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 [sic].

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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.

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STAND FAST

The Hon ^ble. Allexander Grantt, younger of that ilk.

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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 [Page iv]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 [Page v]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.

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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.

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The PREFACE.

THIS Book does not need a long Preface: The Title is sufficient to recommend its Ʋsefulness; 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 [Page viii]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 [Page ix]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.

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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.

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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 [Page 2]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 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 [Page 3]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 Ʋtrecht 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 Ʋtrecht 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 [Page 6]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 [Page 8]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 Gro [...]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 in [...] [...]he Hague; which was performed with all the Solemnity imaginable.
6.	27. 1691	He gives Audie [...]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 o [...] Jesuits and other wicked Persons, having [Page 9]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 [Page 11] 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 [Page 12] 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 [Page 13]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 Ʋnited 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 ahunting. 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 [...]ssure him of their Zeal and Af [...]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 [Page 19]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 [Page 20]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 [...]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 [Page 21]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 [Page 22]murder his Majesty King William. The Evidence against them was full and c [...]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 [Page 23]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 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 [Page 24] 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 [Page 25]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 Ʋnited 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 [Page 27]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 [Page 28]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 no manner of Right to the Crown, they ordered the Magistrates [Page 30]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 Hornwork, 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 [Page 31]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 [Page 32]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 [Page 33]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 [Page 35]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 [Page 36]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 [Page 37]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 [Page 38] 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 Ʋnited 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 [Page 39]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.	7 169 [...]	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 [Page 40] 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, [Page 42]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 o [...] Joy, proclaimed their Majesties King and Queen of Scotland; the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke o [...] Queensbury, the Marquiss of Ath [...] and the Marquiss of Douglest and many other Peers being upon the Cross, with the Lor [...] Provost, and the Magistrates The Evening was conclude with Bonfires, &c.
21.	11. 1696	Seigniors Soranzo and Veni [...] Ambassadors Extraordinary o [...] 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. 1674	The Prince of Orange arrived this Day at Ʋtrecht to compose [Page 44]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 [Page 45]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 [Page 46]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 [...]rsook their Ship, and get away in their Boats. The English got her off, but in their return o [...] 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 [Page 47]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 [Page 48]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 [...]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 [Page 49]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 [Page 50]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 in this Realm may be comfortable and easy to them.
		The same Day was published another Proclamation, prohibiting the Importation of all sorts of Manufactures and Commodities whatsoever of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of France.
dit.	1691	His Majesty was pleased to fill several vacant Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Dignities; and the Learned Dr. John Tillotso [...], Dean of St. Paul's, was promoted to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury.
dit.	1694	This Day the King came to the House of Lords, and having given the Royal Assent to several Acts, made a gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, and prorogued them to the 18th of September.
		The Right Honourable Charles Earl of Shrewsbury, principal Secretary of State, was elected Knight Companion of the most noble Order of the Garter, and in the Evening was created Marquiss and Duke of this Kingdom, by the Name and Stile of Marquiss of Alton, and Duke of Shrewsbury.
		The same Day John Earl of Mulgrave was created Marquiss of Normanby, and Henry Herbert [Page 52]of Ribbesford in the County of Worcester Esq; Baron Herbert of Cherbury in the County of Salop.
		His Majesty was also pleased [...]o appoint the Right Honourable Edward Russel Esq; Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven, Henry Priestman, Robert Austen Esqs; Sir Robert Rich, Sir George Rook, and Sir John Houblon, Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England and Ireland, and of the Dominions thereunto belonging.
6.	26. 1669	Monsieur Zuilychem, first Minister of his Highness, having appointed this Day to receive the Oath of Fidelity of the Inhabitants of the Principality of Orange, the Parliament and all other Magistrates attending, in the Moment they were reading a general Pardon of the Prince, a Crown was form'd in the [...]ir, which sat upon the Chair of State, or Throne of the Prince. This wonderful Phenomenon was seen by above 8000 Persons both Protestants and Papists. Monsieur Zuilychem was so surprized that he writ the following Verses the same Day.
		Dum stat Arausiacae confirmatura Coronae, Antiquam Populi laeta Corona fidem: Non dubiè Coelo placuit, quod utrique Coronae, Tertia de Coelo missa coronat opus.
dit.	1689	This Day the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled, presented an Address to the King in the Banqueting-House at Whitehall, for declaring the War against the French King, which is worthy to be recorded to Posterity.
		WE your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects, the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, most humbly lay before your Majesty our earnest Desire, that your Majesty would be pleased to take into your most serious Consideration the destructive Methods taken of late Years by the French King against the Trade, Quiet, and Interest of this your Kingdom, and particularly the present Invasion of the Kingdom of Ireland, and supporting [Page 54]your Majesties rebellious Subjects there.
		Not doubting in the least but that through your Majesty's Wisdom the Alliances already made with such as may hereafter be concluded on this occasion by your Majesty, may be effectual to reduce the French King to such a Condition, that it may not be in his Power hereafter to violate the Peace of Christendom, nor prejudice the Trade and Prosperity of this your Majesty's Kingdom.
		To this end we most humbly beseech your Majesty to rest assured upon this our solemn and hearty Promise and Engagement, that when your Majesty shall think fit to enter into a War against the French King, we will give your Majesty such Assistance in a Parliamentary Way, as may enable your Majesty (under that Protection and Blessing God Almighty has always afforded you) to support and go through with the same.
		To this kind Address the King returned the following Answer.
		I Receive this Address as a Mark of the Confidence you have in me, which I take very kindly, and shall endeavour by all my Actions to confirm you in it.
		I assure you, that my own Ambition shall never be an Argument to incline me to engage in a War that may expose the Nation either to Danger or Expence.
		But in the present case, I look upon the War so much already declared in effect by France against England, that it is not so properly an Act of Choice, as an inevitable Necessity in our own Defence. I shall only tell you, that as I have ventured my Life, and all that is dear to me, to rescue this Nation from what it suffer'd, I am ready still to do the same in order to the preserving it from all its Enemies: and as I doubt not of such an Assistance from you as shall be sutable to your Advice to me to declare War against a powerful Enemy; so you may rely upon me, that no Part of that which you [Page 56]shall give for the carrying it on with Success, shall be diverted by me to any other Use.
dit.	1680	The States of Zealand, and the Merchants concerned in the Trade of the East-Indies, being in Dissension about the Choice of a Director of the Company, referr'd the same to the Prince of Orange, to name to that Dignity whom his Highness should think fit.
7.	27. 1674	General Rabenhaut presented to his Highness seven Standards, and several Colours taken by the Dutch Forces in an Engagement with the Munsterians.
dit.	1676	His Highness and the Duke of Villa Hermosa march'd from Mons with the Dutch and Spanish Forces to oblige the French to raise the Siege of Bouchain, and came in sight of the French Army near Valenciennes.
dit.	1696	The King came this Day to the House of Peers, and the Commons being sent for, his Majesty gave the Royal Assent to several Acts; and having made a Speech to both Houses, the Lord Keeper prorogued them to the 16th of June following: [Page 57]But that Speech relating to the Proceedings of the Parliament after the Conspiracy against his Majesty's Life, it is thought fit to insert it here, as a very extraordinary Piece.
		My Lords and Gentlemen;
		YOU have shewn so great Concern for my Person, and Zeal for my Government, and have done so much for the Preservation of the one, and for the strengthning of the other, by the good Laws which have been made, and by the Supplies you have provided for the several Occasions of this Year, that the late Designs of our Enemies are, by the Blessing of God, like to have no other Effect than to let them see how firmly we are united, and to give me this Occasion to acknowledg your Kindness, and to assure you of all the Returns which a Prince can make to his People.
		My Lords and Gentlemen;
		The Necessity of Affairs requiring my Absence out of the Kingdom for some time, I do earnestly recommend to [Page 58]you, that in your several Stations you will be assisting to those whom I shall leave to administer the Government, and that you will be careful in preserving the publick Peace of the Kingdom.
8.	28. 1672	The French having besieged Muyden, one of the Keys of Amsterdam; the Prince obliged them to raise the Siege, and to retire.
dit.	1696	This Day their Excellencies Signior Soranzo and Signior Venier, Ambassadors extraordinary from the Republick of Venice to his Majesty, made their publick Entry, having been received at Greenwich by the Earl of Radnor, and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies, accompanied by six Gentlemen of his Majesty's Privy Chamber, and brought by Water in the King's Barge to the Tower: They were complimented at their Landing by the Lord Lucas, Governour of the same, and saluted with a Discharge of the Cannon, the Standard being display'd. From thence their Excellencies were conducted in his Majesty's Coach, [Page 59]followed by eight Coaches of their own, and many others with six Horses apiece, to the Lady Portland's House in the Pall-mall, that was prepared for his Majesty's Entertainment of them, where they receiv'd the Compliment of Welcome from the King by the Lord Guildford, and from their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark by the Earl of Sandwich, and the Lord Fitzharding, Masters of their Horse. They had a very numerous Retinue with very rich Liveries.
9.	29. 1696	Robert Lowick, Ambrose Rook-wood, and Charles Cranburn, lately convicted of High Treason, for conspiring to assassinate the King, were this Day executed at Tyburn. They owned the Crime they were condemned for.
10.	30. 1662	This Day was born that incomparable Princess the Lady Mary, Daughter to James D. of York, our late Renowned Queen.
dit.	1694	This Day his Majesty was pleased to create the Marquiss of Caermarthen Duke of Leeds, the Earl of Bedford Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Devonshire Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of [Page 60] Clare Duke of Newcastle, and the Viscount Newport Earl of Bradford.
	May
11.	1. 1689	Admiral Herbert having notice that the French Fleet was sailed towards Ireland, steered his Course that way, and fought them in Bantry-Bay; and tho the French had 28 Men of War, and 5 Fireships, and that the English had but 19, yet the French Admiral finding the Place too hot, stood further into the Bay, and left the Honour of the Day to the English.
dit.	1691	Maj. Wood having notice that the Rapparees were in great Bodies about Brittas in the Queen's County in Ireland, he went out with 300 of my Lord George Hamilton's and Colonel Lloyd's Foot, and 50 of Colonel Byerly's Horse, with which he first killed near seventy Rapparees; and leaving part of his Men to secure several Passes, he went three Miles further, beyond a Place called the Tougher of Malahone, having with him one hundred and ten Foot, and thirty Horse; but instead of the Rapparees, whom he only expected, he discover'd about 800 Men of the Irish Army divided [Page 61]into two Bodies: notwithstanding the great Inequality in number, he encountred them, and after several Charges put them to the rout, killing 150 on the Place, amongst whom were one Captain Schales, and two Lieutenants. Major John Fitzpatrick who commanded the Party was taken Prisoner, with 17 Officers more, 6 Sergeants, 16 Corporals, 2 Drummers, a Chirurgeon, and 80 private Sentinels. We lost in that brave Action but a Corporal and a Trooper, with 2 Foot Souldiers, and Lieutenant Robinson wounded.
dit.	1696	Signior Soranzo and Venier, Ambassadors Extraordinary from the State of Venice, had their publick Audience of the King with the following Ceremonies. The Earl of Denbigh, and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies, with 6 Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, received them at the House where they were entertained by his Majesty's Appointment, and conducted in his Majesty's Coach, followed by their own and a great many other Coaches with 6 Horses apiece, and attended with a numerous Retinue, to [Page 62]the Audience of his Majesty in the Banqueting-house at Whitehall, with all the Ceremonies and Honours that are usual on the like Occasions. About nine at Night they took their Leaves privately of the King at Kensington; and his Majesty knighted Signior Soranzo, the eldest of the Ambassadors, as has been practised by his Majesty's Predecessors.
		There was a great Council at Kensington, where the King declar'd his Intention of setting out the next Day for Holland, and that he had appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Summers Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Earl of Pembroke Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Devonshire Lord Steward of his Majesty's Houshold, the Duke of Shrewsbury one of the Principal Secretaries of State, the Earl of Dorset Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold, and the Lord Godolphin first Commissioner of the Treasury, to be Lords Justices of England for the Administration of the Government during his Majesty's Absence.
		His Majesty was pleased to create Sir John Lowther of Lowther a Baron and Viscount of this Kingdom, by the Title of Baron of Lowther, and Viscount Lonsdale.
		Sir John Thompson was created at the same time Baron of Haversham in the County of Bucks, and Sir Thomas Littleton was constituted one of the Lords of the Treasury.
12.	2. 1691	His Majesty being resolved to command the Confederate Army in Person this Summer, embarked this Day at Harwich for Holland, being attended by a Squadron of Men of War under the Command of Rear Admiral Rook, and the next Day landed at Oranje Polder.
dit.	1688	The Prince designing to sit out a Fleet for his Expedition into England, and the Consent of the Province of Holland being necessary for it, his Highness acquainted their Deputies with it, who unanimously consented thereunto, and told the Prince, that tho they did not see the necessity of such an Equipment in time of Peace, yet they were throughly satisfied, that his Highness would not put [Page 64]the States to so great a Charge, unless it were absolutely necessary for their Safety.
dit.	1696	His Majesty left Kensington this Morning, intending to embark at Margate for Holland.
dit.	1692	Sir George Treby was sworn Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sir John Summers Attorney General.
13.	3. 1695	The King came to the House of Lords to give the Royal Assent to several Acts, and having made a gracious Speech to both Houses, the Lord Keeper prorogued them to the 18th of June.
		His Majesty declar'd in Council, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Keeper, the Earl of Pembrook, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Dorset, and the Lord Godolphin, Lords Justices of England, for the Administration of the Government during his Absence.
		The same Day his Majesty was pleased to constitute the Right Honourable Sir William Trumball, formerly Envoy extraordinary to the Court of France, and Ambassador to Constantinople, one of his Majesty's principal [Page 65]Secretaties of State, who accordingly took the usual Oaths in Council.
14.	4. 1692	Their Majesties Fleet being fitted up with an incredible Diligence by the Care and Application of Admiral Russell, the Men of War sailed this Day from the Buoy of the Nore, to join the Dutch in the Downs; and the same Day the Earl of Portland arriv'd from Holland with sive Men of War and two Fireships, and brought an Account that the late King James had drawn a Body of Forces at the Hogue to make a Descent upon England, but that they were not embarked.
15.	5. 1692	The Kingdom being threatned with a powerful Invasion from abroad, the late K. James, with near 20000 Men being ready to embark at the Hogue, and Count Tourville being in the Channel with the French Fleet to protect them, the Queen put out a Proclamation, requiring the Attendance of both Houses of Parliament on the 24th of this Instant, and her Majesty ordered all the Forces of the Kingdom to be drawn together at Petersfield hear Portsmouth, [Page 66]under the Command of the Duke of Leinster. The Lords Lieutenants of the Counties bordering on the Sea received also Directions to raise the Militia, and all other imaginable Precautions were taken to prevent the Design of the Enemy. The King being then abroad with the greatest part of the Standing Forces, there appeared a great Consternation, but the Queen reviv'd the Spirits of the whole Nation by the great Courage and Prudence she expressed in that nice Juncture.
dit.	1696	The King went on board the Elizabeth in Margate-Road, and sailed for Holland.
16.	6. 1695	The King declared this Day, that he had thought fit to appoint Henry Lord Capel to be Lord Deputy of Ireland.
dit.	1694	The King embarked this Day at Margate for Holland, being attended by 8 Dutch Men of War.
17.	7. 1689	The House of Commons having desired his Majesty to take into Consideration the many Incroachments of France upon Great Britain and our Neighbours, and to declare War against the French King, assuring [Page 67]him that the House would support him to carry on the same with Vigour, a Declaration of War was published this Day. And because the French have had the Impudence to say, that we declar'd War against them without any Cause, I think sit to transcribe the said Declaration.
		‘ William R.’
		IT having pleased God Almighty to make us the happy Instruments of rescuing these Nations from great and imminent Dangers, and to place us upon the Throne of these Kingdoms, we think our selves obliged to endeavour, to the uttermost, to promote the Welfare of our People, which can never be effectually secured but by preventing the Miseries that threaten them from abroad.
		When we consider the many unjust Methods the French King has of late Years taken to gratify his Ambition, that he has not only invaded the Territories of the Emperor, and of the Empire, now in Amity with us, laying waste [Page 68]whole Countries, and destroying the Inhabitants by his Armies, but declar'd War against our Allies without any Provocation, in manifest Violation of the Treaties confirm'd by the Guaranty of the Crown of England; We can do no less than join with our Allies in opposing the Designs of the French King, as the Disturber of the Peace, and the Common Enemy of the Christian World.
		And besides the Obligations we lay under by Treaties with our Allies, which are a sufficient Justification of us for taking up Arms at this time, since they have called upon us so to do; the many Injuries done to us and to our Subjects, without any Reparation, by the French King, are such that (however of late Years they were not taken notice of for Reasons well known to the World, nevertheless) We will not pass them over without a publick and just Resentment of such Outrages.
		It is not long since the French took Licences from the English Governour of [Page 69] Newfound-land to fish in the Seas upon that Coast, and paid a Tribute for such Licences, as an Acknowledgment of the sole Right of the Crown of England to that Island; and yet of late the Incroachments of the French upon our said Island, and our Subjects Trade and Fishery, have been more like the Invasions of an Enemy, than becoming Friends, who enjoyed the Advantages of that Trade only by Permission.
		But that the French King should invade our Charibbee Islands, and possess himself of our Territories of the Province of New-york and of Hudsons-Bay, in a hostile manner seizing our Forts, burning our Subjects Houses, and inriching his People with the Spoil of their Goods and Merchandises, detaining some of our Subjects under the Hardship of Imprisonment, causing others to be inhumanely kill'd, and driving the rest to Sea in a small Vessel, without Food and Necessaries to support them, are Actions not becoming even an Enemy; [Page 70]and yet he was so far from declaring himself so, that at that very time he was negotiating here in England, by his Ministers, a Treaty of Neutrality and good Correspondence in America.
		The Proceedings of the French King against our Subjects in Europe are so notorious, that we shall not need to enlarge upon them; his countenancing the Seisure of English Ships by French Privateers, forbidding the Importation of great part of the Product and Manufactures of our Kingdom, and imposing exorbitant Customs upon the rest, notwithstanding the great Advantages he and the French Nation reap by their Commerce with England, are sufficient Evidences of his Designs to destroy the Trade, and consequently to ruin the Navigation, upon which the Wealth and Safety of this Nation very much depend.
		The Right of the Flag inherent in the Crown of England, has been disputed by his Orders, in violation of our Soveraignty of the Narrow Seas; [Page 71]which in all Ages has been asserted by our Predecessors, and we are resolved to maintain for the Honour of our Crown, and of the English Nation.
		But that which most nearly touches us, is his unchristian Persecution of many of our English Protestant Subjects in France, for Matters of Religion, contrary to the Law of Nations, and express Treaties, forcing them to abjure their Religion by strange and unusual Cruelties, and imprisoning some of the Masters and Seamen of our Merchant-Ships, and condemning others to the Gallies, upon pretence of having on board either some of his own miserable Protestant Subjects, or their Effects. And lastly, as he has for some Years last past, endeavoured by Insinuations and Promises of Assistance, to overthrow the Government of England; so now by open and violent Methods, and the actual Invasion of our Kingdom of Ireland, in Support of our Subjects in Arms, and in Rebellion against us, he is promoting [Page 72]the utter Extirpation of our good and loyal Subjects in that our Kingdom.
		Being therefore thus necessitated to take up Arms, and relying on the Help of Almighty God in our just Undertaking, we have thought fit to declare, and do hereby declare War against the French King; and that we will, in conjunction with our Allies, vigorously prosecute the same by Sea and Land, (since he has so unrighteously begun it) 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 [Page 73]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 R [...]mney in the County of Kent.
dit.	1696	The King being arrived at the Hague the Night before, went [Page 74]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 Roch [...]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 [Page 76]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: [Page 77]Thirdly, a Paper, containing the Grievances which they desired might be redressed. [...]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 [Page 78]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 Re [...]els or out-law'd, whereby their moveable Estates were [Page 79]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 three Hours, and the English Captain was kill'd, but Robert Sincock the Boatswain having taken upon him the Command of the Ship, there being no Lieutenant on board, continued the Engagement with such Bravery, that the two French Men of War were taken and brought into Plymouth.
23.	13. 1696	This Day Peter Cook Esq; Son to Sir Miles Cook, was tried at the Old Baily for conspiring with Sir William Parkins, Sir John Friend, Charnock, the Earl of [Page 80] Ailesbury, and several other Traitors, the Subversion of the Government by a French Army. It was fully proved, that he was at the Meeting wherein it was resolved to send Charnock into France, to propose the sending over of an Army, and resolved to join them at their Landing: whereupon the Jury [...]ound him guilty; and he receiv'd Sentence of Death, as the [...]aw directs in such Cases.
dit.	1695	The King set sail from the Buoy of the Nore for Holland, attended by a Squadron of Men of War, commanded by Sir [...]eorge Rook.
24.	14. 1690	The Garison of Charlemont consisting of about 800 Men, having capitulated the 12th Instant, marched out this Day in the Presence of the Duke of Schomberg.
		The same Day Colonel Woolsley took a strong Castle called Ballingargy, with the Loss of 47 Men, and 43 wounded.
dit.	1695	The King landed at Oranje Polder, and arrived at the Hague, where he was received with great Acclamations of Joy.
25.	15. 1689	This Day the King went on board the Elizabeth at Portsmouth, [Page 81]where he was most splendidly entertained at Dinner by Admiral Herbert. His Majesty was pleased to declare then his Royal Intention of confirming the Title and Dignity of an Earl of this Kingdom upon the said Admiral, and knighted Capt. John Ashby and Cloudesly Shovel: and to incourage the Seamen, his Majesty was pleased to bestow upon such of them who were in the late Engagement with the French at Bantry-Bay, a Donative of 10 Shillings a Man.
dit.	1692	The Fleet riding at St. Helens, waiting only for a favourable Wind to go in quest of the French, Admiral Russell acquainted the Flag-Officers and others, that he had received a Letter from the Queen, wherein her Majesty was pleased to tell him, that she was informed that there was a false and malicious Report spread abroad, that some of the Officers of the Fleet were disaffected, and that she had ordered the Discharge of many of them from their Employments; but that she was satisfied that this Report was raised by the Enemies of the Government; and that she reposed [Page 82]so entire a Confidence in their Fidelity and Zeal, that she was resolved not to displace any one of them. Whereupon they made a very Loyal Address, which was immediately sent up, and presented to the Queen by the Lords of the Admiralty.
26.	16. 1689	This Day the King was pleased to create Frederick Count de Schomberg (late Mareschal of France) General of his Majesty's Forces, Master General of the Ordnance, and one of the Privy Council, a Baron, Earl, Marquiss, and Duke of the Kingdom of England, by the Name and Title of Baron Teyes, Earl of Brentford, Marquiss of Harwich, and Duke of Schomberg.
dit.	1692	A Proclamation was published this Day, declaring that the Parliament which was to sit the 24th Instant, shall be further prorogued to the 14th of June, their Sitting being not judged necessary, because of our Fleet being then at Sea in a condition to oppose the designed Descent of the French.
		At the same time a Declaration of the late King James was dispersed both in London and the [Page 83]Country, containing a great many fair Promises, and a general Pardon to his former Subjects, some few excepted, and amongst others the poor Fisherman Hunt of Feversham, who there stopp'd King James when he was going for France, 1688.
dit.	1695	This Day the Parliament of Scotland signed an Address of Condolence to the King upon the Death of that incomparable Princess the late Queen Mary; a Loss, as they express it, that can never be too much nor too long lamented.
27.	17. 1692	Admiral Russell sailed this Morning from St. Helens with the English and Dutch Fleet under his Command, in order to fight the French Fleet commanded by Count Tourville, which had been for some Days in the Channel.
		The King having Advice that the French King had caused Namur to be invested the 25th in the Morning, and the Mareschal de Luxemburgh was posted at Gemblours to cover the Siege; His Majesty de [...]amped from Diogem with the Confederate Army, and marched towards Lovain to endeavour to relieve the Place.
28.	18. 1658	A Painter who pretended to Prophecy, drew the Prince of Orange's Picture with 3 Crowns upon his Head. The Picture is still to be seen at the Hague.
dit.	1689	A Proclamation was published this Day for prohibiting the Importation or retailing of any Commodities of the Growth or Manufacture of France.
29.	19. 1692	About three in the Morning the Scouts of the English and Dutch Fleet commanded by Admiral Russell, made the Signal that they discovered the Enemy about 7 Leagues off Cape Barfleur. The French who had the Weather-gage bore down to the Allies, and engaged at some Distance about 11 a Clock. The Fight continued till half an Hour past five in the Evening; the Britannia, on board which was Admiral Russel, and the Royal Sun, the Admiral of France, being then within less than Musquet-shot distance. The French finding the Place too hot, towed away with all their Boats, and the English and Dutch after them. About 6 there was a fresh Engagement between the Blew Squadron and the French which lasted not long. It was, [Page 85]calm all the Night, and the French took the Opportunity of a great Fog to tow away their Ships, and run away. Three French Ships blew up in the Engagement.
30.	20. 1692	The English and Dutch Fleet got sight again of the French Fleet, but they could never come up with them nearer than a League, and all were forced to come to an Anchor.
dit.	1690	The King came to the House of Lords, and gave the Royal Assent to an Act for the Exercise of the Government by the Queen during his Majesty's Absence; and to another for reversing the Judgment in a Quowarranto against the City of London, and for restoring the said City to its antient Rights and Privileges.
dit.	1696	Alexander Knightley, one of the Conspirators against his Majesty's Person, was brought to the King's Bench Bar at Westminster, in order to be tried for that horrid Crime; but the Prisoner delivered a Paper to the Court, owning that he had been concerned both in the Design of assassinating the King, and in the intended Invasion of the French, [Page 86]and begg'd the Court to intercede with the King for a Pardon.
31.	21. 1692	A Conspiracy against the King's Person was discovered in Flanders. That Design was carried on by one Chevalier de Grandval, a Captain of Dragoons in the French Service, and one Dumort a Walloon, who had 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 Leef [...]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 [Page 87]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 Russ [...]l and Admiral All [...]mo [...]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 [Page 88] 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 Fireships, 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 [Page 89]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 [...]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 [Page 90]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, [Page 91]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 [Page 92]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 Almighty God for the great Victory obtain'd over the French, it was observed very religiously through the whole Fleet, and all the Cannon discharged on that Occasion. Never was a Victory more compleat than this, nor so cheap an one, since the English and Dutch lost no Men of War, only 3 Fireships that were spent.
		The French had blown up and burnt about 22 Men of War, several whereof were Ships of three Decks, amongst which were the Royal Sun, Admiral of their Fleet, carrying 104 Guns; the Admirable, 102 Guns; the Conquerant, 80 Guns; and the Admiral of the Blue carrying 90 Guns; besides many smaller Vessels and Transport Ships.
		Our Commanders were the Right Honourable Edward Russel Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John Ashby Admiral of the Blue, Sir Ralph De La Val Vice Admiral of the Red, George Rook Esq; Vice Admiral of the Blue, Sir Cloudesly Shovel Rear Admiral of the Red, and.... Carter [Page 94]Esq; Rear Admiral of the Blue, who behaved themselves with in extraordinary Bravery and Prudence. Rear Admiral Carter who had been suspected of Intelligence with the French, vindicated his Honour by his Blood. The Dutch were commanded by Admiral Allemonde.
7.	28. 1691	The Mareschal de Bouslers having made a fruitless Attempt upon Liege, retired this Day with great Precipitation upon the Approach of a Detachment of the King's Army which was sent to relieve the Town. The French lost a great many Men, and their Bombs did but little Damage.
8.	29. 1695	The King left Breda this Morning, and came to his Camp at Aersele at 11 at Night. The Governour of Ghent met his Majesty half a Mile without the City, where at his Entrance his Majesty was received by the Burghers in Arms, and all the Magistrates walk'd before him with lighted Flambeaus. The great Guns were several times discharged round the Fortifications, and the like Ceremonies and Respects paid which are customary at the Reception of the King of Spain.
9.	30. 1689	The Heers Van Engellenburg, Van Witsen, Odyck, Citters, and Dickvelt, Ambassadors Extraordinary of the States General of the United Netherlands, had their publick Audience of their Majesties in the Banqueting-house, with all the Ceremonies that are observed at the publick Audience of Ambassadors from Crown'd Heads.
dit.	1692	The Castle of Namur being vigorously attack'd by the French, the King advanced with his Army to relieve it, and came upon the Mehaign, having beat the French from several Posts which they had possessed to hinder his Passage. Bridges were immediately made in order to pass the River and attack the French Army, which lay encamped on the other side of the River, but there was such a Storm of Rain in the Night, that this Morning the River overflowed its Banks, spoiled the Bridges, and rendred the Passage impracticable.
10.	31. 1689	Major General Kirke with the Forces under his Command set sail this Day from High-lake to relieve London-derry, which was closely besieged by the Irish [Page 96]Rebels, the late King James commanding the Siege.
dit.	1691	The most Reverend Father in God Dr. John Tillotson Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, was consecrated this Day at St. Mary le Bow in London.
	June.
11.	1. 1689	His Majesty was pleased to create Arthur Herbert Esq; Admiral of their Majesties Fleet, Earl of Torrington, and Baron Herbert of Torbay in the County of Devon.
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14.	4. 1689	John Ashburnham Esq; was this Day created Baron Ashburnham of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex.
dit.	1690	His Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark, set out this Morning from Kensington on his Royal Voyage for Ireland to command his Army in Person, and deliver that Kingdom from the Oppression of the French.
15.	5. 1689	The Estates of Scotland met this Day, and the Duke of Hamilton acquainted them that His Majesty had been pleas'd to appoint him his Commissioner in the ensuing Parliament, and [Page 97]that he had received Instructions from his Majesty to give his Consent to an Act for turning the Estates into a Parliament; to such Laws as may redress the particular Articles of Grievances; and also to any other Acts which they should advise for the securing the Religion, Peace and Happiness of that Kingdom. An Act was then passed, declaring that the three Estates now met together on this 5th Day of June, 1689. consisting of the Noblemen, Knights and Burgesses, are a Lawful and Free Parliament to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. And that it shall be High Treason for any Person to disown, quarrel or impugn the Dignity and Authority of the Parliament upon any Pretence whatever.
dit.	1694	This Day were installed in St. George's Chappel at Windsor, his Electoral Highness Frederick the 3d, Marquiss of Brandenburgh, Prince Elector and Great Chamberlain of the sacred Roman Empire; his serene Highness George William Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, Prince of the said Empire, and his [Page 98]Grace Charles Duke of Shrewsbury, Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter; the two former by their Proxies, and his Grace in Person.
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17.	7. 1691	The Army commanded by General Ginkel in Ireland having disposed all things for opening the Campagn, set down this Day before Ballymore, and beat the Irish within their Fort.
dit.	1692	The Rain and bad Weather hindering his Majesty from passing the Mehaign to relieve Namur, the King marched this Day to Ramiliers, to endeavour to pass the River there; but the French who had notice thereof decamped at the same time, and took Possession of the Defiles through which his Majesty designed to march.
dit.	1695	The King having formed the Design of besieging Namur, and seeing it was difficult to compass it unless he drew away the French from the Meuse, resolved to attack Fort Knock to perswade them that he really designed to force their Lines, and accordingly sent this day the Duke of Wirtemberg with eight Battalions from his Camp at [Page 99] Becelaer to join the Flying Camp under Major General Ellenberg at Dixmude, and attack Fort Knock, before which he set down the same day.
18.	8. 1690	His Majesty arrived this day at Chester, to embark for Ireland, and was received with extraordinary Demonstrations of Joy.
dit.	1691	The Fortress of Ballymore surrendred this Day to General Ginkel, and the Garison which consisted of 780 Men, besides 4 Field-Officers, 16 Captains, 14 Lieutenants, 12 Ensigns and Cornets, and 259 Rapparees well armed, were all made Prisoners of War. The English lost only 8 Men, and the Irish had above 150 kill'd.
dit.	1692	The French made an Assault this Day upon Fort William at Namur, and were repulsed with a great Loss, which so much incouraged the Besieged, that the same Night they made a Salley with 900 Men, who beat the French from their Posts, fill'd their Trenches, and kill'd 800 of them.
dit.	1695	Sir Edward Ward his Majesty's late Attorney General, was sworn this Day Lord [Page 100]Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
19.	9. 1670	The Prince of Orange went this Day from the Hague to see the Siege of Brunswick, besieged by the Princes of the House of Lunenburgh.
dit.	1695	The Duke of Wirtemberg who set down before Fort Knock the 7th Instant, thinking fit to beat the French from an Intrenchment which hinder'd our Approach, commanded Colonels Tiffany and Maitland for that Service, which they performed with a great deal of Bravery, tho the French had the Advantage of their Intrenchments, and were protected by the Cannon of the Fort.
dit.	1694	The English and Dutch Fleet commanded by the Lord Berkley being come to an Anchor in Camaret-Bay on the 7th Instant, a Council of War was held the next Day, where it was resolved that the Land Forces should land to beat the French out of their Intrenchments, and that the Marquiss of Caermarthen should in the mean time batter a Fort and two Batteries of the Enemy with seven Men of War to cover our Landing. [Page 101]The next Day the Ships stood in accordingly, and General Talmash with the Land-Forces went in the Well-Boats towards the Shore, where he landed in Person notwithstanding the great Fire of the French; but having observed the Intrenchments of the Enemy, and that it was impossible to force them, there being an Army more numerous than his to oppose him, he ordered his Men to return on board their several Ships. We lost about 500 Men in that warm Action, which tho unsuccessful, is yet a noble Proof of the Courage of our Forces, who notwithstanding the Certainty of the Danger, landed with an unparallel'd Intrepidity. The General was shot in the Thigh. Several Souldiers and some Officers remained in the Owze, and were made Prisoners. The French made a great Fire from their Batteries on our Men of War both from their Cannon and Mortars, but we lost not one Ship except a Dutch Frigat of 30 Guns, which was sunk by a Bomb.
dit.	1696	The King decamped this Day from Basse Wavre, and marched to Corbais, whereupon Monsieur de Bouflers who had been three Weeks incamped at Pieton and Gosseliers, where he had intrench'd himself as if he had designed to venture a Fight, broke up from the Place in great Confusion, and passed the Sambre at Montigny, not thinking himself safe behind his Intrenchments, notwithstanding the natural Strength of the Camp.
20.	10. 1691	His Majesty with the Confederate Army under his Command encamped this Day at Bethlem, where he was waited upon by Father Stapleton, an Irish Man, Rector of the University of Louvain, with several Members of that University, who in a Latin Speech complimented his Majesty upon his Coming into those Parts, and undertaking his Expedition for the Good of Christendom. The Magistrates of Louvain made the same Compliment to his Majesty, which they accompanied with a handsom Present of Wine.
dit.	1694	This Day a Holland-Mail brought an Edict given by the Duke of Savoy, whereby his Royal Highness revokes his Edicts made in 1686, against the Protestants of the Valleys of Piedmont, takes off all the Forfeitures and Confiscations, and restores them to the free Exercise of their Religion, and the Enjoyment of their antient Rights and Privileges. This Edict is dated May 23, 1694. and in the Preamble the Recommendation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the States General are mentioned, besides the Justice of the thing in it self, as a great Inducement to the Duke of Savoy for giving such an Edict in spight of the Opposition of the Monks and Priests who muster'd all their Forces to hinder it.
21.	11. 1690	This Day the King embarked at Highlake for Ireland, being attended by 6 Men of War, commanded by Sir Cloudesly Shovel, 6 Yachts, and near 300 Transport Ships.
dit.	1696	Sir John Fenwick one of the Conspirators, was taken in Romney Marsh when he was ready to embark for France. There [Page 104]was a Proclamation out against him with the Reward of 500 l.
22.	12. 1694	Lieutenant General Talmash, whose Wound was not thought dangerous, was brought to Plymouth, where he died this Evening, justly lamented for his great Worth, Courage and Zeal for their Majesties Service and Government. He had gained a great Reputation in Ireland, having behav'd himself with an extraordinary Prudence and Bravery at Athlone, Aghrim, and Lymerick: he commanded the English Foot at the Battel of Landen, and having maintained his Ground as long as possible, he made a very honourable Retreat, having kept, by his good Order, a considerable Body of Men together.
23.	13. 1689	The Duke of Gourdon who had hitherto defended the Castle of Edinburgh for K. James, seeing the Besiegers had advanced their Trenches to the Ditch, beat a Parley, and surrendred the Castle this Day to Sir John Lanier, commanding their Majesties Forces, making some Terms for the Garison, but rendring himself entirely to his Majesty's Discretion.
24.	14. 1690	His Majesty landed this Day about 3 a Clock at Carickfergus, and from thence went by Land to Belfast, being met on the way by the Duke of Schomberg, Prince of Wirtemberg, and other General Officers. The same Evening landed also Prince George, the Duke of Ormond, the Earl of Oxford, my Lord Scarborough, and other Lords and Gentlemen.
dit.	1692	The King marched again from Sombreff to Melle, to endeavour to relieve the Castle of Namur, or oblige the French to fight; but they intrench'd themselves in such a manner, that it was not thought fit to attack them. Fort William surrendred this Day to the French, and made a particular Capitulation, which is very extraordinary, that Fort being but an Out-work of the Castle. Colonel Cohorn who had so long and so bravely defended it, was then indisposed, and refused to sign the Capitulation.
25.	15. 1690	His Majesty took this Day a Review of his Forces incamp'd near Lisburn, which he found in a very good Condition, and declared his Intention to march [Page 106]against the Enemy in a few Days after. He received very graciously an Address of the Protestant Clergy of the Province of Ʋlster, congratulating his safe Arrival, and assuring his Majesty of their Zeal, Affection and Fidelity.
26.	16. 1691	General Ginkel sent this Day [...] strong Detachment of Horse [...] Dragoons to take a View of Athlone, which Place he design'd to besiege.
dit.		The King came this Day with his Army to Gemblours, whereupon the Mareschal de Luxemburg decamped with great Precipitation from Braine le Comte, and encamped at Estires, between Mons and Binch, behind a Branch of the River Maine, for his greater Security.
27.	17. 1695	The King seeing that the French had drawn all their Forces towards their Lines, thinking that he designed to force them by the Attack of Fort Knock, sent Orders to the Earl of Athlone, who was in Brabant, to march over the Sambre to invest Namur, and ordered the Duke of Wirtembergh to withdraw from before Fort Knock, which accordingly he [Page 107]did this Day. 'Tis certain that this Attack was but a Feint, to facilitate the Siege of Namur, which Design was kept so 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.
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1.	21. 1690	This Day was fought a bloody Battel in the Plain of Fleu [...]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 'tis generally believed the French suffer'd more than the Dutch; but they left the Field, [Page 110]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 [...]he Rebels commanded by the abdicated K. James and Count [Page 111] 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 [Page 112]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 [Page 113]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.	[...]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 [...]ound in a very good Condition. The same Day a Party of [...]ppinger's Dragoons bear one of [...]he Irish who incamped that [...]ay near the Boyne.
dit.		The English and Dutch Fleet [...]ommanded by the Earl of Tor [...]ington, came this Day in sight of the French Fleet, on the [...]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 [Page 114]them, and declar'd the Prince of Orange Stadtholder of the State, Captain General and Admiral of Holland, Zealand, and West-F [...]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, [Page 115]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 [Page 116]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 [Page 117]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 [Page 118]Town, to oppose our Passage. It was proposed to raise the Siege, and pass the Shan [...]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 Riverside; 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, [Page 119]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. [Page 120]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. We lost on our side near 1000 Men, amongst whom were several inferiour Officers, out not one of Note, except the Great Duke of Schomberg, [Page 121]whose Loss was exceedingly lamented. Dr. Walker who had so much contributed to the Defence of London-derry, was kill'd also. Colonel La Calliemotte, Son to the Marquiss de Ravigny, died of the Wounds he received: he was the first who passed the River. The King, accompanied by his Royal Highness, exposed himself to all the Dangers, and revived by his Presence the Courage of the Army, which seem'd discourag'd by the Death of the Duke of Schomberg. King James run away as soon as the Ingagement began, notwithstanding what Count Lauzun General of the French, and other chief Officers, could tell him to the contrary. Lieutenant General Hamilton, who commanded the Irish Horse, was taken Prisoner.
dit.	1695	The strong Citadel of Cazal and the Town capitulated this Day, and it was agreed that all the Fortifications should be razed. The Duke of Savoy commanded the Siege. My Lord Galloway General of his Majesty's Forces gain'd there a great Reputation.
12.	2. 1690	The King sent this Day Brigadeer La Meloniere to besiege Drogheda; but the Governour being threatned to have no Quarter if he did not deliver up the Town before any Gun was fired at it, consented to march away with his Garison without Arms.
		The same Day the late King James quitted Dublin, and posted away to Waterford, to take Shipping for France. He was in such a Consternation that he left all things in Confusion. He embarked the same. Night at Duncannor, having rod 65 Miles: the Duke of Berwick, the Lord Powis, and Mr. Fitz-James, were with him.
dit.	1695	The Lines of Circumvallation and Contravallation being finished, and the Artillery arrived in the Camp, his Majesty caused the Trenches to be opened this Day by Major General Fagel, against the Town of Namur.
13.	3. 1692	The King sent the Duke of Ormond with 1000 Horse to secure Dublin, which he did without any Opposition, all the Irish Papists having quiteed the Town the Day before.
14.	4. 1695	The English and Dutch Fleet under the Command of my Lord Berkley, anchor'd before St. Male, and our Bombing Vessels were ordered to bombard the Batteries and Forts the Enemy had made on the Rock of Quince and other Places to hinder our approaching the Town, which they performed with so good a Success, that it was resolved to bombard St. Malo the next Day, and all things were disposed in order thereto.
15.	5. 1695	This Morning at 4 a Clock the Bombing Vessels, under the Command of Captain Benbow and Colonel Richards, stood into St. Malo, notwithstanding the great Fire the French made upon us. We continued bombarding the Place till 7 in the Evening, and set it on fire in several Parts, having thrown above 900 Bombs. Our Frigats retired then without any Loss, except of a Bombing Vessel, which we were obliged to burn, and of about 50 Men.
		The same Day Monsieur de Villeroy, General of the French Army, being reinforced by the Body of Troops commanded [Page 124]by Count Montal, making his Army upwards of 90000 Men, advanced to Wonterghem on the River Lys, where Prince Vaudemont with his Majesty's Army, consisting of 35000, was posted to secure Ghent, Brages, and other Towns. That brave Prince being not surprised at the great Number of the French, cast up some new Intrenchments, changed the Disposition of his Army, and took all other Precautions to make the French believe he was resolved to fight. This kept them in suspence, and they resolv'd to send part of their Army to surround ours, but at 5 a Clock our Army decamped and m [...]ssed off towards Ghent with as much Order and Calmness as if there had been no Enemy at all, without losing any Cannon, Men or Horse, tho in sight of a great Army which was within Musket-shot of our Intrenchments when we left them. Never was a more glorious Retreat; and Prince Vaudemont justly gained there the Reputation of a great General.
16.	6. 1690	This Day his Majesty rode in great Splendor to the Cathedral of Dublin, being received by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen with all imaginable Respect. The People made all possible Demonstrations of Joy to express the Sense they had of their happy Deliverance. His Majesty rode about to see the Castle and the Town, and returned to his Camp at Finglas.
17.	7. 1690	His Majesty put out a Proclamation at his Head-quarters at Finglas, promising his Free Pardon to all such of the Irish who would submit to his Government and his Protection, both in relation to their Life and Estates.
dit.	[...]93	The Duke of Wirtemberg who had been detached some Days ago by his Majesty to make an Attempt upon the Lines of the French between the Scheld and the Lys, attacked them this Day in four different Places, and forced them, notwithstanding the vigorous Resistance Monsieur De La Valette made with 8000 Men. The Duke ordered immediately to demolish the Redoubts, and level the Trenches, and sent abroad Parties [Page 126]towards Tournay, Menin, and other Places, to raise Contributions. The Action was very warm, and a great many Men were killed on both sides.
18.	8. 1695	This Day the King having resolved to attack the Envelopes or Outworks on the Eminence of Bouge and Cocklet before the Town of Namur, the Attack was carried on the Right by the English, commanded by Major General Ramsey; and on the Left by the Dutch, under Major General Salis: That Post being very advantageous, Monsieur de Boufflers sent 5000 Men of his best Troops to defend it, but they were so vigorously attacked, that they were forced to retire in such a Confusion that a great many were drowned. The Action was so vigorous that the French thought our Men were either mad or drunk, for indeed they did more than they were bid, and beat the Enemy-at once out of all their Outworks, tho they had several Redoubts with Cannon. The French lost above 1000 Men and a Field Officer; and we lost about 600. The King continued all the while in [Page 127]the Trenches, and it was 4 a Clock in the Morning before he returned to his Quarters. The French made a Salley the same Day upon the Brandenburghers, between the Sambre and the Meuse, and were repulsed with great Loss.
		This Day our Bombing Vessels destroyed the Town of Granville on the Coast of Normandy.
19.	9. 1689	A Plot was discovered at Edinburgh carried on by the Jacobites, who had resolved to fire that City, and destroy the States; whereupon about 40 Persons were seized.
20.	10. 1676	His Highness was wounded in the Arm in the Trenches at Mastricht.
21.	11. 1690	This Day the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, with the Lieucenancy of London, attended her Majesty in Council, where they declared the unanimous Resolution of the City to defend and preserve their Majesties and their Government with the [...]azard of their Lives, and to the utmost of their Power. They represented to her Majesty, that the Regiments of the Militia of the City making [Page 128]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 Dragoo [...]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 [Page 129]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. 'Tis 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 Melo [...]iere, Eppinger, Levison, Stewart, Prince of Hesse d'A [...]mstat, and Schack, Brigadeers. The Irish were commanded [Page 130]in chief by Monsieur de St. Ruth, and under him by D' Ʋsson, Thesse, and Sarsfield, Lieutenant Generals; Hamilton, and Dorrington, &c. Major Generals: These two last were taken Prisoners. 'Tis 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 Litcisi [...]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.
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 [Page 132]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 [Page 133]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 overpower'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 [Page 134]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 Scravenmoore were taken Prisoners, with [Page 135]Monsieur Zuilesteyn, Count Broway, and several others. The French had 900 Officers kill'd and wounded: the Duke D'Ʋses, Monsieur Montchevreuil, Prince Paul of Lorraine, and Sarsfield, Lieutenant Generals, were killed; and Prince de Conti, the Mareschal de Joyeuse, and the Duke of Rocheguyon, wounded. This Victory cost the French so dear, that they owned that a second one like this would have entirely ruin'd them.
30.	20. 1689	The Duke of Schomberg General of their Majesties Forces arrived this Day at Chester, in order to go over into Ireland with an Army to relieve that Kingdom against the Tyranny and Invasion of the French. His Grace was received by the Mayor and Aldermen in their Scarlets, and the 24 Companies in their Gowns, with ringing of Bells, and all other Demonstrations of Respect.
dit.	1695	Brigadeer Offarel surrendred the Town of Deinse to a Detachment of the French Army commanded by Monsieur De Feuquieres. The Garison was made Prisoners of War. The said Offarel was afterwards tried [Page 136]for that base Action, and broke with Infamy.
31.	21. 1691	The strong Town of Gallway in Ireland surrendred this Day to the English Army commanded by General Ginkel. There was a good Garison in the Place, and the French Lieutenant General D'Ʋsson, with many other Officers of that Nation, were retired into the Town, but did not think fit to defend it.
August.
1.	22. 1689	The Act for abolishing Episcopacy in Scotland was this Day touched with the Scepter by the Duke of Hamilton their Majesties High Commissioner.
2.	23. 1689	Don Pedro-de-Ronquillo, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Spain, made this Day his Entry in the usual manner, and had in the Afternoon his publick Audience of their Majesties in the Banqueting-house, to whom he presented a Letter from his Master, congratulating their happy Accession to the Crown.
3.	24. 1689	Her Royal Highness Princess Ann of Denmark was brought to bed at 4 a Clock in the Morning of a Son in the Palace of Hampton-Court.
dit.	1690	The Town of Waterford in Ireland surrendred this Day to his Majesty.
dit.	1692	This Day his Majesty attacked the French Army incamped at Enghien and Steenkirk, under the Command of Monsieur Luxemburgh. The Attack was begun by the Duke of Wirtemberg, who fell upon the Enemy with so much Vigour, that he beat them from Hedg to Hedg, and drove them beyond one of their Batteries of 7 Pieces of Cannon, of which we remained in possession for above half an Hour; but the French being relieved with fresh Men, our Troops were forced to retire, and the French remained in the Possession of their Camp. The Troops that ingaged behaved themselves with an extraordinary Bravery; and the French do own that if they had been relieved and supported as they ought to have been, and as it was ordered, they had been for [...]d to [...]eave their Camp in Confusion and Disorder: but this was the Fault of some body or other; one of the Generals of the Foot was violently suspected, [Page 138]because he ordered the Forces to halt, and this was the Occasion of the Loss of the Day. I don't presume to determine it, but sure I am that by the Treachery or Ignorance of some body, the best contrived as well as the most glorious Design was spoiled. We had near six thousand Men killed and wounded. Lieutenant General Mackay, Sir John Lanier also Lieutenant General, Sir Robert Douglass, the Earl of Angus, Colonel Hodges, and my Lord Mountjoy, were killed upon the spot, or died of their Wounds. The French Officers of Note that were slain in that Action were the Prince de Turenne, the Marquiss of Bellesonds, and the Marquiss de Tilladet, Lieutenant Generals; the Chevalier d' Estrades, Colonel Paulier a Switzer, the Marquiss de Fimarcon, and several others, with a great many wounded. The Honourable Mr. Keppell Master of the Robes, and Adjutant General to his Majesty, distinguished himself in that occasion, and received a Cut in his Check and Shoulder, but killed [Page 139]with his own Hand the Frenchman who had wounded him.
4.	25. 1695	The Town of Namur surrendred this Day to his Majesty, and the Garison retired into the Castle, according to the Capitulation which was signed by Count Guiscard and the Elector of Bavaria.
dit.	1696	An Express from my Lord Berkley brought Advice, that he had detached a Squadron of his Majesty's Ships with the Bombing Vessels, under the Command of Captain M [...]es, to bombard St. Martin in the Isle of Rhe, and Les Sables D'olonne, which they had performed some Days ago, having laid those two Towns in a heap of Rubbish.
5.	26. 1690	The French Fleet consisting of 82 Men of War, and several Gallies, came this Day into Torbay; and having landed about 1000 Men, they burnt the little Town of Tingmouth, and two or three Fishing-boats in the Harbour; after which they retired in great Precipitation upon the Approach of the Lord Lansdown with the Militia of the County. This is the only Advantage they made of [Page 140]their so much boasted Victory, for they sailed the same Evening towards their own Coasts. They had expected that many would have declared for the late King James, but they were much mistaken, for the People expressed every where an extraordinary Affection for their Majesties. The Courage the Queen expressed in that nice Juncture cannot be enough admired, nor sufficiently prais'd.
dit.	1690	The strong Fort of Duncannon that commands the River of Waterford, surrendred this Day to his Majesty.
6.	27. 1690	His Highness the Duke of Glocester was christened this Day it Hampton-Court by the Lord Bishop of London, and named William, the King and the Earl of Dorset being Godfathers, and the Marchioness of Hallifax Godmother.
7.	28. 1690	There was a bloody Rencounter this Day between Major General Mackay commanding in chief his Majesty's Forces in Scotland, and the Scots Rebels commanded by the Lord Dundee and Colonel Cannon. The Fight was very furious for some time, but some of the King's [Page 141]Forces giving ground, the rest were forced to retire, which they did in good Order. Dundee himself charged the Regiment of the Earl of Leven, who tho newly rais'd, maintained their Ground with an extraordinary Bravery. The Lord Dundee was killed in the Action.
8.	29. 1694	The French having taken Gironne, Roses, and several other Places in Catalonia, and making Preparation to besiege Barcelona both by Sea and Land, the King of Spain applied himself to his Majesty, and let him know that he was unable to protect that Town, or the rest of his Kingdom, unless his Majesty was pleased to send his Fleet to his Assistance. The Demand was not acceptable to many, because it was very well known that the Spaniards were not able to supply our Fleet with Necessaries; but such was the Generosity of his Majesty, that he made choice of Admiral Russel to command his Fleet in the Straits. He sailed accordingly, and the News of his Departure being brought into Catalonia, the French Fleet were so frighted, that they [Page 142]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. 'Tis 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 [Page 143]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 [Page 144]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, [Page 145]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 [Page 146]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 [Page 147]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 [Page 148]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 general Rout, the General run away into Tryers, and the rest of the Army made shift to save themselves where-ever they could. The Duke of Zell, and his Brother [Page 149]the Bishop of Osnabrug now Elector of Hanover, had the chief Command: the old Duke of Lorain came time enough to share in the Honour of the Day; and the Conduct of the Marquiss de Grana, and of the Duke of Holstein Ploen, deserveth to be particularly commended.
dit.	1689	General Mackay defeated part of the Scots Rebels.
dit.	1695	The English Fleet under the Command of the Lord Berkley, attempted this Day the bombarding of Dunkirk, but the Enemy having secured the Ricebank and wooden Forts with Piles, Booms, Chains and floating Pontons mounted with Cannon, the Machine Vessels invented by Mr. Meesters could not come near enough to have the intended Effect, and so the Fleet retired without any other Loss but of a Dutch Frigat, which in turning out ran aground, and was fired by the Enemy.
12.	2. 1667	The Prince of Orange is admitted into the Council of State of Holland as the first Nobleman.
dit.	1689	This Day at 4 in the Afternoon died Pope Innocent XI, justly lamented by all the Papists except the French, who hated him mortally because he opposed their Incroachments and Invasions. They stiled him the Protestant Pope, and accused him to have been concerned in the late happy Revolution, and to have a blind Deference for the Prince of Orange, as, they say, it appeared in the Elections of the Elector of Cologn and Bishop of Liege, in which his Holiness did nothing but what the Prince of Orange inspired him with. These are the very Words of a Pamphlet printed at Paris; but however it be, 'tis certain that this was the first Loss the League sustained, and that he had a great Esteem for his Majesty, which will not seem strange to such who will consider that Odescalchi was a Man of Honour, and had been a Souldier before he wore the Triple Crown. He was the chief Promoter of the Alliance concluded between the See of Rome, the Emperor, the King of Poland, and the Republick of Venice, against the Turks in the Year 1684.
13.	3. 1692	Bartholomew Lanier Sieur de Grandval Knight of Maltha, born at Liniere in Picardy, was this Day hang'd, drawn and quarter'd in the midst of his Majesty's Army incamped at Hall near Brussels, for having conspired to assassinate the King, with one Dumont and a Dutch-man called Leevendael. The first discovered the Business to the Duke of Zell, and the second to his Brother in Holland. They were confronted as Witnesses of the Fact, which Grandval himself confessed and owned. The Design of assassinating his Majesty had been encouraged by the Marquiss de Louvoys in the Year 1690; and these Assassines missing of their Design that Campaign, and Monsieur Louvoys dying some time after, it was laid by. Barbezieux however finding that Project in his Father's Paper, would not let it fall, but sent for Grandval, who accordingly enter'd into a new Negotiation with Dumont, by Letters, who was then at Hanover, and took with him a third Associate called Leevendael, who was then at Paris. They met near Boisleduc, [Page 152]and came to the Army to put in execution their barbarous Design, where Grandval was seized and tried the 11th Instant N. S. in a Council of War, consisting of Scravenmoor, Sir John Lanier, Talmash and Mackay Lieutenant Generals, the Marquiss la Forest, de Weede, Noyelles and Zobell Major Generals, Churchill and Ramsey Brigadeers, the Earl of Athlone General of the Dutch Horse being President. It did not appear that they were incourag'd to that villanous Action immediately by the French King himself, but the Circumstances are more than a Presumption of his being privy to it, for it is not likely that Louvoys and Barbezieux would have framed such a Project without acquainting their Master with it; and if the French King had not been concerned in it, would he not himself have punished the barbarous Villains upon whom that horrid Fact was proved? Grandval writ a Letter to one Mademoiselle Jure at Paris, wherein he desired her to wait upon the Archbishop of Rheims, Lonvoys's Brother, and to tell him [Page 153]he had obeyed the Marquiss of Barbezieux's Order, to the Expence of his Life. By the Evidence of Dumont and Leevendael it appears as clear as the Sun, that the late King James had incouraged that Villany by Promises he made himself without Mediators. Colonel Parker was concerned in that Conspiracy as well as in the last. There was a Book printed here, wherein it was proved that both the French King and K. James were privy to that horrid Design; but a certain great Man, who was then at the Helm of the Government, would not suffer it to be published.
14.	4. 1678	The French having besieged Mons, his Highness the Prince of Orange marched with the Confederate Army to relieve the Place. The Duke of Luxemburgh General of the French Army having notice of the March of the Allies, possessed himself of several Passes and Posts about the Place, which he fortified in such a manner, that he writ to the Mareschal d' Estrades then at Nimeguen, that he was so posted, that if he had but ten thousand Men, [Page 154]and the Prince forty, yet he was sure he could not be forced, whereas he took his Army to be stronger than that of the Allies. However the Prince attacked the French with such a Bravery, that after a bloody and obstinate Fight he beat them from those strong Posts. The Night prevented the End of the Action, during which the French retired towards Mons in great Confusion, leaving a great many wounded in the Field of Battel. The next Morning the Prince designed to pursue them, and oblige them to fight or to raise the Blockade of Mons, but he was prevented by the Advice he received from the States of the Peace being signed between them and France on the 11th Instant. The French who could not deny or conceal their Defeat, sought for vain and frivolous Excuses, and complained against the Prince, whom they accused of Violation of the publick Faith in attacking their Army after he knew the Peace was signed. This was the Language of the Paris Gazetteer, and other mercenary Fellows like him; [Page 155]but the Men of Honour that were in the French Army did not entertain such Thoughts; and any impartial Man who will but cast his Eyes on the Conduct and Character of his Majesty, will never suspect him to have been guilty of the Charge the French laid upon him. 'Tis true the States had sent an Express with a Pacquet to the Prince the Day the Battel was fought, but it was intercepted and concealed by the Marquiss de Grana, who being averse to the Peace, thought that the Gain of a Victory might change the Face of the Affairs of Christendom, and contribute to the Continuation of the War, which he knew his Highness did wish, because he did wisely foresee that the Peace of Nimeguen was but an Artifice of the French King to break the Confederacy, and then put into execution the Project he had form'd of the Universal Monarchy. His Highness did Wonders in the Action, and being in the midst of the Enemy, a French Officer was going to shoot him with a Pistol, but was prevented by [Page 156]Monsieur Dauverquerque, who shot the French-man dead. A great Officer of the French Army who was in the Engagement was so charmed with the Conduct and Courage of the Prince, that he said, that he esteem'd this the only Heroick Action that had been done in the whole Course or Progress of the War. The English Forces behaved themselves to Admiration, and the Earl of Ossery who commanded them gave extraordinary Proofs both of his Prudence and Valour. The Duke of Monmouth arrived in the Camp two Hours before the Engagement, and accompanied his Highness every where.
5.	5. 1678	The Prince having signified to the Mareschal de Luxemburgh the Advices he had received that Morning of the Peace being concluded at Nimeguen, that General desired to see the Prince, which was agreed to, and they met in the Field at the Head of their chief Officers, where all passed with the Civilities that became the Occasion, and with great Curiosity of the French to see and croud about a young Prince who had made so much Noise [Page 157]in the World, and had the Day before given Life and Vigour to such a desperate Action, as all Men esteemed this Battel of St. Denis. 'Tis observable that Monsieur de Luxemburgh, tho a Duke, Peer, and Mareschal of France, and General of the French Army, shew'd such a Respect for his Highness, that he never put on his Hat while he was with him, and that seeing the Count d' Auvergne Brother to the Duke de Bouillon, who claims the Title of Prince, covering himself, he sent him back to his Post to teach him better Manners. He made a short but very fine Speech to the Prince, and parted with the greatest Marks of Respect that could have been expected.
dit.	1692	The Confederate Army commanded by the Duke of Savoy, the Marquiss de Leganez, Count Caprara, and Duke of Schomberg, having forced their Way into Dauphine, taken Guillestre and several other Passes, obliged the Garison of Ambrun to surrender that Place this Day, and by an Article of the Capitulation it was agreed [Page 158]that no Officer or Souldier except the Marquiss de Larray and three more, should serve during the Campaign. As soon as the Place was delivered, the Duke of Schomberg caused Monsieur du Bourdieu, Minister of the French Church of the Savoy, and then his Chaplain, to preach in the Town; and all the new Converts, Inhabitants thereof, and of the Neighbourhood, assisted at the Divine Service with an incredible Joy; which sheweth how little Reason the Papists have to boast of the pretended Conversion performed by their booted Missionaries.
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17.	7. 1695	The King pressing very hard the Castle of Namur, and the French daring not attack our Lines to oblige his Majesty to raise the Siege, they thought to compass their Design at an easier rate; and accordingly the Mareschal de Villeroy having reinforced his Army with the Garisons of the Frontier Places, marched the 13th Instant N. S. to Anderlecht near Brussels to bombard the Place, expecting that the King would immediately leave Namur to relieve Brussels. [Page 159]Prince Vaudemont who observed his Motions arrived at the same time in the Place, and disposed his Army as he thought fit, to hinder the French from attacking the Town otherwise than by their Bombs. The Elector of Bavaria came also to the Place to give the necessary Orders to quench the Fire, and prevent the Disorders that might happen on such an occasion. The same Day between twelve and one of the Clock the Mareschal de Villeroy having made all the Preparations for executing his Design, sent an impertinent Letter by a Trumpet to the Prince de Bergues, Governour of Brussels, wherein he said, that his Master being full of Goodness towards his Subjects, had sent him to bombard Brussels, as a Means to put a stop to the bombarding of his Maritime Places by the Fleet of the Prince of Orange; that it was with Reluctancy that he was necessitated to make use of Reprisals; and therefore if he could be assured that his Sea-Ports should be no more bombarded, he would forbear bombarding Brussels, desiring [Page 160]to know in what part of the Town the Electoress of Bavaria was, being forbid to fire there; giving time for an Answer till 5 a Clock in the Evening. The Governour having communicated that Message to the Elector of Bavaria, he returned an Answer to this purpose, That he could not give a direct Answer to the Declaration he had sent him concerning the bombarding of Brussels, and the Reason alledged for it, since it regarded the King of Great Britain, who was before the Castle of Namur, but that if he would give a longer time, his Electoral Highness would procure an Answer in 24 Hours, and that the Electoress was in the King's Palace. As the Message of Villeroy was only to throw the Odium of that Bombardment upon his Majesty, and for no other purpose, since he knew very well that the Elector of Bavaria, and less still the Governour of Brussels, could not promise what he demanded, the French begun to throw their Bombs, and fire their red hot Bullets at 5 a Clock, and continued till the 15th N. S. at 9 in [Page 161]the Morning, and destroyed most of the lower Town, but could not reach the Magazines; and this Day their Army retired towards Enghien. The Paris Gazetteer wrote a very impudent Manifesto, wherein he endeavour'd to insinuate that the English were the first who put in practice that barbarous way of destroying Towns, out his Lies had not the Success he expected, for the bombarding of Genoa in time of Peace several Years before this War, and the horrid Ravages committed by them in the Palatinate, Piemont, and other Parts, were too fresh in the Memory of Men, to be effaced by that mercenary Pen. The Electoress of Bavaria was so frighted, that she miscarried of a Boy, to the unspeakable Grief of the Elector. Few People were killed in the Town, but the French lost a pretty many.
18.	8. 1690	This Day was fought a Battel between the Duke of Savoy and Monsieur Catinat at Staffarde, which lasted eight Hours, but the Duke of Savoy was forced to retire as orderly as he could towards Carmagnole, leaving [Page 162]to the French the Field of Battel, and 3 or 4 Pieces of Cannon. His Baggage was saved, and the Loss was pretty equal on both sides; and much about the same time the Vaudois defeated the French, and beat them out of their Vallies.
19.	9. 1678	The States General taking into their Consideration the great Service Monsieur D'auverquerque had done in preserving the Person of his Highness the Prince of Orange, and killing a French Officer who was ready to shoot his Highness in the Battel of St. Denis, resolved to return him their Thanks for that important Service, and assure him that they would give him effectual Marks of their Gratitude, and in the mean time presented him with a golden hilted Sword, and a fine Case of Pistols adorned also with Gold.
dit.	1690	The King sat down this Day before Lymerick. The Irish who had a very numerous Garison, came out in a body to defend the Approaches, but were beaten in with a great Loss. We took that Day Cromwell's Fort, [Page 163]and the Old Chappel, two very advantageous Posts very near the Town. His Majesty and his Royal Highness were in great Danger.
dit.	1691	This Day was fought the bloody Battel of Salankemen between the Imperial Army commanded by Prince Lewis of Baden and the Turks under the Command of the Grand Visier. The Battel was very doubtful for some time, but at last it pleased God to bless the Christians with an entire Victory. The Turks lost 13000 Men upon the spot, 158 Pieces of Cannon and Mortars, all their Baggage, a great Number of Standards and Colours, and several thousand Prisoners. The Turks were twice as numerous as the Christians, and were besides strongly intrench'd. The Christians lost about 5000 Men. The Auxiliary Troops of Brandenburgh behaved themselves to Admiration. The Emperor was so pleased with the Conduct of Prince Lewis of Baden, that he declared him his Lieutenant General, with all the Prerogatives enjoy'd before by the Duke of Lorain.
20.	10. 1672	This Day the Court of Justice of Holland pass'd Sentence upon Cornelius de Wit Great Baily of Putten, Burgomaster of Dordrecht, and Brother to the famous John de Wit, Pensionary of Holland, for having conspired the Death of his Highness the Prince of Orange. There was but one Evidence against him, viz. a Chirurgeon, who positively declared that the said Cornelius de Wit had promised him 30000 Flori [...]s, besides a great Preferment, in case he did poison his Highness, or put him to Death by any other Means whatsoever. The Evidence being not sufficient to condemn him to Death, the Court deprived the said de Wit of all his Places, and banished him for ever out of the Provinces of Holland and West-Frizeland.
21.	11. 1695	Colonel Sellwin and the Lord George Hamilton were this Day made Brigadeers General of Foot in consideration of their good Services, and especially in the Siege of Namur, which the King pressed very hard at this time.
22.	12. 1672	John de Wit and Cornelius de Wit his Brother, were this Day massacred by the Inhabitants of the Hague, who accused them of having betrayed their Country to the French. Cornelius de Wit was banished, and his Brother by an imprudent Vanity went in his Coach to the Prison to carry him away, as in Triumph, which so much incensed the Mob, that they tore them to pieces.
dit.	1689	This Morning his Grace the Duke of Schombergh, with their Majesties Forces set sail for Ireland, to reduce that Kingdom. Many have wondred that he was sent no sooner, but 'tis likely that the Government expected the Event of the Insurrection of the Rebels in Scotland, headed by Dundee.
dit.	1691	The King having pursued the French Army commanded by the Mareschal de Luxemburgh very near Philippeville, where they intrench'd themselves in Woods behind Rivers and Defiles; his Majesty seeing the Impossibility of forcing them to fight, caused the Fortifications of Beaumont, which the Enemy had quitted upon our Approach, [Page 166]to be blown up in sight of the French Army, which durst not come out of their Intrenchments: after which the King retired towards Gerpines and St. Gerard.
23.	13. 1672	The Prince of Orange having notice of the Misfortune of Messieurs de Wit, who had been the Day before massacred, gave Orders to inquire who were the Promoters of that Action, in order to be punished. This Generosity of the Prince was mightily commended, especially of such who knew that that Family had been without any Cause his greatest Enemies. John de Wit was an extraordinary Man, and understood the Affairs of Europe as well as any Man; yet his Obstinacy, in relation to the Prince, brought his Country to the very brink of its Ruine, and was the Occasion of his tragical Death.
dit.	1698	The Duke of Schomberg, General of their Majesties Forces, landed with the Army this Day in Bangor-Bay near Carrickfergus.
24.	14. 1672	The Prince of Orange with a Detachment of his Army beat the French from several Posts [Page 167]about Worden, and pursued them to the Gates of Ʋtrecht.
dit.	1694	The Queen put out a Proclamation for apprehending Colonel Parker, who being committed to the Tower for High Treason, found Means to make his Escape.
25.	15. 1689	The Dutch Army commanded by Prince Waldeck being incamped near Walcourt, had this Day a bloody Rencounter with the French, who thought to have surprised our Army, while a good part of it were gone to forage. The French attacked the Town of Walcourt, which covered the Pass to the Dutch Camp, but the Prince of Waldeck had put so many Men in it, that they could never take it, tho it was almost open, and that the Attack lasted six Hours. The English behaved themselves with a great Bravery. The French lost in that Action near 2000 Men, and amongst them the Marquiss de St. Gelais Mareschal de Camp, and Count d' Artagnan, with 27 Officers of the Guards. The Allies did not lose above 60 Men; and had the Nature of the Ground permitted our Men [Page 168]to follow the Enemy, they had entirely defeated the French Army, which retired in great Confusion.
26.	16. 1689	A Party was sent this Day by the Duke of Schomberg towards Belfast, which the Irish quitted upon their Approach.
dit.	1695	The English Fleet commanded by my Lord Berkley anchor'd this Day before Calais, and next Morning the Bombing Vessels stood as near the Shore as possible, and bombarded the Town till 6 in the Evening. They set it on fire in several Places, and their Magazine in the Rice-Bank was blown up. The French came out with their Long Boats and Half Gallies, but were repulsed with great Loss.
27.	17. 1672	The Bishops of Liege and Munster raised this Day the Siege of Groninguen, before which Place they had set down the 20th ultimo, with their own Forces, and a Detachment of the French. The Place was vigorously attacked, and it was the first time the Bombs were made use of, that is, since they were brought to a kind of Perfection. The Bishops hd 4600 [Page 169]Men killed on the spot, and above 5000 Deserters, and left 5 Cannons behind. Monsieur Charles Rabenhaut was Governour of the Town, and the Duke of Holstein Commander of the Garison.
dit.		The States of Holland and Westfrizeland gave this Day Authority to the Prince to change those Magistrates of the Towns of their Province as [...] should think fit, without any [...] or Restriction Whereupon most of the Magistrates of the said Provinces were [...] out upon the Complai [...] brought to hi [...] Highness of their being disaffected to the Publick Good.
dit.	1690	The Trenches were opened before Limerick.
dit.	1692	A Detachment of the Garison of Namur, commanded by the Prince d' Enrichmo [...]t, the Marquiss d' Hocquincourt, and the Marquiss d' Ecos, was this Day defeated by a Detachment of the Allies, belonging to the Garison at Huy. The Dispute was very sharp, and the French had above 300 Men killed, and 356 taken Prisoners, amongst whom were 30 Officers, besides [Page 170]the chief Officers who commanded the Detachment.
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29.	19. 1689	The Ottoman Forces were this Day entirely routed by the Imperialists, commanded by Prince Lewis of Baden, on the River Morava in Servia. They had 15000 killed and wounded, and lost a great number of Standards and Colours, with the Horse's Tail, 105 Pieces of Cannon, and their Baggage. The Christians lost about 2000 Men.
dit.	1690	This Day his Majesty was going from his Quarters to Cromwell's Fort, to direct the Batteries against the Town of Lymerick; and just as his Horse was entring a Gap, the Divine Providence directed a Gentleman to stop his Majesty to speak with him, and in that Moment there struck a twenty four Pounder in that very Gap, which would have certainly kill'd him, but did him no harm at all, except that it struck the Dust all about him.
dit.	1692	The Confederate Army under the Command of the Duke of Savoy, took this Day Possession of the Town of Gap in Dauphine.
30.	20. 1672	The French attempting to relieve Worden, were beat back by his Highness.
dit.		The French were forced to raise the Blockade of Mastricht.
dit.	1690	The King caused a Redoubt at Lymerick to be attacked, which our Men took after a short Resistance; and the Enemy having made a Sally with 2000 Men to retake it, they were beat back with great Loss.
dit.	1695	This Day was made a general Assault upon the Castle of Namur and Fort Cohorn. The English Granadeers supported by 4 Regiments, viz. Coulthrop's, Frederick Hamilton's, Mackay's, and Buchan's, were appointed to attack the Breach of Terra-nova, under the Command of my Lord Cutts; Count Rivera with the Spaniards and Bavarians to attack Fort William or Cohorn on the side next Terra-nova; Major General la Cave with the Brandenburghers to storm Fort William on the other side; and Major General Swerin with the Dutch was appointed to attack the Castle. The Signal being given, all the Forces advanced with an unparallel'd Intrepidity. [Page 172]The English forced their way through the Breach, and notwithstanding the Resistance of the Enemy, and the great fire they made upon our Men, they gained the top of the same; but finding the French strongly intrenched beyond it, and the Nature of the Ground not permitting our Men to advance in any Front, they were forced to retire. Count Rivera was killed upon approaching Fort Cohorn, but nevertheless the Bavarians lodged themselves upon the Saliant Angle of the Counterscarp, in which they maintain'd themselves by the Assistance of my Lord Cutts, who came timely to their Relief. The Action was very hot, and a Battery which the Enemy had within their Pallisadoes much gauled our Men; whereupon my Lord Cutts ordered a Lieutenant of Mackay's Regiment with 30 Men to pass the Pallisadoes, and attack that Battery, which he performed with an extraordinary Bravery, turning 7 of their Cannon against them, and securing some of their Mines. Major Generals la Cave and Swerin forced [Page 173]the French from the Post they attacked, and made each a good Lodgment on the same, which they perfected that Night and the next Day; and in the mean time our Batteries continued to play upon Terra-nova, to make that Attack more practicable. This Action was very vigorous, and it is granted, that had the English Granadeers been timely supported, they would have carried the Post of Terra-nova. The Allies had near 2000 killed and wounded, and the French near as many.
31.	21. 1689	The Town of Carickfergus was besieged this Day by their Majesties Forces commanded by the Duke of Schomberg.
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1.	22. 1695	Our Batteries having inlarg'd our Breaches, his Majesty returned before the Castle of Namur from his Camp at Masy, where he was gone the Day of the General Storm to observe the French Army, which was advanced to relieve the Place, and durst not attempt to attack the King's Army, tho they were 100000 strong; but he met upon the way an Adjuran [...] [Page 174]of the Elector of Bavaria, who was sent to acquaint his Majesty that the French seeing our Preparations for a second Assault, and fearing to be put to the Sword, had beat a Parley. His Majesty being arrived at the Cloyster of Salsines, Hostages were immediately exchanged, and Propositions brought from the Castle. They demanded to have ten Days to expect Relief, and several other things, which were denied them; and their Propositions, with the Elector of Bavaria's Answer, were sent back to the Castle the same Evening; and his Majesty returned to his Camp to observe Monsieur de Villeroy, who was incamped at Bonef.
2.	23. 1695	This Morning the Capitulation was signed by the Elector of Bavaria, Monsieur de Boufflers and Count Guiscard, whereby Fort William, La Casotte, and some other Works were immediately delivered up to our Forces, and it was agreed that the Garison should march out three Days after, viz. the 5th, through the Breach, with all the usual Marks of Honour, with 6 Pieces of Cannon and 2 Mortars.
dit.		Monsieur de Villeroy who was advanced to Boness with his Army in order to relieve Namur, retired this Day in great Precipitation, having notice of the surrendring of the Place.
3.	24. 1695	The Confederate Fleet under the Command of Admiral Russel having appeared before Toulon, the French were in great Consternation for their Ships, and the whole Coast in a great Alarm; but just as the Allies were preparing to make an Attempt upon that Place, there arose this Day a violent Storm, which carried them away from the Coast.
4.	25. 1691	The Town of Lymerick, was invested by his Majesty's Army commanded by General Ginkel, and our Men possessed themselves the same Day of Ireton and Cromwell's Forts, with the Loss only of three or four Men.
dit.	1692	The Lord Viscount Sidney made his Entry into Dublin, and was sworn Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
5.	26. 1675	The Town of Triers surrendred this Day to the Allies. The Mareschal de Crequi who had defended that Place since his Defeat the 11th ultimo, [Page 176]would never capitulate, and was delivered up Prisoner to the Allies, with such Officers who refused to sign the Capitulation, whereby it was agreed that the Garison should not bear Arms against the Confederates till after three Months. The Officers were allowed to march out with their Arms and Baggage, but the Horse, Dragoons, and Foot, were allowed to march out only with their Swords, leaving their other Arms and Horses behind them. The English who were in the Place gained a great Reputation; but as they made a most desperate Defence, a great many of them were kill'd.
dit.	1695	This Morning being the time appointed for the marching out of the French Garison of Namur, 30 Battalions were drawn up in two Lines from the Breach of Terra-nova, down to the Meuse, to the Way that leads to Givet; and about 10 a Clock the said Garison came out through the Breach; Monsieur de Boufflers and Count Guiscard riding at the Head of their Men Sword in band, with which they saluted his Majesty [Page 177]and the Elector of Bavaria. Monsieur Dickvelt who knew the said Mareschal accosted him, and rid with him to the top of the Hill, and told him that the King of England had so much Reason to be displeased that the French King should detain the Garisons of Deinse and Dixmude Prisoners against the express Word of the Cartel, that he was obliged by that open Injustice to secure his Person till he had received Satisfaction upon that Article; and immediately Monsieur de L' Estang Brigadeer of the King's Forces arrested him with a Detachment of the Life-Guards. The Mareschal was very much incensed at first with that Proceeding, alledging the publick Faith of the Capitulation, wherein he was expresly mention'd, and said that his Master would revenge that Affront to the utmost of his Power. To which Monsieur Dickvelt replied, that as to his Threats the time of using such Language was over; that the King of England was obliged to it, since the French King had no Regard to Capitulations and Agreements; [Page 178]that this was no Disrespect in particular to his Person, seeing his Majesty might have detained the whole Garison, whereas he had contented himself with his Person: and then to shew him the Esteem he had for him, he was ordered to offer him his Liberty if he would pass his Word for the sending back of the Garisons of Deinse and Dixmude, or return himself Prisoner within a Fortnight. The Mareschal having answered that it was more than he could promise, he was carried Prisoner into the Town, and treated with the Honour and Respect due to a Mareschal of France, a Captain, Lieutenant and Ensign mounting the Guard upon his Quarters with Colours. The Garison conducted by Count Guiscard continued their March towards Givet, (being conducted by 2000 Dragoons) consisting of 5442 Men.
		Thus the important Place of Namur was surrendred to his Majesty in sight of an Army of above 100000 Men commanded by the most experienced Generals of France, and in [Page 179]which were most of the Princes of the Blood, who, it seems, came within sight of that Fortress only to be the Spectators and Witnesses of the Capitulation. The French had made that Place so strong, that they had the Confidence to cause this Inscription to be ingraven on the Gates, Reddi [...]sed Vinci non potest, as if they had defied all the World to take it: And when the News came to Paris of the Allies having besieged that Place, and that Monsieur de Boufflers was in it with about 16000 Men, 'tis said the French King laugh'd at that Account, and said, it was but a Feint, and that the Prince of Orange was too sensible a Man to be guilty of such a Folly: but the Event did shew that there is no Place impregnable when attacked by brave Troops, animated by the Presence of so great a General as his Majesty. When the French took it, they coined a Medal with his Motto, Amat victoria testes, which we may easily retort upon them, for we had for Witnesses the whole Power of France. The Allies lost about 9000 Men, [Page 180]but the Loss of the French was at least as great, since out of 16000 Men there marched out not 6000, besides about 2000 who were sick, or were sent upon the Capitulation of the Town to Dinant. One thing we must observe more, is, that tho the French were so numerous in the Place, and commanded by so firy a Man as Monsieur de Boufflers, yet they never regained any Post they were beaten off; and ever since the Attack of the Envelope in the beginning of the Siege they seemed to be afraid of our Troops. The Allies found in the Place 69 Pieces of Cannon, 4 Mortars, and 4 Hautwitzers with the Arms of France, 281 thousand Weight of Gunpowder, 50 great Bombs of 500 Weight each, 2000 ordinary Bombs, 1000 lesser Bombs, 750 Granadoes of 24 Pound Weight, 40000 ordinary Granadoes fixed, 150 Barrels of Cannon-Ball, Salt-peter and Brimstone 15 Tun, and 800 spare Musquets, besides several other Pieces of Cannon which were in few Days after found buried in the Ground. The [Page 181]Landgrave of Hesse Castle who was come from the Rhine with his own Forces, and a Detachment of Prince Lewis of Baden's Army, continued in his Majesty's Camp till the Place was surrendred, and the French retired.
		I have been somewhat long in this Account, but the Reader will excuse me, because of the Importance of the Action, one of the most glorious that ever was performed.
6.	27. 1689	The Garison of Carickfergus surrendred this Day to the Duke of Schomberg, and marched out to the Number of 2500 Men.
dit.	1689	The Allies stormed this Day the Counter scarp of M [...]ntz, under the Command of the Duke of Lorain.
dit.	1690	This Day the King ordered an Attack to be made on the Counterscarp of Lymerick, which our Granadeers gained with a great deal of Bravery, together with a Fort the Enemy had under the Walls; but instead of lodging themselves as they were ordered to do, and to go no further, they mounted the Breach, following the Irish that fled that way, and most of them [Page 182]were actually in the Town; but the Regiments that were to second the Granadeers stopping at the Counterscarp, (according to Orders) the Irish rallied themselves, beat back our Men, who were forced to retire into the Trenches. We had in that Action 44 Officers wounded, and 15 kill'd. Some pretend that this Attack was mysterious, and that the Town had been easily taken, had it not been prevented by some self-interested Persons, whose Interest it was to continue the War in that Country; but whatever it be, I leave it to the Reader's Inquiry, it being out of my way at this time, according to the Rules I have prescribed to my self.
7.	28. 1672	The Prince of Orange went from Loo to the Frontiers of Germany, to confer with several German Princes, and there he laid the Foundation of that great Alliance that appeared soon after against France.
8.	29. 1688	King James being frightned with the great Preparations the States were making, commanded the Marquiss d'Albeville his Ambassador to present a Memorial [Page 183]concerning the same, which he did this Day, the Substance whereof is, that his Majesty of Great Britain taking a just Umbrage of the great Preparations the States were making by Sea, especially in a Season that 'tis usual to disarm a Fleet, he was commanded to demand what those Preparations were designed for; hoping that in consideration of his 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, [Page 184]Clergy, and other Gentlemen in the City and Garison of London-derry, and was very kindly received, and presented with [...]ive thousand Pounds. His Majesty was pleased to assure him, [...]hat this should not at all l [...]ssen the Kindness he intended to shew to him and to his Family, and that he would likewise have a particular Care of the [...]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 [Page 185]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 [Page 186]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 [Page 187]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 [Page 188]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 [Page 189]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 sick. His Highness exposed himself very much in the Attacks, and obliged the French to pay to the Inhabitants what was due to them.
14.	4. 1674	The Prince of Orange having refreshed his Army for some time after the Battel of Seneff, sat down this Day before Oudenarde.
15.	5. 1690	Our Army being retired in good Order from before Limerick, his Majesty left it under the Command of Count Solmes; and having appointed the Lord Viscount Sidney and Thomas Coningsby Esq; to be Lords Justices of Ireland, he imbarked this Afternoon at Duncannon-Fort with his Royal Highness, and landed the next Day in King's Road not far from Bristol.
16.	6. 1673	The Prince of Orange received a Letter from the Emperor, [Page 191]wherein his Imperial Majesty gave him the Title of Royal Highness: the Queen of Spain did also the like; but tho the Prince had a better Claim to it than the Duke of Savoy, being descended from an Emperor of Germany, and Grandson to Henry the IVth King of France, and to Charles I. King of England, he never, for ought I know, assum'd it, but contented himself with the bare Title of Highness, which no body could deny him.
17.	7. 1676	The Town of Philipsburgh surrendred this Day to the Allies, and the French marched out to the Number of 2000 Men.
dit.	1689	The Duke of Schomberg having secured Carickfergus, resolved to march directly towards Dublin, and came this Day to Newry, which the Irish quitted the Day before, tho it was such a Pass that General Rozen, who commanded in Ireland for the French King, said, that with 10000 Men he would stop there 100000. They burnt the Place, which so incensed the Duke, that he sent a Trumpet to the Irish to let them know, that if they burnt any [Page 192]more Towns, he would give no Quarter to those of their Army who should fall into his Power.
18.	8. 1692	This Day about 2 in the Afternoon happened in this City an Earthquake, which lasted about a Minute: It was felt in most Parts of England, and in Flanders. The King being incamped at Gramen, was then at Dinner in an old decayed House, which shaking very much, his Majesty was obliged to rise from Table, and go out of the House. We received no Damage by that Earthquake neither in the City nor in the Country.
19.	9.
20.	10. 1688	The late King James having formed the Design to subvert the Laws of England, together with the Protestant Religion, and being sensible that a Protestant Army was not very fit for that Service, resolved to fill it with Irish Men, as devoted entirely to his Service; and accordingly ordered the Duke of Berwick to put into his Regiment 30 Gentlemen of that Nation, but his Lieutenant Colonel Beaumont, the Captains Paston, [Page 193]Simon Parke, Thomas Orme, Will. Cooke, and John Post, generously refused to comply with their Colonel's Desire, at which the Court was so enraged, that they were tried in a Court-Martial, and cashiered this Day.
dit.	1688	The Prince set out for Minden to confer with the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh, the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, and the Princes of the House of Lunenburgh. It was there that in Offensive and Defensive League between those Princes was concluded, and then was laid the Foundation of that great Alliance which appeared soon after, and whereby England and the Liberties of Europe have been preserved. As that Affair required a great Secrecy, none of the Ministers of those Princes were acquainted with it: and to avoid the Disorder and Slowness that commonly attend the Confederate Armies when they are commanded by several Generals of an equal Dignity, the chief Command of the Troops of those Princes was conferr'd without any Competition on his Highness the [Page 194]Prince of Orange, and they gave Order to their respective Forces and Generals to be ready to march at his first Orders. It was observed that that Day was the most stormy and rainy Day that had been seen for many Years past; and some time after one of the Courtiers of the Elector of Brandenburgh complaining in his Presence of the Fatigues, and of the bad Weather he met with that Day, the Elector inrerrupted him and said, that it was the finest Day for Europe that ever shone.
dit.	1690	His Majesty returned this Evening to Kensington from Ireland, and was received with all possible Demonstration of Joy. The Streets of London were filled with Bonfires, the Houses illuminated, and the People omitted nothing that might testify the extraordinary Joy they had of his Majesty's safe Return.
dit.	1691	The Mareschal de Luxemburgh having notice that the King had left the Confederate Army under the Command of Prince Waldeck, and that the said Army was marching from Leuze to Cambron, thought it [Page 195]a favourable Opportunity to attack them, and accordingly parted from his Camp with 40 Squadrons of Horse and Dragoons, in which were the Troops of the Houshold, with a Design to charge our Rear. There happen'd this Morning [...] pretty thick Fog, which was the Reason that his March was not discovered: and about Noon, just as our Rear was passing a little River and Defile near la Catoire, the French charged them with such a Vigour, that some Squadrons were put into Disorder; but being supported by the Foot, who in the mean time had lined the Hedges, they maintained their Post till they were reinforced by some other Troops who had already pass'd the Desile, and after a sharp Dispute repulsed the Enemy. Prince Waldeck caused the Army to stand in Battalia till 4 in the Afternoon, and then continued his March to Cambron. The Action was vigorous on both Sides, and about 1000 Men in all lost their Lives in that brush. The French took some Prisoners, and the Allies did the like, and amongst [Page 196]them a Major of the Life-Guards. We lost also 7 Standards, and took 5 of theirs, 2 of which did belong to the 2 Troops of Guards du Corps, commanded by the Duke of Lorges and Duke of Noailles. The young Prince of Anhalt, and Count Benthem, were killed on our side; and Count Maulevrier, Count Mouthrun, Lieutenant Generals, Count de Forghes and Count Mortagne were killed on the side of the French, and a great many Persons of Note in both Armies were wounded.
dit.	1695	His Majesty having left the Command of the Army to the Elector of Bavaria, arrived this Day at Loo; and the Mareschal de Boufflers having given his Parole that the Garisons of Deinse and Dixmude should be released as soon as he should come to Dinant, his Majesty gave him leave to depart; and accordingly he set out from Mastricht, where he was Prisoner, the 17th Instant N. S.
21.	11. 1673	The States sent Monsieur Fagel to compliment his Highness on the taking of Naerden.
dit.	1674	The Prince of Conde knowing the Extremities Oudenarde was reduced to, marched to relieve it, and came in sight of the Allies the 20th, who resolved to attack them the next Day. The Prince of Orange called a Council of War, wherein 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 Han [...] 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 [Page 199]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. [Page 200] 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 [Page 201]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 [Page 202]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. [Page 203]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 [Page 204]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 [Page 206]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 [Page 207]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 [Page 208]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 Law [...]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 [Page 209]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 [Page 210]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, [Page 211]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 of Canterbury, and the Bishops of London, Winchester, S. Asaph, Ely, Chichester, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Peterborough, all in a body waited upon the King, where they humbly advised him to put the Management of the Government in the several Counties into the Hands of such Persons as were qualified for it; to annul the High Commission for Ecclesiastical Affairs; to restore the President and Fellows of Magdalen College in Oxford; and that no Person unqualified by Law be preferr'd to any Place in Church or State; to set aside all Licences or Faculties already granted, whereby the Papists pretended to be enabled to teach publick Schools; to desist from the Exercise of the Dispensing Power; to inhibit the four foreign Bishops, who stiled themselves Vicars Apostolical, from further invading the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction [Page 212]vested in the Bishops of the Church of England; to fill the vacant Bishopricks both in England and Ireland, and especially the Archiepiscopal Chair of York, with Men of Learning and Piety; to supersede all further Prosecutions of Quo Warranto's against Corporations, and to restore to those Corporations their Charters and Privileges, as he had done to the City of London; to call a Free Parliament to secure the Church of England, the Liberties and Properties of all his Subjects, and procure a due Liberty of Conscience; and Lastly, that his Majesty would suffer his Bishops to offer him such Motives and Arguments as may perswade him to return to the Communion of the Church of England, in which he was baptized. The Papists were inraged at these good Advices, and the King was not pleased with such a Representation, which set too freely before him his illegal and arbitrary Proceedings.
dit.	1689	The Right Reverend Edward Stillingfleet Bishop of Worcester, Simon Patrick Bishop of Chichester, [Page 213]and Gilbert Ironside Bishop of Bristol, were this Day consecrated in the Chappel of Fulham by the Bishops of London, St. Asaph, and Rochester.
dit.	1691	The strong Town of Limerick surrendred this Day to his Majesty's Forces, and at the same time the Irish made a General Capitulation for their whole Nation that was still in Arms, whereby they were promised all the Liberty as was consistent with the Laws of Ireland; and such as were not willing to stay were allowed to go to France. Thus ended the Wars of Ireland, and the famous Campaign of 1691. the most glorious that was ever performed by a little Army, which in about four Months time took three strong Places; for besides many Forts, Castles, and small Towns, we gained a great Victory, without reckoning the frequent Rencounters that hapned, in which they always got the Advantage, tho in small Numbers.
14.	4. 1678	The French having restored to the Dutch the Town of Mastricht, the States General desired the Prince of Orange to [Page 214]name for Magistrates such Persons as he should think fit.
15.	5. 1688	The Foreign Advices having convinced King James that the Preparations of the Prince of Orange were designed against him, declared this Day in Council that he had thought fit to dissolve the Commission for Causes Ecclesiastical, &c. and gave Directions to the Lord Chancellor of England to cause the same to be forthwith done. This did not however satisfy the People, for the said Commission was not declared illegal, nor any Promise made that it should never be renewed; and every one took this Proceeding of the Court not as an Effect of the King's Justice, but of the fear he was in of the Prince of Orange.
dit.	1690	The House of Lords presented an Address to the King to congratulate his Majesty's Victories in Ireland, and desire him not to expose his Person so much. The Commons did the like; and both Houses presented another Address to the Queen, to thank her Majesty for her prudent Administration during the King's Absence, and [Page 215]in so nice a Juncture as her Majesty had found her self in, whilst a powerful Enemy lorded it upon our Coasts, and threatned the Kingdom with an Invasion.
dit.	1692	This Day we received the surprizing Advice that the [...]ke of Savoy had quitted the 16th ultimo the Town of Ambrun, having blown up the Fortifications, and returned with his Forces towards his own Country. France was never in such an Alarm as they were then, the Confederate Army being in their Country, and they having no Strength to oppose them; the Inhabitants of Lyons and Grenoble were removing their Effects, and no body doubted but the Allies would improve that fair Opportunity, however they contented themselves with the taking of Ambrun and Gap, and raising some Contributions, and then retired. 'Tis true the Duke of Savoy fell so sick of the Small Pox at Gap, that his Life was thought in danger, and some have believed that his Distemper disappointed all the Designs of that Army; but others who have more narrowly [Page 216]inquired into that Affair, do think that the Corruption and Treachery of the Duke's Council was the true Remora that stopp'd our Forces, and that the Small Pox came very seasonably to him as a Varnish over the Infidelity of that Court.
16.	6. 1688	This Day King James was pleased to restore actually to the City of London all their antient Franchises and Privileges as fully as they enjoyed them before the late Judgment upon the Quo Warranto. The Lord Chancellor did them the Honour to bring down the Instrument of Restitution and Confirmation under the Great Seal of England, and Sir John Chapman was thereby constituted Lord Mayor till the usual time of the Election.
17.	7. 1692	This Day the Electoral College at Ratisbonne resolved by Plurality of Voices to declare the Duke of Hanover one of the Princes Electors of the Empire, notwithstanding the Opposition of the College of the Princes of Germany. The Emperor had invested him first with the Dignity for the great [Page 217]Service of the House of Lunenburgh, both to the Empire, and to the common Cause against the French.
18.	8. 1685	This Day pass'd the Great Seal the French King's Edict for annulling the famous Edict of Nantz, the Observation of which had been so solemnly sworn by the French King himself. This was the last Blow given to the French Protestant Churches, which a barbarous Persecution of 25 Years had not been able to overcome. All the remaining Churches were razed to the Ground, the Ministers banished upon pain of the Gallies, and the rest without any regard to Sex, Age, Quality or Services, were with an unparallel'd piece of Inhumanity delivered up to the Mercy of Priests and Souldiers, who burnt some alive, stuck others with Pins all over their Bodies, hang'd others in Smoak, and in short used such Barbarities, that Posterity will hardly believe so much Cruelty could ever have been harboured in the Hearts of Men. Many were forced to succumb by those violent Shocks, and [Page 218]turn Papists; and others fled away, and are now dispersed all over the Face of the Earth in a most lamentable Condition, worthy of the Commiseration of all Christian and Generous Souls. The French King found himself in a favourable Juncture to compass that barbarous Design: The late K. James, a Bigot to the Romish Church, was then upon the English Throne, and could not but be charmed with the Destruction of the Protestants. The Emperor, who perhaps would have espoused their Party by a Principle of Politicks, was imbroiled in a War with the Turks. The Lutheran Princes look'd upon that bloody Tragedy with Indifferency; and the States General, the Switzers, the Elector of Brandenburgh, and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, who alone durst express some publick Marks of their pitying the Misfortunes of their Brethren, were not able to cope alone with so powerful an Enemy as the French King; but they opened their Arms to receive those who fled away, whom they relieved with an extraordinary [Page 219]Charity. The Prince of Orange seemed more concerned than all the rest at the Ruine of those Churches, but being not able to prevent it, he desired the States to settle a Fund for the Ministers and Officers who should retire into their Country, which was accordingly done. He was no sooner come to the English Throne but he invited as many of that Nation as would come, and has been a constant Father to them, and recommended them very often to his Parliament. I must do also the Refugees Justice, and own that they have served him very faithfully. I must not forget neither to take notice of the Extraordinary Kindness the French Protestants received from the English, tho in a Popish Reign; and one may boldly say, that never so great a Sum of Money was raised upon account of Charity as was then. I had forgot almost to give an Instance of the French King's Sincerity in the Preamble of the Edict for annulling that of Nantz, wherein he tells us that his Grandfather Henry IV. had [Page 220]given only that Edict with a Design to reconcile the Protestants to the Romish Church, and that it had been his Design ever since his coming to the Throne; from whence it follows that when he swore the Observation of it, he made a false Oath, tho it would be very well for him if he had not used himself to it sit [...]e. 'Tis observable that the Papists could not find a Pretence to use the Protestants as they did, and gave no other Reason for it but their Zeal for their Religion. One thing I'll observe more, that tho above 500000 Witnesses attested the bloody Persecutions that had been committed in France, the Bishop of Meaux and some other brazen Faces have had the Impudence to deny it.
19.	9. 1677	His Highness the Prince of Orange, attended by 4 English and several Dutch Men of War, having sailed the Day before from Helvoetsluce, landed this Day at Harwich with a great Retinue, where he was received and complimented by the Duke of Albemarle, and Sir Charles Cotterel Master of the Ceremonies, from whence he went immediately [Page 221]to New-Market to meet the King and the Duke of York there, by whom he was received with extraordinary Marks of Respect and Kindness.
20.	10. 1695	His Majesty having settled the State of the War in Holland for the Year 1696. and conferred with the Elector of Brandenburgh, and some other Princes, landed this Day at Margate, being attended in his Passage by a Squadron of Men of War under the Command of Sir Cloudesly Shovel.
21.	11. 1692	His Majesty returned this Evening from Flanders to the Hague, where he was gone back upon Advice that the French were marching to Charleroy; but the Mareschal de Boufflers having notice thereof, did not think fit to sit down before that Place, and contented himself to throw some few Bombs into it, which did very little Damage.
dit.	1695	His Majesty arrived here this Evening from Holland, being received with the usual Acclamations of his People.
		The same Night a Council was called at Kensington, wherein he was pleased to order a Proclamation to be issued for [Page 222]dissolving the Parliament, and calling another, to be held at Westminster on Friday the 22d of November next.
		The same Day Sir George Rook, with a Squadron of Men of War, and a great Fleet of Merchant Ships, sailed from St. Helens for the Straits, to take upon him the Command of the Confederate Fleet, Admiral Russel having desired to be recalled.
22.	12. 1672	The Prince of Orange having several Days followed the Duke de Duras, made a Feint to besiege Tongeren, to draw him to a Battel, and accordingly sat down this Day before that Place.
23.	13. 1677	The Prince of Orange arrived here this Day from New-market with the King and the Duke of York, and was welcom'd with the loud Acclamations of the People.
24.	14. 1688	His Highness the Prince of Orange having Advice that upon the Noise of his Preparations King James had begun to retract some of his Arbitrary Proceedings, and made void some of his unjust Decrees by a due Sense of his own Guilt and Distrust [Page 223]of his own Forces; and that the Subverters of the Laws of England had given out that his Highness came to conquer and enslave the Nation; his Highness thought fit to put out an Additional Declaration to confute those Insinuations of his Enemies, and shew how little King James's Word was to be credited.
25.	15. 1688	The pretended Prince of Wales was baptized this Day in the Chappel of St. James's, and named James Francis Edward, the Nuncio standing his Godfather for the Pope, and the Queen Dowager his Godmother.
26.	16. 1674	The strong Town of Grave surrendred this Day to his Highness the Prince of Orange, in which were found 450 Pieces of Cannon, and an incredible Quantity of Ammunition. The Garison marched out the next Day to the [...]umber of 4000 Men, besides a great many wounded.
dit.	1688	King James having declared on the 12th Instant his Resolution to preserve the Church of England in all its Rights and Immunities, and signified his [Page 224]Pleasure to the Bishop of Winchester as Visitor of St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxford, to settle that Society regularly, his Lordship went down accordingly, and was received with great Joy by the University, and caused a Citation to be fixed on the College-Gates, recalling the former Fellows. But as this Affection of King James to the Church of England proceeded only from the Fears he had of the Prince of Orange, he countermanded the Bishop upon the false News that was spread in Town that the Fleet of the Prince had been so disabled in a Storm, that they would never be able to put to Sea till the next Spring.
27.	17. 1688	King James put out a Proclamation this Day for restoring Corporations to their antient Charters, Liberties, Rights and Franchises.
dit.	1690	The New Fort of Kingsale having capitulated the 15th, the Garison marched out this Day to the number of 1100 Men, and were conducted to Limerick. Thus in less than a Month's time we took two important Places, and which the [Page 225]Enemy had the greater Interest to defend, because of their 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 [Page 226]join the Brandenburghers and other Allies to secure Colog [...] 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 [...]t that very time they were [Page 227]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 B [...]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 [Page 228]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. 'Tis 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 [Page 229]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 [Page 230]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 Ja [...] 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. 'Tis 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, [Page 231]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 Prince was born, as they say, on Sunday [Page 232]the 10th of June, Old Stile, 1688.
2.	23. 1689	The Parliament after a short Prorogation met again this Day, and his Majesty was pleased to refer them to what he had said to both Houses the 19th Instant, in relation to the Affairs of Ireland.
		The same Day a great Number of Lords and Gentlemen of that Kingdom met at Bow-Church in Cheapside to render Thanks to Almighty God for the Deliverance of the bloody Massacre the Irish made of the Protestants in the Year 1641, which began upon this Day.
3.	24. 1673	This Day the Prince of Orange with his Army joined the Imperial Forces commanded by Count Montecuculi between A [...] dernacht and Bonn.
4.	25. 1684	The Chambre de Metz, so famous for their unjust Judgments, deprived his Highness the Prince of Orange of the Lands, Mannors and Lordships he had in the French King's Dominions.
5.	26. 1674	This Day there was a Rencounter between a Detachment of the Troops of the Duke of Lorain, and the French Arrierban [Page 233]or Nobility commanded by the Marquiss de Sable, consisting of 700 Gentlemen, in which [...]he latter were all killed or taken Prisoners except 17. The General himself was taken. The Lorains were but 700 commanded by Monsieur Dupuy.
dit.	1688	King James being acquainted that many made it their business by Writing, Printing or Speaking, to defame his [...] Government with false and seditious News and Reports to create in his Subjects and universal Jealousy and Discontent, and that in Coffee-Houses and other Places People took the Liberty to censure the Proceedings of State, by speaking evil of things they understood not, published this Day his Proclamation, forbidding the spreading of false News, and declaring that those who should hear seditious Reports and Reflections against him and his Ministers, and should not reveal it, should be likewise prosecuted with the [...]tmost Severity. This Proclamation rather increased the Aversion Men had then for the Government, and there were [Page 234]very few who did not presently reflect on Father Petre, then one of the Privy Council, as fitter to be hang'd than reverenced.
6.	27. 1688	The Earl of Sunderland, President of King James's Privy Council, and principal Secretary of State, was turned this Day out of all his Places, and the Lord Preston made Secretary in his room. The Change surprized all Men, and it was given out that his Lordship had lost out of his Scritore the Original League concluded between the French King and K. James, for the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion here, and the establishing Popery and Arbitrary Government, and that the same had been carried over to the Prince of Orange; but my Lord Sunderland in his Letter to a Friend in London that came out some time after, viz. March 23, 1689. says, that he never heard of such a League, but tells us the Jesuits exasperated King James against him, because he opposed the Prosecution of the seven Bishops who were put in June last into the Tower for refusing [Page 235]to read in their Churches the King's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience; because [...]e advised the King to restore [...]he Corporations, annul the Ecclesiastical Court, call a Free Parliament, and redress all other Grievances. He tells us also that he disswaded King James from calling a Parliament in Ireland, which was designed to alter the Acts of Settlement. I must not forget to mention two pieces of Service more to the Nation performed by his Lordship, which was the refusing of the French Succours that were offer'd to King James, which my Lord Sunderland opposed to Death, and his hindring the securing the Chief of the disaffected Nobility and Gentry, which was proposed to the Court as a certain way to break all the Prince's Measures.
7.	28. 1677	His Highness having joined the Imperial Army, held the 4th Instant a Council of War, wherein it was resolved to besiege Bon, and accordingly his Highness took his Quarters this Day before that Fortress, which was invested the Day before.
8.	29. 1689	This Day Sir Thomas Pilkington being continued Mayor of the City of London, was according to Custom sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster, whither he went by Water, accompanied by the Aldermen and the several Companies of the City in their respective Barges adorned with Flags and Streamers. Their Majesties and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, having been pleased to accept of an humble Invitation from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, to dine in the City this Day; their Majesties attended by his Royal Highness, all the great Officers of the Court, and a numerous Train of Nobility and Gentry in their Coaches, went to Guild-hall, the Militia of London and Westminster making a Lane for them, the Balconies all along their Passage being richly hung with Tapistry, and filled with Spectators, and the People in great Crouds expressing their Joy with loud and continued Acclamations [Page 237]The Royal City-Regiment of Volunteer Horse, richly accoutred, under the Command of the Earl of Monmouth, attended their Majesties from Whitehall to Guildhall, where they were entertained with the Grandeur and Magnificence sutable to so august and extraordinary a Presence. Christopher Lethieullier, John Houblon, Esq; Sheriffs, Edward Clark, and Francis Child, Aldermen, received the Honour of Knighthood on this occasion. Their Majesties returned in the Evening with the same Ceremonies amidst the Acclamation of their People, Bonsires, and Illuminations.
9.	30. 1688	King James having received Advice the Day before that the Damage the Fleet of the Prince of Orange had received in the Storm which forced him back to Helvoetsluce, had been magnified on purpose to delude him, and that the Prince would sail in few Days, sent fresh Orders to his Fleet to put to Sea; and suspecting that the Prince would land in the North, because of the great many disaffected Lords that were gone that way, [Page 238]he sent thither a greater Number of his Forces, which was looked upon as a new Instance of the Weakness of the Council of that Prince in sending his Forces to one of the Extremities of the Kingdom, before he knew that his Enemy should not land in the other.
10.	31. 1688	King James having read in the Prince's Declaration that his Highness was most earnestly invited hither by divers of the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal, and by many Gentlemen and others, his Majesty sent for some of the Bishops, and required of them a Paper under their Hands in abhorrence of the Prince of Orange's intended Invasion, which was designed to be tacked to a Proclamation which came out two Days after, forbidding the reading of his Highness's Declaration upon severe Penalties: but the Bishops of Canterbury, London, Peterborough and Rochester, who were only sent for, refused to do it, at which the Jesuited Party were so violently inraged, that if we may believe the Bishop of Rochester, King James was advised to imprison the said [Page 239]Bishops, and extort that Truth from them by Violence.
	November.
11.	1. 1677	This Day the States General met about the Letter sent them by his Highness to desire their Approbation for his Marriage with the Princess Mary, and came to this Resolution, that the Heer Stangerlant, who had brought the said Letter, should be immediately dispatch'd back with their Act of Approbation; that the Heer Van Odick, and the Heer Van Beuningen their Ambassadors in England, should congratulate their Highnesses in their Name, and present their Letters to the King, Duke of York, and Princesses; that their Plenipotentiaries at Nimeguen [...]hould forthwith acquaint the Congress with that Marriage; that the like should be done to the Foreign Ministers at the Hague; and that their Ambassadors should be ordered to notify the same in the Courts where they resided, with the Ceremonies sutable to that great Occasion; that a Present should be made to the Captain of the English Frigat who had brought over the Heer Stangerlant, [Page 240]and that all the Bells at the Hague should be immediately rung, to proclaim that important and acceptable News.
dit.	1688	The Prince having repaired the Damage his Fleet had sustained in the late Storm, resolved to improve the Opportunity of the Easterly Wind, and accordingly having dined with the English, Dutch, Scots and French Lords attending his Person, went this Day on board the Frigat called the Brille about 4 in the Afternoon, and immediately after, the Signal was given for the Ships to weigh their Anchors, so that the whole Fleet was under Sail before Night, divided into three Squadrons as before.
12.	2. 1673	This Day the City of Bonne surrendred to the Confederate Army commanded by the Prince of Orange and Count Montecuculi. As this Expedition was the Preservation of Holland, I think the Reader should not take it ill that I enlarge a little upon it. The Prince having taken Naerdlen, as we have mentioned before, in spite of all Resistance and Opposition from either the French or the [Page 241]Season, did however (wisely foreseeing that the recovering of all the Towns the States had lost, would take up too much time) resolve like another young Scipio to save his Country by abandoning it; and therefore having left part of his Forces to defend the chief Posts or Passages in Holland, marched with the rest into Germany, and having joined part of the Confederate Troops, besieged Bonne, which had been put into the Hands of France at the beginning of the War. The Boldness of this Action amazed all Men, but the Success extoll'd the Prudence as well as the Bravery of it. Bonne was forced to surrender this Day, and thereby his Highness opened a Passage for the German Forces over the Rhine, and so into Flanders. The French who did not expect such a thing, were so amazed that they thought it was high time for them to think of defending their own Country; and in order to it they abandoned all their Conquests in Holland, retaining only Grave and Mastricht, so that we may truly say, that [Page 242]in retaking Bonne the Prince retook also Woerden, Hardewick, the Fortress of Crevecoeur, Bommel, Ʋtrecht, Elburg, Campes, Hattem, Steenwick, and all other Places, on the Conquest whereof the French boasted so much; tho it may be said without any Partiality, that they quitted them faster than they had taken them. I must not forget to remark by the by, that the Cruelties and Barbarities the French committed at Bodengrave, Swamerdam, Tongr [...], and other Places, exceed all the Inhumanities of the old Goths and Normans.
dit.	1690	The Sieur de la Tour, Counsellor of State to his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy, and his Envoy Extraordinary to cheir Majesties, had this Day his publick Audience of the King and Queen to congratulate their Accession to the Throne, and made the following Speech to his Majesty, which I purposely insert here to shew the Generosity of the King towards him, and the Ingratitude of that Prince in forsaking afterwards the Party of his Deliverer.
		Sir, His Royal Highness my Master does by me congratulate your sacred Majesties glorious Accession to the Crown, which was due to your Birth, deserved by your Vertue, and is maintained by your Valour. Providence had designed it for your sacred Head for the Accomplishment of his eternal Decrees, which after a long Patience do always tend to raise up chosen Souls to repress Violence, and protect Justice. The wonderful Beginnings of your Reign are most certain Presages of the Blessings which Heaven prepares for the Uprightness of your Intentions, which have no other Aim than to restore this flourishing Kingdom to its primitive Grandeur, and break the Chains which Europe is near expiring under. This magnanimous Design, worthy of the Hero of our Age, silled his Royal Highness at first with inexpressible Joy, but he was constrained to conceal it in the Secret of his Heart; and if at last he has been free to own it, he is obliged to the [Page 244]very Name of your Majesty for it, since that alone has made him conceive some Hopes of Liberty after so many Years of Servitude.
		My Words, and the Treaty which I have signed at the Hague with your Majesties Ministers, do but weakly express the Passion which my Master has to unite himself by the most inviolable Ties to your Service. The Honour, Sir, which he has to be related to you, has formed the first Knots of this Union: the infinite Respect which he has for your sacred Person has knit them faster, and the generous Protection which you are pleased to grant him, will doubtless make them indissolvable. These are the sincere Sentiments of his Royal Highness, to which I dare not add any thing of my own; for how ardent soever my Zeal may be, and how profound the Veneration which I bear to your glorious Atchievements, I think I cannot better express either than by a Silence full of Admiration.
13.	3. 1688	This Evening an Express ar [...]ived from Dover with Advice that the Durch Fleet had been [...]iscovered that Morning between 10 and 11, about half [...]eas over, between Dover and Calais, steering a Channel Course to the Westward. A Fly [...]boat of that Fleet which had 4 Companies of Foot of Colonel Babington's Regiment, was taken by Captain A [...]lmer, Commander of the Swallow.
dit.	1688	Whilst the Bishops in England were so vigorously asserting the Protestant Religion, the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, the Bishops of Scotland were sacrificing both of them to the Arbitrary Power of King James, as one may see by the following Letter which they subscribed this Day at Edinburgh.
		May it please your most sacred M [...]jesty:
		WE prostrate our selves to pay our devote Thanks and Adoration to the Sovereign Majesty of Heaven and Earth, for preserving your sacred Life and Person, so often exposed to the [Page 246]greatest Hazards, and as often delivered, and you miraculously prosper'd with Glory and Victory in Defence of the Rights and Honour of your Majesty's August Brother, and of 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 [Page 248]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, Brech [...], Orkney, Murray, Ross, D [...] 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 [Page 249]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. 165 [...]	This Day was born his Illustrious Highness William Henry [...]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. 'Tis 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 [Page 251]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 [Page 252]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, 'tis 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 [...]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 relation to the Battel of Landen, and the Miscarriage of the Smyrna Fleet. He said that the first was occasion'd by the great Number of our Enemies; and as to the last his Majesty was pleased to say, that it had brought a great Disgrace upon the Nation, and that he had resented it extremely.
18.	8. 1688	The Prince of Orange, accompanied by Mareschal de Schomberg, Count Solmes, Count Nassau, Monsieur Benting, the Earls of Shrewsbery, Macclesfield, and Argyle, and the Lord Mordant, Wiltshire, Colonel Sidney, and other great Men, made this Day a very splendid Entry into Exeter with his Army, the People much rejoicing at it, looking upon him as their Deliverer from Popery and Slavery. The Bishop and the Dean, to the great Amazement of all Protestants, left the Town, and the Bishop came to London to receive King James's Command, [Page 254]who thereupon preferred him to the Archbishoprick of York.
dit.	1691	This Day Signior Haim Toledano, Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco, had his publick Audience of their Majesties.
19.	9. 1688	Dr. Burnet was sent to the Cathedral of Exeter to order the Priest and Vicars not to pray for the pretended Pr. of Wales; and the same Day his Highness went to the said Cathedral, and was present at the singing Te Deum, after which his Declaration was publickly read to the People; but I must observe that the Ministers rushed out of the Church by a very surprizing piece of Policy.
dit.	1689	The Duke of Schomberg decamped this Day from Dundalk, where he had remained for above two Months, incamped in sight of the Irish Army twice as numerous as his. Never a General found himself in harder Circumstances, for he had at once to fight against Men, Hunger, want of all Necessaries, Rain, and a raging Distemper, and yet King James never durst attack him. We lost a great many brave Officers [Page 255]by Mortality, and about 6000 Men either upon the spot, or after they were come to their Winter-quarters. This bad Success gave occasion to many Suspicions which I don't think fit to relate, tho they make part of the History of that Campagn.
20.	10. 1688	King James upon the first Advice that the Prince was landed in the West, and not in the North as he expected, sent immediately Orders to his Forces to march that way, and appointed their Rendezvouze at Salisbury; but because they committed great Insolencies in their March, an Order was published this Day, commanding the Forces to observe an exact Discipline.
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22.	12. 1688	This Day the Lord Lovelace was stopp'd at Cirencester by the Militia, as he was going to join the Prince of Orange with several Gentlemen. His Lordship made a very vigorous Resistance, in which several were killed.
dit.		The Lord Cornbury, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons, marched this Day with [Page 256]two other Regiments of Horse from Salisbury, and went over to the Prince with a great many Troopers and Officers. The London-Gazette gave a very different Account of this Business, and concluded that most of those Troopers and Officers were returned, which did sufficiently shew how firm they were in their Fidelity to the King: but a few Days after every body was convinced that it was a notorious Lie.
dit.	1694	The Parliament met this Day at Westminster, where his Majesty made a most gracious Speech to both Houses.
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25.	15. 1688	A great many Gentlemen came to join the Prince at Exeter, tho King James, to keep up his Party, ordered his Gazetteer to publish, that none of the Gentry, but only some of the Rabble listed themselves under him. Those Lords and Gentlemen who were with the Prince enter'd into an Association, whereby they ingaged to Almighty God, to his Highness, and to one another, to stand firm to the Cause they had [Page 257]espoused, and never to depart from it until our Religion, Laws and Liberties were so far secured in a Free Parliament, that we should be no more in danger of falling under Popery and Slavery.
26.	16. 1688	My Lord Delamere, the Earls of Devonshire, Stamford, and Danby, and the Lord Lumley, with several other associated Lords and Gentlemen having a fair Opportunity to declare themselves, the Troops of King James being marched to their Rendezvouze at Salisbury, the Lord Delamere came this Day to Manchester with about fifty Troopers, where he made the following Speech to the People.
		THE Occasion of this is to give you my Thoughts upon the present Conjuncture, which concerns not only you, but every Protestant and freeborn Man of England, I are confident, that wishes well to the Protestant Religion and his Country; and I am perswaded that every Man of you thinks both in danger, and now to lie at stake. I am also perswaded that every [Page 258]Man of you will rejoice to see Religion and Property settled; if so, then I am not mistaken in my Conjectures concerning you. Can you ever hope for a better Occasion to root out Popery and Slavery than by joining with the Prince of Orange, whose Proposals contain and speak the Desires of every Man that loves his Religion and Liberty? And in saying this I will invite you to nothing but what I will do my self, and I will not desire any of you to go any further than I will more my self; neither will I put you upon any Danger when I will not take share in it. I propose this to you, not as you are my Tenants, but as my Friends, and as you are English Men. No Man can love Fighting for its own sake, nor find any Pleasure in Danger; and you may imagine I would be very glad to spend the rest of my Days in Peace, having had so great a share in Troubles: But as I see all lies at stake, I am to chuse whether I will be a Slave and a Papist, or a [Page 259] Protestant and a Free Man; and therefore the Case being thus, I shall think my self false to my Country if I sit still at this time. I am of Opinion, that when the Nation is delivered, it must be by Force, or by Miracle: it would be too great a Presumption to expect the latter, and therefore our Deliverance must be by Force, and I hope this is the time for it. A Prize is now put into our Hands; and if it miscarry by want of Assistance, our Blood is upon our own Heads: For he that is passive at this time, may very well expect that God will mock when the Fear of Affliction comes upon him, which he thought to avoid by being indifferent.
		If the King prevails, farewel Liberty of Conscience, which has hitherto been allowed, not for the sake of Protestants, but in order to settle Popery. You may see what to expect if he gets the better; and he has lately given you of this Town a Taste of the Method whereby [Page 260]he will maintain his Army. And you may see of what so [...] of People he intends his Army to consist; and if you have not a mind to serve such Masters, then stand not by and see your Country-men perish when they are endeavouring to defend you.
		I promise this on my Word of Honour to every Tenant that goes along with me, that if he fall, I will make his Lease as good to his Family as it was when he went from home. The thing then which I desire, and your Country does expect from you, is this, that every Man that has a tolerable Horse, or can procure one, will meet me on Boden-Downs to Morrow, where I rendezvouze; but if any of you is rendred unable by reason of Age, or any other just Excuse, then that he would mount a fitter Person, and put five Pounds in his Pocket. Those that have not, nor cannot procure a Horse, let them stay at home and assist with their Purses, and send it to me with a Particular of every Man's Contribution. [Page 261]I impose on no Man, but let him lay his Hand on his Heart, and consider what he is willing to give to recover his Religion and Liberty; and to such I promise, and to all that go along with me, that if we prevail, I will be as industrious to have him recompensed for his Charge and Hazard, as I will be to seek it for my self. This Advice I give to all that stay behind, that when you hear the Papists have committed any Outrage, or any Rising, that you will get together; for it is better to meet the Danger than expect it. I have no more to say, but that I am willing to lose my Life in the Cause, if God see it good, for I never was unwilling to die for my Religion and Country.
		This excellent Speech I mention because of the Effect it had on the People, for a great Number of Men repaired the next Day to my Lord Delamere on Boden-Downs, and followed his Lordship.
27.	17. 1688	The Archbishop of Canterbury, with 12 Temporal, and [Page 262]6 other Spiritual Lords, waited this Day upon King James with an humble Petition, beseeching his Majesty to call a Free Parliament with all speed for redressing the Grievances of the Nation, and in the mean time to use all possible Means to prevent the Effusion of Christian Blood. The King answered them, that what they asked of him, he did most passionately desire, and promised them upon the Faith of a King, that he would call such a Parliament as soon as the Prince had quitted England, pretending that otherwise it was impossible that a Parliament should be free in all its Circumstances. This Answer was not satisfactory to the People, who discovered thereby an invincible Aversion in King James to a Free Parliament; and as to his Promise, he had broke his Word too often to be trusted, and therefore every one concluded that there was no other way left but to join with the Prince to obtain what Justice ought to have obliged King James to do.
dit.	1688	The same Day in the Afternoon the King left the City, and [Page 263]with his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went to Windsor, and the next day towards Salisbury, where his Army was arrived under the Command of the Earl of Feversham. He appointed the Privy Council to meet in his Absence for the Dispatch of all Affairs, as Occasion should require.
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29.	19. 1688	King James arrived at Salisbury, being met about a Mile from the Town by the Earl of Feversham General of his Forces, the Duke of Berwick, Sir John Fenwick, and other Officers.
30.	20. 1688	This Day happen'd a Rencounter at Wincannon between a Party of the Prince's Army, consisting of about 30 Men of Mackay's Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Cambell, and a Party of 50 Dragoons and Granadeers, and 70 Horse of King James's, commanded by Colonel Sarsfield; where notwithstanding the Inequality of the Numbers the former fought with that desperate Bravery that it struck a Terror into the Minds of King James's Army. Sarsfield retired in great Precipitation, hearing from a Miller's [Page 264]Man that the Dutch were near him. I would not have mentioned this trifling thing were it not the first Action between the two Armies.
December.
1.	21. 1688	The English Fleet commanded by the Lord Dartmouth, which was sailed to the Westward to observe the Dutch Fleet, was this Day forced back to Spithead by very tempestuous Weather.
2.	22. 1688	This Day King James put out a Proclamation of Pardon for such of his Subjects who had taken up Arms against him, and joined with the Prince of Orange in a most unnatural Invasion; but this Pardon was regarded by no body, and slighted by such whom he had a mind to recal. The Reader may observe here that unnatural Invasion was the constant Expression they made use of to signify his Highness's Design.
dit.		The same Day the Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty of the Northern Counties of England being assembled in Arms at Nottingham, made a Declaration to inform their Protestant Fellow. Subjects of the Grounds of their [Page 265]Undertaking, wherein they declare that the very Fundamentals of our Religion, Liberties and Properties, are about to be routed by the King's Jesuitical Privy Council: as was too apparent, 1. By the King's dispensing with all the established Laws at his Pleasure. 2. By displacing all Officers out of all Offices of Trust and Advantage, and placing others in their room that are known Papists, deservedly made incapable by the established Laws of the Land. 3. By destroying the Charters of most Corporations. 4. By discouraging all Persons that are not Papists, and preferring such as turn to Popery. 5. By displacing all honest and conscientious Judges, unless they would, contrary to their Conscience, declare that to be Law which was merely Arbitrary. 6. By branding all Men with the Name of Rebels that offered but to justify the Laws in a legal Course against the Arbitrary Proceedings of the King, or any of his corrupt Ministers. 7. By burdening the Nation with an Army to maintain the Violation of the [Page 266]Rights of the Subjects, and by discountenancing the established Religion. 8. By forbidding the Subjects the Benefit of petitioning, and construing them Libellers, so rendring the Laws a Nose of Wax, to serve their Arbitrary Ends. They conclude afterwards, that not being willing to deliver their Posterity over to such a Condition of Popery and Slavery, as the aforesaid Oppressions do inevitably threaten, they will to the utmost of their Power oppose the same by joining with the Prince of Orange, whom God Almighty had sent to rescue the Nation from the aforesaid Oppressions. And to prevent their being branded with the Name of Rebels, they declare they own it Rebellion to resist a King that governs by Law, but that he was always accounted a Tyrant that made his Will the Law; and to resist such an one they justly esteem no Rebellion, but a necessary Defence.
dit.	1688	The Prince of Orange having sufficiently refreshed his Army at Exeter, decamped this Day, and marched towards Salisbury, where K. James lay with all his Forces.
dit.	1688	This Day was published at Paris the Declaration of War of the French King against the Dutch, wherein the French King alledges no other Reason but that the Dutch opposed Cardinal Furstemberg's Election to the Archbishoprick of Cologn, whom he was resolved to maintain.
dit.	1694	This Day died at his Palace at Lambeth the most Reverend Father in God Dr. John Tillotson Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, in the 65th Year of his Age: He was promoted to that Metropolitan See in May, 1691. and as his Learning, Piety, and other eminent Qualities gained him a general Esteem, so they made his Death very much and justly lamented.
3.	23. 1695	The Parliament having met the Day before, according to his Majesty's Writs of Summons, and his Majesty being come to the House of Peers with the usual Ceremonies, and the Commons being sent for up, the Lord Keeper signified to them his Majesty's Pleasure, that they should forthwith proceed to the Choice of a Speaker; after which the Commons being [Page 268]returned to their House, they made choice of Paul Foley Esq; (Speaker in the last Parliament) whom they presented this Day to his Majesty in the House of Lords. He made a short Speech to the King, and told his Majesty that the Commons had made choice of him, tho there were many Persons amongst them fitter for that important Place: and then my Lord Keeper told him by the King's Command, that the repeated Choice of the Commons was a sufficient Argument of his Ability, Capacity and Fidelity, and that therefore his Majesty approved their Choice. After which his Majesty made a gracious Speech to both Houses, wherein he took a particular notice of the Affection of his People, by their Behaviour during his Absence, and at his Return; commended the Zeal and Affection of the last Parliament, the Bravery of the English Troops at Namur; and recommended to them to provide a Supply for carrying on the War, for supplying the Deficiencies of Parliamentary Funds, for the Civil List, and [Page 269]to relieve the French Protestants who suffer for their Religion; concluding by recommending unto them to remedy the ill State of the [...], and to form some good [...] for the Incouragement and Increase of Sea-men.
4.	24. 1688	This Day his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went away from Salisbury to join the Prince of Orange. He left a Letter behind him, containing the Reasons of his going away, but that chiefly insisted upon was the Danger the Protestant Religion was exposed to. The Lord Churchill went also with the Prince, which surprized all the World, for every body thought that noble Lord intirely devoted to King James's Interest: he left also a Letter behind him, which deserveth to be carefully considered, and especially these Lines. [Heaven knows with what Partiality my dutiful Opinion of your Majesty has hitherto represented those unhappy Designs, which inconsiderate and self-interested Men have framed against your Majesty's true Interest and the Protestant Religion; [Page 270]but as I can no longer join with such, to give a Pretence by Conquest to bring them to effect, so I will always with the Hazard of my Life preserve your Person.] I could wish for the sake of the Reader I was able to explain that Expression which doubtless contains a Mystery known to very few, except to such who were deeply ingaged in the Cabal of those times.
		The Dukes of Graston and Ormond went also to the Prince much about the same time, but they thought the Case was so plain, that there was no need of leaving any Papers behind them to justify their Conduct.
5.	25. 1688	The going off of the Prince of Denmark having struck King James with Terror and Affliction, and his Army being in great Disorder, he became so full of Fear and Suspicion, that upon a false Alarm being made by Design or Accident of the Approach of the Prince of Orange, his Majesty and the whole Army left Salisbury this Day, the Army retiring towards Reading, and the King [...]aking his way towards London. [Page 271]The King came to the Marketplace at Salisbury, and the Mayor and Citizens being sent for, he told them that he would spend his Blood for his Subjects, and was resolved to maintain the Protestant Religion; but he had no sooner ended his Speech but he fell to bleeding at his Nostrils, and so violently, that his Blood could not be stopp'd any manner of way. This Accident, tho natural enough, especially in the Juncture that Prince found himself at that time, was look'd upon as a bad Omen, and improved to his Disadvantage.
dit.		The News of Prince George's having left the King being come to Whitehall, caused a great Consternation there, and the Princess being suspected to have the same Design, some Yeomen of the Guards were set in her Apartments; but her Highness deceived their Vigilancy, and that Night made her Escape in Disguise with the Ladies Churchill and Berkley, being attended by the Bishop of London and the Earl of Dorset. Her Highness went into the North, where the associated Lords had [Page 272]made a considerable Progress. The Absence of the Princess caused a great Complaint, and they were forced to print the Letter she had left for the Queen, containing the Reason of her retiring, for fear of being cut to pieces by the King's own Guards, upon a Surmise that the Papists had made away that beloved Princess.
dit.	1691	His Majesty was pleased to nominate this Day Dr. Thomas Tenison to the Bishoprick of Lincoln.
6.	26. 1688	King James returned this Evening to Whitehall from Salisbury.
7.	27. 1 [...]8 [...]	Sir Edward Hales, whom King James had appointed Lieutenant of the Tower, having during the King's Absence planted several Mertar-pieces on the Walls towards the City, to keep the Citizens in awe, they were so inraged against him, that the King did not think himself safe at Whitehall as long as Sir Edward Hales had the Command of the Tower, and therefore to appease the City he turned out Sir Edward, and put in his room Colonel Bevil Skelton a Protestant.
8.	28. 1675	The Prince having brought back his Army from the Country of Cologn, after the taking of Bo [...]n, and possessed himself [...]n his way of several strong Castles and little Towns, left his Army on the Meuse, and returned this Day to the Hague, where he was received with all possible Marks of Respect and Demonstrations of Joy. The States complimented his Highness on his successful Expedition, whereby their Country was delivered from the French, who had been forced to abandon in less than a Month's time all their Conquests in the United Provinces, except Grave and Mastricht. Several Medals were then coined to perpetuate the Memory of that great and glorious Expedition.
dit.	1688	King James seeing the general Defection of his Subjects, and that the associated Lords had taken York, Plymouth, and a great many other considerable Towns, and that the Nation as well as the Prince declared every where for a Free Parliament, which he could not now refuse, because of his [Page 274]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 Honsl [...]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 [Page 275]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, [Page 277]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.
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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:
		Ʋxori & Batavis vivat Nassovius Hector, Auriaco & Patriae vivat Britannica Princeps.
		Before the Town-house there was a Triumphal Arch with this Inscription:
		‘ A ƲrIaCi 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 Gowra [...], 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, S [...]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 [Page 281]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 away their Arms. King James himself was startled at it, and 'tis believed that this hastened his Resolution to leave the Kingdom.
18.	8. 1688	This Day King James's Army retired in great haste from Reading upon a false Alarm that the Dutch were near that Place: but as they endeavoured to regain that Post the next Day, a Party of the Prince attacked them, and slew about 50 Dragoons, tho they were more numerous than the Dutch.
dit.		King James seeing that all the Nation declared for a Free Parliament, and that the Prince and his Party were already Masters of the most important Places, was prevailed upon to try the last Remedy, and to send Commissioners to treat with the Prince of Orange. He made choice of the Marquiss of Hallifax, the Earl of Nottingham, and the Lord Godolphin, [Page 282]whom he thought the fittest Men to manage the Treaty, who having obtained leave of the Prince to come to him at Hungerford, presented this Day the following Proposals to his Highness.
		Sir;
		THE King commanded us to acquaint you, that He observes all the Differences and Causes of Complaint alledged by your Highness seem to be referred to a Free Parliament. His Majesty, as he has already declared, was resolved before this to call one, but thought that in the present State of Affairs it was adviseable to defer it till things were more composed; yet seeing that his People still continue to desire it, he has put forth his Proclamation in order to it, and has issued forth his Writs for the calling of it. And to prevent any Cause of Interruption in it, he will consent to every thing that can be reasonably required for the Security of all those that come to it. His Majesty has [Page 283]therefore sent us to attend your Highness, for the adjusting of all Matters that shall be agreed to be necessary to the Freedom of Elections, and the Security of Sitting, and is ready to enter immediately into a Treaty in order to it.
		His Majesty proposeth that in the mean time the respective Armies may be retained within such Limits, and at such Distance from London, as may prevent the Apprehensions that the Parliament may be in any kind disturbed, being desirous that the Meeting may be no longer delayed than it must be by the usual and necessary Forms. Signed Hallifax, Nottingham, Godolphin. Hungerford, the 8th of December, 1688.
dit.	1688	The pretended Prince of Wales was brought back this Evening from Portsmouth, where he had been sent to be carried into France, under Convoy of some Men of War; but the Lord Dartmouth positively refused to obey the King's Command in that point. This sheweth how little Sincerity there was in King James's Offers, [Page 284]for at the same time his Commissioners were negotiating a Treaty with the Prince, he was meditating his Retreat into France.
dit.	1694	His Majesty was pleased to nominate the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Thomas Tenison, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to be Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
19.	9. 1688	His Highness having examined King James's Proposals, returned this Day the following Answer.
		WHereas on the 8th of December 1688. at Hungerford, a Paper signed by the Marquiss of Hallifax, the Earl of Nottingham, and the Lord Godolphin, Commissioners sent unto us from his Majesty, was delivered to us, We with the Advice of the Lords and Gentlemen assembled with us, have in answer made this following Proposal:
		1. That all Papists and such Persons as are not qualified by Law, be disarmed, disbanded, and removed from all Imployments Civil and Military.
		2. That all Proclamations that reflect upon us, or any that have come to us, or declared for us, be recalled; and that if any Persons for having assisted us have been committed, that they be forthwith set at liberty.
		3. That for the Security and Safety of the City of London, the Custody and Government of the Tower be immediately put into the Hands of the said City.
		4. That if his Majesty should think fit to be in London during the sitting of the Parliament, that We may be there also with an equal number of our Guards; and if his Majesty shall be pleased to be in any Place from London, whatever Distance he thinks fit, that We may be at the same Distance; and that the respective Armies do remove from London forty Miles, and that no more foreign Forces be brought into the Kingdom.
		5. That for the Security of the City of London, and their Trade, Tilbury-Fort be put into the Hands of the City.
		6. That a sufficient part of the Publick Revenue be assigned us for the Support and Maintenance of our Troops until the sitting of a Free Parliament.
		7. That to prevent the Landing of the French or other foreign Troops, Portsmouth may be put into such Hands as by his Majesty and Us shall be agreed on. Given at Littlecot, December 9, 1688.
		If the Jesuit who has written the History of the Revolution of England had transcribed this Answer, he would not have imposed on his Readers, that the Proposals of the Prince were so hard as not to be accepted, and that his Highness deferr'd several Days to return an Answer to the King's Commissioners, since this was delivered to them the next Day. King James expressed himself thus on this Occasion, That the Proposals of the Prince were fairer than he could or did expect.
20.	10. 1672	This Day the strong Fortress of Coeverden was, retaken by a Stratagem of General Rabenhaut with the Loss of about 50 Men. The Garison consisted [Page 287]of near 800 Men, provided with all Necessaries, and yet they were forced in less than 2 Hours time to surrender Prisoners. This Place had been taken from the Dutch by the Bishop of Munster, who had made therein a prodigious Magazine for the Invasion of Groninguen and Frizeland, and he thought it impregnable, because it had formerly maintained a Siege of 31 Weeks.
dit.	1688	This Morning between three and four of the Clock the Queen, the pretended Prince of Wales, with Count Lauzun, and several other Persons, crossed the Water at Lambeth in three Coaches, each of six Horses, and with a strong Guard went to Greenwich, where her Majesty imbarked for France, having ingaged the King by Oath to follow her, and not to trust himself in the Hands of his Parliament. She carried away the Great Seal of England with her, but as she crossed the Thames it fell into the Water, and was since found out by a Fisherman. The Romantick Account the Author of the Revolutions of England gives of [Page 288]the Queen's Evasion, is, I think, a very good Remedy for such as are troubled with the Spleen.
		The same Day in the Evening King James ordered all those Writs for the sitting of the Parliament that were not sent out, to be burnt, and a Caveat to be entred against the making use of those that were sent down; and at the same time sent Orders to the Earl of Feversham to disband his Army.
		The same Evening he sent for the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of London to White-hall, where he acquainted them that he had thought fit to send the Queen and his Son away; but that he was resolved to stay with them, laying a strict Charge upon them to take care of the City, and to keep it in Peace. The King went afterwards to the Council, where there was a very long Debate, who were to meet again the next Morning: but King James had resolved before-hand to follow the Queen; and all that he had done this Day was only to conceal his Design, for he went away that Night.
21.	11. 1688	This Morning about three a Clock King James left Whitehall, and went down the River to go over to France. The same Day the Earl of Feversham received the following Letter from King James.
		Things being come to that Extremity, that I have been forced to send away the Queen and my Son the Prince of Wales, that they might not fall into the Enemies Hands, which they must have done if they had stayed, I am obliged to do the same thing, in hopes it will please God out of his infinite Mercy to this unhappy Nation, to touch their Hearts with true Loyalty and Honour. If I could have relied on all my Troops, I might not have been put to the Extremity I am now in, and would at least have had one Blow for it. But tho I know there are many brave Men amongst you, both Officers and Souldiers, yet you know that both you and several of the General Officers and Souldiers, and Men of the Army, told me it was no ways adviseable [Page 290]for me to venture my self at their Head, or to think to fight the Prince of Orange with them. And now there remains only for me to thank you and all those, both Officers and Souldiers, who have stuck to me, and been truly Loyal. I hope you will still retain the same Fidelity to me; and tho I do not expect you should expose your selves by resisting a Foreign Army, and a poisoned Nation, yet I hope your former Principles are so inrooted in you, that you will keep your selves free from Associations, and such pernicious things. Time presses, so I can add no more. James Rex.
		Those who had seen the Proposals the Prince of Orange had made, were very much surprized at the Expressions of this Letter, and concluded that King James did never design to give any Satisfaction to his People; for if he had, he would certainly have staid here, since he was in no danger of his Person. Many who were still for him left his Party, because of an unlucky Expression of his [Page 291]Letter, which implied, by a very natural Innuendo, that it being not adviseable for him to fight the Prince of Orange with the English Army, he was going to France to bring over some Troops, at the Head of whom he might venture his Person.
		The Earl of Feversham having received this Letter, disbanded the Army under his Command, and immediately sent a Letter to the Prince of Orange to acquaint him therewith.
dit.		The News of the King being gone, was very surprizing, tho many were of Opinion that he would not stay very long after the Queen and his Beloved Father Peters, who was reported to be gone also with the Pretended Prince of Wales: and thereupon the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, met at Guild-hall, where they sent for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and made the following Declaration.
		We doubt not but the World believes that in this [Page 292]great and dangerous Conjuncture We are heartily and zealously concerned for the Protestant Religion, the Laws of the Land, and the Liberties and Properties of the Subject. And we did reasonably hope that the King having issued his Proclamation and Writs for a Free Parliament, we might have rested secure under the Expectation of that Meeting: but his Majesty having withdrawn himself, and as we apprehend in order to his Departure out of this Kingdom, by the pernicious Counsels of Persons ill affected to our Nation and Religion, we cannot without being wanting in our Duty be silent under those Calamities wherein the Popish Counsels, which so long prevailed, have miserably involved these Realms. We do therefore unanimously resolve to apply our selves to his Highness the Prince of Orange, who with so great Kindness to these Kingdoms, so vast Expence, and so much Hazard to his own Person, has undertaken, by endeavouring to procure a [Page 293]Free Parliament, to rescue us, with as little Effusion as possible of Christian Blood, from the imminent Dangers of Popery and Slavery.
		And we do hereby declare that we will with our utmost Endeavours assist his Highness in the obtaining such a Parliament with all speed, wherein our Laws, our Liberties and Properties may be secured, the Church of England in particular, with a due Liberty to Protestant Dissenters, and in general the Protestant Religion and Interest over the whole World may be supported and incouraged, to the Glory of God, the Happiness of the established Government in these Kingdoms, and the Advantage of all Princes and States in Christendom, that may be herein concerned.
		In the mean time we will endeavour to preserve as much as in us lies the Peace and Security of these great and populous Cities of London and Westminster, and the Parts adjacent, by taking care to disarm all Papists, and [Page 294]secure all Jesuits and Romish Priests who are in or about the same.
		And if there be any thing more to be performed by Us for promoting his Highness's generous Intentions for the publick Good, we shall be ready to do it as occasion shall require. Signed W. Cant. Tho. Ebor. Pembrook, Dorset, Mulgrave, Thanet, Carlisle, Craven, Ailesbury, Burlington, Sussex, Berkley, Rochester, Newport, Weymouth, P. Winchester, W. Asaph, Frantis Ely, Tho. Rossen. Tho. Petriburg, P. Wharton, North and Gray, Chandos, Montague, Th. Jermyn, Vaughan, Carbery, Culpeper, Crew, Osulston.
		Then the Governour of the Tower was summoned, who delivered the Keys, but the Lord Mayor had not Courage enough to take them, as it was his Duty, and therefore the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury took them, and put them into the Hands of the Lord Lucas, who was thereupon constituted Governour of the Tower. Their Lordships desired the Earl of Pembrook, the Lord Viscount [Page 295] Weymouth, the Bishop of Ely, and the Lord Culpeper, forthwith to attend the Prince of Orange with the said Declaration, and acquaint his Highness with what they had farther done at that Meeting.
dit.		The Lieutenancy of the City of London met the same Day, and agreed upon an Address to be presented to the Prince of Orange, to thank his Highness for his generous Expedition, and desire him to repair to the City with all convenient speed. They sent immediately Sir 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 [Page 296]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. 'Tis true they gave him some ill Language, and called him Priest, Jesuit, Father Peters, and the like; but they were not so much mistaken [Page 297]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 [Page 298]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 Caill [...]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 [Page 299]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 Trainbands were assembled, and there was nothing but Shooting and beating of Drums all the Night long. Part of the Trainbands 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, [Page 300]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 'tis 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 R [...]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 Guildhall 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 [Page 302]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 that the Peers had desired him to return to Whitehall. The Lords and Gentlemen with his Highness, were called to give their Advice in this nice Juncture. Some, and especially a certain Nobleman, (now a great Friend and Promoter of the late King's Interest) advised the Prince to secure King James, and put him into the Tower: but his Highness rejected that Proposal, for which, says the Author of the Revolutions of England, (tho a Jesuit) History will do him Justice, and commend his Generosity. It was at last resolved that the Prince should immediately dispatch Monsieur Zulestein [Page 303]to the King, to desire him for the great Quiet and Tranquillity of the City to continue at Rochester.
26.	16. 1688	Monsieur Zulestein having missed King James upon the Road, his late Majesty returned about 5 in the Eyening to Whitehall, attended by his Guards. A Set of Boys and Irish followed him through the City, making some Huzza's, while the rest of the People silently looked on. The King sent immediately the Earl of Feversham to the Prince to invite him to St. James's with what number of Forces he should think fit. Monsieur Zulestein arrived a few Hours after, and delivered the Prince's Letter to the King.
		The Privy Council met the same Day, where the King was pleased to direct the Lord Lieutenants, Justices of Peace, and other Magistrates, to prevent the Continuation of the Outrages that had been lately committed by pulling down and defacing Houses, &c. Popish Chappels were not mentioned in express Terms in this Order, but as no other Houses had been [Page 304]pulled down, People could not forbear to take notice of the great Zeal King James had for the Popish Party, since the first Act of Sovereignty he did after his Return was in their Favour, as if he had a mind to convince the World that he was come back only to serve them.
		The same Day the Earl of Feversham arrived at Windsor with King James's Letter to the Prince, and was committed by his Highness, with the Advice of the Peers, for having, says the French Author of the Revolution, disbanded the Army without disarming the Irish or other Souldiers, and whereby the Nation was exposed to a great Danger. Others say, that it was for having enter'd the Prince's Quarters without leave; but whatever it be, King James seemed very much concerned at it. The Earl was a few Days after set at liberty at the Request of the Queen Dowager.
27.	17. 1688	The Presence of the Prince being necessary in London, and it being not safe neither for the Prince nor King James to be at the same time in the Town, the Peers advised his Highness not [Page 305]to accept the King's Invitation to St. James's, but to let the King know, that it was convenient he should remove to Ham near Richmond, where he should be attended by his own Guards; and the Marquiss of Hallifax, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Lord Delamere were charged with the Message. In the mean time Count Solmes was sent with the Foot Guards to take Possession of the Posts about Whitehall; but the Ways being very bad, it was ten at Night before they could come up; and the English Guards then on Duty being unwilling to dislodge, it was 12 at Night before the said Lords could deliver their Message. At last the Guards being order'd to submit, the Earl of Middleton Secretary of State was desired to acquaint the King, that they had a Message to be delivered to his Majesty, which was of so great Importance, that they desired to be immediately introduced to the King, which being done, they made an Apology for coming at so unseasonable a time, (for he was in bed) and delivered their Order in Writing; and the King [Page 306]having read it, said he would comply with it. The Lords thereupon desired that he would remove so early as to be at Ham by Noon, to prevent meeting the Prince in his way to London, where he was to come the same Day. The King complied with that also, and ask'd whether he might not appoint his own Servants: whereupon the Lords told him that the Prince left it entirely to him to give order in that as he pleased, and took their leave of him; but they were hardly gone as far as the Privy Chamber when the King sent for them again, and told them he had forgot to acquaint them with his Resolution before the Message came, to send the Lord Godolphin the next Morning to the Prince, to propose to him his going back to Rochester, and that he would rather return to that Place than go to any other. The Lords told him they would acquaint the Prince with it, and doubted not but his Answer would be to his Satisfaction, and so parted.
28.	18. 1688	The Prince who was advanced to Sion-house, having Advice [Page 307]of King James's Demand of going to Rochester, agreed to it; whereupon the King left Whitehall this Morning, and went to Gravesend in his own Barge, attended by the Earl of Arran, and some few others.
dit.		The same Day about three in the Afternoon his Highness the Prince of Orange, attended by the Mareschal de Schomberg, and a great number of Nobility and Gentry, came to St. James's Palace. It is not possible to express the Demonstrations of Joy in the People, who notwithstanding the great Dirt and Rain crowded the Road from St. James's to Hammersmith in such a manner that the Prince's Coach had much ado to pass. All Men, Women and Children wore Orange-colour Ribbons, and Oranges on the top of their Swords and Sticks. The Evening was concluded with Bonfires, Illuminations, ringing of Bells, &c. And as this was the happiest Day that ever shone for England, never so universal Rejoicings were seen at London.
dit.	1692	Count Guiscard who had besieged Huy was forced to retire this Day with Precipitation, [Page 308]upon the Approach of the Confederate Troops, tho the Marquiss de Boufflers was advanced to cover the Siege of that Place.
29.	19. 1688	Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Denmark returned to Town.
		The same Day the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and the Common-Council of the City, resolved upon an Address to congratulate the Prince of Orange's happy Arrival.
30.	20. 1688	The Prince of Orange having appointed this Day to receive the Address of the City, they were introduced, and Sir George Treby their Recorder made the following Speech.
		May it please your Highness;
		THE Lord Mayor being disabled by Sickness, your Highness is attended by the Aldermen and Commons of the Capital City of this Kingdom, deputed to congratulate your Highness upon this great and glorious Occasion; in which labouring for Words, we cannot but come short in Expression. Reviewing our late Danger, we remember our Church and [Page 309]State over-run 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 worse, the very Constitution of the Legislature; so that there was no Remedy left but the last. The only Person, under Heaven, that could apply this Remedy, was your Highness. You are of a Nation, whose Alliance in all times has been agreeable and prosperous to us. You are of a Family most illustrious, Benefactors to Mankind. To have the Title of Sovereign Prince, Stadtholder, and to have worn the Imperial Crown, are among their lesser Dignities. They have long enjoyed a Dignity singular and transcendent, viz. to be Champions of Almighty God, sent forth in several Ages to vindicate his Cause against the greatest Oppressions. To this Divine Commission our Nobles, our Gentry, and among them our brave English Souldiers, rendred [Page 310]themselves and their Arms upon your appearing.
		Great Sir;
		When we look back to the last Month, and contemplate the Swiftness and Fulness of our present Deliverance, astonish'd, we think it miraculous. Your Highness, led by the Hand of Heaven, and called by the Voice of the People, has preserved our dearest Interests. The Protestant Religion, which is Primitive Christianity, restored. Our Laws, which are our antient 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 Highness has a lasting Monument in the Hearts, in the Prayers, in the Praises of all good Men amongst us: and late Posterity will celebrate your ever-glorious Name, till Time shall be no more.
31.	21. 1688	The Prince of Orange put out this Day his Order, requiring [Page 311]all Persons to re-deliver to the Souldiers, or bring to the Officers of the Ordinance the Arms that had been embezled upon the late irregular disbanding of the Forces.
		The same Day Quarters were assigned to the English, Scots and Irish Forces, to which they were commanded to repair with all speed.
January.
1.	22. 1692	The French Army commanded by Count de Tallard set down before Rhinseldt the 6th Instant O. S. which Place they attacked with a great Fury; but the Besieged made so brave a Defence, that the Landgrave of Hesse Cassell had a sufficient time to assemble an Army. He marched in order to fight them, but the French having been beaten from an advantageous Post the Day before, raised the Siege this Day, and retired with Shame, and the Loss of near 4000 Men.
2.	23. 1688	This Morning about one or two of the Clock King James privately withdrew himself from Rochester, and went over into France. His Majesty left behind him a Paper writ with [Page 312]his own Hand, containing his Reasons for withdrawing himself, which by his Order was published, and is as follows.
		The World cannot wonder at my withdrawing my sell now this second time. I might have expected somewhat better Usage after what I writ to the Prince of Orange by my Lord Feversh [...], and the Instructions I gave him; but instead of an Answer, such as I might have hoped for, what was I to expect after the Usage I received by the making the said Earl a Prisoner, against the Practice and Laws of Nations; the sending his own Guards at eleven at Night to take Possession of the Posts at Whitehall, without advertising me in the least manner of it; the sending to me at one of the Clock at Midnight, when I was in Bed, a kind of Order by three Lords, to be gone out of my Palace before twelve that same Morning? After all this, how could I hope to be safe, so long as I was in the Power of [Page 313]one who had not only done this to me, and invaded my Kingdoms, without any just Occasion given him for it, but that did by his first Declaration lay the greatest Aspersion on me that Malice could invent, in that Clause of it which concerns my Son. I appeal to all that know me, nay even to himself, that in their Consciences, neither he nor they can believe me in the least capable of so unnatural a Villany, nor of so little common Sense to be imposed on in a thing of such a nature as that. What had I then to expect from one, who by all Arts has taken such Pains to make me appear as black as Hell to my own People, as well as to all the World besides? What Effect that has had at home all Mankind has seen, by so general a Defection in my Army, as well as in the Nation among all sorts of People. I was born free, and desire to continue so; and tho I have ventured my Life very frankly on several Occasions for the Good and Honour of my [Page 314]Country, and am as free to do it again, (and which I hope [...] shall yet do, as old as I am, to redeem it from the Slavery it is like to fall under) yet I think it not convenient to expose my self to be secured, as not to be at liberty to effect it; and so for that Reason to withdraw, but so as to be within Call whensoever the Nation's Eyes shall be opened, so as to see how they have been imposed upon by the specious Pretences of Religion and Property. I hope it will please God to touch their Hearts, ont of his infinite Mercy, and to make them sensible of the ill Condition they are in, and bring them to such a Temper that a legal Parliament may be called; and that amongst other things which may be necessary to be done, they will agree to Liberty of Conscience for all Protestant Dissenters, and that those of my own Perswasion may be so far considered, and have such share of it as they may live peaceably and quietly, as English Men and Christians [Page 315]ought to do, and not to be obliged to transplant themselves, which would be very grievous, especially to such as love their Country. And I appeal to all who are considering Men, and have had Experience, whether any thing can make this Nation so great and flourishing as Liberty of Conscience. Some of our Neighbours dread it. I could add much more to confirm what I have faid, but now is not the proper time. Rochester, December 22. 1688.
		Thus did James the Second voluntarily abdicate the Imperial Crown of Great Britain, and left the People in a full Right to fill the vacant Throne as they pleased: A Prince who might have reigned with as much Glory as any of his Ancestors, and only unfortunate in this, that he was not sensible of his own Felicity. He was proclaimed King of England February the 6th, 1684/5. and came to the Crown with the Reputation of a Prince who kept his Word and Promises, [...]ut he soon after forfeited that [Page 316]good Reputation by his many Violations of the most sacred Laws, the Observation of which he so solemnly swore at his Coronation. The blind Zeal he had for propagating his Religion led him into those fatal Mistakes, which at last tumbled him down from his Throne, and alienated from him the Hearts of his Subjects, in such a manner that he did not think safe to venture himself at the Head of 15 Regiments of Horse, 5 of Dragoons, and 4 Troops of Life-Guards, and 27 Regiments of Foot, of the finest Troops that ever were seen, against 14000 Men, which was all the Prince brought over with him. He was blamed for having withdrawn himself, and not agreeing with the Prince's Proposals, to refer all things to the Determination of a Free Parliament; but Providence, who had resolved to place a better Prince on the English Throne, struck King James with a Pannick Fear, so that he abandon'd his Crown without striking a Blow in the Defence of it. This Revolution will be one of the most surprising Events [Page 317]that History will record to our Posterity, who are like to suspect the Sincerity of the Historians, when they'll read that this great Work was compassed in less than 50 Days.
		Having thus brought this Account of the Revolution to King James 's withdrawing himself into France, I refer the rest of the Transactions of this Month to the first Pages of this Book, as in a more proper Place, because of the Difference of our Stile.
dit.	1696	Sir John Fenwick, concerned in the intended Invasion of the French in April last, and taken as he was going to imbark for France, was some time ago arraigned at the Old Baily for High Treason, and was accordingly to be tried, but he found Means to have his Trial put off upon account of a great Discovery he pretended to make, and in order thereto gave Informations against several Noble Persons as Betrayers of the King's Counsels. His Majesty being then in Flanders, the Papers were sent to him, and in the mean time Sir John Fenwick's [Page 318]Friends corrupted one Cardell Goodman, who was one of the two Evidences against him, and sent him over to France. His Majesty being returned, and being sensible that Sir John Fenwick had given those Informations with no other Design than to get time to take away the Evidence, sent those Papers to the Commons, who having examined Sir John Fenwick thereupon, and found that he had not been sincere with his Majesty, voted his Information false, malicious, scandalous and groundless, and tending to create Jealousies between the King and his Subjects, and ordered that a Bill to attaint him of High Treason should be brought in, which was done accordingly, and passed few Days after, and se [...]t to the Lords, who after a long Debate on this Subject, passed the same this Day.
		Note, His Majesty gave the Royal Assent to that Act on Monday, January 11, 1696/7.
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4.	25. 1694	The Mareschal Duke of Luxemburgh died this Morning at Paris in the 68th Year of his Age.
5.	26.	This Day his Majesty was pleased to constitute the Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Sidney, one of his principal Secretaries of State, who accordingly took the usual Oath at the Council-Board.
6.	27.
7.	28. 1694	This Morning about one of the Clock died at Kensington our late most Gracious Soveraign Lady Queen Mary, after seven Days Sickness, of the Small Pox, leaving his Majesty under an inexpressible Grief and Affliction, the whole Kingdom, and Europe in general, under the deepest and most sensible Sorrow for the Loss of a Princess of so much Piety, Clemency, Goodness and other great and exemplary Vertues. It were too great a Presumption in me to attempt the Character of that Incomparable Princess, it is a Subject above my reach; I shall therefore content my self to say, that her Majesty was endowed with all the Vertues of her Sex, without the least Mixture of their Imperfections. She was born on the 30th of May, 1662.
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10.	31. 1693	This Evening his Highness Prince Lewis of Baden arrived at Gravesend, being sent by the Emperor to confer with his Majesty about the Preparations for the next Campagn. The next Morning Sir Charles Cotterel, Master of the Ceremonies, went thither by his Majesty's Command to compliment his Highness, and to conduct him to Town. In the Afternoon he came up the River in the King's Barge, being saluted by the Great Guns from the Tower, and from the Ships, as he passed by, and was conducted to the Apartment prepared for him at Whitehall, and in the Evening wa [...]ted upon his Majesty at Kensington. He was entertained all the while he continued in England at the King's Charge, and received all the Respect due to his Birth and great Merit.
dit.	1694	The House of Lords went this Day in a Body to Kensington, and presented to the King the following Address.
		WE your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Lords [Page 321]Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, do with inexpressible Grief humbly assure your Majesty of the deep Sense we have of the Loss your Majesty and the whole Kingdom doth sustain by the Death of that excellent Princess our Sovereign Lady the Queen, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that you would not indulge your Grief upon this sad Occasion, to the Prejudice of the Health of your Royal Person, in whose Preservation not only the Welfare of your own Subjects, but of all Christendom is so nearly concerned. We further beg leave upon this sad Occasion humbly to renew to your Majesty the hearty and sincere Assurances of our utmost Assistance against all your Enemies both at home and abroad, and of all other Demonstrations of the greatest Duty and Affection that can possibly be paid by the most faithful Subjects.
		The King returned them this Answer.
		I Heartily thank you for your Kindness to me, but much more for the Sense you shew of our great Loss, which is above what I can express.
		The House of Commons went likewise in a Body to Kensington, and presented to his Majesty the Address which follows.
		Most gracious and dread Soveraign;
		WE your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Commons in Parliament assembled, being deeply sensible of the great Misfortune which has befallen your Majesty and this Kingdom, by the Death of our most gracious Queen, do with unspeakable Grief of Heart humbly beg leave to condole the irreparable Loss of that most excellent Princess, the best of Women, to enumerate whose Vertues were to aggravate our Sorrow.
		We cannot at the same time but bless God for the Preservation of your Majesty to us, on whose Life the Welfare and Happiness of this Kingdom, and the Liberties of Europe, do in so great a measure depend; hereby beseeching your Majesty so to moderate your Grief under this Affliction, as not to prejudice or indanger your Health; and that your Majesty would please to take such further Care of your Royal Person, that we may all enjoy the Blessing of your Majesty's long Life and happy Reign. We do also look upon it as a Duty we owe to your Majesty, to our selves, and to those we represent, to take this Occasion of assuring your Majesty, that we your faithful Commons will always, to the utmost of our Power, stand by, support and defend your Majesty, and your Government, against all your Enemies both at home and abroad.
		His Majesty was pleased [...] make this gracious Answer.
		Gentlemen;
		I Take very kindly your Care of Me and the Publick, especially at this time, when I am able to think of nothing but our great Loss.

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