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
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
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
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
the same time the Enemies were to make an Invasion into this Kingdom That he had given all necessary Orders to disappoint their Design and recommended to them the Care of the Kingdom and the Dispatching the Publick Business before them   Both Houses resolved upon a very Loyal Address which was presented the same Day to the King at Kensington wherein they congratulate his Majesty's Preservation desire him to take a greater Care of his Person and â—ssure him of their Zeal and Afâ—ection and that they will dispatch all Business before them dit 1696 The same Day was published a Proclamation for apprehending James Duke of Berwick Sir George Barclay and many other Conspirators His Majesty having received Information upon Oath that the Persons above-named have with divers other traiterous Persons entred into a horrid and detestable Conspiracy to assassinate and murder his Person and his Majesty promises a thousand Pounds Reward for each of them 6. 25. 1696 The Commons enter into an Association for the Preservation of his Majesty's Person wherein they declare That in case the King come to die by a violent Death which God forbid they will revenge his Death upon all his Enemies both Foreign and Domestick The said Association was subscribed the same Day by the greatest part of the Members   Admiral Russel goes on Board the Fleet in the Downs to sail towards Calais 7. 26. 1679 The Prince makes a Defensive and Offensive League between the States General and the Elector of Brandenburgh 8. 27. 1696 Admiral Russel sailed from the Downs for Calais with the Fleet under his Command 9. 28. 1673 The Prince of Orange having drawn his Army from their Winter-quarters forces the French to quit Wezel and other Places in the Country of Cleves dit 1696 Admiral Russel appears off of Gravelin the Ld. Berkley before Calais and Sir Cloudsly Shovel off of Bullogn which put the French into such a Consternation that they began to raise Batteries to prevent the Burning of the Transport Ships they had there to carry their Forces into England upon the Signal of the Assassination of King William 10. 29. 1696 Several of the Conspirators were seized and committed to Newgate  March.  11. 1. 1654 A Medal was coined in Holland on the Reverse whereof was represented the young Prince of Orange in Roman Habits with a Crown of Lawrel and a Staff of General in his Hand standing before the Statue of Pallas in Arms with a Launce and a Shield having her Eyes fix'd on the Prince and shewing him a Sun in the middle of which appears the Name of Jehovah in Hebrew and round about the Medal are these Words as the Motto of the Prince Fear God 12. 2. 1696 The French fearing the Burning of 13 Men of War of theirs that were come out of Dunkirk and lay off of that Place among the Sands struck down their Masts and Yards and take out their Guns to hale them into the Harbour 13. 3. 1656 The Prince of Orange goes to Leiden and remains some Years in that University where he discover'd his great Genius and made an extraordinary Progress in Learning 14. 4. 1689 The King sends a Message to the Commons to recommend to them the care of Ireland the Fleet and of reimbursing the Dutch and acquaint them that his Majesty being sensible that the Tax called Hearth-Money which was given to the Crown in King Charles the Second's Reign was very grievous to his Subjects he consented to the Regulation of it or to the Taking of the same wholly away 15. 5. 1657 The Picture of the young Prince of Orange being shewn to Oliver Cromwel it was observed that the very Sight of it made him tremble 15. 5. 1689 The Commons present an Address to the King to stand by him with their Lives and Fortunes and thank his Majesty â—or his Tenderness for his People in offering to part with the Revenue of the Hearth-Money dit 1695 The Funeral of the late Queen Mary of blessed Memory was solemnized this Day with great Magnificence 16. 6. 1696 The Earl of Athlone and Lieutenant General Cohorne having drawn together a Body of Troops came before Givet and bombarded the Town and the Magazines the French had gathered there which they destroyed and afterwards retired without any Loss The Garison of Dinant durst not come out and contented themselves to fire with their Cannon upon our Men. There were in the Magazine 4000 Rations of Forage 17. 7. 1696 The Parliament having past a Bill for empowering his Majesty to apprehend and detain such Persons as he shall find cause to suspect are conspiring against his Royal Person and Government his Majesty came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent to the same and several other Acts. 18. 8. 1660 Charles II. King of England being attended in Holland by the Deputies of the States he told them how much concerned he was for the Princess of Orange his Sister and the Prince of Orange dit 1672 The States General appoint 4000 Men for the Guard of the Prince which were called the Troops of the Houshold of the Prince of Orange 19. 9. 1660 King Charles II. went to the Assembly of the States General and brought with him the young Prince whom he recommended to their Lordships 20. 10. 1673 The Prince goes for Zealand to conclude a Treaty of an Offensive and Defensive League with Spain which was to last till all the Towns taken by the French from the Dutch and the Spaniards should be restored to their Owners 21. 11. 1696 Robert Charnock Edward King and Thomas Keys were this Day brought to their Trial at the Old Baily for High Treason in conspiring and endeavouring to assassinate and murder his Majesty King William The Evidence against them was full and câ—â—ar and it was clearly proved that they had listed Men provided Horses and Arms for that Purpose and had taken a View of the Ground where that bloody Tragedy was to be acted The Evidence deposed farther That Sir George Barclay one of the Conspirators had brought a Commission from France written with King James's own Hand to levy War upon the Person of the Prince of Orange 22. 12. 1696 The King issues out a Proclamation for a Publick Thanksgiving to the Almighty for the Discovery of the Conspiracy 23. 13.  24. 14 1689 This Day the Convention of Scotland met and chose Duke Hamilton for their President They immediately summoned the Duke of Gourdon to surrender the Castle of Edinburgh who demanded some time to consider of it Then they read King William's Letter and appointed a Committee to draw up an Answer A Letter from the late King James was brought to the Assembly but before they would read it it was unanimously voted that they would continue sitting till the Government Religion Laws and Liberties were settled and established They read afterwards King James's Letter which was so unpleasing to them that they committed the Gentleman who
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
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
frighted that they sailed from the Bay of Barcelona with what Haste they could and retired into Toulon The French Army did not think fit then to attack Barcelona where Admiral Russel arrived this Day being received with all the Marks of Respect and Gratitude The Inhabitants made Bonfires stiled him their Deliverer and many caused his Name to be ingraven on their Doors 'T is observable that the French Fleet run away upon a false Report for Admiral Russel was not yet near the Straits when they retired which certainly cannot be ascribed but to the terrible Apprehension they had to have to deal with a Man who so roughly used them two Years before at the Hogue Thus Catalonia and Spain were preserved by his Majesty 9. 30. 1689 King James having sent Major General Mackarty with 6000 Men to reduce the Inniskilling-men who had generously taken up Arms in Defence of their Religion and Liberties and they having notice it was resolved to go and fight the Irish before they came near this Town They marched accordingly to a Place called Newton-Butler where they found the Irish advantageously posted on an Eminence with some Pieces of Cannon having two Bogs before them insomuch that there was no coming at them but by two narrow Ways However Colonel Woolsley who commanded the Inniskilling-men charged them so vigorously that they were entirely routed and their General taken Prisoner Our Men were but 1200 Foot and 800 Horse and Dragoons and the Irish were 6000. The Irish lost near 3000 Men and the Inniskilling-men not above 20 and 50 wounded which seems incredible and it must be confessed that tho there was a great deal owing to their Valour yet much more to the Providence of God The Account of the Actions of that People and especially since they were commanded by Colonel Woolsley deserves every Man's Perusal 10. 31. 1689 The Irish Rebels raised this Day the Siege of London-derry before which they sat down the 19th of April last King James the Duke of Berwick and the greatest Officers came to press on the Siege of that Place which was not fortified at all or very little The Garison consisted of the Inhabitants and other Protestants who had fled thither to avoid the cruel Usage of the Irish and Colonel Lundy whom they had chosen their Governour had so little opinion of the Defence they could make that in the Month of April he told Colonel Cunningham and Colonel Richards who were sent from England to relieve the Town that they could not hold out a Week and advised them to return without exposing their Men and quitted the Place himself yet such was the Bravery of those Inhabitants that they defended their Town against the whole Power of the Irish tho pinch'd by a hard Famine which destroy'd six thousand Persons The Irish threw 591 Bombs into the Place lost a great Number of Men and were forced to raise the Siege the Town being relieved the Day before by Major General Kirk The Siege of this Place will make it famous in History and our Posterity will admire the brave Defence the Inhabitants made especially if they consider that Mr. Walker a Minister and one Mr. Baker who had never bore Arms before were chosen Governours dit 1678 This Day was concluded and signed the Treaty of Peace between the States of Holland and France at Nimeguen whereby the French restored Mastricht the only Place they were then in possession of the Prince of Orange having beat them from all the other Places they had taken belonging to the States General His Highness was very sorry for that Peace knowing that it was neither safe nor honourable  August  11. 1. 1674 This Day was fought the bloody Battel of Seness between the Confederate Army commanded by his Highness the Prince of Orange and the French under the Command of the Prince de Conde The French attacked the Rear of the Allies consisting of the Spanish Troops whom they defeated without any great Opposition and had they 〈…〉 tented themselves with that Advantage no body could have denied them the Glory of the Day but the Prince de Conde flattering himself with the Hopes of an entire Victory attacked the Body of the Allies commanded by the Prince of Orange where he met with an extraordinary Resistance which gave time to the Germans who had the Vanguard to come to their Assistance and there was a most desperate Fight which lasted from the Morning till the Moon 's setting parted both Armies The Allies remained in the Field and the French retired Both claimed the Victory but certainly there is no better Mark of it than to remain in the Field of Battel The Loss the French sustained is almost incredible and it was this melancholick Consideration that obliged the French King to say that he should be very sorry to buy another Victory at such a rate The Troops of the French King's Houshold were almost all cut to pieces and they lost two Standards The first Regiment of Horse of France call'd the Cornette Blanche lost also their white Standard The French took many Standards and Colours in the beginning of the Battel as also many Prisoners and they claimed the Honour of the Day only upon that Account This was the first Battel the Prince of Orange fought in which he shewed such Prudence Conduct and Bravery together that the Great Prince de Conde who was a very good Judg in these Matters could not forbear doing him Justice and said that he fought twenty Princes of Orange that Day for says he he was every where he shewed the Experience of an Old General and the Bravery of a Souldier The only Fault I think he was guilty of was exposing his Person too much In short I have Reason to believe that this young Prince will equal if not exceed the Williams Maurices and Henries his glorious and renowned Ancestors Count de Souches General of the Germans who behaved himself with an extraordinary Bravery in that Action expresses himself in these Words in his Letter to the States General The Event of this Battel is turned to the Glory of his Highness the Prince of Orange who has shewn on this occasion the Prudence of an old Captain the Valour of Cesar and the Intrepidity of Marius This I say without Flattery and if I have any ways contributed towards the gaining of this Victory I have but followed the Example of his Highness dit 1675 The Allies having besieged Tryers and the Mareschal de Crequy being advanced with his Army to relieve the Town it was resolved to leave a Body in the Trenches and go to fight the French and accordingly they passed this Day the River of Saar in sight of the French whom they attacked with so much Vigour and Bravery that they were entirely routed leaving all their Cannon behind them with 74 Colours and Standards 200 Wagons laden with Ammunition and their Baggage 3000 Men kill'd upon the spot and 2000 Prisoners Never was a more
sick His Highness exposed himself very much in the Attacks and obliged the French to pay to the Inhabitants what was due to them 14. 4. 1674 The Prince of Orange having refreshed his Army for some time after the Battel of Seneff sat down this Day before Oudenarde 15. 5. 1690 Our Army being retired in good Order from before Limerick his Majesty left it under the Command of Count Solmes and having appointed the Lord Viscount Sidney and Thomas Coningsby Esq to be Lords Justices of Ireland he imbarked this Afternoon at Duncannon-Fort with his Royal Highness and landed the next Day in King's Road not far from Bristol 16. 6. 1673 The Prince of Orange received a Letter from the Emperor wherein his Imperial Majesty gave him the Title of Royal Highness the Queen of Spain did also the like but tho the Prince had a better Claim to it than the Duke of Savoy being descended from an Emperor of Germany and Grandson to Henry the IVth King of France and to Charles I. King of England he never for ought I know assum'd it but contented himself with the bare Title of Highness which no body could deny him 17. 7. 1676 The Town of Philipsburgh surrendred this Day to the Allies and the French marched out to the Number of 2000 Men. dit 1689 The Duke of Schomberg having secured Carickfergus resolved to march directly towards Dublin and came this Day to Newry which the Irish quitted the Day before tho it was such a Pass that General Rozen who commanded in Ireland for the French King said that with 10000 Men he would stop there 100000. They burnt the Place which so incensed the Duke that he sent a Trumpet to the Irish to let them know that if they burnt any more Towns he would give no Quarter to those of their Army who should fall into his Power 18. 8. 1692 This Day about 2 in the Afternoon happened in this City an Earthquake which lasted about a Minute It was felt in most Parts of England and in Flanders The King being incamped at Gramen was then at Dinner in an old decayed House which shaking very much his Majesty was obliged to rise from Table and go out of the House We received no Damage by that Earthquake neither in the City nor in the Country 19. 9.  20. 10. 1688 The late King James having formed the Design to subvert the Laws of England together with the Protestant Religion and being sensible that a Protestant Army was not very fit for that Service resolved to fill it with Irish Men as devoted entirely to his Service and accordingly ordered the Duke of Berwick to put into his Regiment 30 Gentlemen of that Nation but his Lieutenant Colonel Beaumont the Captains Paston Simon Parke Thomas Orme Will. Cooke and John Post generously refused to comply with their Colonel's Desire at which the Court was so enraged that they were tried in a Court-Martial and cashiered this Day dit 1688 The Prince set out for Minden to confer with the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel and the Princes of the House of Lunenburgh It was there that in Offensive and Defensive League between those Princes was concluded and then was laid the Foundation of that great Alliance which appeared soon after and whereby England and the Liberties of Europe have been preserved As that Affair required a great Secrecy none of the Ministers of those Princes were acquainted with it and to avoid the Disorder and Slowness that commonly attend the Confederate Armies when they are commanded by several Generals of an equal Dignity the chief Command of the Troops of those Princes was conferr'd without any Competition on his Highness the Prince of Orange and they gave Order to their respective Forces and Generals to be ready to march at his first Orders It was observed that that Day was the most stormy and rainy Day that had been seen for many Years past and some time after one of the Courtiers of the Elector of Brandenburgh complaining in his Presence of the Fatigues and of the bad Weather he met with that Day the Elector inrerrupted him and said that it was the finest Day for Europe that ever shone dit 1690 His Majesty returned this Evening to Kensington from Ireland and was received with all possible Demonstration of Joy The Streets of London were filled with Bonfires the Houses illuminated and the People omitted nothing that might testify the extraordinary Joy they had of his Majesty's safe Return dit 1691 The Mareschal de Luxemburgh having notice that the King had left the Confederate Army under the Command of Prince Waldeck and that the said Army was marching from Leuze to Cambron thought it a favourable Opportunity to attack them and accordingly parted from his Camp with 40 Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons in which were the Troops of the Houshold with a Design to charge our Rear There happen'd this Morning 〈◊〉 pretty thick Fog which was the Reason that his March was not discovered and about Noon just as our Rear was passing a little River and Defile near la Catoire the French charged them with such a Vigour that some Squadrons were put into Disorder but being supported by the Foot who in the mean time had lined the Hedges they maintained their Post till they were reinforced by some other Troops who had already pass'd the Desile and after a sharp Dispute repulsed the Enemy Prince Waldeck caused the Army to stand in Battalia till 4 in the Afternoon and then continued his March to Cambron The Action was vigorous on both Sides and about 1000 Men in all lost their Lives in that brush The French took some Prisoners and the Allies did the like and amongst them a Major of the Life-Guards We lost also 7 Standards and took 5 of theirs 2 of which did belong to the 2 Troops of Guards du Corps commanded by the Duke of Lorges and Duke of Noailles The young Prince of Anhalt and Count Benthem were killed on our side and Count Maulevrier Count Mouthrun Lieutenant Generals Count de Forghes and Count Mortagne were killed on the side of the French and a great many Persons of Note in both Armies were wounded dit 1695 His Majesty having left the Command of the Army to the Elector of Bavaria arrived this Day at Loo and the Mareschal de Boufflers having given his Parole that the Garisons of Deinse and Dixmude should be released as soon as he should come to Dinant his Majesty gave him leave to depart and accordingly he set out from Mastricht where he was Prisoner the 17th Instant N. S. 21. 11. 1673 The States sent Monsieur Fagel to compliment his Highness on the taking of Naerden dit 1674 The Prince of Conde knowing the Extremities Oudenarde was reduced to marched to relieve it and came in sight of the Allies the 20th who resolved to attack them the next Day The Prince of Orange called a Council of War wherein
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
lying so conveniently to receive Supplies from France dit 1693 We had Advice that Charles Duke of Schomberg died at Turin the 17th Instant of his Wounds in the late Battel of Marsaglia justly lamented for his personal Merits great Conduct and Valour He had been bred up a Souldier from his Cradle yet he never was spoiled by the poisonous Air they commonly breath in the Field but was a noble Proof that Sobriety Chastity Moderation and Religion can sympathize with the fiercest Courage 28. 18. 1692 His Majesty landed this Day at Yarmouth in the Afternoon having had a very bad Passage during which several French Privateers came pretty near the Yatch wherein his Majesty was the Weather being so stormy that the Men of War commanded by Sir Cloudesly Shovel could hardly keep together 29. 19. 1688 The Prince of Orange having disposed all things towards his Expedition to England and sent Prince Waldeck with a Detachment of the Dutch Forces to join the Brandenburghers and other Allies to secure Cologâ— and the Country of Juliers caused the rest of his Army to go on board and having taken his Leave of the States General the States of Holland and West-Frizeland and of her Royal Highness the Princess went himself this Day on board of a Frigat of 36 Guns in the middle of the Line attended by the Mareschal de Schomberg the People crouding the Shore to wish him a prosperous Expedition dit 1688 The Fortress of Philipsburgh surrendred this Day to the Dauphin after a Siege of 4 Weeks and afterwards the French took Spire Worms Manheim Frankendall Heidelberg and other Places of the Palatinate which they destroyed with Fire and Sword committing Cruelties hitherto unknown among the Christians This was done before any Declaration of War was published and yet the French have had the Impudence to accuse the States General to have begun the War It is to be observed also that â—t that very time they were committing those Barbarities they exclaimed against the Emperor and pretended that what they did was only to establish a lasting Peace dit 1691 The King landed this Morning at Margate from Holland being attended in his Passage by Sir Cloudesly Shovel and this Evening came to Kensington being received with all imaginable Demonstrations of Joy 30. 20. 1688 His Highness the Prince of Orange sailed this Day from the Flatts near the Brill with his whole Fleet consisting of 52 Men of War and about 640 Transport Ships and Tenders The Men of War were divided into 3 Squadrons Admiral Herbert had the Van and Admiral Evertzen the Rear the Prince being in the middle of the Line with Admiral Bâ—stians The Wind was very favourable at first but about 12 a Clock at Night it turned to Westward with such a Violence that the whole Fleet was obliged to put into Helvoetsluce Goree and other Places The Storm lasted about 12 Hours and was so terrible that People thought that at least the half of the Fleet would be lost yet by the Providence of God there was but one Fly-boat with about 50 Horses that perished and all the Men were saved 'T is true that a great many Horses died in the Storm The News of that Accident being brought over caused an extraordinary Joy at Court where the Priests boasted very much of the Assistance they expected from the Virgin Mary and the rest of the Saints who had been so earnestly supplicated to confound that Heretical Fleet of the Prince dit 1692 His Majesty returned this Evening to Kensington from Holland having past through the City amidst the Acclamations of the People and a continued Illumination in the Houses Bonfires and other Demonstrations of Joy 31. 21.  November   1. 22. 1677 This Day his Majesty King Charles II. acquainted his Privy Council with the Resolution he had taken to marry the Lady Mary his Niece with the Prince of Orange which Resolution was mightily approved by the Council who thanked his Majesty and the Duke of York and complimented the Princess and the Prince upon that Account   The same Day his Highness dispatch'd a Gentleman for Holland with a Letter for the States General and another for the States of Holland to acquaint them that he had demanded the Princess of the King and the Duke of York and wanted only their Approbation   The News of that Marriage being spread in the City the People expressed an extraordinary Demonstration of Joy as if they had foreseen the great Advantages the English Nation was to receive some time after therefrom dit 1688 King James being sensible that the whole Nation was perswaded that the Prince of Wales was but a supposititious Prince whom the Priests had imposed upon the Nation in order to carry on their Designs to destroy the Protestant Religion thought fit to call his Privy Council this Day and desired the Queen Dowager and such of the Peers both Spiritual and Temporal the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and other Lords and Ladies that were present at the Queen's Labour to declare upon Oath what they knew of the Birth of the Prince of Wales They appeared accordingly and declared what they knew which amounred only to this that they were on the 10th of Jaâ—â— at St. James's Palace when the Queen was delivered that they heard her Majesty groaning crying and the like but none of them except the Midwife deposed that that Child was come from the Queen's Body even not the Physicians themselves These Depositions being so lame did but increase the Suspicion that there was a Cheat in the case and the King's Council were so sensible that they would have the same effect that tho an Account of them was promised in the Gazette they did not think fit to be as good as their Word 'T is true we have no positive Proof that the Prince of Wales is a Bastard but there are so many Circumstances and Presumptions against his Legitimacy that one must own one of these two things either that he is a supposed Prince or at least that King James designed to make all the World believe it since the Princess of Orange and the Princess of Denmark were not invited to be present as they were to be nor any body for them the Bishops were put in the Tower some Days before and for those sew Pretestant Lords and Ladies who were called to St. James's they were introduced by the King in such a manner that none of them could see whether or no the Child was born of the Queen King James could not but foresee that the Legitimacy of his Son would be questioned and therefore to remove that Pretence it was enough to desire the Princess to be there with some Protestant Lords and Ladies appointed by the Princess of Orange and expose all things to their Sight and Feeling but since this was neglected one cannot but believe that there was a soul Design to impose a Popish Successor upon the Nation This pretended
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
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
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