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
no manner of Right to the Crown they ordered the Magistrates of Edinburgh to take the Oath of Fidelity to the Convention which was accordingly done in the Afternoon 7. 28. 1677 The Prince of Orange knowing the Extremities the Town of St. Omer was reduced to came to Ipres where having joined his Army it was resolved to march and relieve that Placo 8. 29. 1691 The French carrying on the Siege of Mons with great Vigor his Majesty resolved to decamp from Hall and endeavour to relieve it tho his Artillery was not yet come up to his Camp but just as the Army was breaking up News came that the Place had capitulated The French had only gained a Horn-work and there still remained two Half-Moons for them to take before they could come to the Counterscarp of the Place and in the Attack they had made the Day before upon one of the Half-Moons they were repulsed with great Loss but the Burghers being terrified by the French Bombs and their Fears improved by the Influence of their Priests whom the French had bribed they sent some Deputies of their Body with two Abbots to the Governor and pressed him to capitulate and upon his Refusal they sent a Drum of their own upon the Walls and beat a Parley Thus fell the important Place of Mons into the Hands of the French by the Cowardice of its Inhabitants and the Treachery and Knavery of the Priests The French King having taken a View of the Town to see whether it was worth the Price he had given for it returned to Paris 9. 30. 1677 The Prince of Orange marches with his Army to the Relief of St. Omer and having made a long March came in sight of the Guards of the French Army dit 1692 The Queen Dowager designing with his Majesty's Pleasure to retire into Portugal parted this Day from Somerset-House for Dover where her Majesty embarked for Calais to continue her Journey by Land 10. 31. 1677 The Prince of Orange comes in sight of the French Army which he found very advantageously posted near Cassel having two Rivers and several Defiles before them His Highness passed the first River notwithstanding the Opposition of the Enemies and designed to pass the other but the Night coming on it was thought fit to defer it till the next Morning  April  11. 1. 1677 His Highness attacks the French Army at Cassel which besides the Advantage of this Post was much superiour in Number The Fight was very bloody and obstinate but at last the Allies were over-powered by the Number of the French and forced to retire Tho the Prince was unfortunate in that Action he gained a great Reputation and his Enemies owned that he had given all the Proofs of a great General He charged several times at the head of the Battalions and Squadrons and when he saw that it was impossible to force the French he made a glorious Retreat and more orderly than one would have expected 12. 2. 1689 The Committee appointed by the States of Scotland for setling the Government made this Day their Report to the Convention which was agreed unto and thereupon they passed the following Act The States of the Kingdom of Scotland find and declare that King James VII being a professed Papist did assume the Regal Power and acted as King without ever taking the Oath required by Law and has by the Advice of evil and wicked Counsellors invaded the Fundamental Constitution of this Kingdom and altered it from a Legal and Limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary and Despotick Power and has governed the same to the Subversion of the Protestant Religion and Violation of the Laws and Liberties of the Nation inverting all the Ends of the Government whereby he has forefaulted the Right of the Crown and the Throne is become vacant   The Convention voted immediately after this and ordered that the said Committee for Settling the Government should bring in an Act for Settling the Crown on their Majesties William and Mary King and Queen of England and an Instrument of Government to be offered them with the Crown for the securing of the People from the Grievances which do affect them 13. 3. 1696 This Day Mr. Paul Foley Speaker of the House of Commons with the whole House attended the King and presented the following Association   WHereas there has been a horrid and detestable Conspiracy formed and carried on by Papists and other wicked and traiterous Persons for Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person in order to encourage an Invasion from France to subvert our Religion Laws and Liberties We whose Names are hereunto subscribed do heartily sincerely and solemnly profess testify and declare that His Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms And we do mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the uttermost of our Power in the Support and Defence of his Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents And in case his Majesty come to any violent or untimely Death which God forbid we do hereby further freely and unanimously oblige our selves to unite associate and stand by each other in revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in supporting and defending the Succession of the Crown according to an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown   Mr. Speaker made at the same time a Request to his Majesty that the said Association and all other Associations by the Commons of England be lodged among the Records in the Tower to remain as a perpetual Memorial of their Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty The King was pleased to return the following Answer   I Take this as a most convincing and most acceptable Evidence of your Affection and as you have freely Associated your Selves for our Common Safety I do heartily enter into the same Association and will be always ready with you and the rest of my good Subjects to venture my Life against all who shall endeavour to Subvert the Religion Laws and Liberties of England   Note That the Lords entred into an Association two Days after the Commons which is much the same as this saving only that their Lordships made not use of the word Rightful but they declare that the late King James the Pretended P. of Wales nor any Body else has any manner of Right to the Crown of c. dit 1696 This Day Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkins who were lately convicted for High Treason at the Old Baily were according to the Sentence pronounced against them drawn on a Hurdle from Newgate to Tyburn and there hang'd and quarter'd Each deliver'd a Paper to the Sheriffs and owned the Crime they were condemned for as they had done two Days
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
King found himself in a favourable Juncture to compass that barbarous Design The late K. James a Bigot to the Romish Church was then upon the English Throne and could not but be charmed with the Destruction of the Protestants The Emperor who perhaps would have espoused their Party by a Principle of Politicks was imbroiled in a War with the Turks The Lutheran Princes look'd upon that bloody Tragedy with Indifferency and the States General the Switzers the Elector of Brandenburgh and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel who alone durst express some publick Marks of their pitying the Misfortunes of their Brethren were not able to cope alone with so powerful an Enemy as the French King but they opened their Arms to receive those who fled away whom they relieved with an extraordinary Charity The Prince of Orange seemed more concerned than all the rest at the Ruine of those Churches but being not able to prevent it he desired the States to settle a Fund for the Ministers and Officers who should retire into their Country which was accordingly done He was no sooner come to the English Throne but he invited as many of that Nation as would come and has been a constant Father to them and recommended them very often to his Parliament I must do also the Refugees Justice and own that they have served him very faithfully I must not forget neither to take notice of the Extraordinary Kindness the French Protestants received from the English tho in a Popish Reign and one may boldly say that never so great a Sum of Money was raised upon account of Charity as was then I had forgot almost to give an Instance of the French King's Sincerity in the Preamble of the Edict for annulling that of Nantz wherein he tells us that his Grandfather Henry IV. had given only that Edict with a Design to reconcile the Protestants to the Romish Church and that it had been his Design ever since his coming to the Throne from whence it follows that when he swore the Observation of it he made a false Oath tho it would be very well for him if he had not used himself to it sitâ—â—e 'T is observable that the Papists could not find a Pretence to use the Protestants as they did and gave no other Reason for it but their Zeal for their Religion One thing I 'll observe more that tho above 500000 Witnesses attested the bloody Persecutions that had been committed in France the Bishop of Meaux and some other brazen Faces have had the Impudence to deny it 19. 9. 1677 His Highness the Prince of Orange attended by 4 English and several Dutch Men of War having sailed the Day before from Helvoetsluce landed this Day at Harwich with a great Retinue where he was received and complimented by the Duke of Albemarle and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies from whence he went immediately to New-Market to meet the King and the Duke of York there by whom he was received with extraordinary Marks of Respect and Kindness 20. 10. 1695 His Majesty having settled the State of the War in Holland for the Year 1696. and conferred with the Elector of Brandenburgh and some other Princes landed this Day at Margate being attended in his Passage by a Squadron of Men of War under the Command of Sir Cloudesly Shovel 21. 11. 1692 His Majesty returned this Evening from Flanders to the Hague where he was gone back upon Advice that the French were marching to Charleroy but the Mareschal de Boufflers having notice thereof did not think fit to sit down before that Place and contented himself to throw some few Bombs into it which did very little Damage dit 1695 His Majesty arrived here this Evening from Holland being received with the usual Acclamations of his People   The same Night a Council was called at Kensington wherein he was pleased to order a Proclamation to be issued for dissolving the Parliament and calling another to be held at Westminster on Friday the 22d of November next   The same Day Sir George Rook with a Squadron of Men of War and a great Fleet of Merchant Ships sailed from St. Helens for the Straits to take upon him the Command of the Confederate Fleet Admiral Russel having desired to be recalled 22. 12. 1672 The Prince of Orange having several Days followed the Duke de Duras made a Feint to besiege Tongeren to draw him to a Battel and accordingly sat down this Day before that Place 23. 13. 1677 The Prince of Orange arrived here this Day from New-market with the King and the Duke of York and was welcom'd with the loud Acclamations of the People 24. 14. 1688 His Highness the Prince of Orange having Advice that upon the Noise of his Preparations King James had begun to retract some of his Arbitrary Proceedings and made void some of his unjust Decrees by a due Sense of his own Guilt and Distrust of his own Forces and that the Subverters of the Laws of England had given out that his Highness came to conquer and enslave the Nation his Highness thought fit to put out an Additional Declaration to confute those Insinuations of his Enemies and shew how little King James's Word was to be credited 25. 15. 1688 The pretended Prince of Wales was baptized this Day in the Chappel of St. James's and named James Francis Edward the Nuncio standing his Godfather for the Pope and the Queen Dowager his Godmother 26. 16. 1674 The strong Town of Grave surrendred this Day to his Highness the Prince of Orange in which were found 450 Pieces of Cannon and an incredible Quantity of Ammunition The Garison marched out the next Day to the â—umber of 4000 Men besides a great many wounded dit 1688 King James having declared on the 12th Instant his Resolution to preserve the Church of England in all its Rights and Immunities and signified his Pleasure to the Bishop of Winchester as Visitor of St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxford to settle that Society regularly his Lordship went down accordingly and was received with great Joy by the University and caused a Citation to be fixed on the College-Gates recalling the former Fellows But as this Affection of King James to the Church of England proceeded only from the Fears he had of the Prince of Orange he countermanded the Bishop upon the false News that was spread in Town that the Fleet of the Prince had been so disabled in a Storm that they would never be able to put to Sea till the next Spring 27. 17. 1688 King James put out a Proclamation this Day for restoring Corporations to their antient Charters Liberties Rights and Franchises dit 1690 The New Fort of Kingsale having capitulated the 15th the Garison marched out this Day to the number of 1100 Men and were conducted to Limerick Thus in less than a Month's time we took two important Places and which the Enemy had the greater Interest to defend because of their
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
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.
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
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
Constitution of the Legislature so that there was no Remedy left but the last The only Person under Heaven that could apply this Remedy was your Highness You are of a Nation whose Alliance in all times has been agreeable and prosperous to us You are of a Family most illustrious Benefactors to Mankind To have the Title of Sovereign Prince Stadtholder and to have worn the Imperial Crown are among their lesser Dignities They have long enjoyed a Dignity singular and transcendent viz. to be Champions of Almighty God sent forth in several Ages to vindicate his Cause against the greatest Oppressions To this Divine Commission our Nobles our Gentry and among them our brave English Souldiers rendred themselves and their Arms upon your appearing   Great Sir   When we look back to the last Month and contemplate the Swiftness and Fulness of our present Deliverance astonish'd we think it miraculous Your Highness led by the Hand of Heaven and called by the Voice of the People has preserved our dearest Interests The Protestant Religion which is Primitive Christianity restored Our Laws which are our antient Title to our Lives Liberties and Estates and without which this World were a Wilderness But what Retribution can we make to your Highness Our Thoughts are full charged with Gratitude Your Highness has a lasting Monument in the Hearts in the Prayers in the Praises of all good Men amongst us and late Posterity will celebrate your ever-glorious Name till Time shall be no more 31. 21. 1688 The Prince of Orange put out this Day his Order requiring all Persons to re-deliver to the Souldiers or bring to the Officers of the Ordinance the Arms that had been embezled upon the late irregular disbanding of the Forces   The same Day Quarters were assigned to the English Scots and Irish Forces to which they were commanded to repair with all speed January   1. 22. 1692 The French Army commanded by Count de Tallard set down before Rhinseldt the 6th Instant O. S. which Place they attacked with a great Fury but the Besieged made so brave a Defence that the Landgrave of Hesse Cassell had a sufficient time to assemble an Army He marched in order to fight them but the French having been beaten from an advantageous Post the Day before raised the Siege this Day and retired with Shame and the Loss of near 4000 Men. 2. 23. 1688 This Morning about one or two of the Clock King James privately withdrew himself from Rochester and went over into France His Majesty left behind him a Paper writ with his own Hand containing his Reasons for withdrawing himself which by his Order was published and is as follows   The World cannot wonder at my withdrawing my sell now this second time I might have expected somewhat better Usage after what I writ to the Prince of Orange by my Lord Fevershâ—â—â— and the Instructions I gave him but instead of an Answer such as I might have hoped for what was I to expect after the Usage I received by the making the said Earl a Prisoner against the Practice and Laws of Nations the sending his own Guards at eleven at Night to take Possession of the Posts at Whitehall without advertising me in the least manner of it the sending to me at one of the Clock at Midnight when I was in Bed a kind of Order by three Lords to be gone out of my Palace before twelve that same Morning After all this how could I hope to be safe so long as I was in the Power of one who had not only done this to me and invaded my Kingdoms without any just Occasion given him for it but that did by his first Declaration lay the greatest Aspersion on me that Malice could invent in that Clause of it which concerns my Son I appeal to all that know me nay even to himself that in their Consciences neither he nor they can believe me in the least capable of so unnatural a Villany nor of so little common Sense to be imposed on in a thing of such a nature as that What had I then to expect from one who by all Arts has taken such Pains to make me appear as black as Hell to my own People as well as to all the World besides What Effect that has had at home all Mankind has seen by so general a Defection in my Army as well as in the Nation among all sorts of People I was born free and desire to continue so and tho I have ventured my Life very frankly on several Occasions for the Good and Honour of my Country and am as free to do it again and which I hopeâ— shall yet do as old as I am to redeem it from the Slavery it is like to fall under yet I think it not convenient to expose my self to be secured as not to be at liberty to effect it and so for that Reason to withdraw but so as to be within Call whensoever the Nation 's Eyes shall be opened so as to see how they have been imposed upon by the specious Pretences of Religion and Property I hope it will please God to touch their Hearts ont of his infinite Mercy and to make them sensible of the ill Condition they are in and bring them to such a Temper that a legal Parliament may be called and that amongst other things which may be necessary to be done they will agree to Liberty of Conscience for all Protestant Dissenters and that those of my own Perswasion may be so far considered and have such share of it as they may live peaceably and quietly as English Men and Christians ought to do and not to be obliged to transplant themselves which would be very grievous especially to such as love their Country And I appeal to all who are considering Men and have had Experience whether any thing can make this Nation so great and flourishing as Liberty of Conscience Some of our Neighbours dread it I could add much more to confirm what I have faid but now is not the proper time Rochester December 22. 1688.   Thus did James the Second voluntarily abdicate the Imperial Crown of Great Britain and left the People in a full Right to fill the vacant Throne as they pleased A Prince who might have reigned with as much Glory as any of his Ancestors and only unfortunate in this that he was not sensible of his own Felicity He was proclaimed King of England February the 6th 1684 5. and came to the Crown with the Reputation of a Prince who kept his Word and Promises â—ut he soon after forfeited that good Reputation by his many Violations of the most sacred Laws the Observation of which he so solemnly swore at his Coronation The blind Zeal he had for propagating his Religion led him into those fatal Mistakes which at last tumbled him down from his Throne and alienated from him the Hearts of his Subjects in such