see presently of his own setting up Secondly He says that London is the only place where by reason of their Excellent Preaching and daily instruction in the Protestant Religion the people have a lively sense thereof and doubtless will not part with it to pleasure a Prince but perhaps rather lose their Lives by the Sword in the Wars than by Faggots in Smithfield The passage now is plain English and as many indignities upon the Government crouded into one sentence as could well be brought together Here is First an Exhortation to a Rebellion For the Prince here in question against whom the sword is to be drawn can be no other upon his supposition than actually the King And let him take his choice now whether it shall be intended of his present Majesty or of his Successour It is a Rebellion against the King that now is in the one Case and against the Next King in the other And Secondly It is not only a simple Rebellion but to the scandal of the Reformation and particularly of the Church of England a Rebellion founded upon the Doctrine of the Protestant Religion Thirdly It is no other then as he himself has worded it the Hellish Tenet of Murthering Kings in a disguise only a Jesuitical Principle in Masquerade It is Fourthly a Condemnation of the practices and submissions of the Primitive Christians and the whole story of our Protestant Martyrology He says Thirdly that the City is too powerful for any Prince that Governs not by the love of his people which no Popish Successour can expect to do This is the very Translation of his Name-sake Junius Brutus in his Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos If the Prince fails in his promise says he the people are exempt from their obedience The contract is made void and the right of obligation is of no force It is therefore permitted to the Officers of a Kingdom either all or some good number of them to suppress a Tyrant Here 's a great deal of virulence in his Discourse without one word of weight to countenance it For the well-being of this City is so essentially requisite to the well-being of this Kingdom that the very charge of the Government is not to be defray'd without it So that it is the interest of all Governours to cherish and support it Here he trifles away some half a score lines more about the Fire and then from the danger of the City advances to the further danger accruing to the Citizens as well as to the whole Kingdom upon the King 's untimely Death The greatest danger says he will proceed from a confusion and want of some Eminent and Interested persons whom you may trust to lead you up against a French and Popish Army For which purpose no person is fitter then his Grace the Duke of Monmouth as well for Quality Courage and Conduct as for that his life and fortune depends upon the same bottom with Yours He will stand by you therefore ought you to stand by him And remember the old rule is He who hath the worst Title ever makes the best King Does he suppose this confusion upon the death of the King or the burning of the City or before or after Or has he consulted either the Illustrious Person or the Honourable City that he makes so bold with to know whether or not the one would accept of such a Commission upon the Appellants terms or the other offer it the Character that he is pleas'd to bestow upon his Grace for his Quality Courage and Conduct is not unknown to any man that ever so much as heard of his Name But the Appellant never considers that all these glorious circumstances are point blank contradictions to his design How can he imagine that so brave a Person can ever stoop to so mean a thought and suffer himself by a Prostitute Libell to be inchanted out of his Honour reason and Allegiance Or that the most Eminent City of Christendom for purity of Religion Loyalty to their Prince Power Good Government Wealth and Resolution should be cajol'd out of all these blessings and advantages by the Jesuitical Fanaticism of a Dark-lanthorn-Pamphlet But to what end is all this clutter the Appellant has a mind it seems to change his Master He who hath the worst Title he says ever makes the best King which is a very fair proposition for setting up of a worse Title in his Majesties place From hence he goes forward still computing upon his Majesties death as a thing to be taken for granted and so recommending himself to the most worthy Citizens he finishes his Appeal FINIS (a) So that either all Honest Men are Mutiniers or all Mutiniers Honest Men which makes him joyn them together (b) Here he shews himself to be an Informer (c) Wat Tyler's endeavour was to destroy the Kings Life and Government and plunder the City whereas the Appeal desires to save King City and Government or at least to revenge their sufferings (d) This year of 41. is indeed very remarkable for the Massacre of 250000 poor Irish Protestants by the Papists (e) I suppose our Author is the only party that accuses the Honourable City (f) Herein I must agree with him that the City lost many things by the last Civil War for they lost the Star-Chamber High-Commission-Court Knights-Service Court of Wards Privy-Seals c. (a) At first he claws the City but here you see his Complement does not hold long likening some of them to Horse-turds (b) Here he begins to withdraw you from believing or fearing a Popish Plot. (c) This Parallel is no other but an Harangue for Popery and against all the Protestants under the name of Schismaticks * As many times this Fidler hath done (d) Given for the Peoples own serviâ—e and security thâ—refore less grievous (e) The sum of this parallel is that he wrongfully accuses another of stealing an Ox to justifie his own Theft of a Horse since he cannot have the impudence to clear his own Popish Party of a Plot yet he hopes at least to extenuate their crime by unjustly calumniating the Protestants (f) Now to shew that this was written by a Papist examine the Catholick Naked Truth where you may find their usual way of writing is to set up their own Doctrine by making the Protestants and Fanaticks fall out (g) Sure this Author is in the Plot himself that he makes our present danger and the Plot to be but a Supposition or Vision when both King and Parliament have declared it real (h) As this Scribler would do our Abby Lands were his Religion uppermost (i) Nor Papists till just before a Parliaments dissolution (k) Here he supposes the best part of the House of Commons would lay the Kingdom in bloud whereas such men as he calls Good Members would lay the City in ashes (l) Many things are lawful but not expedient and 't is evident by this he fears nothing more than a
plenty These are the men who exclaim against our Parliaments Proceedings in relation to the Plot as too Violent calling these times by no other name but that of Forty or Forty-one when to amuse his Sacred Majesty and his good People they again threaten us with another Forty-eight And all this is done under-hand to Vindicate the Catholique Party by throwing a Suspicion on the Fanatiques These are the Episcopal Tantivies who make even the very Scriptures Pimp for the Court who out of Urim and Thummim can extort a Sermon to prove the not paying of Tyths and Taxes to be the Sin against the Holy Ghost And had rather see the Kingdom run down with Blood than part with the least Hem of a Consecrated Frock which they themselves made Holy Here 's a very fair and round distribution of the Cities Enemies into Younger Brothers Dependants upon the King Friends to the Church and into Profest Papists And the whole Kingdom it self is again split into Two Parties the one consisting of Mutiniers and Schismatiques the other of the Loyal Servants and Subjects of the Government which under the three first Heads he brands as the Cities Enemies These Men he Charges with lessening the Plot with resembling the present times to Forty-one and talking of another Forty-eight Now how is it possible but the Positions of Forty-one should put us in mind of the Rebellion of Forty-one and the Regicidal Principles of Seventy-nine mind us of the Regicide it self of Forty-eight For these Principles and Practices are nothing in the World but the Venom of the Old Cause swallow'd and Spew'd up again and all the Treasons of the Consistory are cast upon the Conclave As if the Murther of Charles the First by the Treachery of Mock-Protestants were ever the less Detestable because the Two Harries of France were Assassinated by Profest Papists These are the Puritan Iesuits that turn the Bible into a Nose of Wax that make God the Author of Sin that Depose and Murther Kings by a Text and Intitle their Sacrilege and Treason to the Inspirations of the Holy Ghost These are the Straight-lac'd Christians that make less scruple of Robbing the Altar than of Kneeling at the Communion They can swallow the Blood of Widows and Orphans and yet Puke at a Surplice Let me ask the worthy Gentlemen of the City now which of the two carry'd them the easier the Schismatical and Sacrilegious or the Episcopal Tantivy Or which they take for the more dangerous Enemies our Appellants young Beggarly Officers or their Old Acquaintances Pen Fulks and their Fellows who violently thrust out the gravest and most Substantial of their Citizens as the late King has it and took in Persons of desperate Fortunes and Opinions in their places Let them compare the Appellants Courtiers too with the Old Sequestring Plundring and Decimating Committees with their Court-Marshals and Major-Generals when London was made little better then a Shambles and their Merchants only Cash-keepers to the Tyrants at Westminster and then against his Over-hot Church-men we 'l set the Mechanique Pulpiteers and Tub-Preachers that not only divided the People from their Soveraign but Wives from their Husbands Children from their Parents and Preacht away Apprentices by Droves into Rebellion Carrying the Schism through Church and State into private Families This is the Blessed change that is now propounded and laid before us Lastly says he the chief and most dangerous of your Enemies are Papists who to make sure of their own Game allure all the three forementioned Parties to their side by the Arguments aforesaid Their design is to bring in Popery which they can no ways effect but either by a Popish Successor or by the French Arms. There is no doubt of the danger of the Papists but still while the Government has One Enemy in Front it is good to secure the Flank and Rear from another So that the Cities only safety lies in the mean betwixt the two Extremes of Popery on the One hand and Libertinism on the Other The Former he says can never be effected but by a Popish Successor or the French Arms. See now how this hangs together the same Faction clamour'd against the late King just at this rate and yet there was no prospect at that time of a Popish Successor but yet Popery was charg'd most injuriously as all the World can witness upon the King himself And then for the French Arms so far was his Majesty from calling them in to his assistance that upon the Scottish Rebellion they were Sollicited and Implor'd into a Confederacy against him And yet we remember to our griefs that those very Rumours and Apprehensions of Popery even when there was not any Danger of it cast us all into Confusion And now our Appellant to shew how good an English-man he is as well as a Subject enters his Protestation a little lower in the same Paragraph that he would rather of the Two Live under a French Conqueror then the Duke as Successor I must acknowledge says he in the next clause that there is some Coherence between the Beginning of the Late Civil Wars and this our present Age For as well then as now the Ambitious Papists and French Faction were the chief nay the only Incendiaries which set us all in flame That the French Cardinal did Artificially improve the Turbulent Humour of the English and Scottish Schismaticks to the advancing of the Interest of France and to the Embroyling of these Kingdoms I make no question But to call them the Only Incendiaries is to give the Lye to the constant current of History and the known Certainty of Fact even within our own remembrance How were the Papists and French Factions concern'd in the Scottish Uproar of 1637. and a hundred Sacrilegious Tumults after that in the course of the Rebellion and to set him right now in his Calculation of his Majesties French friends we shall inform him that the King 's Principal supplies of Men Arms Money and Ammunition were furnished from Holland He tells us further that the Catholique Cause like the Chesnut in the Fable hath ever since Q. Marys days been in the Fire and that both then and now the Papists make use of the Episcopal and Court-parties claw to take it out the First of these they allure to their assistance by the Fright of Presbytery the Latter by the apprehension of a Republique tho' nothing is less Designed or more Improbable 'T is a hard case to have to do with an Adversary that has neither Candor in his Reports nor any force of Argument in his Reasonings and yet it is the more tolerable here because it is all that either the Story or the Cause will bear He makes the Episcopal and Court-Party to be the Passive Instruments of the Church of Rome for the advance of Popery ever since the Reign of Queen Mary which is so notorious a mistake that Queen Elizabeth and the
THE ANSWER TO THE APPEAL Expounded Printed in the Year 1680. Union Theol. Sem. Library MCALPIN THE PREFACE THis Answerer of the Appeal were his Politicks as strong as his Passions I should think him a Jesuit but they are so far from being so that I should disgrace that Order if I should imagine him to be one of them He is only an outragious and over-vehement Papist and differs from a Jesuit as a Wasp does from a Hornet much of the same nature but not so vigorous he would pass for a Member of the Church of England I mean as far as relates to the Crown and Episcopacy but furiously rails in effect at the Protestants But thanks be to God things are not yet come to that pass as that he dares do it under that Name therefore he terms them Presbyterians Fanaticks Schismaticks Rebels c. and then belyes them freely Mark through this whole Treatise and you shall find his main design is to shift away the real Popish Plot which the Justice of our Laws have already found out and instead thereof would substitute to the Executioner innocent Protestants much like the wicked Jews who to save the Murderer Barrabas from publick Justice did substitute and by false witness condemn Jesus Christ. But not to trouble you with a separate Confutation of his whole Discourse wherein he may pretend false Quotation I will only annex to his own Text some marginal Notes and leave them to the Reader 's use like Salt upon the brims of the Dish THE ANSWER to the APPEAL EXPOUNDED THis Appeal has made a mighty noise about the Town and yet Heaven knows there is neither Good Faith in it nor Argument But all things mis-apply'd or mis-reported to bring an Odium upon the Government and to inflame the Multitude The pretended Reasonings of it are no more than fallacies and non-sequiturs from the beginning to the end and yet it serves in a Coffee-house for a Test of Honest Men and Mutiniers Taking it barely in it self it is scarce worth an Answer But in the circumstances of the Boldness and the Malice it is but reasonable to bestow such a Reply upon it as may give it a Recommendation to publique Justice Especially having already taken notice of it by the By in another place It is a wonderful thing the Confidence of this Audacious Pamphlet in Addressing it self to the City after so Fresh so Loyal and so Generous an instance of their scorn and detestation of any thing that looks like a seditious practice Why should a Wat Tyler expect better Quarter from a Lord Mayor under Charles the Second than he had from a Lord Mayor under Richard the Second Nay that very Rebellion of Forty-one is most injuriously charg'd upon the City of London for Gournay Ricaut Garraway and the most considerable of the Citizens were not only against it in their Opinions but oppos'd it to the utmost with their Estates and Persons And that Honourable Society has not yet forgotten either the Calamities of the War or the Methods and Instruments which brought so great a Reproach upon the City Beside that it is as much their Interest as their Duty and as much their Inclination as either to support the Government For by a War they must of necessity suffer doubly And not only in the loss or abatement of their Trade but in the deep proportion of their Taxes toward the publique Charge So that these are not a sort of people to be Wheedled out of their Honour and Allegiance But we shall now take a view of the Pamphlet it self An Appeal from the Country to the City IT begins Most brave and noble Citizens And a little lower With you we stand and with you we fail your example directs our Conduct c. Now if the greeting had been to the Club of Subscribers that which follows would have been much more Consequent for it is a great Truth that the Conspirators of both sides must expect to stand and fall together and that the Factions in the Country can never make any thing on 't without a Tumult in the City to lead the Dance which God be prais'd there is no fear of and then for the Credit which this busie Mutineer can pretend to under this present Government with the Noble Citizens as he claws them I am perswaded if the Author of the Appeal were but known to the Court of Aldermen and Common Councel it might cost him Dear the very Complement Not but that in so great a body there may be some few little Fellows a float too that cry out with the Horse-turds among the Apples in the Emblem How we Apples swim In the next clause the Scriber gives to understand that he has read Hodge upon the Monument and writing after that Copy he follows the phansie of the Citizens looking about them from the top of the Pyramid Now to match this dismal prospect of Imaginary Calamities to come we shall give you a Parallel in a brief Summary of what this Nation has really suffer'd in Fact and in Truth brought upon it self by believing such stories as these without either Foundation or Effect First says he Imagine you see the whole Town in a flame occasioned this second time by the same Popish malice which set it on fire before First say I Imagine you see the whole Nation in a Flame and brought to the extremities of Fire and Sword occasioned this second time by the same Schismatical and Republican Malice which embroil'd it before At the same instant phansie that amongst the distracted Crowd you behold Troops of Papists ravishing your Wives and Daughters dashing your little Childrens brains out against the Walls Plundering your Houses and cutting your own Throats by the name of Heretique Dogs At the same instant Phansie Decemb. 1659 once over again whole droves of Coblers Dray-men Ostlers upon Free-quarter with you till some of your Wives and Daughters are forc'd to Prostitute themselves for Bread your Councels affronted by Armed Troops and your fellow Citizens knockt on the head like Dogs at their own doors for not so much as barking your Apprentices discharg'd of their Indentures by an Arbitrary Power your Houses Rifled your Account-books examin'd your Servants corrupted to Betray their Masters your Persons clapt under Hatches transplanted 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 Tower playing off its Cannon and battering down the Houses about your ears Then represent to your selves the Thimble-maker once again Lieutenant of the Tower your Citizens clapt up St. Pauls and Gresham-Colledge turn'd into Garrisons orders for the demolishing of your Gates and Chains and nothing less than Military Execution threaten'd you unless you will redeem your selves with 100000 l. a month Contribution towards the
perpetuating of your Slavery Also casting your Eye toward Smithfield Imagine you see your Father or your Mother or some of your nearest and dearest Relations ty'd to a Stake in the midst of flames when with bands and eyes lifted up to Heaven they scream and cry out to that God for whose cause they die which was a frequent spectacle the last time Popery Reign'd amongst us Also casting your eye toward Cheap-side Cornhil Charing-cross Palace-yard Tower-hill nay Whitehall it self Imagine you see your Father or some of your nearest Relations your Citizens the Nobility Gentry nay the King himself and his best Friends under the hand of the Common Executioner appealing to God in whose Cause they dy'd which was a frequent spectacle when Rebels and Vsurpers under the title of Reformers reign'd last amongst us Phansie ye behold those Beautiful Churches erected for the true Worship of God abused and turn'd into Idolatrous Temples to the dishonour of Christ and scandal of Religion The Ministers of God's Holy Word torn in pieces before your eyes and their best Friends not daring even to speak in their behalf Phansie you behold those Beautiful Churches erected for the true Worship of God abused and turned into Stables the Pulpits into Juggling boxes to Hocus your Wives and Daughters out of their Bodkins and Thimbles and nothing to be heard there but Heresie and Sedition to the dishonour of Christ and scandal of Religion The Ministers of Gods Holy Word cast out of their Livings by hundreds and their Children expos'd to the wide World to beg their Bread and not a Friend that dares open his mouth for them Women running with their Hair about their ears Men cover'd with Bloud and Children sprawling under Horses feet and only the Walls of Houses left standing Your Women running with their Hair about their ears one half to the Works like Pioniers the other dancing Attendance at some Merciless Committee to put in Bail perhaps for some Malignant Friend or Husband Men cover'd with Bloud lost Limbs and mangled Bodies from Edghill Branford c. and with horror of Conscience over and above Altars Robb'd Churches Demolish'd and only the Walls left standing In Fine What the Devil himself would do were he here upon Earth will in his absence infallibly be acted by his Agents the Papists Those who had so much Ingratitude and Baseness to attempt the Life of a Prince so Indulgent to them will hardly be less cruel to any of his Protestant Subjects In Fine What the Devil himself would do were he here upon Earth will in his absence infallibly be acted if they may have their will by his Agents the Perjurious and Hypocritical Regicides that Betray'd their Prince and their Country by the Solemnity of a Covenant and Poyson'd the unwary People in that very Sacrament Those who had so much Ingratitude and Baseness not only to attempt but take away the Life of a Prince so Indulgent to them as the late King was who deny'd them nothing but his Crown and his Blood which afterward they took These I say again that are so ungrateful to our present Soveraign as after so much Mercy and Bounty to the Murtherers of his Father and of his Friends have now enter'd into fresh attempts upon his Life his Crown and Dignity will hardly be less Cruel to any of his Majesties obedient Subjects Now to shew you that this way of Incentive to the Multitude is only the Old story new furbish'd and not our Appellants Mother-wit and Contrivance as he would have the World imagine See his Majesties Declaration of Aug. 12. 1642. Husbands Collection pag. 540. One day the Tower of London is in danger to be taken and Information given that Great Multitudes at least a Hundred had that day resorted to visit a Priest then a Prisoner there by Order of the Lords and that about the time of the Information about fifty or sixty were then there and a Warder dispatcht of purpose to give that notice Upon Inquiry but four persons were then found to be There and but eight all that day who had visited the Priest Another day a Taylor in a Ditch over-hears two passengers to Plot the Death of Mr. Pym and of many other Members of Both Houses Then Libellous Letters found in the Streets without Names probably contrived by themselves and by Their Power Published Printed and Enter'd in their Journals and Intimations given of the Papists Training under ground and of notable Provision of Ammunition in Houses where upon Examination a Single Sword and a Bow and Arrows are found A Design 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 Alarm 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 than 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 suffer'd in very deed If it be true that these and fourty 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 We in the Country says he have done our parts in chusing for the generality Good Members to serve in Parliament But if as our two last Parliaments were they must be Dissolv'd or Prorogued when ever they come to redress the Grievances of the Subject we may be Pitied but not Blam'd If the Plot takes effect as in all probability it will our Parliaments are not then to be Condemn'd for that their not being suffer'd to sit occasion'd it Fol. 1. There are just as many Affronts put upon the Government in these two Periods as in the Printed Folio there are Lines in 't First Upon the House of Commons for a Representative constituted for the generality of such men as our Appealer calls Good Members would lay the Kingdom in Bloud which is manifestly the drift of the Libel from the one end