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Laftly, Suppofe the Prince had been Expelled by the December. King, Would the King have then granted us what he would not grant us now? Would he not have Disbanded his Pro teftant Army, and have kept the Irish Forces in Pay, and have every day encreafed them? What Refpect would he ever after this have fhewn to the Englif Laws, Religion or Liberties, when he had had no longer any thing to fear? The memory of what happened after the Monmouth defeat, (though effected only by Church of England Men) will certainly never be forgotten by others, whatever thefe Bigots of Loyalty may pretend or lay. sil ne

That Expreffion of the Lord Churchills, in his Letter, [That he could no longer joyn with Self-interested Men, who had framed Defigns against His Majefty's true Intereft, and the Proteftant Religion, to give a pretence by Conqueft to bring them to effect ought to be ferioufly confidered by all the Proteftants of the Nation: This one Argument prevailed upon him, when he ran the hazard of his Life, Reputation and Fortunes; and now they are all on the other fide, I should confider very seriously, if I were one of them, what Anfwer I could make to this turned into a Question in the Day of Death and Judgment, before ever I should act the direct contrary to what he has done..

For my part I am amazed to fee Men fcruple the submitting to the prefent King; for if ever Man had a juft cause of War, he had; and that creates a Right to the thing gained by it: the King by withdrawing and disbanding his Army, yielded him the Throne; and if he had, without any more Ceremony, afcended it, he had done no more than all other Princes do on the like occafions 5 and when the King after this was taken and brought back by force, he was no longer then bound to confider him, as one that was, but as one that had been King of England; and in that capacity he treated him with great Refpect and. Civility, how much foever the King complained of it, who did not enough confider what he had done to draw upon himself that ufage.

But when all is faid that can be faid, there may poffibly be fome Men to whom may be applied the Saying of fob, Thon Ibueft thine enemies, and hateft thy friends; for thon haft de

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December, clared this day, that thou regardeft neither princes, nor fervants; for this day I perceive, that if Abfolons had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleafed thee well. Had the Proteftant Religion, the English Liberties, the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation, been all made an Holocauft to their Reputations and Humours, their Scruples and Schoolniceties, and the Prince of Orange perifhed, or returned Ruin'd or Inglorious into Holland; we fhould then have had the Honour of cutting up our Religion, our Laws, and our Civil Rights, with our own Swords; and we fhould have been the only Church under Heaven that had refused a Deliverance, and Religioufly and Loyally had Destroyed it felf. In truth, the Men that would have purchased Popery and Slavery fo dear, ought to have enjoyed both to the End of the World.

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PART the SECOND.

A SHORT ACCOUNT

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Pamphlet, stiled, The Dissertion Discussed. In a Letter to a Country Gentleman.

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HE Prince of Orange being thus received in London,

the 18th. of December. The Common Council of December. that City the fame day affembled and passed an Order that all the Aldermen and their feveral Deputies, and two Common Council men for each Ward fhould wait upon and congratulate his Highness the Prince of Orange upon his Happy Arrival to the City at fuch time,and place as His Highnefs fhould appoint, and that the two Sheriffs, and Mr. Common Serjeant fhould wait upon the Prince to know his Pleafure

when

December. when they thould attend him, which was done the day after his Entry at St. James's, who appointed them the next day.

The Committee of the Common Council came accordingly the 20th. of December, and Sir George Treby their Recorder made him this Speech in their Names.

May it please your Highness,

He Lord Mayor being difabled by Sickness, your Highnefs is attended by the Aldermen and Commons of the Capital City of this Kingdom, Deputed to Congratulate Your Highness upon this Great and Glorious Occafion.

In which Labouring for Words we cannot but come short in Expreffion. Reviewing our late Danger, we remember our Church and State, overrun by Popery and Arbitrary Power, and brought to the point of Destruction, by the Conduct of Men (that were our true Invaders) that brake the Sacred Fences of our Laws, and (which was worft) the very Conftitution of our Legislature.

So that there was no Remedy left but the Laft.

The only Perfon under Heaven that could apply this Remedy was Your Highness.

You are of a Nation whofe Alliance, in all times, has been agreeable and profperous to us. You are of a Family most Illustrious, Benefactors to Mankind, to have the Title of a Soveraign Prince, Stadt-holder, and to have worn the Imperial Crown, are amongst their leffer Dignities. They have long enjoyed a Dignity fingular and tranfcendent, viz. To be the Champions of Almighty God, fent forth in feveral Ages to vindicate his Caufe against the greateft Oppreffiors To this Divine Commiffion, our Nobles, our Gentry, and among them our brave English Soldiers, rendred themselves and their Arms upon Your Appearing.

GREAT SIR,

GREAT SIR,

Hen we look back to the laft Month, and contemplaté the Swiftness and Fulness of Our Prefent Deliverance, aftonished, we think it Miraculous; Your Highness led by the Hand of Heaven, and call'd by the Voice of the People, has preferved our deareft Interefts.

The Proteftant Religion, which is Primitive Christianity Reftored. Our Laws, which are our Ancient Title to our Lives, Liberties and Estates; and without which this World were a Wilderness.

But what Retribution can we make to Your Highness? Our Thoughts are full charged with Gratitude. Your Highnefs has a lafting Monument in the Hearts, in the Prayers, in the Praises of all good men amongst us. And Late Pofterity will Celebrate Your ever Glorious Name, till time fhall be

no more.

The fift care of his Highness was the English Army for which he made this Order,

Whereas, upon the late Irregular Disbanding of the Forces, divers Souldiers carried away the Arms belonging to their refpective Regiments, and have fince loft or imbezilled the fame; We do hereby direct and require all Perfons to whofe hands the said Arms, or any of them are come, or with whom they now remain, forthwith to deliver them to the faid Souldiers, or their Officers upon Demand; and in default thereof, forthwith to bring them to the Officers of the Ordnance now attending at Uxbridge, Hounslow, or the Tower of Lon don, in order to the returning the faid Arms into the Stores of the Ordnance. Given at St. James's the 21 of December, 1688.

His next care was the appointing Quarters for the feveral English, Scots, and Irish Regiments, and the ordering them accordingly to repair to the places therein named.

The fame Day was alfo a great Council of the Nobility, about Sixty of the Peers then Meeting at St. James's, who all (except two) Subfcribed a Paper in the nature of an Affocia tion: After which His Highnefs thus expreffed himself,

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