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         Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
      
       
         
           1688
        
      
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             The Prince of Orange his declaration shewing the reasons why he invades England : with a short preface, and some modest remarks on it.
             Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
             William III, King of England, 1650-1702.
          
           32 p.
           
             Published by Randal Taylor ...,
             London :
             1688.
          
           
             "The declaration of ... William ... Prince of Orange" p. 4-14.
             "His Highnesses additional declaration" p. 16-18.
             "Animadversions upon the Declaration of His Highness the Prince of Orange" p. 19-32.
             Burnet was responsible for the text of William's declaration. Cf. DNB.
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           THE
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           HIS
           DECLARATION
           :
           SHEWING
           THE
           REASONS
           Why
           he
           Invades
           ENGLAND
           .
           WITH
           A
           Short
           PREFACE
           ,
           AND
           SOME
           MODEST
           REMARKS
           on
           It.
           
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Published
           by
           
             Randal
             Taylor
          
           ,
           near
           Stationers-Hall
           ,
           MDCLXXXVIII
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           The
           Prince
           of
           Orange's
           Declaration
           ,
           shewing
           the
           Reasons
           ,
           why
           He
           invades
           England
           ,
           with
           a
           short
           Preface
           ,
           and
           some
           modest
           Remarks
           on
           it
           .
        
         
           THERE
           having
           been
           various
           ▪
           Discourses
           about
           the
           Reasonableness
           and
           Iustice
           of
           the
           Dutch
           Invasion
           ,
           the
           Prince's
           great
           Love
           and
           special
           Care
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           ,
           and
           
             English
             Protestants
          
           ,
           set
           forth
           in
           the
           most
           Charming
           manner
           ,
           and
           the
           Desperateness
           of
           the
           Protestant
           State
           and
           Condition
           painted
           in
           the
           blackest
           and
           most
           frightful
           Colours
           ;
           Our
           Natural
           
             Leige
             Lord
          
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           Unparallel'd
           Grace
           to
           all
           ,
           represented
           as
           designing
           the
           greatest
           Cruelty
           against
           his
           own
           Subjects
           :
           :
           strange
           Stories
           of
           ill
           things
           whispered
           ,
           and
           nothing
           less
           than
           a
           Secret
           L●●gue
           between
           ▪
           His
           Majesty
           of
           
             Great
             Britain
          
           ,
           and
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           to
           Extirpate
           all
           Protestants
           entred
           into
           :
           These
           Reports
           are
           with
           so
           much
           Art
           and
           Cunning
           spread
           ,
           as
           to
           startle
           the
           most
           Considering
           Protestants
           of
           all
           Persuasions
           ,
           whence
           nothing
           could
           be
           more
           eagerly
           desired
           ,
           than
           a
           Sight
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange's
           Declaration
           ;
           For
           the
           Expectations
           of
           most
           Men
           are
           ,
           That
           some
           Extraordinary
           Secrets
           ,
           some
           hidden
           Works
           of
           Darkness
           should
           be
           reveal'd
           ,
           and
           brought
           to
           Light
           ;
           as
           generally
           those
           ,
           who
           yet
           never
           saw
           the
           Prince's
           Declaration
           ,
           do
           still
           believe
           ;
           But
           there
           not
           being
           one
           word
           of
           any
           such
           Treaty
           ,
           we
           cannot
           see
           why
           it
           is
           that
           the
           Prince
           comes
           Over
           ;
           and
           if
           others
           impartially
           Peruse
           the
           Declaration
           ,
           we
           doubt
           not
           but
           't
           will
           Convince
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           give
           no
           Reason
           powerful
           enough
           to
           Iustifie
           so
           Bloody
           an
           Enterprise
           ,
           as
           this
           ,
           in
           the
           Issue
           must
           needs
           be
           .
        
         
           We
           will
           therefore
           give
           you
           a
           true
           Copy
           of
           the
           Prince's
           Declaration
           ,
           word
           for
           word
           ,
           as
           it
           runs
           in
           the
           West
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THE
           DECLARATION
           OF
           HIS
           HIGHNES
           William
           Henry
           ,
           By
           the
           Grace
           of
           GOD
           ,
           PRINCE
           of
           ORANGE
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Of
           the
           REASONS
           inducing
           Him
           ,
           To
           appear
           in
           Armes
           in
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           England
           ,
           for
           Preserving
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           for
           Restoring
           the
           Lawes
           and
           Liberties
           of
           England
           ,
           Scotland
           and
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           IT
           is
           both
           certain
           ,
           and
           Evident
           to
           all
           men
           ,
           that
           the
           Publike
           Peace
           and
           Happines
           of
           any
           State
           or
           Kingdome
           ,
           can
           not
           be
           preserved
           ,
           where
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Customs
           established
           ,
           by
           the
           Lawfull
           authority
           in
           it
           ,
           are
           openly
           Transgressed
           and
           Annulled
           :
           More
           especially
           where
           the
           alteration
           of
           Religion
           is
           endeavoured
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           Religion
           which
           is
           contrary
           to
           Law
           is
           endeavoured
           to
           be
           introduced
           :
           Upon
           which
           those
           who
           are
           most
           Immediatly
           
           Concerned
           in
           it
           ,
           are
           Indispensably
           bound
           ,
           to
           endeavour
           to
           Preserve
           and
           maintain
           the
           established
           Lawes
           ,
           Liberties
           and
           Customes
           :
           and
           above
           all
           the
           Religion
           and
           Worship
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           is
           Established
           among
           them
           :
           And
           to
           take
           such
           an
           effectual
           care
           ,
           that
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           the
           said
           State
           or
           Kingdome
           ,
           may
           neither
           be
           deprived
           of
           their
           
             Religion
             ▪
          
           nor
           of
           their
           Civill
           Rights
           .
           Which
           is
           so
           much
           the
           more
           Necessary
           because
           the
           Greatnes
           and
           Security
           both
           of
           Kings
           ,
           Royall
           families
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           such
           as
           are
           in
           Authority
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Happines
           of
           their
           Subjects
           and
           People
           ,
           depend
           ,
           in
           a
           most
           especiall
           manner
           ,
           upon
           the
           exact
           observation
           ,
           and
           maintenance
           of
           these
           their
           Lawes
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Customes
           .
        
         
           Upon
           these
           grounds
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           we
           cannot
           any
           longer
           forbear
           ,
           to
           Declare
           that
           to
           our
           great
           regret
           ,
           we
           see
           that
           those
           Councellours
           ,
           who
           have
           now
           the
           chieffe
           credit
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           have
           overturned
           the
           Religion
           ,
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           of
           those
           Realmes
           :
           and
           subjected
           them
           in
           all
           things
           relating
           to
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Properties
           ,
           to
           Arbitrary
           Government
           :
           and
           that
           not
           only
           by
           secret
           and
           Indirect
           waies
           ,
           but
           in
           an
           open
           and
           undisguised
           manner
           .
        
         
           Those
           Evil
           Councellours
           for
           the
           advancing
           and
           colouring
           this
           ,
           with
           some
           plausible
           pretexts
           ,
           did
           Invent
           and
           set
           on
           foot
           ,
           the
           Kings
           
             Dispencing
             power
          
           ,
           by
           vertue
           of
           which
           ,
           they
           pretend
           that
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           he
           can
           Suspend
           and
           Dispence
           with
           the
           Execution
           of
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           that
           have
           been
           enacted
           by
           the
           Authority
           ,
           of
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           the
           security
           and
           happines
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           and
           so
           have
           rendered
           those
           Laws
           of
           no
           effect
           :
           Tho
           there
           is
           nothing
           more
           certain
           ,
           then
           that
           as
           no
           Lawes
           can
           be
           made
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           joint
           concurrence
           of
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           so
           likewise
           lawes
           so
           enacted
           ,
           which
           secure
           the
           Publike
           peace
           ,
           and
           safety
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           the
           lives
           and
           liberties
           of
           every
           subject
           in
           it
           ,
           can
           not
           be
           repealed
           or
           suspended
           but
           by
           the
           same
           authority
           .
        
         
           For
           tho
           the
           King
           may
           pardon
           the
           punishment
           ,
           that
           a
           Transgressour
           has
           incurred
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           he
           is
           condemned
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           cases
           of
           
             Treason
             ▪
          
           or
           Felony
           ;
           yet
           it
           can
           not
           be
           with
           any
           colour
           of
           reason
           ,
           Inferred
           from
           thence
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           can
           entirely
           suspend
           the
           execution
           of
           those
           Lawes
           ,
           relating
           to
           Treason
           or
           Felony
           :
           Unless
           it
           is
           pretended
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           clothed
           with
           a
           Despotick
           and
           Arbitrary
           power
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           Honours
           and
           Estates
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           depend
           wholly
           on
           his
           good
           will
           and
           Pleasure
           ,
           and
           are
           entirely
           subject
           to
           him
           ;
           which
           must
           infallibly
           follow
           ,
           on
           the
           Kings
           having
           a
           power
           to
           suspend
           the
           execution
           of
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           to
           dispence
           with
           them
           .
        
         
           Those
           Evill
           Councellours
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           giving
           some
           credit
           to
           this
           strange
           and
           execrable
           Maxime
           ,
           have
           so
           conducted
           the
           matter
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           obtained
           a
           Sentence
           from
           the
           Judges
           ,
           declaring
           that
           this
           
             Dispencing
             power
          
           ,
           is
           a
           Right
           belonging
           to
           the
           Crown
           ;
           as
           if
           it
           were
           in
           the
           power
           of
           the
           twelve
           Judges
           ,
           to
           offer
           up
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           Rights
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           of
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ,
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           to
           be
           disposed
           of
           by
           him
           Arbitrarily
           and
           at
           his
           Pleasure
           ,
           and
           expressly
           contrary
           to
           Lawes
           enacted
           ,
           for
           the
           security
           of
           the
           Subjects
           .
           In
           order
           to
           the
           obtaining
           this
           Judgment
           ,
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           did
           before
           
           hand
           ,
           examine
           secretly
           ,
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Judges
           ,
           and
           procured
           such
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           could
           not
           in
           Conscience
           concurre
           in
           so
           pernicious
           a
           Sentence
           ,
           to
           be
           turned
           out
           ,
           and
           others
           to
           be
           substituted
           in
           their
           Rooms
           till
           by
           the
           chances
           which
           were
           made
           ,
           in
           the
           Courts
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           they
           at
           last
           obtained
           that
           Judgment
           .
           And
           they
           have
           raised
           some
           to
           those
           Trusts
           ,
           who
           make
           open
           Profession
           of
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           ,
           though
           those
           are
           by
           Law
           Rendred
           Incapable
           of
           all
           such
           Employments
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           also
           Manifest
           and
           Notorious
           ,
           that
           as
           his
           Majestie
           was
           ,
           upon
           his
           coming
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           received
           and
           acknowledged
           by
           all
           the
           subjects
           of
           
             England
             ,
             Scotland
          
           ,
           and
           Ireland
           ,
           as
           their
           King
           without
           the
           least
           opposition
           ,
           tho
           he
           made
           then
           open
           profession
           ,
           of
           the
           
             Popish
             Religion
          
           ;
           so
           he
           did
           then
           Promise
           ,
           and
           Solemnly
           Swear
           ,
           at
           his
           Coronation
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           maintain
           his
           subjects
           ,
           in
           the
           free
           enjoyment
           of
           their
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           in
           particular
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           maintain
           the
           
             Church
             of
             England
             as
             it
             was
             established
             by
             Law
             :
          
           It
           is
           likewise
           certain
           ,
           that
           there
           have
           been
           at
           diverse
           and
           sundry
           times
           ,
           several
           Lawes
           enacted
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           those
           Rights
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           :
           and
           among
           other
           Securities
           ,
           it
           has
           been
           enacted
           that
           all
           Persons
           whatsoever
           ,
           that
           are
           advanced
           to
           any
           Eccles●astical
           Dignity
           ,
           or
           to
           bear
           Office
           in
           either
           University
           ,
           as
           likewise
           all
           other
           ,
           that
           should
           be
           put
           in
           any
           Imployment
           ,
           Civill
           or
           Military
           ,
           should
           declare
           that
           they
           were
           not
           Papists
           ,
           but
           were
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           that
           ,
           by
           their
           taking
           of
           the
           Oaths
           of
           Allegance
           ,
           and
           Suprermacy
           and
           the
           Test
           ,
           yet
           these
           ●vill
           Councellours
           have
           in
           effect
           annulled
           and
           abolished
           all
           those
           Lawes
           ,
           both
           with
           relation
           to
           Ecclesiasticall
           and
           Civill
           Employments
           .
        
         
           In
           order
           to
           Ecclesiasticall
           Dignities
           and
           Offices
           .
           they
           have
           not
           only
           without
           any
           colour
           of
           Law
           ,
           but
           against
           most
           expresse
           Lawes
           to
           the
           contrary
           ,
           set
           up
           a
           Commission
           ,
           of
           a
           certain
           Number
           of
           persons
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           have
           committed
           the
           cognisance
           and
           direction
           of
           all
           Ecclesiasticall
           matters
           :
           in
           the
           which
           Commission
           there
           has
           been
           and
           still
           is
           ,
           one
           of
           His
           Majesties
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           who
           makes
           now
           publike
           profession
           of
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           ,
           and
           who
           at
           the
           time
           of
           his
           first
           professing
           it
           ,
           declared
           that
           for
           a
           great
           while
           before
           ,
           he
           had
           believed
           that
           to
           be
           the
           only
           true
           Religion
           .
           By
           all
           this
           ,
           the
           deplorable
           State
           to
           which
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           is
           reduced
           is
           Apparent
           ,
           since
           the
           Affairs
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           are
           now
           put
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           Persons
           ,
           who
           have
           accepted
           of
           a
           Commission
           that
           is
           manifestly
           Illegal
           ;
           and
           who
           have
           executed
           it
           contrary
           to
           all
           Law
           ;
           and
           that
           now
           one
           of
           their
           chieffe
           Members
           has
           abjured
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           and
           declared
           himself
           a
           Papist
           ;
           by
           which
           he
           is
           become
           Incapable
           of
           holding
           any
           Publike
           Imployment
           :
           The
           said
           Commissioners
           have
           hitherto
           given
           such
           proof
           ,
           of
           their
           submission
           to
           the
           directions
           given
           them
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           no
           reason
           to
           doubt
           ,
           but
           they
           will
           still
           continue
           to
           promote
           all
           such
           designs
           as
           will
           be
           most
           aggreable
           to
           them
           .
           And
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           take
           care
           ,
           to
           raise
           none
           to
           any
           Ecclesiasticall
           dignities
           ;
           but
           persons
           that
           have
           no
           zeal
           for
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           ,
           and
           that
           now
           hide
           their
           unconcernedness
           for
           it
           ,
           under
           the
           specious
           pretence
           of
           Moderation
           .
           The
           said
           Commissioners
           have
           suspended
           the
           Bishop
           of
           London
           ,
           only
           because
           he
           refused
           to
           obey
           an
           order
           ,
           that
           was
           
           sent
           him
           to
           suspend
           a
           Worthy
           Divine
           ,
           without
           so
           much
           as
           citing
           him
           before
           him
           ,
           to
           make
           his
           own
           Defence
           ,
           or
           observing
           the
           common
           formes
           of
           Processe
           .
           They
           have
           turned
           out
           a
           President
           ,
           chosen
           by
           the
           fellows
           of
           
             Magdalen
             Colledge
          
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           all
           the
           Fellows
           of
           that
           Colledge
           ,
           without
           so
           much
           asciting
           them
           before
           any
           Court
           that
           could
           take
           legall
           cognissance
           of
           that
           affair
           ;
           or
           obtaining
           any
           Sentence
           against
           them
           by
           a
           Competent
           Judge
           .
           And
           the
           only
           reason
           ,
           that
           was
           given
           ,
           for
           turning
           them
           out
           ,
           was
           their
           refusing
           to
           choose
           for
           their
           President
           ;
           a
           Person
           that
           was
           recommended
           to
           them
           ,
           by
           the
           Instigation
           of
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           .
           Tho
           the
           right
           of
           a
           free
           Election
           belonged
           undoubtedly
           to
           them
           .
           But
           they
           were
           turned
           out
           of
           their
           freeholds
           ,
           contrary
           to
           Law
           ,
           and
           to
           that
           expresse
           provision
           in
           the
           
             Magna
             Charta
             ;
             that
             no
             man
             shall
             l●se
             life
             or
             Goods
             ,
             but
             by
             the
             Law
             of
             the
             land
             .
          
           And
           now
           these
           Evill
           Councellours
           have
           put
           the
           said
           Colledge
           wholly
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           Popists
           ,
           tho
           as
           is
           abovesaid
           ,
           they
           are
           Incapable
           ,
           of
           all
           such
           Employments
           ,
           both
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           the
           statutes
           of
           the
           Colledge
           .
           These
           Commissioners
           have
           also
           cited
           before
           them
           all
           the
           Chancellours
           and
           Archdeacons
           of
           England
           ,
           requiring
           them
           to
           certifie
           to
           them
           the
           names
           ,
           of
           all
           such
           Clergymen
           ,
           as
           have
           read
           the
           Kings
           declaration
           for
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           ,
           and
           of
           such
           as
           have
           not
           read
           it
           :
           without
           considering
           that
           the
           reading
           of
           it
           ,
           was
           not
           enjoined
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           by
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           who
           are
           their
           Ordinaries
           .
           The
           Illegality
           and
           Incompetency
           of
           the
           said
           Court
           of
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           Commissioners
           ,
           was
           so
           notoriously
           known
           ,
           and
           it
           did
           so
           Evidently
           appear
           ,
           that
           it
           tended
           to
           the
           Subversion
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           ,
           that
           the
           Most
           Revernd
           Father
           in
           God
           ,
           William
           Archbishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           Primate
           and
           Metropolitan
           of
           all
           England
           ,
           seeing
           that
           it
           was
           raised
           for
           no
           other
           end
           ,
           but
           to
           oppresse
           such
           persons
           as
           were
           of
           Eminent
           Vertue
           ,
           Learning
           ,
           and
           Piety
           ,
           refused
           to
           sit
           or
           to
           concurre
           in
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           tho
           there
           are
           many
           expresse
           Lawes
           against
           all
           Churches
           or
           Chapells
           ,
           for
           the
           exercise
           of
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           ,
           and
           also
           against
           all
           Monasteries
           and
           Convents
           ,
           and
           more
           particularly
           against
           the
           order
           of
           the
           Iesuites
           ,
           yet
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           have
           Procured
           orders
           for
           the
           building
           of
           severall
           Churches
           and
           Chappels
           ,
           for
           the
           Exercise
           of
           that
           Religion
           :
           They
           have
           also
           procured
           diverse
           Monasteries
           to
           be
           Erected
           ,
           and
           in
           contempt
           of
           the
           Law
           they
           have
           not
           only
           set
           up
           severall
           Colledges
           of
           Iesuites
           ,
           in
           diverse
           places
           ,
           for
           the
           corrupting
           of
           the
           youth
           ,
           but
           have
           raised
           up
           one
           of
           the
           Order
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Privy
           Councellour
           and
           a
           Minister
           of
           State.
           By
           all
           which
           they
           do
           evidently
           shew
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           restrained
           by
           no
           rules
           of
           Law
           whatsoever
           ;
           but
           that
           they
           have
           subjected
           the
           Honours
           and
           Estates
           of
           the
           subjects
           ,
           and
           the
           Establisht
           Religion
           ,
           to
           a
           Despotick
           power
           and
           to
           Arbitrary
           Government
           :
           In
           all
           which
           they
           are
           served
           and
           seconded
           by
           those
           Ecclesiasticall
           Commissioners
           .
        
         
           They
           have
           also
           followed
           the
           same
           methods
           with
           Relation
           to
           Civill
           affairs
           :
           For
           they
           have
           procured
           Orders
           ,
           to
           examine
           all
           Lords
           Lieutenants
           ,
           Deputy
           Lieutenants
           ,
           Sheriffs
           ,
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           all
           others
           that
           were
           in
           any
           Publike
           Imployment
           ,
           if
           they
           would
           concurre
           with
           The
           King
           in
           the
           Repeal
           of
           the
           Test
           and
           
             Penal
             Laws
          
           :
           and
           all
           such
           ,
           whose
           Consciences
           did
           not
           suffer
           them
           ,
           to
           comply
           with
           their
           designes
           ,
           were
           turned
           out
           ;
           and
           others
           were
           put
           
           in
           their
           places
           ,
           who
           they
           believed
           would
           be
           more
           Compliant
           to
           them
           ;
           in
           their
           Designes
           of
           defeating
           the
           Intent
           and
           Execution
           of
           those
           Laws
           ;
           which
           had
           been
           made
           with
           so
           much
           care
           and
           caution
           ,
           for
           the
           Security
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           .
           And
           in
           many
           of
           these
           places
           they
           have
           put
           professed
           Papists
           ,
           though
           the
           Law
           has
           disabled
           them
           ,
           and
           warranted
           the
           subjects
           not
           to
           have
           any
           regard
           to
           their
           Orders
           .
        
         
           They
           have
           also
           invaded
           the
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           seised
           on
           the
           Charters
           of
           most
           of
           those
           Towns
           that
           have
           a
           right
           to
           be
           represented
           by
           their
           Burgesses
           in
           Parliament
           :
           and
           have
           procured
           surrenders
           to
           be
           made
           of
           them
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           Magistrates
           in
           them
           have
           delivered
           up
           all
           their
           Rights
           ,
           and
           Priviledges
           ,
           to
           be
           disposed
           of
           ,
           at
           the
           pleasure
           of
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           :
           who
           have
           thereupon
           ,
           placed
           new
           Magistrates
           in
           those
           Towns
           ,
           such
           as
           they
           can
           most
           entirely
           confide
           in
           :
           and
           in
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           they
           have
           put
           Popish
           Magistrates
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           Incapacities
           under
           which
           the
           Law
           has
           put
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           whereas
           no
           Nation
           whatsoever
           can
           subsist
           without
           the
           administration
           of
           good
           and
           impartiall
           Justice
           ,
           upon
           which
           mens
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           Honours
           ,
           and
           Estates
           ,
           doe
           depend
           ;
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           have
           subjected
           these
           to
           an
           Arbitrary
           and
           Despotick
           power
           :
           In
           the
           most
           important
           affairs
           ,
           they
           have
           studied
           to
           discover
           before
           hand
           ,
           the
           Opinions
           of
           the
           Judges
           ;
           and
           have
           turned
           out
           such
           ,
           as
           they
           found
           would
           not
           conform
           themselves
           to
           their
           intentions
           :
           and
           have
           put
           others
           in
           their
           places
           ,
           of
           whom
           they
           were
           more
           assured
           ,
           without
           having
           any
           regard
           to
           their
           abilities
           .
           And
           they
           have
           not
           stuck
           to
           raise
           even
           professed
           Papists
           ,
           to
           the
           Courts
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           notwithstanding
           their
           Incapacity
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           that
           no
           Regard
           is
           due
           to
           any
           Sentences
           flowing
           from
           them
           .
           They
           have
           carried
           this
           so
           far
           ,
           as
           to
           deprive
           such
           Judges
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           common
           administration
           of
           Justice
           ,
           shewed
           that
           they
           were
           governed
           by
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           not
           by
           the
           directions
           ,
           which
           the
           others
           gave
           them
           .
           By
           which
           it
           is
           apparent
           that
           they
           designe
           to
           render
           themselves
           the
           absolute
           Masters
           of
           the
           Lives
           ,
           Honours
           and
           Estates
           of
           the
           subjects
           ,
           of
           what
           rank
           or
           dignity
           soever
           they
           may
           be
           :
           and
           that
           without
           having
           any
           regard
           either
           to
           the
           equity
           of
           the
           cause
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Consciences
           of
           the
           Judges
           ,
           whom
           they
           will
           have
           to
           submit
           in
           all
           things
           ,
           to
           their
           own
           will
           ,
           and
           pleasure
           :
           hoping
           by
           such
           waies
           ,
           to
           Intimidate
           those
           who
           are
           yet
           in
           Imployment
           ,
           as
           also
           such
           others
           ,
           as
           they
           shall
           think
           fit
           ,
           to
           put
           in
           the
           Rooms
           of
           those
           whom
           they
           have
           turned
           out
           ;
           and
           to
           make
           them
           see
           ,
           what
           they
           must
           look
           for
           ,
           if
           they
           should
           at
           any
           time
           act
           in
           the
           least
           contrary
           to
           their
           good
           liking
           :
           and
           that
           no
           failings
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           are
           pardoned
           ,
           in
           any
           persons
           whatsoever
           .
           A
           great
           deal
           of
           blood
           has
           been
           shed
           in
           many
           places
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           by
           Judges
           governed
           by
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           ,
           against
           all
           the
           rules
           and
           forms
           of
           Law
           ;
           without
           so
           much
           as
           suffering
           the
           persons
           that
           were
           accused
           ,
           to
           Plead
           in
           their
           own
           Defence
           .
        
         
         
           They
           have
           also
           ,
           by
           putting
           the
           administration
           of
           Justice
           ,
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           Papists
           ,
           brought
           all
           the
           matters
           of
           Civil
           Justice
           into
           great
           uncertainties
           :
           with
           how
           much
           exactness
           and
           Justice
           soever
           that
           these
           Sentences
           may
           have
           been
           given
           .
           For
           since
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           do
           not
           only
           exclude
           Papists
           from
           all
           places
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           but
           have
           put
           them
           under
           an
           Incapacity
           ,
           none
           are
           bound
           to
           acknowledge
           or
           to
           obey
           their
           Judgements
           ,
           and
           all
           Sentences
           given
           by
           them
           ,
           are
           null
           and
           void
           of
           themselves
           :
           so
           that
           all
           persons
           who
           have
           been
           cast
           ,
           in
           Trials
           before
           such
           Popish
           Judges
           ,
           may
           justly
           look
           on
           their
           Pretended
           Sentences
           ,
           as
           having
           no
           more
           force
           ,
           then
           the
           Sentences
           of
           any
           private
           and
           unauthorised
           person
           whatsoever
           .
           So
           deplorable
           is
           the
           case
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           who
           are
           obliged
           to
           answer
           to
           such
           Judges
           ,
           that
           must
           in
           all
           things
           sti●●
           to
           the
           Rules
           ,
           ,
           which
           are
           set
           them
           by
           those
           Evil
           Councellours
           ,
           who
           as
           they
           raised
           them
           up
           to
           those
           Imployments
           ,
           so
           can
           turn
           them
           out
           of
           them
           at
           pleasure
           ;
           and
           who
           can
           never
           be
           esteemed
           Lawful
           Judges
           ;
           so
           that
           all
           their
           Sentences
           are
           in
           the
           Construction
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           of
           no
           Force
           and
           Efficacy
           .
           They
           have
           likewise
           disposed
           of
           all
           Military
           Imployments
           ,
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           :
           For
           tho
           the
           Laws
           have
           not
           only
           Excluded
           Papists
           ,
           from
           all
           such
           Imployments
           ,
           but
           have
           in
           particular
           ,
           Provided
           that
           they
           should
           be
           Disarmed
           ;
           yet
           they
           in
           Contempt
           of
           these
           Laws
           ,
           have
           not
           only
           armed
           the
           Papists
           ,
           but
           have
           likewise
           raised
           them
           up
           to
           the
           greatest
           Military
           Trusts
           ,
           both
           by
           Sea
           and
           Land
           ,
           and
           that
           Strangers
           as
           well
           as
           Natives
           ,
           and
           Irish
           as
           well
           as
           English
           ,
           that
           so
           by
           those
           means
           ,
           having
           rendred
           themselves
           Masters
           both
           of
           the
           affairs
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           of
           the
           Government
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           course
           of
           Justice
           ,
           and
           subjected
           them
           all
           to
           a
           Despotick
           and
           Arbitrary
           power
           ,
           they
           might
           be
           in
           a
           Capacity
           to
           maintain
           and
           Execute
           their
           wicked
           designs
           ,
           by
           the
           assistance
           of
           the
           Army
           ,
           and
           thereby
           to
           enslave
           the
           Nation
           .
        
         
           The
           dismal
           effects
           of
           this
           subversion
           of
           the
           established
           Religion
           ,
           Laws
           and
           Liberties
           in
           England
           appear
           more
           evidently
           to
           us
           ,
           by
           what
           we
           see
           done
           in
           Ireland
           :
           where
           the
           whole
           Government
           is
           put
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           Papists
           ,
           and
           where
           all
           the
           Protestant
           Inhabitants
           are
           under
           the
           daily
           fears
           of
           what
           may
           be
           justly
           apprehended
           ,
           from
           the
           Arbitrary
           Power
           which
           is
           set
           up
           there
           :
           which
           has
           made
           great
           numbers
           of
           them
           ,
           leave
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           abandon
           their
           Estates
           in
           it
           ,
           remembring
           well
           that
           Cruel
           and
           Bloody
           Massacre
           ,
           which
           fell
           out
           in
           that
           Island
           in
           the
           year
           1641.
           
        
         
           Those
           Evil
           Councellours
           have
           also
           prevailed
           with
           the
           King
           to
           declare
           in
           Scotland
           that
           he
           is
           clothed
           with
           
             Absolute
             Power
          
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           the
           Subjects
           are
           bound
           
             to
             obey
             him
             without
             Reserve
          
           :
           upon
           which
           he
           has
           assumed
           an
           Arbitrary
           Power
           both
           over
           the
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           from
           all
           which
           it
           is
           apparent
           ,
           what
           is
           to
           be
           looked
           for
           in
           England
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           matters
           are
           du●ly
           prepared
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           Those
           great
           and
           insufferable
           Oppressions
           ,
           and
           the
           open
           Contempt
           of
           all
           Law
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           apprehensions
           of
           the
           sad
           Consequences
           that
           must
           certainly
           follow
           upon
           it
           ,
           have
           put
           the
           subjects
           under
           great
           and
           just
           fears
           ;
           and
           have
           made
           them
           look
           after
           such
           lawful
           Remedies
           as
           are
           allowed
           of
           in
           all
           Nations
           :
           yet
           all
           has
           been
           without
           effect
           .
           And
           those
           Evil
           Councellors
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           make
           all
           Men
           apprehend
           ,
           the
           losse
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           Libertys
           ,
           
           Honours
           ,
           and
           Estates
           ,
           if
           they
           should
           go
           about
           to
           preserve
           themselves
           from
           this
           Oppression
           ,
           by
           Petitions
           ,
           Representations
           ,
           or
           other
           means
           authorised
           by
           Law.
           Thus
           did
           they
           proceed
           with
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Bishops
           ,
           who
           having
           offered
           a
           most
           humble
           petition
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           in
           termes
           full
           of
           Respect
           ,
           and
           not
           exceding
           the
           number
           limited
           by
           Law
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           set
           forth
           in
           short
           ,
           the
           Reasons
           ,
           for
           which
           they
           could
           not
           obey
           that
           order
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           Instigation
           of
           those
           Evil
           Councellors
           ,
           was
           sent
           them
           ,
           requiring
           them
           to
           appoint
           their
           Clergy
           to
           read
           in
           their
           Churches
           the
           Declaration
           for
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           ;
           were
           sent
           to
           prison
           and
           afterwards
           brought
           to
           a
           Triall
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           guilty
           of
           some
           enormous
           Crime
           .
           They
           were
           not
           only
           obliged
           ,
           to
           defend
           themselves
           in
           that
           pursute
           ,
           but
           to
           appear
           before
           Professed
           Papists
           ,
           who
           had
           not
           taken
           the
           Test
           and
           by
           Consequence
           were
           men
           whose
           Interest
           led
           them
           to
           condemn
           them
           :
           and
           the
           Judges
           that
           gave
           their
           opinion
           in
           their
           favours
           were
           thereupon
           turned
           out
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           it
           can
           not
           be
           pretended
           ,
           that
           any
           Kings
           ;
           how
           great
           soever
           their
           power
           has
           been
           ,
           and
           how
           Arbitrary
           and
           Despotick
           soever
           ,
           they
           have
           been
           in
           the
           exercise
           of
           it
           ,
           have
           ever
           reckoned
           it
           a
           crime
           for
           their
           Subjects
           to
           come
           ,
           in
           all
           Submission
           and
           Respect
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           due
           number
           ,
           not
           exceeding
           the
           limits
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           represent
           to
           them
           the
           Reasons
           that
           made
           it
           impossible
           for
           them
           to
           obey
           their
           orders
           .
           Those
           Evil
           Councellours
           have
           also
           treated
           a
           Peer
           of
           the
           Realm
           as
           a
           Criminall
           ,
           only
           because
           he
           said
           that
           the
           subjects
           were
           not
           bound
           to
           obey
           the
           orders
           of
           a
           Popish
           Justice
           of
           Peace
           :
           tho
           it
           is
           Evident
           ,
           that
           they
           being
           by
           Law
           rendred
           incapable
           of
           all
           such
           trusts
           ,
           no
           regard
           is
           due
           to
           their
           orders
           .
           This
           being
           the
           security
           which
           the
           people
           have
           by
           the
           Law
           for
           their
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           Honours
           and
           Estates
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           not
           to
           be
           subjected
           to
           the
           Arbitrary
           procedings
           of
           Papists
           ,
           that
           are
           contrary
           to
           Law
           ,
           put
           into
           any
           employments
           Civil
           or
           Military
           .
        
         
           Both
           Wee
           our selves
           ,
           and
           our
           Dearest
           and
           most
           Entirely
           Beloved
           Consort
           ,
           the
           Princesse
           ,
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           signify
           in
           terms
           full
           of
           respect
           ,
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           just
           and
           deep
           Regret
           which
           all
           these
           Proceedings
           have
           given
           us
           ;
           and
           in
           Compliance
           with
           his
           Majesties
           desires
           signified
           to
           us
           ,
           Wee
           Declared
           both
           by
           word
           of
           Mouth
           ,
           to
           his
           Envoy
           ,
           and
           in
           writing
           ;
           what
           our
           Thoughts
           were
           touching
           the
           Repealing
           of
           the
           
             Test
             and
             Penal
             Lawes
          
           ;
           which
           we
           did
           in
           such
           a
           manner
           ,
           that
           we
           hoped
           we
           had
           proposed
           an
           Expedient
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           Peace
           of
           those
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           a
           happy
           agreement
           among
           the
           Subjects
           of
           all
           Persuasions
           ,
           might
           have
           been
           setled
           :
           but
           those
           Evil
           Councellours
           ,
           have
           put
           such
           ill
           Constructions
           on
           these
           our
           good
           Intentions
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           alienate
           the
           King
           more
           and
           more
           from
           us
           :
           as
           if
           Wee
           had
           designed
           ,
           to
           disturb
           the
           quiet
           and
           Happiness
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           The
           last
           and
           great
           Remedy
           for
           all
           those
           Evils
           ,
           is
           
             the
             Calling
             of
             a
             Parliament
          
           ,
           for
           securing
           the
           Nation
           ,
           against
           the
           evil
           practises
           of
           those
           wicked
           Councellours
           :
           but
           this
           could
           not
           be
           yet
           compassed
           ,
           nor
           can
           it
           be
           easily
           brought
           about
           .
           For
           those
           Men
           apprehending
           ,
           that
           a
           lawful
           Parliament
           ,
           being
           once
           assembled
           ,
           they
           would
           be
           brought
           to
           an
           account
           ,
           for
           all
           their
           open
           violations
           of
           Law
           ,
           and
           for
           their
           Plots
           and
           Conspiracies
           against
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Lives
           and
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           they
           have
           endeavoured
           
           under
           the
           specious
           Pretence
           of
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           ;
           first
           to
           Sow
           divisions
           among
           Protestants
           ,
           between
           those
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           and
           the
           Dissenters
           :
           The
           design
           being
           laid
           to
           engage
           Protestants
           ,
           that
           are
           all
           equally
           concerned
           ,
           to
           preserve
           themselves
           from
           Popish
           Oppression
           ;
           into
           mutual
           quarrellings
           ;
           that
           so
           by
           these
           ,
           some
           advantages
           might
           be
           given
           to
           them
           to
           bring
           about
           their
           Designs
           ;
           and
           that
           both
           in
           the
           Election
           of
           the
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           in
           the
           Parliament
           it selfe
           .
           For
           they
           see
           well
           that
           if
           all
           Protestants
           ,
           could
           enter
           into
           a
           mutual
           good
           Understanding
           ,
           one
           with
           another
           ,
           and
           Concurre
           together
           ,
           in
           the
           preserving
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           it
           would
           not
           be
           possible
           for
           them
           to
           compasse
           their
           wicked
           ends
           .
           They
           have
           also
           required
           all
           Persons
           in
           the
           several
           Counties
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           either
           were
           in
           any
           Imployment
           ,
           or
           were
           in
           any
           Considerable
           Esteem
           ,
           to
           declare
           before
           hand
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           concur
           in
           the
           Repeal
           of
           the
           
             Test
             and
             Penal
             Laws
          
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           would
           give
           their
           voices
           in
           the
           Elections
           to
           Parliament
           ,
           only
           for
           such
           as
           would
           concurre
           in
           it
           :
           Such
           as
           would
           not
           thus
           Preingage
           themselves
           were
           turned
           out
           of
           all
           Imployments
           :
           And
           others
           who
           entred
           into
           those
           engagements
           ,
           were
           put
           in
           their
           places
           ,
           many
           of
           them
           being
           Papists
           :
           and
           contrary
           to
           the
           Charters
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           those
           Burroughs
           ,
           that
           have
           a
           Right
           to
           send
           Burgesses
           to
           Parliament
           ,
           they
           have
           ordered
           such
           Regulations
           to
           be
           made
           ,
           as
           they
           thought
           fit
           and
           necessary
           ,
           for
           assuring
           themselves
           of
           all
           the
           Members
           ,
           that
           are
           to
           be
           chosen
           by
           those
           Corporations
           :
           and
           by
           this
           means
           they
           hope
           to
           avoid
           that
           Punishment
           which
           they
           have
           Deserved
           :
           tho
           it
           is
           apparent
           ,
           that
           all
           Acts
           made
           by
           Popish
           Magistrates
           are
           null
           ,
           and
           Void
           of
           themselves
           ;
           So
           that
           no
           Parliament
           can
           be
           Lawful
           ,
           for
           which
           the
           Elections
           and
           Returns
           are
           made
           by
           Popish
           Sheriffs
           and
           Majors
           of
           Touns
           ;
           and
           Therefore
           as
           long
           as
           the
           Authority
           and
           Magistracy
           is
           in
           such
           hands
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           possible
           to
           have
           any
           Lawful
           Parliament
           .
           And
           tho
           according
           to
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           and
           Immemorial
           Custome
           ,
           all
           Elections
           of
           Parliament
           men
           ought
           to
           be
           made
           with
           an
           Entire
           Liberty
           ,
           without
           any
           sort
           of
           force
           ,
           or
           the
           requiring
           the
           Electors
           to
           choose
           such
           Persons
           as
           shall
           be
           named
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           Persons
           thus
           freely
           Elected
           ,
           ought
           to
           give
           their
           Opinions
           freely
           ,
           upon
           all
           Matters
           that
           are
           brought
           before
           them
           ,
           having
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Nation
           ever
           before
           their
           Eyes
           ,
           and
           following
           in
           all
           things
           the
           dictates
           of
           their
           Conscience
           ,
           yet
           now
           the
           People
           of
           England
           can
           not
           expect
           a
           Remedy
           from
           a
           free
           Parliament
           ,
           Legally
           Called
           and
           Chosen
           .
           But
           they
           may
           perhaps
           see
           one
           Called
           ,
           in
           which
           all
           Elections
           will
           be
           carried
           by
           Fraud
           or
           Force
           ,
           and
           which
           will
           be
           composed
           of
           such
           Persons
           ,
           of
           whom
           those
           Evil
           Councellours
           hold
           themselves
           well
           assured
           ,
           in
           which
           all
           things
           will
           be
           carried
           on
           according
           to
           their
           Direction
           and
           Interest
           ,
           without
           any
           regard
           to
           the
           Good
           or
           Happiness
           the
           Nation
           .
           Which
           may
           appear
           Evidently
           from
           this
           ,
           that
           the
           same
           Persons
           tried
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           last
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           gain
           them
           to
           Consent
           to
           the
           Repeal
           of
           the
           
             Test
             and
             Penal
             Lawes
          
           ,
           and
           procured
           that
           Parliament
           to
           be
           dissolved
           ,
           when
           they
           found
           that
           they
           could
           not
           ,
           neither
           by
           Promises
           nor
           Threatnings
           ,
           prevail
           with
           the
           Members
           to
           Comply
           with
           their
           wicked
           Designs
           .
        
         
         
           But
           to
           Crown
           all
           ,
           there
           are
           Great
           and
           Violent
           Presumptions
           ,
           inducing
           us
           to
           Beleeve
           ,
           that
           those
           Evil
           Councellours
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           carrying
           on
           of
           their
           ill
           Designs
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Gaining
           to
           themselves
           the
           more
           time
           for
           the
           Effecting
           of
           them
           ,
           for
           the
           encouraging
           of
           their
           Complices
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           discouraging
           of
           all
           Good
           Subjects
           ,
           have
           published
           that
           the
           Queen
           hath
           brought
           forth
           a
           Son
           :
           tho
           there
           have
           appeared
           both
           during
           the
           Queens
           pretended
           Bigness
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           manner
           in
           which
           the
           Birth
           was
           managed
           ,
           so
           many
           just
           and
           Visible
           grounds
           of
           suspicion
           ,
           that
           not
           only
           we
           our selves
           ,
           but
           all
           the
           good
           Subjects
           of
           those
           Kingdoms
           ,
           do
           Vehemently
           suspect
           ,
           that
           the
           pretended
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           was
           not
           born
           by
           the
           Queen
           .
           And
           it
           is
           notoriously
           known
           to
           all
           the
           world
           ,
           that
           many
           both
           doubted
           of
           the
           Queens
           Bigness
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Birth
           of
           the
           Child
           ,
           and
           yet
           there
           was
           not
           any
           one
           thing
           done
           to
           Satisfy
           them
           ,
           or
           to
           put
           an
           end
           to
           their
           Doubts
           .
        
         
           And
           since
           our
           Dearest
           and
           most
           Entirely
           Beloved
           Consort
           ,
           the
           Princesse
           ,
           and
           likewise
           we
           Our Selves
           ,
           have
           so
           great
           an
           Interest
           in
           this
           Matter
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           Right
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           world
           knows
           ,
           to
           the
           Succession
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           Since
           also
           the
           English
           did
           in
           the
           year
           1672.
           when
           the
           States
           General
           of
           the
           
             Vnited
             Provinces
          
           were
           invaded
           ,
           in
           a
           most
           unjust
           warre
           ,
           use
           their
           utmost
           Endeavours
           to
           put
           an
           end
           to
           that
           Warre
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           opposition
           to
           those
           who
           were
           then
           in
           the
           Government
           :
           and
           by
           their
           so
           doing
           ,
           they
           run
           the
           hazard
           ,
           of
           losing
           both
           the
           favour
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           and
           their
           Imployments
           ;
           And
           since
           the
           English
           Nation
           has
           ever
           testified
           a
           most
           particular
           Affection
           and
           Esteem
           ,
           both
           to
           our
           Dearest
           Consort
           the
           Princesse
           ,
           and
           to
           Our selves
           ,
           Wee
           cannot
           excuse
           our selves
           from
           espousing
           their
           Interests
           ,
           in
           a
           matter
           of
           such
           high
           Consequence
           ,
           and
           from
           Contributing
           all
           that
           lies
           in
           us
           ,
           for
           the
           Maintaining
           both
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Laws
           and
           Liberties
           of
           those
           Kingdomes
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           Securing
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           Continual
           Enjoyment
           of
           all
           their
           just
           Rights
           .
           To
           the
           doing
           of
           which
           ,
           wee
           are
           most
           Earnestly
           Solicited
           by
           a
           Great
           many
           Lords
           ,
           both
           Spirituall
           and
           Temporall
           ,
           and
           by
           many
           Gentlemen
           and
           other
           subjects
           of
           all
           Ranks
           .
        
         
           THEREFORE
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           wee
           have
           thought
           fit
           ,
           to
           goe
           over
           to
           England
           ,
           and
           to
           Carry
           over
           with
           us
           a
           force
           ,
           sufficient
           by
           the
           blessing
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           defend
           us
           from
           the
           Violence
           of
           those
           Evill
           Councellours
           .
           AND
           ,
           WEE
           being
           desirous
           that
           our
           Intentions
           in
           this
           ,
           may
           be
           Rightly
           Understood
           ,
           have
           for
           this
           end
           prepared
           this
           Declaration
           ,
           in
           which
           as
           wee
           have
           hitherto
           given
           a
           True
           Account
           of
           the
           Reasons
           Inducing
           us
           to
           it
           ,
           So
           wee
           now
           think
           fit
           to
           DECLARE
           that
           this
           our
           Expedition
           ,
           is
           intended
           for
           no
           other
           Designe
           ,
           but
           to
           have
           a
           free
           and
           lawfull
           Parliament
           assembled
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           is
           possible
           :
           and
           that
           in
           order
           to
           this
           ,
           all
           the
           late
           Charters
           by
           which
           the
           Elections
           of
           Burgesses
           are
           limited
           contrary
           to
           the
           Ancient
           custome
           ,
           shall
           be
           considered
           as
           null
           and
           of
           no
           force
           :
           and
           likewise
           all
           Magistrates
           who
           have
           been
           Injustly
           turned
           out
           ,
           shall
           forthwith
           resume
           their
           former
           Imployments
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           all
           the
           Borroughs
           of
           England
           shall
           return
           again
           to
           their
           Antient
           Prescriptions
           and
           Charters
           :
           And
           more
           particularly
           that
           the
           Antient
           Charter
           of
           the
           Great
           and
           Famous
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           shall
           again
           be
           in
           Force
           :
           and
           that
           the
           Writts
           for
           the
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           shall
           be
           addressed
           to
           the
           Proper
           Officers
           ,
           according
           to
           Law
           and
           
           Custome
           .
           That
           also
           none
           be
           suffered
           to
           choose
           or
           to
           be
           chosen
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           but
           such
           as
           are
           qualified
           by
           Law
           :
           And
           that
           the
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           being
           thus
           lawfully
           chosen
           they
           shall
           meet
           and
           sit
           in
           Full
           Freedome
           ;
           That
           so
           the
           Two
           Houses
           may
           concurre
           in
           the
           preparing
           of
           such
           Lawes
           ,
           as
           they
           upon
           full
           and
           free
           debate
           ,
           shall
           Judge
           necessary
           and
           convenient
           ,
           both
           for
           the
           confirming
           and
           executing
           the
           Law
           concerning
           the
           Test
           and
           such
           other
           Lawes
           as
           are
           necessary
           for
           the
           Security
           and
           Maintenance
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ;
           as
           likewise
           for
           making
           such
           Lawes
           as
           may
           establish
           a
           good
           aggrement
           between
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           all
           Protestant
           Dissenters
           ,
           as
           also
           for
           the
           covering
           and
           securing
           of
           all
           such
           ,
           who
           will
           live
           Peaceably
           under
           the
           Government
           as
           becomes
           g●od
           Subjects
           ,
           from
           all
           Persecution
           upon
           the
           account
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           even
           Papists
           themselves
           not
           excepted
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           doing
           of
           all
           other
           things
           ,
           which
           the
           Two
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           shall
           find
           necessary
           for
           the
           Peace
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           and
           Safety
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           so
           that
           there
           may
           be
           no
           more
           danger
           of
           the
           Nations
           salling
           at
           any
           time
           hereafter
           ,
           under
           
             Arbitrary
             Government
          
           .
           To
           this
           Parliament
           wee
           will
           also
           referre
           the
           Enquiry
           into
           the
           birth
           of
           the
           Pretended
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           things
           relating
           to
           it
           and
           to
           the
           Right
           of
           Succession
           .
        
         
           And
           Wee
           for
           our
           part
           will
           concurre
           in
           every
           thing
           ,
           that
           may
           procure
           the
           Peace
           and
           Happines
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           which
           a
           Free
           and
           Lawfull
           Parliament
           shall
           determine
           ;
           Since
           wee
           have
           nothing
           before
           our
           eyes
           in
           this
           our
           undertaking
           ,
           but
           the
           Preservation
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           the
           Covering
           of
           all
           men
           from
           Persecution
           for
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           the
           Securing
           to
           the
           whole
           Nation
           the
           free
           enjoyment
           of
           all
           their
           Lawes
           ,
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           under
           a
           Just
           and
           Legall
           Government
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           the
           designe
           ,
           that
           wee
           have
           Proposed
           to
           our selves
           ,
           in
           appearing
           upon
           this
           occasion
           in
           Armes
           :
           In
           the
           Conduct
           of
           which
           ,
           Wee
           will
           keep
           the
           Forces
           under
           our
           Command
           ,
           under
           all
           the
           Strictnes
           of
           Martiall
           Discipline
           :
           and
           take
           a
           speciall
           Care
           ,
           that
           the
           People
           of
           the
           Countries
           thro
           which
           wee
           must
           march
           ,
           shall
           not
           suffer
           by
           their
           means
           :
           and
           as
           soon
           as
           the
           State
           of
           the
           Nation
           will
           admit
           of
           it
           ,
           Wee
           promise
           that
           we
           will
           send
           back
           all
           those
           Forreigne
           Forces
           ,
           that
           wee
           have
           brought
           along
           with
           us
           .
        
         
           Wee
           doe
           therefore
           hope
           that
           all
           People
           will
           judge
           rightly
           of
           us
           ,
           and
           approve
           of
           these
           our
           Proceedings
           :
           But
           wee
           chiefly
           rely
           on
           the
           blessing
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           the
           successe
           of
           this
           our
           undertaking
           ,
           in
           which
           Wee
           place
           our
           whole
           and
           only
           Confidence
           .
        
         
           Wee
           do
           in
           the
           last
           place
           invite
           and
           require
           all
           Persons
           whatsoever
           ,
           All
           the
           Peers
           of
           the
           Realme
           ,
           both
           Spirituall
           and
           Temporall
           ,
           all
           Lords
           Lieutenants
           ,
           Deputy
           Lieutenants
           ,
           and
           all
           Gentlemen
           ,
           Citisens
           and
           other
           Commons
           of
           all
           ranks
           ,
           to
           come
           and
           assist
           us
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Executing
           of
           this
           our
           Designe
           ;
           against
           all
           such
           as
           shall
           Endeavour
           to
           Oppose
           us
           ;
           that
           so
           wee
           may
           prevent
           all
           those
           Miseries
           ,
           which
           must
           needs
           follow
           upon
           the
           Nations
           being
           〈◊〉
           vnder
           Arbitrary
           Government
           and
           Slavery
           :
           And
           that
           all
           the
           Viole●ces
           and
           disorders
           ,
           which
           have
           overturned
           the
           whole
           Constitution
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           may
           be
           fully
           redressed
           ,
           in
           a
           FREE
           AND
           LEGALL
           PARLIAMENT
           .
        
         
         
           And
           Wee
           do
           likewise
           resolve
           that
           as
           soon
           as
           the
           Nations
           are
           brought
           to
           a
           state
           of
           Quiet
           Wee
           will
           take
           care
           that
           a
           Parliament
           shall
           be
           called
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           for
           the
           restoring
           the
           Ancient
           Constitution
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           for
           bringing
           the
           Matters
           of
           Religion
           to
           such
           a
           Settlement
           ,
           that
           the
           People
           may
           live
           easy
           and
           happy
           ,
           and
           for
           putting
           an
           end
           to
           all
           the
           Injust
           Violences
           ,
           that
           have
           been
           in
           a
           course
           of
           so
           many
           years
           Committed
           there
           .
        
         
           We
           will
           also
           study
           to
           bring
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Ireland
           to
           such
           a
           State
           ,
           that
           the
           Settlement
           there
           may
           be
           Religiously
           observed
           :
           and
           that
           the
           Protestant
           and
           British
           Interest
           there
           ,
           may
           be
           secured
           .
           And
           we
           will
           endeavour
           by
           all
           possible
           means
           ,
           to
           procure
           such
           an
           establishment
           in
           all
           the
           Three
           Kingdoms
           that
           they
           may
           all
           live
           in
           a
           happy
           Union
           and
           Correspondence
           together
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Peace
           ,
           Honour
           ,
           and
           Happiness
           of
           those
           Nations
           ,
           may
           be
           established
           upon
           lasting
           Foundations
           .
        
         
           
             Given
             under
             our
             Hand
             and
             Seal
             ,
             at
             our
             Court
             in
             the
             Hague
             ,
             
               the
               Tenth
               day
               of
               October
               in
               the
               year
               of
               our
               Lord
               1688.
               
            
          
           
             WILLIAM
             HENRY
             ,
             PRINCE
             OF
             ORANGE
             ▪
             By
             his
             Highnesses
             special
             Command
             .
             C
             :
             HUYGENS.
             
          
        
      
       
         
           THus
           you
           have
           an
           exact
           and
           full
           Account
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Declaration
           :
           And
           can
           you
           find
           one
           word
           of
           a
           Treaty
           with
           France
           ,
           to
           extirpate
           all
           Protestants
           ?
           Or
           can
           you
           imagine
           that
           if
           they
           had
           the
           least
           reason
           for
           such
           a
           Talk
           ,
           they
           who
           aggravate
           every
           little
           thing
           ,
           would
           let
           this
           Declaration
           pass
           without
           the
           least
           mentioning
           of
           what
           is
           so
           momentous
           and
           important
           ?
           And
           is
           there
           any
           thing
           more
           than
           a
           Violent
           Presumption
           suggested
           about
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ?
           And
           is
           the
           very
           Noise
           of
           such
           a
           Presumption
           reason
           enough
           to
           justifie
           a
           real
           War
           ?
           As
           for
           the
           other
           things
           urg'd
           ,
           are
           they
           not
           Redressable
           by
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           so
           far
           as
           it
           's
           possible
           without
           one
           already
           Redressed
           ?
           'T
           is
           a
           Parliament
           then
           that
           is
           the
           main
           thing
           to
           be
           insisted
           on
           ,
           which
           ,
           though
           Chosen
           as
           the
           last
           was
           ,
           would
           be
           too
           feeble
           an
           Argument
           to
           clear
           the
           present
           Invasion
           from
           the
           charge
           of
           being
           Injust
           and
           Unrighteous
           .
        
         
           The
           Great
           Men
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ever
           thought
           a
           Parliament
           Irregularly
           chosen
           more
           eligible
           than
           either
           a
           War
           ,
           or
           a
           rash
           Enquiry
           into
           the
           manner
           of
           the
           choise
           .
           Did
           Queen
           
           Elizabeth's
           Parliament
           admit
           of
           a
           Words
           being
           spoken
           to
           bring
           Queen
           
           Mary's
           Parliament
           into
           doubt
           ?
           Did
           they
           not
           look
           on
           it
           as
           most
           dangerous
           to
           do
           so
           ?
           And
           although
           by
           the
           Triennial
           Bill
           the
           long
           Parliament
           in
           the
           late
           Kings
           Reign
           ,
           was
           actually
           dissolved
           Nine
           Months
           before
           it
           thought
           on
           the
           Repeal
           thereof
           ,
           yet
           even
           after
           't
           was
           destroy'd
           
           by
           it
           ,
           the
           Dissolved
           Parliament
           sate
           and
           repealed
           the
           Dissolving
           Bill
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           Conventicle-Act
           ,
           the
           Test-Laws
           ,
           repealed
           the
           Writ
           
             De
             Haeretico
             Comburendo
          
           ,
           and
           pass'd
           the
           
             Habeas
             Corpus
          
           Bill
           into
           a
           Law.
           But
           was
           the
           Assembly
           that
           Acted
           thus
           Irregularly
           ,
           ever
           call'd
           to
           an
           Account
           for
           it
           ,
           or
           any
           of
           their
           Laws
           declared
           Void
           and
           Null
           ?
           Or
           was
           it
           ever
           esteemed
           a
           Good
           Reason
           for
           a
           War
           ?
           And
           yet
           this
           is
           much
           more
           than
           hath
           been
           ever
           done
           by
           His
           Present
           Majesty
           .
           Besides
           ,
           't
           was
           the
           late
           King
           that
           took
           away
           the
           Charters
           ,
           and
           those
           ,
           who
           were
           entring
           on
           Violent
           Courses
           for
           their
           Restauration
           ,
           were
           proclaimed
           Traytors
           ,
           and
           several
           executed
           for
           it
           ,
           whilst
           all
           the
           Pulpits
           throughout
           England
           sounded
           of
           the
           Horridness
           ,
           Blackness
           ,
           Vileness
           ,
           Devilishness
           of
           that
           Conspiracy
           ;
           And
           is
           what
           was
           Black
           and
           Horrid
           then
           ,
           become
           Noble
           ,
           Great
           ,
           Generous
           ,
           and
           Glorious
           now
           ?
        
         
           Thus
           much
           was
           also
           a
           part
           of
           the
           late
           Duke
           of
           
           Monmouth's
           Declaration
           ,
           and
           yet
           a
           Parliament
           chosen
           by
           the
           Garbled
           Corporations
           proclaim'd
           him
           a
           Traitor
           ,
           and
           Attainted
           him
           ;
           But
           doth
           the
           Blood
           of
           Monmouth
           as
           well
           as
           of
           the
           forementioned
           Conspirators
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           those
           in
           the
           West
           lye
           on
           the
           Iudges
           ,
           Iuries
           ,
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           other
           Gentry
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           that
           had
           a
           hand
           in
           condemning
           such
           as
           by
           violent
           Methods
           would
           have
           restor'd
           the
           Charters
           .
           If
           these
           things
           could
           not
           vindicate
           the
           Presbyterian
           Plotters
           in
           the
           late
           King's
           Reign
           ,
           or
           
           Monmouth's
           Rebellion
           ,
           it
           cannot
           excuse
           the
           present
           Undertaking
           ,
           for
           this
           doth
           infinitely
           exceed
           these
           ,
           and
           the
           late
           Civil
           War
           too
           ,
           for
           neither
           of
           them
           brought
           in
           a
           Foreign
           Power
           upon
           us
           as
           now
           is
           done
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           must
           be
           observed
           ,
           that
           how
           great
           soever
           our
           Grievances
           have
           been
           ,
           yet
           now
           ,
           all
           that
           Relief
           can
           reasonably
           be
           desired
           is
           granted
           us
           .
           The
           Ecclesiastical
           Commission
           actually
           broken
           up
           ,
           the
           Bishop
           of
           London
           ,
           the
           Master
           and
           Fellows
           of
           Magdalen
           Colledge
           ,
           and
           the
           Ancient
           Charters
           of
           Cities
           and
           Burroughs
           actually
           restored
           ,
           all
           things
           on
           the
           ancient
           Bottom
           ,
           for
           the
           Calling
           a
           Free
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           His
           Majesty
           would
           have
           done
           before
           this
           time
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           hindred
           him
           ,
           and
           as
           soon
           as
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           departs
           the
           King
           will
           call
           one
           ,
           whereby
           all
           the
           Prince's
           Pretensions
           are
           taken
           away
           ,
           and
           nothing
           more
           remains
           for
           him
           to
           do
           ,
           but
           to
           return
           home
           ,
           or
           contend
           for
           the
           Crown
           .
        
         
           Yet
           the
           Prince
           would
           have
           us
           believe
           ,
           that
           though
           he
           is
           not
           satisfied
           with
           this
           ,
           yet
           he
           intends
           no
           such
           thing
           as
           the
           Crown
           ,
           or
           a
           Conquest
           of
           us
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           his
           Highnesses
           Additional
           Declaration
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           His
           Highnesses
           Additional
           Declaration
           .
        
         
           AFter
           we
           had
           prepared
           and
           printed
           this
           our
           Declaration
           ,
           wee
           have
           understood
           ,
           that
           the
           subverters
           of
           the
           Religion
           and
           Lawes
           of
           those
           Kingdomes
           ,
           hearing
           of
           our
           preparations
           ,
           to
           assist
           the
           People
           against
           them
           ,
           have
           begun
           to
           retract
           some
           of
           the
           Arbitrary
           and
           Despotick
           powers
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           assumed
           ,
           and
           to
           vacate
           some
           of
           their
           Injust
           Judgments
           and
           Decrees
           .
           The
           sense
           of
           their
           Guilt
           ,
           and
           the
           distrust
           of
           their
           force
           ,
           have
           induced
           them
           to
           offer
           to
           the
           City
           of
           London
           some
           seeming
           releefe
           from
           their
           Great
           Oppressions
           :
           hoping
           thereby
           to
           quiet
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           to
           divert
           them
           from
           demanding
           a
           Re-establishment
           of
           their
           Religion
           and
           Laws
           under
           the
           shelter
           of
           our
           Arms
           :
           They
           do
           also
           give
           out
           ,
           that
           we
           do
           intend
           to
           Conquer
           and
           Enslave
           the
           Nation
           ,
           And
           therefore
           it
           is
           that
           we
           have
           thought
           fit
           to
           adde
           a
           few
           words
           to
           our
           Declaration
           .
        
         
           We
           are
           Confident
           ,
           that
           no
           persons
           can
           have
           such
           hard
           thoughts
           of
           us
           ,
           as
           to
           imagine
           that
           we
           have
           any
           other
           Designe
           in
           this
           Undertaking
           ,
           then
           to
           procure
           a
           settlement
           of
           the
           Religion
           and
           of
           the
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           of
           the
           subjects
           upon
           so
           sure
           a
           Foundation
           ,
           that
           there
           may
           be
           no
           danger
           of
           the
           Nations
           relapsing
           into
           the
           like
           miseries
           at
           any
           time
           hereafter
           .
           And
           as
           the
           forces
           that
           we
           have
           brought
           along
           with
           us
           ,
           are
           utterly
           disproportioned
           to
           that
           wicked
           Design
           of
           Conquering
           the
           Nation
           ,
           if
           wee
           were
           capable
           of
           Intending
           it
           ,
           so
           the
           Great
           Numbers
           of
           the
           Principal
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           that
           are
           Men
           of
           Eminent
           Quality
           and
           Estates
           ,
           and
           persons
           of
           known
           Integrity
           and
           Zeal
           both
           for
           the
           Religion
           and
           Government
           of
           England
           ,
           many
           of
           them
           being
           also
           distinguished
           by
           their
           Constant
           fidelity
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           who
           do
           both
           accompany
           us
           in
           this
           Expedition
           ,
           and
           have
           earnestly
           solicited
           us
           to
           it
           ,
           will
           cover
           us
           from
           all
           such
           Malicious
           Insinuations
           :
           For
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           imagined
           ,
           that
           either
           those
           who
           have
           Invited
           us
           ,
           or
           those
           that
           are
           already
           come
           to
           assist
           us
           ,
           can
           joyn
           in
           a
           wicked
           attempt
           of
           Conquest
           ,
           to
           make
           void
           their
           own
           lawful
           Titles
           to
           their
           Honours
           ,
           Estates
           and
           Interests
           :
           Wee
           are
           also
           Confident
           that
           all
           men
           see
           how
           little
           weight
           there
           is
           to
           be
           laid
           ,
           on
           all
           Promises
           and
           Engagements
           that
           can
           be
           now
           made
           :
           since
           there
           has
           been
           so
           little
           regard
           had
           in
           time
           past
           ,
           to
           the
           most
           solemne
           Promises
           .
           And
           as
           that
           Imperfeit
           redresse
           that
           is
           now
           offered
           ,
           is
           a
           plain
           Confession
           of
           those
           Violations
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           that
           we
           have
           set
           forth
           ,
           so
           the
           Defectiveness
           of
           it
           is
           no
           lesse
           Apparent
           :
           for
           they
           lay
           down
           nothing
           which
           they
           may
           not
           take
           up
           at
           Pleasure
           :
           and
           they
           reserve
           entire
           and
           not
           so
           much
           as
           mentioned
           ,
           their
           claimes
           and
           pretences
           to
           an
           Arbitrary
           and
           Despotick
           power
           ;
           which
           has
           been
           the
           root
           of
           all
           their
           Oppression
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           total
           subversion
           of
           the
           Government
           .
           And
           it
           is
           plain
           ,
           that
           there
           can
           be
           no
           redresse
           nor
           Remedy
           offered
           but
           in
           Parliament
           :
           by
           a
           Declaration
           of
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Subjects
           that
           have
           been
           invaded
           :
           and
           not
           by
           any
           Pretended
           
           Acts
           of
           Grace
           ,
           to
           which
           the
           extremity
           of
           their
           affairs
           has
           driven
           them
           .
           Therefore
           it
           is
           that
           we
           have
           thought
           fit
           to
           declare
           ,
           that
           we
           will
           refer
           all
           to
           a
           Free
           Assembly
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           in
           a
           Lawful
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           
             Given
             under
             our
             Hand
             and
             Seal
             ,
             at
             our
             Court
             in
             the
             Hague
             ,
             
               the
               24.
               day
               of
               October
               in
               the
               year
               of
               our
               Lord
               1688.
               
            
          
           
             WILLIAM
             HENRY
             ,
             PRINCE
             OF
             ORANGE
             ▪
             By
             his
             Highnesses
             special
             Command
             .
             C
             :
             HUYGENS.
             
          
        
      
       
         
           THis
           Addition
           doth
           very
           fully
           unfold
           the
           Design
           ,
           the
           Prince
           will
           abide
           amongst
           us
           with
           a
           Foreign
           Power
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           Choice
           of
           a
           Parliament
           impracticable
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           Call
           of
           one
           a
           weak
           and
           foolish
           thing
           ,
           and
           yet
           oblige
           us
           to
           distrust
           every
           Promise
           the
           King
           makes
           us
           ,
           lesning
           what
           is
           done
           ,
           and
           insinuating
           that
           all
           things
           shall
           be
           soon
           undone
           .
           And
           why
           all
           these
           Insinuations
           ,
           but
           to
           help
           us
           to
           Unravel
           the
           whole
           Intreague
           ,
           which
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           not
           for
           the
           Crown
           ,
           must
           be
           thus
           .
           The
           Dutch
           knowing
           how
           the
           Prince
           hath
           ravished
           from
           them
           their
           Liberties
           and
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           what
           danger
           they
           are
           in
           of
           being
           utterly
           undone
           ,
           if
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           be
           settled
           amongst
           us
           in
           England
           ,
           Precipitate
           the
           Prince
           on
           this
           Hazardous
           Undertaking
           ,
           not
           doubting
           but
           they
           shall
           be
           either
           delivered
           from
           the
           Princes
           Exercise
           of
           a
           Despotick
           Power
           over
           them
           ,
           or
           spoil
           our
           Liberty
           ,
           to
           the
           Continuance
           and
           Advance
           of
           their
           own
           Trade
           ;
           which
           may
           be
           the
           Reason
           why
           in
           the
           Entrance
           into
           the
           Declaration
           ,
           what
           relates
           to
           Religion
           is
           so
           worded
           as
           to
           gain
           the
           Bishops
           over
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           more
           e●sily
           to
           effect
           their
           Design
           ,
           for
           says
           the
           Declaration
           ,
           the
           Alteration
           of
           Religion
           is
           endeavoured
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           Religion
           which
           is
           contrary
           to
           Law
           is
           endeavoured
           to
           be
           introduced
           ;
           it
           is
           not
           said
           ,
           that
           the
           Popish
           Religion
           ,
           but
           a
           Religion
           contrary
           to
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           ,
           it
           's
           well
           known
           ,
           that
           the
           Laws
           are
           against
           the
           Religion
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           the
           Prince's
           Endeavour
           shall
           be
           to
           preserve
           and
           maintain
           above
           all
           the
           Religion
           and
           
             Worship
             of
             God
             ,
             that
             is
             Established
             amongst
             us
             ,
          
           which
           cannot
           be
           understood
           of
           the
           Worship
           the
           Dissenters
           use
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           Hierarchical
           way
           ,
           that
           is
           as
           contrary
           to
           the
           Prince's
           own
           Religion
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           to
           that
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           in
           England
           .
           And
           to
           perswade
           the
           Church
           men
           to
           close
           with
           him
           ,
           he
           Declares
           ,
           That
           he
           was
           most
           earnestly
           solicited
           to
           come
           over
           by
           the
           
             Lords
             Spiritual
          
           ,
           not
           doubting
           ,
           but
           that
           ,
           if
           the
           Belief
           thereof
           prevail
           amongst
           the
           Mobile
           ,
           they
           'll
           be
           all
           of
           an
           Opinion
           that
           the
           Prince's
           Grounds
           are
           most
           Iust
           and
           
           Reasonable
           ,
           so
           that
           though
           it
           cannot
           be
           made
           out
           by
           any
           thing
           particularly
           known
           ,
           yet
           this
           general
           carrying
           a
           thousand
           unheard-of
           Arguments
           in
           its
           Bowels
           cannot
           fail
           of
           success
           .
        
         
           But
           what
           if
           this
           prove
           not
           True
           ?
           May
           we
           afterwards
           venture
           to
           believe
           his
           Highness
           in
           any
           thing
           ,
           which
           under
           a
           violent
           Temptation
           ,
           he
           may
           be
           ,
           as
           now
           ,
           moved
           to
           declare
           ?
           The
           Prince
           insists
           on
           it
           ,
           That
           many
           of
           the
           Lords
           Spiritual
           did
           most
           earnestly
           sollicite
           him
           to
           Invade
           us
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           Lords
           Spiritual
           do
           not
           only
           declare
           ,
           That
           they
           look
           on
           this
           Invasion
           to
           be
           sinful
           ,
           but
           ,
           that
           they
           never
           sollicited
           his
           coming
           ;
           And
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           acknowledged
           ,
           That
           they
           could
           do
           no
           such
           thing
           without
           acting
           most
           contrary
           to
           their
           Avowed
           Principles
           ,
           and
           contrary
           to
           most
           solemn
           Oaths
           ,
           and
           Declarations
           ;
           and
           Men
           should
           take
           heed
           ,
           how
           they
           receive
           this
           Report
           against
           the
           
             Right
             Reverend
             Bishops
          
           ;
           the
           Design
           in
           which
           they
           are
           said
           to
           Embarque
           being
           founded
           on
           that
           very
           Principle
           ,
           in
           pursuance
           of
           which
           the
           Head
           of
           Charles
           the
           Blessed
           Martyr
           was
           brought
           to
           the
           Block
           ;
           and
           Embarque
           they
           cannot
           ,
           but
           by
           joyning
           with
           a
           Foreign
           Army
           ,
           the
           chief
           part
           of
           which
           is
           made
           up
           of
           those
           who
           though
           they
           would
           willingly
           enough
           ensnare
           our
           Bishops
           ,
           cannot
           be
           reasonably
           supposed
           to
           be
           true
           in
           the
           promises
           they
           make
           about
           supporting
           their
           Hierarchical
           Grandeur
           ;
           the
           utmost
           they
           must
           expect
           in
           the
           long-run
           can
           be
           no
           more
           than
           a
           turning
           their
           Lands
           into
           Money
           ,
           that
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           their
           dependance
           on
           the
           Government
           may
           be
           the
           more
           effectually
           secured
           ,
           in
           stead
           of
           their
           present
           Lands
           ,
           Leases
           ,
           &c.
           they
           may
           have
           an
           Yearly
           Salary
           answerable
           to
           their
           worth
           and
           desert
           ,
           which
           as
           't
           will
           be
           uncertain
           ,
           so
           it
           cannot
           be
           hop'd
           that
           its
           utmost
           heighth
           shall
           arise
           to
           the
           State
           and
           Degree
           of
           a
           Baron
           ,
           for
           Baronies
           go
           with
           their
           Lands
           .
           By
           this
           you
           may
           see
           ,
           how
           unlikely
           any
           sort
           of
           Englishmen
           should
           by
           this
           Invasion
           gain
           any
           thing
           but
           Misery
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           ANIMADVERSIONS
           UPON
           THE
           DECLARATION
           OF
           HIS
           HIGHNESS
           The
           PRINCE
           of
           ORANGE
           .
        
         
           THE
           Great
           Preparations
           for
           War
           in
           Holland
           ,
           were
           long
           talk'd
           of
           here
           as
           very
           unconcerning
           News
           .
           Besides
           the
           perpetual
           assurances
           of
           their
           Embassador
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           not
           designed
           this
           way
           ,
           every
           body
           knew
           the
           Influence
           which
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           has
           upon
           that
           Country
           ;
           and
           it
           could
           not
           sink
           into
           their
           Heads
           ,
           that
           He
           ,
           who
           was
           Born
           of
           one
           Daughter
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           Married
           to
           another
           ,
           would
           ever
           suffer
           the
           Peace
           of
           a
           Country
           to
           be
           disturbed
           ,
           for
           which
           Nature
           Sollicited
           a
           Feeling
           Tenderness
           .
           Even
           they
           who
           reflected
           ,
           that
           Politicks
           sometimes
           sway
           more
           than
           Nature
           ,
           as
           possible
           as
           they
           thought
           it
           that
           he
           might
           be
           moved
           to
           suffer
           it
           to
           be
           done
           by
           some
           body
           ,
           in
           whom
           it
           would
           shew
           less
           Shocking
           ,
           thought
           it
           absolutely
           impossible
           he
           should
           ever
           be
           moved
           to
           bring
           Fire
           and
           Sword
           into
           England
           himself
           ,
           and
           Personally
           Fight
           against
           his
           Father-in-Law
           ,
           and
           Uncle
           .
           When
           we
           found
           our
           incredulity
           had
           deceived
           us
           ,
           we
           cast
           about
           to
           discover
           what
           unsufferable
           Provocations
           he
           had
           receiv'd
           ,
           what
           Injuries
           beyond
           Satisfaction
           ,
           what
           Affronts
           to
           be
           Reveng'd
           with
           no
           less
           than
           the
           Ruin
           of
           a
           Nation
           ;
           in
           fine
           ,
           what
           just
           cause
           of
           War
           there
           could
           be
           .
           And
           we
           impatiently
           waited
           for
           the
           Declaration
           of
           his
           Highness
           ,
           in
           which
           we
           expected
           to
           find
           all
           this
           .
           Now
           it
           is
           come
           ,
           we
           are
           more
           at
           a
           loss
           than
           before
           .
           War
           must
           shed
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Blood
           ;
           make
           numberless
           Widows
           and
           Orphans
           ,
           whose
           Tears
           will
           go
           up
           to
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           Cries
           be
           heard
           ;
           Desolate
           the
           Nation
           ;
           change
           our
           Plenty
           into
           Beggary
           ;
           and
           bring
           a
           Thousand
           Calamities
           .
           This
           Blood
           ,
           and
           these
           Miseries
           will
           one
           Day
           be
           required
           from
           the
           Authors
           .
           And
           we
           perceive
           nothing
           in
           the
           World
           to
           justifie
           all
           this
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           Stories
           which
           we
           hear
           from
           those
           who
           make
           
           it
           their
           business
           to
           Slander
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           Incense
           the
           People
           ,
           of
           whom
           there
           are
           too
           many
           in
           every
           Nation
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           we
           little
           thought
           his
           Highness
           would
           have
           afforded
           the
           Countenance
           of
           his
           Name
           .
           Since
           he
           has
           thought
           fit
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           I
           shall
           ,
           in
           respect
           ,
           forbear
           to
           Contest
           it
           with
           his
           Highness
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           I
           perceive
           he
           is
           Misinformed
           ,
           farther
           than
           is
           just
           necessary
           for
           our
           own
           Resolutions
           and
           Actions
           .
           His
           Declaration
           Sollicits
           us
           to
           joyn
           with
           his
           Arms
           ,
           and
           I
           conceive
           we
           ought
           to
           be
           very
           well
           assured
           the
           Reasons
           offer'd
           will
           justifie
           us
           to
           God
           and
           Man
           ,
           before
           we
           break
           our
           Natural
           and
           Sworn
           Allegeance
           ,
           and
           forfeit
           our
           Honour
           in
           this
           World
           ,
           and
           Interest
           in
           the
           next
           ,
           by
           Deserting
           ,
           or
           Fighting
           against
           our
           King
           ,
           and
           Gods
           Anointed
           ,
           before
           we
           tear
           out
           the
           Bowels
           of
           Our
           Mother
           Country
           with
           our
           own
           Hands
           ,
           and
           do
           things
           for
           which
           his
           Highness
           himself
           shall
           always
           think
           us
           ,
           and
           if
           he
           prevail
           ,
           one
           day
           Treat
           us
           as
           Traytors
           and
           Rebels
           .
           For
           a
           Traytor
           is
           sure
           to
           be
           hated
           ,
           even
           by
           him
           who
           loves
           the
           Treason
           .
        
         
           The
           Declaration
           begins
           with
           telling
           us
           ,
           That
           
             the
             Publick
             Peace
             cannot
             be
             preserved
             ,
             where
             the
             Laws
             are
             openly
             Transgressed
             ,
             and
             a
             Religion
             contrary
             to
             Law
             endeavoured
             to
             be
             intr●du●ed
             .
          
           And
           that
           
             th●se
             who
             are
             most
             immediately
             concerned
             ,
             are
             indispensably
             bound
             to
             preserve
             them
             .
          
           This
           may
           be
           as
           true
           as
           it
           will
           for
           any
           concern
           which
           England
           or
           his
           Highness
           has
           in
           it
           .
           England
           ,
           whatever
           be
           ,
           is
           not
           the
           Country
           in
           which
           these
           things
           are
           done
           .
           The
           ●xecution
           indeed
           of
           some
           Laws
           is
           Suspended
           ,
           Laws
           it
           seems
           not
           necessary
           to
           the
           Publick
           Peace
           ,
           since
           the
           Declaration
           inform
           us
           ,
           his
           Highness
           intends
           they
           should
           be
           taken
           away●
           ;
           And
           this
           Suspension
           ,
           by
           those
           who
           should
           know
           ,
           is
           thought
           to
           be
           warranted
           ,
           not
           forbidden
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           his
           Highness
           ,
           I
           fancy
           ,
           would
           be
           of
           their
           Opinion
           himself
           ,
           if
           the
           case
           were
           his
           own
           .
           Happy
           we
           ,
           if
           nothing
           would
           subvert
           our
           Peace
           ,
           and
           transgress
           our
           Laws
           more
           than
           this
           Suspension
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           make
           these
           things
           the
           Ground
           of
           an
           Invasion
           ,
           which
           must
           intirely
           subvert
           our
           Peace
           ,
           and
           ,
           if
           it
           prevail
           ,
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           leave
           us
           none
           ,
           but
           at
           the
           Mercy
           of
           an
           Arbitrary
           Sword
           ;
           which
           cannot
           begin
           without
           notoriously
           transgressing
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           and
           Nations
           ;
           nor
           be
           abetted
           without
           undisguisable
           transgressing
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ;
           has
           palpably
           some
           other
           aim
           ,
           than
           the
           care
           of
           our
           Peace
           and
           Laws
           .
        
         
           What
           endeavours
           to
           introduce
           Popery
           his
           Highness
           means
           ,
           I
           cannot
           tell
           .
           The
           King
           ,
           to
           my
           thinking
           ,
           has
           bounded
           his
           Favour
           to
           that
           Religion
           ,
           with
           the
           single
           desire
           of
           seeing
           his
           Papist
           Subjects
           in
           the
           same
           condition
           with
           the
           rest
           ,
           and
           is
           pleas'd
           to
           bate
           even
           of
           that
           .
           Had
           he
           design'd
           to
           introduce
           their
           Religion
           ,
           he
           would
           certainly
           never
           have
           made
           it
           impossible
           to
           be
           introduc't
           .
           For
           an
           Universal
           Liberty
           unites
           the
           interest
           of
           every
           Religion
           ,
           against
           the
           prevailing
           of
           any
           one
           ,
           and
           Excludes
           Popery
           from
           all
           hopes
           of
           ever
           Domineering
           in
           England
           .
           But
           let
           the
           designs
           of
           Papists
           be
           never
           so
           Irreligious
           ,
           booted
           Missionaries
           ,
           I
           take
           it
           ,
           are
           no
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Gospel
           in
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           bare
           endeavours
           to
           do
           b●d
           Actions
           ,
           a
           Warrant
           actually
           to
           do
           bad
           Actions
           ,
           and
           the
           worst
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           After
           all
           ,
           were
           our
           Case
           as
           bad
           as
           the
           Declaration
           represents
           it
           ,
           How
           comes
           his
           Highness
           to
           be
           concern'd
           in
           it
           ?
           
             It
             is
          
           in
           his
           own
           words
           ,
           
             certain
             and
             evident
             to
             all
             Men
             ,
          
           that
           Sovereign
           States
           ,
           whether
           Monarchies
           ,
           or
           Commonwealths
           ,
           
           are
           independent
           ,
           and
           have
           no
           Right
           to
           interpose
           ,
           otherwise
           than
           by
           friendly
           Offices
           ,
           in
           one
           anothers
           Affairs
           ,
           but
           violate
           the
           Laws
           of
           Nations
           as
           often
           as
           they
           do
           .
           Every
           Government
           holds
           within
           itself
           ,
           all
           those
           who
           are
           concern'd
           in
           the
           Redress
           of
           Abuses
           ,
           when
           they
           happen
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           inform
           us
           who
           they
           are
           .
           Nor
           is
           any
           thing
           more
           inconsistent
           with
           Government
           ,
           than
           the
           interposition
           of
           Foreign
           Powers
           ,
           nor
           more
           deeply
           resented
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           all
           Nations
           ,
           than
           abetting
           of
           it
           .
           Turn
           the
           Tables
           ,
           and
           let
           all
           these
           dismal
           Stories
           ,
           as
           som
           perhaps
           are
           ,
           be
           told
           of
           Holland
           ,
           and
           be
           never
           ●o
           true
           ;
           I
           refer
           it
           to
           all
           Mankind
           ,
           to
           Holland
           ,
           to
           his
           Highness
           himself
           ,
           whether
           the
           King
           of
           England
           would
           not
           pass
           for
           a
           very
           bad
           Neighbour
           ,
           and
           a
           very
           bad
           Man
           ,
           if
           he
           should
           take
           the
           cognizance
           from
           the
           States
           ,
           and
           himself
           compose
           their
           Disorders
           by
           War
           :
           The
           immediate
           Concern
           insinuated
           ,
           relates
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           to
           the
           prospect
           of
           Succession
           ,
           to
           which
           ,
           if
           the
           calamities
           of
           War
           ,
           be
           the
           proofs
           of
           his
           tender
           Affection
           to
           our
           Nation
           ,
           it
           will
           soon
           wish
           the
           Right
           of
           his
           Highness
           were
           farther
           removed
           ,
           than
           it
           is
           ;
           thô
           it
           has
           now
           pleased
           God
           ,
           the
           Right
           should
           not
           be
           immediate
           ,
           even
           in
           his
           Royal
           Consort
           .
           But
           the
           most
           immediate
           Right
           to
           Succeed
           ,
           is
           no
           Right
           to
           intermeddle
           before
           the
           Succession
           falls
           .
           I
           am
           Successor
           to
           my
           Father
           ,
           but
           cannot
           therefore
           dispose
           of
           his
           Estate
           ,
           chuse
           his
           Tenants
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           appoint
           what
           Covenants
           he
           shall
           make
           in
           his
           Leases
           ,
           any
           more
           than
           a
           stranger
           to
           his
           Bloud
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           it
           follows
           ,
           that
           
             upon
             these
             Ground
             ;
             his
             Highness
             can
             no
             longer
             forbear
             to
             Declare
             ,
             that
             Counsellors
             ,
             in
             chief
             Credit
             with
             the
             King
             ,
             have
             openly
             overturned
             Religion
             and
             the
             Laws
             ,
             and
             subjected
             them
             in
             all
             things
             relating
             to
             Conscience
             ,
             Liberty
             and
             Property
             ,
             to
             Arbitrary
             Government
             ,
          
           If
           these
           were
           the
           true
           Grounds
           of
           his
           Highness
           ,
           he
           could
           as
           little
           forbear
           to
           Declare
           against
           many
           ,
           perhaps
           all
           Nations
           ,
           in
           which
           there
           are
           more
           rational
           ,
           and
           more
           real
           causes
           of
           complaint
           to
           be
           found
           ,
           by
           one
           who
           would
           look
           after
           them
           .
           But
           put
           it
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           and
           all
           Mankind
           must
           Declare
           ,
           that
           these
           Grounds
           are
           no
           Grounds
           ,
           and
           which
           no
           party
           will
           allow
           to
           justify
           another
           which
           disturbs
           them
           .
           Put
           it
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Nation
           must
           Declare
           ,
           that
           every
           Man
           enjoys
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           his
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           his
           Property
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           Envy
           of
           their
           less
           happy
           Neighbours
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           has
           been
           no
           proceeding
           against
           a
           single
           Man
           ,
           but
           for
           his
           single
           Misdemeanor
           ,
           and
           this
           not
           by
           Arbitrary
           ,
           but
           Legal
           ,
           Power
           .
           And
           then
           to
           asperse
           His
           Majesty
           with
           overturning
           all
           Laws
           ,
           under
           the
           name
           of
           Evil
           Counsellors
           !
           Why
           ?
           let
           His
           Counsellors
           be
           never
           so
           bad
           ,
           they
           are
           worse
           ,
           whose
           Service
           his
           Highness
           has
           used
           in
           Penning
           this
           Declaration
           .
           Men
           ,
           whose
           Brains
           reach
           no
           farther
           ,
           than
           to
           Copy
           from
           their
           Rebellious
           Ancestors
           of
           41
           ,
           by
           whose
           example
           it
           is
           too
           sadly
           known
           ,
           whom
           they
           meant
           by
           Evil
           Counsellors
           ,
           and
           what
           they
           intended
           to
           do
           with
           Him.
           And
           yet
           his
           Highness
           leads
           his
           Name
           to
           such
           Men
           ,
           and
           giving
           Credit
           to
           such
           Counsellors
           himself
           ,
           talks
           of
           Evil
           Counsellors
           in
           Credit
           with
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           To
           these
           general
           Premises
           ,
           the
           Declaration
           adds
           a
           List
           of
           particulars
           ;
           whereof
           the
           first
           is
           ,
           
             the
             Dispensing
             Power
          
           .
           And
           this
           his
           Highness
           takes
           the
           pains
           to
           moot
           ,
           and
           tell
           us
           how
           far
           it
           goes
           ,
           and
           where
           it
           must
           stop
           ,
           and
           that
           
             a
             Sentence
             has
             been
             obtained
             for
             it
          
           from
           the
           Judges
           .
           Those
           Judges
           should
           in
           
           reason
           understand
           the
           Matter
           better
           ,
           than
           those
           ,
           on
           whose
           Information
           his
           Highness
           has
           thought
           fit
           to
           relye
           .
           As
           I
           take
           it
           for
           a
           Parliamentary
           Business
           ,
           I
           leave
           it
           untoucht
           ,
           to
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           believing
           ,
           all
           I
           can
           say
           ,
           will
           be
           said
           and
           considered
           there
           ,
           and
           resolving
           to
           acquiesce
           in
           their
           determination
           .
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           How
           does
           this
           justifie
           Foreign
           Arms
           ?
           Here
           is
           the
           Case
           .
           Kings
           are
           not
           bred
           at
           the
           Inns
           of
           Court
           ,
           but
           must
           trust
           Lawyers
           for
           Law
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Physicians
           for
           Physick
           .
           The
           oppression
           of
           Conscience-Laws
           ,
           deafens
           His
           Majesties
           Ears
           with
           perpetual
           Complaints
           ,
           and
           His
           tenderness
           of
           His
           Subjects
           prompts
           Him
           to
           relieve
           them
           .
           He
           adviseth
           with
           those
           of
           the
           Profession
           ,
           and
           they
           inform
           Him
           ,
           He
           may
           ,
           by
           His
           Dispensing
           Power
           ,
           relieve
           them
           Legally
           ,
           and
           he
           does
           it
           .
           Every
           body
           is
           not
           content
           ,
           and
           he
           refers
           the
           whole
           to
           a
           publick
           Legal
           Tryal
           .
           Pray
           what
           better
           ,
           or
           other
           Advice
           could
           his
           Highness
           have
           given
           ?
           What
           could
           he
           do
           more
           himself
           ,
           if
           it
           had
           been
           his
           own
           Case
           ?
           And
           if
           I
           may
           be
           so
           bold
           ,
           Does
           he
           always
           do
           so
           much
           ?
           Unfortunate
           Majesty
           !
           and
           Unfortunate
           Mankind
           !
           If
           every
           Nation
           must
           be
           justly
           liable
           to
           the
           calamities
           of
           War
           ,
           in
           which
           a
           King
           happens
           to
           have
           a
           Counsellor
           ,
           who
           in
           point
           of
           a
           Law
           of
           his
           own
           Country
           ,
           differs
           in
           Opinion
           from
           a
           Prince
           of
           another
           .
        
         
           Upon
           this
           Point
           it
           is
           further
           Declared
           ,
           that
           
             these
             Evil
             Counsellors
             secretly
             examined
             the
             Opinions
             of
             the
             Iudges
             ,
             and
             procured
             such
             to
             be
             turn'd
             out
             ,
             as
             could
             not
             in
             Conscience
             concur
             in
             their
             pernicious
             Sentence
             .
          
           Why
           ?
           then
           those
           bad
           Counsellors
           were
           not
           bad
           enough
           to
           desire
           Men
           should
           Act
           against
           their
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           the
           pernicious
           Sentence
           was
           given
           according
           to
           Conscience
           .
           But
           this
           again
           is
           His
           Highnesses
           Case
           .
           He
           has
           the
           nomination
           of
           Men
           to
           Employments
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           King
           :
           And
           I
           humbly
           refer
           it
           to
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           whether
           before
           he
           nominate
           ,
           he
           do
           not
           satisfy
           himself
           that
           his
           Nominê
           be
           a
           Man
           on
           whom
           he
           may
           rely
           ,
           for
           the
           Service
           which
           he
           expects
           from
           him
           .
           Is
           it
           justice
           to
           fall
           out
           with
           the
           King
           for
           doing
           what
           he
           does
           Himself
           ,
           and
           all
           Princes
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           all
           private
           Men
           ,
           who
           have
           Employments
           at
           their
           disposal
           ?
        
         
           After
           minding
           us
           that
           we
           have
           a
           Crowned
           King
           ,
           and
           have
           had
           Laws
           enacted
           in
           England
           for
           preservatiou
           of
           our
           Rights
           ,
           Liberties
           and
           Religion
           :
           The
           Declaration
           repeats
           again
           ,
           that
           
             Evil
             Counsellors
             have
             in
             effect
             annulled
             all
             those
             Laws
             ,
          
           contrary
           to
           
             the
             Kings
             Promise
             and
             Oath
          
           .
           Strange
           descant
           upon
           this
           short
           plain
           Song
           ,
           
             The
             King
             has
             Dispenc'd
             with
             one
             Law
             ,
          
           and
           that
           in
           the
           interval
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           from
           which
           he
           promises
           Himself
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           taken
           away
           ,
           and
           which
           the
           Parliament
           design'd
           by
           his
           Highness
           ,
           as
           free
           as
           it
           shall
           be
           ,
           we
           find
           by
           the
           Declaration
           ,
           must
           take
           away
           ,
           and
           this
           upon
           Information
           which
           he
           had
           reason
           to
           trust
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           ,
           according
           to
           Law.
           Will
           the
           Rhetorick
           of
           his
           Highnesses
           Pen-men
           ,
           make
           this
           pass
           for
           a
           breach
           of
           Promise
           and
           Oath
           ,
           for
           annulling
           and
           abolishing
           all
           Laws
           ,
           when
           we
           see
           with
           our
           Eyes
           ,
           the
           establisht
           Religion
           actually
           maintained
           ,
           and
           assist
           every
           day
           at
           the
           Divine
           Service
           of
           it
           ;
           when
           we
           see
           the
           Judges
           Sit
           ,
           and
           Suitors
           obtain
           effectual
           Decrees
           and
           Sentences
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           effectual
           execution
           elsewhere
           ;
           when
           we
           see
           no
           Dispensation
           ,
           nor
           Inclination
           to
           it
           in
           any
           thing
           ,
           save
           in
           relief
           of
           an
           Oppression
           ,
           which
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           I
           perceive
           ,
           consents
           should
           
           not
           be
           continued
           ?
           We
           Humbly
           pray
           his
           Highness
           ,
           in
           stead
           of
           the
           Liberty
           held
           forth
           by
           his
           Invasion
           ,
           to
           afford
           us
           the
           liberty
           of
           believing
           our
           own
           Eyes
           ,
           before
           the
           repetitions
           of
           his
           Historical
           Pen-men
           ,
           and
           to
           think
           we
           actually
           enjoy
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           our
           Laws
           as
           much
           as
           they
           would
           persuade
           us
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           such
           thing
           in
           England
           ,
        
         
           But
           thô
           our
           Case
           were
           as
           deplorable
           ,
           as
           their
           frightful
           Idea
           would
           make
           it
           ,
           what
           Remedy
           can
           we
           hope
           from
           the
           Declaration
           ?
           All
           Human
           Affairs
           are
           subject
           to
           the
           miscarriages
           inseparable
           from
           Human
           Nature
           .
           When
           they
           happen
           among
           us
           ,
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           our
           Nation
           has
           always
           thought
           the
           best
           way
           of
           Redress
           is
           by
           Parliament
           .
           But
           we
           could
           never
           think
           knocking
           out
           Mens
           Brains
           a
           proper
           remedy
           for
           miscariages
           about
           Religion
           ,
           nor
           plundring
           and
           burning
           apt
           to
           set
           right
           the
           sway'd
           Law.
           And
           we
           again
           pray
           his
           Highness
           ,
           rather
           to
           let
           us
           alone
           in
           our
           Misery
           ,
           than
           make
           us
           happy
           this
           way
           .
           For
           as
           we
           are
           made
           ,
           the
           Happiness
           would
           be
           incomparably
           the
           more
           unsupportable
           Misery
           .
        
         
           After
           all
           ,
           what
           would
           his
           Highness
           have
           done
           in
           the
           Case
           ?
           and
           what
           can
           be
           done
           more
           ,
           than
           to
           leave
           none
           of
           those
           things
           in
           being
           ,
           of
           which
           he
           complain'd
           ?
           And
           so
           much
           his
           Highness
           owns
           was
           done
           before
           he
           set
           Sail
           from
           Holland
           .
           The
           Ecclesiastical
           Commission
           was
           broken
           ;
           the
           Suspension
           of
           the
           Bishop
           of
           London
           taken
           off
           ;
           Magdelene
           College
           restored
           ;
           Chancellors
           and
           Archdeacons
           discharged
           of
           their
           attendance
           ;
           Lord-Lieutenants
           ,
           Deputy-Lieutenants
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           replaced
           ;
           and
           Charters
           returned
           .
           As
           it
           is
           palpable
           ,
           that
           his
           Highness
           comes
           not
           to
           redress
           things
           ,
           which
           he
           knew
           were
           redress'd
           already
           ,
           it
           is
           palpable
           that
           we
           have
           Reasons
           of
           his
           coming
           alledged
           which
           are
           not
           his
           Reasons
           ,
           and
           too
           much
           ground
           to
           argue
           from
           one
           to
           all
           ,
           and
           ,
           conclude
           ,
           we
           have
           not
           one
           true
           Reason
           offered
           ,
           but
           are
           amused
           with
           pretences
           apt
           to
           work
           upon
           us
           ,
           but
           which
           no
           way
           move
           his
           Highness
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           mention
           besides
           of
           Popish
           Chappels
           ,
           and
           Schools
           ,
           and
           Commissions
           ,
           all
           three
           consequences
           of
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           .
           People
           cannot
           exercise
           their
           Religion
           ,
           without
           places
           in
           which
           to
           exercise
           it
           ,
           neither
           is
           there
           any
           complaint
           of
           the
           Meeting
           places
           of
           their
           fellow
           Dissenters
           ,
           nor
           can
           I
           understand
           why
           his
           Highness
           excepts
           against
           their
           Chappels
           ,
           who
           Declares
           ,
           he
           will
           not
           except
           them
           from
           the
           
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
          
           .
           Again
           ,
           Parents
           always
           breed
           up
           their
           Children
           in
           their
           own
           way
           :
           And
           if
           Papists
           be
           not
           allow'd
           Schools
           at
           home
           ,
           they
           will
           be
           sent
           abroad
           ,
           to
           spend
           there
           ,
           what
           it
           were
           more
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           Nation
           should
           be
           laid
           out
           here
           ,
           and
           besides
           ,
           be
           train'd
           up
           to
           Foreign
           Customs
           ,
           and
           perhaps
           ,
           Foreign
           Principles
           ,
           not
           so
           grateful
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           whereas
           here
           they
           might
           be
           watcht
           .
           But
           cannot
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           compose
           this
           matter
           without
           Bloodshed
           ?
           Is
           the
           Question
           ,
           whether
           a
           Boy
           shall
           go
           to
           School
           in
           England
           or
           Flanders
           ,
           so
           very
           material
           ,
           and
           so
           very
           intricate
           ,
           that
           nothing
           but
           Arms
           can
           decide
           it
           ?
           As
           for
           their
           Commissions
           ,
           it
           stands
           not
           with
           Nature
           ,
           that
           a
           King
           should
           not
           chuse
           some
           of
           his
           own
           way
           to
           trust
           with
           Commissions
           ,
           when
           he
           is
           persuaded
           he
           lawfully
           may
           .
           With
           all
           my
           Heart
           I
           wish
           ,
           that
           the
           greater
           readiness
           ,
           and
           greater
           fidelity
           of
           others
           in
           the
           defence
           of
           their
           Prince
           and
           Country
           ,
           may
           convince
           him
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           he
           has
           made
           an
           ill
           choice
           .
        
         
         
           But
           to
           see
           whither
           Exaggeration
           will
           go
           !
           
             All
             Matters
             of
             Civil
             Iustice
          
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Declaration
           ,
           
             are
             brought
             to
             great
             Vncertainties
             :
             Evil
             Councellors
             ●●ndered
             Masters
             of
             the
             Affairs
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             the
             Government
             of
             the
             Nation
             ,
             and
             the
             Course
             of
             Iustice
             ,
          
           and
           all
           by
           these
           Commissions
           to
           Papists
           :
           And
           yet
           all
           this
           signifies
           barely
           three
           or
           four
           Judges
           at
           most
           ,
           some
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           some
           Officers
           in
           the
           Army
           .
           Can
           a
           few
           ,
           and
           those
           puny
           Judges
           ,
           (
           for
           there
           are
           no
           other
           )
           master
           the
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           ▪
           Can
           a
           few
           Officers
           ,
           most
           Subalterns
           ,
           with
           Soldiers
           ,
           not
           one
           to
           fifty
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           master
           the
           Affairs
           of
           the
           Church
           ▪
           and
           enslave
           a
           Nation
           ?
           In
           which
           ,
           if
           all
           the
           Papists
           were
           armed
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           naked
           ▪
           their
           Pikes
           and
           Muskets
           could
           not
           defend
           them
           against
           a
           Volley
           of
           Stones
           .
           Can
           Matters
           of
           Civil
           Justice
           be
           brought
           to
           great
           Uncertainties
           by
           the
           incapacity
           of
           Papists
           ,
           who
           have
           no
           incapacity
           upon
           them
           ?
           The
           Law
           indeed
           forbids
           them
           to
           be
           employed
           ,
           but
           if
           they
           be
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           invalidity
           laid
           upon
           their
           Acts.
           And
           for
           Military
           Incapacity
           ,
           if
           the
           Law
           had
           put
           it
           ,
           his
           Highness
           has
           dispens'd
           with
           it
           ;
           for
           an
           Invasion
           capacitates
           every
           body
           to
           save
           his
           Country
           ,
           as
           Fire
           breaking
           out
           ,
           to
           save
           his
           House
           .
           But
           't
           is
           incomprehensible
           ,
           that
           the
           Irish
           should
           be
           mentioned
           ,
           and
           the
           danger
           in
           which
           the
           Nation
           is
           of
           Slavery
           from
           them
           ,
           who
           ,
           if
           his
           Highness
           had
           not
           brought
           them
           in
           ,
           had
           never
           been
           here
           to
           fright
           us
           .
           At
           worst
           ,
           the
           King's
           Subjects
           sure
           may
           be
           as
           safely
           here
           ,
           as
           absolute
           Foreigners
           ;
           and
           if
           Strangers
           ,
           tho'
           Subjects
           ,
           be
           inconsistent
           with
           our
           Freedom
           ,
           't
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           whatever
           be
           the
           business
           of
           his
           Highnesses
           Army
           ,
           our
           Freedom
           is
           not
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           appears
           the
           more
           ,
           the
           farther
           we
           go
           .
           All
           His
           Majesties
           Dominions
           are
           taken
           presently
           after
           into
           the
           care
           of
           his
           Highness
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           represented
           as
           a
           dismal
           Matter
           ,
           that
           Papists
           are
           employed
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           King's
           Power
           is
           in
           Scotland
           declared
           Absolute
           ,
           and
           Subjects
           to
           obey
           
             without
             Reserve
          
           .
           Now
           these
           are
           the
           very
           words
           of
           a
           Law
           enacted
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           by
           a
           very
           free
           Parliament
           ,
           held
           under
           a
           Commissioner
           ,
           upon
           whom
           ,
           there
           never
           sell
           any
           imputation
           of
           Popery
           .
           His
           Highness
           is
           sparing
           in
           this
           Point
           .
           It
           is
           said
           farther
           by
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           That
           the
           Blessings
           of
           Scotland●
           are
           ,
           next
           to
           God
           ,
           owing
           to
           the
           uninterrupted
           Line
           of
           the
           Kings
           ,
           and
           to
           that
           solid
           absolute
           Authority
           ,
           and
           that
           their
           Kings
           are
           invested
           with
           it
           by
           ▪
           the
           first
           and
           fundamental
           Laws
           of
           their
           Monarchy
           .
           But
           Parliaments
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           must
           exercise
           no
           freedom
           ,
           but
           according
           to
           the
           pleasure
           of
           a
           supervising
           Foreign
           Sword
           ,
           though
           I
           should
           think
           it
           somthing
           early
           to
           declare
           it
           .
           In
           Ireland
           ,
           the
           Laws
           exclude
           not
           Papists
           from
           Employments
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           again
           referr'd
           to
           the
           Conscience
           of
           his
           Highness
           ,
           Whether
           he
           would
           think
           it
           reasonable
           ,
           his
           Neighbours
           should
           exclaim
           and
           inflame
           the
           People
           against
           him
           ,
           for
           disposing
           Employments
           as
           the
           Law
           allows
           ,
           and
           themselves
           resolve
           the
           Matter
           to
           be
           so
           heinously
           unjust
           ,
           that
           any
           of
           them
           has
           right
           to
           revenge
           it
           upon
           his
           Country
           with
           the
           Miseries
           of
           War
           ?
           Who
           shall
           hope
           to
           please
           his
           Highness
           ,
           when
           he
           thinks
           fit
           ,
           at
           once
           ,
           to
           dislike
           breaking
           Laws
           in
           England
           ,
           making
           them
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           keeping
           them
           in
           Ireland
           ?
        
         
           
             But
             these
             unsufferable
             Oppressions
             ,
             have
             put
             the
             Subjects
             under
             just
             Fears
             ,
             and
             made
             them
             look
             after
             such
             lawful
             Remedies
             ,
             as
             are
             allow'd
             of
             in
             all
             Nations
             .
          
           I
           hope
           ,
           his
           Highness
           does
           not
           mean
           ,
           rising
           in
           Arms
           against
           their
           King
           ,
           and
           
           calling
           in
           Foreign
           Enemies
           ,
           by
           lawful
           Remedies
           .
           Whatever
           other
           Nations
           do
           ,
           ours
           allows
           this
           for
           nothing
           but
           Treason
           ,
           and
           Rebellion
           ,
           nor
           ,
           I
           much
           suspect
           ,
           any
           Nation
           in
           the
           World
           besides
           :
           And
           yet
           those
           lawful
           Remedies
           must
           sure
           be
           Remedies
           not
           authorized
           by
           Law
           ;
           for
           the
           Declaration
           makes
           such
           means
           barr'd
           by
           evil
           Counsellors
           :
           The
           Instance
           is
           in
           the
           Bishops
           Petition
           .
           Now
           as
           unquestionably
           legal
           as
           a
           Petition
           is
           ,
           there
           may
           be
           an
           illegal
           Petition
           ;
           whether
           this
           were
           so
           ,
           or
           no
           ,
           the
           King
           desired
           should
           be
           legally
           tryed
           :
           And
           a
           Tryal
           there
           was
           ,
           in
           which
           ,
           the
           direct
           Point
           (
           as
           I
           am
           informed
           )
           came
           not
           to
           Issue
           ,
           but
           
             Not
             guilty
          
           found
           upon
           no
           proof
           of
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ▪
           A
           Peer
           too
           is
           mentioned
           to
           be
           treated
           as
           a
           Criminal
           ,
           for
           saying
           the
           Orders
           of
           a
           Popish
           Justice
           were
           not
           to
           be
           obeyed
           .
           And
           all
           his
           Criminal
           treatment
           was
           to
           refer
           him
           to
           the
           ordinary
           course
           of
           Law
           ,
           where
           he
           likewise
           waved
           the
           direct
           Point
           by
           collateral
           Exceptions
           ;
           Where
           may
           the
           Oppression
           be
           ,
           and
           where
           the
           frightful
           Apprehensions
           of
           loss
           of
           Life
           ,
           Liberty
           ,
           Honor
           ,
           and
           Estate
           ,
           in
           all
           this
           ?
           Are
           Judicicial
           Proceedings
           already
           threatned
           ,
           and
           barr'd
           ?
           And
           must
           we
           have
           an
           Army
           to
           revenge
           the
           wrongs
           of
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           a
           Peer
           ,
           who
           ,
           I
           believe
           ,
           themselves
           complain
           of
           none
           done
           them
           ?
           Nor
           can
           ,
           without
           complaining
           that
           the
           Law
           has
           wrong'd
           them
           ,
           even
           when
           it
           acquitted
           them
           .
        
         
           What
           significations
           have
           been
           made
           ,
           and
           what
           Expedients
           proposed
           by
           their
           Highnesses
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           is
           not
           come
           to
           my
           knowledge
           .
           But
           if
           the
           same
           Advisers
           were
           used
           in
           their
           suggestions
           ,
           which
           have
           been
           in
           this
           Declaration
           ,
           it
           is
           very
           likely
           the
           King
           might
           be
           sensible
           ,
           they
           were
           too
           ill
           informed
           of
           the
           Affairs
           of
           England
           ,
           to
           take
           their
           Advice
           .
           If
           Evil
           Counsellors
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           perswade
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           his
           Highness
           design'd
           to
           disturb
           the
           Quiet
           and
           Happiness
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           I
           am
           infinitely
           sorry
           he
           would
           be
           at
           all
           this
           pains
           to
           justifie
           them
           .
           For
           't
           is
           impossible
           to
           believe
           he
           actually
           came
           hither
           ,
           without
           design
           to
           come
           ,
           or
           that
           the
           War
           he
           brings
           with
           him
           will
           not
           disturb
           our
           Peace
           ,
           and
           the
           Miseries
           of
           it
           our
           Happiness
           .
        
         
           What
           follows
           is
           past
           my
           understanding
           .
           
             The
             last
             and
             great
             Remedy
             for
             all
             our
             Evils
             is
             the
             Calling
             of
             a
             Parliament
             .
          
           So
           indeed
           all
           Englishmen
           think
           ,
           and
           so
           His
           Majesty
           thought
           ,
           who
           call'd
           One.
           Happy
           we
           ,
           if
           his
           Highness
           had
           been
           of
           the
           same
           Opinion
           !
           but
           to
           our
           Misery
           ,
           he
           is
           not
           ,
           who
           when
           One
           was
           call'd
           would
           not
           let
           it
           sit
           ,
           but
           instead
           of
           it
           brought
           in
           Evils
           past
           the
           Remedy
           even
           of
           a
           Parliament
           .
           For
           Votes
           are
           not
           Cannon
           proof
           .
           
             But
             a
             Parliament
             could
             not
             yet
             compassed
             ,
             nor
             can
             it
             be
             easily
             brought
             about
             .
          
           Too
           sadly
           true
           :
           For
           it
           is
           neither
           easy
           ,
           nor
           possible
           ,
           to
           bring
           about
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           when
           defenceless
           People
           must
           break
           through
           a
           Foreign
           Army
           to
           meet
           and
           elect
           .
           Before
           ,
           it
           was
           so
           possible
           to
           compass
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           compast
           ;
           Writs
           were
           actually
           gone
           out
           ,
           and
           Elections
           begun
           ,
           which
           were
           not
           stopt
           by
           Evil
           Counsellors
           .
           But
           
             these
             Evil
             Counsellors
             apprehended
             ,
             they
             should
             be
             brought
             to
             an
             account
             ,
             for
             their
             Plots
             and
             Conspiracies
             against
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             ,
             and
             have
             endeavoured
             ,
             under
             the
             specious
             pretence
             of
             Liberty
             of
             Conscience
             ,
             to
             sow
             Divisions
             among
             them
             ,
             between
             the
             Church
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             and
             Dissenters
             ,
             that
             ,
             by
             their
             natural
             Quarrellings
             ,
             They
             might
             bring
             about
             their
             Designs
             ,
             both
             in
             the
             Election
             of
             Members
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             Parliament
             it self
             .
          
           Why
           then
           they
           design'd
           a
           Parliament
           should
           sit
           ,
           as
           
           evil
           as
           they
           were
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           as
           they
           feared
           to
           be
           called
           to
           account
           .
           But
           if
           Liberty
           of
           Conscience
           be
           a
           Plot
           against
           Protestants
           ,
           his
           Highness
           must
           needs
           be
           of
           it
           himself
           ,
           who
           declared
           for
           it
           .
           Must
           we
           believe
           the
           same
           thing
           ,
           practised
           by
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           will
           divide
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Highness
           establish
           a
           good
           Agreement
           ?
           Then
           the
           asking
           People
           their
           Opinion
           beforehand
           ,
           the
           Charters
           ,
           Popish
           Sheriffs
           and
           Mayors
           ,
           are
           brought
           in
           again
           ,
           only
           to
           conclude
           at
           last
           ,
           that
           
             no
             Parliament
             can
             be
             lawful
             ,
             for
             which
             the
             Elections
             and
             Returns
             are
             made
             by
             Papists
             ;
             and
             therefore
             ,
             as
             long
             as
             the
             Authority
             and
             Magistracy
             are
             in
             such
             hands
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             p●ssible
             to
             have
             any
             lawful
             Parliament
             .
          
           How
           ill
           do
           they
           understand
           the
           Law
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           penn'd
           this
           Declaration
           ?
           Every
           body
           knows
           ,
           that
           Elections
           are
           made
           by
           Freeholders
           and
           Freemen
           ,
           not
           by
           Sheriffs
           and
           Mayors
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           Papist
           may
           elect
           as
           legally
           as
           any
           body
           ,
           and
           make
           a
           Return
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           in
           Office
           ,
           as
           valid
           .
           Had
           his
           Highness
           suffered
           the
           Elections
           to
           go
           on
           ,
           we
           should
           have
           thought
           the
           Parliament
           very
           lawful
           ;
           but
           shall
           not
           think
           so
           of
           a
           Parliament
           made
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           Arms
           ,
           where
           we
           are
           chosen
           ,
           and
           sit
           with
           the
           Sword
           at
           our
           Throats
           ,
           we
           think
           ,
           there
           is
           neither
           legality
           nor
           freedom
           ;
           and
           that
           ,
           when
           for
           a
           Remedy
           of
           the
           impossibility
           of
           a
           lawful
           Parliament
           ,
           there
           is
           prescribed
           an
           impossibility
           that
           it
           should
           be
           lawful
           ,
           very
           ill
           State-Doctors
           have
           been
           called
           to
           Council
           .
        
         
           The
           Declaration
           crowns
           all
           with
           the
           Birth
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           of
           which
           ,
           it
           says
           ,
           That
           
             great
             and
             violent
             Presumptions
             induce
             his
             Highness
             to
             believe
             ,
             that
             these
             evil
             Councellors
             have
             published
             ,
             the
             Queen
             hath
             brought
             forth
             a
             Son
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             their
             ill
             Designs
          
           ;
           and
           that
           
             not
             only
             his
             Highness
             himself
             ,
             but
             all
             the
             good
             Subjects
             of
             these
             Kingdoms
             ,
             do
             vehemently
             suspect
             ,
             that
             the
             pretended
             Prince
             of
          
           Wales
           
             was
             not
             born
             by
             the
             Queen
             .
          
           Such
           things
           to
           come
           abroad
           ,
           with
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           to
           them
           !
           And
           yet
           it
           is
           but
           too
           true
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           violence
           and
           vehemence
           in
           these
           Presumptions
           and
           Suspicions
           ;
           so
           true
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           in
           reality
           nothing
           else
           ,
           neither
           Presumption
           ,
           nor
           Suspicion
           ,
           indeed
           .
           And
           this
           violence
           ,
           and
           this
           vehemence
           ,
           must
           needs
           be
           infinitely
           great
           ;
           which
           can
           pretend
           Suspicions
           ,
           not
           only
           utterly
           void
           of
           all
           Reason
           ,
           but
           so
           palpably
           against
           it
           ,
           that
           ,
           quite
           contrary
           to
           what
           the
           Declaration
           avers
           ,
           there
           is
           neither
           a
           good
           Subject
           ,
           nor
           a
           sensible
           Man
           ,
           who
           harbours
           any
           Doubt
           in
           the
           case
           .
           And
           this
           Consideration
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           has
           so
           long
           delayed
           doing
           any
           thing
           for
           publick
           Satisfaction
           .
           As
           it
           was
           not
           indeed
           very
           proper
           for
           the
           King
           to
           regard
           idle
           Fictions
           ,
           invented
           and
           spread
           by
           purely
           obstinate
           Malice
           :
           But
           now
           he
           has
           caused
           the
           business
           to
           be
           scanned
           ,
           if
           we
           should
           take
           toy
           ,
           and
           suspect
           without
           Reason
           .
           I
           believe
           ,
           it
           would
           trouble
           his
           Highness
           ,
           to
           clear
           his
           own
           or
           the
           Princesses
           Birth
           ,
           as
           the
           Birth
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           is
           cleared
           :
           And
           guess
           ,
           they
           would
           entertain
           the
           slightest
           suspicion
           with
           an
           impatient
           Scorn
           ,
           and
           not
           allow
           the
           greatest
           vehemence
           in
           the
           World
           to
           suspect
           them
           into
           the
           Children
           of
           other
           Mothers
           ,
           than
           the
           Princess
           of
           Orange
           ,
           and
           Duchess
           of
           York
           .
           But
           ,
           as
           much
           to
           seek
           as
           we
           were
           ,
           for
           a
           Reason
           in
           all
           alledg'd
           before
           ,
           this
           questioning
           the
           Birth
           of
           the
           immediate
           Successor
           ,
           speaks
           plain
           .
           We
           know
           now
           ,
           what
           brought
           his
           Highness
           hither
           ▪
           and
           can
           give
           a
           shrewd
           guess
           at
           what
           will
           follow
           on
           his
           success
           :
           For
           if
           they
           be
           the
           only
           good
           Subjects
           ,
           who
           believe
           not
           we
           have
           a
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           they
           
           are
           like
           to
           be
           in
           a
           bad
           condition
           ,
           who
           have
           either
           sense
           enough
           to
           perceive
           plain
           Truths
           ,
           or
           Conscience
           enough
           to
           boggle
           at
           Perjury
           ,
           or
           Memory
           enough
           to
           remember
           ,
           they
           have
           sworn
           Fidelity
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           lawful
           Successors
           .
        
         
           Beginning
           now
           to
           wind
           up
           ,
           his
           Highness
           minds
           us
           of
           
             the
             great
             interest
             which
             the
             Princess
             Royal
             and
             himself
             have
             in
             this
             matter
             ,
          
           and
           
             of
             their
             Right
             to
             the
             Succession
             ,
             such
             as
             all
             the
             World
             knows
             :
          
           Of
           
             the
             Endeavours
             we
             used
             for
             the
             Vnited
             Provinces
             ,
             when
             they
             were
             invaded
             ,
             in
             a
             most
             unjust
             War
             in
          
           1672
           :
           Of
           
             the
             particular
             Esteem
             and
             Affection
             ,
             which
             the
          
           English
           
             Nation
             has
             ever
             testified
             to
             both
             their
             Highnesses
             :
          
           And
           
             therefore
             cannot
             excuse
             himself
             from
             espousing
             our
             Interests
             ;
             to
             the
             doing
             of
             which
             ,
             he
             is
             earnestly
             solicited
             by
             a
             great
             many
             Lords
             ,
             both
             Spiritual
             and
             Temporal
             ,
             by
             many
             Gentlemen
             ,
             and
             Subjects
             of
             all
             Ranks
             .
          
           In
           all
           which
           ,
           the
           only
           thing
           we
           can
           understand
           ,
           is
           ,
           the
           Succession
           ,
           to
           which
           ,
           their
           Highnesses
           do
           severally
           stand
           i●
           that
           degree
           ,
           which
           all
           the
           World
           knows
           .
           But
           there
           is
           not
           a
           Man
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           who
           can
           understand
           ,
           how
           those
           ,
           who
           espouse
           the
           interest
           of
           another
           ,
           because
           they
           have
           an
           interest
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           espouse
           any
           interest
           but
           their
           own
           ;
           nor
           could
           his
           Highness
           have
           told
           us
           more
           plainly
           ,
           that
           he
           comes
           for
           himself
           ,
           not
           us
           ;
           that
           all
           alledged
           besides
           ,
           is
           only
           for
           fashion-sake
           ;
           and
           that
           we
           might
           sink
           or
           swim
           ,
           for
           any
           care
           of
           his
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           not
           been
           concerned
           himself
           .
           Again
           ,
           because
           we
           did
           what
           we
           could
           for
           the
           Dutch
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           unjustly
           invaded
           ,
           no
           body
           can
           understand
           ,
           how
           Gratitude
           obliges
           them
           to
           invade
           us
           unjustly
           themselves
           ;
           nor
           how
           the
           particular
           Affection
           and
           Esteem
           ,
           which
           we
           have
           ever
           testified
           to
           their
           Highnesses
           ,
           should
           deserve
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           become
           our
           Enemy
           ,
           and
           ruine
           us
           for
           our
           pains
           .
           As
           much
           Esteem
           and
           Affection
           ,
           as
           the
           great
           Qualities
           of
           his
           Highness
           are
           like
           to
           meet
           every
           where
           ,
           he
           will
           please
           to
           be
           informed
           ,
           that
           the
           strongest
           Band
           of
           ours
           ,
           is
           his
           Alliance
           to
           the
           Royal
           Bloud
           ;
           and
           must
           pardon
           the
           English
           ,
           if
           they
           love
           not
           a
           Man
           who
           hates
           our
           King
           ,
           the
           very
           King
           ,
           whose
           Sister
           and
           Daughter
           tyed
           our
           Affections
           to
           him
           :
           Then
           ,
           who
           can
           understand
           ,
           how
           making
           War
           upon
           us
           is
           espousing
           our
           Interest
           ,
           our
           Religion
           ,
           our
           Laws
           ,
           our
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           ;
           our
           Interest
           ,
           and
           we
           ,
           beseech
           his
           Highness
           to
           have
           a
           little
           Mercy
           on
           us
           ,
           and
           not
           oblige
           us
           to
           believe
           ,
           he
           espouses
           our
           Interest
           ,
           by
           subjecting
           all
           we
           have
           to
           the
           mercy
           of
           a
           lawless
           Sword.
           He
           must
           likewise
           pardon
           us
           ,
           if
           we
           believe
           not
           on
           his
           Word
           ,
           that
           many
           Lords
           ,
           many
           of
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           Ranks
           ,
           are
           Traytors
           ,
           which
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           true
           ,
           he
           rewards
           them
           betimes
           ,
           and
           by
           exposing
           them
           to
           be
           punished
           by
           others
           ,
           till
           it
           be
           seasonable
           to
           do
           it
           himself
           ,
           informs
           them
           what
           they
           must
           expect
           at
           last
           .
           But
           the
           Spiritual
           Lords
           and
           their
           Principles
           are
           well
           known
           ,
           and
           his
           Highness
           has
           experience
           what
           they
           are
           ,
           in
           the
           first
           Bishop
           near
           whom
           he
           approached
           .
           He
           is
           like
           to
           meet
           the
           Temporal
           Lords
           ,
           whom
           Age
           keeps
           not
           at
           home
           ,
           or
           the
           King's
           Service
           employs
           not
           elsewhere
           ,
           with
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           all
           Ranks
           ,
           in
           the
           Field
           ,
           and
           be
           better
           informed
           from
           themselves
           ,
           that
           the
           English
           are
           no
           Traytors
           ,
           and
           will
           take
           care
           to
           wipe
           off
           this
           Aspersion
           from
           the
           Nation
           .
           Alas
           !
           how
           little
           does
           his
           Highness
           know
           us
           !
           Many
           an
           unwary
           ,
           and
           many
           a
           heated
           Man
           ,
           speaks
           Treason
           here
           ,
           who
           is
           ,
           for
           all
           that
           ,
           honest
           at
           Heart
           ,
           and
           will
           make
           it
           well
           appear
           he
           is
           ,
           when
           there
           is
           occasion
           .
        
         
         
           But
           ,
           
             Therefore
             it
             is
             that
             his
             Highness
             hath
             thought
             fit
             to
             go
             over
             to
          
           England
           ,
           
             and
             carry
             with
             him
             a
             Force
             sufficient
             by
             the
             Blessing
             of
             God
             to
             defend
             him
             from
             the
             Violence
             of
             Evil
             Counsellors
             .
          
           Unintelligible
           Language
           of
           Declarations
           of
           War
           !
           To
           Invade
           us
           is
           called
           Defending
           Himself
           ,
           and
           this
           where
           there
           is
           no
           fear
           of
           an
           Assault
           ,
           or
           any
           danger
           ,
           save
           from
           that
           very
           Force
           which
           he
           must
           needs
           bring
           to
           defend
           him
           .
           For
           without
           it
           ,
           his
           single
           Name
           ,
           not
           guarded
           so
           much
           as
           by
           a
           Footman
           ,
           had
           found
           security
           ,
           and
           veneration
           all
           England
           over
           .
        
         
           After
           this
           
             true
             account
             ●f
             inducing
             Reasons
          
           ,
           (
           Reasons
           ,
           if
           it
           please
           his
           Penmen
           ,
           For
           nothing
           looks
           like
           a
           Reason
           but
           one
           .
           
             viz.
             Interest
          
           )
           his
           Highness
           thinks
           sit
           to
           declare
           his
           Intentions
           .
           As
           if
           there
           needed
           a
           Declaration
           to
           inform
           us
           what
           Pikes
           and
           Muskets
           intend
           .
           An
           Army
           intends
           nothing
           but
           to
           Master
           where
           it
           comes
           ,
           the
           very
           same
           which
           the
           Saxons
           and
           Normans
           ,
           and
           all
           Invaders
           from
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           World
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           intended
           .
           But
           his
           Design
           is
           
             a
             free
             and
             lawful
             Parliament
          
           :
           And
           for
           a
           Preparative
           ,
           
             the
             annulling
             of
             new
             ,
             and
             returning
             of
             old
             Charters
             ,
             particularly
             that
             of
             the
             City
             of
          
           London
           :
           
             Restoring
             of
             former
             Magistrates
             ;
             addressing
             Writs
             a
             proper
             Officers
          
           ;
           And
           
             suffering
             note
             to
             chuse
             ,
             or
             be
             chosen
             ,
             but
             such
             as
             are
             qualified
             by
             Law.
          
           A
           Man
           no
           wiser
           than
           I
           ,
           would
           think
           ,
           that
           if
           his
           Highness
           ▪
           designed
           nothing
           but
           this
           ,
           he
           might
           very
           well
           have
           staid
           at
           home
           .
           For
           all
           these
           Preparatives
           were
           ,
           and
           he
           knew
           were
           ,
           made
           ,
           before
           he
           went
           aboard
           .
           And
           a
           free
           and
           lawful
           Parliament
           had
           now
           been
           sitting
           ,
           or
           ready
           of
           sit
           ,
           if
           he
           would
           have
           let
           it
           .
           Without
           more
           ado
           ,
           it
           is
           palpably
           impossible
           his
           Highness
           should
           come
           only
           to
           do
           over
           again
           ,
           what
           he
           knew
           was
           done
           to
           his
           hand
           ;
           only
           to
           get
           us
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           he
           will
           not
           suffer
           us
           to
           have
           ,
           and
           this
           pretence
           must
           of
           necessity
           cover
           some
           Design
           thought
           less
           taking
           with
           Englishmen
           .
        
         
           This
           Parliament
           his
           Highness
           declares
           shall
           meet
           and
           sit
           in
           full
           freedom
           ,
           but
           perhaps
           not
           act
           so
           .
           For
           
             the
             two
             Houses
          
           must
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           
             prepare
             Laws
             to
             confirm
             and
             execute
             the
             Test
          
           ;
           for
           
             the
             security
             and
             maintenance
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           ;
           and
           
             for
             a
             good
             Agreement
             between
             the
             Church
             of
          
           England
           
             and
             all
             Protestant
             Dissenters
          
           ;
           and
           
             covering
             such
             from
             Persecution
             as
             will
             live
             peaceably
             ,
             not
             excepting
             Papists
             .
          
           But
           how
           will
           his
           Highness
           keep
           his
           Word
           ,
           if
           a
           Parliament
           should
           happen
           to
           think
           the
           Test
           needs
           no
           Confirmation
           ,
           nor
           Religion
           more
           Laws
           than
           are
           already
           ,
           nor
           that
           any
           Laws
           can
           make
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           and
           Dissenters
           agree
           ?
           However
           it
           be
           ,
           they
           love
           to
           have
           it
           in
           their
           power
           to
           confirm
           ,
           or
           alter
           ,
           or
           abrogate
           ,
           or
           let
           the
           Laws
           alone
           as
           they
           are
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Nation
           shall
           require
           ,
           without
           having
           their
           Task
           prescribed
           .
           They
           take
           themselves
           for
           Master-Workmen
           ,
           and
           who
           can
           cut
           out
           their
           Work
           themselves
           ▪
           not
           for
           bare
           Journeymen
           ,
           to
           make
           up
           Work
           cut
           out
           by
           others
           .
           But
           I
           would
           gladly
           know
           ,
           what
           Protestant
           Religion
           means
           in
           the
           Mouth
           of
           his
           Highness
           .
           In
           the
           Language
           of
           the
           Country
           where
           he
           was
           Born
           and
           Bred
           ,
           right
           Protestancy
           signifies
           Presbytery
           ,
           and
           he
           is
           said
           to
           be
           surrounded
           by
           Men
           who
           so
           understand
           it
           ,
           whereof
           some
           perhaps
           might
           have
           a
           hand
           in
           this
           Declaration
           .
           As
           the
           Religion
           ,
           or
           
             Church
             Established
             by
             Law
          
           ,
           had
           been
           easily
           said
           ,
           if
           it
           had
           been
           meant
           ;
           to
           my
           thinking
           the
           suspicion
           is
           vehement
           ,
           that
           this
           free
           Parliament
           ,
           with
           a
           Holland
           
           Trumpet
           in
           the
           Speakers
           Chair
           ,
           is
           to
           set
           up
           Presbytery
           ;
           at
           least
           ,
           I
           am
           very
           sure
           it
           must
           ,
           if
           that
           Trumpet
           sound
           it
           ;
           and
           there
           is
           but
           too
           much
           reason
           to
           expect
           it
           will
           sound
           here
           as
           it
           does
           at
           home
           ,
           especially
           when
           there
           is
           not
           the
           least
           intimation
           to
           the
           contrary
           .
           The
           pretended
           Invitation
           of
           the
           Spiritual
           Lords
           will
           be
           well
           rewarded
           with
           a
           good
           agreement
           with
           their
           Dissenting
           Masters
           ,
           and
           being
           covered
           from
           Persecution
           ,
           provided
           they
           hold
           themselves
           content
           ,
           and
           live
           peaceably
           .
           But
           the
           comfort
           is
           ,
           nothing
           can
           better
           shew
           their
           Invitation
           is
           but
           pretended
           .
        
         
           To
           this
           fully
           free
           Parliament
           
             his
             Highness
             will
             refer
             the
             inquiry
             into
             the
             Birth
             of
             the
             pretended
             Prince
             of
             Wales
             ,
          
           to
           Vote
           him
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           a
           Prince
           Prettyman
           ,
           the
           Son
           of
           Nobody
           .
           For
           we
           know
           what
           the
           References
           of
           Conquerors
           signifie
           ,
           and
           what
           the
           freedom
           of
           their
           Arbitrators
           .
           But
           it
           is
           time
           to
           leave
           talking
           ,
           when
           such
           things
           are
           said
           ,
           and
           think
           of
           other
           Weapons
           than
           Pens
           .
           Would
           his
           Highness
           be
           content
           to
           refer
           his
           own
           Birth
           ?
           For
           though
           there
           be
           nothing
           of
           suspicion
           in
           it
           ,
           yet
           the
           nothing
           on
           his
           side
           is
           nearer
           to
           something
           than
           on
           the
           side
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           .
           For
           one
           may
           suspect
           that
           he
           who
           talks
           at
           this
           rate
           ,
           was
           not
           born
           of
           an
           English
           Mother
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           all
           ,
           there
           wants
           something
           still
           .
           His
           Highness
           designs
           new
           Laws
           ;
           but
           Acts
           ,
           barely
           prepared
           ,
           have
           not
           the
           perfection
           of
           Laws
           ,
           Suppose
           the
           King
           should
           prove
           resty
           somewhere
           ,
           and
           advise
           upon
           it
           ?
           Why
           ,
           his
           Highness
           has
           found
           an
           Expedient
           .
           
             He
             will
          
           himself
           
             concur
             in
             every
             thing
             that
             may
             procure
             the
             Peace
          
           (
           witness
           his
           War
           )
           
             and
             Happiness
             of
             the
             Nation
          
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           just
           what
           he
           pleases
           .
           
             He
             will
             take
             care
             that
             a
             Parliament
             shall
             be
             called
             in
          
           Scotland
           .
           
             He
             will
             study
             to
             bring
          
           Ireland
           
             into
             a
             state
             that
             the
             settlement
             be
             observed
             ,
             and
             the
             Protestant
             and
          
           British
           
             Interest
             secured
          
           .
           And
           
             as
             soon
             as
             the
             state
             of
             the
             Nation
             will
             admit
             ,
          
           he
           
             promises
             to
             send
             back
             his
             Foreign
             Forces
          
           ;
           and
           ,
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           
             invites
             and
             requires
             all
             Peers
             ,
             and
             all
             Persons
             whatsoever
             to
             c●me
             and
             assist
             him
             ,
             against
             all
             such
             as
             shall
             endeavour
             to
             ●ppose
             him
             .
          
           That
           is
           in
           short
           ,
           He
           will
           be
           King
           of
           England
           .
           For
           none
           pass
           Bills
           into
           Acts
           by
           their
           Concurrence
           ,
           but
           Kings
           .
           To
           take
           care
           for
           calling
           Parliaments
           ;
           and
           for
           the
           settlement
           and
           security
           of
           the
           Kings
           Dominions
           ,
           belongs
           to
           none
           but
           the
           King
           ;
           And
           he
           who
           means
           to
           send
           his
           Forces
           away
           ,
           certainly
           means
           to
           stay
           himself
           .
           And
           that
           we
           may
           not
           be
           ignorant
           in
           what
           condition
           he
           means
           to
           stay
           ,
           he
           takes
           the
           King
           upon
           him
           by
           way
           of
           Anticipation
           .
           For
           no
           body
           can
           require
           the
           assistance
           of
           all
           his
           Subjects
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           but
           the
           King.
           So
           many
           Stories
           in
           the
           Declaration
           of
           a
           Prince
           ,
           which
           are
           the
           Entertainment
           of
           our
           Coffee-Houses
           ,
           and
           which
           we
           now
           perceive
           from
           whence
           they
           came
           ;
           so
           many
           dismal
           Idea's
           of
           our
           Misery
           ,
           who
           live
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           at
           ease
           th●n
           they
           do
           in
           Holland
           ;
           so
           much
           Trouble
           and
           so
           much
           Charge
           purely
           in
           Ch●●y
           to
           our
           Neighbours
           ,
           for
           
             no
             other
             design
             than
             to
             have
             a
             free
             Parliament
             Ass●mbled
             ,
          
           sounded
           untowardly
           ,
           and
           we
           could
           not
           forbear
           to
           suspect
           some
           de●ign
           ●t
           bottom
           ,
           though
           we
           had
           not
           found
           it
           own'd
           .
           But
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           not
           told
           us
           ●o
           himself
           ,
           we
           should
           hardly
           have
           suspected
           ,
           that
           Interest
           could
           have
           drawn
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           to
           dethrone
           the
           King
           ,
           unprince
           his
           Son
           ,
           and
           seize
           the
           Crown
           for
           himself
           .
           But
           now
           we
           understand
           his
           Highness
           we
           will
           ende●vour
           his
           Highness
           shall
           understand
           us
           ,
           and
           our
           Protestant
           〈…〉
           
           better
           than
           he
           does
           .
           We
           love
           our
           Princes
           ,
           for
           all
           we
           can
           be
           angry
           ,
           and
           talk
           more
           freely
           than
           they
           dare
           in
           other
           Countreys
           ,
           and
           will
           sooner
           dye
           at
           their
           Feet
           ,
           than
           Strangers
           shall
           injure
           ,
           much
           less
           dethrone
           ,
           them
           .
           We
           love
           our
           Country
           ,
           and
           we
           love
           our
           Honour
           ,
           and
           before
           England
           shall
           become
           the
           Prey
           of
           Holland
           ,
           will
           take
           order
           they
           shall
           find
           nothing
           in
           it
           ,
           but
           Grass
           and
           Trees
           ,
           no
           Men
           for
           them
           to
           use
           as
           they
           did
           at
           Amboina
           .
           We
           profess
           a
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           which
           teaches
           us
           ,
           not
           to
           rise
           in
           Arms
           against
           our
           King
           ,
           by
           whomsoever
           we
           are
           required
           ,
           but
           true
           Loyalty
           and
           Fidelity
           to
           him
           and
           his
           lawful
           Successors
           ,
           and
           to
           defend
           him
           against
           all
           attempts
           whatsoever
           against
           his
           Crown
           ,
           Person
           ,
           or
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           the
           World
           shall
           see
           we
           are
           no
           bad
           Scholars
           of
           so
           good
           a
           Mistress
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           we
           know
           and
           we
           Honour
           
             William
             Henry
          
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           but
           we
           know
           not
           
             William
             Henry
          
           King
           of
           England
           otherwise
           than
           for
           an
           Enemy
           .
        
      
       
         
           Animadversions
           upon
           the
           Additional
           Declarations
           of
           his
           Highness
           .
        
         
           THE
           Premises
           are
           so
           very
           plain
           ,
           that
           his
           Highness
           thought
           it
           necessary
           to
           take
           notice
           of
           them
           himself
           .
           Against
           the
           Apprehensions
           of
           a
           Conquest
           ,
           he
           alledges
           the
           
             disproportion
             of
             his
             Forces
          
           ,
           and
           
             the
             joyning
             of
             English
             with
             him
             .
          
           That
           disproportion
           is
           not
           his
           Fault
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           been
           ,
           tho
           he
           had
           brought
           Holland
           it self
           in
           his
           Fleet
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Men
           in
           it
           .
           But
           can
           he
           not
           design
           a
           Conquest
           for
           all
           that
           ?
           We
           were
           Conquered
           by
           the
           Normans
           ,
           and
           bare
           Twelve
           Thousand
           Suedes
           bid
           fair
           for
           the
           Conquest
           of
           Germany
           ,
           as
           little
           proportion
           as
           Normandy
           had
           to
           England
           ,
           or
           Sweden
           to
           Germany
           .
           We
           can
           Conquer
           our selves
           ,
           tho
           Holland
           cannot
           ;
           which
           if
           we
           do
           ,
           we
           Conquer
           for
           him
           under
           whom
           we
           Fight
           .
           For
           the
           General
           wins
           the
           Battel
           ,
           who
           ever
           Fight
           it
           .
           And
           this
           of
           necessity
           his
           Highness
           must
           design
           ,
           unless
           he
           design
           to
           be
           beaten
           .
           For
           Victory
           and
           Conquest
           are
           but
           two
           Names
           for
           one
           thing
           .
           Neither
           is
           he
           a
           Man
           to
           be
           at
           all
           this
           ado
           to
           make
           a
           Conquest
           ,
           and
           not
           make
           the
           most
           of
           it
           when
           he
           was
           done
           ;
           neither
           can
           he
           do
           otherwise
           tho
           he
           would
           .
           For
           as
           he
           has
           no
           Right
           to
           Act
           here
           by
           Law
           ,
           he
           must
           of
           necessity
           Act
           by
           Right
           of
           Conquest
           .
           And
           we
           humbly
           beseech
           him
           not
           to
           declare
           us
           out
           of
           common
           Sense
           ,
           and
           into
           a
           belief
           that
           he
           is
           not
           
             capable
             of
             intending
          
           what
           we
           see
           he
           is
           actually
           doing
           .
        
         
           But
           Enemies
           to
           their
           Country
           ,
           of
           all
           Men
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           one
           would
           least
           expect
           should
           be
           magnified
           for
           Integrity
           ,
           and
           Zeal
           ,
           and
           
             constant
             Fidelity
          
           ,
           and
           who
           
             cannot
             joyn
             in
             a
             wicked
             attempt
             of
             Conquest
             ,
             to
             make
             void
             their
             own
             lawful
             Titles
             to
             their
             Honours
             ,
             Estates
             ,
             and
             Interests
             .
          
           Must
           we
           believe
           again
           they
           cannot
           joyn
           in
           an
           Attempt
           in
           which
           his
           Highness
           himself
           tells
           us
           they
           do
           joyn
           ?
           Nor
           void
           their
           Titles
           ,
           when
           they
           actually
           did
           void
           them
           the
           very
           moment
           of
           the
           first
           Overt
           Act
           ,
           which
           made
           it
           known
           they
           thought
           of
           that
           wicked
           Attempt
           ?
           
           And
           then
           the
           Fidelity
           ,
           the
           Integrity
           ,
           and
           Zeal
           of
           Treason
           ,
           is
           unintelligible
           Language
           in
           England
           .
           But
           I
           have
           already
           observed
           ,
           that
           his
           Highness
           speaks
           in
           the
           Language
           of
           a
           Protestant
           Religion
           which
           is
           not
           Established
           here
           ,
           and
           in
           likelihood
           never
           will
           by
           a
           Parliament
           truly
           free
           .
        
         
           The
           Kings
           Concessions
           are
           treated
           as
           a
           
             seeming
             Relief
             ;
             pretended
             Acts
             of
             Grace
             ;
             an
             imperfect
             Redress
             ,
             upon
             which
             no
             weight
             is
             to
             be
             laid
             ,
             because
             Solemn
             Promises
             have
             been
             broken
             ;
             a
             plain
             Confession
             of
             the
             Violation
             set
             forth
             in
             the
             Declaration
             ,
             and
             defective
             because
             they
             may
             again
             be
             taken
             up
             .
          
           His
           Highness
           takes
           care
           that
           nothing
           shall
           be
           replyed
           upon
           breach
           of
           Promise
           ,
           by
           giving
           no
           instance
           where
           it
           was
           broken
           .
           But
           to
           my
           grief
           here
           is
           greater
           Work
           in
           hand
           .
           It
           had
           been
           shorter
           ,
           and
           not
           much
           plainer
           said
           ,
           I
           am
           resolved
           at
           any
           rate
           to
           come
           ,
           and
           be
           King.
           For
           as
           the
           pretence
           of
           the
           Declaration
           was
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           had
           taken
           up
           some
           things
           ,
           and
           the
           pretence
           of
           the
           Addition
           ,
           that
           he
           has
           laid
           them
           down
           ,
           't
           is
           palpable
           that
           the
           Expedition
           was
           unalterably
           resolved
           ,
           without
           any
           care
           ,
           or
           thought
           of
           the
           good
           of
           England
           ,
           or
           its
           Concerns
           ,
           save
           only
           to
           borrow
           a
           pretence
           which
           might
           contribute
           to
           the
           success
           of
           the
           Expedition
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           do
           ,
           or
           undo
           was
           all
           a
           case
           ;
           and
           that
           nothing
           shall
           satisfie
           him
           but
           laying
           down
           the
           Crown
           ,
           nor
           that
           neither
           ,
           because
           it
           may
           happen
           to
           be
           taken
           up
           again
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           his
           Highness
           declares
           again
           ,
           that
           
             he
             will
             refer
             all
             to
             a
             free
             lawful
             Parliament
             .
          
           Happy
           we
           ,
           if
           he
           would
           .
           If
           an
           English
           Parliament
           were
           to
           judge
           ,
           whether
           Foreign
           Force
           be
           lawful
           ?
           Whether
           it
           be
           Integrity
           ,
           Zeal
           ,
           and
           Fidelity
           to
           abet
           it
           ?
           Whether
           it
           can
           be
           without
           a
           design
           of
           Conquest
           ,
           and
           Conquest
           without
           enslaving
           this
           Nation
           to
           the
           Arbitrary
           Pleasure
           of
           the
           Conqueror
           ?
           And
           twenty
           such
           things
           ,
           which
           must
           needs
           enter
           into
           the
           number
           of
           the
           referred
           All.
           But
           to
           talk
           of
           referring
           all
           to
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           refer
           all
           to
           the
           Sword
           ;
           To
           talk
           of
           the
           freedom
           of
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           cannot
           Vote
           nor
           Debate
           ,
           nor
           so
           much
           as
           make
           a
           Motion
           ,
           but
           in
           danger
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           is
           purely
           Talk
           ,
           and
           not
           like
           to
           ingratiate
           his
           Quarrel
           to
           a
           Nation
           not
           altogether
           senseless
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           his
           Highness
           seems
           to
           think
           it
           is
           ,
           when
           we
           see
           the
           King
           did
           call
           a
           free
           Parliament
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           actually
           did
           refer
           all
           to
           it
           ,
           (
           for
           calling
           one
           is
           referring
           all
           to
           it
           ,
           which
           it
           thinks
           fit
           to
           take
           into
           Consideration
           )
           and
           that
           his
           Highness
           would
           not
           let
           it
           sit
           ,
           we
           need
           no
           Declarations
           to
           inform
           us
           which
           of
           the
           two
           is
           truly
           willing
           to
           refer
           all
           to
           a
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           Two
           Letters
           ,
           said
           to
           be
           annexed
           to
           the
           Declaration
           in
           Holland
           ,
           and
           addrest
           to
           the
           Seamen
           and
           Land
           Soldiers
           carry
           likewise
           the
           Name
           of
           his
           Highness
           .
           In
           which
           they
           are
           first
           Cajolled
           with
           the
           Title
           of
           Friend
           ;
           as
           if
           they
           were
           Men
           to
           be
           Cajolled
           into
           a
           Friendship
           ,
           with
           the
           Enemies
           of
           their
           Prince
           and
           Country
           ,
           and
           then
           endeavoured
           to
           be
           debaucht
           into
           his
           Service
           ,
           by
           motives
           the
           most
           unsuitable
           to
           English
           Natures
           that
           were
           ever
           found
           out
           ,
           
             Danger
             from
             Papists
             ,
             Duty
             to
             God
             ,
          
           and
           
             Fear
             of
             falling
             into
             his
             Hands
             .
          
           I
           perceiv'd
           we
           were
           taken
           for
           Fools
           before
           ,
           must
           we
           be
           taken
           for
           Cowards
           too
           ,
           Men
           to
           be
           frighted
           even
           with
           the
           Sound
           of
           Danger
           ▪
           His
           Highness
           is
           like
           to
           be
           informed
           one
           day
           ,
           that
           the
           English
           Fear
           not
           his
           Arms
           ,
           much
           less
           the
           Papists
           ,
           who
           tho
           they
           were
           all
           embodied
           ,
           are
           not
           near
           so
           many
           Soldiers
           ;
           no
           tho
           it
           were
           
           less
           by
           as
           many
           Papists
           as
           are
           in
           it
           .
           And
           yet
           there
           are
           more
           Holland
           than
           English
           Papists
           in
           the
           Field
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           that
           they
           know
           their
           Duty
           to
           God
           obliges
           them
           to
           be
           true
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           is
           no
           Honour
           in
           Treason
           .
           Lastly
           ,
           that
           his
           Men
           may
           fear
           to
           fall
           into
           their
           Hands
           ,
           they
           fear
           not
           to
           fall
           into
           his
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           said
           besides
           ,
           that
           
             Papists
             have
             Sworn
             the
             Ruin
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             ,
          
           a
           piece
           of
           News
           which
           his
           Highness
           would
           much
           oblige
           the
           whole
           Nation
           to
           Verifie
           .
           Let
           the
           wicked
           Men
           be
           but
           Named
           ,
           and
           Convicted
           ,
           and
           the
           next
           Gallows
           or
           Tree
           would
           save
           the
           trouble
           of
           Parliaments
           and
           References
           ▪
           Lastly
           ,
           the
           Soldiers
           ▪
           that
           they
           may
           not
           be
           Instruments
           to
           defend
           their
           Prince
           ,
           and
           save
           their
           Country
           and
           themselves
           from
           Slavery
           ,
           are
           desired
           to
           believe
           they
           are
           the
           Instruments
           to
           introduce
           Popery
           .
           When
           they
           are
           ,
           They
           will
           pray
           His
           Majesty
           to
           Dispense
           with
           their
           Service
           .
           But
           they
           find
           〈◊〉
           Popery
           in
           Fighting
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           their
           Country
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           ,
           against
           a
           Man
           who
           Usurps
           the
           Crown
           first
           ,
           and
           then
           would
           cajole
           them
           to
           fix
           it
           .
           For
           besides
           ,
           what
           has
           been
           observed
           already
           ,
           he
           writes
           in
           the
           Style
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           
             Trusty
             and
             Well
             Beloved
          
           ,
           and
           joyns
           the
           Supporters
           of
           England
           to
           his
           Arms
           ,
           in
           a
           manner
           not
           allowable
           in
           Heraldry
           ,
           even
           tho
           the
           Princess
           Royal
           were
           Queen
           .
           But
           where
           we
           cannot
           find
           good
           Reasons
           ,
           we
           must
           take
           up
           with
           bad
           Pretences
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
  

