Members of Parliament in K. Charles's Reign met at Westminster by the Prince's Advice and presented him an Address of Thanks for rescuing the Nation desiring him to take upon him the Government till January 22. and in the mean time to issue out Letters for the Meeting of a Convention and take into his Care the Condition of Ireland 7. 1689 28. 1688 He issues out his Letters for electing Members for the Convention 8. 29.  9. 1689 30. 1688 The Prince puts out his Proclamation authorizing Sheriffs Justices of Peace c. to act 10. 1678 31. 1677 This Day a Treaty between England and Holland was concluded at the Hague in order to reestablish Peace in Christendom and oblige the French King to grant reasonable Terms to the Crown of Spain c.  January  11. 1.  12. 2. 1689 The Prince of Orange publishes a Declaration for the better collecting the Revenue 13. 3. 1689 The Lord Dartmouth brings back the English Fleet into the Downs 14. 4.  15. 5. 1689 The Prince of Orange publishes an Order for the regular Election of Convention Men. dit 1691 King William prorogues the English Parliament 16. 6. 1691 His Majesty sets out for Holland to confer with several Confederate Princes but the Wind turning contrary he is forced to come back 17. 7. 1672 The States General appoint John de Wit Mynheer Beverning and Mynheer Fagel to draw up the Commission of Captain General 18. 8. 1651 The States General meet to dispose of the Places vacant by the Prince of Orange's Death dit 1689 The Prince puts out a Proclamation at London for quartering of Souldiers 19. 9. 1672 The Prince is proclaimed Captain General of Holland and Westfrizeland 20. 10. 1672 The Prince sets out from the Hague to view the Fortresses of the States and order the Magistrates of the several Provinces dit 1689 The Scots Lords present an Address to the Prince to take the Government of their Kingdom upon him till March next and to issue out his Letters for calling the States of Scotland to meet the 14th of the said Month. 21. 11.  22. 12. 1674 The States of Holland encrease the Houshold of his Royal Highness and the Number of his Guards 23. 13. 1673 The Prince presents the States with his tenth Part of all Prizes to be applied to the Defence of the Country 24. 14. 1689 The Prince of Orange being waited upon by the Scots Lords tells them that he has given all necessary Orders for the Security of their Kingdom 25. 15. 1679 He returns to the Hague having visited the Fortifications of Naerden and other Places in the Provinces of Vtrecht and Holland 26. 16. 1691 The King goes on board a second time for Holland attended by the Dukes of Norfolk and Ormond the Earls of Portland Dorset and Devonshire the Bishop of London and other Lords 27. 17.  28. 18.  29. 19. 1675 The States of Vtrecht sent their Deputies to advise the Prince to accept of the Soveraignty of Guelderland and Zutphen 30. 20. 1691 His Majesty comes in sight of the Dutch Coasts with 12 Men of War and 7 Yatchs but the Ships being unable to come nigh the Shore by reason of the Ice he takes a small Shalop to go on shore wherein he continued for 18 Hours together in a dark Night without view of Land or his Fleet exposed at once to die for Hunger to perish with Cold to be drowned at every Stroke his small Pinnace made against the Ice and to be taken Prisoner by every Pirate The Danger his Majesty was exposed to wholly dispirited his Attendants and seeing one of the Seamen who seemed to succumb under the Pressures of Cold Weariness and Fear he rouzed him up with this Expression What! dost thou fear to die in my Company An Expression very like to that used by Cesar in the Sicilian Strait Quid times Caesarem vehis Fortunam Caesaris and which had the same Effect for the Seamen being thereby encouraged surmounted all Difficulties and set his Majesty on Shore 31. 21. 1691 He arrives at the Hague incognito where nevertheless he is received with extraordinary Demonstrations of Joy It was the first time he came thither since crowned King of England and the States designed him the most magnificent Reception these last Ages have seen but his Majesty declined it dit 1697 This Day his Majesty was pleased to create the Honourable Arnold Joost Van Keppel an Earl Viscount and Baron of this Kingdom by the Title and Stile of Earl of Albemarle Viscount Bury and Baron of Ashford   The same Day his Majesty was pleased to appoint the Lord Viscount Gallway one of the Lords Justices of Ireland February   1. 22. 1689 The Convention of the States of England met at Westminster the Marquiss of Hallifax was chosen Speaker by the Lords and Henry Powle Esq by the Commons Both Houses desired the Prince to take on him the Administration of the Government for a farther time and ordered a Thanksgiving day to be kept Jan. 31. Old Stile in London and Feb. 14. throughout England for the Deliverance of the Nation The Prince sent a Letter to the House of Lords about setling the Government 2. 23. 1674 The States of Holland and West-Frizeland declare the Place of Governour Captain General and Admiral of their Provinces possessed by his Highness hereditary in his Male-Posterity   The same Day the States of Zealand did the like and also made the Dignity of first Nobleman bestowed upon his Highness hereditary He was a few Days after complimented thereupon by K. Charles II's Envoy 3. 24.  4. 25. 1677 At the Request of the States General he goes to Groâ—ingen attended by some of their Deputies to compose the Divisions that were in that Town 5. 26. 1679 This Day the Treaty of Peace between the Empire and France was signed at Nimeguen dit 1691 His Majesty was obliged at the States Desires and the Peoples Importunities to make a publick Entry inâ—â—â—he Hague which was performed with all the Solemnity imaginable 6. 27. 1691 He gives Audieâ—ce to several Princes and Deputies of the Cities of Holland 7. 28. 1689 The House of Commons resolves that K. James H. having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom by breaking the Original Contract between King and People and by the Advice oâ— Jesuits and other wicked Persons having violated the Fundamental Laws and withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom has abdicated the Government and that the Throne is thereby become vacant dit 1691 His Majesty assists at the Assembly of the States of Holland and Westfrizeland of the States General and at the Council of State where he receives extraordinary Marks of Respect dit 1697 Sir John Fenwick Baronet attainted of High Treason for conspiring against the King and betraying his Country to the French was beheaded this Day on Tower-Hill 8. 29. 1689 The House of Lords being in a great Debate on
be careful in preserving the publick Peace of the Kingdom 8. 28. 1672 The French having besieged Muyden one of the Keys of Amsterdam the Prince obliged them to raise the Siege and to retire dit 1696 This Day their Excellencies Signior Soranzo and Signior Venier Ambassadors extraordinary from the Republick of Venice to his Majesty made their publick Entry having been received at Greenwich by the Earl of Radnor and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies accompanied by six Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber and brought by Water in the King's Barge to the Tower They were complimented at their Landing by the Lord Lucas Governour of the same and saluted with a Discharge of the Cannon the Standard being display'd From thence their Excellencies were conducted in his Majesty's Coach followed by eight Coaches of their own and many others with six Horses apiece to the Lady Portland's House in the Pall-mall that was prepared for his Majesty's Entertainment of them where they receiv'd the Compliment of Welcome from the King by the Lord Guildford and from their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark by the Earl of Sandwich and the Lord Fitzharding Masters of their Horse They had a very numerous Retinue with very rich Liveries 9. 29. 1696 Robert Lowick Ambrose Rook-wood and Charles Cranburn lately convicted of High Treason for conspiring to assassinate the King were this Day executed at Tyburn They owned the Crime they were condemned for 10. 30. 1662 This Day was born that incomparable Princess the Lady Mary Daughter to James D. of York our late Renowned Queen dit 1694 This Day his Majesty was pleased to create the Marquiss of Caermarthen Duke of Leeds the Earl of Bedford Duke of Bedford the Earl of Devonshire Duke of Devonshire the Earl of Clare Duke of Newcastle and the Viscount Newport Earl of Bradford  May  11. 1. 1689 Admiral Herbert having notice that the French Fleet was sailed towards Ireland steered his Course that way and fought them in Bantry-Bay and tho the French had 28 Men of War and 5 Fireships and that the English had but 19 yet the French Admiral finding the Place too hot stood further into the Bay and left the Honour of the Day to the English dit 1691 Maj. Wood having notice that the Rapparees were in great Bodies about Brittas in the Queen's County in Ireland he went out with 300 of my Lord George Hamilton's and Colonel Lloyd's Foot and 50 of Colonel Byerly's Horse with which he first killed near seventy Rapparees and leaving part of his Men to secure several Passes he went three Miles further beyond a Place called the Tougher of Malahone having with him one hundred and ten Foot and thirty Horse but instead of the Rapparees whom he only expected he discover'd about 800 Men of the Irish Army divided into two Bodies notwithstanding the great Inequality in number he encountred them and after several Charges put them to the rout killing 150 on the Place amongst whom were one Captain Schales and two Lieutenants Major John Fitzpatrick who commanded the Party was taken Prisoner with 17 Officers more 6 Sergeants 16 Corporals 2 Drummers a Chirurgeon and 80 private Sentinels We lost in that brave Action but a Corporal and a Trooper with 2 Foot Souldiers and Lieutenant Robinson wounded dit 1696 Signior Soranzo and Venier Ambassadors Extraordinary from the State of Venice had their publick Audience of the King with the following Ceremonies The Earl of Denbigh and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies with 6 Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber received them at the House where they were entertained by his Majesty's Appointment and conducted in his Majesty's Coach followed by their own and a great many other Coaches with 6 Horses apiece and attended with a numerous Retinue to the Audience of his Majesty in the Banqueting-house at Whitehall with all the Ceremonies and Honours that are usual on the like Occasions About nine at Night they took their Leaves privately of the King at Kensington and his Majesty knighted Signior Soranzo the eldest of the Ambassadors as has been practised by his Majesty's Predecessors   There was a great Council at Kensington where the King declar'd his Intention of setting out the next Day for Holland and that he had appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Summers Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Earl of Pembroke Lord Privy Seal the Duke of Devonshire Lord Steward of his Majesty's Houshold the Duke of Shrewsbury one of the Principal Secretaries of State the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold and the Lord Godolphin first Commissioner of the Treasury to be Lords Justices of England for the Administration of the Government during his Majesty's Absence   His Majesty was pleased to create Sir John Lowther of Lowther a Baron and Viscount of this Kingdom by the Title of Baron of Lowther and Viscount Lonsdale   Sir John Thompson was created at the same time Baron of Haversham in the County of Bucks and Sir Thomas Littleton was constituted one of the Lords of the Treasury 12. 2. 1691 His Majesty being resolved to command the Confederate Army in Person this Summer embarked this Day at Harwich for Holland being attended by a Squadron of Men of War under the Command of Rear Admiral Rook and the next Day landed at Oranje Polder dit 1688 The Prince designing to sit out a Fleet for his Expedition into England and the Consent of the Province of Holland being necessary for it his Highness acquainted their Deputies with it who unanimously consented thereunto and told the Prince that tho they did not see the necessity of such an Equipment in time of Peace yet they were throughly satisfied that his Highness would not put the States to so great a Charge unless it were absolutely necessary for their Safety dit 1696 His Majesty left Kensington this Morning intending to embark at Margate for Holland dit 1692 Sir George Treby was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Sir John Summers Attorney General 13. 3. 1695 The King came to the House of Lords to give the Royal Assent to several Acts and having made a gracious Speech to both Houses the Lord Keeper prorogued them to the 18th of June   His Majesty declar'd in Council the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Keeper the Earl of Pembrook the Duke of Devonshire the Duke of Shrewsbury the Earl of Dorset and the Lord Godolphin Lords Justices of England for the Administration of the Government during his Absence   The same Day his Majesty was pleased to constitute the Right Honourable Sir William Trumball formerly Envoy extraordinary to the Court of France and Ambassador to Constantinople one of his Majesty's principal Secretaties of State who accordingly took the usual Oaths in Council 14. 4. 1692 Their Majesties Fleet being fitted up with an incredible Diligence by the Care and Application of Admiral Russell the
three Hours and the English Captain was kill'd but Robert Sincock the Boatswain having taken upon him the Command of the Ship there being no Lieutenant on board continued the Engagement with such Bravery that the two French Men of War were taken and brought into Plymouth 23. 13. 1696 This Day Peter Cook Esq Son to Sir Miles Cook was tried at the Old Baily for conspiring with Sir William Parkins Sir John Friend Charnock the Earl of Ailesbury and several other Traitors the Subversion of the Government by a French Army It was fully proved that he was at the Meeting wherein it was resolved to send Charnock into France to propose the sending over of an Army and resolved to join them at their Landing whereupon the Jury â—ound him guilty and he receiv'd Sentence of Death as the â—aw directs in such Cases dit 1695 The King set sail from the Buoy of the Nore for Holland attended by a Squadron of Men of War commanded by Sir â—â—eorge Rook. 24. 14. 1690 The Garison of Charlemont consisting of about 800 Men having capitulated the 12th Instant marched out this Day in the Presence of the Duke of Schomberg   The same Day Colonel Woolsley took a strong Castle called Ballingargy with the Loss of 47 Men and 43 wounded dit 1695 The King landed at Oranje Polder and arrived at the Hague where he was received with great Acclamations of Joy 25. 15. 1689 This Day the King went on board the Elizabeth at Portsmouth where he was most splendidly entertained at Dinner by Admiral Herbert His Majesty was pleased to declare then his Royal Intention of confirming the Title and Dignity of an Earl of this Kingdom upon the said Admiral and knighted Capt. John Ashby and Cloudesly Shovel and to incourage the Seamen his Majesty was pleased to bestow upon such of them who were in the late Engagement with the French at Bantry-Bay a Donative of 10 Shillings a Man dit 1692 The Fleet riding at St. Helens waiting only for a favourable Wind to go in quest of the French Admiral Russell acquainted the Flag-Officers and others that he had received a Letter from the Queen wherein her Majesty was pleased to tell him that she was informed that there was a false and malicious Report spread abroad that some of the Officers of the Fleet were disaffected and that she had ordered the Discharge of many of them from their Employments but that she was satisfied that this Report was raised by the Enemies of the Government and that she reposed so entire a Confidence in their Fidelity and Zeal that she was resolved not to displace any one of them Whereupon they made a very Loyal Address which was immediately sent up and presented to the Queen by the Lords of the Admiralty 26. 16. 1689 This Day the King was pleased to create Frederick Count de Schomberg late Mareschal of France General of his Majesty's Forces Master General of the Ordnance and one of the Privy Council a Baron Earl Marquiss and Duke of the Kingdom of England by the Name and Title of Baron Teyes Earl of Brentford Marquiss of Harwich and Duke of Schomberg dit 1692 A Proclamation was published this Day declaring that the Parliament which was to sit the 24th Instant shall be further prorogued to the 14th of June their Sitting being not judged necessary because of our Fleet being then at Sea in a condition to oppose the designed Descent of the French   At the same time a Declaration of the late King James was dispersed both in London and the Country containing a great many fair Promises and a general Pardon to his former Subjects some few excepted and amongst others the poor Fisherman Hunt of Feversham who there stopp'd King James when he was going for France 1688. dit 1695 This Day the Parliament of Scotland signed an Address of Condolence to the King upon the Death of that incomparable Princess the late Queen Mary a Loss as they express it that can never be too much nor too long lamented 27. 17. 1692 Admiral Russell sailed this Morning from St. Helens with the English and Dutch Fleet under his Command in order to fight the French Fleet commanded by Count Tourville which had been for some Days in the Channel   The King having Advice that the French King had caused Namur to be invested the 25th in the Morning and the Mareschal de Luxemburgh was posted at Gemblours to cover the Siege His Majesty deâ—amped from Diogem with the Confederate Army and marched towards Lovain to endeavour to relieve the Place 28. 18. 1658 A Painter who pretended to Prophecy drew the Prince of Orange's Picture with 3 Crowns upon his Head The Picture is still to be seen at the Hague dit 1689 A Proclamation was published this Day for prohibiting the Importation or retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of France 29. 19. 1692 About three in the Morning the Scouts of the English and Dutch Fleet commanded by Admiral Russell made the Signal that they discovered the Enemy about 7 Leagues off Cape Barfleur The French who had the Weather-gage bore down to the Allies and engaged at some Distance about 11 a Clock The Fight continued till half an Hour past five in the Evening the Britannia on board which was Admiral Russel and the Royal Sun the Admiral of France being then within less than Musquet-shot distance The French finding the Place too hot towed away with all their Boats and the English and Dutch after them About 6 there was a fresh Engagement between the Blew Squadron and the French which lasted not long It was calm all the Night and the French took the Opportunity of a great Fog to tow away their Ships and run away Three French Ships blew up in the Engagement 30. 20. 1692 The English and Dutch Fleet got sight again of the French Fleet but they could never come up with them nearer than a League and all were forced to come to an Anchor dit 1690 The King came to the House of Lords and gave the Royal Assent to an Act for the Exercise of the Government by the Queen during his Majesty's Absence and to another for reversing the Judgment in a Quo-warranto against the City of London and for restoring the said City to its antient Rights and Privileges dit 1696 Alexander Knightley one of the Conspirators against his Majesty's Person was brought to the King's Bench Bar at Westminster in order to be tried for that horrid Crime but the Prisoner delivered a Paper to the Court owning that he had been concerned both in the Design of assassinating the King and in the intended Invasion of the French and begg'd the Court to intercede with the King for a Pardon 31. 21. 1692 A Conspiracy against the King's Person was discovered in Flanders That Design was carried on by one Chevalier de Grandval a Captain of Dragoons in the French Service and one Dumort a Walloon who had
before to a Committee of the House of Commons who went to Newgate to examine them They were attended by three Jacobite Parsons who were so impudent as to give a full Absolution at the Gallows to those Criminals laying their Hands over their Heads tho they died impenitent of the horrid and hellish Crime they owned themselves guilty of 13. 3. 1696 The English Fleet having been several times forced back from the French Coasts by contrary Winds returned this Day before Calais under the Command of Sir Cloudesly Shovel who ordered Captain Benbow to bombard the Town which he did throwing about 400 Shells into the Town which set it on Fire in three or four Places and burnt several Ships in the Harbour The Enemy made a great Fire upon our Men and yet we had but 3 kill'd and 8 wounded Our Admiral intended to begin afresh the next Morning but he was blown by a violent Storm into the Downs This was done almost in sight of the late King James who since the Discovery of the Conspiracy against King William's Person Febr. 22. continued at Boulogn by Order of the French King in order to make some People believe that their Intended Invasion of England was not grounded upon the Assassination of his Majesty 14. 4. 1675 The Prince of Orange being recovered of a dangerous Distemper the States of Holland send their Deputies to congratulate his Highness upon the same desire him to take a greater Care of his Person and to give them Leave to appoint a Day of Thanksgiving for his Recovery 15. 5. 1675 The Province of Guelderland desired his Highness since he would not accept the Sovereignty of their Province to take on him the Dignity of their Stadtholder and Governour which they had likewise settled upon his Male Posterity for ever which his Highness consented to 16. 6. 1666 The States General of the Seven Vnited Provinces take upon them the Guardianship of the young Prince of Orange and made choice of six Noblemen to take care of his Education This Proceeding of the States was very acceptable to the People who look upon the Princes of the Illustrious House of Orange as their Tutelar Angels 17. 7 169â— This Day a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was opened in the King's Bench at Westminster and the Jury being sworn they found a Bill of Indictment of High Treason against Major Lowick Captain Knightley Brigadeer Rookwood and Cranburne for imagining and designing the Murder and Assassination of the King After which the Grand Jury made a Presentment to the Court that ... Collier Shadrach Cook and ... Snett Clerks did take upon them to pronounce and give Absolution to Sir Will. Parkins and Sir John Friend at the time of their Execution at Tyburn immediately before they had severally delivered a Paper to the Sheriff of Middlesex wherein they have severally endeavour'd to justify the Treasons for which they were justly condemned and executed and that they the said Collier Cook and Snett have thereby countenanced the same Treasons for which the said Sir William Parkins and Sir John Friend have been executed to the great Incouragement of other Persons to commit the like Treasons and to the Scandal of the Church of England established by Law and to the Disturbance of the Peace of the Kingdom whereupon the Court ordered an Indictment to be preferr'd against them for the same 18. 8. 1696 Sadrach Cook and William Snett Clerks were this Day committed to Newgate for Suspicion of High Treason and Treasonable Practices dit 1691 His Majesty was pleased to create the Duke of Zell Knight of the Garter being then at the Hague and as a Mark of particular Kindness he put the Garter about his Leg with his own Royal Hand the Duke of Norfolk assisting to buckle it 19. 9. 1689 This Day the King came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent to an Act for establishing the Coronation Oath to another for Naturalization of the most Noble Prince George of Denmark and settling his Precedence and to another Act for Naturalizing Frederick Count of Schomberg 19. 9. 1696 His Grace the Duke of Ormond was this Day by his Majesty's Command sworn one of the Lords of the Privy Council and accordingly took his Place at the Board 20. 10. 1689 The King was pleased to create his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark and Norway Baron of Ockingham Earl of Kendall and Duke of Cumberland 21. 11. 1689 This Day their Majesties William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England France and Ireland in Westminster-Abbey by the Lord Bishop of London which Ceremony was performed with great Solemnity The Medals of the Coronation had on the Face the Effigies of the King and Queen and on the Reverse Jupiter darting his Thunderbolt at Phaeton with this Motto Ne totus absumatur Orbis To prevent the Ruin of the World or rather of the Liberties of Europe dit 1689 The Committee of the States of Scotland for settling the Government having made their Report and the Grievances and Instrument of Government being read and Histincty considered the whole States except some few that were absent with one Voice declar'd King William and Queen Mary King and Queen of Scotland in the same manner as was done in England and immediately thereafter the States assisted by the Lord Provost and the rest of the new Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh in their Formalities and attended by Lion King at Arms and the Heralds Pursuivants and Trumpets went from the Parliament-House to the Cross and there with great Solemnity Splendor Acclamations and Expressions oâ— Joy proclaimed their Majesties King and Queen of Scotland the Duke of Hamilton the Duke oâ— Queensbury the Marquiss of Athâ—â— and the Marquiss of Douglest and many other Peers being upon the Cross with the Lorâ— Provost and the Magistrates The Evening was conclude with Bonfires c. 21. 11. 1696 Seigniors Soranzo and Veniâ—â— Ambassadors Extraordinary oâ— the Republick of Venice to 〈◊〉 Majesty King William arrived 〈◊〉 London 22. 12. 1689 The House of Commons walked from Westminster to the Banqueting House where they attended their Majesties to congratulate them upon their Coronation dit 1688 The Prince goes to meet the Elector of Saxony at Loo to confer with him about his intended Expedition and the Preparations the French were making to invade Germany 23. 13. 1689 The Convention of Scotland having proclaimed and declared their Majesties William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland a Proclamation was published this Day forbidding the Subjects of that Crown to presume to own or acknowledg the late King James the Seventh for their King or obey accept or assist any Commissions that may be emitted from him or any ways to correspond with him forbidding likewise to presume upon their highest Peril by Word Writing in Sermons or any other manner of Way to impugn or disown the Royal Authority of William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland 24. 14.
1674 The Prince of Orange arrived this Day at Vtrecht to compose some Difference in the Town where he was received with all imaginable Respect the Burghers appearing on that Occasion in Arms. His Highness thought fit to remove the old Magistrates and choose new ones which was very acceptable to the Inhabitants and ended all the Troubles of that City 25. 15. 1689 Admiral Herbert with the Fleet under his Command appears before Kingsale whereupon Colonel Mackillicut Governor of the Place prepared to retire thinking that it was the French Fleet which pursuant to an Agreement between King James and the French King was coming to take Possession of that Town 26. 16. 1696 This Day being appointed for a General and Solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his great Goodness and Mercy in discovering and delivering his Majesty from the late Horrid and Barbarous Conspiracy of Papists and other Traiterous Persons to Assassinate and Murder his Majesty's Sacred Person and from an Invasion intended by the French upon this Kingdom whereby not only the Destruction of his Majesty's Royal Person was plotted and intended but also the total Subversion of the Government and of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom the same was religiously observed in the Cities of London and Westminster with great Marks of Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty and his Government and at Night there were Illuminations Bonfires and other publick Rejoicings sutable to the Occasion 27. 17. 1696 The King constituted the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon and the Earl of Radnor Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cornwal 28. 18. 1689 The Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury Principal Secretary of State was this Day constituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Worcester dit 1690 Sir Cloudesly Shovel in his Majesty's Ship the Monk the Monmouth Yacht and a Fireship came to an Anchor in Dublin-Bay and having discovered a Ship a Mile within the Bar Sir Cloudesly Shovel being on Board the Monmouth went over the Bar with the Pinnace of the Man of War and a Ketch whereupon the said Ship removed a Mile higher and ran a-ground within a Musket-shot of a French Man of War of 12 Guns and 2 or 3 English Ships that lay a-ground silled with Soldiers who sired briskly at Sir Cloudesly However the English attacked her and after some Dispute having observed that Sir Cloudesly had made a Signal for a Fireship the Enemy â—â—rsook their Ship and get away in their Boats The English got her off but in their return oâ—â— of their Boats run aground whereupon the late King James with his Guards and many People came upon the Shore but the English who stood in their Boats made so vigorous a Defence that the Irish durst not come near them The Ship that was taken was called the Pelican the biggest of two Scots Frigats the French had taken the Year before and carried 20 Guns 29. 19. 1689 The Earl of Dundee having absented himself from Edinburgh without Leave of the Convention the States sent 200 Horse after him and ordered the Country People to seize him The Duke of Gourdon persisting in his Resolution of holding Edinburgh Castle for the late King James and Major General Mackay being ordered to besiege it two Batteries of Cannon and Mortars were raised this Day against it The States appoint also the Colonels of Six new Regiments raised in their Name 30. 20. 1692 The Elector Palatine having remained two or three Days at Loo with his Majesty went away this Day for Dusseldorp assuring the King that he would give immediate Orders to his Troops to be in a Readiness to march whither and when his Majesty should command May.   ◠21. 1696 This Day Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne having been indicted for High Treason for Conspiring to Assassinate his Majesty were brought to their Trials at the King's Bench Bar Each of them had a Copy of their Indictment and two Counsel to plead for them The Evidence for the King was very clear and full and it was plainly proved that the late K. James employed several Persons to act under Sir George Barclay in the intended Assassination of his Majesty and sent them over to England for that Purpose The Prisoners had nothing material to say in their own Defence and so the Jury found them guilty of High Treason 2. 22. 1696 Robert Lowick indicted for High Treason for Conspiring to Assassinate his Majesty was this Day brought to his Trial at the King's Bench Bar and the Matters charged against him being fully proved the Jury found him guilty of High Treason and â—e Rookwood and Cranburne condemned the Day before had the Judgment pronounced against them which is usual in Cases of High Treason dit 1691 The King was pleased in Consideration of the many good and acceptable Services of Mainhardt Count of Schomberg and the late Duke of Schomberg his Father to create him Baron of Mullingar Earl of Bangor and Duke of Leinster in the Kingdom of Ireland dit 1673 The Prince of Orange set out from the Hague to view all the Towns and Fortresses of Holland 3. 23. 1695 This Day came Advice that Captain Killegrew in the Plymouth and five other English Frigats being a cruising in the Channel of Maltha met with two French Men of War viz. the Trident of 64 Guns and the Content of 54 Captain Killegrew engag'd them alone for a considerable time and being joined by another Frigat obliged the French to surrender and brought them to Messina 4. 24. 1689 This Day the States of Scotland named the Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery of Skelmerley and Sir John Dalrymple their Commissioners to go for England to offer the Crown of Scotland to their Majesties 5. 25. 1689 Their Majesties taking into their most serious Consideration the deplorable Condition of the French Protestants issued out this Day the following Proclamation in their Behalf   William R.   WHereas it has pleased God Almighty to deliver the Realm of England and the Subjects thereof from the Persecution lately threatning them for their Religion and from the Oppression and Destruction which the Subversion of their Laws and the Arbitrary Exercise of Power and Dominion over them had very near introduced We finding in our Subjects a true and just Sense thereof and of the Miseries and Oppressions the French Protestants lie under for their Relief and to incourage them that shall be willing to transport themselves their Families and Estates into this our Kingdom We do hereby declare that all French Protestants that shall seek their Refuge in and transport themselves into this our Kingdom shall not only have our Royal Protection for themselves Families and Estates within this our Realm but we will also do our Endeavour in all reasonable Ways and Means so to support aid and assist them in their several and respective Trades and ways of Livelihood as that their living and
Men of War sailed this Day from the Buoy of the Nore to join the Dutch in the Downs and the same Day the Earl of Portland arriv'd from Holland with sive Men of War and two Fireships and brought an Account that the late King James had drawn a Body of Forces at the Hogue to make a Descent upon England but that they were not embarked 15. 5. 1692 The Kingdom being threatned with a powerful Invasion from abroad the late K. James with near 20000 Men being ready to embark at the Hogue and Count Tourville being in the Channel with the French Fleet to protect them the Queen put out a Proclamation requiring the Attendance of both Houses of Parliament on the 24th of this Instant and her Majesty ordered all the Forces of the Kingdom to be drawn together at Petersfield hear Portsmouth under the Command of the Duke of Leinster The Lords Lieutenants of the Counties bordering on the Sea received also Directions to raise the Militia and all other imaginable Precautions were taken to prevent the Design of the Enemy The King being then abroad with the greatest part of the Standing Forces there appeared a great Consternation but the Queen reviv'd the Spirits of the whole Nation by the great Courage and Prudence she expressed in that nice Juncture dit 1696 The King went on board the Elizabeth in Margate-Road and sailed for Holland 16. 6. 1695 The King declared this Day that he had thought fit to appoint Henry Lord Capel to be Lord Deputy of Ireland dit 1694 The King embarked this Day at Margate for Holland being attended by 8 Dutch Men of War 17. 7. 1689 The House of Commons having desired his Majesty to take into Consideration the many Incroachments of France upon Great Britain and our Neighbours and to declare War against the French King assuring him that the House would support him to carry on the same with Vigour a Declaration of War was published this Day And because the French have had the Impudence to say that we declar'd War against them without any Cause I think sit to transcribe the said Declaration   William R.   IT having pleased God Almighty to make us the happy Instruments of rescuing these Nations from great and imminent Dangers and to place us upon the Throne of these Kingdoms we think our selves obliged to endeavour to the uttermost to promote the Welfare of our People which can never be effectually secured but by preventing the Miseries that threaten them from abroad   When we consider the many unjust Methods the French King has of late Years taken to gratify his Ambition that he has not only invaded the Territories of the Emperor and of the Empire now in Amity with us laying waste whole Countries and destroying the Inhabitants by his Armies but declar'd War against our Allies without any Provocation in manifest Violation of the Treaties confirm'd by the Guaranty of the Crown of England We can do no less than join with our Allies in opposing the Designs of the French King as the Disturber of the Peace and the Common Enemy of the Christian World   And besides the Obligations we lay under by Treaties with our Allies which are a sufficient Justification of us for taking up Arms at this time since they have called upon us so to do the many Injuries done to us and to our Subjects without any Reparation by the French King are such that however of late Years they were not taken notice of for Reasons well known to the World nevertheless We will not pass them over without a publick and just Resentment of such Outrages   It is not long since the French took Licences from the English Governour of Newfound-land to fish in the Seas upon that Coast and paid a Tribute for such Licences as an Acknowledgment of the sole Right of the Crown of England to that Island and yet of late the Incroachments of the French upon our said Island and our Subjects Trade and Fishery have been more like the Invasions of an Enemy than becoming Friends who enjoyed the Advantages of that Trade only by Permission   But that the French King should invade our Charibbee Islands and possess himself of our Territories of the Province of New-york and of Hudsons-Bay in a hostile manner seizing our Forts burning our Subjects Houses and inriching his People with the Spoil of their Goods and Merchandises detaining some of our Subjects under the Hardship of Imprisonment causing others to be inhumanely kill'd and driving the rest to Sea in a small Vessel without Food and Necessaries to support them are Actions not becoming even an Enemy and yet he was so far from declaring himself so that at that very time he was negotiating here in England by his Ministers a Treaty of Neutrality and good Correspondence in America   The Proceedings of the French King against our Subjects in Europe are so notorious that we shall not need to enlarge upon them his countenancing the Seisure of English Ships by French Privateers forbidding the Importation of great part of the Product and Manufactures of our Kingdom and imposing exorbitant Customs upon the rest notwithstanding the great Advantages he and the French Nation reap by their Commerce with England are sufficient Evidences of his Designs to destroy the Trade and consequently to ruin the Navigation upon which the Wealth and Safety of this Nation very much depend   The Right of the Flag inherent in the Crown of England has been disputed by his Orders in violation of our Soveraignty of the Narrow Seas which in all Ages has been asserted by our Predecessors and we are resolved to maintain for the Honour of our Crown and of the English Nation   But that which most nearly touches us is his unchristian Persecution of many of our English Protestant Subjects in France for Matters of Religion contrary to the Law of Nations and express Treaties forcing them to abjure their Religion by strange and unusual Cruelties and imprisoning some of the Masters and Seamen of our Merchant-Ships and condemning others to the Gallies upon pretence of having on board either some of his own miserable Protestant Subjects or their Effects And lastly as he has for some Years last past endeavoured by Insinuations and Promises of Assistance to overthrow the Government of England so now by open and violent Methods and the actual Invasion of our Kingdom of Ireland in Support of our Subjects in Arms and in Rebellion against us he is promoting the utter Extirpation of our good and loyal Subjects in that our Kingdom   Being therefore thus necessitated to take up Arms and relying on the Help of Almighty God in our just Undertaking we have thought fit to declare and do hereby declare War against the French King and that we will in conjunction with our Allies vigorously prosecute the same by Sea and Land since he has so unrighteously begun it
not a mind to serve such Masters then stand not by and see your Country-men perish when they are endeavouring to defend you   I promise this on my Word of Honour to every Tenant that goes along with me that if he fall I will make his Lease as good to his Family as it was when he went from home The thing then which I desire and your Country does expect from you is this that every Man that has a tolerable Horse or can procure one will meet me on Boden-Downs to Morrow where I rendezvouze but if any of you is rendred unable by reason of Age or any other just Excuse then that he would mount a fitter Person and put five Pounds in his Pocket Those that have not nor cannot procure a Horse let them stay at home and assist with their Purses and send it to me with a Particular of every Man's Contribution I impose on no Man but let him lay his Hand on his Heart and consider what he is willing to give to recover his Religion and Liberty and to such I promise and to all that go along with me that if we prevail I will be as industrious to have him recompensed for his Charge and Hazard as I will be to seek it for my self This Advice I give to all that stay behind that when you hear the Papists have committed any Outrage or any Rising that you will get together for it is better to meet the Danger than expect it I have no more to say but that I am willing to lose my Life in the Cause if God see it good for I never was unwilling to die for my Religion and Country   This excellent Speech I mention because of the Effect it had on the People for a great Number of Men repaired the next Day to my Lord Delamere on Boden-Downs and followed his Lordship 27. 17. 1688 The Archbishop of Canterbury with 12 Temporal and 6 other Spiritual Lords waited this Day upon King James with an humble Petition beseeching his Majesty to call a Free Parliament with all speed for redressing the Grievances of the Nation and in the mean time to use all possible Means to prevent the Effusion of Christian Blood The King answered them that what they asked of him he did most passionately desire and promised them upon the Faith of a King that he would call such a Parliament as soon as the Prince had quitted England pretending that otherwise it was impossible that a Parliament should be free in all its Circumstances This Answer was not satisfactory to the People who discovered thereby an invincible Aversion in King James to a Free Parliament and as to his Promise he had broke his Word too often to be trusted and therefore every one concluded that there was no other way left but to join with the Prince to obtain what Justice ought to have obliged King James to do dit 1688 The same Day in the Afternoon the King left the City and with his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went to Windsor and the next day towards Salisbury where his Army was arrived under the Command of the Earl of Feversham He appointed the Privy Council to meet in his Absence for the Dispatch of all Affairs as Occasion should require 28. 18.  29. 19. 1688 King James arrived at Salisbury being met about a Mile from the Town by the Earl of Feversham General of his Forces the Duke of Berwick Sir John Fenwick and other Officers 30. 20. 1688 This Day happen'd a Rencounter at Wincannon between a Party of the Prince's Army consisting of about 30 Men of Mackay's Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Cambell and a Party of 50 Dragoons and Granadeers and 70 Horse of King James's commanded by Colonel Sarsfield where notwithstanding the Inequality of the Numbers the former fought with that desperate Bravery that it struck a Terror into the Minds of King James's Army Sarsfield retired in great Precipitation hearing from a Miller's Man that the Dutch were near him I would not have mentioned this trifling thing were it not the first Action between the two Armies December   1. 21. 1688 The English Fleet commanded by the Lord Dartmouth which was sailed to the Westward to observe the Dutch Fleet was this Day forced back to Spithead by very tempestuous Weather 2. 22. 1688 This Day King James put out a Proclamation of Pardon for such of his Subjects who had taken up Arms against him and joined with the Prince of Orange in a most unnatural Invasion but this Pardon was regarded by no body and slighted by such whom he had a mind to recal The Reader may observe here that unnatural Invasion was the constant Expression they made use of to signify his Highness's Design dit  The same Day the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of the Northern Counties of England being assembled in Arms at Nottingham made a Declaration to inform their Protestant Fellow Subjects of the Grounds of their Undertaking wherein they declare that the very Fundamentals of our Religion Liberties and Properties are about to be routed by the King 's Jesuitical Privy Council as was too apparent 1. By the King's dispensing with all the established Laws at his Pleasure 2. By displacing all Officers out of all Offices of Trust and Advantage and placing others in their room that are known Papists deservedly made incapable by the established Laws of the Land 3. By destroying the Charters of most Corporations 4. By discouraging all Persons that are not Papists and preferring such as turn to Popery 5. By displacing all honest and conscientious Judges unless they would contrary to their Conscience declare that to be Law which was merely Arbitrary 6. By branding all Men with the Name of Rebels that offered but to justify the Laws in a legal Course against the Arbitrary Proceedings of the King or any of his corrupt Ministers 7. By burdening the Nation with an Army to maintain the Violation of the Rights of the Subjects and by discountenancing the established Religion 8. By forbidding the Subjects the Benefit of petitioning and construing them Libellers so rendring the Laws a Nose of Wax to serve their Arbitrary Ends. They conclude afterwards that not being willing to deliver their Posterity over to such a Condition of Popery and Slavery as the aforesaid Oppressions do inevitably threaten they will to the utmost of their Power oppose the same by joining with the Prince of Orange whom God Almighty had sent to rescue the Nation from the aforesaid Oppressions And to prevent their being branded with the Name of Rebels they declare they own it Rebellion to resist a King that governs by Law but that he was always accounted a Tyrant that made his Will the Law and to resist such an one they justly esteem no Rebellion but a necessary Defence dit 1688 The Prince of Orange having sufficiently refreshed his Army at Exeter decamped this Day and marched towards Salisbury where K.