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Speaker 1: Hey, history fans, if you want a double dose of history,

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Speaker 1: here's a rerun for today, brought to you by Tracy V. Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this Day in History Class from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com and from the desk of Stuff you

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Speaker 1: missed in History Class. It's the show where we explore

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Speaker 1: the past one day at a time with a quick

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Speaker 1: look at what happened today in history. Hello, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and it's November.

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Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth the First delivered her Golden Speech on this

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Speaker 1: day in sixteen o one. The speech was before members

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Speaker 1: of the House of Commons and it was expected to

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Speaker 1: be about economic issues. In particular, they were expecting her

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Speaker 1: to talk about monopolies. Monopolies were a contentious issue, and

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Speaker 1: the Queen had previously pledged to subject all monopolies to

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Speaker 1: quote the trial and true touchstone of the law, but

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Speaker 1: then shouldn't actually carry through on that pledge. So monopolies

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Speaker 1: were widely attacked in the How of Commons because they

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Speaker 1: drove up prices, they bestowed an unfair advantage on the

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Speaker 1: people who had the monopolies. No one else was allowed

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Speaker 1: to take part in that area. Of business. So this

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Speaker 1: led to some contentious arguing on the subject, until the

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Speaker 1: Queen finally agreed to abolish some of the monopolies that

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Speaker 1: she had been granted, and to do what she had

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Speaker 1: said exposed others to trial under common law. So the

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Speaker 1: speech on November was expected to stick to this topic

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Speaker 1: of monopolies. It was delivered in the Council Chamber at Whitehall,

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Speaker 1: and it did start out this way. She started with

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Speaker 1: an acknowledgement that quote, we perceive your coming is to

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Speaker 1: present thanks to us. That's thanks for dealing with this

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Speaker 1: issue of monopolies. And it went on to say quote

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Speaker 1: of myself, I must say this, I never was any greedy,

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Speaker 1: scraping grasper, nor a strict, fast holding prince, nor yet

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Speaker 1: a waster. My heart was never set upon any worldly goods,

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Speaker 1: but only for my subjects good. What you do bestow

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Speaker 1: on me I will not hoard up, but receive it

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Speaker 1: to bestow on you again. Yea mine own properties, I

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Speaker 1: account yours to be expended for your good, and your

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Speaker 1: eyes shall see the bestowing of it for your welfare.

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Speaker 1: She went on to thank the Speaker and the Lower House,

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Speaker 1: because she said that without them she might have made

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Speaker 1: the wrong decision just because she didn't have the correct information,

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Speaker 1: so she was thanking them for raising her attention to

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Speaker 1: this issue. She said that she had made these grants

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Speaker 1: through a focus on the greater good, and that they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be allowed to stand if instead of working towards

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Speaker 1: the greater good, they were instead causing a grievance or oppression.

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Speaker 1: But then her focus shifted a bit. She started talking

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Speaker 1: more about how she saw herself as a monarch and

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Speaker 1: what she felt for her kingdom and her subjects. She said,

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Speaker 1: quote the zeal of which affection tending to ease my

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Speaker 1: people and knit their hearts unto us, I embrace with

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Speaker 1: a princely care, far above all earthly treasures. I esteem

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Speaker 1: my people's love more than which I desire not to merit.

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Speaker 1: And God that gave me here to sit and placed

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Speaker 1: me over you knows that I never respected myself, but

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Speaker 1: as your good was concerned in me. Yet what dangers,

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Speaker 1: what practices, and what perils I have passed, some if

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Speaker 1: not all, of you know. But none of these things

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Speaker 1: do move me or ever made me fear. But it

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Speaker 1: is God that hath delivered me. And she ended this

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Speaker 1: speech by really acknowledging that she was getting very close

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Speaker 1: to the end of her reign. She was sixty eight

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Speaker 1: years old at this point, and she said, quote, for

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Speaker 1: it is not my desire to live or rain longer

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Speaker 1: than my life, and rain shall be for your good.

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Speaker 1: And though you have had and may have many mightier

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Speaker 1: and wiser princes sitting in this seat, yet you never had,

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Speaker 1: nor shall have any that will love you better. Thus,

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Speaker 1: Mr Speaker, I commend me to your loyal loves and

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Speaker 1: yours to my best care and your further counsels. And

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Speaker 1: I pray you, Mr Controller, and Mr Secretary, and you

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Speaker 1: of my counsel, that before these gentlemen depart to their countries,

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Speaker 1: you bring them all to kiss my hand. It was

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Speaker 1: reported that many in the room were deeply moved by

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Speaker 1: this speech, some of them moved to tears. It was

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Speaker 1: Queen elizabeth The first last speech to Parliament, and she

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Speaker 1: died on March three. The Golden Speech was written down

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Speaker 1: by someone in the room. It was printed and distributed

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Speaker 1: in what might have been considered an official version. It

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Speaker 1: was also reprinted several times throughout the sixteen hundreds under

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Speaker 1: the reign of subsequent monarchs, and it really became part

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Speaker 1: of Queen Elizabeth. The first legacy really emblematic of her

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Speaker 1: relationship that she developed with the nation and its subjects,

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Speaker 1: and the way she used what we would think of

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Speaker 1: today as public relations. She framed what was real, really

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Speaker 1: a dispute over monopolies, as an expression of how much

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Speaker 1: she loved her people and how much they loved her.

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