or some such Place he is yours dear Sir I pray take him to you and if he has any Hairs growing on the Palms of his Hands you may safely swear by the Lady of Loretto's old cast Smock that he is an honest Scot and as fit for your turn as the Deel can make him I have much wondred he did not face about in your Brother's time he might and would have serv'd to join with old Maple-face in the Trade of Book-cutting and have given you a Scots Palm for a tickling Sum and that in a more decent way than the Irish Bogtrotter did but the Truth of it is he was as one born out of due time for he came not into your Villanous Cause till Hanging came in fashion on your side and so he was forced for a time to take up his Quarters at the old College he has been an eminent Confessor but has not yet arrived at Martyrdom but in good time the Gallows may have its Due and then good night poor Robin the most excellent Manager of my Lady Wilkinson's Books I sometimes see Tumbledown Dick that is a pretty Fellow I assure you and very well shaped for he is almost as thick as he is long and very acceptable to your villanous Party and understands something of Heraldry as he pretends you put him into a pretty Imployment and made him a Colonel and he would have been Governour of a certain Place but was prevented by a seasonable Imprisonment tho the Rascal never understood any thing of military Discipline but what he learned from a certain Bookseller's Boy with whom he would have been very familiar but the Boy escaped his Love so that my Gentleman had not the Understanding requisite for a good Souldier He was once a Professor of a great deal of English Truth but your Brother and you had a cogent way of bringing over such Cattel to your Cause and Interest There was a Gentleman he would have been sweet upon but he courteously refused the Compliment notwithstanding the Offer of a good Place in the Band of Pensioners and the Enjoyment of his Wife into the Bargain I see him rump along the Court of Requests and straddle like a Pair of Compasses over a Map but looks as if he could not say bough to a Goose He hath sworn to this Government but you know that is nothing to him that could turn a Rogue get a good Place and had turned Papist to hold it had he not been prevented by the coming of our Protestant King for he can turn any thing nay I question not but if he could regain his lost Place he would be a true Williamite and would not for the best Jack of small Beer Whitehall can afford him quit it tho your Life and the â—â—ar Life of the Bookseller's Boy lay upon it I once called upon him for his Testimony to the Truth of Fact but the Villain having without reason abandon'd it forswore himself and so let him go like a Rogue as he is for he that once espoused an honest Cause without a Principle might quit it without a Reason Tho he hath sworn to this Government as several have done he is as much your humble Servant as the best of 'em all and looks very sorrowfully to see his Friends hang so decently and not yet see the desired Effect of so hopeful a Plot. But old Nick and John of Kent can never make him leave his old Conundrums unless the Bookseller's Boy now he is somewhat mannish do buffet him to some purpose this may chance to lay the Devil that hath been sometimes very unruly He is something older than when you left him but his long Face is just where it was and would be as ready to sneer upon you as ever I pray Sir send for him and let him have the Blessing of your Company I understand that when our honest Feversham-men met with you in your intended Passage to France they did not only make you show your Shapes but compelled you to part with your Gold in this lamentable Adventure your Friends say you lost your Crucifix which had in it a Piece of the Wood of the Cross on which our Saviour suffered truly I am mighty sorry for your Loss it seems you are more sensible of the Loss of that Relick than of the three Crowns you for a short time usurped Alas good Man what shall we do to make up this great Loss to you for a Piece of that Cross may easily be worth thirteen Crowns for ought I know But you may see what a trusty Card you had of Odescalchi that he did not furnish you with a Cross since for his Religion and the French Interest you parted with your Crown But now I think on 't I can tell how you may be supplied I understand you are going to Rome and if you repair to St. John of Lateran that was dedicated to St. Silvester a Pope God wot there is a good Gobbet of Christ's Cross where you may have a good Sliver for one of your Irish Crown Pieces and if the Rogues should be sawcy and refuse your Money because it is Brass then I pray repair to the Church of St. Eustathius and there you may be fitted with a Piece to your Heart 's Content where is a considerable Quantity and very good Penny worths may be had but those Rogues it may be may be stubborn and not make you as welcome as you made them the you had old Hodg with you to fiddle them into a good Humour But rather than you should want a good Piece of Wood what think you if we sent a Piece of Tyburn Tree or a Piece of the Pillory I stood upon in â—our time Or if that will not do what think you of a Piece of your Father's Scaffold or of Sir John Fenwick's Come come if you can't meet with what you would you must take what you can If you would send Scotch Robin he might as easily rob some Church or other for the Good of yours or his own Soul as he cheated Madam Wilkinson of her Books If you once get to Rome you may be furnished with Crosses enough but where you will find a Crown God knows unless it be one of Thorns and there you may meet with good Store It may be honest Robin may be afraid to steal then I think you may send him to beg a Piece â—â— this Cross you make such a Stir about I could be content you had a House full of Crosses so we were certainly shear'd clear of you and your Villains But what need you make such a Stir for a little Cross when you have my old Landlady so near you If that good Lady has not been a great Cross to you the Devil 's in the Dice but in my poor Judgment you had more need get clear of these Articles if you can and get a good Name if possible than go whining about for a lowzy Cross I have offered you my Thoughts
which means in a great measure they lost their old brave English Courage When our Seamen grow Effeminate and lose that Courage which with God's Blessing made them victorious England is but in a lamentable Condition 7. You punished or at least discountenanced such Officers as stood for the Honour of the Flag How often did the French refuse it And when some Broad-sides were exchanged and the French came off by the Lee their Ambassador used to complain and the Captain was severely check'd if not turned out For you were converted to such a Degree of Zeal to the French King that we must lose the Dominion of the Seas rather than the Holy Alliance with that Monster should in the least be intrenched and in the Private League your Brother made with that King the Business of the Flag was not mentioned and how indifferent your Brother and you were in the Case when it was in relation to the French is not yet forgotten Article XXV YOU stand charged with refusing the Test that was provided by Parliament and passed tho very unwillingly by your Brother to prevent Popery Truly we could not but laugh in our Sleeves when we saw your self with a sort of Irish Magnanimity quit your great Imployments for a Religion that makes Men Fools and renders them as the Sport of the Age But great Examples go a great way in such Cases When the Popish Party saw your Resolution to quit all rather than your Religion scarce worth the keeping several of them took up the Cross and quitted their Imployments also rather than be false to your Cause and Interest They did not do as your Brother did retain the Popish Religion and yet ever and anon to get a little Money of the Parliament was content to pass a Bill or emit a Proclamation or two to the Prejudice of that Religion his Soul was most affected with if with any Alas good Man he was for securing the main Chance If he had not complied for a little Money the Noble Fleet at Whitehall must have lain by the Walls without rigging to the great Disparagement of the old Trade of Whoring But as for your part you were resolved to give up your self to Rome and the French King which you could not have done if you had swallowed the Test Therefore as a great piece of Self-denial away go all Imployments by which you had ruined the Nation for you question'd not but to carry on your Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion and Interest by the help of your good and loving Brother notwithstanding your acquittal of them And 1. You engaged the French King to a closer Friendship with you by which you were sure not only of his Interest but his Purse to assist you against your Enemies and his even that Parliament that advanced this new State-Purgatory in opposition to you and your cursed Villains by which they had declared themselves the French King 's and your mortal Enemies who both of you drove on so furiously to have that Parliament dissolved in revenge for their laying such a Stumbling-block in the way of your Self and Party For as long as these Purgatory-makers were in being it was scarce possible for you to subdue the Northern Heresy that had so long domineer'd in the World And he and you proposed by that Method to be put into such a Condition as should enable you to give the Protestant Religion such a Blow as it had not received since its first Birth and to give you your due your Design of ruining the Protestant Religion was not ill laid and had you not over-done your Design would not have been so soon undone 2. By your not taking the Test you engaged a Party of Case-hardned Villains to espouse your Cause and Interest and for true proof of their Integrity they entered with you into a strict Conspiracy against our Religion Laws and Liberties For seeing they had met with such a terrible Blow from that Parliament they were resolved to try what they could recover by way of Reprisal from the Dutch and hoped some good would come of continuing the War with them but finding themselves defeated there you and they resolved with the gracious Consent of your Brother that England it self rather than fail should be made a Reprisal Which Design prospered so well upon your Hands that you went on as merrily as might be in your Plous Work and accordingly exposed the Nation to the Fury of the French And had old Clifford had the Grace not to have hang'd himself he would have appeared a very deserving Person and eminent in that Holy Confederacy However you did not fail of your Enterprize in some measure of ruining the Nation because of the Protestant Purgatory that was found out for its Service tho you could not find such a one in all your Romish Library 3. By this Example you engaged a great number of Priests and Jesuits to infest the Kingdom in order to storm the Church of England and would have ravished her poor Gentlewoman had she not held up her Smock to save them the trouble and these Varlots with the Argument of your Stedfastness to the Catholick Religion perverted very many of the lewder sort of People both Male and Female And seeing such a Number brought into your Ark you used to say you doubted not of an Army of Roman Catholicks to establish the Popish Religion 4. You made these Villains thus perverted so bold and daring that they drove on with such Fury as it was scarce possible for a Protestant that was any ways known to be zealous for his Religion and for the Interest of his Country to walk near Whitehall or St. James's without the danger at least of being affronted or beaten Whence it was that even that Purgatory-making Parliament thought they had not done enough to expel that Religion whose Professors in all Kingdoms stuck at nothing to establish their Superstition and to that End have troubled the Peace of the Christian World and had at that time by your espousing their Cause sufficiently strengthned as was feared their villanous Party to the overthrow of the Protestant Interest but resolved to use farther means to prevent the Practices of these Rascals that were so notoriously wicked as not any longer to be born One would have thought this Purgatory-Act should have done the Business yet it was backt with a multitude of Gracious Assurances to the Nation from your Brother a Person of great Integrity and Honour in his Promises to maintain and defend the Protestant Religion for a Testimony whereof observe and remember that the Cliffordian and French Designs were carried on notwithstanding the Test-Act in 1673 74 75 76 77 and part of 78 in as pernicious tho different manner from your first Design whose Method you were forc'd to change by reason of that Act which was so made as to execute it self And the Means of introducing that Religion seeming then at a stand you thought of a new Project
9. Your Pensioners finding there was no War made against France in pursuance of the said Act and that the Army was a great Grievance to the Nation gave six hundred and odd thousand Pounds to disband them yet with that Money you rather augmented your Forces and kept up your Army to the great hazard of the Peace of the Kingdom Nay Sir in a word to order the Money in a Bill so as to prevent its being embezeled was argument enough to make it miscarry for you chose rather to go without it than it should be appropriated to any particular use 10. The Pensioner Parliament having been your Drudges for eighteen Years and beginning to have their Eyes a little too much opened it was high time to part with them therefore having granted the aforesaid Sum of 600 and odd thousand Pounds to disband the Army and the additional Duty upon Wines for three Years and being that Sessions disposed to give no more Money your Brother having sworn on the 29th of December laying his Sacred Hands upon Portsmouths bare B for the greater solemnity of the Business that he would dissolve the Parliament came to the House on Monday the 30th of December 1678 and prorogued them to the 4th of February but on the 25th of January that Parliament was by Proclamation dissolved and the same Day Writs issued out for the Meeting of a new one at Westminster the 6th of March following which was just forty Days between the Test and Return This Parliament being sat down and finding the Army was a great Grievance to the Nation and like to be of fatal Consequence if maintained passed a Bill for the raising one hundred and ninety odd thousand Pounds to disband it and tho this was but a new Parliament yet they understood your Brother's old Practices and yours too of putting the Monies to uses never intended by Parliament and therefore resolved never to trust you any more in the Matter of Money for as this was the least Tax so it was the last that ever your Brother saw from any Parliament in his Reign 11. Another demonstration of the Point in hand was the immense Sums Chiffinch and the Privy Purse issued out for those Uses the Parliament never intended who design'd the Money they had so freely given to defray the publick Charge of the Nation but since Chiffinch had the disposal of so much why did not the Parliament give that Rascally Pimp and the Whore his who was Whore and Papist enough as well as a Dutchess to serve you Sir a swinging Sum for their extraordinary Occasions for they were both Labourers in this Vineyard And truly the work of the Night lying upon their Hands somewhat too hard they took in a Rogue that was a Fellow-labourer with them till the Death of Charles II. And who had the gracious Opportunity of robbing his Closet we cannot tell but old Chiffinch if alive could and Sir if you will have it examined who robb'd yours I believe a little Matter might find you out the Man I have seen the Rogue go to Chappel-Prayers now Mass is out of Fashion as devoutly as any Pimp or Bawd about Whitehall ever did in yours or your Brother's Time But Sir you may see the just Judgment of Almighty God upon you for as you joined with your Brother and a parcel of thorow-pac'd Rogues to embezle the Nation 's Money to support a Crew of Pimps Bawds Whores and Traitors Cutthroats and Murderers so your grand Pimp and his villanous Deputy embezled 〈◊〉 your Brother and you intrusted him or them with to other Uses and Purposes than ever you intended for how Chiffinch could acquire such an Estate honestly since his way of living was so profuse I cannot tell unless by these Courses and whether that little scabby Rascal could attain to the Estate he has without fingering some of your Jewels when you did us the Honour to leave us I pray Sir let us join together to examine if we carry our Cause it may for ought I know be a Travelling Penny in your Pocket when you leave St. Germaini Article XXIII YOUR Brother and you joined together to have all the Laws made against the Popish Priests and Jesuits suspended Truly Sir there need not many Arguments to satisfy the Nation of the Truth of this Charge For 1. What Numbers came into the Realm notwithstanding the many severe Laws made against them in the Times of Queen Elizabeth and James I. and that not secretly but barefacedly owning themselves to be such 2. How many taken up by your Brother's Warrant in Rose-Alley in Holborn and other Places were discharged contrary to all Law and the common Practice thereof 3. How many were protected by the Queen Dowager and entertained as if they were in her Service which she could not have done had not you and your Brother withheld the Laws from being executed against them 4. Those that did not know your Brother's and your Religion apprehending some of these Priests were well chid by you and several of them that owed Money you set their Creditors upon to their utter Ruin 5. If the Justices in the Countrey did according to their Oaths and Duty attempt the putting the Laws in Execution that were made to prevent England being overstock'd with that sort of Vermine were they not turned out with this Brand of being disturbers of the Peace of the Government Witness Mr. Arnold Mr. Scudamore cum multis aljis 6. If any of your Brother's Whores Pimps or Bawds or yours were pleased to turn Papist to oblige you and continue in your Favour had not they leave to keep a stiff-rump'd Priest or so to help them in their great Affairs of procuring a Catholick By-Whore or Whores with whom through Confession they were acquainted And Sir did they not pimp at a more reasonable Rate than Chiffinch or his Deputy did in order to promote the Catholick Cause 7. Did you not support and maintain a great number of them to the Tune of eighteen Pence a Day at St. James's for the Service of your Italian Comrade at the Expence of the Publick for secret Service And what secret Service they did Mrs. Junipor can tell I suppose as well if not better than your sweet self and these being well paid was it not your Care to have them Men of good Parts tho of little or no Learning 8. Did not your Brother and you and your Council put a Test upon these Priests that they should be true to yours and the French King's Interest and not refuse any Service in order thereunto that lay in their Power 9. Were not these Priests your Spies and Trapans about the Kingdom to draw Men into Plots and Conspiracies And did they not do your Business in those Cases with that Dexterity that you gained your point of murdering several Persons and rendering the poor Dissenters obnoxious to your Pensioner Parliament in order to get severe Laws made against them whilst your villanous
had got such a Trick in your Brother's Time to put off Parliaments that I doubt if we should try you once more and take in those durante bene placito Rogues you would never leave it off First you got one Session put off and a truly loyal Band of Pensioners dissolved then three Parliaments dissolved one upon the neck of another as you and Nell Waal pleased Now our Forefathers and our Antient Kings of England to prevent Arbitrary Power and such intolerable Mischiefs as these did heartily agree to have a Proclamation made in Westminster-Hall before the End of every Session not to dissolve the Parliament to get a Sum of French Money but to tell the People that all who had any Matter to present to the Parliament should bring it before such a Day for otherwise the Parliament should determine This was done in the Reigns of Hen. 4. Hen. 5. Hen. 6. So that you may see and so might that Villain Jefferies that the People were not to be eluded or disappointed by surprising Prorogations and Dissolutions to frustrate the great Ends of Parliament But Sir suppose all your Brother's Crew of Judges and Ministers of State nay I would allow him half a dozen Priests and Dr. Finch the Warden of All-Souls into the Bargain who is an excellent Preacher and Pimp to the Whore of Babylon and Arbitrary Power nay I will allow you to have the French Parliament held at New-Market in 1677 and suppose they should have roared with open Mouth and said there was no Record nor Statute upon Record extant concerning the sitting of Parliaments to redress Grievances What then And suppose Finch the last 29th of May had told such a Story as this in his loggerheaded Sermon where he applauded the eminent shining Vertues of Charles II above those of his Royal Father and yours his Chastity Integrity Peaceableness and the like and provided all he had said were true that Charles was a Man of those Vertues and that there were neither Common nor Statute Laws extant for the sitting of Parliaments yet by Warden Finch's leave it is more certain that Parliaments are to sit and redress Grievances by the Fundamental Laws of the Government than that his Father presented the Grand Seignior with a Pendulum Clock so small that the Grand Seignior hung it at his Ear as the Ladies here used to hang their Pendants at theirs It may be Sir you will ask what Reason I could have to believe the sitting of Parliaments for redress of Grievances was our Right by the Fundamental Law of England I tell you Sir why because the Government must be lame without it and a Prince and his villanous Ministers might have done what they pleased and their Wills might have been their Laws Your Brother and you bid fair for such a Government had your Friend Coleman's Advice been taken and had K. Charles signed his Declaration for dissolving the Parliament Coleman had not Jenner's Courage of running away and so the Declaration was not signed but to your great Comfort he was graciously left to dance a Christmass Gambrel at Tyburn for his great pains in the mighty Work your Brother your Self and he had upon your Hands Therefore my good Friend it was provided for in the very Essence and Constitution of the Government it self this we may if Frank Withens and the rest of your Crew will give leave call Common Law tho Jefferies once was pleased to call it a Common Where This notwithstanding the filthy Expression of that impudent Villain that had neither Law Manners nor Honesty but the Impudence of ten carted Whores is of as much Value if not more as any Statute and of which all our good Acts of Parliament and Magna Charta it self are but declaratory So that tho your Brother or any King else had been intrusted with the formal Part of summoning and pronouncing the Dissolution of Parliaments which is done by Writ yet the Laws that oblige the King as well as the People have determined when and how it is to be done This is enough to shew you that your Brother as King shared in the Sovereignty that was in the Parliament and that it was cut out to him by Law and not left at his Disposal I must therefore tell you that Thomas and Francis and the rest of the Bloodhounds and murdering Dispensing Judges were much out in point of Law when they told your Brother that Parliaments both as to Calling and Dissolving were at his Will and Pleasure 3. There is another Statute viz. 25 Edw. III. cap. 23. that was Law in your Brother's Reign which the Judges if they had been acquainted with the Law who truly except a few that had but little Honesty and were generally Strangers to the Law must have told him and you too did oblige him and you to suffer the Meeting and Sitting of Parliaments Therefore I make use of that Statute to prove that the Meeting and Sitting of Parliaments is the Fundamental Right and Privilege of the People of England This Statute Sir was called the Statute of Provisors and was made to prevent and cut off the Incroachments of the Bishops of Rome whose Usurpations in disposing of Benefices had occasioned intolerable Grievances In the Preamble of which Statute it is expressed as follows Whereupon the Commons have prayed our said Sovereign Lord the King That since the Right of the Crown of England and the Law of the Realm is such that upon the Mischiefs and Damage which happen to this Realm he ought and is bounden of the Accord of his said People in his Parliament thereof to make Remedy and Law in avoiding the Mischiefs and Damage which thereof cometh that it may please him thereupon to provide Remedy Our Sovereign Lord the King seeing the Mischiefs and Damage before-named and having regard to the said Statute made in the Time of his said Grandfather and to the Causes contained in the same which Statute holdeth always its Force and was never defeated or annulled in any Point and by so much is bound by his Oath to do the same to be kept as the Law of this Realm tho that by sufferance and negligence it hath since been attempted to the contrary and also having regard to the grievous Complaints made to him by his People in divers Parliaments holden heretofore willing to ordain Remedy for the great Damages and Mischiefs which have hapned and daily do happen by the said Cause c. by the Assent of the Great Men and Commonalty of his said Realm hath ordained and established Come Sir what say you to all this Where is your Holloway your Withens and your Walcots And where is Tom Jenner with his Sorrow in one Hand and his Grief in the other an ignorant Rascal like the rest of his Brethren Where is your Herbert your Heath and your Milton Some of them are gone to their Places but they lived long enough to enslave the People and those that yet live owe
Popish Adversaries which they could not do but by inflaming the Differences between the Conforming and Non-conforming Protestants that we might not unite our Forces against the Common Enemy 2. You and your Party by this means weakened the Protestant Interest There can be nothing more plain than this for upon the Dissolution of the Oxford Parliament Swarms of Priests and Popish Conspirators returned home and fell to work to pervert the People to the Obedience and Communion of the See of Rome What Pensions then you got for some and Imployments for others and with what care you maintain'd their Interest and defended their Cause and Quarrel against those that pursued them for their many Treasons against the Government we all saw to our great Sorrow And what help was there since you and your Party had so much countenance from your Brother who was ingaged with you in the whole Popish Conspiracy saving that of his own Life 3. You procured a severe Persecution against Protestant Dissenters which you nor none of your rascally Crew durst do during the Session of Parliament but immediately upon their Dissolution you fell upon them either because they had occasioned the sending of good Men to Parliament or because they were zealous Assertors of the Protestant Religion against Popery and of our English Liberties against Slavery these were indeed high Crimes for which you and your Villains made them smart to the ruine of several thousand Families and had you continued somewhat longer in that glorious Adventure you might have made poor England a howling Wilderness tho when your Brother and you came home you found it a Land flowing with Milk and Honey Nay you had rather all should have run into Confusion than the Dissenters should not be ruined because they could not comply with a few Ceremonies for which your Party had no other Authority than a few Acts of Parliaments 4. You advanced Arbitrary Proceedings in Westminster-Hall where you had a Set of rognish Judges exactly of a size for that turn who had as much Impudence for the Court as they had had Dread of being called to Account in Parliament for all their Villanies And tho it was a standing Constitution that if any Man stood impeached by the Commons of England before the Lords in Parliament no inferiour Court could take Cognizance of that Cause or try him for that Treason in Westminster-Hall for which he stood impeached in Parliament which upon the Dissolution of the Oxford-Parliament was Fitz-Harris his Case yet for all this you found out your Pemberton your Jones and your Raymond that had Impudence enough to try the said Fitz-Harris and condemn him for alas good Men they were not to lose their Places for every small Peccadillo if it were to serve the Government especially to do a Job for you and your Crew 5. Upon the Dissolution of the 3 last Parliaments to alienate the King from his People you and your Party did industriously revive the Memory of the late unhappy Civil War between your Father and the Parliament which was your Brother's Interest as well as the Nation 's to have buried in oblivion the mentioning that unhappy War serv'd only to put us in mind of the sudden Dissolution of 3 Parliaments and the 12 years want of one and what the Villains had done in your Father's Reign and the better to colour your procuring the Dissolution of those three Parliaments you had your Parties abroad to asperse and brand the Members as being of the same Complexion with those that met Nov. 3. 1640 but none of your Cut-throats did ever mention the bloody Massacre in 1641 because begun and carried on by your Father's Command and for his Service But Sir let me tell you that none lived more peaceably under your Brother's Government than they who were engaged in that War on the Parliament's side therefore I cannot tell by what prudent Topick you went when you discourag'd those Men in their obedient living by such villanous Reflections and upbraided them with what the Law had pardoned and they had expiated by their Loyalty since supposing they had been Criminals which yet I think they were not But this is plain beyond all dispute that the Parliament that restored your Brother to his Throne and you to be a constant Plague to this Nation made an Act of Indemnity wherein many things were enacted which they judged necessary for the Settlement of the Nation they prohibited under a Penalty one Man's reproaching another with being concerned in that War for the space of three years after the Date of the said Act sure then they never intended Men should afterwards take the liberty to upbraid one another with it 6. Another ill Consequence of dissolving those three Parliaments was that by this means you made a way to succeed your Brother in the Government If those Parliaments had sat and their Counsels not been defeated by their unexpected Dissolutions you must have been disabled from ever inheriting the Imperial Crown of these Realms and it was plain those Whores and other Traitors that procured the Dissolution of those Parliaments aim'd at your coming to the Throne But Sir I think your Party should have shown so much Ingenuity and Candour as to have owned that all the People of England particularly those that were for your Exclusion were as zealous for Monarchy even in the Royal Line as any of your clamorous Bullies durst for their Ears be I am sure nothing so much endanger'd the legal Monarchy of England as your coming to the Crown which the Wisdom of the Nation foresaw and therefore that it might be preserved resolved to pass you by and let it descend to another Heir Nay Sir if you had continued James Duke of York I am sure you might have lived with more Honour and Comfort than you can propose by putting your Feet under the French King's Table but God having ordained you to be a Plague to us for our Sins I think you let us see what you aimed at in your four Years Tyranny There are some blind Puppies whose Eyes are not yet opened I could wish you had their Company at St. Germains being confident you would soon lick them open 7. Another Consequence of the Dissolution of those three Parliaments was the possessing the King of a Design carried on by the dissenting Party for his Destruction and to introduce a Democratical Power which they called a Common-wealth nay that you might hasten the Dissolution of the Oxford-Parliament you made use of this Lie for an Argument which your Brother was willing to believe that he might have some Pretence for quitting that way of Government There were two sorts of Persons charged 1. The Parliaments themselves 2. Those who stedfastly asserted the Power and Privileges of Parliaments the Protestant Religion and Liberties of the People in opposition to Popery and Slavery 1. These Parliaments were charged with a Design against his Majesty's Person and Government Now Sir let us