SIR, PART ART of thisWork having already received the Sanction of your ROYAL HIGHNESS's Countenance and Pro[A 2] tection, ¡v DEDICATION, tection, I make it my moft humble Request that the fame Honour may be extended to the whole. The Volumes, now prefented to your ROYAL HIGHNESS, contain the most important Parliamentary Tranfactions 3 from the Restoration to the Death of the late Queen ANNE. An Interval abound ing with great Events: and in which the Defigns and Ar tifices of all Parties in Turn. are alike explained by their Actions. Per 01024. add. DEDICATION. ✔ Perhaps Sir, there never was a Crisis when Papers of this kind were of more Confequence to the public Service: A Circumftance which I take the liberty to mention, as what will most effectually recommend them to Your ROYAL HIGHNESS's Favour: an Infinuation which to fome Princes would be Flattery, but to your ROYAL HIGHNESS is the plain Truth: What a whole grateful People have seen confirm'd by your Actions; of which the moft recent will, inamoreefpecial manner, render you the Darling of the British Nation. I vi DEDICATION. I am, may it please Your ROYAL HIGHNESS, with the utmost Respect and Submiffion, YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS's Moft obedient, Moft devoted, and Moft bumble Servant The Edito CONTENTS of TOME Ï. [The ASTERISKS fignify either whole Seffions, or N. B. The Two Seffions of the Convention Par- liament; and, except one Speech, the NINE firft * The CONVENTION Parliament. at that Place, 5. The Commons Anfwer to the King's Letter, 7. The Proclamation of the King to both Hoafes, 10. Their Inftructions to the joint Committee difpatched to invite his Majefty home, 11. The Speech of Mr. Denzill Holles to. the King at Breda on that Occafion, 12. The Proceedings of the House on the Act of Oblivion, 15. Mr. Lenthall reprimanded by Order of the Houfe, 16. Lord Chancellor Hyde's Speech to both Houfes, ibid. The King's Meffage relating to the general Pardon, 17. A fecond, releasing all Arrears to the Crown, 19. The King's Speech at paf- fing the Bill of Indemnity, &c. ibid. The Speaker's (Sir Harbottle Grimstone) Speech on prefenting the faid Bill, 21. Another on the fame, on prefenting the Money-Bills, &c. 22. The King's Speech on paffing the fame, 23. And the Chan- The House complement the Queen-Mother; and present her two Daughters with 10,000 1. each; proceed to com plete the difbanding of the Army, 25. Cenfure Mr. Prynne, ibid. Settle 120,000l. per Ann. on the King, ibid. Order feveral obnoxious dead Bodies to be hang'd at Tyburn, ibid. Impeach William Drake, for publishing a Book, called The Long Parliament revived, 26. The Speech of the Speaker on prefenting feveral Bills for the Royal Affent, ibid. Another of the King's on paffing the fame, 28. And |