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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62413	A true history of all the memorable transactions that have happen'd in England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders, &c. relating to state affairs, sieges, battles, sea-fights, and other naval matters With a particular relation of all the plots and conspiracies against the life of King William and his government, at home and abroad: also by what means they were discovered and defeated, by signal providences: from his coming to the crown, to this present year, 1696. Especially a large account of the late horrid conspiracy, to assassine his sacred life, and bring in a French power. Likewise the confessions and executions of divers of the conspirators, and other things worthy of note.	J. S.	1696 (1696)	Wing S99A; ESTC R3293	88,755	215

A TRUE HISTORY Of ALL the Memorable Transactions That have happen'd in England Scotland Ireland Flanders c. Relating to State Affairs Sieges Battles Sea-Fights and other Naval Matters WITH A particular Relation of all the PLOTS and CONSPIRACIES against the Life of King William and his Government at Home and Abroad Also by what Means they were Discovered and Defeated by Signal Providences From his coming to the Crown to this present year 1696. Especially a large Account of the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassine his Sacred Life and bring in a French Power LIKEWISE The Confessions and Executions of divers of the CONSPIRATORS and other things worthy of Note LONDON Printed for Henry Rhodes at the Star the Corner of Bride-Lane in Fleet-street 1696. Price bound one Shilling The Preface to the READER REader In this laboured Work you are Accomodated with all the Memorable Transactions that have happened in Courts Camps and on the Watery Element ever since the Establishment of the happiness of these Kingdoms in admitting an Illustrious Prince and Princess to the Throne Born for great Actions and particularly by prudent Councils Heroick Valour and Conduct to strike off the Chains of Opressed Europe viz. From the Coronation of King William and the late Queen being the Quintesential matter of large Volumes wherein at a small Expence both of Mony and Time you may look back upon the great Actions of mighty Princes and be Induced to Admire and Adore Almighty God for his wonderful Providences in preserving the Life of his Anointed from the Hands of violent Men and in so doing the Happiness and Tranquility of a numerous People whose safety and wellfare depend upon so Precious a Pledg of Heavens Love and Favour In this Book you may as in Map take an easy Prospect of the great Affairs that have been Transacted not only in his Majesties Dominions but in Neighbouring Nations and see Laurels Sprouting and geathered from Sea and Land the Malice of our Enemies defeated and not only their Arms foil'd and weakned but all their Plots Conspiracies and dark Councils discovered and turned back upon them to their Confusion more particularly the last Conspiracy and Intended Invasion that they had laid as they thought so sure as made them Confident of Enslaving our Religion Laws Liberties c. and that Heaven may so continue its Favours towards is us the Prayers of Your Frind to serve you J. S. ENGLAND's NEW REMEMBRANCER c. AFter the happy Coronation of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary was on the 11th of April 1689. solemnized at Westminster with all the Magnificence Pomp and Splendor of a willing Nation spreading a general Joy through every Corner of the Land carrying a sound of Triumph even to the farthest Shoar divers great Officers and Ministers of State and others fitly qualified for the Interest of the Government made and intrusted and as a Loyal Gratitude and great Example to others on the 12th of April the Knights Citizens and Burgesses then Assembled in Parliament waited upon their Majesties to Congratulate their Coronation which was done by Henry Powle Esquire their Speaker and had the Honour to kiss their Majesties hands and on the 19th following both Houses Addressed his Majesty to render him Thanks for his Declaration and repeated Assurances that he will maintain the Church of England as by Law and that he would be pleased to Summon a Convocation of the Clergy of the Kingdom to consider more fully of the Matters in point of Religion which was accordingly done And the Kingdom of Scotland tho' incommoded with Insurrections in the Highlands not to be behind-hand in Loyalty to a Prince who had put his Life and all that was dear to him in the Ballance to rescue them from impendent Ruine having declared the King and Queen Soveraigns of that Kingdom put forth a Proclamation that none should presume to own or acknowledge the late King James the Seventh for their King obey accept or assist any Order or Commission that should be admitted by him or any way to correspond with him by writing c. and Commissioners were nominated to go for England to offer the Crown to their present Majesties and they took all convenient Care to raise Forces to quiet and suppress those that disturbed the publick Peace upon which the Viscount Dundee who headed a Party of the Rebels retired to the North with about 80 Horse but soon after his number increased as will appear in the Series of this History The Duke of Gourdon upon the first Account of the Revolution in England c. having seized the Castle of Edenbungh the strongest Hold in Scotland he was closely besieged and pressed so straitly that all Communication was cut off But the bleeding State of Ireland was to be considered where the late King was already Landed and as well a formidable Army as a confused Rabble of Papists with all the Outrages imaginable oppressed the Protestants by plundering and burning their Houses imprisoning their Persons and threatning a universal Massacre so that notwithstanding an Order of Imbargo in Scotland Ships were allowed to go over to fetch off those miserable People that fled the Persecution of their implacable Enemies and stood trembling on the Shoar in hopes of a seasonable opportunity to be transported The Parliament of England being highly sensible of the Danger Ireland was in there being a great many Forces and other Supplies Landed from France and many Towns not Tenable abandoned and swept away the Commons Addressed his Majesty in these Words WE your Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled most humbly lay before Your Majesty our earnest Desires 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 Trace Quiet and Interest of Your Kingdom and particularly the present Invasion of Your Kingdom of Ireland and supporting Your Majesties Rebellious Subjects there not doubting in the least but through Your Majesties Wisdom the Alliance already made with such as may be hereafter 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 Majesties Kingdom To this end We most humbly beseech Your Majesty to rest assured upon this our hearty and solemn 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 the Protection and Blessing of God Almighty has ever afforded you to support and go through with the same To this Request and Resolution of the Commons very grateful to the Nation His Majesty was pleased to Answer viz. I Receive this Address as a Mark of the Confidence you have

desired Success more favourable and speedier that he could ever have hoped so that the Consenting Nations offered him the Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland and that he had accepted them not out of any boundless Ambition as he called God to Witness but alone to preserve the Religion Well being and Tranquility of those Kingdoms and to be in a more powerful Condition of assisting the Confederates and particularly the States and to defend them against the overgrown Power of France That he could well have wished it in his Power to have given them all neceessary Assistance the last Year but that he had been hindred by the business of Ireland but the Affairs of that and his other Kingdoms being now brought to a better posture he was come over not only to converse with the Confederates about Measures to be taken the next Campaign but also to take upon him the Charge of Captain General of this State for which State from his Youth upward he hath had a very great love and Affection and that the same was daily encreased by the Proof and Tokens of Kindness that he found both from the Government and People that his Affection in this kind was so great that it could not possibly be much greater that be should always keep and preserve the same and contribute all that lay in his Power for their Welfare and at all times should be ready to venture his Life and Person for them That he hoped God ●ould be pleased to use him as an Instrument to remove all the Apprehensions they now laboured under and by settling Europe in Peace and Safety to put that State also into a full Security and that being done he should rest highly satisfied c. and concluded in recommending himself to the good Wishes of their High and Mighty Lordships The States having deliberated upon his Majesties Speech and the resolution taken thereon the Heer Wicker President of the Assembly in the name of the rest made a very affectionate return of their thanks to his Majesty for the Honour he had done their Lordships by vouchsafing his Presence amongst them and testified their great Joy for his Majesties coming into their Country together with the great obligation their Lordships had to his Majesty for the constant care and concern that his Majesty with so great Affection had born that State without the least declining any Danger withall assuring his Majesty that their high and mighty Lordships shall as much as possibly in them lies endeavour to acknowledge with all thankfulness all the good Offices done to this State by his Majesty And further wish all happiness and prosperity to attend his Sacred Person and designs with assurance also that they would to the utmost of their Power concur with his Majesty in all things contributing to the furthering what they think best to conduce to the entire Satisfaction of his Majesty These were the great Undertakings and resolutions abroad undertaken to make a glorious Progress in War and in the end fix a lasting Peace in Europe But whilst Lawrels sprouted abroad and so fair a Progress being made for carrying on the War and compelling the French King to do reason to those he had injured and the Confederacy proving formidable to the French Court they betook them to their old Stratagems viz. fomenting underhand Treatcheries not only in the Confederate Provinces abroad but in England by a wonderful providence this as many others were discovered and frustrated the intended mischief falling mo●ily on the contrivers of it The design was laid to raise Commotions bring in the French by facilitating an Invasion the Conspirators having already betraied to them the stength of the Nation and given them an exact Account of our Sea-Ports Fort and Fleets and how they were best to be attacked but before this could be any ways brought about the Lord Viscount Preston John Ashton and Edmund Elliot were to go over to give the French Court an Account ●●w things were disposed in England but were ●aken in the River in a small Vessel they had ●●ed to carry them for France by Captain Billop ●nd a Packet of Letters was found with a Plumet fastned to it ready to have been thrown over●oard if the Surprise had not suddainly happend therein was contained the heads of the Design also the Lord Prestons Seal and the Seal of his Office when he was Secretary of State to the late King James upon which notwithstanding the ●●id Lord offered Mony for the concealing the Papers they were brought with them to White-Hall and the Papers being of dangerous consequence containing matters of high Treason the three mentioned parties after a strict Examination were committed to New-Gate and an inditment of High Treason being found against them by a Middlesex Grand-Jury they were on the 16th of January Arraigned upon their Inditment at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily pleading not Guilty then the Lord Preston pleaded for longer time to prepare for his Trial which was granted to the Saturday following viz. the next day then he insisted on his Peerage but was over ruled by the Court that having been prejudged in Parliament by reason his Patent was dated at St. Germain in France after the Abdication of King James and thereupon having a Pannel of the Jury allowed him and made his Exceptions Twelve were Sworn and the Court proceeded for his holding Correspondence with the Enemies of the Nation and designing to betray the Fleet Sea-Ports c. into their Hands by giving them Intelligence of the Strength of them and the measures we were taking when having made all the Defence he thought convenient and Objected what he would as to the Evidence or any other matter material to his purpose The Jury receiving their Charge from the Court withdrew for about an hour and then gave in their Verdict that he was guilty of the High-Treason as layed in the Indictment On the Monday Mr. Ashton who had been a Captain under the Late King came upon his Tryal and was Charged with the like High-Treason It was proved the Treasonable Papers were found about him and that he was endeavouring to escape with them to France to give Notice to our Enemies to Invade the Kingdom that he was knowing and consenting to the wicked Practices on foot for the designed Subversion of the Government and many other Treasonable Matters by Overt Act adjudged High-Treason so that having made a feeble Defence excusing that he knew not the Contents of the Papers found about him but that they were the Lord Priston's and only entrusted with him after a fair Hearing the Evidence being summ'd up by the Court the Jury withdrawing a while returned their Verdict he was guilty of High-Treason and so in the Close of the Evening he together with the Lord Preston received Sentence of Death as in that Case the Law requires viz. To he Drawn Hanged and Quartered As for Elliot he came not upon his Tryal but was a long time continued