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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60055	A short answer to a malicious pamphlet called, A reply written by John Gadbury, the King of England's juggler, and astrologer in ordinary to the Pope, to help on the work.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3559; ESTC R39538	24,418	26

Murdered 300000 Protestants in the Kingdom of Ireland Here Gadbury falls to his old way of quibling again and gravely tells you That it must be either lawful or unlawful if the latter all good men will bewail the Misfortune but if the former he would very fain know how men acting under a lawful Authority and not going beyond their Commission can be guilty of Murder So that at the first dash the Fellow tells us that they were Murdered by Order and says that it is not Murder if they do not go beyond their Commission Here he shews himself a right Saint of Rome and a Casuist for the Devil The meaning of his words is no less than this that if any Popish King shall give a Commission to his Banditi Jamsaries or Murderers to cut the Throats of all his Protestant Subjects if they do not go beyond that Commission and cut the Throats of more than all then it is no Murder Why because he tells you it is done by a Lawful Authority and this calculated for the Meridian of England So that you see he is not for denying the thing nor the person but justifies it to be Lawful because done by Commission And then asketh how I will prove it or whether I can shew any one of the Commissions c. In answer to this There needs no other proof that the Massacre in Ireland was done by Authority than the late Kings Letter to the Court of Claims in behalf of the Lord Antrim the Chief Commander in that horrid Murder Where he tells them that the forementioned Lord had done nothing but what was by the Order of his Father the Royal Martyr and his pious Queen Besides when the charitable Collections were made in London and other parts for the relief of the distressed Protestants that had escaped the Murderers hands and were sent away in order to go for Dublin they were all stopt at Chester and there rotted and perished under the Wall of that City Now by whose power this was done I will leave to the Readers Judgment and for its truth 't is beyond all question Now Countrymen is not this a good warning to Protestants to look to themselves seeing they are told by so notorious a Papist as John Gadbury is that the cutting the Throats of 300000 Protestants in pursuance of the Kings Commission is not Murder Page 6. Of the Murder of Sir Ed. Godfrey at Somersethouse How now Jack what deny that Murder to be in Somersethouse thou dost act thy part as if thou hadst been a Papist these 40 years an absolute Juggler what hath thy new Religion so suddenly inspired thee with its Master-piece of Impudence Thou out-dost all thy Wafer-Godmakers for they perswade us to believe but a little kind of a Cheat about Conjuring Bread and Wine into Flesh and Blood by the vertue of hoc est corpus that is Hocus Pocus but thou dost endeavour to out-face a Truth that no man but those concerned in it can have any cause to question The King Lords and Commons Judges Juries and all unconcern'd persons that have ever heard the Evidence are assured of its truth beyond the least doubt But thou armed with Pardon Pension Guilt and Impudence dost declare to the world that thou wouldest be of any side for Mony. And for Prance's pleading guilty to an Indictment of Perjury I wonder you are not ashamed to mention it if you consider that we know he was hired to do it and that by the Priest at White-hall c For I saw the Letter in his own hand that was sent to him by the order of his Wife 's two Brothers both Popish Priests and others of that Tribe in Which they promised his Pardon and that he should again live like a Man if he would come over and tell the truth about that Murder he then being at Amsterdam upon this he said That to tell the truth in their sense was to forswear all he had swore before and desired Ged to renounce him if all he had sworn about Godfrey 's Murder were not true and that if he should ever deny it he desired us all that were then in Company which were about five or six to call him perjured Rogue and let him deny this if he can Thus Reader you see what stress they lay on the Perjury of this poor deluded Rascal Yet neither he nor this man nor their Wafer-Godmakers themselves have hitherto been able to give better Answers and Arguments to desprove it but to say they are mere Stories And for the vizzanded Villains he speaks of one of them is well known namely the then Queens Confessor who there brandished his Sword on the Scaffold for joy the King was beheaded Page 7. Since that Pious Prince Charles the Second dyed a Roman Catholick and yet Head of the Church of England Here my Friend at the first dash doth confess that pious Prince did dye a Roman Catholick Really the old Gentleman is mightily obliged to him for his kindness to tell it so impudently that he lived a Hypocrite and died an Idolater For it is well known he did communicate three times every year with the Church of England in the Sacrament And yet by this Man he is affirmed to be a Roman Catholick Now confider if he was a Papist Do you think he was not a precious pious Head of a Protestant Body and the Church of England in a fine condition to be protected and defended from Popery by a Prince of that perswasion and the Holy Sacrament of our Lord is by the Lords Annointed made a Decoy to cheat the People into the belief that he was a Protestant But my Adversary says that the Traytors plotted against him while he was not declared to be a Papist and mentions the Rye-house Truly Jack if you did not know or at least believe he was a Papist then you were a very ignorant Fellow for it was was well known that he was so at his first coming into England in the year 1660. And when he talks of the Rye-house Plot he says The King 's precious Life was in danger Why was it more in danger at that time than when Jack Gadbury was in the Meal-Tub scouring Dangerfields Kettle with Mrs. Celier to prepare him for the Murder of that pious King c. I think not but besides the Fanaticks did but talk of killing him but the Papists did it effectually In the conclusion my Adversary takes care that I may know what the Church of England is and therefore directs me to a Treatise called Good Advice c. written by William Pen the pretended Quaker who is a Socinian as appears by his Sandy Foundation shaken where he downright denys the Trinity and a Papist as all men may judg by his Promotion and Favour at White-hal at this time of day so that I am like to be well informed of the Doctrine of the Church of England by such a Fellow as this is And to be plain with