WHEREAS the mutual obligations which lye upon Vs and Our people are indissolvable by any act either of Vs can commit, and that therefore how undutifully or unjustly soever Our people may have behaved themselves towards Vs, in­stigated thereto by the false and calumnious sug­gestions of Ambitious, Irreligious and Profli­gate Men; yet We are resolved indispensibly to pursue the obligations of Our side, and to watch all opportunities of relieving Our people from the Tyranny and Oppressions they lye under; of which, with grief, We see daily new instances in Our Kingdoms of England and Scotland, committed by the Prince of O­range and his Adherents, Vsurpers of Our Royal Right, upon the Persons and Estates of Our Subjects against the known Laws, Customs and Con­stitutions of these Our Kingdoms. For remedy whereof, We do hereby de­clare, that as We will protect all such as shall continue firm in their Obedi­ence to Vs, so We are resolved on the other part to punish with the utmost se­verity all such as shall be aiding or assisting to the said Vsurpers any man­ner of way, especially by oppressing Our People: And forasmuch as many of Our good Subjects are by the Vsurped Authority of the P. of Orange and his Associates, put in Goals and Prisons, and there detained contrary to Law, pretending dispensation from an unlawful Assembly of rebellious men, impowering themselves to be a Parliament by the Authority of a Head every way as unlawful as the Body. We do therefore declare, that whosoever shall be so detained in Prison by the Authority aforesaid, or any authority flowing from the said Vsurper of his adherents, shall have just suit for dama­ges, &c. against all such persons who shall give order or warrant for seizing, apprehending, Imprisoning or Detaining; and likewise all who shall Seize, Apprehend, Imprison or Detain any of Our good Subjects by the Autho­rity [Page] [Page] aforesaid in any way or manner for any cause whatsoever, and if any shall be prosecuted for any pretended crimes or any sentence of death given a­gainst any person whatsoever, the Relations of such person so Condemned and Executed shall have just cause to prosecute all such Iudges, Iurors, Clerks, Councellors, Sheriffs or others who shall any manner of way be Concerned in the Tryal, Condemnation, or Execution of any person so Tryed, Con­demned or Executed, and We do further declare all Sentences, Iudgments, Decrees or Decisions given by vertue of the same Authority to be Null and Void.

And Whereas the said Vsurper and his pretended Parliament do take up­on them contrary to all Law, to impose heavy Land Taxes, Sesses, Ex­cises and other grievous payments upon Our Subjects, and that at a time when they are Excluded from all Trade and Commerce with any Forreign Nation, instead of the Trade of the whole Vniverse, which they might now have enjoyed Vndisturbed, by the want whereof they must be in a short time reduced to poverty and misery, whilst they see their Rivals in Trade, the Hollanders enjoy the fruits of their Labours and bravade in their Ports con­trary to the Act of Navigation as well as the true interest of the Nation; We do therefore think fit to discharge Our Subjects from the payment of a­ny such Tax, Subsidie, Sess, Excise, or any other imposition whatsoever Imposed, Collected or required by the aforesaid Vsurped Authority, and We do Prohibit any of Our Subjects from Collecting Our Revenue, or any Branch thereof, or any other Tax, Subsidie, Sess, Excise or any other Im­position, imposed by the Vsurped Authority aforesaid, Declaring hereby, that all such as shall impose, Collect or bring in any part of the same, that they and their Heirs shall be liable to repay it unto Vs, notwithstanding a­ny Act of Indemnity given or to be given, from which this is always excep­ted, as likewise We do discharge all such Monies so brought in from be­ing againe issued out upon any pretence whatsoever without Our special Authority, assuring all such as shall issue out Warrants or Orders to that effect, that they shall be Liable to Vs, for such Summs as shall be contain­ed in such Orders or Warrants, from which repayment to Vs, no discharge whatsoever shall relieve them except from Vs alone.

Given at Our Court at Dublin Castle the 28th day of June, 1689. And in the fifth year of Our Reign.

God Save the King.