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A40974
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Fasti Gulielmi Tertii, or, An Account of the most memorable actions transacted during His Majesty's life, both before and since his accession to the crown with the days, months, and years wherein the same hapned [sic].
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1697
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Wing F539A; ESTC R31503
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of Canterbury and the Bishops of London Winchester S. Asaph Ely Chichester Rochester Bath and Wells and Peterborough all in a body waited upon the King where they humbly advised him to put the Management of the Government in the several Counties into the Hands of such Persons as were qualified for it to annul the High Commission for Ecclesiastical Affairs to restore the President and Fellows of Magdalen College in Oxford and that no Person unqualified by Law be preferr'd to any Place in Church or State to set aside all Licences or Faculties already granted whereby the Papists pretended to be enabled to teach publick Schools to desist from the Exercise of the Dispensing Power to inhibit the four foreign Bishops who stiled themselves Vicars Apostolical from further invading the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction vested in the Bishops of the Church of England to fill the vacant Bishopricks both in England and Ireland and especially the Archiepiscopal Chair of York with Men of Learning and Piety to supersede all further Prosecutions of Quo Warranto's against Corporations and to restore to those Corporations their Charters and Privileges as he had done to the City of London to call a Free Parliament to secure the Church of England the Liberties and Properties of all his Subjects and procure a due Liberty of Conscience and Lastly that his Majesty would suffer his Bishops to offer him such Motives and Arguments as may perswade him to return to the Communion of the Church of England in which he was baptized The Papists were inraged at these good Advices and the King was not pleased with such a Representation which set too freely before him his illegal and arbitrary Proceedings dit 1689 The Right Reverend Edward Stillingfleet Bishop of Worcester Simon Patrick Bishop of Chichester and Gilbert Ironside Bishop of Bristol were this Day consecrated in the Chappel of Fulham by the Bishops of London St. Asaph and Rochester dit 1691 The strong Town of Limerick surrendred this Day to his Majesty's Forces and at the same time the Irish made a General Capitulation for their whole Nation that was still in Arms whereby they were promised all the Liberty as was consistent with the Laws of Ireland and such as were not willing to stay were allowed to go to France Thus ended the Wars of Ireland and the famous Campaign of 1691. the most glorious that was ever performed by a little Army which in about four Months time took three strong Places for besides many Forts Castles and small Towns we gained a great Victory without reckoning the frequent Rencounters that hapned in which they always got the Advantage tho in small Numbers 14. 4. 1678 The French having restored to the Dutch the Town of Mastricht the States General desired the Prince of Orange to name for Magistrates such Persons as he should think fit 15. 5. 1688 The Foreign Advices having convinced King James that the Preparations of the Prince of Orange were designed against him declared this Day in Council that he had thought fit to dissolve the Commission for Causes Ecclesiastical c. and gave Directions to the Lord Chancellor of England to cause the same to be forthwith done This did not however satisfy the People for the said Commission was not declared illegal nor any Promise made that it should never be renewed and every one took this Proceeding of the Court not as an Effect of the King's Justice but of the fear he was in of the Prince of Orange dit 1690 The House of Lords presented an Address to the King to congratulate his Majesty's Victories in Ireland and desire him not to expose his Person so much The Commons did the like and both Houses presented another Address to the Queen to thank her Majesty for her prudent Administration during the King's Absence and in so nice a Juncture as her Majesty had found her self in whilst a powerful Enemy lorded it upon our Coasts and threatned the Kingdom with an Invasion dit 1692 This Day we received the surprizing Advice that the â—â—ke of Savoy had quitted the 16th ultimo the Town of Ambrun having blown up the Fortifications and returned with his Forces towards his own Country France was never in such an Alarm as they were then the Confederate Army being in their Country and they having no Strength to oppose them the Inhabitants of Lyons and Grenoble were removing their Effects and no body doubted but the Allies would improve that fair Opportunity however they contented themselves with the taking of Ambrun and Gap and raising some Contributions and then retired 'T is true the Duke of Savoy fell so sick of the Small Pox at Gap that his Life was thought in danger and some have believed that his Distemper disappointed all the Designs of that Army but others who have more narrowly inquired into that Affair do think that the Corruption and Treachery of the Duke's Council was the true Remora that stopp'd our Forces and that the Small Pox came very seasonably to him as a Varnish over the Infidelity of that Court. 16. 6. 1688 This Day King James was pleased to restore actually to the City of London all their antient Franchises and Privileges as fully as they enjoyed them before the late Judgment upon the Quo Warranto The Lord Chancellor did them the Honour to bring down the Instrument of Restitution and Confirmation under the Great Seal of England and Sir John Chapman was thereby constituted Lord Mayor till the usual time of the Election 17. 7. 1692 This Day the Electoral College at Ratisbonne resolved by Plurality of Voices to declare the Duke of Hanover one of the Princes Electors of the Empire notwithstanding the Opposition of the College of the Princes of Germany The Emperor had invested him first with the Dignity for the great Service of the House of Lunenburgh both to the Empire and to the common Cause against the French 18. 8. 1685 This Day pass'd the Great Seal the French King's Edict for annulling the famous Edict of Nantz the Observation of which had been so solemnly sworn by the French King himself This was the last Blow given to the French Protestant Churches which a barbarous Persecution of 25 Years had not been able to overcome All the remaining Churches were razed to the Ground the Ministers banished upon pain of the Gallies and the rest without any regard to Sex Age Quality or Services were with an unparallel'd piece of Inhumanity delivered up to the Mercy of Priests and Souldiers who burnt some alive stuck others with Pins all over their Bodies hang'd others in Smoak and in short used such Barbarities that Posterity will hardly believe so much Cruelty could ever have been harboured in the Hearts of Men. Many were forced to succumb by those violent Shocks and turn Papists and others fled away and are now dispersed all over the Face of the Earth in a most lamentable Condition worthy of the Commiseration of all Christian and Generous Souls The French
not a mind to serve such Masters then stand not by and see your Country-men perish when they are endeavouring to defend you   I promise this on my Word of Honour to every Tenant that goes along with me that if he fall I will make his Lease as good to his Family as it was when he went from home The thing then which I desire and your Country does expect from you is this that every Man that has a tolerable Horse or can procure one will meet me on Boden-Downs to Morrow where I rendezvouze but if any of you is rendred unable by reason of Age or any other just Excuse then that he would mount a fitter Person and put five Pounds in his Pocket Those that have not nor cannot procure a Horse let them stay at home and assist with their Purses and send it to me with a Particular of every Man's Contribution I impose on no Man but let him lay his Hand on his Heart and consider what he is willing to give to recover his Religion and Liberty and to such I promise and to all that go along with me that if we prevail I will be as industrious to have him recompensed for his Charge and Hazard as I will be to seek it for my self This Advice I give to all that stay behind that when you hear the Papists have committed any Outrage or any Rising that you will get together for it is better to meet the Danger than expect it I have no more to say but that I am willing to lose my Life in the Cause if God see it good for I never was unwilling to die for my Religion and Country   This excellent Speech I mention because of the Effect it had on the People for a great Number of Men repaired the next Day to my Lord Delamere on Boden-Downs and followed his Lordship 27. 17. 1688 The Archbishop of Canterbury with 12 Temporal and 6 other Spiritual Lords waited this Day upon King James with an humble Petition beseeching his Majesty to call a Free Parliament with all speed for redressing the Grievances of the Nation and in the mean time to use all possible Means to prevent the Effusion of Christian Blood The King answered them that what they asked of him he did most passionately desire and promised them upon the Faith of a King that he would call such a Parliament as soon as the Prince had quitted England pretending that otherwise it was impossible that a Parliament should be free in all its Circumstances This Answer was not satisfactory to the People who discovered thereby an invincible Aversion in King James to a Free Parliament and as to his Promise he had broke his Word too often to be trusted and therefore every one concluded that there was no other way left but to join with the Prince to obtain what Justice ought to have obliged King James to do dit 1688 The same Day in the Afternoon the King left the City and with his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went to Windsor and the next day towards Salisbury where his Army was arrived under the Command of the Earl of Feversham He appointed the Privy Council to meet in his Absence for the Dispatch of all Affairs as Occasion should require 28. 18.  29. 19. 1688 King James arrived at Salisbury being met about a Mile from the Town by the Earl of Feversham General of his Forces the Duke of Berwick Sir John Fenwick and other Officers 30. 20. 1688 This Day happen'd a Rencounter at Wincannon between a Party of the Prince's Army consisting of about 30 Men of Mackay's Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Cambell and a Party of 50 Dragoons and Granadeers and 70 Horse of King James's commanded by Colonel Sarsfield where notwithstanding the Inequality of the Numbers the former fought with that desperate Bravery that it struck a Terror into the Minds of King James's Army Sarsfield retired in great Precipitation hearing from a Miller's Man that the Dutch were near him I would not have mentioned this trifling thing were it not the first Action between the two Armies December   1. 21. 1688 The English Fleet commanded by the Lord Dartmouth which was sailed to the Westward to observe the Dutch Fleet was this Day forced back to Spithead by very tempestuous Weather 2. 22. 1688 This Day King James put out a Proclamation of Pardon for such of his Subjects who had taken up Arms against him and joined with the Prince of Orange in a most unnatural Invasion but this Pardon was regarded by no body and slighted by such whom he had a mind to recal The Reader may observe here that unnatural Invasion was the constant Expression they made use of to signify his Highness's Design dit  The same Day the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of the Northern Counties of England being assembled in Arms at Nottingham made a Declaration to inform their Protestant Fellow Subjects of the Grounds of their Undertaking wherein they declare that the very Fundamentals of our Religion Liberties and Properties are about to be routed by the King 's Jesuitical Privy Council as was too apparent 1. By the King's dispensing with all the established Laws at his Pleasure 2. By displacing all Officers out of all Offices of Trust and Advantage and placing others in their room that are known Papists deservedly made incapable by the established Laws of the Land 3. By destroying the Charters of most Corporations 4. By discouraging all Persons that are not Papists and preferring such as turn to Popery 5. By displacing all honest and conscientious Judges unless they would contrary to their Conscience declare that to be Law which was merely Arbitrary 6. By branding all Men with the Name of Rebels that offered but to justify the Laws in a legal Course against the Arbitrary Proceedings of the King or any of his corrupt Ministers 7. By burdening the Nation with an Army to maintain the Violation of the Rights of the Subjects and by discountenancing the established Religion 8. By forbidding the Subjects the Benefit of petitioning and construing them Libellers so rendring the Laws a Nose of Wax to serve their Arbitrary Ends. They conclude afterwards that not being willing to deliver their Posterity over to such a Condition of Popery and Slavery as the aforesaid Oppressions do inevitably threaten they will to the utmost of their Power oppose the same by joining with the Prince of Orange whom God Almighty had sent to rescue the Nation from the aforesaid Oppressions And to prevent their being branded with the Name of Rebels they declare they own it Rebellion to resist a King that governs by Law but that he was always accounted a Tyrant that made his Will the Law and to resist such an one they justly esteem no Rebellion but a necessary Defence dit 1688 The Prince of Orange having sufficiently refreshed his Army at Exeter decamped this Day and marched towards Salisbury where K.