very pathetical and very pressing unto a holy life and conversation putting all in remembrance of the great peril we were in so lately at Sea and of the holy Vows and Covenants which says he no doubt most of you did then make to God and therefore he desired that we would not forget our selves any more and told us all in express words That if we were not truly reform'd in our lives and conversations that we should not be thought worthy to be instruments of so glorious a Work notwithstanding the Lord as he had begun would bring it to pass not by us but some others who were more sincere in his Service and in the due observation of his Laws The Air was extreme tempestuous and the Weather very stormy At this very day when I go to my Devotion methinks I see that most pious and exemplary Pattern of his Highness the Prince of Orange before my face how very earnest he was with the Lord in his Prayers here upon his bended knees after a most devout manner causing publick Prayer to be made in the House where he lodged twice a day he was an Example and President unto all about him how duly they ought to remember their Creator The Weather continuing very stormy and tempestuous and little or no probability of a change or alteration the People of this place proceeding still to exact on us all some of our Lords whether Dutch or English it matters not were pleased to inform his Highness thereof who presently sent to the States about it Therefore a positive Order came forth in print what we must pay and no more so much a night for Lodging so much a pound for Cheese Butter Bief Mutton Veal Bacon c. so many Eggs for a Styver and so much to sit up by the Fire Eighteen Styvers for one Night having a fresh pair of Sheets and lodging there no more but if he continued Six Styvers a Night Four Styvers for to sit up by the Fire Ten Styvers a Pound of Butter c. Divers Lords came to visit his Highness after the Storm and her Royal Highness came in her Yacht unto the Brill where his Highness met her with many English Dutch and French Nobles Knights and Gentlemen and having dined together they parted each from the other the Prince returning in the Evening unto his Fleet at Hellevoot-sluys and her Royal Highness the Princess of Orance unto Honslaerdyke People came daily from all parts of Holland to visit their Friends and very many Dutch-women to visit their Husbands but most went to the Brill for Provision and Lodging the Brill is about some four or five English Miles from this place Being noised abroad that we were at Hellevoot-sluys and that all sorts of Provisions were so excessive dear the People came thronging with their Boats and all things within a while was at a very reasonable rate Here we heard that the Priests and Jesuits with the Papists at Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands sung Te Deum in their Churches because the Hereticks were cast away with their great Conductor and made use of Moses Song when as we were daily rendring our hearty Praises and Thanksgivings unto the Lord our God for his stupendious deliverance of our whole Fleet out of such a storm and all the Churches in the Netherlands did the same His Highness the Prince of Orange was not in the least dismay'd in all the Storm when most mens hearts were as stones dead with fear his Countenance was observ'd not to alter as other mens did but like a true Paul or servant of Jesus Christ he encouraged all in the Ship where he was making them cheerful when their Spirits were dejected saying to some in the Ship these words or to this effect as I received information from one in the same Vessel For my own part I am not in the least doubtful but that we shall do very well I know God is a righteous God and trys the very hearts and reins and sees the very end and bottom of my thoughts He knows my integrity in this Vndertaking that 't is not to get my self a name or for my own sake but for the promotion of his Glory and his Churches good and therefore he will not give his enemies any cause to rejoyce in the destruction of the pure in heart Our Horses dying daily were thrown over-board and every person now begins to think of setting out again all the Ships are revictuall'd with a Month's Provision more besides the old Store which was left so that every Ship must needs have overmuch rather than too little And thô people may speak their pleasure concerning Holland how they feed on Hèrbs and Fish altogether I am sure there were sundry Barrels of good Beef and Pork with sufficient Cheese and Butter as could be eaten on board every Ship. Order was now given unto all the Schievelingers for to come to the Fleet at Hellevoot-sluys and accompany us to England for to set the Horses and Soldiers on shoar with all expedition which the small Ship-boats could not do And according as they receiv'd order so they came and sail'd about from one Ship to another While we were here riding at anchor for we tarried here about eleven days there was a certain Minister went unto the Brill to purchase some things he wanted to take along with him in the Ship for to eat and a Papist seeing him in a Shop and hearing him speak to the people about the Storm whether or no he was a Priest he could not say in a taunting impudent manner began thus Now Sir I suppose the Courage of you all is well cool'd and you are convinc'd that the Lord was much offended and angry with the Prince of Orange and his whole Fleet for this rash Vndertaking and therefore he made the Wind and the Seas to resist them and take his Churches part and it may be a warning unto every one of you that you do not fight against God. Unto which this Divine soon made answer saying Alas you are very much mistaken and far from the truth for by these external Providences and Dispensations of Almighty God no man can judge aright of his love or hatred because himself tells us plainly that God maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and unjust St. Paul's Shipwreck was no argument God was angry with him nor was that a sign that he was a murderer because the Viper hang'd on his hand altho' the censorious foolish Barbarians judged so in like manner This Storm coming when our Fleet was at Sea is no argument that God was offended with the Prince of Orange or this Navy for he is a consuming fire when he is provoked And hence we may certainly conclude that it was to prove us not to destroy us for 't is apparent to the World that we are not consum'd Therefore as the Barbarians chang'd their speech when they saw
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 LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Black Bull in the Old-Baily M DC LXXXIX Licens'd April 23. 1689. JA. FRASER AN Exact Diary of the late Expedition OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS HIGHNESS THE Prince of Orange INTO ENGLAND TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM Earl of Bedford WILLIAM Earl of Portland HENRY Viscount Sidney of Sheppy AND Sir JOHN MAYNARD One of the Lords Commissioners of the GREAT SEAL My LORDS WHen I seriously reflect upon the stupendious Providence of the Almighty in bringing to pass the late and unpresidented Undertaking of his Highness the Prince of Orange now King of Great Britain I cannot do less than Commemorate those Noble Persons that both favour'd and joyn'd in so good a Work among whom your Honours had a considerable share which made me prefume to lay this short Compendium of that Expedition at your Feet humbly craving your candid Acceptation and Patronage of it tho' not varnish'd with quaintness of Phrase or Elegancy of Wit and Rhetorick but in a lame and plain Stile Your Honours are not insensible how near we were to Ruine nor how his Sacred Majesty King WILLIAM hazarded all that was dear for our good which should oblige the most ungrateful to make some answerable returns of Gratitude and Loyalty Your Honours have fully convinced the World of your uprightness and steadiness in this Cause All that I can say cannot add to but will rather detract from your Honours innate Worth and Goodness I heartily wish this good Work so far already advanced may be fully compleated so that we may have no reason to fear a relapse And that the God of Heaven may preserve our gracious King and Queen and prosper their good Intentions with suitable success and convert all their Enemies or make them fall before them is the daily Prayers of May it please your Honours your Honours most Humble and most Obedient Servant JOHN WHITTLE AN Exact Diary of the late Expedition OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS HIGHNESS THE Prince of Orange Now KING of Great Britain HIS Illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange who is of a truth another Joshua in his undaunted Spirit and Magnanimity for the Lord's Cause and prosperous Conduct of his People Israel Another good Josiah in doing that which is right in the sight of God destroying Idolatry while he was yet young Another David or man after God's own heart and a zealous Defender of that Faith which is truly Ancient Catholick and Apostolical receiving an account of the exceeding great Cruelty and Barbarity of Roman Catholicks in France towards all them that professed the true Reform'd Religion or the Protestant Faith in that Kingdom and that indeed without any regard to the Hoary head thô found in the way of Righteousness which is a Crown of Honour without any respect to Sex or poor innocent Babes which could not discern between their right and left hands and not only hearing of their unheard-of Cruelty but even beholding daily at the Court and about his own Sacred Person not a few who had sometime been the Objects of their Direfulness and undergone to their great sorrow their Barbarity among many others a pious aged Minister of the Gospel whom for adhering to the Truth and holding fast the profession of his Faith without wavering these Sons of Belial took and bound fast unto a large Spit and turn'd him as a Pig at a great Fire after a direful manner until he was near half roasted alive insomuch that his Eyes were almost ready to drop out of his Head his Bloud in the Veins much dried his Sinews not a little scorch'd and the poor man a meer Cripple at this very day as may be seen by the curious Inquisitors althô God who is faithful did not suffer him to be tempted above what he enabled him to bear and in his appointed time made a way for him to escape their cruel Hands so much embrued in the Bloud of the Saints and in the Bloud of the Martyrs of Jesus And besides this Minister many of both Sexes who had been tormented by their cruel Hands Men who had been bound fast with Cords while their own Wives were most immodestly used and entreated and then assassinated before their sorrowful eyes Women who had been violently held while the tender Bowels of their own dear Husbands were ript out even before their faces running down with tears and the sucking Infant cruelly murdered in the arms of its Mother that bear it to the breaking of many womens hearts Nay so exceeding great was the Cruelty and Barbarity of these Bloud-thirsty Papists towards the Protestants there that no Pen is able to delineate it or any Tongue express it and very few English hearts capable of conceiving it our Nation God be praised being unacquainted with such abominable Practices Now as was said the Prince of Orange hearing and beholding their cursed Facts was exceedingly concern'd for Jerusalem because he had a real love for her and therefore this good Josiah's heart did even melt within him and he harbour'd and succour'd very many of these poor and deplorable Protestants who were under so sore a Tryal How did he long to have these Sons of Satan vanquisht and the Walls of Jerusalem rebuilt and therefore did not count his own Life dear to him that he might cause the true Spouse of Christ to rest securely And verily we may hope that Babylon's fall draws near and that the Kings of the Earth who have committed Fornication with her shall partake of her Misery and see her Plagues come in one day Death and Mourning and Famine Without doubt those many thousands of Souls under the Altar which were slain for the Word of God and for the Testimony which they held do cry continually with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the earth Nebuchadnezzar the Great may before seven times pass over him be driven to confess saying As I have done to the Saints so God hath requited me and the same measure that my cruel People measured to the Protestants in my Land is now meeted to my Popish Realm But for us of this Kingdom and Nation we may well rejoyce in God that made us in God that redeem'd us in God that sanctified us and all his Elect in God who hath so lately delivered us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies when we were as Sheep appointed to the slaughter We ought to extol him that rideth upon the Heavens by his Name Jah and rejoyce before him And well may our Nation be right joyful in our King and Queen by whom Jerusalem
People which came to see his Highness some placing themselves in Seats by eight in the Morning When his Highness came he was pleased for to sit in the Bishop's Seat in the Body of the Church as he had done in the Quire before Sundry Sentinels stood just behind him two just before him and many more in the Church-Isle the Doctor 's Text was Psalm 107. 43. Whose is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving Kindness of the Lord. The Doctor very accurately shewed the loving Kindness of the Lord unto the Price of Orange and his Fleet how he caused the Winds to turn at Tor-Bay where the whole Fleet was to tack about to come into the Bay and then shew'd the upright Design of the Prince to promote the Glory of God and good of his Church in England Scotland and Ireland having ended his Sermon he read the Prayer for the Expedition and so concluded with the Blessing c. Some time was passed here before the Gentlemen of the West joyned his Highness but when once they did begin to come in then they came daily The Mayor and Aldermen of the City came to visit the Prince and were busie in their Consultations among themselves The late King James we heard now was advanc'd as far towards us as Salisbury with a very brave Army of about thirty five thousand Men and a prodigious great Train of Artillery which made the poor Country People tremble Moreover we heard that he was fully resolved to encamp his Army about Sarum in the Plain where he intended to fight us Some of our Men being of the Van-guard were advanc'd as far as Wincaunton to provide Carriage at which place there was a small Skirmish or Action between 26 of our Souldiers and about 150 of the late King's Party which you shall have a particular account of by and by We soon receiv'd information of this Skirmish at Exeter Order was now given to get Waggons to carry the Magazine and Baggage of the whole Army together with all sorts of Utensils fit and convenient for War and Horses to draw the Artillery and for the Country People round to bring in their Horses to be sold at Exeter that so the loss of our Horses might be made up here According to which Order the Country People came daily in with their Horses to sell and the Officers gave great Prices for them because they must have them there or now here The Souldiers were ordered to keep themselves and their Arms in good order and to get every thing here which they wanted Much Mony was laid out in this City for all sorts of Commodities which the Officers or Souldiers lacked Here at first the People were scrupulous about the Dutch Mony and many Country People refused it but were forc'd to take it because all the Army had little else but Guineas and Dutch Mony. The People of the City began now to be more and more inclin'd towards our Army and all fear almost of the other Army was banish'd out of their Thoughts so that they would discourse more freely now than at the first The Drums beat for Volunteers and every Regiment of English or Scotch which wanted any Men was now compleated The Regiment of Sir John Guyes and Sir Robert Peyton fill'd up very fast for Men came into the City daily from all Parts to list themselves insomuch that many Captains pick'd and chose their Souldiers Very great crowding was here at the Deanary it being the Prince of Orange's Court by all sorts of People Many coming 20 Miles on purpose to see him and all the People of the adjacent Places were waiting there daily insomuch that the Sentinels could hardly keep them out The Guard was before the entrance into the Deanary and sundry Sentinels two at each Door Now his Highness received Information That the late King James was gone back from Sarum towards London with his whole Army by reason of the false Report of some Tumult in the City made by the Apprentices which News did not in the least discompose us The Weather being somewhat favourable the Prince of Orange with all his Lords and Gentlemen attending him was pleased to ride and view the City and Castle and this Day the Deanary was embroider'd with the Officers in their Gold and Silver-Lace Coats The Country People brought all sorts of Provisions in abundance because it yielded them Money and went off well We heard here that our Friends were up in the North of England as the Lord Delamere Earl of Devonshire Earl of Stamford Earl of Danby Sir Scroop How Sir William Russel with divers others By this time the Gentlemen of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire were coming in to join his Highness and on Thursday November 15 they waited on him at Exeter upon which he was pleased to speak to them as follows Tho we know not all your Persons yet we have a Catalogue of your Names and remember the Character of your Worth and Interest in your Country You see we are come according to your Invitation and our Promise Our Duty to God obliges us to protect the Protestant Religion and our Love to Mankind your Liberties and Properties We expected you that dwelt so near the place of our Landing would have join'd us sooner not that it is now too late nor that we want your Military Assistance so much as your Countenance and Presence to justify our declar'd Pretentions in order to accomplish our good and gracious Design Tho we have brought both a good Fleet and a good Army to render these Kingdoms happy by rescuing all Protestants from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power by restoring them to their Rights and Properties established by Law and by promoting of Peace and Trade which is the Soul of Government and the very Life-Blood of a Nation yet we rely more on the Goodness of God and the Justice of our Cause than on any Humane Force and Power whatever Yet since God is pleased we shall make use of Humane means and not expect Miracles for our Preservation and Happiness let us not neglect making use of this gracious Opportunity but with Prudence and Courage put in Execution our so honourable Purposes Therefore Gentlemen Friends and Fellow-Protestants we bid you and all your Followers most heartily Welcome to our Court and Camp. Let the whole World now judg if our Pretentions are not Just Generous Sincere and above Price since we might have even a Bridg of Gold to Return back But it is our Principle and Resolution rather to dye in a Good Cause than live in a Bad one well knowing that Vertue and True Honour is its own Reward and the Happiness of Mankind Our Great and Only Design The late King James coming up towards London the Regiment of Dragoons belonging to the Lord Cornbury came away from him to join the Prince of Orange and the Lord Cornbury with many other Lords Knights and Gentlemen came unto Exeter and attended
on his Highness which made all the Army to rejoice The Prince rode about five Miles out of Exeter to view some new Regiments of Horse which were just come into his Service He gave the Officers and Souldiers a courteous Reception and made a Speech unto them upon which the whole Regiments shouted and Huzza'd for Joy. I preached at St. Carion's Church in Exeter November 18. My Text being in Isa 8. 12 13 14. Neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread And he shall be for a Sanctuary Now the Church-Wardens of this Parish altho there was no Minister to preach were unwilling to give the Keys because they were no true Friends of our good Cause insomuch that I was forc'd to threaten them for their great rudeness The Clerk of the Parish going along with me the Day before for the Key one of the Church-Wardens very rudely broke his Head in sundry places for which intolerable Action I immediately had him brought before the Honourable Colonel Cutts for this bold Fact who upon a due submission and acknowledgment of his Faults dismissed him with a sharp Reprehension For Modesty-sake I conceal his Name hoping that he 's reformed with the Times The late K. James finding his Army begin to moulder away was very much at a stand however he thought to give us Battel with the remaining part whereupon he hasten'd to Sarum a second time which we had notice of before we left Exeter The Army being now well refresh'd and one Man as good as two when we were at Torbay Order was given for the Army to march in three Lines The first Line march'd out of the City as far as St. Mary Ottrie and were Quarter'd in and near that Place The next day the second Line march'd forth of Exeter to the same place and the first Line advanc'd to Axminster The third Day the last Line march'd as before to St. Mary Ottrie the first Line advancing some to Beminster and some to Crookhorn the second to Axminster and the adjacent Towns and the Regiments march'd some one Road and some another as the first Line advanced so the whole Army moved which was always according to the Motion of our great Master For when he remained any where then did the whole Army abide in the same Quarters The City of Exeter was now freed of all its Souldiers only the Regiment of Sir John Guyes which was new raised was order'd to keep this City and he made Governour thereof Now many Oxen being brought into this Town to draw the Artillery and many Horses being come to carry the Ammunition and all things necessary for War appertaining to our whole Army We then were soon on the March A Captain with some other Officers and about a hundred Men came along with it to guard it Here at Exeter was a certain Person kept in Custody some Days for speaking very threatning Words against his Highnese the Prince of Orange but within a while was released Another was apprehended for a Spy because he said he had a Commission from the late K. James to go into any Mans House to search for Goods This Man was also accused for stealing about ten pound from the People of the House where he lodged but no Money could be found about him whereupon he also was dismissed in few Days I suppose our Army was now in Circumference between 20 and 30 Miles The Prince with all his Lords Knights and Gentlemen attending him rode from Exeter unto St. Mary Ottrie the Weather was very Rainy and the Roads bad for Marching however we had time enough for our Stages were not far distant one from the other The places where we Quarter'd were scarce able to receive us insomuch that every House was crowded Our Van-Guard was advanc'd as faras Sherborn who coming into this Townat at one end and a party of Horse belonging to the late King James coming in at the other but hearing of our Men retreated back towards Sarum Our first Line being advanced from Axminster to Crookhorn and Beminster the second to Axminster and Lime and the third Line according to the others Stage before them Then the Prince of Orange rode to Crookhorn with all his Noble Attendance The Country People were exceeding desirous to see the Prince and ran in great numbers from one Town to another when they heard for certain which way he came Here at Crookhorn his Highnese remained the Lord's Day Novemb. 25. And the Gentlemen of the West came and joyn'd him now almost at every Stage On Monday Morning the whole Army March'd The first Line advanced from Sherborn to Wincanton the second to Sherborn and the third to Yetminster The Prince of Orange with all his Nobles and Gentlemen came to Sherborn and lodged at the Castle The two Armies were near each other by this time the late King James lay at Salisbury with his Army and the Prince of Orange's lay about Sherborn advancing towards him with all possible speed The late King James seeing his Army moulder thus away and that Prince George was gone to his Brother with the Duke of Ormond was in such a streight that he knew not well what to do And coming to the Market-place at Sarum he made an Oration to the Citizens telling them that he would spend his Blood for the Protestant Religion whenas he had been seen at Mass all the Morning by many of his Auditors who thereupon derided him in their Hearts No sooner had he ended his Speech but immediately falls to bleeding at his Nostrils very violently as many observed there-about him and his Blood could not be stopp'd any manner of way The Citizens hearing the Army of the Prince of Orange was advanced within a few Miles of their City some Persons coming in at one end of the Town said they saw them not far off which Report being noised about so Alarm'd the late King James and his Army That in the midst of his Bleeding he commanded his Coach to be made ready and drive away towards Windsor with all possible speed which was accordingly done The Foot-Soldiers were ready to desert the late King and many did some left their Baggage and Snapsacks behind them And the Horse likewise being in such a hurry to get away that they were ready to spoil their Comrades and the whole Army was in such a confused manner and marched so disorderly and in such haste that the Country seeing them judged they had been routed in a Battel The late King James began to bleed at Sarum and was observ'd to continue bleeding some days and coming thus hastily to Windsor the Towns-People that saw him judged that he had been overthrown in Battel So coming from Windsor to London he turn'd out Sir Edw. Hales who was Governor of the Tower for he had threatned to Bomb this famous Ancient City and put Mr. Skelton his late Ambassador in
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