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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28432	An appeal from the country to the city, for the preservation of His Majesties person, liberty, property, and the Protestant religion	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1679 (1679)	Wing B3300; ESTC R228069	16,678	32

truth of that very same Evidence whereon the same Judge had hang'd so many before But however my Lord Chief Justice and the Jury had so good an opinion of his Innocence yet Sir George himself had not so as appears by his flying away beyond Sea so soon as ever his Tryal was over These and innumerable other Discouragements hath the Plot met with which being observ'd together with the due circumstance of the Evidence I think no man that is not in the whole or part of the Plot himself can doubt the verity of it Indeed at the first many thought to cast a suspicion upon what Oates and Bedlow inform'd as being two persons of an idle life and conversation but how ridiculous is this As if such Rogues would trust such a Villany with honest men or any but those that had been as bad as themselves you might as well expect a Highway-man should go and acquiant my Lord Chief Justice or my Lord of Canterbury when he meant to commit the next Robbery but a bad shift is better than none at all So that from the nature of the Evidence or credit of the Informants no man can take exception against the Information either of Dr. Oates Mr. Bedlow or any of the rest to whom Mr. Iennison hath lately given no small credit in discovering the four Villains that as Mr. Oates had said were to have assassinated his Majesty at Windsor VIII The fourth and last Argument which may sometimes prevail with the Prince to disbelieve any report of a Conspiracy is taken from the Nature and Interest of the pretended Conspirators but neither of these motives can pretend to influence our Prince into a disbelief of this Popish Plot for first as to their Nature and Principles we all know that in one of their own Councils viz. the Lateran were introduced those two Hellish Tenents of murthering Kings and eating their God But the Papists will tell you that they do not murther Kings for the Pope he first deposes them at Rome and then if they kill him they kill but a private person We all likewise know that 't is held an act of Merit amongst them to murder an Heretick witness their Massacre of the poor Protestants at Paris and to murder a Husband a Brother or any such near Relation that is an Heretick the greater is the Merit by reason of the self-denial and injury done to our selves in the loss of so near a Friend but to murder an Heretick King especially where there is a Popist Successor they hold to be the greatest of all merits even sufficient to canonize him for a Saint by reason of the vast advantage will thereby accrew to the Popish Religion not doubting but that the rest of the Kingdom will Regis ad exemplum soon after turn Papists Having thus therefore shew'd them to be prepar'd with Principles sufficient to undertake any such Villany let us in the next place examine their Interest as it stands at this time where we shall find that their Interest does unavoidably excite them to murder his Sacred Majesty For first They know he cannot long subsist without a considerable sum of Money which he must receive either from their Party or from the Parliament Now for them to supply him with so vast a sum is a Charge that you may well imagine they would desire to get rid of if they could though by the King's Death On the other side for the Parliament to supply him with Money that they know cannot be done but by taking off the Heads of their Faction excluding their Succession and consenting to such Laws as must of necessity ruine them Besides his Majesty hath already permitted the executing so many of their Party as they never can or will forgive it All which put together with the great expectation they have from a Popish Successor will make them vigorously and speedily attempt the King's Ruine unless he suddenly prevents it by adhering to his Parliament and ruining them first If his Majesty would be pleas'd for one Month to think himself Henry VIII and we his Subjects for the same time forgetting we are Protestants do by the Papists as they would do by us were they in our condition what would become of Portugal and Brussels even Rome it self would tremble at us Something must speedily be done and if we will not begin with them they will begin with us for all the favour His Majesty can shew them will not satisfie that greater expectation which they have from a declared Popish King So that nothing does more justifie the Plot than their corrupt Principles and present Interest which will make them being sure to have the succeeding King on their side rather venture to push for it now and run the hazard of the Peoples revenge than suffer any longer the inconvenience of an English Parliament or danger of the next Successor being a Protestant IX Having thus therefore shew'd you the danger wherein His Majesties Person now is give me leave in the next place to inform you Gentlemen wherein is your greatest danger both in relation to your City and your selves First then as to your City the chiefest danger whereunto it is obnoxious is that of Fire for wheresoever the Iesuits Interest prevails they will above all things desire the Burning of London first because it is the only united Force able to withstand Arbitrary Government and without that Popery can never prevail Secondly it 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 the Faggots in Smithfield Thirdly it is too powerful for any Prince that governs not by the Love of his People which no Popish Successor can expect to do We read in our English Chronicles that Henry the 3d. of England threatened to burn the City of London for their taking part with the Parliament and Barons who at that time made War upon the King for his too great countenancing of Foreigners Also in our great Fire of London in 66. if you will believe either Mr. Bedlow's Relation or the Account which was then given in to the Committee of Parliament appointed for that purpose many were actually taken a Firing it and brought to Authority but all let slip away and none hang'd for it but one poor Frenchman who contrary to the Judge's perswasion would violently accuse himself There is one most eminent great Papist who in the time of that Fire pretended to secure many of the Incendiaries but secretly suffer'd them all to escape who this person was is already mentioned by Mr. Bedlow for a Popish King or a Popish Successor cannot but rejoyce in the Flames of such a too powerful City Secondly the greatest danger accruing to your Persons as well as to the whole Kingdom upon the King

AN APPEAL From the COUNTRY To the CITY For the Preservation of His Majesties Person Liberty Property and the Protestant Religion Salus Populi Suprema Lex LAOPOLIS LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXXIX AN APPEAL From the COUNTRY to the CITY Most brave and noble Citizens As the City of London is the great Metropolis and Soul of our once flourishing and glorious Kingdom so is it no small honour to you the Inhabitants thereof to be Citizens of so brave a City Wherefore 't is the hopes of the whole Nation that you have Spirits and Courage to act according to the Character you bear that upon all necessary occasions you may vindicate the just Concerns of your City In them we are all involv'd with you we stand and with you we fall your example directs our conduct and they who desire to lay you in ashes are the only persons who would subvert our Religion and Property for when you are once ruined the next thing will be Vp Ahab and take possession Now Gentlemen before we represent to you the estate of our misery and ground of our jealousies and fears 't is our humble request that those who have most Power amongst you would so far trouble themselves as to go to the top of your new rais'd Pyramid and from thence take a Survey of that magnificent Pile of Building whereof you are yet Masters In which posture to animate you with true English Spirits be pleas'd to fancy to your selves these following Objects which you will infallibly see come to pass when ever Popery prevails First Imagine you see the whole Town in a flame occasioned this second time by the same Popish malice which set it on fire before At the same instant fancy that amongst the distracted Crowd you behold Troops of Papists ravishing your Wives and your Daughters dashing your little Childrens brains out against the walls plundering your Houses and cutting your own throats by the Name of Heretick Dogs Then represent to your selves the Tower playing off its Cannon and battering down your Houses about your Ears Also casting your eye towards Smithfield imagine you see your Father or your Mother or some of your nearest and dearest Relations tyed to a Stake in the midst of flames when with hands 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 Fancy you 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 very best Friends not daring even to speak in their behalf Your Trading's bad and in a manner lost already but then the only Commodity will be Fire and Sword the only object Women running with their hair about their ears Men cover'd with blood Children sprawling under Horses feet and only the walls of Houses left standing When those that survive this fatal day may sigh and cry Here once stood my House there my Friend 's and here my Kinsman 's But alas that time is past The only noise will then be O my Wife O my Husband O my dearest Children 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 Wake drowsie Subjects and prevent your doom Let England not be twice enslav'd by Rome If the approaching ruine of the Father could open the dumb Son's mouth then all that are either true Protestants good English-men or well-wishers to the Interest of this Nation have now the same reason to speak and complain when without a miracle our apparent ruine is at hand the Sword already hangs over our heads and seems to the supported by no stronger force than that of one single hair his Majesties Life We in the Country have done our parts in choosing for the generality good Members to serve in Parliament but if as our two last Parliaments were they must be dissolv'd or prorogu'd 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 fit occasion'd it The Plot is now got so far out of our Enemies reach that no subtil evasion or trick can ever hope to extinguish it wherefore they must either suffer all to come out or begin by force to justifie it which we see they are going to do by their endeavouring to get those worthy and brave Commanders banish'd who as they think are the most likely persons to conduct and lead us up against any Popish Army the Wolf hath nothing more to do but to destroy the Shepherd and then fall upon the naked Sheep But Gentlemen be not dismaid the Lord of Hosts will be of your sides for so long as you fight his Cause he will fight your Battels and if God be for you who dares be against you Fear nothing but as your Interests are united so let your Resolutions be the same and the first hour wherein you hear of the King 's untimely end let no other noise be heard among you but that of Arm Arm to revenge your Soveraign's Death both upon his Murtherers and their whole Party for that there is 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 Think not to fare better than the rest by medling less for that Conquerours promises are never kept especially coming from that sort of people whose Maxim it is never to keep their words with Hereticks Wherefore if ever a Popish Successor comes amongst you let his promises of keeping your Religion and Laws or of his Conversion be never so plausible credit 'em not for if you do you will infallibly be deceiv'd and in time find them to be but like the Bait to a Mouse-trap Or if you think to bind and fetter him by Laws that will be no better than the wise men of Gotham's hedging in the Cuckow for when he as all other Popish Kings do governs by an Army what will all your Laws signifie You will not then have Parliaments to appeal to He and his Council will levy his arbitrary Taxes and his Army shall gather them for him Therefore you may much easier prevent the Distemper at first than remedy it when it has once got a head Now Gentlemen lest any amongst you should be ignorant either of your Enemies or their Designs both against the King and Kingdom be pleas'd to consider what follows and