William the III King of England Scot: Fran. and Ireland Prince of Orange etc. Aetatis suae 38   portrait of William of Orange HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

AN Historical Account OF THE MEMORABLE ACTIONS Of the most Glorious Monarch WILLIAM III. KING of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Prince of Orange, etc.  
Giving a true Relation of all that happened of consequence since his glorious Expedition into England, from time to time; as also the happy Arrival of his Royal Consort Queen Mary, and their being Proclaimed and Crowned King and Queen of these Realms. The whole containing a Summary from his Birth to this day.  
Together with the Names of several of those worthy Persons upon whom he has conferred Honours and places of Trust since his being Proclaimed.  
LONDON, Printed, and are to be sold by H. Rhodes, next door to the Swan Tavern, near Bride-lane in Fleetstreet. 1689.   

LICENCED, April 24: 1689.   

THE PREFACE TO THE READER.  
THE weight of this illustrious Subject might have required a greater Undertaker, and made me have kept at an awful distance, whilst the most celebrated Pens of Europe had interwoven and enamell'd the Birth and Rising, Glories of so great a Prince, with all the Rhetorical and Heroic Accents and Expressions that are capable of giving Life and Fire to the Minds of Men, and raising their Souls to a height capable of knowing the Centre of true Greatness; but with humble submission, not finding any forward in so invaluable an Enterprise, I, though unworthy, have presumed to make this Essay, hoping it will not be taken ill, since this, at least, is the Groundwork, upon which the most aspiring Historian must build, when he consults the Golden Rolls of Fame to raise a Pyramid of lasting Honour to the Memories of the World's undoubted Worthies. In this Book, though small to appearance, you may find things as vast in Extent as Virtue and Valour can enlarge them; and when I tell you it is the Compendium of the Birth and Actions of the Great and Renowned Prince of the House of Orange, with what more especially relates to his Redeeming us from Popery and Slavery, by his generous Expedition, Valour, and Conduct, I might be silent, since the World is sufficiently sensible of what I farther intent; yet that Posterity may not forget so great a Deliverance, it is fit that it should be Recorded till Time is swallowed up in Eternity.  
You have, Reader, in this Book an Account of the illustrious Birth of a Prince, born to be the Protector of the true Religion, and the Support (next the Almighty Arm) of Christianity, coming nearest to its primitive Purity, with his Advancement to early Honours, and his memorable Actions from time to time, with the various dangers and hazards to which he has exposed himself, for the Repose of Christendom, but more especially for the securing and promoting the Protestant Religion. You have likewise a Discovery of Popish Cruelties, in the wretched State and Condition of the Protestants in France, under the late Persecution, from which you may gather what we might have expected and suffered, had not this great Prince at so much Cost, hazard of his Person, and indefatigable Labour and Industry, dispelled with the Rays of his early and glorious Success, the cloudy Tempest that was breaking over our Heads; and to be brief, you have an Account of all that has memorably passed from his Birth to this day, and that more particularly in England, upon the ever-to-be-remembered Occasion of his coming over as our Protector and Deliverer, with the indefatigable Industry he has successfully used to infatuate and defeat the Designs of our Enemies, and the Returns he has found from a sensible and grateful People, and especially the Wisdom of the Nation Assembled in Parliament, in Proclaiming and Crowning him, together with his Royal Consort, King and Queen of England, etc. with the manner of the performance, and what else can be required to set forth so illustrious an History, the Subject of which may some Angel sound with a golden Trumpet to the utmost Kingdoms of the Earth: which is the Wish of  
Your humble Servant, S. J.   

An Historical Account of the Life and memorable Actions of the most Illustrious William Henry, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Prince of Orange, etc.  
WHen we undertake to Write of illustrious Persons, whose great Actions are sufficiently known to the World, and whose Virtues and Candour have placed them upon a Pinnacle of Fame, it is then that Rhetorical Strains, or flattering Applause, is altogether to be laid aside, as vain and useless; for true Diamonds require not the Art to set them off, like Counterfeit, but relying upon their proper Lustre make their value known, and shine in a kind of careless Glory; wherefore considering the Illustrious Subject I am here to handle, waving elaborate Circumstances, and Expressions not greatly pertinent to History, or Matters of this kind; my Care and Endeavour shall be to keep to Truth and Fact, and as much as in me lies to give a satisfactory Account of the Birth and glorious Actions of a Prince, whose Fame has travelled with the Sun.  
WIlliam Henry, of the Illustrious House of Nassau, our present Sovereign, descended from that renowned Germane Family, that has been ever Famous, and to which the Empire and all Christendom has been so much beholden, Son to William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, by the Royal Princess Mary, Daughter to Charles I. King of England, etc. was Born on the 14th. of November, in the year of our Lord, 1650. his Father dying the preceding Month, after he had been Married about nine Years, and done Actions worthy of his high Birth, in the Four and Twentieth year of his Age, leaving this hopeful, Issue to dispel the Clouds of Sorrow that began to spread themselves over most European Courts, upon notice of a Death so unexpected, and a Loss so important.  
This great Prince at his Baptism had for Godfathers the Lords States of Holland, Zealand, and the Cities of Amsterdam, Delf, and Leyden, receiving the Name of William Henry; and as he increased in years, under the Care of the indulgent Princess, and such as were appointed to attend and wait upon him, he gave early hope of what hath since been sufficiently manifested.  
At five years of Age he came to visit his Uncle, King Charles TWO who then was at Breda, preparing for England, to take Possession of the Thrones and Kingdoms, so long detained from him; where the King expressed his extraordinary satisfaction to see the Prince his Nephew, and highly welcomed him; and soon after the Estates General, having a particular Audience of the King, recommending the firmness and fidelity of that Republic to his Interest, etc. his Majesty in the most obliging Terms replied, That the Interest, if no other Motives should induce him to it, of two Persons so nearly allied to him, as the Princess Royal his Sister, and the Prince of Orange his Nephew, who live in the Estate as part of it, must unavoidably endear it to him. However, there were many Reasons of State, which obliged him to make with those Provinces a most strict Alliance: And now the King's Departure for England being at hand, the Estates General named Mr. De Gent. Deputy of Guelderland, Guelderwagen of Holland, and Lampsins of Zealand, to wait upon the Queen of Bohemia, who was then with the King, and the Duke of York, and Gloucester, who Lodged in the Extroardinary Ambassador's House, to compliment them on the Re-establishment of the King, and the Revolution of the Affairs of England; and at the same time Mr. Renswonde of Utreicht, Ripperdo of Hengelo, of Overysel, together with Isbrants of Groaning, were deputed to the same Office, by the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Orange.  
The King being treated by the Estates General at the Hague, he sitting at the middle of the Table-head, had on the Right Hand the Queen of Bohemia, on the Left the Princess Royal, and there the Prince was present, a Seat being placed on purpose for him to distinguish his Character, though in his tender years, from Lords of great Rank and Quality, who were present at that splendid Entertainment; and this order was observed whenever he Dined publicly with the King, which he frequently did, as well at the Hague, as at other places; and when the King left the Hague, his Highness, accompanied with Prince William of Nassau, Governor of Friezeland, with sundry Nobles and Gentlemen, went before him towards the Ships, on which, together with his Train, he was to embark for England; and when he went on Board he was conducted to the Admiral's Ship by the Queen of Bohemia, the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Orange, to whom at his Departure he returned most obliging Thanks, and endearing Expressions of Affection, which ended not but with his Life. These were the remarkable Passages (as I may term them) in the Infancy of this great Prince: But it is time to go on to those of his riper years.  
A prevailing Faction growing up in the United Provinces, managed by Statesmen that ambitiously strove to engross the Power, and enrich themselves as much as in them lay, to overshadow the Brightness of this Rising Sun, to eclipse the Family that had laid the very Foundation of the State, and by which Providence would have it supported, though at the same time France pressed them with a prevailing Army. Amongst those of the Faction, the De Wits were very forward, for which, and some underhand Practices against the Person of the Prince, the two Brothers, John and Cornelius, soon after felt the Rage of the People, who out them to pieces; however those that remained struggled to keep themselves in Power; and the better to do it, disbanded their experienced Forces and Officers, putting in their steads the Sons of Burgher-masters, and such others as they supposed would stickle for them against the Interest, of this Rising Prince; however it lasted not, for within a while the French taking more effectually the advantage of this oversight, swept away divers of the Frontier Towns, and entered deep, with great ravagement and devastation, into some of the Provinces, which made the People consider of a General to lead their Forces; whereupon in the beginning of the year 1672. the Prince was invested with the Titles of Captain, and Admiral General of the United Provinces, Honours his Ancestors had a long time meritoriously enjoyed to the extraordinary contentment of the People, by having (next under God) been the chief means of reducing those Provinces from Slavery into a State; when his Highness, Marching at the Head of a few Troops, made good his Post at Nienkop against the violent Attacks and Encroachments of the French, and so gallantly ordered Affairs, that he made them retire with loss.  
Upon the Ravage the French had made on the Frontiers, the people of the Province of Holland grew discontented and displeased with their Magistrates, attributing the Misfortune to their neglect; so that those of Dort broke into open Mutiny, demanding to see the Megazines; but being put off, or refused, suspecting some Treachery, they resolved to have the Prince made Stateholder, nor would they by any means be appeased, till he was sent for, and confirmed in that Dignity, which being passed into an Act, great joy ensued amongst the People; and soon after the other Cities and Provinces consented to the like Investment, and his Highness took his Place in the Hall of Audience, with the Ceremonies the Dignity required.  
Upon these Proceed, and his Highness' returning ●o the Army at Bodegrove, the Face of things were changed, and the late drooping Provinces seemed to take new Life and Vigour; the French were manfully resisted, and the Bishop of Munster forced from the Walls of Groaning by a slender Garrison, after the Loss of a great part of his Army; so that now the Prince being very powerful in the Hearts of the people, the De Wits were sacrificed to the popular Fury, for conspiring against him & the Government, for the Burghers and others taking Arms, and breaking in upon them, where Cornelius was imprisoned by the Magistrates, and his Brother John at that time come to see him, they dragged them thence with great Cries, and after a miserable mis-usage, hung them up by the Heels in the Marketplace, and cutting them to pieces, sold their Joints and Flesh by piece-meal, at great Rates, which were carried away by the Buyers in a Triumph of Revenge.  
The De Wits falling thus from their height of Honour, Min Heer Fagel was made Pentionary with the Prince's approbation; and indeed deservedly, having been the first, when only Pensioner of Haerlem, to open people's Eyes upon the inevitable Ruin that must have attended upon the continuance of the De Wits Ministry, and thereupon the Elector of Brandenburg wrote a most obliging Letter to the States, to let them know he had received the News of the Prince's Advancement and Settlement in the Honours and Dignities of his Ancestors, and to assure them of his Friendship and good Will; so that the Provinces within themselves being settled, it was thought high time to oppose the Insults of the French; whereupon the Prince marched to dislodge their Out-gaurds, and came upon them so unexpectedly and with so much terror as they lay at the Siege of Utreicht, that he beat them into their Trenches, and took several Prisoners of Note, which he commended to be kindly used, and sent to Amsterdam: And now there being a Rumour that some Attempt was designed against his Highness' Person, by some private means; so far it wrought, that from that time he has been entreated to accept of a Guard for his Person, and although the season was far advanced, he laid Siege to Woerden, a considerable Garrison, held by the French, to the relief of which the Duke of Luxemburgh hasted, and was the first time obliged to retire with considerable loss; but returning with a great Re-inforcement, as the Toown was about to Capitulate, after an obstinate Fight, and many killed on both sides, he put a succour of 300 Men into it, and with considerable Loss retreated. This new recruit encouraging the Garrison, and the Prince having lost in the Action Colonel Suylesteyme (who bore the fury of the Attack, and fought valiantly, but being overpowered, and refusing Quarter, was killed,) as likewise other brave Men, and now the Wether more incommoding his Army than the Enemy, he thought it convenient to rise from before it, and drew off without any molestation.  
After these Proceed, his Highness held a Council of War, and having given necessary Orders, marched to Rosendale, where the General Rendezvouz were appointed, and there having mustered an Army to the number of 24000. he took his March towards the Country of Liege, and obliged the Count de Duras to retire to Stassemburgh with the Army he then had under his Command, being desirous, if it might conveniently be, to give him Battle: but understanding that the Count frequently shifted his Quarters, in a kind of a retiring manner, the Prince after investing Tongerens with his own and such Spanish Forces as had joined with him; and by that means not being able to draw him to a Battle, he re-passed the , and after some longer attendence to that purpose, he marched to Maestreicht, and sent a Party of Horse and Foot to take in the Castle of Valcheren, which soon surrendered upon discretion; and there they found a considerable Megazine, especially of Forage: And after that his Highness having invested Charleroy without success, by reason of the sharpness of the Wether, and taken Birch, an important Place, defended by three Captains, and 300. Soldiers, Demolishing the Town, he marched through Brabant, and put his Soldiers into Winter Quarters.  
During these Transactions, the French in considerable Parties taking the advantage of the hard Frost, marched over the Ice, and made some inconsiderable spoil in the Villages, but upon the approach of his Highness they retired in disorder, with considerable loss; and had the Passes been defended as the States directed, most of them had perished in the Waters, by reason of the sudden Thaw that ensued. About this time, to make amends for the mischief the French had done Coeverden, was recovered covered a Place of great importance, and from whence the Garison-Soldiers, by their frequent Inroads, had greatly endamaged the Country. And now his Highness industriously laboured to compose homebred Differences and Discords, which he effected with the same facility that attended all his undertake, insomuch that all Animosities were laid aside, and every Man applied himself to promote the public good of the Country; and then he proceeded to visit the Fortifications, and give such necessary Orders, as the Juncture of Affairs required.  
The Spring advancing, the French King made great preparations against Holland, invading them in Person with a powerful Army, whilst the Prince of Conde and Duke of Luxemburgh were encamped at Utriecht, expecting Orders to fall into the County. They had now likewise War with the King of Great Britain, with whose powerful Navy the French joined; which made the the Prince to be very careful in attending the motion of the French by Land, whilst the States prepared to set out their Naval Forces; nor was such a Storm as then threatened the Provinces, to be slightly regarded; for the French King laid Siege to Maestriecht, with an Army of 42000 Horse and Foot, on the 10th. of June, it being before blocked up by the Count De l' Orge, with three thousand Horse: In this place was a Garrison of about eight or nine hundred Horse, and four thousand Foot, Commanded by the valiant Monsieur d' Fariaux, who defended the place with much Bravery to the last extremity, killing the French about 9000 Soldiers, besides Officers, and Men of great note; and then at the Petition and earnest Entreaty of the Inhabitants, surrendered upon honourable terms, and was soon after, for his Courage and prudent Conduct, made, by his Highness, Major General of the Army: And at this Siege it was that the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth signalised his Valour to the height of Bravery; by which, and the Courage of the English under his Command, the French King may be justly said to make himself Master of this Place; after which, the French Army being drawn off, and partly dispersed; the Prince drew together his Forces, and laid Siege to Maerd, straitening it with 25000 Horse and Foot, which obliged the Duke of Luxemburgh to bend his Forces that way; however the Place was taken without much difficulty in four days, and Luxemburgh retired.  
About this time the States entered into a League, with the Emperor and King of Spain against France, whose Armies joining, at least in part, the Siege of Bonne was pitched upon, into which the Prince of Conde had only the advantage of putting 100 Horse, who passed the Sentinels under pretence of being the Duke of Lorrain's Party, and 100 more attempting to do the like through the Prince's Quarters, not only failed of success, but were most of them killed and taken Prisoners, and 500 more, who were to support them, obliged to retreat being beholden for their safety to the swiftness of their Horses: And now the Town was closely pressed by the confederate Army, and the Governor summoned; and although at the first he refused, yet perceiving the resolution of the Besiegers to spare none they found in Arms if the Town was taken by Storm, and the vigorous Attacks they made, at the end of seven days a Parley was beat, and the Besieged granted honourable terms; they marched out to the number of 1500, so that with little loss of Blood the Confederates became Masters of this City; upon which the Prince of Orange drew off to Wesseling; and commanding in the absence of Montecuculi the Imperial Army, he seized on the Castles of Lechnich and Brevel; and now Success attending his Sword, he constrained the French, although Turene had taken the Field with a considerable Army, to quit many Places they conceived not to be tenable, or at least ways to draw out the Garrisons to recruit their Army, which was not in a condition to make head against the Confederates: Amongst those that they quitted was Herderwick, Woerden, Utreicht, Bomniel, Campen, Elburg, and Hattein, and the Bishop of Munster, who was in League with France, quitted Mempel and Stenwick; yet at their Departure they exacted great Sums of Money from the Inhabitants in lieu of their not firing the Houses; yet they dismantled many of them, and left visible tokens of their Anger, for being constrained to quit those important Places which they had gained at at a vast expense of Blood and Treasure. So far did the terror of a young General in this Rising Glories work upon the minds of this late insulting Nation, that they who had lately carried Ruin and Devastation into the nighbouring Country, began now to shrink together in their own.  
These were the principal Transactions to the end of the year 1673. and in gratitude for the Services his Highness had done the States by his Valour and Conduct, in freeing them from the Danger of their capital Enemies, and recovering so many wealthy Towns, they confirmed to him the Dignity of Stateholder, for the Provinces of Holland and West Friezeland, passing a Decree to hold it not only for his Life, but to settle it upon the Heirs Male of his Body, in lawful Marriage, for ever. Upon which his Highness for a time, made it his Business with indefatigable care and industry, to settle the Province of Utreicht, and other Countries that had been disturbed, and put out of order by the Invasion of the French, and made such Reformation and good Regulation of a Government that had been shaken and put out of frame, by the sundry & sudden Revolutions, that he settled Matters to the admiration & content of all Persons that had to do in it, so that they unanimously voted him Governor-general, and Captain-General of the Province of Utreicht, and the honour to descend to his Heirs Male, lawfully born in Wedlock.  
Whilst these things were doing, General Rebenhaupt, being aboard with a strong Party, took Northom, and put a Garrison into it, beat the Munster Forces, that in his absence were endeavouring to re-take it; and marched onward, stormed Nigenbuys, yet the Garrison retiring to a little Castle, capable of making but a slender resistance, were spared upon their throwing down their Arms, and begging Quarter: But upon his going into Winter Quarters, and dispersing his Men, General Negal, with the Munster Forces under his Command, recovered the latter. However, the Bishop of Munster, perceiving the Tempest of War to gather about his Countries, and finding the French King no way able to support him, he thought it high time to treat of Peace, and accordingly clapped up one with the Emperor, which more and more discouraged the French, so that the Marquis of Belefouds, who succeeded the Marshal d' Humiers in the netherlands Acquisitions, thought of nothing more than the deserting the Towns that yet remained.  
And in order to this, upon notice that the Prince was marching into Brabant with 30000 Men to join the Spanish Forces, Tiel, Arnheim, Zutphen, and others, were slighted, but not without great Sums of Money extorted from the Inhabitants, to save them from Plunder and Burning; the Bishop of Munster likewise relinquished Devenenter, so that all Overysel was at entire Liberty, and had those Disorders the Enemy occasioned in Government rectified and restored by his Highness' special Command, though for quitting these Towns the Marquis lost the French King's Favour, and was for bidden the Court, the better to colour the Business, which his necessity, past all peradventure, had obliged him to do; yet to repair this loss he fell into the French Conte, and took Dole, Malins, and Becanson, making himself, in a short time, Master of that entire Province: This made his Highness the Prince of Orange repair the sooner to the Army at Bargain Opzoon, marching from thence to Mallins, guarding the Frontiers of Brabant, so that the French, though abroad with two powerful Armies, durst attempt nothing farther on that side.  
The Confederate Armies joining about the end of July, The Generals agreed, That Count Souches should lead the Van, the Prince of Orange the Main Battle, and the Rearguard to be commanded by the Count Montery, and so they proceeded to oblige the Prince of Conde, who lay encamped with the greatest strength of the French power, to a Battle; but not being able to draw him to it, and perceiving the still fortified his Camp, the Confederate Armies drew off, in order to besiege and take in some Places of Importance, which Conde no sooner perceived, and understanding the difficult ways they were to pass, but he drew out and pursued the Rearguard, as knowing the Vanguard and Main Battalia were a great way advanced, and charged the Prince of Vaudemont, who consisted most of Horse, which obliged him to send to the Prince of Orange for two Battalians of Foot, who sent him three, under the Command of young Prince Maurice of Nassau, and soon after the entire Army engaged by degrees in a doubtful and bloody Fight, near the River Seneff, where at first the French had the advantage, by reason the Confederate Army being, as is said, divided, could not so soon unite as was convenient; however the Prince of Conde in conclusion was obliged to draw off, and quit the Field, with the loss of about 7000 Men, and amongst them sundry great Officers and Volunteers of note: Nor did the Confederates lose less than 6000, and amongst them many Noblemen, besides those that were wounded and taken Prisoners on both sides: And in this Battle, which lasted for about the space of six or seven hours, his Highness the Prince of Orange spared not to hazard his Person in the greatest danger, labouring with his Voice and Example to encourage his Men, and restore the Battle where he found it broken and disordered, by rallying the Troops and Battalions, causing those that shrunk or gave back to advance, and with his Sword in his hand, led them on to face the danger, omitting nothing that became a great and experienced General; insomuch that General Souches, a Man of great prudence and large understanding, gives a Character of him to the States of Holland in these words.  I have endeavoured (says he) to discharge my Duty, in attending his Highness the Prince of Orange, during the famous, though bloody, Battle between the Confederate Army and that of the most Christian King, the happy Issue of which has proved very much to the Glory of the Prince, who shown, upon that occasion, the Prudence of an aged Captain, the Courage of a Caesar, and the un daunted Bravery of a Marius; all which, My Lords, is delivered by me without Flattery, which is contrary to my Nature, etc. 
The Fight being over, and the Confederates with a strong Party keeping the Field all Night, the Prince the next day marched by Mons with his whole Army, and was recruited at St. Gilain with five Dutch Regiments, and there he Quartered, whilst the Imperialists marched to Queverain; when soon after General Rabenhaupt laid Siege to the Greves, a strong Garrison possessed by the French, and as stoutly defended, insomuch that he had been undoubtedly obliged to quit that Siege, had not the Prince of Orange perfected it by the assistence he gave; for the Garrison consisted of 4000 Foot, and 9 Troops of Horse, and in it 450 pieces of Cannon, a hundred of them mounted, besides a large store of Ammunition and Provision, yet this strong place yielded to the unconquerable Fortune of the Prince; for finding the Imperialists and Spaniards not forward to hazard a second Battle with Conde, who was by this time considerably reinforced, leaving the Gross of his Army with Prince Waldeck, he came to the Siege of this place with 60 Troops of Horse, which so animated the Besiegers, and daunted the Besieged, that the Marquis De Chamilly, Governor of the Town, finding the great Breaches that were made in the Walls, and the mischief done by the springing of the Mines, he began to conclude it could not hold out a resolute Assault, and so coming to a Parley, obtained honourable Conditions; by which means the Curb that this strong Garrison had put upon the nighbouring Countries was happily taken off, and the Troops for the most part were put into Winter Quarters, and little of the Action happened till the ensuing Spring; yet in consideration of the farther Services the Prince had done the States, they of Guelderland offered him as an addition to his other Honours, the Sovereignty of the Duchy of Gelder's, & the County of Zutphen; and though other Provinces intimated at the same time that they would do the like, yet he would in modesty accept of no other than that of Governor Hereditary of those Provinces; and being confirmed therein, his first care was to settle the Affairs that had been disordered, as prudently foreseeing that nothing conduces more to the happiness of a Country, than a good Constitution of Government.  
In the year 1675 the French by their great preparations demonstrating their early Intentions to take the Field, the Confederates consulted the best methods for the carrying on the War against France: But whilst that was doing the Prince fell sick of the Smallpox, which Distemper having proved fatal to many of his near Relations, created a sadness not only throughout the Provinces, but almost every where where the news came; yet it lasted not; for in a short time, through the diligence and industry of his Physicians, great signs of Amendment appeared, which ended in a perfect recovery of his Health; when, as soon as his strength would permit him, he hasted to the general Rendezvouz, near Rosendale, the better to attend the French King's motion, who was by this time in the Field, and upon his March towards Brabant, having already besieged Limburgh, by the Marquis of Rochfort,  
The Prince before his Departure adjusted and reconciled several Differences, and held a Conference with the Elector of Brandenburg, who came to the Hague to pay him a Visit. Great indeed was the Spoil the French made, quite destroying the fruitful Country of Waes', which made the Confederate Armies hasten to oppose them, and the Prince being at Rosendale, gave such necessary Orders, as according to the measures that were then taken for carrying on the Affairs, were best suitable: After which he marched with the Army under his Command towards Mallins, upon notice the French were set down before Conde, the King in person being in the Army, who caused the Siege to be carried on with so much vigour, that before the Prince could put his Designs in Execution, in order to relieve it, the Town was taken by storm; yet Quarter, after much slaughter on both sides, was given to such as yielded, and they were made Prisoners of War: And now his Highness having an Army of about 30000, daily expected 10 or 12000 Spaniards to join with him; which conjunction soon happening, he took a review of the Forces, and having an account that Bouchain was besieged, and that the Governor, the better to defend it, had caused the lower Town to be burnt down; a Council of War was held, in which it was resolved to raise the Siege, or give the Enemy Battle; and accordingly his Highness commanded the Prince of Vaudemont, to march privately with three thousand Horse and Foot, to secure a Pass over the River Schelde, below Conde; and at the same time the Duke of Holstein marched with 1500 Horse, and two Regiments of Foot, through Mons towards Kieurain, to amuse the Enemy, and make them believe the whole Army was coming to Attack them on that side, and thereupon all the Forces marched without beat of Drum, or sound of Trumpet, in two Lines; which made the French King, who lay with his Forces at Kieurain, Soburgh, etc. to draw off, that he might cover the Siege, leaving the Marshal d' Humieres, only with 4 or 5000 Men to guard the Pass; but upon the approach of the Prince, finding himself to weak, he retired without disputing it, and so his Highness, with the Duke d● Villa Hermosa, encamped near Valenciennes; but the French not being to be drawn out of their Retrenchments, i● was not thought expedient to attempt the forcing them to a Battle; so tha● after may vigorous Assaults the Governor of Bouchain capitulated and surrendered the Place.  
The Prince of Orange perceiving thi● Place lost, and that he could not forc● the French to a Battle without great disadvantage, after some Councils held the Siege of some important Place wa● resolved on, and accordingly his Highness laid Siege to Maestricht, having his Army increased by the Arrival o● the Osnaburgh Troops, under the Command of that Duke, and the Siege wa● carried on with great Resolution, an● nothing omitted that the highest Conduct and Valour was capable of performing; yet after a bloody and obstinate Resistance of the Besieged, and th● Approach of the French Army, wit● a Resolution to relieve them, his Highness thought it convenient to raise th● Siege and draw off, which he did i● good order: A brief Account of which you may see in the following Letter o● Here Dyckvelt, sent to the States of Holland, etc.  
Noble and Mighty Lords,  
THE Attack upon the Horne-Work, was not made as was intended the 25th. of August, but the day following before Noon, though without success, and the Enemy being advanced with a very great Force to Tongres, it was unanimously concluded by the Generals, that they could not be hindered from putting a succour into the Place on the side of the Wycke, and that for several difficulties that were foreseen, it would be the best and safest to draw off the Troops from that side, and to put the whole Army into Battalia, without the lines, near Lenaken; which was accordingly done the next Morning, and we continued there till now. In the mean while all our Cannon, Ammunition, and part of the Provision, together with the sick and wounded Men, where put into the lightest Vessels, which could best pass, by reason of the extraordinary lowness of the Water: Having seen all our Cannon embarked, and sent the Boats away, some Skirmishes happened, in which the Enemy was still repulsed: It was to have been wished that God would have been pleased to have blessed the extraordinary Diligence, Vigilance, and Pains, which his Highness hath with the greatest Care and Application taken, during this Siege, and so great danger to his Person, with better success for the good of the State; but seeing it hath not been his Holy Will, I pray that he will please, in other occasions, to give the Arms of the State better success.  
Philipsburgh being this while besieged by the Imperial Confederates, after a furious Battery, and many vigorous Attacks, the Governor perceiving a general Assault was intended, capitulated and surrendered it upon very advantageous Articles to Prince Herman of Baden, who commanded in chief at that Siege.  
The Prince of Orange having drawn off his Forces from before Maestricht, and given the Marshal de Schomberg, who commanded the French Forces, all the opportunity imaginable to engage, which he declined, thinking it sufficient that he had relieved the Town, he decamped from Lenaken, and marched to St. Tron, and there he sent the Regiments that had sustained the greatest Loss in this Siege into Holland, to refresh and recruit, and so with the rest of the Cavalry and Infantry, took his way towards Janche and Partuise, his Excellency the Duke De Villa Hermosa leading the Van, the Duke of Osnaburgh the main Battle, and his Highness the Rearguard, and although the French Army marched after him, yet they attempted nothing upon his Forces, however the Troops being alarmed drew up in Battalia to expect them. And now the Winter-season advancing, and the time of Action over, his Highness left the Army under the Command of Count Waldeck, and returned to Holland, where he was received with many Demonstrations of joy, and proceeded to give the general Assembly of States an Account of that Summer's Campaign, so much to their satisfaction, that the Precedent in a most solemn manner congratulated his safe Return, in his own, and in the names of all the States there assembled: As likewise did the States of Holland by the Pensioner Fagel, acknowledging all the Kindness and Gratitude imaginable, for the Care and Pains he had taken, and the Danger he had exposed his Person to for the Honour and Service of the State.  
In the year following, after a bloody and doubtful War, great were the expectations of the People that a Peace would ensue; and the sooner to bring it to pass, his Majesty of Great Britain laboured by his Ambassadors and Envoys in the Court of the Princes, and engaged for an Accommodation, after the expense of so much Blood and Treasure as this vigorous War had exhausted, but it went not on so prosperously as was wished by reason the French in the dead of the Winter were upon their March towards the Netherlands, which retarded the Negotiation, and by the first of March, they had invested Valenciennes with between fifty and sixty thousand Men, under the Command of the Duke of Luxemburgh, and the Count of Montal; nor was it long before the King came to the Army with a great number of Volunteer Gentlemen. The Garrison of that City consisted at that time of no more than 2000 Italians, Spaniards and Walloon Foot, and of about one thousand Horse and Dragoons, Commanded by the Marquis of Resburg, so that before any considerable Force of the Confederates could take the Field, this City was formally besieged, and the Sieg● carried on with extraordinary vigour as well by throwing Granades into it as battering it with Cannon, running Trenches, Mining, etc. which so far facilitated the Enterprise by continually alarming and wearying out the besieged, that the besiegers made themselves Masters of the Counterscarp and Horne-work with little difficulty, and turned the Guns they found there upon the City, which created such a Consternation, that the Governor finding the Soldiers and Inhabitants no longer willing to hazard themselves against the encroaching Enemy, and not expecting any timely relief, he being at the same time wounded, and obliged to keep his Bed, the Place surrendered upon discretion; yet the French King commanded the Soldiers not to pillage it, and gave the Count of Risburg his Liberty; when heightened with this success, he divided his Army, and at once besieged Cambray, and St. Omers, the former of which, though well Garisoned, he took without much difficulty, viz the Town, but the Castle, whither the Soldiers retired to make their last Effort, held him in play much longer.  
The Prince of Orange having by this time taken the Field, marched with the Army under his Command, to the Relief of St. Omers, of which the French King had no sooner notice, but he sent away part of his Army to strengthen that Leaguer maintained by the Duke of Orleans: Nor was it unseasonable, for the Prince having passed many difficult ways as also the River Pene, gave the Duke Battle, who had drawn off the greatest part of his Army to oppose him; and though by the ill Discipline and Conduct of the left Wing, the disadvantage of Ground and superior number of the French, after a long and doubtful Fight, wherein he extremely hazarded his Person, and received two shots upon his Armour; he found himself obliged to retire with some Loss: Yet such was the Action, that the Duke returned not to the Siege in eight days after, for fear of a second Attack, nor till he was assured his Highness had passed the Channel of Gaunt: and then after a furious Battery, the Garrison, who considered the increase of his Army, and the little hopes they had of Relief, surrendered upon advantageous Articles; and about this time News came, that the Citadel or Castle of Cambray, after an obstinate resistance, had surrendered upon very advantageous or honourable Conditions  
This early success of the French King roused the Confederates, who hastened their Armies from all Parts, and rendezvouzing near Alost, made a formidable Body, all but the Army the Duke of Lorain had brought into the Field, submitting to the Command of the Prince; which so amazed the French King, that leaving the Marshal de Crequi, and the Duke of Luxemburgh, the former to attend the motion of the Duke of Lorain, and the latter to observe the Prince, he left the Field and returned to Paris; whereupon his Highness marched towards Aeth, accompanied with the Duke De Villa Hermosa, and the Duke of Osnaburgh, in order to dislodge the French that were quartered under its Walls, or oblige them to Battle: but finding the Duke of Luxemburgh, who commanded there, advantageously encamped between two Rivers, and well fortified, showing no inclination to leave his Post, he at that time contented himself with the making a flying Camp to prevent the French Parties straggling abroad, and harrasing the nighbouring Countries, and with the reft of the Army set down before Charleroy, an important City, strongly Garisoned by the French, which obliged the Duke of Luxemburgh, for the better strengthening his Army, to draw the Soldiers out of divers Garrisons, and by that means form a Body of 40000 Men, with which he first endeavoured to cut off their Forage and Provision, coming from beyond the Sambre; and there the better to effect it, he strongly entrenched himself, as knowing the cutting off the Forage must of necessity distress the Prince, which accordingly succeeded, and was one of the chief occasions that induced his Highness to draw off the Army and march to Sombrief, and finding he could not oblige the French to a Battle without great disadvantage, their chief aim being only to hinder his laying Siege to any Place of note, he drew nearer Brussels, and there having given necessary Orders, and left the Charge of the Armies to Count Waldeck, he passed from thence to the Hague, accompanied by sundry Noblemen, as well English as others, and there gave the States an Account of his Conduct, with which they were very much satisfied, and returned his Highness their hearty Thanks for his weary Erterprises, etc.  
The French not appearing any ways inclinable to Action, or undertaking the Siege of any important Place, his Highness taking leave of the States, embarked for England, attended by the Earl of Ossory and divers other Lords and Gentlemen, on the Yatches sent for his Accommodation by His Majesty of great Britain, King Charles II. and was attended by three English Men of War, and a Squadron the States ordered to wait upon him, Commanded by Admiral Evertson; there was also in his Train the Count of Nassau, and Mr. Odyck, and proceeding with a prosperous Gale, safely arrived at Harwich the 19th of October, 1677. where he was received by the Duke of Albemarle, and proceeding thence in the King's Coaches to Ipswich, he was there very favourably received by his Majesty, and a splendid Train of Nobility, as also by his Royal Highness, with all the Testimonies and Expressions of real Joy and Affection, and on the 23d. they arrived at White-Hall, where his Royal Highness' Lodgings were prepared for his Reception, and soon after it was known to what intent his Highness had been invited over; nor did he on the 29th. of October fail, upon the Invitation of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, to accompany His Majesty, His Royal Highness, and the Court, to be a spectator of the Cities magnificent annual Triumph, and was splendidly entertained to his high satisfaction. Now the King having chosen his Highness from amongst the Princes of Europe as the fittest Match for his illustrious Niece, the Princess Mary, for which intent he was invited to Court, he on the first of November declared his Intention in Council, with which the Lords were extremely satisfied, as well in the Merits of his Highness, as the security of the Protestant Religion, by so agreeable a Match, and the better for the conservation of a Peace with the united Provinces; whereupon the Council, to testify a farther mark of the contentment they received, went in a body to Compliment and Congratulate the Princess, and then the Prince upon this happy occasion, as did afterwards the rest of the Nobility of the Kingdom, and others, a general satisfaction being every where expressed; so that his Highness sent an Express to the State's General, to acquaint them with what was intended; the Sum of which was:  
That in consideration they had by their earnest Wishes to him declared how much they desired to see him Married, after he had well weighed the Reasons that had induced him to it, in Conformity to their Desires, and the Tranquillity of their State, he conceived he could not do better than to address himself to the Princess Mary, eldest Daughter to the Duke of York, that he had made his Request to have her in Marriage, both of the King and the Duke, who had condescended to his Proposals and therefore he thought it requisite to give their Lordship's notice of it, expecting in return their speedy Approbation, that he might the sooner hasten again to their Service.  
Upon this notice of his Highness' Intentions, the States assembled to consider the weighty Reasons that induced him to make so happy a choice in placing his Affections on the most illustrious Princess in Europe, and with much Joy & Gratulation approved them, testifying by a public Edict, the satisfaction they conceived, and declaring the esteem of so great an Alliance, made a resolution to observe it to the utmost of their power, and accordingly sent their Approbation to his Highness on the 4th. of November, old Style, on which day the happy Marriage was solemnised, the Ceremonies performed by the Bishop of London, and the King gave the Princess: Nor did the News appear in public but with the greatest Demonstrations of Joy imaginable, the Bells every where rang, and Bonfires flamed in the streets, and an universal consent spread over the Kingdom, and Congratulatory Poems were made by the best hands upon the occasion. But whilst every one was Revelling in Joy and Contentment, the Prince had his thoughts employed upon the important Business of the State, and having received the farther Compliments and Congratulations of the Nobles and Gentry, he on the 29th. took his leave of the Court, together with his fair Princess, and with a Train of Noblemen and Ladies took his way to embark for Holland, whither he was attended by several Men of War, and having a prosperous Passage landed at Ter-heyde, and from thence passed to Hounsleyrdyke, where for some time their Highnesses continued, and received private Visits till the Magnificence that was to attend their public Entry into the Hague was prepared; where upon their Ingress the Bridge was crowned with Garlands of Triumph, and under them written,  Vxori & Batavis vivat Nassovius Hector Auriaco & Patriae vivat Britanica Princeps. 
Here they found likewise the twelve Companies of Burghers drawn up in Arms, and the People every where expressing their satisfaction with loud and joyful Acclamations; and upon passing the Bridge 24 Virgins met them, singing Songs prepared for the occasion, and strewing the way with fragrant Herbs on each side the Coach wherein their Highnesses were; and arriving at the Townhouse, they found a Triumphal Arch erected, through which they passed; this Arch was beautified and adorned with a Sylvian Scene, and on the top a Hieroglyphic of Amity, by the clasping of two hands, and a Motto, viz.  Auriaci his Thalamis, Bataevis dos Regia pax est. 
Then crossing the Marketplace into the High-street, they found another Arch erected, with this Motto, viz. Ingredere Auspicius Batavis Felicibus Aulam. and in the mean time the Cannon was fired from all parts, and the Burghers gave several Volleys; at Night the whole Country was enlightened with Bonfires, and Fireworks of sundry kinds and forms, and so with great joy and satisfaction passed the rest of the Winter, little Action happening abroad in that season; yet the French King made early preparations against the Spring, which obliged his Majesty of Great Britain, as he had before designed, to labour to compose the unhappy differences that had occasioned the expense of so much Blood and Treasure; and in order to it he sent the Earl of Feversham to the French King, with Instructions to negotiate a Peace between that King and the Confederates; the purport of his Commission was to propose, That the City of Charleroy, Aeith, Courtray, Tournay, Conde, Oudenard, Valenciennes, and St. Guilain should be restored to the Spaniards, in consideration of which, the French King should keep La French Conte entire; but this not succeeding, His Majesty of Great Britain dispatched a Commission, fully impowring the Lord Hid his Ambassador at the Hague, to make Alliance with the State's General, mutually to stand by and defend each other, till they could oblige the French King to Reason; the English Parliament at the same time declaring strongly for it, and offering the King considerable Sums of Money to carry on the projected Design against the Disturber of Christendom.  
The Alliance was to be carried on in order to the recovering a satisfaction by such means as should be thought most expedient and best agreeable; and indeed for a time it was vigorously maintained, the Parliament of England pressing it with a more than ordinary Ardour, and the King sent the Lord Montague his Ambassador to France, once more to press that King to a Compliance, making at the same time new Levies of Horse and Foot: However the French King rejecting the Propositions, was not idle, but made great preparations for War; whereupon the King of Great Britain recalled his Forces that were in the French Service, who were sent home without their Arrears. But whilst the Confederates were agreeing about their Quota's or Levies, the French early in the Spring besieged Gaunt, which being taken, by reason of the insufficiency of the Garrison to maintain a place of that vast Circuit, they sat down before Ypre, which after a resolute defence surrendered.  
These Places thus lost for want of succour, made the Confederates draw out from all Parts, the Prince of Orange being the first that took the Field, and the Duke of Monmouth arrived at Bruges with about 3000 English Horse and Foot; but the French King having done as much as he thought convenient at that time, putting the greater part of his numerous Armies into Garrisons to refresh them, he retired to Paris; but hearing the League against him continually strengthened by new Alliances, and a Prohibition of the growth of his Kingdom, he thought it no longer convenient to delay, but form himself a Project of Accommodation, to this purpose, viz.  

That the Prince and Bishop of Strasburgh should be entirely restored to all his Territories, Honours, Prerogatives and Goods, and Prince William of Furstemburgh, his Brother be set at Liberty.  
That in relation to the Emperor he would stand to his Declarations, insisting upon the Treaties of Westphalia, offering to restore Philipsburgh or Friburgh.  
That to the King of Spain he would restore Charleroy, Aeith, Courtray, Gaunt, Oudenard, and St. Guilain, together with Chastlerains and all their Dependencies, but reserve to himself Conde, Bouchain, Air, Cambray, Valenciennes, and Saint Omers, with all their Castles and Dependencies, with La French Conte entire.  
That he would restore Charlemont or Dinant to the Spaniard with the Emperor and Bishop of Liege's consent.  
That the Confines between Spain & the Low Countries from the Sea should be the , Newport, Courtray, Aeith, Dixmund, Mons, Oudenard, Namur, and Charleroy, and those Bounds to be assured by those Places.  
That moreover to the State's General he would restore Maestricht, and allow the Commerce, as formerly granted.  
That he would restore to the Duke of Lorain, according to the Pyrenean Treaty, or surrender to him, excepting Nancy, all his Territories, and in lieit of that City he would give him Toul, thereby only reserving to himself a free passage into Alsatia. And farther demanded satisfaction for his Allies.   
The proposals were not generally liked, yet after many Difficulties and Refusals, the Treaty was at length signed by the Plenipotentiaries of France and Holland, on the 11th. of August, 1678. yet the delays of the French King proved extremely prejudicial to his Affairs, especially in lessening the Reputation his Arms had gained; for whilst the Treaty held with indifferency, and wavered without any certainty of coming to a conclusion, the Prince of Orange having joined the Confederate Forces, they called a Council of War, in which it was concluded that seeing Mons, a City of the Province of Hainault, had been a long time Blocked up by the French, and that the Duke of Luxemburgh was on his March with the Army under his Command, to prevent any Succours being put into the City, that it was convenient to intercept him, and with this Resolution the Prince and the Confederate Army set forward about the beginning of August, and was joined in his March by six thousand Munsterians and Brandenburghers, under the Command of General Spaen. The French upon notice of his Approach removed from Soignes, where they had lain for some time encamped, where the next day the Prince decamped with the Confederate Army, and from thence marched toward Rockless, advancing the left Wing as far as the Abbey of St. Dennis, that Place being the Duke of Luxemburgh's chief Quarters, facing with his Right Wing Casteau, possessed likewise by the French; and although the Passes were extreme difficult, which rendered the French more secure, yet the Army being embatteled, his Highness commanded a Party to drive the French from a Hillock they had possessed, which was performed with little difficulty; and then he caused the great Guns to play upon the Enemy that had posted themselves near the Cloister, adjacent to the Town; and though they strove to defend it with their Cannon, yet after a considerable Battery, a Party of Dragoons advanced, and after a sharp dispute drove them thence, and possessed the Place, when in the mean time Adjutant General colyer, seconded by General Delwick, passed the Defiles, or narrow dirty Lanes, with admirable courage, contrary to the expectation of the French, and drove them, after a strenuous resistance, into their own Lines; when the Prince, accompanied by the Duke of Monmouth, who fought by his side that day, fell in with great resolution and bravery, encouraging by words and actions the Regiments that were advanced, and signallizing his Valour above Report, which so animated the Regiments of the left Wing that they followed each other till the Evening charging with great resolution; and Count Horn bending the Cannon under his Charge against the Battalions of French that were drawn up in the Valley, it greatly endamaged them by battering their Ranks.  
The Fight being thus begun, was carried on and maintained with much resolution and bravery, the Prince, forcing his Passage to Casteau, which had been Attacked by the Spaniards in the right Wing, where his Regiments of Foot-Guards had the Vanguard under the Command of Count Solms, and was seconded by the Regiments of Holstein, Roques, Sereres, and they supported by the English, who through the natural aversion they had to the French, charged with such fury, that the obstinate resistance the Enemy made could not sustain their impetuosity; for after five hours dispute the French were driven from their Post by the Regiments of Guards, who pursued them to the River Haines, on the other side of Casteau: And in this Battle it was that the renowned Earl of Ossory, who commanded the English, signalised his Valour; and indeed the whole stress of the Battle lay upon the Infantry, the Cavalry not being very serviceable in a Place of such narrow access, and so full of precipices. Night putting an end to the Slaughter, the Duke of Luxemburgh finding his loss great, and that he was no longer capable of making good his Post, drew off, under the favour of the darkness of the Night, in much Silence and Confusion, and took a new Post nearer Mons, covering his Army with a Wood on the one side, and on the other it was secured by a River, leaving behind him most of the wounded Men, with many Tents, and much Baggage and Ammunition.  
The Prince upon this advantage, would have pursued the French to have given them a total Defeat, and free the Town of Mons from the apprehension of Danger: But whilst he was preparing to make a second Attack, an Express was sent him, that the Treaty was signed between the States and the French King; however, they congratulated his Highness upon this Success, in an extraordinary manner, entreating him to be more sparing of their safety than to hazard himself in the midst of danger; and the better to demonstrate at how dear a rate they esteemed his preservation, they sent to Mr. Owerkirks (a Person who had enterposed himself between the Prince and a French Captain, that in the heat of the Fight was in a full Carrier to charge him at adisadvantage) a Sword, whose Hilt was of Massy Gold, a pair of Pistols inlaid with Gold and a pair of golden Horse-buckles.  
Upon the News that the Treaty was signed, a Cessation of Arms ensued, and upon the Duke of Luxemburgh's drawing off to the Country between the Muse and Sambre, the Prince marched to Escousines, upon the Road to Nivelle, and there being no farther Business in relation to warlike Action, he came to the Hague, where he was received by the People, with the highest demonstration of Joy and Acclamation; and this last success no doubt hastened the Conclusion of the Treaty between France and Spain, which was agreed on the 17th. of November following, yet it lasted not long, before the French King upon the claiming several places in the Spanish Netherlands as Dependencies, blocked up Luxemburgh, which obliged the King of Great Britain, Guarrantee of the Peace, to interpose his Authority, as likewise did the States, by way of Mediation; but the French King would not hearken to the quitting the claim he had laid, unless the City of Luxemburgh might be put into his Possession, with all its Dependencies, three Leagues round it; which being long debated, and the time the French King gave to come to a Resolve being expired, without concluding any thing of that Affair, the Marshal d' Humieres fell into the Spanish Provinces with a numerous Army, and put them under Contribution, making great spoil, and ravage in many places; and not so contented, but upon the Prince of Chimai's (Governor of Luxemburgh) acting some Hostilities in their Territories, the Marshal laid Siege to, and took Courtray, burning many places of lesser note, constraining others to pay a Ransom for saving themselves from Fire; and in conclusion, the Marshal d' Crequi came before Luxemburgh with an Army of 30000 Men, and cast a great number of Bombs into that City, which burned and demolished about Five hundred Houses, and so retired to put his Army into Winter Quarters; and in the mean while the Negotiation continued between the Arbritours to settle the Differences between the two Crowns; nor did they spare any Diligence to create a good understanding, by proposing Equivalents; but the Spaniards at that time, were so much averse, that the Mediators began to give over the hopes they had conceived of accommodating Matters in dispute; nay the Spanish Ambassador proceeded so far, as to press the King of Great Britain to send over Forces to the Assistence of his Master; but the King told him, That the urgency of his Affairs at home could not admit of sending Forces abroad, but that he was willing to do the King of Spain all the good Offices that lay in him, etc. as also to use his utmost Endeavours for the Peace and Repose of Europe. But not satisfied with this Answer, they again applied themselves to the States. General, but they being not willing to enter into any new Engagement of War with France, the Ambassadors could not persuade them to make new Levies, or to send any Forces to the Assistence of His Catholic Majesty; nor could the Emperor give any assistence, by reason of the storm that threatened him at that time in Hungary; so that indeed the whole State of Europe being unwilling, or not in a condition to enter into a new War, it was greatly hoped that this would oblige those that stood out to a compliance: And the better to perfect an Alliance, a general Congress was held at the Hague, where it was thought somewhat reasonable, that the True of Twenty years which the French King had offered should be accepted, including the Allies on all parts; which coming to a Resolve, and the Articles of Treaty agreed, amongst other things, it was thought fit that the French King should restore to the King of Spain, Dixmuyden, and Courtray, with their Dependencies, having liberty to demolish the Fortifications; as likewise the other Places taken by force since the 30th. of August, 1683. and that in consideration thereof, the King of Spain should Surrender to him Beaumond, Luxemburgh, Chimai and Bovines, with all their Dependencies; and to this purpose the Articles between the two Crowns were concluded on at Ratisbon. And now the French King being at leisure, began to grow exceeding troublesome to his Protestant Subjects, having, during the former Transactions, put a very sensible Affront upon his Highness the Prince of Orange; for whilst the Differences lasted between the French & the Spaniards, they extremely wasted his Patrimony in Brabant, Burgundy, and Luxemburgh, where the Prince of Isenguyn, supported by the French Interest and Arms, had seized upon his Possession of Warnesson, Desburgh, Vianden, St. Vith, Budgenback, etc. yet out of a generosity to his Country, in preferring their Peace and Tranquillity before his own interest, he forbore at that time to put in for Reparation; nor could the Violences the French King unjustly offered in entering upon his Principality of Orange be less resented, by which Act he seemed to have this farther design, viz. To hinder the Protestant Religion from flourishing there; for upon the Persecution he raised in all parts of his own Territories, many of the Protestants sent their Children to this Sovereign Principality to be Educated in Learning; but this greatly displeasing him, he sent his Orders to Monsieur Moran Superintendent of Provence, to March a Body of 2000 Men thither, under the Command of his Lieutenant-General in Languedock, to command the Magistrates of the Principality of Orange to send away all the Children to their Parents, and not for the future to receive any more into their Schools or Academies. To this unjust and unreasonable Demand they found themselves constrained to consent, promising to give notice to the Parents of the Children, that they might send for them home, hoping by this means they had given the King satisfaction: But what can satisfy an ambitious & spiteful Mind? for although this gave the Citizens hope they were in Peace, yet it proved not so, for soon after Orders came to throw down the Walls of the City, and the French Dragoons Quartering upon the Inhabitants, committed many Indecencies and Disorders, compelling the People to Work in ruining their own Fortifications, which being undermined, were blown up.  
This News no sooner came to his Highness' Council, but they complained of it to the States-General, as a breach of the last Peace, urging, that Reparation might be required for such unjust Proceed against the Subjects of his Highness, in the midst of a general Peace: Nor were the States wanting in Writing to the King, and letting him know their Resentments for so great an Injury, contrary to the Treaty of Nimeguen, pressing him for Reparation of the damage his Highness had, contrary to Articles, sustained in the Violence done to his Subjects: But they could get no other Answer from the French Court, but that as for the Money extorted from the Inhabitants, those that extorted it had no Order for it, and he had commanded Restitution to be made, and upon the People's submitting to his Pleasure, he had withdrawn his Forces, and restored the Inhabitants their Commerce according to their Desires; but as for the rest, he alleged he had reason for what he did. This Answer, though it was neither generous, nor pleasing, was all that could be got at that time, and so the matter continues to a more favourable opportunity.  
The Face of Peace now appearing amongst the Christian Princes, and Hungary, being the greatest Scene of War, the States thought of Disbanding their supernumerary Forces, and in order thereto advised with his Highness, who assured them that there was no Person more desirous than himself to ease the People of their Contributions and Taxes; but in consideration things were scarcely settled, and that the nighbouring Countries had not yet Disbanded, but were in Arms, he thought it the safest way to continue them till they might be assuredly free from the fear or suspicion of any sinister event, etc. And according to this prudent and grave Counsel they were continued, it being resolved by the States-General, That the Extraordinary Forces should be kept up to a farther time. And now his Highness being more at leisure, and desirous to promote the good of his Country, betook himself to the reforming the Government of Utrecht, in which, during the Series of so tedious a War, some Disorders and Irregularities had happened; which he redressed by prudently altering such of the Magistracy as were looked upon unfit Persons to manage the Government, and put such into their places as he found better capable of managing so weighty a Trust; striving to promote and advance the welfare of the People at no small expense of Pains and Treasure, contrary to the Methods of the French King, who was then Dragooning his Subjects of the Protestant Religion, and using all manner of ways to ruin them by Tortures, Confiscations, and Imprisonments, and many such unchristianlike Proceed.  
And since we are come to this part, pardon the Digression, if I conceive it not amiss to expose the Methods France has of late years taken to bring over Protestants to the Church of Rome, that the Reader may the better distinguish between the Actions of a virtuous Prince, who makes it his utmost care and study to preserve and promote those that are under his Jurisdiction, and a Prince that labours to ruin and destroy his Subjects.  
I shall not trouble you with the Declaration put out against the Protestants in the year 1669. or hardships they suffered before and since that year in particular, till I come to the year 1680. In this year the King issued out his Order, thereby depriving them in general of all manner of places of Trust, Offices, and Services; reducing the meaner sort thereby to great distress, and disannulling the more wealthy of what they had purchased with their Money, and the price of their Blood: And the next year 1681, by a Decree of their Council, all Notaries, Attorneys, Solicitors, and Sergeants, which made profession of the Reformed Religion, were rendered uncapable of their Employments; and the next year the Lords and Gentlemen were commanded to discharge their Protestant Officers and Servants; and in Eighty three, all Officers of the King's Household, and those of the Princes of the Blood, were commanded to give place to the Roman Catholics; and in a word, all manner of Persons of all Professions, that were of the Reformed Religion, had a Prohibition by those strict Decrees under severe Penalties: And so strict were they, that the Midwives, unless Roman Catholics, durst not, but by stealth, perform their Office, and by this means, some were constrained to suffer their Tongue to give their Heart the Lye. These, for the encouragement as they pretended of themselves and others, being called new Converts, were discharged from the Payment of their Debts for the space of three years, and this was done the better to disappoint their Creditors of the Reformed Religion with whom they had mostly dealt: Nor content with this, by another way they quite discharged them of such Debts as those of that Religion had contracted in common.  
These Proceed served only as a Prologue to that which was afterward acted on the Unchristianlike Stage of France; for the Councils, influenced by the Priests, who aimed more at the Estates of the Protestants than their Religion, finding these ways not so effectual as they expected; and perceiving that many of the more wealthy made over their Estates, and left the Country, exhibited a Prohibition of selling, or alienating any Estates whatsoever, the King annulling and breaking all Contracts, and other Acts, relating to such Sale or Alienation, if it did not appear that after any such Act they did not stay in the Kingdom a whole year; so that being deprived of all means to transport their effects, and yet not suffered to enjoy them with any quiet, many preferring a good Conscience before worldly Riches, proposed to leave all they had, and with it the Kingdom; but this took no effect; for hereupon they were forbidden it under severe Penalties, which drove them to so great a straight, that they knew not what offer or proposal to make, finding every thing hazardous and uncertain: But they were not long without new Proofs of Roman Severity; for though they had already fleeced them, yet not so contented, the Intendents in their Districts had orders to weigh them down, if possible, with heavy Taxes, by charging them with those of the new Converts, who were discharged from paying any, in favour of their pretended Conversion, or by laying others on them, which they termed Duties; so that he who was before assessed in the Roll for 40 or 50 Livres, escaped well, if he came off for 5 or 600, and those that delayed, or had not the Money, were obliged to quarter Dragoons, and suffer Imprisonment till they had made payment. And to pass over many things of the like Nature, though the Protestants neglected nothing, either by way of Supplication, or endeavouring to justify their Rights, and manifest the wrong done them before the Judges in the respective Provinces; it was but like Water thrown upon lce, the more to harden it: But the Priests fearing this manner of Submission might mollify the King, who is not over much given to relent, they used all their Interests to push him on to a violenter motion; so that the Papists gave out, he was resolved not to suffer any Hugonots (so they called the Protestants) to live in the Kingdom; nor, like Pharaoh, would he suffer them at the same time to departed.  
The Project by this time being grown ripe for Cruelty, they began with Bearn, where the Dragoons, committed their first Ravages, and after that, in High and Low Guinne, Xantoigne, Poictou, High Languedock Vivarets, and Dauphin, with some other places in those Countries; and after that in Lionois, Low Languedock, Gevennes, Valees, Provence, and the Countries of Geix, and then in Normandy, Bougoigne, Nivernois, Berry, and the Countries of Orleans, Tourain, Anjou, Bretaign, Champaign, Piccardy, the Isles of France, and even in Paris itself, and in all Parts where any of the Reformed Religion had Habitations, or were fled for shelter; and the first thing the Intendents were ordered to do, was to Summon the Cities and Commonalties, who were to assemble the Inhabittants of the respective Places, professing the Protestant Religion, and let them know it was the King's Pleasure they should turn Roman Catholics, or they should be forced to do it; at which the poor people greatly surprised, in an humble manner replied, They were ready to sacrifice their Lives and Estates to the Service of the King, but their Consciences being Gods' alone, they could not in that manner dispose of them.  
Upon Refusal, the Dragoons who were at hand, were immediately sent for, who in a furious manner seizing the Gates and Avenues of the Cities and Villages, guarding the Passes that none might escape, they often came with their Swords in their hands, crying Kill, kill, or else be Catholics; and wherever they came, like the Locust, they devoured every good thing, being Quartered upon the Protestants at discretion, with a Charge not to suffer them to departed out of their Houses, or conceal any of their Goods, under great Penalties to the Papists that should receive or comfort them; and having eaten up their Provisions, and plundered all that was of value, which they sold to the nighbouring Catholics, they in an inhuman manner fell upon their Persons: And now prepare to hear what even the Turks may blush to own.  
After many Revile, Curses, and Execrations, they proceeded to hang up Men and Women by the Hair, or Feet, on the Roofs of Chambers or Chimney holes, where putting Wisps of wet Hay on the Fire under them, they smoked them till they were almost suffocated; and when they had taken them down, if they would not sign to an Abjuration they hung them up again, or tossed them to and fro into great Fires till they were in a manner roasted: Under the Arms of some they tied Ropes, and plunged them in Wells till they were half drowned, swearing to finish their Lives there, unless they would promise to change their Religion: Others they bond like Criminals, when putting to them the Question, they placed Funnels in their Mouths, and pouted Wine down their Throats, till having deprived them of their Reason, they obliged them to say they would be Catholics: Some again they stripped naked, and pricked with Pins and Bodkins, till they were no longer able to endure it: Others they led about by the Noses with Pincers, and wounded them with Pen knives: They beat some with Staves and dragged them, after much cruel usage, to the Churches, where they construed their being present, though against their Wills, for an Abjuration: Some again they kept waking, by tossing them from one Soldier to another, and throwing Buckets of Water in their Faces for many Nights and Days; and the better to put them into a disorder and confusion, clapped Kettles and Brass Pans upon their heads, whereon they made a continual noise with the Hilts of their Swords, till they had in a manner made the Party distracted: And where they found any sick or languishing, thither they brought Drums and Trumpets into the Chambers, to disturb and torment them from taking rest; nor did they in some Places forbear to bind the Fathers and Husbands, whilst they forced and ravished their Wives and Daughters before their faces: Of some they plucked off the Nails, of others burned the Feet, and blew with Bellows into the Fundaments of others, till they were ready to burst; with many other Cruelties that Hell could inspire, or witty horror invent, And if by all these Stratagems they could not work upon them to abjure their Religion and the Profession of the true Faith, than had they noisome Dungeons prepared to imprison them in, where many of them languished to Death; nor did the Rage against their Persons suffice, for they demolished their Houses, cut down their Woods, spoiled their pleasant Gardens and Ortyards, seized their Children, and thrust them into Monasteries, and put them to be brought up under the tuition of Priests, and fold whatever was saleable; and for those they found had escaped them, they hunted in the Woods as for wild Beasts, miserably using such as fell into their hands.  
In these cruel Proceed of the French Papists to their own Countrymen, there was a Decorum used; for, besides the Leaders and Military Officers, at the head of these Torments marched the Intendents, and the Bishops, every one in his Diocese; as also a Troup of Missionary Monks and Friars, etc. as for the Intendents they gave such Orders as they thought most expedient for the carrying on of the hopeful Conversion, and to restrain natural Pity and Compassion, if at any time, which was but rare, it found place in the Hearts of the Dragoons, or their Commanders: The Bishops were to take the Abjurations, and to make a severe inspection, that it should be done in all points according to the mind and intention of the Clergy, and the Missionaries were to be assisting, in forcing the Abjuration. And when by this means they had forced many to an outward compliance, they increased the sorrow of those that persevered by sending them more Guests. Nor could the City of Paris, secure such as retired thither, though Persons of considerable Quality; for upon notice that several had fled the storm, and were sheltered in that great City, leaving their Lands and Live to the spoil and havoc of the Soldiers, they were commanded within fifteen days to leave that Place, and retire to their Habitations by a Decree of the Council; and although they humbly besought the King to stop the Course of Cruelty that raged against them, those that attempted it had no other Answer, than to be sent Prisoners to the Bastile; and to prevent such as should attempt to fly from their Habitations, the Provosts had Orders to scour the Roads, and the Magistrates to stop and send back such as they found removing, without exception: Nor were there Informers wanting on this occasion; and if the Husband had concealed his Wife or Children, he was tormented till he had brought them back again: Nor were some who pretended to be new Converts, though for the most part the Off-scums and Refuse of Gaols, less active than the Renegadoes of Algiers to add to the misery of the suffering People; nor would a bare signing the Abjuration serve turn, for they were compelled to go to Mass receive the Communion, and tell their Beads, having always Eyes over them; so that upon the least Information of neglect they were severely fined, or thrown into their former miseries: Yet it pleased the Divine Providence, that notwithstanding the Seaports were stopped and narrowly watched, many of them got off and were kindly received in Holland and England, and plentifully relieved, settling such as were capable of it in Business and Employments: But upon notice of these Escapes, the Foreign Vessels in the Ports were ordered to be searched and none to embark or be carried off without he or she produced a Certificate from the Bishop or Curate, to certify him or her a Roman Catholic; and several who attempted to escape were seized and imprisoned as Traitors.  
The storm, as to its fury, being a little moderate amongst the Laity, by reason there was no great matters of Plunder to be had, they resolved at last to begin with the Ministers, who had been hitherto pretty well secured in their Persons, by the Edict of Nants, which allowed them limitary Congregations; but the Court being of opinion that so long as they remained in France their Authority would restrain the Protestants from changing their Religion, and leave them but slenderly assured of their new Converts, the greater part of which they well knew had done what they did by constraint; therefore in the first place they laboured to stifle their Writings, prohibiting all manner of Books that should any ways instruct the Lay-Protestants, or were Written by their Ministers: And although the French Clergy, to have it thought they were not the Promoters of the Persecution, seemed unwilling to consent to the Revocation of that Edict, yet it was soon after Revoked, and another made, consisting of Twelve Articles. The first repeals and suppresses all former Edicts in all their Extent, and ordains that all the Reformed Churches or Chapels that are found in Kingdom shall be demolished. The Second prohibits all sorts of religious Assemblies, of what kind soever, out of the Roman Communion. The Third forbids the like Exercise to all Lords and Gentlemen of any Quality, under Penalties of corporal Punishment, and confiscation of Estate. The Fourth banishes all the Ministers, enjoining them to departed with in fifteen days-after the publication of the Edict, under Penalty of being sent to the Galleys. The Sixth promises Recompenses and Advantages to the Ministers and their Widows that should change their Religion. The Seventh and Eighth for bid instructing Children in the Reformed Religion, and ordain, that those who shall be henceforth Born and Baptised shall be brought up in the Roman Catholic Religion; enjoining their Parents to send them to the Churches under a penalty of five hundred Livres as a fine. The Ninth allows four months' time to such Persons as have departed the Kingdom to return, or upon failure, to have their Goods and Estates confiscated. The Tenth forbids all those of the Reformed Religion, together with their Wives and Children, to departed, or to convey away their Effects, under pain of the Galleys for the Men, and confiscation of Body and Goods for the Women. The Eleventh confirms a former Declaration to punish those that Relapse. The Twelfth declares, that as to the rest of the Subjects of the Religion, they may remain in the Cities of his Kingdom, and Lands of his Obedience, there to continue their Commerce and enjoy their Estates, without trouble or molestation, upon pretence of the said Religion, on condition they have no Assemblies under pretext of Praying or exercising any religious Worship whatever.  
The very day this Edict was published, so hasty were these Dragoon. Converters, that they began to demolish the famous Church of Chreenton, the elder Minister belonging to it being commaned to leave Paris within Twenty four hours, and with all convenient speed departed the Kingdom; and thereupon he was committed to the Charge of one of the King's Foot men, with an express Order not to part with him till he was out of the Confines of France; but his Colleagues had Forty eight hours given them to leave the City, and were permitted to departed upon their Parole; and the rest had the time limited, but with so many vexations, that none but Men of great firmness of mind could have born it; for they not only denied them all their Movables and Books, but even their private Papers, under pretence that they knew not whether they were theirs, or belonged to the Consistory; but what was more cruel, they refused their Fathers or Mothers, Brothers or Sisters, or any of their near Relations to accompany them, though many of them were aged and infirm, and must, unless supported by an extraordinary Providence, perish, without their succour and assistence: nor was this all, for they kept from them their Children above the Age of seven, and some, where they had a more peculiar spite against the Father, that were scarcely weaned; nor would they allow a Nurse to the sucking Children where the Mother's Milk was dried up, and she incapable of giving them sustenance of that kind; and although they had Passports, yet were they stopped upon the Borders, in divers places, by the malice of the Papists, under pretence they must presently prove they were the same Persons mentioned, and that there was no criminal Process, or Information charged against them, and justify that they carried away nothing belonging to their Congregations; and this they did upon no other pretence than to ensnare them by spinning out the limited time for their Departure; for the days being expired, though they themselves were the detainers, in plain terms they told them their time was relapsed, and there was no hopes of escaping the Galleys.  
But now the Ports, Ways, and Fords, and all Places throughout the Kingdom, were so strictly guarded, and narrowly searched by the Officers of the Forts and Customs, Soldiers and Peasants, that most of those that endeavoured to escape, were seized, and hurried to Prison, whereby the Gaols became thronged and crowded; nor had they the favour of common Malefactors, but were thrust into Dungeons, and noisome places, their Friends not daring to visit or relieve them, by which means a great number perished through hunger, and other inconveniencies; and although the Twelfth Article promises to secure the Laity in their Properties, Possessions, and Callings, yet the French Papists have not forgot the Decree of Constance, wherein it is expressed, That no Faith is to be kept with Heretics, as they call the Protestants, for the same cruelty and inhumanity continued with as great Rage and Fury, where there was any plunder to be had, or people of Note dwelling: In Picardy, Normandy, Le Berry, Campaigne, Orleans, Neivernois, Belessois, and the Isles of France, nay, in Paris itself, after the Edict was published, the Procurator-General, and some other Magistrates, sent for the Heads of divers Families, and declared to them, That it was the King's positive Will that they should change their Religion, and that if they would not comply they should be made to do it; and so proceeded by Letters under the Prince's Seal, to banish the Elders of the Consistory, and such persons as they found, or at least conceived inflexible.  
One thing is remarkable, viz. Monsieur Saignelay, Secretary of State, having sent for to his House, under divers pretences; about 100 Merchants, and others, he caused the Doors to be shut upon them, and instead of the business they expected, presented them with an Abjuration, commanding them in the King's name to sign it, declaring with a stern Countenance, they should not stir out at the Door till they had done it: The purport of it was this, That they should not only abjure the Heresy of Calvin, and enter into the Catholic Church, but declare that they did it voluntarily, or without being forced or compelled to it; and although they many ways excused it, yet being sharply reprimanded, and terrified by his Threats, not being forewarned of such a danger, and doubting the ill consequence that might attend it, they at last, not voluntarily, but by constraint, signed that Abjuration: Nor by the power and influence of the Clergy, did the Magistrates refrain to take away Children from their Parents, to bring up in their superstitious way of idolatrous Worship, frequently separating the Man and Wife, where they could gain upon the one, or the other, to Apostatise. Nor did they spare to do this in Orange, the sovereign Principality of his Highness the Prince, where the French King, by Right, has no power, but taking away the Ministers by force, committed them to Prison; the Dragoons, as it has been already hinted, doing there mischiefs much in likeness as in other Places, as well to the people as to the Officers of his Highness, to whom that Principality belongs. And much in this nature the Calamity of the suffering Protestants continued in the Kingdom of France, to the year 1685. Nor do they fail at this day to make good, as much as in them lies, what their Clergy threaten in their Pastoral Letters, by making it their study to invent new manner of Torments, the Magistrates being ever ready to assist them in the Execution.  
I might go on with this melancholy Story to the swelling of a large Volume, and add to it the Cruelty of the Savoyards against the Protestants in the Countries under that Duke, whose Miseries equal, if not exceed, that I have mentioned; as likewise in sundry other places, and indeed in all places where the Papists have power, but that the digression will seem too long; and therefore I only give the Reader a taste of what has been served up in full Banquets of Cruelty and Revenge, thereby to let those that are at this day un-informed, know what they must expect, if they come into the hands of such as account it meritorious to destroy Heretics, nor think it any Crime to break the most solemn Oaths, and make void all Protestations and Engagements, when they suppose it advantageous to their Interest, or Church's Cause: And note by the way, that all of the Reformed Religion, who have separated from the Traditions, Errors, and Idolatrous Worship of Rome, pass with them for no other. These Proceed however turned at last to the disadvantage of the Persecutors; for, though for a time it enriched them, yet the number of People that fled, or were ruined, occasioned the decay of Trade and Commerce, so that those Revenues that supplied the French King's Coffers, and enabled him to vex all Europe, by a tedious War being exhausted, notwithstanding he had taken Luxemburgh from the Spaniards, he found himself in a low condition; for money being the very sinews of War, and his Subjects not forward to lend, as appears by the Answer of the Bankers of Paris, when he sent to them the last year for several Millions of Livres, viz That they humbly begged his Excuse, forasmuch that if they so far weakened the Bank, they could not support their Credit in answering the Bills that should be drawn upon them; He then, I say, found that when by such unjust means he depopulated his Kingdom, he fought against himself: but to return.  
The Prince of Orange all this while highly disapproved his Proceed, and if in Arms he did not oppose them, it was not for want of Will; but rather that he on his part would keep the Peace inviolable, and rather bear, till a farther opportunity, the affront and injury done him, in the wrong his Subjects of the Principality of Orange had received, than involve the States in a new War; which might have been justly excused, since the French were the Aggressors. But to come yet nearer to the purpose:  
Whilst his Highness was diverting and reposing himself from the Toils of War, which now ceased by the conclusion and ratifying of the Treaty with France, His Majesty of Great Britain, King Charles II. after five or six days indisposition, departed this Life at his Palace Royal of White-Hall on the 6th. of February, 1684. not only to the extraordinary Grief of his Subjects, but of all Europe, their Highnesses more especially bearing a superlative part in the sorrow the loss of that good King occasioned, whose Funeral was privately solemnised on the 14th. of February towards the Evening in King Henry the Seventh's Chapel, where it was interred in Vault under the East-end of the South-Isle; Service being ended, and the Officers of his Household having broke their Staves, the Royal Style was proclaimed by another of the Kings at Arms, according to the Custom: And thus set this great Monarch, who had been so useful and dear to the Interest of Christendom, making way thereby for his Brother, who was immediately proclaimed, etc. and accordingly was Crowned at Westminster, on the twenty third of April following, with much splendour and magnificence, as is usual at the Royal Ceremonies of the Coronation of the Kings of Great Britain, etc. and had the Condolement and Congratulation, the one for the Death of King Charles, and the other for His Majesty's Accession to the Throne, not only from the States-General, but from most of the European Princes. And now the States of Holland being in frequent Consults about the Affairs of that Republic, between the Adjournments his Highness the Prince of Orange diverted himself in visiting the Towns and Fortifications, and settling Military Affairs; and the better to remove the Melancholy the Death of the King his Uncle had occasioned, recreated himself at his Country Palace; when in the mean while the Duke of Monmouth, and Earl of Argile, going from Holland with an inconsiderable number of Men, the former to invade England, and the latter Scotland, their Expeditions proved altogether successless for being severally routed, and taken by the King's Forces, they suffered Death, together with divers others of their Adherents and Abettors.  
In July, 1687. his Highness returning from Hounstyrdyke to the Hague, he there gave Audience to several foreign Ministers, and then parted thence to visit the Garrisons of Maestricht, Boisleduck, and others belonging to the States, and in his Return was met by Her Royal Highness at Loo, he having in his Progress given necessary Orders for the well governing and strengthening of those Places:  
In December the Marquis d' Albeville, Envoy extraordinary from his Majesty of Great Britain, had Audience of his Highness the Prince of Orange, and the States of Holland, but they adjourning to the 7th. of January, great preparations of Fireworks were made in the mean while to entertain Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, on New-years-day, representing a Battle, with four lines, ranged with several Batteries, lively expressing the manner of an Engagement. Now the foreign Priests coming again into remembrance, and being looked upon as Enemies to the Commonwealth, notwithstanding the intercession that had been made on their behalf, the Court of Justice at the Hague drew up a Decree, commanding them to retire out of the Country, and never to return again, promising a Reward of 100 Ducatoons to any that should make discovery, and settling a penalty of 600 Florins upon those that should harbour and conceal any of them, for the first time; 1200 for the second; and corporal punishment for the third Offence; whereupon a great many of them fled into England, where indeed there was but too many before: And now the Spring coming on, the Prince and Princess of Orange went to their Palace at Loo.  
The King of England, for private Reasons of State, being about this time desirous to call home the English Regiments in the Service of the States-General, the Marquis d' Albeville made it known immediately to their Lordships, but they not willing to part with those Forces, he proceeded to put in his Memorials, representing not only his Resentment of that Refusal, but the danger of Officers and Soldiers might incur; but the States having beforehand disbanded them, and listed them under their own Command, as many as would enter themselves, (which was the greatest Part of them, as well Officers as Soldiers,) this business came to nothing; and although his Majesty had ordered the Masters and Captains of Ships and Vessels, to give such as would return free Passage, with promise of Advancement, yet not many came over.  
In May the Elector of Saxony was splendidly entertained by his Highness the Prince of Orange, at Hounslaerdyke, and the next day his Highness accompanied him to Scheveling, where they went on Board a small Vessel that carried them to a Squadron of 17 Men of War, arrived from Schonevelt, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Allemond, who sent upon their Approach two light Frigates, and a Shallop, to meet them, and were saluted with the Cannon of all the Ships; when having Dined on board the Vice-Admiral, they returned to Scheveling, and from thence his Electoral Highness of Saxony went to visit Delf, Rotterdam, Dort, Maestricht, Liege Aix, and Cologne, and so returned home by the way of Francfort; when in the mean while the Heer Van Diest acquainted the Prince of Orange, and the States, with the Death of the Elector of Brandenburg, a person most firm to the Protestant Interest, and whose Death was regretted by the Protestant Princes and States, so that both the Prince and the States of Holland immediately nominated a fit person to go and make their Compliment of Condolence to the present Elector. The next month the Marquis d' Albeville, acquainted the Prince and Princess of Orange, as also the States, with the News of the Queen of England's being delivered of a Son, at their Royal Palace of St. James', on Sunday the 10th. of June; and soon after the News, by sundry Expresses, was likewise made known to the King's Ministers in all the Courts of Christendom, who, at a vast Expense and Magnificence, proclaimed it, and the Conduits in London were commanded to run with Wine, and a Thanksgiving day was likewise held for the Queen's safe Delivery; Congratulations were made, upon this occasion, by all the Foreign Ministers, and the Infant soon after ordered to be prayed for in the public Prayers of the Church. Some Addresses were likewise presented upon that occasion, and the Romanists flattered themselves with a lasting Tranquillity; and so sure they thought they were of gaining the point, that the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishops of Ely, Peterborough, St. Asaph, Chichester, Bath and Wells, and Bristol (who had been committed by an Order of Council to the Tower, for humbly beseeching his Majesty by Petition to remit his Commands of enjoining his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience to be read in the Churches, in time of Divine Service) were brought to their Trials at the King's-Bench Court Westminster, where, notwithstanding all that was alleged against them, and the pressing Arguments of a Popish Judge, then upon the Bench, their Candour and Innocence so fairly and plainly appeared, that instead of their Adversaries proving that Petition a Libel, it was evidently demonstrated that they had done nothing but their  
The Papists, to leave no stone unturned that they might secure themselves for the future as well as the present▪ used many Arts and Insinuations to sound the Intentions and thoughts of their Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Orange, whereupon Mr. James Stewart took upon him, & that not without the King's knowledge and approbation, as appears by the Letter writ to Minn Heer Fagel, Pentionary of Holland, and West-Friezeland, upon the King's publishing his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, and intention to take away the Test and Penal Laws, which occasioned his Answer, in substance this, though little to the satisfaction of the Roman Catholics, viz.  

That their Highnesses have often declared, as they did more particularly to the Marquis Albeville, 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 established Religion, and therefore they could be content, that even the Papists in England, Scotland, and Ireland, might be suffered to continue in their Religion with as much Liberty as is allowed them by the States of the United Provinces, and as for the Protestant Dissenters, their Highnesses did not only consent, but hearty approved of their having an entire Liberty, for the full Exercise of their Religion, without any trouble or hindrance, etc.  
That their Highnesses were ready, in case his Majesty of England should desire it, to declare their willingness to concur in the settling and confirming this Liberty as far as it lay in them, and were ready, if desired, to concur in the Repealing the Laws, provided always that those Laws remain still in their full vigour, by which the Roman catholics are shut out of both Houses of Parliament, out of all Employments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, as likewise all those other Laws, which confirm the Protestant Religion, and which secure it against all the Attempts of the Roman Catholics.  
But that their Highnesses could not agree to the Repealing of the Test, or those Penal Laws that tend to the security of the Protestant Religion, since the Roman Catholics receive no more prejudice from these than the being excluded from Parliaments, or from public Employments, and that by them the Protestant Religion is covered from all the Designs of the Roman Catholics against it, or against the public safety; and neither the Tests, nor those other Laws, can be said to carry in them any Severity against the Roman Catholics, upon Account of their Consciences; they being only Provisions qualifying Men to be Members of Parliament, or to be capable of bearing Offices, by which they must declare before God and Men, that they are for the Protestant Religion; so that all this amounts to no more than a securing the Protestant Religion, from any prejudice that it may receive from Roman Catholics.  
That their Highnesses have thought, and do still think, that more than this ought not to be asked or expected from them, since by this means the Roman Catholic: and their Posterity would be for ever secured from all troubles, in their Persons or Estates, or in the Exercise of their Religion; and that the Roman Catholics ought to be satisfied with this, and not to disquiet the Kingdom because they cannot be admitted to sit in Parliament, or to be in Employment, or because those Laws in which the security of the Protestant Religion does chief consist are not repealed, by which they may be put in a condition to over-turn it.  
That their Highnesses also believed, that Dissenters would be for ever satisfied when they should be for ever covered from all danger of being disturbed, or punished for the free Exercise of their Religion, upon any sort of pretence what soever.   
These things we find in the Letter of that great Minister of State, as the just Sentiments of their Highnesses, which did not at all please the Court; and perceiving the Wind averse in that quarter, Mr. Stewart in his other Letter tells the Pensioner a while after, That the Court was quite beyond it, and had taken other measures, etc.  
About this time an account being given by the persons who had it in charge, and for that intent made it their Business to visit the most considerable places in England and Wales, how the people stood affected, in relation to the taking off the Penal Laws and Tests, if they should be chosen Members of Parliament or were qualified for choosing. The King being at Windsor the 24th. of August, he declared in Council, That pursuant to his Declaration he resolved to call a Parliament, to meet the 27th. of November following, and ordered the Lord Chancellor to issue out Writs on that behalf the 18th. of September, after the sitting of that Council; and accordingly Writs were prepared, but were stopped and recalled, upon certain notice that his Highness the Prince of Orange was preparing for England, more of which I shall have occasion to mention hereafter.  
About the beginning of September, the Prince went to meet the Elector of Brandenburg, going from Loo on the 5th. for Minden, as also to meet some other Princes and Noblemen of Germany; which so alarmed the French King, that the Count d' Avanx, the French Ambassador presented a Memorial to the Sates-General by the Order of his master, who mistaking the measures the Prince intended at that time to take, complained therein, That the King his Master being informed of the motions and Coferences that were made and held towards the Frontiers of Cologne, against the Cardinal of Fustemburgh, and that Chapter, he was resolved to maintain the Cardinal and the Privileges against all those that should go about to trouble them, etc. No sooner did his Highness return from that Conference to Loo, but Orders were taken to draw the Forces together, in order to the Encampment upon the Mooker Hyde, and the Forces of the other Princes had Orders to be upon their march, as those of Brandenburg, Hesse Cassel, etc. and on the 16th. of September the States assembled at the Hague, where his Highness the Prince of Orange was present, continuing in debating several matters of great weight and consequence, but as to the particulars we are wanting; however it was generally suspected that the King had Intelligence that the great preparatons of Naval and Land Forces were intended for England; when contrary to expectation, His Majesty, in his Declaration bearing Date the 20th. of September, relating to the Regulating Elections, has this Clause, viz We are willing the Roman Catholics shall remain incapable to be Members of the House of Commons, etc. and on the 26th. an Order was published to restore the Deputy-Lieutenants, and such Gentlemen as had been put out of their Offices, and Commissions; and the next public account we had, was the King's Proclamation, bearing Date the 25th. of September, giving a large Account of his Highness' Intentions to pass the Seas, and land in England, and the Marquis d' Albeville presented a Memorial to the Deputies of the States-General upon that Subject, yet the preparations went on, and whilst the Marquis expected an Answer to his Memorial, the Troops embarked, and her Highness, and the Marshal de Scomberg came to the Hague: And so far wrought the News of these preparations, that Magdalen College in Oxford was ordered to be restored and settled; settled; London was likewise restored her ancient Charter; other Corporations were restored to their Charters and Magistrates, and the Church of England had immediately the right hand of Fellowship, which made many wonder to see things so suddenly changed; the suffering Bishops were received into favour, and had leave to make their proposals for the good settlement and constitution of the Government, and the Popish Party that was so lately Paramount, began to droop; so wonderfully wrought the terror of his Highness' Approach.  
On the 15th. of October, the Infant who had before been privately Christened, was publicly named, amidst the Ceremonies and Rites of Baptism, in the Chapel at St. James', by the Name James Francis▪ Edward, the Pope being God▪ father by his Nuncio, and the Queen Dowager God mother, the King and Queen, with many others, assisting. And now great preparations were made to take the Field, and Sutler's encouraged to attend the Army, with more Freedom and Advantage than formerly; for News came on the 23d. of October, that the Troops were all on Shipboard; and that his Highness the Prince of Orange would embark so soon as the Ships in the Texel had joined those that lay in the Maese, and that the States upon the Arrest the French had made of the Dutch Ships in their Ports, had published a Placart, prohibiting the Importation of French Commodities, till they were released; and various reports, going abroad, the King put out a Proclamation, prohibiting the spreading of Rumours and False News.  
On Friday the 26th. Old-style, the Fleet having the Equipage on Board, consisting of Fifty two men of War, and a very numerous attendence of Victuallars, and Vessels for the Transportation of the Land Forces, Sailed between three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon, from the Flats near the Bril, with the Wind at South West and by South; the Prince embarked on a Vessel of between Twenty eight and Thirty Guns; there likewise embarked the Count de Solmes, the Count de Stirum, the Sieur Benting, the Sieur Overkirk, the Marshal de Schomberg, his Son Count Charles, with several others, as well English No●… men as Strangers; and the next day they came in sight of Scheveling, when the Wind came more Westward, but the Wether not being favourable, some ships and small Vessels, on which the Horse were on board, suffered damage, and the Fleet by that means delayed; yet ●gain setting Sail on the 3d. of Novem●●r, between ten and eleven of the Clock 〈◊〉 the morning, about half Seas over; 〈◊〉 Fleet came within sight of Dover, ●●d were passing by, till about five in ●he Afternoon; at what time they were 〈◊〉 past that place, without any inter●●ption from the English Fleet, who lay within sight of them; and Steering a Channel course westward, the Wind at ●●st North-east, a very fresh Gale. 〈◊〉 the 5th. of November, about 300 ●il came into Torbay, in the County of Devon; and several of them directly to ●rixam Key, and landed there Soldiers 〈◊〉 secure the landing of the rest, if any Opposition should be made; so that five or six hundred presently got on Land, ●nd put themselves in a posture of De●ence, whilst the rest were fending on shore, some by Boats, and some by the help of the Tide: And so far were the Country people from being in a consternation, that on such occasions frequently falls out, that they on the contrary not only congratulated his Highness' Arrival, but brought plenty of Provisions and Necessaries for the Soldiers, and such as came on shore; there being only three small Vessels missing of the whole Fleet; whereof two, a Pink, and a Fishing-boat, were taken by the Woolwich, below Hole Haven; there being on board some Horse: The other was a Flyboat, taken by the Swallow Frigate, having on board four Companies of Foot, of Colonel Babington's Regiment, commanmanded by Major Collambine: However the men were kindly used, especially the Soldiers; and these had not been taken, but by their separation from the Fleet. As to the number of Horse and Foot, as also the Fleet, take the following List, as it was said to be Printed in Holland.  

HORSE.  
THe Life Guard.  
Regiment of Guards Commanded by the Sieur Benting. 

Waldeck's Regiment.  
Nassau.  
Mompelian.  
Ginckel.  
Count Vanderlip.    
The Prince's Dragoons.  
Marrewis Dragoons. 

Segravemore.  
Sapbroeck.  
Flodorp.  
Seyde.  
Oye.  
Suylestein.    
Life Guard 197.  
Regiment of Guards of Benting, 480.  
Prince's Dragoons, 860.  
Marrewis Dragoons, 440  
In all 3660.  
Troupers, 1683.   

FOOT.  
Foot Guards, Commanded by Count Solms, 25 Companies, 2000 s.  
Mackey, 12 Companies.  
Balfort, 12 Companies.  
Talmash, 12 Companies.  
A Regiment which was formerly Bellisse, 12 Companies.  
A Regiment which was formerly Wachop's 12 Companies.  
A Regiment which was the late Earl of Ossories, 10 Companies.  
Breckevelt, 10 Companies.  
Holstein, 10 Companies.  
Wirtemberg, 10 Companies.  
Hagendorn, 10 Companies.  
Fagel, 10 Companies.  
Nassau, 10 Companies.  
Carelson, 12 Companies.  
Brander, 10 Companies.  
Prince of Breckvel, 10 Companies.  
In all 164 Companies, at 53 in a Company. 

8692  
2000 Guards.  
10692.     

The FLEET.  
Men of War, 65.  
Fly-Boats, 500  
Pinks, 60.  
Fireships. 10.  
635.   
So by this it appears, that his Highness had effectually 14352. persons under his command, not accounting those that came over Volunteers; and these, past peradventure, rather increased than diminished, during the Fleet, which by this Account consisted of 635. great and small Ships and Vessels, lying in the Roads, for some time after this List was published. But to return again to Torbay.  
His Highness having in good order landed the greatest part of the Horse and Foot, and given Directions for the speedy landing the rest, and the Cannon to be un-shipped, for the more conveniency at Topsham, he marched towards the City of Exeter, with the general Approbation, Shouts, and Applause of the People, who flocked from all parts to welcome him; and divers Gentlemen of those parts came to wait upon him, and tender their service upon his approach, the Bishop retired, and the Gates were closed, by Order of the Mayor, but without baracadoing or fastening, so that being soon opened, an advanced party entered, and was joyfully received by the Inhabitants, a great many of them having before their coming, listed themselves for the service of the Prince; and into this City his Highness entered with great Splendour the Friday after his landing, and took up his Residence in the Bishop's Palace; giving a strict command to all the Officers and and Soldiers, that they should behave themselves orderly and civilly, to all manner of persons, duly and diligently observing to defray their Quarters, and offering no manner of Injury nor Violence, under severe Penalties, and such Regiments as that City could not quarter, were appointed other Stations.  
In this City, in a full Auditory, his Highness' first Declaration was read; showing the Reasons of his coming over, and inducing him to appear in Arms in the Kingdom of England; for the preserving the Protestant Religion, and for the restoring the Laws and Liberties of England, Scotland, and Ireland; setting forth, How they had been manifestly Violated by Evil Counselors, and Ministers of State, to the great Oppression of the people, and endangering the Subversion of the Religion, and Established Government of these Kingdoms, and to bring them under Popery and Slavery: With many other cogent and pressing Reasons, set forth at large in that Declaration; and especially a clause wherein his Highness expresses his doubts, as likewise those of the Nation, concerning the true Birth of the Infant; and this part it was, that caused the King to call the extraordinary Council, that met in the Council Chamber, a White-Hall, on the 22d. of October, where, before a considerable number of Peers, Ministers of State, Officers of the Household, the Judges, the King's Council, the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen of the City, etc. where the Depositions of 41 Persons as to their knowledge in that matter, consisting of both Sexes were given in; and on the 27th. of October they were enroled in the Court of Chancery, together with those of the Earl of Huntingdon, and Earl of Peterborough, who were not present when the Depositions were taken in the Council Chamber, but given in the Chancery Court: All which Proceed are printed at large, and not greatly to our purpose; but to them I therefore refer the more inquisitive Reader.  
The Prince continuing still in the City of Exeter, gave necessary Orders for the Settlement of the Revenue of those Parts, arising by Excise, and other Duties, where the King's Officers were at that time remiss in their Attendence, some of them being Roman Catholics, and fled, he appointed the Lord Wiltshire, Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Row, Commissioners, for the more prudent Management, and sent out Parties to purchase Horses for their Service; His Highness recreating himself at times, by taking a view of the Country, but his Army almost hourly increasing, he commanded detached Parties to advance, and possess themselves of convenient Posts; and in the mean time we had News that the Lord Delamere came to Manchester with a strong Party, and there declared for His Highness the Prince of Orange, and made a Speech to his Tenants, and others, desiring them to meet him the next day at Bodon Downs, the intended Place of Rendezvouz; where accordingly he found a great appearance, who willingly submitted themselves to be disposed under his Command: But the Lord Lovelace being on his way to join with the Prince, with a Party of Horse, was surprised in his Inn at Cirencester by the Militia; and (after a stout resistance, in which the Major that commanded, together with his Son, and some others, were killed,) his Lordship was taken Prisoner, and afterward carried to Gloucester, but was there rescued by a Party of the Prince's Horse.  
The King upon notice that his Highness the Prince of Orange had left Exeter, and was advancing with his own and the additional Forces that were come in, caused the Train of Artillery to be drawn out of the Tower, being before prepared on Carriages fit to March; and passing towards Salisbury, he prepared his Equipage to be at the Head of his Army, which was ordered to draw together about Salisbury, and accordingly setting out from White-Hall with no great Attendence, he arrived there the 19th. of November, about Four in the Evening, and was met by the Duke of Berwick, the Earl of Feversbam, and other Commanders, on Horseback, a Mile from the Gates of the City, where he was attended by the Mayor and Aldermen, in their Formalities, to the Bishop's Palace, appointed for his Lodgings; and there perceiving an almost general falling off of the Nobility and Gentry, as well as the Forces under his Pay, and that divers Lords were up in the North, he issued out a Proclamation, bearing Date the 20th. of November, offering a Pardon to all his Subjects that had taken up Arms under the Prince, if they returned in Twenty Days, and rendered themselves to the Officers Military and Civil, etc.  
Whilst these things happened, a Party of the Prince's Men being abroad, and advancing beyond their Strengths, were pursued and charged by Coll. Sarsfield, with 70 Horse, and 30 Dragoons and Granadiers; and overtaking them at Wincanton, they posted themselves behind the Hedges; upon which the Dragoons and Granadiers were obliged to dismount, and march up to the Hedges, so that they began to Fire very briskly on both sides, and several were killed and wounded; but Colonel Sarsfield getting into the Field with his Horse, and Charging them in the Rear, they were most of them killed and taken Prisoners. Amongst the Slain was one Cambell, a Lieutenant, who commanded them; and on the King's Party four were killed, and Cornet Web mortally wounded.  
This slender Success was clouded, upon Notice that the Earl of Bath had Seized upon Plymouth, and made the Earl of Huntingdon, the Governor thereof, Prisoner; the whole Garrison declaring for His Highness, upon reading his Declarations; the Fleet likewise began to grow cold, and many of the Commanders began to declare for the Prince; so that the King not thinking it convenient to hazard a Battle with an Army he could no ways ensure to his Interest, upon the near Approaches of the Prince's Forces, (with whom were now a great part of the Nobility) he hastily left Salisbury, drawing off those Forces he had there, and remanding the Train of Artillery returned to White-Hall, where he arrived on the 26th. of November, in the Evening, and appointed Colonel Beville Skelton Lieutenant of the Tower, in in the Place of Sir Edward Hales; and according to what had been desired by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in their Petition, gave Order to the Lord Chancellor, for Issuing out Writs for the Summoning a Parliament to sit the 15th. day of the ensuing January, and Commissioners were nominated to treat with the Prince: A Proclamation was likewise published to give timely notice to those that were Electors, or would stand for Candidates: The Bishop of Exeter was likewise nominated Lord Archbishop of the long vacant See of York, and did Homage to the King the day after the Ceremonies of his Translation from the See of Exeter to the Archiepiscopal See of York; which were performed at Lambeth, by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of St. Asaph, Ely, Rochester, and Peterborough.  
Whilst these things were doing, News came that the Lords in the North had seized upon York, and made the Governor Prisoner, declaring for the Prince of Orange, and disarming all Papists of note, their Number and Power daily increasing; so that the Lord Mollenax, who was up with a party for the King in those Parts, found himself in no condition to make any head; but soon after was deserted by most of his Followers; and the strong Garrison of Hull was secured to the Interest of His Highness, by the Deputy Governor, and by the Assistence of the Soldiers of his Party, the Townsmen, and some Seamen that were in the Port; the securing it, according to the Relation, being on this manner.  
On the 3d. of December, about 9 of the Clock, the Guards being set, and the Tat-too over, the Deputy-Governour, as it was his place, was preparing to go the Rounds, but the Lord Langdale, the Governor, told him he had appointed the Lord Montgomery, and Major Fountain, to supply that Duty for the Night; whereupon some Words passing, the Deputy Governor made his Party, and drawing up the Soldiers in Battalia, siezed the Guards, and made the Lord Langdale, the Lord Montgomery, and others, Prisoner's; and at break of day a Party was sent over the Bridge, to seize the Castle, and Blockhouses, with the new Citadel; so that the Inhabitants and Seamen concurring with the Soldiers, that strong Place was entirely secured, and the Mass-House demolished with great joy, and ringing of Bells, and the Prince's Colours were placed upon the high Church; the Papists that had come thither for shelter were turned out, and the Governor dismissed, and guarded a part of the way to his House, to prevent the danger that threatened him from the Mobile, who began to be very insolent. Divers other places declared likewise for the Prince; and the Duke of Beaufort, who had Commanded the County Militia, perceiving he could not in that kind advantage the King's Affairs, which were now grown desperate, betook himself to his Retirement; so that the Militia found themselves disbanded.  
The Noblemen who were sent to treat with his Highness the Prince of Orange, about accommodating the affairs of the Kingdom, not being able to effect in all points what the King desired, the Infant, which had been sent to Portsmouth, either as supposed the securest place, or to pass the Seas, was sent for back in great haste; and the Priests began to shift for themselves, Father Petre was missing, with divers others, who it is supposed, perceiving the desperateness of their condition, made an early escape; and several Councils were held, most of them privately in the King's Closet, to advise what was to he done in the Juncture of affairs; when on the 9th. of December, in the Evening, News came that greatly alarmed the Court, and put it for the most part in a hurry and consternation, viz. That the Prince's Forces had made their way through Reading, and gained the Pass of Twyford-bridge, without any considerable resistance: And thus we find the account of this Action.  
About 1500 Horse, and 3 Troops of Irish Dragoons being quartered, or posted in the Town of Reading, were put into a Consternation upon the Report, that a strong advanced Party of the Prince's Army were on their march to beat up their Quarters; so that after some Consultation of the Officers, it was concluded they should draw off to Twyford-Bridge, and there make good their Post, which accordingly they did; but the Scouts that were sent abroad to discover, coming in, and giving them an account that the Roads were clear, the Commander in chief commanded that Claverhouse Regiment of Scotch Horse, and the Irish Dragoons, should march back, and repossess the Town of Reading, which they did on the Eighth of December at Night, with Orders to be in readiness, and upon their Guards to prevent surprise; so that most of them kept on Horseback, some in the Marketplace, and others at the Posts assigned them; but there being yet no news of the advanced Party, they were commanded by their Officers to alight, and refresh themselves and their Horses; when at ten of the Clock in the Morning, the Trumpet sounded to Horse, the Prince's Forces being at the Town's end, almost before they were discovered, whereupon a sharp dispute ensued, with brisk Firing on both Parties; the Irish Dragoons bearing the brunt of the Encounter, though the Scotch Horse in small detatched Bodies made some Firings; but they were overpowered, driven out of the Town, and obliged to retreat to Twyford-Bridge; and in conclusion, many of the King's Party Deserted, and the rest were constrained to quit the Pass, and make the best of their Retreat. In this Skirmish we cannot learn that above Thirty were killed, and several wounded. But now the King having no considerable Forces, especially none capable of making Head against a prevailing Army; the Queen, who had been at Wind for the day before, to fetch the Infant, taking her solemn leave of the King, crossed the Thames on the Tenth of December, about Three in the Morning, where her Coaches waited for her; and so with the Child, and a slender Attendence, made for Dover, or some Port near it, and there took Shipping for France, where she soon after landed, and had a place of Residence appointed her by the French King.  
The Queen having left White-Hall, as also a great many of the Courtiers, the King the same Evening called an extraordinary Council; and sent for the Lord Mayor of London, and the Sheriffs; who waiting upon His Majesty, were, amongst other things, charged to have a Care of the City, and keep it in Peace and Quietness, as much as in them lay, and then were dismissed: However, the Council held a long Debate, and a meeting was appointed the, the next Morning; but, contrary to the Expectation of almost the whole Kingdom, the King, about Three a Clock in the Night, took Barge at the Privy Stairs, with a small Equipage; and went down the River on his Departure, without giving notice to any of the Officers of his Household, who were then in  
The King's Departure, was no sooner spread abroad, but the Lords Spiritual and Temporal that were about Town assembled; and finding White-Hall full of Consternation, after some Debates, they gave order for the dismissing Popish Officers and Soldiers; and giving Directions for the keeping of that Palace from Pillage or Spoil, which in that Confusion might have happened, they adjourned immediately to the Guild Hall of the City of London, where, by their Order, the Lord Mayor had summoned the Court of Aldermen, and thither they sent for Colonel Bevil Skelton, Lieutenant of the Tower; and ordered him, to resign up that important Citadel to the Lord Lucas, in trust of the City, till other Measures could be taken; and proceeded to approve and sign the following Declaration, viz.  
We doubt not, but the World believes, that in this great and dangerous Conjuncture We are Hearty 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 out 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 the Kingdom, by the pernicious Counsels of Person, illaffected to our Nation, and Religion, We cannot, without being wanting to our Duty, be silent under the Calamities wherein the Popish Counsels, which so long prevailed, have miserably involved us: We do therefore unanimously resolve to apply ourselves to his Highness the Prince of Orange, who with so great Kindness to these Kingdoms, so Vast Expense and so much hazard to his own Person, hath undertaken (by endeavouring to procure a Free Parliament) to rescue us, with as little Effusion of Christian Blood as possible, from 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 our Prosperities 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 encouraged; to the Glory of God, the Happiness of the Established Government, in these Kingdoms, and the advantage of all Princes, and State, 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 the promoting His Highness' Generous Intentions for the public Good, we shall he ready to do it as Occasion shall require.  
This was signed by the two Arch-Bishops, five Bishops, and Twenty two Noblemen; and it was there concluded, that the Earl of Pembroke, the Lord Viscount Weymouth, the Lord Bishop of Ely, and the Lord Culpepper, should forthwith attend his Highness the Prince of Orange, with the said Declaration; and at the same time acquaint him with what was farther done at that Meeting.  
The Lords having left the Guild Hall, the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and the Common Council assembled, and amongst other Matters it was agreed by Vote, that an Humble Address should in their Names, and on the behalf of the City, be presented to His Highness the Prince of Orange, In haec verba.  
May it please your Highness,  
WE taking into Consideration Your Highness' fervent Zeal for the Protestant Religion, manifested to the World in your many and hazardous Enterprises; which it hath pleased Almighty God to bless you with miraculous success, we render our deepest thanks to the Divine Majesty for the same, and beg leave to present our humble thanks to your Highness particularly, for your appearing in Arms in this Kingdom; to carry on, and perfect your glorious Design, to rescue England, Scotland, and Ireland, from Popery and Slavery; and in a Free Parliament to establish the Religion, the Laws, and Liberties of these Kingdoms upon a sure and lasting Foundation.  
We have hitherto looked for some Remedy for those Oppressions and imminent Dangers we, together with our Protestant Fellow Subjects, labour under, from His Majesty's Concessions and Concurrences with your Highness' just and pious purposes, expressed in your Gracious Declaration;  
But herein finding ourselves finally disappointed by His Majesty's withdrawing himself, we presume to make your Highness our Refuge, and do in the Name of the Capital City, implore your Highness' Protection; and most humbly beseech your Highness to vouchsafe to repair to this City, where your Highness will be received with universal Joy and Satisfaction.  
This Address being highly approved by all present, Four aldermans, and Eight Commoners were appointed to wait upon his Highness, and present him with the said Address; and accordingly it was presented, and very favourably received.  
And the Lieutenancy of the City of London, being the same day assembled, drew up an Address to be presented to his Highness, on the behalf of themselves, the Militia, etc. which being to the same Effect with the former, we think it needless to insert.  
This Address was delivered by four of the Members of the Lieutenancy, and very kindly received by his Highness. By this time the Earl of Feversham, then commanding the King's Forces, having received His Majesty's Letter, by which he understood he had withdrawn himself; and wherein he received such Orders as the King thought necessary to leave, he sent to acquaint his His Highness the Prince of Orange with what had happened in the following Letter  
SIR,  
HAving received this Morning a Letter from His Majesty, with the unfortunate News of his Resolution to go out of England, and that he is actually gone, I thought myself obliged, being at the Head of his Army, having received his Majesty's Orders to make no opposition against any Body, to let your Highness know (with the Advice of the Officers here) so soon as it was possible, to hinder the Misfortune of Effusion of Blood: I have ordered already, to that purpose, all the Troops that are under my Command, which shall be the last Order they shall receive from me, etc.  
This Order caused the Troops to fall off and disband, as well because they knew themselves without a Head, as not knowing how to come by their Pay, if they continued in the Service; and indeed many of the Foot Soldiers were driven to great extremity; being by this Disbanding destitute of Moneys, Lodging, and other neccessaries, and had for a while nothing to subsist, but the Charity of the People: And although the Irish Battalion seemed for a time obstinate to continue in Arms, yet the Commands they received from His Highness the Prince of Orange, and the necessity that they felt, constrained them to submit.  
This Dispersing of the Solders, made his Highness publish a Declaration, requiring all Commanders in chief, by Beat of Drum, or otherwise, to call together the several Officers and Soldiers, belonging to their respective Regiments, Troops, and Companies, in such places as they should find most convenient for their Rendezvouz; and there to keep them in good Order and Discipline. And likewise directing and requiring all such Officers, and Soldiers, forthwith to repair to such places as shall be appointed for that purpose by the respective Colonels, or Commanders in chief.  
Whilst these things passed in the Army, the multitude got together in divers places, spoiling and demolishing the Popish Mass-Houses, and Chapels; much defacing the Dwelling Houses of several Eminent Papists, who were fled for fear of being secured; and though the Magistrates laboured to quiet the Tumults and Disorders of this kind, yet they found their Authority too feeble, till the Mobile had spent their rage in London, etc. They pulled down the Convent of Monks in St. John's, which had been two Years Building at a vast Expense, and Burnt the greatest part of the Timber and Materials in Smithfield; having before siezed some of the Goods, as they were removing them, and burned them in Holborn: They likewise defaced and demolished the Chapels in Lime-strect and Lincolns-Inn Fields, with that of the Spanish Ambassadours at Wild-house, where violently breaking into his Excellency's Lodgings, they got great store of Plunder, in Plate, Money, and ri●… Goods, etc. And in like manner they served the Lodgings of the Resident of Florence, in St. James' Hay-Market; and offered divers Affronts and Abuses to other Houses, gathering in such Numbers from all parts, that it is almost incredible; insomuch, that neither the Watches, nor Trained-Bands, thought it safe to oppose the Torrent; but the next day it was pretty, well allayed and then search was made in divers places for such as were fled from Justice; and amongst others, to the no small wonder of the People, the Lord Chancellor Jeffries was taken, at a blind House in Hope and Anchor Alley in Wapping, disguised like a Sailer, and endeavouring to make his escape in a Vessel that lay by the Key for Hamborough; and being brought before the Lord Mayor, who by reason of an Indisposition that then siezed him, not being capable of examining the Matter, he was contented to go the Tower to preserve himself from the rage of the Rabble, that loudly threatened him with Destruction; and being guarded thither with a Detachment of the Trained-Bands was received by the Lieutenant of the Tower; to whom, upon Notice, the Lords at White-Hall sent a Warrant of Commitment, to keep the Body of George Lord Jefferies, Baron of Wem, in safe Custody, etc.  
On the 4th. of December, His Highness the Prince of Orange came to Windsor about Three in the Afternoon, and was received with most profound respect and submission by the Mayor and Aldermen in their Formalities, the Steward of that Corporation Congratulating his Arrival in a most Elegant Speech; and afterwards he went to the Prince of Denmark's Lodgings, prepared for his Reception: And whilst His Highness was preparing for London, News came that the King attempting to pass the Seas at Feversham in disguise, was stayed by some of the Townsmen who were searching for such as were endeavouring the like, who being ignorant that it was his Majesty, carried him in a rude manner to a house in the Town; taking from him some Jewels, considerable quantity of Gold, and his Crucifix of a great Value: Not did those rude People desist from their Incivilities, till a Gentleman coming to see the Prisoners they had taken, and knowing the King, fell on his Knees to pay him duty; whereat the multitude being strangely surprised, a great part of them retired, and others begged his Majesty's Pardon, offering to restore what they had taken from him; but he would not receive his Gold again, but gave it them in Generosity, as a free Gift.  
The Lords at White-Hall hearing of his Majesty's being at Feversham, sent to wait upon him, and pray him to return to his Palace Royal; to which he seemed not at first inclinable; though being pressed to a Return, he at last consented. But His Highness the Prince of Orange having fully determined to come to London with all speed, he thought it in many respects improper for the King and himself to be there at one and the same time in the present State of Affairs; upon notice his Majesty was returning, he sent Monsieur Zulestein to meet him on the way, and entreat him to return to Rochester; but Monsieur Zulestein missing him by taking another Road than that by which he came, the King arrived at Whitehall the 16th. of December in the Evening, attended by divers Noblemen, and a Guard of Horse; and from thence he sent the Lord Feversham to invite his Highness to come to St. James', and take that Palace as his Place of Residence, with what number of Troops he thought convenient.  
The Prince deliberating upon this, with the Lords at Windsor, the day before he had appointed to be in Town; and having communicated to them the Message, and left them to debate the matter; it was agreed that it was in no kind advisable, for the Prince to accept the Invitation; and there being on the other side a necessity the Prince should be in Town, the next day the Lords thought the shortness of time could admit no better Expedient, than that the King might be desired to remove to some Place within a reasonable distance from London; upon which Ham, a House belonging to the Duchess of Landerdale, was concluded on; and in order to this, a Paper was drawn, and Signed by the Prince, viz.  
WE desire you the Lord Marquis of Hallifax, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Lord Delamere, to tell the King that it is thought convenient, for the greater safety of his Person, that he do remove move to Ham, where he shall be attended by Guards, who will be ready to preserve him from any disturbance.  
Given at Windsor the 17th. of December, 1688.  
This Paper being Signed by the Prince, the three Lords mentioned therein, were appointed to carry it; and it was resolved before the delivery, that his Highness' Guards should be possessed of all the Posts at White-Hall, to prevent the possibility of a disturbance from Guards belonging to several Masters; which, besides other ill consequence, might peradventure have involved even the King's own person in the danger that might have happened from any dispute; it was by computation supposed, that the Prince's Guards might have reached them by Eight at Night; but it so fell out, by reason of the dirtiness of the ways, etc. that it was passed ten, before they were come, and in drawing the King's Guards from White-Hall, so much time was spent, that before the Lords could proceed in their Message, it was passed twelve; in which, that they might, preserve all possible Decency and Respect, and not suddenly break in upon the King, with a Message of this kind; they sent to the Lord Middleton, his principal Secretary of State, the following Letter.  
My Lord,  
THere is a Message to be delivered to His Majesty from the Prince, which is of so great Importance, that we, who are charged with it, desire we may be immediately admitted; and therefore desire to know where we may find your Lordship, that you may introduce,  
My Lord, your Lordship's most Humble Servants, etc.  
This Letter was signed by three Lords, and the Lord Middleton sent back word by the Messenger, he would be ready at the Stairs of the Guard-Chamber, to carry the Lords to the King, where accordingly they found his Lordship, and he brought them to the King, whom they found in Bed; and after having made an Apology for coming at a time that might disturb him, the Prince's Message, before mentioned, was delivered to him, which after he had read, he said he would comply with it; the Lords, as they were directed, humbly desired, that if it might be done with conveniency to His Majesty, that he would be pleased to remove so early, as to be at Ham by Noon, to prevent by that means, his meeting the Prince, in his way to London: To this the King readily agreed, and afterwards asked if he might not appoint what Servants should attend him, to which the Lords replied, it was left to His Majesty to give Order in that as he pleased. And after the Lords had taken their leave, and were gone as far as the Privy Chamber, the King sent for them again, and told them that he had forgot to acquaint them with his Resolution before the Message came, to send the Lord Godolphin the next Morning to the Prince, to propose his going back to Rochester, he finding, by the Message, Monsieur Zulestein was charged with, that the Prince had no mind he should be at London; and therefore he now desired that he might rather return to Rochester: the Lords replied, that they would immediately send an account to the Prince; of what His Majesty desired, and did not doubt of such an Answer as would be to his satisfaction; and accordingly they immediately dispatched back again a Messenger, who finding the Prince at Zion, gave him an account of all that had passed, and before Eight of the Clock in the morning, had a Letter from the Sieur Benting, by the Prince's Order, agreeing to the King's Proposal of going to Rochester; and accordingly the Guards and Barges being made ready to attend him, his Coach and Sumpters appointed likewise to follow him, he reached Gravesend on the 18th. in the Evening, and passed over Land in his Coach, attended by several others, where His Majesty was pleased to choose the House of Sir Richard Head, for the place of his Residence at that time.  
One thing there was remarkable between the King's first withdrawing himself and his return, which considering people are apt to conclude might be designed for a general Notice for the Papists to have risen in Arms, and fell upon the Protestants in their Houses, had not his Highness' Prudent Conduct broken their Measures, and rendered their Purpose insignificant, and that was a general Alarm, given in the dead of the Night, at almost one and the same time, in the most considerable Cities and Towns in England, upon pretence the Irish were killing, burning, and destroying all before them, which appeared to be carried on industriously, by persons set on purpose to spread that false Alarm, or it could not other ways have been done in so many distant places at once, which put people into a great Hurry and Consternation, till day appeared, and convinced them of the Fallacy; so that whatever was intended, God prevented its taking effect. And now the satisfaction of the longing People drew near, for on the day the King left White-Hall, His Highness the Prince of Orange, with a very splendid Equipage, entered the Town, about three in the Afternoon, and came to he Palace of St. James', where he received the Compliments of all the Nobility, and other persons of the chiefest Quality in Town; and at Night the Streets were enlightened with Bonfires, the Bells every where ringing, and all places filled with a large demonstration of unfeigned Joy, so that the Face of things were visibly changed; insomuch, that even the Rabble, that a little before ●ould know no Order, were now calm, ●nd in a thorough quiet.  
Upon the Arrival of His Highness, the Common Council of the City of London assembled, and unanimously agreed and ordered, That all the Aldermen of that City, and their Deputies, with two Common Council Men for each Ward, should wait upon, and congratulate His Highness, upon his happy Arrival at such a time and place as his Highness should appoint; and that the two Sheriffs, and Mr. Common Sergeant should wait upon him to know his pleasure when he would be attended by that Committee; and accordingly the next day they attended His Highness at St. James'; and on the 20th. the Lord Mayor being indisposed, the Aldermen and their respective Deputies, with some of the Common Council-men of each Ward, waited on the Prince to congratulate him on his happy Arrival; which was performed by Sir George Treby, in a Florid Speech.  
The High Sheriff, Nobility, and Gentry of the County of Cambridge, about this time drew up and signed an Address to his Highness; wherein they not only beg his Protection, and implore his aid to restore these Kingdoms from Popery and Slavery; but also assure his Highness, that they will contribute their utmost endeavours in perfecting so Glorious a Work, and return his Highness their unfeigned thanks for the Progress he has made already, with great Cost, Labour, and Hazard, both by Sea and Land, etc. which was presented to his Highness, and received with particular marks of his Favour. And now the King's Forces that were disbanded, not having any certain Stations, or places of gathering, Quarters were appointed the respective Troops and Regiments, whither the Officers and Soldiers, were commanded forthwith to repair; and seeing many had embezzled their Arms, and Order was put forth, signed by his Highness, commanding those that had them in custody, to redeliver them to the Soldiers, the Officers of the Ordinance, or common Stores of the Tower, etc.  
Whilst these things happened, the King, after several days continuance at Rochester, withdrew himself, with a slender Train, about twelve of the Clock in the Night, on the 22d. of December; making a back way with great secrecy and caution to the Seaport; where he embarked, and was afterward known to be landed in France, and favourably received by the French King; having left a Paper behind him, given out to contain his Reasons, for withdrawing himself. And Portsmouth that held out with some Obstinacy, under the Duke of Barwick, and Sir Edward Scot Deputy Governor, submitted and received a Garrison sent thither by the Prince's Order.  
On the Twenty Fifth of December, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, assembled at the House of Lords at Westminster, humbly proposed and requested of his Highness, To take upon him the Administration of public Affairs, both Civil and Military, and the Disposal of the Public Revenue, for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion, Rights, Laws, Liberties and Properties, and of the Peace of the Nation; and that he would take into his particular Care the present Condition of Ireland, and endeavour by the most speedy and effectual means to prevent the danger threatening that Kingdom; all which they requested his Highness to undertake, and exercise, till the meeting of the intended Convention, 22d. of January, etc.  
At the same time this great and honourable Assembly made their request to his Highness, desiring him that he would cause his Letters to be Written, subscribed by himself, to be sent to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Protestants, and for Election to the several Counties, Universities, Cities, Boroughs, and Cinque Ports of England, Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, for Electing Persons fitly qualified; so that being duly chosen for Knights of the Shire, and Burgesses, they might meet, and sit at Westminster, the Twenty Second of January ensuing. And these were signed by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal then assembled.  
On the 26th divers of the Members of Parliament in the Reign of the late King Charles II. and the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London, pursuant to his Highness the Prince of Orange's Desire, met at St. James' to whom his Highness made a gracious Speech, in the following words.  
YOU Gentlemen that have been Members of the late Parliaments, I have desired you to meet me here to advise the best manner how to pursue the Ends of my Declaration, in calling a free Parliament, for the preservation of the Protestant Religion, the restoring of the Rights and Liberties of the Kingdom, and settling the same, that they may not be in danger of being again subverted.  
And you the Aldermen, and Members, the Common Council of the City of London, I desire the same of you; and in regard your numbers are like to be great, you may, if you think fit, divided yourselves, and sit in several places.  
Upon which, they immediately agreed to go to the Commons House at Westminster, where being sat, they chose Henry paul Esq their Chairman, and upon Debate they resolved upon Heads for an Address to be made to his Highness, and appointed Persons to draw up and prepare the same; and in the Afternoon it was done accordingly, read, and approved; and his Highness having appointed to receive it the next day, he was attended by them, and the Address read by Mr. paul, much to the same effect, as what had been before proposed by the Lord, viz.  
Returning his Highness their hearty and unfeigned Thanks, and expressing their extraordinary acknowledgement of the care he had taken of the Religion, Laws, and Liberty of the Kingdom, etc. entreating him to take upon him the Administration of Government, and use to that end the public Revenues; to take speedy Care of the Stats of Ireland, and issue out his Circular Letters for the calling a Convention to sit at Westminster, on the 22d. of January, etc. Whereupon his Highness was pleased to declare to this effect, That (being a matter of weight) he would consider of it, and give them an answer the next day.  
On the 28th. of December in the Morning the Lords attended his Highness at St. James', who gave them this answer:  
My Lords,  
I Have considered of your Advice, and as far as I am able I will endeavour to secure the Peace of the Nation until the meeting of the Convention in January next; for the Election whereof I will forthwith issue out Letters, according to your Desire; I will also take care to apply the public Revenues to the most proper uses that the present Affairs do require; and likewise endeavour to put Ireland into such a Condition that the Protestant Religion, and the English Interest may be maintained in that Kingdom: And I farther assure you; that as I came hither for the preservation of the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of these Kingdoms, so I shall always be ready to expose myself in any hazard for the defence of the same.  
The Lords having made their Thankful acknowledgement for this Speech so suitable to their Desires, the Gentlemen who had served as Members of Parliament during the Reign of King Charles II. together with the Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London, waited upon him in the Afternoon, to whom his Highness was pleased to give the same answer.  
Nor was there only a Pleasure conceived in England, for His Highness' Success, and prosperous Proceed; but on the first of January, (New-Style) all the Persons of Quality that were at the Hague appeared at Court, to compliment her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange, and in the Evening their Electoral Highnesses of Brandenburg arrived there, and were conducted to the old Palace, which was prepared for them, whither her Royal Highness went to visit the Electoress, and splendid Entertainments were made upon the occasion.  
On the 30th. of December His Highness was pleased to issue out his Declaration for authorising Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and other Officers and Ministers, to Act in their respective Places, that were in Office the first of December, Papists excepted, with a Charge to be careful and diligent in their Places and Trusts, for preserving the Peace and Quiet of the Kingdom, and relieving the Poor, etc.  
And now the Country People and others scouting abroad, had gleaned a great number of Persons, whose desire of Safety had caused their withdrawing, amongst whom was the Earls of Salisbury and Peterborough, Lord Chancellor, Sir Edward Hales, Sir Thomas Jenner, Charles Hales, Dr. Obadiah Walker, Richard Graham, Philip Burton, and many others, as also nine Jesuits, viz. John Leybourn, Charles Poulton, Ralph Clayton, Joseph Gifford, Robert Jenison, William Locker, Francis Calamy, and Thomas Kingsley, with many more, who are in safe Custody; and his Highness having issued out his Circular Letters for choosing Members to be present at the Convention the Elections were carried on in most Places, as it were, with one consent, without any appearance of those Strive and Heats that have too often attended former Elections; and that there might no disturbance or hindrance happen upon the occasion of the Soldiers quartering in Cities and Boroughs, they were ordered to draw off, except Garrisons, to other Quarters, till the Elections were over; which was punctually observed, with an exact and ready Obedience; and soon after his Highness put forth a Declaration for the better quartering of the Forces.  
This Declaration, though the people seemed not where unwilling to quarter the Soldiers, according to their ability, highly satisfied them in the Prince's Justice, and good Intentions; so that the Association for the preservation of his Person has been promoted, in the Signing, through all the Countries of England, with much freeness and alacrity; a Copy of which, as it was drawn up, and signed at St. James', by the Lords and Gentlemen, take in the following Words.  
WE whose Names are hereunto subscribed, who have jointed 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 defence of it, and never to departed from it till our Religion, our Laws and 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 engaged in this common Cause under the Protection of the Prince of Orange, by which means his person may be exposed to dangers, and to the desperate and cursed Attempts of the Papists and other bloody Men; we do therefore solemnly engage both to God, and to one another, That if any such Attempts are made upon him, we will pursue not only those that make them, but all their Adherents, and all that we find in Arms against us, with the utmost severities of a just Revenge, to their Ruin and final Destruction: And that the Execution of any such Attempts (which God of his Mercy forbidden) shall not divert us from prosecuting this Cause which we do now undertake, but that it shall engage us to sarry it on with all the vigour that so barbarous a Practice shall deserve.  
His Highness having, as is before mentioned, been pleased to take upon him the Administration of the Civil and Military Power, and by reason of the sudden change and alteration of Affairs the the public Revenues had been put out of Order, as to the method of Collecting, and placing and dis-placing the Collectors, he issued out a Declaration, commanding all Collectors, Receivers, and Officers, not being Papists, authorized and employed by the proper Commissioners of the Customs, Excise, Hearth-money, or any other Branch of the Revenue, to proceed in the Managing, Receiving and Levying the said Revenue, as formerly; and that all Magistrates and Officers should be assisting to them in their respective Stations, the better to enable them to make their due Collections and Receipts. And moreover, his Highness taking into his charitable Consideration the necessitous Condition of the poor people, as well Handicrafts as others, destitute of employment, out of a sense of their wants, caused a considerable Sum of Money to be distributed amongst those of the Out-Parishes of the Cities of London and Westminster. But now the Papists, notwithstanding a former Declaration, commanding them, not being Housekeepers,, Merchants, or Servants to the Queen Dowager, etc. to departed the Cities of London and Westminster, continuing in contempt of that Declaration, and appearing in great numbers, his Highness was pleased by another Declaration, dated the 14th. of January, to command them within three days to departed the said Cities, and ten mile's compass, or otherwise to be taken, proceeded against, and expect the utmost severity that the Law for their Offences can inflict upon them; commanding all Magistrates to make diligent search, and apprehend and imprison such as should be found in Contempt of the said Declarations, etc.  
The Fame of his Highness' Success being sufficiently known in the United Provinces, three Deputies were sent to congratulate his Success, who landing at the Tower were received with the Discharge of the Cannon, and other signal Respects, as became their Character; from whence they passed to the Lodgings appointed for them, in the Coaches sent to wait upon them, with a splendid Equipage.  
His Highness had no sooner signified to the City of London that the public Treasure was in a manner exhausted, and not sufficient to defray the necessary Expenses of the Nation, but a Committee was ordered to attend him to know the Sum that might supply that defect, and 100000 l. being named and proffered to be secured, and repaid, with Interest, in six Months, a great many eminent and generous Citizens immediately came to the Guild-Hall of London, and offered their Subscriptions, which were there accordingly taken, almost to admiration; for in a short time, about 300000 l. was subscribed, and directions being given for the Receivers to attend, it was brought in with such Expedition, that they were forced to increase their number.  
These being the most weighty Affairs transacted in England, let us a while look into those of Scotland, our Sister Kingdom, where we find that upon his Highness' Arrival in these Parts, the terror wrought so effectually with the Popish Ministers of State, and others, that found themselves launched beyond the Laws of that Kingdom, and Constitution of Government, that they thought of nothing more than shifting for themselves, some of which had the luck to escape, and others were seized; the multitude was up in divers places, demolishing the Mass-Houses, and not only contented with that, but committed sundry Disorders, and in the Encounters and Scuffles that were thereby occasioned, even in the City of Edinburgh, several were killed and wounded, which made the Noblemen and Gentlemen attend him, to lay before his Highness the willingness of the people of Scotland, to submit to his Protection, etc. and upon notice of their Intentions, his Highness the Prince of Orange, having caused to advertise such of the Scotch Lords and Gentlemen, as were in Town, to attend in a Room at St. James', on the 7th. of January, about three in the Afternoon, his Highness met them. there, and made to them the following Speech.  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
THE only Reason that enduced me to undergo so great an Undertaking was, that I saw the Laws and Liberties of these Kingdoms overturned, and the Protestant Religion in imminent Danger, and seeing you are so many Noblemen and Gentlemen, I have called you together, that I may have your Advice what is to be done for the securing the Protestant Religion, and restoring your Laws and Liberties, according to my Declaration.  
As soon as his Highness had retired, the Lords and Gentlemen went to the Council-Chamber at White-Hall, and there having chosen the Duke of Hamilton their Precedent, debated what Advice was sit to be given his Highness in that juncture, but came to no Conclusion, farther than to give the Clerks that attended Instructions to draw up in Writing what they then thought most expedient.  
On Tuesday the 8th. of January the Honourable Assembly met again, and the Writing was presented; upon which they debated the most expedient way for Convening the general meeting of the Estates of Scotland, and at last agreed in their Opinion, ordering the Writing to be fair drawn over with the Amendments.  
On Wednesday, the 9th. of January, they met at Three of the Clock, and the Address was prepared, giving his Highness' Thanks for his Pious and Generous Undertaking, for preserving the Protestant Religion, and restoring the Laws and Liberties of these Kingdoms; desiring him to take upon him the Administration of the Affairs, Civil and Militatary, and dispose of the public Revenues, and Fortresses of the Kingdom of Scotland, until the general Meeting of the States of the Nation, which they humbly prayed his Highness to call, to be holden at Edinburgh, the 14th. of March next, and to issue out his Letters for the calling them, being Protestants.  
These being the Heads and Substance of this Address, it was subscribed by 30 Lords, and about 80 Gentlemen, and was presented to his Highness in their presence, by the Duke of Hamilton at St. James', who thanked them for the Trust they reposed in him, and desired a time to consider upon so wheighty an Affair: When the next day his Highness again met the Scotch Lords and Gentlemen at St. James', and made them the following Speech.  
My Lords and Gentlemen,  
IN pursuance of your Advice, I will, until the Meeting of the Estates in March next, give such Orders concerning the Affairs of Scotland, as are necessary for the Calling the said Meeting, for the preservation of the Peace, the applying of the public Revenue to the most pressing uses, and putting the Fortresses into the Hands of Persons in whom the Nation can have a just Confidence; and I do farther assure you, that you will always find me ready to concur with you in every thing, that may be found necessary for the securing the Protestant Religion, and restoring the Laws and Liberties of the Nation.  
By this time the Earl of Crauford, the Earl of Louthian, and others, being come to Town, the former of these Earls desired his Highness that they might subscribe the Address, which was accordingly granted, his Highness leaving signal marks of a high satisfaction in the Countenances of the noble Assembly, which demonstrated how much they were pleased with his Answer; nor no sooner did the News arrive at Edinburgh, but it was received with the ringing of Bells, loud Shouts, and Acclamations of Joy, and in the same manner swiftly overspread that Kingdom.  
The English Soldiers many of them having been imposed upon by ill affected Persons to doubt their Pay, etc. his Highness was pleased to put forth a public Assurance, that he had taken care for the satisfying and making good to every Officer, and Soldier, their full Pay and Arrears, due to them until the first day of January, 1688. and for the making constant and punctual payment of Subsistence Money, and clearing of the Army in the usual method, without any the least diminution of their former Pay, ordering all Officers to repair to their respective Commands, and Soldiers to their Quarters and Rendezvouz, under such penalties as a refusal may incur; and that nothing might be wanting on his part, His Highness in another Paper gave the like notice and assurance to the Seamen belonging to the English Fleet, under the Command of the Lord Dartmouth. And now the Royal African Company entreated his Highness to do them the Honour of taking upon him to be their Governor for the ensuing year, and made him a Present of 1000 l. in their Stock, worth 2000 l. which he very favourably accepted.  
Now the great Convention, on which the Eyes of all Europe are fixed, drawing near, the Members who were chosen and returned came to Town, the Houses were prepared for the Reception of the august Assembly, and on the 21th. of January the High-Sheriff, with all the considerable Gentlemen of Estate in the County of Cambridge, having unanimously entered into an Association, whereby they solemnly engage themselves to stand by His Highness the Prince of Orange, with their Lives and Fortunes, in his glorious Design of Redeeming these Kingdoms from Popery and Slavery, Mr. Cotton of Madingly was to wait upon His Highness, and presented it in the Name of the County, to which His Highness was pleased to return a very gracious Answer.  
On the 22th. of January, according to the grand Appointment, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, the Lord Marquis of Halifax officiated the Place of Speaker, in the House of Lords, and the Commons chose Henry paul Esq to be their Speaker, who accordingly took his place: After which a Letter from his Highness' the Prince of Orange was read in both Houses on the Occasion of their Meeting, viz.  
My Lords,  
I Have endeavoured to the utmost of my power to perform what was desired from me, in order to the public Peace, and safety, and I do not know that any thing hath been omitted which might tend to the preservation of them, since the Administration of Affairs was put into my hands; it now lieth upon you to lay the Foundation of a firm security for your Religion, your Laws, and Liberties.  
I do not doubt but that by such a full and free Representative of the Nation as is now met, the Ends of my Declaration will be attained; and since it hath pleased God hitherto to bless my good Intentions with so great success, I trust in him that he will complete his own Work, by sending a Spirit of Peace and Union to influence your Counsels, that no interruption may be given to a happy and lasting settlement.  
The dangerous condition of the Protestant Interest in Ireland, requiring a large and speedy succour, and the present state of things abroad, oblige me to tell you, That next to the danger of unseasonable Division amongst yourselves, nothing can be so fatal as too great delay in your Consultations; the States, by whom I have been enabled to rescue this Nation, may suddenly feel the in Effects of it, both by being too long deprived of the Service of their Troops, which are now here, and of your early assistence against a powerful Enemy, who hath declared War against them; and as England is by Treaty already engaged to help them, upon any such Exigencies, so I am confident that their cheerful Concurrence to preserve this Kingdom with so much hazard to themselves, will meet with all the Returns of Friendship and Assistence which may be expected from you, as Protestants and English men, when ever their Condition shall require it.  
This Letter being read, and unanimously approved and applauded, with the highest satisfaction, the Lords and Commons resolved upon an Address, to be presented to his Highness, of Thanks for what he had done, and humbly to desire him to continue the Administration of public Affairs, till farther application should be made by them to his Highness, Which Address being presented to his Highness on Wednesday the 22th. of January, he was pleased to return them this Answer, viz.  
Die Mercurii 23. Januarii, 1688/9. My Lords and Gentlemen,  
I Am glad that what I have done hath pleased you, and since you desire me to continue the Administration of Affairs, I am willing to accept it; I must recommend to you the consideration of Affairs abroad, which maketh it fit for you to expedite your Business, not only for making a Settlement at home upon a good Foundation, but for the safety of all Europe.  
After this an Order was passed on the same day, That no Papist, or reputed Papist, should presume to come into the Lobby, Painted Chamber, Court of Requests, or Westminster- Hall, during the sitting of the Convention.  
Then the Speaker of the honourable House of Commons put the House in mind of the present Affairs of the Kingdom, recommending the speedy care of providing for its safety to the respective Representatives, declaring The danger it was lately in, and putting them in mind of the desperate State of Ireland; He farther minded them of the growth of France, and concluded in recommending these things to their prudent Care and Conduct, etc.  
After these and other weighty considerations, an Order was made by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, for a public Thanksgiving, for our great and miraculous deliverance from the imminent Danger that so lately hung over our Heads.  
Thursday the 31st. of January instant, being appointed for the City of London, and Ten Miles distance, and Thursday the 14th. day of February following for the rest of the Kingdom.  
Thus all things concurring towards a happy Settlement, and Uniting of Protestants, etc. in England and Scotland, let us look a little into the Affairs of Ireland, which as yet has not the like prospect, as being very much inhabited by Native Irish Papists, devoted Enemies to the Protestant Religion. The Earl of Tyrconnel, whom the King had made his Lieutenant, or Deputy of that Kingdom, taking the advantage of the hurry and disorder the Affairs of England had put the People into, magnified their Fears, and used his endeavours to gain them to a Revolt, but finding the Protestants in no wise forward to join or take part with him, he instantly sent his Letters through all the Provinces and Countries, to cause the Gentry and Peasants to take up Arms on the behalf of the King, and the defence of their Religion, declaring, if the King himself should in that juncture desire it, he would not deliver up his Sword; so that leaving no endeavours to strengthen himself untried, he in a short time drew together a formidable Army, and secured divers Places of strength, fortifying the Houses and Castles of several Noblemen; whereupon, it was thought fit to send to him, and know his Intentions; but no farther satisfaction, at that time, could be gained, than that he was resolved to stand for the King's Interest, and expect his Commands, etc. and accordingly upon notice that he, upon his a second time withdrawing himself, was in France, the Report went currant, that he sent thither to know his Pleasure; in the mean while, though he offered no open Hostilities to the Protestants, yet in many Places he oppressed them by Quartering his Soldiers at discretion in their Houses, seizing their Arms, and taking Hostages.  
His Highness the Prince of Orange having taken upon him, at the request of the Lords and Commons, the farther Administration of Government in Civil and Military Affairs, proceeded to the most effectual means for the better settling the Army, and taking care for their Payment; and the better to assure them, and encourage men of worth and true Valour, the sale of Offices, or Military Employments are laid aside.  
And now the Wisdom of the Nation having thought it, as we head, necessary to have the presence of her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange in England, upon this great juncture of Affairs, thereupon a Convoy of Men of War, as well English as Dutch, was ordered to wait upon her till her Equipage could be got in a readiness and the Wind served to bring over her Highness, etc.  
During the Joy of the People, in expectation or the Arrival of her Royal Highness, and the preparations for her Reception, we had News from France that the King and Queen of England were frequently visited by the French Nobility, and entertained with the accustomed Grandeur; and that the French King gave out that he would have extraordinary Forces in the Field, early in the Spring, to oppose the gathering Armies of the Confederate Princes, and States of Holland, promising to himself those advantages which only Time can make out, or determine: In opposition to which, and to disable him in the lessening his Revenues, an Address was agreed on by the honourable Convention, Assembled at Westminster, upon the great emergency of Affairs, to desire and entreat his Highness the Prince of Orange to issue out his Proclamation for the prohibiting the Importation of French Commodities, and the going out of any Ships hence for France, farther recommending the State of Ireland, as its present Condition requires, to his Care. On Wednesday the 30th. of January, being the anniversary Solemnity for the Murder of King Charles I. Dr. Sharp, Dean of Norwich, Preached before the House at St. Margaret's Westminster; and on Thursday the 31th. of January, the day appointed for Thanksgiving, in the City of London, and Ten miles round it, for the success of his Highness the Prince of Orange, in the miraculous Deliverance he brought this Kingdom, etc. Dr. Gilbert Burnet, now Bishop of Salisbury, according to the desire of the House, Preached before them in the same Church, there being a numerous Assembly, who at the close of that Sermon expressed an extraordinary satisfaction, the whole course of it being managed with much Learning and Prudence, in every respect suitable to the occasion of the day, and the Prayers appointed were read in the other Churches, with the same acceptation.  
And because the sixth of February was at hand, to prevent the Thanksgiving formerly appointed to be held on that day, an Order of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, bearing date the second of the same Month, was made public in these words:  

Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, assembled at Westminster, that the Day of Thanksgiving on the 6th. of February Instant, on which Day the late King James II. came to the Throne, shall not be observed in this Kingdom.   
Things being in this forwardness, a great many Citizens of London and Westminster appeared in the Court of Requests with two Petitions, one to the Lords, and another to the Commons, both to this Effect, viz. That they most humbly desired that his most Illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange might be speedily settled in the Throne, by whose Courage, Conduct, and Reputation, the Nation and the Protestant Religion might be defended from Enemies abroad and at home. That Ireland might be rescued from its deplorable Condition, and finally the Kingdoms settled on a lasting foundation in Peace and Liberty.  
These being received, and many weighty Considerations urging it, her Royal Highness' Coming over was hastened, and being on her Departure for England, the State's General, the States of Holland, the Council of State, the Courts of Justice, and all other Colleges, either in Body, or by their Deputies, made their Compliments to her on the Occasion; and the like was done by foreign Ministers, and all other Persons of Quality; and at her Leaving the Hague, the Magistrates entreated that the Burghers might attend her in Arms; but She excused it; however the States of Holland appointed three of their Body to wait upon her Royal Highness to the place of her Embarquing; sending Orders to the Sieur d' Allemonde, and the Ships under his Command, to join Admiral Herbert, who from England attended her with a Squadron of Men of war, and sundry Yatches, for the better conveniency of Transportation; and having a prosperous Gale, on the 12th. of February, in the afternoon She safely arrived at White-Hall, having been saluted by the Guns of the Forts, Ships in the road and those of the Tower, where the Royal Banner was displayed, and by that Example the Ships likewise had put out their Flags and Streamers.  
Great was the Joy upon the safe Landing of her Royal Highness, as appeared by the repeated Acclamations of the People, and other public Demonstrations; and that Night She received the Compliments of the chief Persons of Quality. And now the Two Houses thought it no longer necessary to delay Proclaiming the Prince and Princess King and Queen of England, so that having at large declared the Reasons for the Abdication of James II. laying down therein the Illegalities in former Proceed and Miscarriages in Government, etc. they came to a Resolve, That William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, should be Declared King and Queen of England, France, and Ireland, with all the Dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the Crown, and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms & Dominions to them, during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them; and that the sole and full Exercise of the Regal Power be only in, and executed by the Prince in the Name of Himself and the Princess, during their joint Lives; and after their Deceases, the Crown and Royal Dignities of the Kingdoms and Dominions, to be to the Heirs of the Body of the Princess; and for default of such Issue, to the Princess Ann of Denmark, and the Heirs of her Body; and for default of such Issue, to the Heirs of the Body of the Prince of Orange.  
And praying the Prince and Princess to accept this, accordingly the following Oaths were appointed to be taken by such Persons of whom the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy might be required by Law; and farther, that the former Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy be Abrogated: After which the Oaths were Enacted, viz.  
I A. B. do sincerely Promise and Swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary.  
So help me God.  
I A. B. do Swear, That I do from my Heart Abhor, Detest, and Abjure, as Impious and Heretical, this damnable Doctrine, and Position, that Princes, Excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any Authority of the See of Rome, may be Deposed or Murdered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, That no Foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath or aught to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Preeminence, or Authority, Ecclesiastical, or Spiritual, within this Realm.  
So help me God.  
These and others, too many to be here inserted, being the Proceed in order to the Proclaiming, on the 13th. of February, the Two Houses went to acquaint the Prince and Princess of Orange, in the Banqueting-House, with what they had done; and having received Their Consent thereto, the Lords and Commons, about Eleven of the Clock, went down to White-Hall Gate, where the Officers at Arms, Sergeants at Arms, Trumpets, and other Persons, concerned in the Solemnity, being assembled, by order of the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, St. Thomas St. George, Knight, Garter Principal King at Arms, having received a Proclamation, and the Officers at Arms being Ordered by the House of Lords forthwith to Proclaim it, York Herald, after the Trumpets had thrice Sounded, Proclaimed it at White-Hall Gate, Garter Reading it to him by Periods in the Presence of the Lords and Commons, and a great Concourse of People, etc. and at the end of the Proclamation the Palace, and all the adjacent Places, resounded with the Echo of a general Joy, and loud Satisfaction; and from thence in Excellent Order they proceeded to Temple-Bar where (as the Ceremony is in this Case, according to Custom) finding the Gates shut, two of the Officers at Arms, attended by a Sergeant at Arms, and two Trumpets, knocked, and thereupon the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex being informed of the Occasion of their Coming, Ordered them to be opened, and the whole Proceeding entered (except the Bailiff of Westminster, and his Men, who returned, as being obliged not to pass the Bounds of their Liberty,) and here the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen, received them in their Formalities, and a second Proclamation was made between the two Temple-Gates, in the same manner and order; and the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, etc. falling into the proceeding, they passed to Wood-street-end in Cheapside and there made a third Proclamation, and a fourth before the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, every time concluding with Shouts and Acclamations of the People, who filled the Streets, Balconies, and Windows, in great multitudes, and to prevent any Disorder, such an Excess of Joy might occasion, four Regiments of the City Militia were in Arms to line the Way, for the better conveniency of Passage.  
The Pomp of the Solemnity being over, and night coming on, the Bells and Bonfires made a second Proclamation of the People's Satisfaction, and the news, by the Thundering of the Cannon, was in a short time carried, by taking the fire of the Guns from one Ship to another, beyond the Island itself; nor were their curious Fireworks and Devices wanting on this Occasion; and the Solemnity was more especially concluded with Magnificent Entertainments at Court; and soon after their Majesties, with the like Demonstration of Joy, were Proclaimed in all the Cities and Principal burgh's, Towns of England, and Dominion of Wales.  
On the 15th. of February His Majesty returned both Houses a very Gracious Answer to their Declaration, wherein he expressed Himself highly satisfied with what they had done, and was pleased to promised them the utmost of his Care and Protection, for the preservation of their Religion, Laws, and Liberties: and that He would be willing to concur with them in any thing that should be for the Good of the Kingdom, and to do all that in him lay to advance the Glory and Welfare of the Nation.  
About this time a Complaint was made, that divers disorderly Persons, notwithstanding a former Declaration, strictly enjoining the contrary, continued to destroy the Deer, Timber, and Underwoods', in divers Chases and Forests. Farther Notice was published, Commanding all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and others, whom it might concern, to seize, or cause Persons found offending therein to be seized and proceeded against, according to Law, without expectation of Pardon, if found guilty. And farther considering that divers had attempted to escape to Tyrconnel in Ireland, to aid him in oppressing the Protestants of that Kingdom, Orders were taken for stopping the Ports of Chester, Beaumaris, and Holy-head, and other Ports, and Creeks, on the Irish Sea, and not to suffer any Person or Persons whatsoever to go for Ireland, unless those by whom a Pass was produced from his Majesty, or one of his Principal Secretaries of State.  
The Recorder, Sheriffs, and Common Sergeant of London having been to wait on their Majesties, by Order of the Lord Mayor and Common Council, to beg leave from them to attend their Majesties to Congratulate their happy Accession to the Throne, the Lord Mayor, aldermans, and Commons, went in a Body, and had the favour of Waiting upon their Majesties in the Banqueting-House, and were Graciously received, being admitted to Kiss their Majesty's Hands. And now we received continual Relations of the Joy that was conceived throughout the whole Shires of England, etc. Upon the several Proclaiming of King William and Queen Mary, Expressed by Ringing of Bells, making of Bonfires, and drinking their Healths.  
On the 18th. of February in the morning the King went from White-Hall, in his Barge of State to the Parliament-Stairs, where he was received by several of the great Officers, and others, the Yeomen of the Guards, and Gentlemen Pensioners, making a Lane from the Waterside to the Door going up into the Prince's Lodgings; the Proceed being in this manner: First went the Officers at Arms, than the Noblemen, bearing white Staves, and after them Sergeants at Arms, the Garter King at Arms between two Gentlemen-Ushers, immediately before the Sword of State, which was born by the Duke of Somerset, having on the Left hand the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, with his Marshal's Staff, next went the Marquis of Winchester, bearing the Cup of State, than the King, followed by an Officer of the Guards, and other Persons of Quality, the Gentlemen Pensioners closing the Rear; and his Majesty being come into the Prince's Lodging, was invested with his Sur-coat and Mantle of Crimson Velvet, bordered with Goldlace, and furred with Ermines, as also with the Collar of the Order of the Garter; and as soon as the Crown was placed upon His Head, the Officers at Arms, and the Sergeants at Arms entered the House of Lords, and the Noblemen, who preceded his Majesty, having placed themselves on each side of the Throne, and his Majesty, whose Train was born up by Nobleman's Eldest Sons, being-seated on the Throne, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was commanded to summon up the Commons, who being accordingly introduced into the House of Peers, and their Speaker conducted to the Bar, with the usual Formalities, and the Lords being in their Robes, His Majesty made a most Gracious speech, in which he was pleased to let them know how sensible he was of their Kindness, and how much he valued the confidence they had reposed in him; Assuring them that he would never do any thing that might lessen their good Opinion of him, putting them in mind of the Allies abroad, and the hazard they may run, especially Holland, unless some speedy Care were taken: That a good Settlement was necessary at Home; particularly recommending to them the dangerous State of Ireland, and the Methods to their speedy consideration.  
On the 2d. of February the Lord Bishop on London, with the Clergy of the City, to the number of an 100 waited on their Majesties with an humble Tender of their Fidelity and Duty, and being Graciously received, were admitted to kiss their Majesty's Hands, the King at the same time being pleased to give them a full Assurance of of his great Affection to the Church of England, and of all the Protection and Encouragement to them, for which he gave them his Royal Word; concluding with Assuring them, that they should ever find it so, and they might depend upon it, the Houses resolved into a free Parliament. His Majesty went on the 23d. of February by Water to the House of Lords, attended with the usual Solemnity, and being in his Royal Robes, with the Crown on his Head, seated on the Throne, and the Commons being sent for, His Majesty gave the Royal Assent to an Act, for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes about the Assembling and Sitting of the present Parliament. And having disrobed himself, he was attended to the Waterside with the like Ceremony as before, and in the afternoon their Majesties went to Hampton-Court.  
On the 28th. of February two Proclamations were issued forth by the King and Queen, the one at the Request of the Honourable House of Commons to apprehend Robert Brent, Gentleman, late of the Inner- Temple, charged with High Treason, who procuring himself to be Bailed had left them, and fled from Justice, with the Reward of 200 l. to any person that should discover or apprehend him, and those that should conceal, or further his Escape, to be proceeded against with the utmost severity according to Law.  
The other for the bringing in and restoring of Arms that had been embezzled, or Lost, during the Disorders and Disbandings amongst the Soldiers, that had been in pay under the late King James; and upon advice that the Earl of Tyrconnel laboured to draw the Irish more and more to his Party, and confirm those that were already in Arms with him, by laying before them the Danger already incurred, their Majesties, to leave them that should obstinately persist, without excuse, issued forth a Proclamation, offering amongst other things Pardon and Indemnity for all things, by those of the Earl's Party, if they laid down their Arms, and retired themselves to their respective Habitations, and Places of Abode, and there peaceably behaved themselves as good Subjects ought to do; as likewise that they should upon this (ondition enjoy in full freedom their Estates according to Law, and those of the Roman Church, upon such Consideration to have all the Favour, for the private Exercise of their Religion that the Law allows, with a promise speedily to call a Parliament in that Kingdom; but on the Contrary declaring them Rebels, and Traitors. etc. and their Lands and Possessions forfeited, and to be disposed and distributed to those that should be Aiding, and Assisting in reducing the Kingdom to its due Obedience.  
This Proclamation 'tis thought, whether hindered by Tyrconnel's violence from coming to the knowledge of the Vulgar, or creating a fear in his followers, made him fly to his Last refuge of more strictly disarming the Protestants, as well those in Cities that fell into his hands, as Gentlemen who were retired to their Houses, where his Soldiers committed sundry Outrages of an high Nature, Robbing and Pillaging without remorse or pity, though under a colour excused himself, by giving directions to the Magistrates to see that no wrong should be done; however when Complaints were made, he urged necessity compelled his Men to do what they did; yet the Protestants, especially in the North, stood to their Arms, and repelled force by force, getting some supplies of Ammunition out of Scotland, keeping the Town of Sligo, and other places of strength, with a Longing expectation of the Arrival of the Forces and necessary Provisions from England, to be thereby enable to carry on the War, and recover what has been taken from them by the Irish Papists.  
And now the duty of Hearth money being looked upon by the Commons, as a grievance to the Subjects, and represented as such to his Majesty, the King was pleased to send a message that he left it to their considerations, either to regulate it, or to take it away, which was received with great satisfaction, and forthwith the thanks of the House were ordered to be returned his Majesty for his gracious Message; and on the 1st. of March in the Afternoon, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament assembled, Waited upon his Majesty in the Banqueting-house and and there presented an Address of thanks, wherein they expressed the Joy and Satisfaction they conceived at so unpresidented an offer, humbly craving leave to present their Assurance, that they-would make such grateful and affectionate returns, as were suitable to his Majesty's most Gracious Intentions, and be so careful of the Support of the Crown that the World should see, to the discouraging his Enemies, that his Majesty reigns in the Hearts of his People, etc.  
The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament, made likewise and Address to his Majesty, expressing therein how highly they were sensible of their great and Signal deliverance, etc. And that being fully convinced of the restless Spirits, and continued Endeavours of his Majesties and the Nations Enemies, for the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion, and the Subversion of the Laws and Liberties, they unanimously declared, that they would Stand by, and Assist his Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes, in Supporting his Allies abroad, in reducing Ireland, and in defence of the Protestant Religion of the Kingdom.  
To this his Majesty was pleased to return them a very Gracious Answer, expressing therein the valuable Esteem he had for Parliaments, and especially for this, expressing his Satisfaction of the Confidence and Trust they had reposed in him, and that it should be his Care never to give any Parliament cause of distrust; and withal recommending to them the care of the Allies abroad, and minding them of the great Expense the States of Holland had been at in the Expedition and Zeal they had to promote it, and to second his Majesty's Endeavours even with a neglect of their own Safety, not doubting but their Generosity would not only enable him to make good his treaty with those States, and repay what they actually laid out, and of which an account should be given, but support them to their utmost Ability against the power of their Enemies, considering both Interests were upon one and the same Bottom. As to safety, his Majesty was likewise pleased to mind them of Ireland, and to let them know, that in his opinion 20000 men would be required to render the reducing it short and easy, as likewise setting out a Fleet which in conjunction with that of Holland, might be so entirely Master of the Seas that nothing might be sent from France to Ireland, or elsewhere, that might give a disturbance to us or our Allies; farther recommending to their consideration the settlement of the Revenues, that they might be collected without dispute; promising that whatever should be given in order to public ends, should be strictly applied to them, with many other Gracious expressions; concluding that as they so freely offered to hazard all that is dear to them, so he would as freely expose his Life for the Support of the Protestant Religion, and the Honour and Safety of the Nation.  
And now the Lord Mayor, aldermans, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled as a grateful Acknowledgement to the Lords and Commons for their excellent Conduction in Affairs, and especially their resolution to assist and stand by his Majesty in supporting his Allies abroad, in reducing Ireland, in defence of the Protestant Religion, and Laws of the Kingdom, drew up two humble Addresses of Thanks, one to the Lords, and the other to the Commons, which were presented and very kindly received; the first of these was presented by the Recorder, and the last by the Sheriffs of the Honourable City, who were dismissed with expressions of high Esteem, etc. For the said City an Address of Thanks was likewise presented to his Majesty by the Lord Mayor, aldermans, and Common Council, upon his most condescending and unparallelled Goodness in the Message he was pleased to send to the two Houses, in relation to the Duty of Hearth-mony, promising as bound in duty and great obligations, to be ready to serve and assist his Majesty as far as they were able in the support of his Crown and Dignity, and for the maintaining the Protestant Religion and Laws of the Land, and the speedy relief of the distressed Protestants in Ireland, etc.  
About this time we had News that the greatest part of the Regiment of Foot, late commanded by the Lord Dumbarton, and some Companies of Fuziliers, made a Mutiny near Ipswych, and seized on the Money sent down to pay them, with four Field-pieces, and refusing to obey the King's Orders, marched away, doing great damage, and bringing a greater terror upon the Country people, proclaiming King James, etc. whereupon both houses Addressed his Majesty that he would be pleased to take such effectual Course, as in his Princely Wisdom should be thought fit for the suppressing and bringing them to Justice; and that in the mean time he would issue out his Royal Proclamation, declaring them and their Adherents to be Rebels and Traitors, requiring all good Subjects to apprehend subdue and prosecute them, etc. To which His Majesty was pleased to answer, That he thanked both Houses for their Address, and that he had sent a Force of Horse and Dragoons sufficient to suppress them, and that he would issue out a Proclamation, as was desired.  
On the 16th of March His Majesty went by water to the House of Lords, attended with the usual Solemnity, and being in his Royal Robes, seated on the Throne, and the Commons sent for up, His Majesty gave the Royal Assent to an Act impowering him to apprehend such Persons as he should find just cause to suspect are conspiring against the Government, and to an Act for annulling and making void the Attainder of William Russel Esquire, commonly called Lord Russel, and then in a gracious Speech, amongst other things, recommended to them the settling the Oaths, to be taken by all persons to be admitted to places of Trust; so that Papists might be excluded, and room left for all Protestants that are willing to serve, the better to strengthen us against the common Adversaries; and the same day a Proclamation was signed by His Majesty, declaring those mutinous Officers and Soldiers, together with their Adherents, Rebels and Traitors, etc. commanding all good Subjects to apprehend, subdue and prosecute them as such.  
To show this was no general defection of the Soldiers, but rather these few drawn into so great a folly and oversight by sinister means, the same day an Address was humbly presented to His Majesty, signed by the Officers superior and subordinate, with the unanimous Subscriptions of the private Soldiers of the Regiment of Foot under the conduct of the Right Honourable the Lord Mordant, expressing therein their unfeigned Loyalty, willing Obedience, and ready Zeal to serve his Majesty in all places and on all occasions. Nor was it long e'er those in Rebellion were brought under; for on the 19th of March the Regiments of Horse commanded by Sir John Lanier, and Colonel Langston, having joined the Dutch Troops of Horse and Dragoons, under the command of Lieutenant General Ginkell, and being informed that the Rebels were marching towards Seaford, they advanced in good Order, the Dragoons, making the left Wing; the Rebels no sooner perceived the Troops, but they drew up in Battalions, planting their four Field-pieces to the best advantage, having on one side a great Hedge, and on the other considerable Waters, which obliged the Dragoons to swim; but perceiving the Resolution of the King's Troops to reduce them to their Obedience, they beat a Parley, and laying down their Arms, surrendered upon discretion; so that there were taken the four Field-pieces, and twenty Officers, and five hundred Soldiers were made Prisoners, and sent up to London, under a Guard of Horse, and there secured in divers Prisons, whilst another party of Horse continued to search after such as had dispersed, some of which were afterward taken, and secured in divers Prisons.  
Sir John Chapman, Lord Mayor of the City of London, dying on the of March, the worthy Thomas Pilkington Esq since being Knighted, elected Lord Mayor of that City for the remaining part of this Year, was on the 22d presented to the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, and afterwards sworn at the Hustings, according to Custom, and at five in the Afternoon was sworn without the Tower Gate by the Right Honourable the Lord Lucas, chief Governor of the Tower, in pursuance of their Majesties Writ to him directed, and of the ancient usage at such a time as the Exchequer Court is not holden at Westminster.  
Having before made mention of the intended Convention in Scotland, and now the time appointed for its sitting being come, it will not seem foreign to this History to insert some remarkable passages and Transactions relating to it and the Affairs of that Kingdom.  
On the 14th of March, in obedience to the King of England's Letter, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons assembled at Edinburgh in one House, as the Custom is, and chose Duke Hamilton their Precedent, and considering the Duke of Gourdon, a Roman Catholic, held the Castle, whose Cannon commanded the City, they made an Act, by which they empowered the Earls of Lothain and Tweddale to repair immediately to the Castle of Edinburgh, and to require him and others of his persuasion there, in the Name of the Estates of this Kingdom, to remove out of that Castle in twenty four hours after notice given, and to leave the Charge thereof to the next commanding Officer, being a Protestant, and that he, and those that were with him, upon such a compliance, should have assurance from the Estates, to be secured and indemnified as to any thing they had acted in that or any other Station, contrary to Law, as being Papists.  
This done, they nominated a Committee of Election consisting of 15 persons, five of each Estate, and after some debate, whether the Lords Spiritual were a distinct Estate, or only a part of the same Estate with the Lords Temporal, which was laid aside by the House, inclining to the Negative, and rejecting the Protestations against the sitting of the Earl of Argile before his Father's Attainder was taken off. A Motion was made, that in consideration the City was full of People, and many of them armed, to prevent disorders, it was not inconvenient to command all persons, who were not Inhabitants, nor immediately belonging to the Members of this Convention, to departed the place, but it was the Opinion of the House, that the Castle, in the command of whose Cannon the City was, aught to be first surrendered, and for their better assurance, a Committee was ordered to take care that no violation of the Peace were made. And the next day the Duke of Gourdon having sent a Paper by way of Excuse, for holding the Castle contrary to the mind of the Estates, it was read, and advantageous Terms offered him, and those with him, in consideration of a speedy Surrender; but soon after he discovered his Design was only to trifle, that he might gain time, which obliged them to send for such a competent number of armed Men, as was capable to block it up, and prevent the Excursions of the Besieged; so that small bicker frequently happened, though without any considerable damage. In the mean while two Letters came to the Convention, one from King William, and the other from the late King, of which only the first was approved, and the Convention proceeded to take measures much like those of England, declaring the Throne vacant, etc. and made preparation in order to fill it, suffering Men and Arms from England to enter that Kingdom, and it was in fine concluded, that King William and Queen Mary should be crowned King and Queen of the Kingdom of Scotland, and the Crown offered them with an Instrument of Government to settle and regulate particulars.  
Whilst these things passed in Scotland, with others of the like purport, a Proclamation by the King and Queen was issued out give to notice to the Peers, and such as had any Claim, or Right of Tenure, that the Royal Solemnity of their Coronation was to be celebrated April 11th 1689. and on the 21st of March his Majesty going to the House of Lords, attended in the usual solemnity, and being in his Royal Robes, seated on the Throne, and the Commons being sent for up, gave his Royal Assent to an Act for granting a present Aid to their Majesties; and on the 31st of March the Right Reverend Dr Gilbert Burnet, being before Bishop elect of Salisbury, was consecrated according to the form prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer, in the Chapel of the Palace at Fulham, by the Lord Bishops of London, Winchester, Landaff, St Asaph, and Carlisle, by virtue of a Commission granted to them by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.  
On Apr. 3. his Majesty went by water to the House of Lords, attended with the usual solemnity, and in the usual manner gave the Royal Assent to an Act for exhibiting a Bill in the present Parliament for naturalising the most Noble Prince George of Denmark; also to an Act for Reviving of Actions and Process lately depending in the Courts of Westminster, and discontinued by not holding of Hilary Term, and for supplying other Defects relating to Proceed at Law; likewise to an Act for punishing Officers or Soldiers who shall mutiny or desert their Majesty's Service; and in the Afternoon a Chapter being held of the most noble Order of the Garter, Duke Frederick Marshal de Schomberg, General of his Majesty's Forces, and Master General of the Ordnance; and the Right Honourable William Earl of Devonshire Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household, were elected Knight-Companions of the Order, and invested with the Garter and George, having been first Knighted by the Sovereign with the usual Ceremony; and Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, was sworn and admitted Chancellor of that Order. On the 5th. of April his Grace the Duke of Ormond was installed in St. George's Chapel Knight-Companion of the Noble Order, by the Duke of Grafton, and the Earl of Rochester, two Knight-Companions, who were thereunto Commissioned by the Sovereign, with the usual Ceremonies; which done, his Grace entertained the Commissioners, together with divers Persons of Quality, and the Officers of the Order, at a noble Dinner, at the middle whereof Garter King at Arms, accompanied with the Officers at Arms, proclaimed his Grace's Style.  
About this time His Majesty caused notice to be given to all Protestant Officers that had been disbanded in Ireland, or lately quitted their Commands, they who were not yet employed in his Service to bring in their Names and Certificates of their former Commands, in order to their entering into Service, and Pay, etc. and to prevent false and seditious Rumours, as to the lessening the Pay of such Soldiers as should be sent over to the Low-Countries, His Majesty was pleased to issue forth his Proclamation to assure them of full English Pay, and upon the English Establishment, as full to all Intents as any other Regiments of his own Subjects of the same Quality, remaining in the Kingdom of England.  
The Parliament assembled at Westminster, having duly weighed and considered the high consequence, as to the security of our Religion, Laws, etc. in the Efficacy of a Coronation, an Act being drawn up, it passed the Royal Assent the 9th of April, in the 1st Year of their Majesty's Reigns, entitled, An Act for establishing the Coronation Oath.  

The Oath in manner and form to be tendered.  The Archbishop or Bishop shall say. 
Will you solemnly promised and swear to govern the People of this Kingdom of England, and the Dominions thereto belonging, according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the Laws and Customs of the same?  The King and Queen shall say, 
I solemnly promise so to do.  Archbishop or Bishop. 
Will you to your power cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be executed in all your Judgements?  King and Queen. 
I will.  Archbishop or Bishop. 
Will you to the utmost of your Power maintain the Law of God, the true Profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reform Religion established by Law? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm, and to the Churches committed to their Charge, all such Rights and Privileges as by Law do or shall appertain to any of them?  King and Queen. 
All this I promise to do.  After this the King and Queen laying his and her hand upon the holy Gospel, shall say, King and Queen. 
These things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep, So help me God.  Then the King and Queen shall kiss the book.  
And this Oath by the same Act is to be administered to all the Kings and Queens that shall succeed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm at their respective Coronations, by one of the Archbishops or Bishops, and to be done in public.  
Thus every thing being in a readiness, and the expected day arrived, their Majesty's being come from White-Hall to Westminster, the Heralds began to put the Proceed in order, the Peers in the Lord's House, and the Peeresses in the painted Chamber; so that about eleven in the morning their Majesties and the whole Proceeding were conducted into Westminster-Hall, where at the upper end a Throne being erected, their Majesties took their Seats under their Cloth of State on the inside the Table, which done, the Master of the Jewelhouse presented to the Lord High Constable the Sword of State, also the Sword Curtana, and the two pointed Swords in their order, who in the like order delivered them to the Lord Great Chamberlain, and he having drawn them out of the Scaboards, laid them on the Table before their Majesties, as likewise the Spurs. After which the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster bring the Crowns and other Regalia, presented them severally, and then they were delivered to those Lords whose Office or Trust it was to bear them. Then the Proceeding began from Westminster Hall to the Abbey, where being entered, and each seated or placed in order, the Lord Bishop of London began with the Recognition, which ending with a general Shout and universal Acclamation of Joy, their Majesties offered, and the Lords who carried the Regalia offered them at the Altar severally to be there disposed; after which the Litany was sung by the Bishops of St. Asaph and Bangor; which ended, the Communion Service began, the Epistle taken out of the 1 Pet. 2. ver. 13, 17. was read by the Bishop of Carlisle, and the Gospel out of Mat. 22. 16, 22. was read by the Bishop of St. Asaph, after which followed the Nicene Creed, and by this time the Bishop of Salisbury being in the Pulpit, after repeating the Lords Prayers took his Text 2 Sam. 23.3, 4. viz. The Lord God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, he that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God; and he shall be as the Light of the morning when the Sun riseth, even a morning without Clouds, as the tender Grass springing out of the Earth, by clear shining after rain.  
The Sermon, which lasted half an hour, being ended, their Majesties took the new established Oath before mentioned, and after Veni Creator, was sung, and the Holy Oil consecrated, their Majesties were conducted to their Royal Chairs, placed on the Theatre, where the Honourable Members of the House of Commons, who with their Speaker were seated in the north Cross, might have a full prospect, and there being disrobed of their Crimson Mantles, their Majesties were solemnly anointed, and presented with the Spurs and Sword, which being offered up, and redeemed by the Earl of Portland, their Majesties were invested with the Imperial Robes and Orbs, after that with the Rings and Sceptres, and about four of the Clock the Crowns were placed on their heads by the Lord Bishop of London, assisted by the Lord Bishop of Rochester, upon which the Drums beat, the Trumpets sounded, the great Guns were fired, yet were drowned in a manner by the loud shouts and joyful Acclamations of the People; and the Peers and Peeresses putting on their Coronets, the holy Bible was presented to their Majesties; and after the Benediction they vouchsafed to kiss the Bishops, and then Te Deum was sung, and they ascended the Throne; the Archbishop and Bishops doing jointly Homage, and kissed their Majesty's left Cheeks, and after them the Temporal Peers did the like, whilst the Medals were cast about by the Treasurer of the Household, inscribed on one side, Ne totus absumatur, and on the other Gulielmus & Maria Rex & Regina. After this began the Communion, their Majesty's making their second Offering, and having received the Holy Sacrament they went in State into St. Edward's Chapel, where being divested of the Imperial Palls, etc. and robed in Purple Velvet, returned to Westminster-Hall with their Crowns of State on their Heads, the Peers and Peeresses wearing their Coronots where a very splendid Entertainment was furnished at sundry Tables, and between the first and second course Charles Dymcke Esq their Majesty's Champion, came on Horseback completely armed, between the Lord High Constable and Earl Marshal, both on Horseback, and made his Challenge, which was pronounced by York Herald in these words, viz.  
If an Person of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Marry, King and Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, to be rightful King and Queen of this Realm of England, or that they ought not to enjoy the Imperial Crown of the same, Here is their Champion who saith he lieth, and is a false Traitor, being ready in Person to combat with him, and in this Quarrel will adventure his Life against him on what day soever be shall be appointed.  
After which their Majesty's Styles were proclaimed in Latin, French, and English, and about eight in the evening they returned to White-Hall.  
This caused great Rejoicing in Holland as well as England, the States ordering it to be expressed by Bells, Bonfires, and Fireworks, etc. The Convention in Scotland declared their Majesty's King and Queen in the following manner, viz.  
After the Vote had passed, the Estates, assisted by the Ld. Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Edinburgh, attended by Lion, King at Arms, Heralds, Pursuvants and Trumpets, went to the Cross on foot, proclaimed their Majesties' King and Queen of Scotland, and deputed some of the Estates to offer the Crown with an Instrument of Government for settling that Kingdom,  

A Table of the chief Ministers of State, and Officers of Trust, newly made by the King and Queen of England.  
The most Honourable Privy-Council. 

HIS Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland, etc.  
Lord A. B. Cant.  
Marquess of Caermarthen, E. of Danby and L. Precedent of the Council.  
Marquess of Halifax, L. Privy-Seal,  
D. of Norfolk Earl-Marshal of England.  
Duke of Bolton, Marquis of Winchester.  
E. of Lindsey L. Great Chamberlain of Engl.  
E. of Devonshire, L. Steward of his Majesty's Household.  
E. of Dors. & Midds. Ld. Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household.  
E. of Oxford.  
E. of Shrewsbury, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State.  
E. of Bedford,  
E. of Bath.  
E of Macelesfield.  
E. of Nottingham, principal Secret. of State.  
E. of Fauconberg.  
E. of Monmouth Lord Mordant.  
E. of Montague.  
E. of Marlborough, Lord Churchill.  
E. of Portland Mr. Bertinck Groom of the Stole to his Majesty.  
Visc. Newport, Treasurer of his Majesty's Household.  
Visc. Lumley.  
Visc. Sidney.  
Ld. Bishop of London.  
Ld Wharton.  
Ld. Delamere.  
Sir Robert Howard Kt.  
Sir Henry Capell Kt.  
Sir John Lowther Baronet, Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household.  
Mr. H. paul Speaker of the H. of Commons.  
Mr. Edward Russell.  
Mr. Richard Hambden.  
Mr. Hugh Boscawen.  
Thomas Wharton Esq controller of his Majesty's Household.  
William Harboured Esq    
Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal. 

Sir John Maynard Kt.  
Sir Anthony Kecke Kt.  
Sir William Rawlinson Kt.    
Commissioners for the Office of Lord High Admiral. 

Arthur Herbwert Esq  
Earl of Carbery.  
Sir Michael Wharton Bar.  
Sir Thomas Lee Bar.  
Sir John Chichely Kt.  
Sir. John Lowther of White-haven Bar.  
William Sacherverill Esq    
Lords of the Treasury. 

Earl of Monmouth.  
Lord Delamere.  
Lord Godolphin.  
Sir Henry Capel Kt.  
Richard Hampden Esq    
New Knights of the Garters. 

Duke Frederick Marshal de Scomberg.  
General of his Majesty's Forces and Master-General of the Ordnance.  
Earl of Devonshire.  
Duke of Ormond.    
New Bishops. 

Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury.  
Dr. Trewlawny B. of Exet.    
Ld. Lovelace Captain of the Band of Gentlemen-Pensioners.  
Ld. Lucas Chief Governor of the Tower of London.  
Ld. Willoughby of Eresby Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.  
Sir Henry Pollixfen Kt. Attorney-General.  
Sir George Treby Kt. Solicitor-General.  
Clerks of the Privy-Council. 

Sir John Nicholas Kt. of the Bath.  
William Blaithwayt Esq  
Charles Montague Esq  
Richard Colling Esq    
Commissioners for the Customs. 

Hon. George Booth Esq  
Sir Richard Temple Bar. and Kt. of the Bath.  
Sir John Worden Bar.  
Sir Robert Southwell Bar.  
Sir Robert Clayton Kt.  
Sir Patient Ward.  
Thomas Pelham Esq    
Commissioners for the Excise. 

Sir Henry Fane Kt.  
Sir Henry Ashurst Kt.  
Sir Humphrey Edwin Kt.  
Thomas Frankland Esq  
Francis Parry Esq  
John Danvers Esq  
John Wilcox Jun. Esq    
The Lords Lieutenants appointed by his Majesty. 

Bedford E. of Bedford.  
Berks D. of Norfolk.  
Bucks E. of Bridgw.  
Cambr. E. of Bedford.  
Chesh. Ld. Delamere.  
Cornw. E. of Bath.  
Cumb. E. of Carlysle.  
Derby E. of Devon.  
Devon E. of Bath.  
Dorset E. of Bristol.  
Essex E. of Oxford.  
Glouc. E. of Matclesfied.  
Heref. E. of Matclesfield.  
Hertf. E. of Shrewsbury, during the Minority of the E. of Essex.  
Hunt. E. of Manchester.  
Kent E. of Winchester.  
Lanc. E. of Derby.  
Leic. E. of Rutland.  
Linc. E. of Lindsey.  
Midds. E. of Clare.  
Monm. E. of Macclesf.  
Norf. D. of Norfolk.  
Northum. Ld. V. Lumly.  
Northamp. E. of Monm.  
Nott. E. of Kingston.  
Oxon E. of Abingdon.  
Salop Ld. Visc. Newp.  
Som. L. Vis. Fitzharding.  
Southamp. D. of Bolton.  
Stafford Ld. Paget.  
Suffolk Ld. Cornwallis.  
Surrey D. of Norfolk.  
Sus. E. of Dors. & Midd.  
Warw. E. of Northampt.  
Worcester E. of Shrewsb.  
Westm. Sir. J. Lowther.  
Wilts. E. of Pembroke.  
York East R.E. of Kings.  
— North. R.E. Falconb.  
— West Rid. E. of Danby  
S.N. Wales E. of Maccl.     

A List of the Chaplains to be waiting on their Majesties.  
March. 

DR. Horneck.  
Dr. Bright.  
Mr. Kidder.  
Dr. Fowler.    
April. 

Dr. Tillotson.  
Dr. Stillingfleet.  
Dr. Stratford.  
Mr. Young.    
May. 

Mr. Brograve.  
Dr. Scott.  
Dr. Alderidge.  
Mr. Wake.    
June. 

Dr. Fuller.  
Dr. Grove.  
Dr. Ironside.  
Dr. Baily.    
July. 

Dr. Hescard.  
Dr. Megott.  
Dr. Tennison.  
Mr. Bramson.    
August. 

Dr. Belch.  
Dr. Hough.  
Mr. Wiggan.  
Mr. Williams.    
September. 

Dr. Sharp.  
Dr. Craddocke.  
Dr. Edward's.  
M. Staino.    
October. 

Dr. Goodman.  
Dr. Beveridge.  
Dr. Freeman.  
Dr. Turner.    
November. 

Dr. Jane.  
Dr. Smith.  
Dr. Hall.  
Dr. Doughty.    
December. 

Dr. Patrick.  
Mr. Pelling.  
Dr. Horden.  
Mr. Blagrave.    
January. 

Mr. Lamb.  
Mr. Manningham.  
Dr. Hooper.  
Dr. Mills.    
February. 

Mr. Fielding.  
Dr. Only.  
Dr. Brabant.  
Dr. Montague.     

Officers newly made to the Queen's Majesty. 

EArl of Wiltshire, Ld. Chamberlain. Ld. Coot Treasurer.  
Abel Tassind' alone Esq Principal Secretary, and Master of Requests.  
Countess of Derby, Groom of the Stole.     
FINIS.