His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Tuesday, July 30. 1661.: The day of their adjournment. : Together with the speech of Sir Edward Turnor, Knight, speaker of the honorable House of Commons, to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty. Delivered on Tuesday the thirtieth day of Juy, 1661 at the adjournment of the Parliament.

THE SPEECH OF Sr. EDWARD TƲRNOR, KNIGHT, Speaker of the Honorable House of COMMONS, TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY;

Delivered on Tuesday the Thirtieth day of July, 1661. at the Adjournment of the Parliament.

May it please Your most Excellent Majesty,

THe Wise man tells us, there is a time to sow, and a time to reap. Since Your Majesty did conveen the Knights, Citi∣zens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, they have with un∣wearied labour consulted for the Service of Your Majesty, and the good of this Nation; and now the Fields grow white to Harvest. In the great field of Na∣ture

all fruits do not grow ripe together, but some in one mo∣neth, some in another; one time affords Your Majesty Prim∣roses and Violets, another time presents you with July-flowers. So it is in the course of our proceedings; some of our fruits are in the Blossome, when others are in the Bud; some are near ripe, and others fit to be presented to Your Ma∣jesty. Amongst the number of our choicest ripe fruits, we first present You with a Bill for the Safety and Preservation of Your Majesties Royal Person and Government.

Your Predecessor, Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, in the Thirteenth year of her Reign, by Pius Quintus, then Bishop of Rome, was Excommunicated and Anathema∣tized: John Felton posted up a Bull at the Bishop of Lon∣dons Palace, whereby she was declared to be deprived of her Title to the Kingdom, and all the People of this Realm absolved from their Allegiance to her: The Queen of Scots was then a prisoner in England, and the Duke of Norfolk for many Designs against our Queen committed to the Tower. Historians tell us, the times were very troublesome, full of suspitions and conspiracies: But, Sir, what then was onely feared, hath in our time been put in execution: No Age hath known, no History makes mention of such sad Tra∣gedies. It therefore now becomes Your People, after this glo∣rious Restitution to endeavour all just wayes of preservation.

The Queen in her time of trouble and danger sum∣moned a Parliament; and such was the Love of the People to her and her Government, that they forthwith made a Law for her security: According to which Pre∣sident, We your Loyal Commons also, who have before them no lesse cause of fear, but more Obligations, and Affection to your Majesty, do humbly tender You a Bill, wherein we desire it may be Enacted, That if any Person shall compasse, imagine or design Your Majesties Death,

Destruction, or bodily Harm, to imprison, or restrain Your Royal Person, or depose You, or shall levy War against Your Majesty, within or without Your Realm, or stir up any for∣raign Power to invade You, and shall express or declare such his wicked intention by Printing, Writing, Preaching, or malicious and advised speaking, being thereof legally con∣victed, shall be adjudged a Traitor.

And because much of our late Misery, took its rise from seditious Pamphlets, and Speeches from the Pulpits, it is provided, That if any man shall maliciously and advi∣sedly publish or affirm Your Majesty to be an Heretick, or a Papist, or that You endeavour to introduce Popery, or shall stir up the People to hatred or dislike of Your Royal Person or Government, then every such Person shall be made incapable of any Office or Imployment, either in Church or State. And if any man shall maliciously and advisedly affirm, That the Parliament begun at Westminster, the third of September 1640. is yet in being, or that any Covenant or Engagement since that time, imposed upon the People, doth oblige them to endeavour a Change of the Government either in Church or State; or that either, or both Houses of Parliament have a Legislative Power without Your Majesty, then every such Offendor being thereof legally convicted, shall incur the Penalties of a Praemunire, mentioned in the Statute made 16. R. 2.

In the next place, Sir, Give me leave, I beseech You (without any violence to the Act of Oblivion) to remem∣ber a sad effect of the Distempers in the last age: when the Feaver began to seize upon the People, they were impatient till they lost some blood; The Lords Spirituall, who in all ages had injoyed a place in Parliament, were by an Act of Parliament excluded.

Your Majesties Royal Grandfather was often wont to say,

No Bishop, no King, We found his words true; for after they were put out, the Feaver still increasing in another fit, The Temporal Lords followed, and then the King himself: nor did the humor rest there, but in the round, the House of Commons was first garbled, and then turned out of doors.

It is no wonder when a Sword is put into a mad mans hand, to see him cut off limb by limb, and then to kill himself.

When there is a great breach of the sea upon the low grounds, by the violence of the torrent, the Rivers of sweet waters are often turned aside, and the salt waters make themselves a Channel; but when the breach is made up, good husbands drain their lands again, and restore the ancient Sewres.

Thanks be to God the flood is gone off the face of this Island; our Turtle Dove hath found good footing; Your Majesty is happily restored to the Government, the Temporal Lords and Commons are restored to sit in Parliament, and shall the Church alone now suffer?

Sit Ecclesia Anglicana libera, & habeat libertates suas illaesas

In order to this great work, the Commons have prepared a Bill to repeal that Law was made in 17 Car. whereby the Bishops were excluded this House: these Noble Lords have all agreed, and now we beg Your Majesty will give it life: speak but the word, Great Sir, and Your servants yet shal live.

We cannot well forget the method, how Our late miseries, like waves of the Sea, came in upon us: first the people were invited to Petition, to give colour to some illegal demands; then they must Remonstrate, then they must Protest, then they must Covenant, then they must associate, then they must en∣gage against our lawfull Government, and for the mainte∣nance of the most horrid Tyranny that ever was invented. For the prevention of this practice for the future, We do

humbly tender unto Your Majesty a Bill, entituled, An Act against Tumults and Disorders, upon pretence of pre∣paring or presenting publick Petitions or Addresses to You Majesty or the Parliament.

In the next place, we held it our Duty to undeceive the People, who have been poysoned with an Opinion, That the Militia of this Nation was in themselves, or in their Representatives in Parliament: and according to the ancient known Laws, we have declared the sole Right of the Militia to be in Your Majesty. And for asmuch as our time hath not permitted us to finish a Bill intended for the future ordering of the same; we shall present You with a temporary Bill, for the present managing and disposing of the Land-Forces: And likewise another Bill, for the establishing certain Articles and Orders for the Regu∣lation and Government of Your Majesty's Navies and Forces by Sea.

According to Your Majesty's Commands we have exa∣mined many of the publick, and private Bills which passed last Parliament, and have prepared some Bills of Confirma∣tion: we have also ascertained the Pains and Penalties to be imposed upon the Persons or Estates of those Mis∣creants who had a hand in the Murder of Your Royal Father of Blessed Memory, and were therefore Excepted in Your Majesties Act of Oblivion: Wherein we have de∣clared to all the world, how just an Indignation we had against that horrid Regicide.

We have likewise prepared a Bill for the Collection of great Arrears of the Duty of Excise, which I do here in the name of the Commons humbly present unto Your Maje∣sty: the Reason we conceive why it was not formerly paid, was because the People disliked the Authority whereby it was imposed: But understanding that it is now given to Your

Majesty, it will come in with as great freedom. Aliquis∣que malo erit usus in illo.

Your Majesty was pleased at the opening of the Parlia∣ment to tell us, That You intended this Summer to take a Progresse, and see Your People, and at Your return did hope to bring a Queen home with You. Sir, this welcome News hath made us cast about alwayes for Your Accomodation. And therefore that no conveniencies might be wanting, either for Your Majesty, Your Queen or Your Attendants, We have prepared a Bill, intituled, An Act for providing necessary Carriages in all Your Royal Progresses and Removals.

Your Majesty was likewise pleased at our first meeting to say, You would not tyre us, with hard Duty, and hot Service, and therefore about this time intended a recess. That Royal Favour will now be very seasonable, and we hope advantagious both to Your Majesty and our selves: We know in our absence Your Princely Heart and Head will not be free from Cares and Thoughts of our Protection: And when we leave our Hive, like the indu∣strious Bee, We shall but flie about the several Countreys of the Nation to gather Honey; and when Your Majesty shall be pleased to name the time, return with loaded Thighs unto our House again.

FINIS.