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When ナrフ this Order was read in Council, all were ナlent ; but next Day a Repreテntation was テnt up to your Majeフy, both by the Council and Secret Committee, to ドow how inconvenient it would be if ブch an Order were Proclaimed, nor was there any Man more againフ it than your Chancellor, and thoテ you truフed moフ. Your Majeフy was pleaテd on theテ Repreテntations, to deツharge its be- ing preャed ; but it gave ブch bad Impreャions of バme who was im- ployed, that nothing will ever take it off; and it was generally believed that nothing but your Majeフy's own Goodneピ could have hindered a thing that would have been バ ad- vantagious to the Contrivers, tho' diドonourable to all that テrved you; nothing vexed the Epiツopal Clergy more at that time, then to テe バme Fanaticks put both into Council and Seャion ; but all theテ Diツontents were but like ノother'd Fire, until the Birth of the Prince of Wales, which afterwards broke out more violently, for after that, テveral of the Epiツopal Clergy were バ far miネed | ( 13 )
miネed, that they left off in a few Weeks the praying for the Prince of Wales, and were バ apt not only to believe the moフ calumnious Reports of that time, but to inナnuate in their People fears of Popery and Ar- bitrary Government, which did no ノall Prejudice, and made many that have appeared ナnce of a far diffe- rent Temper, extremely ヂtisfied at the noiテ of the Prince of Orange's coming over ; being バ weak as to believe he had ブch an Attempt only to テcure the Laws, and relieve them of their Fears ; but theテ Diツon- tents of the Epiツopal Party, tho' they cannot be juフified, yet they proceeded from Jealouナes more than from any ill Deナgn after your Ma- jeフy's Government ; but the Presy- terians being encouraged from their Friends in England, and the Rebels who fled into Holland growing then more Inバlent than ever, being put in hopes again, by another way, of getting intirely the Government in their own Hands, and a Revenge on their Enemies, which was the two things they バ long wiドed to have an opportunity for, but would never have |