A SPEECH USED TO THE KING 

 BY HIS MAJESTY S SOLICITOR, BEING CHOSEN BY 



THE COMMONS AS THEIR MOUTH AND 



MESSENGER, FOR THE PRESENTING TO HIS 



MAJESTY THE INSTRUMENT OR WRITING 



OF THEIR GRIEVANCES. 



IN THE PARLIAMENT 7 JACOBI. 



MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, 



THE knights, citizens, and burgesses assembled in 

 parliament, in the house of your commons, in all 

 humbleness do exhibit and present unto your most 

 sacred Majesty, in their own words, though by my 

 hand, their petitions and grievances. They are here 

 conceived and set down in writing, according to an 

 cient custom of parliament : they are also prefaced 

 according to the manner and taste of these later 

 times. Therefore for me to make any additional 

 preface, were neither warranted nor convenient ; 

 especially speaking before a king, the exactness of 

 whose judgment ought to scatter and chase away 

 all unnecessary speech as the sun doth a vapour. 

 This only I must say ; since this session of parlia 

 ment we have seen your glory in the solemnity of 

 the creation of this most noble prince ; we have 



