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their Duty, after ƒo long and ƒevere a Trial, you may ƒafely depend on; and theƒe that appeared at firƒt againƒt you, and now pretends to be in your Intereƒt, having miƒs'd what they expected by this Revolution, you may be perƒwaded nothing will ever make them thoroughly ƒo, but a ƒufficient Force: I ƒhall ƒay nothing in this out of Partiality, nor any thing that is not conƒiƒtent with my Knowledge, and cannot be denied by theƒe I write of, there being ƒo many Witneƒƒes alive, who can aƒ- ƒert the Truth of all I ƒhall offer to give your Majefty an Account of; which I pretend I may do as Juƒtly, tho' not ƒo Correctly, as any of your Majeƒty's Subjects, who have had the Honour to be intruƒted by your Ma- jeƒty with ƒo much, before this Re- volution, or was ƒo deeply con- cerned in the unƒucceƒsful Attempts that has been made for your Ser- vice. How Diƒcontents and Jealouƒies began, and diƒturbed the happy Peace the Nation was in after the Defeat of the Duke of Monmouth and Earle of Argile: I cannot give your Majeƒty | ( 7 )
Majeƒty ƒo good an account of it, without going a little back, and let- ting you know the Reaƒons that were given for them. The firƒt Symptoms of Diƒcon- tent appeared in Scotland after the Reƒtauration of the King your Bro- ther, was in the Earl of Murray's Parliament, for I reckon not the two Tumultuous Riƒings in the Weƒtern Fanatick Countries, nor the Jarrings of Duke Hamilton's Party, as being nothing National, but to the con- trary; for theƒe were rather means to ƒhew the Concern and Affection of all the other parts of the Nation for the King's Intereƒt, wherever that came to be Debated by his few inƒignificant Enemies. Never King ƒucceeded to a Crown or Throne more with the Love and Eƒteem of his Subjects than your Ma- jeƒty did, generally to all Scotland, of all Profeƒƒions; nor could any thing have diƒturbed your happy Reign, but the Jealousies and Fears that was induƒtriouƒly ƒpread abroad, as if you had deƒigned, by giving a general Li- berty of Concience, to ruin the Religion then eƒtabliƒhed; if that had |