His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament on Thursday the fourth day of May, 1699. England and Wales. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William III) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06621 of text R482734 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2420). 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 B06621 Wing W2420 ESTC R482734 52529107 ocm 52529107 179262 2240858913

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06621) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179262) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:29) His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament on Thursday the fourth day of May, 1699. 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 the Kings most excellent Majesty, Edinburgh : Anno Dom. 1699. Caption title. Royal arms at head of text. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- 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 Thursday the fourth day of May, 1699. England and Wales. Sovereign 1699 1 345 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
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His Majesties MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH To both HOUSES of PARLIAMENT . On Thursday the Fourth Day of May , 1699.

My Lords and Gentlemen , AT the Opening this Parliament I told you My Opinion was , That You were come together with Hearts fully disposed to do what was Necessary for the Safety , Honour and Happiness of the Kingdom ; and having nothing else to Recommend to you , I had Reason to hope for Unanimity and Dispatch .

You have now Sat so many Months , that the Season of the Year , as well as your particular Affairs , make it reasonable you should have a Recess ; I take it for granted you have Finish't all the Bills which for the present you think Requisite to be Pass't into Laws , and I have given My Assent to all You have Presented to Me.

If any thing shall be found Wanting for Our Safety , the Support of Publick Credit by making good the Faith of the Kingdom as it stands Engaged by Parliamentary Securities , and for Discharge of the Debts Occasioned by the War , or towards the Advancing of Trade , the Suppressing of Vice , and the Employing of the Poor , which were all the things I Proposed to your Consideration when We met first , I cannot doubt but effectual Care will be taken of them next Winter ; and I wish no Inconvenience may happen in the mean time .

Then the Lord Chancellor , by His Majesties , Command , said , My Lords and Gentlemen , HIS Majesties Royal Will and Pleasure is , That this Parliament should be Prorogued to Thursday the First Day of June next ; And this Parliament is Prorogued accordingly , to Thursday the First Day of June next .

Edinburgh , Re-printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson , Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty . 1699.