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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30775	The plagiary exposed, or, An old answer to a newly revived calumny against the memory of King Charles I being a reply to a book intitled King Charles's case, formerly written by John Cook of Grays Inn, Barrister, and since copied out under the title of Collonel Ludlow's letter / written by Mr. Butler, the author of Hudibras.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1691 (1691)	Wing B6327; ESTC R2421	17,467	26

THE PLAGIARY EXPOSED OR AN Old Answer TO A Newly revived Calumny Against the MEMORY of King CHARLES I. Being a REPLY To a BOOK intitled King Charles's CASE Formerly written by Iohn Cook of Grays Inn Barrister and since Copied out under the Title of Collonel Ludlow's LETTER Written by Mr. Butler the Author of Hudibras LONDON Printed for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard M DC XCI PREFACE TO THE READER THE Publisher of this following Discourse has thought fit to oblige the World with a piece of Curiosity it was penn'd above forty years since by the ingenious and celebrated Author of Hudibras The Libel which he answers was the Labour of one John Cook Barrister of Grays Inn formerly a great pains-taker in the Mysteries of Rebellion To give you the original of it 't was a studied Invective against the Person of King Charles I. before the High Court of Iustice so called of infamous memory but upon the non-pleading of the Royal Martyr 't was afterwards metamorphos'd into a Pamphlet with the specious Title of King Charles ' s Case or an Appeal to all rational Men concerning his Tryal How rational this Appeal was may be easily discover'd from those numerous Fallacies and notori●us Falshoods which our Author has detected in him not only as to what concerns plain matter of fact but also in the Pamphleteer's pretended way of reasoning false Logick and worse Law I shall not enter into the merits of the Cause for I suppose the more rational part of Mankind is abundantly satisfied in the Innocency of that Great Man as to any thing that was laid to his charge and upon that account indeed these would have been little occasion at this time of day to produce so great an Advocate for his Memory but that there is risen amongst us a new Race of the old Republican Stamp who have reviv'd the Quarrel and copied out the obsolete and almost forgotten Scandal of our Libeller and made it their own The Author of Ludlow's Letter may be reckon'd amongst the first of these one that always sat up for a Patron of Faction and a Promoter of the Good Old Cause but shew'd himself most in that famous year when he was one of the Tribunes of the People I should not have made such a Digression upon this worthy Patriot but that I find him to intrude amongst his Friends Mr. Milton and our Libeller and seems to be the very copy of their Malice at least tho not their Wit and for that reason I must confess he seems to be least pointed at by our Answerer I shall say no more of him at present but pass him by with the same Contempt as the Government has wisely done 't is but unseasonable quarrelling with a Man that is arm'd with so much dirt you 'll be sure of that if you have nothing else I need not trouble the Reader with any Harangue upon our Author or his Book I suppose he is no stranger to the honester and more learned part of the Kingdom and as for the rest 't was their best security they were not knwon by him I shall only add that it was Mr. Butler's design to Print the Discourse himself had not Death prevented him and since it has fell into the Editor's hands 't is but a piece of Iustice to his Memory to let the World make their Advantage of it Mr. COOKE HAVING lately seen a Book of yours which you are pleased to call King CHARLES his Case or an Appeal to all Rational Men concerning his Tryal I was much invited to read it by the Ingenuity promised in your Title For having heard you Stile your self Solicitor General for the Kings Dread Sovereign and your own Honourable Client the People I was much taken with your impartiality that not only exempts all Rational Men from being your Clients in this Case in making them by your Appeal your Judges for no Man you know can be Judge in his own Case but acknowledge your High Court from which your Appeal to all Rational Men to consist of no such But indeed I had not read many lines before I found mine own Error as well as yours and your Proceedings nothing agreeable to the plain dealing I expected from you for you presently fall to insult upon the unhappiness of your undeserved Adversary and that with so little moderation as if you strove to make it a question whether his incomparable Patience or your own ungoverned Passion should be the greater wonder of Men preposterously concluding him Guilty before with one Syllable you had proved him so A strange way of doing Justice which you endeavour to make good by a strange insolent Railing and more insolent proceeding to the secret Counsel of Almighty God from whence you presume to give Sentence on him a boldness no less impious than unjust in you were it true since you can never know it to be so But indeed it is hard to say whether you have shewn more Malice or Vanity in this notable Declaration of yours for he that considers the Affectation and fantastique Lightness of your Language such as Ireland a Land of Ire Bite-Sheep for Bishops and other such ingenious Elegancies of quibble must needs confess it an Oratory more becoming a Fool in a Play or Peters before the Rabble than the Patron of his Sovereigns Sovereign or the gravity of that Court which you say right wisely shall be admired at the Day of Judgment And therefore you do ill to accuse him of reading Iohnsons and Shakespears Plays which should seem you have been more in your self to much worse purpose else you had never hit so right upon the very Dialect of their railing Advocates in which believe me you have really out acted all that they could fansie of passionate and ridiculous Outrage For certainly Sir I am so charitable to believe it was your Passion that imposed upon your Understanding else as a Gentleman you could have never descended to such peasantry of Language especially against such a Person to whom had he never been your Prince no Law enjoyns whatsoever his Offences were the punishment of Ribaldry And for the Laws of God they absolutely condemn it of which I wonder you that pretend so much to be of his Counsel should be either so ignorant or forgetful Calamity is the Visitation of God and as Preachers tell us a favour he does to those he loves where-ever it falls it is the work of his Hand and should become our Pity not our Insolence This the Antient Heathen knew who believing Thunder came from the Arm of God reverence the very Trees it lighted on But your Passion hath not only misled you against Civility and Christian Charity but Common Sense also else you would never have driven your Chariot of Reason as you call it so far out of the Road that you forget whither you are going and run over every thing that stands in your way I mean your unusual way of