His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday the sixteenth day of April, 1697. England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06617 of text R186675 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2410A). 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 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B06617 Wing W2410A ESTC R186675 52529373 ocm 52529373 179258 2240866036

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06617) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179258) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:25) His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday the sixteenth day of April, 1697. 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. 1697. Caption title. Initial letter. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Early works to 1800. 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 sixteenth day of April, 1697. England and Wales. Sovereign 1697 1 407 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 Sixteenth Day of April , 1697.

My Lords and Gentlemen , HAving Given my Assent to the several Bills you have Presented to Me , I am now to Return you My hearty Thanks for what you have done this Session , which has been Carry'd on with great Prudence , Temper and Affection .

At the Opening of the Session , I told you how Sensible I was of the Difficulties to be Struggl'd with , which were of such a Nature , that I will freely own the Hopes I had of Our being Able to overcome them were Founded only upon the Wisdom and Zeal of so good a Parliament .

My Expectation has been fully Answer'd ; You Entred upon the Business with so much Chearfulness , Proceeded so Unanimously , and have at last brought things to such a Conclusion , That we may Hope to Carry on the War with Success , in Case Our Enemies do not think it their Interest to Agree to an Honourable Peace : And so Effectual a Provision being made for supplying the Deficiencies of former Funds ( which is the best Foundation for Reestablishing of Credit ) I Doubt not but in a short time it will have a very Happy Effect , to the universal Ease and Satisfaction of My People .

The Circumstances of Affairs making it necessary for Me to be out of the Kingdom for some time , I shall take care to leave the Administration of the Government , during My Absence , in the Hands of such Persons as I can Depend upon .

My Lords and Gentlemen , I have nothing more to Ask of you , but that you would carry down the same good Disposition into your several Countries which you have expressed in all the Proceedings of this Sssieon .

And then the Lord Keeper , by His Majesties Command , said ,

My Lords and Gentlemen , IT is his Majesties pleasure , That this present Parliament shall be Prorogued to Thursday the Thirteenth day of May next ; and this Parliament is Prorogued accordingly to Thursday the Thirteenth day of May next .

FINIS .

Edinburgh Re-printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most Excellent Majesty , Anno Dom. 1697.