and all places Ecclesiastical Civil and Military were put into the papists hands In K. James's time the Protestants were two hundred to one papist and he could never have got a Popish Parliament The K. of Spain was then as Formidable to England as the French King is now and had much greater pretence He was Married to our Queen and all our Acts of Parliament were in his name he was stil'd King of England There were great Objections against Q. Mary's Title to the Crown The validity of K. Henry the VIII's Marriage with her Mother was disputed all over Christendom and the whole Nation was Sworn by Act of Parliament to adhere to the Issue of Queen Ann who was Mother to the Princess Elizabeth 26 Hen VIII C. 2. Yet all this notwithstanding neither did that Protestant Princess pretend to the Crown neither did the Protestants contend for her during her Elder Sisters Life tho' it was given out That there was a Design of imposing a False Son upon the Nation to Cut off the Princess Elizabeth's Succession who was next Heir to the Crown Publick Thanksgivings having been thro' the Nation for Queen Mary's being with child and some foolish Friars even in their Sermons giving out before hand That it must be a Prince of Wales which their Pryaers had obtain'd to prevent a Protestant Successor c. But none of these things had any Witch-craft then in that sober age of Protestancy to prevall with the Protestants to lift up a hand against the Right of Queen Mary tho' a Bill of Exclusion had past against her in her Fathers time and the Nation had sworn to adhere to the Princess Elizabeth the next Protestant Heir But they did not think their Oaths ought to bind them against the Right and notwithstanding that Queen Mary did plainly and without any Disguise endeavour to Defeat her Sister Elizabeth's Succession to the Crown having first got an Act of Parliament to Establish her own Legitimacy and consequently to throw off her Sister as Illegitimate But secondly She had sent her Sister Elizabeth to the Tower in order as was generally believ'd to Cut off her Head Speed tells That a Warrant was once Sign'd for her Execution Yet not to Rescue her nor to Assert her Right of Succession nor for any other cause whatsoever wou'd our Loyal Protestant Fore-Fathers take Arms against the Popish Queen either in behalf of this Princess Elizabeth or of Queen Jane another Protestant against whom they Fought to set up Queen Mary And thought they consulted best in so doing for the preservation of the Protestant Religion by asserting its Principles tho' to the Loss of its Legal Establishment and all other visible worldly Advantages These things the Jacobites urge And they Glory in the wonderful protection which GOD at that time shew'd towards these Protestants in their Faith and Dependance upon Him turning all the whole Scheme to the Protestants advantage taking away Q. Mary without their Guilt and giving her Condemn'd Sister Forty Four years Possession of her Throne to Establish Adorn and make Glorious that poor despis'd and persecuted Principle of Non-Resistance They tell us likewise of the Case of Theudas and Judas of Galilee Act. 5.36,37 who took Arms against the Romans in Defence both of their Religion and their Property It was against the grievous Taxing which was then impos'd by the Romans that Judas rose in Arms and Drew away much people after him They say That all the Declamations in this Letter to a Friend against the Jacobites will hold as strongly against the Protestants in Q. Mary's time But much more strongly against Gamaliel and other Jews who Condemn'd Theudas and Judas in behalf of their Lawful Governours the Romans who were profest Heathens Idolaters Despisers and Persecutors of the Law of Moses yet Fighting against them tho' in Defence of the True Faith was inferr'd to be Fighting against God Act. 5.39 And Christ would not be Defended by Resisting a Heathen Magistrate The same do the Jabobites think of fighting for a Religion in a Case which that Religion does not allow to be a Good Cause of fighting for it They think this to be fighting against that Religion On the other hand If we should fight to the visible prejudice of the outward profession and Legal Establishment of our Religion in pursuance of a Principle of that Religion This the Jacobites would call a fighting for our Religion That is To Maintain Assert and Honour the Principles of our Religion which only are the spiritual part of Religion tho' to the Loss of Temporal advantages and outward ornament which are but the Out-side and Trappings of Religion Therefore they go not upon the Outward advantages but upon the Justice of their Cause for the love of which they have forsaken all their Outward Advantages Upon the whole they say That unless you can prove their Principles to be Vnjust all you Argue against them is against the Law of God against Justice against Reason and all Christian Religion And that Humane politicks are too weak to over-ballance all these Nay they pretend that even Humane policy and the Good of the Nation is on their side That K. James's Tyranny suppose it as bad as you will would not have Cost the Nation so many Lives so much Money nor been so hard to be Redrest after his Death as the present Revolution Now they complain That all this is not sufficiently Answered in this Letter to a Friend where it sayes page 28. which is all the Answer given to it in that Letter that If they the Jacobites say they would fight for him K. J. I give them over sayes the Letter as profess'd Enemies to the True Religion and the Liberties of Man-kind And This I hope sayes the Letter may satissy the Non-swearers that they are not bound in Conscience to Fight for the late King c. Now these perverse Jacobites do say That they can see no Reason why the Author of this Letter 's Giving them over should be a Satisfaction to their Consciences They call this Scolding instead of Answering Whereas they pretend that their Principle is pursuant to the True Religion and most for the Good and Liberties of Man kind to Save men from the Great Destruction of Civil-War and Rebellion which they say is infinitely of more mischief to man kind than any Tyranny ever was in the world And that Religion loses more Ground and lessens more in the Opinion of man-kind by a change of principles which have been long profess'd than by suffering persecution in Defence of those Principles These things they think a full and sufficient Answer to all this whole Letter to a Friend And therefore do insult and rejoyce that no Answer is possible to be given to them since this Best Answer which is yet come out has not one word against the Truth or Honesty of their Principles only argues from Inconveniencies that may attend them which is incident to the
THE Anatomy of a Iacobite OR THE JACOBITES Heart Laid Open WITH A Sure Certain5 Method FOR THEIR CURE Address'd to the AUTHOR of A Letter to a Friend Concerning a French Invasion to Restore the Late King JAMES to His Throne c. CAMBRIDGE Printed in the Year 1692. The Jacobites Heart Laid Open c. SIR YOUR Letter was Read by none with Greater Delight than my Self to Consider the Pitch of your Reasoning in a Cause so Important as this And I Congratulate your Good Success in the Words of King Lemuel Many have done Nobly to this Theam but thou Excellest them all The Jacobites Despis'd the Swarms of Pamphlets have hitherto come out against them and made it their Sport to Toss them like Chaff in the Air. But now Sir their Eyes are all Fix'd upon you Entring the Stage like Almanzor they Buckle their Armor Close and bend all their Force against you They Know and Feel that this Letter of yours is deservedly Esteem'd by all in this Government as the most Celebrated and Top-Piece of the Party and thought Vnanswerable That it may Continue and Encrease its Reputation it will be Necessary that you Sir should know and Refute all the Poor Objections which the Jacobites Start against it Some of which I have gather'd together for your Service but more that the Honor and Justice of the Present Government might as far as possible be Vindicated and even these fame Jacobites Reclaim'd of which we have Reason to Conceive Great hopes if you be able to Satisfy their Scruples First Their Arguments from Principles and Reason Secondly Matters of Fact which they Charge upon this Government and are to them an insuperable Prejudice against it Both these I have set down Full and Broad in their own Words that you may miss nothing of the Force of their Objections And I hope you Sir nor any in the Government will take it Amiss from me seeing I only Repeat their Words and that in Order to the Necessary Vindication of the Government Which if you Perform to Satisfaction for you or none must do it we will leave these Jacobites nothing to say or nothing but what will Expose them And let us Deal Fairly and upon the Square with them and hear the uttmost of their Defence the sooner we shall have done And we need not fear to give them this Liberty for we can sew the Jacobites in Bears Skins when we please cry out upon them Wou'd you have the French wou'd you have Popery come in We can easily make such a Noise as that they shall not be heard Therefore let us Venture for once to give them a hearing We do not suspect them for any Inclinations to Popery notwithstanding of all this On the Contrary they were the Men who stood in the Gap against it when it threatned us most and are still ready and I doubt not wou'd be as forward as any to do so again Much less can they be suspected to have faln out with the Country of England so as to desire the French might Conquer it They have Estates and wou'd be as loath to lose them as other Men and no doubt love their Liberty and Property as much And pretend as Great Regard as any People to the Laws of England which they say do Justify them and Condemn us who Support this Government But they plead greater things than these The Law of God and His Express Command which if true will supersede all our Arguments drawn from smaller Topicks The People of Athens Rejected a Method which Themistocles propos'd to them Plutarch Life of Aristides much to their Advantage and Security and which could be easily effected upon the only account because it was not Just And shall not Christians say these Jacobites Depend as much upon the Protection of God in their Obedience to His Reveal'd Will as Heathens upon their general notions of Justice which were much more Fallible They say that the Folly of God is Wiser than men He can bring Good out of Evil and turn all the Seeming good and prosperity of the wicked into evil and mischief upon their own heads And therefore that all your Politicks and Conjectures what may happen is not so sure a Foundation for men to venture their Souls upon as the Reveal'd Will of God In short the Jacobites seem to bring the Matter to this Issue That we must either Deny the Scriptures or Answer their Objections out of the Scripture And they seem very apprehensive that the first of these will be chosen That it is chosen by too many already They say there are Examples in all Ages of men going against their visible Interest to preserve a Good Conscience They tell you of the Protestants in Q. Mary's time who fought for her against Q. Jane a Woman of vast Endowments of mind and a Protestant That these Protestants had as sad a prospect in what they did as can be suppos'd in the Restoration of K. James You may say that they met with it accordingly Q. Mary broke her word to them and persecuted them with Fire and Faggot But this will be no Argument against the Jacobites for they say that the Protestants did their Duty in adhering to Q. Mary else they had been Rebels and not Martyrs That her Persecution prov'd infinitely to the Good and Establishment of the Protestant Religion which has liv'd Great and in Reputation with all the world ever since upon the Fund of that Loyal and Christian Principle of Non-Resistence And they say that the Church of England has Suffer'd more by forsaking that Principle now than She cou'd have done by a Persecution which wou'd still have added to her Glory They call themselves the only stay that has kept the Church of England from sinking utterly in the opinion of all good Christians by their present Suffering for that Old Doctrine of their Church Non-Resistance They say That a Church is more Destroyed by the loss of her Principles than of her Livings Pureness of Doctrine not Outward Pomp or Legal Establishments denominate a True and a Holy Church They say Rebellion brings greater Destruction than Persecution That not three hundred suffered during Q. Mary's five years Reign That a thousand times as many have perish'd within these three years in Ireland besides those have been lost in Scotland at Sea and in Flanders They say the Protestants in Q. Mary's time were in much more Deplorable Circumstances than we were in K. Jame's time He was well advanced in years when he came to the Crown and the three next Heirs Protestants Q. Mary a young Woman Married to the King of Spain the Princess Elizabeth declared to be Illegitimate by Act of Parliament and sent to the Tower in order to a further security And after her the Royal Line run out of sight into Popish Families The Reformation was but young and tender then in England The Parliament were papists and popery set up as the Establisht Religion
Popery tho' they fought to set up a Popish Queen against a Protestant Queen who was in Possession and Reigning in London And they say that Theudas and Judas Act. 5. fought against the Jewish Religion tho' they fought to set it up and to pull down the Idolatry of Rome And all this because the Principles of a Religion are more to be Regarded are more the Religion than its Legal Establishment The next Question this Author asks these Jacobites is Page 25. Do they think themselves bound in Censcience to Fight for their Prince against the Laws and Liberties of their Country To this the Jacobites Answer That the Laws of the Country are expresly On their side against Resistance of their King or altering the Hereditary Monarchy upon any pretence whatsoever And they say That we do as good as Confess all this when we will not stick by the Rule of the Law in this Revolution but fly to Original Contract to over-Rule the Law He asks Have the rest of mankind no Rights but only Princes Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves nor to our fellow Subjects They Answer The Greatest Right and Security of Subjects is to Preserve the Laws and chiefly the Prerogative which is the Greatest Barrier 'twixt Property and the Incroachments of their Fellow Subjects which in Civil-War are infinitely more Destructive to Property than any Tyranny in the Soveraign And therefore that the Greatest Justice we can do to our selves or to our fellow subjects is to beat down all these Popular pretences to Sedition and Rebellion He sayes A Nation which Fights against its own Laws and Liberties is Felo de se Witness Ireland say the Jacobites where in three years one half of the Nation have been Destroy'd upon this Popular Pretence Many more than a hundred Neroes successively would have put to Death What will be the Fate of England in this Revolution none yet can tell but the Jacobites fear the worst They say that England in this Quarrel Fights against its own Laws and therefore is Felo de se Can any English-man sayes this Author whatever Opinion he has of the late K. James's Right think himself bound in Conscience to maintain his Right The Jacobites think this a very strange Question But the Author Adds By giving up his Country to France to make him King and all his Subjects French Slaves First If the Thing be Right and according to God's Laws the Jacobites desire this Author to Answer it whether he would not do it whatever Nation in the World were concerned in it Secondly They say That Recalling K. James is the only probable way to prevent our being French Slaves The Victories of France run in a full Tide against us while they say our small Successes are brought to pass by great Chances even by Miracles and seem to no other purpose than to keep us in heart to give all the Money in the Nation to Forreigners and continue Obstinate till it be past Remedy We Play says the Jacobites like a Gamster who Stakes his whole Stock every cast of the Die one Unluckey throw breaks him and it is a Miracle if that throw do not come if the Play continue long On the other hand he that Plays against us Manages his Stock he lays up before-hand and has already in his Treasury the whole Expence for the Year 93. he Drains his People by Degrees We Squeze our Orange all at once He Manages by Rules and leaves nothing to Chance we leave all to Hazard see what will come on 't He lives upon his Interest we spend off the Principal from Hand to Mouth and our Money is spent before it comes in great part of which goes to pay the Extraordinary Interest upon which we Anticipate our Revenue So that if we trust not to the Dice we have certainly the worst of the Lay and nothing can save us but a sudden ending of the Game which we must lose if Management does Determin it while the Enemy has the greater Stock Now suppose France should Conquer us in this Quarrel for nothing is impossible whether say the Jacobites would we be in the blame who perswade to accept of the Peace which France presses upon us upon no other Conditions than to Receive our King again which they say we are bound in Conscience to do or will not all the Mischievous Consequences of such a Conquest ly at their Door who Reject this offered Peace rather than Return to their Duty or own that they have done amiss If we answer that we have not done amiss The Jacobites desire no better than to bring it to that Test to dispute the Justice of the Cause without Consideration of Politiques And even in Politiques they ask us whether they Judge wisely who are for continuing a War wherein we must trust to Miracles for our Success and that too when we Fight against what most of us do acknowledge to be King James's Right or else he could have no Right to seek for it again which he has by Dr. Sherlock's own Confession But says our Author p. 25 26. Can any Prince have more Right to be King of England than the Kingdom of England has to be England The Jacobites desire this may be further explained It is a fine round saying and no doubt must be true But they see not how we can apply it to the present Case They say that England is most England when its Government is Monarchical and Hereditary when its Monarch is Irresistable by Force even in Case of Male administration or upon any pretence whatsoever for then the Door is for ever shut against all popular pretences for Rebellion which our wise Legislators have found by experience to be infinitly of more dangerous Consequence to England as to all other Governments than the Arbitrariness of the Governours and therefore have made Non-Resistance an Act of Parliament It is our Law say they the Law of England it is our Constitution And therefore that England is least England when you break in upon her Constitution over-turn her Laws and being wiser than your Fore-Fathers open the Door to Eternal pretences for Rebellion and Restless Revolutions They say that we are trying the experiment over again of York and Lancaster of King Charles and Oliver and that England was then least England and so they say it is now and that we may see it plainly by its Tottering Uncertain Aguish Disposition in danger to be Swallowed by France if we will desperately stand that Test to be drained by the Confederates which they say is in a pretty good forwardness or to be divided at home and make England the seat of the War and share the Fate of Ireland which is most of all to be dreaded All this say these Jacobites is owning to our Revolution and cannot be Remedy'd but by Returning our Laws and Constitution to their old Channel But is it not an unaccountable tenderness and scrupulosity of Conscience
which the Jacobites shew another Instance in the Case of Mr. George Sheals a Clergy-Man who will not Swear but Read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his own House and did not Deny some Devour People who sometimes came thither the benefit of Joyning in the Common-Prayers of the Church For which Fault alone he was Fin'd a Hundred Marks which being much above his present Ability for he is Depriv'd and has nothing where-withal to Subsist a Wife and Parcel of Young Children he Lay Three Monthes in Newgate for his Fine Add to this the Imprisonment of Arch-Deacon Fitz Gerrald Mr. Collier and Mr. Newton Three Non-Swearing Clergy-Men this last Summer without having any thing to lay to their Charge And Dr. Bryand Sent to the Gate-House for Reading the Common Prayers The several Lords and Gentlemen Committed without any Information upon Oath contrary to Law has been brought before the Parliament Many more Instances the Jacobites offer to give of the like Usage from us and they desire a List of all whom we have Pardon'd since the Revolution who have come under the Lash of the Law to teach them by our Mercy to return our Kindness They likewise mind us That the Refusal of the Oaths was not at first thought so Heinous a Matter but that the Parliament Allowed Twelve of the Clergy who should Resuse it the Third of their Bishop-ricks or Livings during Life and it was left to K. William's Clemency to Name which Twelve of the Depriv'd Bishops or Clergy he Pleas'd But he was Pleas'd with none of them And their Successors whom the Jacobites call Intruders follow say they the Example of his Charity and keep all they can get to themselves They the No-Swearers hope to Live say you ibid. to see the Swearing Bishops and Priests the Contempt of Princes and People This does not shew say the Jacobites that they are Greedy of Life For they may see that every Day they go into the Streets The Turne of the Clergy this Revolution has made them in a Literal Sence the By-word of the People O but their great Grief is That if we had a Jacobite Parliament they would make no Scruple to Declare the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales p. 18. That need not say the Jacobites for he is Legitimate by all the Laws in the World without their Declaration unless you think that Three or Four Foolish Ballads and Drunken Songs Laught at now by those who made them for they have serv'd the Turn for which they were intended can Disinherit a Prince or any other Man of his Birth-Right For there is no other Evidence against the P. of Wales no one Information of any Person whatsoever no Sentence of any Court nor has even the present Parliament said one Word against his Legitimacy There is a Terrible Discovery in the Words following viz. They would take care for new Jacobite Tests to Renounce and Abhor all the several Hypotheses and Principles of Government which have been Vrg'd to Justify our Submission and Allegiance to their present Majesties These Jacobites are a Cruel sort of People It is Ten to One but they might do all this And then we must be saying and un-saying all over again But they who have done it twice or thrice will find it easier and easier they will never want Distinctions And Shame is over But besides the Jacobites say it is impossible for them to Reproach you more than you do one another Even the chief Top-Men of your Party For Example When K. James lost the Boyn then Dr. Sherlock thought it would never be Day He Immediately cry'd up Success as Divine Right And upon that Point he Staked down his Soul to all Eternity and all theirs who would be perswaded by him Vide Dedication to his Book of Judgment and of Death 'Twixt these two he only found Conversion But since that the Whore Success has been Courting that Handsom Portly French King Waited upon him at Mons Namure Steenkirk the Rhine Savoy Dixmuyd and Furnes and we know not where it will End Therefore it is good to look about and Damn that Doctrine of Success in time before it be made use of against us For this Great Work Tillotson is set up to pull down what Sherlock had so Artificially built And he does it Effectually but not with so great Respect to his old Friend in his Thanks giving Sermon before quoted p. 30. where he tells us that The Cause must be first Manifetly Jast before Success can be made an Argument of GOD's Favour to it and Approbation of it Meer Success is certainly one of the worst Arguments in the World of a Good Cause and the most Improper to Satisfy Conscience And yet does in a very Odd but Effectual way satisfy the Consciences of a Great many Men by shâ—wing them their Interest And p. 17. Knowledge and Skill to Devise Mischief and Power to Effect it are the true Nature and Character of the Devil and his Angels What Jacobite could have Damn'd the Doctrine of Events more Effectually And when they see such Great Doctors fall out among themselves in the Method of Satisfying their Consciences as to this Revolution it is a mighty Scandal to them and a Tentation to think that having forsaken their old Foundation they are yet to seek where to settle upon true or certain Principles Meer Success says Sherlock is Divine says Tillotson it is the Devil and his Angels And each Ventures his Soul upon the Truth of his Hypothesis because an Error in this Involves them in Rebellion which both of them do Confess to be a Damnable Sin But as to this Principle of Doctor Tillotson's I must tell you that the Jacobites are very well pleas'd with it viz. That the cause must be first Manifestly Just before Success can be made an Argument of GOD's Favour to it or Approbation of it And they hope now to come soon to a Good Conclusion the Case being thus Stated upon its True Bottom Therefore we must suppose that it was Manifestly Just to Plot against K. James while he was upon the Throne and to assist the P. of Orange against him otherwise the Success of this Revolution can be made no Argument of GOD's Favour to it or Approbation of it The Great Terror before us was Popery and the most popular pretence for what we have done was Securing the Protestant Religion And whether Religion be a Manifestly Just Cause for taking Arms against our Natural Prince the Jacobites say is as Manifestly Decided as any principle of the Church of England or any Act of Parliament in our Statute Book They say moreover that this same Dr. Tillotson her gone a length in this beyond whatever the Church of England own'd in her highest Altitude of Passive-Obedience Which is to make it Unlawful even to Preach the Gospel without leave of the Civil-Magistrate unless we can prove our Mission by Miracles as the Apostles did This you will find
onely about the Rights of other Princes but of his Father and Vncle And if he can catch his Crown too it shall be his own And if he did this for Religion why may not the French King do the same for his Religion and see to get King William's Crown if he can Is the one more Impious than the other King William gives it for one Reason of his War with France to Restore the Hugonets and other the French Subjects to their Rights by Law To Re-settle their Parliaments in their Ancient Authority free from the Encroachments which have been made upon them by their Kings c. And he has the same Grounds of War against Denmark and Sweden Let them look to it Now say the Jacobites if it be Lawful for Princes thus to look into one anothers Kingdoms and take upon them to redress what they find amiss in the Governments of other Nations why do we blame the French King to indeavour to Re-settle King James having the Laws of England to plead on his side Dr. Sherlock himself in his Recantation allows King James to have still the Legal Right and upon that Ground a Right to Regain the Crown if he can Why should the French King Rectifie the Incroachments of our Parliaments against our Kings as well as we take upon us to Rectify his Incroachments against his Parliaments We shall make a fine World of it when every Prince must Govern his Neighbours Country or as a Modern Author Words it when one Prince must Interpose 'twixt another Prince and his Subjects when he uses them Cruelly If Loss of all we have and frequent Imprisonments contrary to Law without Information upon Oath if double Taxes and Twenty other such Treatments be Cruel Usages Then by this Argument say the Jacobites the French or any other King may interpose 'twixt K. William and his Subjects And they appeal to you or any Man in the World whether making the Refusal of an Oath which is against a Mans Conscience to be a Premanire as it is in Ireland be not some Degrees worse than any French Dragooning as it is Painted to the Worst And then Imposing this upon all Women as well as Men above eighteen Years of Age may be Aggravated say the Jacobites upon these Principles to Provoke all Kings and States to Interpose 'twixt these Subjects and their Prince Good Sir I beseech you to Dis-ingage the Government from these Intanglements which its Convert Advocats and False Friends have brought upon it But by none more than your self Sir in this Letter to a Friend p. 28 29. Where speaking of the Oath to K. William and Q. Mary you expound Faith and Allegiance to the lowest Sense that possibly can be supposed even by Jacobites and you make it to exclude under the Guilt of Downright Perjury any Attempt against their Persons or Crowns to whom we have Sworn or to hold any Correspondence with or to give any Assistance to their Enemys This you did to deter the Swearers to K. William and Q. Mary from Countenancing the French Invasion or to Assist the Late King in Recovering the Throne But did you foresee Sir That this Rule you set down will Involve all those in Down-right Perjury according to the very lowest Sense of Allegiance that can possibly be made even by Williamites who held Correspondence with the P. of Orange or Assisted him in this Revolution Sir you are one who Turn'd late And to save your own Credit and new Hypothesis would make Perjur'd Miscreants of all who came into this Revolution before your self Now the Fish is Caught you come in for a Snack but give all those to the Devil who provided Hooks or Nets Sir I am not now Personating the Jacobite I speak plainly in behalf of those who had a Hand and Glory in it in bringing about this Wonderful Revolution They cannot think their Part to be wholly Diabolical in the Contrivance and Effecting of that which must be all over Divine to you in the Enjoyment of their Labours and Dangers You cry that K. James went no doubt as was determined of him But to them by whom he was Betray'd And yet you will take a Share in the Price for which he was Sold. Besides if it was such a Damn'd Design in them to bring in the P. of Orange his Highnesses's Design could not be very Heavenly But you are content to make a Rogue of him too to save your own Bacon Sir this deserves some Animadversion from the Government For all your skil will never perswade plain Honest English-Men that it was Knavery and Down-right Perjury in all the Subjects of England who Plac'd the P. of Orange upon the Throne And yet when he is there by such Wicked Act of theirs that this can give him Divine Authority and their own Wicked Act Absolve them from their former Lawful Oaths and Oblige them in Conscience to Maintain and Defend their said Wicked Act and to Swear never to Return from it This all Men will call Swearing never to Repent And to give such an Account of our Revolution by one who sets up now for the Chief Advocate of it is Betraying it and Exposing it more than all Jacobites or Profest Enemys can say It shews us to stand upon such Ridiculous Foundations as must Nauseat all who pretend to Common Sense And it Confirms the Jacobites Irrecoverably in what they think to be Loyalty while they see us Defend our selves like Fools and Mad-Men by Arguments which evidently Destroy our Cause And Sir you needed not have done this you might easily have avoided these sort of Stumbling Blocks Therefore I advise you to avoid Excursions March on straight your Road Tread warily say no more than you must And do not go out of your way for the pleasure of Lashing the French King himself for it does not alwaies turn to Advantage p. 23. You pursue him to the Boyne to Athlone to Agrim to Limrick and say we Beat him in all these Places and in a Word say you we Beat him out of Ireland And have now got a Habit of Beating the French This indeed Sir with all due Deference to your Judgment is horribly Ridiculous Or you speak without Book and know not what you say for it is most certain that at Athlone at Agrim at Limrick there were not above Forty or Fifty French in the whole Irish Army And there were more than Twenty times as many in K. William's Army Therefore to cry we have Beat him the French King that we have got a Habit of Beating the French If you had a mind to have Beaten K. Lewis you should have sought him in Flanders not in Ireland where he never was how very Comical do you think would this Passage of your Letter look to him if he saw it Would he not desire you to remember Namure and Steenkirk and ask you how you came to forget your Habit there Do not Mistake me as if I did in the
Represent it Pamphlat p. 59. He foothes the Roman-Catholick Princes of the Confederacy not to fear any Harm to their Religion from the Protestant Confederates for sayes he The Protestants never did Combine to Exterminate Popery in General Jacobite What does he mean by in General Are we not to be against All the Errors of Rome or only for some part of the Truth or are we to Compound and Abate of it in Favour of the Confederates And Swear to Re-Establish the Pope's Supremacy in France in Order to Secure the Protestant Religion in England The First Article of the Resolution of the Princes Allies and Confederates which was taken in the Assembly at the Hague Feb. 91. as it was done out of the French and Printed here was That they Solemnly Protest before GOD that they will never Break off their Union nor make any Peace with Lewis XIV Till he has made Reparation to the Holy See for whatsoever he has Acted against it and till he Annull and make Void all those Infamous Proceedings against the Holy Father Innocent XI This was but in Parsuance of what was before Concerted in the Particular League with Spain and the Emperor 31. Decem 1690. as it is in the Abstracts of the Foraign Leagues given into the Parliament this Session There Article Fourth It is agreed that no Peace be begun before all things in the Ecclesiasticks be Restor'd as in their Former State Pamphlet Page 52. He says the French King Dragoon'd the Hugonets against his Interest purely out of Vain Glory Jacobite So easily is it for Malice to betray our Reason and Expose us to Forget and Contradict your Selves It was but in p. 47. that he gave a Substantial Reason why it was the French King's Interest to be Rid of these Men The French King knows says he that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt Pamphlet Page 37. He commend the Great Clemency of K. William's Order against the Laird of Glen-Coe and says a Milder Order was never given And that he has Express'd a High Displeasure at it viz. The Massacre of Glen-Coe Jacobite He was too soon Weary of this Subject For he should have told what was the High Displeasure was Express'd against these Mutherers of Glen-Coe particularly against those Bloody Brutes in Commission who sent Orders under their Hands two whereof are Inserted No. 19. Appendix of the Answer to Dr. King's Book and said it was by the Kings Express Command to put all to the Sword under 70. Yet these Infernal Furys are continued still in their Respective Posts and no Mark of Displeasure is to be seen upon them In the next Place K. William's most Mild Order should have been Inserted otherwise it will not be Believ'd that any Officers durst have Vouch'd his Express Command for an Action of this Nature and not have Forfeited their Necks at least their Commissions if they had not a Sufficient Warrant under his Hand to Produce And it is to be Explain'd how Glen-Coe and his Men could be in Arms and in open Rebellion as the Pamphlet Foolishly Alledges at the same time that Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers were Quartered in their Houses This Pamphlet confesses the Matter of Fact but Disproves no one Particular of it Pamphlet Page 30. He undertakes to Free K. William from the Objection of Imprisoning many Lords and others contrary to Law Which he does by Confessing the whole Charge against him and then giving an Excuse for it viz. That the Safety of the Nation Absolutly Requires it when Invasion is Threatned Jacobite But yet when this Method would have Absolutly Defeated the Present Revolution and K. James was Minded of it and Advis'd to Secure but a small Number of those who Betray'd him and were then in the Conspiracy against him and he was Morally assur'd of it he would not do it because not having Informations upon Oath against them it was Contrary to Law as a Noble Earl did very well Remark in the House of Peers this Session of Parliament And the Ministers concern'd in our Modern Imprisonments had an Act of Indemnity to Secure them last Year for this and are Endeavouring another now The House of Lords having this Session Declar'd such Commitments to be Illegal Upon which the Prisoners so Committed were Discharg'd and not from K. William's innate Clemency which forbade the Prosecution as this Pamphlet would have us believe for such Endeavours were us'd to continue them in Custody that Aaron Smith the Plot Journey-Man was forc'd to make Affidavit that he had Informations upon Oath against them tho' when it came to the Issue there was no such thing And the Prosecution of this Perjury was all which the Innate Clemency did forbid Thus Sir say the Jacobites Pamphlet Page 31. Accuses K. James for Prosecuting Lord Macklesfield Brandon Gerard and Lord Delamare upon Monmouth's Rebellion Jacobite Lord Delamare himself cannot but own that he had a Fair Tryal and K. James who was Present shew'd a Particular Satisfaction in his being Acquit Will this Author say that there was not Information upon Oath against him Lord Macklesfield Fled his Case is Sufficiently known Lord Brandon Convict and Pardon'd by K. James and Professed Great Loyalty and Gratitude If such Informations could have been had against those Committed in this Reign the Lords had not Voted their Commitments Illegal But this Pamphleteer avers that the Government could not want Informations against them Tho' it is Evident to all in Westminster-Hall that they did want Informations upon Oath against them and that this was the only Cause of their Acquittal But he had some Reason to think that the Government could not want Informations against whom they Pleased to Accuse considering the Fund of Evidence was Provided and their Qualifications Fuller Young Blackhead and Holland are Notoriously known besides these there are the standing Evidence at every Sessions Capel a Broken Shoomaker of Windsor Low a Fidler in Field-Lane Mrs. Scot a Common Prostitute and others of the like Characters who except the Fidler that keeps an Ale-House among the Butchers have no Habitation but are Absolute Beggars Supported by Aaron Smith But the Wit of such Cattle is not alwaies so ready as their Knavery which is the Reason they have done no more Mischief tho' they have done all they could Pamphlet Of many Hundreds Guilty of Treason Two only have Suffer'd for it During this Reign Jacobite The Author by this would make you believe that he was very Exact in the Account But we can Name Three off Hand In all whose Tryals Law and Honour were as much Strain'd as ever was known in England The Hardness of Mr. Ashton's Case has been more than once taken Notice of in both Houses of Parliament The Second a Poor Chair-Man was Hang'd for Attempting to Raise an Army and Inlisting Souldiers to Restore K. James The Third Cross an Inn-Keeper for his Curiosity in going a Board
Day viz. 16. Dec. 88. when the King sent the Earl of Eeversham with a Letter to the Prince Inviting him to a Personal Treaty his Highness contrary to the Laws of God of Nature and of Nations not only Refus'd to Return any Answer but made the Earl a Prisoner which was a Treatment no one King would give to another tho' they were at open Wars But the Priviledge of an Ambassador from a King within his own Kingdom could not Secure that Messenger who brought any Offers of a Treaty And to prevent the like for the Puture the very next Day viz. 17. Decem. 88. his Highness Supriz'd the King his Father in his Bed after Eleven at Night and having Order'd Count Solmes to Dispossess the King's Guards of their Posts at White-Hall and place his Dutch Guards in their Room he sent Three English Lords with an Order Sign'd under his own Haâ—d to Remove their King from White-Hall because his Highness was to be there and peremptorily to Limit his Majesty to the Place whither he was to go nor had the King Liberty to Choose any other Place without Leave first Ask'd and Obtain'd from his Highness but still under his Dutch Guards And his Majesty was positively Requir'd to be gone by such an Hour least he should Meet the Prince so much as upon the Road. This was a hopeful way of Treating And so Modestly Managed that all the World stands Amaz'd at him who never said or did an Insolent thing For which Vertue alone for no other is to be Found or Nam'd in the Famous Thanksgiving Sermon above quoted his Character is Advanc'd above that of the Great French Monarch being Introduc'd in the Comparison with A Greater than he is here Fulsom Cant and Prophane But how could it be expected that he came to Treat Who in a Hostile Manner Entred the King 's own Palace and Castle of Windsor and as a Conqueror Erected his Standard upon that Noble Castle 14. Decem. 88. as the History of the Deser Braggs p. 103. Thus much the Jacobites Answer to your Objection of K. James's not Accepting of a Treaty Pamphlet p. 9. He the Author of Britains Complaint Accuses the Prince for sending him K. James by Water at an Vnseasonable Time thereby Indangering 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 How does this Author know that So that he us'd himself as Ill as the Prince us'd him Jacobite Surely this is the Smartest Defence that ever was made and shews the Prince's Great Concern for K. James's Health What To Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself Because a Man that Flys for his Life would Leap over a Precipice therefore without any Unkindness you may Throw him over for you Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself But yet it was a great deal Worse that the P. of Orange Us'd the King than he Us'd himself For as this Author tells it he only Crost the River but the Prince sent him to Graves-End by Water and that against Wind and Tide and as Britains Complaint says p. 10. The King was Refus'd his own Coach to Carry him by Land tho' he Declar'd that he could not Travel by Water in so Cold a Season and so Great a way without Manifestly endangering his Health Which the Answerer does not Deny Pamphlet As to his King James's Writing to the Bishops his Speaking to the Bishop of Winchester or to Sir R. Clayton or to 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 Avorred by Sir R. Clayton Jacobite And hoth their Credits are come to be alike but there are others of better Reputation who do own it and will make Oath that Sir Sim. Lewis did confess it And the Persons who brought the Messages from the King both to the City and Bishop of Winchester will Depose it and Prove it by undeniable Vouchers And had the Courage to go to the Bishop of Winchester upon Monday Morning the 9th of last Janua 92 93. accompanied with a present sitting Lord of Parliament and a Knight of great Honour and Tax'd the Bishop with his having received such a Message from the King which his Lordship Denyed at first with an Oath But the Person binding him with Tokens as that his Lordship kissed the King's Seal which that person brought as a Credential from the King and naming another Person of Note who was present at the delivery of the Message that his Lordship Reply'd he could not give his Answer till next day that then he told that Person he had wrote to the King and that the Bishops were not able to Protect his Majesty and therefore durst not undertake so Great a Trust as the Security of his Majesty's Person and several other Circumstances Upon which the Bishop said That it was possible his Memory might fail him and that though it were so what needed all this stir about it now and that he perceived they had a mind to Expose him and for that Reason as those present and we may reasonably suppose he still continued to Deny the Matter but so faintly and with such confusion as made it Evident to those Noble Persons present that he had Received such a Message but was not willing expressly to own it after having Forsworn it Tho' he Confessed all the Particulars as that Person coming to him c. And from the same Infirmity of his Memory if you please you may imagine it proceeded that he did not Communicate this Message of his Majesty's to the rest of his Brethren the Bishops but Returned the bovesaid Answer in their Names of which their Lordships do justly Complain Pamphlet p. 26. Nor hath he K. W. refused any Acts of this kind viz. Redressing of Grievances which the Parliament hath offered him Jacobite This instead of a Vindication is a manifest exposing of K. W. being such an Evident Protestatio contra Factum for it is publickly known that last Winters Session he Rejected the Judges Bill which Pass'd both the Houses and which therefore to be sure they thought necessary for the Good of the Nation and conducive to make the Judges Bold and Honest in their Station Pamphlet p. 9. The Convention Refus'd to Receive or Read the Letter which King James wrote to them from St. Germains which continu'd his CLAIM according to Mr. Sam. Johnson p. 16. of his Address to the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled and confuted the Desertion because they were told that HE wrote in the Stile of a King Jacobite That was smart He shou'd have Subscrib'd Your Honours most Humble and most obliged Servant as iâ— Duty bound James Stuart His FATHER'S Executioner gave Him the Title of Majesty upon the Scaffold Sir I had