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A36138	The Disloyal forty & forty one and the loyal eighty presented to publick view in a prospect & scheme, shewing the difference of the years forty and forty one from the year eighty : drawn up and published to answer the clamours of the malicious and to inform the ignorant.		1680 (1680)	Wing D1670; ESTC R17682	3,619	6

THE Disloyal Forty Forty One AND The Loyal Eighty Presented to Publick View In a PROSPECT SCHEME Shewing The Difference of the years Forty and Forty one from the year Eighty Drawn up and Published to Answer the Clamours of the Malicious and to Inform the Ignorant IT hath been all the Clamour of late Forty one Forty one is now coming to be acted over again we are running in the very same Steps in the same Path and Road to undo the Nation and to ruine Kingly Government as our Predecessors did in Forty and Forty one We run the same Courses we take the same Measures latet Anguis in Herbâ beware of the Presbyterian Serpent who lurks in the Affairs of Eighty being of the very same Complexion Form and Shape as that of Forty and Forty one These are the daily and weekly Cries of several Pamphleteers to amuse the Loyal Subjects of His Majesty who dread and abhor the Evil and Fatal Consequences of Transactions begun abòut those times or not long before and no doubt but that they are also whisper'd into the ears of His Sacred Majesty with no little advantage of raising Fears and Jealousies in his Royal Breast And truly no man can blame His Majesty for being fearful of such an Evil under which his Royal Father lost his Life and by which himself for so long a time was debarred of his Crown and so severely suffered But who are these who thus continually alarm the Breast of their Prince and daily endeavour to conjure up many sad and troublesome Thoughts many jealous and distrustful Cogitations and several suspitions doubts and scruples concerning the Faith Loyalty and Allegiance of His Majes●ies Subjects I will suppose them as well as those who trumpet the same into the ears of the People to beget in them also the same passions to be two sorts of men Either they are such as are really Papists and by this way designingly do endeavour the Ruine both of the King and his People and the Subversion of the Protestant Religion and the bringing in and setting up the Popish Religion or else they are such who really lying under mistakes do speak according to their Consciences being true Protestants Lovers of their King and there establish'd Religion and thorow the prospect of what has past by reason of the evil and detestable Contrivances of some wicked and Rebellious men have such an Aversion to all Dissenters that they have not only contracted an hatred against them but they are grown highly jealous of all things that come from them and thorow this very abhorrency of the former evil Consequences are almost ready not only to disbelieve the Plots of the Jesuits and the Papists by to think them to be cunning Contrivances of the old Presbyterians to bring again both the King and the Nation into new Snares and Troubles according to the old President of Forty and Forty One As the former may be said to endeavour our Ruine out of Malice and Design so these may be said to do it out of blind Zeal It were happy for the Nation if the great heats and souls of Scribling Pamphleteers were laid aside and that both parties would seriously weigh things in the Balance of Equity and Judgment for whilst passion and heat bears sway on either side we cannot judge rightly of things for our fears and jealousies on both sides encrease upon every Occasion and Suspition is apt to pervert the most innocent intentions So that whilst these troublesome passions stand as a vail between King and People the one dares not trust or confide in the other and both are apt to loose that mutual Obligation or Knot of Unity that makes happy a Kingdom and which ought to be inseparably between them I shall not go about to make known the many Pressures and Grievances the people of England have suffered in these late years nor the several miscarriages of the Councellors and Instruments belonging to the State which have in great measure been publickly attested and noted by the late Parliament in their Votes and Addresses to His Majesty Nor will this sheet give way to shew the very many Causes of just Complaint the people may have for all those fears and jealousies they seem to lie under and with which they are upbraided as if they had no real Cause but were afraid of their own shadows but certainly if we believe that there hath been a detestable Plot to take away the Life of His Majesty and to subvert the Protestant Religion and to bring in Popery the mention of that horrid Conspiracy for which so many have suffered might be enough to justifie the fears of the People of England who dread nothing more than the Change of their Religion on which both their Lives and Property depend I beseech you consider how rashly these men judge the face of Affairs after the fancied Image of Forty One and cry out with so much heat on all that offer to 〈◊〉 or appear in the behalf of the People or stand up for their Properties and Priviledges or that complain of Grievances and miscarriages What Age can you note that evil and corrupt Members got not into the sway of the State What times so pure that have begot no Grievances and Miscarriages What Prince read you of so God-like as not sometimes to give the Reins to his Passions even David a man after God's own heart and Solomon the wisest of Princes by many foul slips shewed that frailty is not altogether eloinged from Royalty If then in Forty One Grievances were complained against Miscarriages noted evil Councellors impeached Petitions promoted and if now the same causes hapning the people run so far the same King's High-way for Redress must therefore the fatal Consequences of Forty One be needs the Effect of Prayers and Petitions of humble Supplications and of regular and justificable Means by Parliament and must therefore all that appear with Petitions and Complain against Popery and such as would endeavour to bring in Arbitrary Government be branded for Designers Factious Seditious and Rebellious as those of Forty one But alas 't was not Forty One which ruined the Kingdom and pull'd down Monarchy 't was the after spawn that got life through War and Blood for most of those persons that at first were active against evil Councillours and for the Redress of the peoples Grievances when they saw things carried to extremity and beyond the Intention of their Loyalty either left them of themselves or were secluded by those Traitors that run to the Achme of Treason not to be named and which all true English-men hope may never be acted on the English Stage to contract Guilt and Odium on the Nation I dare say amongst those now branded by these sort of men for factious and runners of the Race of Forty One to obtain the Goal of Rebellion there are many thousands who really and from their hearts love the King and would venture their Lives and Fortunes in his Service And indeed what prospect of safety can the Nation have after the Life of his Majesty whom God long preserve But that we may the better compair this Bugbear Forty and Forty One with our Eighty I have drawn a brief Scheme of the similitude and disparity of either in the matters of Affairs then and now and so let the World judge and all sober men judge how like they are one to another that all this mighty Cry is made Forty Forty One Eighty Similitude The Disparity Popery complain'd against no Plot appearing Popery feared and complain'd against The Growth of Popery being notorious and a most horrid Popish Plot appearing The Scots raise an Army and invade England are dissolved by a Treaty at Rippon owned by the English and called Brethren A few Rebel Scots up in Arms. Defeated routed and some hanged as Rebels and disowned by the English A Parliament called and a Bill granted for its continuance A Parliament called Soon dissolved Earl of Strafford impeached by the Parliament and condemned by the Bill of Attainder for services done his King and suffered on Tower-Hill being a Protestant A Lord Stafford impeached by the Parliament and suffer'd on Tower-Hill Had a fair Tryal by his Peers and condemned justly for an horrid Conspiracy against his King's Life being a Papist The City present a Petition against Church Ceremonies and the Government by Bishops The City Petition For the safety of the Church of England from Popery and for the sitting of Parliament Objections against the Bishops sitting in Parliament Objections against the Bishops voting in Parliament Only in cases of Life and Death Petitions for the Redress of Grievances with the Insurrection of the Apprentices and Tumults Petitions for Redress of Grievances By a few peaceably and humbly presented The Irish bloody Massacre and Rebellion projected and effected An Irish bloody Massacre and Rebellion projected Discovered and Prevented Several Tumults and Insolences offered to the Lords for slighting the Bill against the Bishops   No Tumults upon the Lords slighting the Bill against a Popish Successor Endeavours for the abolishing Episcopacy   Endeavours to establish Episcopacy and to secure it against Popery The King forced by Tumults and Insolences to leave the City   The King desired and entreated to stay and not to go to Oxford An Earl of Monmouth impeached by the Commons A Duke of Monmouth Beloved by the Commons Fears and Jealousies fomented by the Jesuits and Papists Fears and Jealousies fomented by the Papists and Jesuits Fomented also by the Latitudinarian Masqueraders By these few heads as they occurred to memory you may see how like and unlike the Portraitures of the Monster Forty one and the Loyal Eighty are one to the other and it may be concluded because men then eat drunk slept and talk'd and because they now also do the same that these are the very same men and are taking the same Courses they did in Forty One as these men endeavour to make the World believe the Presbyterians are new minting their old Coin of 41. But we trust that the Mercy of God the Wisdom of his Majesty and the Loyalty of the People will be security enough against those dreadful Consequences so much threatned to scare both King and People as if they had a desire to set them together by the Ears Which God in Heaven avert and let all good People say AMEN London Printed for T. B. 1680.