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
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
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
last Year agreed together to kill the King and for that purpose went to Loo while his Majesty was there but not meeting with an opportunity they return'd to Paris They were again set on foot by the greatest Men in the Court of France as the Marquiss de Barbezieux c. and encouraged by King James and the French King himself and so they came again into Flanders to put in execution that devilish Design and the better to succeed they engaged one Leefâ—ale a Gentleman near Bosleduc hoping to remain in those Parts undiscovered but the Providence of God brought that execrable Conspiracy to Light and Grandval was apprehended The French King thought then to inslave Europe and to cut off with one stroke all the Hopes they had to preserve their Liberties for he was ready in Flanders upon the Death of his Majesty to invade the Netherlands and King James expected at the Hogue that satal Blow to make a Descent in England dit  Admiral Russâ—l and Admiral Allâ—moâ—de continued this Day to chase the scatter'd French Ships whereof some run into the Race of Aldernay others run a-shore at La Hogue and the Admiral with two others and two Frigats in the Bay of Cherburg June   1. 22. 1692 Vice Admiral De La Val having the Day before followed the French Admiral and some other Men of War into Cherburg-Bay ordered this Morning three Fireships to burn them and went himself in his Barge with all the Boats of his Ships to protect the Fireships because there was not Water enough for the Men of War The French defended their Ships for some time but at last were forced to leave them One of our Fireships commanded by Captain Heath burnt the Royal Sun Captain Greenway burnt the Conquerant and the Admirable was burnt by our Boats We took a great many Prisoners in that Action and lost but very few Men. The Royal Sun Admiral of the French Fleet carried 104 Guns and was one of the richest Ships that ever was built insomuch that the French said that she was amongst the other Ships what the Sun is amongst the other Planets The Conquerant and the Admirable were the seconds to the Admiral the first carrying 80 Guns and the last 102 two Frigats and three Ships of lesser Rank were burnt at the same time 2. 3. 1692 Admiral Russel having penn'd up in the Bay of La Hogue 15 French Ships sent this Afternoon Vice-Admiral Rook with several light Frigats and Fire-ships together with all the Boats of the Fleet well arm'd to burn the said Ships The Attempt was very dangerous and difficult for it was performed in sight of the French and Irish Army commanded by King James who caus'd several Batteries to be made to protect the Men of War but such was the Conduct and Resolution of our Men that they took Possession of several of the Enemies Ships and beat the French with their own Guns from their Platforms on the shore They burnt six Men of War in the Evening and had burnt the rest had not the Night obliged them to retire till the next Morning dit 1690 The King came to the House of Lords and having given the Royal Assent to an Act for the King and Queen's Majesty's most gracious general and free Pardon both Houses adjourned to the 7th of July dit 1693 An Act of Parliament was pass'd in Scotland making it Treason for any Scots man going to or staying in France after the 1st of August following and making likewise Treason all Correspondence and Commerce by Letters with France without the King's Permission 3. 24. 1689 This Day the King came to the House of Lords and gave â—he Royal Assent to an Act for exempting their Majesty's Protestant Subjects diffenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws This Act was the first Fruit of the late happy Revolution and put an end to a very unnatural Persecution which one time or other could not but be fatal to Great Britain dit 1692 Admiral Russel sent again this Morning Sir George Rook with the Long Boats of the Fleet to burn the rest of the Men of War that lay in La Hogue Bay and which they could not destroy the day before by reason of the Night coming on They burnt six others and a great many French Seamen perish'd in the Flames A French Ship of 56 Guns was also overset and utterly lost The French made a great Fire from their Batteries on the shore but however did the English little Damage They burnt also 20 of the Enemies Transport Ships 4. 25. 1690 The French Army commanded by Mousieur de Catinat being enter'd into Piemont and threatning Hostilities in case the Citadels of Turin and Verrue were not immediately delivered up to them The Duke of Savoy declared War this Day against France and sent to the Governour of Milan the Swiss Cantons the Emperor the King of England and the States General to acquaint them with the Posture of his Affairs and desire their Assistance He set at liberty the Vaudois who had vigorously forced their way into their own Vallies through the French and the Duke of Savoy's Forces and ordered them to join with his Troops to oppose their Common Enemy dit 1692 Admiral Russel having destroyed all the French Ships in the Bay of La Hogue sailed thence towards the Coasts of England having sent Sir John Ashby with many Fireships to destroy the French Transport Ships at Havre de Grace if he found it practicable dit 1692 This Day Great Waradin surrendred to the Imperialists commanded by General Heusler 5. 26. 1692 The Town of Namur surrendred this Day to the French King the Garison retiring into the Castle 6. 27. 1689 Messieurs Van Engellenburg Van Witsen Van Odick Van Citters and Dickvelt Ambassadors extraordinary from the States General of the United Provinces to congratulate their Majesties upon their happy Accession to the Crown made this Day their publick Entry They were received at Greenwich by the Earl of Sussex Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies and six Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber and brought up the River in the King's Barges At their Landing at the Tower the Standard being displayed they were complimented by the Lord Lucas Governour thereof and saluted with a Discharge of the Cannon From thence being attended by 16 Pages on Horseback and 60 Footmen in splendid Liveries they were conducted in their Majesties Coaches followed by 6 very rich Coaches of their own and above 50 others belonging to the Nobility with 6 Horses apiece to Cleveland-house at St. James's appointed for their Entertainment where their Excellencies were complimented from the King by the Lord Cornwallis from the Queen by Sir Edward Villers from the Queen Dowager by Mr. Sayers her Vice-Chamberlain from Prince George of Denmark by the Lord Cornbury and from the Princess by Lieutenant Colonel Sandys dit 1692 This Day being appointed by Admiral Russel to give Thanks to
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
relation to the Battel of Landen and the Miscarriage of the Smyrna Fleet. He said that the first was occasion'd by the great Number of our Enemies and as to the last his Majesty was pleased to say that it had brought a great Disgrace upon the Nation and that he had resented it extremely 18. 8. 1688 The Prince of Orange accompanied by Mareschal de Schomberg Count Solmes Count Nassau Monsieur Benting the Earls of Shrewsbery Macclesfield and Argyle and the Lord Mordant Wiltshire Colonel Sidney and other great Men made this Day a very splendid Entry into Exeter with his Army the People much rejoicing at it looking upon him as their Deliverer from Popery and Slavery The Bishop and the Dean to the great Amazement of all Protestants left the Town and the Bishop came to London to receive King James's Command who thereupon preferred him to the Archbishoprick of York dit 1691 This Day Signior Haim Toledano Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco had his publick Audience of their Majesties 19. 9. 1688 Dr. Burnet was sent to the Cathedral of Exeter to order the Priest and Vicars not to pray for the pretended Pr. of Wales and the same Day his Highness went to the said Cathedral and was present at the singing Te Deum after which his Declaration was publickly read to the People but I must observe that the Ministers rushed out of the Church by a very surprizing piece of Policy dit 1689 The Duke of Schomberg decamped this Day from Dundalk where he had remained for above two Months incamped in sight of the Irish Army twice as numerous as his Never a General found himself in harder Circumstances for he had at once to fight against Men Hunger want of all Necessaries Rain and a raging Distemper and yet King James never durst attack him We lost a great many brave Officers by Mortality and about 6000 Men either upon the spot or after they were come to their Winter-quarters This bad Success gave occasion to many Suspicions which I don't think fit to relate tho they make part of the History of that Campagn 20. 10. 1688 King James upon the first Advice that the Prince was landed in the West and not in the North as he expected sent immediately Orders to his Forces to march that way and appointed their Rendezvouze at Salisbury but because they committed great Insolencies in their March an Order was published this Day commanding the Forces to observe an exact Discipline 21. 11.  22. 12. 1688 This Day the Lord Lovelace was stopp'd at Cirencester by the Militia as he was going to join the Prince of Orange with several Gentlemen His Lordship made a very vigorous Resistance in which several were killed dit  The Lord Cornbury Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons marched this Day with two other Regiments of Horse from Salisbury and went over to the Prince with a great many Troopers and Officers The London-Gazette gave a very different Account of this Business and concluded that most of those Troopers and Officers were returned which did sufficiently shew how firm they were in their Fidelity to the King but a few Days after every body was convinced that it was a notorious Lie dit 1694 The Parliament met this Day at Westminster where his Majesty made a most gracious Speech to both Houses 23. 13.  24. 14.  25. 15. 1688 A great many Gentlemen came to join the Prince at Exeter tho King James to keep up his Party ordered his Gazetteer to publish that none of the Gentry but only some of the Rabble listed themselves under him Those Lords and Gentlemen who were with the Prince enter'd into an Association whereby they ingaged to Almighty God to his Highness and to one another to stand firm to the Cause they had espoused and never to depart from it until our Religion Laws and Liberties were so far secured in a Free Parliament that we should be no more in danger of falling under Popery and Slavery 26. 16. 1688 My Lord Delamere the Earls of Devonshire Stamford and Danby and the Lord Lumley with several other associated Lords and Gentlemen having a fair Opportunity to declare themselves the Troops of King James being marched to their Rendezvouze at Salisbury the Lord Delamere came this Day to Manchester with about fifty Troopers where he made the following Speech to the People   THE Occasion of this is to give you my Thoughts upon the present Conjuncture which concerns not only you but every Protestant and free-born Man of England I are confident that wishes well to the Protestant Religion and his Country and I am perswaded that every Man of you thinks both in danger and now to lie at stake I am also perswaded that every Man of you will rejoice to see Religion and Property settled if so then I am not mistaken in my Conjectures concerning you Can you ever hope for a better Occasion to root out Popery and Slavery than by joining with the Prince of Orange whose Proposals contain and speak the Desires of every Man that loves his Religion and Liberty And in saying this I will invite you to nothing but what I will do my self and I will not desire any of you to go any further than I will more my self neither will I put you upon any Danger when I will not take share in it I propose this to you not as you are my Tenants but as my Friends and as you are English Men. No Man can love Fighting for its own sake nor find any Pleasure in Danger and you may imagine I would be very glad to spend the rest of my Days in Peace having had so great a share in Troubles But as I see all lies at stake I am to chuse whether I will be a Slave and a Papist or a Protestant and a Free Man and therefore the Case being thus I shall think my self false to my Country if I sit still at this time I am of Opinion that when the Nation is delivered it must be by Force or by Miracle it would be too great a Presumption to expect the latter and therefore our Deliverance must be by Force and I hope this is the time for it A Prize is now put into our Hands and if it miscarry by want of Assistance our Blood is upon our own Heads For he that is passive at this time may very well expect that God will mock when the Fear of Affliction comes upon him which he thought to avoid by being indifferent   If the King prevails farewel Liberty of Conscience which has hitherto been allowed not for the sake of Protestants but in order to settle Popery You may see what to expect if he gets the better and he has lately given you of this Town a Taste of the Method whereby he will maintain his Army And you may see of what soâ—â— of People he intends his Army to consist and if you have
not a mind to serve such Masters then stand not by and see your Country-men perish when they are endeavouring to defend you   I promise this on my Word of Honour to every Tenant that goes along with me that if he fall I will make his Lease as good to his Family as it was when he went from home The thing then which I desire and your Country does expect from you is this that every Man that has a tolerable Horse or can procure one will meet me on Boden-Downs to Morrow where I rendezvouze but if any of you is rendred unable by reason of Age or any other just Excuse then that he would mount a fitter Person and put five Pounds in his Pocket Those that have not nor cannot procure a Horse let them stay at home and assist with their Purses and send it to me with a Particular of every Man's Contribution I impose on no Man but let him lay his Hand on his Heart and consider what he is willing to give to recover his Religion and Liberty and to such I promise and to all that go along with me that if we prevail I will be as industrious to have him recompensed for his Charge and Hazard as I will be to seek it for my self This Advice I give to all that stay behind that when you hear the Papists have committed any Outrage or any Rising that you will get together for it is better to meet the Danger than expect it I have no more to say but that I am willing to lose my Life in the Cause if God see it good for I never was unwilling to die for my Religion and Country   This excellent Speech I mention because of the Effect it had on the People for a great Number of Men repaired the next Day to my Lord Delamere on Boden-Downs and followed his Lordship 27. 17. 1688 The Archbishop of Canterbury with 12 Temporal and 6 other Spiritual Lords waited this Day upon King James with an humble Petition beseeching his Majesty to call a Free Parliament with all speed for redressing the Grievances of the Nation and in the mean time to use all possible Means to prevent the Effusion of Christian Blood The King answered them that what they asked of him he did most passionately desire and promised them upon the Faith of a King that he would call such a Parliament as soon as the Prince had quitted England pretending that otherwise it was impossible that a Parliament should be free in all its Circumstances This Answer was not satisfactory to the People who discovered thereby an invincible Aversion in King James to a Free Parliament and as to his Promise he had broke his Word too often to be trusted and therefore every one concluded that there was no other way left but to join with the Prince to obtain what Justice ought to have obliged King James to do dit 1688 The same Day in the Afternoon the King left the City and with his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went to Windsor and the next day towards Salisbury where his Army was arrived under the Command of the Earl of Feversham He appointed the Privy Council to meet in his Absence for the Dispatch of all Affairs as Occasion should require 28. 18.  29. 19. 1688 King James arrived at Salisbury being met about a Mile from the Town by the Earl of Feversham General of his Forces the Duke of Berwick Sir John Fenwick and other Officers 30. 20. 1688 This Day happen'd a Rencounter at Wincannon between a Party of the Prince's Army consisting of about 30 Men of Mackay's Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Cambell and a Party of 50 Dragoons and Granadeers and 70 Horse of King James's commanded by Colonel Sarsfield where notwithstanding the Inequality of the Numbers the former fought with that desperate Bravery that it struck a Terror into the Minds of King James's Army Sarsfield retired in great Precipitation hearing from a Miller's Man that the Dutch were near him I would not have mentioned this trifling thing were it not the first Action between the two Armies December   1. 21. 1688 The English Fleet commanded by the Lord Dartmouth which was sailed to the Westward to observe the Dutch Fleet was this Day forced back to Spithead by very tempestuous Weather 2. 22. 1688 This Day King James put out a Proclamation of Pardon for such of his Subjects who had taken up Arms against him and joined with the Prince of Orange in a most unnatural Invasion but this Pardon was regarded by no body and slighted by such whom he had a mind to recal The Reader may observe here that unnatural Invasion was the constant Expression they made use of to signify his Highness's Design dit  The same Day the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of the Northern Counties of England being assembled in Arms at Nottingham made a Declaration to inform their Protestant Fellow Subjects of the Grounds of their Undertaking wherein they declare that the very Fundamentals of our Religion Liberties and Properties are about to be routed by the King 's Jesuitical Privy Council as was too apparent 1. By the King's dispensing with all the established Laws at his Pleasure 2. By displacing all Officers out of all Offices of Trust and Advantage and placing others in their room that are known Papists deservedly made incapable by the established Laws of the Land 3. By destroying the Charters of most Corporations 4. By discouraging all Persons that are not Papists and preferring such as turn to Popery 5. By displacing all honest and conscientious Judges unless they would contrary to their Conscience declare that to be Law which was merely Arbitrary 6. By branding all Men with the Name of Rebels that offered but to justify the Laws in a legal Course against the Arbitrary Proceedings of the King or any of his corrupt Ministers 7. By burdening the Nation with an Army to maintain the Violation of the Rights of the Subjects and by discountenancing the established Religion 8. By forbidding the Subjects the Benefit of petitioning and construing them Libellers so rendring the Laws a Nose of Wax to serve their Arbitrary Ends. They conclude afterwards that not being willing to deliver their Posterity over to such a Condition of Popery and Slavery as the aforesaid Oppressions do inevitably threaten they will to the utmost of their Power oppose the same by joining with the Prince of Orange whom God Almighty had sent to rescue the Nation from the aforesaid Oppressions And to prevent their being branded with the Name of Rebels they declare they own it Rebellion to resist a King that governs by Law but that he was always accounted a Tyrant that made his Will the Law and to resist such an one they justly esteem no Rebellion but a necessary Defence dit 1688 The Prince of Orange having sufficiently refreshed his Army at Exeter decamped this Day and marched towards Salisbury where K.
James lay with all his Forces dit 1688 This Day was published at Paris the Declaration of War of the French King against the Dutch wherein the French King alledges no other Reason but that the Dutch opposed Cardinal Furstemberg's Election to the Archbishoprick of Cologn whom he was resolved to maintain dit 1694 This Day died at his Palace at Lambeth the most Reverend Father in God Dr. John Tillotson Lord Archbishop of Canterbury in the 65th Year of his Age He was promoted to that Metropolitan See in May 1691. and as his Learning Piety and other eminent Qualities gained him a general Esteem so they made his Death very much and justly lamented 3. 23. 1695 The Parliament having met the Day before according to his Majesty's Writs of Summons and his Majesty being come to the House of Peers with the usual Ceremonies and the Commons being sent for up the Lord Keeper signified to them his Majesty's Pleasure that they should forthwith proceed to the Choice of a Speaker after which the Commons being returned to their House they made choice of Paul Foley Esq Speaker in the last Parliament whom they presented this Day to his Majesty in the House of Lords He made a short Speech to the King and told his Majesty that the Commons had made choice of him tho there were many Persons amongst them fitter for that important Place and then my Lord Keeper told him by the King's Command that the repeated Choice of the Commons was a sufficient Argument of his Ability Capacity and Fidelity and that therefore his Majesty approved their Choice After which his Majesty made a gracious Speech to both Houses wherein he took a particular notice of the Affection of his People by their Behaviour during his Absence and at his Return commended the Zeal and Affection of the last Parliament the Bravery of the English Troops at Namur and recommended to them to provide a Supply for carrying on the War for supplying the Deficiencies of Parliamentary Funds for the Civil List and to relieve the French Protestants who suffer for their Religion concluding by recommending unto them to remedy the ill State of the 〈◊〉 and to form some good 〈◊〉 for the Incouragement and Increase of Sea-men 4. 24. 1688 This Day his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went away from Salisbury to join the Prince of Orange He left a Letter behind him containing the Reasons of his going away but that chiefly insisted upon was the Danger the Protestant Religion was exposed to The Lord Churchill went also with the Prince which surprized all the World for every body thought that noble Lord intirely devoted to King James's Interest he left also a Letter behind him which deserveth to be carefully considered and especially these Lines Heaven knows with what Partiality my dutiful Opinion of your Majesty has hitherto represented those unhappy Designs which inconsiderate and self-interested Men have framed against your Majesty's true Interest and the Protestant Religion but as I can no longer join with such to give a Pretence by Conquest to bring them to effect so I will always with the Hazard of my Life preserve your Person I could wish for the sake of the Reader I was able to explain that Expression which doubtless contains a Mystery known to very few except to such who were deeply ingaged in the Cabal of those times   The Dukes of Graston and Ormond went also to the Prince much about the same time but they thought the Case was so plain that there was no need of leaving any Papers behind them to justify their Conduct 5. 25. 1688 The going off of the Prince of Denmark having struck King James with Terror and Affliction and his Army being in great Disorder he became so full of Fear and Suspicion that upon a false Alarm being made by Design or Accident of the Approach of the Prince of Orange his Majesty and the whole Army left Salisbury this Day the Army retiring towards Reading and the King â—aking his way towards London The King came to the Market-place at Salisbury and the Mayor and Citizens being sent for he told them that he would spend his Blood for his Subjects and was resolved to maintain the Protestant Religion but he had no sooner ended his Speech but he fell to bleeding at his Nostrils and so violently that his Blood could not be stopp'd any manner of way This Accident tho natural enough especially in the Juncture that Prince found himself at that time was look'd upon as a bad Omen and improved to his Disadvantage dit  The News of Prince George's having left the King being come to Whitehall caused a great Consternation there and the Princess being suspected to have the same Design some Yeomen of the Guards were set in her Apartments but her Highness deceived their Vigilancy and that Night made her Escape in Disguise with the Ladies Churchill and Berkley being attended by the Bishop of London and the Earl of Dorset Her Highness went into the North where the associated Lords had made a considerable Progress The Absence of the Princess caused a great Complaint and they were forced to print the Letter she had left for the Queen containing the Reason of her retiring for fear of being cut to pieces by the King 's own Guards upon a Surmise that the Papists had made away that beloved Princess dit 1691 His Majesty was pleased to nominate this Day Dr. Thomas Tenison to the Bishoprick of Lincoln 6. 26. 1688 King James returned this Evening to Whitehall from Salisbury 7. 27. 1â—8â— Sir Edward Hales whom King James had appointed Lieutenant of the Tower having during the King's Absence planted several Mertar-pieces on the Walls towards the City to keep the Citizens in awe they were so inraged against him that the King did not think himself safe at Whitehall as long as Sir Edward Hales had the Command of the Tower and therefore to appease the City he turned out Sir Edward and put in his room Colonel Bevil Skelton a Protestant 8. 28. 1675 The Prince having brought back his Army from the Country of Cologn after the taking of Boâ—n and possessed himself â—n his way of several strong Castles and little Towns left his Army on the Meuse and returned this Day to the Hague where he was received with all possible Marks of Respect and Demonstrations of Joy The States complimented his Highness on his successful Expedition whereby their Country was delivered from the French who had been forced to abandon in less than a Month's time all their Conquests in the United Provinces except Grave and Mastricht Several Medals were then coined to perpetuate the Memory of that great and glorious Expedition dit 1688 King James seeing the general Defection of his Subjects and that the associated Lords had taken York Plymouth and a great many other considerable Towns and that the Nation as well as the Prince declared every where for a Free Parliament which
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
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
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
Almighty God for the great Victory obtain'd over the French it was observed very religiously through the whole Fleet and all the Cannon discharged on that Occasion Never was a Victory more compleat than this nor so cheap an one since the English and Dutch lost no Men of War only 3 Fireships that were spent   The French had blown up and burnt about 22 Men of War several whereof were Ships of three Decks amongst which were the Royal Sun Admiral of their Fleet carrying 104 Guns the Admirable 102 Guns the Conquerant 80 Guns and the Admiral of the Blue carrying 90 Guns besides many smaller Vessels and Transport Ships   Our Commanders were the Right Honourable Edward Russel Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Ashby Admiral of the Blue Sir Ralph De La Val Vice Admiral of the Red George Rook Esq Vice Admiral of the Blue Sir Cloudesly Shovel Rear Admiral of the Red and .... Carter Esq Rear Admiral of the Blue who behaved themselves with in extraordinary Bravery and Prudence Rear Admiral Carter who had been suspected of Intelligence with the French vindicated his Honour by his Blood The Dutch were commanded by Admiral Allemonde 7. 28. 1691 The Mareschal de Bouslers having made a fruitless Attempt upon Liege retired this Day with great Precipitation upon the Approach of a Detachment of the King's Army which was sent to relieve the Town The French lost a great many Men and their Bombs did but little Damage 8. 29. 1695 The King left Breda this Morning and came to his Camp at Aersele at 11 at Night The Governour of Ghent met his Majesty half a Mile without the City where at his Entrance his Majesty was received by the Burghers in Arms and all the Magistrates walk'd before him with lighted Flambeaus The great Guns were several times discharged round the Fortifications and the like Ceremonies and Respects paid which are customary at the Reception of the King of Spain 9. 30. 1689 The Heer 's Van Engellenburg Van Witsen Odyck Citters and Dickvelt Ambassadors Extraordinary of the States General of the United Netherlands had their publick Audience of their Majesties in the Banqueting-house with all the Ceremonies that are observed at the publick Audience of Ambassadors from Crown'd Heads dit 1692 The Castle of Namur being vigorously attack'd by the French the King advanced with his Army to relieve it and came upon the Mehaign having beat the French from several Posts which they had possessed to hinder his Passage Bridges were immediately made in order to pass the River and attack the French Army which lay encamped on the other side of the River but there was such a Storm of Rain in the Night that this Morning the River overflowed its Banks spoiled the Bridges and rendred the Passage impracticable 10. 31. 1689 Major General Kirke with the Forces under his Command set sail this Day from High-lake to relieve London-derry which was closely besieged by the Irish Rebels the late King James commanding the Siege dit 1691 The most Reverend Father in God Dr. John Tillotson Lord Archbishop of Canterbury was consecrated this Day at St. Mary le Bow in London  June  11. 1. 1689 His Majesty was pleased to create Arthur Herbert Esq Admiral of their Majesties Fleet Earl of Torrington and Baron Herbert of Torbay in the County of Devon 12. 2.  13. 3.  14. 4. 1689 John Ashburnham Esq was this Day created Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex dit 1690 His Majesty accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark set out this Morning from Kensington on his Royal Voyage for Ireland to command his Army in Person and deliver that Kingdom from the Oppression of the French 15. 5. 1689 The Estates of Scotland met this Day and the Duke of Hamilton acquainted them that His Majesty had been pleas'd to appoint him his Commissioner in the ensuing Parliament and that he had received Instructions from his Majesty to give his Consent to an Act for turning the Estates into a Parliament to such Laws as may redress the particular Articles of Grievances and also to any other Acts which they should advise for the securing the Religion Peace and Happiness of that Kingdom An Act was then passed declaring that the three Estates now met together on this 5th Day of June 1689. consisting of the Noblemen Knights and Burgesses are a Lawful and Free Parliament to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever And that it shall be High Treason for any Person to disown quarrel or impugn the Dignity and Authority of the Parliament upon any Pretence whatever dit 1694 This Day were installed in St. George's Chappel at Windsor his Electoral Highness Frederick the 3d Marquiss of Brandenburgh Prince Elector and Great Chamberlain of the sacred Roman Empire his serene Highness George William Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh Prince of the said Empire and his Grace Charles Duke of Shrewsbury Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter the two former by their Proxies and his Grace in Person 16. 6.  17. 7. 1691 The Army commanded by General Ginkel in Ireland having disposed all things for opening the Campagn set down this Day before Ballymore and beat the Irish within their Fort. dit 1692 The Rain and bad Weather hindering his Majesty from passing the Mehaign to relieve Namur the King marched this Day to Ramiliers to endeavour to pass the River there but the French who had notice thereof decamped at the same time and took Possession of the Defiles through which his Majesty designed to march dit 1695 The King having formed the Design of besieging Namur and seeing it was difficult to compass it unless he drew away the French from the Meuse resolved to attack Fort Knock to perswade them that he really designed to force their Lines and accordingly sent this day the Duke of Wirtemberg with eight Battalions from his Camp at Becelaer to join the Flying Camp under Major General Ellenberg at Dixmude and attack Fort Knock before which he set down the same day 18. 8. 1690 His Majesty arrived this day at Chester to embark for Ireland and was received with extraordinary Demonstrations of Joy dit 1691 The Fortress of Ballymore surrendred this Day to General Ginkel and the Garison which consisted of 780 Men besides 4 Field-Officers 16 Captains 14 Lieutenants 12 Ensigns and Cornets and 259 Rapparees well armed were all made Prisoners of War The English lost only 8 Men and the Irish had above 150 kill'd dit 1692 The French made an Assault this Day upon Fort William at Namur and were repulsed with a great Loss which so much incouraged the Besieged that the same Night they made a Salley with 900 Men who beat the French from their Posts fill'd their Trenches and kill'd 800 of them dit 1695 Sir Edward Ward his Majesty's late Attorney General was sworn this Day Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 19. 9. 1670 The Prince of
he proposed to march directly to the French and fall upon them while they were fatigued of a long March but Count de Souches General of the Germans did not assist at the Council of War and the next Day quitted the Trenches and pass'd the Scheld leaving some Pieces of his Cannon and the Town open to the French The Prince having notice thereof sent a Detachment to bring back his Cannon which he sent by Water to Ghent with his Baggage and was forced to raise the Siege and follow the Imperialists and Spaniards who had also left the Army His Highness complained to the Courts of Vienna and Madrid against these Proceedings of the Germans and Spaniards who would not fight tho they had so fair an Opportunity 22. 12. 1680 His Highness the Prince of Orange arrived at Zell being met out of Town by the Duke of Lunenburgh himself with 22 Coaches and 6 Horses apiece The Regiment of Guards and a Regiment of Dragoons were drawn up in two Lines and at his Entrance into the Town the great Guns were discharged round about the Ramparts 23. 13. 1688 The Prince came back to the Hague from his Journey to Minden and gave all necessary Orders to prepare every thing towards the execution of the Design agreed upon with the Princes he had conferred with 24. 14. 1680 The Prince came to Hanâ—ver where he was received with all Marks of Respect being met some Miles out of the Town by the Duke the Garison being in Arms and the Guns round about the Fortifications discharged 25. 15. 1668 His Highness was declared Chief of the Nobility of Zeland and President of the States of that Province 26. 16. 1672 The States General gave this Day an Edict whereby they conferr'd upon his Highness the Power to pardon such Criminals as he should think fit dit 1691 This Day part of our Army before Limerick passed the Shannon in sight of a Detachment of the Irish who endeavoured to oppose them but were beaten back   The same Day the Irish Garison of Slego having surrendred the Place the Day before to the Earl of Granard and Baldarick O Donnel marched out to the Number of 600 Men leaving behind them 16 Pieces of Cannon and 30 Barrels of Powder 27. 17. 1694 The Castle of Huy surrendred this Day to the Confederate Troops commanded by the Duke of Holstein Ploen Velt Mareschal of the Armies of the States General after 5 Days Attack 28. 18. 1672 A desperate Fellow had the Impudence to let his Highness know that if he would incourage him and promise a Reward he would kill the French King his greatest Enemy but that Offer was rejected with Horror and had the Prince discovered the Author he would have punished him Note that some time after the same Offer was made to the Prince who sent immediately Monsieur Dickvelt to Count d' Avaux to acquaint him with it and where that Villain was to be found yet that Generosity had so little Effect upon Lewis XIV that he has often since that time plotted against his Majesty's Life and protected and preferred the Villains who undertook to assassinate him 29. 19.  30. 20. 1688 King James being afraid of the Preparations in Holland had some time before summoned a Parliament to meet at Westminster and this Day a Proclamation was issued out whereby he declared that it was his Royal Purpose to endeavour a Legal Establishment of an Universal Liberty of Conscience for all his Subjects and that he was resolved inviolably to preserve the Church of England by such a Confirmation of the several Acts of Uniformity that they should never be alter'd by any other Ways than by repealing the several Clauses which inflect Penalties upon Persons not promoted or to be promoted to any Ecclesiastical Benefices or Promotions within the Meaning of the said Acts for using and exercising their Religion contrary to the Tenor and Purport of the said Acts of Uniformity He declared also that for the further securing the said Church and the Protestant Religion he was willing that the Roman Catholicks should remain incapable to be Members of the House of Commons October   1. 21. 1660 The States General resolved that the young Prince of Orange should be brought to the Hague to be there educated at their own Charges and assigned for that Purpose a yearly Pension of 20000 Florins It was resolved also that he should be a Member of the Council of State when he should come to 16 Years of Age. dit 1690 The English Fleet having on board several thousand Men under the Command of the Earl of Marlborough came this Day to an Anchor before Cork Harbour 2. 22. 1673 The Prince received a Letter of the Queen of Spain wherein in she gave him the Title of Royal Highness and offered him the Order of the Golden Fleece dit 1691 This Day General Ginket passed the Shannon with 10 Regiments of Foot and a Detachment of Foot and Dragoons and marched to Thomonds Isle and caused the Works that covered Thomond's Bridg to be attacked which our Men performed with such a Bravery that they did not only beat the Enemy out of them but pursued them to the Draw-Bridg whereupon the French Governour of Limerick fearing the English should enter the Town with the Irish durst not let the Draw-Bridg down to receive them and thereby left them exposed to our Men who killed above 600 of them and a great many who threw themselves into the River to avoid the Sword of the English were drowned 3. 23. 1679 Don Emanuel de Lira Ambassador Extraordinary to the States General having demanded the Restitution of Mastricht by virtue of a Clause mention'd in the Treaty of Alliance between Spain and Holland 1673. and not being satisfied with the Answer given by the States they answered this Day a second Memorial of that Minister and declared in express Terms that they could not restore that Place till his Highness the Prince of Orange had received Satisfaction of the Crown of Spain and was paid off all the Arrears due to him according as it had been agreed betwixt the States and his Catholick Majesty at the Treaty of Munster dit 1690 The English Fleet entred this Day into the Harbour of Cork notwithstanding the fire the Enemy made from their Batteries and our Forces landed at a Place called the Passage 4. 24. 1693 This Day was fought a bloody Battel at Marsaglia in Piemont between the Confederate Troops commanded by the Duke of Savoy and the French under the Command of Monsieur Catinat The Fight was very obstinate but at last the Allies were obliged to leave the Field of Battel and 10 or 12 Pieces of Cannon to the Enemy His Grace Charles Duke of Schomberg General of his Majesty's Forces who fought with his ordinary Bravery on foot at the Head of his Regiment received a dangerous Wound in the Thigh and was taken Prisoner but sent back immediately to Turin upon his
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
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
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