Chap. XII. 7he HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs. 789 town, for advice what was necelfary to be done to make the church eafy. King The bilhops moved him to annul the ecc!rjia)lical commijji'on, and the df/ Jan~~s8 If. penjing power ; to recal all licmjes andfaculties.for papijls to keep fchools; to ~ prohibit the four pretended vicars apoj!olical invqding the ecclefiqfticaljurzf diClion; to ji/1 the vacant bijhoprics; to njlore tbe cbqrters; and to call afree and regular pariiammt, by 'Which the cburch of England might tbe flcured according to the the aCl qf uniformity, and provijion made for a due' liberty qf confcience. Purfuar.t to this advice, the king and court began to tread Gazette, backward, concluding, that if they could fatisfy the bilhops, and recover No 2388, the aB'eCl:ion of the church, ali would do well. The bijhop of London's 2 391. Ji#o:Jion was taken off, the ecclefiaflical commijjion dilfolved, the city char– ter, and the fellows of Magda/en College were reil:ored, and other illegal praCtices renounced; but upon news of the prince of Orange's fleet being difperfed by a florm, and that they would hardly be able to put to fea again till next fpring, his majeily withdrew hishand from any further red refs of grievances. Bllt the prince having repaired the damages of the florm, f.ailed a fecond Pri 11 ce of time, Nov. 1, and after a remarkable paffilge, in which the wind chopt Oran.ge's ex– about almoil miraculoul1y in his favour, landed at 'Torbay, f\lov. 5, with ~edttzon ~nd about fourteen thoufand men, without meeting the king's fleet, which "' 01'atzm, was at fea, in order to intercept ihem. The prince brought over with him a declaration, dated OClober IO, divided into twenty-fix articles, but reducible to three princrpal heads, r. An enumeration of the public grievances, with regard to religion and civil government. 2. The fi·uitlefs attempts which had been made to redrefs thofe grievances; under which men tion is made of the fufpicious birth of the pretended prince of Wales. 3· A proteflation that the prefent expedition was intended for no other purpofe, than to procure a free and lawflll parliament ; to which the prince would refer the redrefs of all the grievances complained of; and for the obtain ing fuch a parliament, his highnefs declares, he had been moll: earneflly folicited by a great many lords both .JPiritua! and temporal, and by many gentlemen, and other fubjeCl:s of all ranks, to come over to England; and to encourage the protejlant d(/Jenters, his higbnefs adds, that he would recommend to the parliament the making fuch new laws as might eilabli!h a good agreement, between the church of England and all proteflant non-conformill:s, and in the mean time would fufr"er fllch as would live peaceably, to enjoy all due freedom in their confciences. . . , The king's The kmg, who had relied too much on the clergy s profeilions of zm-Preparatio~zs limited obedience, being furprized at the expreilion in the prince's declara- ~ rejijt hl1n, tion, that he ,had been invited by the lords}piritual, fent for the bi!hops 78~:let, p•. then
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