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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62413	A true history of all the memorable transactions that have happen'd in England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders, &c. relating to state affairs, sieges, battles, sea-fights, and other naval matters With a particular relation of all the plots and conspiracies against the life of King William and his government, at home and abroad: also by what means they were discovered and defeated, by signal providences: from his coming to the crown, to this present year, 1696. Especially a large account of the late horrid conspiracy, to assassine his sacred life, and bring in a French power. Likewise the confessions and executions of divers of the conspirators, and other things worthy of note.	J. S.	1696 (1696)	Wing S99A; ESTC R3293	88,755	215

was dismissed from before that honourable House and this Lord as is said having timely notice of his Tryal before the Commissioners of the Admiralty was carried on Board the Kent ●ing in the River Medway where he was tryed by a Jury of Sea Captains who after a long hearing of the Witnesses and what he had to say in his own defence upon a long Debate he was acquitted perhaps contrary to his own Expectation The Parliament still Sitting his Ma●esty came to the House of Lords and gave the Royal Assent to an Act For Granting their Majesties a certain Impo●tion upon all East-India Goods and Ma●factures and upon all wrought Silks and ●veral other Goods and Merchandize to be Imported after the 25th of December 1690. An Act For continuing several former ●●cts therein mentioned for laying several ●●ties upon Wines Vinegar and To●●ce An Act For punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Muting or Desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters An Act For reviving a former Act for regulating the Measure and Price of Coals An Act For Paving and Cleansing the Streets of London and Westminster c. with 16 private Acts And his Majesty was pleased to constitute the Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Sidney one of his Principal Secretaries of State and at a Chapter of the most Noble Order of the Garter held at Kensington in the Presence of the Sovereign his Highness George William Duke of Zell eldest Prince of the most Serene House of Brumswick and Lunenburg was Elected a Knight Companion of the said Order And now his Majesty being intent on his Voyage for the Hague the Parliament hastened to dispatch the Bills before them the Chief of which we have lately mentioned at what time his Majesty made the following Speech to both Houses My Lords and Gentlemen I Must repeat to you upon this occasion how sensible I am of Your good Affections to me and of Your sincere Endeavours to promote the true Interests of Your Country in continuing to provide further Supplies towards the defraying the Charges of the War and as I am very secure that you will not fail on Your part to do all that shall be necessary in order to that end so I assure you I shall not be wanting on mine to see that there be a diligent and strict Application of the Supply you gave to the Vses only for which you intend them I have lately told You that the posture of Affairs abroad would not admit of defering my Journey to the Hague much beyond this time and I put You in mind of it again now in hopes that Consideration will prevail with You to use all possible dispatch in what still remains to be done for the more vigorous Prosecution of the War I must not conclude without mentioning to You Gentlemen of the House of Commons that if some annual Provision could be made for the Augmenting of the Navy and building of some new Ships of War it would be a very necessary Care at this time both for the Honour and Safety of the Nation Upon this Gracious Speech the Commons returning to their House made a further Inspection into the Accounts of the publick Charges by their Committees c. and in fine found them stated to their Satisfaction Whilst these things were in hand his Majesty's Equipage was preparing for Holland and several Troops passed over to be in a readiness against his Arrival so that things being now come to a ripeness for that Glorious Undertaking His Majesty on the 5th of January being seated on the Throne in the House of Lords the Commons attending gave the Royal Assent To an Act For Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to examine take and state the publick Accounts of the Kingdom An Act For raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1691. Although the Months pay formerly advanced be not ●●paid An Act For Relief of poor Prisoners for Debt or Damage An Act For preventing Vexations Suits against such as Acted for their Majesties Service in defence of the Kingdom An Act For the Encouraging the Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Corn and for laying several Duties on low Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction An Act For Granting their Majesties several Additional Duties on Beer Ale or other Liquors for four Years from the time that an Act For doubling the Excise upon Ale Beer and other Liquors during the space of one Year doth expire An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act intituled an Act For prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and Four private Acts. His Majesty after this made the following Speech My Lords and Gentlemen HAving lately told you that it would be necessary for me to go into Holland much about this time I am very glad to find that the Success of your Endeavours to bring this Session to a happy Conclusion has been such that I am now at ●iberty to do it and I return you my hearty Thanks for the great dispatch you have made in finishing the Supplies you have designed for carrying on the War which it shall be my Care to see duly and punctually applied to that Service to which you have given them and I do likewise think it proper to assure you that I shall not make any Grant of the forfeited Lands in England and Ireland till there be another opportunity of settling that matter in Parliament in such manner as shall be thought most Expedient My Lords and Gentlemen AS I have reason to be very well satisfied with the Proofs you have given me of your good Affections in this Sessions of Parliament so I Promise my Self the continuance of the same at your Return into your several Countries and as every day produces still fresh Instances of the Restlessness of our Enemies both at home and abroad in designing against the Prosperity of of this Nation and the Government Established so I do not doubt but that the Vnion and good Correspondence between Me and my Parliament and my earnest and constant Endeavours for your Preservation on the one hand joined with the Continuance of your Zeal and Affection to support 〈◊〉 on the other will by the Blessing of God be at all times too strong for the utmost Malice and Contrivance of our common Enemies After this gracious Speech had been received with much applause the Lord-Chief Baron Speaker of the House of Lords declared to both Houses That it was his Majesties Pleasure that they should adjourn themselves until the 31th of March ensuing and that if his Majesty should think fit the Parliament should then sit he would give them timely notice thereof by his Proclamation and accordingly both Houses of Parliament did adjourn to the time mentioned The King having all things in a readiness for his Voyage left White-Hall on the 6th of January about Noon attended by the great Officers of his Houshold and divers others of the Nobility and Gentry and lay that night at Sittingborne

and the next day arriving at Canterbury he was upon his Entrance into that City received by the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and Common-Council in their Robes with divers Gentlemen the Recorder made a very Loyal and Dutifull Speech to his Majesty expressing the great Joy his Royal Presence gave that City and assuring him of their Loyalty and Duty which was seconded by the loud and repeated Acclamations of all sorts of People the Mayor at that time surrendred the Keys of the City and had them returned by his Majesty when bearing the Sword and the eldest Alderman the Mace they marched before the King's Coach through the street which was lined by the Militia of the City and part of the Marine Regiment quartered in those parts and his Majesty's Lodgings were prepared at the Lady Coventry's House where the Sub-Deans and Prebends the Dean being absent waited upon his Majesty to pay their Duty to him and by the City he was presented with a splendid Banquet of Sweet-meats and the day was concluded with Healths and all Demonstrations of Joy by Bonfires and ringing of Bells accommodated the night But the King upon further consideration finding the Wind was set in Easterly and that a hard Frost was set in thinking at that time no safe Passage or Landing could be gained after he had done Sir Joseph Williamson the Honour to lye in his Return a Night at Cobham-Hall came to Kensington where he was received with all imaginable Demonstrations of Joy however taking the first opportunity of the Fair Wind and breaking off of the Frost he went to Graves-end where he embarked with divers of the Nobility and other Persons of Quality and the next day he was off of Margaret-Road standing with a fair Wind to the Coast of Holland where coming up with the Goree the Weather being thick and foggy and being informed by a Fisherman that he was not above a League and half from the Shore he left his Yatch and attended by the Duke of Ormond the Lord Steward and Lord-Chamberlain the Earls of Portland and Monmouth Monsieur Overkirk and Monsieur Zulestein and went off with Three Shallops designing to land in an hour or two but the difficulties he met with from the Ice and the fogginess of the Weather were such that it was about 8 the next Morning e'er his Majesty could reach the Goree where he went on Shore with his Retinue and after some Refreshment went into his Boat again and about Two in the Afternoon landed at Oramen Haak near Maesland Stuys and at Houslayerdyke was met by the Deputies of the States but his Majesty made no stay there but passed to the Hague where the States-General the States of Holland and Council of State with other Colleges made their Complements to him as also the foreign Ministers residing at that Court and a day being set apart for his Majesties more magnificent Reception the Preparations were extraordinary the States-General erecting one Triumphal Arch the Magistrates two the first to be set on the Piazza's called the Buyton Hoff the second in the publick Piazza and the third in the Market-place of the Hague The first was a triumphant Architecture compounded of the Dorick Orders with three open Gates the middlemost being the highest supported with eight Pillars upon large Basements backwards and forwards separated from the Body of the Work and upon each Basement stood two Pillars with a Copulo of 8 Faces upon the Overture in the middle and on the Copulo a Pedestal upon which his Majesty was represented on Horseback very richly gilded to the Horses on each side were fastened two Slaves or Statues of Brass colour prostrate and the whole Work as it were the colour of Freestone between the Pillars and upon each side inward and outward the Spaces are replenished with pictures in which are comprehended some Historical Representations and Hieroglyphical Figures referring to the Life and glorious Actions of his Majesty At the Frontispiece of that Arch and upon the Pillars as well backwards as forward and at each side are placed in the same order of both Sexes 8 Statues to proportion of Life and in the part of the Arch facing the end of the Town upon a high Pedestal is a Nep●une lying along with his Trident in his hand and this Motto Let him triumph upon the Seas At the other side of the Arch looking towards Cingel-street a Plough-man or Rustick stands upon a Pedestal with a Spade in his hand and this Motto Let him reach to Jupiter's Throne and about the Copulo was written viz. To the pious happy Renowned William the Third the triumphant Father of his Country Governour Stadtholder and Restorer of the Vnited Netherlands England's Liberator Scotland's Preserver and Ireland's Pacificator now returned Upon the Frontispiece underneath the Statues viz. After great things done at home and abroad as having made a strict League with the Princes the Revenger of his Subjects Wrongs and the Defender of the oppressed and upon a large Picture under that a Table upon which are represented several Armed Men fighting with a Dragon and this Motto viz. Being united they make a strong opposition and in the second hollow Seat this viz. Being passed beyond the Sea he has rescued great Britain and being adorned with Scepters of a vast extended power he has been received in his own Country with all demonstrations of publick Joy and in the Table beneath is represented Ballances in one Scale a Sword and in the other divers Crowns the Sword outweighing those Crowns and this Motto viz. Rewards are not answerable to Merit in the third hollow Seat viz. Our Country mourning and bewailing Europe in Tears the most ancient Family of Nassau fertile in producing Hero's Emperours and Princes afflicted A Phaenix in a Table underneath is represented burning with this Sentance viz. Born after his Fathers Death shines so much the more and in the Fourth hollow Seat viz. William born after his Fathers Death the Third of Great Britain and of Orange The hope of his own Country and the support of the Commonwealth And in a Table underneath is represented a Scepter and Three Crowns with this Motto viz. Tender Age is an Ornament to Diadems On the Backside of this Arch towards the Pallace were Four hollows in the Frontispiece with these Inscriptions First Fate favourable to Europe has bestowed him from Heaven and portending his future Majesty foxed him for Example when he was exceeding Young on the other side above a large Picture was a little Table and represented on it a young Eagle soaring to the rising Sun with this Motto viz. Young and Tender as he is he strives with all the force of his Wings against the Wind. In the Second viz. Who having spent his Youth in many Hardships tossed with Feuds Wars and Sedition in so much Hazard vanquished all before him and in the Table underneath was represented presented a Castle upon a Hill and a Spear planted at the Foot of it