Daniel Defoe - A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover

When this was done, why did ye mock God with a thanksgiving, 9 9 The Thanksgiving for the Revolution. and banter the world with your pretended praises to heaven for your deliverance? Why, when you appeared by your representatives in convention and in parliament, did you make so many fast days, 10 10 Monthly fasts appointed the first Wednesday of every month during the war in King William's time. and days of prayer for the success of the arms you took up, and the war you carried on for the finishing and securing this great work, called the pulling down of popery? Was it all, that after having spent twenty years of war, and a sea of blood, ruined trade, exhausted your treasure, and entailed vast debts on your posterity; you should calmly open your doors to the fugitives you had found out, and let in again the popish tyranny you had driven away?

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Edward II., Richard II., Richard III., James II.

In the several barons' wars in the reign of King Stephen, King John, &c.

Especially of the persecuted protestants in the Low Countries, in Queen Elizabeth.

Henry IV., who turned papist, and with much difficulty granted liberty to his protestant subjects by the edict of Nantes.

The French refugees, who being received here, are grown rich and wealthy by our trade.

The Flemings, when threatened with the inquisition from Spain, under the reign of Philip II.

Under William Henry, the first Prince of Orange, who formed the revolt of the Dutch provinces, and laid the foundation of the States General and their commonwealth.

The circles of Swabia and Franconia, the Palatinate, and the countries of Hessia, Wirtemberg, and others.

The Thanksgiving for the Revolution.

Monthly fasts appointed the first Wednesday of every month during the war in King William's time.