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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04192	The French Kings new declaration (being his publick manifesto in vindication of himself and the late King James from being any ways aiding, assisting or privy to the late intended assassination of King William.) / Translated from the original at Paris.	France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV); Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1696 (1696)	Wing L3132A; ESTC R180086	3,658	4

THE French Kings New DECLARATION Translated from the ORIGINAL at Paris Being his Publick MANIFESTO in Vindication of Himself and the late King James from being any ways Aiding Assisting or Privy to the late intended ASSASSINATION of King WILLIAM WHereas by Our Advice from England We have received Information of an Intended Assassination design'd upon the Person of the Prince of Orange and That the false and scandalous Suggestions of Our Enemies have industriously endeavoured to insinuate That Our Self and Our Dearest Brother James King of Great Britain have been Aiders and Abettors to the said Assassination at which We are the less surprized as being but highly sensible that the Lustre of the Great is but too often shaded by Slander and Detraction from the Mouths of Malice and Envy Nevertheless to dispel that Empty Cloud We think Our Selves obliged in Right to Our Traduced and Injured Honour to Publish this following Declaration And that the Guarrantee of Our Royal Word Our present Onely Vindication may carry its just Weight and obviate all that Spight or Obstinancy may or shall object against that Vnquestion'd Authority We think fit First to Remonstrate what constant Veneration We have ever Paid to Our Vows and Protestations such as Our Publick Oaths against Infringing the EDICT of NANTS and Our no less Publick Sacrament at the High-Altar against all INVASION of FLANDERS As Our constant well-known Tenderness therefore for the Peace of Christendom abroad and the Conservation of the Rights Religion and Liberties of Our Protestant Subjects at Home both so Sworn and so Performed stand the ever Living Monuments of Our Inviolable FAITH So We have no Reason to fear that the Misdoubts of our Foes or the Jealousies of Europe with any shadow of Justice should dipute the Honour and Integrity of Our present Royal Word on this humbler Occasion when in a more Important Cause under those Higher fore-mentioned Obligations of Oaths and Sacraments We have so Gloriously Signalized Our Vnshaken Veracity Directly and Indirectly We therefore Declare WE are those utter Strangers to this Murtherous Design as indeed Bloodshed has always been Our greatest Detestation That First to right Our Vnhappy Brother of England whom it more nearly touches Our Greatness and Reputation being above the reach of Calumny that it is altogether so impossible for Him even in a Wish or Thought to assent to so Barbarous an Assassination that on the contrary he dares in so vile a Condescension no more violate His Royal Honour than He durst His Royal Faith Even the very Breach of a Coronation Oath is not His greater Abhorrence Insomuch that He Publickly Declares He equally Shrinks at This as He has always Trembled at That And for the further clearing Both Our Royal Names from that hideous Imputation It is not only inconsistent both with the Characters and Professions of the Great Lewis and James the Iust but even contrary to our very Natures 'T is Baseness and Cowardice dare only stoop to a Shameful Act when true Bravêry and true Courage even start at the Horrour of It. Can WE whose Whole Lives have been one Scene of Glory Nurst up to hardy Virtue Bred in Camps that have Faced Death and Dangers in their nearest and hottest Front Marcht always Foremost in the Boldest Van of Honeur Led Our own Battles Fought Our own Fields and only with Our own Personal Valour Planted all our Groves of Lawrels Can WE consent WE to this vile Stroke No 't is a Work a Task a Villany for Slaves and Vagrants And if 't is possible a King can stoop so Low 't is only the Crown'd-Head with the Poor Spirited Soul the Mars ad opus Veneris that hears his own Martial Thunder only at the Safe Distance of a Danaes Arms Tyrants who break through all Laws Perjurers that break through all Oaths and Sacraments NEROE'S that only Sing to Groans Conslagrations These are the Hands and Hearts for such an Undertaking Nay for a yet more particular Vindication of Our Injured Brother of England He declares himself so far even in his common Principles of Humanity from Aiding Abetting or Arming a Cut-Throat an Assassinate a Massacrer or any such Wolfe or Blood-Hound that His whole Four Years Raign has amply Confuted that Malicious Aspersion witness his Generous Hibernian Reformation under His ever Sacred Representative TYRCONNEL the truest Image of the Britannick Majesty who instead of continuing the Sword the Power and Trust in dangerous Unconfiding Hands He conferr'd the Gentler Reins of Sway to those Tenderer Native Favourites those ever celebrated Sons of Mercy Children of Peace that truly Venomless Race so Canonized for Saints in his Great Fathers Raign That this single Testimony alone must confront all the Snarls of Defamation and every Hissing Snake against Him and too notoriously testify That neither a Poinyard a Stiletto a Butcher or a Ruffian yet ever were or ever shall be his Encouragement or Protection Insomuch that to summ up his whole Compurgation He Avows from his Heart and desires the World to Believe Him That any thing that touches his Honour is a Point so Nice that he would handle it with the very same Tenderness as he would a Colledge a Bishop a Charter or any thing yet Dearest and Nearest to him But if the Infidel World either obstinately will not or poorly dare not believe our own Royal Protestations That Treachery and Baseness are Our vilest Scorn WE call the very Powers above for Our great Attestators Our St. Coleman and St. Granville the Immortal Witnesses of Our never Dying Renown Having thus amply asserted and evinced Our whole Royal Integrity and Combated and Conquered the whole Rancour of Malice it self nevertheless WE acknowledge We had design'd and purposed an Invasion of England and that in no less Cause than Our Brothers Restauration and for that and that Only Great End We had firmly Resolved the Attacquing of the Prince of Orange in his Winter Camp And here We farther Declare In all the Measures and Movements taken and made in and towards that Design WE were so far from any Clandestine or Unprincely Steps or Advances that on the contrary WE purposed nothing less than all the Fair Hostility of an Open and Generous Enemy so Fair that from Nostrodamus his Propheticks and some other Gallick Prognosticks of Our Success WE had already Before Hand Blazoned Our whole Triumph and Glory in Medals of Gold having resolved to give that Ecce magnus Ahsalon the very same Honourable Personal Treatment as WE have already done in Effigie And here to silence another too popular Jealousy We likewise firmly Declare That the said Invasion of England was so far from any Private or Sinister Ambition of Our Own But only Our Free and Voluntary Service of Our Exiled Brother His Britannick Majesty that on the contrary to take off all Umbrage of any such Suspicion the very Forces VVE lent Him were wholly composed of Our own Native Veteranes Our ever Tryed ever Faithful and