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A complete history of the late revolution from the first rise of it to this present time in three parts ... : to which is added a postscript, by way of seasonable advice to the Jacobite party.
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Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
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order to which the Hollanders must first be brought down and both Kings joyn in Arms to make them incapable of being any longer a Support or Refuge for Protestants Delenda est Carthago In short Anno 72 the Storm broke out upon Holland that Nest of Hereticks And in two Campaigns we saw that Potent State at that time our only Rival upon the Ocean brought by the French King's Land Forces to the last Extremity whilst we harassed them at Sea and fought them but without any great Advantage on our side We had indeed a Frenchy Squadron in conjunction with our Fleet but their business it seems was not to fight All their Care was to be Spectators of our Fights at a convenient distance and to see if the English did their Duty well In the mean time they learnt the Art of our Sea-fights and had the satisfaction to see these two Protestant Nations thus weaken one another which was the French King 's chief Aim This Conduct of the French at Sea with the amazing Progress of their Arms by Land happened to open our Eyes For till then we were possessed of the Justice of the War on our side considering the many Provocations of the States as they were mustered in the King's Declaration We could not imagine that King Charles had any other Design than to curb their Pride and lessen their Power at Sea for the benefit of our Trade and Navigation in order to which a little help tho' from France was not thought amiss The dover-Dover-Treaty lay then under the Rose and we knew not what Snake lay in the Grass The King wanting Mony to prosecute the War convened his Parliament The Danger we were in by the apparent Ruin of a Neighbouring State of the same Religion with us and now become with our help a Prey to the French came soon under Debate The Parliament voted a Peace with the States And the King finding no Mony was to be had without it yielded to their Desire and made a separate Peace This startled King Lewis who from this very time concluded that King Charles was not to be relyed on for the execution of that grand Religious Design he had been so long big withal And to be even with him for his Desertion in this War he caused not long after the Dover Treaty to be published with his Priviledge by the Abbot Primi in his History of the War with Holland whereby he chiefly designed to make the King odious to his People The Duke of York upon this was look'd upon as the fitter Person for the Project in hand who wanting neither Zeal nor Ambition was a Vessel altogether prepared and moulded for his purpose Whereas King Charles was like the Church of Laodicea neither Cold nor Hot and therefore to be spued out The Dutchess of Orleans or rather the French King by her means had sent to King Charles a French Curtain Sollicitor but a true Member of the Holy Church as a Pledge or Memorandum of the Dover Treaty Who for her close and faithful Commerce with the King was made D. of P. The same Care he took of his R. H. to keep him in a right Cue and steady to his Principles but by way of Marriage So that he was both Procurer and Match-maker The Match was Mary the late Duke of Modena's Daughter an Italian Princess of no great Fortune but of an Ancient Family and which was most to the purpose a Princess intirely devoted to the present Interest The Duke had been three Years and a half a Widower And as the Case stood there was a Necessity for his R. H. to venture on a second Match that the Succession to the Crown might be Intailed either by Nature or Art to an Heir Male. The Lady Mary and the Lady Ann his two Daughters by Ann his first Wife were bred and born Protestants and such were not for the present Turn King Charles who was sensible how unacceptable this Match was to his People and fearing some ill Consequences of it upon himself resolved however to dispose of his Royal Nieces and to Marry them to Protestant Princes to allay the Jealousies and Fears from this New Match Which indeed were something the less for the then common Opinion That His Royal Highness was too much Frenchifi'd to get any durable Iâ—ue To the Lady Mary was given in Marriage to the Prince of Orange Anno 1677 and the Lady Ann to Prince George of Denmark in the Year 1683. But few days after the Lady MARY was married to the Prince of ORANGE the Dutchess of YORK was brought to bed of a Son created Duke of Cambridge who dying in four or five days the Popish Faction had but a short Joy of it In the mean time his R. H. being the next Heir to the Crown and the Papists resolved not to lose this Opportunity turned every Stone to make their Party good by Plotting and Conspiring even with Authority against the Government The KING was healthful and of a strong constitution but wanted zeal or boldness to secure their Interest The DUKE was zealous and bold but wanted a sound Body In short according to all humane probability the KING by the strength of Nature was the most likely to live These Considerations were like enough to give Birth to that famous Conspiracy which upon its breaking out made so great a Noise in the World I mean the Popish Plot. And tho I cannot believe it in all its Branches as made out by Dr. Oates yet in the main 't is more than probable that there was a Plot on foot against the Government Mr. Coleman the Dukes Secretary's intercepted Letters are a sufficient Proof of this who kept as appears by those Letters a close Correspondence with Father La Chaise the French King's Confessor for the Extirpating the Protestant Religion in these Kingdoms under the name of the Northern Heresy That to Extirpate imports a violent Act is a thing undeniable So that the Roman Religion was not to come in by fair means or by way of persuasion but by force and violence And 't is like a great deal more of that wicked Design had appeared if amongst Coleman's latest Letters for two years and a half that were brought to White-Hall many had not been there supprest and kept from the sight of the Parliament Yet upon his Trial he openly avowed the Design of Subverting the Protestant Religion wherein he owned himself a subordinate Minister This Plot kept for a while the Papists under Hatches and forced the Duke himself upon the King's Command to withdraw for some time out of the Kingdom so that he went first to Flanders and afterwards to Scotland Mean while the House of Commons who lookt upon him as the great Abettor and Supporter of the Popish Interest went so far as to attempt his Exclusion from the Crown But as vigorously as it was carried on in the House of Commons it was quashed in the House of Lords by the Church
States Dominions Powers and Principalities by setting up a Sham-Prince who being upon the Throne must be lookt upon and respected as a great King and a lawful Prince in all their Treaties and Negotiations with him But what is not a blind Zeal capable of To Settle a Popish Successor in these Kingdoms was such a piece of meritorious Service to the Church of Rome that nothing could indear the King more to her than the doing of it What Issue he had then alive were too much dipt in Heresy and nothing could bring them off from it no not so much as to consent to the Repealing of those two Bug-bears the Penal Laws and the Tests But suppose this Prince were really born of the Queen against which there are so many strong Presumptions 't is a Thing unaccountable why the Queen should be so shy all the time of her Child-bearing to give that publick Satisfaction about it which was reasonably expected from her Majesty The Nation was possessed it was all but a Trick It had been therefore but common Prudence in the Queen to Undeceive us as far as it lay in her power even for the Child's sake in her Womb. If her Majesty had Milk in her Breasts what diminution to her Glory had it been to let her Protestant Ladies see but some Drops of it If when the Child stirred in the Womb but two or three true-hearted Protestant Ladies had been admitted to feel those Motions it had gone a great way to silence all Gainsayers and to quicken the very Nation into another Belief When Her Majesty was near the time of her Travel to what purpose was the Place appointed for her Lying In so concealed that no Protestant could tell where to find Her And why must a Room at last be chosen at S. James's with a private Door within the Ruel of the Bed leading into another Room which alone was enough to create a Suspicion To which add a total Neglect and absolute slighting of all the necessary Rules of Law and Justice about needful Witnesses of the Birth of a Prince and Heir to the Crown So that supposing this pretended Prince to be really born of the Queen it must be granted that Things were so managed from the beginning to the end as if the Court intended to make the Thing still more doubtful and the Suspicion the stronger And if that was their Aim they have hit the Nail on the Head Thus the Birth of this supposed Prince not being lawfully Witnessed Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange had no Reason to depart from her Claim of Heiress apparent to the Crown or to Resign it to him But rather to complain to the World of the Wrong done her by suffering a supposed Child to steal upon her Right and assâ—â—me the Name of Prince and Heir apparent to the Crown Nor was it her part to prove him a Counterfeit it being a Rule by the Laws and Customs of all Civil Governments for any one that claims to be the lawful Son of a family to being in legal Proofs for it Her Royal Highness had been hitherto acknowledged to be the Heiress apparent of the Crown and nothing could legally debar her from that Claun but a true born Prince with such Legal Witnesses as would satisfie the Nation that it was so The Want of which in this Case lâ—ft the Princess of Orange in her full Claim to the next Succession To vindicate which Claim and to Secure withal the Protestant Interest in these Kingdoms His Highness the Prince of Orange upon the earnest and humble Application of several of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal came over from Holland with a competent Force Which leads me to my Third Part. THE HISTORY Of the LATE REVOLUTION PART III. Shewing Our Wonderful Deliverance by our present King William and our Great Happiness therein THings were now brought to an Extremity and nothing but a miraculous Providence could Rescue us from our Enemies To which end it pleased God to raise His Highness the Prince of Orange A Magnanimous Wise and Religious Prince whose Illustrious Family seems to have been appointed by Providence ever since the Reformation for the Preservation of God's Church and a Check to Tyranny This Prince being penetrated with the dismal Account he â—iâ—y Zeaâ—ed of the French Persecution and possessed with a and King 〈◊〉 Sâ—inst the Known Combination of King James the Reformation for the Inslaving all Europe and Rooting out to oppose their Ambâ—â—â—d with God's help in so just a Cause that had been hitherto the 〈◊〉 Idolatrous Designs England King's Greatness was the most likely Instrument of the French 〈…〉 reduced to its proper and natural Course to influence and procure his Fall The Provocations were great on King James's side by his Arbitrary Methods of Government contrary to Law and the Subjects Liberty by his Attempts upon their Religion and by Imposing upon them a Successor justly suspected of being a Stranger to the Royal Blood For the Redressing which Abuses by a Free and Full Parliament His Royal Highness undertook the late famous Expedition which God was pleased to Crown with Glory and Success to the Amazement of all Europe the Joy of all rational Men and the Terrour of Tyranny In order to which suitable Preparations had been made in Holland both by Sea and Land to defend his Highness from the Violence of all such as should oppose Him Which were carried on with that wonderful Secrecy tho' the Secret was dispersed amongst many that the Sagacious Count D' Avaux the French Embassador at the Hague could not sift out the Meaning of it till all Things were in great forwardness and the Prince almost ready to take Shipping Whose Forces consisted of about 13000 Men Horse Foot and Dragoons and which is remarkable a good part of them Papists For the Transporting whereof with all Things necessary there were 300 Fly-boats Pinks and other Vessels under the Convoy of 50 Capital Men of War 26 Smaller and 25 Fire-ships But before his Setting out He published a Declaration to satisfy the World with the Justice of his Undertaking Wherein having fairly shewn the manifest and undeniable Invasion of the Laws and Liberties of England Scotland and Ireland by the Kings The Sum of the Prince of Orange's Declaration Evil Counsellors He Declares That Vpon the most earnest Sollicitations of a great many Lords both Spiritual and Temporal and of many Gentlemen and other Subjects of all Ranks for the Relief of these Three Kingdoms He thought sit to 〈◊〉 over into England with a Force sufficient by the Blaâ—â— intended to defend him from Violence That his Expedâ—â—wful Parliament for no other End but to have a Free Secure to the whole Na-Assembled as soon as possible in Laws Rights and Liberties â—â—â—tion the free Injoyment of â—â—vernment to preserve the Protestant under a Just and 〈◊〉 such as would live peaceably under the Government Religion 〈…〉 as becomes good Subjects from all Persecution