o4 
Dioren, by which I find youwerethen to go 
tothe Hague, being fent for by the Prince. I 
fuppofe it is to intorm you of his defign of 
coming toEngland, which he has been fo 
long contriving.—I hope it will have been 
as great a furprize to you as it was to me, 
when I firft.heard it, being fure it is not 
in your nature to approve of fo unjuft an 
undertaking. I have been all this day 
fo bufy, to endeavour to be in fome con- 
dition to. defend myfelf from fo unjuft and 
unexpected an attempt, that I am almoft 
tired, and fo fhall fay no more, but that I 
fhall always have as much kindnefs for 
you, as you will give me leave to have. 
Whitehall, O&ober 9th, 1688. 
Thad no letter from you by the laft poft, 
which you fee does not hinder me from 
writing to you, not knowing certainly 
what may have hindered. you from doing 
it. LTeafily believe you may be embarraff- 
ed how to write to me, now that the un- 
juft defen of the Prince of Orange’s in- 
vading me; is made public. And though 
T know you are a good wife, and ought to 
be fo, yet for the fame reafon I muft be- 
lieve you wiil be ftill as good adaughter to 
a father that has always loved you tenderly, 
and has never done the leaft thing to make 
you doubt it. I fhall fay no more, and 
believe you very uneafy at this time for the 
concern you muft have for a hufband and 
afather. You fhall ftill find me kind to 
you, if you defire it. 
King Fames the Second’s Queen to the 
Princefs of Orange. 
Whitehall, Sept. 28, 1688. 
Tam muchi put to it what to fay, at a 
time when nothing is talked of here but 
the Prince of Orange’s coming over with 
an army. This has been fay’d a long 
time, and believed by a great many; but 
I do proteft to you, I never did believe it 
*till now very lately, that I have no pof- 
fibiiity left of doubting it. The fecond 
partof this news I will never believe; 
that is, that you are to come. over with 
him, for I know you to be _ too 
good, that I don’t believe you could have 
fuch a thought againft the worft of fa- 
thers, much lefs perform’ it’ again& the 
belt, that has always been kind to you, 
and I believe has loved you better than all 
the reft of his.children. os 
Whitehall, Of. 5th. 
I don’t well know what to fay.  Dif- 
femble cannot: and if I enter upon the 
fubje&t that fills every body’s mind,—I 
am afraid of faying too much, and there- 
fore I think the beft way is to fay nothing. 
Original Letterss 
[Feb. i, 
Ex. Bib. Harl.. . 
King Fames to the Lords of ibe Council. - 
- Hinchiabroke, Dec. 7th, 16106 
JAMES, , ‘ 
Right trufty, ‘and right well-beloved 
Coufins and Counfellors. We greet you 
well, We have feen and confidered your 
Jong letter, though written upon a fhort 
naughty fubject: to which we can give 
none otheran{wer than this—that from you 
we received firft the information of this 
lewd fellow’s fpeech, aggravated with thefe 
words, that he made his allufion of /erezw— 
a King not to be denred—conceptis verbis. 
And now, from you again, we have re-- 
ceived a new repetition of it, though qua- 
lified and moderated as much as may be. 
As for our refolution, what we will bave 
done in this cafe, we wiil ourfelf tell you 
our pleafure at meeting.—Only thus far 
we thought good, in the mean time, to 
fignify unto you, that we would have 
wiflied that our Councellours and feryants 
in the Lower Houfe hadtaken more heed to 
any f{peech that concerned our honours 
than to keep off the refulal of a fubfidy ; 
for fuch bold and villainous fpecches 
ought ever to be crufhed in the cradle: and 
as for the fear they had, that they might 
have moved more bitternefs in the Houfe, 
not only againft themfelves, but alfo te 
have made the Houfe defcend into fome fur- 
ther cemplaints to our greater difliking, 
we muft, in that point, fay thus far, that 
we could not but have wondered greatly 
what more unjuft complaints they ceuld 
have found out than they have already, 
fince we are fure that no Houfe, fave the 
Houfe of Hell, could have found fo many 
as they already done. But, for our part, 
we fhould never have cared what they 
could have complained again us,. (for 
we hope never to live to feethe day that we 
fhall need to care what may be jultly faid 
againft us) fo that lies and counterfeit in- 
ventions be barred. —Only we are forry of 
our ill fortune in this country; that, 
having lived fo long as we did in the king- 
_dom where we were born, we came out of 
it with an unftained reputation, and with- 
out any grudge in the people’s hearts, but 
for wanting us.—Wherein we have mifbe- 
haved ourfelf here, we know not, ner we 
can never yet learn.—But, fure we are, 
we may fay with Bellarmin in his book, 
that in all the Lower Houfes, thefe feven 
years paft, efpecially thefe two lat feffions 
—égo pungor—ego carpor. Our fame and 
actions have been daily toffed like tennis- 
balls amongit them, and all chat {pite and 
malice durkt do todifgrace and incon bia 
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