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A47895 Notes upon Stephen College grounded principally upon his own declarations and confessions, and freely submitted to publique censure / by Roger L'Estrange. L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1681 (1681) Wing L1281; ESTC R7200 31,704 54

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engag'd against the Kings Person he says c. Did not that Parliament whose Cause Doctrine and Proceedings College has so highly approved say the same thing And not only Disclaim their being AGAINST the Person of the late King but declare openly to the World the greatest Tenderness and Veneration for him that was possible What shall we say then of him that speaks their very Words upon the same Grounds and under the same Circumstances but that he has the same Thoughts also which he in truth Confesses too with those who under that pretence advanc'd a Rebellion against their Sovereign What does he mean again by saying that HE was not to have Seiz'd the King c. Is it that He himself was not to do it with his own hands Or that the Sovereignty being lodg'd in the Two Houses his PERSON might be Seiz'd and the KING remain untouch'd There is another Sentence in the same Speech that speaks a little plainer yet I did not understand says he but when I serv'd the Parliament I serv'd the King too Which in the Acceptation of Forty and Forty-One sounds as much as King and Parliament on the one side in opposition to Charles Stuart on the other Now as to the Plot of Seizing the Person of the King if the Witnesses had not made it out accordingly to the very Letter I should rather have suspected a design under the countenance of Loyal Service to interpose a Force betwixt his Majesty and some Pretended Danger And this officious zeal to be follow'd with seizing half a dozen perhaps of his Majesties most necessary Ministers and Friends And then a Proclamation immediately of some damned Hellish Plot a parcel of good Statutable Knights of the Post to make it good and there had been the work done This would have been no Ridiculous thing to imagine if his Majesty had not had over and above his Guards the Honour and Fidelity of the Two Houses of his Security There are a great many slippery Passages in Colleges two Speeches Had the Papists says he or their Party offer'd to destroy the Parliament as was sworn and fear'd they would I was there to have liv'd and dy'd with ' em Here 's a Disjunction of the Papists OR their Party which I cannot tell what to make of unless he ranges the Servants of the King and the Church in a Confederate subserviency to the Papists which is but consonant to what he has said elsewhere There is a doubtful Clause too in his last Speech Men says he speaking of the Presbyterians without any manner of design but to serve God serve his Majesty and keep their Liberties and Properties Now Colleges way of keeping his Property is to Fight for 't in case the King should Invade it as he profess'd to a Divine a little before his Execution Beside that the word KEEP seems to lean a little that way especially from a man that first supposes his Property to be Invaded and then declares his resolution to resist the King in case of such Invasion We shall now as briefly as may be apply matter of Fact to the Capital parts of his Charge The Designing of the Sculpture to his Raree-Show is prov'd upon him so point blank that he himself had not the face to deny it And that Draught made him as Guilty of and as Answerable for the Malicious intent of it as if the Ballad had been originally his own His Publishing of it was a further Aggravation of the Crime and the Pleasure he took in Singing it up and down as he did to several eminent Persons of quality and in Exposing it made all that was in it his own too In that Doggrel Copy there is Chalk'd out the very Train of the whole Conspiracy and so plainly too that it will not bear any other Construction As for example Help Cooper Hughs and Snow with a Hey with a Hey To pull down Raree-Show with a Ho. So so the Gyant 's down Let 's Masters out of Pound With a Hey Tronny Nony Nony No. Here 's first the King to be pull'd down under the Rarce-Show and Cooper Hughs and Snow being Officers belonging to both Houses are to represent the Lords and Com●●●●s in the doing of it which reflects as odious a scandal upon the Two Houses as upon his Majesty In the next place he supposes the King to be down and to answer that phansie there are three Fellows in the Plate lugging of him in the Dirt And then follows Let 's Masters out of Pound which is only to say That now the King is down the Lords and Commons are to take upon them the Administration of the Government But let us see how he goes on And now y 'ave freed the Nation with a Hey c. Cram in the Convocation with a Ho With Pensioners All and some Into this Chest of Rome With a Hey c. The first line here makes the Freedom of the Nation to ensue upon the Deposing of the King The second sends the Convocation after him The third all those whom he is pleas'd to call Pensioners And the fourth makes them all to be Papists Here 's the King the Convocation and the Pensioners gone already Now see what 's next And thrust in Six and twenty with a Hey c. With Not Guilty good plenty with a Ho And Hoot them hence away To Cullen or Breda We have here the very Track of the Conspiracy as it was prov'd at his Tryal The Bishop's are to be dispatch'd away too and the Not Guilty-Lords in the Vote upon my Lord Stafford And at best to be all of them driven out of the Nation as the Late King was and a great part of his Adherents We shall now conclude this point with the two last lines Halloe the Hunts begun with a Hey c. Like Father like Son with a Ho c. I have in my hand the Manuscript of Colleges own writing from whence this Ballad was Printed where it is to be noted that instead of Halloe it was in the Original Stand to 't but that struck out and Halloe interlin'd in the place of it the other being too broad a discovery of the Violence they intended Let me further observe that this Song was Calculated for Oxford that is to say both for the Time and the Place When and Where this Exploit was to have been executed And now for a close What can be the meaning of Like Father like Son but a design and encouragement as appears from the Connexion to serve them both alike and to conclude both Father and Son under one and the same Condemnation The Faction did without dispute flatter themselves that they should find Friends even in the Parliament it self to Authorize them in their Enterprize but they were egregiously mistaken it seems in their measures And they grounded their Hopes upon the Interest they had made in most places of the Kingdom to secure an Election for their turn This Prospect and