'Tis time for us now to Observe, That altho' King JAMES, had in his public Declaration, presumptuously promised himself, That nothing remained now to Interrupt his peaceable Government for the future, his Mis-Government quickly brought such an Astonishing Storm upon him, that this unhappy Son of her, who says, I shall see no Sorrow, did, as it were in one Day, find all come to a Dissolution. The Parliament, on, Feb. 12. 1688. (on which Day, the Princess Arrived from Holland, to Whitehall, with all the Demonstrations of Joy that could be given throughout the Nation,) made this Declaration, That James II. having Endeavoured to Subvert and Extirpate the Protestant Religion, Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, and Abdicated the Government, the Throne was thereby become Vacant; and they thereupon made Offer of the Crown unto Their Highnesses, William and Mary, Prince and Princess Orange. Accordingly, on Feb. 13. They were Proclaimed; and on April 11. 1689. Crowned, with the Acclamations of a Joyful Nation; and on May 11. Ensuing, they Received, in like manner, the Crown of Scotland, from the Estates thereof, by the Hands of their Commissioners. Indeed, the First Essay of this matter, put the sole and full Exercise of the Regal Power into the Hands of the Prince; but by a following Act ⟨p. 35⟩of Parliament, the Execution thereof was put into the Hands of the Queen, as often as that Heroic Undertaking of Rescuing all Europe out of its Chains, required the Presence of His Britannic Majesty abroad, as Generalissimo of the Confederate Armies. Thus was this Renowned Lady, with the High and Mighty WILLIAM, advanced, by wonderful Turns of Providence, into the Imperial Throne of Great Britain; but with what a Disposition towards the Abdicated Relation, she did accept the Sceptre, was continually manifested by the Filial Tears, wherewith She would Lament that Unhappiness of His, which made the Deliverance of whole Nations from the Destruction of their Liberty, Property, and Religion, impossible to be obtained by any other mean, but Her Accepting it. It could not perhaps be more Livelily described, than in those passages of the famous Epigram upon her Death.
'Tis time for us now to Observe, That altho' King JAMES, had in his publick Declaration, presumptuously promised himself, That nothing remained now to Interrupt his peaceable Government for the future, his Mis-Government quickly brought such an Astonishing Storm upon him, that this unhappy Son of her, who says, I shall see no Sorrow, did, as it were in one Day, find all come to a Dissolution. The Parliament, on, Feb. 12. 1688. (on which Day, the Princess Arrived from Holland, to Whitehal, with all the Demonstrations of Joy that could be given throughout the Nation,) made this Declaration, That James II. having Endeavoured to Subvert and Extirpate the Protestant Religion, Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, and Abdicated the Government, the Throne was thereby become Vacant; and they thereupon made Offer of the Crown unto Their Highnesses, William and Mary, Prince and Princess Orange. Accordingly, on Feb. 13. They were Proclaimed; and on April 11. 1689. Crowned, with the Acclamations of a Joyful Nation; and on May 11. Ensuing, they Received, in like manner, the Crown of Scotland, from the Estates thereof, by the Hands of their Commissioners. Indeed, the First Essay of this matter, put the sole and full Exercise of the Regal Power into the Hands of the Prince; but by a following Act ⟨p. 35⟩of Parliament, the Execution thereof was put into the Hands of the Queen, as often as that Heroic Undertaking of Rescuing all Europe out of its Chains, required the Presence of His Britannick Majesty abroad, as Generalissimo of the Confederate Armies. Thus was this Renowned Lady, with the High and Mighty WILLIAM, advanced, by wonderful Turns of Providence, into the Imperial Throne of Great Britain; but with what a Disposition towards the Abdicated Relation, she did accept the Scepter, was continually manifested by the Filial Tears, wherewith She would Lament that Unhappiness of His, which made the Deliverance of whole Nations from the Destruction of their Liberty, Property, and Religion, impossible to be obtained by any other mean, but Her Accepting it. It could not perhaps be more Livelily described, than in those passages of the famous Epigram upon her Death.
