Chap. XII. ne HISTORy of the PuRTTANS. 8gr ton, Churchil, and others of the firll: difiincl:ion, deferred the army at King 1 _ Salijbtay, and joined the prince, with a great many protell:ant officers and J~~SS 1" foldiers; fo that his majefiy perceived, even the army, which was his~. !aft refu ge, was not to be relied upon; and to compleat his unhappinefs, princefs ANN E, his younge!' daughter, withdrew privately fi·om court with the biawp of London, who put on his buff court and fword, and commanded a little army for her highnefs's defence. Dr. Finc·h (on to the earl of Winchel(ea, and warden of All Souls Col- Heads of /eoe in Ox 1 ord, was fent to the prince from fame of the he1ds of colleges, to Gf'o/d/. j ntOx- " 1 ' , . or ; en to invite him to Oxford, and to affure h1m they were ready to declare for the prince him, 2nd that their plate ihould be at his fer vice. The prince intended andJign th, to have accepted their invitation, b11t all things being in a ferment at Lon- j{flcwtzon. don, he was advifed to make all the hafie thither that he could. So he fent 7;~:,c;9{ to O.iford to excufe his vifit, and to offer them the ASSOCIATION, which wasj igned by almojl all tbe heads, and the cbief men qf the univerjity ; even by thoje who being difappointed in the pr~ferment s the)' a{pired to, become a/- tcr~c,ards his mojt implacable enei11ies. Archbiiliop Sancroft alfo fent his Eachard, P ' compliments to the prince, and with feven or eight other biiliops, figned 11 3 8 · the ajfociation, rr<~ving changed the word revenge into that of punijhment. This was a fudden turn (fays the biiliop), from thofe principles they had carried fo high a few years before. The diflentcn went chearfully into all the prince's meafures, and were ready to fign the aJJociation: There were few or no jacobitcs or non jurors among them; and throughout the whole courfe of king Wi/liam's reign, they were among his mofiloyal and zea• Ious fubjeCl:s. ln this critical junCl:ure, the queen and the young prince of Wales were King leaves fent to France, Decemb<r 9, the king bimfelf following the latter end of the A·ingdom. the momh, having fitfl: caufed the writs for calling a new parliament to Bu;ne~'o!: be burnt, and the great Jeal to be thrown into the Thames. After his 79 ' majefiy's firit attempt to leave the kingdom, be was feized at Feverfoam, and prevailed with to return to Lo11don; but when the prince refolved to come to Whitehall, and fent his majeil:y a meifage, that he thought it not confifient with the peace of the city and of the ki9gdom, for both of them to be there together ; his majefiy retired a fecond time. to Rochejler, with the prince's confent, and after a week's il:ay in that place, went away privately in a ve!fel to Frmzce, leaving a paper behind him, in which he · declared, that though be was going to feek for foreign ailifiance, he wou~d not make ufe of it, to overthrow the ell:abli!hed religion or the laws of IllS. cou~try.- Thus ended the lhort and unhappy reign of James II. Endof_ thi . and WJth htm the male /me of the royal houfe of Stuarts, a race of prin- male /me of ces, raifed up by providence, to be the fcourge of thefe nations; for they the Stuarts. · were all chargeable with trranny and oppreilion, favoureq ~f popery;. and,
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