His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 31 of December. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1692 Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B06612 Wing W2389A ESTC R186666 52529369 ocm 52529369 179253 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06612) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179253) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2781:20) His Majesties most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 31 of December. William III, King of England, 1650-1702. England and Wales. Parliament. England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1 sheet ([1] p.) Re-printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to their most excellent Majesties, Anno Dom. 1692. Edinburgh : Caption title. Initial letter. Imperfect: tightly bound with slight loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the National Library of Scotland. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. 2008-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-10 SPi Global Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-12 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-12 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion His Majesties 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 ●roofs 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 then they were the last Year : I find My Self therefore Necessitated from this Consideration , most earnestly to Recommend to you , Gentlemen of the House of Commons , the Hastning 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 Publick Good. Edinburgh , Re-Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to Their most Excellent Majesties , Anno Dom. 1692.