Prince was born as they say on Sunday the 10th of June Old Stile 1688. 2. 23. 1689 The Parliament after a short Prorogation met again this Day and his Majesty was pleased to refer them to what he had said to both Houses the 19th Instant in relation to the Affairs of Ireland   The same Day a great Number of Lords and Gentlemen of that Kingdom met at Bow-Church in Cheapside to render Thanks to Almighty God for the Deliverance of the bloody Massacre the Irish made of the Protestants in the Year 1641 which began upon this Day 3. 24. 1673 This Day the Prince of Orange with his Army joined the Imperial Forces commanded by Count Montecuculi between Aâ—dernacht and Bonn. 4. 25. 1684 The Chambre de Metz so famous for their unjust Judgments deprived his Highness the Prince of Orange of the Lands Mannors and Lordships he had in the French King's Dominions 5. 26. 1674 This Day there was a Rencounter between a Detachment of the Troops of the Duke of Lorain and the French Arrierban or Nobility commanded by the Marquiss de Sable consisting of 700 Gentlemen in which â—he latter were all killed or taken Prisoners except 17. The General himself was taken The Lorains were but 700 commanded by Monsieur Dupuy dit 1688 King James being acquainted that many made it their business by Writing Printing or Speaking to defame hisâ— Government with false and seditious News and Reports to create in his Subjects and universal Jealousy and Discontent and that in Coffee-Houses and other Places People took the Liberty to censure the Proceedings of State by speaking evil of things they understood not published this Day his Proclamation forbidding the spreading of false News and declaring that those who should hear seditious Reports and Reflections against him and his Ministers and should not reveal it should be likewise prosecuted with the â—tmost Severity This Proclamation rather increased the Aversion Men had then for the Government and there were very few who did not presently reflect on Father Petre then one of the Privy Council as fitter to be hang'd than reverenced 6. 27. 1688 The Earl of Sunderland President of King James's Privy Council and principal Secretary of State was turned this Day out of all his Places and the Lord Preston made Secretary in his room The Change surprized all Men and it was given out that his Lordship had lost out of his Scritore the Original League concluded between the French King and K. James for the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion here and the establishing Popery and Arbitrary Government and that the same had been carried over to the Prince of Orange but my Lord Sunderland in his Letter to a Friend in London that came out some time after viz. March 23 1689. says that he never heard of such a League but tells us the Jesuits exasperated King James against him because he opposed the Prosecution of the seven Bishops who were put in June last into the Tower for refusing to read in their Churches the King's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience because â—â—e advised the King to restore â—he Corporations annul the Ecclesiastical Court call a Free Parliament and redress all other Grievances He tells us also that he disswaded King James from calling a Parliament in Ireland which was designed to alter the Acts of Settlement I must not forget to mention two pieces of Service more to the Nation performed by his Lordship which was the refusing of the French Succours that were offer'd to King James which my Lord Sunderland opposed to Death and his hindring the securing the Chief of the disaffected Nobility and Gentry which was proposed to the Court as a certain way to break all the Prince's Measures 7. 28. 1677 His Highness having joined the Imperial Army held the 4th Instant a Council of War wherein it was resolved to besiege Bon and accordingly his Highness took his Quarters this Day before that Fortress which was invested the Day before 8. 29. 1689 This Day Sir Thomas Pilkington being continued Mayor of the City of London was according to Custom sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster whither he went by Water accompanied by the Aldermen and the several Companies of the City in their respective Barges adorned with Flags and Streamers Their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark and the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament having been pleased to accept of an humble Invitation from the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council to dine in the City this Day their Majesties attended by his Royal Highness all the great Officers of the Court and a numerous Train of Nobility and Gentry in their Coaches went to Guild-hall the Militia of London and Westminster making a Lane for them the Balconies all along their Passage being richly hung with Tapistry and filled with Spectators and the People in great Crouds expressing their Joy with loud and continued Acclamations The Royal City-Regiment of Volunteer Horse richly accoutred under the Command of the Earl of Monmouth attended their Majesties from Whitehall to Guildhall where they were entertained with the Grandeur and Magnificence sutable to so august and extraordinary a Presence Christopher Lethieullier John Houblon Esq Sheriffs Edward Clark and Francis Child Aldermen received the Honour of Knighthood on this occasion Their Majesties returned in the Evening with the same Ceremonies amidst the Acclamation of their People Bonsires and Illuminations 9. 30. 1688 King James having received Advice the Day before that the Damage the Fleet of the Prince of Orange had received in the Storm which forced him back to Helvoetsluce had been magnified on purpose to delude him and that the Prince would sail in few Days sent fresh Orders to his Fleet to put to Sea and suspecting that the Prince would land in the North because of the great many disaffected Lords that were gone that way he sent thither a greater Number of his Forces which was looked upon as a new Instance of the Weakness of the Council of that Prince in sending his Forces to one of the Extremities of the Kingdom before he knew that his Enemy should not land in the other 10. 31. 1688 King James having read in the Prince's Declaration that his Highness was most earnestly invited hither by divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and by many Gentlemen and others his Majesty sent for some of the Bishops and required of them a Paper under their Hands in abhorrence of the Prince of Orange's intended Invasion which was designed to be tacked to a Proclamation which came out two Days after forbidding the reading of his Highness's Declaration upon severe Penalties but the Bishops of Canterbury London Peterborough and Rochester who were only sent for refused to do it at which the Jesuited Party were so violently inraged that if we may believe the Bishop of Rochester King James was advised to imprison the said Bishops and extort that Truth
no manner of Right to the Crown they ordered the Magistrates of Edinburgh to take the Oath of Fidelity to the Convention which was accordingly done in the Afternoon 7. 28. 1677 The Prince of Orange knowing the Extremities the Town of St. Omer was reduced to came to Ipres where having joined his Army it was resolved to march and relieve that Placo 8. 29. 1691 The French carrying on the Siege of Mons with great Vigor his Majesty resolved to decamp from Hall and endeavour to relieve it tho his Artillery was not yet come up to his Camp but just as the Army was breaking up News came that the Place had capitulated The French had only gained a Horn-work and there still remained two Half-Moons for them to take before they could come to the Counterscarp of the Place and in the Attack they had made the Day before upon one of the Half-Moons they were repulsed with great Loss but the Burghers being terrified by the French Bombs and their Fears improved by the Influence of their Priests whom the French had bribed they sent some Deputies of their Body with two Abbots to the Governor and pressed him to capitulate and upon his Refusal they sent a Drum of their own upon the Walls and beat a Parley Thus fell the important Place of Mons into the Hands of the French by the Cowardice of its Inhabitants and the Treachery and Knavery of the Priests The French King having taken a View of the Town to see whether it was worth the Price he had given for it returned to Paris 9. 30. 1677 The Prince of Orange marches with his Army to the Relief of St. Omer and having made a long March came in sight of the Guards of the French Army dit 1692 The Queen Dowager designing with his Majesty's Pleasure to retire into Portugal parted this Day from Somerset-House for Dover where her Majesty embarked for Calais to continue her Journey by Land 10. 31. 1677 The Prince of Orange comes in sight of the French Army which he found very advantageously posted near Cassel having two Rivers and several Defiles before them His Highness passed the first River notwithstanding the Opposition of the Enemies and designed to pass the other but the Night coming on it was thought fit to defer it till the next Morning  April  11. 1. 1677 His Highness attacks the French Army at Cassel which besides the Advantage of this Post was much superiour in Number The Fight was very bloody and obstinate but at last the Allies were over-powered by the Number of the French and forced to retire Tho the Prince was unfortunate in that Action he gained a great Reputation and his Enemies owned that he had given all the Proofs of a great General He charged several times at the head of the Battalions and Squadrons and when he saw that it was impossible to force the French he made a glorious Retreat and more orderly than one would have expected 12. 2. 1689 The Committee appointed by the States of Scotland for setling the Government made this Day their Report to the Convention which was agreed unto and thereupon they passed the following Act The States of the Kingdom of Scotland find and declare that King James VII being a professed Papist did assume the Regal Power and acted as King without ever taking the Oath required by Law and has by the Advice of evil and wicked Counsellors invaded the Fundamental Constitution of this Kingdom and altered it from a Legal and Limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary and Despotick Power and has governed the same to the Subversion of the Protestant Religion and Violation of the Laws and Liberties of the Nation inverting all the Ends of the Government whereby he has forefaulted the Right of the Crown and the Throne is become vacant   The Convention voted immediately after this and ordered that the said Committee for Settling the Government should bring in an Act for Settling the Crown on their Majesties William and Mary King and Queen of England and an Instrument of Government to be offered them with the Crown for the securing of the People from the Grievances which do affect them 13. 3. 1696 This Day Mr. Paul Foley Speaker of the House of Commons with the whole House attended the King and presented the following Association   WHereas there has been a horrid and detestable Conspiracy formed and carried on by Papists and other wicked and traiterous Persons for Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person in order to encourage an Invasion from France to subvert our Religion Laws and Liberties We whose Names are hereunto subscribed do heartily sincerely and solemnly profess testify and declare that His Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms And we do mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the uttermost of our Power in the Support and Defence of his Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents And in case his Majesty come to any violent or untimely Death which God forbid we do hereby further freely and unanimously oblige our selves to unite associate and stand by each other in revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in supporting and defending the Succession of the Crown according to an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown   Mr. Speaker made at the same time a Request to his Majesty that the said Association and all other Associations by the Commons of England be lodged among the Records in the Tower to remain as a perpetual Memorial of their Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty The King was pleased to return the following Answer   I Take this as a most convincing and most acceptable Evidence of your Affection and as you have freely Associated your Selves for our Common Safety I do heartily enter into the same Association and will be always ready with you and the rest of my good Subjects to venture my Life against all who shall endeavour to Subvert the Religion Laws and Liberties of England   Note That the Lords entred into an Association two Days after the Commons which is much the same as this saving only that their Lordships made not use of the word Rightful but they declare that the late King James the Pretended P. of Wales nor any Body else has any manner of Right to the Crown of c. dit 1696 This Day Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkins who were lately convicted for High Treason at the Old Baily were according to the Sentence pronounced against them drawn on a Hurdle from Newgate to Tyburn and there hang'd and quarter'd Each deliver'd a Paper to the Sheriffs and owned the Crime they were condemned for as they had done two Days
James lay with all his Forces dit 1688 This Day was published at Paris the Declaration of War of the French King against the Dutch wherein the French King alledges no other Reason but that the Dutch opposed Cardinal Furstemberg's Election to the Archbishoprick of Cologn whom he was resolved to maintain dit 1694 This Day died at his Palace at Lambeth the most Reverend Father in God Dr. John Tillotson Lord Archbishop of Canterbury in the 65th Year of his Age He was promoted to that Metropolitan See in May 1691. and as his Learning Piety and other eminent Qualities gained him a general Esteem so they made his Death very much and justly lamented 3. 23. 1695 The Parliament having met the Day before according to his Majesty's Writs of Summons and his Majesty being come to the House of Peers with the usual Ceremonies and the Commons being sent for up the Lord Keeper signified to them his Majesty's Pleasure that they should forthwith proceed to the Choice of a Speaker after which the Commons being returned to their House they made choice of Paul Foley Esq Speaker in the last Parliament whom they presented this Day to his Majesty in the House of Lords He made a short Speech to the King and told his Majesty that the Commons had made choice of him tho there were many Persons amongst them fitter for that important Place and then my Lord Keeper told him by the King's Command that the repeated Choice of the Commons was a sufficient Argument of his Ability Capacity and Fidelity and that therefore his Majesty approved their Choice After which his Majesty made a gracious Speech to both Houses wherein he took a particular notice of the Affection of his People by their Behaviour during his Absence and at his Return commended the Zeal and Affection of the last Parliament the Bravery of the English Troops at Namur and recommended to them to provide a Supply for carrying on the War for supplying the Deficiencies of Parliamentary Funds for the Civil List and to relieve the French Protestants who suffer for their Religion concluding by recommending unto them to remedy the ill State of the 〈◊〉 and to form some good 〈◊〉 for the Incouragement and Increase of Sea-men 4. 24. 1688 This Day his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went away from Salisbury to join the Prince of Orange He left a Letter behind him containing the Reasons of his going away but that chiefly insisted upon was the Danger the Protestant Religion was exposed to The Lord Churchill went also with the Prince which surprized all the World for every body thought that noble Lord intirely devoted to King James's Interest he left also a Letter behind him which deserveth to be carefully considered and especially these Lines Heaven knows with what Partiality my dutiful Opinion of your Majesty has 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 join with such to give a Pretence by Conquest to bring them to effect so I will always with the Hazard of my Life preserve your Person I could wish for the sake of the Reader I was able to explain that Expression which doubtless contains a Mystery known to very few except to such who were deeply ingaged in the Cabal of those times   The Dukes of Graston and Ormond went also to the Prince much about the same time but they thought the Case was so plain that there was no need of leaving any Papers behind them to justify their Conduct 5. 25. 1688 The going off of the Prince of Denmark having struck King James with Terror and Affliction and his Army being in great Disorder he became so full of Fear and Suspicion that upon a false Alarm being made by Design or Accident of the Approach of the Prince of Orange his Majesty and the whole Army left Salisbury this Day the Army retiring towards Reading and the King â—aking his way towards London The King came to the Market-place at Salisbury and the Mayor and Citizens being sent for he told them that he would spend his Blood for his Subjects and was resolved to maintain the Protestant Religion but he had no sooner ended his Speech but he fell to bleeding at his Nostrils and so violently that his Blood could not be stopp'd any manner of way This Accident tho natural enough especially in the Juncture that Prince found himself at that time was look'd upon as a bad Omen and improved to his Disadvantage dit  The News of Prince George's having left the King being come to Whitehall caused a great Consternation there and the Princess being suspected to have the same Design some Yeomen of the Guards were set in her Apartments but her Highness deceived their Vigilancy and that Night made her Escape in Disguise with the Ladies Churchill and Berkley being attended by the Bishop of London and the Earl of Dorset Her Highness went into the North where the associated Lords had made a considerable Progress The Absence of the Princess caused a great Complaint and they were forced to print the Letter she had left for the Queen containing the Reason of her retiring for fear of being cut to pieces by the King 's own Guards upon a Surmise that the Papists had made away that beloved Princess dit 1691 His Majesty was pleased to nominate this Day Dr. Thomas Tenison to the Bishoprick of Lincoln 6. 26. 1688 King James returned this Evening to Whitehall from Salisbury 7. 27. 1â—8â— Sir Edward Hales whom King James had appointed Lieutenant of the Tower having during the King's Absence planted several Mertar-pieces on the Walls towards the City to keep the Citizens in awe they were so inraged against him that the King did not think himself safe at Whitehall as long as Sir Edward Hales had the Command of the Tower and therefore to appease the City he turned out Sir Edward and put in his room Colonel Bevil Skelton a Protestant 8. 28. 1675 The Prince having brought back his Army from the Country of Cologn after the taking of Boâ—n and possessed himself â—n his way of several strong Castles and little Towns left his Army on the Meuse and returned this Day to the Hague where he was received with all possible Marks of Respect and Demonstrations of Joy The States complimented his Highness on his successful Expedition whereby their Country was delivered from the French who had been forced to abandon in less than a Month's time all their Conquests in the United Provinces except Grave and Mastricht Several Medals were then coined to perpetuate the Memory of that great and glorious Expedition dit 1688 King James seeing the general Defection of his Subjects and that the associated Lords had taken York Plymouth and a great many other considerable Towns and that the Nation as well as the Prince declared every where for a Free Parliament which