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A50977	A view of the court of St. Germain from the year 1690, to 95 with an account of the entertainment Protestants meet with there : directed to the malecontents Protestants of England.	Macky, John, d. 1726.	1696 (1696)	Wing M221; ESTC R11112	11,198	31

Court but also from the Town of St. Germain to avoid the daily Insults of the Priests and the dreaded Consequences of the Jealousies with which they possest't King James's Court against him Dr. Gordon a Bishop of Scotland the only Protestant Divine that then was there met with a worse Treatment still than Dr. Granvile and was reduced to the necessity of abjuring his Religion for want of Bread with which he could not be Supplied but upon those hard terms However K. James being sensible that such an usage would prejudice his Interest in Britain resolved to prevent the coming of any Protestant Divine there and therefore sent Mr. Macqueen in Company of Major Scot into England who brought Letters from him to his Friends in which he required them to trouble him no more with Divines as Messengers This bad Success did not altogether discourage the Protestant Party they made a second effort upon the Constitution of the before-mentioned Council of Five to have one of the number at least a Protestant They insisted upon the Advantages which might thence redound to his Majesties Affairs in Britain and for that end did earnestly recomend my Lord Chief Justice Herbert as a Person both well qualified to give Advice in English Affairs and of an unspoted reputation in his Country Those reasons where so convincing that the Irish fearing they would obtain their demand an Information was trumped up against the chief Justice by Mr. Comptroller Skelton and Sir William Sharp of having said that King James's violent Temper would ruin himself and all that followed him My Lord owned the Words but made so ingenious an Explanation of his meaning which was in relation to the Act of Settlement in Ireland that King James was satisfied The Irish having missed their Aim formed a short time after another Plot against him and charged him of corresponding with the English and mis-representing the Transactions of that Court whereupon he and a worthy Lady with whom he boarded were confined and Broomfield the Quaker committed to the Bastile And thus was this Lord Chief Justice for no other reason but his adhering to a Protestant Interest excluded from all share of management of Affairs in King James's Court tho his Capacity and Sufferings were sufficient in the Eyes of all reasonable Men to have intitled him to a share in that Prince's Favour and Secret If my Lord Chief Justice Herbert was so used I would fain know upon what ground any of our Jacobites should flatter himself of a better Treatment Mr. Cockburn of Lanton in the Kingdom of Scotland was the next Protestant that had Merit and Favour enough to pretend to a share in the management of King James's Affairs This Gentleman having followed him in Ireland was taken at Sea after the Battle of the Boyn and brought Pisoner to London but a Proposal being made of Exchanging him for Captain St. Lo then Prisoner in France he was inlarged and during his abode here did so ingratiate himself with the most considerable of the disaffected Protestants that he was recommended by them to King James as a Person fit to serve him in the Affairs of greatest Trust He was no sooner arived at St. Germain that he told that Prince his Friends in England thought that my Lord Melford who was then returned from Rome was a great Grievance and ought to be laid aside and that the only way for the King to procure the good Opinion of his Subjects in Britain and reconcile them to him was to put the management of his Affairs in Protestants Hands This prudent Advice of the disaffected Protestants of England or of Mr. Cockburn had an effect quite contrary to what they expected King James took it so ill that in few days after an Order was procured from the French Court commanding him to depart France under severe Penalties being too much a Friend to the English Interest Mr. Cockburn was forced to obey and has lived as an Exile in Holland and Hamburg ever since But the Submission of the Scotch Highlanders afford us still some more convincing Proofs of King James's hatred for the Protestant Religion and of his Ingratitude towards such who had made a Sacrifice of all that can be dear to Men to Support his sinking Fortune in Scotland The Lords Dumferling Dundee Dunkel Colonels Cannon Graham and several others Protestants having forfeited their Estates and Families retired into France as also did the Colonels Buchan Maxwell Wauchop and some other Popish Gentlemen but when they came to St. Germain the Papists were immediatly preferred to considerable Posts both in the French and Irish Armies while the Protestants tho their Merit was greater were exposed to all imaginable hardship and contempts My Lord Dumferling and Colonel Cannon are too Illustrious Examples of King James's Ungratitude to be here past by The Earl through a mistaken notion of Loyalty and Honour had Sacrificed his Honourable Family and a plentiful Estate to follow that Prince in his misfortune and it must be granted that such a Proof of Loyalty deserved some kind Returns yet happening to Quarrel at St. Germain with one Captain Brown a Papist about a Trifle the Captain was incouraged and countenanced in his quarrel by the Court and made Commander of a Company of Scots Reformed Officers in Catalonia whilst this Noble Lord was despised for his adhering to his Religion This ill Treatment broke his Heart and he sunk under the Weight of his hard Fate at St. Germain His misfortune lasted longer than his Life for notwithstanding his Merits Sufferings and the Interest made by his Friends he could not obtain a Christian Burial and his Corps was hid in a Chamber till an opportunity was found of Digging a hole in the Fields in the Night where they Thrust him in Nor was Colonel Cannon better used than my Lord Dumferling This Gentleman Commanded as General over King James's Army in Scotland and served him with so much faithfulness that every body thought he would be preferred to a great Command upon his arrival at St. Germain but he positively refusing to abandon the little Religion he had which was Protestant was reduced to the Scandalous Allowance of half a Crown a day whilst Papists who had served under him were advanced to good Posts This unhappy Gentleman finding himself thus neglected fell sick through Grief and Want and died having taken the Sacrament from the Hands of Dr. Granvile three days before his Death but the Priest who were always buzing about him took the oppertunity of his being Speechless to Thrust a Wafer down his Throat and gave out that he was dead a Papist and by this means got him the Favour of Burial which his Corps had else been excluded from as well as my Lord Dumferling's If the Sufferings and great Merits of these two Gentlemen have not been able to Molify King James's Heart and to obtain from him any generous Returns I would fain know upon what Foundation are grounded the

the name of Protestant but if what has already been said is not sufficient sure I am that the rest should be to no purpose What Protestant has he ever so much as seemed to Trust since he lives in France I know that my Lord Middleton must be excepted for indeed King James has a seeming Trust in him There is no Man that has been at St. Germain but must needs perceive that he is not chief Minister as Melford was nor manages Affairs betwixt Versailles and St. Germain that being done by Innes and Porter He is but seldom called to the Council and the French Court has never depended upon his Corrispondence since the disappointment they receive by our Fleets going into the Streights I hope these Instances will convince all good Men that have any Sense of Liberty Religion and Honour how unreasonable it is to be a Jacobite and to think that the Present Misfortunes of King James will Frighten him from Invading our Laws and Liberties in time to come seeing that neither the abandoning of Wives Children and Estates nor the hazarding nay loss of Life in his Service can render him Just and Favourable to such Protestants who have made a Sacrifice of all those things to follow him And if it be so as certainly it is what must those Protestant Nations expect if ever he re-obtains the Government who have renounced him and set another Prince upon his Throne If these who have followed him into France are denied the Exercise of their Religion when his Circumstances make it his Interest to grant it what must we expect if ever he be again in Possession of the Crown My Lord chief Justice Herbert and the other Gentlemen before-named who firmly adhered to his Interests even in his greatest Misfortunes were contemned despised and suffered to Starve because they were Protestants how can we or any Protestant Jacobites who have none of those Merits pretend to be better used If the loss of Honours and Estates has not been sufficient to obtain from him Christian Burial upon what Ground can our Jacobites who have done nothing for him flatter themselves with the hopes of great Preferments if he is reinthroned In short if the Example he had of his Father's Misfortunes and his Brothers Exile wherein he himself was a sharer together with the Sense of his own Misfortunes have not been able to work a Reformation upon him as appears by the above-written Account can we expect that he ever will be made more Plyable The Education of his Prince of Wales whom no body doubts he designs his Successor is is another Instance of his irreconciliable Antipathy to the Protestant Religion and English Liberties One would have thought that Interest as well as Policy would have made him educate his Child a Protestant or at least oblige him to put Protestants about him of unquestioned Reputation to instruct him in the ways of pleasing the People but instead of that Dr. Beeson a famous and violent Papist was made his Preceptor and none but Popish Servants are allowed to be about him so that he can imbibe nothing but what is for the Interest of Rome and Destruction of England Can People be so mad as to expect good terms from a Prince who not only thus Treats his Protestant Subjects who have followed him in his Misfortune but also whose Religion lays him under a Necessity of doing it Could greater Obligations be laid upon any Prince than were upon him by the Church of England when a Subject Her Interest Saved him from being prosecuted for the Popish Plot excluded from the Succession to the English Throne and afterwards dethroned by the Duke of Monmouth yet all those Obligations were no more than his Coronation Oath could not hinder him from invading the Protestant Religion in general but more particularly the Liberties of the Church of England But perhaps some will Object against what I have said that from the Entertainment Protestants meet with at St. Germain 't is not reasonnable to conclude that King James bears still such an aversion to our Religion and Liberties For being himself but a Refugee in France and having nothing to live upon but the Pension the French King allows him it is not in his Power to reward those Protestants who have followed him even not to caress them and therefore we ought rather to Peruse the Declarations he has put out since his being in France for therein we shall find undeniable Proofs that his Misfortunes have much altered his Mind Read will our Jacobites say the Declaration he Published upon his intended Descent from La Hogue and Observe what promises he makes both in relation to our Religion and our Liberties the Sincerity whereof you have no manner of pretence to Question for then thinking himself sure of his Game nothing could oblige him to disguise the true Sentiments of his Heart This is somewhat indeed Gentlemen and were the thing as you say I would agree with you but give me leave to tell you that 't is a great Question whether the Declaration you speak of which was Printed here did really contain King James's Sentiments but whether it was his own Declaration or Sir James Mountgomerie's it does not matter a Pin for his late Majesty did Publickly disown it in a Memorial to the Pope upon his return to Paris and it has been acknowledged in a Jacobite Pamphlet called An Answer to Dr. Wellwood's Answer to King James 's Declaration That the same was formed without his Knowledge and against his Inclination I have told you in the beginning of this Discourse that I believe that there are among you some Conscientious Men and to those I shall say nothing at this time but to such that are Angry with the Government as I know many amongst you are meerly because they cannot have any Imployment under it and who think without any further Examination to better their Condition by a Second Revolution I 'll say that they ought to consider that King James's Popish Friends must be all provided for first of all and pray what will remain then for you For as to Pensions I think you are not so mad as to flatter your selves with such imaginary hopes for the French Army that brings King James over must be paid and their vast Charges for the Irish War and the Maintenance of King James re-imbursed before your beloved Prince be in a condition to express his Favour to you perhaps you will say that the French King is too much a Gentleman to demand any such thing but I don't know what has given you that Noble Idea of his Generosity but supposing his Temper to be such this War will so much drain his Exchequer that Necessity will force him to demand what is so justly owing to him and who shall be able to dispute his Bill of Charges Nay will King James be able to satisfy him I don't know but this I am sure of that as long as you profess the