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The case put, concerning the succession of His Royal Highness the Duke of York
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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Conqueror then under the Duke as Successor And he goes so far too toward the Dislike of the Government it self that he says no Government but Monarchy can in England ever support or favour Popery P. 7. He tells the City Pag. 5. that their Enemies are young beggerly Officers Courtiers Over-hot Church-men and Papists and charges the three First with lessening the Plot and resembling the times to 1641. Now how is it possible but the Positions of 1641. should put us in mind of the Rebellion of 1641 He begins his 10 th Page thus After the Catholicks had thus brought the Fathers Head to the Block and sent the young Princes into Exile c. Now to give the Devil his due I cannot find so much as one Papist in the whole List of Regicides He has I confess one admirable Fetch to prove His R. H. dangerous to his Majesty because he is both a Friend and a Brother Pag. 17. as if the King were safer in the hands of his Enemies then of his Friends If his meaning be that they are more dangerous in regard of Confidence and Opportunities there is no Fence against that Danger but utterly to cast off all the Bonds and Dictates of Society and good Nature We must contract no Friendships and trust no Relations for fear they should out our Throats How much more wretched then Beasts has our Appealer made us at this rate by poysoning the very Fountain of Human Comforts Though I have drawn out this Pamphlet already further then I intended I must not close it yet without one General Observation upon the People we have to deal with in this Controversie Calumny and Imposture have ever been the two main Pillars of their Cause and if they can but wheedle the Vulgar on the one hand and defame the Friends of the Government on the other their business is done There scarce passes a day without a Libel against both Church and State without either Provocation or Punishment which both shews their Malice and confirms them in their Insolence There is nothing so Odious and so Ridiculous together as betwixt Droll and Sophisme these People represent the Publick Management of Affairs And who can blame the Multitude now under these Circumstances of Licence and Delusion if they either Forget or Depart from their Duties Is there not Law and Power sufficient for the Preventing or Suppressing these Indignities Or is it a thing not worth the taking Notice of for his Majesty to be told every day in a Pamphlet at his Palace-gate that His Ministers are Traytors and Conspirators His Courtiers a Pack of Knaves and He himself but upon his Good Behaviour to his own Subjects WILL it end Here DID it end Here But whence is it that all this Venom and Confidence proceeds The Former is only a Fermentation of the Old Leaven for we have our Iesuits too The Papal Iesuite is an Enemy to Heretical Kings and the Protestant Iesuite will have no Kings at all and then for their Confidence they have both Impunity and Encouragement the former proves it self and I shall now conclude with a word or two concerning the other The bringing of this Devilish Plot upon the Stage has struck all men of Piety Loyalty and Love to their Country with Amazement and Horror The Murther of a Prince the Subversion of our Government and Religion What can be more Exercrable The thought of so Diabolical a Practice has justly transported the People to the highest degree of Rage against it imaginable And it is a Meritorious and a Laudable Zeal too so long as it contains it self within the Bounds of Law and Duty While the King Council and Parliament are in the mean time sifting and Examining the Design and doing Justice upon the Offenders Now there are a sort of men that under the Countenance of This Plot advance another of their own and 't is but the Rubbing of a Libel with a little Anti-Popery to give it the Popular smack and any thing else against the Government goes down Current If a man Writes or Speaks or Reasons against them he is presently a favourer of the Papists a Lessener of the Plot and run down with Nonsence and Clamor A Person of Untainted Honour and Integrity puts in for a Parliament-man 't is but any Little Fellows taking advantage of the Humour of the People and Billing of him for having some Papist to his Kinsman perhaps or Visiting some Lord in the Tower or under the common Scandal of a Courtier or a Pensioner and he 's gone to all Intents and Purposes This is the Character they give to every man that loves the King the Church or the Law They serve them as Nero did the Christians they put them into Bears-skins that is to say they call them Papists Pensioners Conspirators and then deliver them up to be worry'd by the Rabble Shall we never distinguish between Indubitable Truths and Transparent Falshoods betwixt Words and Deeds that stand in a direct Opposition the One to the Other What Priviledg has a Phanatick to blow up a Government more than a Iesuite It must be confest however that he is the Braver Enemy of the two for he scorns to sneak to the Execution of his Exploit with a Dark Lanthorn and to take advantage of Authority by Surprize but Arraigns Princes and puts them to death in the face of the Sun and at this Instant charges the Church openly with Idolatry Superstition and Oppression the State with Tyranny and the Law it self with Error and Insufficiency His first work is to Accuse his Superiors of Mis-government And then he tells the People next that in Case of Mis-government they may resume their Power And what 's all this to the PLOT THE END The Dukes Succession the Common subject of the Press Law and Scripture pretended on Both sides Texts and Presidents may be misapplyed Heresie and Sedition pretend Texts and Presidents Texts and Presidents to all purposes Have a Care of perverted Authorities The Dispute Pro and Con. How the Question came to be set a Foot The King Removed by Consequence Who were the Aggressours The Case Put. A preposterous Question Reasons why the Question ought not to have been Put. The People Incompetent Judges of the Case An Error of dangerous Consequence Great mischief and No Benefit by the Question The Dispute Justified The Question a Moot-Point Not one of a Thousand understands the Point Or what if the People did understand it An Unprofitable Question His Majesties Speech It is a Question of dangerous Consequences The King wounded through the Duke The Motives to the Bill of Exclusion The Excluding Clause of the pretended Bill The Ground and Extent of This Exclusion The Duke gave neither Birth nor Life to the Plot. Proved by Dr. Oates They durst not Trust the Duke with the knowledg of any design The Duke to be dispatched too Dr. Oats his Narrative Fol. 64. The Duke to be Poyson'd or Destroy'd No hopes of the Dukes Compliance The Duke clear'd by Dr. Oates Security to his Religion The Extent of This Exclusion Suppose the Disinherison Lawful The danger of Absolute and Unknown Power A Necessity of Some known Fundamentals A thing may be Lawful and yet Inconvenient Four Obstacles to be removed before the King pass the Bill No Notice taken of Libels against His Majesty and His Government A well meaning Mistake as Dangerous as a Malicious one The Old Cause Reviv'd Scandalous Reflections upon His Royal Highness Seditious Positions The Kings Case and the Dukes are unluckily Coupled The King no safer then the Duke The Dangerous Consequences of placing the Power in the People The Commons Vote The Question Changed from Heir to Successour A desperate Consequence The Political Catechism The Scope of the Ninteen Propositions Husbands Collections Pag. 316. The Kings Ruin was and is design'd Seditious Positions A Malitious Inference A Scandalous Address to the City Mr. Walworth The City of London has been always Loyal Hodge upon the Monument The Libeller sets up for an Oratour The Old Story Truth for his Vision We should do well to look about us He gives the Kings Murther for granted One Plot under another
of the Inhabitants of Covent-Garden to Murther the City of London News from France Italy Spain Denmark of Armies ready to come for England And again Pag. 536. they cause Discourses to be Published and Infusions to be made of Incredible Dangers to the City and Kingdom by that our coming to the House in the case of the five Members An Alarum was given to the City in the Dead time of the Night that we were coming with Horse and Foot thither and thereupon the whole City put in Arms And howsoever the Envy seem'd to be cast upon the Designs of the Papists mention was only made of Actions of our own Upon a fair understanding of the whole this supposition of his is no more then the Counterpart of the old Story And the Declamatory dangers that he foresees in Vision were outdone by those sensible Cruelties and Oppressions that this poor Kingdom suffered in very deed And now to bear him Company in his Phansy we shall give you a Truth for his Imagination First Imagine the whole Nation in a Flame and brought to the Extremities of Fire and Sword by the Malice of the same Faction that embroyl'd us before and at the same Instant Phansy whole Droues of Coblers Draymen Ostlers Quartering upon your Wives and Daughters till ye want bread to put in your Childrens Mouths which was the very Case your Apprentices discharg'd of their Indentures by Ordinances your Houses Rifled your Accompt-Books Examin'd Servants corrupted to betray their Masters your Persons sent on Ship-board transported or thrown into nasty Dungeons or in mercy perhaps your Throats cut by the Name of Popish Dogs and Cavaliers And all this only for refusing to Renounce God and your Soveraign Then represent to your selves the Thimble-maker once again Lieutenant of the Tower your Citizens clap up orders for the Demolishing of your Gates and Chains and nothing less than Military Execution threatned ye unless you will Redeem your selves with 100000 l. a Mouth Contribution toward the perpetuating of your Slavery Then cast your Eye toward Cheapside Corn-hill Charing-Cross Pallace-yard Tower-hill nay White-hall it self and there Imagine your Father your Brother your Citizens the Nobility Gentry nay the King himself and his best Friends and Ministers under the hand of the Common Executioner Appealing to God for whose Cause they dy'd Which was a frequent spectacle when the King reign'd no longer among you Phansie again that you behold those Beautiful Churches erected for the true Worship of God abused and turned into Stables and the Pulpits into Iugling Boxes to Hocus your Wives and your Daughters out of their Bodkins and Thimbles and there to hear nothing but Heresie and Sedition to the Dishonour of Christ and Scandal of Religion Phansie the Ministers of Gods Holy Word cast out of their Livings by Hundreds and with their Wives and Children expos'd to the wide World to beg their Bread Your Women running with their Hair about their Ears One half to the Works like Pioneers the other dancing attendance at some Merciless Committee to put in Bayl for a Malignant Child or Husband men cover'd with Blood lost Limbs and mangled Bodies with Horrors of Conscience over and above If it be true that these and forty times more Cruelties were committed And that the People were frighted into these Precipices only by shadows If it be true again that those Glorious Pretenders when they had the King and his Papists as they call'd his most Orthodox Friends under foot that these People I say never lookt further after Religion but fell presently to the sharing of the Church and Crown Revenues among themselves It will concern every sober man to look well about him and to make use of his Reason as well as of his Faith for these Fore-boders seldom Croak but before a Storm This Subject has carry'd me too far already but I shall be shorter in what follows After his affected Image of the Tyranny and Desolation that is breaking in upon us he does as good as nothing without working up the Peoples Horror and Astonishment upon those apprehensions into a Direct Rage and Desperation And this he endeavours to bring about by undertaking so positively for his Majesties Murther as if he himself were of the Conspiracy Very Peremptorily Issuing out his Orders to the City to be ready with their Arms at an hours warning The first Hour says he wherein ye hear of the Kings untimely End let no other Noise be heard among you but that of ARM ARM to revenge your Soveraigns Death both upon his Murtherers and their whole Party For that there 's no such thing as an English Papist who is not in the Plot at least in his good wishes Let not fear of losing Part by your Action make you lose the whole by your Patience Pag. 4. And then Pag. 25. he points them out the very General to lead them a respect which neither the City nor the Illustrious Person himself will thank him for upon so disorderly an occasion Enforcing his Proposition with this Inducement That he who hath the worst Title ever makes the best King Which is no Complement at all to his Majesty himself for an Usurper it seems would be better for His turn So that without any If 's or And 's the thing is given for Granted and upon this Instigation the least Rumour in the World that way puts the people upon a General Massacre as the bare Report lately of the French appearing before the Isle of Purbeck had like to have done in several places And then to the same Purpose Pag. 23. They will vigorously and speedily attempt the Kings Ruine unless he suddenly prevent it by adhering to his Parliament and ruining Them First Whether this be the way to Expose the Life of his most Sacred Majesty or to Preserve it let the World judg And of the Irreverence of handling so tender a Point at this Course rate Nay he does not only pronounce upon the Thoughts and Purposes of Men but upon the most secret appointment of God himself When God designs the Destruction of a King or People says he Pag. 11. he makes them deaf to all Discoveries This Observation of his I 'm affraid is more to the purpose then he was aware of For there are Discoveries of several sorts that are Evident Enough and yet not much taken notice of To say nothing of the Censures he passes upon the Kings Actions and Publick Resolutions of State Only I wonder who made this Man a Judg in Israel He quarrels his Majesty Pag. 3. For Prorogations and Dissolutions of Parliaments And Pag. 4. upon another Point Pag. 23. He Pre-judges the Parliament as if they would give his Majesty no Supplies unless he takes off the Heads of the Popish Faction exclude the Successlon and consent to such Laws as must of necessity ruin them In his 6 th Page he shews himself so good an English-man that he Professes he would rather be under a French