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A93564	A brief history of the pious and glorious life and actions of the most illustrious princess, Mary Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. Containing the most memorable things, and matters, relating to her royal self, &c. from her birth till the most deplorable time of her ever to be lamented death, on the 28th. of December, 1694. Faithfully done by J.S.	J. S.; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713, engraver.	1695 (1695)	Wing S46; ESTC R230766	40,022	154

had made it his Request to have her in Marriage both of the King and the Duke who had not refused but condescended to his request and proposals and therefore thought it requisite to give their Lordships an account of it expecting in Return their speedy Approbation that he might the sooner return to them c. THEY had no sooner received this Advice with the Highest satisfaction imaginable but they immediately assembled to consult about and consider the weighty reasons that obliged the Prince to make so agreeable a choice to make them happy in placing his affections on the most Virtuous and Celebrated Princess in Europe approving it with Congratulation and joy and made the high satisfaction they conceived known by a publick Edict declaring their good opinion and esteem of so great an Alliance promising not only to respect but to observe it to the utmost And further to testify their consent they sent their Approbation on the Fourth of November to the Prince THINGS being Happily brought to this pass and all things being prepared for the Celebration of the Marriage it was performed the Day the States Approbation Arived being the Prince's Birth-Day The Bishop of London Tying this Happy Knot of Wedlock according to the apointed Ceremonies of the Church of England the King presenting the Royal Bride THE News of this Vnion was sounded aloud through the Three Kingdoms by Ringing of Bells and Joyful Acclamations of the People with Bonfires and other Illuminations The Gentry and Nobility giving very plentifully to the Poor And the Royal Pair received the Congratulations of the most eminent persons of the Nation having been before entertained in the City at the Annual Investure of the Lord-Mayor on his being Sworn before the Barrons of the Exchequer at Westminster Divers Congratulatory Poems were made by the best hands Illustrating upon a Subject that was before very Glorious in the Eyes of the Nation AFTER some few Days spent at Court in Feasting and Royal Treatments of Balls and Musick and Songs of Triumph having farther received the Complements of the Nobility and Chief Ministers of State the Royal Pair on the 29th intending for Holland took their leave attended with a Train of Noblemen and Ladies Embarqued in the Yatches and waited on by divers Men of War order'd to that purpose Sailed with a Prosperous Gail and Landed at Ter-Hyde passing from thence to Hounslery-Dyke where they continued for some time and received private visits till things could be prepared for a Reception suitable to their Characters at the Hague THINGS being prepared in the most Splendid manner upon their approach they were met by Divers Nobles and found the Bridge Crowned with Garlands and Twelve Companys of Burghers drawn up in Arms ranged in order to receive them The People every where expressing the highest Satisfaction imaginable in their Geeneral Acclamations and Shouts of Joy and upon the passage of the Bridge they were met by Twenty Four Virgins Singing Songs of Joy suitable to the occasion who going before the Cavelcade strowed the way with Fragrant Herbs Flowers on their Approaching to the Town-House they found a Triumphal Arch fixed very Magnificent with Land-Skips and Sylvian Sceens with Two Hands on the Top Clasping each other Hierogliphically signifying Amity And over the Market-Place in the High-Street another Arch was Erected with Devices and a Motto suitable to that occasion During this Entrance the Burghers made divers Volly's of Shot and the Loud Thunderings of the Cannon spread their Approach yet wider the Congress being very Great and Numerous THERE were likewise divers Curious Fire-Works imitating Fountains and Trees of Fire Golden-Hair Stars and Ciphers of Flame At Night the Streets were Illuminated and Bonefires Blazed in all the noted Towns of the Provinces and the Entertainments were very Splendid and Magnificent The French continuing their unjust Encroachment King Charles upon this Alliance dispatch'd his Commission Impowring the Lord Hyde his Ambassador at the Hague to make and confirm a strict Alliance with the States General mutualy to assist stand by and defend each other till they should oblige the French King to reason by putting a stop and bounds to his Ambitious Designs and the Parliament of England at that time declar'd very earnest in the business offering to raise divers great Sums of Money for promoting this affair for the recovering Satisfaction for injurys done by such means as should be thought most expedient and agreenble so that the King sent the Lord Montague his Ambassador to France to press for a speedy Restitution of such places as were taken and Detained from his Confederates and Allies and upon the triflings and delays of that Court to come to any result as to the Satisfaction demanded An Army was raised and the King of England recalled his Forces that were in the French Service who were partly sent home but without any payment of their Arrears which was very considerable And so early an effect had this Happy Marriage in the Alliance it made with England and that the French King was in a great Measure put to a stand how to proceed The Duke of Monmouth being sent over with about 3000 English Horse and Foot and the Prince by these and other Auxillary Troops did give a great Defeat to the Duke of Luxemburg who Commanded the French Army near Mons in Hannault had thereupon News that Pursuant to a former Treaty set on foot a Peace was concluded between the States General of the Vnited Provinces and the Crown of France upon the latter delivering several Towns that he had with great Expence of Blood and Treasure taken from the Former So the War by this means being at an end on this side he returned to the Hague where he was received by the People with the usual Joy but from his Illustrious Princess inexpressible seeing his pretious Life had been protected by Providence in so Eminent a Danger as his Royal Person was expos'd unto For in the Fight a French Captain being in full Career to Charge him at a disadvantage Monsieur Overkirk in a happy moment Shot that Enemy who was reaching at the most Pretious Life in the World for which good service as a grateful acknowledgment the States presented him with a Sword whose Hilt was Massy Gold a Golden Pair of Horse-Buckles and a Pair of Pistols Inlayed with Gold And thus we see this Happy Vnion in a great measure brought very early an unexpected Peace to the Waring Nations THE French King having made a Peace with the States General it was not long after the rest of the Confederates accorded the like So that the Prince retired from the toils of War had now again the Pincess's Company and Convesation which was so Winning and Attractive that nothing but mighty affairs where Fame and Glory call'd him forth to stop the impetuous Torrent and support a Tottering State could have made so long a Separation or Distance AS for the Joy the Court conceived at

upon the Arival of the Princess having had the consent of the Prince and his Royal Consort to accept of the Kingly Dignity delayed not in their Resolves to have them Proclaim'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland Scotland being an Independant Kingdom and not within the Jurisdiction of a Parliament of England Whose Crown however was soon after Presented by the States in like manner of the Proceedings in which we shall have occasion to speak hereafter THE Resolves in Order to the Proclaiming being on these considerations That WILLIAM and MARY Prince and Princess of Orange be Declared King and Queen of England France and Ireland with all the Dominions and Dependencys thereunto belonging to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of those Kingdoms and Dominions during their Lives and the Life of the Surviver of them and that the Sole and Full Exercise of the Kingly Power be only in and Executed by his Highness in the Name of Himself and the Princess for the Term of their Lives and after their Decease the Crown and Dignitys Royal of the Kingdoms and Dominions to be left to the Heirs of the Body of the Princess and for default of such Issue to the Princess Ann of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of the Prince AND then an Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy was Enacted Viz. I A. B. Do sincerely Promise and Swear that I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majestys King WILLIAM and Queen MARY So Help me GOD. I A. B. do Sincerely Promise and Swear that I do from my Heart abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious Heretical the Damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes Excomunicated or Deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be Deposed or Murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do Declare that no Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual withthis Realm So Help me GOD. THIS and other Proceedings preceding the Happy Proclaiming the Wish of the Nation Ensued for the Officers at Arms Sergeants at Arms Trumpets and others whose Office it was to attend in this Important Occasion being in a Readiness by the Order His Grace the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England at White-hall-gate and Sir Themas St. George Garter Principal King at Arms receiving a Proclamation was Ordered by the Lords forthwith to Proclaim it And York Herauld after the Third Sounding of the Trumpets Proclaim'd it Garter King at Arms Reading it by Periods whilst he repeated in the presence of the Lords and Commons and a vast number of Gentry and others who by their Acclamatitions of Joy expressed their high satisfaction in what was done and so in Excellent Order they proceeded through Temple-Bar and between the Two Temple-Gates made the Like Proclamation and twice more Repeated it Viz. At Woodstreet-End in Cheapside and before the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill being in all these places concluded with Joyful Shouts and Acclamations and soon after they were with the same desire of a willing people Proclaimed in the Cities and chief Borroughs and Towns of England and in the Dominion of Wales c. AND now our Epethite by their advancement to the Royal Dignity must be changed The King on the 25th of February for himself and on the behalf of the Queen was pleased to express to both Houses in Answer to their Declaration his high Satisfaction in what they had done and graciously Promised them the Utmost of his Care and Protection for the Security and Preservation of their Laws Liberties and Religion and was extreamly willing to Concur with them in any thing that might be for the Good and Advancement of the Kingdom and to do all that in him lay to promote the Glory and Welfare of the Nation And soon after the Lord Bishop of London went with the Body of the Clergy of that City to pay their Majesties an Humble Tender of their Duty and Fidelity Expressing the great Satisfaction they conceived upon Their Majesties Accession to the Throne and being admitted to Kiss the King and Queens Hands His Majesty at the same time giving them a Satisfactory Assurance of his Extraordinary Affection to the Church of England and of his utmost protection and encouragement to them concluding I assure you you shall find it so and may depend upon it And in this indeed as it is promised in Holy Writ we have found in the care and protection of a King Queen the truly Nursing Father and Nursing Mother of the Church THE Convention having resolved it self unto a Free Parliament an Act was Passed Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes about the Assembling and sitting of the present Parliament and preparations were making for the Relies of the opressed Protestants in Ireland whom the Irish Papists countenanced by the Earl of Tyrconnel who had declared for the Late King James Miserably Murthered Plundered Harassed in most parts of that Kingdom But Scotland had got the upper hand of those that stood out for the Abdicated King And it their Convention upon the Receipt of a Letter from his Majesty of England they after a few Debates Declar'd the Throne Vacant and soon after concluded to lay their Crown as England had done at thee Feet of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY That they should be Crowned King and Queen of Scotland and the Crown with an Instrument to Rugulate and settle particulars Offered them WHILST the Genious of Scotland Bowed thus Low to the best of Princes a Proclamation was Issued out here by the King and Queen to Inform the Peers and such as claimed by Tenure or Offices that the Solemnitie of the Coronation was to be performed on the Eleventh of April 1689 and accordingly Magnificent preparations were made against that happy day and on the Ninth of April in order to it An Act Passed Entituled An Act for Establishing the Coronation Oath The form of it being in the manner following viz. THE Arch-Bishop or Bishop shall say Will you Solemnly Promise and Swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agree'd on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I Solemnly Promise so to do Arch-Bishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be Executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Arch-Bishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power Maintain the Law of God the True Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant Reform'd Religion Established by Law and will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and unto Churches Committed to their Charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain to any of them King and Queen

withal Father Peter the Jesuit dismist the Council and the King declar'd he was willing that Roman Catholicks should remain uncapable to be Members of the House of Commons Oh the wonderful Conversions of Fear what the Prayers and Intreaties of the Nobles Bishops and the desires of all the good Protestants in England could not do the very name of their Highnesses preparation brought to pass But not to Dwell too long on this Matter THE Prince whose actions are swift in Execution as his purposes delayed not though it was in the dead of Winter and his Fleet was put back in the Harbour by contrary Winds and suffer'd some little damage resolved on this great Work on the Fifth of November a day whereon another great deliverance happened to this Nation and tho' long since yet fresh in our minds He came with his whole Fleet before Torbay in the County of Devon not having met wih any Opposition from the English Fleet though he passed by within Cannon Shot insomuch that this gave a happy Presage that God had Bowd the Hearts of the People to be at their Highnesses Devotion and what more confirmed it was when the first Men were put on Shoar Viz. about 500 to put themselves in a Posture for the better securing the Landing of the rest so far were the Countrey people from Flying their Habitations or any Consternation that on the contrary they came Flocking to Welcome them on Shoar bringing them a supply of such Provisions as they had and when the Prince Landed such were the Shouts and Applaudities that these Western Countreys never Rung with the like Melody THE Fleet consisting of 635 Men of War Flyboats Pinks and Fireships and the Forces that Landed 14352 a great many of them being Brandenburgers Hess Casselers Sweeds c. And with them divers great Commanders with some English Noblemen and a great many others AND now the Nations Genious bends low to Welcome and to Complement a Heroe who brought her Safety with him for as well the Nobles as others came Crouding in and only a March was made and not a War for those who had boasted such mighty things before Fled and Scatter'd at the Martial Noise of his Drums and Trumpets that very Army on which they had so much Rely'd coming in a great measure over to him and to be brief he with little o● no Effusion of Blood King Jame● being retir'd took a quiet possession of the Kingdom amidst the Loud Shouts and Acclamations o● the People being every where Addressed and Congratulated THIS News Flying into Holland caused not only Excess of Joy in the Princess for the Safety o● her Illustrious Consort whose grea● undertaking had Subjected He● Spirits to Doubts and Fears o● the Hazards that might attend such an Enterprize but with her tha● whole Nation Simpathiz'd by expressing the high Satisfaction the● conceived upon his Success and Prosperous Fortune And whe● he had here at the earnest request of the States Assembled in Convention taken the Administration of the Publick affairs of Government into his Hands and after King James's leaving the Kingdom and going to France the Citizens of London and Westminster went in a great Body to the Parliament-house where they delivered two Petitions the Substance of them being to this Effect Viz. THAT they most Humbly and Earnestly Desired that His Most Illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange might be speedily setled in the Throne by whose Conduct Courage and Reputation the Nation and Protestant Religion might be Secured and Defended from it's Enemys at home and abroad That Ireland which was then in Rebellion might be rescued from its deplorable condition and to conclude the Kingdoms setled on a lasting Foundation and Security in Peace and Liberty UPON this Her Highness having been Complemented at the Hague by all the Persons of Quality that on purpose Resorted to the Court and among others their Electorl Highnesses of Brandenburg She having made to the Latter a very Splendid Entertainment it was concluded here that the Illustrious Princess should be sent for over to be Partner in those Crowns the Wisdom of the Nation had concluded to lay at the Pincess's Feet to which she consenting And being on her Departure for England the States of Holland the States General the Courts of Justice the Council of State and the Colledges either in Bodys or by their Deputys attended her and made their Complements and Congratulations on the happy occasion and in this the Forreign Ministers residing at Court had a share and the Persons of Quality of both Sexes The Majestrates made it their Request that the Burghers might wait on her in Arms but she modestly refused it as being too tedious a Cerimony for the intended Expeditness however the States of Holland Deputed Three of their Body to Wait upon her till she should be Embarqued and gave Orders to the Sieur Allemond with Divers Men of War to Joyn Admiral Herbert who attended with a Squadron and several Yatches to Transport her for England THE people at her Departure scarce refraining expressing their Sorrows in Tears that so much Virtue and Goodness had left their Shoar to inrich another Land They had seen her worth and valued it at such a Rate that though she went as it were in Triumph to possess Crowns and Kingdoms they Grudged to be Deprived of such a Blessing or spare it to any other Like the People of Mittelene when Cornelia the Wife of Pompey the Great was to go with her Lord after the Pharsalian War left their Shoars tho' in a different State and Circumstance they all crouded on the Rocks and Sands and fixed their eager eyes on the Ship She was in till the distance of space had removed it from their sight For setting sail with a Prosperous Wind She soon reached the shoars She was distined by Providence to Crown with blessings where Her Welcome was Proclaimed by the Guns from the Ships in the Road and from the Forts and after them by the Ringing of Bells and the Joyful Acclamations of the People and as She came up the River the Tower on which the Royal Banner was Display'd made London Sensible in a Language of Fire breathed from its Thundering Cannons that its Beloved Darling approached to Croud upon it greater advantages than it had long time participated ON the 12th of February in the Evening the Princess Arived at White-hall where she was received according to her Royal Character by the Nobles and great Ladys of the Court and by the Prince with all the Tender endearments and Expressions of kindness and affection The same Night she received the Complements of the Nobility at Court whilst the Streets every where Shined with Bonfires and Illuminations and the Bells charmed the Air into a stilness by the Harmony of their desired Musick and to be Brief a general Joy spread it self through the Kingdoms for her presence of which so long an absence had deprived it THE Lords and Commons

Demonstrations of Gratitude Loyalty the Royal Pair passed to Kensington where they were waited on by the Nobility with a Tender of their Humbly Duty and soon after the King was Graciously Pleased to tell the Parliament in his Speech Of the stop that had been this Year put to the Torrent of the French Proceedings which had altogether put them to a stand and was a Happy Omen of future success and that nothing might be wanting on his part to Oblige his Loving Subjects An Act was passed for the Frequent meeting of Parliaments to the high Satisfaction of the Kingdom BUT whilst these Occasions of Joy Brightned in the Countenance of all the Well Affected People of these Kingdoms A Sad and Melancholy Cloud of Sorrow too sudainly overshadowed our Rejoycings with Grief and Fear upon the News of the Queens Illness which begun on the 22d of December and in a little time Her Distemper was known to be the Small Pox an Inexorable and Pittyless Distemper too to Fatal to the Royal Family And upon this occasion that God in his Infinite Mercy would be pleased to Preserve her Life and Restore her Health Publick and Private Prayers were put up BUT what shall we say for our Sins our Sighs and Tears had not an expected return of our fervent wishes and desires the Blessing was too great for us and Heaven bereaved us of it to change her Earthly Diadem into a Crown of Stars and Glory For notwithstanding all that Art and the Prayers of a Mourning Nation could do the prevailing Distemper put a Period to her pretious Life on the 28th of December in the 33d Year of her Age at her Pallace of Kensington where she Dyed amidst the Sighs and Tears of those that were about her with that Pious Courage and Constancy that had attended all the Actions of her Life For whose Inestimable loss no valuable things on this side Heaven can suffice to allay our Sorrows in being depriv'd of the best of Queens and of Women in the bloom of her Beauty excellency of Virtue and prime of her Years AND whilst preparations of solemn Pomp and State were making for the disposing of her Body in the repository of the Grave amongst her Royal Ancestors till in the bright Morning of the Resurrection it shall re-unite with her Angelick Soul in endless felicity the Nations Grief swell'd in its highest Tide No Loss ever came so near the Hearts of an Afflicted People to transport them beyond moderation in Sorrow THE Nations Genious upon this great Blow put on the deepest of Melancholly and things appeared as if all Nature Sighed for our Irreperable and Inestimable Loss such a one as even Posterity and Ages to come must in sadness and regret deplore HIS Grace the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England pursuant to an Order of Council hereupon put forth his Order Requiring as it was expected all Persons to go into the deepest Mourning and that the Nobility c. should cover their Coaches with Black Cloath and their Liverys to be of the same which was readily and with all imaginable complying willingness Obeyed and Observed The Peers and Commons in Parliament weighted on the King at Kensington to condole this great Loss in two Addresses seting forth extraordinary Expressions of their Sorrow and the deep sense they had of the Death of the most Pious and Best of Queens and to Entreat His Majesty to moderate his Grief c. With protestations to stand by him against all his Enemys abroad and at home THE Loyal City of London in the like manner express'd its sadness in a Condolement of so general a loss as did many other chief places in England in their Addresses which were received with very Gracious Answers And Mourning Scotland besides its other Demonstrations of a deep sense of Sorrow Ordered a Day of Humiliation and Fasting on the Occasion Into the Closet of the Royal Mourner Awe and Distance Commands us not to Pry no Pen or Words being capable of uttering or framing so much as an Idea of the unexpressible grief that resided there and therefore all we can do is to pass it over in Duteous silence and only add our Earnest Prayers and Wish That God of His Infinite Mercy would Support Him with Comforts and Blessings under so Weighty Affliction to be the Protector Blessing Comfort of his Sorrowful Kingdoms FINIS