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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26403	An address to the nobility, clergy and gentlemen of Scotland		1688 (1688)	Wing A567; ESTC R217202	4,912	4

AN ADDRESS TO THE Nobility Clergy and Gentlemen OF SCOTLAND NOthing is now more evident then that the present Revolutions in England could never have been effected had it been foreseen that either the King should have been Dethroned or that Any had Designed to make the Prince of Orange King. When so many out of Zeal for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion either actively Contributed their Assistance to the Prince or tamely yeilded to the common Inclination of the Multitude it was out of confidence that the Prince designed nothing but what he had published in his Declaration It was not then known what special Agents had been long before Imployed to gain the Concurrence of so many Lords Spiritual and Temporal Gentlemen and Officers in the Army to declare so boldly for the Prince nor that several of them had entred into an Association for that purpose Nor was it discovered even to the Associators themselves that any thing was Designed but in a Dutiful way to Solicite the King to Call a Free Parliament and by it to Secure our Religion and Properties So that 't is certain many who never intended to improve the Success to the Dishonour of their Avowed Allegiance were content to lay a sleep the Doctrine of Obedience to the King as only Supream Governour and that of Non-Resistance till they saw Popery underfoot and then thought to have returned to their Duty Others we know were chafed into a heat with the confident Report of Articles Signed betwixt our King and the King of France to extirpate Protestantisme of an unparallel'd Crime of the King and Queen's imposing a Prince of Wales to the prejudice of the Succession of His two Royal Daughters and of two pretended Inhumane Murders And the Mobile were by Contrivance kept up in the highest Ferment and Animated to pull down Popish Chapels and Burn their Church Stuff to prevent as they were made to believe a Massacre by the Papists till the Prince had got Possession of London the Tower and all strong Holds and Ports in England and the King was forced to Dissolve His Army and Flie for Security Then the Designers of this great Change begun to shew themselves more bare-faced and a Convention of Commons was chosen of the most active Men in all places for bringing about this Change Some of these led by Inclination and Interest others driven by the fear of being reputed Favourers of Papists or Censured for complying formerly with the King and the remainder who had contributed to this Revolution being necessitated for self Preservation have laid a new Foundation of the Monarchy of England And owning the Government to be Devolved upon the People have by Vertue of being their Representative made the Monarchy Elective which will give such an Advantage to the Old Republicans that it is to be feared none of the King's Race whilst they have or can obtain Power must enjoy the Crown longer then they please the Populace and their Patrons By these Methods matters have been brought to this pass in England whilst you the Noblemen Gentry and Subjects of Scotland by the lateness of your Convention have had time to see how the Loyal Protestants in England have been deluded how much even such as have been Active for the Prince's Interest condemn themselves for their Credulity and with what Resentment and Indignation they endeavour to make it appear to the World how much they detest the late Proceedings So that it is most evident that the King hath now more Cordial Protestant Friends in all the Countryes of England then ever he had before not only out of a Compassion for His Sufferings but out of a true sense of the greatest Injustice done to Him that was ever done to any Lawful King except His Royal Martyrd Father and in one Circumstance out doing that and all former Precedents in that His Nephew and Son in Law and His own Daughter without any remorse are placed in His Throne Besides these Considerations they reflect upon the inevitable Calamities which must attend so unnatural and unjust a Violence for besides that it will entail a War upon our Posterity till the King have Right done Him we shall be utterly ruined by the Charge of supporting this new Title and loose our Trade to the Dutch or be necessitated to Fight for it after our Navies and Ports are subjected to them and by this they having got an Inlet to inspect our Strength and Revenue we shall never be able to hold out against their Incroachments For I think it is now obvious to all that the Assistance given to the Prince by the States and the Princes Confederates against France was not for Religion but to put the Government here into such hands as might at present actually strengthen them against that Great Monarch All these Particulars are now as conspicuous to you as the Sun at noon day and the only excuse the Army and Loyal Protestants of England have for their inglorious Deserting of the King is that these things were by great Arts hid from their eyes and they saw no appearance of them till the Convention had made a considerable progress towards their new Settlement However besides this perspicuity of the Design from first to last which is now manifest to you you cannot have that Plea for your Excluding the King which the Convention here have made most use of viz. That Popery could not be otherwise kept out but by making the Prince of Orange King because the King had a numerous Party of Roman Catholicks in England and that the King had Abdicated the Government and so the Throne was become Vacant For you have at least a Thousand Protestants in Scotland for one Papist and as to the Abdication all your Ministers of State and Justice as well as Military Forces act by His Majesty's Commissions whilst He is beyond the Seas as well as they did whilst He was at London and you have no Duch Forces to supersede your actings So that if you should now Abdicate your King you have neither ignorance of the Design of the King's Enemies nor an over-awing force nor any colourable Plea for your excuse to the World. It cannot be forgotten by you how great a Stain it was to your Nation that a Party there having the whole power of your Kingdom in their hands and in actual Conjunction with their Rebellious Brethren in England sold His Majesty's Father to the Parliament and Army in England and how dearly you paid Interest for the Money which was the Price of your Sovereign's Blood whom they so Barbaroursly Murdered Nor is it here to be forgot how Zealously you have laboured to wash away that Stain How earnestly your Commissioners then Expostulated and Remonstrated against that Pious Princes being brought to a Tryal How that in some measure you did recover your Reputation by calling back and Crowning King Charles II. and by assisting the Lord General Monk in that Glorious Expedition of his from