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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55631	A postscript to the Observators first volume, or, The answer of Miles Prance to several of those papers wherein he finds himself most traduced and slandered with some notes to be added to Observator Numb. 8 of the 2d volumn [sic].	Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing P3175; ESTC R28157	35,305	24

Religion at all I Confess I have seen him sometime since he was questioned about being a Papist at his Parish-Church and once met him at the Blessed Sacrament to which he came under such Circumstances as might justly make any sensible man tremble but I have not met with any of the Parish that can say That they ever saw him at Sacrament or Church in times past though he had liv'd I believe a dozen years before the Discovery of the Popish Plot in that Parish But it will be objected There is a Book with my Name to it and wherein this Affidavit of mine is recited and the Title L'Estrange a Papist The Matter of the Book I own but that Title was added by the Book-Seller for all the Title I intended was Depositions and Animadversions upon Roger L'Estrange Esq as evidently appears under my Hand on the left-Hand Page of the Title and in the first Page of the Book and in several places of the Animadversions and expresly fol. 18. in these Words Whether Mr. L'Estrange be a Papist or no I will not determine The other Affidavits there mentioned are as follow Midd. ss THE Information of Lawrence Mowbray taken upon Oath the 25 th of October 1680 Before the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Craven two of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County This Deponent saith That about the first or second Sunday in June 77. An Acquaintance of one Anderson which Anderson was Servant to Mr. Allabon in Grays-Inn being with him in the Queens-Chappel saluted immediately after Mass a Person whom he told this Deponent was Mr. L'Estrange who Licensed Books This Deponent saith that he hath once since seen the said Mr. L'Estrange at Mass in the Queens-Chappel and saw him to be the same Man he formerly saw there This Affidavit was voluntarily made by Mr. Mowbray and I knew nothing that be would or could swear it till he had done it The Information of Richard Fletcher of St. Vedast alias Foster London Physician Who saith That about 3 years ago he met Roger L'Estrange Esq at the Half-Moon Tavern in Cheap-side about Licensing a Book Intituled The Works of Geber an Arabian Prince and Philosopher and gave Mr. L'Estrange a Guiney for his License and a Discourse happening about Religion Mr. L'Estrange asked of what Religion this Informant was Who answered A Catholick L'Estrange Replyed Are you a Roman Catholick This Informant answered That was Nonsence Catholick being Vniversal and not to be Circumscrib'd Then L'Estrange bid this Informant explain himself I answered That Faith that wrought the Fear of God and to do Righteously doth declare those that are of the Catholick Church which I take to be the Church of England Mr. L'Estrange then declared himself to be a Catholick of Rome and to believe the Faith of that Church and told this Informant that his Definition was too large This Informant then asked the said L'Estrange Whether the Pope were the Head of that Church of which he acknowledged himself a Member Who answered He was and hoped e're long many others would return to that Church or to that effect and further saith not This Mr. Fletcher was to me altogether a Stranger nor can I imagine why he should come in to Testifie such a thing if it were not true but for my own part 't is plain I swore no such matter as that Mr. L'Estrange was a Papist nor will I trouble my self about it at his own everlasting Peril be it There is yet another Scandal brought Observator Numb 226 with this Title Prance Cures the Kings-Evil where he tells a Story That I offering a Woman a Pint of Wine should tell her she had the Evil and Sware by G I had Cured several Families my self of that said Evil by the great Faith I have in the King that I could do any thing at Court and that if she had ever a Neighbour she would oblige I would see it done And then should say to her Come prithee let me stroke thee a little c. Now suppose it had been true that I had play'd the Fool to talk at this rate yet I conceive it would not have been absolutely necessary to the preservation either of Church or State that Mr. L'Estrange should take the pains to Print it But the whole Truth was thus I and my Wife and some Neighbours being at the Horse-shoe a Woman that was also a near Neighbour happening to come in I askt her to drink she began to complain to my Wife how she was troubled with the Evil I advised her to be touched by his sacred Majesty which she said had been done I replyed then I doubted you have not Faith but for my own part I verily believe that thousands by that means have received Cure and thereupon told her how once an acquaintance of mine that was of a contrary Opinion and had argued against me as if there were nothing in it but conceit it pleased God soon after to visit Him his Wife and Child all with the same Disease then he was willing to apply himself to His Majesties healing Hands and I was an instrument to facilitate their access and they were all three in a very short time after Cured which Relation is a known Truth and the Parties still living to justifie it Therefore I told the Woman she should have Faith this was all that pass'd my Wife and several others being all the while there There was no swearing no boasting that I had Cured several Families my self or that I would do any thing at Court nay nor no Kissing nor no stroking in the case so that here are at least five notorious Lies all on a heap in one Column and yet the Challenges the World to instance his mistakes in 470 Papers But it may be the Informer was to blame for a dull Tool of a Razor-maker happening to be in Company tho' he drank most of the White Wine call'd for by the Woman yet refusing to pay his Club was taxt for spunging who in revenge 't is like ran to Mr. L'Estrange with a Tale and added as much as his sorry invention could furnish and the Man of Observations the rest Now who can but blush to see a Gentleman of his Parts and Figure a man of the Age of threescore and ten or thereabouts if not upward a Person that besides Quevedo and Politicks has read Seneca's Morals and Cardinal Bona to see I say such an one spending the last minutes of his Life in blowing of Sope bubbles in exercises more Childish but only somewhat more mischievous than Taw and Span-farthing and in making himself a Common Pack-Horse to bring to Town two or three times a Week in Form and Method the idle Tales of every malicious Cockscomb and in Printing Stories that carry neither Truth nor Salt with them but would be a Disgrace to the very Conversation of a Gossiping And now I thought as in pag. 35. I had done