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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59869	A second letter to a friend, concerning the French invasion in which the declaration lately dispersed under the title of His Majesty's most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects, commanding their assistance against the P. of Orange and his adherents, is entirely and exactly published, according to the dispersed copies : with some short observations upon it.	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.; James II, King of England, 1633-1701. His Majesty's most gracious declaration, to all his loving subjects.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3339; ESTC R8008	19,657	35

only the Presumptive Heir Perhaps Presumptive Heir in the French Law may be the same with Heir apparent in ours If it be not What did Sir E. H. or whoever was the Penman of this Declaration mean by it Will they set aside the Pretences of the Prince of Wales if the late Queen Mary who is said to be with Child in good truth bring forth a Son this looks very suspiciously as if they did not believe they had given sufficient Satisfaction about the Birth of this Pretended Prince of Wales but however we must presume him Prince of Wales till they have another whom they can by better proof make out to be the unquestionable Son of the late Queen Mary DECLARATION There is another Consideration that ought to be of weight with all Christians and that is the calamitous Condition of Europe now almost universally engaged in a War among themselves at a time when there was the greatest hopes of Success against the Common Enemy and the fairest Prospect of Enlarging the Bounds of the Christian Empire that ever was in any Age since the declining of the Roman And so far from the hopes of a general Peace before our Restoration that no rational Project of a Treaty can be form'd in order to it But that once done the thing will be easie and we shall be ready to offer our Mediation and interpose all the good Offices we can with his most Christian Majesty for the obtaining of it OBSERVATIONS This whole Period is a sharp and perpetual Satyr against the French King For who has been the great Disturber of the Peace of Europe but his most Christian Majesty With whom are all the Princes of Europe at War but with Him Who else has hindered the success against the Common Enemy and the enlarging the bounds of the Christian Empire Who invited the Turk into Europe Who encourages him to continue the War after so many Fatal Defeats which may probably prove the ruin of his whole Empire In a word what other Christian Prince is the Great Turk's Ally and Confederate in this War And is not this War continued and encouraged by all the Power and Interest of the French King on purpose to disturb the Peace of Europe that while the Imperial Forces are otherwise employ'd he may make a Prey of his weaker Neighbours It is decent to spare Crowned Heads and such as have been crowned but the Penman of this Declaration deserves his Reward for putting in so many notorious Falshoods as may justly call the truth and sincerity of the whole in Question I know but one Excuse for him that he has made it almost all of a piece and though he has had little regard to Truth yet he has so ordered the matter that he can deceive no body but those who have a great mind to be deceived and it is not amiss that such should be gratified Who but the late King could hope to perswade the World that to restore him to his Kingdoms is absolutely necessary to the Peace of Europe that before his Restoration no rational Projects of a Treaty can be formed in order to a Peace He may be mistaken in this for the French King may quickly be glad to make Peace and leave Him and his Restoration out of the Treaty For things are come to that extremity now that it is in vain to think of Peace till Lewis the Great be reduced to such a state as to accept it and unable to break it And then this Argument returns upon him for the Peace of Europe is a necessary Reason why he should not be restored as I observed in my former Letter But He who could fancy himself to be a proper and effectual Mediator for a Peace if he were restored must have liberty to fancy any thing and it is happy for him that he has so comfortable an Imagination I do really pity him too much to endeavour to dispossess him of it because that would be to undo Him more than He is already undone DECLARATION Since therefore We come with so good Purposes and so good a Cause the Iustice of which is founded upon the Laws both of God and Man since the Peace of Europe as well as of Our own Kingdoms the Prosperity of present and future Ages is concerned in the success of it We hope We shall meet with little Opposition but that All Our Loving Subjects according to the Duty and the Oath of their Allegiance and as We hereby Command and Require them to do will joyn with Us and Assist Us to the utmost of their Power OBSERVATIONS I can say little to this the Event will best shew whether the People of England will think his Cause so good and the Reasons for his Restauration so pressing as to assist him in it DECLARATION And We do hereby strictly forewarn and prohibit any of Our Subjects whatsoever either by Collecting or paying any of the Illegal Taxes lately imposed upon the Nation or any part of Our Revenue or by any other ways to Abet or Support the present Usurpation And that We may do all that can be thought of to win over all Our Subjects to Our Service that so if it be possible We may have none but the Usurper and his Foreign Troops to deal with and that none may be forced to continue in their Rebellion by despair of Our Mercy for what they have already done We do hereby Declare and Promise by the Word of a King That all Persons whatsoever how guilty soever they may have been except the Persons following viz. The Duke of Ormond Marquess of Winchester Earl of Sunderland Earl of Bath Earl of Danby Earl of Nottingham Lord Newport Bishop of London Bishop of St. Asaph Lord Delamere Lord Wiltshire Lord Colchester Lord Cornbury Lord Dunblane John Lord Churchil Sir Robert Howard Sir John Worden Sir Samuel Grimstone Sir Stephen Fox Sir George Treby Sir Basil Dixwel Sir James Oxendon Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury Dr. Gilbert Burnet Francis Russel Richard Levison John Trenchard Esquires Charles Duncomb Citizen of London Edwards Napleton Hunt Fisherman and all others who offer'd Personal Indignities to Us at Feversham except also all Persons who as Iudges or Iury-men or otherwise had a hand in the Barbarous Murther of Mr. John Ashton and of Mr Cross or of any others who have been illegally Condemned and Executed for their Loyalty to Us and all Spies and such as have betrayed Our Counsels during Our late Absence from England that by an early return to their Duties and by any Signal Mark of it as by Seizing to Our Use or Delivering into Our Hands any of Our Forts or by bringing over to Us any Ships of War or Troops in the Usurper's Army or any new raised and Armed by themselves or by any other Eminent good Service according to their several Opportunities and Capacities shall manifest the sincerity of their Repentance shall not only have their respective Pardons immediately passed under the