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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70420	Goodman Country to his worship the city of London	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680? (1680)	Wing L1255B; ESTC R36248	5,748	5

GOODMAN COUNTRY To his Worship The City of LONDON ZIR WE have of late been in a woundy pudder and tattle about your Election of Sheriffs The King we thank him chuses ours to our great content and quiet but it zeems it 's your right and property to chuse yours and we commend you for being so stout and stickling to maintain your Priviledges Nor was it a little joy to us to hear how successful you were in carrying the Cause and that your Battel and Victory was attended with such Houting and Shouting and flourishing of Handkerchiefs that the Gyants in Yeild-Hall never saw the like in all their born We know not well what men you have chosen nor do we much care what they are or what they have been or what they will be or what Party they are of as long as they have money enough to qualifie them for the Office But this we hope they are men for the purpose and will stand stiffly up to preserve our Kings Life Property and Protestant Religion And then bless me and my Dun Cow we care not a Fig for all the Papists in the World For as silly a Clown as I am I love my Liberty and my Protestant Religion and would the Pope and his Agents had been Poxt and bepist when they seduced any of our Volk to Popery And were I Heir to a Crown the old Canting Rogue the Pope should be hang'd before he should wheedle me out of it with the promise of giving me a Heavenly one for it because I know he hath nothing to do there And if I were the Son of a King that was murthered by his Counsel and Contrivance I would see him at the Devil before he should bubble me into his Religion for then I must believe that his killing my Father was no murder and that they died wrongfully who were Executed for having a hand in his Death For our Parson hath often told us that the Pope and his Jesuits hold it lawful to poyson or stab or make away Kings that are Hereticks or Excommunicate The Duce take such a Religion and a Bots on all Rebels and Traytors Now hang me like a Dog if I am not as great a lover of my Protestant Religion as any of you all For my Grand-father and my Father which begot me and bred me up in it were very good Scholards and could write and read and they always told me that I could not have learnt a better Religion in the World for it taught me to be a true Christian a good Man and a Loyal Subject to the King God bless him Besides I am possest of vour or vive Closes which formerly belonged to an Abby and before I will lose my Londs I will cut the Popes throat Zookes I will never change my Religion for that which will kill my King and rob me of my Estate But now Mr. City I must tell your Worship that some Gentry-Volk of your Town tell us strange Stories of you how that you make a woundy noise and buzzle in glorying of your late gained Victory and that you Proudly and Insolently call all the Protestants that go to Church by the names of Church-Papists and Popishly affected Zump what do you mean to do Are you for running down the Popish Plot and will you now disoblige and lose the best friends that ever you had or will have for carrying on such a Cause Did ever men Write and speak Preach and Dispute against the Whore of Babilon at that Rate and with such Success as the Parsons of our Country do And will you call these men Church-Papists I would a Blister had been on that worshipful Godfathers tongue that gave the name of Protestants in Masquerade to our honest Church of England men I am sure whatever the word signifies he meant no good by it And you cannot imagine how much we stomach the Word since we now understand it for say the Learned the first Syllable of Masquerade is Mass and Mass is a Popish word Ergo Masquerade Protestant is a Popish Protestant a most ridiculous nonsensical Invention to render odious all those that worship God in their Parish Churches What if we in retort should say that a Jesuit is a Popish Presbyterian and a Presbyterian is a Protestant Jesuit I think this would not be so absurd as your calling the Church of England-men Popish Protestants No sooner did our Church-wardens and Zidesmen hear that you Mr. City called all them that went to Church by the names of Popishly Affected and Protestants in Masquerade but presently they went and searched the Book of Martyrs that was chained to a Desk in the corner of the Church and there they found that the people that were burnt and hang'd and executed in the bloody Reign of Queen Mary were those that first modell'd and compiled our Protestant Religion in the days of Edward the Sixth or which professed and practised the outward Form of it in their Publick Churches or private Families Nay one of our Zidesmen a parlous fellow at the Statute Book hath often told our Parishioners that Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles were Protestants and that in their Reigns the strongest and best Laws against Popery and for the Establishment and Preservation of the true Protestant Religion were made by such men that went constantly to our Parish Churches to worship God in the same manner that we do in our Town And were these men then both good and true and honest Protestants and now must we be call'd Popishly Affected and Protestants in Masquerade because we worship God after their Example and according to the Laws which they made A Peascod on these villanous Nicknames for you could not have done a greater injury to your selves nor a greater kindness to the Popish Plot than by vilifying that Church which the Papist hates and would rejoice to see ruined Come come leave your madness and fooling and learn to be sober and wise for a Gentry man in our Town hath often said that they are the true English Protestants who profess and practise that Protestant Religion which was established by Law in the time of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles And if it be true which we hear that your Sheriffs Elect have lately been at one of your Parish Churches to hear Common-Prayer and receive the Sacrament according to the Church of England then by your leave Mr. City and according to your own Argument you have chosen two Sheriffs that are Popishly Affected and Protestants in Masquerade Well Sir If you have a mind to weaken the Interest of Protestantism in cutting off from you the best and greatest part of the Nation by such scandalous Characters I am afraid you will afterwards treat them again with blows and bloody Persecution But if you have a longing after a Holy War to fight the Lords Battel Pray keep your Armies within your Lines of Excommunication as

we call them You have a Magazine of Arms and a Bank of Money within your self And therefore if you have a mind to fight Draw your Parties out every morning to Mile-End-Green Moorfields or Islington there let them combat all day and at night receive them that come off alive into your own quarters But be sure you march not one foot out of the Lines of Excommunication For should you come once more into our Parts with your Essex-Garters Orange coloured Scarfs with great Gold Fringe at the end of them you are like to have cold Entertainment and no Lodging for now we have no Cittadels no Castles no Forts nor any Remains of a Town or City Wall to shelter your selves so much as from a shower of Rain And as for Mony alack we have not enough by a great deal to pay our Landlords And as for quartering you in our Villages Inns or Alehouses our last prudent Parliament hath by a Law secured us against you Nay our very women are grown stark mad to hear that there is any cause to fear another Rebellion because that they know upon experience that they shall all then be rifled of their Plate Pewter and Brass their Pigsties and Henroosts robb'd and they and their Daughters ravisht And as for our younger sort they are resolved never to part with their Bodkins Thimbles and silver Spoons because their Sweet-hearts made them swear at the giving of them that they would never more lend such things upon Publick Faith And as for our Landlords though they hate Popery as much as your Worship Mr. City yet they cannot endure to think of rooting it out of England by an Army because they know that their own houses then will at one time or another be exposed to Plunder their Horses stole out of Field or Stables their Coffers broke open Rents run all away into Taxes and they and their Children be sent to beg or serve as Slaves to those that will pity them so much as to give them Bread and Water And I have heard three or vour of our Gentry Volk that wear Velvet Coats on Christmas and Easter-Day zay that if ever an Army of threescore thousand men get into the heart of our Kingdom they may easily conquer it and when it is once conquered they may make all the People their Tenants For where Power is there is Right and Possession saith that Varlet Hobbes And then the Stile of our Petitions will be May it please your Majesty our Sovereign Lord the Army Nor will your Worship Mr. City fare any better for you shall be continually bridled and sadled as well as chain'd Then no Counters Newgate Ludgate or Kings-Bench will be allowed for as fast as men become malefactors or run in debt or break they will presently take refuge under the wings of the Army and live upon Pay and Plunder Nay the very Apprentices if they do not like their Masters will presently run to the Army and be dubb'd Freemen Whatever may be the cause of your Heats and Divisions we are sure that none amongst us clamor and rail against the present Government but the disgusted discontented and indigent persons For we observed in our Towns that the most active and violent men for Petitioning were quondam Committee-Men and Sequestrators and those that were concerned in Crown and Church-Lands and those that were decaying in their Trades for men that have good Estates and thrive in their Callings will never be so mad and foolish to put Government into Confusion and War since they only all men must run the hazard of losing all they have For as the contesting between parties for Superiority in a Nation will at last come to blows and fighting so such a sort of Controversie cannot be maintain'd without Money And as our late unnatural War begat such Taxes and Impositions as England never heard of before so another like War will revive the same or put some men upon inventing others far more grievous and intolerable And then how like fools shall we all look one upon another when we have changed our King and civil Government which secures our Rights Liberties Properties and Priviledges for a Sovereign Lord the Army and the tyranny of the Sword which alwayes plunders a People of these Riches and oppresses them with slavery and bondage Perhaps Mr. City you are not now designing such a thing as this and without a pair of Spectacles you cannot see those that are But if it should come to pass which God forbid then you will say I am a Conjurer and cry A vow to God who would a thought it No doubt but very good and honest men were concern'd in those unhappy affairs of Vorty and Vorty one and had no other inteniton at first but to remove or redress some grievances which they then zaid were in Church and State Yet when these good men went to Reformation how soon were they carried off from the Jack they aimed at by an undiscernable byass that was in the Bowl and unexpected rub in the way And then by the wiles and stratagems of Jesuited Polititians how strangely were they carried to all manner of extravagancies insomuch that they found they could not be safe without being the monsters of Wickedness and Villany And the same restless Spirits and Machiavillian Brains are now at work and unless there be a very speedy prudent and vigilant care taken to cool and moderate the furious temper and fiery zeal of some that are call'd Protestants I dare foretell you will have another civil War and far more bloody than the former It 's no matter who are Presbyterians or Independents or Anabaptists so they be for the Protestant Religion and Interest And as long as they are for that the Church of England-men heartily joyn with them But if these several persuasions to gratifie the Papists and further their designs shall persist to vilifie the Church of England-men by saying they are Popishly affected or Protestants in Masquerade Then the Church of England-men have nothing else to do but to commit their Cause to God and to acquiesce in his Providence with this Declaration to the World That Fire and Fagot will never make them Papists and Sequestration Imprisonment and Death will never force them to be Fanaticks and Rebells Thus wishing you all Peace and Prosperity and to keep out of the need of another Act of Indempnity I rest your Worships true and hearty lover and humble servant Honest Country The Reason why the Country applauds the Cities Choice It is no matter who the City chooses for Sheriffs so they are Protestants and wealthy It is very irrational to change Protestantism for Popery Especially if a man have been bred up in the Protestant Religion and is heir to a good Estate The imprudence of the City in calling the Church of England men Protestants in Masquerade Or saying that they are Popishly Affected Country Church wardens and Sidemen can prove out of the Book of Martyrs and the Statute Law of England that the men of the Church of England are the best and truest sort of Protestants Advice to leave off Nicknames Or else your Sheriffs Elect are Protestants in Masquerade and Popishly Affected Where is the most proper place to manage a rebellious War The Country unfit to entertain a rebellious Army The Country unwilling The Country unable to maintain another Civil War Have a care of making an Army our Sovereign Lord and Tyrant The City utterly undone if they set up an Army None discontented at the present Government but old Committee men Sequestrators Purchasers of Crown and Church Lands and Bankrupts No war without Money and no Money without insufferable Taxes Folly to change a good condition for a bad one The City perhaps doth not intend Tumult and Rebellion But the Papists will drive them to it unless speedily and prudently prevented Lay aside Parties and Factions The Church of England-men are resolved neither to be Papists nor Rebels