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A57020	A Reply to the answer Doctor Welwood has made to King James's declaration which declaration was dated at St. Germaines, April 17th, S.N., 1693 and published also in the Paris Gazett, June 20th, 1693.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1066; ESTC R24075	49,724	48

King's Words and it rails so very cour●ly that it can scarce im●ose upon the most unlettered men and tho' I have resolved to give it a Reply since it would be a tedious drudgery to follow the Author from page to page I shall chuse to reduce under Heads what is most material in that authorized ●ibel and after I have handled them at large I will more briefly take notice of what they don't comprise that deserves any Answer First The Doctor makes much use of the Declaration that was last Year published in King Iames's Name Secondly He flourishes with the male-administrations during his Majesties abode amongst us Thirdly He tells us no King is to be trusted who has once broke his Word And Lastly He acquaints us after all the pains he has taken to Answer it that he knows not whether it is King Iames's Declaration or no. As for the Declaration that was printed last year besides that I can assure you Doctor I never yet saw it Signed with the King 's own Hand I can also assure you that it was as much misliked by many almost all of the King's Friends as it can be exposed by his Enemies If you won't take my Word for this be pleased to peruse the Letters Mr. Secretary Iohnson ordered to be printed in Scotland and in one of those charged upon Nevill Payne● you will find I am in the right If I would take the Liberty you make use of I might falsify and utterly deny that ever King Iames so much as saw it but I think my self obliged in Honour and Conscience to deal ingeniously in every thing I publish to the World and with all Doctor I t●ink the faithful relation of matter of fact which I shall now make will vindicate both the King and the ●ober part of those in his Interest from those dr●adful I●puta●ions wherewith upon the account of that Declaration you are pleased to charge them The matter of Fact then is thus King Iames designing last Year to come over sent to several of his Friends to give him an account of what they tho●ght p●●p●r for him to do and how he ought to express his Intentions in a Declaration that he might thereby make his reaccession more easie but thinking it proper to keep his coming over as much and as long a secret as he could he so very darkly intimated for what Reasons he desired his Friends to consider of such a draught that the most solid and considerate of them did not believe there was any necessity to h●sten over their Notions but some who are not so well able to give materials for things of that nature yet were very glad the King had been pleased to ask their Opinions were more forward so that the King not having heard from others upon whose Judgmen●s he could have depended was forced to order a Declaration to be drawn up according to the accounts that these men had sent but tho● he had been so long from England which might excuse his mistakes he was himself so little satisfied with that Declaration that he ordered him who had the custody of all the Printed Copies that were at La Hogue not to give out one there and he sent express Commands with the draught that he sent over to be printed h●re that not one of them should be dispersed amongst us till he was actually Landed and had advised with his Friends upon the place what was fit for him to resolve and particularly whether that Declaration was agreeable to the sence of these Kingdoms and he had designed to have brought with him a Press and Printers that if his Friends disapproved of that Declaration he might put forth another and wholly suppress that Had he come over he would have been before his Landing convinced that it was not agreeable for just about that time the French Fleet was beaten and which was before the King could have come hither there arrived at La Hogue Declarations drawn in Form with universal Mercy and such as did engage the King to give us ●ull Securities both for our Reli●ion and for our Liberties and there were sent likewise by the Penners of those Declarations more severe Animadversions upon that Declaration which was indeed printed by but published both on this and the other side contrary to the King 's express Order then any that were here authorized by my Lord Nottingham's Imprimatur The King indeed ordered that Declaration to be drawn but neither was the King nor the Penner of it to blame that they were not furnished with more suitable ●otions since they sent for Instructions Nor can I so much blame those Persons t●at sent those materials because that altho' their thoughts h●d not been conversant with things of that so●t yet men must have vast degrees of Modesty in their o●n ●empers who would not ●e●●mpted to wade out of their d●pth by such a Complement as the King justly enough thought was then even necessary for his Affai●s to make them Nor were those others who upon Captain S●ow's Landing immediately ●ate themselves to collect the s●nce of the Na●ion u●pa●●onably to blame that they did not upon first no●ice transmit their Sc●emes ●or the more solid men are the more diffident they will be of themselves especially where t●e Advice is to be prop●rtioned to such a vari●ty of Se●ts and Interests as are upon this Island ●ince the extream goodn●ss of the King has p●rdoned their having been too dila●ory which they must and do acknowledge as a fault it is hoped their follow Subjects will not too severely censure such who would hazard their Lives and Fortunes for the good of England That they would risk even the good opinion of the King I think may be made evident by an account of 〈◊〉 that were sent from hence They not only wrote very frankly against that Declaration but upon their seei●g●i● they also probed the inclinations of the King and his then sole Secretary there the Earl of Melfort and that by exacting their fence of many particulars which are not proper to be mentioned in this Paper but fitter to be referr'd to the debates of a Parliament and the Answers they had were so satisfactory t●at they were thereby encouraged to pursue their duty with all imaginable and renewed diligence Some of those things in●illed u●on by them have been published in ●ormer Pamphlets by the advice of the King's friends here and since that you have had some of them published in the King 's own Declaration When these Pamphlets came out you thought the good things they mentioned were but the Wishes of the Writers and not the Inclinations either of the King or his Party ●ut now you see by his own Declaration that they were agreeable to the King 's own Sentiments and the advice of his Friends Those things were not then said without Book When the first Declaration first came out and before there were returns to those Letters which were sent against it

there was written by one in the King's Interest a Paper called Honesty is the best Policy wherein the Author avers and that upon his own knowledge that that Declaration was contrary to the King 's own sence of things as he inferred from discourses that he had the honour to have personally had with the King at St. Germaines I believe was the Author known no body could justly accuse him for want either of Probity or Love to England After the Answers of these Letters came over the Iacobite Principles was written which contained notions which are plainly hinted at in this ●ast Declaration and before the Publication of this last Declaration came forth the French Conquest neither desireable nor Practicable and now it is evident by this Declaration that the good things asserted in those Pamplets in behalf of the King were not the private Su●mises of the Author but founded upon ●ood authorities from St. Germaines and since th●s Government has printed in Scotland some Letters that they have either intercepted or made I will venture so far to betray the Secrets of his Majesty as to transcribe some passages out of Letters that have been sent me from the Earl of Melfort and many others have had Letters of the same purport I have mine by me and if the Parliament will obtain a safe con●uct for us I will produce them and I don't question but many others of his Majesties Friends wi●● produce such other Letters either written by the King or his command as would abundantly satisfie the Nation that the King is ready to do all things necessa●y to secure them from all those dismal Hobgoblins which some through Malice and others through Folly have bug-●eared us withal The passages I shall transcribe out of my Letters are as follow 3 d. Iuly 1692. I had Yours of the last Month and the only one I have had this considerable time In it I find your objections to the Declaration and find that most of them are Just and what shall be help'd in the next There was not one Topick sent but was made use of and if we have failed it has been the fault of those that have not informed aright what would please and not ou●s and as for that draught you sent me I had it at the Sea-side when we were past thinking of Declarations As to our Intentions the King was resolved to Govern by the known Laws of the Kingdom to consult with his Parliament in all things relating to the establishment of Peace and quiet in his Kingdoms to maintain the Liberties and Properties of all his Subjects to protect the Protestant Religion and to obtain Liberty of Conscience for all Dissenters He designed to except none from his mercy excepting those who opposed his Restoration and to Govern so as that he might gain him the Love of his People and make them as fond of him as they had been violent against him and tho' he could not at this distance tell how this was to be attained to yet he was resolved if once upon the place to have persued the true methods of doing it Withal I must tell you that no Declaration was ever published by the King's authority for tho' it was printed it was not to have been dispersed till the King 's Landing and having met with some of his Friends and if they had disliked it even then it had not been Published 11 th Iuly 1692. No man in the world wishes more heartily then my self to see Bounds and Limits fairly cleared betwixt the People and Monarchy of England that so we may not oppose the Prerogative ignorantly nor unknowingly ru● into Arbitrary Notions against the Liberty of the Subjects if these Limits were once fixt one who meant well might tread s●cure which is now impossible for both Parties pretending to have right and it may be in some things without reason one may design well and yet displease both which could never occur if Prerogative and Property were once clearly defined and stated What all this may end in is hard to foretell and whether ever we shall be so happy to see things cleared on just and equal terms but of this I can assure you it is the King's desire that it should be so Aug. 29 th 1692. I am for large measures and having the Crown established upon the Love and Affections of the Subjects and that in our days we may see the King and People in mutual confidence of one another and all Jealousies and Fears and the grounds of them rooted out that the design of the Court may be the Happiness and Prosperity of the People and the design of the People to encrease the Glory of the Crown and the legal rightful Succession thereof that Liberty and Property might be secured and that Prerogative which justly belongs to the Crown Established for their protection All this might be now were England so happy to lay h●ld on the Conjuncture 22d Septem 1692. The French King did not so much as pretend the Forces he sent should have English Pay but his own which looks far from de●●nding great Sums of the Nation and I can assure you he was as frank as any English man whatever for securing the people in the possession of their Religion Liberty and Property Let not England stand in its own way and oppose its own happiness and I 'le answer France shall not meddle nay if it were to meddle betwixt the King and his People it would be to gain the People more of their Will to humour them more not to complement the Crown AND ANY MAN OF GOOD SENCE WILL FIND REASONS OF STATE FOR THEIR SO DOING In another place of the same Letter he says that The King of France when the King was to come last Year to us said all he had to pretend to was to wish the King happy in the possession of his own and that in serving his Friend he had all he aimed at October 6 th 1692. Things shall be established upon the antient English bottom Religion Property and Liberty shall be as in the freest of times no man shall suffer for his Opinion in matters of Religion The King will have a free Parliament with whom he will consult the settling of all these upon the most lasting Foundations and differences once cleared he will govern according to Law he will have no different Interest from that of England and will make it his chief Study to gain the Love of his People and to be more Lord of their Affections then of their Persons he will avoid all Jealousies and the occasion of them and will look upon him as the worst of Traytors who would advise him to do a●y thing might give his People any Iealousie or Fear In short govern so as honest English men would have him mind the Interest●●rade and Honour of the Nation and that against all its Rivals This is the Interest of the Nation and will be performed and being meant in the full