Anno 25 Caroli Secundi.
DIE Lunæ, Vicesimo Septimo die Octobris, 1673,
Anno Regni Serenissimi Domini Nostri Caroli Secundi, Dei Gratiâ, Angliæ, Scociæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ
Regis, Fidei Defensoris, &c. Vicesimo Quinto; quo die
præsens hæc Undecima Parliamenti Sessio tenenda est
apud Civitatem Westm. ibi tam Spirituales quam Temporales Domini, quorum Nomina subscribuntur, præsentes
fuerunt:
REX.
| His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke. |
Arch. Cant.
Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Ely.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus. Landaff.
Epus. Chichester.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Bristoll.
Epus. Gloucester.
Epus. Bath & Wells.
Epus. Chester. |
Dux Cumberland.
Antonio Comes de Shaftesbury, Cancellarius Angliæ.
Thomas Vicecomes Latymer, Thesaurarius Angliæ.
Arthurus Comes Anglesey, Ds. Custos Privati Sigilli.
Dux Bucks.
Dux Monmouth.
Marq. de Worcester.
Robertus Comes de Lyndsey, Magnus Camerarius Angliæ.
Henric. Comes Norwichiæ, et Comes Marescallus Angl.
Jacobus Comes de Brecknock, Senescallus Hospitii Domini Regis.
Henricus Comes St. Albani, Camerarius Hospitii Domini Regis.
Comes Huntington.
Comes Suffolke.
Comes Dorsett.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Bridgwater.
Comes Warwick & Holland.
Comes Bristoll.
Comes Midd.
Comes Bollingbrooke.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Dover.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Bath.
Comes Craven.
Comes Arlington.
Vicecomes de Stafford.
Vicecomes Fauconberg.
Vicecomes Mordant.
Vicecomes Hallyfax.
Vicecomes Yarmouth. |
Ds. Berkeley de Berkeley.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Arundell de Warder.
Ds. Grey de Warke.
Ds. Lovelace.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Howard de Esc.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Powis.
Ds. Herbert de Cherbury.
Ds. Newport.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Carrington.
Ds. Widdrington.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Gerard de Brandon.
Ds. Delamer.
Ds. Townsend.
Ds. Arundell de Treric.
Ds. Butler de Moore Parke.
Ds. Butler de Weston. |
PRAYERS.
King present.
His Majesty being present this Day, and sitting in
His Royal Throne, adorned with His Regal Ornaments
(the Peers sitting in their Robes uncovered), the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was commanded to let
the Commons know, "That it was His Majesty's Pleasure, that they come up presently to attend His Majesty."
Who being come, with their Speaker; His Majesty
made a short Speech, as followeth:
King's Speech.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"I thought this Day to have welcomed you with an
Honourable Peace; My Preparations for the War
and Condescensions at the Treaty gave Me great
Reason to believe so: But the Dutch have disappointed Me in that Expectation, and have treated My
Ambassadors at Cologne with the Contempt of Conquerors, and not as might be expected from Men in
their Condition. They have other Thoughts than
Peace.
"This obligeth Me to move you again for a Supply,
the Safety and Honour of the Nation necessarily requiring it: It must be one proportionable to the Occasion; and I must tell you besides, that if I have it
not speedily, the Mischief will be irreparable in My
Preparations for the next Spring. The great Experience I have had of you, Gentlemen of the House
of Commons, will not suffer Me to believe, that the
Artifices of our Enemies can possibly divert you from
giving Me this Supply, or that you can fail of adjusting the Proportion of it.
"I hope I need not use many Words to persuade you
that I am steady in maintaining all the Professions and
Promises I have made you concerning Religion and
Property; and I shall be very ready to give you fresh
Instances of My Zeal for preserving the Established
Religion and Laws, as often as any Occasion shall require.
"In the last Place, I am highly concerned to commend
to your Consideration and Care the Debt I owe the
Goldsmiths, in which very many other of My good
Subjects are involved. I heartily recommend their
Condition to you, and desire your Assistance for their
Relief.
"There is more that I would have you informed of,
which I leave to the Chancellor."
Then the Lord Chancellor, going to His Majesty,
received Directions from Him, and made the Speech following:
L. Chancellor's Speech.
"My Lords; and you the Knights, Citizens, and
Burgesses of the House of Commons;
"His Majesty had Reason to expect that He should
have met you with the Olive Branch of Peace: His
Naval Preparations, greater than in any former Years,
together with the Land Forces He had ready for
any Occasion, gave Him Assurance to obtain it before
this Time; and the rather, because His Aims were
not Conquest, unless by Obstinacy enforced: But His
Condescensions at the Treaty have been so great,
that the very Mediators have declared, they were not
reasonably to be refused: He could not be King of
Great Brittaine without securing the Dominion and
Property of His own Seas; the first, by an Article
clear, and not elusory, of the Flag; the other, by
an Article that preserved the Right of the Fishing,
but gave the Dutch Permission, as Tenants, under a
small Rent, to enjoy and continue that gainful Trade
upon His Coasts. The King was obliged, for the
Security of a lasting Peace, as also by the Laws of
Gratitude and Relation, to see the House of Orange
settled, and the Lovesteine, that Carthaginian Party,
brought down; neither in this did the King insist
beyond what was moderate and agreeable to their
Government, and what the Prince's Ancestors enjoyed amongst them. Besides these, there was necessary to the Trade of England, that there should
be a fair Adjustment of Commerce in The East Indies,
where the King's Demands were reasonable, and
according to the Law of Nations; and their Practice
of late Years hath been exorbitant and oppressive,
suitable only to their Power and Interest, and destructive, if continued, to our East India Company. These
were all of any Moment the King insisted on, as
judging aright, that that Peace that was reasonable,
just, and fair to both Parties, would be sacred and
durable; and that by this Means he should depress
the Interest and Reputation of that Lovesteine Party
amongst them, who sucked in with their Milk an inveterate Hatred to England, and transmit it to their
Posterity as a distinguishing Character, wherein they
place their Loyalty to their Country. In Return to
this candid and fair Proceeding on the King's Part,
His Majesty assures you, He hath received nothing
but the most scornful and contemptuous Treatment
imaginable: Papers delivered in to the Mediators,
owned by them to be stuffed with so unhandsome
Language that they were ashamed and refused to
shew them; never agreeing to any Article about the
Flag, that was clear or plain; refusing any Article
of the Fishery, but such a one as might sell them the
Right of Inheritance for an inconsiderable Sum of
Money, thought it be a Royalty so inherent in the
Crown of England, that I may say (with His Majesty's
Pardon for the Expression) He cannot sell it. The
Article of the Prince of Orange, and the Adjustment
of the East India Trade, had neither of them any
better Success; and, to make all of a Piece, they
have this last Week sent a Trumpeter, with an Address to His Majesty, being a Deduction of their
several Offers of Peace, as they call them, and their
Desires for it now; but it is, both in the Penning
and the Timing of it, plainly an Appeal to His Majesty's People against Himself. And the King hath
commanded me to tell you, He is resolved to join
Issue with them, and print both their Address and
His Answer, that His People, and the World may
see how notorious Falshoods and Slights they endeavour to put upon Him. In a Word, in England,
and in all other Places, and to all other Persons of
the World, they declare they offer all Things to obtain a Peace from the King of England; but to Himself, His Ministers, the Mediators, or His Plenipotentiaries, it may with Confidence and Truth be
affirmed, that to this Day, nay, even in this last Address, they have offered nothing. They desire the
King's Subjects would believe they beg for Peace;
whilst their true Request is, only to be permitted to
be once Masters of the Seas, which they hope, if
they can subsist at Land, Length of Time may give
them, and if once got, is never to be lost, nor can
it be bought by any State or Emperor at too great
a Rate; and what Security their Agreement with us
in Religion will afford, when they shall have the
Power, former Instances may give Demonstration of.
Joint Interests have often secured the Peace of differing Religions; but agreeing Professions have hardly
an Example of preserving Peace of different Interests.
This being the true and natural State of Things, His
Majesty doth with great Assurance throw Himself
into the Arms of you His Parliament, for a Supply
suitable to the great Affairs He is engaged in. When
you consider we are an Island, 'tis not Riches nor
Greatness we contend for, yet those must attend the
Success; but 'tis our very Beings are in Question;
we fight pro Aris et Focis in this War. We are no
longer Freemen, being Islanders and Neighbours, if
they master us at Sea. There is not so lawful or
commendable a Jealousy in the World, as an Englishman's of the growing Greatness of any Prince at
Sea. If you permit the Sea, our Brittish Wife, to be
ravished, an eternal Mark of Infamy will stick upon
us: Therefore I am commanded earnestly to recommend to you, not only the Proportion, but the Time
of the Supply; for, unless you think of it early, it
will not be serviceable to the chief End, of setting
out a Fleet the next Spring.
"As for the next Part of the King's Speech, I can
add nothing to what His Majesty hath said; for, as
to Religion and Property, His Heart is with your
Heart, perfectly with your Heart. He hath not yet
learned to deny you any Thing; and He believes
your Wisdom and Moderation is such, He never shall:
He asks of you to be at Peace in Him, as He is in
you; and He shall never deceive you.
"There is One Word more I am commanded to say,
concerning that Debt (fn. *) is owing to the Goldsmiths;
the King holds himself in Honour and Conscience
obliged to see them satisfied: Besides, you all know,
how many Widows, Orphans, and particular Persons,
the public Calamity hath overtaken, and how hard
it is that so disproportionable a Burden should fall
upon them, even to their utter Ruin. The whole
Case is so well and generally known, that I need say
no more: Your great Wisdoms hath not done it at the
first, peradventure, that the Trade of Bankers might
be suppressed, which End is now attained; so that
now your great Goodness may restore to those poor
People, and the many innocent ones that are concerned with them, some Life and Assurance of Payment in a competent Time.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"I have no more in Command; and therefore shall
conclude, with my own hearty Prayers, that this
Session may equal, nay exceed, the Honour of the
last; that it may perfect what the last begun for the
Safety of the King and Kingdom; that it may be
ever famous for having established upon a durable
Foundation our Religion, Laws, and Properties; that
we may not be tossed with boisterous Winds, nor
overtaken by a sudden dead Calm; but that a fair
Gale may carry you, in a steady, even, and resolved
Way, into the Ports of Wisdom and Security."
After this, His Majesty withdrew.
Then it was ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal assembled in Parliament, That the Lord
Great Chamberlain of England, the Lord Steward, and
the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Houshold, the
Lord Maynard, and the Lord Newport, do present the
humble Thanks of this House to His Majesty, for His
Gracious Speech made this Day in the House of Peers;
and to desire that His Majesty would be pleased to give
Order, that both it and the Lord Chancellor's Speech
may be printed.
L. Grey de Rolleston introduced.
This Day Charles North, Lord Grey de Rolleston, Chevalier, was introducted, in his Robes, between the Lord
Grey de Wark and the Lord Howard of Esc. the Lord
Great Chamberlain, the Earl of Suffolke (executing the
Office of the Earl Marshal), and Garter King of Arms,
going before; the Writ of Summons to Parliament being read, bearing Date the 24 of October, Anno Regni
Caroli IIdi Vicesimo Quinto.
Then his Lordship was brought and placed at the
lower End of the Barons Bench.
Bill to encourage English Manufactures.
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, "An Act for encouraging the Manufactures of England."
Committee of Privileges.
Lords Committees appointed to take Consideration
of the Customs and Orders of this House, and
Privileges of Parliament, and the Peers of this
Kingdom and Lords of Parliament.
| His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke. |
D. of Cumberland.
L. Chancellor.
L. Treasurer.
L. Privy Seal.
D. of Bucks.
D. of Monmouth.
Marq. of Worcester.
L. Great Chamberlain.
E. Marshal.
L. Steward.
L. Chamberlain.
Comes Huntington.
Comes Suffolke.
Comes Dorsett.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Bridgwater.
Comes Warwick & Holland.
Comes Bristoll.
Comes Bollingbrooke.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Dover.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Bath.
Comes Craven.
Comes Arlington.
Vicecomes de Stafford.
Vicecomes Fauconberg.
Vicecomes Mordant.
Vicecomes Hallyfax.
Vicecomes Yarmouth. |
Arch. Cant.
Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Ely.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus. Landaffe.
Epus. Chichester.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Gloucester.
Epus. Bath & Wells.
Epus. Chester. |
Ds. Berkeley de Berk.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Arundell de Ward.
Ds. Grey de Wark.
Ds. Lovelace.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Howard de Esc.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Powis.
Ds. Herbert de Cherb.
Ds. Newport.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Carrington.
Ds. Widdrington.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Gerard de Brandon.
Ds. Delamer.
Ds. Townsend.
Ds. Arundell de Trerice.
Ds. Butler de Moore Park.
Ds. Butler de Weston.
Ds. Grey de Roleston. |
Their Lordships, or any Seven of them; to meet
on Monday next, and every Monday after, at
Three of the Clock in the Afternoon; and to
adjourn to what other Time as they please.
Committee for Petitions.
Lords Committees appointed by the House to receive and consider of Petitions, and afterwards
to make Report thereof to the House.
| His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke. |
D. Cumberland.
L. Chancellor.
L. Treasurer.
L. Privy Seal.
D. Bucks.
D. Monmouth.
Marq. Worcester.
L. Great Chamberlain.
E. Marshal.
L. Steward.
L. Chamberlain.
Comes Huntington.
Comes Suffolk.
Comes Dorsett.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Bridgwater.
Comes Warwick et Holland.
Comes Bristoll.
Comes Bollingbrooke.
Comes Manchester.
Comes Mulgrave.
Comes Dover.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Rochester.
Comes Bath.
Comes Craven.
Comes Arlington.
Vicecomes de Stafford.
Vicecomes Fauconberg.
Vicecomes Mordant.
Vicecomes Hallyfax.
Vicecomes Yarmouth. |
Arch. Cant.
Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Ely.
Epus. Hereford.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus. Landaff.
Epus. Chichester.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Bristoll.
Epus. Gloucester.
Epus. Bath & Wells.
Epus. Chester. |
Ds. Berkley de Berkley.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Arundell de Warder.
Ds. Grey de Wark.
Ds. Lovelace.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Howard de Esc.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Powis.
Ds. Herbert de Cherb.
Ds. Newport.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Vaughan.
Ds. Carrington.
Ds. Widdrington.
Ds. Lucas.
Ds. Gerard de Brandon.
Ds. Delamer.
Ds. Townsend.
Ds. Arundell de Trer.
Ds. Butler de Moore Park.
Ds. Butler de Weston.
Ds. Grey de Rolleston. |
Their Lordships, or any Five of them; to meet on
Tuesday the 4th of November next, at Three of
the Clock in the Afternoon, in the Painted
Chamber; and to adjourn from Time to Time,
as they please.
Committee for the Journal.
Lords Sub-committees appointed to consider of the
Orders and Customs of this House, and Privileges of the Peers of this Kingdom and Lords of
Parliament, and to peruse and perfect the Journal Book.
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L. Privy Seal.
Comes Huntington.
Comes Suff.
Comes Dorsett.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Bridgwater.
Comes Bollingbrooke.
Comes Dover.
Comes Scarsdale.
Comes Craven.
Vicecomes de Stafford.
Vicecomes Fauconberg.
Vicecomes Hallyfax. |
Epus. London.
Epus. Winton.
Epus. Ely.
Epus. Sarum.
Epus. Rochester.
Epus. Oxon.
Epus. Bath & Wells.
Epus. Chester. |
Ds. Berkley de B.
Ds. Eure.
Ds. Wharton.
Ds. Grey de Wark.
Ds. Maynard.
Ds. Howard de Esc.
Ds. Mohun.
Ds. Herbert de Cherb.
Ds. Byron.
Ds. Delamer.
Ds. Grey de Rolleston. |
Their Lordships, or any Three of them; to meet
on Saturday next, at Three of the Clock in the
Afternoon, in or any where near the House of
Peers; and after, when and as oft as they please.
House to be cleared, when the King is present.
ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled, That it be referred to the Consideration of the Lords Committees appointed to consider
of the Privileges of the House of Peers, &c. to prevent for the future the coming in and sitting of divers
Persons (not being Peers of this Realm) upon the Earls,
Bishops, and Barons Benches in the House of Peers, at
such Times as His Majesty shall be present there; and
make Report thereof unto the House.
Adjourn.
Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Jovis, 30um diem
instantis Octobris, hora decima Aurora, Dominis sic
decernentibus.