His Majesties gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Tuesday April 5. 1664. at the passing of two bills the one entituled, An act for the assembling and holding of Parliaments once in three years, at the least, and for the repeal of an act entituled, An act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliament : the other, an act preventing the abatements of writs of errour upon judgements in the Exchequer. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A32259 of text R5598 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3049). 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. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A32259 Wing C3049 ESTC R5598 12378813 ocm 12378813 60663 2240928227

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His Majesties GRACIOUS SPEECH TO Both Houses OF PARLIAMENT ; On Tuesday April 5. 1664. at the Passing of TWO BILLS ; The one Entituled , An Act for the Assembling and Holding of Parliaments once in Three years , at the least ; And for the Repeal of an Act Entituled , An Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long Intermission of Parliaments . The other , An Act for preventing of Abatements of Writs of Errour upon Judgements in the Exchequer .

C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms

LONDON , Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker , Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty , 1664.

CUM PRIVILEGIO .

His Majesties Gracious SPEECH To both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT ; On Tuesday April 5. 1664. at the Passing of Two Bills . My Lords and Gentlemen ,

YOu will easily believe that I have come very willingly to give My assent to this Bill ; I do thank you very heartily for your so unanimous concurrence in it , and for desiring Me speedily to finish it : and if I understand any thing that concerns : the Peace and Security of the Kingdom , and the welfare of My Subjects ( all which I study more then My Prerogative ; indeed I consider My Prerogative onely in order to preserving the other ) every good Englishman will thank you for it ; For the Act you have Repealed , could onely serve to discredit Parliaments , to make the Crown jealous of Parliaments , and Parliaments of the Crown , and perswade neighbour Princes that England was not Governed under a Monarch ; It could never have been the occasion of frequent Parliaments . I do promise you I will not be one hour the less without a Parliament for this Act of Repeal , nor , I am sure , will you be the less kind to Me in Parliament . I do again thank you for your excellent temper and respect to Me , and desire you so to proceed , that the Session may be within the time I proposed to you last ; and I do assure you upon My Word , and I pray believe Me , That I have no other thoughts or designs in My heart , but to make you all happy in the support of the Religion and Laws established ; and if My own wants and necessities are at any time grievous to Me , it is onely , as I apprehend I may not be able sufficiently to provide for those , and for the Peace and Security of the Kingdom ; and therefore I am confident you and I , who agree in the End , shall never differ in the Way .

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