some Loss to the Dutch at length no Fleet was set out and the choicest of the Royal Navy either burnt or taken in Harbour to save Charges And tho' the French at length join'd themselves in assistance with the Dutch against us yet by the Credit he had with the Queen Mother he so far impos'd upon Charles the Second no less ready for his own private Conveniencies to be impos'd upon that upon assurance which no Man of Prudence and Foresight would have believ'd that the Dutch would have no Fleet at Sea that Year he forbore to make ready and so incurr'd that ignominious Disgrace at Chatham the like to which the English never suffer'd since they claim'd the Dominion of the Sea And which was more as he had been beholden to his great Friend the King of France for the Ignominy he had suffer'd so was he glad to receive the Peace from his Favour which was concluded at Breda And now we come to the best Act that ever he did in his Life had he had the Grace to pursue it which shew'd how happy a Prince he might have been had he been ever faithful to his own and the Interests of his People and that Religion which he outwardly profest For upon conclusion of that Peace having leisure to look about him and to observe how the French had in the Year 1667. taken their Opportunity and while we were embroyl'd and weakned by the late War had in violation of all the most Sacred and Solemn Oaths and Treaties invaded and taken a great part of the Spanish Netherlands which had always been consider'd as the Natural Frontier of England the King then prompted more by his own Fears then out of any kindness he had for the Nation judg'd it necessary to interpose before the Flames that consum'd his next Neighbour should throw their Sparkles over the Water Thereupon he sent Sir William Temple then his Resident at Brussels to propose a nearer Alliance with the Hollanders and to take joint Measures against the French Which Proposals of Sir William Temple's being entertain'd with all Compliance with the Dutch within Five days after Two several Treaties were concluded between the King and the States The one a Defensive and Stricter League than before between the Two Nations and the other a Joint and Reciprocal Engagement to oppose the Conquest of Flanders and to procure either by way of Mediation or by Force of Arms a speedy Peace between France and Spain upon the Terms therein mentioned And because Sweden came into the same Treaty within a very little while after from the Three Parties concern'd and engag'd it was call'd the Triple League In pursuance of which the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle was also forc'd upon the French and in some manner upon the Spaniards who were very unwilling to part with so great a Part of their Country by a Solemn Treaty But both the King and the Hollanders thought it a very great and good Work and judg'd it an extraordinary Happiness not only for Spain but for all Europe to come off with a broken Pate and to have at least for that while kept France from going farther Besides all this to tye the Knot the faster and take even the very thoughts from the French King of ever stirring or being troublesom to his Neighbour the King sent an Extraordinary Envoy to several Princes of Germany to invite them into the Triple League and his Minister to perswade them to it laid open with no less heat then plainness the danger all Europe was in urging the insensibility of most Princes and their carelesness the watchful Ambition of the French the Greatness of their Forces and the little Reason there was to trust him In fine omitting nothing that could Alarm all the World and procure a general Confederacy against the Common Oppressor More than this in regard the Spaniards were very much wanting to themselves by their backwardness in the Payment of the Subsidies promised to Sweden the King af England being not without some fears least the Swedes should fall off uless the Money agreed upon were paid them without farther delay he offer'd to advance part of it himself and had accordingly done it in case the Dutch would have advanced the rest The Kidg of France thus stopp'd in his Career by the Tripple League and by the Peace of Aix la Chapelle soon after concluded though for a while he dissembled his dissatisfaction yet resolved to untye the Tripple Knot whatever it cost him To which purpose the Dutchess of Orleans was sent over as one that would be a welcom Guest to her Brother and whose Charms â—nd Dexterity joyn'd with her other adâ—antages would give her such an ascenâ—ent over him as could not fail of Success â—nd indeed she acquitted her self so well â—f her Commission that she quite supplanted all the King 's good Councils and by yielding to his Incestuous Embraces while the D. of B. held the Door so charmed his most Sacred Majesty and he quite and clean forgot his Tripple League and entred into a new and stricter Alliance with France than ever 'T is true the Peace was dear bought by the Zealous Lady in regard it cost her her Life upon her return into France For though she might seem to have atton'd for the Crime and to have merited forgiveness from her Husband by the advantageous League which she had pleasantly syren'd her Brother to make with the French Monarch yet jealous and incensed Orleance was not so much a lover of his Country as to remit the Indignity done to his Bed or such a Bigot as to pardon the Woman that had sacrificed his Honour to the Interest of Popery However the Articles being thus sealed at Dover by his Majesty the Marquis of Belfonds was immediately sent hither and a Person of great Honour sent thither and so the League it self being drawn into form was ratified on both sides This Treaty was for a long time a work of Darkness and lay long concealed tilâ— the King of France to the end the King of England being truly set forth in hiâ— Colours out of a disâ—air of ever being trusted or forgiven by his People hereafter might be push't to go on barefac'd and follow his steps in Government as well as Religion most treacherously and unking-like caused it to be Printed at Paris tho upon Complaint made at the French Court it was again stifled and the Author tho' he had his instructions from Colbert to humour the King committed to the Bastile for a short time and then let out again However the Book being Printed some few Copies lit into safe hands from whence take the Substance of that Mystery of Iniquity as follows After that M. de Croisy the French Embassador at London had laid before the Eyes of the King of England all the Grounds which his Majesty had of Complaint against Holland c. He told him that the time was come to revenge himself of a
could not have begun the War without them and therefore at such a Conjuncture might probably have condescended to some Equality of Terms But the King of England well understood how careful the French King was to preserve and increase the Trade of his Subjects and that it was by the diminution of that Beam of his Glory that the Hollanders had raised his Indignation The King therefore the more to gratifie him made it his constant Maxim to burthen his English Merchants here with one Hand while the French in his own Territories loaded them no less with the other So that when the English Merchants in London had prepared a Petition to the King and Council to complain of the Oppression which their Factors and Agents lay under in France with a true State of their Case and a short account of their Grievances information thereof was given to the Court by which means the Perusal of the Papers being transmitted by the King â—o his Instruments all further Prosecution of the matter was stopp'd by his Conniâ—ance and Authority and the Merchants were put off with a Promise that the French Embassador should be acquainted with their Complaints and that they should be redress'd through his means Which proving ineffectual upon their farther Applications for redress they were Hector'd Brow-beaten Ridicul'd and might have met with fairer Audience from Monsieur Colbert Nor was it only in the matter of Commerce that the King of England had obliged the French Tyrant but even in the War it self For that except the irresistible Bounties oâ— so great a Prince to some particular English Instruments and a little Subsistance Money for the Fleet frugally parted with the King of England had put him to no Charges but the English Navy Royal had served him all along No Purchase No Pay He had ty'd the French King to no Terms had demanded no Partisson of Conquests had made no humane Condition but had sold him all for those two Pearls of high Value the True Roman Catholick Worship and the true French Government So soon as the Peace was concluded betwixt England and Holland by the Awe of the Parliament the French King as a mark of his Displeasure and to humble the English Nation let loose his Privateers among the English Merchants insomuch that there was no security of Commerce or Navigation notwithstanding the Publick Amity betwixt the two Crowns but at Sea they Murther'd Plunder'd made Prize and Confiscated all they met with Their Piccaroons lay before the Mouths of our Rivers hover'd all along the Coast took our Ships in the very Ports so that we were in a manner block'd up by Water and in this manner it continued from 1674. till the latter end of 1676. without Remedy And yet all this while that the French made these intolerable Depredations and Piracies upon the Kings Subjects they were more diligently than ever supply'd from England with Recruits and those that would go voluntarily into the French Service were encouraged others that would not press'd imprison'd and carried over by main force and constraint And by the King's connivance his own Magazines were daily emptied to furnish the French with all sorts of Ammunition of which the following Accompt affords but a small Parcel in comparison of what was daily conveyed away under colour of Cockets for Iersey Granado's without number shipped off under the pretence of unwrought Iron Lead Shot One and twenty Tuns Gunpouder Seven thousand one hundred thirty four Barrels Iron Shot Eighteen Tun Six hundred Weight Match Eighty eight Tun nineteen hundred Weight Iron Ordinance Four hundred forty one Quantity Two hundred ninety two Tuns nine hundred Weight Carriages Bandaliers Pikes c. the quantity uncertain All this and what more beside not then discovered was exported from London to France from Iune 1675. to Iune 1677. And thus was the French King gratified for undoing us by Sea by Contributing all the King could rap and rend of Men and Ammunition to make him more Potent and Formidable to us by Land Another great Instance of the King of England's extraordinary Kindness to the French King was this that while he storm'd at the Dutch for not promoting as he pretended the coming away of some Families that were unwilling to leave Surinam he found no fault with the French for keeping him above four years out of St. Christophers nor for destroying in the mean while that part of the Island which belonged to his own Subjects So great a piece of rudeness it was thought to press too hard upon the French King for performance of Articles on his side Nay the French Commanders in those Parts did not scruple to assert that there was a very good understanding in relalation to that Island between the English and French Court so great a kindness the King had for the French so little for his own Subjects Nor must we omit that when the Orders of the French Privy Council Commanding all their Sea Officers and Commanders in the Islands of America to secure to their Master the Soveraignity of those Seas were brought by a Person of Quality into the Cabinet Council at Whitehall they were at first declaimed against but soon buried in oblivion and put up amongst the useless Papers though the French in pursuance of those Commands proved afterwards so vexatious to the English that thethen Governor of Iamaica sent word that notwithstanding their old Quarrel with the Spaniards it was much easier to keep a good Correspondence with them than with our dear Allies the French Nor must it be forgot as an Eminent Mark of our Sovereign's Deference to the French Interest and manner of Government that in the year 1677 upon notice that a Great French Embassador was coming over into England he Adjourn'd his English Parliament that he might have the more Elbow room to entertain his better beloved Friends For all things at that time moved between France and England with that punctual Regularity that it was like the Harmony of the Sphears so that immediately after the Recess of the English Parliament over came the D. of Crequi the Archbishop of Rheimes M. Barillon with a Train of three or four hundred Persons of all Qualities you would have sworn they had been the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of France with a proportionable number of their Commons met the King at New-Market so that it look'd like another Parliament and that the English had been Adjourn'd for their better Reception Much of their business no doubt was conceal'd but so much came to light that they prest the King to continue his Subjects in the Service of France because the Parliament at that time most earnestly prest and was preparing a Bill for their being call'd home They also demanded an Abolition of all Claims and Demands from the Subjects of France upon account of all Prizes made of the English since the year 1674 till that day and for the future And the King on the other side required a
hands to prevent the Consequences of French and Popish Dictates they were mistaken in the Man and gave their wholsom Advice to him that was bound not to take it and was himself the Primum Mobile of all the Disorders which they besought of him to remedy During this Sessions of Parliament many foul things came to light For while the King had raised an Army and pressed the Parliament for Money to maintain them under pretence of making a War with France which was the earnest desire of all the Protestant part of the Kingdom the Parliament were fully informed that while the King boasted of the Alliances which he had made for the preservation of Flanders and the Protestant Religion both at home and abroad he was secretly entred into Treaties and Alliances at the same time with the French King and Mr. Garraway of the House of Commons had gotten a Copy of the Private Treaty between the King of England and the French King at the same instant that the Secretary and all the Court Pentioners cried out a War insomuch that such of the Conspirators as were in the House began to blush when they saw the Cheat so palpably discerned It was farther discovered that a great Favourite of the Duke 's had been sent over into France under a pretence of Expostulating and requiring satisfaction for the Injuries which the English had received from the French but in reality to carry the Project of Articles for the Peace and to settle and confirm all things fast about the Money that was to come from France and to agree the Methods for shamming the Confederates about their Expected Alliances They found themselves cheated of all the Pole Bill Money which they had given so little a while before upon the assurance of a War intended against France the greatest part of which they perceived was imediately though appropriated to the French Wur only converted to other uses as the paying of old Debts so that very little was left to pay for any Necessaries bought or to be bought toward the pretended War with France Nor were they ignorant of the real Design for which the King had raised his Army and what care the King and his Brother took that there should be no other Officers in that Army than what were fit for the Work in hand which was to introduce Popery and French Government by main force Four parts of Five being downright Papists or else such as resolved so to be upon the least intimation The Duke recommending all such as he knew fit for the Turn and no less than a Hundred Commissions being sign'd by Secretary W. to â—ish Papists to raise Forces notwithstanding the late Act by which means both the Land and Naval Forces were in safe hands And to compleat the Work hardly a Judge Justice of the Peace or any Officer in England but what was of the Duke's Promotion Nor were they ignorant of the private Negotiations carried on by the Duke with the Kings Connivance with the Pope and Cardinal Norfolk who had undertaken to raise Money from the Church sufficient to supply the King's Wants till the Work were done in case the Parliament should smoak their Design and refuse to give any more Nor was the Parliament ignorant what great Rejoycing there was in Rome it self to hear in what a posture his Majesty was and how well provided of an Army and Money to begin the Business The Parliament also understood while they were labouring the War with France and to resist the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Power that the King underhand assisted the French with Men and Ammunition of all sorts and soon after that a Cessation was concluded both at Nimeghen and Paris and that the King had got some money from France for that Jobb by which means the French King was now sure to hold all his Conquests abroad which had England been real to the Confederates might have been easily wrested again out of his Hands But it seems it was not so much Money as the King expected which made him angry so that he began to threaten that if the French King did not perform his Promise of 300000 l. Annuity for three Years he would undo all he had done against the next Parliament But the French King derided those vain Threats menacing in his turn that if the King of England would not be content with his Terms and do and say to the Parliament according to his directions he would discover both him and his Correspondents in betraying the Nation and discover all his secret Contrivances against the Kingdom as afterwards he Published the Dover Treaty at Paris which was the reason that after that His Majesty of England never durst disoblige the French Monsieur but became a perfect Slave to his Interest a Bondage he never needed to have undergone had he been but half as sincere to his English Parliament But to them he was never true with them he always broke his Faith and Royal Word insomuch that after they had given him Money to Disband his Army he employed the Money to another use and kept up his standing Forces to the great Terror of the People in all parts of the Kingdom So that now all things running on the Papistical side to their Hearts desire what with Popish Souldiers Popish Officers Popish Counsels Popish Priests and Jesuits swarming about the Town and Country and France at leisure to help them who had help'd him to be more a Conqueror by the Peace than he could have expected by a War the Duke of York was for the Kings pulling off his Vizard and for setting up Alamode of France according to what had been so often debated at White hall and St. Iames's But while the King and his Brother were thus riding Post to ruin the Laws and Religion of the Kingdom the Discovery of the Popish Plot by Dr. Oats broke all their Measures for a time by laying open the Secret Contrivances of our English Castor and Pollux for the introducing of Popery and Arbitrary Government This Plot was no sooner made known to the King but he imparts it to the Duke not the knowledge of the Plot for that they both knew before but the News of the Plots being discovered Upon which they set themselves with all the care they could to stop the farther Progress of the Discovery To which purpose the Duke gives notice of it to his Man Coleman and the Priests and Jesuits in the Savoy by which means what Papers and Persons were to be conceal'd and conveyed away was carefully looked after All this while by this â—easonable detection of the King and his Brother to the Priests Jesuits Oats himself narrowly escaped Massacred Oats finding himself thus betray'd and abandoned by the King applies himself to Sir Edmund Bury Godfry with a Scheme of the Plot fairly drawn up by that means to be introduced before the Council to have the Business there unfolded which with much ado was done and Oats
shadow of a Law to countenance them of which more in due place Having made this fair Progress toward the enslaving both the Souls and Bodies of his own Subjects at home let us take a View of his Zeal to the Protestant Religion abroad And first for the Protestants of France his Care and Tenderness for them may be easily conjectur'd from hence that the first Edicts issu'd forth by Lewis the Fourteenth for their Persecution bear date with the Time and Year of his Most Protestant Majesties Restauration And from that day to this in stead of interceding or concerning himself in their behalf he has by his own Example and his strict Correspondence with the French King both countenanc'd and encourag'd their Oppression which the French King at that time when he was formidable in the Love of his Subjects durst no more have prosecuted than Mazarine durst proceed in his Fury against the Hugonots when more Pious Oliver bestir'd himself in their Favour But our Protestant Monarch was so far from sending Succour to the French Protestants that he betray'd those to the Rage of the French Tyrant that came to invoke his Aid in their behalf For when Monsieur Rohan came into England to acquaint his Pious Majesty with the Resolutions taken at Paris to persecute and if possible to root out the Reformed in France and propos'd such Overtures to the King as would have been greatly for his Glory and Interest yet no way contrary to the Allegiance of that poor People he remitted the Monsieur to his Brother the D. of York who not only inform'd the French Embassador of the Gentleman's Errand but plac'd him behind the Hangings to hear whatever Monsieur Rohan had to represent and propose to him Which altho the Embassador could not but abhor in the two Brothers and was asham'd of in himself yet he could do no less then inform his Master of what he had seen and heard Upon which the poor Gentleman upon his Return out of England was so narrowly watch'd and so closely pursu'd that being apprehended upon the Borders of Switzerland he was carried back to Paris and there broken upon the Wheel Nor did it satisfie the King and his dear Brother the Duke to have thus betray'd as well as abandon'd the Protestants in France but with the utmost Malice that Popery could inspire into them they sought the Destruction of the Seven United Provinces upon no other Account but of their being Protestant States and for giving shelter to those who being persecuted by himself and his Confederate the French Tyrant for their Religion fled thither for Protection and Safety For knowing what in due time they intended to bring upon the Protestants at home they thought it most requisite to destroy those Protestant States in the first place that there might remain no Sanctuary for their persecuted Subjects And indeed abating this and one more Ground of their Quarrel with those States never was a War undertaken upon more unjust and frivolous Pretences then those Two which the King engag'd in against the Seven Provinces in the Years 1667. and 1672. Nor can any thing justifie the Discretion and Wisdom of those Wars had they not been undertaken meerly in subserviency to the promoting Popery and Slavery seeing that upon all other Grounds that Reason and Prudence can suggest it was the Interest of England as still it is to preserve the Government of Holland entire Nor can we have a truer Accompt of the Grounds upon which the two Monarchs of England and France agreed the War against Holland in the Year 1672. then by the Representation which the French Embassador made of it both at Rome and Vienna For tho' his Publick Declaration pretended no more but that it was to seek Reparation for the Diminution of his Glory yet the Accompt he gave to the Pope of his Master's and consequently of our Protestant Monarch his strict Confederate's undertaking that War was that he did it in order to the Extirpation of Heresie And in the same manner they sought to justifie the Piety of that Enterprise to his Imperial Majesty by alledging That the Hollanders were a People that had forsaken God and were Hereticks and that all good Christians were bound to associate and unite for their Extirpation Upon which accompt it seems our King and the Duke thought fit to exchange the Appellation of Good Protestants for that of Good Christians However from hence it was plain what sort of Good Christians they were since it was as evident that their uniting with France in that War was to destroy the Protestant Dutch Hereticks And that we may yet more fully understand the Motive upon which the King embark't in that bloody and expensive War it is worthy observation how that when the French King made it one of his Propositions upon which he would be contented to receive the States into his ancient Friendship That they should not only allow the Publick Exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion over all the United Provinces but that they should appoint a Sallary to the Priest allotted to the Churches which the Papists by that Demand were to enjoy the King of England being no less concerned for Popery then his Brother of France gave the States to understand by his Plenipotentiaries That without their Concession of the foregoing Demand of the King of France he could not return to Peace with them So that not only from the Motive upon which the War was commenc'd but from the Proposals which he urg'd them to consent to in order to a Peace we have a most convincing Proof of his Majesty's being no zealous Protestant but rather quite the contrary and of his pious Inclinations to the Extirpation as well as weakning the Protestant Religion in the United Provinces Certainly a most thankful Acknowledgment and Royal Requital of those Provinces for the many Kindnesses which they had vouchsaf'd him during his Exile and for their Favours their liberal Entertainments the high Honours which they had paid him when he made their Country the last Stage of his Retreat in order to his Return to his Crown and Kingdom But this must be ascrib'd to his Zeal for promoting the Catholick Religion which attones for all Defects of Justice and Gratitude and ought to be imputed to those Principles of Popery which he had suck't in with the French Air and which have a peculiar Vertue and Faculty to expel all Morality and good Nature These being the real Grounds and Motives that induc'd the King of England to begin that Impolitick War against the Dutch in the year 1665. whatever was openly and publickly pretended how strangely was the Parliament deluded and blinded by the King's Oaths and Protestations of his Zeal for the Protestant Religion What vast Sums of the Subjects Money they gave the perfidious Monarch to defray the Expences of that unnecessary and baneful War is too well known and yet after all saving one brisk Engagement ill-manag'd tho' with
Nation that had so little respect for Kings and that the occasion was never more favourable seeing many of the Princes of Germany were already entered into the League and that the King of France was powerful enough to be able to promise to his Allies in the Issue of that War satisfaction both as to their Honour and Interests whereby he prevailed with that Prince to enter into secret Alliance with France And for his greater Assurance and the more to confirm him Henrietta Dutchess of Orleans went for England and proposed to her Brother in the Name of the Most Christian King that he would assure him an Absolute Authority over his Parliament and full Power to establish the Catholick Religion in his Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland But withal she told him that to compass this before all things else it would be necessary to abate the Pride and Power of the Dutch and to reduce them to the sole Province of Holland and that by this means the King of England should have Zealand for a Retreat in case of necessity and that the rest of the Low-Countries should remain to the King of France if he could render himself Master of it This is the Sum of that famous League concluded at Dover fram'd and enter'd into on purpose for the Subjugation of these three Nations to Popery and Slavery However as at first this Treaty was kept so close that it was no way to be discover'd so before the Effects appear'd it was necessary that the Parliament after the old wont should be gull'd to the giving of Money for the carrying on this grand and deep Conspiracy The Parliament met Octob. 24. 1670. where the Lord Keeper Bridgeman guided more by his Instructions than by any knowledge he had of the devilish Design omitted nothing to make Both Houses sensible of the great Service done to England and in a manner to all Mankind by chaining up the devouring Lyon that was never satiated with Prey and the more to incite their Liberality he told them of several other Leagues which the King for the good of his People and the Advancement of the Trade of the Nation had made with other Princes as the D. of Savoy the King of Denmark and the King of Spain by which as his Lordship was pleased to say it was evident that all the Princes of Europe sought his Majesties Friendship as acknowledging they could not secure much less improve their present Condition without it concluding that for the Support of these Alliances the annual Charge of His Majesties Navy came to no less than Five hundred thousand Pounds nor could be maintain'd with less Upon the telling of which Story notwithstanding the immense Sums lavish'd to no purpose or rather to our Loss in the former War with Holland notwithstanding they had given the Additional Duty upon Wines for Eight years amounting to Five hundred and sixty thousand Pounds and confirmed the Sale of the Fee farm Rents no less their Gift being a part of the Publick Revenue to the value of one Million and Eight hundred thousand Pounds they could not hold but gave with both hands again a Subsidy of Twelve Pence in the Pound to the real value of all Lands and other Estates proportionably with several more beneficial Clauses in the Bargain to which they joyned the Additional Excise upon Beer Ale c. And lastly the Law Bill which being summ'd up together could not be estimated at less than two Millions and half So that for the Tripple League here was a Tripple Supply and the Subject had now all the reason to believe that this Alliance which had been fix'd at first by the Publick Interest Safety and Honour was by these three Grants as with three Golden Nails sufficiently clinched and rivetted But now therefore was the most proper Time and Occasion for the King and his chosen Ministers to give Demonstrations of their Fidelity to the French Monarch and for his Sacred Majesty by the Forfeiture of all these Obligations to his Subjects and the Princes abroad and at the Expence of all this Treasure given for quite contrary Uses to recommend himself the more meritoriously to his Patronage The Parliament therefore after they had given all this Money were presently Prorogued and sat no more till the latter end of February 1672. that there might be a competent time allowed for so great a work as was designed and that the Architects of our Ruine might be so long free from the busie and odious Inspection of the Parliament till the work were finish'd And now all Applications made by his Majesty of Great Britain to induce Foreign Princes into the Garranty of the Peace of Aix la Chapelle ceased while on the other side those who desired to be admitted into it were here rejected The Duke of Lorrain who had always been a true Friend to the King and for his Affection to the Tripple League had incurred the French King's Displeasure with the loss of his Country Seizd upon in the year 1669. against all the Laws not only of Peace but Hostility yet by vertue of the Dover Treaty was refused the favour to which others had been so earnestly invited and though his Envoy was sent back with Complements and many Expressions of Kindness yet he was told withal that the French Invasion was a torrent not to be stopp'd at that time which was as much as to say the Case was alter'd and the Tripple League must signifie nothing At the same time also the Emperour by a Letter invited himself into the same Garranty in conformity to one of the Articles of the said Treaty of Aix Upon receipt of which Letter the King assured the Spanish Embassador that he was glad his Imperial Majesty was so ready to come into the League and told him he would cause an Instrument to be prepared in order to his Admission But when the Resolution was taken and orders given for preparing the said Instrument it was moved that Mr. Secretary Trevor who was not initiated in their holy Mysteries might not have the drawing of it though it was his proper Province By which means the Popish Cabal having made themselves sole Masters of the thing at first a reasonable honest Draught was brought in but before it was perfected Monsieur Colbert being consulted the King was possessed with an opinion that the admitting the Emperor would be attended with dangerous Consequences and that in case he came into the League his Majesty would be engaged in all his Quarrels and bound to make his Forces March into the farthest parts of Germany as often as it should happen to be Invaded by the Great Turk which Secretary Trevor oppos'd as much as he was able and endeavoured to satisfie the King that the Garranty of the Tripple League as well as of the Treaty of Aix related only to Hostilities either from France or Spain yet the wary Men of the Cabal being on the King's side carry'd it and so the