The Glorious Revolution in America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by Michael G. Hall

Author:Michael G. Hall [Hall, Michael G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012-12-01T07:00:00+00:00

B. THE NEW YORK CITY MILITIA EXPLAINS ITS ACTIONS, JUNE 1689

[Address of the Militia to King William III and Queen Mary, June 1689, O’Callaghan, ed., Documents Relative to Colonial New York, III, 583-84]

Although wee your Majesties dutiful loyall and obedient subjects have not yet Received the honor to have your Majesties proclaimed amongst us … yet wee haveing by way of Barbadoes, received the joyful news and undoubted satisfaction, that your Majestys being proclaimed King of England France and Ireland, wee cannot forbear to prostrate ourselves with all submission at your Royall feet, and to expresse our exceeding joy.… Blessing the great God of heaven and earth who has pleased to make your Majesty so happy an instrument in our deliverance from Tyranny, popery and slavery, and to put it into your Royall breasts to undertake so glorious a work towards the reestablishment and preservation of the true protestant Religion, liberty and property.… We having also long groaned under the same oppression, having been governed of late, most part, by papists who had in a most arbitrary way subverted our ancient priviledges, making us in effect slaves to their will contrary to the laws of England. And this was chiefly effected by those who are known ennemies to our Religion and liberty. Yet we have with all humbleness submitted ourselves thereto, not doubting but the great God would in his own time send us deliverance.… Now we your Majesties most loyall subjects being not only encouraged but invited by your Royall declaration at your first arrivall in England, as alsoe since by the unanimous declaration of the Lords spiritual and temporal assembled at Westminster, thought it our bounden duty to do our endevour to preserve and secure ourselves, and to preserve our being betrayed to any forraigne Ennemy, which we have done without any lett or hindrance or any molestation to any person by taking possession in your Majesty’s names of the fort of this citty—disarming some few papists therein—and do keep and guard said fort against all your Majesties ennemies whatsoever until such time [as] your Majesty’s Royall will shall be further known, wholly submitting ourselves to your Majestyes pleasure herein. Yet we had not presumed to have done this before we had your Majestyes Royal order, but that we were under most just fears and jealousyes to have been betrayed to our ennemy. Our late Governour Sir Edmund Andros executing a most arbitrary commission procured from the late King, most in command over us being bitter papists; our Lieutenant Governor Captain Nicholson, altho a pretended protestant, yet, contrary both to his promises and pretences, countenancing the Popish party, denying to exclude both Officers in the custom house and Souldiers in the fort, being most Papists, contrary to the known laws of England, altho he was often thereto solicited, and the Companies of our train bands keeping guard in the said fort being threatened by the said Lieutenant Governor Captain Nicholson for acting nothing beyond their duty … placing

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