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intentions in his own Kingdom he was resolved that all Europe should be witness to them, he therefore sent the Earl of Castlemaine Ambassador extraordinary to Rome--The only proof of complaisance which James received from the Pontiff was sending a Nuncio to England who resided openly in London during the rest of his reign-- In 1688 the Queen was delivered of a Son who was baptized James, and who afterwards was known by the Name of the Pretender-- The Prince of Orange (how little so ever he might approve of James's administration) had kept totally silent on the subject--to oppose the progress of the French Monarch was his grand object--and he had formed the design of uniting all Europe against the encroachments of the French, and Hagel was enstructed by William to assure the King that the Prince and Pss gave heartily their consent for repealing legally all the penal statues as well as those which had been enacted against the Catholics as against the protestant nonconformests and would concur with the King in any measure for that purpose and that their Highnesses however-- desirous of gratifying the King and rendering his reign
