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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47934	Truth and loyalty vindicated from the reproches [sic] and clamours of Mr. Edward Bagshaw together with a further discovery of the libeller himself, and his seditious confederates / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1662 (1662)	Wing L1320; ESTC R12954	47,750	78

his Style I refer the Reader to Pages 34 35 36. But the Story of his Life and Manners I 'll keep for a Reserve for I am loth to overlay him at once This is a quick and Homely Methode to Say and Prove all in a Breath and I ask no further Credit to This Paper then is due to the Evidence which goes along with it So that hereafter no man that is not a Professed Enemy to the King the Church Nay Government it self Truth Modesty and Discretion must ever own himself a Friend to Mr. Bagshaw Yet after all never were Cause and Advocate better Suited When I have laid his Imposture as Naked as Truth it self I do intend so far to Oblige him as to shew the World in a further Discovery of Seditious Persons and Papers that Mr. Bagshaw is not the only Enemy the King has I do expect that he shall thank me too for sparing him in his Character which even read at the Bar would make a Judge Blush upon the Bench and shake the Faith of a Good Christian to see a Person of That Marque in the Pulpit But this is to Proclaim Day-light and tell the World what every Body knows already In fine Excesses and Revilings are Familiar with Him and He that wonders to see Mr. Bagshaw for or against Any thing may as well take the Changes of the Moon for Miracles To the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England c. Right Honourable I Am so much a Stranger to your Lordship that I believe the subscribing my Name will but little benefit your Lordships knowledge of me EDWARD BAGSHAW Pag. 1. and the cause about which I write being meerly the cleari●g of my self is of so p●tty concernment that I am afraid in stead of procuring your Lordships good opinion it may expose me to your Censure and though I purge my self from all other my supposed Crimes Which he neither does nor ca● yet the very undertaking to trouble your Lordship with a matter so much below you may render me guilty of a very transcendent presumption But my Lord since none who is made so considerable as to be repu●ed dangerous can be too mean to appear in his own just defence and since your Lordship hath already suffered your Goodness so much to be wrought upon as in a manner to condem● me unheard and seem to conceive of me as I have been lately represented for a direct enemy unto the Church and but meanly affected to the State I thought it necessary if for no other respect yet for the sake of ●ruth which always suffers in the Oppression of any one of her followers to remove your Lordships mistakes and by making a kind of Publick confession of my Faith to vindicate my self from those suspicions which if well grounded would render mee not only incapable of Preferment the want of which I shall never complain of but likewise unworthy of any Protection TRUTH and LOYALTY c. BEhold the Prologue to Mr. Bagshaw's Pretended Vindication who it seems R. L'S has been lately Represented to my Lord Chancellour for an Enemy both of Church and State 'T is a great Truth and L'Estrange is the Person that has so Represented him and This Paper is to make good That Charge I am not Ignorant that in laying him Open I do but crush a Punaise and raise a Stink to avoid an Importunity yet since that beastly work is for once necessary in order to my Quiet I shall first for my Credits sake shew the World by what unlucky Chance we came acquainted In Jan. last was Printed a Discourse Entit'led The Bishop of Worcester's Letter to a Friend for Vindication of himself from Mr. Baxter 's Calumny The Right Reverend Bishop having by undeniable Proofs and unanswerable Arguments put the Case past all possibility of a Rational Reply was soon after assaulted by a Libel bearing for Title Animadversions on the Bishop of Worcester's Letter It was Dated Jan. 21. and Subscrib'd D. E. In This Pamphlet finding not only the Person of the Bishop ill-Treated but the King's Authority tacitly Disclaim'd and That of the Church more directly Vilify'd I thought it my duty to endeavour something in their Defence which I did and while my Papers were yet in in the Press D. E. casts out a Second Libel Animadversions still but with This Addition With an Answer to all that L'S intends to write It was as foul as Malice and Forgery could make it and in fine though it pass'd without contradiction abroad that D. E. and Edward Bagshaw were one and the same Person yet would it not sink into My Thought that it was possible for a Minister of the Gospel to be Guilty of so great a Scandal to Christianity or for one that calls himself a Chaplain to a Privy-Counsellour to become an Advocate for Sedition Till at length I retrived the Printer one Hayes in Woodstreet who ingenuously confess'd upon Examination that they were done by the Order and direction of Mr. Bagshaw and that he delivered five hundred Copies of each into Mr. Bagshaw's own hand in the house of the Earl of Anglesy This Discovery was it that gave me the first Knowledge of Mr. Bagshaw and That too but of his Humour for to this hour I cannot say I have ever seen his Person Having in the first place asserted the Publique I thought it some Right to my own Particular to make some search into the Character of my rude Adversary Some of his Soberest Excesses I took notice of in my Memento but the Gentleman finding it Easier to Calumniate L'Estrange then to Defend Bagshaw without returning a Syllable to the Particulars there Charg'd upon him and under pretext meerly of clearing himself throws out his Vomit against Mee and with a Sawciness suited to his Rage and Folly he Dedicates the Unsavory Pamphlet to my Lord Chancellour His Preamble we have had already and now follows his Vindication [B] TO begin therefore with that which makes the loudest noyse in the World and that is a supposal that I am no friend to Bishops E. B. Pag. 2. 3. De Presbyte●i● Episcopis Pref. to the Great Question c. I need say no more in justification of my self than what I have already asser●ed not only in my Latine Dissertation upon that Subject but likewise in the Preface to that very Book which first begat the suspicion I then said that I was a strict obse●ver of the Doctrine of the Church of Engla●d as it was contained in the thirty nine Articles as my several Treatises against * Discourse about Jesus and the Resurrection Atheism † Dissertationes Anti-Socinianae Socinianism * Treatise of God's D●c●ees Arminianism and † Treatise against the Pope's infallibility The Reverend and Learned Bishop Brownrigge on Nov 3. An. 1659. Popery do witness and for that which is the prime branch of Discipline viz. Episcopacy or the