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A49683 The Late plot on the fleet, detected with the Jacobites memorial to the French king, and an account of those gentlemen who invited the French fleet to invade our English coasts &c. 1689 (1689) Wing L555; ESTC R24426 5,559 6

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THE LATE Plot on the Fleet Detected WITH The Jacobites Memorial to the French King And an Account of those Gentlemen who Invited the French Fleet to Invade our English Coasts c. TO see the French in a manner Masters at Sea and the English Glory for the present thus sunk in the Eyes of all Christendom by a Complication of Disasters has been the occasion of great Enquiry into the Source and Cause of so important Events If any are so Ignorant as not to know by what means the French of late came to have so much Shipping who but in the days of Queen Elizabeth durst not put a Ship on the Stocks without leave from England let him peruse Andrew Marvel's Growth of Popery and the Secret History of the Two late Reigns and he may be sufficiently informed The design of this Paper is to Characterize briefly the Persons that Invited the French Fleet into the English Channel The King and Queen being no sooner settled in the Throne than the Spirit of Murmuring began to exercise it self on a sort of Gentlemen who had made so great a noise in the World with their Doctrines of Jure Divine and Passive Obedience tho' to any body but those that are wilfully Ignorant the Inviting and Assisting His Majesty against the late King before the Crown was conferred upon him was a greater Invasion of their darling Principles than the Swearing to him and justly Obeying him after He is declared and acknowledged King by the Parliament The first step of Contrivance this part of the Clergy made was the Writing against the taking the new Oaths to their Majesties enjoyn'd them by Act of Parliament and the buzzing into the Ears of their poor Votaries the Unlawfulness of these Oaths and the continuing Right of King James to the Crown This piece of their Artillery it was thought would have done some considerable Execution But alas many of the Gentlemen themselves who had been to perswade others to Refuse the Oaths they could so little digest the loss of their Livings as they chose rather to take these unlawful Oaths as they call'd them than to expose themselves to the least Suffering The next step of the Plot was to Cheat the World and their own Consciences with a ridiculous and foolish distinction of taking the Oaths to a King de facto but not de jure The design of this distinction was first to salve their own Conscience and to vindicate themselves from the Reproaches of their Comrades who had absolutely refused to take the Oaths And secondly To bear it in upon the Minds of the People That their Majesties were not lawful and rightful King and Queen of England but de facto only that is in plain English downright Usurpers This distinction did not only give them scope to take the Oaths to their Majesties but also to Pray for them by Name in their Pulpits But many of more Sincerity than the rest would not Pray for them by Name at all and yet to prevent any trouble from the Law they wisely prayed in general terms for the King and Queen Here was a pretty way of playing fast and loose with God Almighty he might sake it in what sense he pleased These steps of the Plot were to be back'd with another Engine of theirs and that was the publishing to the World the History of Passive Obedience altho most of the Citations of this Pamphlet be far wide of the Question and refer only to Obedience to Majestracy in general and the unlawfulness of private Persons their rising up against the Government upon every frivolous Pretext The next and greatest Engine of their Plot is the happy result of a kind of Occonomick Council of the whole Party The Liturgy of the Church of England must be laid aside and a new one must be Calculated for the Meridian of King James's Tottering Fortune and the greatest wonder of all is That the Council which publish'd this new Liturgy did not usher it in with It seems good to the Holy Ghost and to us In this new Liturgy they insinuate to the World That in effect we 're without King without Priest and without God in the World. A dreadful Doom before a terrible Tribunal None are indeed at this rate within the compass of the Church but this Jacobite-Club and their followers But let us hear the very words of this part of the Liturgy Restore us again say they the publick Worship of thy Name the reverend Administration of thy Sacraments raise up the former Government both in Church and State that we may be no longer without King without Priest and without God in the World. They afterwards proceed to pray for the Prosperity of the Arms of King James and the French King against their Majesties and Government But now I come to the main points of this Noble Contrivance His Majesty from a Noble and Boundless Courage will needs venture His Person once more for the safety of these Kingdoms The King being gone Admiral Killigrew being in the Streights and Sir Clowdesley Shovel in St. George's-Channel and the Holland Squadron not yet joyn'd ours nor ours fully met then was the time for our Plotters to put their long thought-on design in Execution In order to which at one of their General Meetings in London where it was necessary some of the Clergy should be present to Bless so Pious a Work It was concluded to give in a Memorial in the Name of the Loyal and Distressed Subjects of England for so they nam'd themselves to his Most Christian Majesty Humbly Inviting him out of his extraordinary Goodness and for the Affection he always bore to opprest Vertue That he would assist them in restoring Their lawful King His Ancient Ally and Confederate to his Throne and in breaking the Yoak of Usurpation under which these Three Nations were at this time so heavily Groaning But it will be absolutely fit here to insert the very Words of their Memorial it self as it has been discover'd by a certain Person of late and as it was exprest in the French Tongue in which it was Originally written and given in The MEMORIAL is thus To the Most Serene and Most Invincible Prince Lewis the Great his Most Christian Majesty The Memoria of the Loyal and Distrest Noblemen Clergy Gentlemen and others of all Ranks within the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland at present under the Fetters of a Cruel Usurpation Great and Invincible Monarch THe resplended Rays of Your Majesties Virtue● have render'd all the World your Adorers And that Inherent Goodness of which Your Majest● stands so transcendently poss●st d●es render You the only Sanctuary of all the Distrest It 's in the Confid●●●● which this Your Vnparallel'd goodness gives us That we in all humble Duty presume to lay our sighs at Your Majesties feet And that we Implore your Royal Favour and Assistance to rid us of the great and insupportable Afflictions we lye under at present It 's in