Members of Parliament in K. Charles's Reign met at Westminster by the Prince's Advice and presented him an Address of Thanks for rescuing the Nation desiring him to take upon him the Government till January 22. and in the mean time to issue out Letters for the Meeting of a Convention and take into his Care the Condition of Ireland 7. 1689 28. 1688 He issues out his Letters for electing Members for the Convention 8. 29.  9. 1689 30. 1688 The Prince puts out his Proclamation authorizing Sheriffs Justices of Peace c. to act 10. 1678 31. 1677 This Day a Treaty between England and Holland was concluded at the Hague in order to reestablish Peace in Christendom and oblige the French King to grant reasonable Terms to the Crown of Spain c.  January  11. 1.  12. 2. 1689 The Prince of Orange publishes a Declaration for the better collecting the Revenue 13. 3. 1689 The Lord Dartmouth brings back the English Fleet into the Downs 14. 4.  15. 5. 1689 The Prince of Orange publishes an Order for the regular Election of Convention Men. dit 1691 King William prorogues the English Parliament 16. 6. 1691 His Majesty sets out for Holland to confer with several Confederate Princes but the Wind turning contrary he is forced to come back 17. 7. 1672 The States General appoint John de Wit Mynheer Beverning and Mynheer Fagel to draw up the Commission of Captain General 18. 8. 1651 The States General meet to dispose of the Places vacant by the Prince of Orange's Death dit 1689 The Prince puts out a Proclamation at London for quartering of Souldiers 19. 9. 1672 The Prince is proclaimed Captain General of Holland and Westfrizeland 20. 10. 1672 The Prince sets out from the Hague to view the Fortresses of the States and order the Magistrates of the several Provinces dit 1689 The Scots Lords present an Address to the Prince to take the Government of their Kingdom upon him till March next and to issue out his Letters for calling the States of Scotland to meet the 14th of the said Month. 21. 11.  22. 12. 1674 The States of Holland encrease the Houshold of his Royal Highness and the Number of his Guards 23. 13. 1673 The Prince presents the States with his tenth Part of all Prizes to be applied to the Defence of the Country 24. 14. 1689 The Prince of Orange being waited upon by the Scots Lords tells them that he has given all necessary Orders for the Security of their Kingdom 25. 15. 1679 He returns to the Hague having visited the Fortifications of Naerden and other Places in the Provinces of Vtrecht and Holland 26. 16. 1691 The King goes on board a second time for Holland attended by the Dukes of Norfolk and Ormond the Earls of Portland Dorset and Devonshire the Bishop of London and other Lords 27. 17.  28. 18.  29. 19. 1675 The States of Vtrecht sent their Deputies to advise the Prince to accept of the Soveraignty of Guelderland and Zutphen 30. 20. 1691 His Majesty comes in sight of the Dutch Coasts with 12 Men of War and 7 Yatchs but the Ships being unable to come nigh the Shore by reason of the Ice he takes a small Shalop to go on shore wherein he continued for 18 Hours together in a dark Night without view of Land or his Fleet exposed at once to die for Hunger to perish with Cold to be drowned at every Stroke his small Pinnace made against the Ice and to be taken Prisoner by every Pirate The Danger his Majesty was exposed to wholly dispirited his Attendants and seeing one of the Seamen who seemed to succumb under the Pressures of Cold Weariness and Fear he rouzed him up with this Expression What! dost thou fear to die in my Company An Expression very like to that used by Cesar in the Sicilian Strait Quid times Caesarem vehis Fortunam Caesaris and which had the same Effect for the Seamen being thereby encouraged surmounted all Difficulties and set his Majesty on Shore 31. 21. 1691 He arrives at the Hague incognito where nevertheless he is received with extraordinary Demonstrations of Joy It was the first time he came thither since crowned King of England and the States designed him the most magnificent Reception these last Ages have seen but his Majesty declined it dit 1697 This Day his Majesty was pleased to create the Honourable Arnold Joost Van Keppel an Earl Viscount and Baron of this Kingdom by the Title and Stile of Earl of Albemarle Viscount Bury and Baron of Ashford   The same Day his Majesty was pleased to appoint the Lord Viscount Gallway one of the Lords Justices of Ireland February   1. 22. 1689 The Convention of the States of England met at Westminster the Marquiss of Hallifax was chosen Speaker by the Lords and Henry Powle Esq by the Commons Both Houses desired the Prince to take on him the Administration of the Government for a farther time and ordered a Thanksgiving day to be kept Jan. 31. Old Stile in London and Feb. 14. throughout England for the Deliverance of the Nation The Prince sent a Letter to the House of Lords about setling the Government 2. 23. 1674 The States of Holland and West-Frizeland declare the Place of Governour Captain General and Admiral of their Provinces possessed by his Highness hereditary in his Male-Posterity   The same Day the States of Zealand did the like and also made the Dignity of first Nobleman bestowed upon his Highness hereditary He was a few Days after complimented thereupon by K. Charles II's Envoy 3. 24.  4. 25. 1677 At the Request of the States General he goes to Groâ—ingen attended by some of their Deputies to compose the Divisions that were in that Town 5. 26. 1679 This Day the Treaty of Peace between the Empire and France was signed at Nimeguen dit 1691 His Majesty was obliged at the States Desires and the Peoples Importunities to make a publick Entry inâ—â—â—he Hague which was performed with all the Solemnity imaginable 6. 27. 1691 He gives Audieâ—ce to several Princes and Deputies of the Cities of Holland 7. 28. 1689 The House of Commons resolves that K. James H. having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom by breaking the Original Contract between King and People and by the Advice oâ— Jesuits and other wicked Persons having violated the Fundamental Laws and withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom has abdicated the Government and that the Throne is thereby become vacant dit 1691 His Majesty assists at the Assembly of the States of Holland and Westfrizeland of the States General and at the Council of State where he receives extraordinary Marks of Respect dit 1697 Sir John Fenwick Baronet attainted of High Treason for conspiring against the King and betraying his Country to the French was beheaded this Day on Tower-Hill 8. 29. 1689 The House of Lords being in a great Debate on
the State of the Nation the following Question was proposed Whether a Regency with the Administration of Regal Power under the Name and Stile of King James the Second during the Life of the said K. James be the best and safest way to preserve the Protestant Religion and the Laws of the Kingdom Upon which the House divided Contents 48 Non Contents 51.   February 11. 1. 1661 Charles II. demands from the States some Papers which the Princess of Orange his Sister had committed to his Care by her Will till the young Prince should come to Age but the States refused it as being themselves Guardians to the Prince This was the beginning or Pretence of a Breach between them 12. 2. 1651 The States General the Provinces of Holland and Zealand and the Cities of Amsterdam Delst and Harlem are desired to stand Godfathers to the Prince of Orange dit 1689 The Convention forbids the keeping of the 6th of February a Thanksgiving-Day as it was before it being the Day that K. James was proclaimed   The same Day a prodigious number of People go to Westminster to desire the Convention to crown the Prince and Princess of Orange 13. 3. 1689 The Prince sends 12 Men of War for Holland to bring the Princess into England 14. 4.  15. 5. 1689 The Commons desire a Free Conference with the Lords concerning the Abdication of King James II. and the Vacancy of the Throne which was long debated between the two Houses 16. 6. 1691 The Electors of Bavaria and Brandenburgh the Duke of Zell the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel the Marquiss de Gasbanaga Governour of the Spanish Netherlands and several other Great Lords come to the Hague to wait on his Majesty and confer together about the Affairs of the Alliance Never was a more illustrious Assembly there being about 50 Princes or Generals of Armies 14 English Lords above 30 Ambassadors and a great number of Princesses and other great Ladies 17. 7. 1689 The Lords agree with the Commons that King James has abdicated the Government and that the Throne is vacant dit 1676 The Elector of Brandenburgh proposes to the Prince a Match between his Highness and the Princess of Radzevill nearly related to the Elector who had a vast Fortune 18. 8.  19. 9. 1674 This Day was concluded a Treaty of Peace at Westminster between K. Charles II. and the States General of the United Netherlands The Marquiss del Frezno Ambassador of the King of Spain was Plenipotentiary for the Dutch 20. 10. 1675 The Prince being arrived at Arnhem where the Nobility and States of Guelderland were assembled he went to their Assembly and returned to them his Thanks for the Offers they had made unto him of the Sovereignty of those Provinces with the Title of Duke of Guelderland and Count of Zutphen for fear as he was pleased to express himself of occasioning Mistrust and lest his Enemies should accuse him of acting only for his own private Interest dit 1675 The States of the said Province elected his Highness their hereditary Governour which he accepted 21. 11. 1671 The Dutchess of York being brought to bed of a Girl the Prince of Orange is desired to stand her Godfather 22. 12. 1689 The Princess of Orange lands at Whitehall being received by several Lords and Ladies with the Acclamations of the People and all Demonstrations of Joy 23. 13. 1689 The Lords and Commons attend the Prince and Princess of Orange at the Banqueting-House at Whitehall and offer them the Imperial Crown of England and Ireland and all other Dominions thereunto belonging which being accepted they were the same day proclaimed in the Cities of London and Westminster with the usual Ceremonies by the Name of William and Mary 24. 14. 1689 King William makes choice of his Privy Council dit 1671 The Prince sets out from London for Holland attended by the Earl of Ossery dit 1672 He accepts the Dignity of Captain General of the Vnited Provinces dit 1689 King William puts out a Proclamation for the collecting of the Publick Revenue 25. 15. 1672 He took the Oath before the States General as Captain General dit 1696 A Company of Villains sent from France resolve to assassinate his Majesty in a narrow Lane near Turnham-Green as he should come from Hunting but by the good Providence of God his Majesty did not go out this Day as he used to do 26. 16.  27. 17. 1674 The Prince having considerably encreased his Army obliges the French to abandon Nimeguen Zutphea Arnhem Till and the Fort Schenck 28. 18. 1689 King William made a Speech to the Lords and Commons at Westminster it being the first time that he appeared as King in the House of Lords March   29. 19.  1. 20.  2. 21. He sent back part of the Dutch Forces for Holland 3. 22. 1689 King William issues out a Proclamation ordering the Irish Rebels to lay down their Arms by April next following dit 1696 The King having notice of the Design of the Conspirators against his Sacred Person forbears to go a Hunting They had resolved to murder his Majesty in a narrow Lane at Turnham-Green and were commanded by Sir George Barclay sent over by King James and the French King for that Villanous Design 4. 23. 1689 The King gives his Royal Assent to the Bill to declare the Convention a Parliament and for the Sitting of the same 4. 23. 1696 Several Warrants are issued out for apprehending a great many Villains who had conspired to assassinate the King the 15th Instant and afterwards the 22d About eleven of them were seized in the Morning and brought to the Horse Guard dit  An Express arrived from the Duke of Wirtemberg and brought Advice that the French had a great number of Transport Ships at Calais with 14000 Men ready to go on Board and that King James was arrived at Calais on the 2d of March New Stile or the 21st Febr. Old Stile and that they expected there a great Blow in England His Highness acquainted his Majesty that he had caused thereupon several Battalions to draw near Ostend to be ready to go on Board upon any Occasion and that the French gave out that He was very ill some others dead and others that he had been kill'd a-hunting A great Council was held at Kensington where it was resolved that Admiral Russel should immediately go on Board the Fleet the Earl of Rummey to Dover and raise the Militia and the Earl of Dorset in Sussex 5. 24. 1696 An Express arrives from the Elector of Bavaria with the Confirmation of the great Preparations the French were making at Calais and that King James was there dit  The King goes to the House of Lords and the Commons being sent for up his Majesty acquainted his Parliament with the Danger his Person had been nearly exposed to as well as the Kingdom that there was a Design of Assassinating his Person and at
the same time the Enemies were to make an Invasion into this Kingdom That he had given all necessary Orders to disappoint their Design and recommended to them the Care of the Kingdom and the Dispatching the Publick Business before them   Both Houses resolved upon a very Loyal Address which was presented the same Day to the King at Kensington wherein they congratulate his Majesty's Preservation desire him to take a greater Care of his Person and â—ssure him of their Zeal and Afâ—ection and that they will dispatch all Business before them dit 1696 The same Day was published a Proclamation for apprehending James Duke of Berwick Sir George Barclay and many other Conspirators His Majesty having received Information upon Oath that the Persons above-named have with divers other traiterous Persons entred into a horrid and detestable Conspiracy to assassinate and murder his Person and his Majesty promises a thousand Pounds Reward for each of them 6. 25. 1696 The Commons enter into an Association for the Preservation of his Majesty's Person wherein they declare That in case the King come to die by a violent Death which God forbid they will revenge his Death upon all his Enemies both Foreign and Domestick The said Association was subscribed the same Day by the greatest part of the Members   Admiral Russel goes on Board the Fleet in the Downs to sail towards Calais 7. 26. 1679 The Prince makes a Defensive and Offensive League between the States General and the Elector of Brandenburgh 8. 27. 1696 Admiral Russel sailed from the Downs for Calais with the Fleet under his Command 9. 28. 1673 The Prince of Orange having drawn his Army from their Winter-quarters forces the French to quit Wezel and other Places in the Country of Cleves dit 1696 Admiral Russel appears off of Gravelin the Ld. Berkley before Calais and Sir Cloudsly Shovel off of Bullogn which put the French into such a Consternation that they began to raise Batteries to prevent the Burning of the Transport Ships they had there to carry their Forces into England upon the Signal of the Assassination of King William 10. 29. 1696 Several of the Conspirators were seized and committed to Newgate  March.  11. 1. 1654 A Medal was coined in Holland on the Reverse whereof was represented the young Prince of Orange in Roman Habits with a Crown of Lawrel and a Staff of General in his Hand standing before the Statue of Pallas in Arms with a Launce and a Shield having her Eyes fix'd on the Prince and shewing him a Sun in the middle of which appears the Name of Jehovah in Hebrew and round about the Medal are these Words as the Motto of the Prince Fear God 12. 2. 1696 The French fearing the Burning of 13 Men of War of theirs that were come out of Dunkirk and lay off of that Place among the Sands struck down their Masts and Yards and take out their Guns to hale them into the Harbour 13. 3. 1656 The Prince of Orange goes to Leiden and remains some Years in that University where he discover'd his great Genius and made an extraordinary Progress in Learning 14. 4. 1689 The King sends a Message to the Commons to recommend to them the care of Ireland the Fleet and of reimbursing the Dutch and acquaint them that his Majesty being sensible that the Tax called Hearth-Money which was given to the Crown in King Charles the Second's Reign was very grievous to his Subjects he consented to the Regulation of it or to the Taking of the same wholly away 15. 5. 1657 The Picture of the young Prince of Orange being shewn to Oliver Cromwel it was observed that the very Sight of it made him tremble 15. 5. 1689 The Commons present an Address to the King to stand by him with their Lives and Fortunes and thank his Majesty â—or his Tenderness for his People in offering to part with the Revenue of the Hearth-Money dit 1695 The Funeral of the late Queen Mary of blessed Memory was solemnized this Day with great Magnificence 16. 6. 1696 The Earl of Athlone and Lieutenant General Cohorne having drawn together a Body of Troops came before Givet and bombarded the Town and the Magazines the French had gathered there which they destroyed and afterwards retired without any Loss The Garison of Dinant durst not come out and contented themselves to fire with their Cannon upon our Men. There were in the Magazine 4000 Rations of Forage 17. 7. 1696 The Parliament having past a Bill for empowering his Majesty to apprehend and detain such Persons as he shall find cause to suspect are conspiring against his Royal Person and Government his Majesty came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent to the same and several other Acts. 18. 8. 1660 Charles II. King of England being attended in Holland by the Deputies of the States he told them how much concerned he was for the Princess of Orange his Sister and the Prince of Orange dit 1672 The States General appoint 4000 Men for the Guard of the Prince which were called the Troops of the Houshold of the Prince of Orange 19. 9. 1660 King Charles II. went to the Assembly of the States General and brought with him the young Prince whom he recommended to their Lordships 20. 10. 1673 The Prince goes for Zealand to conclude a Treaty of an Offensive and Defensive League with Spain which was to last till all the Towns taken by the French from the Dutch and the Spaniards should be restored to their Owners 21. 11. 1696 Robert Charnock Edward King and Thomas Keys were this Day brought to their Trial at the Old Baily for High Treason in conspiring and endeavouring to assassinate and murder his Majesty King William The Evidence against them was full and câ—â—ar and it was clearly proved that they had listed Men provided Horses and Arms for that Purpose and had taken a View of the Ground where that bloody Tragedy was to be acted The Evidence deposed farther That Sir George Barclay one of the Conspirators had brought a Commission from France written with King James's own Hand to levy War upon the Person of the Prince of Orange 22. 12. 1696 The King issues out a Proclamation for a Publick Thanksgiving to the Almighty for the Discovery of the Conspiracy 23. 13.  24. 14 1689 This Day the Convention of Scotland met and chose Duke Hamilton for their President They immediately summoned the Duke of Gourdon to surrender the Castle of Edinburgh who demanded some time to consider of it Then they read King William's Letter and appointed a Committee to draw up an Answer A Letter from the late King James was brought to the Assembly but before they would read it it was unanimously voted that they would continue sitting till the Government Religion Laws and Liberties were settled and established They read afterwards King James's Letter which was so unpleasing to them that they committed the Gentleman who
being their antient Ally and Confederate they will not refuse to give him that Satisfaction on which the Tranquillity of Europe does depend dit 1689 This Day the Town of Mentz surrendred to the Allies commanded by the Duke of Lorain the French Garison which at the beginning of the Siege consisted of 10000 Men of their best Troops being reduced to about 6000 the Electors of Saxony and Bavaria the Duke of Hanover and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel were present at that Siege dit 1689 Mr. Walker late Governour of London derry waited this Day on their Majesties at Hampton-Court with an humble Address of the Governours Officers Clergy and other Gentlemen in the City and Garison of London-derry and was very kindly received and presented with â—ive thousand Pounds His Majesty was pleased to assure him â—hat this should not at all lâ—ssen the Kindness he intended to shew to him and to his Family and that he would likewise have a particular Care of the â—est of the Officers and other Gentlemen who had so well behaved themselves in the Defence of London-derry 9. 30. 1688 Count d' Avaux Ambassador of the French King to the States of Holland being also netled at the Preparations of the States presented this Day a Memorial to know whom those Preparations were designed against adding at the same time that as the King his Master had sufficient Reasons to be perswaded that they were against the King of England he was commanded to declare to their States that his Majesty was under certain Obligations by Alliance and Friendship not only to succour that Prince but also to take the first Act of Hostility committed against him as an open Breach with him leaving the States to reflect on the dangerous Consequences of their Design This Memorial discovered the secret Alliance betwixt King James and the French King which was kept so secret   The same Day he delivered another Memorial concerning the Affairs of Cologn and declared that his Master was resolved to maintain the Interest of the Cardinal de Furstemberg 10. 31. 1690 This Day his Majesty thought fit to withdraw his Forces from before Limerick by reason of the great Rains that fell at that time which would not permit our Men to be in the Trenches The Town was reduced to the last Extremities and had the Weather been fair but few Days longer than it was it had certainly been taken dit 1691 His Majesty presented this Day Prince Vaudemont with 40000 Florins and his Palace at Brussels dit 1696 This Day was published at Paris the separate Peace made betwixt the French King and the Duke of Savoy in July last That Prince who owned to have been used like a Slave by France and to have been set at liberty by the Allies forsook their Interest to join with their Enemies By the Treaty concluded with him the French have restor'd to him all their Conquest in Savoy Nisse and Villa Franca and the Town of Pignerol demolished keeping the Citadel in their Hands till a General Peace is concluded The French King has given him besides four Millions of Livers to defray his Charges A Marriage was also agreed between the Duke of Burgundy and the Princess of Piemont without any Portion as a Condition of the Treaty and she was immediately sent into France to be brought up there at the King's Charge till she comes to Age of being married This separate Peace of the Duke of Savoy was very dishonourable to him in the Opinion of all such Persons as think Princes ought to be grateful and tied by their Treaties as well as the rest of Mankind  September  11. 1. 1653 The young Prince of Orange was brought to the Hague where the People in whose Memory the great Services of his Ancestors were still fresh desired the Magistrates to give them the Standard and Colours of that Family to receive his Highness and declared that if they were denied they would take them by Force 12. 2. 1682 The French King being offended that the Town of Orange should receive the French Protestants that left their Country to avoid the Persecution or at least taking this for a Pretence ordered the Intendant of Provence and the Marquiss de Montanegues his Lieutenant General to march towards that Place with a Detachment of Foot and Horse and being come near it they sent Order to the Magistrates to pull down the Walls of their Town and to send back all the Children born Subjects of the French King and to receive none for the future The Magistrates answered that they were Subjects of his Highness the Prince of Orange and received Orders from no body else and that therefore they desired time to give him notice thereof but instead of being satisfied with that reasonable Answer the said Montanegues enter'd the Town the 15th of August last with his Troops pulled down the Walls and continued therein 8 Days at Discretion committing all manner of Disorders and Ravages and extorting great Sums from the Inhabitants The States General being acquainted with these violent Proceedings contrary to the Treaty of Nimeguen ordered their Ambassadors at Paris to complain to the French Court and demand Satisfaction and Reparation and at the same time commanded their Ministers in England to acquaint King Charles with it The French King gave answer by his Ministers that he had reason for the doing of what had been done and as to the Money extorted from the Inhabitants he said it was done without Orders and therefore had ordered to make a Restitution thereof This Answer being not acceptable to the States who saw thereby that the French King pretended to the Sovereignty of that Principality whenas it belonged to his Highness appointed this Day Monsieur Heynsius Pensionary of Delf for their Envoy Extraordinary to Paris to demand that Satisfaction should be given to the Prince and to his Subjects King Charles who was concerned in that Affair as Guarantee of the Treaty of Nimeguen and because of the Prince being so near related to him ordered the Lord Preston his Envoy at the Court of France to present a Memorial thereupon but I could never hear that France made any Reparation either to the Prince or to his Subjects dit 1688 The States of Holland replied to the Marquiss d' Albeville's Memorial that they had armed in Imitation of his Britannick Majesty and other Princes and that they had thereby given no just Cause of Offence by arming when all other Princes were in Motion and that they were long since fully convinced of the Alliance which the King his Master had made with France and which had been mentioned to them by Monsieur le Comte d' Avaux in his Memorial 13. 3. 1673 The strong Fortress of Naerden surrendred this Day to the Prince after a Siege of 4 Days The Garison marched out with the usual Marks of Honour and 2 Pieces of Cannon to the Number of 2600 Foot two Troops of Horse and about 500
Robert Clayton Sir William Russell Sir Bazil Firebrace and Charles Duncomb Esq to present the said Address   The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London agreed also upon an Address much to the same purpose which was also sent to the Prince 22. 12. 1688 King James having imbarked for France on board a Smack commanded by one Captain Saunders was forced for Shelter to take into East Swale the Eastern Part of the Isle of Sheppy in order to take in Ballast but the Fishermen of Feversham in Kent discovered that Ship and suspecting that some Jesuits might be on board to make their Escape into France they boarded the Smack Sir Edward Hales who was with the King and Mr. Labadie offered to make some Resistance but the Fishermen who presently knew him told them they were dead Men if they did not submit which they did They were carried to Feversham where the King was known and treated with Civility There have been many Stories made concerning the pretended Affronts he received there but I know from the Fishermen themselves and especially from poor Hunt whom King James excepted afterwards in his Declaration of Indemnity that no Violence was offered to his Person excepting only his Money Watch and the like taken from him but that as he came down from the Smack into the Boat he hurt himself in the Face 'T is true they gave him some ill Language and called him Priest Jesuit Father Peters and the like but they were not so much mistaken as some may think for I believe I could demonstrate that that Prince was admitted into a Monkish Order tho I must confess it was not that of the Jesuits   The King's withdrawing put the Mob into such a Ferment that they got together in incredible Numbers and pull'd down all the Chappels or Mass-houses as they call'd them not respecting the Character of the Spanish Ambassador whose House was plundered They brought the Materials of those Buildings into Lincolns-Inn fields and other Places of which they made great Bonfires The Number of the Mob frighted not only the Roman Catholicks but also all considering Men who did reflect on the Time and the Rage of the People but I must do Justice to our Mob that they were very moderate for after they had pull'd down those Chappels they returned home without offering any Violence to any private House or any Person   The same Day the Lord Jesseries late Lord Chancellor of England was taken in Disguise at Wapping as he endeavoured to go on board a foreign Ship to make his Escape The Mob carried him before the Lord Mayor who sent him to the Tower which was confirmed by the Peers assembled at the Council-Chamber at White-hall dit 1696 The French King being unable to carry on the War for a longer time and foreseeing his Ruine unless prevented by a Peace sent about the beginning of the last Campagn into Holland one Monsieur Caillâ—re as his Agent to confer with the Deputies of the States and make some Overtures for entring into a Negotiation for a General Peace In which he succeeded so far that the French King and most of the Allies having named their Plenipotentiaries his Majesty was pleased this Day to name the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembrook Lord Privy Seal and formerly Ambassador into Holland the Lord Viscount Villiers now his Majesty's Plenipotentiary at the Congress at the Hague and Sir Joseph Williamson formerly Plenipotentiary at the Treaty of Cologn and Secretary of State under King Charles II. during the Treaty of Nimeguen his Plenipotentiaries for the Treaty of a General Peace 23. 13. 1688 This Morning about three of the Clock there was a dreadful Alarm that the Irish in a desperate Rage were approaching the City putting Men Women and Children to the Sword as they came along whereupon the Citizens all rose in Arms placing Lights in their Windows from the top to the bottom and the Train-bands were assembled and there was nothing but Shooting and beating of Drums all the Night long Part of the Train-bands advanced towards Hide-Park to stop the Irish there but notwithstanding several Men came from time to time on Horseback reporting that the Irish were already advanced to Kensington and other Places yet it was a groundless Alarm and it spread it self the same Night the whole Length and Breadth of the Kingdom of England and all that were able to bear Arms appeared at their several Places for the Defence of their Lives Religion Laws and Liberties and resolving to destroy all the Irish and Papists in case any Injury was offer'd them but as that Report was altogether imaginary no body suffer'd thereby This is one of the most unaccountable things that ever I heard of and certainly 't is impossible that Chance alone could be the Occasion of it and therefore many have suspected that this was a Contrivance of the Great Duke of Schomberg to try thereby how the People were affected I know but one Instance that may be parallel'd with this which happen'd about 8 Months after in France and perhaps in imitation of this for in the same Night the whole Country from Bourdeaux to the Gates of Orleans were in Arms upon a false Alarm that the Prince of Orange was there with the Huguenots destroying all the Country with Fire and Sword insomuch that the Parliament of Guienne sitting then at La Râ—ole met about 12 a Clock at Night to give Orders for the Security of that Place 24. 14. 1688 The four Lords sent by the Peers with four Aldermen and four Deputies of the Lieutenancy of London waited on his Highness the Prince of Orange at Henly with the Addresses resolved upon at Guild-hall on the 11th Instant   The same Day the Lords assembled at Whitehall sent the Lords Feversham Ailesbury Yarmouth and Middleton to Feversham to intreat King James to return to Whitehall and ordered his Guards to go down to see him safe on board any Ship he should chuse if he persisted in his Resolution to go out of the Nation This Proceeding of the Lords was looked upon as too hasty for many thought that after having addressed the Prince of Orange in the manner as they had done it was reasonable to ask his Highness's Consent before they had invited K. James to return to Whitehall or called a greater Assembly of the Peers than that Day met   The same Day as the Duke of Graston was marching thrô the Strand at the Head of a Regiment of Foot an Irish Trooper came riding up to him but being beaten back by the Souldiers he drew his Pistol to shoot the Duke but was himself shot dead upon the spor 25. 15. 1688 King James being invited back to London arrived this Day at Rochester in order to his Return to Whitehall   The same Day the Prince of Orange entred Windsor and there he received Advice of King James's being seized at Feversham and
Fasti Gulielmi Tertii OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE Most Memorable Actions Transacted during his Majesty's Life both before and since his Accession to the Crown WITH The Days Months and Years wherein the same hapned LONDON Printed for John Barnes at the Crown in the Pall-Mall and sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane MDCXCVII STAND FAST The honble Allexander Grantt younger of that ilk To the Right Honourable ARNOLD EARL of Albemarle Viscount Bury and Baron of Ashford Master of his Majesty's Robes c. My LORD DID this Book treat of any other Subject I should begin with asking Your Lordship's Pardon for the Liberty I take of prefixing your Name to it but since it is an Abridgment of the Actions of our August Monarch I dare assure my self that I need no Apology on that account For what more acceptable thing could one offer to your Lordship whose Zeal and Affection to his Majesty can hardly be parallel'd I likewise think I may dispense with another usual Method of Dedications and therefore I shall not attempt your Lordship's Character nor speak of your Valour Generosity Civility and innate Inclination to do Good to Mankind These and many other excellent Qualifications are so conspicuous in your Lordship that those who know you would take it ill from me to insist on a Truth they are already convinced of And for others who know your Lordship only by Fame they cannot but have a great Idea of your Merit when they consider that the most Judicious as well as the most Glorious Prince that ever wore a Crown finds you worthy of his Esteem and Confidence of which the great Titles of Honour he has lately conferred upon You are a publick Demonstration I beg your Lordship to excuse the Ambition of this Address and to give me leave to assure You that I am with a most profound Respect My Lord Your Lordship 's most Humble and most Obedient Servant The PREFACE THIS Book does not need a long Preface The Title is sufficient to recommend its Vsefulness and as to the Performance no body would take my word for it and therefore I submit it to the Judgment of the Reader The Design I owe to Father Coronelli Cosmographer to the Republick of Venice but he being a Stranger and having written upon false Memoirs committed so many Faults that I have received very little Assistance from his little Almanack that was printed here in English in one single Sheet which by the by was worse than the Original Tho I have had better Memoirs and do know many things I relate upon my own Knowledg I dare not presume to say I have committed no Errors but I hope they are not material and am more afraid of Omissions than Mistakes but whatever they be I shall endeavour to mend them in a second Edition and therefore shall take it kindly if any body will impart to me their Remarks and Corrections This Book tho very small contains not only the bare Heads of things from the Year 1672. down to this time but also a short yet exact Account of Battels and Sieges c. and several Original Pieces at length which being scatter'd in loose Papers I thought fit to collect in this Treatise I relate few Events before the Year 1672. on purpose to avoid mentioning the Wars between England and Holland in which so many Worthies of both Nations perished tho they were at War without being angry that Quarrel being rather the Ministers than the Peoples I have endeavoured to do Justice to all Men but if any thinks himself wrong'd I desire him to be perswaded that I have had no ill Design and shall always be ready to correct my self I have taken care to avoid that common Vice of the French Writers who never dare approach their King without a Censer in their Hands and therefore I have fairly related the Actions his Majesty has been concerned in either successful or not without any Flattery nay without giving him the Commendations his Archievements require being sensible that tho Heroes are ambitious to deserve Praises yet they cannot bear them I have taken notice of several great Events in which his Majesty was not directly concerned by reason of their being very memorable and therefore fit to be inserted here The Observation of the English and Roman Account will I hope prove very useful at least I am certain that to find out those Dates has cost me a great deal of Trouble ADVERTISEMENT LEST the Method of this Kalendar should surprize any the Reader must know these two things 1. That I begin the Year upon the 1st of January tho I know it begins with us only in March and that because of the late horrid Conspiracy I have followed the Leap-Year allowing 29 Days to February 2. That in relating the Events contained in this Book I don't follow the Series of the Year's beginning in 1650 and so down to this time but I only observe the Series of the Days and Months and therefore whatever thing has been transacted in January tho of this very Year is here related before what happens in February without any respect to the Years set down in one of the Columns Roman Account English Account Fasti Gulielmi Tertii OR An Account of the most Memorable Actions of His Majesty WILLIAM III. King of Great Britain c. January December  1. 1679 22. 1678 THE Ministers of Spain and Holland being in Negotiation at Nimeguen for restoring Mastricht to the King of Spain the Prince of Orange opposes it till he has received Satisfaction from that Crown for his Pretensions dit 1689 1688 King James being sailed for France the Lords Spiritual and Temporal met at Westminster on the present juncture of Affairs 2. 1689 23. 1688 The Prince of Orange orders the French Ambassador to leave England 3. 1662 24. 1661 The Provinces of Overyssel and Zealand resolved to bestow upon him the Place of Captain General which their Pensionaries acquainted him with but hearing that very Day that his Mother was ill he fell sick himself 4. 1689 25. 1688 The Peers of England present to the Prince of Orange two Addresses the first of Thanks for having undertaken to relieve the Nation in time of Need and to desire Him to accept the Government till Jan. 22. next the second to issue out Letters to the Coroners to chuse Members for the Convention to sit upon the said January 22. O. S. 5. 1671 26. 1671 The Prince comes from Oxford and Windsor where he was most nobly entertained by King Charles II. and interposes His Mediation between His Majesty and the States General and on that Occasion gives extraordinary Proofs of his great Genius as well as of His Affection for the States dit 1689 1688 The Aldermen and Citizens of London agree to the Lords Address for desiring the Prince of Orange to take upon him the Government of the Nation 6. 1689 27. 1688 A great many Gentlemen who were
brought it to the Custody of a Messenger at Arms. 25. 15. 1689 The Duke of Gourdon refusing to surrender the Castle of Edinburgh the Convention sent the Heraulds with the usual For malities to command him to deliver the same and upon his Resusal he was proclaimed Rebel and Traitor 26. 16. 1691 The French having invested Mons on the 15th Instant his Majesty King William having sent Prince Waldeck before to assemble the Confederate Army at Brussels set out from the Hague after having taken his Leave of the States General followed by the Duke of Zell General Chanvet and many other Princes dit 1689 King William and Queen Mary were proclaimed in the Island of Jersey 27. 17. 1673 The Prince of Orange gave Audience to the Ambassadors of the Emperor and the King of Spain and sent in his Name the Sieur de Odyck to the Congress it Cologne and opposes the Suspension of Arms that was demanded because an Express he had sent to the Elector of Brandenburgh was not yet returned 27. 17. 1689 The Convention of Scotland publishes a Proclamation requiring all Persons from the Age of 16 to 60 to be in a Readiness to take Arms when they shall think fit to give farther Directions   They approved what the Nobility and Gentry had done in praying King William to take upon him the Government of their Kingdom They ordered some Arms and Gun-powder to be sent with all speed into Ireland for the Assistance of the Protestants of that Kingdom 28. 18. 1696 This Day Robert Charnock Edward King and Thomas Keys condemned the 11th Instant for conspiring against his Majesty's Life were drawn from Newgate to Tyburn in a Hurdle They said nothing to the Spectators but each of them delivered a Paper to the Sheriffs wherein they own to have been concerned in the Assassination of King William which Charnock called to attack the Prince of Orange and his Guards They were hang'd and afterwards quartered according to the Sentence past upon them 29. 19. 1680 The Prince set out from the Hague to take a View of the Fortifications of Boisleduc Berggopzoom and other Frontier Places of Brabant 30. 20. 1689 His Majesty King William appoints the Lords Lieutenants of the Counties of England and fills all other Vacancies occasioned by the late Revolution 31. 21. 1696 The King sent a Message to the House of Lords to acquaint them that he had received Information upon Oath that the Earl of Ailesbury was concerned in the Conspiracy against his Government and his Lordship was committed the same Day to the Tower for High Treason dit 1689 The Forces sent by King William into Scotland arrive at Edinburgh under the Command of Major General Mackay April   1. 22. 1691 The King arrives at Vilvord and causes his Army to march cowards Hall in order to attempt to relieve the City of Mons besieged by the French 2. 23. 1675 The Prince of Orange falls sick of the small Pox which caused a general Consternation through all the Vnited Netherlands and in most Courts of Europe dit 1689 The Convention of the States of Scotland signed this Day a Letter to King William and sent it by the Lord Ross wherein they return their hearty Thanks to his Majesty for the Danger he has exposed himself to for the Deliverance of their Kingdom They desire also his Majesty to continue his Care and Protection assuring that they will shortly fall upon such Resolutions as may be acceptable to him and secure their Religion Laws and Liberty dit 1691 The King took a Review of the Confederate Forces near Brussels and marched to Hall having given fresh Orders for the Artillery to march with all speed dit 1696 This Day Sir John Friend was brought to his Trial for High-Treason The Matters charged against him were That he had received and accepted a Commission from the late King James for raising a Regiment of Horse that he had appointed several Officers of his Regiment had paid several Sums of Money for the raising and listing of Men was present at several Meetings and Consultations with Charnock and others where it was resolved to send Charnock to France to invite the late King James to invade this Kingdom with a Body of French Troops and to join the late King James upon his Landing here with 2000 Horse That the said Sir John Friend knew of the said Invation and had made Preparations to join the French upon their Landing and that he was acquainted with the Intended Assassination of his Majesty All which being fully and clearly proved against him he was found guilty of High Treason 3. 24. 1674 The States General present the Prince with two Millions of Florins in Consideration of the Liberty obtained for the Dutch by his Highness from Charles II. for the Herring Fishery dit 1696 Sir William Parkins was this Day tried at the Old Baily for High Treason and was charged to have received and accepted a Commission from the late King James for raising a Regiment of Horse that he had raised a Troop consisting of old Souldiers and had several old Officers that would go Volunteers under him was present at several Meetings and Consultations with Charnock and others where it was agreed to send Charnock to France to invite King James to invade the Kingdom c. That he did own to have seen and read a Commission written with K. James's own Hand for Raising and Levying War on the Person of King William that he was present at several Meetings and Consultations with Sir George Barclay Charnock and others for the Intended Assassination of his Majesty consented thereto and undertook to provide sive Horses for that Design and that a great quantity of Arms were found buried in his Orchard in Warwick-shire The Evidence being very full and clear against him he was found guilty of High-Treason and received Sentence of Death 4. 25. 1693 The Right Honourable Sir John Sommers Knight was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England 4. 25. 1673 The Prince is obliged to take a Journey into Zealand to compose the Divisions that were in that Province which having ended to his Satisfaction his Highness returns to the Hague and takes a View in his way of Flushing L'Ecluse Bergopzoom Ardemburg Breda and Boisleduc 5. 26. 1689 The Convention of Scotland appoints a Committee of their Body composed of 8 Lords 8 Knights and 8 Burgesses to settle the Government   The Convention of Scotland ordered that the Militia of Horse and Foot of the whole Kingdom should be brought together and disposed into convenient Places to secure the Peace of the Country dit 1696 Four Conspirators against his Majesty's Person were this Day seized 6. 27. 1689 The States of Scotland gave a Commission in their Name to Major General Mackay to be Commander in chief of their Forces and to let the World know that they thought themselves the only Soveraigns of that Kingdom and that King James had
1674 The Prince of Orange arrived this Day at Vtrecht to compose some Difference in the Town where he was received with all imaginable Respect the Burghers appearing on that Occasion in Arms. His Highness thought fit to remove the old Magistrates and choose new ones which was very acceptable to the Inhabitants and ended all the Troubles of that City 25. 15. 1689 Admiral Herbert with the Fleet under his Command appears before Kingsale whereupon Colonel Mackillicut Governor of the Place prepared to retire thinking that it was the French Fleet which pursuant to an Agreement between King James and the French King was coming to take Possession of that Town 26. 16. 1696 This Day being appointed for a General and Solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his great Goodness and Mercy in discovering and delivering his Majesty from the late Horrid and Barbarous Conspiracy of Papists and other Traiterous Persons to Assassinate and Murder his Majesty's Sacred Person and from an Invasion intended by the French upon this Kingdom whereby not only the Destruction of his Majesty's Royal Person was plotted and intended but also the total Subversion of the Government and of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom the same was religiously observed in the Cities of London and Westminster with great Marks of Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty and his Government and at Night there were Illuminations Bonfires and other publick Rejoicings sutable to the Occasion 27. 17. 1696 The King constituted the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon and the Earl of Radnor Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cornwal 28. 18. 1689 The Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury Principal Secretary of State was this Day constituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Worcester dit 1690 Sir Cloudesly Shovel in his Majesty's Ship the Monk the Monmouth Yacht and a Fireship came to an Anchor in Dublin-Bay and having discovered a Ship a Mile within the Bar Sir Cloudesly Shovel being on Board the Monmouth went over the Bar with the Pinnace of the Man of War and a Ketch whereupon the said Ship removed a Mile higher and ran a-ground within a Musket-shot of a French Man of War of 12 Guns and 2 or 3 English Ships that lay a-ground silled with Soldiers who sired briskly at Sir Cloudesly However the English attacked her and after some Dispute having observed that Sir Cloudesly had made a Signal for a Fireship the Enemy â—â—rsook their Ship and get away in their Boats The English got her off but in their return oâ—â— of their Boats run aground whereupon the late King James with his Guards and many People came upon the Shore but the English who stood in their Boats made so vigorous a Defence that the Irish durst not come near them The Ship that was taken was called the Pelican the biggest of two Scots Frigats the French had taken the Year before and carried 20 Guns 29. 19. 1689 The Earl of Dundee having absented himself from Edinburgh without Leave of the Convention the States sent 200 Horse after him and ordered the Country People to seize him The Duke of Gourdon persisting in his Resolution of holding Edinburgh Castle for the late King James and Major General Mackay being ordered to besiege it two Batteries of Cannon and Mortars were raised this Day against it The States appoint also the Colonels of Six new Regiments raised in their Name 30. 20. 1692 The Elector Palatine having remained two or three Days at Loo with his Majesty went away this Day for Dusseldorp assuring the King that he would give immediate Orders to his Troops to be in a Readiness to march whither and when his Majesty should command May.   ◠21. 1696 This Day Ambrose Rookwood and Charles Cranburne having been indicted for High Treason for Conspiring to Assassinate his Majesty were brought to their Trials at the King's Bench Bar Each of them had a Copy of their Indictment and two Counsel to plead for them The Evidence for the King was very clear and full and it was plainly proved that the late K. James employed several Persons to act under Sir George Barclay in the intended Assassination of his Majesty and sent them over to England for that Purpose The Prisoners had nothing material to say in their own Defence and so the Jury found them guilty of High Treason 2. 22. 1696 Robert Lowick indicted for High Treason for Conspiring to Assassinate his Majesty was this Day brought to his Trial at the King's Bench Bar and the Matters charged against him being fully proved the Jury found him guilty of High Treason and â—e Rookwood and Cranburne condemned the Day before had the Judgment pronounced against them which is usual in Cases of High Treason dit 1691 The King was pleased in Consideration of the many good and acceptable Services of Mainhardt Count of Schomberg and the late Duke of Schomberg his Father to create him Baron of Mullingar Earl of Bangor and Duke of Leinster in the Kingdom of Ireland dit 1673 The Prince of Orange set out from the Hague to view all the Towns and Fortresses of Holland 3. 23. 1695 This Day came Advice that Captain Killegrew in the Plymouth and five other English Frigats being a cruising in the Channel of Maltha met with two French Men of War viz. the Trident of 64 Guns and the Content of 54 Captain Killegrew engag'd them alone for a considerable time and being joined by another Frigat obliged the French to surrender and brought them to Messina 4. 24. 1689 This Day the States of Scotland named the Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery of Skelmerley and Sir John Dalrymple their Commissioners to go for England to offer the Crown of Scotland to their Majesties 5. 25. 1689 Their Majesties taking into their most serious Consideration the deplorable Condition of the French Protestants issued out this Day the following Proclamation in their Behalf   William R.   WHereas it has pleased God Almighty to deliver the Realm of England and the Subjects thereof from the Persecution lately threatning them for their Religion and from the Oppression and Destruction which the Subversion of their Laws and the Arbitrary Exercise of Power and Dominion over them had very near introduced We finding in our Subjects a true and just Sense thereof and of the Miseries and Oppressions the French Protestants lie under for their Relief and to incourage them that shall be willing to transport themselves their Families and Estates into this our Kingdom We do hereby declare that all French Protestants that shall seek their Refuge in and transport themselves into this our Kingdom shall not only have our Royal Protection for themselves Families and Estates within this our Realm but we will also do our Endeavour in all reasonable Ways and Means so to support aid and assist them in their several and respective Trades and ways of Livelihood as that their living and
being assured of the hearty Concurrence and Assistance of our Subjects in Support of so good a Cause Hereby willing and requiring our General of our Forces our Commissioners for executing the Office of High-Admiral our Lieutenants of our several Counties Governours of our Forts and Garisons and all other Officers and Souldiers under them to do and execute all Acts of Hostility in the prosecution of this War against the French King his Vassals and Subjects and to oppose their Attempts willing and requiring all our Subjects to take notice of the same whom We henceforth strictly forbid to hold any Correspondence or Communication with the said French King or his Subjects and because there are remaining in our Kingdoms many of the Subjects of the French King We do declare and give our Royal Word that all such of the French Nation as shall demean themselves dutifully towards us and not correspond with our Enemies shall be safe in their Persons and Estates and free from all Molestation and Trouble of any kind Given at Hampton Court May the 7th 1689. dit 1694 The King landed at the Hook of Holland over against the Brill having left his Convoy several Leagues at Sea 18. 8. 1694 Their Majesties created the Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Sydney Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Master General of the Ordnance an Earl of this Kingdom by the Name and Stile of Earl of Râ—mney in the County of Kent dit 1696 The King being arrived at the Hague the Night before went to the Assembly of the States of Holland and afterwards to that of the States General and made a short Speech in each of them His Majesty was the same Day complimented by the States upon his safe Arrival by the Council of State and the Colleges of the Admiralty and foreign Ambassadors dit 1692 Admiral Russell with his Majesty's Fleet passed this Morning through the Downs and being joined by Admiral Allemond sailed to the Westward in quest of Count Tourville dit 1695 William de Nassan Seigneur de Zuilestein was created Baron of Enfield Viscount Tunbridge and Earl of Rochâ—fort   The same Day the Lord Gray of Wark was created Viscount Glendale and Earl of Tankerville 19. 9. 1691 Dr. Sharp Dean of Canterbury was this day nominated Archbishop of York dit 1689 A Proclamation was published at the Request of the House of Commons commanding all Papists to depart out of the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles adjacent dit 1692 A Proclamation came out for apprehending the Earl of Scarfdale the Earl of Litchfield the Lord Griffin the Earl of Newburgh the Earl of Middleton the Earl of Dunmore and a great many disaffected Persons for conspiring to subvert the Government dit 1695 The Duke of Schomberg the Earl of Tankerville and Peregrine Bertie Esq were sworn of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council 20. 10. 1692 This Day the Trained-Bands of the City of London consisting of 6 Regiments making about 10000 Men were drawn up in Hide-park under the Command of the Lord Mayor and received by the Queen who was extremely satisfied with the good Order they appeared in and of the great Zeal and Readiness which they expressed for their Majesties Service and their own Security against the Designs of the French who then threatned the Kingdom with a Descent their Fleet having appeared this Day off of Dartmouth dit 1694 The Earl of Stamford and Charles Mountague Esq one of the Commissioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer were sworn this Day of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 21. 11. 1689 This Day being appointed for the publick Reception of the Commissioners viz. the Earl of Argyle Sir James Montgomery of Skelmerly and Sir John Dalrymple of Stair younger who were sent by the Meeting of the States of Scotland with an Offer of the Crown of that Kingdom to their Majesties they accordingly at three of the Clock met at the Council-Chamber and from thence were conducted by Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies attended by most of the Nobility and Gentry of that Kingdom who reside in and about London to the Banqueting-House where the King and Queen came attended by many Persons of Quality the Sword being carried before them by the Lord Cardrosse Their Majesties being placed on the Throne under a rich Canopy the Commissioners presented a Letter from the States to his Majesty then the Instrument of the Government Thirdly a Paper containing the Grievances which they desired might be redressed â—nd lastly an Address to his Majesty for turning the Meeting of the said Estates into a Parliament All which being signed by his Grace the Duke of Hamilton as President of the Meeting and read to their Majesties the King return'd to the Commissioners the following Answer   WHEN I ingaged in this Undertaking I had a particular Regard and Consideration for Scotland and therefore I did emit a Declaration in relation to that as well as to this Kingdom which I intend to make good and effectual to them I take it very kindly that Scotland has expressed so much Confidence in and Affection to me they shall find me willing to assist them in every thing that concerns the Weal and Interest of that Kingdom by making what Laws shall be necessary for the Security of their Religion Property and Liberty and to ease them of what may be justly grievous to them   After which the Coronation-Oath was tender'd to their Majesties which the Earl of Argyle spoke word by word and the King and Queen repeated it after holding their right Hands up after the manner of taking Oaths in Scotland but when the Earl came to this part of the said Oath And we shall be careful to root out all Hereticks and Enemies of the true Worship of God that shall be convicted by the true Kirk of God of the aforesaid Crimes out of our Lands and Empire of Scotland the King declared that he did not mean by these Words that he was under any Obligation to become a Persecutor To which the Commissioners being authorized by the States of Scotland made answer That neither the Meaning of the Oath or the Law of Scotland did import it since by the said Law no Man was to be persecuted for his private Opinion and that even obstinate and convicted Hereticks were only to be denounced Reâ—els or out-law'd whereby their moveable Estates were consiscated Whereupon the King declared again that he took the Oath in that Sense and called for Witnesses the Commissioners and others present and then their Majesties signed the Coronation-Oath and the Commissioners and several of the Scotish Nobility were admitted to kiss their Majesties Hands 22. 12. 1689 His Majesty's Ship the Nonsuch of 36 Guns commanded by Captain Roomcoyle ingaged this Day off of Guernsey two French Men of War one of 30 Guns 120 Men and the other of 16 Guns 6 Pattereroes and 120 Men. The Fight lasted above
last Year agreed together to kill the King and for that purpose went to Loo while his Majesty was there but not meeting with an opportunity they return'd to Paris They were again set on foot by the greatest Men in the Court of France as the Marquiss de Barbezieux c. and encouraged by King James and the French King himself and so they came again into Flanders to put in execution that devilish Design and the better to succeed they engaged one Leefâ—ale a Gentleman near Bosleduc hoping to remain in those Parts undiscovered but the Providence of God brought that execrable Conspiracy to Light and Grandval was apprehended The French King thought then to inslave Europe and to cut off with one stroke all the Hopes they had to preserve their Liberties for he was ready in Flanders upon the Death of his Majesty to invade the Netherlands and King James expected at the Hogue that satal Blow to make a Descent in England dit  Admiral Russâ—l and Admiral Allâ—moâ—de continued this Day to chase the scatter'd French Ships whereof some run into the Race of Aldernay others run a-shore at La Hogue and the Admiral with two others and two Frigats in the Bay of Cherburg June   1. 22. 1692 Vice Admiral De La Val having the Day before followed the French Admiral and some other Men of War into Cherburg-Bay ordered this Morning three Fireships to burn them and went himself in his Barge with all the Boats of his Ships to protect the Fireships because there was not Water enough for the Men of War The French defended their Ships for some time but at last were forced to leave them One of our Fireships commanded by Captain Heath burnt the Royal Sun Captain Greenway burnt the Conquerant and the Admirable was burnt by our Boats We took a great many Prisoners in that Action and lost but very few Men. The Royal Sun Admiral of the French Fleet carried 104 Guns and was one of the richest Ships that ever was built insomuch that the French said that she was amongst the other Ships what the Sun is amongst the other Planets The Conquerant and the Admirable were the seconds to the Admiral the first carrying 80 Guns and the last 102 two Frigats and three Ships of lesser Rank were burnt at the same time 2. 3. 1692 Admiral Russel having penn'd up in the Bay of La Hogue 15 French Ships sent this Afternoon Vice-Admiral Rook with several light Frigats and Fire-ships together with all the Boats of the Fleet well arm'd to burn the said Ships The Attempt was very dangerous and difficult for it was performed in sight of the French and Irish Army commanded by King James who caus'd several Batteries to be made to protect the Men of War but such was the Conduct and Resolution of our Men that they took Possession of several of the Enemies Ships and beat the French with their own Guns from their Platforms on the shore They burnt six Men of War in the Evening and had burnt the rest had not the Night obliged them to retire till the next Morning dit 1690 The King came to the House of Lords and having given the Royal Assent to an Act for the King and Queen's Majesty's most gracious general and free Pardon both Houses adjourned to the 7th of July dit 1693 An Act of Parliament was pass'd in Scotland making it Treason for any Scots man going to or staying in France after the 1st of August following and making likewise Treason all Correspondence and Commerce by Letters with France without the King's Permission 3. 24. 1689 This Day the King came to the House of Lords and gave â—he Royal Assent to an Act for exempting their Majesty's Protestant Subjects diffenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws This Act was the first Fruit of the late happy Revolution and put an end to a very unnatural Persecution which one time or other could not but be fatal to Great Britain dit 1692 Admiral Russel sent again this Morning Sir George Rook with the Long Boats of the Fleet to burn the rest of the Men of War that lay in La Hogue Bay and which they could not destroy the day before by reason of the Night coming on They burnt six others and a great many French Seamen perish'd in the Flames A French Ship of 56 Guns was also overset and utterly lost The French made a great Fire from their Batteries on the shore but however did the English little Damage They burnt also 20 of the Enemies Transport Ships 4. 25. 1690 The French Army commanded by Mousieur de Catinat being enter'd into Piemont and threatning Hostilities in case the Citadels of Turin and Verrue were not immediately delivered up to them The Duke of Savoy declared War this Day against France and sent to the Governour of Milan the Swiss Cantons the Emperor the King of England and the States General to acquaint them with the Posture of his Affairs and desire their Assistance He set at liberty the Vaudois who had vigorously forced their way into their own Vallies through the French and the Duke of Savoy's Forces and ordered them to join with his Troops to oppose their Common Enemy dit 1692 Admiral Russel having destroyed all the French Ships in the Bay of La Hogue sailed thence towards the Coasts of England having sent Sir John Ashby with many Fireships to destroy the French Transport Ships at Havre de Grace if he found it practicable dit 1692 This Day Great Waradin surrendred to the Imperialists commanded by General Heusler 5. 26. 1692 The Town of Namur surrendred this Day to the French King the Garison retiring into the Castle 6. 27. 1689 Messieurs Van Engellenburg Van Witsen Van Odick Van Citters and Dickvelt Ambassadors extraordinary from the States General of the United Provinces to congratulate their Majesties upon their happy Accession to the Crown made this Day their publick Entry They were received at Greenwich by the Earl of Sussex Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies and six Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber and brought up the River in the King's Barges At their Landing at the Tower the Standard being displayed they were complimented by the Lord Lucas Governour thereof and saluted with a Discharge of the Cannon From thence being attended by 16 Pages on Horseback and 60 Footmen in splendid Liveries they were conducted in their Majesties Coaches followed by 6 very rich Coaches of their own and above 50 others belonging to the Nobility with 6 Horses apiece to Cleveland-house at St. James's appointed for their Entertainment where their Excellencies were complimented from the King by the Lord Cornwallis from the Queen by Sir Edward Villers from the Queen Dowager by Mr. Sayers her Vice-Chamberlain from Prince George of Denmark by the Lord Cornbury and from the Princess by Lieutenant Colonel Sandys dit 1692 This Day being appointed by Admiral Russel to give Thanks to
to her Majesty that the Regiments of the Militia of the City making 9000 Men were compleat that they had raised 6 Auxiliary Regiments and had resolved by a voluntary Contribution to raise a Regiment of Horse and 1000 Dragooâ—s desiring her Majesty to appoint Officers to command them The Queen gave them Thanks for their Zeal but the French Fleet which was then upon the Coast of Kent having sailed towards their own the same Day the Horse and Dragoons were not raised 22. 12. 1691 This Day at 4 a Clock in the Afternoon was fought the bloody Battel of Aghrim between the English Forces commanded by General Ginkel and the Irish Rebels commanded by Monsieur de St. Ruth The Irish had the Advantage of Numbers and were so strongly intrenched that it seem'd impossible to force their Camp which took up a Hill the Approach whereof was defended by two great Bogs and the Castle of Aghrim from which the Enemy fired upon our Army However those Difficulties did not deter our Men but they attacked the Irish with so much Vigour that they ran away leaving 5000 Men upon the spot their Arms Cannon Colours Tents and Baggage and 500 Prisoners besides 100 Officers Their General St. Ruth was killed in the Engagement and we must do him this Justice to say that he alone found the Art to make the Irish fight for they made a very noble Defence We had near 2000 Men killed and wounded in that vigorous Action 'T is impossible to express the Bravery of the Troops that made up his Majesty's Army either English French Danes Dutch c. or the Courage and Prudence of the General Officers who then gained an immortal Honour Our Army was commanded in chief by General Ginkel who had under him the Duke of Wirtemberg and Scravenmoore Lieutenant Generals Mackay Tetteau La Forest Ruvigny Talmash Count Nassau and Holstaple Major Generals and Villers Bellasis La Meloâ—iere Eppinger Levison Stewart Prince of Hesse d'Aâ—mstat and Schack Brigadeers The Irish were commanded in chief by Monsieur de St. Ruth and under him by D' Vsson Thesse and Sarsfield Lieutenant Generals Hamilton and Dorrington c. Major Generals These two last were taken Prisoners 'T is agreed on all hands that had not the Night stopp'd our Victory few of the Irish would have escaped tho they were 28000 strong the English Army contisted only of 17000 Men. dit 1694 The English and Dutch Fleet commanded by the Lord Berkley came this day before Diepe which they bombarded and said entirely in Ashes 23. 13. 1672 His Highness the Prince of Orange advises the States General to recal the Ambassadors they had sent to treat with the French King and King Charles and the said States having seriously considered of that Matter recalled them accordingly 24. 14. 1690 The Queen issued out this Day a Proclamation for apprehending the Earl of Litcisiâ—ld Arlesbury Castlemaine and the Lords Montgomery Preston and Bellasis with several other disaffected Persons for aberting and adhering to their Majesties Enemies 25. 15. 1690 The late King James returned this Day to St. Germains to give the French King an Account of his Defeat in Ireland and of the Loss of his Interest in that Kingdom The Return of that Prince convinced the French Mob that the Prince of Orange was not dead as they thought for it is observable that either the Wound he received the Day before he passed the Boyne or the Promises some desperate Villains had made to murder his Majesty in the Battel gave occasion to a Report in France that he was dead upon which the Magistrates of most Towns of the Kingdom ordered to the eternal Shame of the French Nation Bonfires to be made 26. 16. 1694 This Day the English and Dutch Fleet commanded by the Lord Berkley bombarded Havre de Grace 27. 17. Â 28. 18. 1695 Major General Ellenberg Governour of Dixmuyde surrendred this Day that Place to the French by a shameful Capitulation the Garison which contisted of near 5000 Men being made Prisoners of War tho there was no Breach made in that Place The Governour was tried afterwards for the same and received Sentence of Death which was put in execution 29. 19. 1695 This Day the French Army consisting of about 80000 Mea under the Command of Mareschal de Luxemburgh attack'd the Confederate Army incamped near Landen which was only 45000 strong because of the great Detachments that had been made therefrom to cover Liege and Mastricht exposed to the Attempts of the Enemy and for the Expedition of the Duke of Wirtemberg against the French Lines The King was advised to retire the Day before but his Army tho inferiour being made up of the finest Troops that ever were seen his Majesty did not think fit to hearken to that Advice and ordered some Intrenchments to be cast up in the Night The French attacked the Allies at 9 a Clock in the Morning with an extraordinary Bravery but were as bravely repulsed and it was 4 in the Afternoon before they had gained an Inch of Ground but our Ammunition being spent by so long a Fight and some of the Horse of Hanover giving ground the French possessed themselves of our Intrenchments where there was a most bloody Fight for some time between our Horse and the French the King charging himself at the Head of the Squadrons but at last being over-power'd by the great Number of the Enemy they were obliged to retire which they did in Confusion and Disorder because of a River that was behind our Army in which many were drowned The Enemy was so tired that they were glad to part with us All the Confederate Troops except some Squadrons I have spoken of behaved themselves to Admiration and especially the English but the Regiment of Horse of Windham and the French Regiment of Gallway distinguished themselves in a particular manner who broke three times the French Life-Guard and other Troops of the Houshold which are esteemed the best in the World The Relation printed at Paris says that his Majesty fought at the Head of the Regiment of Gallway and own that our Troops made an extraordinary Defence His Majesty received no other Harm than a small Contusion in his Side by a Musket-shot The Elector of Bavaria was also in the hottest of the Action as the meanest Souldier This was as bloody a Battel as any that has been fought these 50 Years for the French in the Relation they printed at Lisle own to have lost above 16000 Men but since it appears that they lost very near 20000. As our Army was not so numerous as the French by half we lost not above 9000 Men but a great many were taken Prisoners We lost no Baggage nor heavy Cannon but only some Field-Pieces We took 55 Standards and Colours and 400 Prisoners amongst whom was the Duke of Berwick and 30 Officers Count de Solmes General of the Dutch Foot died of his Wounds and the Duke of Ormond and Monsieur
he proposed to march directly to the French and fall upon them while they were fatigued of a long March but Count de Souches General of the Germans did not assist at the Council of War and the next Day quitted the Trenches and pass'd the Scheld leaving some Pieces of his Cannon and the Town open to the French The Prince having notice thereof sent a Detachment to bring back his Cannon which he sent by Water to Ghent with his Baggage and was forced to raise the Siege and follow the Imperialists and Spaniards who had also left the Army His Highness complained to the Courts of Vienna and Madrid against these Proceedings of the Germans and Spaniards who would not fight tho they had so fair an Opportunity 22. 12. 1680 His Highness the Prince of Orange arrived at Zell being met out of Town by the Duke of Lunenburgh himself with 22 Coaches and 6 Horses apiece The Regiment of Guards and a Regiment of Dragoons were drawn up in two Lines and at his Entrance into the Town the great Guns were discharged round about the Ramparts 23. 13. 1688 The Prince came back to the Hague from his Journey to Minden and gave all necessary Orders to prepare every thing towards the execution of the Design agreed upon with the Princes he had conferred with 24. 14. 1680 The Prince came to Hanâ—ver where he was received with all Marks of Respect being met some Miles out of the Town by the Duke the Garison being in Arms and the Guns round about the Fortifications discharged 25. 15. 1668 His Highness was declared Chief of the Nobility of Zeland and President of the States of that Province 26. 16. 1672 The States General gave this Day an Edict whereby they conferr'd upon his Highness the Power to pardon such Criminals as he should think fit dit 1691 This Day part of our Army before Limerick passed the Shannon in sight of a Detachment of the Irish who endeavoured to oppose them but were beaten back   The same Day the Irish Garison of Slego having surrendred the Place the Day before to the Earl of Granard and Baldarick O Donnel marched out to the Number of 600 Men leaving behind them 16 Pieces of Cannon and 30 Barrels of Powder 27. 17. 1694 The Castle of Huy surrendred this Day to the Confederate Troops commanded by the Duke of Holstein Ploen Velt Mareschal of the Armies of the States General after 5 Days Attack 28. 18. 1672 A desperate Fellow had the Impudence to let his Highness know that if he would incourage him and promise a Reward he would kill the French King his greatest Enemy but that Offer was rejected with Horror and had the Prince discovered the Author he would have punished him Note that some time after the same Offer was made to the Prince who sent immediately Monsieur Dickvelt to Count d' Avaux to acquaint him with it and where that Villain was to be found yet that Generosity had so little Effect upon Lewis XIV that he has often since that time plotted against his Majesty's Life and protected and preferred the Villains who undertook to assassinate him 29. 19.  30. 20. 1688 King James being afraid of the Preparations in Holland had some time before summoned a Parliament to meet at Westminster and this Day a Proclamation was issued out whereby he declared that it was his Royal Purpose to endeavour a Legal Establishment of an Universal Liberty of Conscience for all his Subjects and that he was resolved inviolably to preserve the Church of England by such a Confirmation of the several Acts of Uniformity that they should never be alter'd by any other Ways than by repealing the several Clauses which inflect Penalties upon Persons not promoted or to be promoted to any Ecclesiastical Benefices or Promotions within the Meaning of the said Acts for using and exercising their Religion contrary to the Tenor and Purport of the said Acts of Uniformity He declared also that for the further securing the said Church and the Protestant Religion he was willing that the Roman Catholicks should remain incapable to be Members of the House of Commons October   1. 21. 1660 The States General resolved that the young Prince of Orange should be brought to the Hague to be there educated at their own Charges and assigned for that Purpose a yearly Pension of 20000 Florins It was resolved also that he should be a Member of the Council of State when he should come to 16 Years of Age. dit 1690 The English Fleet having on board several thousand Men under the Command of the Earl of Marlborough came this Day to an Anchor before Cork Harbour 2. 22. 1673 The Prince received a Letter of the Queen of Spain wherein in she gave him the Title of Royal Highness and offered him the Order of the Golden Fleece dit 1691 This Day General Ginket passed the Shannon with 10 Regiments of Foot and a Detachment of Foot and Dragoons and marched to Thomonds Isle and caused the Works that covered Thomond's Bridg to be attacked which our Men performed with such a Bravery that they did not only beat the Enemy out of them but pursued them to the Draw-Bridg whereupon the French Governour of Limerick fearing the English should enter the Town with the Irish durst not let the Draw-Bridg down to receive them and thereby left them exposed to our Men who killed above 600 of them and a great many who threw themselves into the River to avoid the Sword of the English were drowned 3. 23. 1679 Don Emanuel de Lira Ambassador Extraordinary to the States General having demanded the Restitution of Mastricht by virtue of a Clause mention'd in the Treaty of Alliance between Spain and Holland 1673. and not being satisfied with the Answer given by the States they answered this Day a second Memorial of that Minister and declared in express Terms that they could not restore that Place till his Highness the Prince of Orange had received Satisfaction of the Crown of Spain and was paid off all the Arrears due to him according as it had been agreed betwixt the States and his Catholick Majesty at the Treaty of Munster dit 1690 The English Fleet entred this Day into the Harbour of Cork notwithstanding the fire the Enemy made from their Batteries and our Forces landed at a Place called the Passage 4. 24. 1693 This Day was fought a bloody Battel at Marsaglia in Piemont between the Confederate Troops commanded by the Duke of Savoy and the French under the Command of Monsieur Catinat The Fight was very obstinate but at last the Allies were obliged to leave the Field of Battel and 10 or 12 Pieces of Cannon to the Enemy His Grace Charles Duke of Schomberg General of his Majesty's Forces who fought with his ordinary Bravery on foot at the Head of his Regiment received a dangerous Wound in the Thigh and was taken Prisoner but sent back immediately to Turin upon his
Parole His Valet de Chambre who accompanied him saved his Life to the Expence of his own which Zeal and Fidelity deserveth to be admired especially in this Age. 5. 25. 1689 The Ambassadors of the States of Holland had this Day their Publick Audience of Leave of their Majesties with all the Ceremonies that are observed at the publick Audiences of Ambassadors from Crowned Heads 6. 26. 1688 The French King having invaded the Palatinate and the Empire without any Provocation or Declaration of War the Dauphin arrived this Day before Philipsburgh which had been before invested by the French dit 1696 His Majesty came to Kensington from his Campagn in Flanders having landed at Margate this Morning at 1 a Clock 7. 27. 1691 The Garison of Limerick having demanded to capitulate the Governour sent Articles to General Ginkel who rejected them and sent them 12 Articles and let them know that he would grant no others ordering immediately a new Battery to be raised dit 1696 The Neutrality for Italy was signed this Day by Count Mansfeld in the Name of the Emperor the Marquiss de Leganez for the King of Spain and the Marquiss de St. Thomas for the Duke of Savoy by which it is agreed that there shall be a Suspension of Arms in Italy till a General Peace that the Siege of Valence which was besieged ever since the 17th ultimo by the Duke of Savoy should be immediately raised and that the Allies should march out of Italy 300000 Pistols being paid them in lieu of Winter-quarters The Conduct of the Duke of Savoy can hardly be parallel'd in History for he was the greatest part of this Summer at the Head of the Allies and towards the latter end of it we have seen him Generalissimo of the French invading the Country of the Allies who had so generously defended his against the Tyranny of the French 8. 28. 1688 King James having certain Advice that the Preparations made in Holland were designed against him issued out this Day a Proclamation whereby he declared that tho he had notice some time before of the intended Invasion of the Dutch yet he had always declined any Foreign Succours relying upon the true and antient Courage Faith and Allegiance of his People with whom he had often ventured his Life for the Honour of this Nation and in whose Defence he was resolved to live and die He recalled also the Writs issued out for the Election of the Members of Parliament which was to meet in November following dit 1690 The Earl of Marlborough being reinforced by the Duke of Wirtemberg and a Detachment of the Grand Army carried on the Siege of Cork with so much Vigour that the Garison was obliged to capitulate having Reason to fear they should be put to the Sword our Men having posted themselves very near the Wall They demanded the usual Terms of Capitulations but were denied and the General sent them word that he would allow them no other Conditions than to be Prisoners of War which they submitted to and accordingly delivered the Fort to the English The Garisom was near 5000 strong The Duke of Grafton with the Lord O Brian Colonel Granville Captain Cornwal Captain Neville and several other Sea-Officers went to the Attack as Volunteers and behaved themselves with an extraordinary Bravery but the Duke received a morcal Wound of which he died some Days after justly lamented for his great Valour 9. 29. 1674 The Germans having resused to fight the French at Oudenarde and thereby disappointed the Designs of the Prince of Orange his Highness left Flanders and came this Day before Grave with 2000 Horse to press the Siege of that important Place which was carried on by General Rabenhaut dit 1690 The Irish quitted the Town of Kingsale upon the Approach of a Detachment of the English sent by the Earl of Marlborough from Cork dit 1691 This Day the Town of Carmagnole in Piemont surrendred to the Confederate Army commanded by the Elector of Bavaria and the Duke of Savoy dit 1693 The Peace of the Lower Saxony being in great Danger of being disturbed by the Death of the Duke of Saxe Lawâ—nburg because of the several Pretenders to that Succession his Majesty of Great Britain the King of Sweden the States of Holland and the Elector of Brandenburgh interposed their Mediation betwixt the King of Denmark and the House of Lunenburg and this Day a Treaty was signed at Hamburgh whereby the Danes withdrew their Army from before Ratzeburgh which they had already besieged and the Princes of Lunenburgh obliged themselves to raze the Fortifications of that Place which had given a great Umbrage to the King of Denmark 10. 30. 1688 His Highness the Prince of Orange gave this Day his Declaration at the Hague containing the Reasons inducing him to appear in Arms in England for preserving the Protestant Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland This Declaration sets forth King James's most notorious Breaches of the Original Contract between the King and the People and of his Coronation-Oath the Invitation made to his Highness by many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons to come to their Relief and the Prince's Intention to join with the People of England and oblige the King to call a Free Parliament to redress those intolerable Grievances and inquire into the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales which as his Highness says was suspected by the greatest part of the Nation  October  11. 1. 1690 The Earl of Marlborough sat down this Day before Kingsale 12. 2. 1688 King James being very sensible that his Arbitrary Government had alienated from him the Hearts of his Subjects thought there was no better way to disappoint the Designs of the Prince of Orange than to redress the Grievances of the Nation and in order thereto sent this Day for the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of London to Whitehall where he told them that out of his Concern for the Peace and Welfare of the City and as a Mark of the great Confidence he had in them at a time when the Kingdom was threatned with an Invasion he had resolved to restore to them their antient Charter and Privileges and to put them into the same Condition they were in at the Time of the Judgment pronounced against them upon the Quo warranto   The same Day a General Pardon was published in which about 17 Persons were excepted dit 1689 The Town of Bon surrendred this Day to the Confederate Army commanded by the Elector of Brandenburgh the French having lost therein about 3000 Men. dit 1690 The two Houses of Parliament met this Day at Westminster where his Majesty made a most gracious Speech on the Transactions of the last Campaign and the necessity of encreasing our Preparations for the next dit  The Old Fort of Kingsale was this Day stormed and taken by the English 13. 3. 1688 This Day the Archbishop
these Kingdoms and that by his merciful Goodness the raging of the Sea and Madness of unreasonable Men have been stilled and calmed and your Majesty as the Darling of Heaven peaceably seated on the Throne of your Royal Ancestors whose long illustrious and unparallel'd Line is the greatest Glory of this your antient Kingdom   We pay our most humble Gratitude to your Majesty for the repeated Assurances of your Royal Protection to our National Church and Religion as the Laws have established them which are very sutable to the gracious Countenance Encouragement and Protection your Majesty was pleased to afford to our Church and Order whilst we were happy in your Presence amongst us   We magnify the Divine Mercy in blessing your Majesty with a Son and us with a Prince whom we pray Heaven may bless and preserve to sway your Royal Scepters after you and that he may inherit with your Dominions the Illustrious and Heroick Vertues of his august and most serene Parents   We are amazed to hear of the Danger of an Invasion from Holland which excites our Prayers for an universal Repentance to all Orders of Men that God may yet spare his People preserve your Royal Person and prevent the Effusion of Christian Blood and to give such Success to your Majesty's Arms that all who invade your Majesty's just and undoubted Rights and disturb or interrupt the Peace of your Realms may be disappointed and clothed with Shame so that on your Royal Head the Crown may still flourish   As by the Grace of God we shall preserve in our selves a firm and unshaken Loyalty so we shall be careful and zealous to promote in all your Subjects an intrepid and stedfast Allegiance to your Majesty as an essential part of their Religion and of the Glory of our Holy Profession not doubting but that God in his great Mercy who has so often preserved and delivered your Majesty will still preserve and deliver you by giving you the Hearts of your Subjects and the Necks of your Enemies So pray we who in all Humility are your Majesty's most humble most faithful and most obedient Subjects and Servants Signed by the Archbishops of St. Andrews and Glasgow and the Bishops of Edinburgh Galloway Aberdeen Dunkel Brechâ—â— Orkney Murray Ross Dâ—â—â—blane and of the Isles Dated Edinburgh Novemb 3. 1688.   This florid Letter was immediately published in the Gazette but instead of having upon the People the Effect the Court expected they were exasperated against those Prelates and looked upon them as Papists for they did not think that any Protestants would have made use of the Expressions contained in their Letter in relation to King James and to the Prince of Orange This Declaration of the Bishops of Scotland was not perhaps one of the least Reasons that induced the Convention of the States of that Kingdom to vote that Episcopacy was dangerous to the Safety of Scotland and therefore abolished it 14. 4. 165â— This Day was born his Illustrious Highness William Henry â—â—rince of Orange and now by the Grace of God and the Choice of the People King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Assertor of the Liberty of Europe Stadtholder Captain General and Admiral of the Forces of the States General the Darling of the World and the Terror of his Enemies to whom God grant a long and prosperous Life He was born a few Days after his Father's Death of her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Daughter to Charles I. King of Great Britain The States of Holland and Zealand and the Cities of Delf Leyden and Amsterdam were his Godsathers dit 1677 The Prince of Orange having received the Approbation of the States General for his Marriage was married this Day to the Princess Mary to the great Satisfaction of the People who expressed on that Occasion the great Respect they had for those two incomparable Persons dit 1692 The Parliament met this Day at Westminster 15. 5. 1688 The Prince of Orange arrived this Day with his Fleet in Torbay being led by the Hand of Heaven and called by the Voice of the People and landed in Person with Mareschal de Schomberg and his Army to relieve Great Britain against the Tyranny of King James 'T is observable that it being a hazy foggy Morning the Fleet overshot Torbay where the Prince intended to land but about nine of the Clock the Wind changed W. S. W. without which it was impossible for the Fleet to come into Torbay This Change of Wind was observed by every Body as an extraordinary Effect of the Divine Providence for as Bishop Burnet has very well observed the Wind immediately chopp'd into another Corner as soon as it had executed his Commission 16. 6. 1688 This Day King James put out a kind of Manifesto against the Declaration of the Prince of Orange wherein he calls the Expedition of his Highness an unchristian and unnatural Undertaking and then endeavours to insinuate that the Prince had no other Design than to usurp his Crown and Royal Authority and to prove it he brings as his chief Argument that the Prince questions the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales his Son and Heir apparent tho says he by the Providence of God there were present at his Birth so many Witnesses of unquestionable Credit as if it seemed to have been the particular Care of Heaven purposely to disappoint so wicked and unparallel'd an Attempt He promises afterwards to call a Free Parliament as soon as his Kingdom should be delivered from Foreigners This Declaration had no other Effect upon the People than to confirm them that King James would never call such a Parliament for seeing he refused to do it in that Juncture they could not perswade themselves that he would do it at another time when he should have no Enemy to fear I don't know who was the first Inventer of this fine Expression of unnatural Invasion but it was then the daily Language of King James's Gazetteer I think however it came originally from Scotland for the first time I find it used 't is in the Account given by the Gazette October 22. of the Affairs of Scotland dit 1693 His Majesty was pleased to declare this Day in Council that he had appointed the Right Honourable Edward Russel Esq to be Admiral of their Majesties Fleet. 17. 7. 1688 King James knowing that his Enemies spread every where that the Prince of Orange had brought a very great Army with him and being sensible that such a Rumour discouraged his Friends the London Gazette published this Day an exact List of the Forces of the Prince amounting to 14352 Men and by that List it appeared that the Prince had 65 Men of War 10 â—ireships and 560 Transport Ships dit 1693 The Parliament met this Day at Westminster where his Majesty made a most gracious Speech to both Houses on the bad Success of the last Campagn and especially in
no manner of Right to the Crown they ordered the Magistrates of Edinburgh to take the Oath of Fidelity to the Convention which was accordingly done in the Afternoon 7. 28. 1677 The Prince of Orange knowing the Extremities the Town of St. Omer was reduced to came to Ipres where having joined his Army it was resolved to march and relieve that Placo 8. 29. 1691 The French carrying on the Siege of Mons with great Vigor his Majesty resolved to decamp from Hall and endeavour to relieve it tho his Artillery was not yet come up to his Camp but just as the Army was breaking up News came that the Place had capitulated The French had only gained a Horn-work and there still remained two Half-Moons for them to take before they could come to the Counterscarp of the Place and in the Attack they had made the Day before upon one of the Half-Moons they were repulsed with great Loss but the Burghers being terrified by the French Bombs and their Fears improved by the Influence of their Priests whom the French had bribed they sent some Deputies of their Body with two Abbots to the Governor and pressed him to capitulate and upon his Refusal they sent a Drum of their own upon the Walls and beat a Parley Thus fell the important Place of Mons into the Hands of the French by the Cowardice of its Inhabitants and the Treachery and Knavery of the Priests The French King having taken a View of the Town to see whether it was worth the Price he had given for it returned to Paris 9. 30. 1677 The Prince of Orange marches with his Army to the Relief of St. Omer and having made a long March came in sight of the Guards of the French Army dit 1692 The Queen Dowager designing with his Majesty's Pleasure to retire into Portugal parted this Day from Somerset-House for Dover where her Majesty embarked for Calais to continue her Journey by Land 10. 31. 1677 The Prince of Orange comes in sight of the French Army which he found very advantageously posted near Cassel having two Rivers and several Defiles before them His Highness passed the first River notwithstanding the Opposition of the Enemies and designed to pass the other but the Night coming on it was thought fit to defer it till the next Morning  April  11. 1. 1677 His Highness attacks the French Army at Cassel which besides the Advantage of this Post was much superiour in Number The Fight was very bloody and obstinate but at last the Allies were over-powered by the Number of the French and forced to retire Tho the Prince was unfortunate in that Action he gained a great Reputation and his Enemies owned that he had given all the Proofs of a great General He charged several times at the head of the Battalions and Squadrons and when he saw that it was impossible to force the French he made a glorious Retreat and more orderly than one would have expected 12. 2. 1689 The Committee appointed by the States of Scotland for setling the Government made this Day their Report to the Convention which was agreed unto and thereupon they passed the following Act The States of the Kingdom of Scotland find and declare that King James VII being a professed Papist did assume the Regal Power and acted as King without ever taking the Oath required by Law and has by the Advice of evil and wicked Counsellors invaded the Fundamental Constitution of this Kingdom and altered it from a Legal and Limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary and Despotick Power and has governed the same to the Subversion of the Protestant Religion and Violation of the Laws and Liberties of the Nation inverting all the Ends of the Government whereby he has forefaulted the Right of the Crown and the Throne is become vacant   The Convention voted immediately after this and ordered that the said Committee for Settling the Government should bring in an Act for Settling the Crown on their Majesties William and Mary King and Queen of England and an Instrument of Government to be offered them with the Crown for the securing of the People from the Grievances which do affect them 13. 3. 1696 This Day Mr. Paul Foley Speaker of the House of Commons with the whole House attended the King and presented the following Association   WHereas there has been a horrid and detestable Conspiracy formed and carried on by Papists and other wicked and traiterous Persons for Assassinating his Majesty's Royal Person in order to encourage an Invasion from France to subvert our Religion Laws and Liberties We whose Names are hereunto subscribed do heartily sincerely and solemnly profess testify and declare that His Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms And we do mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the uttermost of our Power in the Support and Defence of his Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents And in case his Majesty come to any violent or untimely Death which God forbid we do hereby further freely and unanimously oblige our selves to unite associate and stand by each other in revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in supporting and defending the Succession of the Crown according to an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown   Mr. Speaker made at the same time a Request to his Majesty that the said Association and all other Associations by the Commons of England be lodged among the Records in the Tower to remain as a perpetual Memorial of their Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty The King was pleased to return the following Answer   I Take this as a most convincing and most acceptable Evidence of your Affection and as you have freely Associated your Selves for our Common Safety I do heartily enter into the same Association and will be always ready with you and the rest of my good Subjects to venture my Life against all who shall endeavour to Subvert the Religion Laws and Liberties of England   Note That the Lords entred into an Association two Days after the Commons which is much the same as this saving only that their Lordships made not use of the word Rightful but they declare that the late King James the Pretended P. of Wales nor any Body else has any manner of Right to the Crown of c. dit 1696 This Day Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkins who were lately convicted for High Treason at the Old Baily were according to the Sentence pronounced against them drawn on a Hurdle from Newgate to Tyburn and there hang'd and quarter'd Each deliver'd a Paper to the Sheriffs and owned the Crime they were condemned for as they had done two Days
before to a Committee of the House of Commons who went to Newgate to examine them They were attended by three Jacobite Parsons who were so impudent as to give a full Absolution at the Gallows to those Criminals laying their Hands over their Heads tho they died impenitent of the horrid and hellish Crime they owned themselves guilty of 13. 3. 1696 The English Fleet having been several times forced back from the French Coasts by contrary Winds returned this Day before Calais under the Command of Sir Cloudesly Shovel who ordered Captain Benbow to bombard the Town which he did throwing about 400 Shells into the Town which set it on Fire in three or four Places and burnt several Ships in the Harbour The Enemy made a great Fire upon our Men and yet we had but 3 kill'd and 8 wounded Our Admiral intended to begin afresh the next Morning but he was blown by a violent Storm into the Downs This was done almost in sight of the late King James who since the Discovery of the Conspiracy against King William's Person Febr. 22. continued at Boulogn by Order of the French King in order to make some People believe that their Intended Invasion of England was not grounded upon the Assassination of his Majesty 14. 4. 1675 The Prince of Orange being recovered of a dangerous Distemper the States of Holland send their Deputies to congratulate his Highness upon the same desire him to take a greater Care of his Person and to give them Leave to appoint a Day of Thanksgiving for his Recovery 15. 5. 1675 The Province of Guelderland desired his Highness since he would not accept the Sovereignty of their Province to take on him the Dignity of their Stadtholder and Governour which they had likewise settled upon his Male Posterity for ever which his Highness consented to 16. 6. 1666 The States General of the Seven Vnited Provinces take upon them the Guardianship of the young Prince of Orange and made choice of six Noblemen to take care of his Education This Proceeding of the States was very acceptable to the People who look upon the Princes of the Illustrious House of Orange as their Tutelar Angels 17. 7 169â— This Day a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer was opened in the King's Bench at Westminster and the Jury being sworn they found a Bill of Indictment of High Treason against Major Lowick Captain Knightley Brigadeer Rookwood and Cranburne for imagining and designing the Murder and Assassination of the King After which the Grand Jury made a Presentment to the Court that ... Collier Shadrach Cook and ... Snett Clerks did take upon them to pronounce and give Absolution to Sir Will. Parkins and Sir John Friend at the time of their Execution at Tyburn immediately before they had severally delivered a Paper to the Sheriff of Middlesex wherein they have severally endeavour'd to justify the Treasons for which they were justly condemned and executed and that they the said Collier Cook and Snett have thereby countenanced the same Treasons for which the said Sir William Parkins and Sir John Friend have been executed to the great Incouragement of other Persons to commit the like Treasons and to the Scandal of the Church of England established by Law and to the Disturbance of the Peace of the Kingdom whereupon the Court ordered an Indictment to be preferr'd against them for the same 18. 8. 1696 Sadrach Cook and William Snett Clerks were this Day committed to Newgate for Suspicion of High Treason and Treasonable Practices dit 1691 His Majesty was pleased to create the Duke of Zell Knight of the Garter being then at the Hague and as a Mark of particular Kindness he put the Garter about his Leg with his own Royal Hand the Duke of Norfolk assisting to buckle it 19. 9. 1689 This Day the King came to the House of Lords and gave his Royal Assent to an Act for establishing the Coronation Oath to another for Naturalization of the most Noble Prince George of Denmark and settling his Precedence and to another Act for Naturalizing Frederick Count of Schomberg 19. 9. 1696 His Grace the Duke of Ormond was this Day by his Majesty's Command sworn one of the Lords of the Privy Council and accordingly took his Place at the Board 20. 10. 1689 The King was pleased to create his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark and Norway Baron of Ockingham Earl of Kendall and Duke of Cumberland 21. 11. 1689 This Day their Majesties William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England France and Ireland in Westminster-Abbey by the Lord Bishop of London which Ceremony was performed with great Solemnity The Medals of the Coronation had on the Face the Effigies of the King and Queen and on the Reverse Jupiter darting his Thunderbolt at Phaeton with this Motto Ne totus absumatur Orbis To prevent the Ruin of the World or rather of the Liberties of Europe dit 1689 The Committee of the States of Scotland for settling the Government having made their Report and the Grievances and Instrument of Government being read and Histincty considered the whole States except some few that were absent with one Voice declar'd King William and Queen Mary King and Queen of Scotland in the same manner as was done in England and immediately thereafter the States assisted by the Lord Provost and the rest of the new Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh in their Formalities and attended by Lion King at Arms and the Heralds Pursuivants and Trumpets went from the Parliament-House to the Cross and there with great Solemnity Splendor Acclamations and Expressions oâ— Joy proclaimed their Majesties King and Queen of Scotland the Duke of Hamilton the Duke oâ— Queensbury the Marquiss of Athâ—â— and the Marquiss of Douglest and many other Peers being upon the Cross with the Lorâ— Provost and the Magistrates The Evening was conclude with Bonfires c. 21. 11. 1696 Seigniors Soranzo and Veniâ—â— Ambassadors Extraordinary oâ— the Republick of Venice to 〈◊〉 Majesty King William arrived 〈◊〉 London 22. 12. 1689 The House of Commons walked from Westminster to the Banqueting House where they attended their Majesties to congratulate them upon their Coronation dit 1688 The Prince goes to meet the Elector of Saxony at Loo to confer with him about his intended Expedition and the Preparations the French were making to invade Germany 23. 13. 1689 The Convention of Scotland having proclaimed and declared their Majesties William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland a Proclamation was published this Day forbidding the Subjects of that Crown to presume to own or acknowledg the late King James the Seventh for their King or obey accept or assist any Commissions that may be emitted from him or any ways to correspond with him forbidding likewise to presume upon their highest Peril by Word Writing in Sermons or any other manner of Way to impugn or disown the Royal Authority of William and Mary King and Queen of Scotland 24. 14.
secret that even the Duke of Wirtembergh knew nothing of it and attack'd the Place in good earnest Upon his decamping he was sensible of the Truth of it and could not forbear to complain very modestly to the King who answered him that he was sure of his Zeal and Secrecy and had a great Esteem for him but that his Service required that the General who commanded the Attack of that Fort should know nothing of his real Design 28. 18. 1695 The Army marched from Becelaer to Rouselaer and his Majesty brought up the Rear This Motion being made in sight of the French Lines several Squadrons of the Enemy came out to fall upon the Rear but the Allies march'd in so good Order that they did not think fit to attack them 29. 19. 1672 The Town of Dordrecht declared this Day the Prince of Orange their Stadtholder with all the Prerogatives enjoy'd by his Ancestors dit 1691 His Majesty's Army having decamped the Day before from Ballymore came this Day before Athlone beating the Enemy from several Out-ditches to within the Walls of the English Town and our Men lodging themselves therein General Ginkel and other Chief Officers viewed the Place and marked out a Battery which begun to play upon the Bastion dit 1695 The King having disposed all things for the Siege of the important Place of Namur left this Day his Army under the Command of Prince Vaudemont to observe the Mareschal de Villeroy and went to join the Army of the Elector which suddenly broke up from the Neighbourhood of Oudenarde and marched towards the Meuse 30. 20. 1691 The English Town of Athlone was this Day taken by Storm at 5 a Clock in the Afternoon and the Irish who defended it were put to the Sword or drown'd except those that could make their Escape over the Bridg into the other Part of the Town called the Irish dit 1692 This Day the Castle of Namur surrendred to the French King by Capitulation Monsieur Luxemburgh having fortified his Camp at Masy in such a manner that it was impossible for the Allies to relieve that Place The Castle made no Defence at all and there was such a Suspicion of Treachery that the Elector of Bavaria confin'd Prince Brabancon Governour thereof to the Citadel of Antwerp July   1. 21. 1690 This Day was fought a bloody Battel in the Plain of Fleuâ—us between the Dutch Forces commanded by Prince Waldeck making about 25000 Men and the French Army under the Command of the Mareschal of Luxemburgh being 40000 strong The Fight lasted above 6 Hours and tho the Dutch Foot was forsaken by their Horse yet such was their Bravery that the French could never break 14 Regiments who retired to Nivelle The Loss was pretty equal on both sides tho 't is generally believed the French suffer'd more than the Dutch but they left the Field and some of their Cannon and so the Honour of the Day fell to the French but the Baggage was saved dit 1695 The Earl of Athlone invested Namur this Day and secur'd the Passes and Defiles between the Sambre and the Meuse and on the Brabant but had not Men enough to invest it on the side of the Condross 2. 22. 1689 His Majesty having discovered by some intercepted Letters a Conspiracy in England against his Government to aid King James in his Design to bring the War upon this Kingdom thought fit to communicate these Papers to the City of London They were read in Common-Council who resolved thereupon to present a Loyal Address to their Majesties which they did this Day at Whitehall dit 1690 His Majesty accompanied by Prince George of Denmark arrived this Day at the Camp of Loughbrisland and sent Major General Scravenmoor with 500 Horse and a Detachment of Foot to observe the Army of â—he Rebels commanded by the abdicated K. James and Count Lauzun which came about Dundalk dit 1695 The Mareschal de Bousslers having marched from the Scheld toward the Meuse with an extraordinary Diligence got this Day into Namur by the Condross-side with 8 Regiments of Dragoons for the King had so rightly taken his Measures that the Garison of Namur would have made but a very feeble Resistance if the Earl of Athlone had had the Conveniency to pass the Meuse and invest the Place on that side The Mareschal de Bousslers having given the necessary Order for the Defence of that Fortress endeavour'd to get out but our Men kept him in 3. 23. 1672 The States of Holland declared this Day his Highness the Prince of Orange Stadtholder of their Province as those of Zealand had done the Day before and appointed ten Deputies to offer that Dignity to the Prince with all the Prerogatives enjoy'd by his Ancestors and charged their Deputies to the States General to propose that his Highness might be absolved of the Oath he was forced to take in their Assembly not to accept that Dignity the Prince having declared that unless the States did absolve him he would never take upon him the Exercise of that great Place dit 1690 His Majesty went himself this Day with a Party of Horse four Miles beyond Newry to observe the Ground and the Ways through which he had resolved to march to the Enemy dit 1691 The Batteries begun this Day to play on the Irish Town of Athlone dit 1695 The King sat down this Day before Namur taking his Post on the side of Brabant and the Elector his between the Sambre and the Meuse 4. 24. 1672 The Deputies of the States of Holland and Westfrizeland waited upon the Prince of Orange to offer him the Dignity of Stadtholder of their Provinces whom his Highness receiv'd very graciously and assured them that he would be ready upon all Occasions to venture his Life for the Glory of his Country and asserting their Liberties against their Enemies 5. 25. 1695 His Majesty accompanied by the Elector of Bavaria and other General Officers viewed the Town of Namur and the Pioneers were commanded to work on the Lines of Circumvallation and Contravallation The Earl of Athlone with most of the Horse in the Army was sent toward Fleurus for the Conveniency of Forage and to cover the Camp 6. 26. 1690 The King marched from Newry to Dundalk to pursue the Irish and French Army which was retired towards the River Boyne 7. â—7 1690 His Majesty reviewed his Army near Dundalk consisting of English Dutch Danes Gernans and French making in all about 36000 Men which he â—ound in a very good Condition The same Day a Party of â—ppinger's Dragoons bear one of â—he Irish who incamped that â—ay near the Boyne dit  The English and Dutch Fleet â—ommanded by the Earl of Torâ—ington came this Day in sight of the French Fleet on the â—oast of the Isle of Wight 8. 28. 1672 The States General annulled and made void the perpetual Edict the Enemies of the House of Nassau had extorted from them and declar'd the Prince of
frighted that they sailed from the Bay of Barcelona with what Haste they could and retired into Toulon The French Army did not think fit then to attack Barcelona where Admiral Russel arrived this Day being received with all the Marks of Respect and Gratitude The Inhabitants made Bonfires stiled him their Deliverer and many caused his Name to be ingraven on their Doors 'T is observable that the French Fleet run away upon a false Report for Admiral Russel was not yet near the Straits when they retired which certainly cannot be ascribed but to the terrible Apprehension they had to have to deal with a Man who so roughly used them two Years before at the Hogue Thus Catalonia and Spain were preserved by his Majesty 9. 30. 1689 King James having sent Major General Mackarty with 6000 Men to reduce the Inniskilling-men who had generously taken up Arms in Defence of their Religion and Liberties and they having notice it was resolved to go and fight the Irish before they came near this Town They marched accordingly to a Place called Newton-Butler where they found the Irish advantageously posted on an Eminence with some Pieces of Cannon having two Bogs before them insomuch that there was no coming at them but by two narrow Ways However Colonel Woolsley who commanded the Inniskilling-men charged them so vigorously that they were entirely routed and their General taken Prisoner Our Men were but 1200 Foot and 800 Horse and Dragoons and the Irish were 6000. The Irish lost near 3000 Men and the Inniskilling-men not above 20 and 50 wounded which seems incredible and it must be confessed that tho there was a great deal owing to their Valour yet much more to the Providence of God The Account of the Actions of that People and especially since they were commanded by Colonel Woolsley deserves every Man's Perusal 10. 31. 1689 The Irish Rebels raised this Day the Siege of London-derry before which they sat down the 19th of April last King James the Duke of Berwick and the greatest Officers came to press on the Siege of that Place which was not fortified at all or very little The Garison consisted of the Inhabitants and other Protestants who had fled thither to avoid the cruel Usage of the Irish and Colonel Lundy whom they had chosen their Governour had so little opinion of the Defence they could make that in the Month of April he told Colonel Cunningham and Colonel Richards who were sent from England to relieve the Town that they could not hold out a Week and advised them to return without exposing their Men and quitted the Place himself yet such was the Bravery of those Inhabitants that they defended their Town against the whole Power of the Irish tho pinch'd by a hard Famine which destroy'd six thousand Persons The Irish threw 591 Bombs into the Place lost a great Number of Men and were forced to raise the Siege the Town being relieved the Day before by Major General Kirk The Siege of this Place will make it famous in History and our Posterity will admire the brave Defence the Inhabitants made especially if they consider that Mr. Walker a Minister and one Mr. Baker who had never bore Arms before were chosen Governours dit 1678 This Day was concluded and signed the Treaty of Peace between the States of Holland and France at Nimeguen whereby the French restored Mastricht the only Place they were then in possession of the Prince of Orange having beat them from all the other Places they had taken belonging to the States General His Highness was very sorry for that Peace knowing that it was neither safe nor honourable  August  11. 1. 1674 This Day was fought the bloody Battel of Seness between the Confederate Army commanded by his Highness the Prince of Orange and the French under the Command of the Prince de Conde The French attacked the Rear of the Allies consisting of the Spanish Troops whom they defeated without any great Opposition and had they 〈…〉 tented themselves with that Advantage no body could have denied them the Glory of the Day but the Prince de Conde flattering himself with the Hopes of an entire Victory attacked the Body of the Allies commanded by the Prince of Orange where he met with an extraordinary Resistance which gave time to the Germans who had the Vanguard to come to their Assistance and there was a most desperate Fight which lasted from the Morning till the Moon 's setting parted both Armies The Allies remained in the Field and the French retired Both claimed the Victory but certainly there is no better Mark of it than to remain in the Field of Battel The Loss the French sustained is almost incredible and it was this melancholick Consideration that obliged the French King to say that he should be very sorry to buy another Victory at such a rate The Troops of the French King's Houshold were almost all cut to pieces and they lost two Standards The first Regiment of Horse of France call'd the Cornette Blanche lost also their white Standard The French took many Standards and Colours in the beginning of the Battel as also many Prisoners and they claimed the Honour of the Day only upon that Account This was the first Battel the Prince of Orange fought in which he shewed such Prudence Conduct and Bravery together that the Great Prince de Conde who was a very good Judg in these Matters could not forbear doing him Justice and said that he fought twenty Princes of Orange that Day for says he he was every where he shewed the Experience of an Old General and the Bravery of a Souldier The only Fault I think he was guilty of was exposing his Person too much In short I have Reason to believe that this young Prince will equal if not exceed the Williams Maurices and Henries his glorious and renowned Ancestors Count de Souches General of the Germans who behaved himself with an extraordinary Bravery in that Action expresses himself in these Words in his Letter to the States General The Event of this Battel is turned to the Glory of his Highness the Prince of Orange who has shewn on this occasion the Prudence of an old Captain the Valour of Cesar and the Intrepidity of Marius This I say without Flattery and if I have any ways contributed towards the gaining of this Victory I have but followed the Example of his Highness dit 1675 The Allies having besieged Tryers and the Mareschal de Crequy being advanced with his Army to relieve the Town it was resolved to leave a Body in the Trenches and go to fight the French and accordingly they passed this Day the River of Saar in sight of the French whom they attacked with so much Vigour and Bravery that they were entirely routed leaving all their Cannon behind them with 74 Colours and Standards 200 Wagons laden with Ammunition and their Baggage 3000 Men kill'd upon the spot and 2000 Prisoners Never was a more
lying so conveniently to receive Supplies from France dit 1693 We had Advice that Charles Duke of Schomberg died at Turin the 17th Instant of his Wounds in the late Battel of Marsaglia justly lamented for his personal Merits great Conduct and Valour He had been bred up a Souldier from his Cradle yet he never was spoiled by the poisonous Air they commonly breath in the Field but was a noble Proof that Sobriety Chastity Moderation and Religion can sympathize with the fiercest Courage 28. 18. 1692 His Majesty landed this Day at Yarmouth in the Afternoon having had a very bad Passage during which several French Privateers came pretty near the Yatch wherein his Majesty was the Weather being so stormy that the Men of War commanded by Sir Cloudesly Shovel could hardly keep together 29. 19. 1688 The Prince of Orange having disposed all things towards his Expedition to England and sent Prince Waldeck with a Detachment of the Dutch Forces to join the Brandenburghers and other Allies to secure Cologâ— and the Country of Juliers caused the rest of his Army to go on board and having taken his Leave of the States General the States of Holland and West-Frizeland and of her Royal Highness the Princess went himself this Day on board of a Frigat of 36 Guns in the middle of the Line attended by the Mareschal de Schomberg the People crouding the Shore to wish him a prosperous Expedition dit 1688 The Fortress of Philipsburgh surrendred this Day to the Dauphin after a Siege of 4 Weeks and afterwards the French took Spire Worms Manheim Frankendall Heidelberg and other Places of the Palatinate which they destroyed with Fire and Sword committing Cruelties hitherto unknown among the Christians This was done before any Declaration of War was published and yet the French have had the Impudence to accuse the States General to have begun the War It is to be observed also that â—t that very time they were committing those Barbarities they exclaimed against the Emperor and pretended that what they did was only to establish a lasting Peace dit 1691 The King landed this Morning at Margate from Holland being attended in his Passage by Sir Cloudesly Shovel and this Evening came to Kensington being received with all imaginable Demonstrations of Joy 30. 20. 1688 His Highness the Prince of Orange sailed this Day from the Flatts near the Brill with his whole Fleet consisting of 52 Men of War and about 640 Transport Ships and Tenders The Men of War were divided into 3 Squadrons Admiral Herbert had the Van and Admiral Evertzen the Rear the Prince being in the middle of the Line with Admiral Bâ—stians The Wind was very favourable at first but about 12 a Clock at Night it turned to Westward with such a Violence that the whole Fleet was obliged to put into Helvoetsluce Goree and other Places The Storm lasted about 12 Hours and was so terrible that People thought that at least the half of the Fleet would be lost yet by the Providence of God there was but one Fly-boat with about 50 Horses that perished and all the Men were saved 'T is true that a great many Horses died in the Storm The News of that Accident being brought over caused an extraordinary Joy at Court where the Priests boasted very much of the Assistance they expected from the Virgin Mary and the rest of the Saints who had been so earnestly supplicated to confound that Heretical Fleet of the Prince dit 1692 His Majesty returned this Evening to Kensington from Holland having past through the City amidst the Acclamations of the People and a continued Illumination in the Houses Bonfires and other Demonstrations of Joy 31. 21.  November   1. 22. 1677 This Day his Majesty King Charles II. acquainted his Privy Council with the Resolution he had taken to marry the Lady Mary his Niece with the Prince of Orange which Resolution was mightily approved by the Council who thanked his Majesty and the Duke of York and complimented the Princess and the Prince upon that Account   The same Day his Highness dispatch'd a Gentleman for Holland with a Letter for the States General and another for the States of Holland to acquaint them that he had demanded the Princess of the King and the Duke of York and wanted only their Approbation   The News of that Marriage being spread in the City the People expressed an extraordinary Demonstration of Joy as if they had foreseen the great Advantages the English Nation was to receive some time after therefrom dit 1688 King James being sensible that the whole Nation was perswaded that the Prince of Wales was but a supposititious Prince whom the Priests had imposed upon the Nation in order to carry on their Designs to destroy the Protestant Religion thought fit to call his Privy Council this Day and desired the Queen Dowager and such of the Peers both Spiritual and Temporal the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London and other Lords and Ladies that were present at the Queen's Labour to declare upon Oath what they knew of the Birth of the Prince of Wales They appeared accordingly and declared what they knew which amounred only to this that they were on the 10th of Jaâ—â— at St. James's Palace when the Queen was delivered that they heard her Majesty groaning crying and the like but none of them except the Midwife deposed that that Child was come from the Queen's Body even not the Physicians themselves These Depositions being so lame did but increase the Suspicion that there was a Cheat in the case and the King's Council were so sensible that they would have the same effect that tho an Account of them was promised in the Gazette they did not think fit to be as good as their Word 'T is true we have no positive Proof that the Prince of Wales is a Bastard but there are so many Circumstances and Presumptions against his Legitimacy that one must own one of these two things either that he is a supposed Prince or at least that King James designed to make all the World believe it since the Princess of Orange and the Princess of Denmark were not invited to be present as they were to be nor any body for them the Bishops were put in the Tower some Days before and for those sew Pretestant Lords and Ladies who were called to St. James's they were introduced by the King in such a manner that none of them could see whether or no the Child was born of the Queen King James could not but foresee that the Legitimacy of his Son would be questioned and therefore to remove that Pretence it was enough to desire the Princess to be there with some Protestant Lords and Ladies appointed by the Princess of Orange and expose all things to their Sight and Feeling but since this was neglected one cannot but believe that there was a soul Design to impose a Popish Successor upon the Nation This pretended
he could not now refuse because of his Army refusing to sight to establish Popery he ordered this Day in the Privy Council the Lord Chancellor to issue out Writs for the sitting of a Parliament on the 15th of January following but it was then too late for the Nation having observed that the Court had refused that just Demand as long as ever they could was now in such a Ferment that what the Court did or said was very little regarded 9. 29. 1688 The Prince of Orange being advanced to Sherborn-Castle was joined there this Day by the Prince of Denmark and the other Lords with him dit 1677 His Highness the Prince of Orange knowing how necessary his Presence was at the Hague took his leave of the King and the Duke of York and imbarked at Margate with her Royal Highness his Wife on the 7th Instant and this Day landed in Holland at Ter Heyde from whence they went to Honslâ—erdick 10. 30. 1688 This Day came out King James's Proclamation for the speedy calling of a Parliament as the best and most proper Means as he says to establish a lasting Peace in the Kingdom This Parliament was to sit upon the 15th of January next and the King declared by this Proclamation that all his Subjects should have free Liberty to elect and that all the Peers and such who should be chosen Members of the House of Commons should have full Liberty and Freedom to serve and sit in Parliament notwithstanding they had taken up Arms or committed any Act of Hostility having for that purpose directed a General Pardon to pass the Great Seal The King concludes with these remarkable Words And for the reconciling all publick Breaches and obliterating the very Memory of all past Miscarriages we do hereby exhort and kindly admonish our Subjects to dispose themselves to elect such Persons for their Representatives in Parliament as may not be biassed by Prejudice or Passion but qualified with Parts Experience and Prudence proper for this Conjuncture  December  11. 1. 1688 This Day the Duke of Norfolk came to Norwich attended with a great Number of Gentlemen where they delared for a Free Parliament and the Protection of the Protestant Religion dit  The same Day the Account of King James's Resolution to call a Parliament being gone to the Fleet my Lord Dartmouth called the Captains of the Fleet-together on board the Resolution wherein they resolved upon an Address of Thanks to his Majesty concluding with these Words Beseeching Almighty God to give your Majesty all imaginable Happiness and Prosperity and to grant that such Counsels and Resolutions may be promoted as conduce to your Majesty's Honour and Safety and tend to the Peace and Settlement of this Realm both in Church and State according to the established Laws of the Kingdom This Address was signed by the Lord Dartmouth the Lord Berkley Sir Roger Strickland and 38 other Commanders King James was very much surprized at this Address and perceived but too late how mistaken he had been to have believed that his Fleet would fight for the Establishment of Popery and the Destruction of the Protestant Religion and the Laws of their Country 12. 2. 1676 The Prince comes back from Zealand to the Hague having been in great Danger because of the Ice 13. 3.  14. 4. 1677 This Day the Prince and Princess of Orange made a magnificent Entry into the Hague the Burghers being in Arms the Guns discharged several times and the Evening was concluded with Fireworks Bonfires c. The Bridg was adorned with green Festoons under which was the following Inscription   Vxori Batavis vivat Nassovius Hector Auriaco Patriae vivat Britannica Princeps   Before the Town-house there was a Triumphal Arch with this Inscription   A VrIaCi hIs ThaLaMIs BataVIs Dos RegIa PaX   And in the Hoogstra there was another with these Words   Ingredere Auspiciis Batavis felicibus Aulam 15. 5. 1673 His Highness returned this Day to his Army in Brabant to intercept the Mareschal de Luxemburgh who was returning to France with the Spoils of the Cities they had conquered in Holland The Prince did his utmost to draw the French to a Battel but they declined it and intrench'd themselves under the Cannon of Mastricht where they remained till his Highness was obliged by the hard Weather to send his Troops into their Winter-quarters to refresh themselves of the Fatigues they had suffer'd in their Expedition in Germary and the taking of Bonn. 16. 6. 1689 Colonel John Cutts was this Day created a Baron of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Title of Baron Cutts of Gowraâ— in consideration of his faithful Services and zealous Affection to their Majesties and Government dit 1688 The Popish Party grew so contemptible in London that an Hue and Cry after Father Peters was this Day publickly cried and sold in the Streets of London and Westminster tho King James was still at Whitehall dit 1693 His Majesty having been pleased upon the Death of the Duke of Schomberg to appoint the Lord Viscount Gallway to command his Forces in Piemont in quality of Lieutenant General and to give him likewise the Character of his Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Savoy his Lordship set out this Day for Holland in order to continue his Journey to Turin by Land 17. 7. 1677 The Prince went this Day to the Assembly of the States General to return them his Thanks for their Approbation and Consent to his Marriage and to acquaint them with what he had negotiated in England in relation to the Peace with France   The same Day his Highness went to the Council of State and approved the State of the War for the next Campagn dit 1688 This Day a supposed Declaration of the Prince of Orange was publickly cried and sold in the Streets which put the Papists under an unexpressible Consternation for therein was contained this threatning Expression We do declare that all Papists who shall be found in open Arms or with Arms in their Houses or about their Persons or in any Office or Employment Civil or Military upon any Pretence whatsoever contrary to the known Laws of the Land shall be treated by Us and our Forces not as Souldiers and Gentlemen but as Robbers Free-booters and Banditti and shall therefore be entirely delivered up to the Discretion of our Souldiers The Magistrates were likewise commanded to disarm the Papists and put the Laws in execution against them This Declaration was dated Sâ—erborn-Castle November 28. Signed Will. Henry Prince of Orange c.   This was the boldest Attempt that ever was made by a private Person and if I had been able to learn his Name I would have inserted it here because of the great Service this Declaration did to the Nation for the Papists not knowing that it was forged were so terrified that many laid down their Commissions and threw
Orange Stadtholder of the State Captain General and Admiral of Holland Zealand and West-Fâ—iezeland with all the Priviledges Honours and Prerogatives enjoy'd by his Ancestors This was so acceptable to the People that they made Bonsires and all other Demonstrations of Joy dit 1676 The Prince of Orange sat down before the strong Town of Mastricht which was vigorously attacked several Days but the Confederate Troops which were to join his Highness being not come he was forced to raise the Siege upon the Approach of the French Army commanded by the Mareschal de Schomberg dit 1690 The late King James hearing that his Majesty was marching directly to fight him passed this Day the River Boyne in great Confusion in hopes that he could stop there the English 9. 29. 1692 A Medal was coined representing the Victory obtain'd by Admiral Russel over the French and the sinking of the Royal Sun with this Motto Maturate fugam Regique haec dicito vestro non illi Imperium Pelagi to answer what the French boasted of for the Advantage they got upon the Dutch in the Year 1690. for the Medals they coined upon that occasion had this Inscription Imperium Maris assertum Anglis Batavis una fugalis 10. 30. 1672 His Highness received this Day his Commission of Stadtholder took the Oath before the States General and his Place in their Assembly dit 1690 His Majesty incamped this Morning near Drogheda and about Noon rode along the River Boyne to observe the Irish Army posted on the other side of the River His Majesty was accompanied by his Royal Highness the Dukes of Schomberg and Ormond and many other Generals whereupon the Enemy having discovered who they were planted two Pieces of 6 Pound Ball and fired upon the King The second Ball that was fired passed so close to his Majesty as to take away a piece of his Coat Wastcoat and Shirt raised the Skin on the Blade of his right Shoulder and drew a little Blood but by the Providence of God he had no other Hurt and a Plaister being put on his Majesty continued on Horseback till 4 in the Afternoon dit  The same Day the Confederate Fleet and the French ingaged off of Beachy upon the Coast of Sussex the Dutch Squadron leading the Van consisting only of 22 Men of War which from 9 in the Morning till 9 in the Evening maintained the Fight alone against the whole French Fleet consisting of 84 Men of War for the English except 3 or 4 Ships could not come up to ingage The Dutch complained against the Earl of Torrington Admiral of the Fleet and there was so much Suspicion of his Conduct that he was afterwards tried super altum Mare by a Council of War whereof Sir Ralph De La Val was President but his Lordship was cleared The Dutch lost several Ships and Rear Admiral Van Dick and Rear Admiral Brackell with some other Officers dit 1691 The strong Town of Athlone was stormed this Day at 4 a Clock in the Afternoon and taken with the Loss of about 50 Men. But because no History for ought I know can parallel the Bravery of this Action it is thought fit to mention the manner of it The Town of Athlone is situated upon the River Shannon which divides it into two Parts That situated on the left side of the River in the Province of Connought is called the Irish Town and besides its natural Strength being defended on one side by the Shannon and on the other by a Morass it is very well fortified and the Irish had spar'd nothing to make it as strong as possible The other called the English Town is in the Province of Leinster but its Fortifications were neglected and the English took it by Storm on the 20th without any great Opposition They had batter'd ever since the Irish Town and had made sufficient Breaches but the Question was how to storm the Place for it was not possible to pass the River above or below because Monsieur St. Ruth General of the Irish Army was incamped almost within Cannon-shot of the Town to oppose our Passage It was proposed to raise the Siege and pass the Shanâ—on above the Town to fight the Irish but this way was not thought proper nor honourable and it was resolved to storm the Place by the River-side and accordingly this Day at 4 a Clock in the Afternoon our Men entred the River there being a Ford a little below a ruin'd Bridg which joined the two Towns They had Water to the Arm-pits but however such was their Bravery that they forced the Enemy from their Intrenchments and in less than an Hour made themselves Masters of the Town killing above 1000 of the Enemy and taking 300 Prisoners with Major General Maxwell the Governour We lost in all about 50 Men besides some wounded All the Officers behaved themselves with an extraordinary Bravery When the Irish saw our Men entering the River they sent an Express to St. Ruth to acquaint him with it but he answered that it was impossible that the English should pretend to take a Town and he so near with an Army to succour it but a second Express having brought Advice that our Men were already Masters of some Intrenchments he sent several Batallions and Squadrons to relieve the Place but such was the Diligence of the English that they had by that time lined all the Works on the side of Connought and gave such a Welcome to the Irish that they retired in great haste and brought to St. Ruth the melancholy News of Athlone being taken in his sight dit 1689 The Parliament of Scotland passed an Act to take away the Supremacy over Ecclesiastical Affairs  July  11. 1. 1690 His Majesty having observed the Posture of the Irish and French Army resolved to pass the Boyne in their sight and force them from that advantageous Post and accordingly this Morning Count Mainhart of Schomberg General of the Horse was sent to pass the River about 3 Miles from Drogheda while the rest of the Army should attempt to pass the same over against King James's Army The Attempt was very dangerous for the Enemy had spoiled the Fords and cast Intrenchments to defend them but our Men behaved themselves with so much Courage and Prudence that they beat the Rebels out of their Posts and put their whole Army to flight The Enemies Horse fought very well and put some of our Batallions into Disorder because they had not time enough to form themselves but the King having then passed the River with some Squadrons of Horse put the Enemy to flight and pursued them several Miles The Duke of Schomberg passed the River with the first Batallions and was killed as he was drawing up the same in Order of Battel Count Mainbart forced also his Pass and beat the Enemies Horse that was sent to oppose him The Enemies left their Baggage and Cannon behind them with several thousands dead upon the spot