OF THE House of Commons, From the Year 1667 to the Year 1694. COLLECTED BY THE Honble ANCHITELL GREY, Efq; WHO WAS Thirty Years Member for the Town of DERBY; CHAIRMAN of Several COMMITTEES; AND Decyphered COLEMAN'S LETTERS for the Ufe of the HOUSE. In TEN VOLUMES. VOLUME IX. LONDON: Printed for D. HENRY and R. CAVE, at St John's Gate; and J. EMONSON, in St John's Square, MDCCLXIII. IN THE Houfe of Commons, From the Year 1667 to the Year 1694. [THE Prince of Orange having published, at the Hague, October 24, 1688, a Declaration of the Reafons inducing him to appear in Arms in the Kingdom of England, for preferving of the Proteftant Religion, and for reftoring the Laws and Liberties of England, Scotland, and Ireland, (which fee in the fournal) his Highness landed with his Forces at Torbay, on November the 5th following; and making from thence directly towards the City of London, he arrived there on Tuesday, December 17; and, on the 23d of the fame month, he issued forth an Order, defiring all fuch persons as had served in any of the Parliaments of King Charles II. to meet him at St James's on Wednesday, December 26; and that the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and fifty of the Common-Council of the City of London, would attend there likewife. According to which Order, many of the perfons above-mentioned met at St James's, at the time prefixed; when his Highness, in a fhort Speech, told them, that he desired them to meet him there, to advise the best manner how to purfue the ends of his Declaration, in calling a free Parliament, for the prefervation of the Proteftant Religion, &c." His Highnefs being departed, the Members then prefent adjourned to the Commons Houfe at Westminster, where the Right Hon. Henry Powle, Efq; was appointed to take the Chair. The Affembly then taking into confideration what had been propofed to them by the Prince of Orange, after fome Debate, came to feveral Refolutions; one of which was, "to return Thanks to his Highness, for coming into this Kingdom, expofing his perfon, and adventuring fo great hazards for the prefervation of our Religion, Laws, and Liberties." Another was "to defire him to take upon him the Administration of public Affairs, both Civil and Military, and the difpofal of the public Revenue;" and a third 66 was, to defire him to cause Letters to be written, fubfcribed by himself, to the Lords Spiritual and VOL. IX. B Temporal, |