Herefordshire,

John Scudamore,

Thomas Price.
Hereford City,
Sir Henry Lingen,
Sir Edward Hopton.
Hertfordshire,
Sir Thomas Fenshaw,
Sir Richard Fleming.
Hertford Town.
Sir Edward Turner,
Thomas Fenshaw.

Heydon,
John Appleyard,
Hugh Bethel,

Heytesbury,
Sir Charles Berkley,
Henry Coker.
Higham,
Lewis Palmer.

Hindon,

Edmund Ludlow,
George How,
Honiton,

Charles Pool,
Peter Prideaux.
Horsham,
Sir John Covert,
John Cheney.
Huntingdonshire,

Lord Mandeville,
Henry Cromwell.
Huntingdon Town,
John Barnard,
Nicholas Pedley.
Hythe,

John Harvey,
Peter Andrews.
Ilcester,
Edward Philips,
Henry Dunster.
Ipswich,

John Siclemore,
William Blois.
Ives, (St.)
James Praed,
Edward Noseworthy.
Kellington,
Sir Cyril Wyche,
Anthony Buller.
Kent,
Sir Thomas Peyton,
Sir John Tufton.
Kingstone,
Andrew Marvel,
Abraham Gilby.
Knaresborough,
Sir John Crosland,
Wm. Thompson.
Lancaster County,
Sir Roger Bradshaw,
Edward Stanley.
Lancaster Town,
Sir John Harrison,
Richard Kirkby.
Lanceston,
Sir Charles Harwood,

Richard Edgcomb.
Leicestershire,

Lord Rooes,
George Fount.

Leicester Town,
Sir Wm. Hartop,
Wm. Billingham.

Leominster,
Richard Grimes,
Hugh Cornwall.
Leskard,

John Harris,
Benjamin Greville.
Lestwithiel,
Sir Charles Wray,
John Bulteel.

Lewes,
Thomas Woodcock,
John Staple.

Lincolnshire,
Charles Hussey,
Sir George Castleton,
Lincoln City,
Sir Robert Bowles,
Thomas Meers.
Litchfield,
Anthony Dicey,
Jolm Lane.

Liverpool,
William Stanley,
Sir Gilbert Ireland.
London,
John Toke,
William Thompson,
Christopher Love,
John Jones.

Ludlow,
Thomas Littleton,
Francis Carlton.
Luggershall,
Sir Jeffery Palmer,
William Ash.
Lyme,
Sir John Shaw,
Henry Henley.
Lymington,
Sir Wm. Lewis,
John Bunkley..
Lynn,
Sir Wm. Howel,
Edward Walpole,
Maidstone,
Sir Edmund Pierce,
Robert Barnham.
Malden,
Sir John Tyrrel,
Sir Richard Wiseman.
Malmsbury,
Laurence Wallington,
Henry Dean,

Malton,
Thomas Gower,
James Danby.

Marlborough,
Lord Seymour,
Jeffery Daniel.

Marlow,

Peter Hobby,

William Borlace.
Mawes,

Sir Wm. Tredenham,
Arthur Spry.
Melcomb,
Benjamin Remes,
John Penn.
Merioneth,
Henry Meyrick.
Midhurst,

John Lukner,
John Steward.

Middleser,
Sir Thomas Allen,
Lancelot Lake.

Milbourn,
Sir Francis Wyndham,
Michael Maliet.
Minehead,
Sir Hugh Wyndham,
Francis Lutterel.
Michael, (St.)
Matthew Wren,
John Borlace.

Monmouthshire,
Lord Herbert,
William Morgan.
Monmouth Town,
Sir Trevor Williams.
Morpeth,
Lord Morpeth,
Sir George Downing.
Montgomeryshire,
John Purcel.
Montgomery Town.
Edward Vaughan.
Newark,

Sir Robert Markham,
Richard Rothwell. ·
Newcastle (Staffordsh.)
Sir Cæsar Colcow,
Edward Manwaring.
Newcastle (Northum.)
Sir Francis Anderson,
Sir John Morley.
Newport (Cornwall)
Sir Francis Drake,
John Specott.

Newport (Hants.)
Sir Robert Dillington,
Wm. Glascock.
Newton (Lancashire.)
Richard Gorges,
Richard Leigh.
Newton (Hants.)
Sir John Barrington,
Sir Joseph Worsley.
Norfolk County,
Sir Ralph Hare,
Lord Richardson.
Northamptonshire,
Sir Justinian Isham,
John Park.

Northampton Town,
Francis Harvey,
Richard Raynsford.

Northumberland. Lord Mansfield, John Fenwick.

Norwich, Francis Corey, Christopher Jay. Nottinghamshire, Sir John Clifton, John Eyres

Nottingham Town,
John Hutchinson,
Arthur Stanhope.
Okehampton,

Sir Thomas Hale,
Edward Wise.
Orford,
Walter Devereux,
Henry Broderick.
Orfordshire,

Lord Faulkland,
Sir Anthony Cope. ?
Orford City,
Beuj. Whorwood,
Richard Crook.
Oxford University,
Sir Heneage Finch,
Sir Laurence Hyde.
Pembrokeshire,
Arthur Owen.
Pembroke Town,
Sir flugh Owen.
Penryn,
Wm. Pendarvis,
John Birch.

Peterborough,
Lord Spencer,
Hugh Orme.
Petersfield,
Thomas Neal,
Arthur Bold.

Plymouth,
John Maynard,
William Morris.
Plimpton,
Thomas Hale,
William Strode.
Pool,
Sir John James,
John Morton.
Pontefract,
Sir John Dawney,
William Lowther.

Portsmouth,
John Bunkly,
Richard Norton.
Preston,
Edward Rigby,
Jeffery Rushton.
Queenborough,
James Herbert,
Edward Hales.

Radnor County,
Sir Richard Lloyd.
Radnor Town,
Sir Edward Harley.
Reading,
Sir Thomas Doleman,

but the strongest brain may here be turned: the presence of this glory, and the glory of this presence, do transport me. Whilst I contemplate the incomparable beauty of this body politic, and the goodly order of this high court

jesty, for the errors that are too visible and apparent in their proceedings, that you will review and reverse the same. My inexperience in the Customs and Orders of the house, my inability to collect their sense, and state the questions rising upon long and ardu-of parliament, where at once I behold all the ous debates, do justly render me unfit, and therefore unworthy, of this weighty employment. Your majesty well knows, when a ship puts forth to sea, she should be provided with mariners of all sorts. In case a storin doth rise, some must trim and lower the sails, some must watch aloft the decks, some must work at the pump; but he had need be a very good seaman that is the pilot. Sir, I hope I may be useful to this your sovereign vessel in some of these inferior places; but I dare not undertake to be their steersman.-I do most humbly therefore beseech your majesty, that you will not take us at our first word; our second thoughts are best. Pray, therefore, be pleased | to command the members of the house of commons to return into their house, to recollect themselves, and to present your majesty with a better choice."

This being said, the Lord Chancellor, having first conferred with his majesty, answered as followeth :

"Mr. Speaker; You have not discredited yourself enough to persuade the king to dissent from his house of commons in the election they have made. If he had never seen you before, you have now spoke too well against yourself, for his majesty to suspect you are no good Speaker: but you have the honour to be well known to the king; have spoken very often before him; and his majesty well knows that you are not without any of those parts; of knowing the Orders of the house, where you have sat long; or collecting and stating and putting the Questions aptly, which must constitute a right good Speaker. Therefore his majesty is so far from thinking the house hath made an ill choice, that he believes they could not have made a better; or from admitting your excuse, that he confirms their election, and thanks them very heartily for making it; and requires you to submit to it, and to betake yourself with all alacrity to the service."

His majesty having thus denied Mr. Speaker's Excuse, and approved of the Commons choice of him; Mr. Speaker proceeded, and said,

"He that knows his master's will, and doth it not, is worthy to be beaten with many stripes. I shall therefore humbly and chearfully, to the best of my poor skill and knowledge, apply myself to the performance of my duty; not doubting therein to obtain your majesty's gracious pardon for all involuntary transgressions; for it is a rule in law, and in conscience too, 'Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.'-And, since I have found this favour in the sight of my lord the king, pray let me beg your majesty's patience for a while, to make a stand, and from this place to look about me. Sir, a weak head is soon giddy;

glory of this nation, I am almost in the condition of St. Paul, when he was taken up into the third heaven. All he could say upon his return was, he saw things unutterable.'God, that made all things for the use of man, and made him governor over all his works, thought it not fit to leave him to himself, nor to live without a law and government. The forms and species of governments are various; monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical: but the first is certainly the best, as being nearest to divinity itself. Aristocracy is subject to degenerate, and run into faction; but democracy naturally runs into confusion. Then every man becomes a tyrant over his neighbour; Homo homini lupus, homo homini dæmon.'-This famous island, historians tell us, was first inhabited by the Britains, then by the Romans, then by the Saxons, then by the Danes, then by the Normans; and during all these successions of ages, and variety of changes, though there was sometimes Divisum imperium, yet every division was happy under a monarchical government.-Since the entrance of the Norman race, 25 kings and queens, famous in their generations, from whom your sacred majesty is lineally descended, have swayed the royal sceptre of this nation.-The Children of Israel, when they were in the Wilderness, though they were fed with God's own hand, and eat the food of angels, yet they surfeited, and murmured, and rebelled against Moses. The same unthankful spirit dwelt in this nation for divers years last past. The men of that age were weary of the government, though it was refined to the wonder and envy of all other nations; they quarrelled with our Moses, because he was the Lord's anointed. Nolumus hunc reguare,' was their first quarrel; but leveling, parity, and confusion followed; then tyranny and usurpation was the conclusion. We read of the emperor Adrian, when he lay a dying, he complained that many physicians had destroyed him; meaning, that their contrary conceits and different directions for his recovery had hastened his death. So it is with us: we were sick of reformation; our reformers were of all ages, sexes, and degrees; of all professions and trades. The very cobler went beyond his last. These new statesmen took upon them to regulate and govern our governors: this was the sickness and plague of the nation. Their new laws were all written in bloody letters; the cruelty of their tribunals made the judgment-seat little differ from a slaughter-house: the rich man was made an offender for a word; poor men were sold for slaves, as the Turks sell heads, twenty for an asper: yet for all this villainy there was at length found a Protector.-No amendment at

| duty of subjects, but with the love of sons to a most indulgent father-Next to the glory of your majesty's royal throne, I cannot but observe the brightness of this second orb. This firmament is richly deckt with stars of several magnitudes; each star appears like the morning star, and yet each star differs from another in glory. You cannot want Commanders, either by sea or land, to manage your designs, whilst all these sons of Mars stand candidate to serve you in the wars. You cannot want Counsellors, to advise you in the great affairs of the nation, whilst all these statesmen, senators, each fit to be a consul, contend who shall most ease you in the thorny cares of the govern ment.-Amidst these noble English Barons are placed the Reverend Judges of the land, the sages of the law; men so learned and expert in the customs and statutes of this land, that if Wat Tyler, or Jack Cade, or the new fanatics of this latter age, had burned our books, they were able to restore our laws in purity and perfection.-And next to these, though in a lower orb, appear the worthy knights, the prudent citizens and burgesses, of the house of commons, being the third estate of parliament.-When the fame of Solomon's wisdom had filled the neighbour nations, the queen of Sheba could not contain herself at home; but, with many camels, laded with spices, with gold, and precious stones in abundance, she comes to Solomon, to commune with him of all that was in her heart.-Great sir, Whilst this your native country was unworthy of you, foreign nations were made happy in the knowledge of your person, your

length would serve these reformers turns; no concessions, though the most gracious that could be imagined, would satisfy these usurpers; but root and branch, all inust go. Our late sovereign lord, of blessed memory, must be offered up a sacrifice to their lust; your sacred person (great sir) proscribed, and all the royal family exiled. Monarchy itself was voted burdensome, and therefore they must try a Commonwealth; and, the better to digest it, the people were intoxicated with a belief that they should all, like themselves, be princes in their turns.-Amongst the Persians, after the death of their governor there was used to be, àvouía wivli husgāv, a five days lawlessness, in which time every man might do what he listed: during those five days there was such killing, and robbing, and destroying one another, that, before they were ended, the people longed again for their old government. After the death of your majesty's most royal father, here was the like licentiousness; but, alas! is continued more than twice five years: liberty they called it; but it was 'Libertas quidlibet audendi.' Your loyal subjects were a prey to wolves and tygers; and to the most cruel of all beasts, unreasonable men. Every man did what seemed good in his own eyes; for in those days there was no king in our Israel.-But, as the former spirit of reformation at first brought us into this misery; so the spirit of giddiness, which God sent amongst our reformers, at length cured us. The Brazen Serpent was the best cure for those that were bitten by the Fiery Serpent. The divisions and subdivisions of those that exercised dominion over us, weak-piety, and your wisdom. And now the Lord ened their own power, and stirred up the hearts, and strengthened the hands, of your loyal subjects, to restore our ancient government, and to bring your sacred majesty back to your royal throne in peace, as, to the joy of all our hearts, we see it this day. This was the work of God, and it is admirable in our eyes. And as we have cause at all times to bless God, that he hath thus brought your majesty to your people; so we have just cause at this time to return our hearty thanks unto your majesty that you have thus brought your people to yourself. The sun exhales the vapours from the carth, and sends them down again in showers of plenty. So we, to our great joy, do find that our obedience and affection to your majesty are returned upon our heads, in plenty, peace, and protection.-The last meeting here in parliament was happy, in healing the bleeding wounds of this nation. They were blessed also, even for their works sake. Your sacred majesty did bless them; and therefore they shall be blessed to all posterity. But, sir, we hope you have a blessing left for us too. That was your parliament by adoption, but this is yours by birth-right. This parliament is free born. I hope this honour will beget in us an emulation to exceed the actions of our predecessors; and not only to meet your majesty as our sovereign with the

our God hath brought you home, and set you on your throne, your subjects long to see you. What striving and rejoicing was there, at your first landing, to see our rising sun! What striving was there, at your Coronation, to see the imperial crown set upon your royal head! What striving hath here lately been, in all the counties, cities, and boroughs of this nation, who should be sent up to hear your wisdom, and confer with you in parliament !-Royal sir, these chosen worthy messengers are not come empty-handed; they are laden, they are sent up to you heavy laden, from their several counties, cities, and boroughs. If the affections of all Englishmen can make you happy; if the riches of this nation can make you great; if the strength of this warlike people can make you considerable at home and abroad; be assured, you are the greatest monarch in the world. Give me leave, I beseech you, to double my words, and say it again, I wish my voice could reach to Spain and to the Indies too, You are the greatest monarch in the world.-I fear your royal patience may be tired. I will therefore speak no more my own words; but, in the name of the commons of England humbly present unto your majesty their accustomed Petitions when first they are assembled in parliament, and so conclude: 1. I do beseech your majesty, That, for our better