HIS majesty's SPEECH, To both houses of PARLIAMENT, JULY the 5th 1641.  
WITH Mr SPEAKERS SPEECH, Before the KING, in the upper House of PARLIAMENT, July the 3d, 1641.  
Concerning the passing of three bills, Viz. 

1 Poll-Money.  
2 Star-Chamber.  
3 High Commission.    
London Printed 1641.   

THF King's SPEECH To both Houses of Parliament, the fifth of July, 1641.  
I Come to do that office which I did on Saturday last, to give determination to these two Bills: But before I do it, I must tell you that I cannot but be very sensible of those reports of discontent, that I hear some have taken, for not giving my Assent on Saturday last.  
Me thinks it seems strange that any one should think I could pass two Bills of that importance as these were, without taking some fit time to consider of them, for it is no less than to alter in a great measure, those fundamental laws ecclesiastical and civil, which many of my predecessors have established, &c.  
If you consider what I have done this Parliament, discontent will not sit in your hearts; for I hope you remember that I have granted that the Judges hereafter shall hold their places, Quam diu bene se gesserint.  
I have bounded the forest, not according to my right, but according to the late customs, I have established the property of the Subject, as witness the free giving, not taking away the Ship-money.  
I have establishing by Act in Parliament the property of the subject in Tunnage and Poundage, which never which never was done in any my predecessors times, I have granted a Law for a triennial Parliament, and given way to an Act for the securing of moneys advanced for the disbanding of the Armies, I have given free Course of Justice against Delinquents, I have put the Law in Execution against Papists.  
Nay, I have given way to every thing that you have asked of me, and therefore me thinks you should not wonder if in some thing I begin to refuse, but I hope it shall not hinder your progress in your great affairs. And I will not stick upon trivial matters to give you Content, I hope you are sensible of these beneficial favours bestowed upon you at this time.  
To conclude, you know (by your consent) there is a prefixed time set for my going into Scotland, and there is an absolute necessity for it, I do not know but that things may so fall out, that it may be shortened; Therefore I hope you will hasten the dispatch of those great businesses that now is necessary to be done, and leave trivial and superficial matters to another meeting.  
For my part I shall omit nothing that may give you just contentment, and study nothing more than your happiness, and therefore I hope you shall see a very good Testimony of it by the passing these two Bills.  
Le Roy Le veult.  
This done, his majesty said as followeth: viz. I have one word more to speak unto you, and take now an occasion to present to both Houses, that whereby I hope all the world shall see that there is a good understanding between me and my people.  
It is concerning my Nephew, the Prince Elector Palatine, who having me and the King of Denmark to give to a writing concerning the diet at Ratisbone with the Emperor, I could not but send my ambassador to Assist him, though I am afraid I shall not have so good an answer as I expect, which my Newphew foreseeing, hath desired me, for the better countenancing of the same, to make a Manefesto in my name, which is a thing of great consequence, and if I should do it alone, without the advice of my Parliament, it would rather be a scorn then otherwise; therefore I do propose it unto you, that if you should advise me to it, I do think it were very fit to be published in my name.   

Mr. SPEAKERS SPEECH.  
THe Government of a Commonwealth rests in the Rules of order, and hath so much affinity and consent with the Rules of Nature, in the government of the World, that the first copy and mutation of the one may seem to be taken from the original and first model of the other.  
This contemplation (most excellent and gracious sovereign) casts our eyes upon your Sacred Majesty, as that celestial orb, which never resting without the office of perpetual motion, to cherish the lower bodies, not enriching itself with any treasures drawn from below, exhales in vapours from the inferior Elements, what endue season it returns in showers.  
The application makes us consider ourselves, those sublunary creatures which having their essence and being from the influence of those beams (as the flowers of the field) open to receive the glory of the Sun.  
In this relation both contribute to the common good, your sacred majesty as a Nursing Father designed to bestow on your people, the blessing of peace and unity, and we as the children of obedience return our duties and affections in Aids and Tributes. And this compacted in one body by the ligaments of Religion and laws, hath been the object of admiration to the whole world.  
Amidst the distraction of foreign Nations, we only have sat under the shadow of our Vines, and drank the wines of our own Vintage.  
But your crafty adversaries, perceiving that the fervent profession of your own Religion and firm observation of our laws, have been the pillars of our prosperity, By subtle insinuations, pretending a politic necessity to admit of moderation in our Religion, to comply with foreign Princes, and suggesting it a principal in the rule of sovereignty, to require and take into, ask & have, that it must be postulare by power, not petere by laws, and keep this misery of war and calamity, between Nation and Nation, and put us in the posture of gaze to the whole world.  
But when we behold your sacred Majesty descended from the royal loins of that glorious King, which by his wisdom and policy, first engrafted the white Rose and the Red, upon the same stock, and sheithed the sword that had pierced the bowels of so much nobility, glutted with the blood of people, and then laid the first hopes of the happy union between the Nations.  
When our thoughts refresh themselves with that happy memory of that religious King your gracious Father, on whose sacred Temples both Diadems were placed, wreathed about with this motto, Faciam eos ingentem unam, we cannot but believe that God and Nature (by a lineal succession from those Fathers of peace) hath ordained you that lapis Angularis upon which the whole frame settles, and put into the hands of you sacred majesty, the possibility and power to firm and stablish this happy union between your kingdoms, and so raise your memory a Statue of glory and wisdom from generation to generation.  
In all this length of time, the assurance of this Union and peace hath been the chief object of our desires, Our Purses have been as open as our hearts, both contributing to this great work, manifested by so many Subsidies already presented, sufficient in our first hopes for the full perfection.  
But finding that fail, have again adventured upon your people's property, and in an old and absolute way, new burnished by the hand of instant necessity, expressed to the World the heart of a loyal people, and howsoever guided with a new name of tranquillity and peace to your kingdom, that with more case the people may digest the bitterness of this Pill, yet still our hearts had the same aim and object.  
A gift suitable to the necessity of such vast extent that time cannot parallel it by any example.  
And by which, if your sacred Majesty vouchsafe your royal assent, we shall not doubt you may soon accomplish those happy effects that may present your wisdom the object of wonder, and your policy to be admired amongst the Nations.  
FINIS.