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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42182	The royal favourite clear'd with an admonition to the Roman Catholicks, and an address to his Royal Highness, James, Duke of York, &c. By a barrister of the Inner-Temple.	Garbrand, John, b. 1646 or 7.	1682 (1682)	Wing G206; ESTC R216434	8,120	38

THE Royal Favourite CLEAR'D WITH AN ADMONITION TO THE Roman Catholicks AND AN ADDRESS TO HIS Royal Highness JAMES Duke of York c. By a Barrister of the Inner-Temple London Printed for James Vade at the Cock and Sugar-Loaf near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street 1682. An Epistle Dedicatory TO THE Right Honourable Sir John Moore Lord Mayor of London May it please Your Lordship I Hope it will not create Your Wonder that an unknown Hand should Dedicate these few Sheets to Your Lordship's Patronage whil'st your Own Loyalty is eminently expressed in the daily Service of Your King and Country And as Your Lordship's Place is Great so is Your Care and Prudence A remarkable Instance of which we lately had when the Picture of His Royal Highness the Duke of York was rudely defaced by the Assassination of a Wicked Person wherein Your Lordship's Endeavours did so readily appear and Your Zeal to have the Barbarous Act discovered that there seemed nothing wanting in Your Lordship to satisfie the King and Kingdom of Your utter Abhorrence of so foul a Deed. Therefore to Your Lordship I bring this little Treatise that You may with Your Acceptance vindicate the Reputation as well as Person of This most Illustrious Prince in whom all things center that are Good And if I have wrong'd His Royal Highness or Your Lordship by rudely expressing my honest Meaning herein declared I shall need no other Satyr than a Self-reflection or Punishment then what I shall be ready to inflict upon my Self But whatever happens to me for my own Unworthiness my greatest Happiness will be to have Truth appear tho through a Cloud and Slander punish'd tho Justice Triumph in the Overthrow of my Imperfections I am My Lord Your Lordship 's most Humble Servant J. G. TO THE READER I Should Appologize for my self for Writing against so many Men and for encountring so many Loads of Paper with a few single Sheets were I convinced they had any Authority for what they say or write who have Nicknamed His Royal Highness the Duke of York TRAYTOR or PAPIST But since I have no other Cause to believe the Discourse than the fickle and unthinking Humour of those who have followed the Dictates of a discontented Party and would at the same time have misnamed the Government had it not been wary of their Proceedings and on the suddain arraigned their Actions I know no reason why I should not speak my Opinion as well as such Whirlygig-State-Projectors especially since the sence of what I here Write is signified to us by such Authorities that we have no need to question the Truth of them Therefore Judicious Reader I shall recommend this little Treatise to your serious Consideration and I hope it may prove good Physick this Spring Time to our Sir Politick-Would-be's who ever rejoyce when the Government is at a default though the Blot be for their Advantage And then if any Wicked States-man will but Hound them on O what a noise will they make though not half so well well coupled as an indifferent Pack of Beagles and 't is their eager pursuit generally that makes them loose their Credit But this is not sufficient I may be ask't What I have to do to concern my self with the Duke's Religion or Loyalty To the Candid Reader I hope this will be a full Answer Ever since I was Eleven Years Old I have lived under this Government as it is now Established and my Heart has hitherto Blessed the King and I have wished Him Success in all His undertakings and I have had good Cause to do so since His Majesties Laws are a Delight and need not be grievous to any of His Subjects On this bottom I justify my self in Writing upon this Subject concerning the Duke who by all Loyal Men is lookt upon to be a good Subject a Dutiful Brother to the King and One that seeks the Interest of the Nation Whereas those who say the contrary and give him the Name of PAPIST and TRAYTOR do generally shew themselves to be of Disloyal Principles and such as the Nation have little reason to credit And from hence I infer That those who are obedient to His Majesty will love the Duke of York because the Duke's Principles are as all good Subjects ought to be to Serve God and Honour the King And therefore his being slander'd with the Name of PAPIST TRAYTOR Enemy to the KING and Kingdom or any other Name that the giddy heads of these idle People can imagine can make no other impression in the Hearts of wise Men than to raise a just indignation against their Malice and a Heart endeavour to prevent the danger that may ensu● from such ungodly Proceedings which ought to be the endeavour of every good Christian and every Loyal Subject THE Royal Favourite CLEAR'D THere was a Time in the Year 1680. when this Illustrious Prince James Duke of York seem'd to the morose and ruder sort of People to lie under a Cloud And the Factious at that Time seem'd to Eclipse His Glory And then to assert His Royal Highness to be a good Subject to His Majesty and that there were no reasonable Arguments ever brought to prove him a Papist was all one to them as to have affirmed That the Pope was Infallible or that the Real Presence was in the Elements of Bread and Wine after Consecration and as little it would have been believed Yet some there were even in that Time whereof one was my intimate Acquaintance that had the Courage and the Honesty to justify the Dukes Loyalty and to beat back all the Arguments then used to prove Him a Roman Catholick I shall therefore take his method and introduce my Discourse with those Reasonable Arguments that make most to my purpose and cannot without impudence be deny'd For What can be more Demonstrably plain to prove the Duke a Protestant than the Words of the Act of Parliament 25 Car. 2. To throw Popish Recusants out of all Offices and Places of Trust and to Displace them from the Household Service or Imployment of His Majesty or of His Royal Highness the Duke of York Is here not the King and His Brother wisely considered by this Act does it not fence them about and guard them from Jesuitical approaches that might slyly insinuate themselves into Courts and Imployments without a Test Now since God and Nature has provided so well for Us as to give Us so wise a King and so Illustrious a Prince Both springing from the Loyns of that Most Glorious Martyr Charles the First our Late King who dyed for the Protestant Religion Can we exercise our jealousies over again and dodge with the Government with pitiful scruples and Wrestings of such generous expressions and Confidence the then Parliament had of the Duke at the Time of making that Act Against so plain an Exception of His Person the direct words of which can never allow him to be in the penalty of that Law

though at that Time the Duke might see occasion to lay down several of His great Offices which might make some sort of Men conjecture it was done for that end and purpose As if it were not sufficient to belie one Prince to His Grave but we must endeavour a Second time to do so in his Issue And as if the malice of one Age were not enough to make a Nation miserable but that it must be Intailed upon their Posterity to render it utterly destroy'd in the next Were it not that the Eyes of the greatest part of the Nation are opened by these and the like Observations t were probable we might once more suffer under the like Circumstances But thanks be to God who has put it in the Heart of our King to guide us in the ways of Peace and to bear with the Infirmities of those who have been grievously infected with Anti-Monarchick and Destructive Principles And What can the Parliament mean when they made an Act in the Thirtieth Year of Car. 2d To disable every Person from Sitting in the House of Parliament that would not take the Test To make a Proviso That it should not extend to the Duke of York were it not that they valeued him as a Person of that Honour and Generosity that they could do no less than distinguish him from the rest of His Majesties Subjects especially since He is so neerly Related to the Crown has so well deserved of the King and has been so often thankt for His good Services by themselves This is so plain and the Character of a Papist fixt upon the Duke so malicious that it needs no Vindication were it not to undeceive a Generation of Men whose Fathers having suck'd in the Poyson of Rebellion in the Last Age have made it their utmost endeavour to introduce it in this Can any thing give us more Assurance of His Royal Highness than the Words of the best of Kings who in a Speech to His Parliament on the 6th of March in the 31 Year of His Reign told Them He had Commanded His Brother to absent Himself from Him because He would not leave the most malicious Men room to say He had not removed all Causes which could be pretended to influence Him towards Popish Councels Is here not a Reflection on the King himself by the most malicious which the King is pleased to take Notice of And when He Commands His Brothers Absence is it not to stop the mouths of the malicious And their spiteful calling of the Duke PAPIST Or His inclining the King towards Popish Councels call'd by His Majesty any thing else than a Pretence what then shall be said to such malicious pretenders if even Their own Request granted though never so unreasonable will not give them satisfaction it behoves therefore His Majesty's good Subjects to be more unanimous and Hearty to one another that so it may break the Hearts of all Malicious Pretenders who under the mask of Liberty Property and Religion endeavour the Destruction and Ruine of the King and Kingdome who can hence forward be so blind and sottish to credit a correspondence between the Pope and the Duke of York for the bringing in of the Roman Catholick Religion as has been pretended And who can for the time to come imagine Letters and Intreagues of that nature when the utmost of the Design that has hitherto appeared supposing those Letters to be the Duke's can reach no farther than a Civil Behaviour which is due to the Turk Mogul or King of Morocco We are obliged to Trade in those Countrys yet we cannot with safety and security without a Correspondence And who are so proper to transact such Affairs as the prime Ministers of State From what has been said 't is Monstrous to raise a Belief of the Duke's Recusancy from the King's Speech which clearly explains its self or from the afore-recited Acts of Parliament which many would interpret to the prejudice of His Royal Highness though the Nemine Contradicente of the House of Commons on Sunday April 1679. does even then credit its own Report with no other Reasons than what may seem to the Judicious Reader to be here fully Answer'd And it must the rather be thought so when the Triple Vote of the House of Commons was afterwards incountred with the Opinion of the House of Lords who rejected the Bill against the Duke because They were not so satisfied Now having deliver'd to you the Glorious condition of a Happy Favourite seated on the Right Hand of Majesty as well by His own Merit as His Princes choice who was Honoured and esteemed by good Men and was a Terrour only to the Bad Let Us trace Him from White-Hall driven by the Impetuosity of his Enemies from the Presence of the King and luster of a Court into a solitary Banishment Let us observe Him leaving our shoare and rendring himself to the unconstant Ocean which is not yet so unsettled as the Land from which He parted And though many Waves lifted up their Voices against Him yet by the greater number let us consider Him though among Enemies Wafted into a Safe Harbour For being a Noble Foe He could Fear no danger in His Misfortunes when in His Triumphs He could not insult over His Adversaries amongst Forreigners His Cardinal Vertues so much slighted by Us made Him more Honoured than He was Here with the Addition of His Guards and Dignities There amongst the most zealous Papist He was lookt upon as an injured Protestant Prince bearing the Figure of His Father's goodness and constancy There He propagated Our Protestant Doctrine whilst Here He was falsely surmised to endeavour its Destruction Whilst He was There with those who would have been glad of any Opportunity to affront our Nation He manifested so much Duty and Loyalty so much Love and Respect for His King and Country That He made faithful Friends and Ally's of Those that might otherwise have been our Mortal Enemies and would have trampled upon our Religion and made Their will Their Law So that the malice of a Banishment intended by his Adversaries could not prevent the Charactar of a Peace-maker a worthy Patriot a grand Polititian a Friend as well as Brother to the King a Joseph a Preserver of those that dispitefully used Him and Trayterously sought his Ruine Thus are the false Achitophels mistaken and against their Wills are saved from the danger they would avoid by Him whom They intended to destroy But now it is Time to consider of His Return Our Vigilant King sitting at the Helm and carefully watching every Motion of the Government found it necessary so prudent a States-man should not always lie under Hatches He no sooner spake than all who Loved the King had Their Eyes upon the shoare and Their Dayly Prayers for the Duke were That the Seas and Winds might render His Voyage pleasant and delightful and that each gentle Gale might direct Him into the Harbour of our Hearts and