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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94120	The Earl of Sunderland's letter to a friend in London Plainly discovering the designs of the Romish party, and others, for the subverting of the Protestant religion, and the laws of the kingdom. Licensed and entred, March. 23d. 1689.	Sunderland, Robert Spencer, Earl of, 1640-1702.	1689 (1689)	Wing S6177B; ESTC R225095	4,909	4

of the Country whom I would have perswaded to come into business which might have done to have helped me to resist the violence of those in power but he despaired of being able to do any good therefore would not engage Some time after came the first news of the Prince's designs which were not then looked on as they have proved no body foreseeing the Miracles he has done by his wonderful Prudence Conduct and Courage for the greatest thing which has been undertaken these thousand years or perhaps ever could not be affected without Vertues hardly to be imagined till seen nearer hand Upon the first thought of his coming I laid hold of the opportunity to press the King to do several things which I would have had done sooner the chief of which were to restore Magdalen College and all other Ecclesiastical Preferments which had been diverted from what they were intended for to take off my Lord Bishop of London's Suspension to put the Counties into the hands they were in some time before to annul the Ecclesiastical Court and to restore entirely all the Corporations of England These things were done effectually by the help of some about the King and it was then thought I had destroyed my self by enraging again the whole Roman Catholick Party to such a height as had not been seen they dispersed Libels of me every day told the King that I betrayed him that I ruined him perswading him to make such shameful Condescentions but most of all by hindring the securing the chief of the dissaffected Nobility and Gentry which was proposed as a certain way to break all the Prince's Measures and by advising his Majesty to call a free Praliament and to depend upon that rather than upon Foreign assistance It is true I did give him those Councils which were called weak to the last moment he suffered me in his Service then I was accused of holding Correspondence with the Prince and it was every where said amongst them that no better could be expected from a man so related as I was to the Bedford Licester families so allied to Duke Hamilton and the Marquess of Halifax After this Accusations of high Treason were brought against me which with some other Reasons relating to Affairs abroad drew the King's Displeasure upon me so as to turn me out of all without any Consideration and yet I thought I escaped well expecting nothing less than the loss of my Head as my Lord Middleton can tell and I believe none about the Court thought otherwise nor had it been otherwise if my Disgrace had been deferred a day longer all things being prepared for it I was put out the 27th of October the Roman Catholicks having been two months working the King up to it without Intermission besides the several Attacks they had made upon me before and the unusual Assistance they obtained to do what they thought so necessary for the carrying on their Affairs of which they never had greater hope than at that time as may be remembred by any who were then in London But you desired I would say something to you of Ireland which I will do in very few words but exactly true My Lord Tyrconnel has been so absolute there that I never had the Credit to make an Ensign or keep one in nor to preserve some of my Friends for whom I was much concerned from the last Oppression and injustice though I endeavoured it to the utmost of my Power but yet with Care and Diligence being upon the place and he absent I diverted the calling a Parliament there which was designed to alter the Acts of Settlement Chief Justice Nugent and Baron Rice were sent over with a draught of an Act for that purpose furnished with all the pressing Arguments could be thought on to perswade the King and I was offered forty thousand pounds for my Concurrence which I told to the King and shewed him at the same time the injustice of what was proposed to him and the prejudice it would be to that country with so good success that he resolved not to think of it that year and perhaps never This I was helped in by some Friends particularly my Lord Godolphin who knows it to be true and so do the Judges before named and several others I cannot omit saying something of FRANCE there having been so much talk of a League between the two Kings I do protest I never knew of any and if there were such thing it was carried on by other sort of men last Summer Indeed French Ships were offered to joyn with our Fleet and they were refused since the noise of the Prince's Design more ships were offered and it was agreed how they should be commanded if ever desired I opposed to death the accepting of them as well as any assistence of men and can say most truly that I was the principal means of hindering both by the help of some Lords with whom I consulted every day and they with me to prevent what we thought would be of great prejudice if not ruinous to the Nation If the Report is true of Men Ships and Money intended lately for England out of France it was agreed upon since I was out of business or without my knowledge If it had been otherwise I believe no body thinks my Disgrace would have happened My greatest Misfortune has been to be thought the Promoter of those things I opposed and detasted whilst some I could name have been the Inventors Contrivers of what they have had the art to say upon others and I was often foolishly Willing to bear what my Master would have done though I used all possible Endeavours against it I lie under many other Misfortunes and Afflictions extream heavy but I hope they have brought me to reflect on the occasion of them the loose negligent unthinking Life I have hitherto led having been perpetually hurried away from all good Thoughts by Pleasures Idleness the Vanity of the Court or by business I hope I say that I shall overcome all the Disorders my former Life had brought upon me and that I shall spend the remaining part of it in begging of almighty God that he will please either to put an end to my Sufferings or to give me strength to bear them one of which he will certainly grant to such as relie on him which I hope I do with the submission that becomes a good Christian I would enlarge on this Subject but that I fear you might think something else to be the reason of it besides a true sense of my faults and that obliges me to restrain my self at present I believe you will repent in having engaged me to give you this Account but I cannot the doing what you desire of me Re-printed in the Year 1689.