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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53380	A display of tyranny, or, Remarks upon the illegal and arbitrary proceedings, in the courts of Westminster, and Guild-Hall London from the year, 1678, to the abdication of the late King James, in the year 1688, in which time, the rule was, quod principi placuit, lex esto : the first part.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing O35; ESTC R16065	100,209	272

part of those Forces with great difficulty caused by them to be Disbanded at the Kingdoms great Expence and it being evident that notwithstanding all the continual endeavours of the Parliament to deliver his Majesty from the Councils and out of the power of the said Duke yet his interest in the Ministry of State and others have been so prevalent that Parliaments have been unreasonably Prorogued and Dissolved when they have been in hot pursuit of the Popish Conspiracies and ill Ministers of State their Assistants And that the said Duke in order to reduce all into his own Power hath procured the Garrisons the Army and Ammunition all the Power of the Seas and Souldiery and Lands belonging to these three Kingdoms to be put into the hands of his Party and their Adherents even in opposition to the Advice and Order of the 〈◊〉 Parliament And as we considering with heavy hearts how greatly the Strength Reputation and Treasure of the Kingdom both at Sea and Land is wasted and consumed and lost by the intricate expensive management of these wicked destructive Designs and finding the same Councils after exemplary Justice upon some of the Conspirators to be still pursued with the utmost devillish Malice and desire of Revenge whereby his Majesty is in continual hazard of being Murdered to make way for the said Duke's advancement to the Crown and the whole Kingdom in such case is destitute of all security of their Religion Laws Estates and Liberty Sad Experience in the Case of Queen Mary having proved the wisest Laws to be of little force to keep out Popery and Tyranny under a Popish Prince We have therefore endeavoured in a Parliamentary way by a Bill for that purpose to Bar and Exclude the said Duke from the Succession to the Crown and to Banish him for ever out of these Kingdoms of England and Ireland But the first means of the King and Kingdoms safety being utterly rejected and We left almost in Despair of obtaining any real and effectual Security and knowing our selves to be intrusted to advise and act for the preservation of his Majesty and the Kingdom and being perswaded in our Consciences that the dangers afore-said are so eminent and pressing that there ought to be no delay of the best means that are in our power to secure the Kingdom against them We have thought fit to propose to all true Protestants an Vnion amongst themselves by solemn and sacred Promise of mutual Defence and Assistance in the preservation of the true Protestant Religion his Majesty's Person and Royal State and our Laws Liberties and Properties and we hold i● our bounden Duty to joyn our selves for the same intent in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions in the form ensuing I A. B. do in the Presence of God solemnly Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend to the utmost of my Power with my Person and Estate the true Protestant Religion against Popery and all Popish Superstition Idolatry or Innovation and all those who do or shall endeavour to spread or advance it within this Kingdom I will also as far as in me lies maintain and defend his Majesty's Royal Person and Estate as also the Power and Priviledge of Parliaments the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subjects against all Incroachments and Vsurpation of Arbitrary Power whatsoever and endeavour entirely to Disband all such Mercenary Forces as we have reason to believe were raised to advance it and are still kept up in and about the City of London to the great Amazement and Terror of all the good People of the Land. Moreover James Duke of York having publickly propessed and owned the Popish Religion and notoriously given Life and Birth to the damnable and hellish Plots of the Papists against his Majesty's Person the Protestant Religion and the Government of this Kingdom I will never consent that the said James Duke of York or any other who is or hath been a Papist or any ways adhered to the Papists in their wicked Designs be admitted to the Succession of the Crown of England But by all lawful means and by force of Arms if need so require according to my Ability will oppose him and endeavour to Subdue Expel and Destroy him if he come into England or the Dominions thereof and seek by Force to set up his pretended Title and all such as shall adhere unto him or raise any War Tumult or Sedition for him or by his Command as publick Enemies of our Laws Religion and Country To this end We and every one of Vs whose hands are here-under written do most willingly bind our selves and every one of Vs ●nto the other joyntly and severally in the Bond of one firm and loyal Society or Association and do Promise and Vow before God that with Our joynt and particular Forces We will oppose and pursue unto Destruction all such as upon any Title what soever shall oppose the Just and Righteous ends of this Association and Maintain Protect and Defend all such as shall enter into it in the just performance of the true intent and meaning of it And least this just and pious VVork should be any ways obstructed or hindred for want of Discipline and Conduct or any evil minded Persons under pretence of raising Forces for the Service of this Association should attempt or commit Disorders We will follow such Orders as we shall from time to time receive from this present Parliament whilst it shall be sitting or the major part of the Members of both Houses Subscribing this Association when it shall be prorogued or dissolved and obey such Officers as shall by Them be set over Vs in the several Countries Cities and Burroughs until the next meeting of this or another Parliament and will then shew the same Obedience and Submission to it and those who shall be of it Neither will we for any respect of Persons or Causes or for Fear or Reward separate our selves from this Association or fail in the prosecution thereof during our Lives upon pain of being by the rest of us prosecuted and suppressed as perjured persons and publick Enemies to God the King and our native Country To which Pains and Punishments we do voluntarily submit our selves and every one of us without benefit of any colour or pretence to excuse it In witness of all which Premisses to be inviolably kept we do to this present Writing put our Hands and Seals and shall be most ready to accept and admit any others hereafter into this Society and Association It is to be observed that this Paper had neither date nor any Hand to it nor did it appear of whose Hand-writing it was but Sr Francis Wythens aggravated the matter saying That tho' the Paper began very plausibly and went a great way so yet in the last clause but one they came to perfect levying of War declaring that they would joyn to destroy the mercenary Forces about London the words by the way were to