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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51532	The portraicture of Roger L'Estrange drawn to the life as it was taken in the Queens Chappel	Mowbray, Lawrence.; Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689. L'Estrange a papist.	1681 (1681)	Wing M2995; ESTC R15766	12,436	24

know of any he should do well to make the discovery For I know it would be no small satisfaction to him to see me incur the penalty of such a breach of the Law Truly there is no great probability of the Truth of the Report because the Story it self does not hold water For for me to have so many Witnesses in a readiness and not to make use of one was a strange piece of remisness to be so careless of a certain Victory Upon the whole whether Mr. L'Estrange be a Papist or no I will not determine but these are excellent Hints for the Papists to lay hold on and then to quote a Church-man of England for their Author But 't is well all is not Gospel that Zekiel and Ephraim say I do find they suffer under the frailty of Fallibility as well as others For as for Mr. Mowbray he came in voluntarily and gave in his Information without my knowledge and consequently could be none of my number and there was no more that appear'd in the business especially wherein I was concern'd So that the Ten being hitherto invisible unless Mr. Ephraim can bring them to light the Report and the Use made of it must be both equally insignificant But there are other Observations to be made For if a Writer do positively aver that for Truth which carries another face 't is shrewdly suspicious he may make the same forfeiture in more circumstances than one Thus Mr. L'Estrange in his Discovery upon Discovery p. 13. Now Doctor saith He I do positively aver that there was not one Church of England-man in the Parliament Army as they call'd it When it is a thing yet fresh in memory that the Archbishop of York that very Metropolitan upon whom Cleveland begins his Satyrical Elegy Here York's great Metropolitan is laid Who God 's Anointed and his Church betray'd Serv'd in the Parliament Army as it was then call'd with a Command of Horse Now whether an Archbishop of York and one of the Metropolitans of the Kingdom would have been advanced at that Time to that Dignity unless he had been a Church of England-man that 's the scruple However we may say thus much that he ceas'd no more to be Archbishop of York by siding with the Parliament than Julius the Second ceas'd Pope by Joyning with the Turks And therefore Cleveland allows him his Dignity after his Death though he embalm it indeed with Assafaetida instead of Olibanum Now for any man to be so positive in the assertion of a thing so notoriously subject to contradiction will give a shrewd shog to the former value that was put upon the Writings of the same Person Thus Mr. L' Estrange was pleas'd to disown at the Council-Board that ever he knew me And yet before that at a certain Coffee-House in Ludgate-street he presently vanish'd up stairs with great disdain upon my first appearance in the lower Room murmuring out these words The Devil sets his Imps at work These things I should have been far from taking notice of had it not been to support my own justification verily believing that the world would blame me much and that the publick Enemy would get no small advantage thereby should I have suffered my self to be so passively negligent as to see my self run down with the quips and taunts of a quaint and fluent Pen without a just vindication In a word I have only Sworn that I saw him at Mass here are other Informations by which you must judge upon what account I have no more to say to that particular Now after all this and a long silence he is risen again and as I suppose forgetting what he declared at the Half-Moon renews the Old Lurrey of no Papist nor Jesuit in a Dialogue between Philo L'Estrange Pragmaticus And Heaven I say prolong his Life and may L'Estrange no Papist nor Jesuit be the perpetual Theam that he may satisfy his Humour and write as many Dialogues as ever Lucian did But I am very much afraid that a volume of Dialogues as big as the Book of Martyrs will do him but little good For he goes about to bury the Subject itself under the heaps of his own Quires it being most certain that men at length will grow tir'd with reading his needless Apologies For they that think him a Church-man of England will believe him still so to be notwithstanding all the Rumours of Accusation And as for those that believe him a Papist he may perhaps in time wash a Blackamore white but will never by that sort of Rhetorick which he uses be perswaded to change their opinions He has so be plotted the Generality of dissenters under the odious Name of Fanaticks that he must not expect any mercy of belief from them They not being a sort of people to be gained by Similes and bare Flourishes of Elocution it being then to be presumed as he may easily perceive it himself if he pleases that they believe not one tittle of what he says it follows that he only writes to them that believe him already which is a labour altogether needless And then again whatever belief he may pretend to have of the Plot yet in all his discourses he speaks so ambiguously of it gives such Complemental Reproaches to the Kings Evidence that even blindness it self may discover his aim and that whatever his publick pretence may be the ruine of the Discovery and private Encouragement set the Wheels of his Invention a going Worse than the Blind Mill-Horse not understanding that he is labouring and grinding all the while for the grand Enemies of his King and Country Or else worse than all these who knowing what he is about pursues the Tracks of secret Treason and Conspiracy rather than Coleman shall want a Successour to his Secretariship Mr. L'Estrange will be the Person so bewitching a Charm it is to some men to be the Instruments of Greatness though in Evil Enterprizes But Mr. L'Estrange is old and believing he has not long to live what cares he what becomes of his Country after he is gone so he may enjoy the Sweets of this World during his time But men of these brave desires and Hunters after ill obtain'd Prosperity forget those wise sayings of the very Heathens themselves That they who will not give credit to them that swear the truth to the stifling of which so much labour has been used in vain are themselves the Contemners of Heaven and guilty of those Perjuries which they would fasten upon others And let the subtilty of the Devil pretend what it will it is not to be imagin'd that any but Papists or their well-wishers could be so stupidly obstinate as to run Counter to all those signall Acts of Providence that dayly brings to light the busie Contrivances of the Kingdoms Enemies This however is our Comfort that we seldom see the end of them who by such Instincts of private Interest oppose Heaven and the peace of setled Government but that in the Conclusion Divine Vengeance finds them out and brings them to shame and punishment It being generally observed that they who are most active to serve and assist a Conspiracy are the first laid aside upon the success of the Design A motive that should induce the vain Aspirer to a more considerate Conduct of his Actions FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere will in few days be Published an Answer to Mr. L'Estranges last ridiculous Pamphlet Entituled L'Estrange no Papist In further Justification of those Informations Sworn against him before the Lords of the Private Committee