THE
SPEECH
OF
Colonel
SHAPCOTT
.
Knight
for
Devonshire
.
Being
Spoken
on
the
30.
of
Octob.
in
the
Parliament
House
,
in
behalf
of
K.
Charls
the
second
.
M.
SPEAKER
,
THe
Gentleman
which
hath
spoken
last
,
did
make
a
motion
to
this
House
,
that
we
should
establish
these
three
Kingdoms
up
Whitlock
.
on
the
present
Protector
and
his
Heirs
;
and
that
in
respect
of
his
great
Deservings
,
and
as
a
Reward
for
his
Faithful
Service
,
which
will
be
but
very
short
of
his
Merits
.
Truly
M.
Speaker
,
If
to
undo
three
Kingdoms
be
meritorious
,
I
must
needs
say
he
deserveth
far
above
any
;
or
if
to
violate
the
Laws
and
Freedoms
of
the
Nation
by
Imposing
new
Laws
upon
us
,
viz.
A
meer
Spanish
Inquisition
,
substituted
under
another
name
,
whereby
to
sweep
away
our
Orthodox
Clergie
,
and
to
set
up
in
their
rooms
Anabaptistical
persons
;
I
say
,
if
by
Imposing
Taxes
of
sundry
kinds
,
being
very
burdensome
and
insupportable
,
and
that
without
any
cause
or
reason
,
but
that
of
State
,
and
not
the
State
of
the
Nation
neither
,
but
of
his
own
usurping
Government
and
Tyran●ie
over
us
and
our
Liberties
:
or
,
if
his
creating
a
Court
to
destroy
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
the
Kingdom
,
contrary
to
the
Laws
of
the
Nation
,
under
the
cloak
and
colour
for
the
relief
of
poor
Prisoners
;
if
these
be
merits
for
which
he
deserveth
three
Kingdoms
at
once
to
be
given
him
and
his
Posterity
,
then
let
him
have
it
:
But
if
we
must
needs
have
a
King
again
,
why
not
he
whose
unquestionable
Right
it
is
?
What
hath
he
done
to
be
excluded
and
dispossest
of
his
undubitable
Right
?
Or
what
mean
we
thereby
?
unless
we
intend
to
perpetuate
the
Curse
of
God
upon
us
and
our
posterity
,
by
giving
away
what
is
not
ours
to
give
,
and
by
that
Act
owning
all
the
Murthers
,
Perjuries
,
and
Treasons
of
this
Man
;
and
consequently
ent●●l
the
Curse
of
God
upon
us
and
the
whole
NATION
.
FINIS
.