royal coat of arms, circa 1689 
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE  
dieu ET MON DROIT   
By The KING, A DECLARATION.  
JAMES R.  
WHEREAS the mutual obligations which lie upon us and Our people are indissolvable by any act either of us can commit, and that therefore how undutifully or unjustly soever Our people may have behaved themselves towards us, instigated thereto by the false and calumnious suggestions of Ambitious, Irreligious and Profligate Men; yet We are resolved indispensably to pursue the obligations of Our side, and to watch all opportunities of relieving Our people from the Tyranny and Oppressions they lie under; of which, with grief, We see daily new instances in Our Kingdoms of England and Scotland, committed by the Prince of Orange and his Adherents, usurpers of Our Royal Right, upon the Persons and Estates of Our Subjects against the known Laws, Customs and Constitutions of these Our Kingdoms. For remedy whereof, We do hereby declare, that as We will protect all such as shall continue firm in their Obedience to us, so We are resolved on the other part to punish with the utmost severity all such as shall be aiding or assisting to the said usurpers any manner of way, especially by oppressing Our People: And forasmuch as many of Our good Subjects are by the usurped Authority of the P. of Orange and his Associates, put in Goals and Prisons, and there detained contrary to Law, pretending dispensation from an unlawful Assembly of rebellious men, empowering themselves to be a Parliament by the Authority of a Head every way as unlawful as the Body. We do therefore declare, that whosoever shall be so detained in Prison by the Authority aforesaid, or any authority flowing from the said usurper of his adherents, shall have just svit for damages, &c. against all such persons who shall give order or warrant for seizing, apprehending, Imprisoning or Detaining; and likewise all who shall Seize, apprehended, Imprison or Detain any of Our good Subjects by the Authority aforesaid in any way or manner for any cause whatsoever, and if any shall be prosecuted for any pretended crimes or any sentence of death given against any person whatsoever, the Relations of such person so Condemned and Executed shall have just cause to prosecute all such Iudges, jurors, Clerks, Councellors, Sheriffs or others who shall any manner of way be Concerned in the trial, Condemnation, or Execution of any person so tried, Condemned or Executed, and We do further declare all Sentences, Iudgments, Decrees or Decisions given by virtue of the same Authority to be Null and voided.  
And Whereas the said usurper and his pretended Parliament do take upon them contrary to all Law, to impose heavy Land Taxes, Sesses, Excises and other grievous payments upon Our Subjects, and that at a time when they are Excluded from all Trade and Commerce with any foreign Nation, instead of the Trade of the whole universe, which they might now have enjoyed Vndisturbed, by the want whereof they must be in a short time reduced to poverty and misery, whilst they see their Rivals in Trade, the Hollanders enjoy the fruits of their Labours and bravade in their Ports contrary to the Act of Navigation as well as the true interest of the Nation; We do therefore think fit to discharge Our Subjects from the payment of any such Tax, subsidy, Sess, Excise, or any other imposition whatsoever Imposed, Collected or required by the aforesaid usurped Authority, and We do Prohibit any of Our Subjects from Collecting Our Revenue, or any Branch thereof, or any other Tax, subsidy, Sess, Excise or any other Imposition, imposed by the usurped Authority aforesaid, Declaring hereby, that all such as shall impose, Collect or bring in any part of the same, that they and their Heirs shall be liable to repay it unto us, notwithstanding any Act of Indemnity given or to be given, from which this is always excepted, as likewise We do discharge all such moneys so brought in from being again issued out upon any pretence whatsoever without Our special Authority, assuring all such as shall issue out Warrants or Orders to that effect, that they shall be Liable to us, for such sums as shall be contained in such Orders or Warrants, from which repayment to us, no discharge whatsoever shall relieve them except from us alone.  
Given at Our Court at Dublin Castle the 28th day of June, 1689. And in the fifth year of Our Reign. God Save the King.   

DUBLIN, Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham Assigns of Benjamin took Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty; 1689.