch-Bishopprick or Bishopprick according to this Act shall make the said summons in such manner that the time therein mentioned for the meeting the said Arch-Bishops and Bishops shall not be more then forty days distinct from the time of the Date and Issuing out of the said summons And be it further Enacted That in case any person intituled by this Act doth demand Consecration in order to make him Bishop of any vacant See in manner aforesaid shall demand the same of the Arch-Bishop of the Province and such Arch Bishop that shall neglect or refuse to do the same either by himself or by others Commissioned by him by the space of thirty days that then such Arch Bishop shall over and besides the trebble Dammages to the party before appointed forfeit the summe of 1000 l. to any person that will sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And being thereof lawfully convicted his Arch-Bishopprick shall thereby become Ipso Facto voyd as if he were naturally Dead and he shall be and is hereby made uncapable and disabled to hold have receive the same or any other Bishopprick or Ecclesiastical Benefice whatsoever And be it further Enacted That after such neglect or refusall by the space of thirty dayes after Demand to make such Consecration or in case of the vacancy of the Arch-Bishopprick such Bishop of the said Province for time being who by the Statute of 31. H. 8. ought to have presidents of all the rest calling to his Assistance a sufficient number of Bishops who are likewise required to assist at such time and place as he shall thereunto appoint shall and is hereby required upon reasonable
such Alliances To which the Speaker re-assuming the Chair and this being reported the House agreed and appointed the Committee And Adjourned over Asâ—…nsion day till Friday In the interim the Committee appointed met and drew the Address according to the above mentioned Order a true Coppy of which is here annexed May it please your Most excellent Majesty YOur Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects 〈◊〉 Commons in Parliament assembled have taken into their serious consideration your Majesties gracious Speech and do beseech your Majesty to believe it is a great affliction to them to find themselves obleiged at present to decline the granting your Majesty the supply your Majesty is pleased to demand conceiving it is not agreeable to the usage of Parliament to grant Supplyes for mainteance of Wars and Alliances before they are signified in Parliament which the too Wars against the States of the Vnited Provinces since your Majesties happy Restoration and the League made in January 1668 for preservation of the Spanish Nether Lands sufficiently proved without ling your Majesty with Instances of greater antiquity from which usage if we might depart the president might be of dangerous consequence in future times though your Majesties Goodnesse gives us great security during your Majesties Raign which we beseech God long to continue This Consideration prompted us in our last Addresse to your Majesty before our last Recesse humbly to mention to your Majesty our hopes that before our meeting again your Majesties Alliances might be so fixed as that your Majesty might begraciously pleased to impart them to us in Parliament that so our earnest desires of supplying your Majesty for prosecuting those great ends we had humbly laid before your Majesty might meet with no impediment or obstruction being highly sensible of the necessity of supporting as well as making the Alliances humbly desired in our former Addresses and which we still conceive so important to the safety of your Majesty and your Kingdomes That we cannot without unfaithfulnesse to your Majesty and those we Represent omit upon all occasions humbly to beseech your Majesty as we now do To enter into a League offensive and defensive vvith the States General of the United Provinces against the grovvth and povver of the French King and for the preservation of the Spanish Nether-Lands and to make such other Alliances vvith such other of the Confiderates as your Majesty shall think fit and usefull to that end in doing which That no time may be lost we humbly offer to his Majesty these Reasons for the expediting of it 1. That if the entering into such Alliances should draw on a War with the French King it would be lest detrimental to your Majesties Subjects at this time of the year they having now fewest effects within the Dominion of that King 2. That though we have great reason to believe the power of the French King to be dangerous to your Majesty and your 〈◊〉 when he shall be at more leisure to molest us yet we conceive the many Enemies he has to deal with at present together with the scituation of your Majesties Kingdoms the Unanimity of the People in the Cause the care your Majesty hath been pleased to take of your ordinary Guards of the Sea together with the Credit provided by the late Act for an additional Excise for three years make the entering into and declaring Alliances very safe until we may in a regular way give your Majesty such further Supplies as may enable your Majesty to support your Allyances and defend your kingdoms And because of the great danger and charge which must necessarily fall upon your Majesties kingdomes if through want of that timely encouragement and assistance which your Majesties joyning with the States General of the United Provinces and other the Confederates would give them The said States or any other considerable part of the Confederates should this next Winter or sooner make a Peace or Truce with the French King the prevention vvhereof must 〈◊〉 be acknovvledged a singular effect of Gods goodness to us which if it should happen your Majesty would be afterwards necessitated with fewer perhaps with no Alliances or Assistance to withstand the power of the French king which hath so long and so succesfully contended with so many and so potent Adversaries and whilest he continues his over-ballancing greatness must alwayes be dangerous to his Neighbours since he would be able to oppress any one Confederate before the rest could get together and be in so good a posture of offending him as they novv are being joyntly engaged in a War And if he should be so successful as to make a Peace or 〈◊〉 the present Confederation against him it is much to be feared whether 〈◊〉 would be possible ever to reunite it at least it would be work of so much time and difficulty as would leave your Majesties Kingdomes exposed to much misery and danger Having thus discharged our duty in laying before your Majesty the Dangers threatning your Majesty and your Kingdomes and the onely Remedyes we can think of for the preventing securing and queting the minds of your Majesties People with some few of those Reasons which have moved us to this and our former Addresses On these Subjects We most humbly beseech your Majesty to take the matter to your serious Consideration and to take such Resolutions as may not leave it in the power of any neighbouring Prince to rob your People of that happinesse which they enjoy under your Majesties gracious Governement beseeching your Majesty to â—…fident and assured that when your Majesty shall be 〈◊〉 to declare such Alliances in Parliament We shall hold our selves obliged not only by our promises and assurances given and now which great Unaninity revived in a full House but by the Zeal and desires of those whom we represent and by the Interests of all our safetyes most chearfully to give your Majesty from time to time such speedy Supplyes and Assistances as may fully and plentifully answer the Occasions and by Gods blessing preserve your Majesty Honour and the safty of the People All which is most humbly submitted to your Majesties great Wisdome Friday May 25th 1677 Sir John Trevor reported from the said Committee the Addresse as 't was drawn by them which was read Whereupon it was moved to agree with the Committee but before it was agreed to there was a debate and division of the House It was observed and objected that there was but one reson given herein for declining the granting money and that is the Unpresidentednesse and as to one of the Instances to this purpose mentioned Viz. the Kings first Dutch War it was said to be mistaken for that the 2500000 l. was voted before the War declared But it was answred that if the Declaration was not before the grant of the money which Quaere yet 't was certain that the War it self and great Hostilites were before the money and some said there might be other reasons