The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Powle, Esq., speaker of the House of Commons, on Wednesday, the first of May, 1689 at the passing of two bills, entituled, I. An act for raising money by a poll, and otherwise, towards the reducing of Ireland. II. An act for preventing doubts and questions concerning the collecting the publick revenue. Powle, Henry, 1630-1692. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A55594 of text R3202 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3114). 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. 4 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 A55594 Wing P3114 ESTC R3202 11951451 ocm 11951451 51439 2248522327

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A55594) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 51439) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 820:9) The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Powle, Esq., speaker of the House of Commons, on Wednesday, the first of May, 1689 at the passing of two bills, entituled, I. An act for raising money by a poll, and otherwise, towards the reducing of Ireland. II. An act for preventing doubts and questions concerning the collecting the publick revenue. Powle, Henry, 1630-1692. [1], 2 p. Printed by Charles Bill, and Thomas Newcomb ..., London : 1689. Reproduction of original in Duke University Library. Attributed to Henry Powle. cf. NUC pre-1956. eng Poll tax -- Ireland. Ireland -- History -- War of 1689-1691. eebo The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Powle, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons: on Wednesday the first of May, 1689. At the passing of tvvo bill Powle, Henry, 1689 6 516 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. 2009-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-01 Sampled and proofread 2010-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable Henry Powle , Esq SPEAKER OF THE House of Commons : On Wednesday the First of May , 1689.

AT THE Passing of Two BILLS , ENTITULED , I. An Act for Raising Money by a Poll , and otherwise , towards the Reducing of Ireland . II. An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue .

LONDON , Printed by Charles Bill , and Thomas Newcomb , Printers to the King and Queen's most Excellent Majesties . MDCLXXXIX .

THE SPEECH Of the Right Honourable Henry Powle , Esq SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE of COMMONS . May it please Your Majesty ,

THE Commons Assembled in this present Parliament have taken into their most Serious Consideration the deplotable Condition of Ireland , where those Fatal Counsels that did so long Govern the Affairs of these Kingdoms have so far prevailed , that the Arms and Garisons there have been taken from Your Protestant Subjects , and put into the Hands of Irish Papist , and the English Protestants that remain there left Naked and Defenceless in the Power of those Enemies , which never yet shewed them any Mercy when they had them at an Advantage .

Nor is it the Strength of the Irish Natives only , animated with their Zeal for Popery , and a longing Desire to free themselves from any Dependency upon the Crown of England , that is likely to Create Your Majesty an Opposition there ; but they have likewise Cast themselves under the Protection of the French King , who will without doubt Employ that Force , with which of late Years he hath Over-aw'd Europe , to Support those Your Rebellious Subjects , thereby , if possible , to give Your Majesty a Diversion , from opposing in other Parts of the World his Ambitious Designs of an Universal Monarchy .

The Commons therefore seeing so evident a Necessity of reducing that Kingdom under Your Majesties Obedience , and the great Expence Your Majesty must undergo in Maintaining such a War , do now humbly Present to Your Majesty their Hearty Assistance in a Poll-Bill , which they look upon as the most speedy and effectual way of raising ready Money on this Occasion , Solemnly Engaging themselves to supply Your Majesty with such further Aids , as may be proportionable to the Charge of the War , as long as it shall continue .

Next to this , they have Considered of Your Majesties Revenue , and the Charges that are upon it , as also the Complaints against several Exactions which have been Practis'd in the late Collection ; But these Matters requiring a longer time to Examine , then they expected , they have Pass'd a short Bill for the Continuance of it in the same State it now stands till Christmas next , within which time they doubt not to prepare such an Establishment , as may fully supply the Expences of the Crown without Oppressing the People .

FINIS .