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things, (saith my author) manifest a ce- 
lestial blindness and madness, even to 
the loss of his three kingdoms, maugre 
all his lives and fortune men. The 
which agrees well ‘with that observation 
of the Heathens, quem perdere oult Ju- 
piter, prits dementat, whom God in- 
tends to destroy, he first infatuates. 
Thus was the church and state overrun 
by popery and arbitrary power, and 
brought to the very point of destruction ; 
the sacred fences of our laws, the very 
constitution of our legislature, were quite 
~ Broken through; the which considered, 
every true Protestant must say, that he 
did evil in the sight of the Lord. 
And now comes in the brave king 
William, a prince of blessed memory 
indeed, who began his reign in the year 
1688, who delivered us from popery, 
French slavery, and arbitrary govern- 
ment. Our rights and liberties were by 
him declared and vindicated; our par- 
liaments were free, and he ruled according 
to the laws and constitution of the king- 
dom. He was hearty in his wars against 
France and Spain, though betrayed in 
most of his measures; he was faithful in 
the observation of that sacred league 
and covenant between him and his ally. 
And the Toleration Act he inviolably 
‘maintained, according to his royal pro- 
mise. He was acommon father to all 
his people, without making distinction, 
parties, or schismatics of any, and all 
were equally alike protected under his 
royal wing, by which he maintained the 
love of his subjects. He was religious, 
without being superstitious; his life was 
abstemious, dding that which was right 
in the sight of the Lord; reformation of 
manners prospered well in his days, 
‘though the Lord knows since, we are 
overrun with a flood of immorality and 
impiety; places, civil, military, and ec- 
elesiastical, were then supplied with men 
of sober lives; but now, how is the gold 
become dim; how is the most fine gold 
‘changed? He was a good soldier, and 
fought our battles; he was. politician, 
and the wisest of all that had sat upon 
the British throne; he was a Christian, 
and a true Protestant, but the crown and 
glory of all his actions was, that he set- 
led the succession of his crown in the 
illustrious house of Ilanoyer, (the in- 
estimable blessing which we now enjoy) 
for which, generations to come shall call 
‘him blessed, and his memory will be so 
to the end of time. 
“ But Ahab did evil in the sight of the 
Lord. And now perhaps some may won- 
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der that I take no notice of queen 
Mary and queen Anne. 
«Thus much I shall say, ifit may please 
you, that queen Mary was a good woman, 
a good wife, a good queen, wears an im- 
mortal crown, and is really uf blessed 
memory. But as for queen Anne, FE 
only say, that she died the 1st of Au- 
gust, that very day that the Schism bill 
took place; end was buried on that day, 
commonly called, Black Bartholomew ; 
the very day on which her uncle turned 
two thousand godly ministers out of their 
livings. And there is an end of the race 
of the Stuarts, 1 say an end of the 
Stuarts. 
* And now, though we have lieard of 
the end of this family, yet perhaps many 
of us are strangers to the beginning 
thereof, of which, therefore, for your in* 
formation, take this short’ account ous 
of history, the which isas followeth ¢ 
«* Banchos, a nobleman of Scotland, had 
a fair lady to his daughter, whom Mack- 
beth, the king, desires to have the use 
of: Banchos refuses, and Mackbeth mur= 
ders him, and takes the lady by force; 
Fleance, the son of Banchos, feariny the 
tyrant’s cruelty, flies into Wales, to 
Grifin ap Lhewellin, the Prince of 
Wales; Lhewellin entertains him with 
all hospitable civility: Fleance, to re- 
quite his courtesy, gets Lhewellin’s 
daughter with child: Lhewellin murder§ 
Fleance, and Lhewelliu’s daughter is 
delivered of a son, named Walter; this 
son proves a gallant man, and falling out 
with a noble person in Wales, that called 
him bastard, Walter slew him, ‘and for 
his safecuard fled into Scotland, where, 
in continuation of timé, he gained soe 
much reputation and favour, that he be- 
came steward of the whole revenue of . 
that kingdom, of which office, he and his 
posterity retained the sirname; and from 
thence all the kings and nobles in that 
nation, of that name, had their original. 
“OF this family, both the Scotch and 
English Histories give us a very for- 
midable account, that most of the last of 
this name and family of the Stewarts 
came to their ends by violent death: 
King James I. for his tyranny, was cut 
off by the nobility: the second was slain 
at Roxborough, the third at Bonoxborn, 
the fourth at Flouden-field, the next 
three in needless quarrels with theit 
subjects; only James V. had the yood 
hap to die of a natural death; but as to 
his only daughter, Queen Mary, mother 
to King James VI.'of Scotland, and First 
of England, it is manifestly known, that 
2Y she 
