The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Powle, Esq., speaker of the House of Commons upon passing the bill, intitled, An act for the granting a present aid to Their Majesties, on Thursday, the 21th day of March 1688. Powle, Henry, 1630-1692. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A55592 of text R3119 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3112). 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. 2 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 A55592 Wing P3112 ESTC R3119 11951427 ocm 11951427 51434 2240891163

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THE SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Henry Powle , Esq SPEAKER OF THE House of Commons , Upon Passing the BILL , Intitled , An ACT for the granting a Present AID to Their MAJESTIES .

On Thursday the 21th day of March 1688.

In the SAVOY , Printed by E. Jones , for W. Nott in the Pall-Mall . 1688.

THE SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Henry Powle , Esq Speaker of the House of Commons , &c. May it please Your Majesty ,

SInce Your Majesties Accession to the Crown , the House of Commons have Employed their Time in Considering of such Laws as might be most Effectual for the Support of Your Majesties Government , and for that End , they have several Bills now depending before them , which they hope to finish in a short time . But lest Your Majesties Affairs might receive any Prejudice for want of a timely Supply , whil'st those Bills are under Consideration , they have Vnanimously Agreed upon a present Ayd of Four hundred and twelve thousand Pounds , which they are here come to Offer to Your Majesties Gracious Acceptance .

This they Present to Your Majesty , as an Earnest only of what they further intend for Your Majesties Service , Humbly Desiring Your Majesty to Accept of the same , together with Their Hearty Prayers , That Your Majesty may continue long to Reign , a Glorious Prince over a Happy and Obedient People .

FINIS .