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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28432	An appeal from the country to the city, for the preservation of His Majesties person, liberty, property, and the Protestant religion	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1679 (1679)	Wing B3300; ESTC R228069	16,678	32

's untimely death will proceed from a confusion and want of some eminent and interessed person whom you may trust to Lead you up against a French and Popish Army for which purpose no person is fitter than his Grace the Duke of Monmouth as well for quality courage and conduct as for that his Life and Fortune depends upon the same bottom with yours he will stand by you therefore ought you to stand by him And remember the old Rule is He who hath the worst Title ever makes the best King as being constrain'd by a gracious Government to supply what he wants in Title that instead of God and my Right his Motto may be God and my People Upon the death of Alexander the Great when there was so great a confusion amonst the Officers about choosing a Successor to the Empire no other expedient could be found out to pacifie the uproar of the Multitude but the choosing of King Philip's illegitimate Son Aridaeus who nothwithstanding he was a man but of reasonable parts himself might as they thought perform that Office well enough by the help of his wife Protector Perdiccas I confess upon the News of his Grace's Banishment the Countries were much surprized and the more for that we all knew they could have no Interest or advantage by his absence till His Majesty was near his end Which puts me in mind of the Story that Iosephus relates concerning Herod viz. that Antipater to secure to himself the Crown having by his treachery and false accusations prevail'd with Herod to banish his two innocent Sons Alexander and Aristobulus as also in his life-time to declare Antipater for his Successor did after that the better to confirm his Title exasperate Herod to put them both to death which was no sooner done and Antipater freed from the Jealousie of their Succession but he begins to think Herod himself had lived too long wherefore entring into a Conspiracy with Herod's own Wife as well as with Pharoas and many others he decreed to poyson him yet not being willing to be present himself at the execution of it for fear of some popular Tumult he absented himself and went to Rome But providence discovering this Plot to Herod it soon after cost Antipater his Life and may all such Traytors succeed accordingly These things most worthy Citizens I have presumed to offer to your perusal in respect that upon the death of any King your Lord Mayor then in being is the only Magistrate in the Kingdom that retains any Office of power capable of serving the Subject You are the persons who must revenge our Soveraigns violent death which if ever it should happen the Countries one and all would be ready to assist you But Heaven defend us from the occasion God preserve the King and send your City to prosper which is the constant and hearty Prayer of Your Friend and Servant Iunius Brutus Postscript AS well to justifie part of my preceding Discourse as to acquaint you with the pernicious Tenents of the Church of Rome how dangerous they are both to Prince and People I have here inserted some few of their Canons which all Papists are oblig'd to believe and submit to Canons which the Romish Church holds to the Ruine and Dishonour of Princes are these which follow 1. The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome's Subject and the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's Sentence in Temporal Causes 2. Princes Laws if they be against the Canons and Decrees of the Bishop of Rome be of no force nor strength 3. All Kings Bishops and Noblemen that believe or suffer the Bishop of Rome's Decrees in any thing to be violate be accursed and for ever culpable before God as Transgressors of the Catholick Faith 4. The Bishop of Rome may Excommunicate Emperors and Princes depose them from their States and dis-ingage their Subjects from the Oaths and Obedience to them and so constrain them to Rebellion These and many more there are to the same purpose wherefore that Prince who thinks himself so weak as to need a Governour who thinks himself too Rich or desires to be a Slave to an old Bardasso let him turn Papist More Romish Canons fitting to be consider'd by all Abby-Landed men 1. The Goods of the Church may in no wise be alienated but whoseever receiveth or buyeth them is bound to restitution and if the Church have any Ground that is little or nothing worth yet it shall not be given to the Prince and if the Prince will needs buy it the sale shall be void and of no strength 2. It is not lawful for the Bishop of Rome to alienate or mortgage any Lands of the Church for any cause whatsoever except it be Houses in Cities which be very chargeable to support and maintain So that if any men who have Estates in Abby-Lands desire to beg their Bread and relinquish their Habitations and Fortunes to some old greasie bald-pated Abbot Monk or Friar then let him Vote for a Popish Successor and Popery for when once that Religion is established amongst us these Canons will all come in play and the Pope will then tell you whatsoeuer he may pretend at first that his Predecessor had no Right to give away what belong'd to the Church And this Mr. Coleman well knew when he promised himself no less than to be once Master of the Earl of Bedford's Estate but unluckily the Gallows prevented it in making him a Saint before his time He that desires to be further satisfied about these Canons let him look into Dr. Burnet's late excellent History of the Reformation and there he shall find the Original and Authentick Quotations which were too tedious here to insert FINIS Phil. Com. l. 6. c. 2. Phil. Com. l. 5. c. 6.8

late Popish Army many of the Officers and Souldiers had secret orders not to sell their Horses but to be in a readines for that they should have occasion to use them again within a fortnight and so it happen'd for within less than a fortnight after the disbanding the Rebellion broke out in Scotland So well acquainted were the Authors of this mischief with the time when it would happen Now this Insurrection was in two respects advantageous to the Catholick Party for first among Foreigners and Strangers who were not acquainted with the depth of their Intrigues it seem'd to cast the Plot upon the Non-Conformists and 2ly being beaten by the King's Forces whereof no other was to be expected it might make both them and us less apt to rise upon any account whatsoever But here give me leave to present you with one observation which is that if this had been a Fanatical Plot the same Party would certainly have risen in England at the same time when their Brethren of Scotland were in Arms the encouraging of one another being of more consequence to both than the expectation of the others success III. After the Catholicks had thus brought the Father's Head to the Block and sent the young Princes into Exile let us reflect upon their usage of them in France and see whether the kindness that the French Catholicks then paid to our King was sufficient to bring us into that Misery wherein we are immers'd by so entirely espousing the French and Papists Cause even almost to the destruction of the Protestant Religion and ruine of all Christendom besides Did their banishing of His Majesty and slighting of him whilst he was amongst them deserve this kindness at our hands What charitable Christians are we grown thus to return good for evil I must confess they did ever treat his R. H. with some Respect as finding him to retain more favourable inclinations both towards their Religion and Government than His gracious Majesty did whose understanding and wit as it made him contemn their Superstitious Idolatry and Fopperies so did his lenity and good nature render their Tyranny altogether odious in his sight besides if His Majesty had then discover'd in himself the least inclinations to Popery it might in all probability have rendred the Crown of England unaccessible However I cannot but ascribe great part of our present Calamities to his Highnesses Education in that Arbitrary and Popish Government With what eagerness have we assisted them in their Conquests even to the defamation of our own Honour and violation of our publick Faith with all the rest of Christendom We first made Them an Idol and now we worshipt it we first taught them the Art of Navigation and now are ready to strike Sail to them our selves Not any new invention that is of use either in building Ships or making Ordnance can be discover'd here but immediately we charitable English for fear we should be too strong for them must communicate it to our dear Brethren the French Nor have we been altogether unkind to the rest of our Neighbours when by procuring a general Peace we have pluck'd the Thorns out of their feet to put 'em in our own made a Peace for them in order to bring a War upon our selves I confess when I think how faithful we have been to the French in all these late Wars as also how much Service our English Cannon whereof we have too great plenty did them at their Siege of Valenciennes I cannot but call to mind Commines relation of King Lewis the Eleventh's bribing our English Councel paying at that time yearly Pensions to the Lord Chancellor Master of the Rolls Hastings Lord High Chamberlain Lord Howard and all other persons who had any power or Interest with their Master King Edward for is something of this nature did not prevail amongst us His Majesty would never have adher'd to any but the Dutch whose perpetual Interest it is to keep the Crown upon his Head for that nothing would so much advantage France and ruine Holland as to have England become a Commonwealth when like Rome and Carthage being continually clashing together the French might in time ruine both IV. Having but now mentioned Commines give me leave to insert another Story of his which may be very much to our purpose to shew you that when God designs the destruction of a King or People he makes them deaf to all discoveries be they never so obvious This account is concerning the Duke of Burgundy who being at War with Lewis the XI of France entertain'd as his chief Minister and Favourite the Earl of Campobache upon whom he bestow'd great Gifts committing to his care his whole concerns But this Earl having no sense either of Honour or Gratitude took the advantage of his Masters the Dukes troubles and set up a resolution to destroy him For which end and purpose he began under-hand to treat both with the Duke of Lorrain and with divers of the Kings Officers that were Quarter'd in Champaigne near to the Dukes Camp Now to the Duke of Lorrain he promised so to order the marter that this Siege of his Masters the Duke of Burgundy against Nancy should take no effect for he would take care that such things as were necessary either for the Siege or Battery should be wanting which promise he was able to perform for that the principal charge thereof was committed to him neither had any man so great Authority as he in the Army under the Duke of Burgundy But to the Kings Officers he promis'd either to kill his Master or take him Prisoner demanding for his recompence thereof the charge of those 400 Lances which he had then in keeping with 20000 Crowns in ready money and some good Earldom in France Now whilst the Earl of Campobache was plotting these Treasons one Cifron a Gentleman belonging to the Duke and that was acquainted with this Earl's Conspiracy happen'd in attempting to relieve the Town of Nancy to be taken Prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy who was set down before it Whereupon this Cifron being condemn'd to die in hopes of a Pardon offer'd that if the Duke would give him Audience he would reveal a secret to him which concern'd his Life whereof certain Gentlemen to whom Cifron had told this went to advertise the Duke with whom at their arrival they found this Earl of Campobache come thither as was suppos'd on purpose to be always ready fearing left Cifron to save his own Life should have any such intent to reveal the Conspiracy The Duke return'd this Answer to the Gentlemen who brought him the Message That the Prisoner used this delay only to respite his own Death and commanded them that he should discover what he knew to them which way the Earl of Campobache well approv'd of Upon this Cifron reply'd That he would communicate it to no man but the Duke of Burgundy himself So that he was again by the Duke 's special