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A65950	An exact diary of the late expedition of His Illustrious Highness, the Prince of Orange, now King of Great Britain, from his palace at the Hagve, to his landing at Torbay, and from thence to his arrival at White-Hall giving a particular account of all that happened, and every day's march / by a minister, chaplain in the army.	Whittel, John.	1689 (1689)	Wing W2044; ESTC R4013	51,793	84

in Scotland beginning here to do the like And hence he told our Right Reverend Bishops when they waited on him about the reading of his illegal Declaration in the Churches I will make you to know that I am your King and that I must nay I will be obeyed be it at your peril Althô this command was contrary to the holy Word of God the Canons of our Church and the ancient Laws and Statutes of our Kingdom therefore our Right Reverend Bishops were hurried into the Tower. Now when the Priests and Jesuits saw plainly that they could not possibly get such a Parliament which would ease them of the Test and Penal Laws those two intolerable Yoaks as they forsooth called them thô the late K. James himself and all the Romanists within our Land had done their very uttermost using corrupt and unlawful means in order thereunto Then they thought to force us to take away the Test and Penal Laws therefore the late K. James sent out Mandamus after Mandamus but our brave English hearts would not be driven thô they might be won therefore they refused his Mandamus because it was contrary to Law Custom and Priviledge Then he commanded his Declaration to be read in every Church by the Minister after Divine Service and before Sermon and this not taking effect they knew not what to do for very few read his Declaration except some double minded men about our Church which are unstable in all their ways Now those Soul-deceivers about the Court advis'd the late K. James for to send unto Holland and try the inclination of the Prince of Orange and the Princess and desire their assent concerning the taking off the Test and Penal Laws which accordingly was done by his Envoy M. D' Abbeville But these two being like Zacharias and Elizabeth righteous before God and walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blamless not only refused to grant their royal Assent hereunto but even sign'd their Abhorrence of such a wicked Fact as appears apparently by the Lord Fagel's defence of himself against some implacable Papists in our Kingdom For which deed they immediately set themselves on work against the very best of Princes and broached the late Queens being with Child and it would certainly be a Prince of Wales But the All-seeing Eye being upon them soon brought to light their hidden work of darkness and raised up a good Josiah to break the power of Idolatry here For his illustrious Highness the Prince of Orance by his most accurate eye and with his profound sagacity soon espy'd the Popish Mystery of Iniquity which was so gloss'd over with equivocation prevarication and mental reservation and saw very plain thrô all the mists of their Roman and Italian Shams and thrô the clouds of their specious Pretences the inevitable ruin and destruction of England Scotland and Ireland if that this suspected Child was not timely prevented Nay he saw in the bottom of this Plot by the Sons of the Kingdom of Darkness the total Subversion of the true Reform'd Church of Christ therefore he judged it high time for the Lord 's peculiar People now to stand up for his Cause for the defence of his Truth and Gospel to resist the Devil and all his Imps now our necks being under oppression by Popish Governours our Inheritance turn'd to Strangers and our Houses to Aliens I mean unto these Soul-deceivers wherewith our Nation did swarm For the Jesuits and Priests of Baal Anti-christ did now feed on the best of the Flock and devour the Fruit of our Land while many able Ministers of the Gospel had scarce Bread left for to put in their mouths I mean those that were suspended by the Bishop of Durham insomuch that the Protestants hang'd down their Heads like a Bulrush and were not a little concerned to see the partial proceedings of the Court and being unable for to bear any longer their most unjust and abominable Actions it pleased our heavenly Father so to rule and guide the Hearts and Minds of the Nobility Gentry and some others of our Land that they join'd together and with one accord earnestly invited and desired his most illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only Person under Heaven capable of doing it for to give himself the trouble and charge of coming over with an Army here to deliver our Land and Nation out of the hands of all those implacable and blood-thirsty Enemies who long'd now to destroy us as also to free us from a Despotick and Arbitrary Power Therefore the renown'd Prince of Orange who was ever forward to hazard his own Person and venture his Life for the Life of the Gospel to preserve and maintain the Truth and Purity of it against all seducers and opposers did not delay answering their earnest Invitation nor defer fulfilling their cordial Desires Therefore he consulted with the High and Mighty Lords the States of Holland and West-Friezland assembled now at the Hague concerning this great Work and the most proper Methods to be used by him that the glorious deliverance of our Nation thrô the blessing of Almighty God upon his Endeavours might effectually be wrought And the first step thereunto was to make choice of fit Instruments because God works in these days by Means Miracles being long since ceased Hence he commands all the Dutch Forces for to Muster and Encamp about Nimeghen not very far from the Brandenburghers Camp the famous Duke of Brandenburgh being alli'd unto his illustrious Highness The Regiments being all incamp'd according to his Princely Order he was pleased to view them one by one and make choice of the very flower of the Army to serve him in this glorious Expedition He thought it very requisite to carry over into England such a Force with him as might thrô God's assistance and the Protestants concurrence make the enemies of the Lord to flee before him and drive out all the Priests of Baal and cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of Idolatry as good Josiah did for now the Altars of Baal were set up by those cursed Vipers in most places of our Realm as divers were set up in our Metropolitan City of London that renown'd ancient Protestant City to the exceeding great sorrow of our Reverend Clergy and discouragement of our holy Reform'd Church Having now made choice of what Officers and Soldiers he thought most fit here he went unto the great Duke of Brandenburgh's Camp and made choice of what Regiments he pleased there for to take with him into England and then with all the speed that might be he return'd to the Hague It 's certain that very many people thought he took too much trouble upon him to ride thus from one City to another nay to fly as some express'd it because he made such haste and all was for to deliver the true Reform'd Church of Christ out of all her enemies hands and to make the people of God enjoy rest and peace

not abide about the Forrest of Windsor because they kill'd the Deer Hence they march'd from Barkham and Arbersield unto Maidenhead December 16 which was the Lord's Day The first Line was now advanced to Newberry the second to Hungerford and the Rear Line to Collingburn Kingstone and the adjacent Villages who on Saturday Night December 8 received an Alarm tho it proved a false One sundry Tradesmen riding home from Hungerford Market late in the Evening were seen by some of our Scouts who presently apprehended them to be a Party of the Enemy's Horse being 't was both late and dark who thereupon speedily made report unto some of the Officers commanding in Chief insomuch that the Souldiers were knock'd up in their Quarters to come presently to their Arms The Country People were thereupon in a great fear not knowing what to do and this Alarm came from one Regiment to another for Colonel Fagell's Regiment sent to advertise the Regiment of Colonel Sidney That they might be ready to receive the Enemy Now they thought this Alarm the rather to be true because they had heard That the late King James's Souldiers were resolv'd to make an Attempt upon those Men with the Artillery and Magazine That if possible they might destroy our great Guns and Ammunition The Souldiers being thus hurried out of their Beds ran here and there to seek the Enemy Thus were they marching to and fro the whole Night in the Rain The Morrow Morning being the Lord's Day divers Officers went to search the Woods near to the place where those Tradesmen were first seen lest they should lie in Ambush till the Regiments were march'd away and then attack the Artillery and Magazine-Forces But none could be found or heard of thereabout only they were now inform'd of these Tradesmen and so they return'd to their Regiments The Commissioners by this time were come to Hungerford and these following Words in Writing were delivered unto the Prince of Orange Sir THE King commanded us to acquaint you That he observeth all the Differences and Causes of Complaint alledged by your Highness seem to be referred to a Free Parliament His Majesty as he hath already declared was resolv'd before this to call One but thought that in the present State of Affairs it was adviseable to defer it till things were more compos'd Yet seeing that his People still continued to desire it He hath put forth his Proclamation in order to it and hath issued forth his Writs for calling of it And to prevent any Cause of Interruption in it he will consent to every thing that can be reasonably required for the Security of all those that shall come to it His Majesty hath therefore sent us to attend Your Highness for the adjusting of all Matters that shall be agreed to necessary to the Freedom of Elections and the Security of Sitting and is ready immediately to enter into a Treaty in order to it His Majesty proposeth that in the mean time the respective Armies may be restrained within such Limits and at such a Distance from London as may prevent the Apprehensions that the Parliament may in any kind be disturbed being desirous that the Meeting of it may be no longer delay'd than it must be by the usual and necessary Forms Hungerford Decemb. 8. 1688. Signed Hallifax Nottingham Godolphin His Highness the Prince of Orange with the advice of his Lords and Gentlemen in answer to the same made these Proposals 1. That all Papists and such Persons as are not qualified by Law be disarmed disbanded and removed from all Employments Civil and Military 2. That all Proclamations which reflect upon Us or any that have come to Us or declared for Us be re-called and that if any Persons for having so assisted have been committed that they be forth with set at Liberty 3. That for the Security and Safety of the City of London the Custody and Government of the Tower be immediately put into the Hands of the said City 4. That if his Majesty shall think fit to be at London during the sitting of the Parliament that We may be there also with equal Number of our Guards Or if his Majesty shall please to be in any place from London at whatever distance he thinks fit that we may be at a place of the same distance And that the Respective Armies do remove from London Thirty Miles and that no more Foreign Forces be brought into the Kingdom 5. That for the Security of the City of London and their Trade Tilbury-Fort be put into the Hands of the said City 6. That to prevent the Landing of French or other Foreign Troops Portsmouth may be put into such Hands as by your Majesty and Us shall be agreed upon 7. That some sufficient part of the Publick Revenue be assigned Us for the Maintaining of our Forces until the Meeting of a Parliament Given at Littlecot Decemb. 9. 1688. W. H. Prince of Orange The late King James perceiving now that he was in an evil Case in relation to sundry Matters thought it high time to secure himself whereupon December 10 he wrote a Letter to the Earl of Feversham now at the Head of his Army signifying his Intention therein And on the Morrow Morning December 11 he withdrew himself in order to his departure out of the Kingdom and being on his Journey near Feversham in Kent was taken in a Disguise and sent back to London The Earl of Feversham having read the Contents of the late K. James his Letter sent another speedily for to advertise his Highness the Prince of Orange that his late Majesty was gone away And that for his own part He would make no Opposition against any and so prevent the Effusion of Blood. The news of the late King James being gone away flew like lightening from East to West and from North to South Our Army was now advanc'd far towards the City of London The first line being March'd from Newberry to Reading Tylehurstone and the adjacent places The second line advanc'd to Newberry and the third line to Hungerford The Prince rode to Henly attended with his Nobility and Gentry sundry Regiments of the first and second Line being marched thither and the Rear Line was come to Newberry Here we received the first positive News of the late King James being gone away As soon as it was certainly known about the City of London that the late King was withdrawn in order to his departure out of the Kingdom the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled at Guildhal Decemb. 11. and there agreed upon and signed a Declaration Entituled The Declaration of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in and about the Cities of London and Westminster assembled at Guildhal c. The substance of which being to shew that the late King James was gone away and to declare that they would assist his Highness with their uttermost Endeavours in the obtaining a Free Parliament with all speed and in preserving as much as in them