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A66129	The declaration of His Highnes William Henry, by the grace of God Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him, to appear in armes in the kingdome of England, for preserving of the Protestant religion, and for restoring the lawes and liberties of England, Scotland and Ireland Here unto are added the letters of the aforesaid his illustrious Highnesse to the sea and land forces of England, together with the prayer for the present expedition.; Declaration of his Highness William Henry, by the grace of God, Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him to appear in arms for preserving of the Protestant religion and for restoring the laws and liberties of England, Scotland and Ireland.	William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; William III, King of England, 1650-1702. Declaration of His Highness William Henry by the grace of God Prince of Orange, &c. of the reasons inducing him to appear in arms for preserving of the Protestant religion, and for restoring the laws and liberties of the ancient kingdom of Scotland. aut; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688, attributed name.	1688 (1688)	Wing W2328C; ESTC R221019	18,386	19

THE DECLARATION OF HIS HIGHNES WILLIAM HENRY By the Grace of God PRINCE OF ORANGE c. Of the Reasons inducing him to appear in Armes in the Kingdome of England for Preserving of the Protestant Religion and for Restoring the Lawes and Liberties of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND Here unto are added the Letters of the aforesaid his Illustrious Highnesse to the Sea and Land forces of England together with the Prayer for the present Expedition IE MAINTIENDRAY PROT. RELIGION AND LIBERTY Printed at the Hague by ARNOLD LEERS Bookseller at the Signe of Plutarch By speciall order of his Highnesse 1688. With Priviledge of the Great and Mighty the States of Holland and Westfriesland THE DECLARATION OF HIS HIGHNES WILLIAM HENRY By the Grace of God PRINCE OF ORANGE c. Of the reasons inducing him To Appear in Armes in the Kingdome of England IT is both certain and evident to all men that the publike Peace and Happines of any State or Kingdome can not be preserved where the Lawes Liberties and Customes established by the lawfull authority in it are openly transgressed and annulled more especially where the alteration of Religion is endeavoured and that a Religion which is contrary to Law is endeavoured to be introduced upon which those who are most immediatly concerned in it are indispensably bound to endeavour to preserve and maintain the established Lawes Liberties and Customes and above all the Religion and worship of God that is established among them and to take such an effectuall care that the Inhabitants of the said State or Kingdome may neither be deprived of their Religion nor of their Civill Rights VVhich is so much the more necessary because the Greatnes and Security both of Kings Royall families and of all such as are in Authority as well as the happines of their Subjects and People depend in a most especiall manner upon the exact observation and maintenance of these their Lawes Liberties and Customes Upon these grounds it is that Wee cannot any longer forbear to Declare that to our great regret Wee see that those Councellours who have now the chiefe credit with the King have overturned the Religion Lawes and Liberties of those Realmes and subjected them in all things relating to their Consciences Liberties and Properties to Arbitrary Government and that not only by secret and indirect waies but in an open and undisguised manner Those Evill Councellours for the advancing and colouring this with some plausible pretexts did invent and set on foot the Kings Dispencing power by vertue of which they pretend that according to Law he can Suspend and Dispence with the Execution of the Lawes that have been enacted by the Authority of the King and Parliament for the security and happines of the Subject and so have rendered those Lawes of no effect Tho there is nothing more certain then that as no Lawes can be made but by the joint concurrence of King and Parliament so likewise lawes so enacted which secure-the Publike peace and safety of the Nation and the lives and liberties of every subject in it can not be repealed or suspended but by the same authority For tho the King may pardon the punishment that a Transgressour has incurred and to which he is condemned as in the cases of Treason or Felony yet it can not be with any colour of reason inferred from thence that the King can entirely suspend the execution of those Lawes relating to Treason or Felony unlesse it is pretended that he is clothed with a Despotick and Arbitrary power and that the Lives Liberties Honours and Estates of the Subjects depend wholly on his good will and pleasure and are entirely subject to him which must infallibly follow on the Kings having a power to suspend the execution of the Lawes and to dispence with them Those Evill Councellours in order to the giving some credit to this strange and execrable Maxime have so conducted the matter that they have obtained a Sentence from the Judges declaring that this Dispencing power is a Right belonging to the Crown as if it were in the power of the twelve Judges to offer up the Lawes Rights and Liberties of the whole Nation to the King to be disposed of by him Arbitrarily and at his Pleasure and expressly contrary to Lawes enacted for the security of the Subjects In order to the obtaining this Judgment those Evill Councellours did before hand examine secretly the Opinion of the Judges and procured such of them as could not in Conscience concurre in so pernicious a Sentence to be turned out and others to be substituted in their rooms till by the changes which were made in the Courts of Judicature they at last obtained that Judgment And they have raised some to those Trusts who make open profession of the Popish Religion tho those are by Law rendred incapable all such Employments It is also manifest and notorious that as his Majestie was upon his coming to the Crown received and acknowledged by all the subjects of England Scotland and Ireland as their King without the least opposition tho he made then open profession of the Popish Religion so he did then promise and solemnly swear at his Coronation that he would maintain his subjects in the free enjoyment of their Lawes Rights and Liberties and in particular that he would maintain the Church of England as it was established by Law It is likewise certain that there have been at diverse and sundry times severall Lawes enacted for the preservation of those Rights and Liberties and of the Protestant Religion and among other Securities it has been enacted that all Persons whatsoever that are advanced to any Ecclesiasticall Dignity or to bear Office in either University as likewise all other that should be put in any Imployment Civill or Military should declare that they were not Papists but were of the Protestant Religion and that by their taking of the Oaths of Allegange and Supreamacy and the Test yet these Evill Councellours have in effect annulled and abolished all those Lawes both with relation to Ecclesiasticall and Civill Employments In order to Ecclesiasticall Dignities and Offices they have not only without any colour of Law but against most expresse Lawes to the contrary set up a Commission of a certain number of persons to whom they have committed the cognisance and direction of all Ecclesiasticall matters in the which Commission there has been and still is one of His Majesties Ministers of State who makes now publike profession of the Popish Religion and who at the time of his first professing it declared that for a great while before he had beleeved that to be the only true Religion By all this the deplorable State to which the Protestant Religion is reduced is apparent since the Affairs of the Church of England are now put into the hands of Persons who have accepted of a Commission that is manifesty Illegal and who have executed it contrary to all Law and that now one of their

DECLARATION OF HIS HIGHNES WILLIAM HENRY By the Grace of God PRINCE OF ORANGE c. Of the reasons inducing him To Appear in Armes for Preserving of the Protestant Religion and for Restoring the Lawes and Liberties of the ancient Kingdome of Scotland IT is both certain and evident to all men that the publike Peace and Happines of any State or Kingdome can not be preserved where the Lawes Liberties and Customes established by the lawfull authority in it are openly transgressed and annulled more especially where the alteration of Religion is endeavoured and that a Religion which is contrary to Law is endeavoured to be introduced upon which those who are most immediatly concerned in it are indispensably bound to endeavour to preserve and maintain the established Lawes Liberties and Customes and above all the Religion and worship of God that is established among them and to take such an effectuall care that the Inhabitants of the said State or Kingdome may neither be deprived of their Religion nor of their Civill Rights VVhich is so much the more necessary because the Greatnes and Security both of Kings Royall families and of all such as are in Authority as well as the happines of their Subjects and People depend in a most especiall manner upon the exact observation and maintenance of these their Lawes Liberties and Customes Upon these grounds it is that Wee cannot any longer forbear to Declare that to our great regret Wee see that those Councellours who have now the chiefe credit with the King have overturned the Religion Lawes and Liberties of those Realmes and subjected them in all things relating to their Consciences Liberties and Properties to Arbitrary Government and that not only by secret and indirect waies but in an open and undisguised manner And indeed the lamentable effects of an Arbitrary Power and of Evill Counsells are so Manifest in the deplorable State of the Kingdome of Scotland that both our reason and conscience doe prompt us to an abhorrence of them For when wee consider the sad condition that Nation though always affectionate to the Royall Family and governed for many Ages by Laws made by the authority of their Kings and of the Estates of Parliament and by Common customes is reduced to by endeavours that have been used to change the constitution of the Monarchy regulate by Laws into a Despotick or Arbitrary Power which doth evidently appear not only by the actings of Evill Councellours in power but by the deliberate and expresse publick Declarations bearing that the King is an Absolute Monarch to whom obedience ought to be given in all things without reserve thereby to make way to introduce what Religion they please without so much as the necessity of the consent of the Nation by their Estates in Parliament Whilest wee consider and ponder these things as wee cannot but be touched with a tender sense of those miseries so the giving such a remedy to them as may be proper and may answer the expectation of all good men and true Protestants is the great thing which wee propose to our selves in this undertaking the Equity where of will be justified to the world if what hath been acted at the instigation of those Evill Councellours be further impartially weighed It is well known that the Laws Priviledges and Rights of the Kingdome have been overturned to the great prejudice of King and people whilest thus all foundation of confidence and trust is removed And it is no less known what have been the Arbitrary procedures of an encroaching Privy Councell for although by the Laws enacted by the authority of King and Parliament it is expressly prohibited that the Popish Religion should be professed or Seminary Priests suffered within the Kingdom or that the children of any Noblemen or Gentlemen should be sent abroad to be educated in Popish Colledges yet have these Evill Councellours ordered or suffered young Noblemen to be taken from their relations and to be sent abroad to be instructed in Jesuites Colledges and have likewayes caused Schools to be erected under the conduct of Popish Priests and that in the Capitall City of the Kingdom In an open contempt also of the known Laws of the Kingdom Papists are put into places of Highest Trust both Civil and Military and entrusted with all the Forts and Magazins The rights and Priviledges of the Royall Burrows the Third Estate of Parliament having as many Deputies in it as all the Shires in the Kingdom are taken away and they hindred in the free election of their Magistrats and Town-Councells to the manifest violation of their Charters established by Law and Immemoriall possession And all this is done by meer Arbitrary power without any Citation Triall or Sentence And whereas no Nation whatsoever can subsist without the administration of good and impartiall Justice upon which mens Lives aud Liberties their Honours and Estates depend yet those Evill Councellours have subjected these to an Arbitrary and Despotick power having turned out Judges who by Law ought to continue during their Life or their good behaviour becase they would not conform themselves to their Intentions and put others in their Places who they believe would be more complyant and that without any regard to their abilities by which it evidently appears that those Evill Councellours design to render themselves the Absolute Masters of the Lives Honours and Estates of the subjects without being restrained by any rule or Law. By the inflence of the same Evill Counsellours hath a most exorbitant power been exercised in imposing Bonds and Oaths upon whole Shires without any Law or Act of Parliament in permitting Free quarters to the souldiers although they had a sufficient Establisment for their pay whereby the Kingdom was doubly burdened without any redres in imprisoning Gentlemen without any so much as alledged Reason for ceing many to accuse and witness against themselves imposing arbitrary fines frighting and harassing many parts of the Countrey with Intercommoning and Justice-Aires making some incurre forfeiture of life fortune for the most generall and harmless converse even with their nearest relations outlawed And thus bringing a consternation upon a great part of the Kingdom which when Outlawries and Intercommonings went out against multitudes upon the slenderest pretexts was involved so universally in that danger that those Councellours themselves were so obnoxious as to find it necessary to have Pardons and Indemnities whilest the poor people were left to mercy impowering Officers and Souldiers to Act upon the subjects living in quiet and full peace the greatest Barbarities in destroying them by hanging shooting and drouwning them without any forme of Law or respect to Age or Sexe not giving some of them time to pray to God for mercy And this for no other reason but because they would not answer or satisfy them in such questions as they proposed to them without any warrant of Law and against the Common Interest of Mankind which frees all men from being obliged to discover their