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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

His Majestie 's GRACIOUS SPEECH Together with the Lord CHANCELLOR'S To both Houses of PARLIAMENT on Saturday the 29 th 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 C R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT LONDON Printed by JOHN BILL Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. CUM PRIVILEGIO HIS MAJESTIE' 's Gracious Speech To both Houses of PARLIAMENT On Saturday the 29 day of December 1660. Upon the Dissolution of the PARLIAMENT My Lords and Gentlemen I Will not entertain you with a long discourse the sum of all I have to say to you being but to give you Thanks very hearty Thanks and I assure you I finde it a very difficult work to satisfie My Self in My Own expressions of those Thanks Perfunctory thanks Ordinary thanks for Ordinary civilities are easily given but when the Heart is as full as Mine is it is a labor to thank you Bou have taken great pains to obliege Me and therefore it cannot be easie for me to express the sence I have of it I will enlarge no further to you upon this occasion then to tell you That when God brought Me hither I brought with me an Extraordinary Affection and Esteem for Parliaments I need not tell you how much it is improved by your carriage towards me You have out-done all the good and oblieging Acts of your Predecessors towards the Crown and therefore you cannot but believe My Heart is exceedingly enlarged with the acknowledgment Many former Parliaments have had particular denominations from what they have done They have been stiled Learned and Unlearned and sometimes have had worse Epithites I pray let us all Resolve that this be for ever called The Healing and the Blessed Parliament As I thank you though not enough for what you have done so I have not the least doubt by the blessing of God but when I shall call the next Parliament which I shall do as soon as reasonably you can expect or desire I shall receive your Thanks for what I have done since I parted with you For I deal truly with you I shall not more propose any one Rule to My Self in My Actions and My Councels then this What is a Parliament like to think of this Action or this Councel And it shall be want of Vnderstanding in Me if it will not bear that Test I shall conclude with this which I cannot say too often nor you too often where you go Tha● 〈◊〉 to the miraculous blessing of God Almighty and indeed as an immediate effect of that Blessing I do impute the good Disposition and Security we are all in to the happy Act of Indempnity and Oblivion that is the principal Corner-stone which supports this excellent Building that creates Kindness in Vs to each other and Confidence is Our Joynt and Common Security You may be sure I will not onely observe it Religiously and inviolably My Self but also exact the observation of it from others And if any person should ever have the boldness to attempt to perswade Me to the contrary he will finde such an Acceptation from Me as he would have who should perswade Me to burn Magna Charta cancel all the old Laws and to erect a new Government after My Own invention and appetite There are many other particulars which I will not trust My Own Memory with but will require the Chancellor to say the rest to you After His Majesty had done the Lord Chancellor said as followeth My Lords and you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons THere cannot be a greater manifestation of an excellent Temper and Harmony of Affections throughout the Nation then that the King and his two Houses of Parliament meet with the same Affections and Cheerfulness the same Alacrity in their Countenance at the Dissolution as when they met at the Convention of Parliament It is an unquestionable evidence that they are exceedingly satisfied in what they have done towards each other that they have very well done all the business they came about This is now your case you have so well satisfied your own Consciences that you are sure you have satisfied the King's expectation and His Hope and the desires and wishes of the Country It was very justly observed by you Mr. Speaker that you have never asked any one thing of the King which he hath not with all imaginable cheerfulness granted and in truth His Majesty doth with great comfort acknowledge that you have been so far from denying Him any thing He hath asked that He hath scarce wished any thing that you have not granted And it is no wonder that having so fully complyed with your obligations and having so well composed the minds of the Nation you are now willing to be relieved from this extraordinary Fatigue you have submitted so long to and to return to the consideration of your own particular Affairs which you have so long sacrificed to the Publique and this reasonable wish and desire hath brought the King to comply with you and which nothing else could do to part with you with an equal cheerfulness and he makes no doubt but all succeeding Parliaments will pay you their Thanks for all you have done and look upon your Actions and your example with all possible Approbation and Reverence The King and you have given such earnest to each other of your mutual Affection you have been so exact and punctual in your proceedings towards each other that you have made no promise no profession to each other of the making good and performing of which the world is not witness You declared at the Adjournment in September last your Resolution to settle a noble Revenew on the Crown you have done it with all the Circumstances of Affection and Prudence The King promised you to establish a Council for Trade a Council for the Forreign Plantations a Commission for composing all difference upon Sales all this he did before your coming together and with very good effect and you shall hear that the Proceedings in every one of them are more vigorous and effectual after your Dissolution His Majesty then promised you that he would give up all his endeavors to compose the unhappy differences in matters of Religion and to restore the languishing Church to peace Unity and Order Constantine himself hardly spent so much of his own time in private and publique Conferences to that purpose His Majesty in private conferred with the Learned Men and heard all that could be said upon several Opinions and Interests apart and then in the presence of both Parties himself moderating in the debates and less care and diligence and authority would not have done the work and God hath so blessed His Labor and made His Determinations in that Affair so generally agreeable that he hath received thanks from His Houses of Parliament that is from the whole

effectually press the Miracles that God Almighty hath lately wrought for King and People as an evidence that he will not again easily forsake them We may tell those who are using all their endeavours to imbroil the Nation in new troubles That it is not probable that a Nation against which God seemed these late years to have pronounced his Iudgment in the very language of the Prophet Go ye swift messengers to a Nation scattered and peeled to a people terrible from the beginning hitherto a Nation rooted out and trodden down whose Land the Rivers have spoiled The Lord hath mingeld a perverse spirit in the middest thereof That he should reduce that perversness to the greatest meekness and resignation that he should withdraw his Judgement from this Nation and in a moment restore it to all the happiness it can wish and to no other end but to expose it to the mercy and fury of a few discontented persons the worst of the Nation is not easie to be believed We may tell those who still contrive the ruine of the Church the best and the best Reformed Church in the Christian World Reformed by that Authority and with those Circumstances as a Reformation ought to be made that God would not so miraculously have snatched this Church as a brand out of the fire would not have raised it from the grave after he had suffered it to be buried so many years by the boystrous hands of Prophane and Sacrilegious persons under its own rubbidge to expose it again to the same Rapine Reproach and Impiety That Church which delights it self in being called Catholick was never so near expiration never had such a Resurrection that so small a pittance of Meal and Oyl should be sufficient to preserve and nourish the poor Widow and her Family so long is very little more miraculous then that such a number of pious learned and very aged Bishops should so many years be preserved in such wonderful straights and oppressions untill they should plentifully provide for their own Succession That after such a deep Deluge of Sacriledge Profaness and Impiety had covered and to common understanding swallowed it up that that Church should again appear above the waters God be again served in that Church and served as he ought to be and that there should be still some Revenue left to support and encourage those who serve him nay that many of those who seemed to thirst after that Revenue till they had possessed it should conscientiously restore what they had taken away and become good sons and willing Tenants to that Church they had so lately spoyled may make us all piously believe that God Almighty would not have been at the expence and charge of such a miracle so manifested himself to us in such a deliverance but in the behalf of a Church very acceptable to him and which shall continue to the end of the World and against which the Gates of Hell shall not be able to prevail We may tell those desperate wretches who yet harbour in their thoughts wicked designs against the Sacred Person of the King in order to the compassing their own imaginations that God Almighty would not have led Him through so many Wildernesses of Afflictions of all kinds conducted Him through so many perils by Sea and perils by Land snatch'd Him out of the midst of this Kingdom when it was not worthy of Him and when the hands of His Enemies were even upon Him when they thought themselves so sure of Him that they would bid so cheap and so vile a price for Him He would not in that Article have so covered Him with a Cloud that He travailed even with some pleasure and great observation through the midst of His Enemies He would not so wonderfully have new modelled that Army so inspired their hearts and the hearts of the whole Nation with an honest and impatient longing for the return of their dear Soveraign and in the mean time have so exercised Him which had little less of Providence in it than the other with those unnatural or at least unusual disrespects and reproaches abroad that He might have a harmless and an innocent appetite to His Own Countrey and return to His Own People with a full value and the whole unwasted Bulk of His Affections without being corrupted or byassed by Extraordinary Forraign Obligations God Almighty would not have done all this but for a Servant whom He will alwayes preserve as the apple of His own Eye and alwayes defend from the most secret machinations of His Enemies If these Argumentations Gentlemen urged with that vivacity as is most natural to your own gratitude and Affections recover as many and it would be strange if it should not as have been corrupted by the other Logick the hearts of the whole Nation even to a man will insensibly be so devoted to the King as the only Conservator and Protector of all that is dear and precious to them and will be so Zealous to please him whose greatest pleasure is to see them pleased that when they make choice of Persons again to serve in Parliament they will not choose such who they wish should oppose the King but therefore choose them because they have and because they are like to serve the King with their whole hearts and since he desires what is best for his People to gratifie him in all he desires This blessed harmony would raise us to the highest Pinacle of honour and happinesse in this world a pinacle without a point upon which King and People may securely rest and repose themselves against all the gusts and stormes and tempests which all the malice of this world can raise against us and I am sure you will all contend to be at the top of this Pinacle I have no more to add but the words of custome That the King declares this present Parliament to be dissolved and this present Parliament is dissolved THE SPEECH WHICH THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons made unto the KING on Saturday December 29. 1660 being the Day of their Dissolution Most Gracious and Dread Soveraign THe Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled in Parliament being the Representative Body of Your Commons of England are as Conduit Pipes or Quils to convey the Streams of Your Peoples dutiful Affections and humble Desires into Your Royal Presence and that being done they need no other Speaker but Your Self for they know Your Skil and they have had experience of Your Will And yet Royal Sir Though they have no cause to complain they cannot but take notice of Your Partiality for when any thing in point of Right or but Conveniency hath fallen out to be as we use to say a measuring Cast a disputable Case between Your Self and Your People without any regard or respect had unto Your own Right or the Advantage that might accrue to Your Self by asserting the same if the good of Your People hath come in competition with it You have