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His Majeſties MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH, Together with the Lord Chancellors, To both Houſes of PARLIAMENT, On Monday, October 27. 1673.

By His Majeſties ſpecial Command.

C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon as printer's device

LONDON,

Printed by the Aſſigns of John Bill and Chriſtopher Barker, Printers to the Kings moſt Excellent Majeſty. 1673.

CUM PRIVILEGIO.
His Majeſties Moſt Gracious SPEECH. My Lords and Gentlemen,

I Thought this day to have welcomed You with an honourable Peace; My preparations for the War, and Condeſcentions at the Treaty, gave Me great reaſon to believe ſo: but the Dutch have diſappointed Me in that expectation, and have treated My Ambaſſadors at Cologne, with the Contempt of Conquerors, and not as might be expected from men in their Condition.

They have other thoughts then Peace.

This obligeth Me to move you again for a Supply, the Safety and Honor of the Nation neceſſarily requiring it: It muſt be one proportionable to the Occaſion; and I muſt tell you beſides, that if I have it not ſpeedily, the Miſchief will be irreparable in My preparations for the next Spring: The Great Experience I have had of you Gentlemen of the Houſe of Commons, will not ſuffer Me to believe, that the Artifices of Our Enemies can poſsibly divert you from giving Me this Supply, or that you can fail of adjuſting the proportion of it.

I hope I need not uſe many words to perſwade you, that I am ſteady in maintaining all the Profeſsions and Promiſes I have made you concerning Religion and Property: And I ſhall be very ready to give you freſh inſtances of My Zeal, for preſerving the establiſhed Religion and Lawes, as often as any occaſion ſhall require.

In the laſt place, I am highly concerned to commend to your Conſideration and Care the Debt I owe the Goldſmiths, in which very many other of My good Subjects are involved; I heartily recommend their condition to you, and deſire your aſsiſtance for their relief.

There is more that I would have you informed of, which I leave to the Chancellor.

THE Lord Chancellors SPEECH To both Houſes of PARLIAMENT. My Lords, and you the Knights, Citizens and Burgeſſes of the Houſe of Commons,

HIs Majeſty had reaſon to expect, That He ſhould have met you with the Olive-Branch of Peace: His Naval Preparations, greater then in any former years, together with the Land Forces He had ready for any Occaſion, gave Him aſſurance to obtain it before this time. And the rather, becauſe His aims were not Conquest, unleſs by obſtinacy inforced; But His Condeſcentions at the Treaty have been ſo great, That the very Mediators have declared they were not reaſonably to be refuſed. He could not be King of Great Britain without ſecuring the Dominion and Property of His Own Seas; The firſt by an Article clear, and not eluſory of the Flagg; The other by an Article, that preſerved the right of the Fiſhing, but gave the Dutch permiſſion, as Tenants, under a ſmall Rent, to enjoy, and continue that gainful Trade upon His Coaſts. The King was obliged, for the Security of a laſting Peace, as alſo by the Laws of Gratitude, and Relation, to ſee the Houſe of Orange ſetled, and the Lovestein, that Carthaginian party, brought down. Neither in this did the King inſiſt beyond what was moderate, and agreeable to their Government: And what the Prince's anceſtors enjoyed amongſt them. Beſides theſe, there was neceſſary to the Trade of England, that there ſhould be a fair Adjustment of Commerce in the East-Indies; where the Kings Demands were reaſonalbe, and according to the Law of Nations; and their Practice of late years hath been Exorbitant, and Oppreſsive, ſuitable on ely to their Power and Intereſt, and destructive, if continued, to our East-India-Company. Theſe were all, of any moment, the King inſiſted on; as judging aright, That that Peace that was reaſonable, juſt, and fair to both parties, would be ſacred and durable. And that by this means, He ſhould depreſs the Intereſt, and Reputation of that Loveſtein party amongſt them, who ſucked in with their milk an inveterate hatred to England, and tranſmit it to their poſterity, as a diſtinguiſhing Character; wherein they place their Loyalty to their Country.

In return to this Candid, and fair proceeding on the Kings part, His Majeſty aſſures you, he hath received nothing, but the moſt ſcornful, and contemptuous treatment imaginable; Papers delivered in to the Mediators, owned by them to be ſtuffed with ſo unhandſome Language, that they were aſhamed, and refuſed to ſhew them: Never agreeing to any Article about the Flagg, that was clear or plain: Refuſing any Article of the Fiſhing, but ſuch a one, as might ſell them the right of Inheritance, for an inconſiderable ſum of money, though it be a Royalty ſo inherent in the Crown of England, that I may ſay, (with His Majeſties pardon for the Expreſsion) He cannot ſell it. The Article of the Prince of Orange, and the Adjuſtment of the East India-Trade had neither of them any better ſucceſs; And to make all of a piece, they have this laſt week ſent a Trumpetter with an Addreſs to His Majeſty, being a deduction of their ſeveral Offers of Peace, as they call them, and their deſires for it now; but it is both in the Penning and the Timeing of it, plainly an Appeal to His Majeſties People againſt Himſelf; And the King hath commanded me to tell you, He is reſolved to joyn iſſue with them, and Print both their Addreſs, and His Anſwer, that His People and the World may ſee how notorious falſhoods and ſlights they endeavour to put upon Him: In a word, in England, and in all other Places, and to all other Perſons of the World, they declare they offer all things to obtain a Peace from the King of England: But to Himſelf, His Miniſters, the Mediators, or His Plenipotentiaries, it may with confidence and truth be affirmed, that to this day; nay, even in this laſt Addreſs they have offered nothing. They deſire the Kings Subjects would believe they beg for Peace, whilſt their true requeſt is, onely to be permitted to be once Masters of the Seas; Which they hope, if they can ſubſiſt at Land, length of time may give them: And if once got, is never to be lost; Nor can it be bought by any State or Empire, at too great a rate. And what Security their Agreement with us in Religion will afford, when they ſhall have the Power, former Inſtances may give Demonstration of. Joynt Interests have often ſecured the Peace of differing Religions, but agreeing Profeſſions hath hardly an example of preſerving the Peace of different Interests.

This being the true and natural ſtate of things, His Majesty doth with great aſſurance throw himſelf into the Arms of You His Parliament, for a Supply ſuitable to this great Affair He is engaged in. When you corſider we are an Iſland, 'tis not Riches nor Greatneſs we contend for; yet thoſe muſt attend the Succeſs; But 'tis our very Beings are in queſtion: We fight pro aris & focis in this War. We are no longer Freemen, being Iſlanders, and Neighbours, if they Master us at Sea. There is not ſo lawful or commendable a jealouſie in the World, as an Engliſhmans of the growing Greatneſs of any Prince or State at Sea. If you permit the Sea, our Britiſh Wife, to be raviſhed, an eternal mark of Infamy will ſtick upon us; Therefore I am commanded earneſtly to recommend to you, not onely the Proportion, but the Time of the Supply. For unleſs you think of it early, it will not be ſerviceable to the chief end of ſetting out a Fleet betimes the next Spring.

As for the next part of the Kings Speech, I can add nothing to what His Majeſty hath ſaid. For as to Religion, and Property, His heart is with your heart, perfectly with your heart. He hath not yet learned to deny you any thing; and He believes your Wiſdom and Moderation is ſuch, He never ſhall. He asks of you to be at Peace in Him, as He is in You, and He ſhall never deceive you.

There is one word more, I am commanded to ſay concerning that Debt is owing to the Goldſmiths. The King holds himſelf in Honour and Conſcience obliged to ſee them ſatisfied. Beſides, you all know how many Widows, Orphans, and particular perſons, this publick Calamity hath overtaken; and how hard it is, that ſo diſproportionable a burthen ſhould fall upon them, even to their utter Ruine. The whole Caſe is ſo well and generally known, that I need ſay no more. Your great Wiſdoms hath not done it at the firſt peradventure that the Trade of the Banker might be ſuppreſſed; which end is now attained. So that now your great Goodneſs may reſtore to thoſe poor people, and the many innocent ones that are concerned with them, ſome life and aſſurance of Payment in a competent time.

My Lords and Gentlemen, I have no more in Command, and therefore ſhall conclude with my own hearty Prayers, That this Seſsion may equal, nay exceed the Honour of the laſt; That it may perfect what the laſt begun for the Safety of this King, and Kingdom; That it may be ever famous for having eſtabliſhed, upon a durable Foundation, our Religion, Laws, and Properties; That we may not be toſſed with boiſterous Winds, nor overtaken by a ſudden dead Calm: But that a gentle fair Gale may carry you in a ſteady, even, and reſolved way into the Ports of Wiſdom and Security.

LONDON, Printed by the Aſsigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the KINGS moſt Excellent Majeſty, 1673.