Whitehall, Sept. 12. 1695. This Morning came in several Nails from Ireland, the last bringing Letters of the 6th. of September.  
Published by Authority.  

Dublin, September 6. 1695.  
ON the 29th. of August (the day to which the two Houses were adjourned,) my Lord Deputy went again to the House of Lords, with the usual Solemnity, and the Commons being sent for up, and appearing at the Bar, Mr. Rochfort, His Majesty's Attorney-General, made the following Speech:  
May it please Your Excellency.  
IN Obedience to Your Excellency's Commands the Commons of Ireland having met in their House, have done me the Honour to Elect me their Speaker.  
And though I am Commanded to acquaint your Excellency with their Choice, yet the due sense I have of my own Imperfections, and my small Experience in Parliamentary Affairs, oblige me humbly to Address to your Excellency to excuse me from this weighty Employment, which is proper only for a Person of Extraordinary Abilities.  
For notwithstanding the Obligations I am under to the Service of His Majesty, and the promoting the Public Good of this Nation; and the just Respect and Deference I pay to the Judgement of the House of Commons in Electing me their Speaker.  
I cannot but declare my unwillingness to accept the Honour, since I am sensible of my insufficiency to discharge the Trust.  
And therefore I humbly entreat your Excellency to direct them to return to their House, and make Choice of a more fit Person for that Service.  

Then my Lord Chancellor, by his Excellency's Command, said,  
Mr. Attorney,  
HIs Excellency Commands me to let you know, That if you had been a Stranger unknown to him before this time, yet what you have now said to disable yourself, shows you are too well Qualified for the Service, to which the Commons have designed you, for him to allow your Excuse.  
He is satisfied from this, and the Experience he has had of your Prudence and Judgement in many Occasions, That the Commons have well considered their own Service, in the Choice they have made of you for their Speaker; And therefore Disallows your Excuse, and Confirms their Choice, and Commands you Cheerfully to attend their Service.   

Mr. Speaker's Answer.  
May it please your Excellency,  
YOur Excellency having been pleased to declare your Approbation of the Choice of the Honourable House of Commons, and laid your Commands on me to attend their Service as their Speaker: I take the Confidence to assure your Excellency, that the present Conunjcture of Affairs in this Kingdom does seem to be so happy, that our Enemies have no ground to hope, nor our Friends any reason to fear, the least Breach or Disunion among us. For I am persuaded that every Member of both Houses has fully resolved to lay aside all private Interests, and unanimously to endeavour with all possible Application and Integrity to promote the public Welfare of their Country.  
And nothing certainly can be a greater assurance to us all of the happy Success of this Parliament, than his Majesty's Wisdom, and gracious Pleasure in appointing your Excellency the Chief Governor of this Kingdom; who inherit your Father's unparallelled Loyalty to the Crown, and your noble Brother's Extraordinary Affection of this Country.  
And 'tis the general Hope, and the Expectation of us all, that what the late Earl of Essex, when he was in this Government, so obligingly designed, so prudently contrived, and so prosperously begun for the public Good and Interest of this Nation; your Excellency may have the Glory of accomplishing, and we the Happiness of enjoying.  
As concerning myself, the Commons of Ireland have been pleased to make Choice of one of their Country, and of joint Interest with them, to be their Speaker, That by my own Experience of His Majesty's extraordinary Favours to this Kingdom, I might the more affectionately return their most humble Acknowledgements for them.  
And though I am sensible of my being unworthy of so great an Honour, and insufficient to dischare so weighty a Trust; yet I shall make it my business to supply in some measure my want of due Qualifications, by the Faithfulness of my Services, and the Sincerity and Heartiness of my Endeavours for the Public.  
And I am the less concerned for my great and many Imperfections, when I consider that this Honourable House of Commons is composed of Persons of so public Spirits, and of so eminent Abilities, as will not need a Speaker of extraordinary Wisdom to direct their Counsels, or of Experience to manage their Debates, or of Eloquence to move their Affections to the Service of His Majesty, and the Good of their Country.  
And now having in Obedience to your Excellency's Commands, and by the Favour of the Commons of Ireland, taken upon me the Office of their Speaker, I beg leave of your Excellency to begin to discharge some part of my Trust, by humbly Demanding in the Name of the Commons of Ireland,  
That they may have Freedom of Speech and Debate.  
And not be molested in their Persons, Goods, or Attendants.  
His Excellency being with-drawn, and the Commons returned to their House,  
The Lords Ordered, that the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord-Deputy for his Excellent Speech; And a Committee having drawn up an Address for that purpose, it was agreed to by the House, and presented to his Excellency the 31th of August in the Morning.  
The Commons also Ordered a Committee to draw up an Address of Thanks to his Excellency for his Speech on the 27th of August, and having agreed to it, presented the same to his Excellency the 31th in the Afternoon.    

Address of the LORDS.  
WE the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled attend you Excellency, to pray you to return our most dutiful & unfeigned Thanks to His most Excellent Majesty, as well for the many great Benefits we have already Received, as for those which by your Excellency's Speech in Parliament we find His Majesty graciously intends for us. And we think ourselves obliged to express our Gratitude to your Excellency for the great Part you have had therein, and esteem ourselves very happy under your Excellency's Government.  
To His Excellency HENRY Lord Capell, Lord Deputy-General, and General-Governour of Ireland.  
The Humble Address of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled.  
May it please your Excellency,  
IT is with the highest satisfaction we are put in mind of the obligations we own His Majesty. The mentioning them gives us a pleasing Remembrance of the great things the King hath done for us, and obliges us to make such returns as becomes Obedient and Loyal Subjects. To His goodness we own the assembling us in Parliament, where our Actions shall silence the Enemies of our Welfare, and show us Dutiful and Grateful to His Majesty, who in Addition to his other Gracious Favours, hath placed your Excellency in the sole Government of this Kingdom: At once choosing a Faithful Servant to the Crown, and one most acceptable to this People by personal Merit; and the Memory of our Happiness under the Government of your Noble Brother. And that our sense of His Majesty's Great Goodness may not seem to terminate in Words only. We take leave to give your Excellency Assurance that we shall avoid all Heats and Animosities in our Debates, and apply ourselves to what shall be agreeable to His Majesty's Expectation and for the Service of the public, by supplying the deficiency of the Revenue, and proposing such Laws as may most contribute to the Honour of the Crown and the settlement of ourselves and Posterity on the best and surest Foundations.  

To which His Excellency was pleased to Answer in this manner, viz.  
Gentlemen,  
I Thank you for your Address, & am very well satisfied that you approve of what I have done; I shall steadfastly pursue His Majesty's Interest & Yours which I take to be the same; And continue upon all occasions to represent you to His Majesty as His most Loyal and Faithful Subjects.  
The two Houses since their first Meeting, have proceeded upon the Consideration of several Public Bills and other Matters.  
On the 4th. The House of Commons resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That this House will to the utmost of their Power, stand by and Assist His Majesty and his Government, against all his Enemies Foreign and Domestic. And the same day resolved in a Committee of the whole House, that it was the opinion of the said Committee, that a Supply be Granted to His Majesty, to which the House agreed, Nemine Contradicente.  
Yesterday the Commons passed the Bill for an Additional Duty of Excise, and sent it up to the Lords.  
And this day my Lord-Deputy went in the usual manner to the House of Lords, and gave the Royal Assent to such Bills as had passed the two Houses, viz.  

An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors.  
An Act for Taking away the Writ De Heretico Comburendo.  
An Act declaring all Attainders, and all other Acts made in the late pretended Parliament, to be void.  
An Act to restrain Foreign Education.  
An Act for the better securing the Government, by disarming Papists.  
An Act for the settling of Intestates Estates.   
The Commons have resolved on Monday next to proceed upon the Business of the Supply.     

reprinted at Edinburgh by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Excellent Majesty, 1696.