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A34509
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The Copy of the Association signed at Exeter by the lords and gentlemen that went to the Prince of Orange
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1688
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Wing C6205; ESTC R2690
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THE COPY OF THE ASSOCIATION SIGNED AT EXETER BY THE LORDS and GENTLEMEN That went to the Prince of ORANGE WE whose Names are hereunto Subscribed who have now joyned with the Prince of Orange for the Defence of the Protestant Religion and for maintaining the ancient Government and the Laws and Liberties of England Scotland and Ireland do engage to Almighty God to His Highness the Prince of Orange and to one another to stick firm to this Cause and to one another in the Defence of it and never to depart from it until our Religion Laws Liberties are so far secured to us in a Free Parliament that we shall be no more in danger of falling under Popery and Slavery and whereas we are ingaged in this Common Cause under the protection of the Prince of Orange by which in case his person may be expos'd to danger and to the desperate and cursed attempts of Papists and other Bloody men we do therefore solemnly engage to God and one another that if any such Attempt be made upon him we will pursue not only those who make it but all their Adherents and all that we find in Arms against us with the utmost Severity of a Just Revenge to their Ruine and Destruction And that the Execution of any such Attempt which God of his Infinite Mercy forbid shall not divert us from prosecuting this Cause which we do now undertake but that it shall engage us to carry it on with all the Rigour that so Barbarous a practice shall deserve FINIS