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

this happy Return of a Prince whose presence like the Sun coming on this side the Aequinoctial to revive the Earth with Vernal Rays of kindly heat after it had been bound in Icey Chains by the Winters Tyranny made them forget their former apprehension of Danger and rendred them Airy and Lively in hopes of many Happy Days under such a Benign Influence it is beyound our expression and so we leave it to the imagination of the Reader BUT this Peace to the Protestants under Jurisdiction of the French King was not so Grateful for that Restless Monarch too Prone to violence having a Cessation of Arms abroad turned wonted Cruelty upon his own Subjects of the Reformed Religion though upon his Accession to the Throne they had been the greatest sticklers for him and the chiefest means that placed him there but their Loyalty nor Protestations of a continued Fidelity availed little when it was resolved their Estates and Effects should flow into his Coffers UNDER pretence of having but one Religion in his Kindom he sent his Dragoons and Bald-Pated Priests into all the Provinces to Convert them with Plunder Fire Sword Racks and many New invented Tortures the Sufferings of those Poor people being more then space will allow to be enumerated in this History especially being somewhat forreign to the intended subject matter Let it suffice then that their Sufferings moved all the Princes in Christendom to pitty but their own who ought to have had the greatest concern for them The Pope and we believe we might have said the Turk detested this Cruelty that Ruined near 100000 Families under the Specious pretence of Religion MANY of these distressed people fled to England others to Holland c. where they gave Her Highness a new opportunity of exercising of her Virtuous inclination to the performance of Charitable Deeds so naturally inherent to her goodness in disposition and tender Compassion to the Distressed So that by her Liberal Example others Were incited and stirred up in the Bowels of Commiseration to relieve those Fugative People who had left their Countrey Estates and substance for the sake of a good Conscience for would they have turned their Backs upon that Religion they had received and Embraced the Romish Idolatry and Superstitions they had been permitted to live in some quiet at home but with what part of their Goods or Estate those that were compelled to Apostatize can by their severe treatment or kind best Testify AND because as may be supposed their Highnesses Charity extended in a great measure to the Relief and Shelter of these poor Protestants So much Monsieur was inraged that contrary to the Treaty of Nimeg uen he in full Peace and the height of Security Commanded Monsieur Moran Superintendant of Provence to March 2000 Men into His Highnesses Principality of Orange which was done under the Command of his Lievtenan General of Languedock where he threw down the Walls of that City Plunder'd the Inhabitants and used divers Crueltys to make many of them turn Roman-Catholicks but in that they could little prevail yet for all the just complaints made by the States General upon the occasion of this violation of the Treaty at the complaint of his Highness to them of the wrong he and his Subjects had sustained No satisfactory answer could be obtained but the French King unjustly and ungenerously detains it till a Juster Sword shall Reeve it from and put it again in the Hands of the Rightful Possessor AND thus we see the different tempers of Princes the one Labouring to Succour and Relieve the Subjects of his Enemy flying to him for Refuge and Protection whilst the other is only pleased with violence and oppression and labouring to destroy his and his own Subjects Let these Nations consider then in what a Fair Line their Lot is fallen under the Auspicious Influence of so Mild and Gracious a Prince When the Poor Distressed Subjects of France Groan beneath the weight of his Burden whose Will is his Law whilst their Lives and Estates depend in a manner upon his pleasure WHILST things were carryed on in this manner the Princess had cause of Sorrow in the Surprising News she received of the Death of her Uncle King Charles the Second who after Five or Six Days Indisposition of a grievous Appoplexie Dyed at Whitehall February the 6th 1684. And although the setting of this Great and Prudent Monarch gave her Father Accession to the Brittish Throne yet his Love and Tender Care of Her Welfare and Prosperity all along had made so deep an impression in her Princely Heart that it Melted her Eyes in Pearls of unfeigned Sorrow and threw a Cloud of Sadness over the Livelyness of her Active Spirits nor was her Royal Consort wanting as in her Joys so to share with her in her Grief for never any Royal Pair were observed to Simpathize so nearly with each other in the passions of the Mind as these Illustrious Persons which showed the Quintiscential perfection of Love in its Brightest Mortal Refinement UPON this Sadness as well that Court as the Court of England went into the Deepest Mourning and on the 14th of February the Royal Corps in a Private Funeral was Buried in King Henry the 7ths Chappel in a Vault under the East End of the South-Isle THE Prince to divert his Melancholy on this sad occasion went to visit several Towns to take a view how they stood in Repair as to their Fortifications as also to settle the Military affairs and upon Returning from Hounslyr-dyke to the Hague gave Audience to divers Forreign Ministers and having visited some other Towns he was Met at Loo by her Highness where there were splendid Entertainments and Rejoycings and King James after the Death of King Charles having been Proclaim'd and on the 23d of April 1685 Crown'd at Westminster Sent the Marquess D' Alberville his Ambassador to Holland who in December had Audience of the Prince and States whereupon they Adjourned till the Seventh of January IN the mean while on the first of that Month the Princess with preparations of Curious Fire-Works Representing a Battel Ranged in Four Lines and Furnished out with several Batterys in a very Lively manner expressing the Actions of a Fight AND now King James having Declar'd himself a Roman Catholick and upon the Defeat and Cutting off the Duke of Monmouth in England and the Earl of Argyle in Scotland and gotten him a Standing Army though the Parliament design'd it should be Disbanded things began to run high and Rome drave on Jehue like to gain her End And after a time other practices failing she began openly to push at the Church of England Swarms of Priests and others of the Romish Order daily flocking into this Kingdom like Swarms of Locusts And attempting with the same boldness in Holland and especially about the Princes Court notwithstanding the Intercession that had been made on their behalf by some Minesters Residing there the Court of Justice at the

withal Father Peter the Jesuit dismist the Council and the King declar'd he was willing that Roman Catholicks should remain uncapable to be Members of the House of Commons Oh the wonderful Conversions of Fear what the Prayers and Intreaties of the Nobles Bishops and the desires of all the good Protestants in England could not do the very name of their Highnesses preparation brought to pass But not to Dwell too long on this Matter THE Prince whose actions are swift in Execution as his purposes delayed not though it was in the dead of Winter and his Fleet was put back in the Harbour by contrary Winds and suffer'd some little damage resolved on this great Work on the Fifth of November a day whereon another great deliverance happened to this Nation and tho' long since yet fresh in our minds He came with his whole Fleet before Torbay in the County of Devon not having met wih any Opposition from the English Fleet though he passed by within Cannon Shot insomuch that this gave a happy Presage that God had Bowd the Hearts of the People to be at their Highnesses Devotion and what more confirmed it was when the first Men were put on Shoar Viz. about 500 to put themselves in a Posture for the better securing the Landing of the rest so far were the Countrey people from Flying their Habitations or any Consternation that on the contrary they came Flocking to Welcome them on Shoar bringing them a supply of such Provisions as they had and when the Prince Landed such were the Shouts and Applaudities that these Western Countreys never Rung with the like Melody THE Fleet consisting of 635 Men of War Flyboats Pinks and Fireships and the Forces that Landed 14352 a great many of them being Brandenburgers Hess Casselers Sweeds c. And with them divers great Commanders with some English Noblemen and a great many others AND now the Nations Genious bends low to Welcome and to Complement a Heroe who brought her Safety with him for as well the Nobles as others came Crouding in and only a March was made and not a War for those who had boasted such mighty things before Fled and Scatter'd at the Martial Noise of his Drums and Trumpets that very Army on which they had so much Rely'd coming in a great measure over to him and to be brief he with little o● no Effusion of Blood King Jame● being retir'd took a quiet possession of the Kingdom amidst the Loud Shouts and Acclamations o● the People being every where Addressed and Congratulated THIS News Flying into Holland caused not only Excess of Joy in the Princess for the Safety o● her Illustrious Consort whose grea● undertaking had Subjected He● Spirits to Doubts and Fears o● the Hazards that might attend such an Enterprize but with her tha● whole Nation Simpathiz'd by expressing the high Satisfaction the● conceived upon his Success and Prosperous Fortune And whe● he had here at the earnest request of the States Assembled in Convention taken the Administration of the Publick affairs of Government into his Hands and after King James's leaving the Kingdom and going to France the Citizens of London and Westminster went in a great Body to the Parliament-house where they delivered two Petitions the Substance of them being to this Effect Viz. THAT they most Humbly and Earnestly Desired that His Most Illustrious Highness the Prince of Orange might be speedily setled in the Throne by whose Conduct Courage and Reputation the Nation and Protestant Religion might be Secured and Defended from it's Enemys at home and abroad That Ireland which was then in Rebellion might be rescued from its deplorable condition and to conclude the Kingdoms setled on a lasting Foundation and Security in Peace and Liberty UPON this Her Highness having been Complemented at the Hague by all the Persons of Quality that on purpose Resorted to the Court and among others their Electorl Highnesses of Brandenburg She having made to the Latter a very Splendid Entertainment it was concluded here that the Illustrious Princess should be sent for over to be Partner in those Crowns the Wisdom of the Nation had concluded to lay at the Pincess's Feet to which she consenting And being on her Departure for England the States of Holland the States General the Courts of Justice the Council of State and the Colledges either in Bodys or by their Deputys attended her and made their Complements and Congratulations on the happy occasion and in this the Forreign Ministers residing at Court had a share and the Persons of Quality of both Sexes The Majestrates made it their Request that the Burghers might wait on her in Arms but she modestly refused it as being too tedious a Cerimony for the intended Expeditness however the States of Holland Deputed Three of their Body to Wait upon her till she should be Embarqued and gave Orders to the Sieur Allemond with Divers Men of War to Joyn Admiral Herbert who attended with a Squadron and several Yatches to Transport her for England THE people at her Departure scarce refraining expressing their Sorrows in Tears that so much Virtue and Goodness had left their Shoar to inrich another Land They had seen her worth and valued it at such a Rate that though she went as it were in Triumph to possess Crowns and Kingdoms they Grudged to be Deprived of such a Blessing or spare it to any other Like the People of Mittelene when Cornelia the Wife of Pompey the Great was to go with her Lord after the Pharsalian War left their Shoars tho' in a different State and Circumstance they all crouded on the Rocks and Sands and fixed their eager eyes on the Ship She was in till the distance of space had removed it from their sight For setting sail with a Prosperous Wind She soon reached the shoars She was distined by Providence to Crown with blessings where Her Welcome was Proclaimed by the Guns from the Ships in the Road and from the Forts and after them by the Ringing of Bells and the Joyful Acclamations of the People and as She came up the River the Tower on which the Royal Banner was Display'd made London Sensible in a Language of Fire breathed from its Thundering Cannons that its Beloved Darling approached to Croud upon it greater advantages than it had long time participated ON the 12th of February in the Evening the Princess Arived at White-hall where she was received according to her Royal Character by the Nobles and great Ladys of the Court and by the Prince with all the Tender endearments and Expressions of kindness and affection The same Night she received the Complements of the Nobility at Court whilst the Streets every where Shined with Bonfires and Illuminations and the Bells charmed the Air into a stilness by the Harmony of their desired Musick and to be Brief a general Joy spread it self through the Kingdoms for her presence of which so long an absence had deprived it THE Lords and Commons