A speech made in the House of Peeres by the Right Honourable the Earl of Monmouth on Thursday the 13 of Ianuary 1641 upon the occasion of the present distractions and of His Majesties removall from White- hall. Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A51145 of text R14594 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M2425). 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 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A51145 Wing M2425 ESTC R14594 13025182 ocm 13025182 96684 2240857808

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A51145) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 96684) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 259:E200, no 8) A speech made in the House of Peeres by the Right Honourable the Earl of Monmouth on Thursday the 13 of Ianuary 1641 upon the occasion of the present distractions and of His Majesties removall from White- hall. Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661. [7] p. for I. Benson, Printed at London : 1641. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649. A51145 R14594 (Wing M2425). civilwar no A speech made in the House of Peeres, by the Right Honourable the Earle of Monmouth, on Thursday the 13. of Ianuary. 1641. Upon the occasion Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of 1642 8 497 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. 2003-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-07 Sampled and proofread 2003-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

A SPEECH MADE IN THE HOUSE OF PEERES , By the Right Honourable the Earle of MONMOUTH , on Thursday the 13. of Ianuary . 1641.

Upon the occasion of the present distractions , and of his Majesties removall from White-hall .

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Printed at London , for I. Benson , 1641.

A Speech made in the House of Peeres , by the Right Honourable Earle of Monmouth on Thursday the 13. of Ianuary , 1641. My Lords ,

I Shall desire to bee heard speak a few words , which I would much rather have heard spoken by any of your Lordships , that so they might have a happier and a more handsome expression ; though with a better heart , and clearer intentions they could not have beene spoken .

The sad condition wee are now in ( my Lords ) is such as is too apparent to any man , who hath but halfe an eye : the City of London is full of jealousies and apprehensions , wee sit not here free from feares ; the King hath with-drawne himself from hence , together with his Queene and Children , out of a beliefe , ( as I conceive ) that his Maiesties Person was not safe here . While things continue in this posture ( my Lords ) wee may well feare an impairing , wee can hardly hope for the bettering of affaires : God hath plac'd us ( my Lords ) in the Medium betwixt the King and his people ; let us play our parts ( my Lords ) let us doe our duties , and discharge our consciences ; let us really prove , what wee are by Name , Noblemen ; let us endevour to work a perfect and a true understanding , betweene the King and his people : let us freely unbosome our selves to his Maiestie ; and desire that his Maiestie will bee pleased to doe so to us ; and to this end , ( my Lords ) which is the end of my motion , if it shall be approved of by your Lordships , I do humbly move , that by way of conference , or any other way , wee may desire the house of Commons to ioyne with us ; first in an humble petition to his Maiestie that hee would be graciously pleased to returne to his good City of London , as the safest place we conceive for his sacred Person in these distemper'd times ; and then that they will likewise ioyne with us in a Profession or Protestation , that we will doe what in us lies to free his Maiestie from his feares ; to take from the Citizens of London , and his Maiesties other subiects their jealousies and apprehensions ; and that we will live and dye his Maiesties faithfull Advisors , Counsellors and Loyall Subiects .

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