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A66129	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 Here unto are added the letters of the aforesaid his illustrious Highnesse to the sea and land forces of England, together with the prayer for the present expedition.; Declaration of his Highness William Henry, by the grace of God, Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him to appear in arms for preserving of the Protestant religion and for restoring the laws and liberties of England, Scotland and Ireland.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702. Declaration of His Highness William Henry by the grace of God Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him to appear in arms for preserving of the Protestant religion, and for restoring the laws and liberties of the ancient kingdom of Scotland. aut; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688, attributed name.	1688 (1688)	Wing W2328C; ESTC R221019	18,386	19

secret thoughts Besides a great many other Violences and Oppressions to which that poor Nation hath been exposed without any hope of having an end put to them or to have Relief from them And that the Arbitrary and Illegall proceedings of those Evill Councellours might be justified and supported such a Declaration hath been procured by them as strikes at the root of the Government and overturns the most sacred Rights of it in making all Parliaments unnecessary and taking away all defences of Religion Liberty and Property by an assumed and asserted Absolute Power to which Obedience is required without Reserve which every good Christian is perswaded to be due to God Almighty alone all whose Commandements are always Just and Good. These Evill Councellours have used their utmost endeavours to abolish Penall Laws excluding all who are not Protestants from publick Trust which give too great a check to their designes For the accomplishing of this a Liberty hath been granted to Dissenters but such a●one as that the continuance thereof is plainly insinuated to depend upon their hearty concurrence for Abolishing the abovementioned Penall Laws the only legall defence of their Religion Although the Dissenters have just cause of distrust when they call to mind how some hundreds of their Ministers were driven out of their Churches without either accusation or citation the filling of many of whose places with Ignorant and Scandalous persons hath been one great occasion of all those Miseries which that Countrey for a long time hath Groaned under And Dissenters have but small ground to rest on any present ease founded upon a Proclamation which may be recalled every hour and which in the first and second Editions of it gave no relief to them especially considering that not many monts before the greatest of the forementioned severities and barbarities had been exercised upon them But to crown all there are great and violent Presumptions inducing us to beleeve that those Evill Councellours in order to the carrying on of their ill designes 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 Bignes and in the manner in which the Birth was managed so many just and visible grounds of suspicion that not only Wee our selves but all the good Subjects of those Kingdomes doe 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 Bignes 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 Wee our selves have so great an Interest in this Matter and such a Right as all the world knows to the succession of these Kingdomes which those Men have attempted to violate for preventing of all redress of miseries by the lawfull Successors of the Crown educated by the good providence of God in the true Profession of the Protestant Religion Wee cannot excuse our selves from espousing the true interest of these Nations in matters of such high Consequence and from contributing all that lies in us for the defence of the Laws and Liberties thereof the maintaining of the Protestant Religion in them and the securing of the People in the enjoyment of all their just Rights But that our Intentions may be so manifest that no person may doubt or pretend to doubt thereof to excuse themselves from concurringh with us in this just Design for the Universall good of the Nation Wee do Declare that the freeing that Kingdom from all hazard of Popery and Arbitrary power for the future and the delivering it from what at the present doth expose it to both the setling of it by Parliament upon such a solid Basis as to its Religions and Civill concerns as may most effectually redress all the above mentioned Grievances are the true reasons of our present undertaking as to that Nation And therefore Wee persuade our selves that our Endeavours to give the best assistance wee can for the Relief of so distressed a Kingdome shall not only not be misconstrued but shall also be accompanied with a chearfull and universall Concurrence of the whole Nation that even those who have been Instruments for the enslaving of it will now show their Dislike of what they have done by their timeous and reasonable Diligence for its Rescue and that if any shall not give us that Assistance which their Conscience to God and their Respect to their Countrey oblige them to they shall be justly charged with all the Evills that may be the effects of such a want of their duty And as wee our selves desire to trust to the Almighty God alone for the success of our Arms so wee expect of all good men that they will apply themselves most earnestly to Him for his Blessing upon our Endeavours that so they may rend to the Glory of his Great Name to the Establishment of the Reformed Churches and to the Peace and Happiness of that Kingdome Given under our hand and Seal at our Court in the Hague the tenth of October in the Year of our Lord 1688. WILLIAM HENRY PRINCE OF ORANGE By his Highnesses speciall command C HUYGENS. To all Commanders of Ships and all Seamen that are now imployed in the English Fleet. GENTLEMEN AND FRIENDS OUr Right Trusty and Well beloved Admirall Herbert is fully Instructed by Us And therefore Wee expect that you will give an Entire credit to every thing that he shall say to you in our Name Wee have prepared a Declaration containing the Reasons that induce Us to undertake the Present Expedition in which Wee have no other designe but the preservation of the Protestant Religion and the restoring of the Lawes and Liberties of England The totall ruine of your Religion being as much designed by the Papists in England as it is already accomplished in France and it will as certainly be effected if they are able to prevail at this time Wee can not beleeve but that you must be already sensible that you are only made use of as Instruments to bring both your selves and your Countrey under Popery and Slavery by the means both of the Irish and the Forreigners who are preparing to compleat your Destruction And therefore Wee hope that God will put it in your hearts at this time to Redeem your selves your Countrey and your Religion from all those Miseries This in all humane appearance can onely be done by your coming now to assist Us who are labouring for your Deliverance And Wee doe assure you that Wee will be ever mindfull of the services that youw shall now doe Us And Wee promise to you that Wee will place particular marks of our Favour on all