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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

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

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

all the Devotions that is appointed on so Solemn Occasion KING Charles soon after this desirous to prefer his Illustrious Neices to Protestant Princes for the security of our Religion and the welfare of the Kingdom seeing he had no Issue by Donna Catharina his Queen Refusing all others pitch'd upon the Illustrious Prince of Orange A Prince Descended from one of the Greatest and most Noblest Houses in Europe whose Ancestors have Signaliz'd their Conduct and Courage like Heroes and Worthys and thereby Riveted their Names to Eternity and lest a grateful Memory to all Posterity as being the Liberators of the Opressed and the often Confirmers of the Peace of Europe Setling the most thriving and prosperous States in the World and what is more Mantained it from its Infancy against Opressors But as if all their Virtues and Courage had centered in this Prince our most Gracious Soveraign the Wonders He has done comprize and in a higher measure do exceed their many Great Exploits But to come nearer to our purpose The Fair and Virtuous Princess having been seen by this Illustrious Prince when he was in England to Visit his Royal Relations Landing on the 30th of October 1670 So much Virtue and Innocent Goodness no doubt made some impressions on his Mind to consider and esteem her above all other Princesses in Europe as were not Obliterated by the spaces of time that interven'd between that and the happy joining of their Hands in the Sacred Marriage Ties that brought so great a Blessing to these Kingdoms and to show what high esteem the Nation had then of a Prince whose Virtues early Flourished and whose Fame was Loud in Courts and Camps for Prudent Councils and Martial Deeds THE Lord-Mayor and Court of Aldermen on the 10th of November after his Arival and having been Caressed by the Court and Obliged with all the Splendid Entertainment it could afford Waited upon him to Welcome him to England and on the 6th of December he did them the Honour to Dine with them at Drapers-Hall where he was highly Congratulated and splendidly Entertained and by the Shouts and Acclamations of the people the Citys Genious seem'd then to Bend to him as a Fortunate presage of the deliverance she might expect from him in her greatest distresses and after found Accomplished THE City having expressed their Joy to be Honoured in the presence of so Illustrious a Prince of the Royal Stem the Vniversity of Oxford the Seed-Plat of Learning and Virtuous Education from whence chiefly streams those Pious Pastors of the Church that by their unwearied endeavours make Religion Flourish among us was Graced by his presence For going from the Court to Windsor he took his way from thence and was received by the Heads of the Colledges in their Formalities and being highly Treated took a view of all that is Rare and Curious in that Antient City c. And was pleased as a mark of the Satisfaction he received to accept of a Degree and so returning to London on the 23d of December he there kept his Christmass in the nighest Splendor the Court was capable of performing And on the 13th of February took his leave of the King Duke and Princesses in order to his Return to Holland where he happily Ariv'd with a Fair Wind in a few days HE was Congratulated upon his Return by the States General and thief Nobility and Gentry of His Nation AS we have before hinted after this happy interview King Charles bending his mind to bring about a Match which proved grateful to the greatest part of Christendom he sent Divers English Noblemen to Invite him over a second time who found him in Arms amidst his Victories repelling the Armys of the Invader and Disturber of his Countrey AND having delivered their Welcome Message finding without great disadvantage he could not oblige the French to a Battle he drew near with his Army to Brussels and leaving the charge of it aster necessary Orders were given ' to Count Waldeck went to the Hague and having received the thanks of the States for his Prudent Conduct of their Army he Embarqued for England with those Nobles that had attended him by the Kings Order and divers of his own Nation in the Yatches that were sent to attend him with Three Men of War and a Squadron of Dutch Ships Ordered him by the States commanded by Admiral Evertson SETTING out with a Prosperous Gale they Arived at Harwich on the 19 of October 1677. Where the Duke of Albermarle sent by the King to that intent waited upon him to Congratulate his Arival as did livers of the Kings Coaches And so he proceeded to Ipswich where the King and Duke attended with ● Splendid Train of Nobility received him and Congratulated not only his Arival but Glorious Successes abroad And so in the most Magnificent Manner they proceeded to London and was received at Whitehall with unexpres●able demonstrations of Joy and ●ad the pleasure again to see the Fairest Flower in Englands Garden which now appeared more Beautiful and Lovely no doubt not only by reason of her more Matur● Years but because Heaven ha● Destin'd her to be his Royal Consort to make him a partner in 〈◊〉 Faithful and Transcendant Love that exceeded what before or sine has been known or exampled o● Earth NO sooner was this intende● match spread abroad by Fame bu● the Nations joy swelled to an unexpressible height and over-flowe● the Bounds of Moderation Th● willing and wishing People though● that time moved too flow till th● happy day of its appointed Consumation Dawn'd to Bless th● Land with its Welcome Light THE King on the First of N●vember having declared his intentions to the Council the Lords we●● extreamly pleased and satisfied wit● them as well in the Merrits of 〈◊〉 Worthy and Just a Prince as in th● security they expected from so agreeable a Marriage of the Protestant Religion And to testify how well they resented it delayed not to go in a Body and Congratulate the Princess upon the happy occasion of her being about to enter into a State of Matrimony with so Illustrious a Husband As by their Example did most of the Nobility of England and Ministers of State Declaring the high satisfaction they conceived in it and expected from it who had very Gratious and Obliging returns of thanks for their kindness and good opinion of it ALL things being agreed on in order to this Blessed Vnion the Prince by Express sent the States General of the Vnited Provinces an account of his Proceedings the Substance of it being to this purpose Viz. THAT in Consideration it had been their earnest desires and request to him to see him Marryed when he had well weighed the reasons that induced him to it in a Conformity t● their Wishes and Desires and th● Tranquility of their State he had conceived he could not do better than 〈◊〉 Address himself to the Princes● MARY Eldest Daughter to th● Duke of York That he

this happy Return of a Prince whose presence like the Sun coming on this side the Aequinoctial to revive the Earth with Vernal Rays of kindly heat after it had been bound in Icey Chains by the Winters Tyranny made them forget their former apprehension of Danger and rendred them Airy and Lively in hopes of many Happy Days under such a Benign Influence it is beyound our expression and so we leave it to the imagination of the Reader BUT this Peace to the Protestants under Jurisdiction of the French King was not so Grateful for that Restless Monarch too Prone to violence having a Cessation of Arms abroad turned wonted Cruelty upon his own Subjects of the Reformed Religion though upon his Accession to the Throne they had been the greatest sticklers for him and the chiefest means that placed him there but their Loyalty nor Protestations of a continued Fidelity availed little when it was resolved their Estates and Effects should flow into his Coffers UNDER pretence of having but one Religion in his Kindom he sent his Dragoons and Bald-Pated Priests into all the Provinces to Convert them with Plunder Fire Sword Racks and many New invented Tortures the Sufferings of those Poor people being more then space will allow to be enumerated in this History especially being somewhat forreign to the intended subject matter Let it suffice then that their Sufferings moved all the Princes in Christendom to pitty but their own who ought to have had the greatest concern for them The Pope and we believe we might have said the Turk detested this Cruelty that Ruined near 100000 Families under the Specious pretence of Religion MANY of these distressed people fled to England others to Holland c. where they gave Her Highness a new opportunity of exercising of her Virtuous inclination to the performance of Charitable Deeds so naturally inherent to her goodness in disposition and tender Compassion to the Distressed So that by her Liberal Example others Were incited and stirred up in the Bowels of Commiseration to relieve those Fugative People who had left their Countrey Estates and substance for the sake of a good Conscience for would they have turned their Backs upon that Religion they had received and Embraced the Romish Idolatry and Superstitions they had been permitted to live in some quiet at home but with what part of their Goods or Estate those that were compelled to Apostatize can by their severe treatment or kind best Testify AND because as may be supposed their Highnesses Charity extended in a great measure to the Relief and Shelter of these poor Protestants So much Monsieur was inraged that contrary to the Treaty of Nimeg uen he in full Peace and the height of Security Commanded Monsieur Moran Superintendant of Provence to March 2000 Men into His Highnesses Principality of Orange which was done under the Command of his Lievtenan General of Languedock where he threw down the Walls of that City Plunder'd the Inhabitants and used divers Crueltys to make many of them turn Roman-Catholicks but in that they could little prevail yet for all the just complaints made by the States General upon the occasion of this violation of the Treaty at the complaint of his Highness to them of the wrong he and his Subjects had sustained No satisfactory answer could be obtained but the French King unjustly and ungenerously detains it till a Juster Sword shall Reeve it from and put it again in the Hands of the Rightful Possessor AND thus we see the different tempers of Princes the one Labouring to Succour and Relieve the Subjects of his Enemy flying to him for Refuge and Protection whilst the other is only pleased with violence and oppression and labouring to destroy his and his own Subjects Let these Nations consider then in what a Fair Line their Lot is fallen under the Auspicious Influence of so Mild and Gracious a Prince When the Poor Distressed Subjects of France Groan beneath the weight of his Burden whose Will is his Law whilst their Lives and Estates depend in a manner upon his pleasure WHILST things were carryed on in this manner the Princess had cause of Sorrow in the Surprising News she received of the Death of her Uncle King Charles the Second who after Five or Six Days Indisposition of a grievous Appoplexie Dyed at Whitehall February the 6th 1684. And although the setting of this Great and Prudent Monarch gave her Father Accession to the Brittish Throne yet his Love and Tender Care of Her Welfare and Prosperity all along had made so deep an impression in her Princely Heart that it Melted her Eyes in Pearls of unfeigned Sorrow and threw a Cloud of Sadness over the Livelyness of her Active Spirits nor was her Royal Consort wanting as in her Joys so to share with her in her Grief for never any Royal Pair were observed to Simpathize so nearly with each other in the passions of the Mind as these Illustrious Persons which showed the Quintiscential perfection of Love in its Brightest Mortal Refinement UPON this Sadness as well that Court as the Court of England went into the Deepest Mourning and on the 14th of February the Royal Corps in a Private Funeral was Buried in King Henry the 7ths Chappel in a Vault under the East End of the South-Isle THE Prince to divert his Melancholy on this sad occasion went to visit several Towns to take a view how they stood in Repair as to their Fortifications as also to settle the Military affairs and upon Returning from Hounslyr-dyke to the Hague gave Audience to divers Forreign Ministers and having visited some other Towns he was Met at Loo by her Highness where there were splendid Entertainments and Rejoycings and King James after the Death of King Charles having been Proclaim'd and on the 23d of April 1685 Crown'd at Westminster Sent the Marquess D' Alberville his Ambassador to Holland who in December had Audience of the Prince and States whereupon they Adjourned till the Seventh of January IN the mean while on the first of that Month the Princess with preparations of Curious Fire-Works Representing a Battel Ranged in Four Lines and Furnished out with several Batterys in a very Lively manner expressing the Actions of a Fight AND now King James having Declar'd himself a Roman Catholick and upon the Defeat and Cutting off the Duke of Monmouth in England and the Earl of Argyle in Scotland and gotten him a Standing Army though the Parliament design'd it should be Disbanded things began to run high and Rome drave on Jehue like to gain her End And after a time other practices failing she began openly to push at the Church of England Swarms of Priests and others of the Romish Order daily flocking into this Kingdom like Swarms of Locusts And attempting with the same boldness in Holland and especially about the Princes Court notwithstanding the Intercession that had been made on their behalf by some Minesters Residing there the Court of Justice at the