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<HEAD>The Re&s;olution taken by the Confederat Princes, and other Allied Powers, in Relation to <HI>France.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HAving Re&s;olved to make this year, a De&s;cent into <HI>France,</HI> that by &s;o attack|ing our common Enemy where our Efforts may be mo&s;t &s;en&s;ibly felt, We may the more ea&s;ily Reduce him to Rea&s;on: In order thereunto, We fir&s;t, all So|lemnly Swear, and Prote&s;t before God, that we will make no Peace with <HI>Lewis</HI> the Fourteenth, but upon the conditions Stipulated by the Articles of the <HI>Pyre|nean,</HI> and <HI>Westphalian</HI> Treaties which have been violated by <HI>France;</HI> and upon other agreements which we have hereunto &s;ubjoyned, which though they be partly the Fundamental Rights of the <HI>French</HI> Nation, and partly privileges con|firmed by the mo&s;t &s;olemn Edicts, have been with no le&s;s violence and inju&s;tice infringed.</P>
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<ITEM>(I) Till the General E&s;tates of the Kingdom be re&s;tored to their ancient Liberties, Power and &s;hare in the Legi&s;lative and Supream Power; and till both the Cler|gy, Nobility, and Third E&s;tate be rein&s;tated in all their former Legal priviledges; and till there be good provi&s;ion made, that all Kings of <HI>France</HI> in time to come, &s;hall be obliged to convoke the &s;aid E&s;tates, when they &s;hall need Money for any publick concerns, and &s;hall have no more power, in any manner, or upon any pretence what&s;oever, to rai&s;e any Taxes, or any &s;orts of Impo&s;ts without their con&s;ent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>(II) Till the &s;everal Courts of Parliament in the Kingdom be rein&s;tated into that &s;uf|ficient and Legal authority with which they were primarily inve&s;ted, That &s;o without being awed by any Check from an Arbitrary power, or being ob|&s;tructed by the corruptions ordinarly ari&s;ing from undue and illegal Promotions to tho&s;e high Po&s;ts of Judicature, they may be both able, and well inclined to do Ju&s;tice indifferently to all Parties.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Till all the Cities of the Kingdom be re&s;tored to their old Charters and Privi|ledges; and to the Revenues a&s;&s;igned for their &s;upport, and the publick good of their &s;everal Corporations which have been &s;o inhumanely, and unju&s;tly ravi&s;h|ed from them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. Till all tho&s;e Swarms of <HI>Catterpillars</HI> of Monopoli&s;ts, pernicious Publicans, and Farmers of Royal Revenues, and other oppre&s;&s;ed undertakers be removed, and all the illegal and new invented Charges and Taxes be taken off, as in particular, the irregular Lodging and Quartering both of Courtiers and Souldiers, the Ex|actions for Winter quarters, and Salaries of Governors, and multitude of &s;ham Debts, and private bu&s;ine&s;ses of the Crown, unnece&s;&s;arly and without Authori|ty charged upon particular per&s;ons, Towns or Cities, and which enter not into the State or Accounts of the publick Revenues; of extraordinary exci&s;es upon Wine, Cider, and other Liquors, the <HI>Gabells</HI> upon Corn, and Flour, upon hoofed Bea&s;ts, and Salt, the unrea&s;onable and unexampled Impo&s;ts upon the Marks of Paper, Money, and all Uten&s;ils, or Moveables made of Metal, upon Hats, Silk|&s;tockings, Wools, and woolen Manufactures; Shoes, Suppers, wooden-&s;hooes, and all &s;orts of Linen, and Pirriwigs, as al&s;o upon Tobacco, Coffee, Tea, Choco|late, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Upon all Manufactures of Silk, and upon all the E&s;tates and Goods or No|ble or Gentlemen every five Years, the Taxe of the <HI>Frank Fife,</HI> and &s;everal other oppre&s;&s;ive exactions upon the Buyers and Sellers, or Morgagers of Lands, Hou&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And upon the Officers of the Courts of Judicature, and of the Trea&s;ury and Exchequer; of the Injurious, and Arbitrary Retrenchment of Wages, rai&s;ing
<PB REF="2">or lowering the value, and deba&s;ing the purity of Money and Coin, and unju&s;t Re-union to the Crown, Lands and Po&s;ses&s;ions long enjoyed by great and de&s;erv|ing Families, upon di&s;potical Pretences, and be&s;ides an infinite many other new and unheard of Exactions; of the &s;trange impo&s;itions upon Marriages, Chri&s;tnings, Buryings, and Ba&s;tards, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And to conclude all in a word; Till the Revenues of the Crown be fixed, and reduced within &s;uch certain and moderate Bounds as &s;hal &s;eem mo&s;t requi&s;ite to the Wi&s;dom of the General E&s;tates when Conveen|ed; and good provi&s;ion be made that no &s;ucceeding French Monarchs &s;hal ever pa&s;s tho&s;e Bounds.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. Till he has rendered to all the Prote&s;tants of his Kingdoms the E&s;tates, Effects, and Liberties they were &s;ei&s;ed of by vertue of the Edict of <HI>Nants,</HI> and all other pri|viledges they enjoyed thereby according to the true meaning, and to the full ex|tent of the &s;aid Edict: And till for their future &s;ecurity both in their Civil and Religious Rights and Capacities, according to the meaning of the &s;aid Edict, the &s;aid French King &s;hall have delivered &s;ome &s;ufficient Cautionry, Towns to be held and Fortified by tho&s;e Prote&s;tant Allies that &s;hall be made Guardians, or Con&s;er|vators of the Treaty to be agreed upon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. And La&s;tly, We Declare, as in the &s;ight of GOD, That in the&s;e our ju&s;t Attempts, We are not actuated by any hatred or animo&s;ity again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> Nation, nor by any ambitious de&s;igns to Conquer or Sei&s;e on any of the Antient and Lawful Dominions of <HI>France,</HI> or to di&s;member that Monarchy of any of the Provinces ju&s;tly belonging to it, but that Our ultimate aim is only to repre&s;s that exorbitant Power whereby that Crown has been enabled hitherto to oppre&s;s its own Subjects, and threaten the Liberty of all <HI>Europe</HI> be&s;ides; And that We ad|vance towards the Frontiers of <HI>France,</HI> with as hearty an intention to Right the Wrongs of its Subjects, as tho&s;e of our own People, e&s;teeming the re-e&s;tabli&s;h|ment of their ju&s;t and antient Liberties, to be the be&s;t Bulwark of our own, again&s;t our and their common Oppre&s;&s;or; And that therefore, We do friendly and hear|tily invite them to come in to us, and to join their Arms and other A&s;&s;i&s;tance with us, towards their Deliverance, a&s;&s;uring them we will treat them as our be&s;t Friends, and will take care to pre&s;erve their Per&s;ons, Towns, and Lands, and all that &s;hal concern them, as if they were our own; But at the &s;ame time we have thought fit al&s;o to Declare to all that &s;hall not comply with our Invitations, and a&s;&s;i&s;tances in|tended for their common good, That We &s;hall di&s;tingui&s;h them for Enemies of their Country, and of all &s;ort of Chri&s;tianity and Humanity, and as barbarous Wretches that have abetted and approved all the Per&s;ecutions, Burnings, De&s;ola|tions, and other Vexations which have been committed by tho&s;e of their own Nation, both within and without <HI>France,</HI> and &s;hall make them feel without mer|cy tho&s;e pains which their inhumane Countrey-men have made &s;o many thou&s;ands of mi&s;erable People &s;uffer.</ITEM>
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<P>And We have thought fit to make publick this Our Declaration, that all the World might know the &s;incerity of our Re&s;olution, and particularly tho&s;e of the <HI>French</HI> Nation, which groan under the intollerable Oppre&s;&s;ion of the pre&s;ent Government there, and who with the lo&s;s of their Liberty, have redoubled their de&s;ires of Recovering it again, that they may be informed to whom, and with what confidence and a&s;&s;urance, they may apply them&s;elves, in this great oppor|tunity offered them by the Ju&s;t and Almighty GOD, to Regain their ancient Freedom and Priviedges, which have been &s;o long, and &s;o cruelly extorted and detained from them.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed in the Year, 1692.</P>
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