CHARLES THE SECOND, KING OF ENGLAND, To declare War against the States-General of the
UNITED PROVINCES, IN 1672;
And, of the private League which he entered into at the same time with the French King, to carry it on, and to establish Popery in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as they are set down in the History of the Dutch War. Printed in French at Paris, with the privilege of the French King, in 1682. Which book he caused to be immediately suppressed, at the instance of the English Ambassador.
Licensed, March the 5th, 1689, by JAMES FRASER. LONDON, printed in 1689
Folio, containing fifteen pages.
WHEN King Charles the Second declared war against the States
of the United Provinces, in 1672, and assisted the King of France by sea, in the prosecution of a war, which brought that great commonwealth, and, with it, the Protestant interest of this part of Europe, so very near to a final period; it was industriously and carefully given out, that religion was not in the least concerned in the quarrel. The honour of the King of England, and of his ple, so insolently trampled upon by the States-General; the hinder. ing of our East-India trade, with the affronts which were put upon our merchants at Surinam; their disputing the sovereignty of the sea, and refusing to take down their flag to our ships, unless we would promise to engage actually in a war against France, were the causes which were publickly pretended; and answerable artifices were made use of to engage the people to a concurrence, which were carried on with so good success, that the parliament consented to