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<HEAD><HI>The DECLARATION of</HI> Charles <HI>Duke of</HI> Sconberg, <HI>Lieutenant-General to His Majesty of</HI> Great Britain, <HI>and Collonel of His Fir&s;t Regiment of</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Guards;</HI> to the <HI>Inhabitants of Dauphine.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AS the Violences which <HI>France</HI> has exerci&s;ed upon all its Neighbours, ought to make the Subjects of that Kingdom fear, that if the Allies &s;hould enter into his E&s;tates, they would take a Vengeance proportionable to the Wrongs which they have &s;uffered from him: We think it is our duty to inform them of the good Intentions of the King our Ma&s;ter towards them.</P>
<P>The World knows, that he has been forc'd to take Arms, becau&s;e his E&s;tates in <HI>Burgundy</HI> were unju&s;tly &s;eized by the King of <HI>France,</HI> His Principality of <HI>Orange</HI> was &s;ack'd, and all his Subjects oppre&s;s'd: The&s;e Injuries have al&s;o been attend|ed with the mo&s;t ba&s;e and unworthy Circum&s;tances, that the Fury of his Enemies could &s;ugge&s;t: endeavouring to out him of all that was due to him by Birth or Succe&s;&s;ion, for the pre&s;ent, or in times to come: For this cau&s;e he was forc'd to take Arms to recover what was his own, and he intends to imploy them for the pre&s;ervation of all men, in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their E&s;tates and Rights.</P>
<P>This is the end for which he has &s;ent me into <HI>France;</HI> and his only intention is, to e&s;tabli&s;h the Nobility, Parliaments, and People, in their Ancient Lu&s;tre, and the Towns and Provinces in their Priviledges. He knows, that the Nobility has been troden under foot, that the Parliaments have no Authority, that the Peo|ple have been ruin'd, by Taxes; But now if the Nobility, the Parliaments, and the People, do not abandon their own Intere&s;t, and neglect this Opportunity, the King, my Ma&s;ter, will &s;ee the General E&s;tates of <HI>France</HI> e&s;tabli&s;hed; the Gen|try &s;ecured in the enjoyment of tho&s;e Priviledges which belong unto their Birth; and will re&s;tore unto their Parliaments their Ancient Lu&s;tre and Authori|ty; and deliver the Oppre&s;&s;ed People from their Devouring Taxes.</P>
<P>The King, my Ma&s;ter, having taken Arms for no other end, but to maintain the Rights of others, as well as his own, there is no rea&s;on for his Enemies to pre|tend, That this is a War of Religion; which is de&s;ign'd for no other end, but to kindle in the People a fal&s;e Zeal, the laying of a &s;nare for their Credulity, that they may be enabled to make them &s;pend the la&s;t drop of their Blood in this Quar|rel. The Clergy, however, are not to be taken by &s;uch gro&s;s Impo&s;tures; the Cau&s;es and True Authors of this War being well known unto them. But, however, I de|clare unto the Clergy, of what Dignity &s;oever they be, that the King, my Ma&s;ter, will take them all into his Protection; and that their Priviledges and E&s;tates &s;hall be ex|actly pre&s;erved; That he will exemplarily puni&s;h all tho&s;e which &s;hall do them any Injury; and that there &s;hall not be any Change brought upon them, with re&s;pect to the <HI>Roman</HI> Catholick Religion. Yet fora&s;much as the Kings of <HI>England</HI> are Gua|rantees for the Edict of <HI>Nants,</HI> the Peace of <HI>Montpelier,</HI> and many other Treaties of that Nature, the King, my Ma&s;ter, believes him&s;elf to be obliged to maintain that Guaranty, and to cau&s;e the &s;aid Edict to be E&s;tabli&s;hed. All good <HI>French</HI> men ought to Aid Him in this, becau&s;e that Edict was the Great Work of <HI>Henry</HI> the Fourth, who&s;e Wi&s;dom and Memory is &s;o dear unto them. The <HI>Roman</HI> Ca|tholicks who have had the Genero&s;ity to look with Compa&s;&s;ion upon the Suffe|rings of the Prote&s;tants, will without doubt, take plea&s;ure to &s;ee them Re-e&s;ta|bli&s;hed. It is al&s;o hop'd, that the Gentlemen of the Clergy, having now made &s;erious Reflections thereupon, will be well content therewith; and by a Wi&s;e and Chri&s;tian Conduct, te&s;tifie, That they had no part in the Violation of the &s;aid Edict, and all the Cruelties which have followed upon it.</P>
<P>And all tho&s;e which &s;hall Joyn with us, &s;hall receive tho&s;e Recompen&s;es and Marks of Di&s;tinction, as their Services &s;hall De&s;erve, and which we &s;hal be able to give them.</P>
<P>But on the contrary, All tho&s;e which &s;hall be &s;o far from Aiding us, as to Joyn with the Oppre&s;&s;ors of their Country, can expect nothing but the Severities of a Military Execution. And we declare to all tho&s;e that will live in Peace at Home, That they &s;hall have no Injury done them as to their Lives or Fortunes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>At <HI>Am<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">run,</HI> <DATE><HI>Aug.</HI> 29. 1692.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-printed in the Year 1692.</P>
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