Two Speeches
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Logan West
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TWO SPEECHES Delivered by the Earl of Manchester, AND Mr. Io: Pym, Esquire, IN GVILD-HALL, On Friday the 25. of Nov. 1642.
Concerning a present Supply of Money for the Army, and Propositions for easing the City for the time to come:
And laying the burden on the Neutrallists and Malignants throughout the Kingdom.
Nouemb: 26: LONDON: Printed by J. F. for Peter Cole, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Glove and Lyon, near the Royal-Exchange. 1642.
The Earl of Manchester his SPEECH.
M Y Lord Major, and Gentlemen, you of the City of London,
I am commanded to come hither upon an Errand, that I know in the general is never pleasing, which is to express wants and necessities; but I know very well to whom I speak, it is to the Worthy, the Generous, and the Royal CITIZENS of London, who have exceeded all Story in their care, for the life and preservation both of the Parliament and the whole Kingdom: Therefore it would imply a distrust of your present care, to make a Supply, if I should use any Arguments to you; I shall only say this, that if there be not an enlargement of yourselves in some measure at the present, I shall be very unwilling to express the condition that I fear our Army will be reduced to: This is all that I shall say, that if there be a present Supply, I do not doubt but the Army will move with that effect, as it will prevent all those barbarous and salvage plunderings of the Forces that are now under the Command of those Officers of the King. I confess the burden hath lain very heavy only upon the City of London, and you shall have the grace, and the honor of the preservation, both of Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom. This Gentleman that is by me, will let you know that it is already in Proposition, (and I do not doubt but it will speedily have the concurrence of the Lord's with it) to take that care, that the future burden shall not lie upon those here in the City of London, that have been careful to make Supplies, even to the exhausting of themselves; but that it shall go generally to all those that have shrouded themselves under a kind of Neutrality here in London; and that it shall go generally throughout all the Countries of England, that so the common Calamities shall be prevented, and supported by the common burden laid upon the whole Kingdom.
Master John Pym HIS SPEECH.
GEntlemen,
we come not to tell your Lordship and these worthy Citizens only our wants and dangers; but we come to speak the thanks of the Parliament to you, for that that you have alre • dy done, that you have shown so much affection to the public, and that it hath produced so good effects throughout the whole Kingdom, as that now you have an Army raised most out of this City, able to defend (with God's blessing) the Religion and Liberty of the Kingdom, if it may be upheld: and we come not only to give you thanks for that that you have done, but to stir you up to join with us in giving thanks to God, that hath given such a blessing to our endeavors, that when by Letters into all parts almost they did presume before hand to triumph in the ruin, and in the plundering of this City, God prevented it, and hath kept you safe, kept your Houses, your Walls, your Suburbs safe from that that was intended against you; and truly as we have sought for this blessing by fasting and by prayer, so it is fit that we should testify our thanksgiving for it, and this is a necessary part of our errand which we are sent about: and that we may be serviceable to God's providence still, as he hath stirred up your hearts to do so much already, so that he would stir you up still to continue that that is fit to be done for the future, and that you will do it in such a way as may be most pleasing to yourselves: we come not hither, that by any consent here in public, you should bind yourselves in particular; but we come to let you know the dangers of the Kingdom, the sense the Parliament hath of it, and of the City especially, that you may not lose that that hath been already done; but that you may go on still cheerfully to do the full work; And we come to tell you that the Parliament doth intend the burden shall not lie upon you that are well-affected and come in voluntarily; but that they have thought upon a way, and have begun it already, and I hope within two or three days at the most it shall be published to you; that all that are indisposed shall be forced to do that, which out of readiness and cheerfulness to the public good they will not do of themselves; neither limit it we to the City and Suburbs; but we are in a course to draw in all the Countries of the Kingdom, that as the burden is universal, so the aid may be universal; for this is the thoughts of the Parliament. And if it please God to bless your Forces that are already raised, and continued, we hope you shall not only see peace again in the Kingdom, and security for your Religion; but see those that have been the engines and actors of the mischiefs and troubles that are come upon us, the burden shall lie upon them, that they shall recompense the charges you have been at already: This is the intention of the Parliament, only for the present do somewhat every man, as GOD shall enable him, do somewhat that may meet the present necessities, and prevent the dangers that require a present subsistence, and present supply of the Army, without which, what is it will follow but the danger of the City; the ruin of the Countries about, the stopping up of the River which is almost taken from you, and the Sea-coasts will be lost; you cannot have better hearts then you have, God hath enabled many of you with purses, I hope it will be so readily disposed that we shall have a full joy in the recompense of it, and the retribution; which we shall all pray God to bring to pass, and I hope you will bring to pass.