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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60055	A short answer to a malicious pamphlet called, A reply written by John Gadbury, the King of England's juggler, and astrologer in ordinary to the Pope, to help on the work.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3559; ESTC R39538	24,418	26

Parable of Jotham on mount Gerizzim about the Trees going forth to choose a King and they chose the Bramble for their King. Now you know it is the nature of a Bramble to scratch and tear all that it comes near as Gadbury observes but the Bramble was not chose for a Commonwealth but for a King. Therefore how he will make this serve to set out the greatness of a King I cannot tell unless he hath made choice of this to abuse and affront them for I am sure it can be taken no otherwise However pitty his Folly and his Ignorance in this and every thing else for if he knew better he would do better for when he calls the Bramble a Commonwealth he calls himself a Common Coxcomb But it is no wonder in this Case because he is the same in every thing else In his Astrology he is a very Ignarant Fellow And his scandalous Libel throughout is nothing else but Cant and Noise As you see in the Nativity he there talks of which is all false his Palladium of Rome his Quotations out of Haly his pretended Astrological Reasons to prove the predictions in the Month false in all which it is nothing else but Trick and Sham. But I do not much wonder he is got into this false Course and Custom when I consider he is turned Papist a Lying false Religion and never was Religion and Proselyte better matcht than now in Jack Gadbury and Popery And this is the Course and Custom he will live in till the Government altars in England for when Popery goes out of fashion then he leaves it and I suppose about twelve Months hence it will be Hey for a new Religion c. Page 28. he says There was never such a civiliz'd Army in England as at this day and he is sure no man hath been wronged of a Pig Hen or Egg without Redress c. Here let the whole Nation be Judges For the behaviour of the Soldiers and the Complaints of the People from all parts of the Nation are visible evidences of the Fellows Impudence But perhaps the Rapes Robberies and Murders they commit are nothing if they let the Pigs and the Hens alone or perhaps he thinks the hanging of a poor Lousy Souldier or two for Robbing is redress and Satisfaction enough for their own Crimes and those of their Officers but I would advise the Fellow to go down to Hounslow and the parts adjacent or into the Countreys where they quarter and inquire there and no doubt but he will hear of many Abuses and Wrongs done that are yet unsatisfied even Rapes and Murders But perhaps Jack may be in the right of it too for the Soldiers have done no man an injury in his sence that is no Papist for in his opinion the Protestants are but like Caterpillars and Vermin that stands in the good Catholicks way and ought to be knocked on the Head and sent out of the world and therefore it is no injury to Rob and Murder them In Page 29. he makes a great Noise about the King's Nativity and says I have calculated it for which he doth not a little Abuse me with his unmannerly Billingsgate Complements and says also that I have predicted the King's Death Yet after all he tells the world that the King's Nativity is not known Why is not this next door to Nonsense For me to do a Nativity that is not known But if it be known or believed to be so the King is the less beholding to that scandalous Fellow Gadbury who printed it the year 1659. But he gives us one special Reason and he says that must serve for all why the Nativity he printed was not the Kings true one and that is No Imperial Nativity can have the Moon in the twelfth House Now how far he would strain the word Imperial I know not I suppose he means not less than a Crowned Head and in that sence I will take it Now observe if you look into the Collection of Genitures printed by Mr. J. Gadbury pag. 23. there you shall find that Henry the second King of France had both Sun and Moon in the twelfth House and in Page 52. of the same Book you will find the King of Denmark hath his Sun in the twelfth House and both these printed and published by that ignorant but great Impostor J. G. Now whether he forgot these or impudently asserted this to out-face the matter to make his Master believe that what he hath writ is true I will leave to his own Confession and conclude that a Lyar ought to have a good memory the want of which is it seems this poor Gentlemans misfortune for these were both Imperial Nativities and both Crowned Heads Of which I could give you more Examples were it convenient but two out of his own Book is more than ten out of the most Authentick Author in being and proves the Fellows Impudence the greater In Page 30. he basely abuseth me when he says that I doom'd the French King to Death three years ago which is false for I never had any Discourse with him in three years before that except September the 9th 1685. and then we had no discourse of that nature So that I perceive he had it by hear-say or else he made it to serve the turn at this time but be it how it will I suppose there is an ingenious Gentleman living near Ludgate that can justifie me in this that I shall now say and he understands Astrology well Mr. C. B. who is the Gentleman I mentioned before met me in March or April 1685. in an evening between Lydgate and St. Pau's And after other Discourse about Nativities he asked me if the King of France would dye that year and if I had ever said so I told him that he had two very bad Directions then coming up but I durst not be positive concerning his Death but I did believe if he did not dye yet he would very narrowly escape it but I had never said positively that he would dye And in this thing that Gentleman if he pleaseth can do me Justice till I can come to do my self Justice upon this Lying pittiful Fellow Now let any man that observed that year and the French King's Affairs remember in what condition he was between October that year and April or May the year following when he lay in that wretched fulsom Condition that as the Letters gave us an account he stunk and was noisome to his Attendants by reason of that Distemper in Ano yet it held him about a year and more but the greatest danger was in the first six Months Now the reason why I could not be positive whether he would live or dye was from directions he then had to operate that I had not had Experience of neither doth Gadbury know any thing of it to this day But I remember a certain Gentleman that I could name went to Gadbury after the late King dyed and asked