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A47019	A compleat history of Europe, or, A view of the affairs thereof, civil and military from the beginning of the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1676, to the conclusion of the peace with the Turks, 1699 including the articles of the former, and the several infringements of them, the Turkish Wars, the forming of the Grand Confederacy, the revolution in England, &c. : with a particular account of all the actions by sea and land on both sides, and the secret steps that have been made towards a peace, both before, as well as during the last negotiation : wherein are the several treaties at large, the whole intermix'd with divers original letters, declarations, papers and memoirs, never before published / written by a gentleman, who kept an exact journal of all transactions, for above these thirty years.	Jones, D. (David), fl. 1676-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing J928A; ESTC R13275	681,693	722

into one and the French Man whose Name was de S. Sanvem with his Granadiers into the other But though Colonel Lloyd went away that Night with the loss of many of his Men in his Retreat yet the French Captain having carried in some Provision and finding 3 Barrels of Powder in the Fort stood bravely to it The Nights were then dark and he fearing the Enemy might make their approaches to the Fort undiscovered got a great many Fir-deals and dipping the Ends of them in Tar they made such a light when set on fire and hung over the Wall that he discovered the Enemy coming towards them with an Engine they call a Sow but having killed the Engineer and 2 or 3 more the rest retired and he burnt the Engine Day no sooner appeared but the Enemy were forced to quit a small Field-piece they had planted in the Street they were so plied with shot from the Fort by the English who presently after made a sally and killed divers of them But at last their Provision being spent and there being little or no Water in the Fort they surrendred it upon honourable Terms and at their marching over the Bridge Colonel Sarsfield stood with a Purse of Guinea's and profered every Man that would serve the late King Horse and Arms with 5 Guinea's advance yet they all made answer They would never fight for Papists exept one who the very next day after he had got Horse Arms and the Gold brought all off with him But how disadvantageous soever the loss of the fore-mentioned Places were like to prove to the English Army they felt yet a more sensible Blow within themselves by the Death of a great many brave Officers and Soldiers Among the former was Sir Edward Deering a gallant Gentleman and much lamented in the Army by all that knew him and a Person who as he contributed more than any Man in the County of Kent towards bringing about our happy Revolution so he left a good Fortune in England purely to serve the King in this Expedition as did 3 more of his Brothers whereof one of them John Deering died since at Trang●dee and was a very ingenious young Gentleman Here died also soon after him Colonel Henry Wharton Brother to the now Lord Wharton a brisk bold Man and had a Regiment which would have followed him any where and being withal a comely and handsome Person he was truly much bemoaned by all that knew him and so was Sir Thomas Gower a young Gentleman of pregnant Parts and C. Hungerford a hopeful young Gentleman and of a considerable Fortune who with a great many other brave Officers were swept away by Death in this unhappy Camp And for the common Soldiers there perished in and about Dundalk at least 1700. and there were about 1970 sick Men shipp'd off at Carlingford and Dundalk to be transported to Belfast but of them not above 1100 came ashoar the rest dying at Sea Nay the Mortality was so great that several Ships had all the Men in them dead and no body to look after them whilst they lay in Carrigfergus Bay and all this besides some thousands that died in the great Hospital at Belfast that Winter So that upon a modest Computation of the whole there was nigh one half of the Army that was transported over lost We will at present leave the surviving part in their Winter Quarters whither they marched the beginning of Nov. and see how the Campaigns have passed abroad of which we were unwilling to take any notice hitherto that they might not interfere with the more immediate Affairs of Britain whereof we have now given you the relation The Confederate Army this Year in Flanders was commanded by Prince Waldeck as that of France was by the Mareschal de Humieres between whom there passed very little of moment till about the middle of Aug. when the Prince decamping from Fountain Eveque passed the Sambre and fell into the Enemies Country and having taken up his Camp at Thit-Chateau the French encamped so near him that the Out-guards were not above half an hours march from one another The Mareschal on the 25th hearing that a great number of Dutch Horse were out a foraging attempted to surprize them to which end he made a motion with his whole Army which some days before had been reinforced with 6000 Men. The Prince had no sooner notice hereof but he fired some Pieces of Cannon to give his Foragers notice as had been agreed upon before However that did not prevent their being vigorously charged by the French who took some of them and their Van-guard advancing attack'd the Village of Forge where 800 Foot were posted to secure the Foragers being commanded by the English Colonel Hodges Lieutenant Colonel Goes and the Major of the Regiment of Hesse who for above two hours defended themselves gallantly but had been overpowered by multitude had not R●● Major General of the Cavalry who was sent to bring back the Lieutenant Generals Webbenum Marleborough and d' Hubi come with their Horse timely to their succour With that reinforcement they made a retreating Fight against the main of the whole French Army that came pouring in upon them till they came to a rising Ground near Walcourt where they joined a Battalion of Lunemburgers which had been reinforced by another of Colonel Hales The French attack'd the Town with great resolution which lasted an hour and an half during which time Prince Waldeck ordered Lieutenant General Alva to march with 3 Regiments to their relief the same being also followed by the Guards of the Body and 2 English Regiments commanded by the Lord of Marleborough while Major General Slaugeburg advanced almost at the same time with some other Regiments of Foot to the other side of the Town all which Motions when the French perceived they retreated in great haste and some disorder leaving some Cannon and Ammunition with many Men slain behind them but they could not be pursued because of the hilliness of the Ground which without doubt hindred their coming to a general Battel and which in all probability would not have been to the Advantage of the French since the Dutch and other Forces were never more eager to have fought it out than at that time However they kept their Post all that night as a token of their Victory It was said the French had near 2000 killed and wounded in this Encounter though they would never acknowledge near so many among whom were reckoned a good many Officers The greatest loss on the Confederates side were some of the Foragers killed and more taken Prisoners in the first Action so that the number of the slain did not amount to above 300 but this was minced of which the chiefest were Lieutenant-Colonel Grimes of the English the Major of the Dragoons of Zell one Captain and some inferiour Officers And thus ended this Campaign in Flanders without any other memorable Action saving that the Spaniards demolished

Endeavours to extirpate Popery and redress the Grievances of his Subjects But how well he kept his Word in respect to frequent Parliaments or redressing his Peoples Grievances in near 4 Years time he lived after is so notoriously known to the contrary that there needs no Proof of it I 'll say nothing in this place of the Invalidity of his Declaration in it self since the Matter has been contested But the Gentleman whose Name was to it and who thought himself so much injured when it was taken notice of that it bore no other Authority but his would have done well to have made appear to the World that the Broad-Seal was affix'd to it which hitherto he has not done But be this as it will tho' the King did not communicate this Declaration to the Council till Friday the 8th of Apr. yet the foresaid Author Sir W. J. says M. Barillon the French Embassador read it upon the 5th of April before and demanded of a Gentleman there his Opinion of it which M. Barillon might the better remember because of the great Liberty the Gentleman took to ridicule it to his Face But to return to Fitz-Harris whom we left in the Tower the poor Man was kept there for 10 Weeks together so close a Prisoner that neither his Wife nor any other were permitted to come at him whereas the Popish Lords impeached in Parliament had the Liberty of the Tower and for any Man to visit them and then there was an Indictment of High Treason formed against him for contriving a certain Writing called The true English Man and so on the last Day of April he was Arraigned at the King's Bench-Bar But his Wife in the mean time having some Foresight of her Husband's Trial had gone to Council and had a Plea drawn to the Jurisdiction of the Court To which the Attorney General demurred and Fitz-Harris's Council joined in the Demurrer then time was given them to the Saturday following to maintain the said Plea by Argument which was done accordingly and that being ended the Lord Chief Justice declared The Court would take time to consider before they gave in their Judgment which they did on the Wednesday following being the 11th of May when three of the Judges to wit the Chief Justice and the Judges Jones and Raymond were of Opinion That the Plea was sufficient But Justice Dolbin was doubtful And so the Plea was over-ruled and the Prisoner was ordered to plead which he did and the Trial put off till June 9 when he was found Guilty of High-Treason without any Benefit had at all of the Impeachment of the House of Commons But its pitty some of these Judges had not been hanged for their Pains as Tresilian was in the Reign of Richard the Second However to colour the matter yet a little and that the Court might still make a feint which was their last of prosecuting the Popish Plot in the right Course of it Oliver Plunket was June 1 in Trinity Term tried for High-Treason at the Kings Bench Bar for that he was made Primate of Ireland by the Pope at the French King's Recommendation that upon that account he having engaged to do that King all the Service that lay in his Power he had actually levied among his Popish Clergy great Sums of Money therewith to introduce the French Dominion into that Kingdom and exterminate the Protestants for which he was found guilty on the 1st of July following and was together with Edward Fitz-Harris executed at Tyburn And now the sacrificing of this one Man and a Primate of Ireland hath attoned for all the rest of the Sins of the Papists and they are wholly left at liberty to sing a Requiem for themselves and to prosecute their Revenge against those who had in any thing appear'd zealous for the true Interest of their Country and against their evil Machinations The first that felt the Weight of their Indignation was one Stephen Colledge commonly known by the Name of The Protestant Joyner a mean Man but a great Talker against the Popish Plot against whom an Indictment of High-Treason was exhibited to the Grand Jury whereof Mr. Wilmore was Fore-man But this Indictment would not go down For the Grand Jury returned an Ignoramus upon it for which Wilmore was apprehended and examined before the Council Aug. 16 and sent to the Tower and was afterward forced to fly his Country But tho' the Design thus miscarried in London yet the Party would not be discouraged and so they laid a new Scene against Colledge at Oxford where they hoped to find a more plyable Grand Jury And to make sure that the Bill might not miscarry the King's Council had prepared Witnesses at the A●izes to post thither and were themselves privately shut up with the Jury till they had found the Bill which was a most unjustifiable and intolerable Practice But because they would seem to allow the poor Man all the Liberty and Advantage imaginable for his own Defence tho' they kept him as close in the Tower as they did Fitz-Harris yet they allow'd him one West for his Sollicitor but it was only with an intent to betray him For as soon as the Bill was found against him one Murtel a Goaler and Sawel a Messenger were dispatch'd to bring him to his Trial Who after they had taken him out of Prison ran him into an House and by order of the King's Council took from him all his Instructions for his Defence which were carried to them as well to disable him to make his Defence as to inable them how to proceed against him by some way he was not provided for to plead for himself I will not enter into a further detail of this way of Procedure but certainly it was the most barbarous and illegal I think that ever was heard of and the whole was nothing else but a Combination of the Judges whereof Sir Francis North was Chief and the Mouth of the Court King 's Council Jury and Evidence as may be seen at large in Sir John Hawles's Learned Observations upon his Trial Yet after all the Man under these severe Circumstances was not wanting to himself but stoutly made his Defence and perhaps as the said Learned Person observes the best Defence all Circumstances consider'd that ever Man made for his Life But had he defended himself with the Tongue of Men and Angels it had availed him nothing For it was a matter resolved upon and he must die and so he was Aug. 18. found guilty of High-Treason and on the 31st of the same Month executed accordingly The same Designs as against Colledge were formed against my Lord of Shaftsbury and took so far that being taken up at his House in Aldersgate-street July the 2d and brought before the Council at Whitehall whither the King came that day on purpose from Windsor he was committed to the Tower But notwithstanding an Inventory of Rogues they got to swear against him and all their

Graham's Business to find out good Jury-Men and then the Sheriffs would be sure to return them In these Plots my Lord H seemed to have the greatest hand But more particularly Rumsey was the Evidence in respect to that of the Seizing the Guards Lee and Goodenough in that of Black-Heath Rumball at whose House they said the Rye-Plot was to be acted denied at his Death he ever knew any But the great design was against the Earl of Essex the Lord Russel and such great Patriots who had shewed themselves zealous Protestants upon all Occasions and constant Opposers of the designs of Popery and Arbitrary Power As for the first of these two Noble Persons he never absconded but was presently confined Prisoner in the Tower where in a few Days after it was given out he had cut his own Throat and to satisfie the Nation of the Truth of the Report and Sincerity of the Government therein the Business was so ordered year 1683 that before the Jury was Impannelled and the Coroner's Inquest sate the Earl's Body was taken out of the Closet where it was pretended he had laid violent Hands upon himself and stripp'd off his Cloathes which were carried away add the Closet washed And when one of the Jury insisted to see my Lord's Cloaths in which he died the Coroner was sent for into another Room and upon his Return he told the Jury it was the Body and not the Clothes they were to lit upon And a Motion being made that the Jury should adjourn and give my Lord's Relations notice that if they had any thing to say in my Lord's Behalf they should do it within such a time it was answered That the King had sent for the Inquisition and would not rise from the Coun●il-Board till it was brought But whether it proved to His Majesty's Satisfaction I will not take upon me to determine though it was reported he seem'd much concern'd at the Misfortune saying My Lord of Essex needed not to have despaired of Mercy since he owed him a Life Be it as it will his being that Day in Person accompanied with his good Brother in the Tower where neither of them had been for near 15 Years before set People's Tongues loose to Censure and so much the more when it was known that particular care was taken to give immediate Notice to the Court at the Old-Baily of the Earl's Disaster that in the worst Sence Use might be made of it by the King's Council against my Lord Russel then upon his Trial as the Council did accordingly and which had the design'd Effect upon that Noble Person who some days after suffered innocently in Lincolns-Inn-Fields after he had made a Speech and left a Paper in the Sheriff's Hands to declare the same to the World both which lest forgot by any true English-man and particularly the last I have thought fit to subjoin because it carries in it in my Opinion a perfect Confutation of that Sham-Conspiracy and gives a true Idea of whatever Meeting he had been at with other Men of Quality to discourse of the Affairs or their Countrey and how if possible in a just Way to prevent it Ruin both in Religion and Liberty JULY 12th 1683. Mr. Sheriff I Expected the Noise would be such that I could not be very well heard I was never fond of very much speaking much less now therefore I set down in this Paper all that I think sit to leave behind me God knows how far I was always from Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government and I still Pray for the Preservation of both and of the Protestant Religion I am told that Captain Walcot has said something concerning my Knowledge of the Plot I know not whether the Report be true or not but I hope it is not for to my Knowledge I never saw him to speak with him in my whole Life And in the Words of a Dying Man I profess I know of no Plot either against the King's Life or the Government But I have now done with this World and am going to a better I forgive all the World and I thank God I die in Charity with all Men. And I wish all sincere Protestants may love one another and not make room for Popery by their Animosities The PAPER delivered to the Sheriffs I Thank God I find my self so composed and prepared for Death and my Thoughts so fixed on another World that I hope in God I am quite from setting my Heart on this Yet I cannot forbear now the setting down in Writing a farther Account of my Condition to be left behind me than I will venture to say at the Place of Execution in the Noise and Clutter that is like to be there I bless God heartily for those many Blessings which he in his Infinite Mercy has bestowed upon me through the whole Course of my Life That I was born of worthy good Parents and had the Advantages of a Religious Education which are invaluable Blessings For even when I minded it least it still hung about me and gave me Checks and has now for many Years so influenced and possessed me that I feel the happy Effects of it in this my Extremity in which I have been so wonderfully I thank God supported that neither my Imprisonment nor fear of Death have been able to discompose me in any Degree but on the contrary I have found the Assurances of the Love and Mercy of God in and through my Blessed Redeemer in whom only I trust And I do not question but that I am going to partake of that Fullness of Joy which is in his Presence The Hopes therefore do so wonderfully delight me that I think this is the happiest Time of my Life though others may look upon it as the saddest I have lived and now am of the Reform'd Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England though I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the Heighths of many People I wish with all my Soul all our differences were removed and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the danger of Popery as to lay aside their Heats and agree against the Common Enemy and that the Church-men would be less severe and the Dissenters less scrupulous for I think bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad but much more now For Popery I look on it as an Idolatrous and bloody Religion and therefore thought my self bound in my Station to do all I could against it And by that I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to my self and so powerful ones that I have been now for some time expecting the worst and blessed be God I fall by the Ax and not by the Fiery Tryal Yet whatever Apprehensions I had of Popery and of my own severe and heavy share I was like to have under it when it should prevail I never had a Thought of doing any thing

when I tasted it I saw it was hot in the Mouth and desired that whenever he met with a choice Piece he would keep it for me which he promised I enlarge the more upon this because Sir George Jefferys insinuated to the Jury as if I had made a Story about going thither but I never said that was the only Reason and I will now truly and plainly add you the rest I was the day before this Meeting come to Town for two or three days as I had done once or twice before having a very near and dear Relation lying in a Languishing and Desperate Condition and the Duke of Monmouth came to me and told me He was extreamly glad I was come to Town for my Lord Shaftsbury and some hot Men would undo us all How so my Lord I said Why answered he they will certainly do some disorderly thing or other if great Care be not taken and therefore for God's Sake use your Endeavour with your Friends to prevent any thing of this kind He told me there would be Company at Mr. Shepheard's that Night and desired me to be at home in the Evening and he would call me which he did And when I came into the Room I saw Mr. Rumsey by the Chimney though he swears he came in after And there were Things said by some with much more Heat than Judgment which I did sufficiently disapprove and yet for these Things I stand Condemned But I thank God my Part was sincere and well meant It is I know Inferred from hence and pressed to me That I was acquainted with these Heats and ill Designs and did not discover them But this is but Misprision of Treason at most so I die innocent of the Crime I stand Condemned for I hope no Body will imagine that so mean a Thought should enter into me as to go about to save my self by accusing others The Part that some have acted lately of that kind has not been such as to invite me to love Life at such a Rate As for the Sentence of Death passed upon me I cannot but think it a very hard one for nothing was sworn against me whether true or false I will not now examine but some Discourses about making some Stirs And this is not levying War against the King which is Treason by the Statute of Edw. 3. and not the Consulting and Discoursing about it which was all that was witnessed against me but by a strange Fetch the Design of seizing the Guards was construed a Design of killing the King and so I was in that Cast And now I have truly and sincerely told what my Part was in that which cannot be more than a bare Misprision and yet I am condemned as guilty of a Design of killing the King I pray God lay not this to the Charge neither of the King's Councel nor Judges nor Sheriffs nor Jury And for the Witnesses I pity them and wish them well I shall not reckon up the Particulars wherein they did me wrong I had rather their own Consciences would do that to which and the Mercies of God I leave them Only I shall aver that what I said of my not hearing Colonel Rumsey deliver any Message from my Lord Shaftsbury was true For I always detested Lying tho' never so much to my Advantage And I hope none will be so unjust and uncharitable as to think I would venture on it in these my last Words for which I am so soon to give an Account to the great God the Searcher of Hearts and Judge of all Things From the Time of choosing Sheriffs I concluded the Heat in that Matter would produce something of this Kind and I am not much surprized to find it fall upon me and I wish what is done to me may put a Stop and satiate some People's Revenge and that no more innocent Blood be shed for I must and do still look upon mine as such since I know I was guilty of no Treason and therefore I would not betray my Innocency by flight of which I do not I thank God yet repent tho' much pressed to it how fatal soever it may have seemed to have proved to me for I look upon my Death in this manner I thank God with other Eyes than the World does I know I said but little at the Trial and I suppose it looks more like Innocence than Guilt I was also advised not to confess Matter of Fact plainly since that certainly must have brought me within the Guilt of Misprision and being thus restrained from dealing frankly and openly I chose rather to say little than to depart from that Ingenuity that by the Grace of God I had carried along with me in the former part of my Life and so could easier be silent and leave the whole Matter to the Consciences of the Jury than to make the best and solemnest part of my Life so different from the Course of it as the using little Tricks and Evasions must have been nor did I ever pretend to any great Readiness in Speaking I wish those Gentlemen of the Law who have it would make more Conscience in the Use of it and not run Men down and by Strains and Fetches impose on easie and willing Juries to the Ruine of innocent Men. For to kill by Forms and Subtilties of the Law is the worst sort of Murder But I wish the Rage of hot Men and the Partiality of Juries may be stopped with my Blood which I would offer up with so much the more Joy if I thought I should be the last that were to suffer in such a Way Since my Sentence I have had but few Thoughts but Preparatory ones for Death yet the Importunity of my Friends and particularly the best and dearest Wife in the World prevailed with me to sign Petitions and make an Address for my Life to which I was ever averse for I thank God though in all Respects I have lived the happiest and contente●st Man of the World for now very near Fourteen Years yet I am so willing to leave all that it was not without Difficulty that I did any thing for the saving of my Life that was begging but I was willing to let my Friends see what Power they had over me and I was not obstinate nor sullen but would do any thing that an honest Man could do for their Satisfaction which was the only Motive that swayed or had any Weight with me And now to sum up all As I had not any Design against the King's Life or the Life of any Man whatsoever so I never was in any Contrivance of altering the Government What the Heats Passions and Vanities of other Men have occasioned I ought not to be responsible for nor could I help them though I now suffer for them But the Will of the Lord be done into whose Hands I commend my Spirit and trust that Thou O most merciful Father hast forgiven me all my Transgressions the Sins of my Youth

within the Year before Petitions be first answered and Grievances redressed And seeing many of the Miseries under which the Nation doth groan arise from displacing such out of the Number of Judges as would not for the promoting Popish and Arbitrary Designs wrest and mis-apply the Laws and from constituting corrupt and mercenary Men in their Rooms on purpose to stretch the Laws beyond the Reason and Intention of them and to declare that for Law which is not we can neither with Silence pass over the mentioning of them nor should we have Peace in our selves if we did not endeavour to prevent the like Mischief in Time to come For by reason of ill Men's being advanced to the Bench and holding their Places only durante bene-placito many Persons have been condemned in exorbitant Fines for no Crimes or for very small ones Many Statutes made for the Safety of the Subject particularly the Habeas Corpus Act have been wickedly eluded to the Oppression of the Innocent and Loyal Men. The Popish Lords that were impeached in Parliament for a most hellish Conspiracy have to the subverting the Rights of the House of Lords been discharged and set free The imposing a May or and Sheriffs upon the City of London by Fraud and Violence have been justified and those who in discharge of their Duty opposed it illegally prosecuted and arbitrarily punished London and other Cities and Corporations have been robbed of their Charters upon unrighteous Judgments of pretended Forfeitures Sir Thomas Armstrong executed without being allowed the Benefit of a Trial. Col. Algernoon Sidney condemned to die upon the Deposition of one scandalous Witness And that Loyal and Excellent Person the late William Lord Russel murthered for alledged Crimes in reference to which if all had been true which was sworn against him yet there was nothing which according to Law could have reached his Life Upon the Consideration aforesaid we further declare that we will have Care taken for the future for debarring ignorant scandalous and mercenary Men from the Administration of Justice and that the Judges shall hold their Places by the ancient Tenure of quamdiu se bene gesserint and to leave it to the Wisdom of a Parliament to settle some Way and Method for the Approbation of such as shall be advanced to the Degree and Dignity of Judges And forasmuch as the Invasion made on the Right of Cities Burroughs and Towns Corporate the Seisure of their Charters whether by Surrender or upon pretence of Borfeiture have been wholly arbitrary and illegal we likewise therefore declare we will to our utmost endeavour to see them re-possessed in what they formerly had and could legally lay claim to and that we do esteem all Judgments given against them and all Surrenders made by a corrupt and perjured Party amongst them null and void in Law and do hold and declare their old Charters notwithstanding the ●ew ones lately granted to be good and valid And accordingly we do invite and encourage all honest Burgesses and Free-men to re-assume the Rights and Privileges which by virtue of the said old Charters belonged to their several and respective Corporations and to deliver themselves from those late Parasites and Instruments of Tyranny set up to oppress them Moreover for the Restoring the Kingdom to its Primitive Condition of Freedom and Safety we will have the Coporation and Militia Acts repealed And all Outlawries of Treason against any Person whatsoever upon the late pretended Protestant Plot reversed and also all other Outlawries Banishments Warrants Judgments Imprisonments and injurious Proceedings against any other persons upon any of the Penal Statutes made against Protestant Dissenters made null and void And we will have new Laws enacted for placing the Election of Sheriffs in the Freeholders of the several Counties for Settling the Militia in the several Shires and for Preventing all Military Standing ●or●s except what shall be raised and kept up by Authority and Consent of Parliament And whereas several Gentlemen and others who have been worthy and zealous Assertors of the Protestant Interest and Laws of the Kingdom are now in Custody in divers Places within the Realm upon most unjust Accusations Pre●ences Proceedings and Judgments we do hereby further declare their said Imprisonments to be illegal and that in case any Violence shall be offered to them or any of them we will revenge it to the utmost upon such of our Enemies as shall fall into our Hands And whereas the said J. D. of Y. in order to the Expediting the Idolatrous and Bloody Designs of the Papists the Gratifying his own boundless Ambition after a Crown and to hinder Enquiry into the Assassination of Arthur Earl of Essex hath poysoned the late King and thereby manifested his Ingratitude as well as Cruelty to the World in murthering a Brother who had almost ruined himself to preserve and protect him from Punishment We do therefore further declare That for the aforesaid villainous and unnatural Crime and other his Crimes before-mentioned and in pursuance of the Resolution of both Houses of Parliament who voted to revenge the King's Death in case he came to an Vntimely End we will prosecute the said J. D. of Y. till we have brought him to suffer what the Law adjudged to be the Punishment of so execrable a Fact And in a more particular Manner His Grace the Duke of Monmouth being sensible of the barbarous and horrid Parricide committed upon his Father doth resolve to pursue the said J. D. of Y. as a mortal and bloody Enemy and will endeavour as well with his own Hand as by the Assistance of his Friends and the Law to have Justice executed upon him And the said James Duke of Monmouth the now Head and Captain-General of the Protestant Forces of this Kingdom assembled for the End aforesaid from the Generousness of his own Nature and the Love he bears to these Nations whose Welfare and Settlement he infinitely prefers to whatsoever concerns himself doth not at present insist upon his Title but leaves the Determination thereof to the Wisdom Justice and Authority of a Parliament legally chosen and acting with Freedom And in the mean time doth profess and declare by all that is ●iacred That he will in Conjunction with the people of England employ all the Abilities bestowed upon him by God and Nature for the Re-establishment and Preservation of the Protestant Reformed Religion in these Kingdoms and for Restoring the Subjects of the same to a free Exercise thereof in opposition to Popery and the Consequences of it Tyranny and Slavery To the Obtaining of which End he doth hereby Promise and Oblige himself to the People of England to consent unto and promote the Passing into Laws all the Methods aforesaid that it may never more be in the Power of any single Person on the Throne to deprive their Subjects of their Rights and to subvert the Fundamental Laws of the Government designed for their Preservation And whereas the Nobility

Scotland the whole Party would not seem thereby to be discouraged especially those in England who thought it a very opportune Season while the King was absent to attempt something considerable to the Advantage of their Cause And therefore having timely concerted Matters with their Friends on the other side of the Water it was so agreed That while part of the French Fleet should bear up into the Thames to favour and assist the Designs of those that were in London who were very numerous by the flocking of a great many of the Conspirators from all Parts of the Country thither they were to have made an Insurrection in several Places at once Certain Persons were to have taken upon them the Administration of Affairs till the Return of King James who was to leave the Command of his Army to his Generals and hasten with all Speed into England The other part of the French Fleet having joyned their Gallies was to have landed 8000 Men at Torbay with Arms for a greater Number after which the Gallies and Men of War were to Sail into the Irish Sea to hinder the Return of King William and his Forces Their Party in Scotland was to have revolted at the same time in several Parts of that Kingdom But however the Matter was in reality the whole Contrivance seems to have been founded upon a Presumption if not Assurance of the English Fleet being first beaten by the French of which whether they had any foresight otherwise than from the inequality of the Strength which was considerably at this time to the Advantage of France I am not able to unriddle Yet the Conspiracy by the timous Discovery of it proved a vain Contrivance tho' the Grounds upon which the Formation thereof seemed to depend proved but too successful For all the French Fleet having entred the Channel as before concerted they veered some time upon the English Coast as expecting the Effect of the Conspiracy which was to have broken out the 18th of June of which the Queen had no sooner notice but she sent the Earl of Torrington who was Admiral Orders to fight the Enemy what-ever befel him as knowing they could have no good Design by coming so near us But how dishonourable soever this Action seemed to be to the English Nation yet there was one Circumstance that attended it that was somewhat favourable For the People generally were possess'd with an Opinion of the English Seamens Courage and Bravery above those of the French and many with so high a Conceit of the Admiral that Commanded them that it was some days before they could be brought to be perswaded of the Truth of what had happened And their Concern about it even then was much alleviated by the good News we had of his Majesty's Success in Ireland at the Battle at the Boyne which was fought the day after and of which by and by But we must first return where we left off in Ireland and that was to the Army going from Dundalk into their Winter Quarters and take a short View of the State of things there till the King's Arrival Dundalk Camp was not the only the Place that proved fatal to our Army in Ireland for they died in great numbers both Officers and Souldiers after they got into Quarters and among the former Colonel Langston departed this Life of a Fever at Lisburn and my Lord Hewet and the Lord Roscommon of the same Distemper at Chester So that about the beginning of the new Year several Regiments were broke into others and the Officers continued at half Pay till Provision could be made for them in other Regiments whilst others went over into England for Recruits However Sickness by degrees abating about the beginning of Febr. they found both Men and Horses such as survived in pretty good Heart when the General being informed that the Enemy were drawing down some Forces towards Dundalk and that they had laid in great Store of Corn Hay and other Provisions with a Design from thence to disturb our Frontier Garrisons sent a considerable Body of Horse and Foot that way himself following them on the 11th towards Drummore in order to wait the Enemies Motion But the Irish designs at this time lay another way For while the Duke was upon this Expedition there was Notice given Colonel Wools●ey that they had a Design to fall upon Belturbet which he had taken from them a little before and that to that end a considerable number of them were advanced to Cavan and more to follow who thereupon marched diligently from Belturbet with 700 Foot and 300 Horse and Dragoons in the Evening towards them as thinking to surprize them next Morning ealry they being not above 8 Miles off But he met with so many Difficulties in his March that instead of being before day light at the Place he designed it was not only half an hour after break of day before he came in sight of it but also the Enemy had got notice of his coming So that instead of surprizing them he might well have been surprized himself For the first thing he saw was a Body of the Enemy drawn up in good Order and might consist of about 4000 Men but there being no retreating now either with Honour or Safety the Colonel was resolved to stand stoutly to it and therefore having first told his Men the Advantages of being brave and the inevitable Ruin of the whole Party if they proved otherwise and thereupon finding them very compliant to his Desire he sent a Party of Iniskilling Dragoons towards the Enemy who were presently charged by a great Body of their Horse and beat back past the Front of their own Foot who were so enraged at them that some of Major General Kirk's Men and Colonel Wharton's fired upon them and killed 7 or 8 of the number but some of the Enemies Horse pursued them so far that many of them were killed by our Foot as they endeavoured to get off By this time the Body of the Party was advanced near the Irish who were posted upon the top of a rising Ground not far from the Town and who as our Men advanced up the Hill fired a whole Volley upon them and then set up an Huzza but scarce killed a Man their Shot flying over them Our Men however went on till they came within Pistol-shot and then fired which so galled the Irish that they immediately retired towards the Town and entred into a Fort they had there and from whence they sallied and made a very fierce Attack upon the English who had too speedily fallen to Plunder But Woolsley having 250 Foot and about 80 Horse for a Reserve the Enemy were beat off again their Horse flying quite beyond the Town and the Foot retiring to the Fort again The Soldiers got good store of Shoes and other things in the Place but their Ammunition was blown up and their Provisions destroy'd for the Colonel was forced to set the Town on