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A38386 England's deliverance from popery and slavery and the piety and justice of King William and Queen Mary of ever blessed memory, in ascending the throne of these dominions, asserted. 1695 (1695) Wing E2957A; ESTC R36560 3,167 1

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England's Deliverance from Popery and Slavery And the Piety and Justice of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY of Ever Blessed Memory in Ascending the Throne of these Dominions Asserted I. BEcause James Duke of York was by three Parliaments of the Commons of England rightly adjudged to have rendered himself uncapable to Execute the Soveraign Power of these Realms having Apostatized to Popery whereby he incapacitated himself 1. To Maintain the Dignities and Preeminencies of this Imperial Crown as they were asserted in the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy in both which all Papal Power is rejected and barred 2. To take and keep the Coronation-Oath in the first Clause whereof he promiseth To keep the Church of God the Clergy and People entirely in Peace and Concord in God II. Having been admitted as King he degenerated into a Tyrant openly endeavouring to overturn the Established Laws Liberties and Religion and to introduce Arbitrary Power and the Popish Superstition as appeareth 1. By raising Money contrary to Law that is without any Act of Parliament as in the Levying of Customs Excise c. 2. By maintaining a standing Army in time of Peace 3. Quartering that Army contrary to Law and the Petition of Right 4. Officering that Army with Papists Subjects in part to a Foreign Power in Opposition to the Laws of the Land and Addresses of his Parliament to whom he made this Answer Novemb. 9. 1685. Though the said Officers were not qualified according to the late Tests for their Employments yet he would neither expose them to Disgrace nor himself to the want of them 5. By his assuming a Legislative Power by Dispensing with all Statutes for the Protestant Religion established by Law whereby he at one blow took away above Forty Acts of Parliament 6. Erecting a High-Commission-Court for Ecclesiastical Affairs to proceed with a Non obstante that is without and against Law whereby the Bishop of London was Suspended the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge Oxon. were outed of their Free-holds without Legal Process and because they would not contrary to their Oath chuse an unqualified President though it 's expresly provided in Magna Charta That no Man shall lose Life Limb or Goods but by the Law of the Land Also the same Colledge as well as others in both Universities were provided with Popish Priests who by the Law of the Land ought to be hang'd 7. Imprisoning seven Bishops only because they Petitioned him to regard the Oath he had taken to maintain the Laws of the Kingdom 8. Setting up Popish Mass-Houses Schools Monasteries sending out four Popish Provincial Bishops to Visit England admitting Petre a Jesuit and other Papists into his Privy-Council sending an Embassador to Rome and receiving a Nuncio from the Pope putting Papists into Commission of the Peace all the Kingdom over and Commissioning a Popish Judge to sit on the Bench. 9. And after all this signifying in his Second Declaration for Liberty of Conscience dated April 7. 1688. That none ought to be employed under him but such as would contribute to chuse such Members of Parliament as might do their part to finish what he had begun 10. In Scotland he declared himself cloathed with Absolute Power and that his Subjects ought to Obey him without Reserve III. To entail Popery and Tyranny upon the Kingdom he endeavoured to alter the Succession by imposing a false Heir upon these Kingdoms in Dis-inherision of the Princess of Orange his Daughter the true Apparent Heir of the Crown whose undoubted Right to the Succession could not be overthrown unless the new Claimer's Right be fully proved by a competent Number of Witnesses duly qualified to give Evidence upon so high a Concern For whi●h 't was necessary 1. That they who assisted or attended at the Queen's pretended Delivery should be Persons of known Honour and Honesty not Foreigners Papists or such complying Protestants who had assisted the King in his unlawful Designs 2. The Time and Place of the pretended Birth should have been fore-known and so ordered as not to have given great Suspicion of Indirectness 3. 'T was necessary that the Princesses of the Blood should have had notice thereof that in their Persons or by their Proxies they might have been present 4. And also tht they or their Proxies or at least some other Women of High Quality and Great Credit should have been made acquainted with such Symptoms of a true Conception which any Breeding Woman may with Ease and Modesty discover as Milk in the Breast and motion of the Child And that which made all these Precautions necessary was the Universal Suspicion that the Queen 's great Belly was fictitious And there were some Great-bellied Women a little before the time of the Queen's pretended Delivery treated with to part with their Child as soon as born provided it were a Son But on the contrary the Women who assisted were most Papists and Foreigners the Men who attended at a distance too were the Instruments of the King's Misrule as the Lord Chanc. and others the Princesses of the Blood not present so much as by Proxies Time and place of the Birth concealed a private Door within the Ruel of the Bed the Curtains whereof were then drawn the Child not shewn in the Room where the pretended Delivery was and but one Protestant Gentlewoman at last who asserted the reality of the Queen's being with Child Now if Zeal for the Popish Cause could prevail on the King to break through his Oaths and frequent Promises to maintain the Church and Laws of England 't is no strange thing that he should consent to the Dis-inherision of his Protestant Children IV. That for the foresaid Reason the King was justly laid aside and abrogated for Misgovernment will appear if we consider with St. Paul the Nature of Government in the general as it is God's Ministry to us for good Rom. 13.4 Or else in any particular Form with St. Peter who in that respect calls it the Ordinance of Man 1 Pet. 2.13 Without doubt Men as well as God ordained it for their Good So that a Soveraign Prince can claim no Authority either from God or Man to Oppress his People But if he does they may justly lay aside their Oppressor and being obliged by God's Law of Nature to preserve themselves and Families they ought so to do And since the sole reason of our Allegiance to a King is the Common Good when his Government becometh an intolerable publick Evil our Allegiance is at an end Agreeable hereunto is our Old English Constitution as appeareth by the Solemn Deposing of King Edward II. and his Grandson King Richard II. to whom the Lords and Commons declared That they had it by Ancient Statute and by a late doleful Instance that in case a King shall alienate himself from his People by bad Advice and in a head-strong way will exercise his own Self-will From thence it shall be Lawful for them to Depose the King from the Regal Throne and to promote some Kinsman of his of the Royal Family to the Throne of the Kingdom in his stead Knighton V. The setled Resolution of King James to Rule by an Arbitrary Power will appear from his twice withdrawing himself from the execution of his Royal Trust and leaving the Kingdom rather than he would refer the Matter of Succession which was then in Dispute betwixt him and the Prince of Orange and also other Matters of Difference betwixt him and his People to a free Parliament he would in a head-strong way go to France that by the Assistance of French Counsels and Arms he might return a Conquerour and Rule as for some time he did in Ireland by those Counsels and his own Will VI. There is a Right Honourable Peer who was very intimate with the late King Charles who has writ a Character of him and when he comes to speak of his Death he saith I am assured the most knowing of his Physicians did not only believe him poison'd but thought himself so too not long after for having declared his Opinion too boldly He means Dr. Short who dyed about eight days after that King Now tho' we may not say the Duke of York was privy to this Villany yet it may honestly be thought to have been done for his sake And tho' he could not but know there was a suspicion of it yet he never made any Inquisition into it These Reasons do fully justifie the Act of Parliament which Investeth the Prince and Princess of Orange with the Imperial Crown of this Realm Wherein it is declared That King James II. did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom and also that he had Abdicated i. e. Forfeited the Government whereby the Throne became vacant And Secondly If the Throne was vacant and there has appeared no Legal Proof of the pretended Prince of Wales's Right thereunto but strong Presumptions on the contrary it was both Lawfully and Rightfully filled by his present Majesty King William III. and his late Royal Consort of Ever Blessed Memory our most Gracious QUEEN MARY LONDON Printed for Eleanor Smith and are to be Sold by John Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695.