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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25430	Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy seal intermixt with moral, political and historical observations, by way of discourse in a letter : to which is prefixt a letter written by his Lordship during his retirement from court in the year 1683 / published by Sir Peter Pett, Knight ...	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing A3175; ESTC R3838	87,758	395

the History of that Age and could wish that such a Writer as your self would undertake the writing of it Nor can I forbear to observe that your occasional propping up the great Characters of many of his Majesties Ministers in your Discourse in very warm Conjuncture when a Factious Multitude was so busy in Demolishing their Reputations was worthy your great thoughts and generosity And your particular painting the Character of the late Earl of Clarendon in such Noble Colours and with Somewhat as bold strokes too of your Fancy and Judgment as Aerodius shew'd in his penne's Nulling the Laws made above a thousand years ago against the Heroical Men you have mention'd was in you an adventurous piece of Justice The course of Mortality hath carryed several persons off th● Stage whom you mention'd as then living and particularly the late Duke of Norfolk of whom in p. 174. of your Discourse you speak as one of the three Earls then Living who went from the Church of England to the Roman-Catholick Communion and whom you since told me you there introduced only with his Title of Earl a Title that was due to him as Earl of Norwich Arundell and Surry making bold to Level him with the Title of the other two viz. the late Earl of Bristoll and the late Earl of Inchiqueen as intending thereby that if he had lived to have read your Discourse of which you told me you communicated several parts to him he might by that little Obscurity see the Reverence you had paid to that picture of your known great Friend by your drawing a Curtain before it The Earl of Radnor and the late Lord Keeper North whose Characters you have so greatly painted to Eternity left the World without seeing the right that you had so generously done them in Defiance of the vulgar Clamour I am moreover here to own my thanks to you for giving me occasion by your so frequent quoting of D' Ossat to renew my Conversation in my Library with that great Author His Excellent Letters were formerly fresh enough in my Memory and time was heretofore when not to be well versed in him was a Reproach to a Man employed in Affairs of the State as you will see by my Lord Falkeland the Secretary of State 's printed Letter in answer to Mr. Walter Montagues Letter where speaking of D' Ossat he adds viz. An Author which I know Mr. Montague hath read because whosoever hath but considered State Matters must be as well skill'd in him as any Priest in his breviary You very well in p. 38. observ'd how one Priest that in his Book considered State Matters and quoting D' Ossat about the same was not so well skilled in him as in his Breviary I mean Mr. Browne the Franciscan who in his ADVOCATE of Conscience Liberty Cited D' OSSATS Letter to shew that the Gunpowder-Treason was contrived by CECIL But it was the ill fate of that Cardinal on the account of his great Fame for the Politicks to be falsely Cited and even as to the point of the Gunpowder-Treason by several who never read him and particularly by Mr. Osborne in his works bound together p. 487. among the Memoirs of King James where he saith And here I cannot omit that after this happy Discovery his Catholick Majesty sent an Agent on purpose to Congratulate King James his great preservation from the Gunpowder-Treason a flattery so palpable as the Pope could not forbear Laughing in the face of Cardinal D' Ossat when he first told it him Nor he forbear to imform his King of it as may be found in his printed Letters You have truly shewn it out of the Cardinals Epitaph printed in the Edition of his Letters in Folio that he dyed in the year 1604. I am very glad that for the Honour of the Reformation you have with so much Candour and likewise with Substantial Calculation Confuted an Unjust insinuation against it made by the Author of the Compendium who there in p. 77. saith can it be said that the Monarchy of England hath gotten by the Reformation and what desperate Enemies that hath created us may be easily imagined that nothing but Popery or at least its Principles can make it again emerge or lasting It was fit that the clearing of the truth in that matter should be undertaken by some one or other of our Church and it hath been by you very Satisfactorily performed And your thus Confuting that Author without naming him or his Book in that part of your Discourse where you were doing it was the more Congruous to the measures of Charity and Candour and the more for the advantage of your undertaking It was likewise fit that the minds of so many People whose Humour in the late Fermentation was desperare de Republicâ should be fortified with Reason And that the popular Nusance of FEARS AND IEALOVSIES should be removed and which you have so much ex professo I think beyond any of our late Writers done And while the vulgus of Writers were entailing Fears and Iealousies upon us your predicting from Natural Causes the Happy Future STATE of your Country and that the Fermentation would be perfective to it as your words are was an Attempt of a great Genius And I cannot but in Justice say to you that your thoughts in p. 194 195. of the Folly and Madness of any Republican Modellers here are new and great Moreover as I always had a Just and High value and Honour for the Endowments of his Present Majesty that were in him Conspicuous to the World when Duke of York and was as much ashamed of the opprobrious Calumnies that his great Character was then exposed to as any Man whatsoever and was likewise more concern'd for the ill usage he had than for my own when my poor Name was in the printed Affidavit enforced to March round the Kingdom with his Great and Illustrious one so I was glad that in the late Conjuncture I found by some printed Sheets of your Discourse then sent me your papers Representation of his Character made him amends for the Sanbenito of the Affidavit And the Strictures of your great Fancy and Iudgment with which you so apparently refer to his Character in p. 122.176.211.271 and others in your Casuistical Discussion tho' they were but short and seemingly en passant yet they were like the slanting of Lightning and like glances whose quick Movements might probably Create much more powerful Passions of Love and Admiration in a Reader than if you had penned his Character in Set formal Panegyricks whose Hony soon cloys and leaves no sting or Impression in the Mind But that which I may paralel with any Coup de Maitre in your or perhaps any Discourse and Writ with such great Advantage for his present Majesties Service and wherein the Mixtures of your great Colours is so Admirable and wherin you have painted according to the height of a pittore that the Italians say must paint con

diligenza con amore con fortuna is what I find in your page 217 and 218. For 't is there that in your great picture of His Late Majesty as an Agonist and laying the Crown of Righteousness before him eo nomine and as Contending for the Succession You have interweaved the picture of your own Loyalty and Contention for it with such bold Touches as I shall not name but refer the Reader to them which it was pitty but your Index had done with a hand in the Margent There is no doubt but the very Curiosity of the Calculations in your Discourse would have brought it into the late Kings Cabinet and to his perusal had he lived till its Publication and your great Majestick Insinuations of perswasive Arguemnt there brought apparently w●th a Design to fortifie his great Mind against any possible further Batteries from Members of any of the three Estates to occasion his consenting to the Exclusion must necessarily have been soon perceiv'd by so quick an Apprehension as his Majesties and could not but have made deep impressions on him for the continuance in his former purpose And I will hereupon say that if any Loyal Roman-Catholick would not on the Account of what you have said in those two pages absolve you from his severe Censuring of the warmest passages against Popery in your whole Discourse he would injure his own Judgment And the Truth is Arch-Bishop Hutton's minding Queen Elizabeth so boldly from the Pulpit though yet with a Salvo to the Rules of Modesty and Decorum of what in Justice concerned her as to K. Iames's Succession which you have mentioned and which was by her so well taken was not a harder Task to be performed than what you presented to the consideration of his Late Majesty from the Press in the Affair of his preserving the Lineal Succession of his present Majesty As it is natural to Men on the sight of any Combatants or Wrestlers whom they had never before seen to wish better to the one than the other and to have their Fancy's by the Current of Nature constantly carryed along to favour the Fortunes of this or that Contender whom yet they never saw so I have during the course of our long acquaintance observed in you on all occasions a natural and constant tenderness in your Wishes of Happiness and good Success to his present Majesty when Duke of York And had not you on grounds of Nature and so like a Philosopher expressed the same and from the Knowledg of things in particular founded your Conjectural measures of Englands future Happy State if under his Government but had only presaged well of his Reign in general one might have thought that your natural Affection and Honour for his Person might have byassed you that way as a praedicter rather than the natural knowledge of things especially considering what you have well hinted that the very praediction of things is often a Natural cause in some degree of Men's being Animated to bring them to effect And indeed I receiving many of your printed Sheets during our late Fermentation when so many Writers seemed Associated in the praediction of the worst of Events under a Popish Successor was the more pleased to find one Man that was not like a dead fish carryed down with the stream of the Times as to the point of ill boding to the publick and the strength of whose fancy mixt with his great Reason and Judgment might be able to help to turn that stream And God be thanked that by his Majesties coming to inherit the Throne of his Ancestors with almost as equal Peace and Ioy of the People as his Royal Brother was Restored to the same and for your Description of the Figure I made in which latter or to speak more properly of my Duty I discharged therein I return you my Just Acknowledgments and by his so early and voluntary Gracious Declaration of his defending the C. of E. and the Civil Government as by Law Established and so publickly owning the Loyalty of the Principles of that Church and by his continuance of the prosperity of that Church and the Peace and Prosperity of the Kingdom while the whole Creation as I may say groans under the pressure of some of our Protestant Brethren abroad you have hitherto appeared so much a True Praedicter as you have I am likewise glad hereby that another Learned Person of our Church I mean Dr. Thomas Sprat the Lord Bishop of Rochester taking his view of the Future State of England in his History of the Royal Society and there saying as you have Cited it that we may safely conclude that what ever vicissitude shall happen about Religion in our time it will probably be neither to the advantage of implicit Faith nor of Enthusiasm has hitherto appear'd so fortunate in that praediction God be thanked that such as in the late Conjuncture troubled us with the being Lachrymists in another and the imagin'd nubecula est c. as to persecution have had some cause to be ashamed of their Fears And that you have hitherto had no more cause to be ashamed of praedicting Englands future pacifick State though yet we have had a * Monmouths Rebellion since But as to that it may be properly said that that persecution against the Throne nubecula fuit transivit We have had presently after the Kings coming to the Throne a little Cloud of Calumny cast on the Reputations of four of the most Eminent Divines of our Metropolis by some of their fellow Subiects supposed Roman Catholicks but it soon passed off And God brought forth their Righteousness as the Light and their Iudgment as the Noon-Day And the thing scarce deserves to be remembred that after they had thus misrepresented four such Protestant Divines with so much falshood some others of those published a Book called The Papist Misrepresented and Represented and which is lately answer'd with that Candour and Strength of Reason that ought to be in Theological Writings and wherein as the Lord Falkeland who was then Secretary was wont to say it was as absurd to mingle angry reviling expressions as to do so in a Love-Letter There was a despicable Childish Pamphlet and Writ with too much petulant insolence called An Address from the Church of England to both Houses of Parliament and which was by many of the Fathers of that Church held not worth the taking notice of And because it is very Ridiculous for any now to think to Re-Baptize the present Church of England with the Name of ROMAN Catholick I have here thought fit in pursuance of what you mentioned in p. 70. to let you and others have a Copy of the Rescript or Iudgment of the Vniversity of Oxford to Henry the 8 th whereby the Bishop of Rome was pronounced to have no more power here by the Word of God than any other Foreign Bishop I Judge that that Old Book of Dr. Iames's you refer to is