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A47806 L'Estrange his appeal humbly submitted to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the three estates assembled in Parliament; Appeal humbly submitted to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the three estates assembled in Parliament L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1681 (1681) Wing L1202; ESTC R13428 24,333 40

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only by the same Hand and Fate with the King and with the Church but for their very sakes too In this Mercenary Crew of Beastly Libellers there 's one little Creature among the rest that serves as a Common Instrument to the Faction And that which They put into his mouth the Fore-part of the week he commonly throws Out again upon the Government and all that Love it toward the End on 't There is not perhaps so Insolent a Libell permitted upon the face of the Earth where ever Christianity or Good manners set footing so Profane Scurrilous and Seditious nor has the pretended Authour of it any other Protection for his Crimes then the Obscurity of his Person for there is no Touching of him without fouling a man's Fingers And yet to let him see now that I am not absolutely a stranger to his History For several years he never knew what it was to sleep but in a Cellar or in a Garret saving now and then in his Beer upon a Bulk In the days of his Prosperity he was receiv'd into the House of a Boyling Cook where he spung'd out a poor Livelyhood upon the Fragments of a Three penny-Ordinary but his Conversation was yet more Reproachful then his Quality and Fortune Whosoever doubts the Truth of This needs but go into Salisbury-Court to be better enform'd Is not the World at a fine Passe now when such Fellows as This shall come to hold the Ballance of Empires To trample the Crown and the Miter under their feet To Charge his Majesty himself with a Confederacy for the bringing in of the French King and Popery as I am ready to Prove he has done To expose the Episcopacy and the Papacy under the same Notion promiscuously to the Hatred and Contempt of the Common People To make sport with the very Badge of our Profession That TOOL the CROSSE as the Buffoon calls it To Canton out the Nobility and Gentry into what Tribes They please as Fools and Knaves Papists and Traytors Courtiers and Pensioners The Egyptian Locusts were nothing to This Plague of our English Scarabs that devour not only the Fruit but the Honour of the Land and render the English Nation as much as in Them Lyes a Laughing-stock to all our Neighbours round about us It is not that I am angry with Harry Care for the delicate Back-strokes he gave me in Prances last Narrative by his Invention for the setting up of a Correspondence betwixt Mrs. Cellier and my self a Person whose Face I never saw in my whole Life that I know of till before the Couneell about a week or ten days after the publishing of That Book 'T is true it was as false and as shamelesse a Contrivance as Possible But why should I expect better from him when God Allmighty has Written the Signature of what he is in the very Visage of the Animal Now as to the Pretended Reasons of these Wretches Rancor against me First they say that I began with them Secondly that I have been pertetually Harping upon one and Forty and the Rebellion of One and Forty without any Ground or Provocation for either It must be my part now to shew that I have never put pen to paper yet but either in my own Defence or in the Vindication of the Publique The First Reflection I past upon any man was upon Care for Libelling me in the Epistle Dedicatory to his Histiory of the Damnable Popish Plot. I have already layd open the Malice and the Sillynesse of That Imposture against me and I have said something like-wise to the Venom of that pittifull Pamphlet against the Government Especially Page 91 where he borrows no lesse then a whole Page of Libell against the King from a sheet intitled a Letter to a Friend in the Country which 't is sayd was the work of a better hand From This time forward I was ply'd with Fresh Calumnyes which have given me fresh and fresh Occasion still of Writing to clear my self As to the Other point of pressing the business of One and Forty more than needed I must Appeal to the Pieces themselves which I have publisht My Reformed Catholick was written with a Design to Unmask the Fallacy of Imposing upon the People under the Name of Dissenting Protestants a kind of Contradiction to the Protestant Religion which is by Law Establisht and to Expound the meaning of several Quaeres and Proposals that were Then Printed to deter People from chusing Men that had either any Relation to the King or Kindness for the Church into the Next Election I shall refer the Reader for further Satisfaction in This Particular to Page 9. and so from p. 21. to p. 27 where there are several Instances of Libels Printed at That time that fell little short of downright Treason In my Free-born Subject p. 14. and so forward there are several Instances likewise of the same Quality My Answer to the Appeal was more directly upon the Subject and after That I wrote A seasonable Memorial expresly to lay open the Arts and Methods by which the Glorious City of London was formerly betrayed to slavery and Faction the very same Practices being at That time promoted by some particular Persons and attempted over again My Two Dialogues of Cit and Bumpkin were as I have said already Composed for the Undeceiving of those Credulous People that had been Unhappily misled by the Insinuations of That accursed Libel called The Appeal My Letter to Mr. Oate's was founded upon Mr. Oates's Discovery and only a more vigorous Emprovement of His Evidence toward the Rooting out of all Priests and Iesuits out of the Land by such ways and means as do naturally arise from the Reasons of his Depositions And I have done This too with all due Deference and Respect to the Kings Witness●s as well as to the Plot notwithstanding Mr. Oate's scandalous and undeserved Revilings of me which might perhaps have stagger'd some man less considerate than my self at least in some part of his Duty especially falling so bitterly withal upon the Memory of a Person for whose Holy Ashes I have so great a Veneration LAUD says he was a RASCAL and a TRAYTOR and This he said over and over and without any manner of Provocation Without running into any more Particulars This has been the Case of my Affair from on end of it to the other But to come now from the pretended Cause of their malice to me to the Cause it self I have liv'd long enough in the World to understand in some measure both Men and Books and that popular Passions are mov'd by popular Discourses as the VVaves of the Sea are by the Power of the VVinds. It is the First Office of Political Pamphlets or Treatises in all Cases of Design upon any Eminent Alteration of State to possess the People with fals Notions about the Original the Nature and the Ends of Government and so to train