HIS MAJESTIES SPEECH TO THE LORDS and COMMONS OF PARLIAMENT Assembled at OXFORD, Delivered at their recess, april 26. 1644.  

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HIS MAJESTIES SPEECH to the Lords and Commons of Parliament assembled at Oxford,  
My Lords and Gentlemen.  
I Am now brought to you by yourselves: for I should not so soon have partend with you, if you had not desired it; and I believe that the same zeal and affection to Me and your Country, which hath brought and stayed you here, hath caused you to seek this recess, that so by distributing yourselves into your several countries, We may all the better reap the fruits of Our Consultations; wherefore in Gods name dispose of yourselves as you think fit. I hearty thank you for what you have done, and fully approve of what you desire.  
I think most( if not all) of you are engaged in my service, either in a Civile or a Martiall way; To you that have charge in my armies, I recommend the diligent attendance on your Commands, that so by your good example and discipline, you suppress that licence and disorder, which will discredit, and may destroy the best cause.  
And to you who are en●aged in the Civile affairs, I must r●commend these few particulars; That you expedite those supplies of moneys, which by your advice I have sent for, whether by subscription, or Excise, remembering that Moneys are the Nerves of war.  
Likewise that you use your best diligence for the Pressing of Men, and encouragement of Volunteers, by showing them, that now the only way to preserve themselves from slavery, and their country from ruin, is freely to engage their persons.  
But chiefly, and with al possible care to inform all my Subjects of the barbarity and odiousness of this Rebellion, how solicitous I have been for Peace, and how insolently, and scornfully rejected; assuring them, that my arms are raised and kept only for the defence of their Religion, laws and Liberties, which being once secured and vindicated, I shall most cheerfully lay them down, I having( God knows) with much unwillingness taken them up.  
Lastly, assure them that these extraordinary ways which necessity hath produced( and most of them not without your consent or advice) for my supply, shall not hereafter be brought in example to their prejudice, and I shall in the mean time do my best to prevent, and punish all exorbitances and disorders.  
To conclude( My Lords and Gentlemen) I do now again( yet never enough) thank you for your great and unanimous expressions of your affections to me, which hath laid an unexpressible Obligation upon me; and be assured that there is no profession which J have made for the defence, and maintenance of our Religion, laws, and Liberties, which I will not inviolably observe.  
Now God who hath blessed this meeting with an unexpested unanimitie,( which I esteem as one not of his least blessings) will, I hope, bring us all safe together again the eight day of October next. In the mean time I shall be ready to receive any thing from your Committees that shall be desired.   
FJNJS.