THE PROTESTANT'S COMPANION; BEING A CHOICE COLLECTION OF PRESERVATIVES AGAINST POPERY. LONDON: SEPTIMUS PROWETT, PALL MALL. MDCCCXXIX. 286. The following lines are cut on a stone over the entrance of a summer-house at Charborough, Dorset, the seat of Drax Grosvenor, Esq. : A UNDER THIS ROOF, IN THE YEAR MDCLXXXVI. NEIGH SET OF PATRIOTIC GENTLEMEN, OF THIS THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION WITH THE IMMORTAL KING WILLIAM, TO WHOM WE OWE OUR DELIVERANCE FROM POPERY, AND SLAVERY, THE EXPULSION OF THE TYRANT RACE OF STUARTS, THE RESTORATION OF OUR LIBERTIES, SECURITY OF OUR PROPERTIES, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL HONOUR AND WEALTH. ENGLISHMEN! REMEMBER THIS GLORIOUS ERA, AND CONSIDER THAT YOUR LIBERTIES, PROCURED BY THE VIRTUE of YOUR ANCESTORS, MUST BE MAINTAINED BY YOURSELVES. PREFACE. As every person's mind appears to be engrossed by * If, however, it be thought, by the praises here bestowed b |