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A25565 An answer to Pereat Papa, or, A reply by way of letter from a gentlewoman to a person of quality commending to her consideration a paper entituled Pereat Papa, or, Reasons why popery should not inherit the crown. Gentlewoman. 1681 (1681) Wing A3372; ESTC R18359 7,015 4

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AN ANSWER TO PEREAT PAPA OR A Reply by way of Letter FROM A GENTLEWOMAN to a Person of QUALITY Commending to her consideration a Paper Entituled PEREAT PAPA Or REASONS why POPERY should not inherit the CROWN Answer a Fool according to his Folly SIR HAD the Paper you sent me intituled Pereat Papa or Reasons why Popery should not usurp the Crown come accidentally to my hands and had not been seriously recommended to my observation by you I should have concluded its Author had jocularly intended or to use his own phrase conceived and that very candidly such Reason● proper to Burlesque a late Design for altering the Succession on account of that so often baffled a Cause called Popery But instructed by your Letter from so wild a Reflection I begin to consider it as the Labours of some Grand Sage Ignoramus of the Common-Law which furnishes its Students with Reasons intelligent to none but themselves but Reasons since he is pleased to call them so let them be for should a filly Woman venture to question that Title she might perhaps anger some terrible Judge that daily deals out Death with the like Logick Therefore with humble submission to such powerful Disputants who can destroy by president those they cannot confute I will give you my Observations thereupon and first upon his Preamble in these following words It is conceiv'd and that very candidly without prejudice to others Judgments or troubling our selves with that so often baffled a Cause called Popery That a Papist ought not to inherit or succeed to the management of the Crown ANS Now as to his candid conceiving without prejudice to his Judgment I humbly conceive That those quaint words and all the rest so ill put together are meer Non-sence and that without the help of his Title it would be hard to find out his meaning to be That a Papist ought not to succeed to the Crown His first pretended Reason is R. 1. In strictness of Law because one so qualifyed hath wilfully disabled or rendered himself uncapable of that Benefit which the Common-Law after the usual course of descent doth positively require for 't is presumable That he that succeeds in the Office of the Crown should be legally adopted to execute so great a trust and therefore if Minus Idoneus not sufficiently ballasted with the Notions and Intrigues of State others are to govern in aid of him as in case of Ideocy Lunacy or the like and the Parliament is bound as trusted to redress Grievances and secure the Nation to place it where Religion and Propertie shall be adjudged most safe ANS Here he would be thought a Lawyer a Calling I have not profest because I observe Women are rarely made Judges but yet I am not so ignorant of the Common-Law but that I have heard it defin'd to be right reason guided by ancient usage Therefore if this Gentleman had brought but one President where a Papist had been put by the Crown meerly for being such he had saved himself and his Readers much trouble in composing and observing so many nothings as his eight unintelligable Reasons amount to But in the name of Wonder how does a Papist Prince incapacitate himself for the Crown by the Common-law after the usual course of descent when from the time of the Conquerour there has been one and twenty of that Religion and but five of the Reformed Church have worn the Imperial Crown of this Realm but to speak to the purpose it is plain that the Common-law alters not the Succession on account of Religion nor indeed on any account whatsoever no not if the King be Minus Idoneus Infant Ideot or Lunatick for right reason continual usage with numberless Presidents in this and other Her●ditary Monarchies teach us That such alterations would do more harm to Religion and Property than any of those Temporary Inconveniences so that the Common-Law both by President and right reason abhors his Reason and what the Power or duty of Parliaments in this Case is I am sure is a Theame too high for him or me to define therefore I will pass on to his 6 pretended Presidents of that nature and if any of them proves the least part of his purpose I will submit my Reason to be the Slave of Incoherency for ever President the 1st Edgar Ethling as Stories agree was the undoubted Heir yet VVilliam the Norman commonly called the Conquerour was call'd in to oppose Harold and invested with the Crown and Ethling for ever an Exile and disinherited 2dly After him succeeded his second Son William Rufus and not Robert the eldest ANS By his leave Stories do not agree that William was called in though Edgar the right Heir 't is true was put by but 't is as true that Stories agree that Liberty and Property were thereupon destroyed for William divested whom he pleas'd of their Lands to gratifie his Fellow Conquerours Nor did the second William deal Kindlier with any whom he suspected had the least Eye to his Brother Robert's Signiority nor was the Nation freed from this Tyranny untill the Blood of the right Saxon Heir Edgar was again inocculated into the Crown by the Wife of Henry the First Would any Man then in his right wits write such Presidents in order to preserve Religion and Property 3dly King John not only laid aside Arthur Plantaginet his elder Brother's Son but likewise put him to death ANS By this President Ignoramus discovers his Morals For that King John usurp'd against his Nephew Arthur none denys and that thereupon ensued Bloody Intestine Broyls with the loss of Normandy c. with other National Miseries the constant consequences of such mutations but that he murther'd his Nephew he ever denyed though had our Lawyer been of his Council he might have boasted it because 't is two to one the young Prince stood Popishly affected 4thly In Cicily there was lately a great Contest between the two Sons of Charles the Second Martellus and Robert and I find the Crown awarded to Robert the youngest as Magnus dignus ad Regandum 5thly Alexander was demanded to whom he would bequeath his Scepter he said To the worthiest and to him whose Sword hath the sharpest point meaning to him whose Vertues were most Luculent and of the brightest Integrity according to the disposition of Jacob passing by Manasses and conferring the Blessing on Ephraim the younger as most deserving and acceptable to God ANS Now would I defie your Author or the most cunning Sophister on Earth to make these two Presidents or any part of them to quadrate in the least with his Title to them There are several Presidents of this nature but he is extream lucky in his choice both of words and matters which are nothing to the purpose and above all in the next 6thly The State of France rejected the King of Navarr and appointed Henry the Fourth to reign over them because of another Religion in leaving God and complying with