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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	king_n	kingdom_n	treaty_n	2,512	5	9.3701	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49730	The speech of His Grace the Duke of Lauderdale, His Majesties high-commissioner from the kingdom of Scotland, to the Parliament there, the twelfth of November, 1673	Lauderdale, John Maitland, Duke of, 1616-1682.	1673 (1673)	Wing L614; ESTC R26047	1,684	7

THE SPEECH Of his Grace the Duke of LAUDERDALE His Majesties HIGH-COMMISSIONER For the Kingdom of SCOTLAND To the PARLIAMENT there The Twelfth of November 1673. By His Majesties Special Command In the SAVOY Printed by Thomas Newcomb 1673. THE SPEECH Of His GRACE The DUKE of LAVDERDALE His Majesties High COMMISSIONER for His Kingdom of SCOTLAND at the Opening of the Session of PARLIAMENT November the 12th 1673. My Lords and Gentlemen THe last time I had the Honour to serve the King in this place I did by His Majesties Command acquaint you with the Grounds and Motives of His Engaging in this so unavoidable a War against the States General of the Vnited Provinces for securing His Kingdoms against them who would have made us long ere now have felt what was then onely foreseen if by Gods good Providence and the Kings Wisdom this War had not been made I did at that time recommend to you to consider His Honour His Interest and your own Security which are certainly most inseparable and to lay down such Real and Effectual Ways that the Forces of this Kingdom might be supplied to serve His Majesty upon occasion to be a Terrour to His Enemies and a Security to this His Kingdom You then did most cheerfully raise such a Sum as might probably provide against any Forreign Invasion or Intestine Commotion the Enemy could raise here For which His Majesty does again return you His Hearty Thanks He hath not diverted any of it from the Ends for which it was granted And so great were His Naval Preparations together with His Land Forces this last Summer that He had great reason to have expected a Just and Honourable Peace But such hath been the insolent stubbornness of His Enemies that He is disappointed of that hope Therefore He did command me to keep this Session of Parliament at this day to which was many moneths ago Adjourn'd and as He acquainted you with the Motives of the War so to let you know how He hath used all means possible for ending it The Swedes who are the Mediators proposed a Treaty His Majesty accepted it and offered Dunkirk as the most convenient Place for all that were concerned in the War to Treat in But the Enemy refused it though His Majesty had treated with them at their own Town of Breda during the last War The Mediators proposed a Cessation of Arms before any Engagement last Summer His Majesty agreed to it But the Enemy insolently refused it also And the King accepted of the City of Cologn proposed by the Enemy for the place of Treaty Thither he sent His Plenipotentiaries with reasonable Proposals and those He did so moderate that the Mediators declared they were not reasonably to be refused Yet the Enemy have been so very averse to Peace that they would never declare what would satisfie them nor so much as Answer any Proposal made by the Mediators for the King or His Allies Nay such was their insolence that they gave in Papers stuffed with such unhandsome Language that the Mediators were ashamed and refused to shew them Therefore the King is forced to continue the War for His own Honour the maintenance of His Just Rights and the Protection of all His Subjects wherein He doubts not of the hearty concurrence of this and of all His Kingdoms Another main reason of keeping this Session of Parliament is to joyn with you in taking such effectual course for curbing and punishing insolent Field-Conventicles and other Seditious practises as that the good Laws you have made may receive due Obedience and that Peace and Order may be preserved in this Kingdom The Ways and Means for this good End He leaves to your Wisdom not doubting of the same Care and Affection to His Service in this which he hath found all along from you And whereas the malicious Tongues of the Disaffected may still bespatter His Majesty and His Government with base Slanders and false Suggestions I am again particularly commanded to renew to you the fullest Assurance of His Majesties most constant continuance in His firm and unalterable Resolutions to maintain the true Reformed Protestant Religion and the Government of this Church by Archbishops and Bishops against Popery and Separation And I am fully Authorised to all such further Acts as you shall think convenient for the quieting the minds of peaceable People for preventing the increase of Popery or Schism and by all good means securing the true Reformed Religion and the Peace of this Church I am likewise fully Impowered to give His Maj●sties Royal Assent to such good Laws as you shall offer for Increasing of Trade the Improving of Manufactures or any way promoving the good of this Kingdom So that I doubt not by Gods Blessing and your Wisdom of as happy an End of this as I have seen in former Sessions of Parliament FINIS