SOME Remarkable Passages OUT OF THE EXCELLENT LETTER OF Mijn Heer FAGAL, In the Name of their HIGHNESSES The PRINCE and PRINCESS of ORANGE.  
I Must then first of all assure you very positively, That their Highnesses have often declared, as they did it more particularly to the Marquis Abbev●lle, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the States, that it is their Opinion, That No Christian ought to be persecuted for his conscience, or be ill used, because he differs from the Public and Establishe● Religion: and therefore they can consent that the Papists in En●land, Scotland, and Ireland. ●●●e suffered to continue in their Religion, with as much liberty as is allowed them by the States in these provinces.  
And their Highnesses are very ready, in case His Majesty shall think fit to desire it, to declare their willingness to concur in the settling and confirming this Liberty, and as far as it lies in them, they will protect and defend it, and according to the Language of Treaties, They will confirm it with their Guaranty, of which you made mention in yours.  
And if His Majesty shall think fit further to desire their concurrence in the repealing of the Penal Laws, they are ready to give it; provided always that those Laws remain still in their full vigour, by which the R. Catholics are shut out of both Houses of Parliament, and out of all Public Employments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military.  
You writ, That the Roman Catholics in these Provinces are not shut out from Employments and Places of Trust; but in this you are much mistaken, for our Laws are express, excluding them by name from all share in the Government, and from all Employments either of the Policy or Justice of our Country. It is true, I do not know of any express Law, that shuts them out of Military Employments, that had indeed been hard, since in the first formation of our State, they joined with us in defending our Public Liberty, and did as eminent service during the Wars; therefore they were not shut out from those Military Employments; for the Public Safety was no way endangered by this, both because their numbers that served in our Troops were not great, and because the States could easily prevent any inconveniency that might arise out of that; which could not have been done so easily, if the R Catholics had been admitted to a share in the Government, and in the Policy or Justice of our State.  
I am very certain of this, of which I could give very good proof, that there is nothing that their Highnesses desire so much, as That His Majesty may Reign happily, and in an entire Confidence with his Subjects; and that his Subjects being persuaded of His Majesty's fatherly affection to them, may be ready to make him all the Returns of Duty that are in their power.  
Their Highnesses have ever paid a most profound Duty to His Majesty, which they will always continue to do; for they consider themselves bound to it, both by the Laws of God and of Nature.  
I do not think it necessary to demonstrate to you how much their Highnesses are devoted to His Majesty, of which they have given such real Evidences as are beyond all verbal ones; and they are resolved still to continue in the same Duty and Affection: or rather to increase it, if that is possible.  
Nou. 4. 1687. SIR, Yours, etc.   

Memorandum, That these singular Expressions of Affection and Duty to the King their Father, were sent after those irregular and offensive measures of Quo Warranting Charters, the Dispensing Power, Clossetting, the Ecclesiastical Commission, and Magdalen College, were practised; and comparing this with several Expressions in his Highness his Declaration, and both with His Majesty's Reasons why he withdrew himself from Rochester, may it not become us as Members of the Church of England, and Subjects of the King of England, to desire him to return to us upon the Terms of the Ancient Constitution of our Government; and if those be too large, upon such Terms, as will make us safe; and may not our neglecting to do it, upon a supposition of a Demise, because he withdrew himself, which he charges upon a Constraint, become a lasting Reproach upon these Kingdoms, and through our means, a like dishonour to the Prince and Princess.