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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