His Majestie's most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, the one and twentieth day of September, 1666. England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02089 of text R173774 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C3139A). 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 2018 B02089 Wing C3139A ESTC R173774 52612074 ocm 52612074 179359 2248535402

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HIS MAJESTIES MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT , The One and Twentieth day of September , 1666.

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EDINBURGH , Re-printed by Evan Tyler , Printer to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY , 1666.

HIS MAJESTIES Most Gracious SPEECH To Both HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT , &c. My Lords and Gentlemen ,

I Am very glad to meet so many of you together again , and God be thanked for our meeting together in this place ; little time hath passed since we were almost in dispair of having this place left Vs to meet in . You see the dismal Ruines the Fire hath made , and nothing but a Miracle of Gods mercy could have preserved what is left from the same Destruction . I need make no excuse to you for dispensing with your attendance in April , I am confident you all thanked Me for it ; the truth is , I desire to put you to as little trouble as I can , and I can tell you truly , I desire to put you to as little cost as is possible ; I wish with all my heart , that I could bear the whole charge of this War my self , and that my Subjects should reap the benefit of it to themselves ; but we have two very great and powerful Enemies , who use all the means they can , fair and foul , to make all the World to concur with them , and the War is more chargeable ( by that Conjunction ) then any body thought it would have been : I need not tell you the success of this Summer , in which GOD hath given us great success , and no question the Enemy hath undergone great losses , and if it had pleased GOD to have with-held his late Iudgement by Fire , we had been in no ill condition . You have given me large Supplies for the carrying on the War , and yet I must tell you , if I had not by anticipating my own Revenue raised a very great sum of Money , I had not been able to have set out the Fleet this last Spring , and I have some hope upon the same Credit to be able to pay off the great ships as they come in : You will consider what is to be done next when you are well informed of the expence , and I must leave it to your Wisdoms to find out the best Expedients for the carrying on this War , with as little burthen to the People as is possible . I shall add no more then to put you in mind , that Our Enemies are very insolent , and if they were able this last year to perswade their miserable People whom they mislead , that the Contagion had so wasted the Nation and impoverished Vs , that We would not be able to set out any Fleet , how will they be exalted with this last impoverishment of this City , and contemn all reasonable Conditions of Peace ; and therefore I cannot doubt but you will provide accordingly .

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