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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41872	The Great bastard, protector of the little one done out of French ; and for which a proclamation, with a reward of 5000 lewedores, to discover the author, was published.		1691 (1691)	Wing G1663A; ESTC R41767	12,750	34

THE Great Bastard PROTECTOR OF THE Little One. Done out of French And for which a Proclamation with a Reward of 5000 Lewedores to discover the Author was Published Re-printed at Cologne 1691. THE Great Bastard Protector of the Little One c. THE Great Bastard Protector of the Little One c. WE find in Holy Writ that in the Jewish Law it was expresly provided by the supreme Legislator That a Bastard should not enter into the Congregation of the Lord even to the tenth Generation But it seems the unhappy Kingdom of Franc allows the Bastard himself not only to enter into the Congregation but to settle himself upon the Throne and to bear it higher than all the preceeding Kings before him with had a better Right to do it as being the Off-spring of Kings and not the Sons of the People the proper Term the Roman Law gives to Bastards We have heard of the Salick Law in force in that Kingdome for a great many Ages by which the Crown of France cannot fall from the Sword to the Distaff but ill the blessed Days of our August Monarch we never had the Happiness to be acquainted with a Law or Custom by which that was in the Power of a Queen of France to provide us an Heir to the Crown without the Concurrence of her Husband and to impose upon us for our King a Brat of another Man 's making All the Reign of our Invincible Monarch has been a constant Series of Wonders but among them all this is none of the least That he who was in the Opinion of all the World the Son of a private Gentleman from his Birth till the end of the Prince of Conde 's Wars has had the good Fortune to be ever since no less than the Son of Lewis the Thirteenth After this let no Body call in question the commonly supposed Fable of the Transmutation of Iphis from a Woman to a Man since to be translated from a Bastard to a Son lawfully begotten is equally as difficult Among a great many other Quarrels I have with the English Nation this is one That they are a People too nice in believing Miracles and their Haughtiness is such as they scorn forsooth to believe Impossibilities for albeit they and all the rest of the World about them are firmly perswaded that the little Bable Prince of Wales was never of Queen Marys bearing much less of King James's begetting yet if these Infidels had been as well mannerly credulous as we in France have been of the wonderful Transmutation of our Lowis le Grand they needed not have made all this Noise about the little Impostor-Infant but might have comforted themselves in the hopes that he who was a Spurious Prince of Wales to Day might some Years hence by a new French way of Transubstantiation become a lawfully begotten King of England But the Mischief of all is these stiff-necked Hereticks ever since they fell off from the Communion of the Holy Church make bold to call in question all our Miracles and such a one as this would be I am affraid they would stick at among others Good God! how happy had it been for France yea for a great part of the World that the French had been as great Infidels upon th point of Miracles as the Heretick English and that our Lowis the Fourteenth had been hurl'd out of France when but Dauphin of Viennois as the little mock Prince of Wales has been out of England when scarce well handled into the Light What dismal Tragedies has our French Impostor caus'd in Christendom how many Cities laid in Ashes Countries ruin'd Families extinguished and millions of Lives sacrific'd to the Vanity and Ambition of a Bastard The Hugonots of France of all People in the World have most reason to be ashamed of their Conduct with Relation to this ungrate Monster in the time of his Minority and of the Prince of Conde's Wars And these People who disown a thousand things in the Catholick Religion meerly upon the account of their being in their Opinion irreconcilable to Reason did strangely contradict not only common Fame but even Reason it self in being brought to think that it was possible that Lowis the Fourteenth should be the true Son of Lowis the Thirteenth after near half a Jubilee of Years past in Marriage betwixt him and Ann of Austria his Queen without the least hope of Issue with all the concurring Signs of a natural Impotency upon his side But these Gentlemen have paid dear enough for their Opinions and have had sufficient time and occasion to read their past Folly in their present Affliction and to call to mind with Regret their unaccountable Madness in assisting him to re-ascend the Throne of France whom almost the whole Nation the Princes of the Blood and the Parliament of Paris had combin'd together to tumble down and had cetainly done it if the Hugonots had not turn'd the Scale These poor Hugonots have had so many sad Occasions since to repent their Fault that I confess it 's scarce generous to upbraid the Miserable with the Follies they cannot now amend and which had brought upon them so many Misfortunes And yet I must beg leave to tell them That as their Zeal to Lewis the Fourteenth's unjust Interest was the original Cause in my Opinion of Heaven's thus afflicting them by his Hands so it was indeed the true Motive that induc'd this Vngrate to ruin them For thus it was that he and his Jesuitick Cabal reason'd among themselves If the Hugonots in the late Prince of Conde's Wars when the Crown was at Stake were able to turn the Ballance and to draw Victory and Success to the side they espoused which at that time was ours By the same Parity of Reason If the same Hugonots shall at any time hereafter be induc'd to join against us and to take our Enemies part they will without all doubt turn the Scale on the other side and prove as dangerous Enemies as formerly they were Friends and thence by a Diabolical way of Reasoning it was concluded that it was the true Interest of the Crown that the Hugonots should be utterly destroyed By the way I must tho' contrary to my Inclination do a piece of Justice to Lowis the Fourteenth in vindicating him from a common Aspersion cast upon him by the Hugonots and it 's this Over and above the foulest Ingratitude imaginable in which Charge I heartily agree with them he is chargeable with a to them they will needs load him to the boor with no less than Perjury and Breach of Faith in not observing the famous Edict of Nants which was granted to them by King Henry the Fourth and declared by him to be in all time coming an irrevocable and fundamental Constitution of the State which Edict say they Lewis the Fourteenth swore at his Coronation inviolably to observe I confess this is a heavy charge but to speak no worse of the Devil than he deserves in