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Loyalty of the Common Soldiers contrasted with the defection of their Officers

The King assigns their respective quarters to his Troops, and arrives in London Nov. 26, where he finds that his Daughter the Princess ANNE of Denmark had also abandoned her Father

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Colly Cibber in his Apology, (3d Ed. 1750. p. 57.) as referred to in a Note at page 227, says, "That the Princess ANNE, fearing the King her Father's resentment might fall upon her, for her Consort's Revolt, had withdrawn herself in the night from London, and was then within half a day's journey of Nottingham; on which very morning we were suddenly alarmed with the news, that two thousand of the King's dragoons were in close pursuit to bring her back prisoner to London. But this Alarm it seems was all stratagem, and was but a part of that general Terror which was thrown into many other places about the Kingdom, at the same time, with design to animate and unite the People in their common defence; it being then given out, that the Irish were every where at our heels, to cut off all the Protestants within the reach of their fury."

Lord Churchill leaves a letter to the King," protesting that his desertion from his Majesty proceeded from no other reason, than the inviolable dutys of Conscience, and a high and necessary concern for his Religion"

The King overcome with grief at the conduct of his Children, and "being delivered over to all the contradictions that malice or ingratitude could throw in his way," turns his whole attention to the safety of the Queen and the Prince his Son

Captain George Churchill, and the Earl of Bath, governor of Plymouth, declare themselves partizans of the Prince of Orange

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The King receives an account that the Risings and Defection have become general

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Hull is again lost to the Stuart Cause, by the defection of
Copley, the Lieut. Governor

ib.

Remarks on the rising of Lord Danby in the North, which had given the greatest shock to the King's authority there

Defection of the Earl of Devonshire in Nottinghamshire,
who“ had conceived a particular disgust, on account of
a quarrell with one Coll. Culpeper, whom he had struck
in the King's appartement"

The Duke of Newcastle refuses to join with the Duke of
Devonshire

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ib.

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Lord Delamere places himself at the head of the disaffected in Cheshire and Lancashire

ib.

The King hears of nothing but Insurrections, Desertions, and Treasons

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Lord Dartmouth objects to the King's order of conveying the PRINCE OF WALES out of the Kingdom as being contrary to Law

ib.

The King much hurt at the defection of his Seamen, with
whom he had so often shared" in the hardships and
dangers of defending the Dominion of the Seas"
The King sends for the Prince of Wales back, though
dangerous and unsafe The Earl of Salisbury and
Mr. Holman are ordered by His Majesty to conduct
H.R. H. to London

The Prince of Wales narrowly escapes being taken
Review of the proceedings of the King on his return from
Salisbury-The Bishop of Exeter, who had refused to
receive the Prince of Orange, is made Archbishop of
York

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ib. 236

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Yet afterwards deserts the King

The King issues Writs for the meeting of Parliament,
Jan. 15, and also a Proclamation endeavouring to recal
the Allegiance of his Subjects

A great Council is called at Whitehall, consisting of nine
Spiritual and thirty or forty Temporal Lords - The
King's Address to them; extracted from the ninth
volume of his Private Memoirs
Lord Clarendon, after exaggerating before the Council
the fears and jealousies that prevailed, goes to meet the
Prince of Orange at Salisbury

It being the general opinion of the said Council, that the
King should send to the Prince of Orange to treat with
him, his Majesty agrees to that measure, and the Lords
Halifax, Notingham, and Godolphin are named for that

service

The Seven Proposals which the Prince of Orange returned from Hungerford

The King, alarmed at the extent of the ambitious views of
the Prince of Orange and the general defection that
prevailed, considers himself and Family in danger; he
therefore determines to send the Queen and Prince of
Wales for safety into France, and to follow them himself
in twenty-four hours
The Care with which the King endeavours to save his
Private Papers and the Memoirs of his Life," whence
all that is materiall in this Account or Relation of it, is
in a manner taken; being the uncontestable Memoirs of
the most Heroical, the most opressed, and most Christian
Prince, the world has seen for many ages.... amounting
to Nine Tomes writ in his own hand, and which by a
writeing under his Privy Seal he apointed to be lodged
in the Scotch Colledg at Paris"

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Reluctancy of the Queen to leave the King in the midst of his Enemies

The dangers and hardships to which her Majesty was exposed, in effecting her escape across the Thames to Lambeth, during the severe night of Dec. 9

The Queen on her arrival at Boulogne, hearing that the King had been seized by the rabble and treated with great rudeness and barbarity, immediately resolves to return to England

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LOUIS XIV. pays every attention and respect to the Queen on her arrival in France

JAMES THE SECOND seeing no security where he was, and remembering the Sufferings and Death of his Father, prepares to follow the Queen

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Yet being anxious to save the lives of his Subjects, the King
writes to Lord Feversham to make no opposition
I could have relyd upon all my Troops, I might not have
been put to this extremity I am in, and would at least
have had one blow for it"

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Many of the Soldiers attached to the King disperse and return home

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The King recals the Writs for assembling the Parliament, and burns them, and orders the Chancellor to bring him the Great Seal

ib.

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ib.

Leaves Whitehall on Monday night, Dec. 10, and arrives
at Emley Ferry, near Feversham, the next day
The King is seized and detained at Feversham, where he
was not generally known

His Letter on that occasion to the Earl of Winchelsea,

APPENDIX, No. VI. 679

The confusion and disorder which prevailed in London after the King's withdrawing himself

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Rumour of the Irish Insurrection

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The Lord Chancellor Jeffreys is seized and committed to the

Tower, where he died

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The Lords who were in and near London meet at Guildhall and consult what was proper to be done

The Earl of Middleton, one of the Secretaries of State, goes down to the King at Feversham

A Declaration is drawn up by the Assembled Lords, expres-
sive of their gratitude to the Prince of Orange, and is
sent to him by the Lords Pembroke, Weymouth, by Col.
Culpeper, and the Bishop of Ely

On hearing the King had not left the Country and was at
Feversham, the same Lords request his Majesty to

return

ib.

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ib.

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And the Lord Feversham is directed by those Assembled
Lords, to go down to Feversham and attend upon the
King with the Guards
Account, from the King's Private Memoirs, of his return
towards London, and what passed afterwards
Message conveyed by Lord Feversham from the King to the
Prince of Orange, desiring to see him in London, in
order to endeavour, by a personal conference, to settle
the distracted Nation

ib.

ib.

General testimonies of the People's regard for JAMES THE
SECOND on his arrival in London

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Lord Feversham, having delivered the King's Letter, is detained a Prisoner at Windsor by the Prince of Orange - 263 Remonstrance of the King, it being contrary to the Law of Nations to detain a Publick Minister

The Prince of Orange pays no attention to the King's remonstrance, and leaves Lord Feversham a prisoner at Windsor

ib.

ib.