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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48420	The Life of that incomparable princess, Mary, our late sovereign lady, of ever blessed memory who departed this life, at her royal pallace at Kensington, the 28th of December, 1694.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1695 (1695)	Wing L2036; ESTC R12336	30,960	122

Crown But so far were her Thoughts from pluming her self with that gay Trifle added to her Scutcheon that on the contrary not only her natural and passionate Tenderness for so near so great and so honoured a Relation but likewise those for the Religion and Liberties of her Country infinitely out-weighed all private Considerations if it were possible for her diminutive Ambition to have any such For Empire and Soveraignty weighed but light in her Ballance But as we have endeavoured to play the Divine Historian in recounting the inimitable Vertues and Piety of this most excellent Lady so we find her not only so zealous a Professor but rank'd also in that higher Class the Champions of Religion too witness her several Letters from Holland to her ever-darling Sister the Princess Ann of Denmark in which to copy from her Grand-father's Original I may truly say she drew her own Eicon Basilice whilst out of some little Fears of that too dangerous Influence Regis ad Exemplum together with the prevailing Paternal Authority of a then Crowned Head she acted that truly Christian GAMALIEL in those strennous and labour'd Arguments in Defence of the Church of England against the Errors of Rome for her Royal Highness's Confirmation as were wholly beyond the common Capacity of her Sex 'T is true 't was all a Work of Supererrogation as being addrest to the Princess Anne the Mistress of that settled Resolution and those steady Grounds of Faith as wholly unshaken as her own Nevertheless 't was an innocent Tenderness of Affection and Warmth of Zeal on the right side and her ingenious Prosecution of so noble a Theme must stand no little Monument of her Glory But as mine is too unhallowed a ●●n for so Divine a Theme as such transcendent Piety and true Zeal for the Church of England I shall borrow her fairer Character from a more deserving Historian the Reverend Dr. Lake her Royal Highness's sometimes Chaplain whilst in his Preface to his Officium Eucharisticum a Present truly worthy so sacred a Hand as the Princess's he justly tells the World That She is become her own Theatre every Scene of her Life is so generally known whilst the World is a Spectator to applaud and admire her that it were even an unpardonable Arrogance either to think of adding any thing to her Highness's Luster or to believe he need open his Reader 's Eyes The Gravity and Sweetness of her Miene the Affability of all her Comportments the Vertue Innocence and Goodness of her Life her resolved Constancy in adhering to the Religion of our Church her frequent and devout Retirements into her Closet her unwearied Attendance at her Chappel and Altar are sufficiently obvious that the bare Knowledg of her Highness has been enough to render her beloved with the most profound Respect And that he 's encouraged to tell her that these Endowments will ever more import and stead her than any external or worldly ones wherewith too she is abundantly provided The Celsitude of her Descent only enrolls her Name in the Catalogue of the Great is secular and transitory calculated for this World but it is her Grace and Vertue that writes it in the Book of Life Beauty is fading Grandure is fugitive the Wreathes of Civil Honour are withering but her Godliness is a Crown that shall not fade away gloriously set off with a diffusive Charity a great Humility and an exemplary Devotion But to return to our History As we left that sleeping Prince the much lamented Charles the Second in his Tomb and find his Brother in the Throne When after the first fair Dawn of this new Reign a Morning that smiled so kind and promising even to the dispelling almost all our past Frights the growing Day soon clouded and our whole Hemisphere began to lowr When Religion and Zeal not to be too long on so unpleasing a Subject had superseded all other Obligations of Trust Faith Vows Honour and every thing that ought to be binding or sacred and all the fatal Consequences were but too visible insomuch that our Religion and Liberties bore but a Melancholy Face under the black Storms above them 'T was then when the reviving and increasing Terrors of the Nation from their impending Calamities call'd and invited over the Prince of Orange for his relieving Hand c. To describe the Prince's glorious Entry into England so late and so fresh in all Memories were a needless Repetition Let it suffice that He wore the two Tablets of the Law engraven upon his Sword RELIGION and RIGHTS a Sword that with so poten● a Commission and such a Cause even unsheathed carried all before it whilst the Gates of Castles Towns Garisons c. without either Siege or Blockcade unlock'd to the very Name of ORANGE The poor unhappy King seeing his whole Power thus dropt from him all the too dismal Effects of his own misguided Counsels and thereby his long flatter'd Hopes for ever defeated whether through Blushes or Fears or both I will not determine abandon'd his deserted Crown and Kingdom by which Vacancy of the Throne so large a Jewel as the English Diadem being returned into their own Hands the Gratitude of the Nation was pleased to bestow it on the Prince and Princess of Orange made Co-Partners in the Soveraignty the Administration lodged in the Prince and all with those universal Transports of Joy as want not so poor a Trumpet as mine to sound them I remember a short but very emphatical Line on His Majesty's Accession to the Crown not unworthy my Repetition on this glorious Occasion NON RAPIT IMPERIVM VIS TVA SED RECIPIT Which shall thus speak English A Crown unsought thou foundst th●t Gem was given By grateful Man and by rewarding Heaven And now to compleat the whole Nation 's impatient Desires there wanted only the Presence of her Royal Highness who accordingly upon a solemn Invitation of the Estates embarked for England attended by a Squadron of English and Dutch Men of War and arrived safely at White-hall on the 12 th of February 1688. to the inexpressible Joy of the People having been also saluted all the way her Yatch passed by the Forts and Ships in the Road as also by the Tower-Guns The same Day she received the Complements of the whole Nobility and the next Day Their Titles were proclaimed only with all the Customary Formality of Proclamations of that kind viz. That the Gates at Temple-Bar were shut where the Lord-Mayor Aldermen Recorder and Sheriffs attended till the Heraulds at Arms came to the Gates and there informed the occasion of their coming before they were opened for their Admission into the City On the 11 th of April following was celebrated their happy Coronation which added that fairer Glory to the Triumphs of the Day as the Nation had conceived those fairer and more than common Hopes from the Illustrious Royal Pair that then received the Crown And to conclude the Ceremony by the universal Satisfaction