The speech of Their Excellencies the Lords Ambassadours Extraordinary. From the high and mighty States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, taking their leave of both the Honourable Houses of Parliament assembled at Westminster. 10. April 1645. Translated out of French into English: and printed by their Excellencies order. Steph. Taylor secr. Together with a moderate answer by a private gentleman. Printed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93628 of text R200014 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E278_9). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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A93628) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 112941) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 46:E278[9]) The speech of Their Excellencies the Lords Ambassadours Extraordinary. From the high and mighty States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, taking their leave of both the Honourable Houses of Parliament assembled at Westminster. 10. April 1645. Translated out of French into English: and printed by their Excellencies order. Steph. Taylor secr. Together with a moderate answer by a private gentleman. Printed according to order. Parker, Henry, 1604-1652. [2], 6 p. Printed by M.B. for Robert Bostock, at the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard., London, : 16. April 1645. A private gentleman = Henry Parker. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Henry Parker Esq". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Relations -- Netherlands -- Early works to 1800. Netherlands -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. A93628 R200014 (Thomason E278_9). civilwar no The speech of Their Excellencies the Lords Ambassadours Extraordinary.: From the high and mighty States General of the United Provinces of Parker, Henry 1645 968 3 0 0 0 0 0 31 C The rate of 31 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-05 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE SPEECH OF THEIR Excellencies the Lords Ambassadours Extraordinary . From the High and Mighty States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands , taking their leave of both the Honourable Houses of Parliament Assembled at Wes●minster . 10. April 1645. Translated out of French into English : And printed by their Excellencies Order . Steph. Taylor Secr. Together with a Moderate Answer by a private Gentleman . Printed according to Order . LONDON , Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock , at the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard . 16. April 1645. The Ambassadours Speech . Right Honourable , TWo things have moved Our Lords and Superiours to send Us their ambassadors Extraordinary into this Kingdome , viz. Their Duty , and Your Service . The first , consisted in their Power , and in the resenting of the present Distractions . The other , being altogether in your choyce to accept , if You should like of it . We have long agoe , and Divers times spoken unto Your Honours of the one , and the other : as likewise unto the King , who hath honoured so much Our State , as to have accepted the offers of Our Interposition . But We are still with Your Honours upon the same termes ▪ We were at the beginning , without any certitude , or likelyhood to be accepted . We have already obtained Our leave from the King , and have left His Majesty full of good will , and disposition for a just and reasonable Accommodation : Likewise We parted from Him well satisfied , concerning the point of the Evangelique-Protestant Religion , upon the Offers He hath lately permitted us to make And as concerning the Royall Rights or Prerogatives , the Liberties , and Priviledges of this Kingdome , and the Parliament , and of all the Subjects , no doubt when that His Majesty shall be satisfied , His Majesty will also satisfie every one . But Sirs , We can stay no longer here , unlesse Your Honours accept of our Interposition , without which We are uselesse : And from hence it is , Our Lords and Superiours have charged Us , in such a case , to take Our leave , and returne to Our owne home . In performance of which last Duty , We are here come before You ; assuring You , We shall never cease to wish unto this heretofore flourishing Kingdome , an Accommodation and Peace ; which is ▪ and ever will be as profitable , as necessary . The Answer . YOur Excellencies came into England to shew your selves Christians out of hope to prevent blood and mischiefe , and partly to shew your selves Friends to England , out of hope to prevent the utter ruine of this your neighbour Nation . To accomplish these honourable ends you have addressed your selves both to His Majesty and the Parliament : But whereas his Majestie hath accepted the offers of your Interposition , you seeme to complaine that you have no certitude or likelihood to be accepted by the Parliament . You doe not neverthelesse declare what that Interposition is which the King admits or the Parliament denies : For if the King doe wholly referre His Cause to your umpirage , t were necessary that you plainly make this knowne to the Parliament ; and if the King receives you no further then as friendly Intercessors to Intreat or Perswade , in this he does no more then the Parliament does . But you conceive the King offereth enough assurance for the Evangelique-Protestant Religion ; and ( it may be ) you expect that the Assembled States of England and Scotland having drawne together for their assistance the best Divines they can from all Protestant Countries , should attribute more to your judgement herein then to themselves . Truly this seems to us something too unequall , and we much doubt whether His Majestie be so fully resolved to resigne up himselfe and all his pretences in the point of Religion to your finall decision . You further seeme confident , That His Majesty will satisfie others when He is himselfe satisfied concerning His Prerogative and our Liberty : but this may be perhaps , because you doe not so experimentally understand what is likely to satisfie the King , as the best and wisest of His two Protestant Kingdoms doe . The Kings Intentions are knowne either by his professions or actions ; As for his professions we know they are and ever were very gracious , but whatsoever Expressions He may make to you in your particular , He cannot promise a greater affection to Religion and Justice then the Parliament does . And as for the Kings actions we would gladly be instructed by you , but we cannot apprehend our selves lesse judicious in them then any strangers whatsoever . When your State was formerly in distresse , our Ancestours did intercede otherwise then you doe now , and yet your Provinces were as divided as ours are now , and your Cause was as liable to dispute as ours is now ; and what we did tender then was from the intire body of our whole Nation ; and to be cleere with you , we doe not looke so upon your Interpositions now . For your good wishes to the prosperity of this Kingdome wee thanke you ; and if you will propose a just and reasonable Accommodation , whatsoever you thinke of us , you will finde us as full of good will and disposition to it , as you now beleeve the King is . FINIS .