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A65410 An answer to the late King James's declaration to all his pretended subjects in the Kingdom of England, dated at Dublin-Castle May 8, 1689 Welwood, James, 1652-1727. 1689 (1689) Wing W1299; ESTC R24610 16,973 14

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though to amuse the Nation He allowed them the empty Names of Privy Counselors He had not brought three Kingdoms to the brink of Ruine nor upon Himself so hard a fate Yet I must acknowledge some part of the obligation we have to these Gentlemen that of late had the sole conduct of King JAMES His Affairs For in giving Him such Counsels as his greatest Enemies could have wish'd Him they prov'd the occasion of our being at this day happy under the Auspicious Reign of their Majesties being Princes of the same Religion and Interests with Their People And we may justly say as Themistocles of old we had undoubtedly perish'd if we had not perish'd How little is King James oblig'd to His Secretary that penn'd this Deelaration since he so foolishly rakes up the Remembrance of those things that made Him and His Government odious to the World by the names of Calumnies and Stories which it was so much His Master's Interest to bury in silence Good God! Were the late palpable and barefac'd Incroachments upon the Fundamental Laws of the Nation but Calumnies Were the open Violations of Solemn Oaths Promises and Ingagements but Stories Does King James or His French and Irish Councellors imagine that we have so soon forgot His Promises made in Council not many hours after His Brother's Death and his compicuous Breaches of them not many months thereafter Can we allow our selves to forget that all the Trusts both in Court Bench and the Army were filled up with these very Men whom Reiterated Laws had rendred incapable of them Was a Person 's sitting at the Council board whose very being found in England was death by the Law but a meer Calumny Can a few months be able to obliterate the Memory of that Affair of Megdalen Colledge one of the most open Invasions of Property that could be Have we lost the Remembrance of that Illegal Ecclesiastical Court and the Tyrannick Judgments past therein Have we not seen a Reverend Prelat suspended from his Function meerly because he would not do what he could not that is for not condemning a man unheard Have not we seen seven of the Spiritual Peers of England sent prisoners to the Tower and brought as Criminals to the Bar for barely representing the Reasons why they could not obey an Arbitrary Command contrary to their Conscience Both England and our Neighbouring Nation have too many Reasons to remember the Late King James's assuming to himself an Arbitrary and Despotick Power not only to dispence with Laws and the firmest Constitutions but to act diametrically opposite to them Can King James's Oratory perswade us That the continuing to Levy the Customs and additional Excise which had been only granted during the Late King Charles's Life before the Parliament could meet to renew this Grant was but a Calumny Was the strange Essay of Mahometan Government acted at Taunton and Lyme and the no less strange Proceedings of that Bloody Chief Justice in his Western Circuit justly term'd his Champaign for it was an open Hostility to all Law for which and the like Services he had the reward of the Great Seal were they all but Stories We have too good Reason not to forget the many Violences committed by the Soldiers of a standing Army in most Parts of England and Scotland which are the most severe and insupportable Invasisions of Property These and such like with a great many more were the things that render'd King James's Government Justly Odious to the British world and made these three Kingdoms groan after Liberty If so grave and tragick a Subject could allow it I could be almost tempted to laugh at that Expression in the Declaration of his Enemies not daring to attempt the proving these Charges to the World which is all one as if a Man in the severest fit of the Gout should be desir'd to prove that he is so when the Sense of the Pain proves too sad a remembrancer of his Distemper And indeed this part of King James's Declaration merits no other answer than that of the Philosopher to him who deny'd motion When making a step up and down the Room he vouchsafed him no other Refutation of his Ridiculous Assertion than these two words hiene Motus In fine It will be equally impossible to perswade the World that these Actions that tender'd King James's Government Odious to the world were but Calumnies and Stories as to perswade a Man upon the Rack that he feels no pain How unluckily have the Penners of his Declaration stumbled upon that Expression of his Enemies not caring what Slavery they reduce the Kingdoms to Quis tulerit Gracch●s That King James had in a great measure enslav'd these Nations and was upon the Ripening his designs in Conjunction with Lewis the 14th to teach us a French kind of Subjection has appear'd in legible Characters by the whole Scheme of his Actings But since his present Majesties Accession to the Throne there is not the least footstep of Slavery left us we are blest with a King that takes the Advice of his Parliament and owns to distinct Interest from that of his People a Prince who to deliver us from Popery and Slavery has ventur'd his All and who by his Conduct at home and his Allies abroad is capable to render us happy If our own Divisions and Folly do not precipitate us into an inevitable and unpitied Ruin. In the next place King James tells us That since his Arrival in Ireland the Defence of his Protestant Subjects as he calls them their Religion Priviledges and Properties is especially his care with the Recovery of his own Rights And to this end he has preferr'd such of them of whose Loyalty and affection he is satisfied to places both of the highest Honour and Trust about his Person as well as in his Army The Reading of these Lines puts me in mind of the parallel so exactly observ'd betwixt the French King and King James in all their Conduct and particularly in both their way of asserting the calm Methods used by them towards their Protestant Subjects When that Common Enemy of the Christian part of Europe as the present Pope was pleased to call him had outdone all the Nero's and Julian's of old in the Art of Persecution and had render'd himself abominated to the World by the Cruelties committed by his Dragoon Missioners upon those very people that had done him the best Offices and preserved the Crown upon his Head in this Minority yet at the very same time Lewis the 14th and his Ministers have had the Impudence to affirm That no other Methods were us'd to Convert these poor Victims but those of fair Persuasion and Calmness Just so King James that he may follow as near his Copy as possible having since his Arrival in Ireland abandoned the Protestants of that Countrey to the Merciless Rage of an Enemy irreconcilable from both a principle of Religion and Civil Interest who within his view had laid desolate