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An answer to the Appeal from the country to the city
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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1679
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Wing L1197; ESTC R36247
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Martyrology He says Thirdly that the City is too powerfull for any Prince thaâ—… Governs not by the love of his people which no Popish Successour can expect to do This is the very Translation of his Namesake Iunius Brutus in his Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos â—…f the Prince fails in his promise says he the people are exempt from their obedience The contract is made void and the right of obligation is of no force It is therefore permitted to the Officers of a Kingdom either all or some good member of them to suppresse a Tyrant Here 's a great deal of virulence in his Discourse without one word of weight to countenance it For the well-being of this City is so essentially requisite to the well-being of this Kingdom that the very charge of the Government is not to be defray'd without it So that it is the interest of all Governours to cherish and support it Here he trifles away some half a score lines more about the Fire and then from the danger of the City advances to the further danger accruing to the Citizens 〈◊〉 well as to the whole Kingdom upon the Kings untimely Death The greatest danger says he will 〈◊〉 from a confusion and want of some Eminent and Interested 〈◊〉 whom you may trust to â—…ead you up against a French and Popish Army For which purpose no person is fitter then his Grace the Duke of Monmouth as wâ—…ll for Quality Courage and Conduct as for that his lifâ—… and fortune depends upon the same bottom with Yours He will stand by you therefore ought you to stand by him And remember the old rule is he who hath the worst title ever makes the best King Does he suppose this confusion upon the death of the King or the burning of the City or before or after Or has he consulted either the Illustrious Person or the Honourable City that he makes so bold with to know whether or not the one would accept of such a Commission upon the Appellants terms or the other offer it the Character that he is pleas'd to bestow upon his Grace for his Quality Courage and Conduct is not unknown to any man that ever so much as heard of his Name But the Appellant never considers that all these glorious circumstances are point blank contradictions to his design How can he imagine that so brave a Person can ever stoop to so mean a thought and suffer himself by a rostitute Libell to be inchanted out of his Honour reason and Allegiance Or that the most Eminent City of Christendom for purity of Religion Loyalty to their Prince Power Good Government Wealth and Resolution should be cajol'd out of all these blessings and advantages by the Iesuitical Fanaticism of a Dark-lanthorn-Pamphlet But to what end is all this clutter The Appellant has a mind it seems to change his Master He who hath the worst Title he says ever makes the best King which is a very fair proposition for setting up of a worse Title in his Majesties place From hence he goes forward still computing upon his Majesties death as a thing to be taken for granted and so recommending himself to the most worthy Citizens he finishes his appeal filling up the Page with a Postscript concerning some Antimonarchical principles in the Church of Rome He that has a mind to see these match'd in the Scottish Kirk may receive further satisfaction in a little book Entitled TYRANNY and POPERY Lording it over the Consciences Lives Liberties and Estates both of King and People Also The Comicall Christian In a Translation of Twenty Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus Pleasantly Representing several Superstitious Levities crept into the Church of Rome in His days Both Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Pauls Churchyard 1680. The HISTORY of the PLOT Or A Brief and Historical Account of the Charge and Defence of Edward Coleman Esq William Ireland Thomas Pickering Iohn Grove Robert Green Henry Berry Laurence Hill Thomas Whitebread William Harcourt Iohn Fenwick Iohn Gavan Anthony Turner Jesuits Richard Langhorn Esq Sir George Wakeman Baronet William Marshal William Rumly Iames Corker Benedictine Monks Not omit ting any one Material Passage in the whole Proceeding By Authority Printed for Richard Tonson within Grayes-Inne-Gate next Grayes-Inne Lane 1679. The End The City of London has been always Loyal Hodge upon the Monument 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Appeal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Appeal Parallel Appeal Parallel Appeal Parallel Appeal Parallel The Old Story We should do well to look 〈◊〉 us Four Affronts upon the Government in two Periods 〈…〉 〈…〉 He gives the Alaâ—…m 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Husbands Câ—…ll â—…37 Papistâ—… the grand Enemies Inconsistences The Late Rebellion 〈◊〉 Neither Good Faith nor Argument The Church and Court vindicated The Fanaticks trouble some ever since the Reformation A palpable Errour 〈◊〉 asperse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 King â—…idiculous The Papists Loyalty was Interest The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 count The Appellantâ—… voluntary mistake Who put Oliver upon accepting the Crown A Legendary Fable Humane Society dissolved The Scotch Rebellion charg'd upon the Papists Dr. Oatâ—…'s true account of the Scotch Rising The Scotch Fanaticks 〈◊〉 with the English Who broughâ—… the Laâ—…e King to the Block The Treachery of Campobache Equally Dangerous to believe too much and too Little The Kings Bounty â—…bus'd An Argument destructive of Society and good Nature And of evill Consequence A dangerous Proposition The Temptation of a Crown Reformation the pretence Who they were 〈◊〉 at destroyed the Late King Two Plots He covers the 〈◊〉 with the Plot Why this Appeal to the multitude Popish Principâ—…es and â—…nterest Puritan Jesuiâ—…s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of Counsell with the Papists A Dangerous Hint The Plot encourag'd He falters in his Arguments The Popish and Fanatick Interest the same A wicked Calculation Mistaken in his Computation Sedâ—…n in plain English Sedition still A Proposition for a New King
Both Nay he goes so far toward the owning of a dislike for the Form of our Government it self that he says no Government but Monarchy can in England ever support or favour Popery as who should say A Common-wealth would put us out of fear on 't He says again Pag. 3. that the Parliament Party never Entertain'd any Papists unless under a Disguise and yet we never heard of any more of them then the Kings Heads-man in a Mâ—…sque We could shew him several Instances of the contrary but no man is so senselesse as to imagine that the King was Depos'd pursu'd rob'd taken condemn'd and put to Death by a hundred thousand Priests in Visors we have nothing to say to the Loyalty of the Papists but yet the Incongruity of our Appellants charge upon them we cannot but in Honesty and common reason take some notice of Especially when the Dust of his Objection flies in his own Eyes Their Loyalty and Good service pay'd to the King says he was meerly in their own defence well knowing that the Foundation of these Commotions was only in Opposition to their Party Putting the Case now that they serv'd the King only for their Own Ends We have an acknowledgment yet that there was Loyalty and good service in it however qualified and we know that there were many Brave and Eminent men among them that lost their Estates and Lives in that service If it lyes as a reproach upon them that they did not serve the King out of Loyalty that which they did was yet better then not serving him at all and better in a higher degree still then fighting against him But supposing now that they had no known Papists in their Army the Case is not one jot mended for they were all Schismatiques then and it is worth the Observation that not a man drew his sword in that Cause who was not a Known Separatist and that on the other side not one Schismatique ever struck stroke in the Kings Quarrel The One side contending according to their Duty in favour of the Law and the Other against it Our Appellant lyes open to another Objection in the clâ—…use above recited He says the Commotion was only founded upon an Opposition to that Party How came it then that they seiz'd the Crown and Church-Lands put the King to Death plunder'd sequesterd and beheaded his Protestant Friends if the Opposition was only to Popery But we have seen their pretences and we have felt the meaning of them He insists upon the Papists desiring Oliver to accept of the Crown There 's a little Book that will inform us better concerning that transaction It 's call'd Monarchy asserted consisting of a Collection of Speeches upon that debate We are at this time he says acting the same Play still though an Old-one newly Reviv'd and as that which the Papists then Acted was laid upon the Fanatiques so was the like to have been done in this present Plot. It will be easily granted that this is in a high degree the Old-Play Reviv'd but we are too well acquainted with the circumstances of the present Plot to carry the resemblance thorough That which the Fanatiques then acted was layd on the Papists and when they had master'd the King under the Calumny of a Papist they Murther'd him as a Protestant The Question at present is not the Certainty of One Plot but the Superfoetation of another For it is compossible enough that a Papist may be before his Majesty with a Dagger and some rank Enthusiast behinde him with a Pistol He proceeds with a Story of Mr. Claypool not at all to our purpose and then gives us further an account of the Papists designe in Scotland who first by their Councells procured the poor Inhabitants to be Oppress'd and then sending their disguised Priests and Emissaryes amongst them encourag'd the poor silly Natives to Mutiny against those Oppressions hoping to cast the Plot upon the Presbyterians If the Power Number and Industry of these Emissaries be such as our Appellant would have us believe a man would think there should hardly be a Rat trap in the three Kingdoms without a Priest in 't Let us but lay together several Circumstances in this Appeal concerning the Miraculous Influences of these men upon all sorts of People and it will be a hard matter to represent any thing more Comicall First he says that the Papists have already made sure of all the Young beggerly Officers or Souldiers Courtiers and Over-hot Church-men Fol. 2. Secondly he makes them to have an Absolute Dominion over the King and his Councill for they have made him Banish those Officers he says that should lead the people up against the Popish Army Thirdly they govern all the Conventicles in the Kingdom as our Appellant will have it And Fourthly they procur'd the Scots to be Opprest and after that shifted hands and made them rebell and all this is every man bound to believe as the Thirteenth Article of his Faith Now can any thing be more wonderful then that these people that can turn the King and his Councill with a Twine thread that have so absolute a Command of the Multitude and can set Governors and Subjects handy-dandy to Box one another like Punchinello's Puppets when they please is it not a wonderfull thing I say that these men with all this Interest are not yet able to save a Priest from the Gallows or any single person of the Party from the Exact Rigour of the Law Have they only a Power to do the Government Mischief and themselves no Good We insist the more earnestly upon this Point because the comfort of Humane Society is totally destroy'd if we come once to be transported by these stories into a Common Diffidence every man of his Neighbour and put into such a condition by the Entertainment of these Jealousies that there will be no longer any Faith or Confidence in Mankinde for fear of these Invisible and undistinguishable Enemies in our dayly Conversation Now to support and fortify himself in his Opinion he says farther that not only Dr. Oates mentions this in his Evidence but that the Papists themselves were so well assured of the Scotch Rising before it happen'd that at the Disbanding of this late Popish Army many of the Officers and Souldiers had secret Orders not to sell their Horses but to be in a readiness for that they should have occasion to use them again within a Fortnight and so it happen'd for within a fortnight after the Disbanding the Rebellion brake out in Scotland So well acquainted were the Authors of this Mischief with the time when it would happen With the Appellants leave Dr. Oates only Reports what these Agents Design'd to do and the Hopes of their succeeding in it but says nothing positively that I can finde of what they had done and in his Thirty fifth Deposition expresly makes their Project to be the weakening of both