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.

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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.
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London :: Printed by J.D. for R. Clavel ... Henry Mortlock ... and Jonathan Robinson ...,
1689.
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AN ENGAGEMENT OF THE Noble-men, Knights, and Gentlmen at EXETER, to Assist the Prince of ORANGE in the defence of the Protestant Religion, Laws and Liberties of the People of England, Scotland and Ireland.

WE do ingage to Almighty God, and to his Highness the Prince of Orange, and with one another, to stick firm to this Cause, and to one another in the Defence of it, and ne∣ver to depart from it until our Religion, Laws, and Liberties are so far secured to us in a Free Parliament, that we shall be no more in danger of falling under Popery and Slavery. And where∣as We are ingaged in the Common Cause un∣der the Protection of the Prince of Orange, by

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which means his Person may be exposed to Dan∣ger, and to the desperate and cursed Designs of Papists, and other Bloody Men, We do therefore solmnly ingage to God and to one another, That if any such Attempts be made upon Him, We will pursue not only those that made them, but all their Adherents, and all we find in Arms against Us, with the utmost Severity of just Revenge in their Ruine and Destructi∣on; and that the executing any such Atrempt (which God of his Infinite Mercy forbid) shall not deprive us from pursuing this Cause which we do now undertake, but that it shall en∣courage Us to carry it on with all the Vigor that so barbarous Approach shall deserve.

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