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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47227	K. William or K. Lewis wherein is set forth the inevitable necessity these nations lye under : of submitting wholly to one or other of these kings, and that the matter in controversie is not now between K. William and K. James, but between K. William and K. Lewis of France, for the government of these nations / written out of Cheshire by a gentleman lately arriv'd there from Ireland.	Gentleman lately arriv'd there from Ireland.	1689 (1689)	Wing K27; Wing K577; ESTC R18493	6,329	12

K. WILLIAM or K. LEWIS Wherein is set forth The INEVITABLE NECESSITY THESE NATIONS LYE UNDER Of Submitting wholly to One or Other of These KINGS And that the MATTER in CONTROVERSIE Is not now between K. WILLIAM and K. JAMES But between K. WILLIAM and K. LEWIS of France For the Government of These Nations Written out of Cheshire by a Gentleman lately arriv'd there from Ireland London Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCLXXXIX ADVERTISEMENT THe Reader may be assured That the following Pages were Penn'd by one that had sufficient Authority for all the Matters of Fact related therein And the Author mentions them not with a Design of Aspersing but on the contrary is most heartily sorry they are true Yet thinks it his Duty to shew his Country their Impending Evils that by God's Mercy and their Prudence they may timely divert them LICENSED J. FRASER April 30. 1689. KING WILLIAM or KING LEWIS Wherein is set forth The Inevitable Necessity these Nations lie under of Submitting wholly to One or Other of these Kings and that the Matter in Controversie is not now between King WILLIAM and King JAMES the Second but between King WILLIAM and King LEWIS of France for the Government of these Kingdoms AT the first breaking out of these Motions in our Countries there was nothing more earnestly enquired after than the Secret League with France for the Subversion of the Laws and establish'd Religion of England And there was a misguided Party amongst us who finding hitherto that no such abominable Contrivance was publickly proved against the late King James that therefore he was never guilty of any such evil Machination and some were so far misled as from hence to doubt whether he were guilty of some other Enormities that were objected against him But to those it may be sufficient to answer That the then Prince of Orange did not in his Declaration publickly charge King James with any such League and therefore the World cannot object against King William that in this Matter he has falsely aspersed him There is nothing contained in that Declaration which I suppose is the Summary of what King William has to object publickly against King James's Proceeding that the most Devoted to King James's Party can possibly deny it contains nothing but Publick Matter of Fact transacted before the Face of all the Nations save only in the Matter of the Pretended Pr. of W. which is a thing so ridiculous and despicable that the Nation has not thought it fit to be taken notice of or insisted upon So that granting the Earl of Essex's and King Charles the Second's Death to be unjust Accusations which have never been otherwise mentioned than as Coffee house Chat and in some idle Pamphlets published by Private Persons and granting even the French League to be so too there remains many and grievous Accusations certainly true and sufficient to make us conclude with the incomparable Grotius That Voluntas Regendi perdendi Populum consistere nequeunt But what if the League with France be not yet publickly proved I hope by this time the Eyes of the Nation are so opened that now there needs no such Ceremonious Process King James the Second deserted his People abdicated his Kingdoms leaving the Throne Vacant and his Kingdoms in the first State of Nature without Government or Head and threw himself into the Arms and Bosom of the French King the most inveterate Enemy to the English Nation and Government both in Church and State To him he applied for Help and Succour in the Distress he had brought on himself by observing the Measures set him by France and Rome for the utter Extirpation of the Protestant Religion in these Kingdoms And the Ambitious French Monarch presently lays hold on this Opportunity receives him graciously and promises all Assistance Great Preparations are immediately ordered at Brest for Ireland and after the English King had received his full Instructions from Lewis the Fourteenth and was put under the Tutelage of two or three French Generals for managing the War and French Treasurers and Officers for managing the Revenue together with Monsieur d'Avaux for giving Instructions he embarked for Ireland with a great Stock of Money and Arms. It was expected and certainly promised by several in England that stood very well affected to King James tho' not of his Religion That as soon as he should put his Foot on Irish Ground he would immediately begin with all Lenity and Mercy to his Protestant Subjects he would wholly cast himself upon them by turning out Tyrconnel and committing the Sword to a Protestant Governour by admitting Protestants especially of the Church of England into all Imploys both Civil and Military For this they knew was the only Measures he could reasonably take for the regaining the Hearts of his Protestant Subjects in England and of obtaining once more his Deserted Throne But what difference is there between English and French Politicks Instead of these Methods as soon as he arrived at Dublin he was Addressed by Speeches from some Irish Popish Bishops and Clergy particularly by Bishop Terrell Tyrconnel's Secretary and Doctor Moor advising him to consider his Papist Subjects of that Kingdom for all their Sufferings these Thirty last Years and to restore them to the Churches and Possessions which had been so unjustly usurped from them They should have added for the horrid Rebellion they had raised in Forty one and for the many thousands of Barbarous Murders committed by them to maintain the Romish Religion Monsieur d'Avaux also at his Publick Audience as Ambassadour from his Most Christian Majesty advised him in his Master's Name to the same Favours towards his Catholicks of that Kingdom Whereupon immediately the few Protestants that remained in Imploys were commanded to lay them down Not a Protestant was allowed to sit in Council or bear Arms Lord Grauard Lord Chief Justice Keating Sir John Davis Sir Thomas Newcomen Colonel Russel c. were all laid aside and no one permitted to hold any Place but Papists tho' these Gentlemen went as far to serve the King as made some suspect them for being of his Religion But a signal Example we have of his Majesties Gratitude to those that serve him in the late Bishop of Chester who coming with him out of France died at Dublin and was so miserably Poor as to want Common Necessaries and being dead was buried at the Charge of a Charitable Prelate there But to proceed The Protestants who for two Months before King James came into Ireland had suffered most grievous Violences and Wrongs from the Irish Soldiers being Pillaged and Robbed of all their Cattel and movable Goods thought that upon his Majesty's Arrival they should find some Protection or Abatement of their Troubles but upon several Complaints made by them to the King for Injuries received he would answer them That he would do for them what he could but they never received

further Satisfaction or Justice And particularly the Lord Galmoy had in the North most barbarously cut off a Gentleman's Head and made the Gentleman 's own Son carry it on a Pike in Triumph before his Regiment Upon Complaint of this to the King he seemed mightily displeased at the Bloody Inhumanity yet the Lord Galmoy the very next day after the Complaint carried the Sword before his Majesty to Mass When the Protestant Bishop of Meath with a Body of Clergy-men waited on the King the Bishop addressed himself to him in this manner May it please your Majesty The Clergy of this City of Dublin with several of the Rural Clergy that are retired from this Country for Safety attend your Majesty to congratulate your Arrival in this Kingdom and do humbly implore your Royal Protection to them their Churches and Religion desiring that from time to time they may be admitted to make their just Complaints of those Injuries they have lately received His Majesty's Answer was That he would protect all Men in their Religions and Properties and as for the Wrongs that had lately been suffered by several 't was impossible in these Times of Commotions but such would happen but he should as far as he could prevent and redress them However if I am Invaded in the Kingdom as I have been in England I must secure my self as well as I can What could the King possibly intend by this last Expression Can it be otherwise than that as he found the Protestants of England desert him upon the Invasion and some of them fly over to the Prince's Party he would prevent the like Trick in Ireland by cutting them all off or securing them under close Confinement Now what reason have Subjects to trust a King that will nor trust them When the Band of Mutual Credit is broken all Government fails immediately But that we may see more plainly that King James never designs any more to trust his Protestant Subjects but to oppress them and utterly to extirpate their Religion from these Nations I shall here relate a remarkable Passage that was lately between a Protestant Clergy-man of Dublin and an Irish Lord who came thither with King James out of France The Clergy-man said to the Lord That he hoped now the King was come amongst them he would protect his Protestants and redress them in those Injuries they had of late groaned under and not only so but that his Majesty would be more than ordinary kind and favourable to them advancing them to Places of Trust and Power and granting them a Share both in Civil and Military Imployments for that this was the most probable Method for gaining on his Protestants of England by whose means only he must expect if ever to be resetled in his Throne To this the Lord who is one of the best sense amongst them and coming with the King from France does certainly know all their designed Measures made this Return That his Majesty was naturally Merciful and Compassionate and that he would as far as he could prevent all Injuries to any of his Subjects But for doing this with the Design you mention or for his trusting his Protestants I assure you 't is far from his Thoughts Both he and we had rather he should hazard and lose Forty Crowns than be obliged to his Protestants for the Possession of his Kingdoms He can never expect to come in by their means unless tied and fettered with Conditions which he cannot nor shall not observe to them 'T is by the Force of the Arms of his good Catholicks and by Assistance from the Glorious Monarch of France that he designs to regain his Dominions And then he comes in free and boundless like an Absolute Conquerour and shall afterwards do what he pleases By this we may plainly see what King James by Direction from King Lewis designs And if after all this the Eyes of the Nation are not enlightned we are all destin'd to Ruine and Misery But thanks to God in a great measure these Proceedings of King James in Ireland have had their natural Effect on several good Protestants that before were pretty well inclined to his Government but by these most unreasonable Methods which he has taken in Ireland contrary to their expectation and his own visible Interest they are clearly taken off and have abandoned him to be destroyed by the Measures set him by France and are resolved to stick firm to the Protestant Interest under Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary on whose auspicious Government the Protestant Religion not only of these Kingdoms but of all Europe does wholly rely For should King James succeed in his Designs we may plainly see what we are to be brought to And after that what will follow We shall be made a Prey to France whose restless Contrivances have been bringing that about these Twenty Years for which this seems to be the most convenient Opportunity that ever presented Holland must certainly expect to be suddenly destroy'd by that ambitious Monarch and then I propose it to the Consideration of all thinking Men whether he will let England be quiet tho' under the Government of his Dearly beloved Catholick Brother King James No certainly he knows well enough that King James has neither the Conduct nor Power to defend his Dominions from his Powerful Arms He has lately supply'd him with Money Ammunition and Arms in great Quantities and is yet making greater Preparations for him at Brest designing to Land an Army of Forty or Fifty thousand French in England or some other of these Kingdoms on purpose to conquer them And can we think that he does all this meerly out of a Principle of Generosity and Honour for Re establishing his Brother All the World knows the French King's Generosity extends no farther than his Interest and in his most glorious Archievements he has his secret Designs What then can he more reasonably intend than that one day or other England may be brought to a severe Account for these vast Expences and the Non repayment of them may be a sufficient Pretence of War whenever he pleases Moreover we may plainly see the French King uses King James in this Juncture meerly as a Stalking-Horse over whose Back he designs to render himself Master of these Kingdoms By his Covert he has already got strong Footing in Ireland All there is transacted even at this time by King Lewis King James has only the empty Name Monsieur d'Avaux gives all Instructions and was sent there by the French King so to do The French Officers manage the War against the poor Remains of strugling English there Only King James's Name is used but he has nothing to do in the whole Affair And even in the Treasury for Disbursing the Money 't is perform'd solely by a Treasurer sent out of France and King James has no more Power in the Matter than the King of Bantam And several Irish Officers are displaced to give way for

those French Plenipotentiaries So that already we may reckon his French Majesty sole Master and King of Ireland If therefore these Measures are taken there what may we suddenly expect in this Place The same French Power that has seized on that miserable Kingdom will soon overspread this unless we unanimously unite together under their Majesties King William and Queen Mary for opposing this Deluge of Tyranny that threatens us And in doing this we may plainly see that we oppose not King James his Name is an empty Sound used only as a Cheat upon the People 'T is the Great Lewis the Tyrannical Lewis that implacable cruel Enemy to the Reformed Religion whom we oppose He has of late been so puff'd up with these nauseous Flatteries offered him by his Barbarous Clergy for his glorious Extirpation of Heresie that he will venture half his Kingdoms at this Juncture to render himself Master of Great Britain and Ireland that he may practise the same Cruelties here for bringing us over to the detestable Abominations of Rome And when the Protestant Religion is suppressed in Holland and England there 's an end of it over the Face of Europe In France 't is already vanish'd and the Lesser States of Germany will soon be reduced So that at present the universal Concern of all the Protestant Princes seems ingaged in this Juncture And as we cannot mistrust God's good Providence in preserving our pure Reformed Religion notwithstanding all Attempts of Wicked Men so we cannot doubt of an hearty and unanimous Agreement of all Good Men to the only visible Means for the effecting thereof which is an intire Adherence to Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary in whom as our late Deliverance so our future Safety seems wholly wrapt up Under their Government if Great Britain will be at unity in it self Great Britain will be safe and happy Happy in a Pure Religion Just Laws and Liberties and a flourishing Trade Holland our Potent Allie will be able to secure it self and help us and in so doing to confirm the Protestant Interest all over Europe And all other the Injured Princes of Christendom will be able to take their just Revenges against France that aspiring Monarch who to gratifie his Ambition has basely abused all the Princes of Europe Wherefore their Interest seems also involved in the present Affair and they are obliged to hinder the French Tyrant from trampling these Nations under foot I hope I need say no more to make us unite I shall add but one word to the scrupulous Clergy-men some of whom do yet seem to hesitate and make a pause Is it for fear of injuring the Church that you do thus And I see no other Reason you can possibly pretend Is it that you fear the Church of England should be undermined by some other Reformers Consider with your selves whether we ought to stand upon the Interest of any one Church or Congregation when the Concern of the Universal Protestant Church is in hazard Can you expect if King Lewis for I will not mention King James as being only a pretended Name as he himself if he had any Consideration may perceive Can you expect I say that either you your Churches or Religion shall be preserved No certainly you cannot except you are blind What then remains to be done Let us unanimously joyn in our Prayers to Heaven in behalf of King William and Queen Mary That God would protect and preserve them and strengthen their Hands to the accomplishing that great Work which they have so happily begun and hitherto so successfully carried on with the joint consent of both Houses of Parliament wherein all things have hitherto been carried on for the Advantage of the Church of England and by God's Blessing and our own Unity will so continue But if by our own Divisions and Animosities amongst our selves we give King Lewis a signal Opportunity of destroying us we shall be the most contemptible as well as the most miserable Nation upon Earth and our Ruine will come upon us unpitied How ridiculous will it appear in the Eyes of the present Generation and how despicable will it found in the Ears of Posterity that the English Nation hitherto reputed for its Wisdom and Constancy should thus happily begin and carry on their own Deliverance and Security and in the Middle way resign both to a perpetual Overthrow FINIS