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A93564	A brief history of the pious and glorious life and actions of the most illustrious princess, Mary Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. Containing the most memorable things, and matters, relating to her royal self, &c. from her birth till the most deplorable time of her ever to be lamented death, on the 28th. of December, 1694. Faithfully done by J.S.	J. S.; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713, engraver.	1695 (1695)	Wing S46; ESTC R230766	40,022	154

Sums that were given by Parliament in Freely parting with their Money for the Support of the Royal Dignity and carrying on a War against our Professed Enemys Provision was likewise made with the greatest Celerity Imaginable for Building Ships of War Raising Forces and what ever besides was Requisite for Agrandizing the Fame and Reputation of Their Majesties and their Kingdoms So that a Greater Harmony in the minds of the Generality of Men was never observed in this Nation AND now the Princes abroad in Alliance and Confederated in the War against France resolving on a General Congress at the Hague to Concert Affairs and settle matters for the Vigorous Prosecution of their enterprize and His Majesty finding his Presence very Necessary in that Grand Assembly minded the Parliament of it in a Gracious Speech and Desired them to hasten the matters before them which accordingly they did with all convenient speed and divers Acts passed the Royal Assent very much conducing to the Advantage of the Government And so both Houses having Adjourned for some time the King took leave of the Queen and Court and with some Difficulty by reason of the Ice he notwithstanding all Difficulty being Landed Safe Attended by His Grace the Duke of Ormond the Lord Steward Lord Chamberlain the Earls of Portland and Monmouth Sieurs Overkirk and Zulestein and going from Oram-Haak near Mase-Landsluys the place where they came on Shoar to Hounslyr-Dyke the Deputys of the States Ordered to that Purpose Attended on His Majesty to Welcome him and Congratulate his Happy Arival and so passing to the Hague the States of Holland and Council of State with the Heads of the Colledges made their Complements to him AND here a Grateful Nations Joy appeared in the most Magnificent Manner Divers Stately Arches of Triumph being placed in the chief parts of the Town with Motto's and Devices suitable to the great Occasion And the Evening concluded with Fire-Works Illuminations and all the Demonstrations that might Render it Acceptable And divers Princes of the Confederates being there they Proceeded to Consult of the Weighty Affairs that concerned the Good and Interest of all Christendom which was then setled in the best manner as the Product and Issue of those happy Councils have since manifested to the World THE Queen having again the Government in her Hands during the Kings Absence manag'd it with that Prudence and Discretion which made the Nation see how much it was beholden to so Excellent a Princess Our Secret and Forreign Enemys who laboured to take Advantages on all occasions found their Designs frustrated and all their Dark Pollicys countermined and those mischiefs they designed others turned upon themselves though in their Extremity some of them found Mercy beyond their Expectations from those who prefer it to Justice from a Queen who was all Mercy and Compassion and a King whose Virtues and Heroick Spirit moved him to Compassionute even his Enemys who had Causlesly made themselves to their Detriment and Hazzard of their Lives but passing this over we proceed to matters of more weight and moment THE King returning from the Congress after the Happy setling of Affairs was received with Universal Rejoycings of the People And by the Pious Queen with such Joy that is beyond our Expression And having setled Affairs with Wonderful Prudence here the English Forces passing over to Flanders he delayed not to be at the Head of them and with his presence so Encouraged and Refreshed the Spirits of the Army that all things Succeeded beyond what many Expected So that the Campaign ended Successfully and gave us an earnest of what have been since Evident to the World and the Queen had the Grateful thanks and acknowledgment of her Nation for her Prudence and Conduct in the Management of Affairs and in Her Royal Condescending Goodness and Modesty expressed Her Self Glad that She had done any thing that Pleased Her People c. WINTER being Come Great Preparations at Home and Abroad were made against the Opening the Campaign for the Year 1692. The Fleet was Equip'd very early The Honourable Admiral Russel Commanding it under whose conduct the Seamen were very much Revived in their Courage and Resolution Nor did the Dutch delay to Joyn ours with a very Gallant Squadron of Ships of War Resolute to Revenge the Injurys they had Sustained the preceding Year And all things here went Successfully on Whilst the King was preparing to Pursue his Victories Abroad Scotland had entirely gained the upper hand of its Enemys and Ireland under the Conduct of Lievtenant General Ginkle and other Brave Commanders was Reduced and Owned its Rightful Soveraign of which Proceedings we shall give a further Account hereafter THE Nation at this time was full of Spirit and that antient Courage revived in it that has for many Ages been renowned through the World Providence concurring with our desires to make us a Prosperous and Happy People in spight of all Oposers either open or clandestine The best of Queens by her influence adding new Life and Vigour to her Loyal and deservedly affected Subjects and like a guiding Star leading or directing them to their happiness She Arose like another Debora a Mother in our IsrAel to relieve her Kingdoms from Opression and make them flourish that after our Calamities we might hear of Joy and Rejoycing That the Rains being over and the Winter past the fragrant Flowers of prosperity might appear in our Land Whilst the noyse of the Turtle promised us the Springing up from the Field of War a Blessed Crop of a continued and lasting Peace when those that have Disturb'd it shall be compelled to do reason and like a Cormorant be constrained to disgorge in a little time what he has been so long a swallowing Providence to this Nation has been always kind and that watchful Fate that Guards the Virtuous will no doubt gain the Ascendant over their Enemys THE Fleet as we have said being bravely Equiped and the Seamen full of Courage nothing was wanting but on whom to express their Valour and shew the World that the Kings of England have not their Epethite of Lords of the Ocean in vain and indeed there was not an Enemy long wanting for the French either being deceived in the number of our Ships or in hopes only our sinall Frigats were abroad or that being otherways gulled by false Intelligence that there might be a Defect in our Fleet tending to a Revolt of some part of it They put to Sea under Monsieur Tourville their Admiral in Search of ours who were very desirous of finding them and in Conclusion gave them such a welcome as they had never before received on the Brittish Ocean A Dreadful Scene of War ensuing which Scattered the Tossing Billows with the Wracks of our Opposers and made the Watery Fry Tremble at the Repeated Vollies of our Terrestial Thunder Our Guardian Angel now Commissioned by Omnipotence Scatter'd Death and Destruction Round him and Crimson'd the Rumpled

upon the Arival of the Princess having had the consent of the Prince and his Royal Consort to accept of the Kingly Dignity delayed not in their Resolves to have them Proclaim'd King and Queen of England France and Ireland Scotland being an Independant Kingdom and not within the Jurisdiction of a Parliament of England Whose Crown however was soon after Presented by the States in like manner of the Proceedings in which we shall have occasion to speak hereafter THE Resolves in Order to the Proclaiming being on these considerations That WILLIAM and MARY Prince and Princess of Orange be Declared King and Queen of England France and Ireland with all the Dominions and Dependencys thereunto belonging to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of those Kingdoms and Dominions during their Lives and the Life of the Surviver of them and that the Sole and Full Exercise of the Kingly Power be only in and Executed by his Highness in the Name of Himself and the Princess for the Term of their Lives and after their Decease the Crown and Dignitys Royal of the Kingdoms and Dominions to be left to the Heirs of the Body of the Princess and for default of such Issue to the Princess Ann of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of the Prince AND then an Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy was Enacted Viz. I A. B. Do sincerely Promise and Swear that I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to Their Majestys King WILLIAM and Queen MARY So Help me GOD. I A. B. do Sincerely Promise and Swear that I do from my Heart abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious Heretical the Damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes Excomunicated or Deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be Deposed or Murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do Declare that no Forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual withthis Realm So Help me GOD. THIS and other Proceedings preceding the Happy Proclaiming the Wish of the Nation Ensued for the Officers at Arms Sergeants at Arms Trumpets and others whose Office it was to attend in this Important Occasion being in a Readiness by the Order His Grace the Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England at White-hall-gate and Sir Themas St. George Garter Principal King at Arms receiving a Proclamation was Ordered by the Lords forthwith to Proclaim it And York Herauld after the Third Sounding of the Trumpets Proclaim'd it Garter King at Arms Reading it by Periods whilst he repeated in the presence of the Lords and Commons and a vast number of Gentry and others who by their Acclamatitions of Joy expressed their high satisfaction in what was done and so in Excellent Order they proceeded through Temple-Bar and between the Two Temple-Gates made the Like Proclamation and twice more Repeated it Viz. At Woodstreet-End in Cheapside and before the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill being in all these places concluded with Joyful Shouts and Acclamations and soon after they were with the same desire of a willing people Proclaimed in the Cities and chief Borroughs and Towns of England and in the Dominion of Wales c. AND now our Epethite by their advancement to the Royal Dignity must be changed The King on the 25th of February for himself and on the behalf of the Queen was pleased to express to both Houses in Answer to their Declaration his high Satisfaction in what they had done and graciously Promised them the Utmost of his Care and Protection for the Security and Preservation of their Laws Liberties and Religion and was extreamly willing to Concur with them in any thing that might be for the Good and Advancement of the Kingdom and to do all that in him lay to promote the Glory and Welfare of the Nation And soon after the Lord Bishop of London went with the Body of the Clergy of that City to pay their Majesties an Humble Tender of their Duty and Fidelity Expressing the great Satisfaction they conceived upon Their Majesties Accession to the Throne and being admitted to Kiss the King and Queens Hands His Majesty at the same time giving them a Satisfactory Assurance of his Extraordinary Affection to the Church of England and of his utmost protection and encouragement to them concluding I assure you you shall find it so and may depend upon it And in this indeed as it is promised in Holy Writ we have found in the care and protection of a King Queen the truly Nursing Father and Nursing Mother of the Church THE Convention having resolved it self unto a Free Parliament an Act was Passed Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes about the Assembling and sitting of the present Parliament and preparations were making for the Relies of the opressed Protestants in Ireland whom the Irish Papists countenanced by the Earl of Tyrconnel who had declared for the Late King James Miserably Murthered Plundered Harassed in most parts of that Kingdom But Scotland had got the upper hand of those that stood out for the Abdicated King And it their Convention upon the Receipt of a Letter from his Majesty of England they after a few Debates Declar'd the Throne Vacant and soon after concluded to lay their Crown as England had done at thee Feet of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY That they should be Crowned King and Queen of Scotland and the Crown with an Instrument to Rugulate and settle particulars Offered them WHILST the Genious of Scotland Bowed thus Low to the best of Princes a Proclamation was Issued out here by the King and Queen to Inform the Peers and such as claimed by Tenure or Offices that the Solemnitie of the Coronation was to be performed on the Eleventh of April 1689 and accordingly Magnificent preparations were made against that happy day and on the Ninth of April in order to it An Act Passed Entituled An Act for Establishing the Coronation Oath The form of it being in the manner following viz. THE Arch-Bishop or Bishop shall say Will you Solemnly Promise and Swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agree'd on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I Solemnly Promise so to do Arch-Bishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be Executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Arch-Bishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power Maintain the Law of God the True Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant Reform'd Religion Established by Law and will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and unto Churches Committed to their Charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain to any of them King and Queen

Waves with Bloud but not to Elaborate on this Great and Glorious Action which otherwise expresses it self in a Gloomy Terror to our Foes we shall procceed to give the Reader an Account of the most Material Matters that happened on this great Occasion on which the Ballance of Europe so mainly Depended Viz. THE French Thinking to do great Matters at Sea this Summer got their Fleet out somewhat sooner than they were wont appearing more numerous and daring than they did the last Summer so that on the 9th of May their whole Fleet was about Noon seen off of Dartmouth at a great Distance viz. three Leagues from the Start and continued turning to the Eastward the Wind at East and by North and the next Day they were again seen from the same place when by their sailing they seemed as if they intended to stand to their own Coast And our Fleet being now well mann'd and in a very good Readiness on the 14th of May in the Afternoon Admiral Russel weighed Anchor out of Rye Bay and about eleven the next Morning joyned Sir Ralph Delaval and Rear Admiral Carter at St. Helens and soon after divers Dutch Men of War joyn'd him so that the whole Fleet consisted of about Ninety Sail of Ships for the Line of Battel the Officers and Seamen being very hearty and full of Courage and every thing gave a happy Presage of the Glorious Success that soon after ensued as appears by the Loyal Address humbly presented to Her Majesty by the Chief Commanders of her Fleet which for the Satisfaction of the Reader it may not be amiss to Insert as an Introduction to so glorious an Enterprize viz. THE Queen being informed of a scandalous and malitious Report that was spread abroad as if some of the Officers of their Majesties Fleet were disaffected or not hearty in their Service and that her Majesty had thereupon ordered the Discharge of many of them from their Employments Her Majesty was pleased to command the Earl of Nottingham to write to Admiral Russel and let him know that Her Majesty was satisfied that this Report was raised by the Enemies of the Govenment and that she reposed so entire a Confidence in their Fidelity that she had resolved not to displace any one of them which being by the Admiral communicated to them they made and sent up the following Address WE Your Majestys most dutiful and loyal Subjects and Servants Flag-Officers and Captains in Your Majesty's Fleet out of the deep and grateful Sense we have of Your Majesty's good and just Opinion of our Loyalty and Fidelity Imparted to us by the Right Honourable Admiral Russel in a Letter to him from my Lord Nottingham do in the behalf of our selves and all other Officers and Seamen presume to address our selves to your Majesty at this Juncture to undeceive the World in those false and malitious Reports that have been lately spread in Prejudice of Your Majesty's Service by People of an unreasonable Disaffection to Your Majesty's Government and an obstinate Aversion to the Quiet and Good of our Country that there are some amongst us that are not truly zealous for and entirely devoted to your Maiesty's Service we do therefore most humbly beg Your Majesty's Leave to add to our repeated Oaths this Assurance of our Fidelity that we with all imaginable Alacrity and Resolution venture our Lives in the Defence of Your Majesty's undoubted Rights and the Liberty and Religion of our Country against all Forreign and Popish Invaders whatsoever and that God Almighty may preserve Your Majesty's most sacred Person direct your Counsils and prosper Your Arms by Sea and Land against Your Majesty's Enemies Let all the People say Amen with Your Majesty's Dutiful and Loyal Subjects Dated on Board the Britania May 15. 1692. at St. Helens THIS was signed by Sir John Ashby Admiral of the Red Mr. Rook vice Admiral of the Blew Sir Clously Shovel Rear-Admiral of the Red Mr. Carter Rear-Admiral of the Blew upon receiving which her Majesty was pleased to say That she had always this Opinion of the Commanders but was glad this was come to satisfie others THE Dutch and English Fleets being Joyned on the 18 of May the Admirals Scout gave the signe for seeing the Enemy about the grey or opening of the Morning our Fleet made the French Fleet in a Line of Battel about two Leagues to the Windward and they then having the weather-gage bore down very boldly and closely upon our Fleet at Eleven the Engagement began and continued very hot and furious till almost four in the Afternoon at what time the French Eleet bore away The Wind at West and South and by East and North North East Sir Clously Shovel and Sir John Ashby having the weather-gage fell bravely on maintaining the Engagement till almost ten at Night the French all that while bearing away and the English pursuing them some Ships were seen in the Night-time in flames about nine of the Clock UPON this News and ever to be wish'd for Success as well by Land as Sea of which heaven has given us already so great an Earnest of future Improvement against the Common Enemy not only the Joy of all Good Subjects Abounded but the Bells in all Places where it came were Rung out the Tower Guns and those in other places were discharged and the Streets at Night filled with Bonfires and Illuminations to the great Contentment and Rejoycing of the Nation Captain Killingsworth Commander of the Fox Fire-Ship made his way to Portsmouth in his Boat and gave an Account that he had Burnt his Fire-ship on Board the French Rear-Admiral but was put off with a great deal of difficulty and that he saw a French Man of War of about Seventy Guns Blow up and another Three-Deck'd Ship on Fire ON the Twenty-first about Nine of the Clock in the Morning our Fleet set Sail again as likewise did the French Admiral Russel took his Course towards Barfleur having got sight of Divers Ships under the Shoar Admiral Allemond of the Dutch and the Admiral of the Blew Sailed to the Westward The First of these Endeavoured to get up with Sixteen of the Enemies Ships which he Discovered Supposing them to be coming from France to Joyn the French Fleet. Sir John Ashby pursued the rest of the French Fleet who in much confusion laboured to get into the Rase of Ornay Admiral Allemond lost Sight of the Aforementioned Sixteen Ships in the Night they having as he supposed got in among the Rocks and because he found it not Safe nor Convenient to Follow them there he Sailed Eastward again to Rejoyn Admiral Russel ON the Twenty-Second in the Morning Vice-Admiral Delaval Burnt near to the Shoar under Cape de Wike a great Ship called the Rising Sun of France being the Ship of Count De Tourville the French Admiral carrying a Hundred and Four Guns as likewise the Admiral commanded by his Second Monsieur Beaujeu a Ship carrying a Hundred and two