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A letter to the author of The Dutch design, anatomized written by a citizen of London, for the promoting of His Majesties service.
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Citizen of London.
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1688
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either Laws or Tests as they now do And it is probable many refused to joyn in the Repeal out of Conscience since they parted with All to keep them Why then should they not have the Liberty of their Consciences too Not to mention the Case of the Bishops and Inferiour Clergy Pag. 29th As to the Forged heads of the Princes Declaration and the Bishops Proposals as they are known to be the contrivance of the Kings Enemies framed on purpose to amuse the People and make them believe the setting us at rights is the only Design of the Dutch and till those Proposals be granted We are not safe Reverend Sir your Passion here has made you lift your Gown so high that I can plainly see your Tallons and know you are an Harpy I know no more of the Princes Declaration than his Majesty has been pleased to insert in his Declaration of the 7th Instant But I have seen the Bishops Proposals and none but an Enemy to the Protestant Religion can be so Severe against them as you are But dear Sir the Suppressing the Jesuits Schools in the 5th Sending Inhibitions after the four Apostolick Vicars in the 6th And to admit the Bishops to lay such reasons before his Majesty as might by the blessiing of God bring back his Majesty to the Communion of the Church of England c. In the 11th together with the Ecclesiastical Commission in the 2d and the Dispencing Power in the 9th your two great Ingines by which you have already wrought such Wonders in England and by which you hope to Retrieve all those Advantages the Invasion have forced you to Disgorge These Reverend Sir are the things which so violently moved your Cholar that you quite forgot you were to Act the part of a true Member of the Church of England and in your Passion against the Bishops those dreadfull Hereticall Bishops you discovered your Claws so very plainly that I cannot but pity your Indiscretion and Advise the Men of Allowance not to suffer you to appear any more upon the Stage since you can Act your part no better Pag. the 30th you are pleased to confirm my Conjecture What the King change his Religion and part with an inseperable Prerogative of the Crown And the Rest of those Impudant Proposals in that Paper what good Catholick can endure this No Gentlemen you are plainly for bringing the King to Caâ—eâ—bury Castle as good no King as no Jesuits Schools no Apostolick Vicars no Dispencing Power to take off the Tests no R. C. Zeal Why dear Sir are these things so indispensably Necessary that all is to be ventured for them are these the things for which we must Fight it out to the last Man. Truly Sir General Monk was a great man and a good Subject but I believe he would not have lost one Ounce of Blood on this Score And his Majesty came as freely to the Crown as his Brother and none of these things were suspected then But now great Sir do not insist too violently on any of them if you love the Church of England It is good reason all our New Grants and all our Old Rights should be secure before you can expect we should be so wonderful thankful as you are who seem contented we should have any thing if you may be in a capacity to pluck it away again when time serve Pag. the 31. As to those who decline Acting in Commission with Roman Catholicks or mixing with them in the Militia It is a Sullenness little becomes worthy Men Is it now a time to remember former Piques and refuse joyning all hands for our Defence when Hanibal is at the Gates Dear Sir your Foot your Foot I wonder you should thus forget your self and the person you are to Act. In the time of Monmouth's Invasion one of your Society put out a Remonstrance by way of Address from the Church of England to both Houses of Parliament in two Parts and in the Conclusion of the last thus he bespeaks them My Lords and Gentlemen It depends wholly upon your Generous Action to see this great Thing the bringing the R. C. to Act freely with the Protestants without taking the Tests effected We see his Majesty is not willing to infringe the Laws or alter any thing without your Counsel nor give occasion to the Discontented to esteem him Arbitrary But you methinks should prevent him in this and before you break up this Assembly freely desire him to imploy any that are known to be his Friends The Stile Genius and Temper of those Remonstrances are so very like this Anatomie that I believe firmly one person wrote both But that be as it will we may observe the Dispencing Prerogative was not then in being and therefore a true member of the Church of England was forced to Address to both Houses to Wheedle them into a Petition for you know Sir Hanibal was then at the Gates too The Houses however did not think fit to take the Advice of this Wizard but however his Majesty used his Discretion and in the next Session of Parliament those very Loyal Gentlemen were against the Dispensing Powers yet they were willing to Pardon all that had been so imployed contrary to Law but that would not satisfie so that Parliament was first Prerogued and then Dissolved and the Dispencing Power set on foot And now in time of War you must Act with them because Hanibal is at the Gates and in the time of Peace you shall do so too or turn out Surely Sir you conceive we have very ill memories There is a very great difference betwixt times of Peace and War in Administration of Affairs of Law and Justice Some that would keep strictly to the Letter of the Law in time of Peace may scruple to act with a R. C. c. But in a time of Invasion this scruple ought no way to concern any man c. Pag. 31. Reverend Sir you may be pleased to teach your Grandame to P your Politicks are now too thin to deceive a Leather Jacket or a pair of Canvas Breeches Pag 33. you tell the Dissenters the Power they had got in the time of the Rebellion under K. Charles the I. necessitateâ— the Government after the late Kings happy Restauration to continue a standing Army for its defence and to enact Penal Laws against them Why Sir they have been told another story of late that the Church of England out of a Bloody proud persecuting and implacable Spirit extorted these Penal Laws from Charles II. contrary to his Inclination Now Sir when your Affairs are in any disorder you presently borrow a Church of England Cassock and with much Gravity bespeak them in favour of the Government and in excuse of the Church because you need her assistance but so soon as even you have got what you want off goes the Disguise and then the poor Church of England must Answer both for the standing Army and the Penal Laws The Dissenters do so perfectly understand you and your Arts now that I have no temptation to interpose between you and the New Sheriffs Justices of the Peace and Magistrates of Corporations which the King in kindness to them has made out of them of late and it may be set aside by this time Whether the Dissenters are obliged on the score of Gratitude to assist the King on the account of the Tolleration or whether the present War has arisen purely upon the account of this Indulgence as you say page 34. is no part of my business to inquire The Dissenters are a grateful sort of Gentlemen and if you had appeared in your own Shape and Cloaths you might have said what you had pleased to them and they might have done what they had pleased for all me The rest of your Exhortation I leave to the Consideration of all Men as I find it my design not being to deprive His Majesty of the Assistance or Hearts of His People God forbid I should but to pluck off your Mask and to shew you to all the World what you are Shall the Disciples of that Halting Hypocrite Ignatius Loyola the younger Mahomet Teach us Loyalty Shall they print their School-boy Rhetorick in the Name of the Church of England with the ALLOWANCE of the Apostolick Vicars You that have imbroild so many Kingdoms been the occasion of so many Rebellions Massacres Plots Persecutions breaches of Faith c. Shall you pretend to be so Zealous for Liberty of Conscience Trade and the peace of the World You that have brought us and His Majesty into this Distress by your Little Arts and Shams Shall you now like Solomons Wanton Wipe your Mouth and say you have done no Evil Well Sir if it must be so I am contented And so farewell November the 8th 1688. FINIS
the Hollanders in all probability will keep their Trade and their People too which poor England so much wants Just about this time you must know the Prince of Wales was born and thereupon the Prince of Orange and the States being very Jealous that a Parliament would settle Liberty of Conscience meerly to prevent that Project they raised a Report the Prince was a Counterfeit and not Content with this they took speedy Resolves for the Security of their several Interests and immediately laid the design of this Invasion from that very period In truth Reverend Father the Hollanders are a parcel of Lewd People but seeing your Interest is very great in France Spain atd Italy I would advise you to get a Liberty of Conscience Setled in those Countries by way of Reprisals and I dare Warrant you that you will Seveâ—ely revenge their Perfidity and have many Thanks into the bargain and go very near to Ruine Holland which is a little wet dirty cold Country and not worthy your Reverences regard You must know this Design was carried so closely that our Society not having the custody of their Conscience we heard nothing of it till the French Kings Ambassador fonnd out the Project and thereupon we fell to Work and getting a fat Dutchman into the Savoy we Dissected him in one of the Ventricles of his Heart we found Trade and in the other Liberty of Conscience and thereupon we ordered our Secretary who is a true Member of the Church of England to publish it in his Anatomy where you may find it page the 7th We discovered at the same time that the P. of O. was Ambitious That he had Assum'd the Glorious Title of Protector of the Protestant Religion and Defender of the English Liberties And lastly which is a Secret That he designed to set England and France at a Variance and by an Invasion by force or stratagem to get some of our Ports Now Reverend Father I return you my thanks for these important Discoveries But for what follows about Invading and Conquest and what dangerous things they are your Reverence might have spared your Pious labour for I have read of them elsewhere before Only I am glad there is no danger of having any of my Neighbours hanged for reading the Prince's Declaration because it seems he has not vouchsafed to give any previous intimation of the Grounds of the War as the Laws of Honour oblige pag. 10. So that the Fathers are forced to dissect his Designs to find out the Reason and to hang out the Bloody Towels and Napkins they wiped their Knives and Fingers on to stir up the Courage of the English Sythes and Plow-shares to oppose him Very Elegant Your Transcript out of Cotton concerning the Sufferings of the English by the Norman Conquest and out of Camden concerning the Saxons I have no occasion for But that about Gustavus Adolphus is very Edifying if your Reverence had been pleased to have assigned the Cause as well as the Effect Which was this The Jesuits of Dillinghen in Germany perswaded Ferdinand the Second Emperor of Germany that the Doctrine of the Protestants of Germany was not that which in the Year 1530. was exhibited to Charles the Fifth That therefore they were not to enjoy any Liberty of Conscience which was only granted to those who embraced that Confession which was then exhibited The Emperor hereupon endeavoured to re-setle the Romish Religion Vi Armis but Gustavus came into Germany as you say and made foul work And at last the Emperor was forced to Acknowledge these Protestants had a Right to the same priviledges had been granted to their Ancestors So here dear Sir the Jesuits were neither for Liberty of Conscience nor keeping Faith with Hereticks though our English Fathers have more Grace thanks to the Virgin Mary and St. Loyola Page the 17. you tell us they the Hollanders were never known to have any more than the outside and shew of a Religion that whilst they make long Prayers that God would prosper them to destroy Idolatrous Worship i. e. Popery they commit the Highest Sacrilege and design not only to devour Widdows Houses but already have divided amongst themselves the Estates of all such as they know are the Eminentest in Loyalty to the King. In truth Sir I will neither question your Sincerity nor your Affections to the English but I would be glad to know where you had your Intelligence and who those Eminent Gentlemen for Loyalty are whose Estates are so much more sacred than the Widdows Houses This and the Division too may be true but where did your Reverence learn it Your Politick Considerations from pag. 17. to pag. 20. I return you again just as I received them because I have no Commission to enter into a Treaty with you about things which perhaps shall never exist any where but in your luxuriant Fancy But your Reverences Harangue to the Citizens of London is so very pleasant I cannot forbear transcribing a little of it These come not to bring us Rich Commodities but Fire and Sword and the Hands and Claws of Harpyes Now what are these same Harpyes that have Hands and Claws too Reverend Sir I think I have seen a Picture of a Jesuit with bloody Hands and Claws instead of Feet Now if the Hollanders should bring us a Cargo of these Animals we should e'n desire them to carry them back again no Monky nor Fire and Sword being half so Mischievous Consider I pray you Oh! Grave and Rich Citizens what you shall barter with them do they offer you Security of the Protestant Religion This you enjoy already and may so without their carnal and cruel Swords True Reverend Sir to your great Grief we do enjoy it and may still do so though neither our Penal Laws nor our Tests are repeal'd which by the grace of God neither their Carnal Swords nor your Spiritual Shams shall deprive us of What is it then you expect from them Is it not much better that you are defended by the Trained Bands a part of your Selves than by Swedes and Germains filling your Streets and possessing your Houses and Stores I pray Sir How old is your Reverence If you are one of the School-Boys of the Savoy you may in time prove a pretty tollerable Popish Orator at the rate things now are but if you are above the discipline of a Ferula I despair of you We know very well the Convenience of our Trained-Bands and have not forgot they should have been taken away as useless soon after Monmouth's Rebellion and that they were suppress'd when Liberty of Conscience was granted and restored with the Charter the other day As for the Swedes and Germains possessing our Houses and Stores it is an Irish Insinuation and worthy of your Reverence But dear Sir did we enjoy all our Priviledges when our Charter was in the Kings hands have your Reverence forgot the late Changes in October and February last and the Reasons