The Lord Keepers speech to the Hovse of Commons at the passing of two bills together vvith the Kings Majesties message to both houses : concerning the raising of men for Ireland : the taking away of the bishops votes out of the House of Peeres the banishing of Speech to the House of Commons at the passing of two bills Finch of Fordwich, John Finch, Baron, 1584-1660. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A70060 of text R14139 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F1551E). 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 2017 A70060 Wing F1551E ESTC R14139 13023972 ocm 13023972 96660 2264200942

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THE LORD KEEPERS SPEECH TO THE HOVSE OF Commons , at the passing of Two Bills .

TOGETER WITH THE Kings Majesties Message to both Houses , concerning the raising of men for Ireland , the taking away of the Bishops Votes out of the House of Peeres , the banishing of Popish Priests , and the setling of the Governement and Liturgie of the Church .

London , Printed for Iohn Burroughes , and Iohn Franke , 1641.

The Lord Keeper his Speech to the House of Commons .

I Am commanded by my Lords to acquaint you with a letter I have received from his Maiestie , authorizing the Earle of Northumberland , the Earle of Southampton the Earle of Bath , & my selfe , or any three of us , by uertue of his Maiesties Commission under the great Seale of England , to passe two Bills . the one , a bill for the raising of men for the present expedition into Ireland , to releive the poore distressed protestants there , from the preuailing partie of the blood sucking Papists . A thing taken to heart by the King and all good men . In this Bill is a clause that doth much conduce to the security of the liberty of the Subiects of England . That by the law noe man ought to bee imprest , nor compelled to goe out of his Countrie to serve as a Souldier , unlesse by his owne consent , or the common consent in Parliament , or upon the necessitie of some sudden Invasion of forraigne forces into the Realme .

The second Bill that is to passe , is to take away the Bishops Votes out of the house of Peeres , and to exempt them from all secular affaires : That so , being reduced to what indeed they were first instituted , they may solely attend the gaineing of soules to heaven . The whole man being too litle for so glorious and great a worke . Who is sufficient for these things saith the Apo. And to avoid all delayes , his Maiestie , having not the convenience to bee here in person , hath authorized us by his commission to give his Roy all assent to both these Bills .

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Then the Lord Keeper commanded his Maiesties message to bee read in the presence of both houses as followeth .