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Animadversions upon Mr. John Gadbury's Almanack, or diary for the year of our Lord 1682 by Thomas Dangerfeild [sic] and printed for the author.
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Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.
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Manifesto's and Averments to which there is no more credit to be given than to your own observations upon the weather 't is only two Papists in a bad cause vouching one for another like two Horse-stealers in Smithfield For my part I was certainly and intirely upon a conscientious discovery of the Truth and before those Persons who were not to be â—lamm'd or impos'd upon neither did I make or offer at the least Capitulation for my life till the King after full satisfaction given concerning the truth of my discovery out of his Majesties great clemency and wisdom gave that 〈◊〉 order for a pardon for me in whose power my Life was whether I spoke truth or no and which I had most assuredly forfeited had they found me asâ—rologizing like your self Mr. Gadbury But You go on and avow that You never had any discourse with me concerning any matter or person as having never seen me but twice in your life c. This is another most notorious falshood and this I must tell ye in all your three capacities as a Taylor a Quack and a Figure Caster For You saw me once when I came to give you notice of the meeting between the Lord Peterborough and Sir Robert Payton and three times within the space of six weeks before that once upon a Tuesday in the evening which was about the 23d of Septemb. 1679. at what time I call'd for Dame Cellier whom I left at your House while I went she knows where once at your own House by your own appointment which was about the 27th day of Septemb. and in the afternoon about three of the clock where we discoursed about Sir Denzell Hollis c. and after that in some short time at Mrs. Cellier's House in Arundell Street and all this I will prove to your face by several Witnesses which perhaps you may in good time hear more of for all your pardon Then let me put You in mind of that extraordinary rainy day when You came to Mrs. Cellier's House and told her You were just come from the Tower that You had din'd with the Lord Powis and had brought her a note from the Lord Arundell to go to a certain place mention'd in the said note to receive a Sum of Mony And further to rub up your memory for to use your own Words I find it very much bruis'd of late You know I gave you two Books entitled Traitors Transform'd into Martyrs which I told you were wrote by one Dormer upon the Execution of the five Jesuits What weather is it now friend John Here are no less than eight times which are six more than twice and if You consider the Circumstances more than transiently to boot So then that You were privy to the design intended by the Papists against the Kings Life and had made your self an equal Conspirator with them and did discourse with me concerning the Lord Castlemaine is undenyably true Now for further satisfaction I shall refer the Reader to your own Evidence at Mrs. Celliers Tryal where You swear that she desired you to consult your Art to know how long the King would live His Majesty being then sick at Windsor and that she asked You something about me and being ask'd by the Court what that something was You repli'd to get me out of Prison Then being again ask'd by the Court if You did nothing for Cellier at that time when she so earnestly importun'd You to consult your Art about the Kings Life You repli'd You did a Scheme then but since You found it to be for me but You knew not for what it was when you did it Then being ask'd if You could apply one Scheme to any body You replied When Mrs. Cellier came to You she gave You the time of a Persons Nativity and You set the figure of Heaven to that time to know whether he were a Person fit to be trusted to get in mony her Husband being a French Merchant Now what were the remarks of the Court upon these shuffling cutting equivocating answers of yours Why truly that You talk'd as like a Papist as could be That You made all the company laugh c. And pass'd many Sarcasmes upon your baffling discourse which shewed how much they were dissatisfied with the bruises of your memory But to come more particularly to the point You confess that Dame Cellier did desire You to consult your Art how long the King would live Which being so confessed all the world will believe that Mrs. Cellier would not have importun'd You about a business of such a dangerous consequence had she not had a more than an ordinary Conjuring confidence in You. Whence I infer that being so intimately if I may not say desperately engaged with Mrs. Cellier You could not chuse but have seen me more than twice transiently Next You confess you did a Scheme which afterwards you found to be for me to know whether I were fit to be trusted or no to get in old debts A very probable story this This French Merchant Husband to Mrs. Cellier had been broke for many years before and was as poor as a Rat till his industrious Wife found the way to the Plot and yet will any man of Reason believe that two or three hundred pounds should be rais'd and disburs'd to procure my liberty for no other end or purpose than to gather in the debts of a Banckrupt that was some hundreds of pounds worse than nothing and more than this I defie any Man Woman or Child in the world to say to my face that ever I demanded a shilling from them as a Debt to Mrs. Cellier or any Person intrusted for him Ah friend John friend John these are meer flams and stories badly contriv'd and worse put together surely you never consulted the Stars about this But lay your discourse and mine together That I had displeas'd the Lords in the Tower and why your expostulating with me about ingratitude and for what reason Your securing me from danger by the countenance of the Stars and upon what account and then it will appear why Mrs. Cellier was so kind a solcitress for me who they were that had been so liberal and why Then it will appear that you did erect a Scheme for me and that your business was of a higher nature than to trouble the seven Planets and the Dragons Tail about such a silly Question as whether I were fit to be trusted to gather in the sweepings of a Banckrupt's Estate who as such seldom or never have any thing they can call their own Then it will appear or at least be vehemently suspected that you did do a Scheme for the King For Mrs. Cellier was a Woman that would not be flam'd and that you know well enough Mr. John she understood Men and would not keep a correspondency of ten or twelve years with a Conjurer for nothing Then that I may touch you to the Quick compare her letter to me after I was