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A42096	The resigned & resolved Christian, and faithful & undaunted royalist in tvvo plaine farevvell-sermons, & a loyal farevvell-visitation-speech, both deliver'd amidst the lamentable confusions occasioned by the late forreign invasion & home-defection of His Majesties subjects in England / by Denis Granville, D.D., deane & archdeacon of Durham, (now in exile) chaplaine in ordinary to His Majestie ; whereunto are added certaine letters to his relations & freinds [sic] in England shewing the reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the kingdom ...	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing G1940; ESTC R41659	109,381	177

PRINCE FINIS SOLI DEO GLORIA THE DEANE OF DURHAMS REASONS FOR HIS WITHDRAWING INTO FRANCE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PRINCE OF ORANGES INVASION And Driving the King by the Svvord out of the Kingdome of England IN CERTAINE LETTERS A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THE EARLE OF BATHE Printed at Roüen by WILLIAM MACHUEL ruë S. Lo neare the Palace for JOHN BAPTISTE BESOGNE ruë Escuyer at the Royall sun and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESOGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris In the yeare of our Lord God M. DC LXXXIX ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER THE Reader is desired to understand that when the Authour first set pen to Paper soon after his Landing in France in the Month of March last past that hee did not designe to print this and the ensuing Letters or the foregoing Discourses His intentions at that tyme being only in a few lines to discharge the Obligations which hee did in Civility rather than Religion owe to his freinds Relations spirituall naturall in England after so sudden a separation mighty Revolution by informing them in an ordinary way of writing ffirst of what passed in reference to himselfe Cures Ecclesiasticall during the disturbances occasioned by the Prince of Orange secondly that hee did continue by Gods Grace to bee the very same Person that they did discerne him to bee at Parting which hee had ever professed himselfe even an Unalterable firme son of the Church of England as first establish'd as well as a right loyall subject to his soveraigne resolv'd never to Owne any new fabrick built on the ruines of the Old more than submit to a new souveraign fet up by subjects in the room of Gods Lawfull Vice-Gerent But the changeablenesse of Times and variety of Publick occurrences which did render it difficult for persons in his circumstances to fix positively in any determination caused him on second thoughts to Undertake the inlargement of the said Letters for the satisfaction of his owne conscience rather than their curiosity likewise to publish to the World the Account of himselfe Actings which hee sends to his Brother Bishop together with the wholesome Advice hee gave at parting to the members of Durham Cathedrale Clergy of his Jurisdiction To the end that no person whatso ever under his authority might be ignorant of his Behaviour Stedfastnesse in a tyme of great Apostacy but be throughly informed well assured the better to keep them from Falling that hee did to the very last Upshot practice the Doctrine which hee ever Taught and was not ashamed by his last services for the Publick at Withdrawing by his first imployment of his Pen after Landing to proclame himselfe one of those indisputably loyall Subjects that could obey actively in all commands not sinfull Whatever his king bee either by his Practice-in Point of Moralls or by his Profession in regard of his Religion nay one who was more ambitious to suffer with his afflected Prince abroad than to keep his Preferments at home tho in their kind some of the best in England with a Blemish of being accessary to the Rebellion as his conscience assured him hee should have been if hee had after his manner of Preaching and Practice but stayed at Durham sate still without opposing those who were hee conceived labouring by dethroning his souveraigne to Unhinge the Antient Government both in Church state or else held his tongue stopd his Pen after hee was got by à happy Providence out of the reach of the Kings Enimies to gaine the liberty whereof it was one cheif part of his designe in leaving the Nation Which liberty opportunity hee thought himselfe in all good conscience the more readily heartily obliged to embrace since hee was debarred the Pulpit deprived of the ordinary Publick exercise of his Ministry being not contented to preach by his example only but according to the Rule of the Apostle S. Paul out of season as vvell as in season by Letters Advice and Exhortations at all Times on all Places on all fit occasions to all Persons to whom his Duty bound him to Apply himselfe as far and as well as hee was able His zeale by à kinde of Antiperistasis the defection reaching his own till this time ever loyall family being increased as well as his resolution But how so many of such Antient Noble Houses and till this late Epidemicall infection in a most exemplary manner faithfull to the Crown should be tainted in the leastwise with the horrid sin of Rebellion hee cannot devine nor give any reason for the same unlesse the Air of England did begin to grow as contagious as the Plague of Athens which bred more diseases in mens Soules than in their Bodies corrupting as it is Storied their very moralls Yet what ever intoxicating ●virtue may have been in the cli me under the Planet that reigned in 88. that all should bee true which i● reported of some of his ovvne Kinred hee begs pardon if hee prove a very Infidell It being not in the Povver of all the Logi●ians in the vvorld to Convince him that it is possible for one descended from his Dear Loyall Father Sr BEVIL GRANVILLE to dye a Rebell more than it is probable that the lately Landed English rebells should long prosper or subsist in Ireland vvhere no venemons Beast can live These Considerations together vvith the difficulty of sending large Packetts by the Post into another Kingdom the danger of miscarriage at a Juncture vvhen fevv letters Went Without Openning the Seriously and vvell vveighing the vote of the Pretended House of Commons to forbid all intercourse vvith France after the first of August and more Especially the frequent Reflection on his Bodily Infirmities fearing hee might never bee in the like condition of strength understanding to Unburthen his Conscience if hee slipped so faire all Occasion did cause him to make as much hast as hee could to commit his thoughts thus to vvriting and to Communicate them by this sure method of Printing his Letters vvhich vvere not compleated till the end of October last Wherein if nether the Reader nor Persons to vvhom hee vvrites more than in the discourses preceding finde any Excellency of stile or matter of Moderne Policy or modish Learning they may yet meet vvith vvhat the Authour is more proud of and in this present Age Juncture very Extraordinary as vvell as more valuable That is to say Honesty Courage enough to be faithfull to his King last yeare in spight of the mobile this yeare in spight of the Usurpation TO THE EARLE OF BATHE EVER HONORED AND DEARE Sr. THAT I never somuch as once presented my Duty to your LP since I Left London nor gave you any account of my selfe during the Months of Oct. Nov. last pass'd I need not I conceive make any Apology All Cerimonious respects being then svvallovved up by the Great Concerns Transactions

awhile here at Roüen I did presume to informe his Majestie by a Packet I sent into Ireland to my Lord Melford of my Arrivall in France the manner of my escape with an Assurance of my unalterable Loyalty and that I should espouse his service with the same zeale during his Exile adversity as when hee was on the Throne I did also according to the Duty of a Loyall subject pay to the Queen Prince all those respects which I could at a Distance informing her also by the assistance of my Lord Waldegrave of my Arrival with assurances that I should never faile to render her Majestie the Prince all the duties which were incumbent on a subject of the King of England And that since I had not the felicity which I came for of being neare his Majestie I was in the next place desirous to bee neare her● and accordingly would hasten to St. Germaines as soon as the indisposition of my Body would permit Taking a great Delight to bee nigh the Royall Famliy when I cannot Otherwise serve them never thinking my selfe any wayes absolved from the observance I owed my Soveraigne her Majestie all the bloud Royall by the difference of Religion HAving Sr thus given you the Trouble of so particular an account of my selfe deportment from the time that wee were first allarumm'd with the news of the wicked intentions of the Dutch to invade vs home to this present day I thinke my selfe no lesse obliged to give you some Information Concerning my present Temper of mind future Intentions And which I am the more willing to embrace this Opportunity of doing by Reason my infirmities of Body do in such sort increase that I have small reason to immagine that I shall bee a long lived man they administring to mee too many Grounds of Feare if I were to undergo no other hazard that I may scarce live to see my Freinds in England any more unlesse the air of France motion bee by Gods Blessing a meanes of my Recouery Cure of that disease which I have contracted by à sedentary life since my Installation into the Deanery of Durham And here I do in the first place declare with all sincerity that I am resolued by Gods Grace to live dye a true son of the Church of England Whereof King Charles was King Iames 2. not the Prince of Orange is under God supream Head Governour beleiving her to bee for the Purity of her Doctrine the decent Regularity of her worship the wholesomnesse of her Discipline well executed the best and most Approaching to the Primitive Times of any Church in Reformed Christiendome And I do openly affirme to all the World that however her children or rather those who have pretended to bee soe have behaved themselves Either heretofore or of late to the scandall of the world Reproach of her Constitution I am assured she will bee found upon thorough and serious Examination A Church which doth not Countenance Rebellion or indeed any sin or wickednesse whatsoever I have given no just reason I thanke God to any to thinke mee of another Opinion And if some men have been soe uncharitable as to Censure mee for ever deviating from her it hath been only for such Carriage of mine as may best demonstrate that I am A right Genuine thorough paced tho very feeble Member of Her I meane for my Exact Conformity to constant Observation of the Excellent Rules of her Incomparable Liturgy without any variation and my Constant zeale in asserting the Kings Prerogative and her Excellent Doctrine of non-Resistance Subjection to Authority in both which perohance I have been thought sometimes a litle singular But if I have been soe I am sorry for it I meane that I should want company in so laudable Christian a Cause Practice For I must still affirme that the first is the Indispensable Duty of Every Church man and best meanes to preserve her the last which way soever it fled at the Prince of Oranges Invading England the very Flour and Glory of our Ch which neither losse of Estate nor life shall by the assistance of the Almighty cause mee to Renounce I do therefore humbly intreat your selfe and all my Relations no wise to suspect mee as if Wavering from my Obedience to my Mother the Church for my immoveable Adherence to the cause interest of the Father of our Country and my innate Abhorrence of Disputing Contesting or rudely Capitulating with my Prince even-then when hee commanded things very contrary to my sentiments which I did Judge not only inexpedient but prejudiciall to the Flourishing condition of our Church Had I fail'd as too many did in that Iuncture or in paying the very same duties ef Allegiance Honour to my Present Soueraigne When hee came to the Crowne as I had performed to the late King his Royall Brother my Gratious Master of Blessed memory because his present Majestie declared himselfe of the R. Cath. Religion I might indeed have been lyable to Censure for that was a bad mark of a son of the Church of England But God having enabled mee to Resist this Temptation which hath so mightily prevailed in the Nation I would not have you Feare that I shall bee Ouerthrowne by any other I am I confesse fled out of the Nation to assert the Cause of a R. Cath. Prince I live at present in à R. Cath. Country But sure I am that the right-Church of England Religion doth not only injoyne mee to do the first but considering the circumstances of England the neighbouring Protestant Countries at present to do the later And why I other loyall subjects should choose France rather than any other Nation to Reside in may quickly bee put out of dispute if our Censurers would bee pleased to consider how kindly the most Christian King received his Majesty of England and doth still entertaine those who have Evidenced their Fidelity to him as also reflect on the innate Civilily Hospitality of the French Nation towards strangers never more Visible than in this time of Distress when all are Wellcome espetially English men unlesse they are conceived to bee Spyes or Creatures of the Prince of Orange or other their Enimies As for my own particular Common Justice doth Oblige mee to acknowledge that I meet whith as much Curtisy now in France among the R. Catholicks as I have done heretofore among the Protestants And am permitted to live as quietly and securely tho I do no wayes di●o●ne my Religion as any of their own Nation THis breif declaration I have made will suffice I hope to assure all my Freinds in England of my stedfastnesse in the Excellent Religion of my Fore-Fathers The next duty incumbent on mee will be to give my Family you our Cheif some fresh assurance that I am by the Grace of God Resolued to endeavour for the future as I have begun

to proceed in imitation of their Loyalty and according to their examples in all times of Warre Trouble heretofore to stick close to the Crown Not one of them that I could ever Read or heare of having been in the least manner dipt in Rebellion or sided with any Usurper Indeed their Fidelity to their Soueraigne for which your House God bee Praised hath been ever noted none Sir hath better copied out then your selfe whose Name is on that account already Recorded in our English Chronicle The Secrecy Successefulnesse of that Negotiation of yours in your Master the late Kings behalfe with General Monk will not easily bee forgotten among loyall men And I must confesse to all the world that that notable Example Pattern which you have set all your House by your services endeavours in the Worst of Tymes for King Charles the 2. hath had great force on mee been mighty prevalent in inspiring mee with some more than ordinary Resolution for his Royall Brother his lawfull successour and our vndoubted Soueraigne at my first Entrance on my Deanery which did oblige mee to Appeare Act in à more Pnblick Poste than before And doth still animate mee wherefore whatever measures you are pleased to take at present I hope Sir you will not blame mee in my present zeale endeavours Since which time I can say it without Boasting tho if I did Boast a litle this Conjuncture my Circustances would Beare it that I have never strayed in my affection from his Majestie nor failed in paying him all the Honour Duty Respect which I should have renderd to my deceased Master of ever Blessed Memory had the Naiion been longer blest with his Reigne But instead thereof I do not Blush to let all the world know that I have been somewhat more Officious and thought it Every ones Duty so to be in his Service than I had been in his Brothers in consideration of a Roman Catholick Kings Grace Goodness towards us of the Church of England in reference to the free exercise of our Religion Hee granting us the liberty of A Religion contrary to his ovn and making it his Care at his first Appearence in Councell to secure to his Protestant Subjects of the Ch. of England so unvaluable à Blessing neither of which if hee had done could wee have told how to helpe our selves or been absolved from our Obedience which my litle Divinity hath euer told mee I hope euer will is as due to à Roman Cath. Soueraigne as to a Protestant one The Consideration where of hath by the Blessing of God kept mee Vntainted Vnstained throughout the whole transactions of the last 5. yeares I meane from the 6. of Feb. 84. when his Majestie mounted the Throne to the 10. of Dec. 88. when the same Sacred Majestie was disgracefully Driven to the Everlasting Reproach of the English Nation from his own Palace of Whitehall No Feares or Iealousies of Religion Liberties or Lavves dîd ever tempt mee I Blesse God to any undue courses of Resistance Opposition or somuch as Unseemly Capitulation with Gods Vicegerent to preserve them Tho I love them all soe well Dearely that I can bee contented to dye for them in any Place or Manner vnlesse it bee with à sword in my hand lifted vp against my Prince And I dare Challenge not only my Censurers but all the World a state of Hostility will admit of such language to discover any One Act of mine whereby I have sided with or abetted their Enimies in any Endeavours to destroy or Weaken them that I have I say ever either in the capacity of a Private Minister or Publick Magistrate Ecclesiasticall or Civill in the West my first or North of England my last station ceased to practise and Exact a strict Conformity to the Rules of our Religion or to promote an Impartiall Execution of law as long as the lawes were in Force both against Recusant Dissenter Or that lastly I did ever Countenance such Omission of Duty in Others Clergy or layety under my Authority All Places wherein I have Resided will I make no question testifye for mee that I have been how weake unsuccessefull soever zealous diligent faithfull in these particulars And did never in any Revolution Put on the Vizard of A TRIMMER having had allwayes from my Cradle a certaine Antipathy against such Indifferency Hyppocrisy Neutrality as doe constitute that Amphibious Creature which by the assistance of Neighbours which it is hard to tell whether they live more vpon the land or in the water hath given a kind of Mortall Wound to the Church Monarehy of England By such Principles Practices I have God bee thanked demonstrated my selfe A legitimate son of my ever Honoured Deare Father Sir Bevill Granville whom I may I hope in à letter to à Brother bee permitted for my Consolation in so melancholyck a state of Affaires a litle to Glory in sinee his Valour Loyalty sealed at Lansdown with his Bloud is set aboue the spleen censure of the most Malitious Tongues Forasmuch as the University of Oxford one of the most famous Universityes in the VVorld hath vouchsafed to celebrate them whith an Epicedium of their choicest VVits A respect which hath not as the Ingenious Reprinter of the late Edition of those Poems doth in his dedicatory Epistle well note been vsually paid to any but the Royal Family And in the same Temper much heightned strengthend by the serious frequent pervsall of those Iugenious Verses which bring dayly to my consideration my loyall Fathers Example which I carry constantly about mee both to inspire conduct mee I hope by Gods Grace to Breathe out my soule without making any difference in Matter of Obedience betwixt à Papist a Protestant Prince A Christian or à Heathen I am without any scruple assured so is all the World that my Soueraigne King Iames the 2. is a lawfull King hath an undoubted Title which is all a good subject ought to enquire into If soe I am as much assured that noe Power vpon Earth can absolve mee from my sworne Obedience to him what ever wee are told to the contrary in certaine Enquiries into the Measures of Submission to Supreme Authority the Grounds vpon vvhich it may bee lavvfull or necessary as ● the Title phraseth it for subjects to defend their Religion liberties lavves I wish the Doctor had been pleased to speake out plainly according to his thoughts and I am perswaded hee would haue sayd The Grounds vvhereon it is Lavvfull to Rebell But I shall give you noe more Trouble by way of Information concerning my selfe I shall rather crave liberty to convey to my Younger Relations since they are numerous by your favour and meanes is you please some wholesome Advice for their Edification to establish those who are not Tainted and to restore those who are with the false

accepted thereof at the very first offer of the People Secondly The Exercise of the Kings Prerogative in dispensing with some Lawes on Extraordinary Emergencyes was thought a Burden Intollerable But it hath been no Crime since in the Subject to dispense with all They having got as they thinke what they have long Contended for the Supremacy in their own hands Thirdly The Introducing of Arbitrary Power was the Dread of most men now they are contented to enjoy nothing else Fourthly It was Judged unpardonable Tyranny in our Soveraigne to touch the meanest of his subjects in Point of Property but it is a laudable vertue in the Subject to usurp upon nay dispose of the Crowne Fiftly The English were Overwhelmed with Jealousies of introducing Popery promoting the Intrest of France And all the while have gone the direct way to bring the worst of their Feares on themselves by Driving the King Prince out of the Kingdome Sixtly In a word Sundry other Things which were deemed nnsufferable in a lawfull Prince of Gods Ordaining are now Practised without disgust by an Usurper King of the Peoples making Hee that is not yet perfectly Convinced of the Hypocrisy of these Pretences Procedings which I hope the most Eminent of our Clergy Nobility by this time are seemes to have neither Eyes to see Eares to heare nor Heart nor Head to consider Understand I shall conclude with A Memorable Saying of our Royall Martyr King Charles the 1. on his Observation of a like spirit of Delusion which in his dayes possessed the generality of the People of the same Kingdomes in Dethroning nay Murthering their Lawfull King one of the Best of Princes at his owne doores Soe easy is that Leger de main which serves to delude the Vulgar That the Almighty Wise God who in his just displeasure for our sins ingratitude to Himselfe his Vicegerent hath for the present made the Chutch Monarchy of England A Notable Monument of his Wrath would bring all High Low who have contributed to soe Heinous a Guilt in his due tyme to such a sight sense of their Crimes that they may give to the world an undeniable Demonstration of the Truth of their Repentance labouring with all their Might to redresse the Scandalls they have given by an unparalelled Apostacy from the Principles of our Church an abhorred Defection in point of Loyalty is the hearty humble Prayer of Ever Honour'd and Deare Sir Your Lordships most humble Servant Affectionate Brother DENIS GRANVILLE Rouen Aprill 24. 1689. POSTSCRIPT THat the Printing of this letter with the following Address Queres may not appear to your selfe as I fore-see they will to all Zealous Contrivers Supporters of the Usutpation in England an act of not only deplorable Folly but downe right Frenzy I humbly Crave your permission to insert a few lines by way of Postscript I am not ignorant but that this attempt may render me absolutely incapàble of all the favour you have shew'd me since my Flight into France in your voluntary kind interposition to secure my Revenu that it must also expose me for a subject of Common Talk Censure thoughout the Nation But since an un blemis'd Loyalty is infinitely mote valuable than the Possessions of this world that I was persvaded that the Course which I did by Gods grace Steer was the most effectual way to secure that the very Reputation whereof I esteem far beyond the Rents I had at Durham Easington Sedgefeild nay moreover since that my past Life last Deportment in England had not been all of a piece if I had not done as I did You will not I trust condemn my Cariage however contrary to the Maxims Temper of the Reigning Generation as unworthy of your House Family What I have done I have perform'd thanks be to the Almighty in the Integrity of my Heart Innocency of my hands the sence Consideration here of the Issue of things exery day more more convincing me that I was in the Right doth afford unspeakable Comfort to my soule My Feeding of some Friends in my voyage from Scotland hither with Expectation of an Inter-view in Kent talk of a Passport the fitst of which I did not intend the last if I could get away without it I did not desire is a crime I do assure my selfe of Gods pardon for of those friends likewise whom I deluded disapointed when God shall be pleas'd to send us a happy meeting As for that more unpardonable sin where with some do reproach me whereof I cannot so well clear my selfe before the World but is the only one thanks be to God that the World can accuse me of I me●n my Ignorance Imbecility to fill my Coffers Pockets so ful as some more frugall crafty than my selfe have done in less time with a smaller Estate or Revenu I am like to do a sad Pennance for it here abroad in a Forreigne Kingdome And the Friends Relations I leave at home will not I hope add affliction to affliction if they will not help me with their Purses by loading me with their Censures especially considering two last Acts of mine to demonstrate the sincerity of my Repentance for it First that I did voluntarily diminish my Revenu very considerably by Rent-Charges to satisfy my own just Debts Secondly that I look'd on my long Neglect to practize Frugality as so great a sin that I did as voluntarily put my selfe into a kind of white sheet to atone fot the same by confessing it to God the world in a small Peice I printed in the year 85. This is my Comfort that no person in England is like to loose by me unless by his own proper Choice if one man doth so he must thank himselfe rather than blame me If I suffer Deprivation to his loss he must quarrell with God the King whose Commands have unavoidably oblig'd me to hold fast my Religion Loyalty And if the Sacrificing of both or either of them was in my Judgement too dear a purchace of my Revenu for my selfe no one could reasonably expect that I should undergo it for an other Hoping that these few Hints may give some satisfaction to all but the Malitious Authors of our present Misery I shall not enlarge this Postscript farther than to acknowledge with all thankfullness the kindness which you have shew'd me in procuring A Dispensation for mee notwithstanding I have contradicted your Example which I esteem thegreater Obligation at those friends hands who were instrumentall therein since they did it without my Privity or Motion BY the Publication of the following ADDRESS QUERES it may appear tha the Author is not affraid notwithstanding the Obloquy he did a while undergo in the yeat 88 for his dutifull compliance with the King to owne those notions of Loyalty which he did endeavour