rather not Reign than be hampered and unabled to restore Popery join'd with the Republicans to throw out those Offers As the Pagans of old were wont to put all the Curses due to a City upon some hated Person Pag. 5. and then make him a Sufferer for them all so this spiteful Railer uses this most Heroick Prince loading him with all the ill Things that were done here in hopes to expose him to the Peoples Rage Even the Quo-Warranto's designed to usher in Arbitrary Power and crush his Friends if he had any and Monmouth's Invasion the Success of which had cast out his Title are laid at his Door The first of these hath no Proof but his Conjecture and the latter is promised none knows when to be proved by some Dispatches not safe to be published now But we may be sure there are no such Dispatches otherwise he that dares publish this Libel hates the Prince mortally and wants Evidence for every thing would not have been restrained by either Fear or Modesty to print such useful Testimonies as those would have been to his Design His Appeal to Sir William Temple's Memoirs we admit who gives the Prince so just and yet so high a Character that it manifests no little Share of Confidence in this Author to cite so unlikely a Book in justification of those odious Slanders He begins K. James his Reign where it ended at the Abdication yet his Method is as good as his Chronology for he makes an old Latin word found in Festus Livy c. to be first used at Naples in the last Century hoping to fright us from the Word by the terrible Exit of that War but he conceals that Ferdinand King of Naples to whom this Word was applied when he saw a Conqueror break in upon him and that he could not stay without bringing Ruin upon his Subjects before his private Flight and Desertion generously absolved all his People from their Oaths of Allegiance and never returned till they unanimously recalled him * Guiccardini Histor l. 1. p. 130. And if the late King had imitated that Prince in his Care of us when he went away unconcerned for any but himself his peaceable Return had been more likely than now it is But he will prove K. Pag. 6. James did not desert because he was driven from us and here he conceals that the late King was the Aggressor and had generally disgusted the Nation by his Attempts on their Religion and Liberties and despising their Petitions for Redress yet these were the true Causes of the Prince's mighty Success who had no other and needed no better Agents than King James his Bigotry and his Popish Counsellors Fury These prepared England to receive a Deliverer and one who would see these Evils remedied very kindly and made as many as could fly to him for Protection And if this true apparent Cause had been mentioned the Scene would not appear so strange as his Oratory paints it out these destructive and dangerous Counsels and Practices of the Prince's Foes did without a Miracle force Protestant-Children to forsake a misled Father This drove his Servants the Clergy and other Subjects to fly for shelter to him who came to their Rescue But 't is evident they sought only their own Safety not the King 's Hurt since when he was in their Power none offered any Harm to his Person Well but he made fair Promises to some Officers of his Army and they made as fair Promises to him but they saw no Inclination in him to redress any thing unless he were compelled to it and this obliged some of them to leave him The Treaty he speaks of was not moved till he had quitted the Field and saw he could not fight Yet even then it was accepted by the Victorious Prince with all imaginable sincerity as the Articles he sent shew †Histor of Desert p. 91. To which King James promised by Advice of his Council in the main to agree the very Night before his first departure in Disguise As to the Danger he was informed of there was nothing real in it and the Prince knew nothing of it as appear'd afterwards when the King was in his Power and they who knew the Intrigue say it was a Sham invented by a Commissioner of his own who knew his Temper feared his Obstinacy and devised this to terrify him into an Agreement But suppose he were in Danger that will not prove his Desertion could not be voluntary otherwise the Mariners in St. Paul's Ship Acts 27. might pretend their going off in the Boat was no voluntary Desertion since they apprehended Danger to their Lives by staying Or thus A General might excuse leaving his Souldiers because they Mutinied and threatned him Ferdinand of Naples did not freely Abdicate if nothing can be free which is our Choice in a Prospect of Danger It is not necessary to a voluntary Act that there be no Pressures to incline the Will to one Side for he who chuses a lesser Evil to avoid what he counts a greater acts voluntarily Wherefore if the late King chose rather to desert and save himself than to stay for his Peoples Safety it was a voluntary Desertion This Author saith very gently Upon this the King thought fit to withdraw But impartial Judges must call it a Desertion for the King in the midst of a Treaty to quit the Kingdom in Disguise leaving neither any Deputy or Directions and this after he had disbanded his Army dismissed his Chancellor and other great Ministers thrown away the Great-Seal into the River of Thames and left his abandoned People to shift for themselves exposed to the Insolence of the Rabble on the one hand and the worse Rabble of a disbanded Army on the other hand this the Parliament called Abdication The Treaty being thus broke off by King's James's Desertion Pag. 8. and the Administration before he was heard of put into the Prince's Hands he was at liberty whether he would renew the Treaty or no. Yet still he hindred not the King 's Return to London where instead of going to call a Parliament he burnt all the remaining Writs and endeavoured to make a Faction in the City by drawing off a Party there from the Prince Upon which it was necessary to desire him to retire to Ham or some other Place near London in order to reassume the Treaty and to keep him from doing or receiving any harm But King James who still resolved to fly rather than treat refused to go to Ham and chose Rochester to retire to secretly designing for France to raise Forces there to expel the Prince by Force so that his Messages were only to amuse till he could escape as accordingly he did shipping himself a second time for France whither he came safe And now what Occasion is there for all our Author 's tragical Outcries Pag. 9. of the imprisoning and ill-treating a Monarch who was at Liberty to go
THE Protestant Mask Taken off from the Jesuited Englishman BEING AN ANSWER To a Book Entituled GREAT-BRITAIN's Just Complaint Imprimatur Decemb. 12. 1692. EDMUND BOHUN LONDON Printed by William Wilde for Robert Clavel at the Peacock at the West-end of St. Paul's 1692 3. THE Protestant Mask Taken off from the Jesuited English-man OR c. THere are no sort of Men who can so dexterously put on all Shapes as the refined Followers of Ignatius and none so apt to be imposed upon at this time by these Masqueraders as King James's Protestant Friends The last Revolution gave as great a Blow to Popery as another would do to the Reformed Religion so that they who wish well to the Roman and ill to the English Church must rail at the past Revolution and advise us to another they must cover the late King 's real Faults and brand the present with feigned Crimes they must strain their Wits to represent King James as one who never did any Evil and King William as if he never did any Good This with a few Harangues of Loyalty and some shew of Concern for the Protestant Religion the disguised Author hopes will suffice to make those Church-of England-men who are not satisfied with the Present Government venture into Arms to restore King James wherein should they prosper it can serve the Interest of none but Papists and if they be unfortunate it must end in the Ruine of the deluded Vndertakers In pure Charity to them therefore and tender Compassion to my Country I will examine the late Pamphlet stiled Great Britain's Just Complaint c. and briefly shew the Sophistry and Weakness of his Arguments the Falshood of his pretented History and the Malice as well as Danger of his Design To which purpose I must pass by his Flowers of Rhetorick his innumerable and needless Repetitions and Tautologies which make up one half of the Book and reply only to that which seems material He stumbles on a Contradiction very ominously at his first Step Page 1. affirming that our last Revolution never had a Parallel in antient or modern History yet immediately grants there are Instances in every Country of Subjects who have been forced by Arms to defend their Religion and Liberties against such violent Acts of their Princes as visibly endangered the Frame of the Government and that many Princes have lost their Crowns by their Cruelty and being obstinately deaf to their Subjects Petitions and Complaints Which Instances are all Parallels to our Revolution excepting only that most of them have been more bloody and violent upon less Occasions and in few places where a free People were so long and highly provoked did the Criminals come off so easily The next Exploit of this bold Writer is to arraign the whole Nation Page 2. and the wisest Men in it for Fools and Mad-men as being imposed on by the Prince of Orange's Ambition and refusing all Offers of Accommodation and Expedients for Redress Whereas our greatest Statesmen did examine these Offers and Expedients and in the midst of their Deliberations the late King went away privately for France and so broke off the Treaty With equal Truth and Modesty he affirms that all the Reasons of this Revolution are baffled and the Actors in it ashamed of the Grounds they went upon Yet still there remain it seems two famous Pamphlets which have put him to all his shifts to answer one is called The Pretences of the French Invasion Examined the other A Letter to a Friend concerning the French Invasion And not to take notice of his blind Guesses at and rude Censures of the Authors and the Papers themselves we will try how well he hath confuted them After all the Reproaches of Folly and Fallacy cast upon the first Author Page 3. he grants the Points he hath treated upon are very weighty and our profound Politician humbly follows the Steps of his contemptible Adversary And to prepare Men to revolt from this Government and join with a French Invasion he undertakes to shew they ought to venture their Necks for another Revolution 1. To repair the Injury done to King James 2. To settle the Government upon its old Basts 3. To deliver our selves from the present Sufferings we lie under 4. To secure the Protestant Religion 1. To make out the Injury done to King James he takes leave of the Papers he was answering and runs back near 20 Years to make up a most ridiculous and improbable Invective against the Prince of Orange hoping to hide the just real and honourable Causes of his Descent which were his Love to us and to our Religion and Laws then in extreme Danger by K. James's Administration by a false and groundless Charge of his ambitious aiming at our Crown before he could well write Man and by accusing him of all the Troubles of K. Charles the 2d's Reign which he aggravates by that Uncle's Tenderness for him Which last Insinuation shews the Truth of the rest for Sir W. Temple who best knew observes that K. Charles the 2d was so deep in the Interests of France that he shamefully neglected his brave Nephew when his Life and the Safety of Christendom lay at stake But why doth this nameless Libeller dig so deep for hidden Causes of the Troubles of that Reign Page 4. The Growth of Arbitrary Power and Popery the Duke's declaring himself Papist the Breach of the Triple League the Dutch War the Intrigues with France and the Popish Plot were open and known Causes of these Troubles And a few of them were sufficient to make a People so tender of their Liberties and Religion as the English are to be uneasy Besides how came it to pass that K. Charles who was so very sagacious never discovered this but to the great Satisfaction not of his People but of his own Mind as he declared in Parliament married this Prince to his Niece who was then generally supposed likely to succeed to the English Crown And to shew this Match was no Force upon that King the Noble Peer who advised the Match was most dear to his then Master and had a better Post in his Reign than that he now enjoys The Duke perhaps might be averse to this Match as being likely to spoil his Designs of converting us which would be difficult in the prospect of a Protestant Heir The Bill of Exclusion and the refusing K. Charles's Concessions are next imputed to the P. of O. and his Friends but very falsly for the Popish Plot gave the pretence to that Bill and the Zealots for it inclined to set up Monmouth or a Commonwealth As to the Concessions of a Fence against a Popish Successor if the P. of O. really had any Friends in that Parliament and any such Prospect as is pretended there would not have been a fairer Opportunity to put him then into the greatest Trust and Power but the Truth is the Duke's Creatures in the House who knew he had
where he pleased and not an Hair of his Head hurt Had that Monarch been Victorious and the Prince been as long and as much in his power he would scarce have given him leave to go back safe to Holland but have sent him out of the way by the Axe with as little Scruple or Ceremony as he did Monmouth And if his former Dealings with the Prince be considered it must be owned he treated him with a Civility more becoming a dutiful Son than a provoked Enemy and shewed to the Satisfaction of all good English Protestants more of the Christian than of the Politician in this whole Affair yet this Rabshakeh arraigns him for his Charity He accuses the Prince for sending him by Water at an unseasonable time thereby endangering his Health forgetting that K. James went in the Night by Water the very Week before of Choice when he crost the River in order to his first Attempt to get into France and this without any Damage to his Health so that he used himself as ill as the Prince used him As to his writing to the Bishops his speaking to the Bishop of Winchester or to Sir R. Clayton or other Citizens all this is an impudent Fiction the Bishop of Winchester protests that no such Proposition was ever made to him the same is averred by Sir R. Clayton His Letters from Rochester and St. Germains are full of Wrath and Revenge complaining of every one but himself the first Cause of all those Evils and are so far from promising Amends that they do not own he did any Fault Nor hath the Nation seen any thing from him since that shews his desire to be restored any other way than by French Arms which he hopes will both force him upon us again give him opportunity of Revenge and assist him in the pious Works of Dragooning and Enslaving us The Convention had declared the Throne void Pag. 11. and being told that he writ from St. Germains in the Stile of a King they could not receive nor read the Letter writ from thence which offered no Redress but required an absolute Submission Wherefore tho these Letters might shew his Desire to be in his Throne they gave no Hopes of his taking better Measures for the future He would have staid if he might have set up Popery and ruled us Arbitrarily and he seems not willing to return upon other Terms Therefore when a King will not govern in a limited Monarchy unless he may change it into an absolute Empire if he desert with such Principles and continue in them the Parliament judges this to be an Abdication He objects that by a Maxim of the Author of the Pretences examined K. James could not desert but the Place is not truly cited out of that Paper which rightly supposes the People of England are not willing to part with K. William and Q. Mary And therefore now they have sworn to protect us and we to bear Allegiance to them they are not at liberty to give up their Power that is it would be an ill thing in them to leave us now in time of Danger they cannot do it fairly * Solumid dicimur posse faceâ—â— quod justèsacere possumus Grat. Gl. 22 qu. 2. And it is supposed we cannot do that at all which we cannot do justly Now this rare Logician insers Therefore when K. James doth desert he cannot desert tho the People are not unwilling he should go since it was his Mind But the only true Consequence of this Maxim is not that there is any Impossibility in the thing but that he did not well to chuse rather to leave us than stay and govern by Law 'T is true by disbanding the Army he broke no Statute but he broke his Oath to protect us and declared by that Act he would no longer defend us and then it was time for the Bishop of Canterbary and other Lords to seek out for another Governour Wherefore this mighty Champion sings before the Victory Pag. â—â— the Desertion still lives after his Dream of knocking it dead However he goes on to cope with another Foe the Male Administration And here our Author says not he is a Protestant the he brags he is an English man I doubt he is neither since tho Matters are too plain to be denied and too odious to be justified yet he falls to extenuate and excuse them with all the Artifice that an ill Cause needs And hoping to wheedle the Nation with more Rhetorick than Honesty he insinuates that Errors alone will not justify such horrid Crimes as he charges upon this Revolution And if the Male-Administration were only some little Irregularities and the Revolution so horridly wicked as he paints them both this Assertion would be true enough But in our Case the Faults were taking Methods to destroy the Form of Government it self here established and breaking in upon Religion Liberty Property in all which our King is bound by Oath to defend us Such Faults when Petitions are rejected must be cured some way or a total Ruine must follow And no History can shew an Instance where so great Evils were averted without Battel Noise or Executions If I may defend my self against an unjust and fatal Assault I may begin before I am mortally wounded Page 13. And if we had staid to see the Effect of the Dispensing Power High-Commission-Court c. our unavoidable Ruine had been the certain Price for that cautious Delay The Design was as plain and the Methods as likely as could be and if no Check had been given by any body the Event had been e're now as fatally certain as the Causes were evident It must be granted K. James is a zealous Catholick and hath a Passion for the French Government and therefore why should we not believe his aiming at establishing Popery and the French way of Governing proceeded from his own Inclinations Or if his Ministers put him upon these Projects as he insinuates since he would let none of them be called to Account it was all one to the Sufferers whether he or his Ministers devised their Ruine Again he requires some Author's Name to the Particulars charged upon K. James's Government but the Charge is so true and known to so many thousands that there is more need to inquire into his Name that dares to outface a whole Nation for if his Authority be not more weighty than his Excuses he will never carry his Point The examining of Particulars will shew this Page 14. some of them he denies extenuates the rest and varnishes all over But 1. were there no Severities in the West Yes he grants it and seems sorry for it but says they were Rebels and had forfeited their Lives and Estates Let that be granted yet still there have been greater Rebellions in former Reigns yet no King after the Danger was over and the Party broken did ever execute so many of his deluded Subjects in cold Blood None were
Arbitrary Power I highly approve and would have transcribed it had it not been too long being a just Satyr upon King James his Effects to rule us Arbitrarily a true Description of the miserable Condition of the poor French who as he grants pag. 54. are all made Slaves And truly this whole Discourse is useful both as it arms us against our late Arbitrary Monarch's fresh Attempts by that Tyrant's Assistance and as it is a clear Vindication of the late Revolution and a deserved Encomium on those brave English-men who after the Example of their Ancestors nobly shook off the Shackles K. James was putting on them However Page 27. this can be no Motive to any body to rebel against K. William who as this Enemy confesses never yet pretended to this Title of Conquest and knows nothing what Books his Secretary licenses and that Book which moves this Author's Jealousy speaks only of a Conquest over K. James not over the People of England so that it makes nothing to his purpose K. William as his Declaration for Scotland assures us came to hinder the late King from taking away his Subjects Liberties and it was high time when that King in his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience in Scotland Feb. 12. 1686. said in the very Phrase of the French Tyrant he would have his absolute Power obeyed without reserve and made them swear to assist and defend him and his Heirs in the exercise of this his absolute Power against all Deadly Now he that claims absolute Power and Obedience to it without reserve leaves his Subjects no Liberties he owns that his Will is not bounded by Laws or Priviledges and no Law can exempt a Subject in that case from obeying an illegal Command Yea he makes that enslaved People swear to put this heavy Yoke on their own Necks and to help him to destroy all that stood up for their Laws and Liberties And they were following this Copy in England when Jefferies would suffer no Lawyer to plead in the High-Commission-Court and without hearing the Cause gave Sentence in these Words It is the King's Pleasure that such and such be suspended fined deprived c. And the late King himself at Oxford would not hear the Magdalen-Fellows plead their Cause but in a Fury told them He would make them know he was their King and would be obeyed Now let this Gentleman declaim as much as he will against a King's infringing his Peoples Liberties it hurts not K. William but falls very heavy upon his own Master And so doth this eloquent Description of the Mischief of a Prince's assuming a Dispensing Power Page 28. which fatally threatens the Liberties of a People and as he saith makes them Tenants at Will for their Privileges wherein the Law gives them a Freehold And was it not time for the English to look about them when the late King claimed and exercised this Power in a thousand Instances But to avoid that natural Application he pretends to wonder that our Convention and Parliament since the Revolution never set Bounds between the Prerogative and the Peoples Rights Which is a notorious piece of Dissimulation for he knows when the Convention tendred the Crown to their Majesties in that very Declaration solemnly approved Feb. 12. 1688. these Bounds are set and the Subjects Liberties and Rights declared especially such as the late King had invaded to which K. William consented and this was enrolled both in the Parliament-Rolls and in the Chancery * Hist of Desertion p. 127. Yea this Author cites this Declaration three or four times by name 33 34 35. yet here he would insinuate there was no such thing only that he may slander the present King and Parliament With equal Confidence he accuses K. William upon the Reduction of Ireland for acting Arbitrarily because to spare the Effusion of his Subjects Blood he granted some Privileges to the Irish who laid down their Arms by his own Authority tho he confesses he got them afterwards confirmed by Parliament Which is no more Power than a General is often wont to assume in signing Capitulations without consulting his Prince And is this Criminal in a King that is allowable in some of his Officers He knows the late King in time of Peace granted both Privileges and Dispensations more contrary to Law and despised a Parliament's Confirmation affirming his Will to be sufficient Authority for the most illegal Grants From this he passes to harangue upon the Injustice of illegal Imprisonment and the Worth of Freedom which he sets off as the choicest part of our Magna Charta forgetting that K. James contrary to Law imprisoned many hundreds in all parts of England upon Monmouth's Invasion and clapt up seven Bishops Peers of the Realm most unjustly and almost daily broke in upon this dear Piece of our English Privileges in time of Peace But he that excuses this and will not see it Pag. 29. roars out at our present King for clapping up a few Jacobites and aggravates the Matter extreamly but saith not one word of the Occasion But 't is well known that while the French King and King James prepare to invade us from without the Papists and their Protestant Accomplices of that Party have laid divers treasonable Plots at home to destroy this Government and by railing by Libels and all other Methods have laboured to disturb the publick Peace to seduce their Majesties Subjects from their Allegiance and to take away their Majesties Lives and Crowns for which under any Government but this many hundreds of them e're now had paid their Heads But our Prince who like the brave Antoninus punishes all Offences more gently than the Law ordains * Vide Jul. Capitolin in Vitâ pag. 206. hath been content only to confine some of the chief of them to prevent their doing Mischief as the Safety of the Nation absolutely requires when Invasion was threatned and this is the Occasion of all this Noise As for the Benefit of Acts of Parliament which he saith they were denied I must observe they were Men generally that deserved no Protection from or Benefit by the Laws because they have not only refused to swear Allegiance to this Government but by Words and Actions declared they are sworn Enemies to it and resolve to overturn it as soon as they can Nor could the Government want Informations against them who had so often and openly discovered their Intentions But it was K. William his innate Clemency which would soften any but such ungrateful Creatures that made him forbid any Prosecution And most of these Men were set at Liberty so soon that his Majesty's Friends thought his good Nature prevailed over that Caution which seemed necessary while so many Plots had been laid and were actually carrying on Yea one of them upon whom actual Treason in the highest Degree was proved hath been pardoned after Conviction and Condemnation and of many hundreds guilty of Treason two only have suffered
So that we shall have Cham's Fate to be Servant of Servants and if K. Lewis help to make us so he will account these three Crowns a Purchace and no Present But considering how uneasy English Protestants must be under a double Slavery the only way to tame them must be a severe Persecution to which if Interest did not lead the French King Ambition would For he Dragooned his own Subjects against his Interest purely out of Vain-Glory and to shew his Will was absolute and uncontroulable and that neither Conscience nor the Fear of God should exempt any Man from Obedience to it besides we saw by K. James his Elight that he considers not the Nation 's safety when he thinks himself in Danger and when he hath his trusty Irish and French Guards about him 't is but pretending our Liberties and Religion are inconsistent with his Security and then Popery and Slavery must be advanced to keep him in the Throne We may take the Author's Word for K. James's Concessions to the Scotch Plotters Pag. 50. since he hath no doubt been in all Plots since the Revolution but suppose they have his Word his Hand and Seal for these Favours we know he will promise any thing in his Distress but were he restored and in full Power it would be pleaded he was under a Force when he made these promises and so not obliged to perform them Moreover I would ask why he did not offer such Acts of Grace here while he had Power to call a Parliament to confirm them The only reason must be that if his Concessions had passed into Laws and other Securities had been given he could never have ruined the Protestant and set up his own Religion Nor would he be so free to grant now if he did not know how to be absolved from fulfilling those Grants His Pre-Engagements to the Pope are well known we have his Letters to the Holy Father and hear of the Arguments used at Rome for his Holinesses's Aid which are his losing three Kingdoms for his Zeal to reduce us to the Catholick Faith and his Resolution upon his Restauration to promote the same pious VVork Oh! but King VVilliam he suggests hath made more Engagements to the Holy-Chair to gain the Pope to favour his Advancement to the Throne Very Comical King VVilliam's Advancement to the Throne was neither foreseen by the Pope nor any Catholick Prince nor by himself Some of them might possibly know of his Descent and favour it as it might tend to weaken their common Enemy the French King and his only considerable Allie but none of them foresaw that K. James would desert and therefore the Liberty the Papists enjoy here is owing to King William's good Nature and Tenderness not to any Promises he made beforehand to any of the Confederates His next Attack is upon Dr. King's Book of the State of the Protestants in Ireland Pag. 51. which proves that K. James expressed his Hatred of Protestants and his Bigotry for Popery there since the Revolution A Book writ with that known Truth and Firmness of Reason that every Page of it is Demonstration which hath been often threatned with an Answer but the long Silence of the party shews guilt and despair As for this Author's Falshoods and Calumnies I refer the Reader to that convincing Tract which not only confutes all our Adversary's sham Stories of these Irish Affairs but exposes his Impudence in venturing his Credit by telling such Improbabilities The Truth in short is that Tyrconnel had disarmed all the Protestants before K. James came over and left them naked to the Outrages of the bloody Rapperees who plundered whole Towns and killed many and upon Complaint no Protestant could have Redress K. James would not employ nor trust any of them their causes in all Courts still went against them the Soldiers oppressed them the meanest Papists insulted over them their Lands were unjustly taken from them by that tyrannical Law of Repealing Settlements and this by K. James's own Sollicitation who struggled with his Bishops and modest Judges to carry it and after he was duly informed of the Cruelty and Injustice of it still pressed it and at last got it passed to the ruine of Thousand Protestant Families most of which had purchased and paid for these Estates Those who stay'd in Ireland were oppressed imprisoned and used barbarously Those who fled for safety or for Bread were attainted of High Treason by an Act that never had a Precedent in any Age since the Roman Proscriptions Many thousands of all Qualities and Ages and of both Sexes were Condemned without Citation or any sort of Evidence brought against them And whereas to give some Colour to so Barbarous a proceeding they had a day assigned them to come in after which the Attainder was to take place yet that none of them might be the better for the Orders were given and care was taken that no Man should come by the sight of it And every where Protestant Churches were taken from them by Force and given to Popish Priests by the Order or Connivance of the late King Yet all his was done in those parts of Ireland where the Protestants were very peaceable under him And now let the World judge whether these undeniable Matters of Fact be not a sufficient Cure for any English Protestants wishing to see him restored to a Power to do the like Mischiess here His Temper and Principles we see are the same they were in the height of his Attempts on our Religion and Liberty and if we put him into the same Circumstances we should soon feel the Effects of our Folly and his Revenge We agree with him that King Charles the first was ill treated to the great Scandal of that part of the Nation who were his Enemies Pag. 52. but when his Son saw how dire Effects a few stretches of the Prerogative and some groundless Fears of Popery had produced methinks he should not in the same Age have set up a more illegal High-Commission-Court nor openly declared himself a Romanist and against Law and Reason given all the best Places in England to those of that Perswasion Nor should he have Imprisoned or Fined Men contrary to Law nor committed more Outrages by his Army in times of Peace than have ever since been committed by a more numerous Army in time of War He therefore not King William is most concerned in that unhappy Precedent The kind Arguments which one of his Adversaries urged to convince the Non-swearing Protestants have an equal share of Logick and Truth for which cause this Author rather evades than answers them he brings in over again the Grants to the Scotch Plotters which were shewed before to be insignificant and at last passes his Word for his Master That he will be very kind to them at his Return and perswades them to believe all things and doubt nothing tho' Experience and Reason both shew there is no ground for