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A96540 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.; Declaration of His Highness William Henry, by the grace of God, Prince of Orange ... 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 William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1688 (1688) Wing W2328; ESTC R220170 11,912 4

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PROT RELIGION AND LIBERTY IE MAINTIENDRAY 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 IT is both certain and Evident to all men that the Publike Peace and Happines of any State or Kingdome can not be preserved where the Lawes Liberties and Customes established by the Lawfull authority in it are openly Transgressed and Annulled More especially where the alteration of Religion is endeavoured and that a Religion which is contrary to Law is endeavoured to be introduced Upon which those who are most Immediatly Concerned in it are Indispensably bound to endeavour to Preserve and maintain the established Lawes Liberties and Customes and above all the Religion and worship of God that is Established among them And to take such an effectuall care that the Inhabitants of the said State or Kingdome may neither be deprived of their Religion nor of their Civill Rights VVhich is so much the more Necessary because the Greatnes and Security both of Kings Royall families and of all such as are in Authority as well as the Happines of their Subjects and People depend in a most especiall manner upon the exact observation and maintenance of these their Lawes Liberties and Customes Upon these grounds it is that we cannot any longer forbear to Declare that to our great regret wee see that those Councellours who have now the chieffe credit with the King have overturned the Religion Lawes and Liberties of those Realmes and subjected them in all things relating to their Consciences Liberties and Properties to Arbitrary Government and that not only by secret and Indirect waies but in an open and undisguised manner Those Evill Councellours for the advancing and colouring this with some plausible pretexts did Invent and set on foot the Kings Dispencing power by vertue of which they pretend that according to Law he can Suspend and Dispence with the Execution of the Lawes that have been enacted by the Authority of the King and Parliament for the security and happines of the Subject and so have rendered those Lawes of no effect Tho there is nothing more certain then that as no Lawes can be made but by the joint concurrence of King and Parliament so likewise lawes so enacted which secure the Publike peace and safety of the Nation and the lives and liberties of every subject in it can not be repealed or suspended but by the same authority For tho the King may pardon the punishment that a Transgressour has incurred and to which he is condemned as in the cases of Treason or Felony yet it cannot be with any colour of reason Inferred from thence that the King can entirely suspend the execution of those Lawes relating to Treason or Felony Unlesse it is pretended that he is clothed with a Despotick and Arbitrary power and that the Lives Liberties Honours and Estates of the Subjects depend wholly on his good will and Pleasure and are entirely subject to him which must infallibly follow on the Kings having a power to suspend the execution of the Lawes and to dispence with them Those Evill Councellours in order to the giving some credit to this strange and execrable Maxime have so conducted the matter that they have obtained a Sentence from the Judges declaring that this Dispencing power is a Right belonging to the Crown as if it were in the power of the twelve Judges to offer up the Lawes Rights and Liberties of the whole Nation to the King to be disposed of by him Arbitrarily and at his Pleasure and expressly contrary to Lawes enacted for the security of the Subjects In order to the obtaining this Judgment those Evill Councellours did before hand examine secretly the Opinion of the Judges and procured such of them as could not in Conscience concurre in so pernicious a Sentence to be turned out and others to be substituted in their Rooms till by the changes which were made in the Courts of Judicature they at last obtained that Judgment And they have raised some to those Trusts who make open Profession of the Popish Religion tho those are by Law Rendred Incapable all such Employments It is also Manifest and Notorious that as his Majestie was upon his coming to the Crown received and acknowledged by all the subjects of England Scotland and Ireland as their King without the least opposition tho he made then open profession of the Popish Religion so he did then Promise and Solemnly Swear at his Coronation that he would maintain his subjects in the free enjoyment of their Lawes and Liberties and in particular that he would maintain the Church of England as it was established by Law It is likewise certain that there have been at diverse and sundry times severall Lawes enacted for the preservation of those Rights and Liberties and of the Protestant Religion and among other Securities it has been enacted that all Persons whatsoever that are advanced to any Ecclesiasticall Dignity or to bear Office in either University as likewise all other that should be put in any Imployment Civill or Military should declare that they were not Papists but were of the Protestant Religion and that by their taking of the Oaths of Allegange and Supreamacy and the Test yet these Evill Councellours have in effect annulled and abolished all those Lawes both with relation to Ecclesiasticall and Civill Employments In order to Ecclesiasticall Dignities and Offices they have not only without any colour of Law but against most expresse Lawes to the contrary set up a Commission of a certain Number of persons to whom they have committed the cognisance and direction of all Ecclesiasticall matters in the which Commission there has been and still is one of His Majesties Ministers of State who makes now publike profession of the Popish Religion and who at the time of his first professing it declared that for a great while before he had beleeved that to be the only true Religion By all this the deplorable State to which the Protestant Religion is reduced is Apparent since the Affairs of the Church of England are now put into the hands of Persons who have accepted of a Commission that is manifesty Illegal and who have executed it contrary to all Law and that now one of their chieffe Members has abjured the Protestant Religion and declared himselfe a Papist by which he is become Incapable of holding any Publike Imployment The said Commissioners have hitherto given such proof of their submission to the directions given them that there is no reason to doubt but they will still continue to promote all such designs as will be most aggreable to them And those Evill Councellours take care ta raise none to any Ecclesiasticall dignities but persons that have no zeal for the Protestant Religion and that now hide their
Wales and of all things relating to it and to the Right of Succession And Wee for our part will concurre in every thing that may procure the Peace and Happines of the Nation which a Free and Lawfull Parliament shall determine Since wee have nothing before our eyes in this our undertaking but the Preservation of the Protestant Religion the Covering of all men from Persecution for their Consciences and the Securing to the whole Nation the free enjoyment of all their Lawes Rights and Liberties under a Just and Legall Government This is the designe that wee have Proposed to our selves in Appearing upon this occasion in Armes In the Conduct of which Wee will keep the Forces under our Command under all the Strictnes of Martiall Discipline and take a speciall Care that the People of the Countries thro which wee must march shall not suffer by their means and as soon as the State of the Nation will admit of it Wee promise that wee will send back all those Forreigne Forces that wee have brought along with us Wee doe therefore hope that all People will judge rightly of us and approve of these our Proceedings But wee chiefly rely on the blessing of God for the successe of this our undertaking in which Wee place our whole and only Confidence Wee doe in the last place invite and require all Persons whatsoever All the Peers of the Realme both Spirituall and Temporall all Lords Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants and all Gentlemen Citisens and other Commons of all ranks to come and assist us in order to the Executing of this our Designe against all such as shall Endeavour to Oppose us that so wee may prevent all those Miseries which must needs follow upon the Nations being kept under Arbitrary Government and Slavery And that all the Violences and disorders which have overturned the whole Constitution of the English Government may be fully redressed in a FREE AND LEGALL PARLIAMENT And Wee doe likewise resolve that as soon as the Nations are brought to a state of Quier Wee will take care that a Parliament shall be called in Scotland for the restoring the Ancient Constitution of that Kingdome and for bringing the Matters of Religion to such a Setlement that the people may live easy and happy and for putting an end to all the Injust Violences that have been in a course of so many years Committed there Wee will also study to bring the Kingdome of Ireland to such a state that the Setlement there may be Religiously observed and that the Protestant and Brittish Interest there may be secured And wee will endeavour by all possible means to procure such an establishment in all the Three Kingdomes that they may all live in a happy Union and Correspondence together and that the Protestant Religion and the Peace Honour and Happines of those Nations may be established upon Lasting Foundations Given under our Hand and Seal at our Court in the Hague the Tenth day of October in the year 1688. WILLIAM HENRY PRINCE OF ORANGE By his Highnesses speciall command C HUYGENS. His Highnesses Additionall Declaration AFter wee had prepared and printed this our Declaration wee have understood that the subverters of the Religion and Lawes of those Kingdomes hearing of our Preparations to assist the People against them have begun to retract some of the Arbitrary and Despotick powers that they had assumed and to vacate some of their Jujust Judgments and Decrees The sense of their Guilt and the distrust of their force have induced them to offer to the City of London some seeming releefe from their Great Oppressions hoping thereby to quiet the People and to divert them from demanding a Secure Reestablishment of their Religion and Lawes under the shelter of our Armes They doe also give out that wee Intend to Conquer and Enslave the Nation And therefore it is that wee have thought fit to adde a few words to our Declaration Wee are Confident that no persons can have such hard thought of us as to Imagine that wee have any other Designe in this Undertaking then to procure a setlement of the Religion and of the Liberties and Properties of the subjects upon so sure a foundation that there may be no danger of the Nations relapsing into the like miseries at any time hereafter And as the forces that wee have brought along with us are utterly disproportioned to that wicked designe of Conquering the Nation if wee were Capable of Intending it so the Great Numbers of the Principall Nobility and Gentry that are men of Eminent Quality and Estates and persons of known Integrity and Zeal both for the Religion and Government of England many of them being also distinguished by their Constant fidelity to the Crown who doe both accompany us in this Expedition and have earnestly solicited us to it will cover us from all such Malicious Insinuations For it is not to be imagined that either those who have Invited us or those that are already come to assist us can joyne in a wicked attempt of Conquest to make void their own lawfull Titles to their Honours Estates and Interests Wee are also Confident that all men see how litle weight there is to be laid on all Promises and Engagments that can be now made since there has been so litle regard had in time past to the most solemne Promises And as that Imperfeit redresse that is now offered is a plain Confession of those Violations of the Government that wee have set forth So the Defectivenes of it is no lesse Apparent for they lay doune nothing which they may not take up at Pleasure and they reserve entire and not so much as mentioned their claimes and pretences to an Arbitrary and Despotick power which has been the root of all their Oppression and of the totall subversion of the Government And it is plain that there can be no redresse nor Remedy offered but in Parliament by a Declaration of the Rights of the Subjects that have been invaded and not by any Pretended Acts of Grace to which the extremity of their affairs has driven them Therefore it is that wee have thought fit to declare that wee will referre all to a Free Assembly of the Nation in a Lawfull Parliament Given under our Hand and Seal at our Court in the Hague the 24. day of October in the year of our Lord 1688. WILLIAM HENRY PRINCE OF ORANGE By his Highnesses speciall Command C HUYGENS. Printed at the Hague by ARNOUT LEERS By his Highnesses speciall Order 1688.