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Extract of the States General their resolution Thursday, 28th October, 1688.
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United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.
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Extract of the States General their Resolution Thursday 28th October 1688 UPon mature deliberation it is found fit and resolved that notice be given to all their Ministers abroad of all the Reasons which induce their H. and M. to assist the Prince of Orange going over to England in Person with Ships and Forces ' with Orders to the said Ministers to make use thereof in the several Courts where they reside as they shall think most convenient and that it be also writ to the said Ministers that it is known to all the World that the English Nation hath of a good while very much murmur'd and complained that the King no doubt with the Evil Council and inducement of his Ministers had gained upon their Fundamental Laws and laboured through the violation thereof and by the bringing in the Roman Catholick Religion to oppress their Liberty and to ruine the Protestant Religion and to bring all under an Arbitrary Government That as this inverted and unjust Conduct was carried on more and more and that the apprehensions thereupon were still greater and that thereby such diffidence and aversion was stirred up against the King that nothing was to be expected in that Kingdom but general disorder and confusion His Highness the Prince of Orange upon the manifold representations and the reiterated and earnest desire which was made to His Highness by several Lords and other Persons of great consideration in that Kingdom as also upon the account that Her Royal Highness and His Highness Himself are so highly concerned in the Welfare of that Kingdom could not well endure that through strife and disunion they should run the danger however it went of being excluded from the Crown held himself obliged to watch over the Welfare of that Kingdom and to take care thereof and also had the thoughts of assisting the Nation and giving them a helping hand upon so many Just and Good Grounds against the Government that Oppressed them in all manner of ways that lay in his Highness Power for that His Highness was perswaded that the Welfare of this State the Care whereof is also entrusted to him was in the highest manner concerned that the said Kingdom might continue in Tranquillity and that all misunderstanding between the King and the Nation might be taken away That His Highness well knowing that to succeed in so Important and Laudable a Cause and not to be hindred and prevented by those that were Evil inclined towards it it was necessary to pass over into that Kingdom accompanied with some Military Forces hath thereupon made known his Intentions to their Highness and desired assistance from their Highness that their Highness having maturely weighed all things and considered that the King of France and Great Brittain stood in very good Correspondence and Friendship one with the other which their Highness have been frequently very well assured of and in a strict and particular Alliance and that their Highnesses were informed and advertised that their Majesties had laboured upon a concert to divide and separate this State from its Alliances and that the King of France hath upon several occasions shew'd himself dissatisfied with this State which gave cause to fear and apprehend that in case the King of Great Brittain should happen to compass his aim within his Kingdom and obtain an absolute power over his People that then both Kings out of Interest of State and Hatred and Zeal against the Protestant Religion would endeavour to bring this State to Confusion and if possible quite to Subject it have resolved to commend His Highness in his undertaking of the abovesaid Designs and to grant to him for his Assistance some Ships and Militia as Auxiliaries that in pursuance thereof His Highness hath declared to their Highness that he is resolved with Gods Grace and Favour to go over into England not with the least insight or intention to Invade or Subdue that Kingdom or to remove the King from the Throne much less to make himself Master thereof or to invert or prejudice the Lawful Succession as also not to drive thence or persecute the Roman Catholicks but only and solely to help that Nation in Re-establishing the Laws and Priviledges that have been broken as also in maintaining their Religion and Liberty and to that end to further and bring it about that a free and lawful Parliament may be call'd in such manner and of such Persons as is regulated and qualified by the Laws and Form of that Government and that the said Parliament may deliberate upon and establish all such matters as shall be judge'd necessary to assure and secure the Lords the Clergy Gentry and People that their Rights Laws and Priviledges shall be no more violated or broken that their High and Mightinesses hope and trust that with Gods blessing the Repose and Unity of that Kingdom shall be Re-established and the same be thereby brought into a condition to be able powerfully to concur to the common benefit of Christendom and to the restoring and maintaining of Peace and Tranquillity in Europe That Copies hereof be delivered to all their Foreign Ministers residing here to be used by them as they shall see occasion FINIS