Vengeance alien from the usages of Christian and civilised nations was denounced against all Papists who should dare to espouse the royal cause.

They should be treated, not as soldiers or gentlemen, but as freebooters.

The ferocity and licentiousness of the invading army, which had hitherto been restrained with a strong hand, should be let loose on them.

Good Protestants, and especially those who inhabited the capital, were adjured, as they valued all that was dear to them, and commanded, on peril of the Prince's highest displeasure, to seize, disarm, and imprison their Roman Catholic neighbours.

This document, it is said, was found by a Whig bookseller one morning under his shop door.