THE SPEECH OF Sr Edw. Turnor, Kt. Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS, TO THE KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY, Delivered on Tuesday the Thirtieth day of July, 1661. at the Adjournment of the Parliament.   royal blazon or coat of arms 
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LONDON, Printed for Henry Twyford, and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine-Court Middle-Temple. 1661.   

The Speech of Sir Edward Turnor Knight, Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons, to the KING's most Excellent Majesty; Delivered on Tuesday the Thirtieth day of July, 1661. at their Adjournment.  
May it please Your most Excellent Majesty,  
THe Wise Man tells us, there is a time to sow, and a time to reap. Since Your Majesty did convene the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, they have with unwearied labour consulted for the Service of Your Majesty, and the good of this Nation; and now the Fields grow white to Harvest. In the great field of Nature all fruits do not grow ripe together, but some in one month, some in another; one time affords Your Majesty Primroses and Violets, another time presents you with July-flowers. So it is in the course of our proceed; some of our fruits are in the Blossom, when others are in the Bud; some are near ripe, and others fit to be presented to Your Majesty. Amongst the number of our choicest ripe fruits, we first present You with a Bill for the Safety and Preservation of Your Majesty's Royal Person and Government.  
Your Predecessor, Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, in the Thirteenth year of her Reign, by Pius Quintus, then Bishop of Rome, was Excommunicated and Anathematised: John Felton posted up a Bull at the Bishop of London's Palace, whereby she was declared, to be deprived of her Title to the Kingdom, and all the People of this Realm absolved from their Allegiance to her: The Queen of Scots was then a prisoner in England, and the Duke of Norfolk for many Designs against our Queen committed to the Tower. Historians tell us, the times were very troublesome, full of suspicions and conspiracies: But, Sir, what then was only feared, hath in our time been put in execution: No Age hath known, no History makes mention of such sad Tragedies. It therefore now becomes your People after this glorious Restitution to endeavour all just ways of preservation.  
The Queen in her time of trouble and danger summoned a Parliament; and such was the Love of the People to Her and her Government, that they forthwith made a Law for her security: According to which Precedent, We your Loyal Commons also, who have before them no less cause of fear, but more Obligations, and Affection to your Majesty, do humbly tender You a Bill, wherein we desire it may be Enacted, That if any Person shall compass, imagine or design Your Majesty's Death, Destruction, or bodily Harm, to imprison, or restrain Your Royal Person, or depose you, or shall levy War against your Majesty, within or without your Realm, or stir up any foreign Power to invade You, and shall express or declare such his wicked intention by printing, writing, preaching, or malicious and advised speaking, being thereof legally convicted, shall be adjudged a Traitor.  
And because much of our late Misery, took its rise from seditious Pamphlets, and Speeches from the Pulpits, it is provided, That if any man shall maliciously and advisedly publish or affirm Your Majesty to be an Heretic, or a Papist, or that you endeavour to introduce Popery, or shall stir up the People to hatred or dislike of your Royal Person or Government, than every such Person shall be made incapable of any Office or Employment, either in Church or State. And if any man shall maliciously and advisedly affirm, That the Parliament begun at Westminster the third of September 1640. is yet in being, or that any Covenant or Engagement since that time imposed upon the People, doth oblige them to endeavour a Change of the Government either in Church or State; or that either, or both Houses of Parliament have a Legislative Power without Your Majesty, than every such Offender being thereof legally convicted, shall incur the Penalties of a Praemunire, mentioned in the Statute made 16. R. 2.  
In the next place, Sir, Give me leave, I beseech You (without any violence to the Act of Oblivion) to remember a sad effect of the Distempers in the last age: when the Fever began to seize upon the People, they were impatient till they lost some blood; The Lords Spiritual, who in all ages had enjoyed a place in Parliament, were by an Act of Parliament excluded.  
Your Majesty's Royal Grandfather was often wont to say, No Bishop, no King, We found his words true, for after they were put out, the Favour still increasing in another fit, The Temporal Lords followed, and then the King himself: nor did the humour rest there, but in the round, the House of Commons was first Garbled, and then turned out of doors.  
It is, no wonder when a Sword is put into a mad man's hand, to see him cut off limb by limb, and then to kill himself.  
When there is a great breach of the sea upon the low grounds, by the violence of the torrent, the Rivers of sweet waters are often turned aside, and the salt waters make themselves a Channel, but when the breach is made up, good husbands drain their lands again, and restore the ancient Sewers.  
Thanks he to God the flood is gone off the face of this Island; our Turtle Dove hath found good footing; Your Majesty is happily restored to the Government, the temporal Lords and Commons are restored to sit in Parliament, and shall the Church alone now suffer?  Sit Ecclesia Anglicana libera, & habeat libertates suas illasas. 
In order to this great work the Commons have prepared a Bill to repeal that Law was made in 17 Car. whereby the Bishops were excluded this House: these Noble Lords have all agreed, and now we beg Your Majesty will give it life: speak out the word, Great Sir, and Your servants yet shall live.  
We cannot well forget the method, how Our late miseries, like waves of the Sea, came in upon us: first the people were invited to Petition, to give colour to some illegal demands; then they must Remonstrate, than they must Protest, than they must Covenant, than they must associate, than they must engage against our lawful Government, and for the maintenance of the most horrid Tyranny that ever was invented. For the prevention of this practice for the future, We do humbly tender unto Your Majesty a Bill, entitled, An Act against tumults and disorders, upon pretence of preparing or presenting public Petitions or Addresses to Your Majesty or the Parliament.  
In the next place, we held it our Duty to undeceive the People, who have been poisoned with an Opinion, That the Militia of this Nation was in themselves, or in their Representatives in Parliament: and according to the ancient known Laws, we have declared the sole Right of the Militia to be in Your Majesty. And forasmuch as our time hath not permitted us to finish a Bill intended for the future ordering of the same; we shall present you with a temporary Bill, for the present managing and disposing of the Land-Forces: And likewise another Bill, for the establishing certain Articles and Orders for the Regulation and Government of Your Majesty's Navies and Forces by Sea.  
According to Your Majesty's Commands we have examined many of the public, and private Bills which passed last Parliament, and have prepared some Bills of Confirmation: we have also ascertained the Pains and Penalties to be imposed upon the Persons or Estates of those Miscreants who had a hand in the Murder of Your Royal Father of Blessed Memory, and were therefore Excepted in Your Majesty's Act of Oblivion: Wherein we have declared to all the world, how just an Indignation we had against that horrid Regicide.  
We have likewise prepared a Bill for the Collection of great Arrears of the Duty of Excise, which I do here in the name of the Commons humbly present unto Your Majesty: the Reason we conceive why it was not formerly paid, was because the People disliked the Authority whereby it was imposed; But understanding that it is now given to Your Majesty, it will come in with as great freedom. Aliquisque malo erit usus in illo.  
Your Majesty was pleased at the opening of the Parliament to tell us, That you intended this Summer to take a Progress, and see Your People, and at Your return did hope to bring a Queen home with you. Sir, this welcome News hath made us cast about all ways for Your Accommodation. And therefore that no conveniencies might be wanting, either for Your Majesty, Your Queen, or Your Attendants, We have prepared a Bill, entitled, An Act for providing necessary Carriages in all Your Royal Progresses and removals.  
Your Majesty was likewise pleased at our first meeting to say, You would not tire us, with hard Duty, and hot Service, and therefore about this time intended a recess. That Royal Favour will now be very seasonable, and We hope advantageous both to Your Majesty, and ourselves: We know in our absence Your Princely Heart and Head will not be free from Cares and Thoughts of our Protection: And when We leave our Hive, like the industrious Bee, We shall but fly about the several Countries of the Nation to gather Honey; and when Your Majesty shall be pleased to name the time, return with loaded Thighs unto our House again.  
FINIS.