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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87890	Goodman Country: to his worship the city of London.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1255A; ESTC R230775	5,767	4

GOODMAN COUNTRY To his Worship The City of LONDON ZIR The Reason why the Country applauds the Cities Choice 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 Yield-Hall never saw the like in all their born It is no matter who the City chooses for Sheriffs so they are Protestants and wealthy 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 It is very irrational to change Protestantism for Popery 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 Especially if a man have been bred up in the Protestant Religion and is heir to a good Estate 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 The imprudence of the City in calling the Church of England men Protestants in Masquerade Or saying that they are Popishly Affected 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 Successas 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 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 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 Advice to leave off Nicknames Come come leave your madness and fooling and learn to be sober and wife 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 Or else your Sheriffs Elect are Protestants in Masquerade and Popishly Affected And if it