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A57033 A reply to the Second return, or, A modest account of ye present posture of affaires in England 1682 (1682) Wing R1082; ESTC R6514 6,804 4

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Lordship is pleased to add the word Rebel to the name Protestant yet it will agree much better with the Papists whose Religion is Rebellion and 't is impossible to find one true subject of them in the World to any but the Pope if they beleive their own Religion I find your Lordship is very kind to Court Converts and would pass over the blackness of all their former transactions and you have great reason since you are so lately one your self but be not deluded the Papists think not as you think they never forgive past offences Argile cannot be forgiven the being his Fathers son Nor the Duke of Lauderdale will not be forgiven the having brought the Covenant into England Twedale will find hereafter that 't will be remembred he sat in Olivers Parliaments And I should tell your Lordship that you will suffer hereafter by a halter of the Duke of Yorks providing but that my skill in Astrology hath told me a Garter of your own useing shall prevent it The jealous Churchmen that Govern the Popish Interest never forgives especially men capable of thinking and judging other things then they would have them Your Lordship is extreamly out when you tell us the Associations in Queen Elizabeths time were entred into with her consent and privity when the Queen her self in her speech to the Parliament in the twenty eight year of her Reign Did protest before God that she never heard or thought of such matter being wholly ignorant of it till a great number of hands with many obligations were shown her at Hampton Court signed and subscribed with the hands and seales of the greatest in this Land But you are pleased to call the several Parliaments that about that time so extreamly opposed the Succession of Mary Queen of Scots a Puritan Gang and have found out a Clergy Nobility and Gentry in the Clouds that were of another opinion no question there were some and great store of Papists in those days but I am sure the Parliament were violently against her succession as appears in the Rolls Nay and against her life too for it was then daily experienced that the Queen was not safe whilst the head of so desperate and bloudy a Religion as the Papists was in being Pray My Lord let me ask you freely is not this the very Case now 't was the Opinion of our Parliaments and the truth appears every day more and more Can your Lordship make a difference between the Case of Queen Elizabeth and her Popish Successor Mary Queen of Scots which your self have so wisely instanced in and brought upon the Stage and the present Case of our King and the Duke of York Hath the Papists appeared less bloudy in their Designes since that time Have they less Passion for introducing their Religion did the Queen of Scots discover more ambition for the Crown of England than our Duke hath she was a Prisoner in the Queens hands and in custody and had not the tenth part of the opportunity the Duke hath whose friends and creatures possess all the Governments and Commandments of Sea and Land fill the Courts and Councils so easy and unwary pardon me if I so say hath our King been But the D of Y s Loyalty is not to be disputed Though I remember the time when he got the Fleet from his Brother the Prince and swore it to himself And I appeal to the King whether he knows not of several attempts were made to set up the D. of York before his coming over and the Transactions in the Dukes name of the D. of B m and Collonel Banfield for the restoring the Duke to the Crown and not the Elder Brother are suffciently to be proved We are all witnesses of the Kings marriage by the Dukes Father in Law to a Lady of great birth but such as the Spanish Embassador then undertook to prove could have no Children and immediately upon this marriage the Duke as if sure of this matter sets up with Guards the Princes Lodgings at Court and seat in Parliament And all the Establishment of his house exactly suitable to the Prince of Wales His unparallel'd love to his Prince appeares in all this and in nothing more then the civil treatment the King at this hour receives from him and his party the throngs that tend the one whilst the King walkes the streets with two or three Pages of his backstayrs Our King is the first instance that was so willing to settle indubitably the Tytle of his Presumptive Heir and to strengthen his Power gives it up all to his Successor But he goes far that never turns especially in such perilous and unsafe ways Our King is not only an excellent well bred Gentleman but a man of great abilities and courage three things his brother wants Whenever the King will think of his own interest he will not want hundreds of thousands to dye at his feet multitudes would adore him that hate and fear the Religion and temper of his Brother Pray God bless the King and give him yet more and more the Spirit of discerning his Interest and friends and the courage to deliver himself from the hands of such unworthy base Traytors as we have reason to fear he is now encompassed with Shall ever be the hearty Prayers of Yours c. LONDON Printed for E. S. 1682.