Some remarkable passages out of the excellent letter of Mijn Heer Fagal, in the name of Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688. 1689 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A41313 Wing F92A ESTC R32252 12587115 ocm 12587115 63790 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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I Must then first of all assure you very positively , That their Highnesses have often declared , as they did it more particularly to the Marquiss Abbev●lle , His Majesties Envoy Extraordinary to the States , that it is their Opinion , That No Christian ought to be persecuted for his conscience , or be ill used , because he differs from the Publick and Establishe● Religion : and therefore they can consent that the Papists in En●land , Scotland , and Ireland . ●●●e suffered to continue in their Religion , with as much liberty as is allowed them by the States in these ●rovinces . And their Highnesses are very ready , in case His Majesty shall think fit to desire it , to declare their willingness to concur in the settling and confirming this Liberty , and as far as it lies in them , they will protect and defend it , and according to the Language of Treaties , They wi●l confirm it with their Guaranty , of which you made mention in yours . And if His Majesty shall think fit further to desire their concurrence in the repealing of the Penal Laws , they are ready to give it ; provided alwayes that those Laws remain still in their full vigor , by which the R. Catholicks are shut out of both Houses of Parliament , and out of all Publick Employments , Ecclesiastical , Civil , and Military . You writ , That the Roman Catholicks in these Provinces are not shut out from Employments and Places of Trust ; but in this you are much mistaken , for our Laws are express , excluding them by name from all share in the Government , and from all Employments either of the Policy or Justice of our Countrey . It is true , I do not know of any express Law , that shuts them out of Military Employments , that had indeed been hard , since in the first formation of our State , they joyned with us in defending our Publick Liberty , and did as eminent service during the Wars ; therefore they were not shut out from those Military Employments ; for the Publick Safety was no way endangered by this , both because their numbers that served in our Troops were not great , and because the States could easily prevent any inconveniency that might arise out of that ; which could not have been done so easily , if the R Catholicks had been admitted to a share in the Government , and in the Policy or Justice of our State. I am very certain of this , of which I could give very good proof , that there is nothing that their Highnesses desire so much , as That His Majesty may Reign happily , and in an intire Confidence with his Subjects ; and that his Subjects being perswaded of His Majesties fatherly affection to them , may be ready to make him all the Returns of Duty that are in their power . Their Highnesses have ever paid a most profound Duty to His Majesty , which they will alwayes continue to do ; for they consider themselves bound to it , both by the Laws of God and of Nature . I do not think it necessary to demonstrate to you how much their Highnesses are devoted to His Majesty , of which they have given such real Evidences as are beyond all verbal ones ; and they are resolved still to continue in the same Duty and Affection : or rather to increase it , if that is possible . Nov. 4. 1687. SIR , Yours , &c. Memorandum , That these singular Expressions of Affection and Duty to the King their Father , were sent after those irregular and offensive measures of Quo Warranting Charters , the Dispensing Power , Clossetting , the Ecclesiastical Commission , and Magdalen Colledge , were practised ; and comparing this with several Expressions in his Highness his Declaration , and both with His Majesties Reasons why he withdrew himself from Rochester , may it not become us as Members of the Church of England , and Subjects of the King of England , to desire him to return to us upon the Terms of the Ancient Constitution of our Government ; and if those be too large , upon such Terms , as will make us safe ; and may not our neglecting to do it , upon a supposition of a Demise , because he with-drew himself , which he charges upon a Constraint , become a lasting Reproach upon these Kingdoms , and through our means , a like dishonour to the Prince and Princess .