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Fasti Gulielmi Tertii, or, An Account of the most memorable actions transacted during His Majesty's life, both before and since his accession to the crown with the days, months, and years wherein the same hapned [sic].
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1697
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from them by Violence  November  11. 1. 1677 This Day the States General met about the Letter sent them by his Highness to desire their Approbation for his Marriage with the Princess Mary and came to this Resolution that the Heer Stangerlant who had brought the said Letter should be immediately dispatch'd back with their Act of Approbation that the Heer Van Odick and the Heer Van Beuningen their Ambassadors in England should congratulate their Highnesses in their Name and present their Letters to the King Duke of York and Princesses that their Plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen â—hould forthwith acquaint the Congress with that Marriage that the like should be done to the Foreign Ministers at the Hague and that their Ambassadors should be ordered to notify the same in the Courts where they resided with the Ceremonies sutable to that great Occasion that a Present should be made to the Captain of the English Frigat who had brought over the Heer Stangerlant and that all the Bells at the Hague should be immediately rung to proclaim that important and acceptable News dit 1688 The Prince having repaired the Damage his Fleet had sustained in the late Storm resolved to improve the Opportunity of the Easterly Wind and accordingly having dined with the English Dutch Scots and French Lords attending his Person went this Day on board the Frigat called the Brille about 4 in the Afternoon and immediately after the Signal was given for the Ships to weigh their Anchors so that the whole Fleet was under Sail before Night divided into three Squadrons as before 12. 2. 1673 This Day the City of Bonne surrendred to the Confederate Army commanded by the Prince of Orange and Count Montecuculi As this Expedition was the Preservation of Holland I think the Reader should not take it ill that I enlarge a little upon it The Prince having taken Naerdlen as we have mentioned before in spite of all Resistance and Opposition from either the French or the Season did however wisely foreseeing that the recovering of all the Towns the States had lost would take up too much time resolve like another young Scipio to save his Country by abandoning it and therefore having left part of his Forces to defend the chief Posts or Passages in Holland marched with the rest into Germany and having joined part of the Confederate Troops besieged Bonne which had been put into the Hands of France at the beginning of the War The Boldness of this Action amazed all Men but the Success extoll'd the Prudence as well as the Bravery of it Bonne was forced to surrender this Day and thereby his Highness opened a Passage for the German Forces over the Rhine and so into Flanders The French who did not expect such a thing were so amazed that they thought it was high time for them to think of defending their own Country and in order to it they abandoned all their Conquests in Holland retaining only Grave and Mastricht so that we may truly say that in retaking Bonne the Prince retook also Woerden Hardewick the Fortress of Crevecoeur Bommel Vtrecht Elburg Campes Hattem Steenwick and all other Places on the Conquest whereof the French boasted so much tho it may be said without any Partiality that they quitted them faster than they had taken them I must not forget to remark by the by that the Cruelties and Barbarities the French committed at Bodengrave Swamerdam Tongrâ—â— and other Places exceed all the Inhumanities of the old Goths and Normans dit 1690 The Sieur de la Tour Counsellor of State to his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy and his Envoy Extraordinary to cheir Majesties had this Day his publick Audience of the King and Queen to congratulate their Accession to the Throne and made the following Speech to his Majesty which I purposely insert here to shew the Generosity of the King towards him and the Ingratitude of that Prince in forsaking afterwards the Party of his Deliverer   Sir His Royal Highness my Master does by me congratulate your sacred Majesties glorious Accession to the Crown which was due to your Birth deserved by your Vertue and is maintained by your Valour Providence had designed it for your sacred Head for the Accomplishment of his eternal Decrees which after a long Patience do always tend to raise up chosen Souls to repress Violence and protect Justice The wonderful Beginnings of your Reign are most certain Presages of the Blessings which Heaven prepares for the Uprightness of your Intentions which have no other Aim than to restore this flourishing Kingdom to its primitive Grandeur and break the Chains which Europe is near expiring under This magnanimous Design worthy of the Hero of our Age silled his Royal Highness at first with inexpressible Joy but he was constrained to conceal it in the Secret of his Heart and if at last he has been free to own it he is obliged to the very Name of your Majesty for it since that alone has made him conceive some Hopes of Liberty after so many Years of Servitude   My Words and the Treaty which I have signed at the Hague with your Majesties Ministers do but weakly express the Passion which my Master has to unite himself by the most inviolable Ties to your Service The Honour Sir which he has to be related to you has formed the first Knots of this Union the infinite Respect which he has for your sacred Person has knit them faster and the generous Protection which you are pleased to grant him will doubtless make them indissolvable These are the sincere Sentiments of his Royal Highness to which I dare not add any thing of my own for how ardent soever my Zeal may be and how profound the Veneration which I bear to your glorious Atchievements I think I cannot better express either than by a Silence full of Admiration 13. 3. 1688 This Evening an Express arâ—ived from Dover with Advice that the Durch Fleet had been â—â—iscovered that Morning between 10 and 11 about half â—â—eas over between Dover and Calais steering a Channel Course to the Westward A Flyâ—boat of that Fleet which had 4 Companies of Foot of Colonel Babington's Regiment was taken by Captain Aâ—lmer Commander of the Swallow dit 1688 Whilst the Bishops in England were so vigorously asserting the Protestant Religion the Rights and Liberties of the Subject the Bishops of Scotland were sacrificing both of them to the Arbitrary Power of King James as one may see by the following Letter which they subscribed this Day at Edinburgh   May it please your most sacred Mâ—jesty   WE prostrate our selves to pay our devote Thanks and Adoration to the Sovereign Majesty of Heaven and Earth for preserving your sacred Life and Person so often exposed to the greatest Hazards and as often delivered and you miraculously prosper'd with Glory and Victory in Defence of the Rights and Honour of your Majesty's August Brother and of
these Kingdoms and that by his merciful Goodness the raging of the Sea and Madness of unreasonable Men have been stilled and calmed and your Majesty as the Darling of Heaven peaceably seated on the Throne of your Royal Ancestors whose long illustrious and unparallel'd Line is the greatest Glory of this your antient Kingdom   We pay our most humble Gratitude to your Majesty for the repeated Assurances of your Royal Protection to our National Church and Religion as the Laws have established them which are very sutable to the gracious Countenance Encouragement and Protection your Majesty was pleased to afford to our Church and Order whilst we were happy in your Presence amongst us   We magnify the Divine Mercy in blessing your Majesty with a Son and us with a Prince whom we pray Heaven may bless and preserve to sway your Royal Scepters after you and that he may inherit with your Dominions the Illustrious and Heroick Vertues of his august and most serene Parents   We are amazed to hear of the Danger of an Invasion from Holland which excites our Prayers for an universal Repentance to all Orders of Men that God may yet spare his People preserve your Royal Person and prevent the Effusion of Christian Blood and to give such Success to your Majesty's Arms that all who invade your Majesty's just and undoubted Rights and disturb or interrupt the Peace of your Realms may be disappointed and clothed with Shame so that on your Royal Head the Crown may still flourish   As by the Grace of God we shall preserve in our selves a firm and unshaken Loyalty so we shall be careful and zealous to promote in all your Subjects an intrepid and stedfast Allegiance to your Majesty as an essential part of their Religion and of the Glory of our Holy Profession not doubting but that God in his great Mercy who has so often preserved and delivered your Majesty will still preserve and deliver you by giving you the Hearts of your Subjects and the Necks of your Enemies So pray we who in all Humility are your Majesty's most humble most faithful and most obedient Subjects and Servants Signed by the Archbishops of St. Andrews and Glasgow and the Bishops of Edinburgh Galloway Aberdeen Dunkel Brechâ—â— Orkney Murray Ross Dâ—â—â—blane and of the Isles Dated Edinburgh Novemb 3. 1688.   This florid Letter was immediately published in the Gazette but instead of having upon the People the Effect the Court expected they were exasperated against those Prelates and looked upon them as Papists for they did not think that any Protestants would have made use of the Expressions contained in their Letter in relation to King James and to the Prince of Orange This Declaration of the Bishops of Scotland was not perhaps one of the least Reasons that induced the Convention of the States of that Kingdom to vote that Episcopacy was dangerous to the Safety of Scotland and therefore abolished it 14. 4. 165â— This Day was born his Illustrious Highness William Henry â—â—rince of Orange and now by the Grace of God and the Choice of the People King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Assertor of the Liberty of Europe Stadtholder Captain General and Admiral of the Forces of the States General the Darling of the World and the Terror of his Enemies to whom God grant a long and prosperous Life He was born a few Days after his Father's Death of her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Daughter to Charles I. King of Great Britain The States of Holland and Zealand and the Cities of Delf Leyden and Amsterdam were his Godsathers dit 1677 The Prince of Orange having received the Approbation of the States General for his Marriage was married this Day to the Princess Mary to the great Satisfaction of the People who expressed on that Occasion the great Respect they had for those two incomparable Persons dit 1692 The Parliament met this Day at Westminster 15. 5. 1688 The Prince of Orange arrived this Day with his Fleet in Torbay being led by the Hand of Heaven and called by the Voice of the People and landed in Person with Mareschal de Schomberg and his Army to relieve Great Britain against the Tyranny of King James 'T is observable that it being a hazy foggy Morning the Fleet overshot Torbay where the Prince intended to land but about nine of the Clock the Wind changed W. S. W. without which it was impossible for the Fleet to come into Torbay This Change of Wind was observed by every Body as an extraordinary Effect of the Divine Providence for as Bishop Burnet has very well observed the Wind immediately chopp'd into another Corner as soon as it had executed his Commission 16. 6. 1688 This Day King James put out a kind of Manifesto against the Declaration of the Prince of Orange wherein he calls the Expedition of his Highness an unchristian and unnatural Undertaking and then endeavours to insinuate that the Prince had no other Design than to usurp his Crown and Royal Authority and to prove it he brings as his chief Argument that the Prince questions the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales his Son and Heir apparent tho says he by the Providence of God there were present at his Birth so many Witnesses of unquestionable Credit as if it seemed to have been the particular Care of Heaven purposely to disappoint so wicked and unparallel'd an Attempt He promises afterwards to call a Free Parliament as soon as his Kingdom should be delivered from Foreigners This Declaration had no other Effect upon the People than to confirm them that King James would never call such a Parliament for seeing he refused to do it in that Juncture they could not perswade themselves that he would do it at another time when he should have no Enemy to fear I don't know who was the first Inventer of this fine Expression of unnatural Invasion but it was then the daily Language of King James's Gazetteer I think however it came originally from Scotland for the first time I find it used 't is in the Account given by the Gazette October 22. of the Affairs of Scotland dit 1693 His Majesty was pleased to declare this Day in Council that he had appointed the Right Honourable Edward Russel Esq to be Admiral of their Majesties Fleet. 17. 7. 1688 King James knowing that his Enemies spread every where that the Prince of Orange had brought a very great Army with him and being sensible that such a Rumour discouraged his Friends the London Gazette published this Day an exact List of the Forces of the Prince amounting to 14352 Men and by that List it appeared that the Prince had 65 Men of War 10 â—ireships and 560 Transport Ships dit 1693 The Parliament met this Day at Westminster where his Majesty made a most gracious Speech to both Houses on the bad Success of the last Campagn and especially in