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A93564	A brief history of the pious and glorious life and actions of the most illustrious princess, Mary Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. Containing the most memorable things, and matters, relating to her royal self, &c. from her birth till the most deplorable time of her ever to be lamented death, on the 28th. of December, 1694. Faithfully done by J.S.	J. S.; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713, engraver.	1695 (1695)	Wing S46; ESTC R230766	40,022	154

Pray'd might be redress'd upon the Reading of which His Majesty was pleased to return this Gracious and Satisfactory Answer Viz. WHEN I Engaged in this Vndertaking I had particular Regard and Consideration for the Kingdom of Scotland and therefore I did Emit a Declaration in Relation to that as well as this Kingdom which I intend to make Good and Effectual to them I take it very Kindly that Scotland hath Expressed so much Confidence in Affection to me They shall find the willing to Assist them in every thing that concerns the Weal and Interest of that Kingdom for making what Laws shall be Necessary for the Security of their Religion Property and Liberty and to ease them of what may be justly grievous to them The Coronation Oath was hereupon Tendred to Their Majesties the Earl of Argyle as chief Commissioner Reading it by periods and the King and Queen holding up their Hands as is the manner of Scotland in this matter of taking Oaths repeated it till they came to the Clause where the Rooting out of Hereticks is mentioned in that Oath at which his Majesty declared That He did not mean by those words that he was under any Obligation to become a Persecutor To which the Commissioners answered That neither the meaning of the Oath neither did the Laws of Scotland Import it and that the States of Scotland had Authorized them to represent to Their Majesties that that Clause did not Import the Destroying of Hereticks for by the Laws of Scotland no man was to be persecuted for his private Opinion and tht Obstinate and Convicted Heriticks only were to be Denounced Rebels and Outlaw'd whereby their Moveable Estates were to be Confiscated Whereupon on the King Ordering the Commissioners to witness he took the Oath in that sense The Words of the whole Tenour of it being repeated Their Majesties Sign'd it and so the Commissioners departed with Joy and Thankfulness And on the 6th of June ensuing the States met and being Assembled it was signify'd to them by His Grace the Duke of Hamilton that the King had sent him a Commission to Represent his Person in the ensuing Parliament and that he had received instructions to turn the Convention into a Free Parliament whereupon they proceeded to pass an Act for that purpose and made it High Treason to Question or Disown the Authority of its being such Upon which the Duke of Gowrdon who had a long time held the Castle of Edinborough upon the account of the Interest of King James Articling for the safety of those that were with him threw himself wholly upon Their Majesties Mercy and Clemency saying That he had so much Respect for all the Princes of the Line of King James the 6th that he would make no Conditions with them as to his own particular Interest but Render himself entirely to their own Discretion And thereupon delivered up that Strong Place to Sir John Lanier Deputed to receive it at his hands and although the Viscount Dundee made Head for a time yet upon the Entry of the English Forces under the Command of Major General Mackay he was Killed in a Battel near the Blare of Athol and soon after the whole Kingdom of Scotland was Reduced to Their Majesties Obedience THUS Heaven as it prosper'd their other affairs so in this gave Success to their Arms and brought fear where Love and Obedience was deny'd under whose Auspicious Fortune the Protestants of Ireland having shaken off their first fears took Courage Fortifying London-Derry and other places and making a very considerable head not without great success in the Field till such Reliefs and Succours were brought them as Reduced that Kingdom to its Obedience and settle them in their former Tranquility of which more hereafter THE Worthy Sir Thomas Pilkington being Sworn Lord-Mayor of London before the Barrons at Westminster on the 29th of October 1689. Their Majesties did the City the Honour to Dine with him at their Guild-Hall where the sight as well as the Entertainment at a Dinner was very Magnificent to the high Satisfaction of all Partys and as a farther Mark of His Royal Favour the King was pleased at the Humble Request of the Grocers Company to permit himself to be Chose Soveraign Master of it and was Presented with an Instrument of his Election and a Copy of his Freedom in a Box of Gold for which he was pleased to return them his thanks and Confer'd the Honour of Knighthood on Ralph Box their Upper-Warden and in the Evening upon Their Majesties Return the Windows were every where as they passed filled with Illuminations and the Shouts of the people Proclaimed their Resentments of the Royal Favour done them WHILST these things passed in England the Joyful News came that the Enemy had been Beaten off or obliged to Raise the Siege of London-Derry after it had been hard pressed a long time by a Numerous Army in which the Late King was to encourage them with his presence but it availed not for though the Besieged endured the greatest extremitys of Famine yet by their own Valour and the Indefatigable Industry of Mr. Walker whom they had Chosen their Governour they secured that Important place for the Interest of the Crown of England when the Papists had possessed themselves of almost all the other places in the Kingdom and with French Irish and others had composed a very Numerous Army in the Field but god who always takes Care for the Protection of Good Princes and their Interests gave this as a happy presage what wonders His Providence was about to bring to pass THE Pious Queen was not a little concerned at the Miseries of the Poor Distressed Protestants who fled as they could find Opportunity into England from the Outrages of the Papists in Ireland as fearing a Cloud of Blood hung over them ready to break on them in another Massacre and by Her Bountiful Example and Encouragement they were very much Relieved and Succoured for indeed many of the better as well as the lower condition of People being Strip'd and Plunder'd of all they had were become fit Objects to move compassion and charity towards them nor failed they of Publick as well as Private Collections to support their Necessitys till they could be restored to what they were Divested of in their own Countrey for Adhering to their Religion and Their Majesties Interests which upon the going over of the Duke of Schomberg with an Army soon Encreased and those that had beeen good at Plundring proved but very indifferent at Fighting so that a great many Towns were quickly recovered and upon the Winter Encampment of Their Majesties Forces on the Plains of Dundalk c. The Enemys Fury Abated and their proceedings were altogether at a stand and so at this Time stood Affairs AND now for the Blessings that had been showered on these Kingdoms in a plentiful manner and for the further Imploring the Almightys Assistance to prosper the finishing of a Work so

all the Devotions that is appointed on so Solemn Occasion KING Charles soon after this desirous to prefer his Illustrious Neices to Protestant Princes for the security of our Religion and the welfare of the Kingdom seeing he had no Issue by Donna Catharina his Queen Refusing all others pitch'd upon the Illustrious Prince of Orange A Prince Descended from one of the Greatest and most Noblest Houses in Europe whose Ancestors have Signaliz'd their Conduct and Courage like Heroes and Worthys and thereby Riveted their Names to Eternity and lest a grateful Memory to all Posterity as being the Liberators of the Opressed and the often Confirmers of the Peace of Europe Setling the most thriving and prosperous States in the World and what is more Mantained it from its Infancy against Opressors But as if all their Virtues and Courage had centered in this Prince our most Gracious Soveraign the Wonders He has done comprize and in a higher measure do exceed their many Great Exploits But to come nearer to our purpose The Fair and Virtuous Princess having been seen by this Illustrious Prince when he was in England to Visit his Royal Relations Landing on the 30th of October 1670 So much Virtue and Innocent Goodness no doubt made some impressions on his Mind to consider and esteem her above all other Princesses in Europe as were not Obliterated by the spaces of time that interven'd between that and the happy joining of their Hands in the Sacred Marriage Ties that brought so great a Blessing to these Kingdoms and to show what high esteem the Nation had then of a Prince whose Virtues early Flourished and whose Fame was Loud in Courts and Camps for Prudent Councils and Martial Deeds THE Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen on the 10th of November after his Arival and having been Caressed by the Court and Obliged with all the Splendid Entertainment it could afford Waited upon him to Welcome him to England and on the 6th of December he did them the Honour to Dine with them at Drapers-Hall where he was highly Congratulated and splendidly Entertained and by the Shouts and Acclamations of the people the Citys Genious seem'd then to Bend to him as a Fortunate presage of the deliverance she might expect from him in her greatest distresses and after found Accomplished THE City having expressed their Joy to be Honoured in the presence of so Illustrious a Prince of the Royal Stem the Vniversity of Oxford the Seed-Plat of Learning and Virtuous Education from whence chiefly streams those Pious Pastors of the Church that by their unwearied endeavours make Religion Flourish among us was Graced by his presence For going from the Court to Windsor he took his way from thence and was received by the Heads of the Colledges in their Formalities and being highly Treated took a view of all that is Rare and Curious in that Antient City c. And was pleased as a mark of the Satisfaction he received to accept of a Degree and so returning to London on the 23d of December he there kept his Christmass in the nighest Splendor the Court was capable of performing And on the 13th of February took his leave of the King Duke and Princesses in order to his Return to Holland where he happily Ariv'd with a Fair Wind in a few days HE was Congratulated upon his Return by the States General and thief Nobility and Gentry of His Nation AS we have before hinted after this happy interview King Charles bending his mind to bring about a Match which proved grateful to the greatest part of Christendom he sent Divers English Noblemen to Invite him over a second time who found him in Arms amidst his Victories repelling the Armys of the Invader and Disturber of his Countrey AND having delivered their Welcome Message finding without great disadvantage he could not oblige the French to a Battle he drew near with his Army to Brussels and leaving the charge of it aster necessary Orders were given ' to Count Waldeck went to the Hague and having received the thanks of the States for his Prudent Conduct of their Army he Embarqued for England with those Nobles that had attended him by the Kings Order and divers of his own Nation in the Yatches that were sent to attend him with Three Men of War and a Squadron of Dutch Ships Ordered him by the States commanded by Admiral Evertson SETTING out with a Prosperous Gale they Arived at Harwich on the 19 of October 1677. Where the Duke of Albermarle sent by the King to that intent waited upon him to Congratulate his Arival as did livers of the Kings Coaches And so he proceeded to Ipswich where the King and Duke attended with ● Splendid Train of Nobility received him and Congratulated not only his Arival but Glorious Successes abroad And so in the most Magnificent Manner they proceeded to London and was received at Whitehall with unexpres●able demonstrations of Joy and ●ad the pleasure again to see the Fairest Flower in Englands Garden which now appeared more Beautiful and Lovely no doubt not only by reason of her more Matur● Years but because Heaven ha● Destin'd her to be his Royal Consort to make him a partner in 〈◊〉 Faithful and Transcendant Love that exceeded what before or sine has been known or exampled o● Earth NO sooner was this intende● match spread abroad by Fame bu● the Nations joy swelled to an unexpressible height and over-flowe● the Bounds of Moderation Th● willing and wishing People though● that time moved too flow till th● happy day of its appointed Consumation Dawn'd to Bless th● Land with its Welcome Light THE King on the First of N●vember having declared his intentions to the Council the Lords we●● extreamly pleased and satisfied wit● them as well in the Merrits of 〈◊〉 Worthy and Just a Prince as in th● security they expected from so agreeable a Marriage of the Protestant Religion And to testify how well they resented it delayed not to go in a Body and Congratulate the Princess upon the happy occasion of her being about to enter into a State of Matrimony with so Illustrious a Husband As by their Example did most of the Nobility of England and Ministers of State Declaring the high satisfaction they conceived in it and expected from it who had very Gratious and Obliging returns of thanks for their kindness and good opinion of it ALL things being agreed on in order to this Blessed Vnion the Prince by Express sent the States General of the Vnited Provinces an account of his Proceedings the Substance of it being to this purpose Viz. THAT in Consideration it had been their earnest desires and request to him to see him Marryed when he had well weighed the reasons that induced him to it in a Conformity t● their Wishes and Desires and th● Tranquility of their State he had conceived he could not do better than 〈◊〉 Address himself to the Princes● MARY Eldest Daughter to th● Duke of York That he

Hague by a Decree Commanded them to Retire out of that Country not any more to Return Being Unhing'd there they for the greatest part return'd to England Where they were welcome to the Court but not to the generality of the People Who seeing Affairs Sicken and the Distemper they perceived in Government began to wish for a Physitian to apply Healing Medicines to the Disease e're it grew Dangerous and beyond all Cure AND among other Sinister Practices Managed and Suggested by Evil Counsellors and Priests who bore the greatest sway in the Court and Kingdom they lay'd hold on the Pillars of the Established Church and at one bold push thrust Seven of the Bishops into Prison and soon after Baited them at a Tryal with in a manner Bear-garden treatment only for Petitioning that they might not be forced to do what was contrary to their Oaths and Consciences THEN the Startled Nation oppressed with many grievous injurys perceiving all that was Pretious and Dear to it going to be swallow'd in an Abiss of Popery and the many Miserys that usually attend a Change of Government and the Abolishing of the Fundamental Laws began to stretch out her hand in earnest for help and succour And having cast her Eyes round about at last stedfastly fixed them upon an Illustrious Prince and Princess always compassionate to the Distressed and to whom succeding Generations are bound for the so Wonderful a Deliverance wrought in our Days THE Court party here in England had been Tampering but in vain to bring their Highnesses to some agreeableness with their proceedings as is evident by the Answer Minheer Fagel that great States-man Pentionary of Holland and West-Frieze-Land Returned to Mr. Stewart who wrote to him to have their Highnesses opinion or rather Approbation about Liberty of Conscience taking away the Penal Laws and Test which was not done upon his own head as a Private Person but by Command The which take Briefly thus THAT their Highnesses have often Declared as they more particularly did to the Marquess D' Albeville Ambassador Extraordinary from England to the States General That it is their Opinion that no Christian ought to be Persecuted for his Conscience or Opinion in Religion or be the worse used because he differs from the Publick Established Church and Religion and therefore they could be content that even the Papists might be sussered to continue in their Religion with as much Liberty as is alowed them by the States of the United Provinces And as for the Protestant Dissenters their Highnesses did not only Consent but Heartily Approve of their Entire Priviledge for the Full and Free Exercise of their Liberty without any Trouble or Hindrance c. That their Highnesses in case the King desired it were willing to Declare their willingness to concur in th● Confirming and Setling this Liberty as far as lay in them and were ready upon the like desire to concur in repealing the Laws always provide● those Laws remain still in Force an● full Vigour whereby Roman-Catholicks are Excluded both Houses o● Parliament out of all Employment Eccleslastical Civil and Military● and also all those other Laws whic● confirm the Protestant Religion an● secure it against the Attempts of Roman Catholicks But that their Highnesses could n●● by any means agree to the Repealin● the Tests or those Penal Laws th●● tend to the Securitie of the Protesta●● Religion since the Roman-Catholicks received no more Prejudice from those then that being Excluded from Parliaments or from Publick Employments and by them the Protestant Religion is sheltered and Cover'd from all the Designs of the Roman-Catholicks against it or against the Publick safety and that neither the Test nor those Laws can be said to carry in them any Severity upon the account of Conscience they being only Pernicious Qualifing persons to be Members of Parliament or of bearing Offices by which they must declare themselves before God and Man to be Protestants So that all this amounts to no more than securing the Protestant Religion from any prejudice it may receive from Roman-Catholicks That their Hignesses have thought and still are of the Opinion that more than this ought not to be required or expected from them since by this means of the Roman Catholicks and their Posterity would be always secured from every Manner of Trouble in their Persons and Estates or in the Fxercise of their Religion and that they ought to be satisfied with this and not disquiet the Kingdom because they are not admitted to sit in Parliament or bear publick Offices or because those Laws in which the Security of the Protestant Religion doth chiefly consist are not Repealed by which they may be put in a Condition to Overturn it THAT their Highnesses believed likewise that the Dissenters would be for ever satisfied when they should be for ever Cover'd from all Danger of being disturbed or Punished for the free Exercise of their Religion upon any pretence or condition of their Religion whatsoever c. BY this means the good Intentions of their Highnesses to maintain and secure the Protestant Religion being known to the Adverse Party they began to take other measures and posted so fast in their course to push on our Miserys that they not only Run their Policys out of Breath but themselves at last out of the Kingdom for the chief Nobility and Gentry seeing all at Stake that the weighty affairs were managed by Priests and Jesuits or such as for interest or prejudice were no Friends to the Protestant Religion They Addressed themselves to their Highnesses to save a Countrey in which they might justly Claim so great an Interest TO this they gave an Attentive ear saw us at the Brink of Ruine and came as sent by Heaven in a happy time to prevent our Falling into it For when those that were labouring to overturn our Religion Laws and Chain at least our Liberties much shorter thought themselves sure of Gaining the Point and that though their weak reasons could not work any thing upon the Generality of the people yet relying on that confidence that mostly failed them Viz. That they were Backed and would be supported by a very considerable Army which had been kept up in Summer Campaigns several Years at Hounslow-Heath and in Winter-Quarters so Posted that they might the better Awe the Nation They found themselves on a sudden Deceived and so over whelmed with fears that the Chain of all the measures they had long been Linking with much Labour and Cost instantly snapt in sunder UPON News that the Prince was preparing to be our Deliverer all that had been done by the Court party was untwisted Charters were Surrendred Justices and other Magistrates and Officers that had been outed to make room for Roman-Catholicks restored as also was Magdalen Colledge and the Bishop of Londons Suspension taken off The Seven Bishops that had been Imprisoned and Tryed were sent for to Court and not only received into Favour but Carressed and Advised

withal Father Peter the Jesuit dismist the Council and the King declar'd he was willing that Roman Catholicks should remain uncapable to be Members of the House of Commons Oh the wonderful Conversions of Fear what the Prayers and Intreaties of the Nobles Bishops and the desires of all the good Protestants in England could not do the very name of their Highnesses preparation brought to pass But not to Dwell too long on this Matter THE Prince whose actions are swift in Execution as his purposes delayed not though it was in the dead of Winter and his Fleet was put back in the Harbour by contrary Winds and suffer'd some little damage resolved on this great Work on the Fifth of November a day whereon another great deliverance happened to this Nation and tho' long since yet fresh in our minds He came with his whole Fleet before Torbay in the County of Devon not having met wih any Opposition from the English Fleet though he passed by within Cannon Shot insomuch that this gave a happy Presage that God had Bowd the Hearts of the People to be at their Highnesses Devotion and what more confirmed it was when the first Men were put on Shoar Viz. about 500 to put themselves in a Posture for the better securing the Landing of the rest so far were the Countrey people from Flying their Habitations or any Consternation that on the contrary they came Flocking to Welcome them on Shoar bringing them a supply of such Provisions as they had and when the Prince Landed such were the Shouts and Applaudities that these Western Countreys never Rung with the like Melody THE Fleet consisting of 635 Men of War Flyboats Pinks and Fireships and the Forces that Landed 14352 a great many of them being Brandenburgers Hess Casselers Sweeds c. And with them divers great Commanders with some English Noblemen and a great many others AND now the Nations Genious bends low to Welcome and to Complement a Heroe who brought her Safety with him for as well the Nobles as others came Crouding in and only a March was made and not a War for those who had boasted such mighty things before Fled and Scatter'd at the Martial Noise of his Drums and Trumpets that very Army on which they had so much Rely'd coming in a great measure over to him and to be brief he with little o● no Effusion of Blood King Jame● being retir'd took a quiet possession of the Kingdom amidst the Loud Shouts and Acclamations o● the People being every where Addressed and Congratulated THIS News Flying into Holland caused not only Excess of Joy in the Princess for the Safety o● her Illustrious Consort whose grea● undertaking had Subjected He● Spirits to Doubts and Fears o● the Hazards that might attend such an Enterprize but with her tha● whole Nation Simpathiz'd by expressing the high Satisfaction the● conceived upon his Success and Prosperous Fortune And whe● he had here at the earnest request of the States Assembled in Convention taken the Administration of the Publick affairs of Government into his Hands and after King James's leaving the Kingdom and going to France the Citizens of London and Westminster went in a great Body to the Parliament-house where they delivered two Petitions the Substance of them being to this Effect Viz. THAT they most Humbly and Earnestly Desired that His Most Illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange might be speedily setled in the Throne by whose Conduct Courage and Reputation the Nation and Protestant Religion might be Secured and Defended from it's Enemys at home and abroad That Ireland which was then in Rebellion might be rescued from its deplorable condition and to conclude the Kingdoms setled on a lasting Foundation and Security in Peace and Liberty UPON this Her Highness having been Complemented at the Hague by all the Persons of Quality that on purpose Resorted to the Court and among others their Electorl Highnesses of Brandenburg She having made to the Latter a very Splendid Entertainment it was concluded here that the Illustrious Princess should be sent for over to be Partner in those Crowns the Wisdom of the Nation had concluded to lay at the Pincess's Feet to which she consenting And being on her Departure for England the States of Holland the States General the Courts of Justice the Council of State and the Colledges either in Bodys or by their Deputys attended her and made their Complements and Congratulations on the happy occasion and in this the Forreign Ministers residing at Court had a share and the Persons of Quality of both Sexes The Majestrates made it their Request that the Burghers might wait on her in Arms but she modestly refused it as being too tedious a Cerimony for the intended Expeditness however the States of Holland Deputed Three of their Body to Wait upon her till she should be Embarqued and gave Orders to the Sieur Allemond with Divers Men of War to Joyn Admiral Herbert who attended with a Squadron and several Yatches to Transport her for England THE people at her Departure scarce refraining expressing their Sorrows in Tears that so much Virtue and Goodness had left their Shoar to inrich another Land They had seen her worth and valued it at such a Rate that though she went as it were in Triumph to possess Crowns and Kingdoms they Grudged to be Deprived of such a Blessing or spare it to any other Like the People of Mittelene when Cornelia the Wife of Pompey the Great was to go with her Lord after the Pharsalian War left their Shoars tho' in a different State and Circumstance they all crouded on the Rocks and Sands and fixed their eager eyes on the Ship She was in till the distance of space had removed it from their sight For setting sail with a Prosperous Wind She soon reached the shoars She was distined by Providence to Crown with blessings where Her Welcome was Proclaimed by the Guns from the Ships in the Road and from the Forts and after them by the Ringing of Bells and the Joyful Acclamations of the People and as She came up the River the Tower on which the Royal Banner was Display'd made London Sensible in a Language of Fire breathed from its Thundering Cannons that its Beloved Darling approached to Croud upon it greater advantages than it had long time participated ON the 12th of February in the Evening the Princess Arived at White-hall where she was received according to her Royal Character by the Nobles and great Ladys of the Court and by the Prince with all the Tender endearments and Expressions of kindness and affection The same Night she received the Complements of the Nobility at Court whilst the Streets every where Shined with Bonfires and Illuminations and the Bells charmed the Air into a stilness by the Harmony of their desired Musick and to be Brief a general Joy spread it self through the Kingdoms for her presence of which so long an absence had deprived it THE Lords and Commons