WHat was more to bee wished on earth then the great hap­pinesse this day wee enjoy, viz. To see his Royall Ma­jesty our Native Sovereign and his loyall Subjects of both his Kingdomes so re­ally united, That his Maje­sty is piously pleased to grant unto us his Subjects our lawfull demands concerning Religion and Liberties, and we his Sub­jects of both Nations cheerfully rendring to his Majesty that dutie, affection, and assistance, which he hath just cause to expect from good people, and each Nation concurring in brotherly amitie, unity, and concord, one towards the other.

Oh, what tongue is able to expresse the honour and praise due to that great and good God, who in these late Commotions suffered not the coun­sels of either Kingdome to despaire of the safetie of either Common-wealth, but through his bles­sing to their painfull and prudent endevours hath [Page 2] wrought such an happinesse for us, That now after the great toyle and trouble which we have on both sides so long endured, wee may each man with his wife, children, and friends, under his own Vine and Fig-tree (and all under his Majesties protection) re­fresh himselfe, with the sweet fruits of peace, which I beseech the Lord of peace to make perpetuall to both Nations.

And to that end my earnest desires are, that all our best studies and endeavours may bee employed (for some time) in contriving and establishing such wholsome Laws in both Kingdomes whereby (as much as in us lyes) the opportunity and occasion of producing the like calamities as lately threatned both Nations may for the future be prevented, if in any age hereafter such Miscreants shall goe a­gaine to attempt it.

It is (my Lords) notorious, that the late Incen­diaries that occasioned the great differences betwixt his Majesty and his Subjects took much advantage & courage by the too long intermission of the hap­py constitution of Parliaments, In the vacancie of which they by false informations incensed his Ma­jesty against his loyall Subjects, and by their wily insinuations extorted from his Highnesse Procla­mations for to yield obedience to their innovati­ons in the Kirke, and Patents for Projects, where­by the poore Subject was both polled and oppres­sed in his estate, and enthralled in his conscience: [Page 3] and thus by their wicked practices, his Majestie was distasted, and his Subjects generally discon­tented, in so much, that had not the great mer­cy of God prevented them, they had made an Ob­struction betwixt his Majestie and his liege people, and had broken those mutuall and indissoluble bonds of protection and allegiance, whereby, I hope, his Royall Majestie, and his loyall and duti­full Subjects of all his three Kingdomes, will be e­ver bound together. To which let all good Sub­jects say Amen.

My Lords, the distaste of his Majesty, nor dis­contents of his Subjects, could never have come to that height they did (nor consequently have pro­duced such effects) had not there bin such an inter­position, by these Innovators and Projectors, be­twixt his Majestie our glorious Sun, and us his loy­all Subjects, that his goodnesse appeared not (for the time) to us, nor our loyaltie and obedience to him. For no sooner was that happy Constellation (the Parliament in England) raised, and thereby those vaporous clouds dissipated, but his Majesties goodnesse, his good Subjects loyalty, and their treachery, evidently appeared.

Our Brethren of England (my Lords) finding the intermission of Parlaments to be prejudiciall and dangerous to the State, have taken care, and made provision for the frequent holding of them: whose prudent example My Motion is may be our pattern forthwith to obtaine his Majesties Royall assent, [Page 4] for doing the like here in this Kingdome. By which meanes his Majesty may in due time heare and re­dresse the grievances of his Subjects, and his Sub­jects (as neede shall require) chearefully aid and as­sist his Majesty, And nor only the domestique peace and quiet of each Kingdome bee preserved, But likewise all Nationall differences (if any hap­pen) may be by the wisdome of the Assemblies of both Kingdomes, from time to time composed and reconciled to the perpetuating of the happie peace and union betwixt both Nations.