By the King and Queen, A DECLARATION For the Encouraging of French Protestants to Transport themselves into this Kingdom.

William R.

WHereas it hath pleased Almighty God to Deliver Our Realm of England, and the Subjects thereof, from the Persecution lately threatning them for their Religion, and from the Oppression and De­struction which the Subversion of their Laws, and the Arbitrary. Exercise of Power and Dominion over them, had very near Introduced; We finding in Our Subjects a True and just Sense hereof, and of the Miseries and Oppressions the French Prote­stants lye under: For their Relief, and to Encou­rage them that shall be willing to Transport themselves, their Families, and Estates into this Our Kingdom, We do hereby Declare, That all French Protestants that shall seek their Refuge in, and Transport them­selves into this Our Kingdom, shall not only have Our Royal Protection for themselves, Families and Estates within this Our Realm; But We will also do Our Endeavour in all reasonable ways and means, so to Support, Aid, and Assist them in their several and respective Trades and Ways of Livelyhood, as that their living and being in this Realm may be comfor­table and easie to them.

Given at Our Court at Whitehall this Twenty fifth Day of April, 1689. In the First Year of Our Reign.


God save the King and Queen.

LONDON. Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King and Queen's most Excellent Majesties 1689.

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