THE SPEECH OF Sr Edw: Turnor Kt Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS, To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, on February 9 1664.  
AT The Passing of the Act, entitled, An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the King's Majesty, of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds, to be Raised, Levied and Paid in the space of Three years.  
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LONDON: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1664.  
CUM PRIVILEGIO.   

THE SPEECH OF Sr Edward Turnor Kt. Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS, To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, Febr. 9 1664.  
AT The Passing of the Act, entitled, An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the King's Majesty, of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds, to be Raised, Levied and Paid in the space of Three years.  
May it please Your most Excellent Majesty,  
THE last Session of this Parliament, the Lords and Commons did humbly represent unto Your Majesty, the many Wrongs and Indignities that were done to Your Majesty, and the many Injuries done to your Merchants, by the Subjects of the United Provinces; and did most humbly beseech Your Majesty, that some effectual Course might be taken for Redress thereof.  
Your Majesty at the opening of this Session was graciously pleased to acquaint Your Two Houses, That in pursuance to their Desires, You had by Your Agent required Satisfaction; but that Way proved ineffectual, and many fresh Provocations were offered, whereby Your Majesty was necessitated to a Warlike preparation; by the speedy Dispatch whereof, You had let Your Neighbours see, That You could defend Yourself, and Your Subjects against their Insolence, upon the Stock of Your own Credit, before Your Parliament came together.  
And now SIR, Give me leave to say, Your Neighbours may see how a great King is made greater by His Parliament. Your Loyal Commons, after they Convened, did not suffer full Four and Twenty hours to pass, before they most cheerfully gave Your Majesty more than Four and twenty hundred thousand pounds.  
Historians tell us, That in Biscay, a Signiory of Spain, when the King entereth into the Frontiers of the Country, the Lords and Gentlemen there dwelling, proffer him some few Brass-pieces, called Maravedis, in a leathern Bag, hanged at the end of a Lance; but withal they tell him, that he must not take them.  
Great SIR, 
 Your Lords and Commons will not only yield obedience to You with their Bodies, but with their Purses also: In token whereof, I do in the name of all the Commons of England present unto Your Majesty this Bill; whereby we have given unto Your Majesty a Royal Aid of Four and twenty hundred seventy seven thousand and five hundred pounds, to be paid in three years by twelve quarterly Payments, to begin from the Five and twentieth of December last. And we do humbly beseech Your Majesty to accept it as a pregnant Demonstration of our most unfeigned Duty and Thankfulness to Your Majesty.   
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LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1664.