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A39513 An Account of some transactions in this present Parliament in a letter to a person of quality in the country. 1690 (1690) Wing E965; ESTC R25052 6,327 10

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Religious Q. was so affrighted If the French take our Ships and the Dutch our Trade they are to be thought acdents and misfortunes or any thing besides marks of the Divine displeasure whose favour we have Ensured by taking so great care and doing such extraordinary things for his Honour and the preservation of his Truth Let not pressing Men be compared to spiriting and kidnapping nor imprisoning Men so Prest in the Round-houses or Goals nor forcing Women to attend the Camp as Laundresses Nurses c. be thought any breach of our English Liberties We know Necessity hath no. Law Old Forms must not hinder our Safety It is our our comfort that our necessity was our choice and we cannot reasonably complain of any but our selves which for good Reasons we ought not to do least it should look like discontent or inconstancy though if the half of our present Burthens had been Imposed or threatned by the Abdicated King it would have been intollerable I cannot forbear condemning some who studying the Improvement of their Country made the increase of Inhabitants necessary thereto and yet complain of Foreigners coming in for though we want many thousand Mouths to spend the product of our Country which were sent to Scotland Ireland and our Plantations yet this defect is supplyed with the better and more numerous supply of Danes Dutch and Strangers of other Nations with their Wives and Children so that we are in hopes though we may want Natives yet we shall not want numbers of Inhabitants even such as will ease us of our cares and hazards of Trade and War Our courteous and civilized Neighbours will Fight for and defend us will Trade for and supply us and those Commodities which with danger of crosing the Seas we fetch from all parts of the World may be brought us from Holland and our Country-Men may be trained to Husbandry and when our running Cash is gone we may supply our want of Mony by the old way of Trade and Traffick by exchange of Commodities And indeed more Foreign Forces will be necessary to keep us poor till we are better accustomed to and prepared to relinquish that too long yet Factious Pride whereby we have been so uneasie to our Kings and we are not like to quit that Vice which Peace and Plenty hath Nursed us in till we are brought to some degree of Slavery Poverty will keep of Envy and Popish Emissaries will no more trouble us when we are well settled than Bees do the Mustard Pot. So long as our Religious King and Queen encourage long Praeyers before Sermons and like Preaching so well as to have Afternoon-Sermons at White-Hall though he be forced to keep many Papists in pay and hath been reconciled to and communicated as some confidently affirm with the Church of Rome we must not doubt but he hath cleared himself of all his Engagements of that kind to the late Pope and is wholly in the true Protestant Interest having allowed the deprivation of the Bishops and wilful Clergy in Scotland abolished Episcopacy it self and we may reasonably expect the like Settlement and Reformation here after he hath reduced Ireland and expelled his Rebellious FATHER out of that part of his Dominions And if we supply him with Money enough he will be Victorious over the French and extinguish all hopes of his Enemies Our late Kings have been so unfortunate with that ancient Motto Dieu mon Droit as they claimed the Government from God and their Right that our Wise King had no reason to keep it but being resolved to support us by his own Arm and Interest he hath not only covered some of the Royal Arms of England with his Eschucheon of Pretence but as a Motto of better Proof has substituted his instead of the other and the Waggons carry upon them these Words Je meinteindra I will maintain it And this Family which from a small Principality attained to the Dignity of Stadholder is in him advanced to possess a Title to 4 Crowns which he and his Posterity will maintain and we have great cause to think our selves happy under his Government who adventured his Life and Fertunes to deliver us from Popery and Slavery and will again hazard his Sacred Person an Infirm Body and Great Soul for our Preservation FINIS