8go The HISTORY of the PuRITANs. VoL. II. J King I then in town, and infifl:ed not only upon their difowning the faCt but ames I . I · r: • . • I688. ~1pon t 1e1r 11gnmg a paper, expreiling their abhorrence of the intended ~ mv~lion; _but they excufed themfelves, only with a general profeffion of ·the~r allegiance and duty. The church party (fc.ys Burnet), new jhewed therr ~pprobat:"on of the prince's expedition in foch terms, that many were Jurpnze~at et, both then, andjince_ that time; they fpoke openly in fa– vour of 1t; they exprelfed thw gnef to fee the wind fo crofs, and wifh– ed for a proteflant wind that might bring the prince over. His majefl:y therefore finding himfelf deceived in the church party, and that he had no ~the_r relian~e but his army, ufed a1l imaginable diligence to firengthen Jt; 111 obedience to the orders already given, two thoufand five hundred men, chiefly papifl:s, were landed at Chelter from Ireland. Commiflions were given out for raifing ten new regiments of horfe and foot. Three thoufand ftots were ordered from that country. All the militia were com– manded to be in rcadinefs to march on the firfl: fummons; and a procla– mation was iuued, requiring all horfes and cattel to be removed twenty miles from thofe parts of the fea coafl:, where it was apprehended the prince would land; but fo great was the people's difaffeetion, that they paid little regard to his majefl:y's orders. Cmifujion a~ Soon after his highnejs's landing, the body of the nation difcovered their court _and zn inclinations fo evidently, that the king lofl: both head and heart at once. the " 1 Y· The city of London was in confufion ; reports were fpread that the irijh would cut the throats of the protefl:ants throughout the nation, in one and the fame night, which awakened the people's fears, and kept them all night on their guard. When this fright was allayed, the mob rofe and polled down the ma:fs houfts, and burnt the materials in the fl:reets; father Petre, with the (warms of priefls and jefuits who had flocked about the court, difappeared,. and retired into foreign parts; and feveral of the king's arbitrary minifl:ers, who had brought him under thefe difficulties, forfook him and abfconded, Jejj"eries was taken in Wapping in ajailor's ha~ bit, and would have been torn in pieces by the mob, if he had not been con– duCted by a fl:rong guard to the 'Tower, where he died before he came to his trial. The unhappy king being left in a manner alone, retired with a fmall retinue to his army at Salijbury. Progr~fs of The prince of Orange havi_ng refrcfhed his forces, mar~h.ed.from 'I?r– theprmce of hay to Exeter, where the nob1lity and gentry figned an a.fJoczatiOn, to Jup– Or.ange. port and 4ftjl his highnifs in p~rjuing tke ends qf his declaration, and that if any attempt was made on hzs per{on, tt jbou!d be revenged on all, by whom orfrom whom itjhould be made. Great numbers of common people came into the prince at Exeter; and as foon as he marched towards London, prince George of Denmark, the dukes of Ormond, Grajton, lord Wharton,
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