A SPEECH OF THE KING S SOLICITOR, 

 USED UNTO THE LORDS AT A CONFERENCE 



BY COMMISSION FROM THE COMMONS, 

 MOVING AND PERSUADING THE LORDS TO JOIN 



WITH THE COMMONS IN PETITION 



TO THE KING, TO OBTAIN LIBERTY TO TREAT OF 



A COMPOSITION WITH HIS MAJESTY FOR 



WARDS AND TENURES. 



IN THE PARLIAMENT TJACOBI, 



THE knights, citizens, and burgesses of the house of 

 commons have commanded me to deliver to your 

 lordships the causes of the conference by them 

 prayed, and by your lordships assented, for the se 

 cond business of this day. They have had report 

 made unto them faithfully of his majesty s answer 

 declared by my lord Treasurer, touching their hum 

 ble desire to obtain liberty from his majesty to treat 

 of compounding for tenures. And first, they think 

 themselves much bound unto his majesty, that in 

 &quot; re nova,&quot; in which case princes use to be appre 

 hensive, he hath made a gracious construction of 

 their proposition. And so much they know of that, 

 that belongs to the greatness of his majesty, and the 

 greatness of the cause, as themselves acknowledge 

 they ought not to have expected a present resolution, 

 though the wise man saith, &quot; Hope deferred is the 

 fainting of the soul.&quot; But they know their duty to 



