His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday the third of May, 1695. England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06615 of text R186671 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2402A). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B06615 Wing W2402A ESTC R186671 52529372 ocm 52529372 179256 2240865841

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06615) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179256) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:23) His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday the third of May, 1695. England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III) William III, King of England, 1650-1702. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Re-printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to his most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom: 1695. Caption title. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng Grand Alliance, War of the, 1689-1697 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo His Majesties most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Friday the third of May, 1695. England and Wales. Sovereign 1695 1 273 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-07 Sampled and proofread 2009-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
His Majesties MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH To both Houses of PARLIAMENT , On Friday the Third of May , 1695.

My Lords and Gentlemen , I AM come to Give you Thanks for the Supplies , Provided for Carrying on the War , in which We are Engaged , and at the same Time , to Conclude this Session , which cannot be Continued longer without Manifest Prejudice to the Ends for which those Supplies are Given . The Season of the Year making it so Necessary for Me to be Abroad that it were to be Wish'd Our Business at Home would have Allowed Me to have been there sooner .

I will take Care to Place the Administration of Affairs , during My Absence , in such Persons , on whose Care and Fidelity I can Entirely Depend ; And I Doubt not , My Lords and Gentlemen , but every one of you , in your several Stations , will be Ass ; isting to them . This is what I Require of you , and that You be more than Ordinarly Vigilant in Preserving the Publick Peace .

Then the Lord Keeper , by His Majesties Command , said ,

My Lords and Gentlemen , IT is His Majesties Royal Will and Pleasure , that this Parliament should be Prorogued to Tuesday the Eighteenth day of June next , and this Parliament is accordingly Prorogued to Tuesday the Eighteenth day of June , next .

Edinburgh , Re-printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Excellent Majesty , Anno Dom : 1695.