By His Excellency a proclamation. Whereas His Majesty hath been graciously pleased, by his royal letter, bearing date the sixteenth day of October last past, to signifie that he hath received undoubted advice that a great and sudden invasion from Holland, with an armed force of forreigners and strangers, will speedily be made in an hostile manner upon His Majesty's kingdom of England ... Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686-1689 : Andros) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09499 of text W8639 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M990AB). 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. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09499 Wing M990AB ESTC W8639 69648758 ocm 69648758 184991 2240872382

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B09499) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184991) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2883:14) By His Excellency a proclamation. Whereas His Majesty hath been graciously pleased, by his royal letter, bearing date the sixteenth day of October last past, to signifie that he hath received undoubted advice that a great and sudden invasion from Holland, with an armed force of forreigners and strangers, will speedily be made in an hostile manner upon His Majesty's kingdom of England ... Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686-1689 : Andros) Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714. 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. by R. P., Printed at Boston in New-England : [1689] Signed: "E. Andros." "Given at Fort-Charles at Pemaquid, the tenth day of January, in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord James the second, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith &c." Date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Massachusetts Historical Society Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Revolution of 1688 -- Sources. United States -- History -- King William's War, 1689-1697 -- Sources. Broadsides -- Massachusetts -- 17th century. eebo By His Excellency a proclamation. Whereas his Majesty hath been graciously pleased, by his royal letter, bearing date the sixteenth day of October las Territory and Dominion of New-England. President 1689 2 838 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2011-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2011-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2011-11 Sampled and proofread 2011-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2012-05 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal English blazon surmounted by a crown and flanked by the English lion and the Scottish unicorn
BY HIS EXCELLENCY A PROCLAMATION .

WHEREAS His MAJESTY hath been graciously pleased , by His Royal Letter , bearing Date the sixteenth day of October last past , to signifie That He hath received undoubted Advice that a great and sudden Invasion from Holland , with an armed Force of Forreigners and Strangers , will speedily be made in an hostile manner upon His Majesty's Kingdom of ENGLAND ; and that altho' some false pretences relating to Liberty , Property , and Religion , ( contrived or worded with Art and Subtilty ) may be given out , ( as shall be thought useful upon such an Attempt ; ) It is manifest however , ( considering the great Preparations that are making ) That no less matter by this Invasion is proposed and purposed , than an absolute Conquest of His Majesty's Kingdoms , and the utter Subduing and Subjecting His Majesty and all His People to a Forreign Power , which is promoted ( as His Majesty understands ) altho' it may seem almost incredible ) by some of His Majesty's Subjects , being persons of wicked and restless Spirits , implacable Malice , and desperate Designs , who having no sence of former intestine Distractions , ( the Memory and Misery whereof should endear and put a Value upon that Peace and Happiness which hath long been enjoyed ) nor being moved by His Majesty's reiterated Acts of Grace and Mercy , ( wherein His Majesty hath studied and delighted to abound towards all His Subjects , and even towards those who were once His Majesty's avowed and open Enemies ) do again endeavour to embroil His Majesty's Kingdom in Blood and Ruin , to gratifie their own Ambition and Malice , proposing to themselves a Prey and Booty in such a publick Confusion :

And that although His Majesty had Notice that a forreign Force was preparing against Him , yet His Majesty hath alwaies declined any forreign Succour , but rather hath chosen ( next under GOD ) to rely upon the true and ancient Courage , Faith and Allegiance of His own People , with whom His Majesty hath often ventured His Life for the Honour of His Nation , and in whose Defence against all Enemies His Majesty is firmly resolved to live and dye ; and therefore does solemnly Conjure His Subjects to lay aside all manner of Animosities , Jealousies , & Prejudices , and heartily & chearfully to Vnite together in the Defence of His MAJESTY and their native Countrey , which thing alone , will ( under GOD ) defeat and frustrate the principal Hope and Design of His Majesty's Enemies , who expect to find His People divided ; and by publishing ( perhaps ) some plausible Reasons of their Coming , as the specious ( tho' false ) Pretences of Maintaining the Protestant Religion , or Asserting the Liberties and Properties of His Majesty's People , do hope thereby to conquer that great and renowned Kingdom .

That albeit the Design hath been carried on with all imaginable Secresie & Endeavours to surprise and deceive His MAJESTY , HE hath not been wanting on His part to make such provision as did become Him , and , by GOD's great Blessing , His Majesty makes no doubt of being found in so good a Posture that His Enemies may have cause to repent such their rash and unjust Attempt . ALL WHICH , it is His Majesty's pleasure , should be made known in the most publick manner to His loving Subjects within this His Territory and Dominion of NEW-ENGLAND , that they may be the better prepared to resist any Attempts that may be made by His Majesties Enemies in these parts , and secured in their trade and Commerce with His Majesty's Kingdom of England .

I Do therefore , in pursuance of His MAJESTY's Commands , by these Presents make known and Publish the same accordingly : And hereby Charge and Command all Officers Civil & Military , and all other His Majesty's loving Subjects within this His Territory and Dominion aforesaid , to be Vigilant and Careful in their respective places and stations , and that , upon the Approach of any Fleet or Forreign Force , they be in Readiness , and use their utmost Endeavour to hinder any Landing or Invasion that may be intended to be made within the same .

Given at Fort-Charles at Pemaquid , the Tenth Day of January , in the Fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES the Second , of England , Scotland , France and Ireland KING , Defender of the Faith &c. Annoque DOMINI 1688. By. His EXCELLENCY's Command . JOHN WEST . d' . Secr' . E. ANDROS . GOD SAVE THE KING .

Printed at Boston in New-England by R. P.