His Majesty's MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH To both Houses of PARLIAMENT On Thursday the 31 of December,  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
I Must not lose this occasion of Returning you My hearty Thanks, for the great proofs you continue to give Me of your Zeal and Resolution to Support and Assist Me, in the Vigorous Prosecution of the War against France next Year; and I Assure you it shall be My greatest Care that the Assistances you give Me may be so Applied, as to Render them most Effectual for the Ends you design them: but I must take Notice to you at the same time, with some trouble, that the New year is already come, while Our Preparations●●r it are not only more backward; but those of Our Enemies, as We have reason to think, in greater forwardness than they were the last Year: I find Myself therefore Necessitated from this Consideration, most earnestly to Recommend to you, Gentlemen of the House of Commons, the Hastening of such further Supplies as you design to Enable Me with, for the Prosecution of the War.  

My Lords and Gentlemen,  
The Season being so far Advanced, this present Sessions cannot admit of a much longer Continuance; and therefore I must Recommend to you the Dispatch of all such other Bills also, as you shall judge necessary for ●he Public Good.    

Edinburgh, reprinted by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1692.