Parole His Valet de Chambre who accompanied him saved his Life to the Expence of his own which Zeal and Fidelity deserveth to be admired especially in this Age. 5. 25. 1689 The Ambassadors of the States of Holland had this Day their Publick Audience of Leave of their Majesties with all the Ceremonies that are observed at the publick Audiences of Ambassadors from Crowned Heads 6. 26. 1688 The French King having invaded the Palatinate and the Empire without any Provocation or Declaration of War the Dauphin arrived this Day before Philipsburgh which had been before invested by the French dit 1696 His Majesty came to Kensington from his Campagn in Flanders having landed at Margate this Morning at 1 a Clock 7. 27. 1691 The Garison of Limerick having demanded to capitulate the Governour sent Articles to General Ginkel who rejected them and sent them 12 Articles and let them know that he would grant no others ordering immediately a new Battery to be raised dit 1696 The Neutrality for Italy was signed this Day by Count Mansfeld in the Name of the Emperor the Marquiss de Leganez for the King of Spain and the Marquiss de St. Thomas for the Duke of Savoy by which it is agreed that there shall be a Suspension of Arms in Italy till a General Peace that the Siege of Valence which was besieged ever since the 17th ultimo by the Duke of Savoy should be immediately raised and that the Allies should march out of Italy 300000 Pistols being paid them in lieu of Winter-quarters The Conduct of the Duke of Savoy can hardly be parallel'd in History for he was the greatest part of this Summer at the Head of the Allies and towards the latter end of it we have seen him Generalissimo of the French invading the Country of the Allies who had so generously defended his against the Tyranny of the French 8. 28. 1688 King James having certain Advice that the Preparations made in Holland were designed against him issued out this Day a Proclamation whereby he declared that tho he had notice some time before of the intended Invasion of the Dutch yet he had always declined any Foreign Succours relying upon the true and antient Courage Faith and Allegiance of his People with whom he had often ventured his Life for the Honour of this Nation and in whose Defence he was resolved to live and die He recalled also the Writs issued out for the Election of the Members of Parliament which was to meet in November following dit 1690 The Earl of Marlborough being reinforced by the Duke of Wirtemberg and a Detachment of the Grand Army carried on the Siege of Cork with so much Vigour that the Garison was obliged to capitulate having Reason to fear they should be put to the Sword our Men having posted themselves very near the Wall They demanded the usual Terms of Capitulations but were denied and the General sent them word that he would allow them no other Conditions than to be Prisoners of War which they submitted to and accordingly delivered the Fort to the English The Garisom was near 5000 strong The Duke of Grafton with the Lord O Brian Colonel Granville Captain Cornwal Captain Neville and several other Sea-Officers went to the Attack as Volunteers and behaved themselves with an extraordinary Bravery but the Duke received a morcal Wound of which he died some Days after justly lamented for his great Valour 9. 29. 1674 The Germans having resused to fight the French at Oudenarde and thereby disappointed the Designs of the Prince of Orange his Highness left Flanders and came this Day before Grave with 2000 Horse to press the Siege of that important Place which was carried on by General Rabenhaut dit 1690 The Irish quitted the Town of Kingsale upon the Approach of a Detachment of the English sent by the Earl of Marlborough from Cork dit 1691 This Day the Town of Carmagnole in Piemont surrendred to the Confederate Army commanded by the Elector of Bavaria and the Duke of Savoy dit 1693 The Peace of the Lower Saxony being in great Danger of being disturbed by the Death of the Duke of Saxe Lawâ—nburg because of the several Pretenders to that Succession his Majesty of Great Britain the King of Sweden the States of Holland and the Elector of Brandenburgh interposed their Mediation betwixt the King of Denmark and the House of Lunenburg and this Day a Treaty was signed at Hamburgh whereby the Danes withdrew their Army from before Ratzeburgh which they had already besieged and the Princes of Lunenburgh obliged themselves to raze the Fortifications of that Place which had given a great Umbrage to the King of Denmark 10. 30. 1688 His Highness the Prince of Orange gave this Day his Declaration at the Hague containing the Reasons inducing him to appear in Arms in England for preserving the Protestant Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland This Declaration sets forth King James's most notorious Breaches of the Original Contract between the King and the People and of his Coronation-Oath the Invitation made to his Highness by many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons to come to their Relief and the Prince's Intention to join with the People of England and oblige the King to call a Free Parliament to redress those intolerable Grievances and inquire into the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales which as his Highness says was suspected by the greatest part of the Nation  October  11. 1. 1690 The Earl of Marlborough sat down this Day before Kingsale 12. 2. 1688 King James being very sensible that his Arbitrary Government had alienated from him the Hearts of his Subjects thought there was no better way to disappoint the Designs of the Prince of Orange than to redress the Grievances of the Nation and in order thereto sent this Day for the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of London to Whitehall where he told them that out of his Concern for the Peace and Welfare of the City and as a Mark of the great Confidence he had in them at a time when the Kingdom was threatned with an Invasion he had resolved to restore to them their antient Charter and Privileges and to put them into the same Condition they were in at the Time of the Judgment pronounced against them upon the Quo warranto   The same Day a General Pardon was published in which about 17 Persons were excepted dit 1689 The Town of Bon surrendred this Day to the Confederate Army commanded by the Elector of Brandenburgh the French having lost therein about 3000 Men. dit 1690 The two Houses of Parliament met this Day at Westminster where his Majesty made a most gracious Speech on the Transactions of the last Campaign and the necessity of encreasing our Preparations for the next dit  The Old Fort of Kingsale was this Day stormed and taken by the English 13. 3. 1688 This Day the Archbishop
the State of the Nation the following Question was proposed Whether a Regency with the Administration of Regal Power under the Name and Stile of King James the Second during the Life of the said K. James be the best and safest way to preserve the Protestant Religion and the Laws of the Kingdom Upon which the House divided Contents 48 Non Contents 51.   February 11. 1. 1661 Charles II. demands from the States some Papers which the Princess of Orange his Sister had committed to his Care by her Will till the young Prince should come to Age but the States refused it as being themselves Guardians to the Prince This was the beginning or Pretence of a Breach between them 12. 2. 1651 The States General the Provinces of Holland and Zealand and the Cities of Amsterdam Delst and Harlem are desired to stand Godfathers to the Prince of Orange dit 1689 The Convention forbids the keeping of the 6th of February a Thanksgiving-Day as it was before it being the Day that K. James was proclaimed   The same Day a prodigious number of People go to Westminster to desire the Convention to crown the Prince and Princess of Orange 13. 3. 1689 The Prince sends 12 Men of War for Holland to bring the Princess into England 14. 4.  15. 5. 1689 The Commons desire a Free Conference with the Lords concerning the Abdication of King James II. and the Vacancy of the Throne which was long debated between the two Houses 16. 6. 1691 The Electors of Bavaria and Brandenburgh the Duke of Zell the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel the Marquiss de Gasbanaga Governour of the Spanish Netherlands and several other Great Lords come to the Hague to wait on his Majesty and confer together about the Affairs of the Alliance Never was a more illustrious Assembly there being about 50 Princes or Generals of Armies 14 English Lords above 30 Ambassadors and a great number of Princesses and other great Ladies 17. 7. 1689 The Lords agree with the Commons that King James has abdicated the Government and that the Throne is vacant dit 1676 The Elector of Brandenburgh proposes to the Prince a Match between his Highness and the Princess of Radzevill nearly related to the Elector who had a vast Fortune 18. 8.  19. 9. 1674 This Day was concluded a Treaty of Peace at Westminster between K. Charles II. and the States General of the United Netherlands The Marquiss del Frezno Ambassador of the King of Spain was Plenipotentiary for the Dutch 20. 10. 1675 The Prince being arrived at Arnhem where the Nobility and States of Guelderland were assembled he went to their Assembly and returned to them his Thanks for the Offers they had made unto him of the Sovereignty of those Provinces with the Title of Duke of Guelderland and Count of Zutphen for fear as he was pleased to express himself of occasioning Mistrust and lest his Enemies should accuse him of acting only for his own private Interest dit 1675 The States of the said Province elected his Highness their hereditary Governour which he accepted 21. 11. 1671 The Dutchess of York being brought to bed of a Girl the Prince of Orange is desired to stand her Godfather 22. 12. 1689 The Princess of Orange lands at Whitehall being received by several Lords and Ladies with the Acclamations of the People and all Demonstrations of Joy 23. 13. 1689 The Lords and Commons attend the Prince and Princess of Orange at the Banqueting-House at Whitehall and offer them the Imperial Crown of England and Ireland and all other Dominions thereunto belonging which being accepted they were the same day proclaimed in the Cities of London and Westminster with the usual Ceremonies by the Name of William and Mary 24. 14. 1689 King William makes choice of his Privy Council dit 1671 The Prince sets out from London for Holland attended by the Earl of Ossery dit 1672 He accepts the Dignity of Captain General of the Vnited Provinces dit 1689 King William puts out a Proclamation for the collecting of the Publick Revenue 25. 15. 1672 He took the Oath before the States General as Captain General dit 1696 A Company of Villains sent from France resolve to assassinate his Majesty in a narrow Lane near Turnham-Green as he should come from Hunting but by the good Providence of God his Majesty did not go out this Day as he used to do 26. 16.  27. 17. 1674 The Prince having considerably encreased his Army obliges the French to abandon Nimeguen Zutphea Arnhem Till and the Fort Schenck 28. 18. 1689 King William made a Speech to the Lords and Commons at Westminster it being the first time that he appeared as King in the House of Lords March   29. 19.  1. 20.  2. 21. He sent back part of the Dutch Forces for Holland 3. 22. 1689 King William issues out a Proclamation ordering the Irish Rebels to lay down their Arms by April next following dit 1696 The King having notice of the Design of the Conspirators against his Sacred Person forbears to go a Hunting They had resolved to murder his Majesty in a narrow Lane at Turnham-Green and were commanded by Sir George Barclay sent over by King James and the French King for that Villanous Design 4. 23. 1689 The King gives his Royal Assent to the Bill to declare the Convention a Parliament and for the Sitting of the same 4. 23. 1696 Several Warrants are issued out for apprehending a great many Villains who had conspired to assassinate the King the 15th Instant and afterwards the 22d About eleven of them were seized in the Morning and brought to the Horse Guard dit  An Express arrived from the Duke of Wirtemberg and brought Advice that the French had a great number of Transport Ships at Calais with 14000 Men ready to go on Board and that King James was arrived at Calais on the 2d of March New Stile or the 21st Febr. Old Stile and that they expected there a great Blow in England His Highness acquainted his Majesty that he had caused thereupon several Battalions to draw near Ostend to be ready to go on Board upon any Occasion and that the French gave out that He was very ill some others dead and others that he had been kill'd a-hunting A great Council was held at Kensington where it was resolved that Admiral Russel should immediately go on Board the Fleet the Earl of Rummey to Dover and raise the Militia and the Earl of Dorset in Sussex 5. 24. 1696 An Express arrives from the Elector of Bavaria with the Confirmation of the great Preparations the French were making at Calais and that King James was there dit  The King goes to the House of Lords and the Commons being sent for up his Majesty acquainted his Parliament with the Danger his Person had been nearly exposed to as well as the Kingdom that there was a Design of Assassinating his Person and at
be careful in preserving the publick Peace of the Kingdom 8. 28. 1672 The French having besieged Muyden one of the Keys of Amsterdam the Prince obliged them to raise the Siege and to retire dit 1696 This Day their Excellencies Signior Soranzo and Signior Venier Ambassadors extraordinary from the Republick of Venice to his Majesty made their publick Entry having been received at Greenwich by the Earl of Radnor and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies accompanied by six Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber and brought by Water in the King's Barge to the Tower They were complimented at their Landing by the Lord Lucas Governour of the same and saluted with a Discharge of the Cannon the Standard being display'd From thence their Excellencies were conducted in his Majesty's Coach followed by eight Coaches of their own and many others with six Horses apiece to the Lady Portland's House in the Pall-mall that was prepared for his Majesty's Entertainment of them where they receiv'd the Compliment of Welcome from the King by the Lord Guildford and from their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark by the Earl of Sandwich and the Lord Fitzharding Masters of their Horse They had a very numerous Retinue with very rich Liveries 9. 29. 1696 Robert Lowick Ambrose Rook-wood and Charles Cranburn lately convicted of High Treason for conspiring to assassinate the King were this Day executed at Tyburn They owned the Crime they were condemned for 10. 30. 1662 This Day was born that incomparable Princess the Lady Mary Daughter to James D. of York our late Renowned Queen dit 1694 This Day his Majesty was pleased to create the Marquiss of Caermarthen Duke of Leeds the Earl of Bedford Duke of Bedford the Earl of Devonshire Duke of Devonshire the Earl of Clare Duke of Newcastle and the Viscount Newport Earl of Bradford  May  11. 1. 1689 Admiral Herbert having notice that the French Fleet was sailed towards Ireland steered his Course that way and fought them in Bantry-Bay and tho the French had 28 Men of War and 5 Fireships and that the English had but 19 yet the French Admiral finding the Place too hot stood further into the Bay and left the Honour of the Day to the English dit 1691 Maj. Wood having notice that the Rapparees were in great Bodies about Brittas in the Queen's County in Ireland he went out with 300 of my Lord George Hamilton's and Colonel Lloyd's Foot and 50 of Colonel Byerly's Horse with which he first killed near seventy Rapparees and leaving part of his Men to secure several Passes he went three Miles further beyond a Place called the Tougher of Malahone having with him one hundred and ten Foot and thirty Horse but instead of the Rapparees whom he only expected he discover'd about 800 Men of the Irish Army divided into two Bodies notwithstanding the great Inequality in number he encountred them and after several Charges put them to the rout killing 150 on the Place amongst whom were one Captain Schales and two Lieutenants Major John Fitzpatrick who commanded the Party was taken Prisoner with 17 Officers more 6 Sergeants 16 Corporals 2 Drummers a Chirurgeon and 80 private Sentinels We lost in that brave Action but a Corporal and a Trooper with 2 Foot Souldiers and Lieutenant Robinson wounded dit 1696 Signior Soranzo and Venier Ambassadors Extraordinary from the State of Venice had their publick Audience of the King with the following Ceremonies The Earl of Denbigh and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies with 6 Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber received them at the House where they were entertained by his Majesty's Appointment and conducted in his Majesty's Coach followed by their own and a great many other Coaches with 6 Horses apiece and attended with a numerous Retinue to the Audience of his Majesty in the Banqueting-house at Whitehall with all the Ceremonies and Honours that are usual on the like Occasions About nine at Night they took their Leaves privately of the King at Kensington and his Majesty knighted Signior Soranzo the eldest of the Ambassadors as has been practised by his Majesty's Predecessors   There was a great Council at Kensington where the King declar'd his Intention of setting out the next Day for Holland and that he had appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Summers Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Earl of Pembroke Lord Privy Seal the Duke of Devonshire Lord Steward of his Majesty's Houshold the Duke of Shrewsbury one of the Principal Secretaries of State the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold and the Lord Godolphin first Commissioner of the Treasury to be Lords Justices of England for the Administration of the Government during his Majesty's Absence   His Majesty was pleased to create Sir John Lowther of Lowther a Baron and Viscount of this Kingdom by the Title of Baron of Lowther and Viscount Lonsdale   Sir John Thompson was created at the same time Baron of Haversham in the County of Bucks and Sir Thomas Littleton was constituted one of the Lords of the Treasury 12. 2. 1691 His Majesty being resolved to command the Confederate Army in Person this Summer embarked this Day at Harwich for Holland being attended by a Squadron of Men of War under the Command of Rear Admiral Rook and the next Day landed at Oranje Polder dit 1688 The Prince designing to sit out a Fleet for his Expedition into England and the Consent of the Province of Holland being necessary for it his Highness acquainted their Deputies with it who unanimously consented thereunto and told the Prince that tho they did not see the necessity of such an Equipment in time of Peace yet they were throughly satisfied that his Highness would not put the States to so great a Charge unless it were absolutely necessary for their Safety dit 1696 His Majesty left Kensington this Morning intending to embark at Margate for Holland dit 1692 Sir George Treby was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Sir John Summers Attorney General 13. 3. 1695 The King came to the House of Lords to give the Royal Assent to several Acts and having made a gracious Speech to both Houses the Lord Keeper prorogued them to the 18th of June   His Majesty declar'd in Council the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Keeper the Earl of Pembrook the Duke of Devonshire the Duke of Shrewsbury the Earl of Dorset and the Lord Godolphin Lords Justices of England for the Administration of the Government during his Absence   The same Day his Majesty was pleased to constitute the Right Honourable Sir William Trumball formerly Envoy extraordinary to the Court of France and Ambassador to Constantinople one of his Majesty's principal Secretaties of State who accordingly took the usual Oaths in Council 14. 4. 1692 Their Majesties Fleet being fitted up with an incredible Diligence by the Care and Application of Admiral Russell the
being assured of the hearty Concurrence and Assistance of our Subjects in Support of so good a Cause Hereby willing and requiring our General of our Forces our Commissioners for executing the Office of High-Admiral our Lieutenants of our several Counties Governours of our Forts and Garisons and all other Officers and Souldiers under them to do and execute all Acts of Hostility in the prosecution of this War against the French King his Vassals and Subjects and to oppose their Attempts willing and requiring all our Subjects to take notice of the same whom We henceforth strictly forbid to hold any Correspondence or Communication with the said French King or his Subjects and because there are remaining in our Kingdoms many of the Subjects of the French King We do declare and give our Royal Word that all such of the French Nation as shall demean themselves dutifully towards us and not correspond with our Enemies shall be safe in their Persons and Estates and free from all Molestation and Trouble of any kind Given at Hampton Court May the 7th 1689. dit 1694 The King landed at the Hook of Holland over against the Brill having left his Convoy several Leagues at Sea 18. 8. 1694 Their Majesties created the Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Sydney Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Master General of the Ordnance an Earl of this Kingdom by the Name and Stile of Earl of Râ—mney in the County of Kent dit 1696 The King being arrived at the Hague the Night before went to the Assembly of the States of Holland and afterwards to that of the States General and made a short Speech in each of them His Majesty was the same Day complimented by the States upon his safe Arrival by the Council of State and the Colleges of the Admiralty and foreign Ambassadors dit 1692 Admiral Russell with his Majesty's Fleet passed this Morning through the Downs and being joined by Admiral Allemond sailed to the Westward in quest of Count Tourville dit 1695 William de Nassan Seigneur de Zuilestein was created Baron of Enfield Viscount Tunbridge and Earl of Rochâ—fort   The same Day the Lord Gray of Wark was created Viscount Glendale and Earl of Tankerville 19. 9. 1691 Dr. Sharp Dean of Canterbury was this day nominated Archbishop of York dit 1689 A Proclamation was published at the Request of the House of Commons commanding all Papists to depart out of the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles adjacent dit 1692 A Proclamation came out for apprehending the Earl of Scarfdale the Earl of Litchfield the Lord Griffin the Earl of Newburgh the Earl of Middleton the Earl of Dunmore and a great many disaffected Persons for conspiring to subvert the Government dit 1695 The Duke of Schomberg the Earl of Tankerville and Peregrine Bertie Esq were sworn of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council 20. 10. 1692 This Day the Trained-Bands of the City of London consisting of 6 Regiments making about 10000 Men were drawn up in Hide-park under the Command of the Lord Mayor and received by the Queen who was extremely satisfied with the good Order they appeared in and of the great Zeal and Readiness which they expressed for their Majesties Service and their own Security against the Designs of the French who then threatned the Kingdom with a Descent their Fleet having appeared this Day off of Dartmouth dit 1694 The Earl of Stamford and Charles Mountague Esq one of the Commissioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer were sworn this Day of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 21. 11. 1689 This Day being appointed for the publick Reception of the Commissioners viz. the Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery of Skelmerly and Sir John Dalrymple of Stair younger who were sent by the Meeting of the States of Scotland with an Offer of the Crown of that Kingdom to their Majesties they accordingly at three of the Clock met at the Council-Chamber and from thence were conducted by Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies attended by most of the Nobility and Gentry of that Kingdom who reside in and about London to the Banqueting-House where the King and Queen came attended by many Persons of Quality the Sword being carried before them by the Lord Cardrosse Their Majesties being placed on the Throne under a rich Canopy the Commissioners presented a Letter from the States to his Majesty then the Instrument of the Government Thirdly a Paper containing the Grievances which they desired might be redressed â—nd lastly an Address to his Majesty for turning the Meeting of the said Estates into a Parliament All which being signed by his Grace the Duke of Hamilton as President of the Meeting and read to their Majesties the King return'd to the Commissioners the following Answer   WHEN I ingaged in this Undertaking I had a particular Regard and Consideration for Scotland and therefore I did emit a Declaration in relation to that as well as to this Kingdom which I intend to make good and effectual to them I take it very kindly that Scotland has expressed so much Confidence in and Affection to me they shall find me willing to assist them in every thing that concerns the Weal and Interest of that Kingdom by making what Laws shall be necessary for the Security of their Religion Property and Liberty and to ease them of what may be justly grievous to them   After which the Coronation-Oath was tender'd to their Majesties which the Earl of Argyle spoke word by word and the King and Queen repeated it after holding their right Hands up after the manner of taking Oaths in Scotland but when the Earl came to this part of the said Oath And we shall be careful to root out all Hereticks and Enemies of the true Worship of God that shall be convicted by the true Kirk of God of the aforesaid Crimes out of our Lands and Empire of Scotland the King declared that he did not mean by these Words that he was under any Obligation to become a Persecutor To which the Commissioners being authorized by the States of Scotland made answer That neither the Meaning of the Oath or the Law of Scotland did import it since by the said Law no Man was to be persecuted for his private Opinion and that even obstinate and convicted Hereticks were only to be denounced Reâ—els or out-law'd whereby their moveable Estates were consiscated Whereupon the King declared again that he took the Oath in that Sense and called for Witnesses the Commissioners and others present and then their Majesties signed the Coronation-Oath and the Commissioners and several of the Scotish Nobility were admitted to kiss their Majesties Hands 22. 12. 1689 His Majesty's Ship the Nonsuch of 36 Guns commanded by Captain Roomcoyle ingaged this Day off of Guernsey two French Men of War one of 30 Guns 120 Men and the other of 16 Guns 6 Pattereroes and 120 Men. The Fight lasted above
Prince was born as they say on Sunday the 10th of June Old Stile 1688. 2. 23. 1689 The Parliament after a short Prorogation met again this Day and his Majesty was pleased to refer them to what he had said to both Houses the 19th Instant in relation to the Affairs of Ireland   The same Day a great Number of Lords and Gentlemen of that Kingdom met at Bow-Church in Cheapside to render Thanks to Almighty God for the Deliverance of the bloody Massacre the Irish made of the Protestants in the Year 1641 which began upon this Day 3. 24. 1673 This Day the Prince of Orange with his Army joined the Imperial Forces commanded by Count Montecuculi between Aâ—dernacht and Bonn. 4. 25. 1684 The Chambre de Metz so famous for their unjust Judgments deprived his Highness the Prince of Orange of the Lands Mannors and Lordships he had in the French King's Dominions 5. 26. 1674 This Day there was a Rencounter between a Detachment of the Troops of the Duke of Lorain and the French Arrierban or Nobility commanded by the Marquiss de Sable consisting of 700 Gentlemen in which â—he latter were all killed or taken Prisoners except 17. The General himself was taken The Lorains were but 700 commanded by Monsieur Dupuy dit 1688 King James being acquainted that many made it their business by Writing Printing or Speaking to defame hisâ— Government with false and seditious News and Reports to create in his Subjects and universal Jealousy and Discontent and that in Coffee-Houses and other Places People took the Liberty to censure the Proceedings of State by speaking evil of things they understood not published this Day his Proclamation forbidding the spreading of false News and declaring that those who should hear seditious Reports and Reflections against him and his Ministers and should not reveal it should be likewise prosecuted with the â—tmost Severity This Proclamation rather increased the Aversion Men had then for the Government and there were very few who did not presently reflect on Father Petre then one of the Privy Council as fitter to be hang'd than reverenced 6. 27. 1688 The Earl of Sunderland President of King James's Privy Council and principal Secretary of State was turned this Day out of all his Places and the Lord Preston made Secretary in his room The Change surprized all Men and it was given out that his Lordship had lost out of his Scritore the Original League concluded between the French King and K. James for the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion here and the establishing Popery and Arbitrary Government and that the same had been carried over to the Prince of Orange but my Lord Sunderland in his Letter to a Friend in London that came out some time after viz. March 23 1689. says that he never heard of such a League but tells us the Jesuits exasperated King James against him because he opposed the Prosecution of the seven Bishops who were put in June last into the Tower for refusing to read in their Churches the King's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience because â—â—e advised the King to restore â—he Corporations annul the Ecclesiastical Court call a Free Parliament and redress all other Grievances He tells us also that he disswaded King James from calling a Parliament in Ireland which was designed to alter the Acts of Settlement I must not forget to mention two pieces of Service more to the Nation performed by his Lordship which was the refusing of the French Succours that were offer'd to King James which my Lord Sunderland opposed to Death and his hindring the securing the Chief of the disaffected Nobility and Gentry which was proposed to the Court as a certain way to break all the Prince's Measures 7. 28. 1677 His Highness having joined the Imperial Army held the 4th Instant a Council of War wherein it was resolved to besiege Bon and accordingly his Highness took his Quarters this Day before that Fortress which was invested the Day before 8. 29. 1689 This Day Sir Thomas Pilkington being continued Mayor of the City of London was according to Custom sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster whither he went by Water accompanied by the Aldermen and the several Companies of the City in their respective Barges adorned with Flags and Streamers Their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark and the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament having been pleased to accept of an humble Invitation from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council to dine in the City this Day their Majesties attended by his Royal Highness all the great Officers of the Court and a numerous Train of Nobility and Gentry in their Coaches went to Guild-hall the Militia of London and Westminster making a Lane for them the Balconies all along their Passage being richly hung with Tapistry and filled with Spectators and the People in great Crouds expressing their Joy with loud and continued Acclamations The Royal City-Regiment of Volunteer Horse richly accoutred under the Command of the Earl of Monmouth attended their Majesties from Whitehall to Guildhall where they were entertained with the Grandeur and Magnificence sutable to so august and extraordinary a Presence Christopher Lethieullier John Houblon Esq Sheriffs Edward Clark and Francis Child Aldermen received the Honour of Knighthood on this occasion Their Majesties returned in the Evening with the same Ceremonies amidst the Acclamation of their People Bonsires and Illuminations 9. 30. 1688 King James having received Advice the Day before that the Damage the Fleet of the Prince of Orange had received in the Storm which forced him back to Helvoetsluce had been magnified on purpose to delude him and that the Prince would sail in few Days sent fresh Orders to his Fleet to put to Sea and suspecting that the Prince would land in the North because of the great many disaffected Lords that were gone that way he sent thither a greater Number of his Forces which was looked upon as a new Instance of the Weakness of the Council of that Prince in sending his Forces to one of the Extremities of the Kingdom before he knew that his Enemy should not land in the other 10. 31. 1688 King James having read in the Prince's Declaration that his Highness was most earnestly invited hither by divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and by many Gentlemen and others his Majesty sent for some of the Bishops and required of them a Paper under their Hands in abhorrence of the Prince of Orange's intended Invasion which was designed to be tacked to a Proclamation which came out two Days after forbidding the reading of his Highness's Declaration upon severe Penalties but the Bishops of Canterbury London Peterborough and Rochester who were only sent for refused to do it at which the Jesuited Party were so violently inraged that if we may believe the Bishop of Rochester King James was advised to imprison the said Bishops and extort that Truth
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
and at the same time sent Orders to the Earl of Feversham to disband his Army   The same Evening he sent for the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of London to White-hall where he acquainted them that he had thought fit to send the Queen and his Son away but that he was resolved to stay with them laying a strict Charge upon them to take care of the City and to keep it in Peace The King went afterwards to the Council where there was a very long Debate who were to meet again the next Morning but King James had resolved before-hand to follow the Queen and all that he had done this Day was only to conceal his Design for he went away that Night 21. 11. 1688 This Morning about three a Clock King James left Whitehall and went down the River to go over to France The same Day the Earl of Feversham received the following Letter from King James   Things being come to that Extremity that I have been forced to send away the Queen and my Son the Prince of Wales that they might not fall into the Enemies Hands which they must have done if they had stayed I am obliged to do the same thing in hopes it will please God out of his infinite Mercy to this unhappy Nation to touch their Hearts with true Loyalty and Honour If I could have relied on all my Troops I might not have been put to the Extremity I am now in and would at least have had one Blow for it But tho I know there are many brave Men amongst you both Officers and Souldiers yet you know that both you and several of the General Officers and Souldiers and Men of the Army told me it was no ways adviseable for me to venture my self at their Head or to think to fight the Prince of Orange with them And now there remains only for me to thank you and all those both Officers and Souldiers who have stuck to me and been truly Loyal I hope you will still retain the same Fidelity to me and tho I do not expect you should expose your selves by resisting a Foreign Army and a poisoned Nation yet I hope your former Principles are so inrooted in you that you will keep your selves free from Associations and such pernicious things Time presses so I can add no more James Rex   Those who had seen the Proposals the Prince of Orange had made were very much surprized at the Expressions of this Letter and concluded that King James did never design to give any Satisfaction to his People for if he had he would certainly have staid here since he was in no danger of his Person Many who were still for him left his Party because of an unlucky Expression of his Letter which implied by a very natural Innuendo that it being not adviseable for him to fight the Prince of Orange with the English Army he was going to France to bring over some Troops at the Head of whom he might venture his Person   The Earl of Feversham having received this Letter disbanded the Army under his Command and immediately sent a Letter to the Prince of Orange to acquaint him therewith dit  The News of the King being gone was very surprizing tho many were of Opinion that he would not stay very long after the Queen and his Beloved Father Peters who was reported to be gone also with the Pretended Prince of Wales and thereupon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in and about the Cities of London and Westminster met at Guild-hall where they sent for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and made the following Declaration   We doubt not but the World believes that in this great and dangerous Conjuncture We are heartily and zealously concerned for the Protestant Religion the Laws of the Land and the Liberties and Properties of the Subject And we did reasonably hope that the King having issued his Proclamation and Writs for a Free Parliament we might have rested secure under the Expectation of that Meeting but his Majesty having withdrawn himself and as we apprehend in order to his Departure out of this Kingdom by the pernicious Counsels of Persons ill affected to our Nation and Religion we cannot without being wanting in our Duty be silent under those Calamities wherein the Popish Counsels which so long prevailed have miserably involved these Realms We do therefore unanimously resolve to apply our selves to his Highness the Prince of Orange who with so great Kindness to these Kingdoms so vast Expence and so much Hazard to his own Person has undertaken by endeavouring to procure a Free Parliament to rescue us with as little Effusion as possible of Christian Blood from the imminent Dangers of Popery and Slavery   And we do hereby declare that we will with our utmost Endeavours assist his Highness in the obtaining such a Parliament with all speed wherein our Laws our Liberties and Properties may be secured the Church of England in particular with a due Liberty to Protestant Dissenters and in general the Protestant Religion and Interest over the whole World may be supported and incouraged to the Glory of God the Happiness of the established Government in these Kingdoms and the Advantage of all Princes and States in Christendom that may be herein concerned   In the mean time we will endeavour to preserve as much as in us lies the Peace and Security of these great and populous Cities of London and Westminster and the Parts adjacent by taking care to disarm all Papists and secure all Jesuits and Romish Priests who are in or about the same   And if there be any thing more to be performed by Us for promoting his Highness's generous Intentions for the publick Good we shall be ready to do it as occasion shall require Signed W. Cant. Tho. Ebor. Pembrook Dorset Mulgrave Thanet Carlisle Craven Ailesbury Burlington Sussex Berkley Rochester Newport Weymouth P. Winchester W. Asaph Frantis Ely Tho. Rossen Tho. Petriburg P. Wharton North and Gray Chandos Montague Th. Jermyn Vaughan Carbery Culpeper Crew Osulston   Then the Governour of the Tower was summoned who delivered the Keys but the Lord Mayor had not Courage enough to take them as it was his Duty and therefore the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury took them and put them into the Hands of the Lord Lucas who was thereupon constituted Governour of the Tower Their Lordships desired the Earl of Pembrook the Lord Viscount Weymouth the Bishop of Ely and the Lord Culpeper forthwith to attend the Prince of Orange with the said Declaration and acquaint his Highness with what they had farther done at that Meeting dit  The Lieutenancy of the City of London met the same Day and agreed upon an Address to be presented to the Prince of Orange to thank his Highness for his generous Expedition and desire him to repair to the City with all convenient speed They sent immediately Sir
a manner that he did not think safe to venture himself at the Head of 15 Regiments of Horse 5 of Dragoons and 4 Troops of Life-Guards and 27 Regiments of Foot of the finest Troops that ever were seen against 14000 Men which was all the Prince brought over with him He was blamed for having withdrawn himself and not agreeing with the Prince's Proposals to refer all things to the Determination of a Free Parliament but Providence who had resolved to place a better Prince on the English Throne struck King James with a Pannick Fear so that he abandon'd his Crown without striking a Blow in the Defence of it This Revolution will be one of the most surprising Events that History will record to our Posterity who are like to suspect the Sincerity of the Historians when they 'll read that this great Work was compassed in less than 50 Days   Having thus brought this Account of the Revolution to King James 's withdrawing himself into France I refer the rest of the Transactions of this Month to the first Pages of this Book as in a more proper Place because of the Difference of our Stile dit 1696 Sir John Fenwick concerned in the intended Invasion of the French in April last and taken as he was going to imbark for France was some time ago arraigned at the Old Baily for High Treason and was accordingly to be tried but he found Means to have his Trial put off upon account of a great Discovery he pretended to make and in order thereto gave Informations against several Noble Persons as Betrayers of the King's Counsels His Majesty being then in Flanders the Papers were sent to him and in the mean time Sir John Fenwick's Friends corrupted one Cardell Goodman who was one of the two Evidences against him and sent him over to France His Majesty being returned and being sensible that Sir John Fenwick had given those Informations with no other Design than to get time to take away the Evidence sent those Papers to the Commons who having examined Sir John Fenwick thereupon and found that he had not been sincere with his Majesty voted his Information false malicious scandalous and groundless and tending to create Jealousies between the King and his Subjects and ordered that a Bill to attaint him of High Treason should be brought in which was done accordingly and passed few Days after and seâ—t to the Lords who after a long Debate on this Subject passed the same this Day   Note His Majesty gave the Royal Assent to that Act on Monday January 11 1696 7. 3. 24.  4. 25. 1694 The Mareschal Duke of Luxemburgh died this Morning at Paris in the 68th Year of his Age. 5. 26. This Day his Majesty was pleased to constitute the Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Sidney one of his principal Secretaries of State who accordingly took the usual Oath at the Council-Board 6. 27.  7. 28. 1694 This Morning about one of the Clock died at Kensington our late most Gracious Soveraign Lady Queen Mary after seven Days Sickness of the Small Pox leaving his Majesty under an inexpressible Grief and Affliction the whole Kingdom and Europe in general under the deepest and most sensible Sorrow for the Loss of a Princess of so much Piety Clemency Goodness and other great and exemplary Vertues It were too great a Presumption in me to attempt the Character of that Incomparable Princess it is a Subject above my reach I shall therefore content my self to say that her Majesty was endowed with all the Vertues of her Sex without the least Mixture of their Imperfections She was born on the 30th of May 1662. 8. 29.   30.  10. 31. 1693 This Evening his Highness Prince Lewis of Baden arrived at Gravesend being sent by the Emperor to confer with his Majesty about the Preparations for the next Campagn The next Morning Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies went thither by his Majesty's Command to compliment his Highness and to conduct him to Town In the Afternoon he came up the River in the King's Barge being saluted by the Great Guns from the Tower and from the Ships as he passed by and was conducted to the Apartment prepared for him at Whitehall and in the Evening waâ—ted upon his Majesty at Kensington He was entertained all the while he continued in England at the King's Charge and received all the Respect due to his Birth and great Merit dit 1694 The House of Lords went this Day in a Body to Kensington and presented to the King the following Address   WE your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled do with inexpressible Grief humbly assure your Majesty of the deep Sense we have of the Loss your Majesty and the whole Kingdom doth sustain by the Death of that excellent Princess our Sovereign Lady the Queen most humbly beseeching your Majesty that you would not indulge your Grief upon this sad Occasion to the Prejudice of the Health of your Royal Person in whose Preservation not only the Welfare of your own Subjects but of all Christendom is so nearly concerned We further beg leave upon this sad Occasion humbly to renew to your Majesty the hearty and sincere Assurances of our utmost Assistance against all your Enemies both at home and abroad and of all other Demonstrations of the greatest Duty and Affection that can possibly be paid by the most faithful Subjects   The King returned them this Answer   I Heartily thank you for your Kindness to me but much more for the Sense you shew of our great Loss which is above what I can express   The House of Commons went likewise in a Body to Kensington and presented to his Majesty the Address which follows   Most gracious and dread Soveraign   WE your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled being deeply sensible of the great Misfortune which has befallen your Majesty and this Kingdom by the Death of our most gracious Queen do with unspeakable Grief of Heart humbly beg leave to condole the irreparable Loss of that most excellent Princess the best of Women to enumerate whose Vertues were to aggravate our Sorrow   We cannot at the same time but bless God for the Preservation of your Majesty to us on whose Life the Welfare and Happiness of this Kingdom and the Liberties of Europe do in so great a measure depend hereby beseeching your Majesty so to moderate your Grief under this Affliction as not to prejudice or indanger your Health and that your Majesty would please to take such further Care of your Royal Person that we may all enjoy the Blessing of your Majesty's long Life and happy Reign We do also look upon it as a Duty we owe to your Majesty to our selves and to those we represent to take this Occasion of assuring your Majesty that we your faithful Commons will always to the utmost of our Power stand by support and defend your Majesty and your Government against all your Enemies both at home and abroad   His Majesty was pleased 〈◊〉 make this gracious Answer   Gentlemen   I Take very kindly your Care of Me and the Publick especially at this time when I am able to think of nothing but our great Loss FINIS
Members of Parliament in K. Charles's Reign met at Westminster by the Prince's Advice and presented him an Address of Thanks for rescuing the Nation desiring him to take upon him the Government till January 22. and in the mean time to issue out Letters for the Meeting of a Convention and take into his Care the Condition of Ireland 7. 1689 28. 1688 He issues out his Letters for electing Members for the Convention 8. 29.  9. 1689 30. 1688 The Prince puts out his Proclamation authorizing Sheriffs Justices of Peace c. to act 10. 1678 31. 1677 This Day a Treaty between England and Holland was concluded at the Hague in order to reestablish Peace in Christendom and oblige the French King to grant reasonable Terms to the Crown of Spain c.  January  11. 1.  12. 2. 1689 The Prince of Orange publishes a Declaration for the better collecting the Revenue 13. 3. 1689 The Lord Dartmouth brings back the English Fleet into the Downs 14. 4.  15. 5. 1689 The Prince of Orange publishes an Order for the regular Election of Convention Men. dit 1691 King William prorogues the English Parliament 16. 6. 1691 His Majesty sets out for Holland to confer with several Confederate Princes but the Wind turning contrary he is forced to come back 17. 7. 1672 The States General appoint John de Wit Mynheer Beverning and Mynheer Fagel to draw up the Commission of Captain General 18. 8. 1651 The States General meet to dispose of the Places vacant by the Prince of Orange's Death dit 1689 The Prince puts out a Proclamation at London for quartering of Souldiers 19. 9. 1672 The Prince is proclaimed Captain General of Holland and Westfrizeland 20. 10. 1672 The Prince sets out from the Hague to view the Fortresses of the States and order the Magistrates of the several Provinces dit 1689 The Scots Lords present an Address to the Prince to take the Government of their Kingdom upon him till March next and to issue out his Letters for calling the States of Scotland to meet the 14th of the said Month. 21. 11.  22. 12. 1674 The States of Holland encrease the Houshold of his Royal Highness and the Number of his Guards 23. 13. 1673 The Prince presents the States with his tenth Part of all Prizes to be applied to the Defence of the Country 24. 14. 1689 The Prince of Orange being waited upon by the Scots Lords tells them that he has given all necessary Orders for the Security of their Kingdom 25. 15. 1679 He returns to the Hague having visited the Fortifications of Naerden and other Places in the Provinces of Vtrecht and Holland 26. 16. 1691 The King goes on board a second time for Holland attended by the Dukes of Norfolk and Ormond the Earls of Portland Dorset and Devonshire the Bishop of London and other Lords 27. 17.  28. 18.  29. 19. 1675 The States of Vtrecht sent their Deputies to advise the Prince to accept of the Soveraignty of Guelderland and Zutphen 30. 20. 1691 His Majesty comes in sight of the Dutch Coasts with 12 Men of War and 7 Yatchs but the Ships being unable to come nigh the Shore by reason of the Ice he takes a small Shalop to go on shore wherein he continued for 18 Hours together in a dark Night without view of Land or his Fleet exposed at once to die for Hunger to perish with Cold to be drowned at every Stroke his small Pinnace made against the Ice and to be taken Prisoner by every Pirate The Danger his Majesty was exposed to wholly dispirited his Attendants and seeing one of the Seamen who seemed to succumb under the Pressures of Cold Weariness and Fear he rouzed him up with this Expression What! dost thou fear to die in my Company An Expression very like to that used by Cesar in the Sicilian Strait Quid times Caesarem vehis Fortunam Caesaris and which had the same Effect for the Seamen being thereby encouraged surmounted all Difficulties and set his Majesty on Shore 31. 21. 1691 He arrives at the Hague incognito where nevertheless he is received with extraordinary Demonstrations of Joy It was the first time he came thither since crowned King of England and the States designed him the most magnificent Reception these last Ages have seen but his Majesty declined it dit 1697 This Day his Majesty was pleased to create the Honourable Arnold Joost Van Keppel an Earl Viscount and Baron of this Kingdom by the Title and Stile of Earl of Albemarle Viscount Bury and Baron of Ashford   The same Day his Majesty was pleased to appoint the Lord Viscount Gallway one of the Lords Justices of Ireland February   1. 22. 1689 The Convention of the States of England met at Westminster the Marquiss of Hallifax was chosen Speaker by the Lords and Henry Powle Esq by the Commons Both Houses desired the Prince to take on him the Administration of the Government for a farther time and ordered a Thanksgiving day to be kept Jan. 31. Old Stile in London and Feb. 14. throughout England for the Deliverance of the Nation The Prince sent a Letter to the House of Lords about setling the Government 2. 23. 1674 The States of Holland and West-Frizeland declare the Place of Governour Captain General and Admiral of their Provinces possessed by his Highness hereditary in his Male-Posterity   The same Day the States of Zealand did the like and also made the Dignity of first Nobleman bestowed upon his Highness hereditary He was a few Days after complimented thereupon by K. Charles II's Envoy 3. 24.  4. 25. 1677 At the Request of the States General he goes to Groâ—ingen attended by some of their Deputies to compose the Divisions that were in that Town 5. 26. 1679 This Day the Treaty of Peace between the Empire and France was signed at Nimeguen dit 1691 His Majesty was obliged at the States Desires and the Peoples Importunities to make a publick Entry inâ—â—â—he Hague which was performed with all the Solemnity imaginable 6. 27. 1691 He gives Audieâ—ce to several Princes and Deputies of the Cities of Holland 7. 28. 1689 The House of Commons resolves that K. James H. having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom by breaking the Original Contract between King and People and by the Advice oâ— Jesuits and other wicked Persons having violated the Fundamental Laws and withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom has abdicated the Government and that the Throne is thereby become vacant dit 1691 His Majesty assists at the Assembly of the States of Holland and Westfrizeland of the States General and at the Council of State where he receives extraordinary Marks of Respect dit 1697 Sir John Fenwick Baronet attainted of High Treason for conspiring against the King and betraying his Country to the French was beheaded this Day on Tower-Hill 8. 29. 1689 The House of Lords being in a great Debate on
before to a Committee of the House of Commons who went to Newgate to examine them They were attended by three Jacobite Parsons who were so impudent as to give a full Absolution at the Gallows to those Criminals laying their Hands over their Heads tho they died impenitent of the horrid and hellish Crime they owned themselves guilty of 13. 3. 1696 The English Fleet having been several times forced back from the French Coasts by contrary Winds returned this Day before Calais under the Command of Sir Cloudesly Shovel who ordered Captain Benbow to bombard the Town which he did throwing about 400 Shells into the Town which set it on Fire in three or four Places and burnt several Ships in the Harbour The Enemy made a great Fire upon our Men and yet we had but 3 kill'd and 8 wounded Our Admiral intended to begin afresh the next Morning but he was blown by a violent Storm into the Downs This was done almost in sight of the late King James who since the Discovery of the Conspiracy against King William's Person Febr. 22. continued at Boulogn by Order of the French King in order to make some People believe that their Intended Invasion of England was not grounded upon the Assassination of his Majesty 14. 4. 1675 The Prince of Orange being recovered of a dangerous Distemper the States of Holland send their Deputies to congratulate his Highness upon the same desire him to take a greater Care of his Person and to give them Leave to appoint a Day of Thanksgiving for his Recovery 15. 5. 1675 The Province of Guelderland desired his Highness since he would not accept the Sovereignty of their Province to take on him the Dignity of their Stadtholder and Governour which they had likewise settled upon his Male Posterity for ever which his Highness consented to 16. 6. 1666 The States General of the Seven Vnited Provinces take upon them the Guardianship of the young Prince of Orange and made choice of six Noblemen to take care of his Education This Proceeding of the States was very acceptable to the People who look upon the Princes of the Illustrious House of Orange as their Tutelar Angels 17. 7 169â— This Day a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was opened in the King's Bench at Westminster and the Jury being sworn they found a Bill of Indictment of High Treason against Major Lowick Captain Knightley Brigadeer Rookwood and Cranburne for imagining and designing the Murder and Assassination of the King After which the Grand Jury made a Presentment to the Court that ... Collier Shadrach Cook and ... Snett Clerks did take upon them to pronounce and give Absolution to Sir Will. Parkins and Sir John Friend at the time of their Execution at Tyburn immediately before they had severally delivered a Paper to the Sheriff of Middlesex wherein they have severally endeavour'd to justify the Treasons for which they were justly condemned and executed and that they the said Collier Cook and Snett have thereby countenanced the same Treasons for which the said Sir William Parkins and Sir John Friend have been executed to the great Incouragement of other Persons to commit the like Treasons and to the Scandal of the Church of England established by Law and to the Disturbance of the Peace of the Kingdom whereupon the Court ordered an Indictment to be preferr'd against them for the same 18. 8. 1696 Sadrach Cook and William Snett Clerks were this Day committed to Newgate for Suspicion of High Treason and Treasonable Practices dit 1691 His Majesty was pleased to create the Duke of Zell Knight of the Garter being then at the Hague and as a Mark of particular Kindness he put the Garter about his Leg with his own Royal Hand the Duke of Norfolk assisting to buckle it 19. 9. 1689 This Day the King came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent to an Act for establishing the Coronation Oath to another for Naturalization of the most Noble Prince George of Denmark and settling his Precedence and to another Act for Naturalizing Frederick Count of Schomberg 19. 9. 1696 His Grace the Duke of Ormond was this Day by his Majesty's Command sworn one of the Lords of the Privy Council and accordingly took his Place at the Board 20. 10. 1689 The King was pleased to create his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark and Norway Baron of Ockingham Earl of Kendall and Duke of Cumberland 21. 11. 1689 This Day their Majesties William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England France and Ireland in Westminster-Abbey by the Lord Bishop of London which Ceremony was performed with great Solemnity The Medals of the Coronation had on the Face the Effigies of the King and Queen and on the Reverse Jupiter darting his Thunderbolt at Phaeton with this Motto Ne totus absumatur Orbis To prevent the Ruin of the World or rather of the Liberties of Europe dit 1689 The Committee of the States of Scotland for settling the Government having made their Report and the Grievances and Instrument of Government being read and Histincty considered the whole States except some few that were absent with one Voice declar'd King William and Queen Mary King and Queen of Scotland in the same manner as was done in England and immediately thereafter the States assisted by the Lord Provost and the rest of the new Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh in their Formalities and attended by Lion King at Arms and the Heralds Pursuivants and Trumpets went from the Parliament-House to the Cross and there with great Solemnity Splendor Acclamations and Expressions oâ— Joy proclaimed their Majesties King and Queen of Scotland the Duke of Hamilton the Duke oâ— Queensbury the Marquiss of Athâ—â— and the Marquiss of Douglest and many other Peers being upon the Cross with the Lorâ— Provost and the Magistrates The Evening was conclude with Bonfires c. 21. 11. 1696 Seigniors Soranzo and Veniâ—â— Ambassadors Extraordinary oâ— the Republick of Venice to 〈◊〉 Majesty King William arrived 〈◊〉 London 22. 12. 1689 The House of Commons walked from Westminster to the Banqueting House where they attended their Majesties to congratulate them upon their Coronation dit 1688 The Prince goes to meet the Elector of Saxony at Loo to confer with him about his intended Expedition and the Preparations the French were making to invade Germany 23. 13. 1689 The Convention of Scotland having proclaimed and declared their Majesties William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland a Proclamation was published this Day forbidding the Subjects of that Crown to presume to own or acknowledg the late King James the Seventh for their King or obey accept or assist any Commissions that may be emitted from him or any ways to correspond with him forbidding likewise to presume upon their highest Peril by Word Writing in Sermons or any other manner of Way to impugn or disown the Royal Authority of William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland 24. 14.
1674 The Prince of Orange arrived this Day at Vtrecht to compose some Difference in the Town where he was received with all imaginable Respect the Burghers appearing on that Occasion in Arms. His Highness thought fit to remove the old Magistrates and choose new ones which was very acceptable to the Inhabitants and ended all the Troubles of that City 25. 15. 1689 Admiral Herbert with the Fleet under his Command appears before Kingsale whereupon Colonel Mackillicut Governor of the Place prepared to retire thinking that it was the French Fleet which pursuant to an Agreement between King James and the French King was coming to take Possession of that Town 26. 16. 1696 This Day being appointed for a General and Solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his great Goodness and Mercy in discovering and delivering his Majesty from the late Horrid and Barbarous Conspiracy of Papists and other Traiterous Persons to Assassinate and Murder his Majesty's Sacred Person and from an Invasion intended by the French upon this Kingdom whereby not only the Destruction of his Majesty's Royal Person was plotted and intended but also the total Subversion of the Government and of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom the same was religiously observed in the Cities of London and Westminster with great Marks of Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty and his Government and at Night there were Illuminations Bonfires and other publick Rejoicings sutable to the Occasion 27. 17. 1696 The King constituted the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon and the Earl of Radnor Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cornwal 28. 18. 1689 The Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury Principal Secretary of State was this Day constituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Worcester dit 1690 Sir Cloudesly Shovel in his Majesty's Ship the Monk the Monmouth Yacht and a Fireship came to an Anchor in Dublin-Bay and having discovered a Ship a Mile within the Bar Sir Cloudesly Shovel being on Board the Monmouth went over the Bar with the Pinnace of the Man of War and a Ketch whereupon the said Ship removed a Mile higher and ran a-ground within a Musket-shot of a French Man of War of 12 Guns and 2 or 3 English Ships that lay a-ground silled with Soldiers who sired briskly at Sir Cloudesly However the English attacked her and after some Dispute having observed that Sir Cloudesly had made a Signal for a Fireship the Enemy â—â—rsook their Ship and get away in their Boats The English got her off but in their return oâ—â— of their Boats run aground whereupon the late King James with his Guards and many People came upon the Shore but the English who stood in their Boats made so vigorous a Defence that the Irish durst not come near them The Ship that was taken was called the Pelican the biggest of two Scots Frigats the French had taken the Year before and carried 20 Guns 29. 19. 1689 The Earl of Dundee having absented himself from Edinburgh without Leave of the Convention the States sent 200 Horse after him and ordered the Country People to seize him The Duke of Gourdon persisting in his Resolution of holding Edinburgh Castle for the late King James and Major General Mackay being ordered to besiege it two Batteries of Cannon and Mortars were raised this Day against it The States appoint also the Colonels of Six new Regiments raised in their Name 30. 20. 1692 The Elector Palatine having remained two or three Days at Loo with his Majesty went away this Day for Dusseldorp assuring the King that he would give immediate Orders to his Troops to be in a Readiness to march whither and when his Majesty should command May.   ◠21. 1696 This Day Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne having been indicted for High Treason for Conspiring to Assassinate his Majesty were brought to their Trials at the King's Bench Bar Each of them had a Copy of their Indictment and two Counsel to plead for them The Evidence for the King was very clear and full and it was plainly proved that the late K. James employed several Persons to act under Sir George Barclay in the intended Assassination of his Majesty and sent them over to England for that Purpose The Prisoners had nothing material to say in their own Defence and so the Jury found them guilty of High Treason 2. 22. 1696 Robert Lowick indicted for High Treason for Conspiring to Assassinate his Majesty was this Day brought to his Trial at the King's Bench Bar and the Matters charged against him being fully proved the Jury found him guilty of High Treason and â—e Rookwood and Cranburne condemned the Day before had the Judgment pronounced against them which is usual in Cases of High Treason dit 1691 The King was pleased in Consideration of the many good and acceptable Services of Mainhardt Count of Schomberg and the late Duke of Schomberg his Father to create him Baron of Mullingar Earl of Bangor and Duke of Leinster in the Kingdom of Ireland dit 1673 The Prince of Orange set out from the Hague to view all the Towns and Fortresses of Holland 3. 23. 1695 This Day came Advice that Captain Killegrew in the Plymouth and five other English Frigats being a cruising in the Channel of Maltha met with two French Men of War viz. the Trident of 64 Guns and the Content of 54 Captain Killegrew engag'd them alone for a considerable time and being joined by another Frigat obliged the French to surrender and brought them to Messina 4. 24. 1689 This Day the States of Scotland named the Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery of Skelmerley and Sir John Dalrymple their Commissioners to go for England to offer the Crown of Scotland to their Majesties 5. 25. 1689 Their Majesties taking into their most serious Consideration the deplorable Condition of the French Protestants issued out this Day the following Proclamation in their Behalf   William R.   WHereas it has pleased God Almighty to deliver the Realm of England and the Subjects thereof from the Persecution lately threatning them for their Religion and from the Oppression and Destruction which the Subversion of their Laws and the Arbitrary Exercise of Power and Dominion over them had very near introduced We finding in our Subjects a true and just Sense thereof and of the Miseries and Oppressions the French Protestants lie under for their Relief and to incourage them that shall be willing to transport themselves their Families and Estates into this our Kingdom We do hereby declare that all French Protestants that shall seek their Refuge in and transport themselves into this our Kingdom shall not only have our Royal Protection for themselves Families and Estates within this our Realm but we will also do our Endeavour in all reasonable Ways and Means so to support aid and assist them in their several and respective Trades and ways of Livelihood as that their living and
being in this Realm may be comfortable and easy to them   The same Day was published another Proclamation prohibiting the Importation of all sorts of Manufactures and Commodities whatsoever of the Growth Production or Manufacture of France dit 1691 His Majesty was pleased to fill several vacant Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Dignities and the Learned Dr. John Tillotsoâ— Dean of St. Paul's was promoted to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury dit 1694 This Day the King came to the House of Lords and having given the Royal Assent to several Acts made a gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament and prorogued them to the 18th of September   The Right Honourable Charles Earl of Shrewsbury principal Secretary of State was elected Knight Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter and in the Evening was created Marquiss and Duke of this Kingdom by the Name and Stile of Marquiss of Alton and Duke of Shrewsbury   The same Day John Earl of Mulgrave was created Marquiss of Normanby and Henry Herbert of Ribbesford in the County of Worcester Esq Baron Herbert of Cherbury in the County of Salop   His Majesty was also pleased â—o appoint the Right Honourable Edward Russel Esq Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven Henry Priestman Robert Austen Esqs Sir Robert Rich Sir George Rook and Sir John Houblon Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland and of the Dominions thereunto belonging 6. 26. 1669 Monsieur Zuilychem first Minister of his Highness having appointed this Day to receive the Oath of Fidelity of the Inhabitants of the Principality of Orange the Parliament and all other Magistrates attending in the Moment they were reading a general Pardon of the Prince a Crown was form'd in the â—ir which sat upon the Chair of State or Throne of the Prince This wonderful Phenomenon was seen by above 8000 Persons both Protestants and Papists Monsieur Zuilychem was so surprized that he writ the following Verses the same Day   Dum stat Arausiacae confirmatura Coronae Antiquam Populi laeta Corona fidem Non dubiè Coelo placuit quod utrique Coronae Tertia de Coelo missa coronat opus dit 1689 This Day the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled presented an Address to the King in the Banqueting-House at Whitehall for declaring the War against the French King which is worthy to be recorded to Posterity   WE your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament assembled most humbly lay before your Majesty our earnest Desire that your Majesty would be pleased to take into your most serious Consideration the destructive Methods taken of late Years by the French King against the Trade Quiet and Interest of this your Kingdom and particularly the present Invasion of the Kingdom of Ireland and supporting your Majesties rebellious Subjects there   Not doubting in the least but that through your Majesty's Wisdom the Alliances already made with such as may hereafter be concluded on this occasion by your Majesty may be effectual to reduce the French King to such a Condition that it may not be in his Power hereafter to violate the Peace of Christendom nor prejudice the Trade and Prosperity of this your Majesty's Kingdom   To this end we most humbly beseech your Majesty to rest assured upon this our solemn and hearty Promise and Engagement that when your Majesty shall think fit to enter into a War against the French King we will give your Majesty such Assistance in a Parliamentary Way as may enable your Majesty under that Protection and Blessing God Almighty has always afforded you to support and go through with the same   To this kind Address the King returned the following Answer   I Receive this Address as a Mark of the Confidence you have in me which I take very kindly and shall endeavour by all my Actions to confirm you in it   I assure you that my own Ambition shall never be an Argument to incline me to engage in a War that may expose the Nation either to Danger or Expence   But in the present case I look upon the War so much already declared in effect by France against England that it is not so properly an Act of Choice as an inevitable Necessity in our own Defence I shall only tell you that as I have ventured my Life and all that is dear to me to rescue this Nation from what it suffer'd I am ready still to do the same in order to the preserving it from all its Enemies and as I doubt not of such an Assistance from you as shall be sutable to your Advice to me to declare War against a powerful Enemy so you may rely upon me that no Part of that which you shall give for the carrying it on with Success shall be diverted by me to any other Use dit 1680 The States of Zealand and the Merchants concerned in the Trade of the East-Indies being in Dissension about the Choice of a Director of the Company referr'd the same to the Prince of Orange to name to that Dignity whom his Highness should think fit 7. 27. 1674 General Rabenhaut presented to his Highness seven Standards and several Colours taken by the Dutch Forces in an Engagement with the Munsterians dit 1676 His Highness and the Duke of Villa Hermosa march'd from Mons with the Dutch and Spanish Forces to oblige the French to raise the Siege of Bouchain and came in sight of the French Army near Valenciennes dit 1696 The King came this Day to the House of Peers and the Commons being sent for his Majesty gave the Royal Assent to several Acts and having made a Speech to both Houses the Lord Keeper prorogued them to the 16th of June following But that Speech relating to the Proceedings of the Parliament after the Conspiracy against his Majesty's Life it is thought fit to insert it here as a very extraordinary Piece   My Lords and Gentlemen   YOU have shewn so great Concern for my Person and Zeal for my Government and have done so much for the Preservation of the one and for the strengthning of the other by the good Laws which have been made and by the Supplies you have provided for the several Occasions of this Year that the late Designs of our Enemies are by the Blessing of God like to have no other Effect than to let them see how firmly we are united and to give me this Occasion to acknowledg your Kindness and to assure you of all the Returns which a Prince can make to his People   My Lords and Gentlemen   The Necessity of Affairs requiring my Absence out of the Kingdom for some time I do earnestly recommend to you that in your several Stations you will be assisting to those whom I shall leave to administer the Government and that you will
Men of War sailed this Day from the Buoy of the Nore to join the Dutch in the Downs and the same Day the Earl of Portland arriv'd from Holland with sive Men of War and two Fireships and brought an Account that the late King James had drawn a Body of Forces at the Hogue to make a Descent upon England but that they were not embarked 15. 5. 1692 The Kingdom being threatned with a powerful Invasion from abroad the late K. James with near 20000 Men being ready to embark at the Hogue and Count Tourville being in the Channel with the French Fleet to protect them the Queen put out a Proclamation requiring the Attendance of both Houses of Parliament on the 24th of this Instant and her Majesty ordered all the Forces of the Kingdom to be drawn together at Petersfield hear Portsmouth under the Command of the Duke of Leinster The Lords Lieutenants of the Counties bordering on the Sea received also Directions to raise the Militia and all other imaginable Precautions were taken to prevent the Design of the Enemy The King being then abroad with the greatest part of the Standing Forces there appeared a great Consternation but the Queen reviv'd the Spirits of the whole Nation by the great Courage and Prudence she expressed in that nice Juncture dit 1696 The King went on board the Elizabeth in Margate-Road and sailed for Holland 16. 6. 1695 The King declared this Day that he had thought fit to appoint Henry Lord Capel to be Lord Deputy of Ireland dit 1694 The King embarked this Day at Margate for Holland being attended by 8 Dutch Men of War 17. 7. 1689 The House of Commons having desired his Majesty to take into Consideration the many Incroachments of France upon Great Britain and our Neighbours and to declare War against the French King assuring him that the House would support him to carry on the same with Vigour a Declaration of War was published this Day And because the French have had the Impudence to say that we declar'd War against them without any Cause I think sit to transcribe the said Declaration   William R.   IT having pleased God Almighty to make us the happy Instruments of rescuing these Nations from great and imminent Dangers and to place us upon the Throne of these Kingdoms we think our selves obliged to endeavour to the uttermost to promote the Welfare of our People which can never be effectually secured but by preventing the Miseries that threaten them from abroad   When we consider the many unjust Methods the French King has of late Years taken to gratify his Ambition that he has not only invaded the Territories of the Emperor and of the Empire now in Amity with us laying waste whole Countries and destroying the Inhabitants by his Armies but declar'd War against our Allies without any Provocation in manifest Violation of the Treaties confirm'd by the Guaranty of the Crown of England We can do no less than join with our Allies in opposing the Designs of the French King as the Disturber of the Peace and the Common Enemy of the Christian World   And besides the Obligations we lay under by Treaties with our Allies which are a sufficient Justification of us for taking up Arms at this time since they have called upon us so to do the many Injuries done to us and to our Subjects without any Reparation by the French King are such that however of late Years they were not taken notice of for Reasons well known to the World nevertheless We will not pass them over without a publick and just Resentment of such Outrages   It is not long since the French took Licences from the English Governour of Newfound-land to fish in the Seas upon that Coast and paid a Tribute for such Licences as an Acknowledgment of the sole Right of the Crown of England to that Island and yet of late the Incroachments of the French upon our said Island and our Subjects Trade and Fishery have been more like the Invasions of an Enemy than becoming Friends who enjoyed the Advantages of that Trade only by Permission   But that the French King should invade our Charibbee Islands and possess himself of our Territories of the Province of New-york and of Hudsons-Bay in a hostile manner seizing our Forts burning our Subjects Houses and inriching his People with the Spoil of their Goods and Merchandises detaining some of our Subjects under the Hardship of Imprisonment causing others to be inhumanely kill'd and driving the rest to Sea in a small Vessel without Food and Necessaries to support them are Actions not becoming even an Enemy and yet he was so far from declaring himself so that at that very time he was negotiating here in England by his Ministers a Treaty of Neutrality and good Correspondence in America   The Proceedings of the French King against our Subjects in Europe are so notorious that we shall not need to enlarge upon them his countenancing the Seisure of English Ships by French Privateers forbidding the Importation of great part of the Product and Manufactures of our Kingdom and imposing exorbitant Customs upon the rest notwithstanding the great Advantages he and the French Nation reap by their Commerce with England are sufficient Evidences of his Designs to destroy the Trade and consequently to ruin the Navigation upon which the Wealth and Safety of this Nation very much depend   The Right of the Flag inherent in the Crown of England has been disputed by his Orders in violation of our Soveraignty of the Narrow Seas which in all Ages has been asserted by our Predecessors and we are resolved to maintain for the Honour of our Crown and of the English Nation   But that which most nearly touches us is his unchristian Persecution of many of our English Protestant Subjects in France for Matters of Religion contrary to the Law of Nations and express Treaties forcing them to abjure their Religion by strange and unusual Cruelties and imprisoning some of the Masters and Seamen of our Merchant-Ships and condemning others to the Gallies upon pretence of having on board either some of his own miserable Protestant Subjects or their Effects And lastly as he has for some Years last past endeavoured by Insinuations and Promises of Assistance to overthrow the Government of England so now by open and violent Methods and the actual Invasion of our Kingdom of Ireland in Support of our Subjects in Arms and in Rebellion against us he is promoting the utter Extirpation of our good and loyal Subjects in that our Kingdom   Being therefore thus necessitated to take up Arms and relying on the Help of Almighty God in our just Undertaking we have thought fit to declare and do hereby declare War against the French King and that we will in conjunction with our Allies vigorously prosecute the same by Sea and Land since he has so unrighteously begun it
three Hours and the English Captain was kill'd but Robert Sincock the Boatswain having taken upon him the Command of the Ship there being no Lieutenant on board continued the Engagement with such Bravery that the two French Men of War were taken and brought into Plymouth 23. 13. 1696 This Day Peter Cook Esq Son to Sir Miles Cook was tried at the Old Baily for conspiring with Sir William Parkins Sir John Friend Charnock the Earl of Ailesbury and several other Traitors the Subversion of the Government by a French Army It was fully proved that he was at the Meeting wherein it was resolved to send Charnock into France to propose the sending over of an Army and resolved to join them at their Landing whereupon the Jury â—ound him guilty and he receiv'd Sentence of Death as the â—aw directs in such Cases dit 1695 The King set sail from the Buoy of the Nore for Holland attended by a Squadron of Men of War commanded by Sir â—â—eorge Rook. 24. 14. 1690 The Garison of Charlemont consisting of about 800 Men having capitulated the 12th Instant marched out this Day in the Presence of the Duke of Schomberg   The same Day Colonel Woolsley took a strong Castle called Ballingargy with the Loss of 47 Men and 43 wounded dit 1695 The King landed at Oranje Polder and arrived at the Hague where he was received with great Acclamations of Joy 25. 15. 1689 This Day the King went on board the Elizabeth at Portsmouth where he was most splendidly entertained at Dinner by Admiral Herbert His Majesty was pleased to declare then his Royal Intention of confirming the Title and Dignity of an Earl of this Kingdom upon the said Admiral and knighted Capt. John Ashby and Cloudesly Shovel and to incourage the Seamen his Majesty was pleased to bestow upon such of them who were in the late Engagement with the French at Bantry-Bay a Donative of 10 Shillings a Man dit 1692 The Fleet riding at St. Helens waiting only for a favourable Wind to go in quest of the French Admiral Russell acquainted the Flag-Officers and others that he had received a Letter from the Queen wherein her Majesty was pleased to tell him that she was informed that there was a false and malicious Report spread abroad that some of the Officers of the Fleet were disaffected and that she had ordered the Discharge of many of them from their Employments but that she was satisfied that this Report was raised by the Enemies of the Government and that she reposed so entire a Confidence in their Fidelity and Zeal that she was resolved not to displace any one of them Whereupon they made a very Loyal Address which was immediately sent up and presented to the Queen by the Lords of the Admiralty 26. 16. 1689 This Day the King was pleased to create Frederick Count de Schomberg late Mareschal of France General of his Majesty's Forces Master General of the Ordnance and one of the Privy Council a Baron Earl Marquiss and Duke of the Kingdom of England by the Name and Title of Baron Teyes Earl of Brentford Marquiss of Harwich and Duke of Schomberg dit 1692 A Proclamation was published this Day declaring that the Parliament which was to sit the 24th Instant shall be further prorogued to the 14th of June their Sitting being not judged necessary because of our Fleet being then at Sea in a condition to oppose the designed Descent of the French   At the same time a Declaration of the late King James was dispersed both in London and the Country containing a great many fair Promises and a general Pardon to his former Subjects some few excepted and amongst others the poor Fisherman Hunt of Feversham who there stopp'd King James when he was going for France 1688. dit 1695 This Day the Parliament of Scotland signed an Address of Condolence to the King upon the Death of that incomparable Princess the late Queen Mary a Loss as they express it that can never be too much nor too long lamented 27. 17. 1692 Admiral Russell sailed this Morning from St. Helens with the English and Dutch Fleet under his Command in order to fight the French Fleet commanded by Count Tourville which had been for some Days in the Channel   The King having Advice that the French King had caused Namur to be invested the 25th in the Morning and the Mareschal de Luxemburgh was posted at Gemblours to cover the Siege His Majesty deâ—amped from Diogem with the Confederate Army and marched towards Lovain to endeavour to relieve the Place 28. 18. 1658 A Painter who pretended to Prophecy drew the Prince of Orange's Picture with 3 Crowns upon his Head The Picture is still to be seen at the Hague dit 1689 A Proclamation was published this Day for prohibiting the Importation or retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of France 29. 19. 1692 About three in the Morning the Scouts of the English and Dutch Fleet commanded by Admiral Russell made the Signal that they discovered the Enemy about 7 Leagues off Cape Barfleur The French who had the Weather-gage bore down to the Allies and engaged at some Distance about 11 a Clock The Fight continued till half an Hour past five in the Evening the Britannia on board which was Admiral Russel and the Royal Sun the Admiral of France being then within less than Musquet-shot distance The French finding the Place too hot towed away with all their Boats and the English and Dutch after them About 6 there was a fresh Engagement between the Blew Squadron and the French which lasted not long It was calm all the Night and the French took the Opportunity of a great Fog to tow away their Ships and run away Three French Ships blew up in the Engagement 30. 20. 1692 The English and Dutch Fleet got sight again of the French Fleet but they could never come up with them nearer than a League and all were forced to come to an Anchor dit 1690 The King came to the House of Lords and gave the Royal Assent to an Act for the Exercise of the Government by the Queen during his Majesty's Absence and to another for reversing the Judgment in a Quo-warranto against the City of London and for restoring the said City to its antient Rights and Privileges dit 1696 Alexander Knightley one of the Conspirators against his Majesty's Person was brought to the King's Bench Bar at Westminster in order to be tried for that horrid Crime but the Prisoner delivered a Paper to the Court owning that he had been concerned both in the Design of assassinating the King and in the intended Invasion of the French and begg'd the Court to intercede with the King for a Pardon 31. 21. 1692 A Conspiracy against the King's Person was discovered in Flanders That Design was carried on by one Chevalier de Grandval a Captain of Dragoons in the French Service and one Dumort a Walloon who had
the same time the Enemies were to make an Invasion into this Kingdom That he had given all necessary Orders to disappoint their Design and recommended to them the Care of the Kingdom and the Dispatching the Publick Business before them   Both Houses resolved upon a very Loyal Address which was presented the same Day to the King at Kensington wherein they congratulate his Majesty's Preservation desire him to take a greater Care of his Person and â—ssure him of their Zeal and Afâ—ection and that they will dispatch all Business before them dit 1696 The same Day was published a Proclamation for apprehending James Duke of Berwick Sir George Barclay and many other Conspirators His Majesty having received Information upon Oath that the Persons above-named have with divers other traiterous Persons entred into a horrid and detestable Conspiracy to assassinate and murder his Person and his Majesty promises a thousand Pounds Reward for each of them 6. 25. 1696 The Commons enter into an Association for the Preservation of his Majesty's Person wherein they declare That in case the King come to die by a violent Death which God forbid they will revenge his Death upon all his Enemies both Foreign and Domestick The said Association was subscribed the same Day by the greatest part of the Members   Admiral Russel goes on Board the Fleet in the Downs to sail towards Calais 7. 26. 1679 The Prince makes a Defensive and Offensive League between the States General and the Elector of Brandenburgh 8. 27. 1696 Admiral Russel sailed from the Downs for Calais with the Fleet under his Command 9. 28. 1673 The Prince of Orange having drawn his Army from their Winter-quarters forces the French to quit Wezel and other Places in the Country of Cleves dit 1696 Admiral Russel appears off of Gravelin the Ld. Berkley before Calais and Sir Cloudsly Shovel off of Bullogn which put the French into such a Consternation that they began to raise Batteries to prevent the Burning of the Transport Ships they had there to carry their Forces into England upon the Signal of the Assassination of King William 10. 29. 1696 Several of the Conspirators were seized and committed to Newgate  March.  11. 1. 1654 A Medal was coined in Holland on the Reverse whereof was represented the young Prince of Orange in Roman Habits with a Crown of Lawrel and a Staff of General in his Hand standing before the Statue of Pallas in Arms with a Launce and a Shield having her Eyes fix'd on the Prince and shewing him a Sun in the middle of which appears the Name of Jehovah in Hebrew and round about the Medal are these Words as the Motto of the Prince Fear God 12. 2. 1696 The French fearing the Burning of 13 Men of War of theirs that were come out of Dunkirk and lay off of that Place among the Sands struck down their Masts and Yards and take out their Guns to hale them into the Harbour 13. 3. 1656 The Prince of Orange goes to Leiden and remains some Years in that University where he discover'd his great Genius and made an extraordinary Progress in Learning 14. 4. 1689 The King sends a Message to the Commons to recommend to them the care of Ireland the Fleet and of reimbursing the Dutch and acquaint them that his Majesty being sensible that the Tax called Hearth-Money which was given to the Crown in King Charles the Second's Reign was very grievous to his Subjects he consented to the Regulation of it or to the Taking of the same wholly away 15. 5. 1657 The Picture of the young Prince of Orange being shewn to Oliver Cromwel it was observed that the very Sight of it made him tremble 15. 5. 1689 The Commons present an Address to the King to stand by him with their Lives and Fortunes and thank his Majesty â—or his Tenderness for his People in offering to part with the Revenue of the Hearth-Money dit 1695 The Funeral of the late Queen Mary of blessed Memory was solemnized this Day with great Magnificence 16. 6. 1696 The Earl of Athlone and Lieutenant General Cohorne having drawn together a Body of Troops came before Givet and bombarded the Town and the Magazines the French had gathered there which they destroyed and afterwards retired without any Loss The Garison of Dinant durst not come out and contented themselves to fire with their Cannon upon our Men. There were in the Magazine 4000 Rations of Forage 17. 7. 1696 The Parliament having past a Bill for empowering his Majesty to apprehend and detain such Persons as he shall find cause to suspect are conspiring against his Royal Person and Government his Majesty came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent to the same and several other Acts. 18. 8. 1660 Charles II. King of England being attended in Holland by the Deputies of the States he told them how much concerned he was for the Princess of Orange his Sister and the Prince of Orange dit 1672 The States General appoint 4000 Men for the Guard of the Prince which were called the Troops of the Houshold of the Prince of Orange 19. 9. 1660 King Charles II. went to the Assembly of the States General and brought with him the young Prince whom he recommended to their Lordships 20. 10. 1673 The Prince goes for Zealand to conclude a Treaty of an Offensive and Defensive League with Spain which was to last till all the Towns taken by the French from the Dutch and the Spaniards should be restored to their Owners 21. 11. 1696 Robert Charnock Edward King and Thomas Keys were this Day brought to their Trial at the Old Baily for High Treason in conspiring and endeavouring to assassinate and murder his Majesty King William The Evidence against them was full and câ—â—ar and it was clearly proved that they had listed Men provided Horses and Arms for that Purpose and had taken a View of the Ground where that bloody Tragedy was to be acted The Evidence deposed farther That Sir George Barclay one of the Conspirators had brought a Commission from France written with King James's own Hand to levy War upon the Person of the Prince of Orange 22. 12. 1696 The King issues out a Proclamation for a Publick Thanksgiving to the Almighty for the Discovery of the Conspiracy 23. 13.  24. 14 1689 This Day the Convention of Scotland met and chose Duke Hamilton for their President They immediately summoned the Duke of Gourdon to surrender the Castle of Edinburgh who demanded some time to consider of it Then they read King William's Letter and appointed a Committee to draw up an Answer A Letter from the late King James was brought to the Assembly but before they would read it it was unanimously voted that they would continue sitting till the Government Religion Laws and Liberties were settled and established They read afterwards King James's Letter which was so unpleasing to them that they committed the Gentleman who
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
he could not now refuse because of his Army refusing to sight to establish Popery he ordered this Day in the Privy Council the Lord Chancellor to issue out Writs for the sitting of a Parliament on the 15th of January following but it was then too late for the Nation having observed that the Court had refused that just Demand as long as ever they could was now in such a Ferment that what the Court did or said was very little regarded 9. 29. 1688 The Prince of Orange being advanced to Sherborn-Castle was joined there this Day by the Prince of Denmark and the other Lords with him dit 1677 His Highness the Prince of Orange knowing how necessary his Presence was at the Hague took his leave of the King and the Duke of York and imbarked at Margate with her Royal Highness his Wife on the 7th Instant and this Day landed in Holland at Ter Heyde from whence they went to Honslâ—erdick 10. 30. 1688 This Day came out King James's Proclamation for the speedy calling of a Parliament as the best and most proper Means as he says to establish a lasting Peace in the Kingdom This Parliament was to sit upon the 15th of January next and the King declared by this Proclamation that all his Subjects should have free Liberty to elect and that all the Peers and such who should be chosen Members of the House of Commons should have full Liberty and Freedom to serve and sit in Parliament notwithstanding they had taken up Arms or committed any Act of Hostility having for that purpose directed a General Pardon to pass the Great Seal The King concludes with these remarkable Words And for the reconciling all publick Breaches and obliterating the very Memory of all past Miscarriages we do hereby exhort and kindly admonish our Subjects to dispose themselves to elect such Persons for their Representatives in Parliament as may not be biassed by Prejudice or Passion but qualified with Parts Experience and Prudence proper for this Conjuncture  December  11. 1. 1688 This Day the Duke of Norfolk came to Norwich attended with a great Number of Gentlemen where they delared for a Free Parliament and the Protection of the Protestant Religion dit  The same Day the Account of King James's Resolution to call a Parliament being gone to the Fleet my Lord Dartmouth called the Captains of the Fleet-together on board the Resolution wherein they resolved upon an Address of Thanks to his Majesty concluding with these Words Beseeching Almighty God to give your Majesty all imaginable Happiness and Prosperity and to grant that such Counsels and Resolutions may be promoted as conduce to your Majesty's Honour and Safety and tend to the Peace and Settlement of this Realm both in Church and State according to the established Laws of the Kingdom This Address was signed by the Lord Dartmouth the Lord Berkley Sir Roger Strickland and 38 other Commanders King James was very much surprized at this Address and perceived but too late how mistaken he had been to have believed that his Fleet would fight for the Establishment of Popery and the Destruction of the Protestant Religion and the Laws of their Country 12. 2. 1676 The Prince comes back from Zealand to the Hague having been in great Danger because of the Ice 13. 3.  14. 4. 1677 This Day the Prince and Princess of Orange made a magnificent Entry into the Hague the Burghers being in Arms the Guns discharged several times and the Evening was concluded with Fireworks Bonfires c. The Bridg was adorned with green Festoons under which was the following Inscription   Vxori Batavis vivat Nassovius Hector Auriaco Patriae vivat Britannica Princeps   Before the Town-house there was a Triumphal Arch with this Inscription   A VrIaCi hIs ThaLaMIs BataVIs Dos RegIa PaX   And in the Hoogstra there was another with these Words   Ingredere Auspiciis Batavis felicibus Aulam 15. 5. 1673 His Highness returned this Day to his Army in Brabant to intercept the Mareschal de Luxemburgh who was returning to France with the Spoils of the Cities they had conquered in Holland The Prince did his utmost to draw the French to a Battel but they declined it and intrench'd themselves under the Cannon of Mastricht where they remained till his Highness was obliged by the hard Weather to send his Troops into their Winter-quarters to refresh themselves of the Fatigues they had suffer'd in their Expedition in Germary and the taking of Bonn. 16. 6. 1689 Colonel John Cutts was this Day created a Baron of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Title of Baron Cutts of Gowraâ— in consideration of his faithful Services and zealous Affection to their Majesties and Government dit 1688 The Popish Party grew so contemptible in London that an Hue and Cry after Father Peters was this Day publickly cried and sold in the Streets of London and Westminster tho King James was still at Whitehall dit 1693 His Majesty having been pleased upon the Death of the Duke of Schomberg to appoint the Lord Viscount Gallway to command his Forces in Piemont in quality of Lieutenant General and to give him likewise the Character of his Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Savoy his Lordship set out this Day for Holland in order to continue his Journey to Turin by Land 17. 7. 1677 The Prince went this Day to the Assembly of the States General to return them his Thanks for their Approbation and Consent to his Marriage and to acquaint them with what he had negotiated in England in relation to the Peace with France   The same Day his Highness went to the Council of State and approved the State of the War for the next Campagn dit 1688 This Day a supposed Declaration of the Prince of Orange was publickly cried and sold in the Streets which put the Papists under an unexpressible Consternation for therein was contained this threatning Expression We do declare that all Papists who shall be found in open Arms or with Arms in their Houses or about their Persons or in any Office or Employment Civil or Military upon any Pretence whatsoever contrary to the known Laws of the Land shall be treated by Us and our Forces not as Souldiers and Gentlemen but as Robbers Free-booters and Banditti and shall therefore be entirely delivered up to the Discretion of our Souldiers The Magistrates were likewise commanded to disarm the Papists and put the Laws in execution against them This Declaration was dated Sâ—erborn-Castle November 28. Signed Will. Henry Prince of Orange c.   This was the boldest Attempt that ever was made by a private Person and if I had been able to learn his Name I would have inserted it here because of the great Service this Declaration did to the Nation for the Papists not knowing that it was forged were so terrified that many laid down their Commissions and threw
away their Arms. King James himself was startled at it and 't is believed that this hastened his Resolution to leave the Kingdom 18. 8. 1688 This Day King James's Army retired in great haste from Reading upon a false Alarm that the Dutch were near that Place but as they endeavoured to regain that Post the next Day a Party of the Prince attacked them and slew about 50 Dragoons tho they were more numerous than the Dutch dit  King James seeing that all the Nation declared for a Free Parliament and that the Prince and his Party were already Masters of the most important Places was prevailed upon to try the last Remedy and to send Commissioners to treat with the Prince of Orange He made choice of the Marquiss of Hallifax the Earl of Nottingham and the Lord Godolphin whom he thought the fittest Men to manage the Treaty who having obtained leave of the Prince to come to him at Hungerford presented this Day the following Proposals to his Highness   Sir   THE King commanded us to acquaint you that He observes all the Differences and Causes of Complaint alledged by your Highness seem to be referred to a Free Parliament His Majesty as he has already declared was resolved before this to call one but thought that in the present State of Affairs it was adviseable to defer it till things were more composed yet seeing that his People still continue to desire it he has put forth his Proclamation in order to it and has issued forth his Writs for the calling of it And to prevent any Cause of Interruption in it he will consent to every thing that can be reasonably required for the Security of all those that come to it His Majesty has therefore sent us to attend your Highness for the adjusting of all Matters that shall be agreed to be necessary to the Freedom of Elections and the Security of Sitting and is ready to enter immediately into a Treaty in order to it   His Majesty proposeth that in the mean time the respective Armies may be retained within such Limits and at such Distance from London as may prevent the Apprehensions that the Parliament may be in any kind disturbed being desirous that the Meeting may be no longer delayed than it must be by the usual and necessary Forms Signed Hallifax Nottingham Godolphin Hungerford the 8th of December 1688. dit 1688 The pretended Prince of Wales was brought back this Evening from Portsmouth where he had been sent to be carried into France under Convoy of some Men of War but the Lord Dartmouth positively refused to obey the King's Command in that point This sheweth how little Sincerity there was in King James's Offers for at the same time his Commissioners were negotiating a Treaty with the Prince he was meditating his Retreat into France dit 1694 His Majesty was pleased to nominate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Thomas Tenison Lord Bishop of Lincoln to be Lord Archbishop of Canterbury 19. 9. 1688 His Highness having examined King James's Proposals returned this Day the following Answer   WHereas on the 8th of December 1688. at Hungerford a Paper signed by the Marquiss of Hallifax the Earl of Nottingham and the Lord Godolphin Commissioners sent unto us from his Majesty was delivered to us We with the Advice of the Lords and Gentlemen assembled with us have in answer made this following Proposal   1. That all Papists and such Persons as are not qualified by Law be disarmed disbanded and removed from all Imployments Civil and Military   2. That all Proclamations that reflect upon us or any that have come to us or declared for us be recalled and that if any Persons for having assisted us have been committed that they be forthwith set at liberty   3. That for the Security and Safety of the City of London the Custody and Government of the Tower be immediately put into the Hands of the said City   4. That if his Majesty should think fit to be in London during the sitting of the Parliament that We may be there also with an equal number of our Guards and if his Majesty shall be pleased to be in any Place from London whatever Distance he thinks fit that We may be at the same Distance and that the respective Armies do remove from London forty Miles and that no more foreign Forces be brought into the Kingdom   5. That for the Security of the City of London and their Trade Tilbury-Fort be put into the Hands of the City   6. That a sufficient part of the Publick Revenue be assigned us for the Support and Maintenance of our Troops until the sitting of a Free Parliament   7. That to prevent the Landing of the French or other foreign Troops Portsmouth may be put into such Hands as by his Majesty and Us shall be agreed on Given at Littlecot December 9 1688.   If the Jesuit who has written the History of the Revolution of England had transcribed this Answer he would not have imposed on his Readers that the Proposals of the Prince were so hard as not to be accepted and that his Highness deferr'd several Days to return an Answer to the King's Commissioners since this was delivered to them the next Day King James expressed himself thus on this Occasion That the Proposals of the Prince were fairer than he could or did expect 20. 10. 1672 This Day the strong Fortress of Coeverden was retaken by a Stratagem of General Rabenhaut with the Loss of about 50 Men. The Garison consisted of near 800 Men provided with all Necessaries and yet they were forced in less than 2 Hours time to surrender Prisoners This Place had been taken from the Dutch by the Bishop of Munster who had made therein a prodigious Magazine for the Invasion of Groninguen and Frizeland and he thought it impregnable because it had formerly maintained a Siege of 31 Weeks dit 1688 This Morning between three and four of the Clock the Queen the pretended Prince of Wales with Count Lauzun and several other Persons crossed the Water at Lambeth in three Coaches each of six Horses and with a strong Guard went to Greenwich where her Majesty imbarked for France having ingaged the King by Oath to follow her and not to trust himself in the Hands of his Parliament She carried away the Great Seal of England with her but as she crossed the Thames it fell into the Water and was since found out by a Fisherman The Romantick Account the Author of the Revolutions of England gives of the Queen's Evasion is I think a very good Remedy for such as are troubled with the Spleen   The same Day in the Evening King James ordered all those Writs for the sitting of the Parliament that were not sent out to be burnt and a Caveat to be entred against the making use of those that were sent down