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A51196	Great Britain's just complaint for her late measures, present sufferings, and the future miseries she is exposed to with the best, safest, and most effectual way of securing and establishing her religion, government, liberty, and property upon good and lasting foundations : fully and clearly discovered in answer to two late pamphlets concerning the pretended French invasion.	Montgomery, James, Sir, d. 1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2504; ESTC R30525	61,135	64

seldom lasting amongst Neighbouring Princes rarely continue during their own Lives and are never transmitted to to their Posterities so many Reasons and Jealousies of State are falling in which occasion frequent and unavoidable Breaches And a King of England who is Absolute and Master of his Subjects would be a great deal more troublesome and dangerous to France than otherways and so it is not very probable that that Monarch will ever contribute to make us a Conquest to K. James and introduce Popery and Slavery amongst us There is one sure way to prevent this danger of Conquest and that is by the vigorous endeavours of every Enlish Man to repair the Injury done to our Abdicated Monarch King William's unwillingness to Abdicate which these Authors threaten us with can't put a stop to it His breaches upon our Laws and Constitution and his violation of the Original Contract made with himself deserves it and it is not all his Partisans and Troops can cover him from Abdication whenever the People of England thinks fit to declare it We are told next by these Authors That K. James is become so in love with the French Government that we shall never so much as have his Promise for securing our Religion and Liberties even though we have no reason to depend upon that or any other Security he can give us since he hath undertaken to the Pope and K. of France to make void all when he is upon his Throne and that it is visible from his Carriage in Ireland to the Protestants there that neither the sad Example of K. Charles the First who suffered for the like Attempts towards Arbitrary Power nor the fresh Remembrances of his own Misfortunes will ever oblige him to lay aside his Arbitrary Designs And however instrumental Protestants may be in his return that Pardon for their former Failings is all can be expected from him without obtaining the least kind regard to their Religion or Liberties on that Score I would gladly know upon what Grounds they assert that K. James will grant no Security at all for Religion and Liberty Have they made the Experiment and been refused It is not a bare Assertion can convince us of the Truth of it since we are assured to the contrary I have heard of a Scotch Plot for Restoring King James the particulars of it I am not acquainted with Only I have been told That upon the Application of some few Gentlemen of that Nation unto him he frankly granted them under the Broad Seal of Scotland all that was proposed for the security of Religion and Liberty and agreed to several Immunities which the P. of O. refused that Nation though he was solemnly engaged to grant them when the Crown of that Kingdom was tendered unto him Here is more than a bare Promise the Concessions are passed under the Broad Seal and granted by him when his Affairs were in Promising Circumstances at the desire of a few Gentlemen who had been active against him and who could make no such considerable Addition unto his Party as might induce him to it unless his own Inclinations when free from the pressure of designing Ministers and readiness to rectifie whatever was grievous to the People had put him upon it Can it be doubted after this that he will deny any thing that is necessary for the good and happiness of his Subjects whenever they apply seriously unto him for it But he must make good his Engagements to the Pope and King of France and make void all when he remounts the Throne which his hard Circumstances obliged him to grant If this were made plain unto us there would be a great deal of weight in it all the Evidence we have for it is the Veracity of the Author which goeth no great length being founded only upon supposition that he could not be countenanced by those Princes without such an Engagement This is an Argument that concludes more forcibly against themselves since it is reasonable to imagine that more solemn and sacred Engagements in favour of the Holy Chair and a Conviction of more punctual and ready Performances were necessary to induce the Pope and so many Popish Princes to countenance a Protestants mounting the Throne to the prejudice of a Papist I am yet to learn what were the great Merits of the Irish Protestants since the Revolution the fresh Obligations laid upon him and what were the new Discoveries he gave us there of his hatred to Protestants and irregular Arbitrary Courses I have seen a Book written by Dr. King which these Authors refers us to as sufficient Evidence to make good their Charge but it is so scandalously and notoriously False and stuffed with so many gross Errors and willful Mistakes in point of History and matter of Fact even in many things which fall under my own Knowlege that the Doctor seems to have Calculated his Book for a Virulent false Libel thereby to merit some Benifice from this Government rather than for our Information by a true and impartial History And the World shall be obliged with a particular Account of his Falshoods and Calumnies by a full and impartial Account of those Transactions But to come close home to the Charge Did not the Irish Protestants generally declare for the Prince of Orange Did they not actually either appear in Arms for the Prince or quit the Kingdom And those who stay'd were not they rather lookers on than actors or any ways useful towards the asserting the King's Rights I do not design this as a Satyr against the Protestants of Ireland the Measures taken there gave them much better grounds for their Fears than any we can pretend but only to shew that the Protestants of Ireland contributed no Endeavours towards his Restauration but run generally along with the Stream against it and so cannot be said to have made any new Experiment of his Kindness to and grateful sense of Obligations performed by Protestants They never desired or obtained any new Securities for their Religion and Liberties upon the Account of Services performed for him and so have no fresh Branches of Promise to charge upon him as our Authors do insinuate whereby to deter the Protestants of Britain from contributing towards his Restauration On the contrary we have a very convincing Argument from his Care of his Protestant Subjects there tho' either actually Enemies or at best but idle Spectators and his constant Endeavours to protect them from the Insults and Fury of the Irish of whom he was not fully Master to persuade us of the Gratitude and kind Returns we may exp●ct from him when at liberty and obliged by our Services to express it How carefully did he preserve their Estates and Goods With how much tenderness did he give free Passage to the Women and Children from Londonderry when by denying it he must infallibly have carried the Town With what exact Discipline did he Govern an Army serving without Pay until King William's Protestant reforming

these Errors the Punishments we deserve will certainly overtake us We have turned away our King whose Right and Title was certain and unquestioned nay we have chased him from us with unspeakable Indignities upon the Pretence of Errors in Government which he was put upon by the Artifice of his Enemies and which he was willing to have repair'd at our own Sight He courted us by repeated Applications to carve out our own Securities for our Religion and Civil Rights but we have obstinately refused any Treaty with him We have set our selves up for a Mark of Reproach to future Ages by our foolish and invincible Malice and matchless Impudence in Vacating a Throne by a pretended Abdication which imports a Voluntary Resignation and yet the Abdicated M narch never made any but asserts his ●itle to this day We have ground d this Abdication upon a wilful Desertion in our Prince when we forced him away for the Preservation of his Life and upon Mistakes in Government which he was trapan'd into and which he was willing to have repaired but we would not as if every Error in Government had been a Sin against the Holy Ghost which neither can be attoned for nor forgotten The Injury done to our Sovereign is very visible from what I have written and so Reparation ought to be speedily made notwithstanding all the Reasons given by these two Pamphleteers against it But before I enter upon answering their Objections I shall discourse upon the other three Motives assigned for the King's Restauration and make them equally plain with the first I have already handled which will in a great measure prevent or take off all Objections can be made The second Motive was the Setling the Government upon its old Basis which is visibly interrupted and quite unhinged by this Abdication We have turned our Hereditary Monarchy into an Elective We have cut the Royal Line interrupted the Succession and destroyed the just Rights of innocent Persons upon a pretended Abdication which thô well founded is but personal and cannot be extend d any farther To this it is answered by the Author of The Pretences of the French Invasion examined p 10. l. 1. and downwards That the Breach as to the Person of the Reigning King was made by himself having deserted That the Convention did not make but found the Throne vacant That in Regard there were so many clear Indications of the Imposture of the Prince of Wales the Conventi●n applied to the present Queen who was the next and undoubted Heir and at her Request a Title was given to her Husband and that 〈◊〉 for Life though he was much nearer in Blood than Henry IV. and Henry VII successively made Kings of England That much greater Breaches have been made since the Conquest in the Lineal Succession by deposing the Reigning King and setting up his Son or a remoter Person which he acknowlegeth an Injury to the King so deposed and that the saving the Succession to the Princess of Denmark and her Heirs shews how far the Convention was from any such thing as is alledged By such Reasonings the Author of this Pamphlet discovers but small Knowlege in History and the Affairs of his own Country little Judgment and Veracity joyned with a great deal of Disingenuity and Impudence How truly the Breach made in our Monarchy by the Abdicating Vote is to be laid at King James's door upon the Account of his Desertion may appear from what I have already said And though this Author doth very confidently assert That the Throne was void by Desertion it seems the Convention were not of that Opinion but found it necessary to declare it so by a Vote before there was Access to fill it again and the E●rl of Nottingham was then quite another Man and of other Principles than we find him now as an Author or Licenser only A Regency was not in the least akin to a Vacancy But to humour the Author suppose there was a Vacancy either before or after the Vote which he pleaseth a Vacancy in a Monarchy is a certain infallible Mark of its being elective For in a Hereditary Monarchy such as this of England upon the Natural or Civil Death too if the Author pleaseth of the Regnant Monarch the Right of the next Successour doth immediately take place and the People whether by their Representatives in Parliament or otherwise do humbly submit to and acknowledge not declare and authorize his Native Title Our law-Law-books teach us That the Kings of England can never dye The meaning is That in an Hereditary Monarchy the Throne cannot be without a Possessor were it but for a Moment so that where either there is the least Vacancy or where the next Possessor wants a Sentence of the People to give him a Title that very Sentence however disguised is an Election and together with the preceeding Vacancy doth certainly and indispensably stamp the Monarchy Elective Is it not highly impudent in this Author to tell us that there are many clear Indications of the Prince of Wales being an Imposture and at the same time not to let us know what they are and upon what Grounds they are so clear and evident Can this Author be so vain as to think we must take his Word for a Thing upon which so much depends no less than the justice or injustice of a Sentence which must stand the Nation in so much Blood and Treasure so many Perjuries and repeated Acts of Violence and Oppression to support and maintain Or doth he therein follow the Example of the Prince of Orange in his Declaration Which tells us of many just and visible Grounds of Suspicion that the Prince of Wales was not Born of the Queen and refers the Inquiry of that Truth to a free Parliament King James also hath made the same reference in a Letter from St. Germains nay desired the last Parliament to look narrowly into that Affair and yet the Prince hath never to this day desired the Parliament to fall about this important Search nor acquainted us with any of those just and visible Grounds of Suspicion Is it not very strange That the only plausible Pretence in all the Declaration for his undertaking should be so much over-look'd wh●n a clear and plain discovery of such an infamous Cheat and Imposture would have fully justified the Proceedings of the Convention of Estates the present Settlement of the Crown given us all peace of Conscience and Satisfaction under it and would really and truly have Abd cated King James for ever in the H●arts and Affections of every honest Englishman The Prince in Honor was concerned to have press'd it and the supr●am Senate was oblig'd in 〈◊〉 and Ju tice to have made a fu●● Discovery of the Truth or Fals hood o●●t esp●cially when they have 〈◊〉 so much press'd and challeng'd 〈◊〉 it were in the face of the World 〈…〉 about it by King James and 〈◊〉 Petitioned so to do by seve●●● rio●s of Honor