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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46462	The Late K. James's commission to his privateers to ravage, plunder, burn, sink, and destroy all the ships and goods of the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland : with remarks thereupon.	James II, King of England, 1633-1701. To our trusty and well-beloved, Captain Patrick Lambert.	1692 (1692)	Wing J155A; ESTC R37009	2,355	2

THE LATE K. James's Commission TO HIS PRIVATEERS To Ravage Plunder Burn Sink and Destroy all the Ships and Goods of the People of England Scotland and Ireland With Remarks thereupon James by the Grace of God of England Scotland and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To Our Trusty and Well-Beloved Captain Patrick Lambert KNOW ye That we Reposing Special Trust in your Approved Fidelity and Valour have Assigned Constituted and Appointed you Commander of the Good Frigat called the Providence and further We give you full Power and Authority to enter into any Port or River of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland or any Territories thereunto belonging and either there or at Sea to take and apprehend and in case of any Opposition or Resistance to Sink Burn or otherwise Destroy all Ships and Vessels together with their Goods Lading and Merchandizes belonging to the Inhabitants of England Scotland and Ireland or either of them together with the Ships Goods and Merchandizes of the States of the United Provinces or Their Subjects and to bring and send up all such Ships and Goods as they shall ta●e in●● some Port of France and to procure the same to be adiudged lawful Prize in the next Court of Admiralty established by our Dear Brother the Most Christian King And the Tenths and other Dues arising out of the said Prizes are to be paid to Thomas Stratford or in his absence to Jean Nimport of Brest or to such other Persons as shall have Authority from Us to receive the same Given at Our Court at the Castle of St. Germains c. Signed Melfort This is the Substance of the Commission REMARQUES c. THE Passions and Affections of some People are so unaccountable that it puzles Imagination to conceive how strong a Zeal can arise from so undeserving a Subject of their Veneration For instance not to Treat untenderly with on the Ruines of Majesty nor take up Royal Miscarriages to make Reflections on Greatness in Distress The Publication of this following Commission of the Late King James is not so much intended as an Invective on that unhappy Prince as to express our Admiration at the unfathomable Extravagancies of some over-bigotted Zealots in his Favour We are all sensible that 't is the common Ambition of degraded Princes how justly soever Dethroned to indeavour their own Restauration There is a Chance in a Crown and 't is an extraordinary Resignation that can quit the Pretences to Titles so Great though never so deservingly Forfeited We do not therefore at all wonder at the Irish and French Army prepared for his once intended Descent and Invasion of England nor the early Naval Preparations of the French on that Occasion Such an Expedition on so important an Attempt carried some little Face of Glory in it His very Enemies could not deny but such an Enterprize had been an Ambition we●● 〈◊〉 and had he succeeded he might fairly have written himself James the Conqueror But Gentlemen as bold and gallant Atchievements in the Universal Standard of Honour carry a great Name and which true Greatness possibly has no occasion to be ashamed of Nevertheless there may be those poorer Designs that instead of being either Great or Glorious perhaps may carry the vilest and most abject Face that a much less Character then King James ought to blush at As for Example the foregoing Commission There you 'l find instead of a more warrantable Ambition of recovering Three Kingdoms he poorly descends to grant his Commissions to Privateers to R●fle and Spoil all the Subjects of England Scotland and Ireland indifferently to Burn Sink and Fire their Vessels c. and all this without respect of Persons Interests or Religion The severest Romanist or most violent Jacobite without exception is to he swept in the common Doom So that instead of pretending all his former promis'd Impunity and Tenderness to the People of England or instead of Bravely grappling at his Royal Rival in the Imperial Seat he vilely sumes little less than a common Pyrate Authorizes the Depredations of the English Merchants even by the very hands of Englishmen This last poor Spirited Meanness must either plainly tell us that he has utterly renounced all hopes of recovery of his Kingdoms and so under that Despair he resolves to play at a small Game rather than stand out which indeed is the best Title I can give it and consequently like the Famous Dionysius sumed Pedagogue when he can Scourge Kingdoms no longer he prepares his lesser Rods for a more humble Tyrannick Lash or else that forgetting that he ever was a Monarch and therefore blushing at nothing though never so Unprincely he contents himself with being under Secretary to the French King whilst the little James is but a Subscription to the Greater Lewis The French King deputes him as his Emanuensis to Copy Commissions for hi● and the Contented Receiver o● that high Favour is paid to officiate in the Trust It was remarkt of him that at his first departure from England upon his Transport from Feversham he uttered this Expression That he had rather be a Captain of a Troop of Light Horse under the French King than Raign King of England under the Lash and Controul of Parliaments A Captain of a Troop of Horse is no over-high Post But truely of the two 't is much the more Honourable than the granting of such Commissions But indeed all these tend to the aggrandizing o●●he Freech King the poorer the Subjects of England the stronger the Grand Lewis his inviolable Zeal and Fidelity therefore to that most Christian so titled Nero supercedes all other Considerations and fas aut nefas right or wrong honourable or infamous nothing comes amiss that carries the least shadow of service to that darling Idol One thing is very Remarkable in the Janus Faces of King James's Prete●ces This very Commission found on Board one of the late Prizes was dated at St. Germans the 22d of February which pray observe bearing date before his intended Invasion impours this Privateer to enter into any Port or River of England Scotland or Ireland and commit all those Hostilities of Firing Sinking Burning c. All Traders Vessels whatever at the same time that his Declaration prepared for his Reception in England intimated all the Affection and Tenderness imaginable to the Interests Property and what not of his Subjects of England viz. That he was coming only to recover his own Right Establish and Restore their Laws and Liberties and yet at the same time he gave out Commissions to Waste Ruine and Destroy the most innocent Traders of the Kingdom possibly no ways interested in the Titles and Disputes of Princes in Parties or Causes but on the contrary only endeavouring a peaceable Acquisition of their Dread by their Honest Commerce and Industry London Printed for P. Smart in the Poultry 1692.