Aprill 4. The proceeding of the Parliament being this day related to the King, by the councellors of the Commons House of Parliament. Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A14419 of text S113916 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 24739). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A14419 STC 24739 ESTC S113916 99849144 99849144 14280 2240863777

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A14419) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 14280) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1697:04) Aprill 4. The proceeding of the Parliament being this day related to the King, by the councellors of the Commons House of Parliament. Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628. [8] p. s.n., [London : 1628] By George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Place and date of publication from STC. Heading on A2r: The Duke of Buckingham his speach to his Maiestie on Friday being the 4th. of Aprill, 1628. Signatures: A⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng eebo Aprill 4. The proceeding of the Parliament, being this day related to the King, by the councellors of the Commons House of Parliament. Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of 1628 7 897 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2004-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2004-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-03 Sampled and proofread 2004-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Aprill 4. The proceeding of the Parliament , being this day related to the King , by the Councellors of the Commons House of Parliament .

HIS Maiestie vpon the report made , expressed great contentment that it gaue him ; not valewing the Money giuen , comparable to the hearts shewed in the way of the Guift : For although his great occasions of State did require more Money then at this time was giuen ; yet now he made account he could not lacke since he had their loues ; and that this day , he thought that he had gayned more Reputation in Christendome , then if he had wonne many Battailes ; Saying further , ( according to his Speech the first day of the Parliament , ) That they might easily make him in loue with Parliaments , ( now he professed he was so : ) And that we should finde the fruits of it by calling vs often together , and to secure further feares , and create future confidence , he assured vs that we should enioy as great imunitie and freedom in his time , as euer we possessed or had vnder the Reigne of any the best Kings of this Realme .

The Duke of BVCKINGHAM his Speach to his Maiestie on Friday being the 4tsh . of Aprill , 1628. SIR ,

MEE thinkes I now behold you a great King ; For loue is greater then Maiestie . Opinion that your People loued you not had almost lost you in the opinion of the World : but this day makes you appeare as you are , A glorious King loued at home , and now to bee feared abroad . This falling out so happily , I beseech you giue mee leaue to bee an humble Sutor vnto your Maiestie . First , for my selfe , that I who haue had the honour to be your Fauourite , may now giue vp my title vnto them , they to bee your Fauourite , and I to bee your Seruant . My second sute is , that they hauing all done so well , you will account of them all as one , a Body of many members , but all of one Heart . Opinion might haue made them differ , but Affection did moue them all to ioyne with like loue in this great Guift : for proportion it being lesse then your occasions may aske , yet it is more then euer Subiects did giue in so short a time : Nor am I perswaded it will rest there , for this is but as an earnest of their affections , to let you see , and the world know what Subiects you haue , that when your Honour and the good of the State is engaged , and Ayde asked in the ordinary way of Parliament , you cannot want . This is not a gift of fiue Subsidies alone , but the opening of a Mine of Subsidies which lyeth in their hearts . This good beginning hath wrought already these effects , they haue taken your heart , drawne from you a declaration that you will loue Parliaments . And againe , this will be mett , I make no question , with such respect , that their demands will be iust , dutifull and moderate : For they that know thus to giue , knowe what is fit to aske : then cannot your Maiestie do lesse then outgoe their demands or else you doe lesse then your selfe , or them : For your Message begat trust , their trust and your promise must then beget performance . This being done , then shall I with a glad heart hold this worke as well ended as now begun , and then shall I hope that Parliaments shal be made hereafter so frequent , by the effects and good vse of them , as shall haue this further benefit , to deterre from approaching your eares those Proiectors & Inducers of Innouation , as disturbers both of Church & Common-wealth . Now Sir , to open my heart and to ease my griefe , please you to pardon me a word more . I must confesse I haue long liued in paine , Sleepe hath giuen mee no rest , Fauours & Fortunes no content , much haue bene my secret sorrowes to be thought the man of Seperation , and that diuided the King from his people , and them from him ; but I hope it shall appeare , they were some mistaken mindes , that would haue made me the euill Spirit that walked betweene a good Master and a loyall People for ill offices . Whereas by your Maiesties fauour , I shall euer endeauour to approue my selfe a good Spirit breathing nothing but the best of seruices vnto them all . Therefore this day I account more blessed vnto me then my birth , to see my selfe able to serue them , to see you brought in loue with Parliaments , to see a Parliament expresse such loue to you . Loue them I beseech you , and God so loue me and mine , as I ioy to see this day .