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A28440	King William and Queen Mary, conquerors, or, A discourse endeavouring to prove that Their Majesties have on their side, against the late king, the principal reasons that make conquest a good title shewing also how this is consistent with that declaration of Parliament, King James abdicated the government, &c. : written with an especial regard to such as have hitherto refused the oath, and yet incline to allow of the title of conquest, when consequent to a just war.	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3309; ESTC R23388	40,332	68

than I ask All I ask is what no reasonable Man can deny me viz. That under these Grounds of Suspicion it had been both a point of Wisdom and Justice to have given both the Prince and Princess of Orange and the Nation all the Satisfaction that the matter was capable of at the time of the Queen's Labour Supposing the Queen to have brought forth it might then easily have been proved beyond all Contradiction and if it was not proved it is very suspicious that it could not be proved I never heard any Man doubt but that it had been a Point of Wisdom to have proved it if they could and nothing need be said to satisfie an unbiassed Mind that it had been a Point of Justice too Is it not a Common thing in the case of an Heir to a Crown being born to give the Presumptive Heirs all the satisfaction imaginable And under these very suspicious Circumstances Previous to this supposed Birth ought it not if ever to have been done What great Matter had it been if an Ocular Demonstration had been given or at the least offered to the Princess of D. or to some other grave Ladies related to her by the Mothers side Where had been the Harm or Indecency of this Nay was it not highly necessary that it should have been done Would it not have quite confuted all the Pretences of malicious Hereticks and have rendred the Birth of the Prince indisputable And if they did not do it was it not very Suspicious that the Reason was because they could not For what other Reason can be given Shall we say it was an Oversight What the subtle Jesuits overseen in a Matter of this Consequence Suppose Father Petre wanted what many Polititians have was there never a Wise Man amongst them Were not those about Their Majesties Men chosen out for the carrying on of that great Work And had they not time enough before the Queen's Lying-in to consider the Suspicions that were raised the Reports that went about and to Fence against them Did it not stand them in hand to put the King in mind of laying hold of an Opportunity which if lost could never be retrieved Of giving that satisfaction that might for ever confute these Stories and secure his Son's Title and this mighty Advantage to the Catholick Cause Truly considering the Necessity of doing the thing and that those about their Majesties were no Fools it seems to me next to impossible that it should have been an Oversight But suppose we should grant that it might or might not be an Oversight For that is all that the Friends of the pretended Prince of W. can desire They can never evince that it was an Oversight nor ought they to expect we should grant it All they can reasonably ask is That we grant it might be an Oversight And if we should grant them that what will they gain by it e'en nothing at all For had their present Majesties any Reason to acquiesce in an It may be or a Perhaps To give up their Claim to three Kingdoms to a meer Peradventure Will it ever be possible at this rate to secure a Presumptive Heir against an Impostor Ought the Prince and Princess of O. to sit stall to have let this Birth justly suspected by five parts in six of the whole Nation go unquestioned and consequently to have lain under the Torment of believing while they should live and to have left it suspected to Posterity when they were dead that they had weakly given up their Right to these Kingdoms and the Protestant Interest to boot I say was this Reason Or rather was it not Reason that they who were thus far as is now supposed Overseen should reap the fruits of their own folly and suffer for their Oversight If it was not an Oversight the Prince and Princess of O. were wronged and he being a Soveraign Prince and no Subject of England had Reason to demand Satisfaction If it was onely an Oversight yet since it was never sufficiently proved to have been so by giving up the Prince of Wales they might have sustered loss but were not wronged because the Fault was their own For certainly in a doubtful Case we should conclude against those that are in all the Fault and in Favour of them that are in no Fault at all Since it cannot be proved either way their 's ought to be the loss who were guilty of perplexing Matters at this rate Or however Their present Majesties had Reason to demand that the Matter should be reviewed and lest to the determination of a Parliament the most competent Judge that could be pitched upon This cannot be denied And this is all that I ask at present because it is all that our present Soveraign asked in his Declaration at his first coming into England Some may think what is not indeed altogether improbable supposing it to be a genuine Prince that Matters were thus darkly carried on purpose to have provoked the Nation or rather some of the forwardest to a Rebellion that so they might have had an Occasion against us to fall upon us and take us for Bondmen The Principles of the Church of England were known to be so Loyal to all Kings in the General and she had done so much for King James in Particular in bringing him to the Throne and in keeping the Crown on his Head She had so lately given an undeniable Token of her Fidelity to him by what she had done in opposition to the Duke of Monmouth that the Popish party could not for shame fall foul upon her without some Pretence or other but if they could but provoke her or some part of her Members to a Rising then she would have cancelled all the Obligations that her former Loyalty had laid upon the Crown And then the Cry would have been Her Members are not more Loyal than those of other Sects or Religious when she is discontented or doth but fear that her Interest lies at stake And then there would have been just cause for the King to have adher●d to the Loyal Roman Catholicks who had never fai●ed him and to have set them uppermost Or supposing they had a Mind to bring in Arbitrary Power and make it an Handmaid to Popery then would any Stirs that they were resolved to call a Rebellion render it ●asy and hasten it And certainly as to Invade our Laws our Liberties and our Religion so openly was highly provoking So to impose upon us a Prince of Wales or which is all one to make us believe they had done it and so to rob us of our hopes of Ease when those blessed Princes our present Soveraigns should of right have succeeded the Crown was the readiest way to make us desperate And did I believe that the Child was really born of the Queen I should think this so fair an Account of their carrying it as if it was not that I should never pitch upon any other And methinks there

puissant Army to Salisbury meaning that way and no other to give the Prince Satisfaction And now I desire the Reader to consider that from the time that the King declined the Decision of a Parliament declared the Prince an Enemy and marched down against him in Hostile manner the Prince had a just ground of War against him Certainly no Man can doubt this who considers what hath been said and proved of the King 's having given the Prince just cause of Suspicion that he had greatly injured him of his denying him Satisfaction of his declaring him an Enemy and of his marching down against him as such But perhaps some will be ready to object That the Prince begun the War by coming over into England with an armed Power He might have staid in Holland or have come without an Army and then he might have had Satisfaction To this I answer 1. That the Prince utterly disclaimed any Design of warring upon the King He declared only for a Free Parliament to the which he promised to refer all Matters in Dispute and his Sincerity was so universally believed that the whole Nation except such whose Crimes had made the contrary their Interest besought the King to yield to his Demand promising that as soon as the State of the Nation would admit of it he would send back all his Foreign Forces and in the mean time keep them under such Strictness of Martial Discipline that the People of the Country through which they were to march should not suffer by their Means 2. That there is not the least shew of Reason that if either the Prince had staid in Holland or had come over unarmed the King would have called a Parliament that should have been Free much less that he would have suffered them to enquire into the Birth of the Child He that would leave the Nation rather than yield to these things would never have done it when he was under no such Necessity If it be said The Prince should first have tried him I answer That had been to alarm him and the French King and so to have made it utterly impossible to have gained Satisfaction The State of Europe at that time is known to have been such as that Secresy and Expedition were two Things without which the Prince could never have carried his Points and upon both these Accounts it was necessary that he should make his very first Demand of Satisfaction with his Sword in his Hand And if it was necessary then it was lawful For since it was through the King's Fault that the Matter was become doubtful it was lawful for the Prince to do what was necessary to his gaining Satisfaction So that notwithstanding these Objections I conclude for the Reasons mentioned That K. William and Q. Mary had a just Ground of War against K. James which was the sirst Thing I undertook to prove SECT II. Their Mnjesties K. William and Q. Mary conquered K. James THE second Thing to be proved is That the Prince and Princess of Orange our present Soveraigns conquered K. James In order to the making of this clear it will be requisite to lay before the Reader Matter of Fact that so it may appear they were actually in a State of War with the King and what their Success thereupon was I shall still make use of the History of the Desertion as I have hitherto done for the Proof of Matter of Fact It seems to me to be written with great Judgment and hath I thankfully own contributed more to my Satisfaction as to the Lawfulness of paying Allegiance to Their Present Majesties than any one Tract that I have met with on the Subject However the Substance of what I quote from it is known to be true It hath already been observed That K. James declined the Decision of a Parliament That he declared the Prince an Enemy and that at Salisbury he put himself at the Head of a puissant Army Now with what Success remains to be considered November 20th there happened a Skirmsish at Wincanton between a Detachment of 70 Horse and 50 Dragoons and Granadiers commanded by Sarssield and about 30 of the Prince of Orange's Men commanded by one Cambel where saith my Author notwithstanding the great Inequality of the Numbers the latter fought with that desperate Bravery that it struck a Terror into the Minds of the Army At Salisbary the King was deserted by part of his Army as he had been before his leaving White-hall by the Lord Cornbury and such as would follow him particularly by the Duke of Grafton and the Lord Churchil and either there or at Andover by Prince George of Denmark himself upon which the King and his Army were so disheartned that upon a false Alarm made either with Design or by Accident on the 25th of November they left Salisbury the Army retreating to Reading and the King to Andover and on the 26th in the Evening he returned to London The Army at Reading upon another false Alarm on the 8th of December retired in great haste to Twiford-Bridg and endeavouring to regain their Post a Party of the Prince's Men who were sent for by the Inhabitants of Reading upon their threatning to plunder and fire the Town attacked the Irish Dragoons and slew sifty of them The King being returned to London and having how no longer any Confidence in that way of deciding the Dispute that he himself had chosen on the 28th of November in a Privy-Council ordered the Lord-Chancellor to issue out Writs for the Sitting of a Parliament on the 15th Day of January following But the Reader must observe that this was not done until he was forced to it and therefore the Prince was now no longer under any Obligation to the King of standing to the Decision of a Parliament He might had he pleased without any Injustice with respect to him have made use of his good Fortune and pursued the Advantage he had gained which must in all likelihood have ended in Victory the Earl of Feversham the King's General not having with him at that time above four thousand Men. But yet such was his Moderation that upon the King 's sending the Lords Hallifax Nottingham and Godolphin to treat with him and to adjust Preliminaries to the holding of a Parliament He with the Advice of the Lords and Gentlemen of his Party accepted the Motion and as things then stood returned a most reasonable Answer The which was sent to the King before his first Attempt to withdraw himself out of the Nation and yet he did not alter his Resolution to do it It was sent to his Majesty by an Express and yet he resolved to leave the Town and ordered all those Writs for the Sitting of the Parliament that were not sent out to be burnt and a Caveat to be entred against the making use of those that were And at the same time he sent Orders to the Earl of Feversham to

out as appears by his many gracious Concessions at that time and especially to name no more by his passing the Bill for the Continuance of the Parliament not to be Prorogued or Adjourned but by Act of Parliament 3. If he would make any use of his Success it should have been to the Good of the Nation as settled under her lawful Prince But what had he and his Creatures to do to dissolve the Government especially to usurp the Supreme Power himself since he got it not either by the Consent of the King or of the Nation both which had been in his Case necessary A great deal more might be said to shew the Disparity between that and our present Settlement but I refer the Reader to Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers where he will find the Prejudices raised from the Rump Parliament the Protector and the Committee of Safety removed Nor doth my asserting their Majesties Right acquired by Conquest at all thwart the Determination of the Convention viz. That the late King James Abdicated the Government and left the Throne Vacant For that the late King was Conquered and that he Abdicated the Government are not inconsistent It was by his own fault that he fell into such a Condition as that he thought it unsafe to stay in England yea and even to the last if he would have consented that the Ends of the Prince's Declaration might have been gained he needed not to have left us And since he rather chose to go away than to do Right either to Us or the Prince and did so without deputing a Vice-Roy what was this but to Abdicate us For certainly if a Prince rather chooseth to desert his People than to do what is just and reasonable when that and no more is made the Condition of his continuing with them he may be truly said to throw up the Government and to leave them to shift for themselves But of this enough That Vote of the Convention and the Methods of settling the Government thereupon taken have been justified by other Pens and the doing of it is not now my Province But then since it was the Success of the Prince's Arms that made him go away or rather since he would not have gone away had it not been for that Success it might be a Conquest too and I think I have proved it to have been so in the Sense I have explained my self that is it had attending it the principal Reasons that make Conquest a good Title and that is enough for our Satisfaction SECT IV. Concluding with some necessary Consequences of the three foregoing Propositions I Must now draw towards a Conclusion I hope I have proved my three Propositions 1. That King William and Queen Mary had a just Quarrel against King James 2. That they conquered him And 3. That Conquest is in this case a good Title I am sure I have offered nothing but what I thought to be Reason Nor have I baulk'd any Objection because it was too hard to be answered I will conclude with some Inserences from what I have written And 1. It follows That our most gracious Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary in order to gain these Kingdoms and in ascending the Throne have done nothing but what is consistent with Justice and Honour For if they had a just Cause of War with King James and have conquered him in the Sense I have said and Conquest be in this Case a good Title and it were absolutely necessary not only for the Interest of these Kingdoms but also for that of Europe and the Protestant Religion that they should make use of their Success then have they in so doing acted nothing but what became them And the asserting of this since it is true is a necessary piece of Gratitude to our glorious Deliverers And I the rather do it because I observe that many of the Tracts that have been written on the behalf of the Oath of Allegiance are rather in desence of the Subjects Submission and taking of it than of their Majesties Title So that the Authors seem rather concerned for their own than their Majesties Vindication and however glad they are of the unexpected Deliverance that hath been wrought for them yet are they over-regardless of the Honour of those blessed Princes who have been in God's Hands the Instruments of it 2. The Subject is justified in swearing and paying Allegiance to them and that as to Princes de jure For they have on their side all the Right of Conquest consequent to a just War and at a time when it was absolutely necessary to insist upon it 3. Those that refuse to swear Allegiance to their Majesties thereby doing what in them lies to weaken their Hands and so to hinder their good Purposes are guilty of a very great Sin And I the rather say this because I am apt to think a great many honest Men who are not very confident of the Unlawfulness of the Oath do judg it however best to refuse it because they believe they cannot sin in so doing but may in taking it Whereas whoever well considers our present Circumstances and the Matters depending must grant that if it be lawful to swear not-swearing is a Sin attended with much more dangerous Consequences than is Swearing supposing it to be unlawful And a Man's erring in the Negative has greater Aggravations than in the Affirmative 4. That King James hath totally lost his Right to these Kingdoms and therefore if he comes again with an Army he is to be looked upon by the Subjects with no other Eyes than any other Invader but is to be resisted by them Our Fleets and Armies without any scruple of Conscience to weaken their Hands may and ought to fight as becomes valiant Men in the defence of their present Soveraigns and their Countrey and that not only against the French King but likewise against the late King James if he should come along with a Fleet or head an Army against us 5. No Man need trouble himself with any Scruple as touching any Right of the Prince of Wales supposing him to be Genuine or of whatever other Issue the late King may since his Birth have had or may hereafter have For as to the pretended Prince his Birth being doubtful his Father declined the Arbitrement of a Parliament and put it to the Decision of the Sword and the Sword hath determined against him and therefore if he hath any Wrong done him he hath no body to blame but his Father And here I cannot but take notice of the Folly of some People who after King James was conquered and gone expected the Parliament should have examined the Birth of the Child as if when Princes fall out and the Injurer is utterly vanquished the injured Victor is still obliged to accept of the same Satisfaction that would have contented him before he drew his Sword Or as if when a Doubt about the Succession is

KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY Conquerors OR A DISCOURSE Endeavouring to prove that Their MAJESTIES have on Their Side against the Late King the Principal Reasons that make CONQUEST a Good TITLE Shewing also how this is consistent with that Declaration of Parliament King James Abdicated the Government c. Written with an especial Regard to such as have hither-to refused the Oath and yet incline to allow of the Title of Conquest when Consequent to a Just WAR Licensed January 11. 1693. Edmund Bohun London Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane and at the Black Lyon between the Two Temple Gates in Fleet-Street 1693 THE PREFACE THE very hard measure that King Charles the First met with hath raised in the Minds of all good Men a just Abhorrence both of the Persons and Principles that caused his Sufferings And as it commonly falls out we have been apt to run into extreams on the other Hand We are not content to disown with Indignation the Barbarities that he endured but are apt to think that a Crowned Head can never ake but the Subject is in some fault let the Occasion be what it will The Church of England is very Loyal to all Kings by Principle but she was so to him likewise by the superadded Ties of Friendship And the singular Affection all her Members bore to that blessed Prince hath made them very favourable to the Sovereign's Cause however different from his and of this we have now a plain instance in the Adherence of so many of her Members to K. James in favour of whose Interest they are very partial even against their own K. Charles the First was a Friend to our Church and our Liberties and was ready upon Complaint to have redressed all our Grievances and to have confirmed our Rights before there appeared any armed Force to have compelled him But K. James the Second was the avowed Enemy of our Church and in order to her Ruin as well as out of a Desire of Arbitrary Power had many ways struck at the very Root of all our Civil Rights Nor did he ever shew the least Inclination to redress what had been done amiss it was so far from it that he threatned and imprisoned the Reverend Prelates for but petitioning to be excus'd from giving their helping Hand to the Destruction of the Church Themselves and the Laws until meer Necessity forced him to it and even then he gave us only Words some Superficial Promises of a Parliament to be held when we should have assisted him to drive our Champion out of the Nation ruin'd our Friends and left our selves wholly at his Disposal i. e. at the Mercy of the Jesuits And yet I am apt to think that one Reason that hath made some Men so very angry at such as were in Arms in favour of the Prince of Orange at his first Land was the black Idea of all Resistance against Sovereign Power formed in their Minds by that Rebellion against King Charles the First And I verily believe had not the Crown as well as his Life been most uunjustly ravished from him few would have hlamed the Estates for setting it upon the Head of his Grand-children after his Son had thrown it away However I mean not at this time at all to meddle with the Case of Subjects resisting their Sovereign much less to determine either way about it What I now intend is to assert the Right of King William and Queen Mary to the Crown of England and its Depednencies and consequently to the Allegiance of the Subject And I doubt not but to do it upon Principles not in the least Antimonarchical or suspected to be so without either asserting the Popish deposing Doctrine or that the People of England are the Sovereigns Masters and may call him to an Account and either depose or other ways punish him for his Misgovernments or even affirming that a King of England may be resisted there are other Principles not in the least scandalous that do intitle their Majesties to the Crown and to the Allegiance of the Subject But some will be ready to ask why I write on this Argument at this time of Day after the Matter hath been so canvassed and so many learned Men having already written upon it may be supposed to have aid all of Moment that is to be said upon it But my Answer is That notwithstanding all that hath been written a great many do yet remain unsatisfied And it grieves me to think that their Majesties who have run such mighty Hazards and done so much for us should still have so many secret Enemies in the Nation or if that be too hard a Character for some that have refused the Oath so many that are not yet such Hearty Friends as they ought to be That Protestants are so backward at making use of the fairest Opportunity of securing themselves and fencing against Popery that they have had these many Years which the Papists have given them by an over-active Zeal for their Destruction while Papists do readily embrace and make use of all Advantages against them tho never so foul That some who are seemingly zealous Sons of the Church of England should take such Measures as tend to her Destruction That such as have most bitterly declaimed against Separation from our Assemblies as a great Sin should themselves hold separate Meetings upon a meer State-point and as it seems to me be in the wrong Opinion too That any who mean honestly should be doing the French King's and the Papists Business at a time when the Protestant Cause and the Fate of Europe lie at Stake And lastly that any Conscientious and Learned Men should lose Preferments and that the Church should be deprived of the benefit of their Labours These are the Reasons that have at length overcome my great Aversion to writing The Argument I make use of hath indeed been lightly touched upon by some others and it could not well fall out otherwise within the compass of so much time as this Dispute hath been on Foot in But let not this Acknowledgment at the Entrance at all prejudice any Man against reading what I have written upon a Belief that I offer nothing new nothing but what he hath already met with and can answer for For any thing I know my manner of prosecuting it is different from what hath yet been published whether it be to better purpose or no the Reader is to judge But although it should not be so yet may it be of some use since oftentimes the same Arguments that have been rejected do prevail when urged in a different way although with a great deal less Skill But whether I have written better or worse upon this Subject than other Men is not at all the Question But whether or no I have made good my Undertaking I confess when I consider how subject all Men are to mistake and what Cause my after-thoughts have many times found of altering my

is a Passage in the Lord Churahil's Letter lest for King Jam●s when he went off from him at Salisbury which implies that he was either Privy to or smelled out some such Design His words are Heaven knows with what Partiality my dutiful Opinion of your Majesty hath hitherto represented those unhappy Designs which inconsiderate and self-interested Men have framed against your Majesty's true Interest and the Protestant Religion But as I can no longer joyn with such to give a Pretence by Conquest to bring them to Effect His Lordship best knows what he means by the Pretences by Conquest to bring those unhappy Designs to Effect But to me at present it seems that his words are capable of no other Interpretation than that they were resolved to provoke us to make some opposition that they intended to call a Rebellion the which being quelled they might pretend us to be in the state of a Conquered People and so over rule our Laws and make their own the Legal Religion And what greater Provocation could be given than to make us believe they had thus imposed upon us as to the Succession And if this be the Case as they that believe there was a Prince of Wales have great Reason to think it is then Righteous art thou O Lord and upright are thy Judgments For the Priests and Jesuits are sunk down in the Pit that they made in the Net which they had hid for us is their own Foot taken We can never enough adore the Divine Goodness and Justice and Wisdom in turning the Mischief that these Wretches intended against his Church upon their own heads For at the same time that they designed to render the Birth of the Child doubtsul that so they might provoke us to do what might minister to them an occasion to Destroy or Enslave us they likewise rendered it suspected to a Soveraign Prince nearly concerned to maintain the Succession who had both the Wit and Courage to sift out the Truth in this matter And how well these Sons of Wisdom carryed it when he came to make inquiry we have seen and shall consider by and by But however this be the most probable Reason of their perplexing things at this rate that any Man can think of who believes it was a Genuine Prince yet was not this to be owned for the Reason And therefore we have not forgotten that some of their then Majesties Friends bethought themselves of another They could not deny but that things were very strangely carryed and that they both might and ought to have dealt more above-board But they would have had us believe that the Reason why they did not was the late Queen's mighty Spirit She took it so very ill to be Suspected that she scorned to give any Satisfaction But what had not the King more Temper Had not their Ghostly Fathers more Or could not they who had inspirited their Majesties to run such mighty Risques for the Catholick Cause prevail with them in the space of Forty Weeks to give Law to their Passion when it was so necessary to the great Design and when the not doing of it was like to ruine all Or if they scorned to give Satisfaction to the Subject was it below them to give Satisfaction to a Soveraign Prince whose Consort was the Presumptive Heir of the Crown This Reason must I think be unsatisfactory to every indifferent ●●dgment and I am sure notwithstanding this Allegation the then Prince and Princess of Orange had all the Reason in the World to inquire into this doubtful Birth For notwithstanding all that can be alledged since there were during the time of the Queens pretended Bigness such general and confident Expectations of foul Play some Men of Honour and Prudence of the Protestant Party Friends to the Succession of their present Majesties should have been admitted into the Room and placed so near the Queen as that they might have been able to have given positive home Evidence on her Majesty's side And it was but reason that the Princess of Denmark and a sufficient number of Ladies that were her Friends should have been convinced by a sensible Demonstration But now instead hereof how quite contrary were all things carried And this brings me in the Second Place To the very suspicious Circumstances that attended this doubtful Birth They are not yet forgotten and therefore I need only mention some of them in order that this Discourse may not be imperfect The Queen shifted her Lodgings to and fro at the expected time of Travail gave out That she would lye-in sometimes at White-Hall and sometimes at St. James's was delivered if at all in Bed in so short a Space that there was not time to find out a Trick supposing there had been any nor to make any Remarks how Matters were Few Witnesses called but such as were either Papists or so obnoxious to the Laws by their b●ing Parties to the illegal Proceedings that it stood them in Hand as much to have a Prince of Wales as if they had been Papists And the disinterested Protestants that were called so placed that they could only give Evidence Tha● they heard the Queen complain and that there was a Child But for speaking home to the Matter they were no more able to do it than as if they had been at some Miles distance I grant that some of these Circumstances might not be of their designing or ordering and that had they hapned alone they would have been of no moment to create a Suspicion But yet being joyned with the others that were undeniably of their Ordering and that might have been ordered other ways they are of very great weight And I am perswaded when a Man who is altogether disinterested considers all Circumstances laid together he will conclude that supposing there were foul Play Things must needs have been carried just as they were And they that suppose there was not can give no Reason why they were so carried but such as are altogether unsatisfactory and that notwithstanding all that can be alledged the Presumptive Heirs to the Crown had reason to expect the Matter should be looked into But it will be said No sooner did the Prince and Princess discover their Jealousie but the late King gave them all the Satisfaction that they could reasonably desire such as might and ought to have contented them For the King did not hear of the Prince's Preparation against him before the 9th or 10th of September 1688 and on the 22d of October he ordered the Council to be assembled and such of the Peers of this Kingdom both Spiritual and Temporal as were in Town together with the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and the Judges and several of his Majesty's Council learned in the Law And Queen Dowage● and the Lords and Ladies and others that were present at the Queens Labour did appear and declare all of them except Queen Dowager upon Oath what they knew of the Birth of