A Compleat collection of papers in twelve parts relating to the great revolutions in England and Scotland from the time of the seven bishops petitioning K. James II. against the dispensing power, June 8. 1688. to the coronation of King William and Queen Mary, April 11. 1689.

Prince GEORGE'S LETTER TO THE KING.

SIR,

WIth a Heart full of Grief am I forced to write, that Prudence will not permit me to say to your Face. And may I e'er find Credit with your Majesty, and Protection from Heaven, as what I now do, is free from Passion, Vanity or Design, with which Actions of this Nature are too often accompanied. I am not ignorant of the frequent Mischiefs wrought in the World by factious Pretences of Religion; but were not Religion the most justifiable Cause, it would not be made the most specious Pretence. And your Majesty has always shewn too uninte∣rested a Sense of Religion, to doubt the just Effects of it in one whose Practices have, I hope, never given the World cause to censure his real Conviction of it, or his backwardness to perform what his Honour and Conscience prompt him to: How then can I longer disguise my just Concern for that Religion in which I have been so happily educated, which my Judgment throughly convinces me to be the best; and for the Support of which I am so highly interested in my Na∣tive Country? and is not England now by the most endearing Tie become so?

Whilst the restless Spirits of the Enemies of the RE∣FORMED RELIGION, back'd by the cruel Zeal and prevailing Power of France, justly alarm and unite all the Protestant Princes of Christendom, and engage them in so vast an Expence for the support of it, can I act so degenerous and mean a part, as to deny my Concurrence to such wor∣thy Endeavours for disabusing of your Majesty by the Rein∣forcement of those Laws, and Establishment of that Govern∣ment, on which alone depends the well-being of your Ma∣jesty, and of the PROTESTANT RELIGION in Europe. This, Sir, is that irresistable and only Cause that cou'd come in Competition with my Duty and Obligations to your Majesty, and be able to tear me from you, whilst the same Affectionate Desire of serving you continues in me. Could I secure your Person by the Hazard of my Life; I should think it could not be better emploied: And wou'd to God these your distracted Kingdoms might yet receive that satisfactory Compliance from your Majesty in all their justifi∣able Pretensions, as might upon the only sure Foundation, that of the Love and Interest of your Subjects, establish your Government, and as strongly unite the Hearts of all your Subjects to You, as is that of,

SIR,

Your Majesty's most Humble, and most Obedient Son and Servant.