are old & full of dayes shall land you in heauen & then our hopefull Prince that springs oute of your owne loynes shall sway that Scepter which you must leave to enioy a Crowne Celestiall, & God in his due tyme will restore the distressed Princesse her husband & Royall issue to that inheritance wch is now possessed by the vsurpinge sword of their enemies whereof wee are the more confident because that Countrie was heretofore a sanctuarie to vs in our distresse when Religion was here persecuted. Cato was wont to say hoc sentio et Carthago distruenda, but I say hoc sentio et Palatinatus recuperanda. The questio was put to a Lacedemonian why their City wanted walls answere was made Concord was their walls. yor Matie vnder God is a sole & entyre Monarch whose outward wall is the Ocian and fortifyed within with a wall of Brasse the bond of vnitie of true religion & happie is that place of which yt may be sayd as of Jerusalem that yt is a City vnited within ytselfe neither is yo'. gouernmt confyned within the limitts of this Kingdome but extends ytselfe into Ireland where yor Maties: paines & care hath banished the disturbers of ye peace where by yor Maties: prouided direcon (in wch I was lately imployed) courses haue beene taken for the settinge forth of Religion & reforminge the Courts of Iustice & by publique banishinge of those who are disturbs of peace: And I am occularis testis that you haue made those apt endowmts of Churches out of yo owne revenue as will bee to yo honnor in all posterities. But my desyre is aswell in this beginninge as in all other our proceedings our words may be vera pauca, & ponderosa : Therefore with yo graciouse favor accordinge to the ancient presidents wee are yo humble suitors to allow vs our ancient priviledges that wee may the better apply our imploymt our psons goods & necessarie attendants beeinge free from arrest & that wee may haue libertie of free speech for noe man cann wisely determine without discourse not doutinge but wee shall confyne o'selues within the limits of duitie, And because theise greate businesses may giue vs often occasion to resorte to yor Matie that vpon our humble suite you would bee pleased to giue vs yor owne fytt tyme of accesse & that all our accons may haue a benigne interp'taĉon a good acceptačon & opinion.

Lastly that I may not only bee a Speaker but an humble suitor protestinge by the great God by whome Kings doe raigne that whatsoeuer I haue sayd hath pceeded from a loyall hart & therefore I desyre yt yt may bee couered with the veale of a gratiouse construction or quited by yor Maties. pardon.

The Kings Speech the 18th of June 1625.

My Lords spirituall and Temporall and you Gent. of the howse of Commons, I may thanke God that the buisines is now come abute at this day, I need not to make any longe narration, nor vse any eloquence, for I am neither able to doe it of my selfe, nor is it good for mee to doe it, nor stands it wth my nature. It is a thinge already happilie begunn by him that is wth. god & I hope in god that you will goe on as franckly and as freely as you advised him. It is true that my ffather was wise though he may seeme to bee vnwise in that it was his carefulnes to see an end in noe other manner then as may stand wth his honnor. It pleased you to advise him to it but after he sawe how much he was abused in his confidence he had in either states, and I need not goe to prove that, for the preparations that are maid are better able to speake it then I can doe it, There preparacons both in Germanye and the preparation of the great fleete, and the rest of the actions wch. I have truly followed doe sufficiently prove the same. My Lords I hope you doe remember that you did helpe to ymploy me to advise my ffather, soe that nowe I cannot say that I came hither a freeman for I am Ingaged before, it is you that have Ingaged mee. It is true that I came to the buisines willingly because I am a younge man, and as a younge man I came as freely as you intreated mee.

I know that you have beene alwayes faythfull and loving vnto your Kinge soe by the grace of god I shall alwayes continewe confident of it. And shall ever remember that if you will helpe me at this time, att the begininge of this Acction I shall beare the same always in memorie else it wilbe a dishonor to me, and I think it wilbe as much to you, I speake not this out of any diffidence but only to show what a sence I have of my honnor of it and yors.

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I hope you will take such grave and wise councell as will expedite the buisines and that you will doe me and your selves honnor, you honnor mee shewinge your loves to mee, and my houor that I may pfect a worke wch my ffather begonn soe happilie.

Soe my Lords last of all because some men are malitious and may thinke that I shall not bee soe true a Keep and mayntayner of Religion as I proffess, I hope I may truly say wth. Paule, I was brought vpp att the feete of Gamaliell, although I confess I shall never bee soe Impudent as to take to my selfe the rest. Butt my Lords this I say that whosoever hath knowne mee heretofore and shall knowe me hereafter shall find that I shalbe as willinge to mayntayne Religion as ever my ffather was. And soe I thinke I have sayed enough now, because my Lords the fashion is as my predecessors have done to have my Lord Keep speake somethinge for mee.

Therefore I have remembered my Lord Keep to speake somethinge wch is more for formalitie then any great matter he hath to speake to you.

The Kings Speech. Aug. 1640.

GENTLEMEN, The Rebells come on fast to Morpeth, if not hindred soe to Newcastle, I hope you wilbee all readie wth yo' trayne bands & horses, you shall goe noe further then I will leade yo", And yo" my Lord see this done or at yo' pill.

Lord Lieutenants Speech.

GENTLEMEN. It is both by the lawe of our land & nature and gods lawe to defend his Mats: pson & or: selues & Nations, thinke whether it bee better to open yor: purses to this, or shutt them to the danger & vnsaftie of his Matie: & yor selues, those that say against this may thinke they vnderstand somethinge, but they vnderstand nought. I am bold to affirme there is noe reason in the world to the Contrarie, but this therefore I say againe, that whether it bee better to open yor purses a little at p'sent in this danger or shutt them & loase all, And let them that refuse take heed what they doe in denyinge it, beinge almost found high treason & they to be Imprisoned and fyned.

And since yor Matie: will trust yor sacred pson amongst them & doe vs such a favour, they were worse then beasts that would refuse, for my selfe, I am come here, & desire rather to bee buried here then anie where els. And it is a shamefull thinge for anie to bee found slacke in this.

And (Ss) wee are bound by the teno. of our. lands beinge Knight service our selues & horses 40 daies vpon Invasion of the Enemie wch, is now, the Rebell hauinge invaded vs. ffor the forces yor Matie: may be pleased to

conveyne that the bands of of Countrie are of two sorts, private & comon the common lyes vpon the Constables charge & the private on their owne charge. Those must march now vpon their owne Charge, and private on their owne charge, and a lay to bee made of the Constables to helpe the Charge of the Comon.

MY LORDS

His Maties: Speech 5° Novembr: 1640.

I DOE expect that yo". will hastily make a pfect relacon to the house of Commons of those great affaires for wch. I have caled you hither at this time, and of the trust I repose in them, and how freely I put myselfe vpon theire loves and affections at this tyme, And that yo". may knowe the better how to doe soe, I shall explaine myselfe concerning one thinge I spoke of the last day, I tould you the Rebells were to be put out of this Kingdome. Its true I must needs cale them soe, soe longe as they haue an Armie that doth Invade vs, yet I am now vnder a treatie wth. them, And vnder my great seale I call them my subiects and soe they are too, But the state of affaires in Breeffe is this.

It is true I did expect when I did call the Lords and great ones to Yorke, to haue mett you at this time onely to haue given you a gratious answere to all yo' aggreevances, for I was in good hopes by theire wisdomes and assistance to haue made an end of that busines, But I must tell you that my subiects of Scotland did soe delay them that it was not possible to end that there.

Therefore I can in noewise blame my Lrds: that mett at Rippon, that the treatie was not ended, but I must thanke them for theire paines and Industrie, and Certaynely had they had as much power as they had affecon, I should by this time haue made an end, But now the treatie is transferred from Rippon to London, where I shall conclude nothinge wthout yo' knowledge, and I doubt not but wth yor approbacon, for that I doe not desire this great matter to be done in a Corner, I shall hereafter open all the Stops of this misvnderstandinge and Cause of this great difference betwixt mee and my subiects of Scotland, And I doubt not but by yo' assistance I shall make them knowe there duties, And by yor assistance alsoe I shall make them Retorne whither they will or Noe.

The Kings Speech in Parliam 1 May 1641.

I HAD noe intencon to speake of this buisines this daie concerneinge the impeachm1 of my Lord of Strafford, but now it comes to passe that I am of necessitie to haue parte in that Iudgmt, I am sure you all knowe I haue beene p'sent at this great buisines from ye one end to ye other, that wch I am to declare to you in shorte is this.

That in my Conscience I can not condemne him of high treason, it is not fitt for mee to argue the buisinesses, I am sure you will not expect it, a ppositiue doctrine best agrees with the mouth of Princes. yet I must tell you great truthes, wch I am sure noe bodie can knowe as well as myselfe.

(1.) That I had never anie intencon of bringeing in the Irish Armie nor ever was advised soe to doe.

(2.) There was never anie debate before mee in publique Councell, or at private Comitties of the disloyalltie or disaffection of my English subiects nor never had suspicion of them.

(3.) That I was never Councelled by anie to alter anie or the least of the Lawes of England, much lesse to alter all the Lawes.

Now I must tell you I thinke noe bodie durst be ever soe Impudent to move mee in it, for if they had I should haue put such a marke vpon him that all posteritie should knowe my Intenčon in it, for my intencon was ever to pceed accordinge to lawe & noe otherwise, I desire rightly to be vnderstood, I tould you in my Conscience I could not Condemne him of Treason, yet I can not say I can cleare him of misdemeanor, and therefore I hope you may find a waie to sattisfie Iustice & yo' owne ffrends, and not presse vpon any Conscience, my Lords you knowe what a tender charge a Conscience is, I must declare vnto yo", to sattisfie my people I would doe great matters, but in this of Conscience noe feare or respect shall ever make mee goe agt: it, but certaynly I haue not soe ill deserved of the Parliamt. at this time that they should presse mee in this tender pointe, and therefore I can not expect yo" will goe about it, nay I must confesse for matter of misdemeanor, I am soe cleare in it, that although I will not Chalke out the waie, yet I will shew that I thinke that my Lord of Strafford is not fitt hereafter to serve mee or the Comon wealth in any place, noe not soe much as to be a high Constable, and therefore I leaue it to you my Lords, as to find some such way as to bringe mee out of this great straite, & to keepe yo'selues & kingdome from such inconveniences, hee that think him guiltie of high treason in his Conscience may Condemne him of misdemeanor, now