kindness to the Dissenters that you received a constant Contribution from such of them as you preserved from Doctors Commons and I know it may be made out that at your own entreaty a Collection was made amongst them by Mr. Ogden and Mr. Hâ—bster to raise the Money for to defray your Charges of Commencing Doctor and is it not an Act of foolish Prodigality in you to throw off such generous Benefactors as these Having thus Examined your Second Defence I shall now Sir recount the Heads of some things which you asserted in your First and which being answered by me you pass over in silence You affirmed page 7th of your first Defence that the Parliament in their Remonstrance Dec. 1641. made Reflections upon the King 's former Government unmanner's and false and that the King answered it and vindicated himself from those horrid aspersions wherewith they Loaded him Now pa. 35. I denied the falsehood thereof and said that the King only answer'd it in saying We shall in few words pass over that part of the Narrative wherein the misfortunes of this Kingdom from our first entring to the Crown to the beginning of this Parliament are remembred in so sensible expressions You asserted pa 12. that the King could by good Evidence prove the Lord Mandevile Mr. Holles Sir Arthur Hasterig Mr. Hambden Mr. Pym and Mr. Strode Members of the House of Commons Guilty of Treason Page 37 c. I gave you the full History of that matter and shew'd that the King retracted that rash accusation which I see is more than you will do tho good manners one would think should oblige you thereto and to beg pardon especially of the right Honourable the present Earl of Manchester as he is a Peer of the Realm and of the right Honourable and most eminently deserving Patriot Mr. Hambden as he is Chancellour of the their Majesties Exchequer and one of their most Honourable Privy-Council for such a horrid slander brought upon their highly deserving Families but you find it a grievous thing to forgo a falsehood that is serviceable to your great undertaking You affirm pa. 26. first defence that the Scots sold the King to the English Parliament I denied it pa. 67. and shew'd that the Scots might with the consent of the Parliament have taken him home to his Native Country but that they refused it fearing he might raise new Commotions there and you have not thought fit to contradict me in this neither You amongst other gracious concessions of the King 's wherein you glory speak pa. 11. 1st Defence of his consenting to a Treaty at Vxbridge I page 61 mentioned many things relating to that Treaty and to shew the King's insincerity in his pretensions of Peace gave a Relation how that at the very instant of that Treaty he used all imaginable means to bring not only 10000 Lorrainers but the Irish Cut-Throats against the Parliament That he declared himself resolved to adhere not only to the Bishops but also to the Papists c. These are Reproaches which you ought to wipe off if you would defend this King to any purpose but you touch them not View now I beseech you the Heads of many of the Articles of misgovernment which I recounted and which you have overlookt only saying in relation to them that some Birds are not to be catcht with such Chasse and I have done I. King Charles I. favoured Popery by his Marriage Articles he agreed that Papists should not be molested he put above a hundred Popish Lords and Gentlemen into great Trusts II. His Bishops were unsound in their principles in particular Land allowed Books which favoured Popery but refused to License Books written against it His Chaplains endeavoured to reconcile England to Rome and got preferment by it III. He Lent Ships to the French King to destroy the Protestants of Rochel which as the French boasted mowed the Hereticks down like Grass IV. He Raised an Army and required the Country to furnish Coat and Conduct Mony and Levied Mony by way of Loane and the Refusers of the meaner Rank Men of Quality being imprisoned were compelled to go for Souldiers or to serve at Sea V. He Suspended and Confined the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury not Land but Dr. Abbot because he refused to make that good by Divinity which the King had done against the Laws He imprisoned Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln for speaking against the Loane and not prosecuting Puritans VI. He turned out the Lord Chief Iustice Crew for opposing the Loane VII He remitted 30000l to Holland for the Levying Horse and Men there to serve his Arbitrary purposes VIII He violated the Petition of Right so soon as it was passed into a Law IX He confined the Earl of Bristol near two years without any Accusation and he Imprisoned the Earl of Arundel in the time of Parliament without expressing any Cause of his Commitment X. He shelter'd the Duke of Buckingham when he was Prosecuted in Parliament as the Patron of a Popish Faction and he Dissolved Parliaments when they were intent upon the Duke's Prosecution and charged him in effect with the Murder of King Iames In Relation whereunto Sir Edward Peyton who was a Member of Parliament in that time doth thus express himself in a Treatise called the Divine Catastrophe The Duke of Buckingham rewarded King Iames by Poyson as appeared plainly in Parliament by the Evidence of divers Physitians especially Dr. Ramsey and King Charles to save the Duke dissolved the Parliament when he was Impeached for it and never after had the Truth Tryed to clear himself from Confederacy or the Duke from so heinous a scandal XI He imprisoned Members of Parliament in the time of Parliament for refusing to Answer out of the Parliament what was said and done there c. XII He threatned the House of Commons that if they did not give him Supplies he would betake himself to New Counsels he asserted that Parliaments were altogether in his Power and therefore as they humour'd him were to continue or not to be You may here see Sir to your shame had you any what a small advance you have made in the defence of that Cause which you so briskly engaged in and how much of your Work you have devolved upon your better Pens Before I take my leave of you I shall observe how little you the mighty defender of Princes are to be relyed upon for tho you tell their Majesties in the Dedication of your first Defence that you wrote it to secure them from Danger and the most Reverend Right Reverend c. had your word for it in your Dedication of this Second Pamphlet that you had nothing more in your aim in putting it out than to preserve the present Government in Church and State A most commendable and highly meriting Undertaking upon my word yet which is a melancholy consideration you their Majesties great Preserver who so bravely engaged never to drop the Cause as long as you could hold a Pen do now flinch and give ground and as vanquished by a grey-headed Man with one foot in the Grave as you Confess me to be you say page 13. that you will not give your self the trouble of Answering me a decrepit crazy Adversary but will spare your self the labour because you understand it is recommended to a better hand It is astonishingly strange that you this vaunting Goliah who came out strutting in a gigantick garb of Pace and Language and with a terrible look to Act a piece of Ecclesiastical Knight Errantry That you who in an unpresidented manner huff'd and threatned the World with that vast magazine of stuff which you had amass'd to annoy the Man that should be found in your way that you whom nothing must atone but a pray Master forgive me and I 'le do so no more That such a Doctor such a Champion as you should on the sudden be crying out for the aid of better Hands of better Pens than your own and that in a quarrel of your own picking upon the success whereof you vainly conceit the Being and Well-being of their Majesties and of every thing that is worth the preserving depends But I see you Inferiour Clergy-men do oft stand in need of Guides and let who will come to your assistance tho I am decrepit this good old Cause I rest assured will abide firm and unshaken against all the attempts of such Assailants as you can list and draw up against it I mean the true Government of old England by King Lords and Commons No more at present dear Doctor only I acquaint you at parting that I am sensible I have not paid you the Tithe of what I owe you but it lies ready for you when you shall draw a Bill upon Your Debtor Edmund Ludlow Geneva May 29. 1692. ALLatres licet usque nos usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas Ignotus pereas Miser Necesse est Non deerunt tamen hac in Urbe forsan Unus vel duo tresve quatuorve Pellem rodere qui velint Caninam Nos hac a scabie tenemus ungues Rail on poor feeble Scribler speak of me In as base Terms as the World speaks of thee Sit swelling in thy Hole like a vex'd Toad And full of Malice spit thy spleen abroad Thou canst blast no man's Fame with thy ill word Thy Pen is just as harmless as thy Sword FINIS Puritans These Desires of the Pope were seconded with continual Endeavours of Swarms of Jesuits and Priests permitted to reside amongst us The Pope well knew that his Design of destroying the Northern Heresy had been considerably advanced in K. James 's time * The Roman Strumpet is very industrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 19.2 * The Iâ—terests of Popery and Tyranny were always found 〈◊〉 well to agree and this Prince was lastly persuaded that his Crown and the Pope's Chair had common Friends and common Enemies * The Pope prepared a strange Wife for him which according to Scripture-truth is a dangerous Preparative for a strange God surely they will turn away your Heart after their Gods 1 King 11.2 * The Doctor saith P. 51. of 2 d Defence I tooke time to Consider the Nature and Terms of Conformity which by my former Education I was wholly a Stranger to * The Vicaridge of Westhom in Essex
himself Had the King any Friend more trusty than Bishop Iuxon Or was he too good or above doing such Service for his Master who had not a Servant who loved or honoured him more Or was he too busy to attend it when he was wholly out of all Employment and enjoy'd the most undisturbed Privacy and Quiet of any Man that had serv'd the King in any eminent Degree Or was Bishop Iuxon less sit and able than a private Man when the Book consists of Policy and Piety And who a sitter Judg of what concerned the first than one who had so long been a Privy-Counsellor and Lord-High-Treasurer of England And for the second he was one on whom the King relied as much or more than on any Man for the conduct of his Conscience as appeared by his singling him out to be with him in his preparations for Death And why must Bishop Iuxon desire another Man to do that Work for which had there been any such Work to be done he was the fittest Man alive for Fidelity for Ability for Inclination to his Master's Service and for vacancy and leisure Let 's soe now what Answers their Majesty's Chaplain at Aldgate makes to these plain Questions for we find him vaunting pag. 22. That he hath made out Matter of Fact against Dr. Walker 's Assertions in his vain shuffling proud and inconsistent Book Why all that the Aldgate Doctor saith hereunto is pag. 9. He Dr. Walker questions Sir Iohn's Memory and talks of his Youth to invalidate the Story but that is so great an Affront to all the young Gentlemen and Apprentices in London who at the Age of Nineteen are so very much imployed and trusted in their Master's Books and Accounts that I leave them to vindicate Sir Iohn upon the score of helping his Father in a thing of such a Nature as this was at such an Age. What ridiculous Stuff is this 'T is such an inexcusable Affront to the London Apprentices to say That though they understand their Master's Account-Books they have not at Nineteen the necessary qualifications of States-men and Divines that they must be instigated to draw up an Abhorrence against it and it may be this Doctor who would cokes them to fall upon Dr. Walker as their common Enemy designs them a Venison Feast this Season but should he do it I advise you as his Friend to caution him to appoint it at some other place than Merchant-Taylors Hall in regard Dr. Meriton lives opposite to it and it may be some diminution to his Credit if that Reverend Divine should take the opportunity to cross the Street and tell him in the midst of his Jollity with the Lads that he hath twice belied him in his malicious Scriblings against Dr. Walker The Aldgate Doctor pag. 9. dismisses Sir Iohn Brattle saying And this is all I have to say as to Sir John Brattle and that he told me this I will depose upon Oath whenever I am lawfully RECALLED I have heard of Re-ordaining Recanting and Re-recanting and it is more than probable that this Learned Gentleman understands the meaning of these words but 't is beyond my Capacity to make sense of Recalling in this place and he will oblige me in telling me his meaning therein And to requite the Courtesy you may tell him that I will produce good Evidence upon Oath when REquired there 's a Re for his Re that Sir Iohn Brattle who I agree is a very worthy Person doth declare That he never told Dr. Hollingworth or any other Person that the Papers he spoke of were writ with the King 's own Hand Their Majesty's Chaplain may not take it ill or think that his Veracity is called into Question by enquiring of Sir Iohn about this Matter for we had his leave to do it when he asserted the thing and said Thanks be to God Sir John is yet alive and is ready to give the same Account to any Man that asks him The Aldgate Doctor affirms pag. 10. That the Reverend Dr. Meriton dining the latter end of the last Year with the Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Pilkington happened to meet with Dr. Walker at the same Table where Dr. Walker was pleased with his usual Confidence to assert Dr. Gauden the Author of the King's Book Upon which Dr. Meriton turned upon him with the Story of Mr. Simmonds communicating the whole thing to Dr. Gauden upon which he was so confounded that he had nothing to say for himself and though if none but Dr. Meriton himself had declared to me quoth he the Issue of their Debate it would have satisfied me yet the further satisfaction I had from my worthy Friend Mr. Marriot then Chaplain to the Lord-Mayor and Minister of the Parish Church in Rood-Lane who stood by and heard the whole Discourse and withal the silence he put Dr. Walker to which he professed to my self gave me so full a satisfaction that upon that account I ventured to give the World an Account of it in print Now it had been much better either to have let this Story quite alone or to have given a true Relation of it but our Author trusts to Falshoods more than to the Truth of the Cause he saith in his Preface If any Man questions the Truth of these Living Evidences I have quoted if he pleases to come to me I will wait upon him to them and he shall have satisfaction from themselves of the truth of what I have writ I should tell him now if I did not know him that he might be ashamed to prevaricate as he doth but he hath cast off all Shame he exclaims thus upon Dr. Walker page 20. Well done Dr. Walker if thou ever hadst a Man alone with thee undoubtedly he was alwaies on thy side and thou wert always in the right and when the Man was dead wouldst assume the confidence to print it In what words now shall I bespeak Dr. Hollingworth he offers to wait upon any Man who is doubtful in the Matter to the Persons he names and yet I am at a certainty that he hath assumed the confidence to put these reverend Divines Dr. Meriton and Mr. Marriot whom he terms his Worthy Friends in print whilst living without their Privity or Consent or consulting them of the truth of what he relates and I am as sure that they will not averr what he asserts they told him for without putting the Doctor to the trouble of waiting upon him I engaged a Friend to enquire of these Reverend Persons of the truth of what he writes relating to them and Dr. Meriton saith that Dr. Hollingworth hath committed two Mistakes to give it no harder Name in the Story for whereas he affirms that Dr. Walker with his usual Confidence began the Discourse at my Lord-Mayor's Table Dr. Meriton declares that there was no such Discourse at the Table but that after Dinner he himself began the Discourse taking Dr. Walker into a Corner of the Room and Mr. Marriot is
Walker can be supposed to be that Dr. Gauden after he was Bishop of Exeter did justify it to be the King's Book Page 18. this celebrated Witness is produced and our Doctor tells us 'T is Mr. Long Prebendary as he takes it of Exeter And page 20. he thus characterizes him I must tell the Reader that he is an ancient grave Reverend Divine well known for his Truth and Honesty one who as he is a professed Member of the Church of England so he hath always been true to the Doctrine and Discipline of it in his Preaching and Practice and not like my Adversary who I know for I was personally acquainted with him was an Encourager of and Comrade principally with those who had no kindness for the Church at all I must with your leave Sir a little remark upon this most extraordinary and remarkable Man Dr. Hollingworth is no doubt sure of the truth of what he saies we are bound to believe him though he is not at a certainty what this Long is for he tells us that he is Prebendary of Exeter as he takes it He hath alwaies been true to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England That 's indeed something and makes the Prebendary a much more valuable Man than our Chaplain for he once upon a time declared that be thanked God he had vomited up all his Calvinistical Principles Whereupon a Person of true Worth and of high Desert replied thus to him Then the Doctrine of the Church of England and St. Paul 's Epistles have spew'd you out for an Apostate and so farewell to you for a Knave But I may not let the Prebendary thus slide out of my hands I have found there 's something more than ordinary in the Man which recommends him to the Doctor 's Favour and I will not withhold it from you There 's a kind of Sympathy in the natures of these two mightâ— Church man our Doctor proposed page 50. of his second Defence That every Parish of England famousâ—icon â—icon Basilice with the other Works of King Charles and chain it up to inform the Minds of all good Men and the Prebendary hath a Crâ—chet of reading some Portions out of it in the Church for the further enlightning our â—nderstanding Behold how they pisâ— in a Quiâ—â— and for ought I know the next proposal from these Men may be to read the Arcaâ—â—an Prayer in the same Book for the furthering of our Devotion I proceed to give you something more of Long'sâ—ust â—ust Character and leave it to you to judg how much you find of Hollingworth therein He hath an aking Tooth at Lectures and Sermons too and a mighty Spleen at Free-Prayer he would haâ—e all the publick Ministrations to consist in reading Liturgies and Homilies But his virulent Book called Vox Cleri or the Sense of the Clergy concerning the making of Alterations in the establish'd Liturgy published in the Year 1690 doth most truly speak the Man's Principles and discover what sort of Men are in our Doctor 's esteem the True Church of England Men and upon what sâ—ore he terms the pious Dr. Walker an Adversary to the Church This Book is Libel upon that great and excellent Person his Grace my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury that now is and several others of the highly deserving Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England who were found inclinable to the much long'd-for Vnion of Protestants in the late Convocation He glories that the Clergy opposed and overthrâ—w a Bill for Comprehension contrived by Bishop Wilkins Sir Orlando 〈◊〉 and Judg Hales because they thought 〈…〉 the Church would prove more hurâ—ful than a Schism without it c. He rejoiceâ—punc that Dr. Iane was chosen Proâ—â—cutor of the Convâ—câ—tion in opposition to Dr. 〈◊〉 and saies that 't is look'd upon as a good Omen of success in their Proceedings for the good of the Church and throughout the whole Book he puts aâ— high value upon Dr. Iane for opposing any alteration in the liturgy or Ceremonies with a Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare and at the same time casts leering Reflections upon the Friends of Union and Peace under the name of Latitudinarians He oft extols and magnifies the Non-swearing Bishops and calls their deserved Deprivation for their Obstinacy a dealing with them as the Bishops were dealt with in 1642 by the Scotish and Dissenters Malice He expresly declares himself against parting with any thing for the Dissenters satisfaction and perswades to the inforcing them to Uniformity by strict Discipline But I may not dwell upon his envenom'd Invective in short both Hollingworth and Long appear to be Fiery Zealots Violent Bigots who stand at an irreconcilable distance with dissenting Protestants and will run botâ—â—ut of the Church and their Wits too if the Parliament should think sit to let the Dissenters in upon an honourable Accommodation of our Differences And 't would be strange indeed if a Man of Dr. Walker's healing Spirit should have any Credit with such Men as these but 't is his Honour to be traduced by them But now he falls with a Witness upon poor Dr. Walker saying page 22. I have a Commission from the present Bishop of Gloucester Dr. Fowler to present the World with this Narrative attested by himself which has a great deal in it considering the former Testimonies The former Testimonies indeed considered which have nothing in them but Falshood and empty or angry Words I must allow that there is something in this though not to the Doctor 's Purpose We have here a Certificate attested by my Lord Bishop of Gloucester which fills almost three Pages with most undoubted Truth and this must be esteemed something and 't is a rare thing too for this Relation excepted a Man may aver that there is scarce a Paragraph in their Majesties Chaplain's seven and twenty Pages without a Falshood It behoves then that we look into this Narrative The Sum of it is this About 28 Years since Mrs. â—eighly a very Religious and Pious Gentlewoman told Dr. Fowler that a Captain of the Parliament Army told her that being appointed to stand every Morning at his Majesty's Bed-Chamber Door when he was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight he observed for several days that he went into his Closet and there staid a considerable time and then went into the Garden And the Captain perceiving that he still left the Key in the Closet Door he went in and found that the King had been penning most Devout and Pious Meditations and Prayers which the Captain read for several Mornings together And Mrs. â—eighley said That he gave such an Account of these Meditations and Prayers that she was confident they were printed in Eicon Basilice after she came to read the same And I am very inclinable to be of good Mrs. Keighley's Mind and yet this Relation doth more serve Dr. Walker than Dr. Hollingworth It must be remembred that the Essex Doctor asserts that Dr.
your Children so often desired and to point out as it were with a Finger the blessed Hopes of Heaven And truly you could do no Act of greater Comfort to all Nations of Christendom than to return the Possession of those most noble Isles to the Prince of the Apostles whose Authority for so many Ages was held in England for the defence of the Kingdom and divine Oracle which will not be uneasy to do if you open your Breast upon which depends the Prosperity of those Kingdoms to God who is knocking And we have so great desire of the Honour and Exaltation of your Royal Name that we wish that you should be called through the whole World together with your most Serene Father the Freer of Great Britain and Restorer of her antient Religion Whereof we will not lose all hopes putting them in mind in whose hands the Hearts of Kings lie and he that rules all Nations of the World by whose Grace we will with all possible Diligence labour to effect it And you cannot choose but acknowledg in these Letters the Care of our Apostolical Charity to procure your Happiness which it will never repent us to have written if the Reading thereof shall at leastwise stir some Sparks of Catholick Religion in the Heart of so great a Prince who we desire may enjoy Eternal Comforts and flourish with the Glory of all Virtues Given in Rome in the Palace of St. Peter the 20 th of April 1623. In the third of our Pontificado The Prince of Wales his Reply to the Pope's Letter Most Holy Father I Received the Dispatch from your Holiness with great Content and with that Respect which the Piety and Care wherewith your Holiness writes doth require It was an unspeakable Pleasure to me to read the generous Exploits of the Kings my Predecessors in whose Memory Posterity hath not given those Praises and Elogies of Honour as were due to them I do believe that your Holiness hath set their Examples before my Eyes to the end I might imitate them in all my Actions for in truth they have often exposed their Estates and Lives for the Exaltation of the Holy Chair and the Courage with which they have assaulted the Enemies of the Cross of Jesus Christ hath not been less than the Care and Thought which I have to the end that the Peace and Intelligence which hath hitherto been wanting in Christendom might be bound with a true and stronge Concord For as the common Enemy of the Peace watcheth always to put Hatred and Dissention amongst Christian Princes so I believe that the Glory of God requires that we should endeavour to unite them And I do not esteem it a greater Honour to be descended from so great Princes than to imitate them in the Zeal of their Piety In which it helps me very much to have known the Mind and Will of our thrice honoured Lord and Father and the holy Intentions of his Catholick Majesty to give a happy Concurrence to so laudable a Design for it grieves him exceedingly to see the great Evils that grow from the Division of Christian Princes which the Wisdom of your Holiness foresaw when it judged the Marriage which you pleased to design between the Infanta of Spain and my self to be necessary to procure so great a Good for 't is very certain that I shall never be so extreamly affectionate to any thing in the World as to endeavour Alliance with a Prince that hath the same Apprehension of the true Religion with my self Therefore I intreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion But on the contrary I have sought all Occasions to take away the Suspicion that might rest upon me and that I will imploy my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith seeing that we all believe in one Jesus Christ. Having resolved in my self to spare nothing that I have in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding of my Estate and Life for a thing so pleasing unto God It rests only that I thank your Holiness for the Permission you have been pleased to afford me and I pray God to give you a blessed Health and his Glory after so much pains which your Holiness takes in his Church This Letter to the Pope was presently printed in Spain in several Languages And I can shew it you in many Authors of Credit it is found recorded by Andrew de Chesne Chronographer to the French King in his History of England Scotland and Ireland Lib. 22. The French Mercury a never controlled Author hath it also as I here give it you in Tom. 9. p. 509 510. printed Anno 1623. Mr. Iames Howel an Attendant upon the King in the Spanish Expedition and who ever remained firm to him being imprison'd by the Parliament for a Malignant in the time of the War doth also point at it in his Dodonas Grove or Vocal Forest printed Anno 1640. he saith there pag. 128. That the Pope was a great Friend to the intended Alliance with Spain and wrote to the Prince This Letter is also printed in Pryn's Popish Royal Favorite p. 40. in French and likewise in English agreeing exactly with the Copy in Cabala And Mr. Pryn saith That he hath seen another Copy of this Letter long since in English being somewhat different from the French in some Expressions though not in Substance and perchance he wrote two of this Nature but it appears that such Letters really passed between the King and the Pope by divers ancient printed Copies of them in sundry Languages Thus speaks Mr. Pryn himself and you will credit him because you tell me he was a Convert and rectified many of his Errors yet he never retracted or acknowledged this to be one And now Sir to expostulate this Matter with you Is it credible that a Man of common Honesty nay a D. D. who stiles himself their Majesties Chaplain and dedicates to them that a pretender to Learning and good Manners who had notice from Rushworth that there was another Copy of the King's Letter to the Pope published by several Hands different from his that he who by his own Confession hath Cabala and uses it to serve his Purpose should treat a Person who writes Truth out of the same Author with the unbecoming Expression and that three times over in one Leaf of Leave your L that such a Man as you in such a Case as this should say 'T is false you are past all manner of shame and one would think that you are possessed But let us see what follows my honest Tell-troth Pag. 14. you fall upon Dr. Leighton's Case and calls the most barbarous and diabolical Sentence which Bishop Laud procured to be pronounced and most cruelly executed upon him his Punishment and say That you are something of the
hard Trot and fretted her alas The Independent Amble easier was I taught her that and out of that to fall To the 〈◊〉 of Prelatical Now with a Snaffle or a twined Thread To any Government she 'l turn her head I have so broke her She will never slaet And that 's the meaning of my Broken heart Cambridge I left with grief and great disgrace To seek my Fortune in some other place And that I might the better save my stake I took an Order and did Orders take Amongst Conformists I my self did list A Son o' th Church as good as ever pist But tho I bow'd and cring'd and crost and all I only got a Vicaridge very small Oh! I am almost mad 't would make one so To see which way Preferment's-game doth go I ever thought I had her in the Wind And yet I 'm cast above three years behind Three times already I have turn'd my Coat Three times already I have chang'd my Note I 'le make it Four and four and Twenty more And turn the Compass round e're I 'le give o're Ambition my great Goddess and my Muse Inspire thy Prophets all such Arts to use As may exalt betwixt this and my Grave A Mitre or a Halter I must have Tell me Ambition prithee tell me why So many Dunces Doctors and not I A Scarlet Gown I must and will obtain I cannot else Commence a Priest in Grain If this Poets Ecclesiastical Pencil has not drawn you to the Life you shall see that Lay Prose comes pritty neaâ— you Mr. Marvel whom I choose always to ply you with above all other Authors describes you thus He was sent to Cambridge to be bred up to the Ministry There in a short time he entered himself into the Company of some young Students who were used to Fast and Pray weekly together he pick'd Acquaintance with the Brotherhood and train'd himself up in attending upon their Sermons and Prayers till he had gained such Proficience that he too began to Exercise in the Meetings and by Preaching Mr. Baxter's Sermons he got the Reputation of one of the Preciousest young Men in the Vniversity But when thus after seâ—â—ral years Approbation he was even ready to have taken the Charge not of an Admiring Drove or Herd as he now calls them but of a Fâ—ock upon him by great misfortune to him the King came in nevertheless he broke not off yet from his former habitudes he persisted as far as in him was that is by Praying Caballing and 〈◊〉 to obstruct the Restoring of the Episcopal Government Revenues and Authority insomuch that being discountenanced he went away from the University without his Degree scrupling forsooth the Subscription then required From thence he came to London where he spent a considerable time in creeping into all Corners and Companies horoscoping up and down concerning the duration of the Government not considering any thing as best but as most lasting and profitable and after having many times cast a Figure he at last satisfyed himself that the Episcopal Government would endure as long as he lived and from thence forward cast about how to be admitted into the Church of England and find the High-way to her Preferments In order to this he daily inlarged not only his Conversation but his Conscience and was made free of some of the Town-Vices imagining like Muleasses King of Tuâ—â—s that by hiding himself among the Onions he should escape being traced by his perfumes Ignorant and mistaken Man that thought it necessary to part with any Vertue to get a Living or that the Church of England did not require and encourage more sobriety than he could ever be guilty of But neither was this yet in his opinion sufficient and therefore he resolved to try a shorter Path which some few men have trode not unsuccessfully that is to Print a Book if that would not do a Second if not that a Third and so forward to give Experience of a keen stile and a ductile Judgment After this he was ready to leap over the Moone No scruple of Conscience could stand in his way and no Preferment seemed too high for his Ambition In the next place Dâ—ctor you spit your Venome and that even against their Majesties page 51 you say Since the late Persecution in Scotland by that Party of Men the Presbyterians it is a greater scandal to be called a Presbyterian than it was before I here observe with what Reverence and Duty you speak of your Superiours and their Actions when they are not so happy as to please you this last thing is uttered most scandalously and with a leering reflection upon the Government and t is a dangerous thing I perceive for their Majesties to lose your favour When you talke page 15. of the Accursed Court of Star-Chamber you do it with great Modesty and Manners saying If it be lawful for a private Person as I am to pass a Iudgment upon the publick Actions of a then Legal Court But here the King and Queen seeming to be fallen into disgrace with you you assume the impudence to call their establishing Presbytery by Act of Parliament A Persecution So that what the Scots said in the year 1640 they may well repeat at this day All means said they are used to disgrace this Kirk Books Pasquils honouring of our Cursed Bishops advancing of our deposed Ministers c. 'T was it should seem scandalous in some measure to be a persecuted Presbyterian in the two By-past Reigns but in your Opinion Doctor 't is so in a much higher degree to be a Presbyterian now that Presbytery has the Royal Favour and is settled by Act of Parliament and yet you Sr did heretofore esteem it no longer scandalous to be of the Church of England than till she obtain'd a legal Establishment and I can tell you the exact day when it became a scandal to you to be called a Presbyterian 't was Bartholomew day 1662. the day when the Act of Vniformity took place and would a man take the liberty which you do I should say when the Bishops Persecution was revived in England Well 'T is a Scandal to be a Presbyterian and it will puzzle a man to find out what you are for you seem to esteem it a Persecution that you may not compell all men to be of the Church of England and yet you say p. 52. It is true Sr. I have always been kind to Dissenters and when the great Storm in plain English Persecution Eight and Nine years ago fell upon the Dissenters I preserved my own Parish from Charge and Trouble to the great endangering of my self Alas good Man did you so and yet do they abuse you pray was all this kindness for naught did not you interlope with Dr. Pinfâ—â—â— I have been told that you ought to have said that what you did in that day was to the great enriching of your self and that you had your Why 's and your Wherefore's for your
Lord of Hosts The Fast of the fourth Month and the Fast of the Fifth and the Fast of the Seventh and the Fast of the Tenth shall be to the House of Judah Ioy and Gladness and chearful Feasts therefore LOVE THE TRVTH AND PEACE And I must say that I am strengthen'd in this Belief when I remember that about that Time and indeed upon the very Day when this Sermon was preached viz. Ian. 30. 1680. some of the Clergy I know their Names but will spare them did in their Pulpits deliver up our Laws and Liberties to the King's Will and according to their Doctrine we were to hold all at his Pleasure and in the three or four succeeding Years upon that and such-like Occasions these Beautefeux did raise Despotick Power to that dangerous height that England became too hot for Dr. Burnet as well as for many other good Men and he and I might with equal safety have returned together But to put it beyond doubt what my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's meaning was in that Expression It were better if we could have Job 's Wish c. which you insinuate that I wrest I shall lay before you some Expressions in that Sermon you may read pag. 4. these words Upon their loving Truth and Peace those black and mournful Days should be converted to Days of Gladness Pag. 5. It might have been expected that our 29 th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary and now at the end of two and thirty Years it may be reasonably ask'd should we still continue to fast and mourn Pag. 28. If we come to love the Truth and Peace to live in Love and Peace one with another then our Days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts Then should our 29 th of May swallow up the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary Or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy Deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt to be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should outshine and darken the very 29 th of May If we come to love Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the 10 th Month according to the Jewish Account which according to Arch-Bishop Vsher is exactly our 30 th of Ianuary be to us Joy and Gladness I can now scarce with-hold my self from saying That 't is most evident the Doctor at Aldgate doth appear to be the Person who would wrest Bishop Burnet 's well-intended Words to his own malicious Design A Design to keep up Animosity Wrath and Feuds in the Kingdom a Person who shews himself estranged from Truth and Peace in contending to perpetuate the observation of this Day And seeing we have happily lived to behold the wonderful Deliverances which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury did not only hope for but seem to foretel Seeing we have our glorious 5 th of November rendered famous to all succeeding Ages by our late repeated happy and miraculous Deliverance from Popery and its inseparable Companion Tyranny Seeing we behold our thrice happy 30th of April and 4th of November the Birth-Days of those matchless Princes our most deservedly admired and beloved Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary out-shining and darkening even the 29th of May I would hope that I may live to see the time when his Lordship will make a Motion in Parliament for the annulling the Law which enjoins the Observation of the 30th of Ianuary and that I am sure would be highly acceptable to the sincere Lovers of Truth and Peace But I already see an Objection against it You Doctor say Pag. 2. An Act of State has appointed this Day to be FOREVER observed to bewail the Sin of the Murder of the King However I am sure my Lord Bishop of Salisbury doth well remember that in Times by-past other Days have been appointed to be observed by Acts of State upon such like Occasions and one in particular to declaim against Gowry's detestable Conspiracy which is now forgot His Lordship also knows that in Numb 21. when for the Peoples speaking against God and Moses the Lord sent Fiery Serpents which destroyed many of them Upon their Confession of their Sin Moses at their Entreaty prayed for them and as it is in the 8th and 9th Verses The Lord said unto Moses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it upon a Pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live And Moses made a Serpent of Brass and put it upon a Pole and it came to pass that if a Serpent had bitten any Man when he beheld the Serpent of Brass he lived You see Sir this was God's own Institution and that I hope was at least as good as your Act of State Let us see now what became of this brazen Serpent 2 Kings 18. The good King Hezekiah and there were very few good ones in those days who did that which was right in the Sight of the Lord broke in pieces the brazen Serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it and he called it Nehushtan And that God highly approved this Act of this glorious Reformer is evident from the very next Verse which records that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah nor any that were before him And now Sir to dismiss this Black-Day allow me to observe that there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters reflecting on the Act of State which ordained the Observation of the 30 th of Ianuary but I term it a Madding-Day because our Parasitical Court-Priests would not keep the Peace but on that Day did set the Nation on Madding by infusing Principles of Slavery into her Free-born People Page 7. You pick a Quarrel with me about my Epistle Dedicatory and upbraid me for courting the Populace and Dedicating to old-Old-England in Aldgate Parish and say Sure the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council might have been made the Patrons of a Work that pretends to what Ludlow 's doth But whatever you think of your self or the World of you methinks 't was something sawcy even in you to prefix their Majesties Sacred Names to so silly a Book as was your first Defence and 't is as arrogant to entitle the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-bishops and Bishops the Nobility Gentry c. to this Second and to begin as if seated on the Throne MY LORDS and GENTLEMEN And it seems most impudent to tell them that upon the Reputation or Dishonour of King Charles the First and the Principles which maintain the one or those that propagate the other as much as if you had said upon my Scriblings depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen But whatever you may do 't is not for the mean
the Church of England without controul and under the publick Licence and Protection and 't is not only inconvenient to print at Amsterdam but in regard there are so many Tories and Iacobites employed in the Custom-House 't is no small Risque that every Man runs who would bring over any thing which is wrote for the Service of old-Old-England I mean the Government of England by King William and Queen Mary with Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and that you agree to be Old-England indeed But I have too long digress'd You were telling me that I have so much lost my Credit with you that you will believe nothing of my bare Assertion Upon this you must allow me to say that you are laid so flat by the Reverend and pious Dr. Walker in relation to the idle Story of Sir Iohn Brattle about Dr. Gauden's Book commonly called King's and which they say Sir Iohn doth deny and you have put down so many things in your Defence of the Martyr which are incredible that your Credit is so much impaired with me that I cannot believe every thing you assert I therefore desire that for the future you would give your Authorities as I shall for what you write so that our Readers may know how to make a true Judgment of Things And I must tell you that you being deficient in this Point in your First Defence of King Charles I rather play'd than argued with you in my former Letter But I will now tell you that I had the King's Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Pope's Letter to him from Cabala Mysteries of State pag. 214. where you may read it in these words I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland Ireland and the whole World his Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he hath done Now Sir Cabala is a Book of clear Credit and not to be gain-say'd by you for you unluckily quote the same Book in the very same Paragraph wherein you raise your Huy and Cry after my Authentick Author And now for the further illustration of the Matters which I have too long dwelt upon I shall here transcribe not only that Letter we have been talking of but that of the Pope's to the King which he answered in so highly obliging terms and for your better Satisfaction you may compare them with Cabala p. 212 c. Pope Gregory the 15th's Letter to the Prince of Wales afterwards K. Charles the First Most Noble Prince Health and Light of Divine Grace c. GReat Britain abounding with worthy Men and fertile Virtues so that the whole Earth is full of the Glory of her Renown induceth many times the Thoughts of the great Shepherd to the consideration of her Praises In regard that presently in the Infancy of his Church the King of Kings vouchsased to choose her with so great Affection for his Inheritance that almost it seems there entred into her at the same time the Eagles of the Roman Standard and the Ensigns of the Cross. And not few of her Kings indoctrinated in the true Knowledg of Salvation gave example of Christian Piety to other Nations and after-Ages preferring the Cross to the Scepter and the Defence of Religion to the Desire of Command So that meriting Heaven thereby the Crown of eternal Bliss they obtained likewise upon Earth the Lustre and glorious Ornaments of Sanctity But in this time of the Britanick Church how much is the case altered yet we see that to this day the English Court is fenced and guarded with moral Virtues which were sufficient Motives to induce us to love this Nation it being some Ornament to the Christian Name if it were likewise a Defence and Sanctuary of Catholick Virtues Wherefore the more the Glory of your most Serene Father and the Property of your natural Disposition delighteth us the more ardently we desire that the Gates of Heaven should be opened unto you and that you should purchase the universal Love of the Church For whereas that Bishop Gregory the Great of most pious Memory introduced amongst the English People and taught their Kings the Gospel and a Reverence to the Apostolical Authority We much inferiour to him in Virtue and Sanctity as equal in Name and height of Dignity it is reason we should follow his most holy Steps and procure the Salvation of those Kingdoms especially most Serene Prince there being great hopes offered to us at this time of some successful Issue of your Determination Wherefore you having come to Spain and the Court of the Catholick King with desire to match with the House of Austria it seemed good to us most affectionately to commend this your Intent and to give clear testimony that at this time your Person is the most principal Care that our Church hath For seeing you pretend to match with a Catholick Damosel it may easily be presumed that the antient Seed of Christian Piety which so happily flourished in the Minds of British Kings may by God's Grace reverberate in your Breast For it is not probable that he that desires such a Wife should abhor the Catholick Religion and rejoice at the overthrow of the holy Roman Church To which purpose we have caused continual Prayers to be made and most vigilant Orisons to the Father of Lights for you fair Flower of the Christian World and only Hope of Great Britain that he would bring you to the Possession of that most noble Inheritance which your Ancestors got you by the Defence of the Apostolick Authority and Destruction of Monsters of Heresies Call to memory the times of old ask your Fore-fathers and they will shew you what way leads to Heaven and perceiving what Path mortal Princes pass to the heavenly Kingdom behold the Gates of Heaven open Those most holy Kings of England which parting from Rome accompanied with Angels most piously reverenced the Lord of Lords and the Prince of the Apostles in his Chair Their Works and Examples are Mouths wherewith God speaks and warneth you that you should imitate their Customs in whose Kingdoms you succeed Can you suffer that they be called Hereticks and condemned for wicked Men when the Faith of the Church testifieth that they reign with Christ in Heaven and are exalted above all the Princes of the Earth and that they at this time reached you their hands from that most blessed Country and brought you safely to the Court of the Catholick King and desire to turn you to the Womb of the Roman Church wherein praying most humbly with most unspeakable Groans to the God of Mercy for your Salvation to reach you the Arms of Apostolical Charity to embrace most lovingly
pag. 9. Many weak Persons who by the Heat of their Tempers are inclined to entertain Prejudices hold that Addressing to God in Prayer and the being gaided by the inward Motions of Grace and God's Holy Spirit are but illusions of Fancy if not the Contrivances of designing Men. Pag. 10. Earnestness in Prayer and depending on the inward Assistances of God's Holy Spirit How have Men who know or value these things little themselves taken occasion to disparage them with much Impudence and Scorn Now Sir upon the whole Matter I do think it might tend to the Publick Peace if my Lord Bishop of London would please to suspend such a dry and insipid Doctor as you are from publishing even ex-tempore and unpremeditated Defences and to injoin you a well-framed Form of Defending so that it may be performed with Order and Decency and not be exposed to Contempt and Scorn by reason of any rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications to their most Sacred Majesties the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. For I perswade my self that the Ex-tempore Rhimes of some Antick Iack-Pudding may deserve Printing better than your empty and nonsensical Pamphlets and that it had been better to have set some Ballad-Singer to have bewailed the King's Misfortunes than so ridiculous an Orator as you are found to be who are so insipid that there 's not the least Spirit in any thing you say Where are you now Sir I but this Bold face says This Liturgy for Scotland was not only composed by Bishop Laud but sent by him to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation and this Story I must not dare to deny But with your leave Mr. Modesty I will venture upon that piece of Confidence as to tell you I do not believe it and that because you assert it Now I do agree that I did say so and I am indeed a Bold-face if I have not good Authority for what â— thus charge upon Arch-Bishop Laud for no Man's bare Assertion may pass in such a Case as this But there is more in this Matter than the Short-sighted Chaplain at Aldgate is aware of You may find the Story of Laud's sending the Scots Common-Prayer to be approved by the Pope and Cardinals as I told it in a Book of good Credit entituled A new Survey of the West-Indies wrote by a Reverend Divine of the Church of England Mr. Thomas Gage Minister of Deal in Kent 't is in Page 280 in the Folio Impression He there tells you That being a Friar he went to Rome with Letters of Recommendation to Cardinal Barbarini the Pope's Nephew intituled The Protector of England That coming acquainted with Father Fitz-Herbert Rector of the English Colledg of jesuits he highly praised Arch-Bishop Laud and said That he not long since sent a Common-Prayer Book which he had composed for the Church of Scotland to be first viewed and approved by the Pope and Cardinals and that they liked it very well for Protestants to be trained up in a Form of Prayer and Service yet the Cardinals first giving him Thanks for his Respect sent him word that they thought it was not fitting for Scotland That Father Fitz-Herbert told him he was Witness of all this being sent for by the Cardinal to give them his Opinion about it and of the Temper of the Scots And that Laud hearing the Censure of the Cardinals concerning his Intention and Form of Prayer to ingratiate himself the more in their Favour corrected some things in it and made it more harsh and unreasonable for that Nation This good Man Mr. Gage after he had there related the Matter as above expresses himself thus This most true Relation of Arch-Bishop Laud I have oft spoke of in private Discourse and publickly in Preaching and I could not in Conscience omit it here both to vindicate the just Censure of Death which the Parliament gave against him and to reprove the ungrounded Opinion and Error of some ignorant Spirits who have since his Death highly exalted and cried him up for a Martyr You may also find something like this of Mr. Gage in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs pag. 83. he relates That in the Year 1638 one Abernethy who from a Jesuit turned a zealous Presbyterian spread a Story in Scotland which took wonderfully of the Liturgy of that Kingdom being sent to Rome to some Cardinals to be revised by them and that Signior Con the Popes Nuncio to the Court of England had shewed it to Abernethy at Rome Indeed the Bishop adds ' That the Marquess of Hamilton wrote to Con about it but he protested seriously he never so much as had heard of a Liturgy designed for Scotland till he came last to England that he had never seen Abernethy at Rome but once and finding him light-headed had never again taken notice of him Now it takes not much from the Credit of Abernethy's Relation that Con denied it for it must be noted that he was a Jesuit and according to the Tenets of the Romish Church 't was lawful if not his Duty to lie for Holy Church You come next with a most convincing Argument to shew the Falshood of my last Assertion What! say you pag. 19. Bishop Laud send to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation of a Liturgy almost the same with ours I think this vexatious Ghost will never be laid I thought we had done with Laud but here he appears again What! Laud send to the Pope to approve a Liturgy almost the same with ours Ay Laud the most likely Bishop in England to do it You say That his Heart was set upon Designs of Vniformity And was not this the most probable Course to accomplish them Mr. Whitlock whom you will credit shews as I but now told you that Laud declared That the Protestant Religion and Romish Religion were all one and if the one was false so was the other That he brought the Romish and English Churches I think I must say Steeple-houses to be rightly understood to such a Vniformity that the Popish Priests knew no difference between theirs and ours Why then may we not believe that in pursuit of that Plot of Vniformity his Heart was so much set upon he sought the Pope's Approbation of the Liturgy whom as Mr. Whitlock himself declares he held to be the Metropolitan Bishop of the World so that Laud was to him as that Traitor Turner late Bishop of Ely to Sancrost but a younger Brother Proceeding to argue the Point you say Sure Sir you have forgot the Bull of the Pope in the 10 th of Queen Elizabeth which commands all his pretended Catholick Children not to attend upon the publick Liturgical Devotions of our Church and you have forgot that the Papists upon that account and by virtue of the Authority of that Bull have declined our Publick Service ever since and therefore it is very likely Bishop Laud should send a Liturgy to Rome for its Approbation
shew you from Mr. Whitlock how this was growing up from being the Bishop's to be a Popish War he relates Page 31. That the Queen employed Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague who at that very time as we have it in Gage's Survey of the West-Indies p. 209 stood Candidates at Rome for a Cardinal's-Cap to labour the Papists for a liberal Contribution which they gained and Sir Basil Brooks a Person afterwards very active in the Irish Rebellion was appointed Treasurer for the Monies thus raised by the Queen's Solicitation for this War against the Scots hereupon some stiled the Forces raised against the Scots in the beginning of the year 1640 THE POPISH ARMY But to return to what I intended I will shew you the Heads of the Scotch Declaration which Mr. Whitlock puts down upon the Page you mention and that I may not be accused of Partiality take first the King's Declaration His Majesty saith he sets it forth to inform his Subjects of the seditious Practices of some in Scotland seeking the overthrow of Regal Power under false pretext of Religion c. He takes God to witness he is constrained by their Treasons to take Arms for the safety of that and this Kingdom He resolves to maintain Episcopacy there c. The Scots answer That though the Secrets of God's Ways cannot be sounded yet considering his Providence in their personal Affairs the Lord is about some great Work on Earth for the Cup of Affliction propined to other Reformed Kirks is now presented to them That instead of a gracious return to their humble Petitions from time to time the return is a late Declaration libell'd against them though the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against their Cause and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ now in question Which Declaration proceeds from the Unchristian Prelates and their Party They conclude setting forth their long suffering of the Prelates Insolency c. and fearing Popery to be introduced And they say for doing any harm to England cursed be their Breasts if they harbour any such Thought c. Your next Accusation Doctor against the Scots is Page 23. The King consents to a Treaty Commissioners were appointed on both sides and they came to a Conclusion agreeing upon seven Articles The King justly performed the Articles on his side notwithstanding the first Article agreed upon was to disband the Forces of Scotland within 24 hours yet these perfidious Persons kept part of their Forces in a body and all their Officers in pay and kept up their Fortisications at Leith And now let the Reader judg by this how deserving these Men are of such Commendations as this pestilent and bold Letter-Writer gives them Take a full Answer to this Slander from the Representation of the Proceedings of the Kingdom of Scotland since the late Pacification by the Estates of the Kingdom pag. 35. We within the space of forty eight hours the time appointed by his Majesty dissolved our Army Concerning the Officers we were careful both to observe that Article of the Pacification to his Majesty and also to keep promise to them which did bind us not to hold them in Military Pay but to vouchsafe them Entertainment till they should be restored to their own or called to other Service which ought not to be taken for any Breach Contempt or Disobedience but for an observation of the Law of Nature and common Equity they being our own Natives and having forsaken their Places and Means for Defence of Us and their Native Country less than this neither could they expect nor we perform although the Peace had been most firmly settled All Forts and Castles were speedily restored although they be now used for a Terror and Invasion against us Some part of the Fortifications at Leith was demolished for his Majesty's Satisfaction and the whole remitted by his Majesty to the Town of Edinburgh as having right to the same See further what they say in Refutation of this vile Calumny in their Remonstrance concerning the present Troubles pag. 7. We delivered all Places into his Majesty's Hands which were desired in testimony of our Obedience and although they might have been in our Hands Pledges of Assurance for performance of those Articles that were agreed to be granted in the following Assembly and Parliament and now contrary to our Expectation are turned for Engines of Terror and Fetters of Slavery to frustrate us from obtaining the benefit of that Capitulation Now to put you Doctor to eternal silence I shall subjoin an unconquerable Evidence against your bold Assertion The Pacification was made upon the 18 th of June 1639. And upon the 24 th the Marquess of Hamilton received possession of the Castle of Edinburgh for the King This is in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs of the two Hamiltons pag. 144. 't is a Book you have heard of though I doubt never seen you shall presently see why I say so If this Treatise be partial it must incline to the King against the Scots because the Marquess was deeply engaged in the Royal Cause This was not only wrote by the Bishop when he was a Chaplain to King Charles the Second from the Marquesses own Memoirs but is dedicated to the King and was published with his Royal Testimonial that he had seen and approved it And is there room now for any Man to believe that if the Scots had not acted with the highest Simplicity and Integrity in this Treaty they would have instantly and voluntarily quitted the best Strength in that Kingdom to his Majesty And now let the Reader judg by this whether one word that such a paltry Doctor as you utter out of your Pulpit â—e to be credited Well what comes next e'ne what lies uppermost pag. 23. And whereas this scandalizing Person has the confidence to assert that the King when he came home burnt by the common Hangman the Pacification he had made I must tell him he talks as he has done all along throughout his Letter falsly and against his own Reading and Knowledg and for this I appeal to Bishop Burnet in his Memoirs of the two Hamiltons where pag. 782. he acquaints us That the Scots published a false and scandalous Paper entituled Some of his Majesties Treaties with his Subjects of Scotland so Vntrue and Seditious that it was burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman And are not you a base Person then to oberude such a Lie upon the World as you have done But it is no wonder the Father whose Cause you have served in this rude and seditions Libel is the Father of Lies Why now most unhappy Doctor you are catch'd again and whereas you say that I talk falsly against my reading it will be found that you talk at random for want of reading I told you that I suspected you had never seen Bishop Burnet's Alemoirs you shall now see my reason for it You quote pag. 782. and there are but 436 Pages in that Book and 47 in the
Appendix And for my part I have read it some Years since and now turn'd it over but cannot find therein the Story for which you vouch him I am apt to think as you told me pag. 50. That some crafty Knave finding you ready to pick up any Story whereby you might serve your Cause had a mind to put a Trick upon you and to expose the Truth of the rest of your Book by telling you that Bishop Burnet 's Evidence against the Scots would outweigh a thousand Witnesses and that he had declared what false Loons they were in a certain Book called his Memoirs But is not he a Blockhead then that will be so imposed upon Nevertheless to deal openly and without reserve in this Matter I find these Memoirs speaking thus pag. 143. When the Scotch Commissioners came back to the Camp they gave an account of their Negotiation and besides Articles of Treaty they produced another Paper which passed among all for the Conditions of Agreement it was a Note containing some Points which were alledged to have been agreed to at Berwick verbally though not set down in the written Treaty which was made up of some down-right Mistakes this Term comes something short of False Scandalous Vntrue and Seditious which are your Epâ—thets and of other things which the King in discourse had indeed said but not positively nor as a Determination on which he had concluded It were now worth the knowing what in particular these down-right Mistakes and these other things were but this History leaving us in the dark therein I shall shew you what was the main thing which gave distaste in that Paper which Bishop Burnet saith passed among all for the Conditions of the Agreement and how the Estates of Scotland justified that Paper from the Imputation of Mistakes The Paper is intituled Some Conditions of his Majesty's Treaty with his Subjects of Scotland before the English Nobility It is there remembred that it being with all Instancy and Humility prest Saturday June 15. that his Majesty would satisfy that main Desire of his Subjects by declaring that he would quit Episcopacy did answer That it was not sought in our Desires And when it was replied That our first Desire to have the Acts of the General Assembly ratified imported the same His Majesty acknowledged it to be so and averred that he did not refuse it but would advise till Monday the 17 th At which time his Majesty being prest to give some Signification of his quitting Episcopacy And it being plainly shown to his Majesty That if he would labour to maintain Episcopacy it would breed a miserable Schism in this Kirk and make such a Rapture and Division in this Kingdom as would prove uncurable And if his Majesty would let the Kirk and Country be freed of them his Majesty would receive as hearty and dutiful Obedience as ever Prince received of a People His Majesty answer'd that he could not prelimit and forestal his Voice but had appointed a Free Assembly which might judg of all Ecclesiastical Matters the Constitutions whereof he promised to ratify in the ensuing Parliament See now what the Estates of Scotland said in vindication of themselves in this Matter you will find them thus expressing it in their Representation of the Proceedings of the Kingdom pag. 15. After much Agitation and many Consultations his Majesties Declaration touching the intended Pacification was read to our Commissioners who upon their Dislike and Exceptions taken both at Matter and Expressions as contrary to our Minds and prejudicial to our Cause did humbly remonstrate that the Declaration as it was conceived could not give Satisfaction to us from whom they were sent His Majesty was graciously pleased to command some words to be deleted other words to be changed and many parts thereof were by verbal Promises and Interpretation from his Majesty's own Mouth mitigated Which in our Estimation were equal to that which was written some of the Counsellors of England assuring our Commissioners that what was spoken and promised before Men of Honour and in the Face of two Armies was no less certain and would no doubt be as really performed as if it had been written in Capital Letters which therefore were diligently observed carefully remembred and punctually related by our Commissioners at their delivering of his Majesty's Declaration to us And without which we nor could nor would have condescended and consented to the Articles of the Declaration more than we could or would against the Light of our Minds and Consciences have sinned against God and condemned our own Deed. Thus way was made to the Pacification and for preoccupying all Mistakes whether wilful possibly by some or through weakness of Memory by others These vocal Interpretations and Expressions were collected keeped by our selves and in Papers delivered to some of the Commissioners of England It may now be observed upon the whole Matter that this Paper contained nothing contrary to the Articles or the Pacification but was a mollifying of his Majesty's Declaration that it might be the more readily received by the People And it had been more than imaginable Impudence to put into the Hands of the Nobility of England a Paper professing what was openly spoken but just before in their own hearing and yet containing Untruths and seditious Positions contrary to all that was done for Peace The Truth of the Case is this The King had promised them a General Assembly to be holden the 6 th of August and a Parliament upon the 20 th to ratify what should be decreed in the Assembly But he was reprimanded by the Queen and the Bishops who vilified the Pacification and upbraided him that he had brought home a dishonourable Peace Whereupon he altered his Mind declaring that what had been agreed would be unprofitable for the Kirk because he well knew that nothing short of the extirpation of Prolacy could satisfy that People He therefore about a Month after the Pacification set himself to pick a Quarrel with them and upon the 18 th of Iuly 1639 he charged them with no less than Eighteen Criminal Articles whereof they denied some and made full Answers to the rest I shall touch upon two of them because they refer to your Discourse which we are now examining The third Article was Forces not dismissed and in particular Monro's Regiment yet kept on foot The Answer was this Since his Majesty will have that Regiment disbanded the same shall be done presently But we humbly beg that his Majesty would be pleased to dismiss the Garisons in Berwick Carlisle and the rest of the Borders The 18 th Article was The Paper divulged and if they avow the same Which had this modest Answer As we are most unwilling to fall upon any Question which may seem to import the least Contradiction with his Majesty so if it had not been the Trust which we gave to the Relation of our Commissioners the written Declaration would not have been acceptable nor the
a Secret Whether I then had or not you bring one into my Remembrance by your enquiry whether the King had been to blame if he had chop'd off some of the Scotch Commissioners Heads and you shall have it I have heard and do believe that the King having against all Justice imprisoned the Earl of Lowdon one of the Commissioners from the Scotch Parliament in the Tower he about three of the Clock in the Afternoon sent his own Letter to Sir William Balfour Lieutenant of the Tower commanding him to see my Lord of Lowdon 's Head struck off within the Tower before nine the next Morning Upon the Receipt of this Command the Lieutenant of the Tower that his Lordship might prepare for Death gave him notice of it He being surprized as well he might prevailed with Sir William to find out the Marquess of Hamilton then in great favour with the King and Master of the Horse and to tell him that he esteemed him to be engaged in Honour to interpose in this matter The Letter being thereupon carried and shewn to the Marquess it struck him with Astonishment and with no small difficulty he made his way to the King being then in Bed and humbly enquired whether his Majesty had given such a Command for beheading the Earl of Lowdon the King answered Yes and I will be obeyed therein he shall die The Marquess finding him inexorable told his Majesty that he would kiss his Hand and instantly take his Horse and be gone for he would not stay to see his Majesty massacred as most certainly he would for before the next Night the whole City would come upon him Hereby the King was wrought upon to hold his Hand and countermand the fatal Warrant This is so incredible a piece of Tyranny that I cannot expect you should believe it upon my bare Assertion I shall therefore shew you that it seems to be pointed at in Bishop Burneâ—'s Memoirs Page 161. in these words There were some ill Instruments about the King Bishops no doubt on'â— who advised him to proceed capitally against Lowdon which is believed went very far But the Marquess of Hamilton opposed this vigorousâ—y assuring the King that if that were done Scotland was for ever lost Now if Curiosity shall lead you to enquire further into this matter you may do well to learn what is meant by the obscure Expression which is believed went very far and if that do not open the whole business to you you will not fail of Satisfaction if you can by any Friend make way to the Original Papers from which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury took his Memoirs and which now are in the Hands of his Grace my Lord Duke of Hamilton A word or two more about Scotland and we will cast an Eye on your Impeachment against our own Nation you very often term the Actions of that Kingdom factious seditious rebellious traiterous Now let me shew you how the Scotch Parliament defined Treason We entreat our Adversaries say they to shew us in good earnest and not by way of Railing in what sense we have incurred the Censure of Rebellion and Treason We cannot be moved to think but the Mitre of a usurping Prelate by the Authority of a National Council may be thrown to the ground without the Violation or smallest Touch of the Crown or Scepter of Imperial Majesty To dethrone a Prelate and to overturn Prelacy we judg it no Treason against the King Traitors to God and their Country must be Traitors to the King and such as are faithful to God and their Country must be the King 's best Subjects The Right of his Majesty's Crown and the Acts of Parliament command all the Subjects to rise with the King and to assist him when he riseth for God and the Country but no Law nor Act of Parliament forbiddeth to stand for God and the Country in the case of publick Invasion Take now from Bp. Burnet's Memoirs a true Account of these Scotch Troubles which have now been so troublesome to you and me and I 'll return to Old England The Lord 's of the Council saith he Page 31 not 782. laid the greatest blame upon Bishops which appears from the Earl of Traquaire's Letter to the Marquess of Hamilton date 27. Aug. 1631. viz. At the meeting of the Council 23 d Instant we found so much appearance of Trouble and Stir like to be amongst People of all Qualities and Degrees upon the urging of this New-Service-Book that we durst no longer forbear to acquaint his Majesty therewith Some of the leading Men of the Clergy are so violent and many times without ground or true judgment that their want of right Understanding how to compass business of this nature and weight doth often breed as many Difficulties and their rash and foolish Expressions and Attempts have bred such a Fear and Jealousy in the Hearts of many that if his Majesty were rightly informed thereof he would blame them and justly think that from them arises the ground of many Mistakes amongst us This Business in good Faith is by the Folly and Misgovernment of some of our Clergy come to that height that the like has not been seen in this Kingdom of a long time No more of Scotland Let 's see what 's next You declare your Resolution to apply your self to the Defence of what you had formerly said in behalf of King Charles and proceed thus Page 26. You say That those Gracious Acts which I mention were bought of him and what then What hath been more usual ever since Parliaments had a being in England Pray look into the Statute-Book and tell me what Gracious Favours can you find bestowed by the several Kings of this Realm upon their People that those People have not made their acknowledgments for them by presenting their Soveraigns with great Sums of Money What ridiculous Stuff is this Gracious Acts Gracious Favours c. It hath been heretofore well observed that some who call themselves Church-men have left their Station to become ignorant and unhappy States-men who have made the Church and the Tenets thereof an Instrument of Bondage to the Subject These Men tell us that Parliaments are not assembled to ease the Grievances of the Subject but to fill the Coffers of the Prince These Men teach Princes that all the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and the maintenance of them are Doals of Grace and Gifts of meer Favour proceeding from the Prince and not the true Birth-right of the Subject which they may truly challenge which are to be continued or changed as Princes shall think fit But pray let us see what these Gracious Acts these Gracious Favours were which we bought as in your Opinion we ought They were Acts to declare the levying Money by way of forced Loan Ship-Money Coat and Conduct-Money to be illegal and against the undoubted Liberty of the Subject to suppress the most accursed and tyrannical Courts called the Star-Chamber and High-Commission
but they were but the King had other Designs than those of Peace in his Head I told you of his Majesty's fortifying Whitehal and that armed Men sallied out thence reviling menacing and wounding many Citizens passing by with Petitions to the Parliament and that when the Parliament and People complained of those Assaults the King justified the Authors thereof so that I must needs conclude as I did before that the Tumults were made at Whitehal by the King 's own People that all his fear of Tumults was but a meer Pretence and Occasion taken of his resolved Absence from the Parliament that he might turn his flashing at the Court-Gate to slaughtering in the Field Pag. 44. you tell me that another Calumny wherewith I reproach the Memory of King Charles is his unwillingness to issue out his Proclamations against the Irish Rebels and when he did commanded but 40 to be printed You then say The truth of it is was this Story true it ' â—would be an inexcusable Fault in the King but to Rufute me you transcribe his Majesties own Vindication of himself which saith that he was in Scotland when the Rebellion broke forth that he immediately recommended the care of that business to the Parliament here That if no Proclamation issued sooner of which for the present he was not certain but thinks that others were issued out before it was because the Lords Iustices of Ireland desired them no sooner and when they did the number they desired was but twenty Now in Truth Sir this doth little mend the matter 't is most strange that the King should publish to all the World in Print that he thinks other Proclamations were issued before he might without doubt have easily been at a certainty in this point for had there been any such thing his Council Books his Secretary of State his Clerks of the Council would have remembred him thereof but to this day no such thing hath appeared nor ever will And 't is a poor excuse to say that the Proclamation was no sooner issued because not sooner desired We of this Age do remember in what manner our Late Princes Fathers ' nown Sons have pursued the least suspition of Rebellion You know that King Charles the Second upon the pretence of a Plot in the year 1683 was so far from deferring by the space of three Months to issue a Proclamation against his own Son the Duke of Monmouth that we had it in three days and I do think there were rather forty Thousand than forty Printed for after we had it by it self for the better spreading thereof it was published in the Gazette the like course you well know was taken by the Late King Iames First in the case of the Duke of Monmouth and then in that of the Prince of Orange But I will shew you what the Parliament said in this case of the Irish Rebels in a Declaration in 1642. That when the Lords and Commons had upon the first breaking out of the Irish Rebellion immediately sent over 20000 l. and engaged themselves for the reduceing of the Rebels yet the King after his Return from Scotland was not pleased to take notice of it until after some in the House of Commons had truly observed how forward his mischievous Counsellors were to incite him against his Protestant Subjects of Scotland and how slow to resent the proceedings of his Papist Traytors in Ireland That altho the Rebels had most impudently stiled themselves The Queen's Army and profest that the Cause of their Rising was to maintain the King's prerogative and the Queen's Religion against the Puritan Parliament of England and that thereupon the Parliament advised his Majesty to wipe away this dangerous scandal by proclaiming them Rebels which then would have weakned the Conspirators in the beginning and have encouraged both the Parliament here and good people there the more vigorously to have opposed their proceedings yet no Proclamation was set forth to that purpose till almost three Months after the breaking out of this Rebellion and then Command given that but forty should be Printed nor they published till further directions should be given by his Majesty That the Parliament and Adventurers had long since designed 5000 Foot and 500 Horse for the Relief of Munster to be sent under the Command of the Lord Wharton but no Commission for his Lordship could be obtained from his Majesty whereby Lymerick was wholly lost That when divers well affected persons had prepared twelve Ships and Six Pinnaces with more than 1000 Land Forces at their own charge for the service of Ireland and desired nothing but a Commission from his Majesty to enable them thereunto That Commission after twice sending to York for the same was likewise denied That altho the Lords Justices of Ireland have three Months since earnestly desired to have two pieces of Battery sent over for that Service yet such Commands are given to the Officers of the Tower that none of his Majesties Ordnance must be sent to save his Majesties Kingdom That the Kings Souldiers took away at one time Six hundred Suits of Cloaths and at another time Three hundred Suits which were sent by the Parliament for the poor Souldiers in Ireland That the Rebels did lately send a Petition to his Majesty Instituâ—ing themselves his Majesties Catholick Subjects of Ireland complaining of the Puritan Parliament of England and desiring that since his Majesty comes not thither according to their expectation that they may â—â—me into England to his Majesty You come page 46 to Examine who were the first Beginners of the War and say The Parliament did really and indeed first draw the Sword and found the Trumpet to Battle Whereas the King set up his Standard at Nottingham in August did not the Lords and Commons in June before make an Order for bringing in of Mony or Plate to maintain Horses Horse-men and Arms And did not the King long before in the beginning of the year 1642. when all things were in perfect Peace send over the Crown Iewels to buy Arms and Ammunition in Holland did not he at that time write to the King of Denmark complaining of the Parliament and asking Supplies from him ad propulsandos Hostes to subdue hâ—s Enemies You were told of these things before but you will not touch them I shall not therefore trifle away more time with you upon this point of the first beginning of the War only I will mind you that the King upon the 4 th of July 1642. Rendezvoused an Army at Beverly in York-shire tho the Parliament did not Vote the Raising of an Army till the 12th And which is more I will give you the Name of the first Martyr who fell in that War in defence of the Laws and Liberties of his Country 't was one Percival of Kirkman Shalme in Lancashire he was Murdered the 15th of Iuly 1642. near Manchester by the Kings Forces under the Command of the Lord Strange Son to the Earl of