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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93529	Some remarks upon a scandalous libel, intituled, The declaration of James Duke of Monmouth, &c.		1685 (1685)	Wing S4604B; ESTC R184454	12,639	15

nere 500 Years which is a sufficient time for our purpose without searching farther into Antiquitie I shall tell you then that the Parliamentaire Representatives of the Nation were chiefly the Barons of England and Knights of the several Shires Counties therein These two remaine with little or no alteration from that time to this and to show how farr the said Knights may be taken at this day for the Representatives of the Common of England I must also Informe you That every Knicht of the sheir is chosen by the Major part of all such Commoners who wish in the said shires or Counties have the value of 40 sh per ann freehold in the said shires or Counties Which priviledge comprehends so great a number of Householders that there are few men excluded besides servants and some farmers who are often times strangers come in unto us And the Election of these Knights of the Shires Counties remains as it anciently was without any alteration Illegal Chartres or any false returns or corrupt means other then what might have been used ever sence their first Institution and may continue to the end of Parls and time Illegal Chartres then have no relation to Knights of the Shires because there neither are nor never were any Chartres in the case and if any false returns have been made or corrupt means used the Parliament it self when fully Assembled is Judge of the right att this day as formerly at any time it had been Thus we see how far Knights of the shires may be representatives of the Commons of England and where the abuses or corrupt means in the choice of them are to be Judg'd and rectifyed The accusation then of Illegal Chartres is applicable to Corporations only which from the Kings Chartres or Grants have received the Priviledge of sending Burgesses or Parl. men to Parliaments To explain this I doe again affirme and I chalenge all the complotters of this Rebellious Declaration to show the contrary that this priviledge of Corporations began not untill the time of King John who reigned about the year of our Lord 1199. Which was nere 140. Yeares after William the Conqueror and who was the founder of many and cald the Patron of all Corporations The Occasion in short was this King John to Ballance the Power of his rebellious Barons erected severall Corporations and out of his meer favour and benevolence granted Chartres to them upon severall Conditons and limitations by which they had the Priviledge of choosing and sending Burgesses to Parl. From hence we must observe these things 1st that this Priviledge of Corporations was noe ancienter then the time of King John and by consequence not a fundamentall part of the English Monarchie which was antecedent so it and the Creator of it 2. This priviledge ever proceeded from the meer grace and benevolence of our Monarchs and lastly that it was granted upon severall conditions which when broken their Chartres were forfaited in Law and their Priviledges ceased And accordingly during this intervall of time the Charters of severall Corporations even that of London it selfe were forfeited suspended and some times taken away This then being the true case of Chartres and Corporations we must next observe That King Charles 2d finding several corporations had notoriously broaken or not performed those conditions by which they held theire Chartres He cites them in a legal way by quo warranto's to trye thire Case at Law whereafter a full hearing even to the content of the parties concern'd with the assistance of the most learned Councel that England afforded as in the case of the Charter of London the verdicts have been given for the King and many other Corporations sensible of there guilt or desirous to have the Conditions of their Charters altered having surrend'red there old Chartres into the hands of the late King His said Majestie out of his meer grace and favour did either confirme the old Chartres or granted new ones with such conditions and limitations as in His Princely Wisdome He thought most fitt according to the undoubted right of King John and the rest of His Royal Progenitors Now by vertue of these Chartres and according to the Powers and Priviledges therein exprest those Corporations have chosen and sent theire Represeutatives or Burgheffes to his present Parl. And this being the exact State of the case I appeal to all men of sence and reason whether these Chartres can be cald Illegal or theire Burgesses being duly chosen according to them a Company of men packt together by corrupt and fraudulent means And this confirms what I att first averd that this present Parl. being the true legal and only Representative of all the true Subjects of England the whole Nation hath by them detested and abhord this traiterous Declaration and all the Rebells concerned in it I come now to the third and last head which contains the false impudent and particular reflections of the late Duke of Moumouth against His Majesties sacred Person in which he is not ashamd like a base villain to call him murderer Assassim Traitor and such-like and instanceth the murder of Sr Edmund Bury Godfrey the death of the late Earl of Essex and that even of the late King His most dearely beloved Brother He mentions also the burning of the city of London and subordination of false witnesses Now let all men of honout and men of arms Judge whether this be like a Declaration of warr upon the pretence of a legal and legitimate right to three Kingdoms or rather the most scurrulous and sawcy Invective of some mean poor spirited railing fellow who shows himselfe at least hereby to be the true Son of that impudent scandalous abandond woman his Mother who after Monmouth was borne became a common strumpett so many Persons now alive whom I know and could name Hold not thy tongue o God of my praise for the mouth of the wicked and the mouthful of deceit are opered upon me They have spoken to me with a lying tongue They compessed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause They have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my friendship let his days be few and let another take his charge let his posteritie he destroyed and in the generation following let theire name bt put out Psal 109. It would be impertinency and great presumption in me should I pretend to answer crimes which are soe farr from being suspected to be true that I am perswaded they are not believed by the Slanderers themselves Besides as the truth of most of these cases hath been legally discover'd and attested soe neither time nor place will permitt me to infert the several tryals and Evidences which have been given in them I am sufficietly convinct That the most unspotted honour and most Royal Heroick generous and pious principles and actions of His present Majestie even to nicenesse It selfe through the whole course and circumstances of his life

and series of His private as well as publick actions are soe notoriously known through the whole world that all Christendome with the Kings and Princes thereof would unanimously concur and beg to become His Compurgators and from theire souls abhorr and detest those most villanous men and worst of Traitors who soe falsly maliciously and sawcily have dar'd to profane the Sacred Caracter of soe Incomparable a Prince but that I may undeceive some Innocent men and strangers to Our Country who it may be have been poysned by the false reports false Oaths and perjuries of these profligate out lawd and insolent Traitors I must humbly beg His Majesties leave that I may speak to two of those particulars of which being my self an eye witnesse to the one and a competent and Impartial Judge of the other I perswade my selfe that according to the truth of these two cases Those who shall peruse these Papers will equally judge of the rest The first is that of the burning of London The beginning of that fire with its growth and progres is now as generally known as its end I shall only their fore say this That being my selfe present most part of the time both by day and by night and a sufferer in that fire as well as my neighbours I had many several occasions to be very nere His present Majestie then Duke of York and I doe testifie That His diligence care and pains in stopping that dreadful fire was almost equal to any particular sufferer in it That His compassion and affliction for its progres both in words and actions seemd soe great as if He Himselfe had been the only Sufferer and His advice in quenching those flames soe pressing and soe reasonable that had not mens fears outrun theire dangers or had His advice been vigorously followed in all moral probabilitie they had put a much earlier stop to that vast conflagration and all honest men are throughly and fully convinct that His then Royal high the Duke of York did no more directly or indirectly contrive as they call it the burning of the City of London then of the soe much celebrated Temple of Diana soe many thousand of yeares sence at Ephesus The second case Is the poysning His Majestie of bless'd memorie Indeed the horror of soe damd and false an accusation with the stupendious inveterate malice of Jams Scott late Monmouth and his most accursed associates doth almost confound my thoughts and stop my pen However I must say in general That had it pleas'd God Almighty in his great mercy to us to have sent an Angel from heaven and assured us that he would take in his due time His late Majestie from us but by a death soe natural that there should not be the least circumstantialt conjecture of violence I dare be bold to affirme that the witt of man could not have found out or desired a kind of death more natural and free from the suspicions of humane malice then that of the late King In particular the manner of the Kings being taken with the first fitt was Apoplectical the Effects Apoplectical the Method and cure of his first fitt by Cupping Scarifying and suchlike accordng to the rules of art in those cases answerd Apoplectical indications the lettle distortion of this Mouth and failing in His speech Apoplectical every circumstance soe much Apoplectical that His last fitt was plainly and truly for told Him according to the Nature of such Apoplexies many hours before their was any outward appearance of the fitt His Body when opend His gutts vitals brains and All were soe farr from showing the least suspicion of poyson that they sufficiently declared an Apoplexie the unanimous concurrance of all his Phisitians pronounc't a natural death And were all these circumstances with many more insufficient to prouve the same yet the soft hearthy tears alone of that Undaunted Hero King James the second would convince Opinias trite and incrudulite it selfe thatt was impossible He should with soe much sorrow lamant a Death which as they urge He not only had desird but contrived whilst the Hypocrisie of the bravest of men must have exceeded the vile dissembling art of the most mercinary slave And I defye Brinvillers were she now alive with all the art of Indian or Siciliane Poysoners to invent a dose which should soe fully in all points Circumstances resemble such a natural Apoplexie as that which caried off our late Blessed Soveraigne I have only one objection to answer which how frivolous soever it be yet since it is particular and believed by some men I beg leave to speak to it they say then that when the late King perceved he was poysned he should with great passion utter these words Good Lord what have they done unto me Now as some circumstantial truths have been ever mingled with material falshood like leafe gold over bitter pills to make them passe the better soe I must ingeniosluy confesse that I have heard His Majestie should have spoken some such words as those but good God upon how different an occasion from what it is now applyed I have been credibbly then told that after the King was recouvered from his first fitt in which his Chyrurgeons had cupt Him sacrifyed and cutt him upon the shoulders and other parts the King not knowing what had past whilst He was sencelesse and feeling at last the smart and pain of those wounds which in His fitt he had received being surprised at what he had not felt before should say some such words as those Good Lord what have they done unto me Thus we see Innocencye brought to support the fowlest malice and truth it selfe enjag'd to confirme the most accursed lye Yet notwithstanding all this James Duke of Monmouth declares he will prosecute James Duke of York as he calls His present Majestie for the aforesaid villanous and unnatural crime in pursuance of a vote torevenge the Kings death upon Papists he shoold have said for such was the vote in case he came to an untimely end until he hath brought Him to suffer what the laws adjudged to be the punishment of soe execrable a fact and in a particular manner being deeply sensible of that barbarous and horrid parricide committed upon his father doth resolve to persue the said James Duke of York as a mortall and bloody Enemie and will endeavour as well by his own hand as by the assistance of his friends and the law to have Justice executed upon him Gently gently yong man and put not your selfe into passion dog days are coming on and if you heat your blood too much phlebo to my in the Jugular veyne will prove your only cure But to be serious Never was villanous cause supported by a more sutable argument one of the most glorious Princes and worthiest of all mankind must be hectord thus and suffer if they could compasse it for an Imaginary crime which was never committed by any mortall besides themselves in their