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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42857	Magna veritas, or, John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology, not a papist but a true Protestant of the Church of England published for the satisfaction of all such as know not the said John Gadbury and yet give credit to all kinds of scandals and falshoods that pass upon his much injured reputation since his late unfortunate confinement.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing G87; ESTC R11482	10,596	17

them the very thoughts whereof I detest abhor and execrate as being not only against the very essence of all humane and divine Laws but is even the very doctrine of Devils and can have no other original or source but Hell it self § 14. I had well hoped that my having had a Relation to a most Reverend Prelate of the Church of England viz. the late most pious and learned Dr. Joseph Henshaw Bishop of Peterborough deceased about twelve years or upward together would have acquitted me from the false imputation of being a Roman Catholick in which time I had the honour of carrying his Lordships duty and service to the Kings most Excellent Majesty every New-years day and received His Majesties most gracious New-years gift to the good Lord Bishop again The truth of which His Majesties Jewel-Office and Pay-Office will fully evidence for me as having my name there to that very purpose from the later of which Offices I also annually received His Majesties most bountiful Reward as a Messenger for which I never forgot to leave my humble thanks to and a prayer for His Majesties long Life and happy Reign and for the same do still and ever while I have breath shall pray And surely had I been a Papist or any way inclined thereunto I could not have had so great and so long an Honour from so Reverend a Prelate of the Church of England as was this my good Lord and Patron And had not my most unfortunate confinement hindred I should have prayed a continuance of the same Honourable and to me most grateful and delightful Employment from the present Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Peterborough though as yet I have not the happiness of being known to him § 15. I must indeed acknowledg that I have some acquaintance with persons of the Romish Religion and so I have among all kind of Opinions as any man of a popular practice cannot avoid But it would be very hard nay exceedingly unjust if I should therefore be reputed as a man guilty of all Opinions I have laboured somewhat in matters of Controversie for my own satisfaction and have oftentimes read much more than perhaps I have understood I have endeavoured to follow St. Paul's Rule closely viz. Omnia probate quod bonum est tenete Prove all things but hold fast that which is good and therefore have not refused to read Books of all Opinions under the burden of which our English World is too uneasie and of which unnecessary Ware the Shops Markets and Fairs among us are too full fraught in these our unhappy days God in his good time heal our Divisions and once more restore us to unity and good order § 16. Again had I been a Papist or Popishly affected why should I not have shewn it upon so remarkable an occasion as in the to me most unfortunate sickness and burial of my dear Wife but lately deceased viz. scarce four Months before my sad Confinement why should I not rather have had Popish priests than those of the Church of England to have performed all Christian Offices proper to her at such a time as to pray by and for her and to give her the holy Sacrament This had been a time in earnest to have proved my inclinations and good will to Popery in case I had any at all for it but that I had none will most fully appear I hope to all reasonable men from the Certificate following under the hand of a Minister of the Church of England and Curate of the Parish of St. Margarets Westminster the Parish of my habitation and abode A Copy whereof I did likewise annex to a Petition which I presented to His Majesty and Privy-Council for their satisfaction since my unfortunate imprisonment Mr. Barthol Wormell's Certificate THese are humbly to certifie That John Gadbury of the parish of St. Margarets Westminster in the County of Middlesex Gent. did about the beginning of July last past take the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper at his own House in Brick-Court Westminster with his dying Wife Mrs. Elizabeth Gadbury from my hands In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand this tenth day of November 1679. Barthol Wormell Curate Vera Copia Nay further I cannot but acquaint the world that my good Father Mr. Oliver Gadbury was always a real Protestant and true subject of his Majesty and son of the Church of England and but few years since dyed such at Wornal in the County of Oxford where his Body now lyes interred his Soul being at rest with God § 17. And for a greater strengthning of this my present Argument or Assertion viz. That I am no Papist but a Protestant c. I aver that the very nearest of my most Honour'd Relations are very real and strict Protestants as Sir Thomas Curson and his Honourable Lady of Waterperry in the County of Oxford which said Sir Thomas is my Honour'd Vncle by my Mothers side and a person that I have very great reason to be careful how I offend either in my Religion or otherways he being not only my Vncle but very great Friend and so also is his vertuous Lady And I think nay am sure that both he and his Honoured Lady will most readily aver me to be a Protestant as knowing me to be such and to have gone to Church with them when at any time I have visited them in the Countrey and to have joined in prayers with them morning and evening as they most religiously and commendably use in their Families always § 18. But one thing more is urged and maketh a great noise against me which I may not forget to give the World some satisfaction in and that is an unhappy omission of the Feast for deliverance from the Gunpowder-Treason on November the Fifth day in my Almanack Unto which I can justly say Truth be my witness that I know not by what unfortunate accident it came to be left out but this I am sure of that it was not omitted wilfully or in design for I do and ever did own the Powder-Treason for a damnable and horrid Popish Plot as I also do the present wicked one under the black effects whereof poor England so sadly groans Neither can it be thought upon a just and reasonable consideration that I should leave it out of my Almanack purposely since what I wrote annually is ever subjest to the inspection and correction also of a Licenser who hath power to defeat my design of that purpose Nor can an Almanack-maker print what he please And if it be possible for a Licenser to pass by a thing so material without correction may not an Author be supposed to be besieged with the same Imperfections or humane frailties § 19. And here I cannot but with all duty and humility acknowledg the Justice of that severe reprehension of my good Lord Bishop of London to me about it at the Council-Table since his Lordship did not know but that I might