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They marched to the Maryland capital, took possession of the records and assumed the functions of a provisional government, in May, 1689. In the following August they met in convention, when they prepared and sent to the new sovereigns a report of their proceedings, and a series of absurd and false accusations against Lord Baltimore.
The "Glorious Revolution" of 1689 was a coup d'etat engineered by the upper classes, and the liberty it preserved was the liberty of nobles, squires, and merchants not the political liberty of the common people. The House of Commons was essentially undemocratic. Only one man in every ten had even the nominal right to vote.
The Bill of Rights, far more important in English history than the Petition of Right , inasmuch as Parliament was now powerful enough to maintain as well as to define its rights, was supplemented by the practice, begun in the same year, 1689, of granting taxes and making appropriations for the army for one year only.
We too seldom think how much we owe to those formidable savages. The Iroquois pressed the French with so much vigour that in 1689 they even laid siege to Montreal.
In the spring and summer of 1689, several settlements and forts in New Hampshire and Maine, were successfully attacked by the Indians; who, wherever they were victorious, perpetrated their usual cruelties. Knowing that these depredations originated in Canada and Acadié, the general court of Massachusetts planned an expedition against both Port Royal and Quebec.
In 1689 not more than 80,000 people lived in New England, a trifle more in the Southern, and half as many in the Middle colonies.
On Sept. 6th, 1689, Henry Purcell's son Edward was baptised, and he also lived to attain some distinction as an organist. In 1693 a daughter, Mary Peters, was born. Two years later, on May 21st, 1695, the young father died on the eve of St. Cecilia's Day. At his bedside were his old mother, his young wife, and the two little children.
A multitude of useful men, among them many superior men, left a frightful void in France, and went to swell the forces of Protestant nations. France declined both by what she lost and what her rivals gained. Before 1689 nine thousand sailors, the best in the kingdom, as Vauban says, twelve thousand soldiers, six hundred officers, had gone to foreign countries.
They prepared to enter France in four distinct companies, in the month of July, 1689. Brousson left Lausanne on the 22nd of July, accompanied by his dear friend, the Rev. M. de Bruc. The other members of the party had preceded them, crossing the frontier at different places. They all arrived in safety at their destination, which was in the mountain district of the Cevennes.
Derry and Enniskillen had declared against King James towards the end of 1688, and all efforts to capture these two cities had failed. In August 1689 the Duke of Schomberg arrived at Bangor with an army of about fifteen thousand men, but little was done till the arrival of William of Orange in June 1690.
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