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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28440	King William and Queen Mary, conquerors, or, A discourse endeavouring to prove that Their Majesties have on their side, against the late king, the principal reasons that make conquest a good title shewing also how this is consistent with that declaration of Parliament, King James abdicated the government, &c. : written with an especial regard to such as have hitherto refused the oath, and yet incline to allow of the title of conquest, when consequent to a just war.	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3309; ESTC R23388	40,332	68

disband the Army and dismiss the Souldiers which was accordingly done telling him in his Letter that things being come to that extremity that he had been forced to send away the Queen and his Son that they might not fall into the Enemies Hands he himself was obliged to do the same thing And presently after his Majesty was taken by the Inhabitants of Feversham in a small Vessel endeavouring to go out of the Nation And after this it is manifest the Prince never considered him as King of England but as his Prisoner or as a Person conquered It is true the Lords invited him back to London but it was without the Prince's Consent and in all Likelihood without his Knowledg For although he treated him with all imaginable Respect as a Person so nearly related to himself and the Princess and with a due Regard to Majesty with which he had been so lately vested yet still it was but like a Person conquered For understanding he was at Rochester he sent to him to continue there by Monsieur Zulestein but he missing of him he sent another Order after him to remove from Whitehall whither he was gone to Ham. The Message was to be delivered by the Marquess of Hallifax the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Lord Delamere after the Prince's Guards were in possession of the Posts about Whitehall and a Note drawn up to that Purpose Likewise the Prince committed the Earl of Feversham to the Castle of Windsor who had been sent by the King to invite him to St. James's And if he committed the Servant to Prison it is not hard to determine in what Condition he judged the Master to be Princes do not use to imprison each others Servants sent on kind Messages while their Masters are free that is as King James in his Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester words it against the Practice and Law of Nations But the Truth is he considered him as a Prince conquered by him and treated him accordingly although with all imaginable Respect and with great Tenderness This is the plain meaning of such Actions and in this Sense King James understood them and therefore he sent to desire leave of the Prince to return to Rochester which was granted And in this Sense he interprets them in his Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester For having mentioned them he adds these memorable Words I was born Free and I desire to continue so Wherefore in his own Opinion his going privately from Rochester into France was no other than an Escape out of Captivity or rather out of a Conqueror's Hands whose Prisoner he was I insist the longer upon these things for the sake of such as own Conquest upon a just Quarrel to be a good Title as indeed it is but say the Prince did not make use of his Fortune but declined it by leaving the Matter to the Convention Of which I shall say more hereafter when I come to answer Objections In the mean time I will contract into a narrow Compass what I have said at large that so the Reader may at once take a View of it Here were violent Presumptions of an unsufferable Injury done to the Prince and a Refusal of giving reasonable Satisfaction to the last a marching down with an Army to oppose him when he came to examine the Truth Two Battels fought how much Blood spilt it matters not in both which the Prince had the better The King fled before the Prince to London from thence towards Gravesend went on board a Vessel in order to leave the Nation without deputing a Vice-Roy is brought back again but being used as he thought like a Prisoner makes his Escape a second time and leaves the Nation And now good Reader do not deceive thy self nor suffer thy self to be imposed upon by the little Pretences of such Men whose Interest it is never to be satisfied consider well and judg impartially What was there wanting in the Case of King James to make it fall short of a Conquest There can be no Objections against this as it seems to me of any great Moment however I will not pass by unanswered any Scruple that I can foresee and much less any Objection that I know hath been made In the 1st Place it hath been said The Prince by his fair Pretences in his Declaration stole away the Hearts of his Majesty's Subjects and Souldiers so that they forsook him and therefore he may be said rather to have been betray'd than conquer'd To this I answer two things 1st That the Prince's Declaration was most reasonable and thought to be so by the most considerable both for Learning and Quality of those that now refuse the Oath who therefore urged the King over and over to condescend without Fighting to his Demand of referring all Differences to a Free Parliament And since his Majesty's Refusal was a Refusal to give Satisfaction about the Rights and Liberties of the Nation which had been infringed and about the Succession to the Crown which was suspected to be in Danger of being altered It is more than any Man can prove that the Subject was bound to assist the King especially if we add that if he had got the Victory it must in all Probability have ended in the utter Subversion of our Laws and legal Government and in the Destruction of our Rights both Civil and Religious That Subjects may not resist the King although he indeavour their Destruction unjustly hath been taught and that is Loyalty enough in all Reason But that they are bound to assist him to destroy the main Body of a Nation is such a Notion of Loyalty as will not down with wise Men. But 2dly Supposing the King had been unjustly betray'd by his Subjects and Souldiers or deserted by them who ought to have stood by him in the Quarrel what was that to the Prince who was none of the King 's Subject but a Soveraign Prince It behoved the King to have assured himself of the Loyalty and Courage of his own Souldiers and People And if he did not and was therefore beaten it was never the less a Conquest over him because his Men either would not or durst not fight For when Princes take the Field the Question as to Right of Conquest is which overcomes not whether his Souldiers that is overcome fought or not nor whether his Subjects adhered firmly to him or not When Henry Duke of Lancaster came into England and gathered an Army traiterously against his Soveraign King Richard the Second who was then in Ireland the King sent the Earl of Salisbury before him into England to gather an Army against his Coming over But staying longer than the time by himself appointed the Army would no longer be kept together The King coming over and finding that they were dispersed and hearing that all the Castles from the Borders of Scotland and Bristol were delivered to the Duke and that the greatest part of

Judgment even where at the first I have had some measure of Assurance I distrust my Performance But when I abstract from my own Management set aside the Sence I have of my own Weakness and consider the force of the Arguments themselves I cannot but think them convincing and if I did not think so I would never have written However I shall leave all to the Reader 's Censure and to the Consideration of such as have hitherto refused the Oath of Allegiance when I have desired of them these few Things 1. That they would lay aside all Prejudices and read with Minds prepared to receive satisfaction 2. That they would not pass a Judgment against what I offer before they fully understand me and comprehend the force of my Reasoning 3. That they would consider over and over the Force of each Argument where several are offered and of each Answer to such Objections as are made and if one or more shall prove unsatisfactory that it may not hinder them from weighing impartially the rest Lastly that they would take in good part my charitable meaning And if any Man is pleased to write against what I have said I desire he will write like a Person that contends for Truth rather than Victory That he will neither trouble the Press nor me with any thing that I have already answered either explicitely or implicitely or that he himself can answer That he will avoid all undue Reflections and all bitter provoking Sarcasms remembring that he and I are both Christians however we differ about the Matter in dispute KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY CONQUERORS SECT I. Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary had a just Ground of War with King James THE Question is Whether or no the Subject do owe Allegiance may lawfully and ought when required to swear Allegiance to K. William and Q. Mary in these Words I A. B. do sincerly Promise and Swear That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God I have undertaken to make good the Assirmative and before I proceed to Argument it is necessary in order to avoid Confusion hereafter that I premise Two Things 1. What I mean by being Faithful and bearing true Allegiance And here I shall grant the Non J 〈…〉 rs all they can desire 〈◊〉 That these Words ought to be understood in a Sense that a scrupulous Mind would last swear in That the Oath when taken doth not only oblige a Man to be a true Prisoner to pay Taxes and not to disturb the Government but to bear all the Allegiance to their Present Majesties that was ever owing to any King of England whatever although his Title was most indisputable so as is the late K. James himself should land in England and lay with an Army on the left Hand and K. William and Q. Mary with an Army on right yet so long as K. William and Q Mary were possessed of the Crown and the Regalia the Subjects were bound in Conscience to look upon J. as an Invader and every Man in his Place and Calling were to be aiding and assisting to K. William and Q. Mary the Priesthood with their Prayers the Militia with their Arms and the People with their Purses c In this Sense I am content to understand the Oath and I think it very probable that this is the Sense of the Imposers because they intended it as a means to secure the Crown to those on whose Heads they had plac'd it and less than this will not do it The 2d Thing to be premised is That I make no difficulty at all about any Title that Q. Mary may by some be supposed to have antecedent to that of K. William Because she having submitted her Right and being very well satisfied with the Share allotted her by the Convention no Man else hath any thing to do to move any Controversie about it Wherefore when I say Allegiance is due to K. William and Q. Mary I mean it in the Sense that the Oath it self implies it to be due to each of them which for ought any Man knows is the very Sense that each of them do best like of And these things being premised I now proceed There are three Topicks from whence we may argue for the Oath and as it seems to me from each of them very solidly 1. We may affirm That their present Maje●●ies had a just Quarrel against the late King and conquered him and that Conquest is in such a Case a good Title 2. That the late King Abdicated the Crown and left the Throne vacant And that although the former Tit'e were not good yet the Convention having place I them there and the Body of the Nation submitted to them they have thereupon a good Title And 3. That their Majesties are possessed of the Crown and that Possession is in their Case a good Title although the other two should fail The two last I shall wave because they have been already very largely prosecuted by others and as it seems to me to good purpose however they have not hapned to give satisfaction to some Men. The first I shall endeavour to manage because however it may have been touch'd upon by some others yet hath it not been so fully laid open and urged by any that I know of as the other Two If in this I am mistaken I must plead for my excuse the Circumstances I am in especially my ●istance from Business and such Books as have been lately written which is to me unavoidable But the chief Reason that hath at this time determined my Choice to this Argument is Because I find that several who are not yet satisfied with any thing that hath been hitherto offered do declare That if it could be made appear that their present Majesties have on their side all the Right of Conquest they would entirely submit to the Government and take 〈◊〉 O 〈…〉 They are to be understood of a Conquest consequent to a just Quarrel and therefore it is that they so importunately demand our proving either the League with France or that the pretended Prince of Wales is not Genuine They seem to own that either of these would have been on the then Prince of Orange's part a just Ground of War and that thereupon he might lawfully have made use of his Success And if this be true then must the Conclusion be the same by whatever Argument we prove the Premises Wherefore for these Mens Satisfaction as well as for the vindicating of their Majesties and their Loyal Subjects in point of Honour and Conscience I have undertaken to do it And to put the matter if it be possible out of Controversie I shall endeavour to prove these three things 1. That their Majesties K. William and Q. Mary had a just Ground of War with K. James 2. That they conquered him And 3. That Conquest is in this their Case a good Title 1. Their