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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

Occasion THIS Joy spread wider than the narrow bounds of our Island being Lively expressed in almost all the Courts of Christendom And the Duke of Savoy finding that the French King by large though unjust advances encroached upon his Country thinking it high time to provide for the Liberty and Safety of his Subjects before they were brought to that Distress that others had fallen into by delay and too much Relyance on French Flatery and desembled protestations of good meaning towards them Being willing to come into the Alyance sent his Envoys or Ambassadors to the Courts of the Confederate Princes whose Negotiations Concluded very Prosperously Averting from him the Fate of Lorrain and Burgundy c. that had been so Treacherously taken from their Rightful Owners whilst they were held in hand with specious pretences that no such thing was intended And that it may with reason be held that the Court of Savoy is looked on as one of the Politick Courts of Europe The Expressions of the Sieur Dela-Tour Baron of Burdeaux Councellour of State to the Duke President of the Finaces of Savoy and Intendant of his Royal Highnesses Houshold delivered when he had his Audience of the King and Queen as Envoy Extraordinary here from the Duke which for the Elegance of the Stile gaining a General Approbation may be well Inserted here TO the King He Addressed Himself in the Following Words SIR HIS Royal Highness Congratulates Your Majesty's Glorious Access to the Crown Due to Your Birth Merited by Your Virtues and Maintained by Your Valour Providence Ordained it for Your Sacred Head for the Accomplishments of Heavens Designs from all Eternity THAT Providence which after a long forbearance Raises up Chosen Instruments at length to Suppress Violence and Protect Justice The Wonderful beginnings of Your Reign are sure Presages of the Blessing Heaven is Preparing for the Integrity of Your Intentions which have no other Aim than to Restore this Flourishing Kingdom to that Grandeur which it Antiently Enjoy'd and to Break those Chains under the Weight of which all Europe at Present Groans THIS Magnanimous Design so Worthy the Heroe of our Age soon fill'd His Royal Highness with Vnspeakable Joy tho' He was Constrained to keep it Vndisclosed for a Time in the Privacy of his Heart and if afterwards he could not forbear to let it break forth the Obligation is Due to Your Majesty You have at length Inspired him with Hopes of Liberty after so many Years Servitude MY Words and the Treaty which I have already Signed at the Hague with Your Majesty 's Envoy but faintly Express my Masters Passionate Desires to Vnite himself to Your Majesty by an Vnviolable Devotion to Your Service THE Honour which he has of being one that appertains to Your Majesty has Knit the first Knot of this Vnion and the Protection You Grant him with so much Generosity has brought it to the Perfection of being Indissolvable These are the sincere Sentements of his Royal Highness with which I dare not Presume to intermix any thing of my own for how Ardent soever my Zeal may be how Profound soever my Veneration of Your Majestys Glory I know not how better to express it than by the Silence of Respect and Admiration BY this Speech we see how a Good Prince gains not only the Love and Entire Affections of his own Subjects but even that of all Generous Princes and Good Men and Raises to himself Trophies in their Hearts that shall stand as Lasting Monuments of his Worth and Renown AFTER this Eloquent Speech made to the King the Envoy Addressed himself to the Queen in the Following Words Viz. MADAM VIRTVE at the same time with Your Majesty Ascended to the Throne and all Europe beheld it with Admiration but the Effects have been to none more Joyfully Grateful than to his Royal Highness whilst You have the Goodness to be the Support of his Concerns and he the Honour to Depend so nearly on Your Majesty I Return Your Majesty most Humble thanks on his Behalf and beg Your Protection of a Prince most Confidently Assured That he shall still uphold the Dignity of his high Degree if Heaven Vouchsafe to Support the Justice of his Cause by the King's Valour Your Majesty's Prudence which You made appear the Last Summer after a most Wonderful manner not only Winning the Hearts of Your Subjects by the Mildness of Your Government but Striking a Terror into Your Enemies by the Constancy of Your Courage THIS is a Felicity that will always attend Your Majestys Heroick Virtues and Vnite to Your Immortal Glory the Eternal Happiness of Your Kingdoms And this Madam I altogether Wish with a Fervent Zeal as the Most Faithful of Your Servants HERE we find the best of Queens Admired almost to Adoration by those who in a manner had only heard of her Virtues Piety and Prudent Conduct in the managing the Great and Weighty affair of the Kingdom in the Kings Absence when the French were on the Coast and in other matters as has been shewed before Her Mercys and Tender Compassions to the Oppressed have been Worthily but can never sufficiently be extolled The Wisdom of the Nation were sensible of this and the Commons Assembled in Parliament having Addressed the King to congratulate his Success and Happy Preservation Addressed the Queen in this Humble Tender of their Affections to her Royal Person Viz. May it Please Your Majesty WE Your Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament Assembled do Most Humbly beg leave to Express the Deep sense we have of the Goodness Wisdom and Courage which Your Majesty did Manifest in the Greatest Difficulties and most Pressing Dangers during His Majestys Absence at a time when a Powerful Enemy was upon the Coast when the Nation was weakned in that part which is its proper Strength and Deprived of the Security of his Majesties presence The Resolution Your Majesty Shewed in Your Administration gave Life to Your Subjects and made them excert a Strength and Force unknown to the former Reigns and Your Zeal for the Publick Encouraged them to shew such Chearfulness in their Duty as Disappointed the Hopes and Designs of all the Open and Secret Enemies of the Government THE Grateful Remembrance of this which Renews the Remembrance of our most Happy Times will for ever Remain in the Hearts of Your People and can never fail to be Expressed in all Instances of Loyalty and Obedience from us and all the Commons of England SO much the Goodness and Sweetness of Temper in the Queen had wound her into the Hearts of Her People that no Expressions of Gratitude could be wanting to make an Acknowledgment of the Tranquility we enjoyed under her Auspicious Government and Protection so Mild and secure that it appeared a Halcyon Calm to other Reigns in which the Blustring Storms of State proved very Turbulent and uneasy to a great part of the Nation so that the People shewed a Ready willingness in all the

had made it his Request to have her in Marriage both of the King and the Duke who had not refused but condescended to his request and proposals and therefore thought it requisite to give their Lordships an account of it expecting in Return their speedy Approbation that he might the sooner return to them c. THEY had no sooner received this Advice with the Highest satisfaction imaginable but they immediately assembled to consult about and consider the weighty reasons that obliged the Prince to make so agreeable a choice to make them happy in placing his affections on the most Virtuous and Celebrated Princess in Europe approving it with Congratulation and joy and made the high satisfaction they conceived known by a publick Edict declaring their good opinion and esteem of so great an Alliance promising not only to respect but to observe it to the utmost And further to testify their consent they sent their Approbation on the Fourth of November to the Prince THINGS being Happily brought to this pass and all things being prepared for the Celebration of the Marriage it was performed the Day the States Approbation Arived being the Prince's Birth-Day The Bishop of London Tying this Happy Knot of Wedlock according to the apointed Ceremonies of the Church of England the King presenting the Royal Bride THE News of this Vnion was sounded aloud through the Three Kingdoms by Ringing of Bells and Joyful Acclamations of the People with Bonfires and other Illuminations The Gentry and Nobility giving very plentifully to the Poor And the Royal Pair received the Congratulations of the most eminent persons of the Nation having been before entertained in the City at the Annual Investure of the Lord-Mayor on his being Sworn before the Barrons of the Exchequer at Westminster Divers Congratulatory Poems were made by the best hands Illustrating upon a Subject that was before very Glorious in the Eyes of the Nation AFTER some few Days spent at Court in Feasting and Royal Treatments of Balls and Musick and Songs of Triumph having farther received the Complements of the Nobility and Chief Ministers of State the Royal Pair on the 29th intending for Holland took their leave attended with a Train of Noblemen and Ladies Embarqued in the Yatches and waited on by divers Men of War order'd to that purpose Sailed with a Prosperous Gail and Landed at Ter-Hyde passing from thence to Hounslery-Dyke where they continued for some time and received private visits till things could be prepared for a Reception suitable to their Characters at the Hague THINGS being prepared in the most Splendid manner upon their approach they were met by Divers Nobles and found the Bridge Crowned with Garlands and Twelve Companys of Burghers drawn up in Arms ranged in order to receive them The People every where expressing the highest Satisfaction imaginable in their Geeneral Acclamations and Shouts of Joy and upon the passage of the Bridge they were met by Twenty Four Virgins Singing Songs of Joy suitable to the occasion who going before the Cavelcade strowed the way with Fragrant Herbs Flowers on their Approaching to the Town-House they found a Triumphal Arch fixed very Magnificent with Land-Skips and Sylvian Sceens with Two Hands on the Top Clasping each other Hierogliphically signifying Amity And over the Market-Place in the High-Street another Arch was Erected with Devices and a Motto suitable to that occasion During this Entrance the Burghers made divers Volly's of Shot and the Loud Thunderings of the Cannon spread their Approach yet wider the Congress being very Great and Numerous THERE were likewise divers Curious Fire-Works imitating Fountains and Trees of Fire Golden-Hair Stars and Ciphers of Flame At Night the Streets were Illuminated and Bonefires Blazed in all the noted Towns of the Provinces and the Entertainments were very Splendid and Magnificent The French continuing their unjust Encroachment King Charles upon this Alliance dispatch'd his Commission Impowring the Lord Hyde his Ambassador at the Hague to make and confirm a strict Alliance with the States General mutualy to assist stand by and defend each other till they should oblige the French King to reason by putting a stop and bounds to his Ambitious Designs and the Parliament of England at that time declar'd very earnest in the business offering to raise divers great Sums of Money for promoting this affair for the recovering Satisfaction for injurys done by such means as should be thought most expedient and agreenble so that the King sent the Lord Montague his Ambassador to France to press for a speedy Restitution of such places as were taken and Detained from his Confederates and Allies and upon the triflings and delays of that Court to come to any result as to the Satisfaction demanded An Army was raised and the King of England recalled his Forces that were in the French Service who were partly sent home but without any payment of their Arrears which was very considerable And so early an effect had this Happy Marriage in the Alliance it made with England and that the French King was in a great Measure put to a stand how to proceed The Duke of Monmouth being sent over with about 3000 English Horse and Foot and the Prince by these and other Auxillary Troops did give a great Defeat to the Duke of Luxemburg who Commanded the French Army near Mons in Hannault had thereupon News that Pursuant to a former Treaty set on foot a Peace was concluded between the States General of the Vnited Provinces and the Crown of France upon the latter delivering several Towns that he had with great Expence of Blood and Treasure taken from the Former So the War by this means being at an end on this side he returned to the Hague where he was received by the People with the usual Joy but from his Illustrious Princess inexpressible seeing his pretious Life had been protected by Providence in so Eminent a Danger as his Royal Person was expos'd unto For in the Fight a French Captain being in full Career to Charge him at a disadvantage Monsieur Overkirk in a happy moment Shot that Enemy who was reaching at the most Pretious Life in the World for which good service as a grateful acknowledgment the States presented him with a Sword whose Hilt was Massy Gold a Golden Pair of Horse-Buckles and a Pair of Pistols Inlayed with Gold And thus we see this Happy Vnion in a great measure brought very early an unexpected Peace to the Waring Nations THE French King having made a Peace with the States General it was not long after the rest of the Confederates accorded the like So that the Prince retired from the toils of War had now again the Pincess's Company and Convesation which was so Winning and Attractive that nothing but mighty affairs where Fame and Glory call'd him forth to stop the impetuous Torrent and support a Tottering State could have made so long a Separation or Distance AS for the Joy the Court conceived at

All this I Promise to do After this the King and Queen laying their Hands on the Holy Gospel shall say These things which I have here before Promised I will Perform and Keep So help me GOD. AND by Virtue of the same Act this Oath is to be Administred to the Kings and Queens that shall hereafter succeed to the Crown THE Nations Jubilie as we may term it being now come The King and Queen came from White-Hall to Westminster whilst the Heraulds and other Officers at Arms were ordering the Procedings after a litle stay about Eleven in the Morning the whole Proceeding passed into the Great Hall from the Lords House and Painted Chamber at the upper end whereof a Throne was Erected and on it Their Majesties took Their Seats under a Canopy of State whilst the Master of the Jewel-House brought and presented the Swords to the Lord High Constable viz. That of State that called Curtana and the Two Pointed Swords in their proper Order who delivered them in the same Order to the Lord Great Chamberlain who having Drawn them Presented them on the Table before the King and Queen as also the Spurs UPON this the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster brought and Presented the Crowns and the other Regalia in their proper manner and these again were delivered to those whose Claim it was to bear them THINGS being thus fixed the Proceeding passed from Westminster-Hall to the Abby in Excellent Order and every one placed in their Station and Degree Silence being made the Recognition was begun by the Lord Bishop of London at the end of which there was a General Shout and Acclamation of high Satisfaction among the People The King and Queen then Offered and the Noblemen that carry'd the Regalia Offered them severally at the Altar there to be disposed of Then the Bishops of St. Asaph and Bangor Sung the Littany after which the Communion Service begun The Epistle was Read by the Bishop of Carlisle and the Gospel by the Bishop of St. Asaph After this the Nicene Creed was Read and by this time the Bishop of Salisbury being in the Pulpit Preach'd an Excellent Sermon on the Occasion from these Words Viz. THE GOD of IsrAel said The rock of Israel spake to Me He that Ruleth over Men must be Just Ruling in the Fear of GOD And he shall be as the Light of the Morning when the Sun Riseth even a Morning without Clouds as the Tender Grass Springeth out of the Earth by Clear Shining after Rain 2 Sam. 23.3 4. To which the Pious Queen was all the while observed to be very Attentive The Charms of Power and Greatness with all the Splendid Pomp and Cerimony could not avert her thoughts from the more Serious Contemplation of Holy things BUT not to Digress in the midst of this Cerimony The Sermon ended Their Majesties took the beforementioned Oath and Voni Creator being Sung and the Anointing Oyl Consecrated Their Majesties were Conducted to the Chairs placedon a Theatre Disrobed of their Crimson Mantles and Solemnly Anointed then presented with the Spurs and Sword which were Offer'd up and Redeemed by the Right Honourable the Earl of Portland UPON this the King and Queen were Clad and Invested with the Imperial Robes and the Orbs delivered to them and after that the Rings and Scepters c. And about Four in the Afternoon the Royal Diadems were placed on Their Heads by the Lord Bishop of London Assisted by the Bishop of Rochester Then the Trumpets Sounded the Drums Beat the Thundering of the Great Guns with the Peoples Shouts Proclaimed the News The Peers and Peeresses hereupon put on their Coronets and the BIBLE was presented to the King and Queen after this they Kissed the Bishops and then Te Deum was Sung and thereupon they Ascended the Throne The Arch-Bishop and Bishops doing their Homage and Kissed Their Majesties Left Cheeks and then the Temporal Peers did the like whilst the Treasurer of the Houshold cast the Meddals among the people and after this began the Communion and the King and Queen made their second Offering and Receiving the Holy Sacrament they Entred in their Robes of State to St. Edwards Chappel where they were Divested of the Imperial Pall c. And having Robes of Purple Velvet put on them they returned with their Crowns on their Heads in the same Order they came the Peers and Peeresses now wearing their Coronets and Entring the Great Hall at Westminster a Royal Entertainment was provided of all that is Rare and Costly several Tables being Furnished out in the most Delicious manner and Charles Dymock Esq Their Majesties Champion between the First and Second Course came Riding Compleatly Armed into the Hall Conducted by the Lord High Constable and the Earl Marshal on Horse-back likewise and his Challenge pronounced by York Herauld Viz. If any Person of what Degree soever High or Low shall Deny or gainsay our Soveraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary King and Queen of England France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith to be Rightful King and Queen of England or that they ought not to enjoy the Imperial Crown of the same Here is their Champion who saith he Lyeth and is a False Traytor being ready in Person to Combate with him and in this Quarrel will Venture his Life against him on what Day soever he shall be appointed After this Their Majesties Royal Stiles were Proclaim'd in Latin and English and every thing was performed with the Exactest Order and Decency concluding about Eight of the Clock when Their Majesties returned to Whitehall and the rest of the Evening was spent in Bonfires Ringing of Bells and other Demonstrations of Joy THIS happy Corronation usher'd in the King and Queens being Proclaim'd in Scotland for after the States had passed the Vote to that purpose in the Convention of that Kingdom they Assisted by the Magistrates Lord Provost and Council of the City of Edinborough went to the Market Cross where Lyon King at Arms assisted by the Heraulds and Pursuvants Proclaimed them King and Queen of Scotland c. The Trumpets Sounding and the Peoples Shoutings expressing the Joy conceived on this Occasion And soon after they were Proclaimed in all the Citys and principal Boroughs of that Kingdom ON the 18th of April 1689 the Sieur Shemettan Extraordinary Envoy from the Duke of Brandenburg Complement Their Majesties in his first Audience upon their Accession to the Throne Nor was the Scots Nation slow in presenting their Crown The States Deputing the Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery and Sir John Dalrimple their Commissioners to that purpose At the same time causing a Day of Thanksgiving to be set apart for their Deliverance from Popery c. ON the 11th of May the Scots Commissioners waited on the King and Queen in the Banquetting-House at Whitehall and presented a Letter from the States of Scotland and after that an Instrument of Government then a Writing Containing divers grievances which they Humbly

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