of those who fight Against me, I know there will be Fulsome Addresses from the
different Corporations of England, but I hope they will Impose on none but
the lowest & most Ignorant of the People, they will try no Doubt to Revive
all the Errors & Excesses of my Grandfathers Unhappy Reign & Impute
them to your Majesty and me who had no hand in them & suffer'd most by
them. Can anything be more Unreasonable than to suppose that your
Majesty who is so Sensible of, & has so often Condemn'd the fatal Errors of
your father; would with your Eyes open go & Repeat them Again, notwith
standing the Repeated Assurances your Majesty has given in your declaration,
& I, in my Manifesto, that you will Invade no mans property, they Endeavour
to Perswade the Unthinking People, that one of the first things they are to
Expect, will be to See the Publick Credit Destroy'd, as If it would be your
Intention to Render your Self Contemptible in the Eyes of all the Nations
of Europe, & all the Kingdoms you Propose to Reign Over, Poor at Home
& Insignificant Abroad, they no doubt try Likewise to frighten the present
Possesors of Church & Abby Lands with Vain Terros as If your Majestys
Intention was to Resume them all, not Considering that you have liv'd in
Roman Catholick Country's and Read the History of England too Carefully,
not to have Observ'd the Many Melancholly Monuments to be seen
there, of the folly of those Pious Princes, who thinking to honour
Religion have hurt it, by heaping Superfluous Riches on the Church
whereby they have Insensibly raised up a Power that has often prov'd
an Over match for their Successors,
I find it a great Loss the Brave L[or]d Maerschall [George Keith, 9th Earl Marischal]
is not with me, his Charrecter is very high in this Country, as it
must be Where ever he is known. I'd rather see him than a 1000
French, who If they should Come only as Friends to Assist your
Majesty in the Recovery of your Just Right, the Weak People would
believe they Came as Invaders.