Two SPEECHES, SPOKEN In the Honourable House of Commons. THE FIRST BY Mr. Grimston Esquire: THE SECOND, BY Sir Benjamin Rudiard. Concerning the Differences between the King's Majesty, and both Houses of PARLIAMENT.  
LONDON Printed for H. Hutton. 1643.   

Mr. Grimston's Speech, IN The House of Commons, concerning the distempers between the King, and both Houses of Parliament.  
Master Speaker,  
I Would fain bring one stone to our building now in hand and it is but a caveat to the Master builders, to beware of those who hinder the work, and pull down by night, what is built up by day.  
Master Speaker, there are that speak loudly to the King, and in agitating of all matters, seem very tender of him, but substances, and semblances, essences, and apparences, are opposite: Multa Videntur quae non sunt, these would make us believe, that our redressing of some grievances, is the pulling out of some flowers from the Crown, and hereby they cast main and intricate doubts, wherewith to retard and perplex our proceedings, and to lay an ill favoured imputation upon us, as if we were regardless of our Gracious sovereign, and these good men, the only Battresses of his Royalty: by this they endeavour to endear themselves to the King, for their own advancement, to have him guided by their own counsels, and to take off his affection from his best, and most loyal Subjects, Assembled in Parliament.  
Master Speaker, The King and his Subjects are Relatives, and we know that in logic; ne lato sublato tollatur Correlatum, they that disjoint the King and his People, do neither better nor worse but do their utmost, to unking him.  
M. Speaker, The King is the Parentthe Husband solemnly espoused at his Coronation, the head of the republic, as it is with the natural parent, Husband and Head: So it is with the public: the natural parent bestoweth on his Child, protection and love, with all his fruits: the Child returneth him filial reverence with all due respects, and he that laboureth to break this intercourse, by possessing the parent with an evil opinion of the Child, is equally an enemy to both.  
There is a sweet echo of conjugal affections between the married, and he that shall go about to interrupt it, is a hater of them both, and a subverter of their Family.  
In the natural body, such is the connexion between it and the Head, that a separation is destructive to both, where as otherwise, the head in the body, being the seat of the vitals, and the brain in the Head, of the animal Spirits, reciprocally communicating preserve the whole: Our gracious sovereign is the common parent, Husband, and Head, if therefore there shall be any found to be as undermining pioneers envying to disaffect our parent to us, to divorce us from this our Husband to divide us from our head.  
My just motion is, that upon a watchful discovery, whereon I would have every man's good intent, they may receive the extremity of severity as they deserve, and if any of them shall prove member of this House, that the Furnace may be heated ten times hotter, for betraying the trust reposed in them, by their County that sent them hither.   

A Speech spoken in the House of Commons, by Sir Benjamin RUDYARD.  
M. Speaker,  
IN the way we are, we have gone as far as words can carry us: We have voted our own rights, and the King's Duty: No doubt there is a Relative Duty between a King and Subjects; Obedience from a Subject to a King, Protection from a King to His People. The present unhappy distance between His Majesty and the Parliament, makes the whole kingdom stand ama●●d, in a fearful expectation of dismal calamities to fall upon it: It deeply and conscionably concerns this House to compose and settle these threatning ruining distractions. M. Speaker, I am touched, I am pierced with an apprehension of the honour of the House, and success of this Parliament. The best way to give stop to these desperate imminent mischiefs is, to make a fair way for the Kings return hither; it will likewise give best satisfaction to the people, and will be our best justification. M. Speaker, That we may the better consider the condition we are now in, let us set ourselves three years' back: If any man than could have credibly told us, that within three years the Queen shall be gone out of England into the Low-countries, for any cause whatsoever: The King shall remove from his Parliament, from London to York, declaring himself not to be s●fe here: That there shall be a total Rebellion in Ireland, Such discords and distempers both in Church and State here, as now we find; certainly we should have trembled at the thought of it: wherefore it is fit we should be sensible now we are in it.  
On the other side, if any man than could have credibly told us, That within three years ye shall have a Parliament, it would have been good news; That ship-money shall be taken away by an Act of Parliament, the reasons and grounds of it so rooted out, as that neither it, nor any thing like it, can ever grow up again; That Monopolies, the High-Commission Court, the Star-Chamber, the Bishop's Votes shall be taken away, the council Table regulated and restrained, the forests bounded and limited; that ye shall have a triennial Parliament; and more than that, a perpetual Parliament, which none shall have power to dissolve without your selves, we should have thought this a dream of happiness; yet now we are in the real possession of it, we do not enjoy it, although His Majesty hath promised and published he will make all this good to us. We stand chiefly upon further security; whereas the very having of these things, is a convenient fair security, mutually securing one another, there is more security offered, even in this last Answer of the Kings, by removing the personal Votes of Popish Lords, by the better education of Papists children, by supplying the defects of laws against Recusants, besides what else may be enlarged and improved by a select Committee of both Houses, named for that purpose. Wherefore Sir, let us beware we do not contend for such a hrzardous unsafe security, as may endanger the loss of what we have already; let us not think we have nothing, because we have not all we desire, and though we had, yet we cannot make a mathematical security, all human caution is Susceptible of corruption and failing; God's providence will not be bound, success must be his, he that observes the wind and rain, shall neither sow nor reap, if he can do nothing till he can secure the weather, he will have but an ill harvest.  
Master Speaker, It now behooves us to call up all the wisdom we have about us, for we are at the very brink of Combustion and Confusion: If blood (once more) begin to toveh blood, we shall presently fall into a certain misery, and must attend an uncertain success, God knows when, and God knows what. Every man here is bound in conscience to employ his uttermost endeavours to prevent the effusion of blood; blood is a crying sin, it pollutes a land: Let us save our Liberties and our Estates, as we may save our Souls too. Now I have clearly delivered mine own conscience, I leave every man freely to his.  
FINIS.