At St. James's the 7th of January, by His Highness the Prince of Orange My Lords and gentlemen, the only reason which induced me to undergo so dangerous an undertaking, ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A66187 of text R222332 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2426). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A66187 Wing W2426 ESTC R222332 99833515 99833515 37992 2240955331

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A66187) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37992) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2182:24) At St. James's the 7th of January, by His Highness the Prince of Orange My Lords and gentlemen, the only reason which induced me to undergo so dangerous an undertaking, ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) William III, King of England, 1650-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [Edinburgh : Printe]d in the year 1689. At end of text: Given at St. Jame's this eighth day of January 1688/9. Title from caption title and first lines of text. Place of publication from Wing. A speech to the Scots Lords, followed by their address. Torn with some loss of print. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. eebo At St. James's the 7th of January 1689 by His Highness the Prince of Orange. My Lords and gentlemen, the only reason which induced me to undergo so da England and Wales. Sovereign 1689 1 469 3 0 0 0 0 0 63.97 D The rate of 63.97 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-07 Sampled and proofread 2009-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
At S ● JAMES'S The 7th of J●●●●●● 1689 By His HIGHNESS the Prince of Orange . My Lords and Gentlmen ,

THE only Reason which Induced me to undergo so Dangerous an Undertaking , was , that I saw the Laws and Liberties of these Kingdoms overturned and the Protestant Religion in Eminent Danger , and seeing you are here so many Noblemen and Gentlemen , I have called you together , that I may have your Advice what is to be done for securing the Protestant Religion , and Restoring Your Laws and Liberties , according to my Declaration .

TO HIS HIGHNESS THE Prince of Orange .

WE the Lords and Gentlemen of the Kingdom of Scotland , Assembled at Your Highness desire in this extraordinary Conjuncture , and do give Your Highness our humble & hearty Thanks for Your Pious and Generous Undertaking , for preserving the Protestant Religion , and the Laws and Liberties of these Kingdoms , In order to attaining these Ends , our humble advice and desire is that your Highness take upon you the Administration of Publick Affairs both Civil and Military , the disposal of the Publick Revenues and Fortresses of the Kingdom or Scotland ; and the doing every things that is necessary for the Preservation of the Peace of the Kingdom , untill a general meeting of the States of the Nation , which we humbly desire your Highness to call , to be holden at Edinburgh the 14 day of March next , by your Letter or Proclamation to be published at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh and other head Boroughs of the several Shires and Stewartries , as sufficient Intimation to all concerned according to the custom of the Kingdom , and that the publication of these your Letters of Proclamation be by the Sheriffs and Stewards , Clerks for the Free Holden , that have the value of Lands , holden according to Law for making Elections ; and by the Town Clerks of the several Burroughs for the meeting of the whole Burgesses of the Respective Royal Buroughs , to make their Elections at least 15 dayes before the meeting of the Estates at Edinburgh . And the said Respective Clerks to make intimation thereof at least 10 dayes before the meeting for Election , and that the whole Electors , and Members of the said meeting at Edinburgh , qualified as above expressed be Protestants without any other Exceptions or Limitations whatsomever , to deliberate and resolve what is to be done for securing the Protestant Religion and Restoring the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom according to your Highness Declaration .

Dated at the Council Chamber at Whitehall the 10 Day of January 1680.

●●●●●●d in the Year 1680.