they can neither Rob nor be Robbed Because all they get is their own and what others get from them is all well gotten These are Excellent Principles and the onely Foundation of our Government as the Jacobites do object And therefore we should do well to keep off these tender Points and not give these Jacobites occasion against us You upbraid the Papists p. 4. for knowing how to expound Providence to flatter Superstition And you know how the Jacobites upbraid us with expounding Providence to flatter Success tho' it were in Rebellion Treachery and all Wickedness Which if it Succeeds it Immediately Commences not only Right but Divine as if Commanded by an Angel or a Prophet or the Mouth of God Himself according to Dr. Sherlock c. What strange Sermons say these Jacobites have we from your Bishops and Top Divines proving the Lawfulness of this Revolution from Providence by which they mean Success Which was as much made use of and almost in the same Words by the Rump Parliament Oliver and all the Canting Tribe God came from Nasby and the Holy one from Marston Moore Selah This will Justify the French King in all his Conquests and gives Mahomet the better of Christ And yet say the Jacobites we are Deafned with it from your Pulpits You might likewise have Forborn that little piece of Wit p. 10. of reckoning the Loud and Zealous Ladys of the Jacobire side For you know where that is to be Retorted at home With the help of these Loud Ladys you say they the Jacobites are enough to make a Noise but as they were not hands enough to hinder the late Revolution neither can they say you make another Here you make them very inconsiderable when you are upon your vapouring pin as the Jacobites do deride you For they observe that either your Memory or your Courage fails you p. 19. where you make the number of the Jacobites the Great incouragement to the French King to Restore King James For say you Without a hopeful Conspiracy in England the French King is too wary to make such an Attempt And p. 21. Were it not for them our Factions at home we need not fear its France's united Force Nor are you less affraid of the Zealous Ladys you have provok'd some of them may be upon your Top but you Court them again p. 21. where reckoning the Miseries of a Civil War you Reckon the Loss of Husbands but not of Wives this sure will touch them in the sensible part and Charm their tender Hearts This was a great deal Tweeter than what you have six Lines above where comforting us as to the Taxes and other Prices of this Revolution you say While we have left wherewithal to Maintain our selves we have no such great reason to complain This might have been spared because you know we have lest a great many Jacobites in a Condition not to Maintain themselves It had been also advisible if you had thought fit to have let alone that Gentile Rub you gave King James Page 20. We know the Late King too well to take his word For this raises the Devil of an Objection which the Jacobites have against us of our present King not keeping to his Declaration besides many Breaches of Promises since Dispencing with the Law and all those Grievances even Countenancing Popery of which we Complain'd in K. J.'s time In all whose Reign we had no such Example of Favour shewn to Popish Priests and Friars as was seen the Sessions at Old-Baily held 31. Aug. 1. 2. Sept. 92. Where two Friars by name Graham and Thursby were Indicted for the Murder of a Coffee-Man in Holbourn having first behauched his Wife in her Religion and he was Jealous in her Chastity as her self confess'd in Court where she came and was admitted as an Evidence for Graham who run her Husband thorow but she declared That her Husband run himself upon his Sword These Friars had the Interest they say it was by means of the Prince Vaudemont to have a Promise of their Pardon from K. W. then in Flanders But it was thought the best way to prevent the Noise that would make to have them Acquit upon their Tryal towards which all things being Dispos'd and the Necessary Orders given the Conduct was committed to Judge who had shewn himself so zealous against the Deprived Bishops that he corrected the Cryer of his Court for stileing one of them by the Title of Bishop when he call'd to have room made for him to come into the Court whither he was Summon'd as an Evidence in some Cause Depending It is likely the Cryer had not otherwise made the people know whom he meant But the Judge had better Skill in the Force of an Act of Parliament-Deprivation which Hody himself nor his Prompters behind the curtain do pretend to take away the Character that when he chid the Cryer for giving the Depriv'd Father the Title of Bishop What Bishop sayes Judge come Doctor Lloyd what have you to say This Learned Judge altered his Countenance and was all sweetness to these Friars which was observed by the whole Court and when one Objected that they were Popish Priests whom the Laws Discharged out of the Kingdom upon pain of Treason His Lordship temper'd that Man's Heat with the Gravity and Calmness of a Judge telling him That was not the Cause before them In short The Wife gave Evidence The Judge Summ'd it up The Jury Acquitted And All the People took Notice But it is not to be omitted say these Jacobites That in the Printed Account of the Trials that Sessions this of the Friars is left out Which I have heard some say was never done before in any case and durst not have been done now but by Order But they say what need we Instance Particulars It is Notoriously known That Popish Priests have of late not only own'd themselves as such before the Privy-Council but pleaded it as an Argument for their Indemnity and Protection Pursuant to the Secret Articles 'twixt King William the Emperour King of Spain c. And they have been allowed it It is true we excuse all this upon the account of Necessity But that does not stop the Jacobites Mouths They say that Necessity is as pleadable by one King as another And besides That we have Created this Necessity of which we Complain And that if Papists must be Countenanc'd what matter is it whether it be to Gratify the Confederates or the French who are less Papists than either Spain Savoy or the Popish Germans and not more Persecutors than any of these All this the Jacobites do Retort upon us Again p. 22. abusing of the French King you say He has no Scruple of Conscience about the Rights of other Princes all he can get is his own Dear Sir did not you Reflect that this is the very Reproach which the Jacobiees cast upon King William with this aggravation that he has no Scruple of Conscience not
and all places Ecclesiastical Civil and Military were put into the papists hands In K. James's time the Protestants were two hundred to one papist and he could never have got a Popish Parliament The K. of Spain was then as Formidable to England as the French King is now and had much greater pretence He was Married to our Queen and all our Acts of Parliament were in his name he was stil'd King of England There were great Objections against Q. Mary's Title to the Crown The validity of K. Henry the VIII's Marriage with her Mother was disputed all over Christendom and the whole Nation was Sworn by Act of Parliament to adhere to the Issue of Queen Ann who was Mother to the Princess Elizabeth 26 Hen VIII C. 2. Yet all this notwithstanding neither did that Protestant Princess pretend to the Crown neither did the Protestants contend for her during her Elder Sisters Life tho' it was given out That there was a Design of imposing a False Son upon the Nation to Cut off the Princess Elizabeth's Succession who was next Heir to the Crown Publick Thanksgivings having been thro' the Nation for Queen Mary's being with child and some foolish Friars even in their Sermons giving out before hand That it must be a Prince of Wales which their Pryaers had obtain'd to prevent a Protestant Successor c. But none of these things had any Witch-craft then in that sober age of Protestancy to prevall with the Protestants to lift up a hand against the Right of Queen Mary tho' a Bill of Exclusion had past against her in her Fathers time and the Nation had sworn to adhere to the Princess Elizabeth the next Protestant Heir But they did not think their Oaths ought to bind them against the Right and notwithstanding that Queen Mary did plainly and without any Disguise endeavour to Defeat her Sister Elizabeth's Succession to the Crown having first got an Act of Parliament to Establish her own Legitimacy and consequently to throw off her Sister as Illegitimate But secondly She had sent her Sister Elizabeth to the Tower in order as was generally believ'd to Cut off her Head Speed tells That a Warrant was once Sign'd for her Execution Yet not to Rescue her nor to Assert her Right of Succession nor for any other cause whatsoever wou'd our Loyal Protestant Fore-Fathers take Arms against the Popish Queen either in behalf of this Princess Elizabeth or of Queen Jane another Protestant against whom they Fought to set up Queen Mary And thought they consulted best in so doing for the preservation of the Protestant Religion by asserting its Principles tho' to the Loss of its Legal Establishment and all other visible worldly Advantages These things the Jacobites urge And they Glory in the wonderful protection which GOD at that time shew'd towards these Protestants in their Faith and Dependance upon Him turning all the whole Scheme to the Protestants advantage taking away Q. Mary without their Guilt and giving her Condemn'd Sister Forty Four years Possession of her Throne to Establish Adorn and make Glorious that poor despis'd and persecuted Principle of Non-Resistance They tell us likewise of the Case of Theudas and Judas of Galilee Act. 5.36,37 who took Arms against the Romans in Defence both of their Religion and their Property It was against the grievous Taxing which was then impos'd by the Romans that Judas rose in Arms and Drew away much people after him They say That all the Declamations in this Letter to a Friend against the Jacobites will hold as strongly against the Protestants in Q. Mary's time But much more strongly against Gamaliel and other Jews who Condemn'd Theudas and Judas in behalf of their Lawful Governours the Romans who were profest Heathens Idolaters Despisers and Persecutors of the Law of Moses yet Fighting against them tho' in Defence of the True Faith was inferr'd to be Fighting against God Act. 5.39 And Christ would not be Defended by Resisting a Heathen Magistrate The same do the Jabobites think of fighting for a Religion in a Case which that Religion does not allow to be a Good Cause of fighting for it They think this to be fighting against that Religion On the other hand If we should fight to the visible prejudice of the outward profession and Legal Establishment of our Religion in pursuance of a Principle of that Religion This the Jacobites would call a fighting for our Religion That is To Maintain Assert and Honour the Principles of our Religion which only are the spiritual part of Religion tho' to the Loss of Temporal advantages and outward ornament which are but the Out-side and Trappings of Religion Therefore they go not upon the Outward advantages but upon the Justice of their Cause for the love of which they have forsaken all their Outward Advantages Upon the whole they say That unless you can prove their Principles to be Vnjust all you Argue against them is against the Law of God against Justice against Reason and all Christian Religion And that Humane politicks are too weak to over-ballance all these Nay they pretend that even Humane policy and the Good of the Nation is on their side That K. James's Tyranny suppose it as bad as you will would not have Cost the Nation so many Lives so much Money nor been so hard to be Redrest after his Death as the present Revolution Now they complain That all this is not sufficiently Answered in this Letter to a Friend where it sayes page 28. which is all the Answer given to it in that Letter that If they the Jacobites say they would fight for him K. J. I give them over sayes the Letter as profess'd Enemies to the True Religion and the Liberties of Man-kind And This I hope sayes the Letter may satissy the Non-swearers that they are not bound in Conscience to Fight for the late King c. Now these perverse Jacobites do say That they can see no Reason why the Author of this Letter 's Giving them over should be a Satisfaction to their Consciences They call this Scolding instead of Answering Whereas they pretend that their Principle is pursuant to the True Religion and most for the Good and Liberties of Man kind to Save men from the Great Destruction of Civil-War and Rebellion which they say is infinitely of more mischief to man kind than any Tyranny ever was in the world And that Religion loses more Ground and lessens more in the Opinion of man-kind by a change of principles which have been long profess'd than by suffering persecution in Defence of those Principles These things they think a full and sufficient Answer to all this whole Letter to a Friend And therefore do insult and rejoyce that no Answer is possible to be given to them since this Best Answer which is yet come out has not one word against the Truth or Honesty of their Principles only argues from Inconveniencies that may attend them which is incident to the
Popery tho' they fought to set up a Popish Queen against a Protestant Queen who was in Possession and Reigning in London And they say that Theudas and Judas Act. 5. fought against the Jewish Religion tho' they fought to set it up and to pull down the Idolatry of Rome And all this because the Principles of a Religion are more to be Regarded are more the Religion than its Legal Establishment The next Question this Author asks these Jacobites is Page 25. Do they think themselves bound in Censcience to Fight for their Prince against the Laws and Liberties of their Country To this the Jacobites Answer That the Laws of the Country are expresly On their side against Resistance of their King or altering the Hereditary Monarchy upon any pretence whatsoever And they say That we do as good as Confess all this when we will not stick by the Rule of the Law in this Revolution but fly to Original Contract to over-Rule the Law He asks Have the rest of mankind no Rights but only Princes Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves nor to our fellow Subjects They Answer The Greatest Right and Security of Subjects is to Preserve the Laws and chiefly the Prerogative which is the Greatest Barrier 'twixt Property and the Incroachments of their Fellow Subjects which in Civil-War are infinitely more Destructive to Property than any Tyranny in the Soveraign And therefore that the Greatest Justice we can do to our selves or to our fellow subjects is to beat down all these Popular pretences to Sedition and Rebellion He sayes A Nation which Fights against its own Laws and Liberties is Felo de se Witness Ireland say the Jacobites where in three years one half of the Nation have been Destroy'd upon this Popular Pretence Many more than a hundred Neroes successively would have put to Death What will be the Fate of England in this Revolution none yet can tell but the Jacobites fear the worst They say that England in this Quarrel Fights against its own Laws and therefore is Felo de se Can any English-man sayes this Author whatever Opinion he has of the late K. James's Right think himself bound in Conscience to maintain his Right The Jacobites think this a very strange Question But the Author Adds By giving up his Country to France to make him King and all his Subjects French Slaves First If the Thing be Right and according to God's Laws the Jacobites desire this Author to Answer it whether he would not do it whatever Nation in the World were concerned in it Secondly They say That Recalling K. James is the only probable way to prevent our being French Slaves The Victories of France run in a full Tide against us while they say our small Successes are brought to pass by great Chances even by Miracles and seem to no other purpose than to keep us in heart to give all the Money in the Nation to Forreigners and continue Obstinate till it be past Remedy We Play says the Jacobites like a Gamster who Stakes his whole Stock every cast of the Die one Unluckey throw breaks him and it is a Miracle if that throw do not come if the Play continue long On the other hand he that Plays against us Manages his Stock he lays up before-hand and has already in his Treasury the whole Expence for the Year 93. he Drains his People by Degrees We Squeze our Orange all at once He Manages by Rules and leaves nothing to Chance we leave all to Hazard see what will come on 't He lives upon his Interest we spend off the Principal from Hand to Mouth and our Money is spent before it comes in great part of which goes to pay the Extraordinary Interest upon which we Anticipate our Revenue So that if we trust not to the Dice we have certainly the worst of the Lay and nothing can save us but a sudden ending of the Game which we must lose if Management does Determin it while the Enemy has the greater Stock Now suppose France should Conquer us in this Quarrel for nothing is impossible whether say the Jacobites would we be in the blame who perswade to accept of the Peace which France presses upon us upon no other Conditions than to Receive our King again which they say we are bound in Conscience to do or will not all the Mischievous Consequences of such a Conquest ly at their Door who Reject this offered Peace rather than Return to their Duty or own that they have done amiss If we answer that we have not done amiss The Jacobites desire no better than to bring it to that Test to dispute the Justice of the Cause without Consideration of Politiques And even in Politiques they ask us whether they Judge wisely who are for continuing a War wherein we must trust to Miracles for our Success and that too when we Fight against what most of us do acknowledge to be King James's Right or else he could have no Right to seek for it again which he has by Dr. Sherlock's own Confession But says our Author p. 25 26. Can any Prince have more Right to be King of England than the Kingdom of England has to be England The Jacobites desire this may be further explained It is a fine round saying and no doubt must be true But they see not how we can apply it to the present Case They say that England is most England when its Government is Monarchical and Hereditary when its Monarch is Irresistable by Force even in Case of Male administration or upon any pretence whatsoever for then the Door is for ever shut against all popular pretences for Rebellion which our wise Legislators have found by experience to be infinitly of more dangerous Consequence to England as to all other Governments than the Arbitrariness of the Governours and therefore have made Non-Resistance an Act of Parliament It is our Law say they the Law of England it is our Constitution And therefore that England is least England when you break in upon her Constitution over-turn her Laws and being wiser than your Fore-Fathers open the Door to Eternal pretences for Rebellion and Restless Revolutions They say that we are trying the experiment over again of York and Lancaster of King Charles and Oliver and that England was then least England and so they say it is now and that we may see it plainly by its Tottering Uncertain Aguish Disposition in danger to be Swallowed by France if we will desperately stand that Test to be drained by the Confederates which they say is in a pretty good forwardness or to be divided at home and make England the seat of the War and share the Fate of Ireland which is most of all to be dreaded All this say these Jacobites is owning to our Revolution and cannot be Remedy'd but by Returning our Laws and Constitution to their old Channel But is it not an unaccountable tenderness and scrupulosity of Conscience
onely about the Rights of other Princes but of his Father and Vncle And if he can catch his Crown too it shall be his own And if he did this for Religion why may not the French King do the same for his Religion and see to get King William's Crown if he can Is the one more Impious than the other King William gives it for one Reason of his War with France to Restore the Hugonets and other the French Subjects to their Rights by Law To Re-settle their Parliaments in their Ancient Authority free from the Encroachments which have been made upon them by their Kings c. And he has the same Grounds of War against Denmark and Sweden Let them look to it Now say the Jacobites if it be Lawful for Princes thus to look into one anothers Kingdoms and take upon them to redress what they find amiss in the Governments of other Nations why do we blame the French King to indeavour to Re-settle King James having the Laws of England to plead on his side Dr. Sherlock himself in his Recantation allows King James to have still the Legal Right and upon that Ground a Right to Regain the Crown if he can Why should the French King Rectifie the Incroachments of our Parliaments against our Kings as well as we take upon us to Rectify his Incroachments against his Parliaments We shall make a fine World of it when every Prince must Govern his Neighbours Country or as a Modern Author Words it when one Prince must Interpose 'twixt another Prince and his Subjects when he uses them Cruelly If Loss of all we have and frequent Imprisonments contrary to Law without Information upon Oath if double Taxes and Twenty other such Treatments be Cruel Usages Then by this Argument say the Jacobites the French or any other King may interpose 'twixt K. William and his Subjects And they appeal to you or any Man in the World whether making the Refusal of an Oath which is against a Mans Conscience to be a Premanire as it is in Ireland be not some Degrees worse than any French Dragooning as it is Painted to the Worst And then Imposing this upon all Women as well as Men above eighteen Years of Age may be Aggravated say the Jacobites upon these Principles to Provoke all Kings and States to Interpose 'twixt these Subjects and their Prince Good Sir I beseech you to Dis-ingage the Government from these Intanglements which its Convert Advocats and False Friends have brought upon it But by none more than your self Sir in this Letter to a Friend p. 28 29. Where speaking of the Oath to K. William and Q. Mary you expound Faith and Allegiance to the lowest Sense that possibly can be supposed even by Jacobites and you make it to exclude under the Guilt of Downright Perjury any Attempt against their Persons or Crowns to whom we have Sworn or to hold any Correspondence with or to give any Assistance to their Enemys This you did to deter the Swearers to K. William and Q. Mary from Countenancing the French Invasion or to Assist the Late King in Recovering the Throne But did you foresee Sir That this Rule you set down will Involve all those in Down-right Perjury according to the very lowest Sense of Allegiance that can possibly be made even by Williamites who held Correspondence with the P. of Orange or Assisted him in this Revolution Sir you are one who Turn'd late And to save your own Credit and new Hypothesis would make Perjur'd Miscreants of all who came into this Revolution before your self Now the Fish is Caught you come in for a Snack but give all those to the Devil who provided Hooks or Nets Sir I am not now Personating the Jacobite I speak plainly in behalf of those who had a Hand and Glory in it in bringing about this Wonderful Revolution They cannot think their Part to be wholly Diabolical in the Contrivance and Effecting of that which must be all over Divine to you in the Enjoyment of their Labours and Dangers You cry that K. James went no doubt as was determined of him But to them by whom he was Betray'd And yet you will take a Share in the Price for which he was Sold. Besides if it was such a Damn'd Design in them to bring in the P. of Orange his Highnesses's Design could not be very Heavenly But you are content to make a Rogue of him too to save your own Bacon Sir this deserves some Animadversion from the Government For all your skil will never perswade plain Honest English-Men that it was Knavery and Down-right Perjury in all the Subjects of England who Plac'd the P. of Orange upon the Throne And yet when he is there by such Wicked Act of theirs that this can give him Divine Authority and their own Wicked Act Absolve them from their former Lawful Oaths and Oblige them in Conscience to Maintain and Defend their said Wicked Act and to Swear never to Return from it This all Men will call Swearing never to Repent And to give such an Account of our Revolution by one who sets up now for the Chief Advocate of it is Betraying it and Exposing it more than all Jacobites or Profest Enemys can say It shews us to stand upon such Ridiculous Foundations as must Nauseat all who pretend to Common Sense And it Confirms the Jacobites Irrecoverably in what they think to be Loyalty while they see us Defend our selves like Fools and Mad-Men by Arguments which evidently Destroy our Cause And Sir you needed not have done this you might easily have avoided these sort of Stumbling Blocks Therefore I advise you to avoid Excursions March on straight your Road Tread warily say no more than you must And do not go out of your way for the pleasure of Lashing the French King himself for it does not alwaies turn to Advantage p. 23. You pursue him to the Boyne to Athlone to Agrim to Limrick and say we Beat him in all these Places and in a Word say you we Beat him out of Ireland And have now got a Habit of Beating the French This indeed Sir with all due Deference to your Judgment is horribly Ridiculous Or you speak without Book and know not what you say for it is most certain that at Athlone at Agrim at Limrick there were not above Forty or Fifty French in the whole Irish Army And there were more than Twenty times as many in K. William's Army Therefore to cry we have Beat him the French King that we have got a Habit of Beating the French If you had a mind to have Beaten K. Lewis you should have sought him in Flanders not in Ireland where he never was how very Comical do you think would this Passage of your Letter look to him if he saw it Would he not desire you to remember Namure and Steenkirk and ask you how you came to forget your Habit there Do not Mistake me as if I did in the
your Wit which could Search so Deep as to find Reasons why Wives may Leave their Husbands and Subjects Abdicate their Prince at their Pleasure And nothing is so Surprizing as these Reasons which you produce for this viz. Because a Wife may be Ravished and forc'd from her Husband therefore it is Lawful for her to yield to an Adulterer Nay to invite him to come and Drive away her Husband to Intrigue with this Gallant under-hand Contrive and Assist him to Frighten her Husband out of his House to save his Life and then to make a Present of it together with her self to her Deliverer And then it is Justly and Legally their own for What made him Run away and leave his House And his Wife holds still Faithful to her Matrimonial Vow she only Change the Object she is for Matrimony still And therefore by her Vow to her First Husband she is bound to the Second She only Transferrs her Allegiance And therefore it is the same Allegiance still All this the Jacobites think is the Consequence of Comparing this Revolution with the Conquest of the French King in Flanders c. p. 7. Because they are Ravished and Forc'd from their Natural King therefore you would Insinuate that your Case is the same who Invited over a Foraign Prince Intrigu'd with him under hand did Assist him to Frighten away our Natural and Lawful King to Save his Life and then made a Present of his Crown together with your Selves to your New Deliverer from the Slavery of an Old Husband And all his Possessions are now Justly your own for What made him Run away and Leave his Kingdom We are still Faithful to our Oath of Allegiance we only Change the Object we are for Monarchy still and therefore by our Oath of Allegiance to K. James we are bound to K. William which is a Topick taken up in Soloman and Abiathar and several of our late Pamphlets for say they we only Transferr our Allegiance and therefore it is the same Allegiance still c. And the Jacobites desire you to remember that Marriage is a Mutual Contract and there is a Due Benevolence and Duty on both sides which if either Party the Husband as well as the Wife shall Neglect or be Guilty of Male Administration why should he not be Depos'd Propter Inutiâ—… Imperium and Good-Womam have the leave to choose another Husband And yet our severe Law will not allow it If you say there are Divorces in Marriage and why not in Government They will answer That for the Case of Adultery only Divorce is Allowed in Scripture and Consequently in our Law But that neither Scripture nor our Law Allows of any Case wherein it shall be Lawful for Subjects to take Arms against their King but on the Contrary Declares it to be unlawful upon any Pretence whatsoever And they make use of this as a strong Argument against us For say they The Law of God and of the Land would have made Exceptions in the one as well as in the other if they had thought it Reasonable And therefore that we must not make Exceptions against the Laws both of God and Man But to come close to the Matter without Smiles or Innuendo's They Desire your Answer whether if Dixmuyde and Furnes had Invited the French to come thither and had Betray'd these Towns into their Hands whether this could in Justice and Good Conscience have excus'd their Transferring their Allegiance and Swearing Oaths to the French King If you do not speak plainly to this they say you do not come up to the Case in hand Unless you will say as some of late have done that the P. of Orange has Conquered England as much as the French King has Dixmuyde c. And that tho' he does not at present set up the Title of Conquest for what Cause he thinks fit yet that he has it in 's Sleeve and may justly set it up when he Pleases For which Gilbert's Pastoral and several other Licensed Pamphlets have already made way And then we all hold our Lives Estates and Liberty only at his Good Pleasure I cannot Imagine why the Parliament does not take Notice of these sort of Pretenders to Politicks who would make them all absolute Slaves under the Arbitrary and Despotick Power of a Conqueror You say in the same place p. 7. That the Principle of Rights of Hereditary Kings to their Crowns being Sacred and Inviolable is Dangerous to the Vnfortunate because it lays a Necessity upon the Conqueror to take away his Life if he can as well as his Throne since he cannot lose his Throne without losing of his Life This say the Jacobites is the very Reason which Frightned K. James away for he Observed in his Father's Words that there are but few Steps 'twixt a Prince's Prison and this Grave And tho' some Kings have been suffered to Live some time in Prison as Edward the Second and Richard the Second c. Yet it still ended in their Murther Therefore K. James the Second had no mind to stay any longer in Prison least he might have made another of the Number But it often falls out that the Murther of one will not Secure the Usurpers Title And therefore Richard the Third Murther'd all he could get who stood 'twixt him and the Crown as did Athaliah O. P. c. And there are many Examples of the like in History And these Jacobites do think that this Consideration should rather Operate against such Bloody Attempts which cannot stop in one or two single Murthers but Run often to the Destruction of whole Families and even Nations rather than against the Right of Succession in Hereditary Princes The Preservation of which would have stopt these Oceans of Blood which have Drown'd many Great and Wealthy Nations for their Violating of this Sacred and Inviolable Right But you say Sir p. 8. That if this be so Princes have no Remedy against the Injury of Neighbour Princes for it is only the fear of Conquest and losing their Crowns that can keep Princes in Awe and bring them to Just and Equal Terms This the Jacobites say is too great a Reflection upon Kings as if there were ne're a Just King in the World And your putting it in these General Terms without an Exception they say Discovers you to be no Friend to Monarchy But even as to the Argument Have Princes no Remedy against the Injury of their Neighbour Princes but taking their Crowns from them Does every Injury deserve so great a Reparation When a King Grants Letters of Mart is not that some Remedy short of Dethroning his Neighbour Prince who has Injur'd him If I owe you a Penny it is Just to take a Thousand Pounds for it It will be Convenient Sir to Explain this a little further Page 9. You shew the Necessity of Swearing to a Conqueror because the whole Nation cannot Run away Answer If the whole Nation were against him there wou'd be no
need of this Question in our Case And for particular Persons you know the Cavaliers Refus'd to Swear to Oliver or the Rump And yet tho Persecuted they were not Destroyed No Conqueror will think it his Interest to Imbroyl his new Acquisition by falling upon a Great part of the People to Drive them to Arms And if the Dissenters be but a small part of the People than your Objection Ceases it is not the Case of a Whole Nation nor the Major Part. The Jacobites do likewise Quarrel much at your Argument p. 14. That K. James would use the Non-swearers ill because the French King used the Hugonots ill They say there is no Consequence They say there is a vast Difference 'twixt K. James's Character and that which goes with some Men of the French King The one a Mild and Merciful Man in his own Nature the other as some would make you believe of a more Fierce and Cruel Temper But that which is a Greater Security is the Disproportion of the Hugonots of France to the Protestants of England The Protestants are Two Hundred to One Papist in England The Hugonots are not as some Compute One to a Hundred Papists in France Now tho' there might be Reasons for Destroying or Banishing Two Men for the Safety or Peace of Two Hundred yet say the Jacobites the Argument will not hold to Destroy Two Hundred for the sake of Two But lastly they say The Difference is Great 'twixt the Non-Swearers of England and the Hugonots of France as to the Principles of Loyalty For tho' the Hugonots stuck to this K. Lewis against the Prince of Conde Yet this was no Religious Quarrel Both these Princes were Roman Catholicks And so they had not the Byass of Religion on either side But it cannot be deny'd that they have often Rebell'd and made many Dangerous Commotions in France of Old And we know it was said how true I cannot tell that the French King had Discovered Plots and Combinations amongst them even in Favour of the P. of O. so long a go which was the Reason of that Persecution for which he is so much Blam'd Whether there be any Truth in this or not yet it is rendered the less Improbable because of our mighty Braggs that the Hugonots and Hugonot Converts are in League with us have Invited us over and are ready to Joyn us upon our Descent for whom we carry Armes and Depend upon them to Rise with us and Declare for King William as soon as he is Able to Protect them The Answer to Great Britains Just Complaint acknowledges Frankly p. 47. in these Words The French King knows that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt How far this will Justify the French King in desiring to be Rid of these Men we need not Dispute But I could wish that you had not Mentioned that Matter at this time For there is none but must see that their Case is toto Colo different from that of our Non-Swearers who suffer Expressly for a Principle of Loyalty And they for the Contrary Your 15th Page moves the Jacobites Spleen very much You are there Bemoaning your self What would become of the Church of England if K. James should Return By which say they you only mean your selves the Swearing-Clergy Now they say that you cannot be Ignorant that the Non-Swearers do think themselves the True Church of England and the others though more Numerous to be the Deserters O but say you in the Name of the Swearing-Clergy they would it may be Hang us in that Day and possibly Exchange Smithfield for Tyburn This the Jacobites say is only a twinge of an akeing Conscience And they wish much rather that you should live to Repent like Peter who Denyed his Master out of Fear But that Grace was not given to Judas who Betray'd Him out of Covetousness And he was Delivered over to the most Terrible Executioner the Shame and Confusion of his own Guilt But why do they fear the Cruelty of the Non-Swearers They are Generally Mild and shew Signs of Good Nature enough They who are so much for Passive-Obedience and practise it are thereby in a Good Preparation of mind towards Christian Humility Resignation of themselves to God Forgiveness and even Loving of their Enemies And till they do something Contrary to this they think we ought in Charity to put the best Construction upon their Actions But you Discover what it is which Frightens the Swearing-Clergy and makes them so Apprehensive of Revenge from the Non-Swearers And that is the hard Words they Receive from some of them They call us no better say you p. 15. than Hereticks and Schismaticks and Perjur'd Apostates Alas Did they do it 'T is a very hard Case But say the Non-Swearers What would you have us Call you Either You or We are Schimaticks and Apostates from the Doctrine of Christ as formerly Professed in the Church of England And would you have us to take the Blame off You to lay it upon our Selves And if we believe you to be Perjur'd and would Reprove you for it in the Christian Method What shall we call Perjury but Perjury If you will tell us a more Gentile Word you shall be Gratify'd with it But you say in the same Page They the Non-Swearing Clergy seem to Comfort themselves under their present Sufferings more with the sweet hopes of Revenge than any great expectations of future Rewards This is not say the Jacobites so very Charitable a Censure in the Swearers By this you free them from Convetousness and making Interest the Guide of their Conscience only you think they cannot want a little Sweet Revenge Because their Provocations have been Great and you would think it very Pallatable if their Case were yours But say the Jacobites if they be afraid of an after Reckning they should be have with greater Moderation now And not Hunt us with Messengers and Proclamations if we Print a Word in our own Vindication at the same time that they are Provoking us to tell our Scruples openly and that they will Answer fairly and take no Advantage Among other Examples of Cruelty in this Sort they Instance in the Case of a Young Lad of 12 Years of Age Thom. Ross his Mother a Widdow and Lives upon Charity This Orphan was found with a Paper in Defence of Passive Obedience it was Doctor Tillotson's Letter to Lord Ruffel and the Trimming Court Divine And because he would not tell or may be could not where he had them he was without any Tryal at Law or Jury charg'd with him first set in the Pillory and then Fin'd a Hundred Mark which his Mother not being able to Pay he has Lain now Two Years in Nemgate and is there still and no Applications have Prevail'd tho' his Poor Mother offer'd Part of the Fine that is all she had in the World for his Release Excessive Fines was once a Complaint Of
themselves mightily Pleas'd with the Performance of the Answerer to Great Britains Complaint who Vindicates K. William they say at such a Rate as Exposes him more than the Book he pretends to Answer They say he brings in by way of Apology the severest Objections which K. William's Greatest Enemys could Suggest and then says nothing in the World to Clear them That it is known to every English-Man in England that K. William had no Battle in England Therefore that it is most Ridiculous in this Author p. 65. to Bragg of King William's Victories in England and to Advance his Prowess for this above that of the French K. whom he calls a Coward Was this in his Zeal to make England a Conquest Which is the Notion of late much Advanc'd That it would appear full as Comical to the French to Boast of K. William's Victorys in Flanders as this Author does in the same Place Would they not desire you to Name them Or to remember what the Dutch Narrative above-quoted Names viz. The Battle of St. Nuef the Siege of Mastricht of Woerden Oudenard and of Charleroy And once at Mons they say he Attempted to Steal a Victory with the Articles of Peace in his Pocket They Ridicule him and say that none but the Irish have been Civil to him For none else will be Beaten by him and not that but when he is much Superior in Number as he was at the Boyn which was the first time the French say that ever he saw himself a Victor and is like to be the last For the Irish themselves Baffled him afterwards at Limerick and Forc'd him to Turn his Back But this Author says ibid. That K. William Dar'd the French Army and makes his Great Prowess consist in that Whereas this is the very Jest which the French put upon him viz. That he Stood at the Head of a Hundred Thousand Men to see the French King in Person take Namur amat Victoria Testes without Daring to Strike a Stroak in its Defence tho' he came thither on purpose for its Rescue And his Daring to see the English Butcher'd at Stein-Kirk before his Face without Daring to come in to their Relief tho' he had drawn them into that Snare by his Conduct And the Inference this Author Draws from K. William's thus Daring the French is in the next Words viz. That if the French have the Advantage yet K. William hath Entirely the Honour of the Campaign Which is as severe a Satyr as any of K. William's Enemys could have made upon him to set up a Hero for his Non-Resistance Valour in War Doubtless the Honour is as Great In being Beaten as to Beat Pamphlet p. 64. It is observed that K. James never Won a Battle in his Life Jacobite He has certainly Mistaken an J. for a W. There can be no Excuse for his Malice unless he Plead such a Gross Ignorance as never to have heard that K. James when D. of York did on the 3. of June 1665. in fair and open Fight with the Dutch Blow up their Admiral Opdham and as it was Express'd in the Lord Chancellor's Speech to the Parliament 10. Octo. 65. In that Great Action Sunk Burn'd and took Eighteen Good Ships of War whereof half were the Best they had with the loss of one Single Small Ship of Ours The Actions and the Blessing of that Day that Glorious Third of June hath been Celebrated in all the Churches in England and in the Hearty Devotions of all True English-Men c. And the Commons of England to Express their Great Sense of the Valour and Magnanimity of his Royal Highness did upon this Occasion Grant to his Majesty one Months Assessment amounting to 120902. 15. 8. as a Present to be Given to his Royal Highness The Act begins thus We your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament taking Notice of that Heroick Courage with which your Majesties Royal Brother Expo'd his own Person for the Defence of your Majesty and your People against the Dutch Fleet and of the Glorious Victory through the Blessing of Almighty GOD by him Obtained are Humble Suitors unto your Majesty That we may have leave to make some Expressions of our Humble Thanks to his Royal Highness for the same and that for this end your Majesty would Graciously Please to Accept from us your Loyal Subjects the Sum of Money herein after Mentioned and to Bestow the same upon your Majesties Royal Brother Now what a Witless and Malicious Scribler must this be Reputed who dare out-face the Sun and what is so Publickly known and upon Record in England Nor was his Royal Highness more Celebrated at Home than he was Glorious abroad During his Brother's and his own Exile he was General for France and Spain Alternativly where he Signaliz'd himself to that Degree that the Famous Mareshal Turenne who Instructed his Royal Highness in the Rudiments of War us'd to boast of him that he had Bred up one who did Exceed himself in the Military Capacity And his Fame was Trumpeted no where Louder than in England for about Twenty Years together till the Foundations lay'd for the Bill of Exclusion made it Necessary to have another Character Rais'd of him Pamphlet P. 65. Says of a certain Monsieur but Names no Body that he never got one Inch of Ground nor a Single Town by True Valour and Bravery Jacobite This is True of some Body but not of the French Monsieur Witness in the last Campaign Namur Steinkirk Dixmuyd Furnes c. But if you will say all this was by Treachery on the Confederates side it will follow That they know not among them all a Man they can trust A good Presage of a further Victory But why then was the Valour and Fidelity of the Governour of Namur so much commended You Contradict your selves on all hands In whom lay the Treachery at Steinkirk at Dixmuyd and Furnes Why are not those Traitors call'd to an Account The French King Fights when he pleases and Conquers when he Fights and Those whom be Beats call him a COWARD to make Themselves more Ridiculous and Contemptible Pamphlet p. 62. As for those who declare they ought to Fight against this Government so soon as an Enemy appears I hope the Government will with-draw its Protection from them and pair their Nails in time Jacobite This spoils all the mighty Braggs which this Pamphlet has p. 54. of Dr. King's Book concernign the Affairs of Ireland which he there calls a Convincing Tract and that every Page of it is a Demonstration For the Protestants then there do now declare That it was their Principle to Fight against that Government so soon as an Enemy appear'd and did accordingly And K. James was told of it and was Morally assur'd they would do so And therefore by this Rule he cou'd not have been blam'd if he had pared the Protestants Nails there much closer than even as Dr. King does
best actions in the world especially if Christianity have any Truth in it And therefore I do earnestly Advise in behalf of the Present Government that the Ingenious Author of this Letter to a Friend would study somthing to be said as to the Truth Honesty and Religion of the Revolution lest the Jacobites Triumph But I must not forget one thing which the Letter to a Friend pag. 5 6 does mainly Insist upon as the Chief Argument why if K. James should Return we were to expect no Mercy from him which is his Barbarous treatment of the Protestants in Ireland after he went over thither in the year 88 89. The Jacobites are Glad that they have got this hold against Us for they insist upon it That K. James shew'd not only Great Lenity and Compassion but Care and Concern for the Protestants in Ireland while he was there insomuch that they can hardly instance any Request ever they made to him which was deny'd He was so far from Disobliging them that he really Courted them to the no small Disturbance of the Irish who thought themselves not so much Regarded as their Merit in their own conceit above that of the Protestants did require The Jacobites Appeal in this to the Magistrates and Representatives of the Chief Towns in the North of Ireland which was the only part of the Kingdom where they stood out in Arms against K. James viz. Derry and Eneskâ—llen and among them Belfast was the Richest and most populous of any of the Cityes in the North And consequently which had most occasion to make application to the Government upon several Emergencies And the Jacobites do put it upon that Issue that the then Sovereign of Belfast who was and is still an unsuspected Protestant will not say that one of the many Addresses to K. J. was rejected or not fully and readily Answered which he made in behalf of that Town or of the Protestants in those parts of the Country And that the Orders which K. J. gave upon these addresses of the Protestants were not duely and punctually observ'd and where any Breaches were made upon them by the Irish who were very ill pleas'd with them which was but seldom they were not severely Punish'd for it as far as K. J ' s. power did extend But as it was he made these his Protections very effectual to the Protestants And this will be justified not only at Belfast but by the Rest of the Magistrates and other Men of Note in all the North and in the whole Kingdom of Ireland during K. J's being among them And this the Jacobites are positive in notwithstanding all that is endeavour'd in a late Book call'd The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late K. James's Government c. which they pretend to Disprove in Matter of Fact and say They would expose it to the world if any who think the contrary wou'd for a Tryal obtain for them the Liberty of the Press That Generosity wou'd become the Author that he might Fight his Adversary upon Equal Terms But in the mean time till that can be done they do proclaim it and I am sorry to find that they have the suffrage of the Irish Protestants here and even of the English Army which went over thither That the Protestants of Ireland Suffered more and the Country was more Ruin'd by K. W.'s Army than by K. J.'s They tell us from the Mouths of Gentlemen coming over every day from thence That last Winter there was a great Famine in that Country the poor Irish being suffer'd to Starve in the High-ways eating dead Horses and Carrion This I had from several Gentlemen who have seen it The Jacobites infer from this That the Consequences of that War are not over as yet in that Kingdom no nor in this For who can tell the Issue of the present War with France when our Taxes will be at an end and whether it be not possible that England may be Drain'd as poor as Ireland They say we are ingag'd in a Contest like that of York and Lancaster which lasted above a hundred years and Rooted out many of the Noble Families of England with vast Consumption of Blood and Treasure They say That when all this is put into the Scales it will infinitely out weigh all the Frightful Apprehensions of K. J.'s Reign And consequently that his Return would be the Greatest Blessing to this Nation That nothing he can be fancy'd to do in the short Remainder of his Reign carryes any proportion to the Continuance of this War to our Posterities And they say That his Mild and Gentle Carriage towards the Protestants of Ireland when as many of them as could to a very small number were in actual Rebellion against him and they were the most bitter and implacable Enemies he had and are so still They say that his Tenderness and Preservation of these under all these provoking Circumstances is a great specimen of his Nature and what we might expect from him if he should Return again into England But chiefly for this Reason That if he came into England his Interest would be to preserve England and with all his objected Faults I think none ever doubted but that he alwayes endeavoured what he thought was for the Good of England But on the other hand it was certainly his Interest to have Destroy'd at least to have Disabled the Protestants in Ireland because he was morally assured they would Joyn with K. W. when he came over which they did as soon as they were able and were the men who had the chief hand in the Victories abtain'd against K. J. at the Boyn Athlone Agram c. and of whom the Irish were most afraid as Doctor Gorge Secretary to Schomberg in Ireland Witnesses under his hand And if K. J. had Destroy'd these Enemies of his the Irish Protestants when it was in his Power for a whole Summer together he had not in probability been Driven out of Ireland to this day at least you will Grant me that it had not been so easily done Now Consider say these Jacobites If K. J.'s Good Nature tho' Baited by all the violence of the Friars and Irish who would fain have Destroyed these Protestants to Secure themselves If All this and his own visible Security for who would not Destroy his Enemies could not prevail upon his natural Goodness and Clemency to Suffer or Connive at the Irish for it needed not have appeared to be His Act to Destroy these Protestants What Malice can Suggest that it was his Design to Destroy them The Jacobites speak not in this of all the Irish they say we cannot Deny that many of them have Approv'd themselves Loyal and Gallant Men not only in Foraign Countrys but now at Home where tho' Vn-Disciplin'd Vnarm'd bred many Ages in Servitude and Vnacquainted with War yet without Aid of any Foraign Troops except at the Boyne made such Defence as Oblig'd K. William in Person to Raise
remained unmovable from Morning till Evening and then fell with so horrible a Noise that it frighted the Inhabitants thereabouts and the Earth swallowing it up made there a deep Pit which is seen at this day For a Testimony whereof Leyland saith he saw the Pits there commonly call'd Hell-Kettles And next year the 25. of his Reign the year of Christ 1180. a Great Earth-Quake threw down many Buildings amongst which the Cathedral Church of Lincoln was Rent in pieces the 25. of April And that in the Reign of Hen. I. The Earth moved with so great violence that many Buildings were shaken down And Malmesbury saith that the House wherein he sate was lifted up with a Double remove and at the Third time Setled again in the proper place Also in divers places it yielded forth a hideous Noise and cast forth Flames at certain Rifts many days together which neither by water nor by any other means could be suppressed There are other Earth-Quakes Recorded and Prodigious Signs in England Anno 1165. 12 H. II. An. 1276. III Edw. An. 1428. 5. H. VI. and An. 1580. 22 Eliz. an Earth-quake caused the Great Bell at Westminster to strike against the Hammer and several other Clock-Bells both in London and the Country a piece of the Temple Church fell down and some Stexes fell off from St. Paul's Church in London and St. Peter's at Westminster divers Chimneys lost their Tops and Ships on the Thames and on the Seas were seen to Totter by this Earth-quake as we are told in the Licensed Account of the Earth-quakes in England since the Norman Conquest And in the Fourth year of King William the II. on Saint Luke's day above Six hundred Houses in London were thrown down with Tempest and the Roof of Saint Mary le Bow Church in Cheap-side was so raised that in the Fall six of the Beams being twenty seven foot long were driven so deep into the Ground the Streets not being pav'd with stone that not above four foot remain'd in fight This brings into my mind the violent Storm that happened on Sunday the 12. of Jan. 89 90. about two a Clock in the Morning which blew down several Houses in London and tore up by the roots and split to the Ground and broke off in the middle above forty of the Old Elmes in St. James's Park And which was followed by that Hurricane K. W. carry'd into Ireland five Months after in June 90. which spilt an Ocean of Blood and Ruined that Flourishing Kingdom Add to this the Dreadful Thunder on the 12. Aug. following which London yet remembers with Astonishment having not in this Age if ever Heard the Like before it Tore down the great Wooden Crown over the Gate of St. James's Pallace which faces St. James's street And many do take Notice That this 12. of Aug. 92. and last 12. of Aug. 91. there was unusually Great Thunder and Lightning tho' not Equal to that of 12. Aug. 90. I will not go out of my way to Discourse of Brognostications as there is a Superstitious use of them there is likewise a Religious The Lights of Heaven were Ordain'd for Signs as well as for Seasons Gen. 1.14 and the Jews were blam'd for not discerning The signs of the Times Mat. 16.3 And Christ names several signs which shall be fore-runners and a warning to Men of the Judgments He sends upon the World And among them names Earth-Quakes Mat. 24.7 and calls these The beginnings of sorrows And the Prophet sayes that When God's judgments are in the Earth the Inhabitants of the world should learn Righteousness Isa 26.9 Great Earth-Quakes shall be in divers places and Fearful sights and Great signs shall there be from Heaven Luk. 21.11 There shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars and upon the Earth distress of Nations with perplexity the Sea and the Waves roaring ver 25. By the Sea and Waters it is observable That in all the Prophetick Representations of the Bible is always meant People Multitudes suppos'd from their Resemblance of Vnconstancy and Wavering whence David Psal 65.7 compares the Raging of the Sea to the Madness of the People Who did not Apply the Waters failing from the Thames in K. J.'s time so that Men went over on Foot to Southwark to that general Defection of the People from him at Salisbury and afterwards and that Extraordinary Inundation and Irruption of the River Liffy at Dublin December 87. which broke down their Bridges opened their Merchants Cellars and carried their Goods floating to the Sea before their Faces and undermined several Houses Boats going in their Streets who does not Apply this and the like in many other Rivers in Ireland at the same time to that violent Irruption of these People and flying into Arms before that time next Year which has made a Desart and an Aceldama of that Noble Kingdom more than one half of the Souls in it having Perished in three years following and much more than the half of those remaining are Ruined And our Saviour's Prediction Luk. 21.26 fulfilled both upon them and upon us viz. Mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth To be Timorous at every thing that happens is Superstitious But it is Stupidity and Irreligion to become Insensible of what God is a shewing upon the Earth and not to Regard the Operations of His Hands It is and always has been the forerunner of Destruction Quos perdere vule Jupiter Zach. 14.5 Mentions an Earth-Quake and Amos dates his Prophecy by it which God sent in the Reign of Vzziah a Forerunner of that exterminating Leprosy with which God Smote him for Invadâ—ng the Priest's Office which the Jacobites apply to our Lay-Deprivation of their Bishops whence arises the present Dispute of Schism which is the First Example of it amongst the Episcopal Church of England since the Reformation And if the Vindication of the Deprived Bishops lately Published be Truth our Presumption will exceed that of Vzziah's Therefore it will be extreamly necessary That a speedy Answer be given to that Book which weighs very much with some People of Good Judgment For we cannot Deny it to be Writ by a Master of Reason and Learning And the Jacobites thinks it is not sufficiently Answer'd by the late Preclamation Dated the 13th of this present September 92. tempting Men with Rewards to Discover the Author Printer Publishers c. This the Jacobites fore-told would be the Return the New Swearing Bishops and Clergy would make tho' they pretended That they desired nothing more than to Dispute the Matter fairly in Print to the satisfaction of all Parties The Consequence of this is more visible than that of the Earth-quake for every Body does already make the Application That our State Bishops crying out thus for help to the Brachium Seculare shews that they are weary of the Dispute and to many it seems to be nothing less
says our Author p. 26. to be so concerned for any one Prince's Right as to Sacrifice the Rights and Libertyes of all the Princes of Europe to his To this Question the Jacobites answer That they will Sacrifice no Mans Right to anothers But if one Man will Invade anothers Right as they pretend the P. of O. did to K J. and if a Confederacy of the Neighbourhood should for their own Ends support the Man who did the Wrong they say that all Honest Men are bound in Conscience to Act against that Confederacy And if this should turn to the Loss of any of the Confederates the Guilt lyes at their own Door The Jacobites wonder we should bring so plain a Case as this And they say that standing by the Oppressed in such a Case as this is asserting the Rights and Liberties of Mankind And that taking part with the Invaders of other Mens Right is Sacrificing the Rights and Liberties not only of all the the Princes of Europe but of every Man in the World But our Author Supports his Position in these following words It is to no more purpose to Dispute with men who do not feel the Force of this Argument at the first hearing than to Reason with Blind-men about Colours And the Jacobites think this may be said as to their Arguments which are founded upon the Natural and Universal Notions of Right and Wrong against which if any Man Dispute he is suppos'd to have Denied First Principles and so to be heard no longer They say That all their Arguments are for Supporting Right and that Ours are for Defending Wrong Therefore I see no Remedy but that we must come to the Right or Wrong of the Cause with them and must suffer our selves to be Determined by the Scripture and by the Laws of the Land as Established in former Parliaments If we Refuse this Test we shall have the Cry of the Nation against us for as yet they are not quite wrought off their Good Opinion of Scripture Laws and Parliaments What follows in our Author upon this Argument is say the Jacobites an Effeminate breaking out into passion when Reason sails viz. They have no Sense left nothing but a Stupid and Slavish Loyalty their senseless mistake of the true meaning of this word Loyalty by which they will needs understand an absolute Obedience without Limitation or Reserve when most certainly it signifies no more than Obedience according to Law Thus our Author In return to which the Jacobites say they pitty his Passion and pass by his Complements of stupid slavish senseless onely Admonish him for the future that it is a certain sign of a Lost Cause for while a Man thinks he has the better of the Dispute he is pleased But he grows angry only at an Argument which is too hard for him he bites that as a stone that is thrown at him because it hurts him But say the Jacobites we will not take that advantage of his passion as to over-look any thing of his Argument He sayes That most certainly Loyalty signifies no more than Obedience according to Law Say the Jacobites No more it needs while the Law makes our Obedience Absolute and without Limitation by Declaring it not to be Lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King or those Commissionated by him And therefore the Jacobites do humbly mind this Author that the senseless mistake he speaks of concerning the Meaning of the Word Loyalty belongs to the Parliament however he meant it as well as to the Jacobites For several Acts of Parliament do Enact Non-Resistance upon any pretence and if that be not an Absolute Obedience without Limitation then this Author say the Jacobites does wrong us for we never carried Absolute Obedience farther than Non-Resistance where with a safe Conscience we cannot yield an Active Obedience Allow us that say they and we will seek no more But if you will not then Rail at our Parliaments and our Laws say they call them senseless slavish and what you will but excuse the poor Jacobites for following of these till they be Repealed But Secondly the Jacobites Answer That Sir Edward Coke the Great Oracle of our Law tells us in Calvins Case That Allegiance is prior to all Municipal Laws That the World was long without Municipal Laws And yet Allegiance was then Due from Subjects to their Soveraign And this he calls Natural Allegiance because it arises not from the Obligation of any Municipal Law but from the Law of Nature from that Natural Relation there is 'twixt the Governours and the Governed When this Allegiance comes to be Recogniz'd in the Municipal Laws of any Country it is then called a Legal Allegiance not that it was Created by the Law for it was prior to the Law as has been said or that it receives more strength by the Law but it is Published Ascertained and Recogniz'd by the Law which alters nothing of its Force and Obligation which it had before the Law And hence the Natural and the Legal Allegiance are not two Allegiances but the same Allegiance Considered under different Modifications As the King is the same King before and after his being Crown'd or Recogniz'd by Parliament Therefore Sir Edward Coke tells us The Law did allow the Allegiance of the Subjects in Scotland and England to be the same after King James the 1st came into England tho' the Municipal Laws of both Kingdoms did disser in many things So that our Author 's Most certainty say the Jacobites that Loyalty or Allegiance signifies no more than Obedience according to Law is most certainly otherwise for tho' our Allegiance be according to Law because it is Acknowledged and Recognized by the Law yet it is prior to the Law and therefore takes not all its Force from the Law and Consequently signifies somthing more than Obedience according to Law viz. That Obedience which was before the Law and which the Law it self owns to be so These are all the Arguments every one in this Author concerning the Resolution of our Conscience as to this Revolution The remaining part of this Letter from p. 26 27. is only Reflecting upon the carriage of the present Jacobites while K. James was upon the Throne which is not Material to our present business for if they fail'd in any thing then that is nothing as to the Guilding of our Conscience now this is nothing but personal Reflection and is below Men of Argument that search after Truth This Author there takes a great deal of pains to Convince the Jacobites that they ought to have Fought better than they did against the Prince of Orange when he came over to Dispossess his Father This the Jacobites will readily Grant and what will this Author gain by it But he makes an excuse for them p. 28. They did not expect says he what followed they desired to have their Laws and Liberties secured but not that the King James should loose his Crown And
to this the Author makes answer in these Words But since he would leave his Crown who could help it For no body took it from him The Jacobites say they are astonished at this That they could not have expected this from so Celebrated a Pen as that of this Author They ask whether this Author or any Man in England thinks that K. James left his Crown Voluntarily And whether Frighting a King out of his Kingdom he not a taking it from him And then to cry as this Author here who could help it For no body took it from him The Jacobites say they suspect this Author to be turning towards Trans-sub-stantiation he can never be too old to Learn for if he can perswade us out of our Senses in one case he may in another Now say the Jacobites to see K. James Invaded by the P. of Orange and made a Prisoner by him removing his English and clapping Dutch Guards upon him Commanding him out of his Bed and Pallace at two a Clock in the Morning and after Possessing his Crown and then to say that no body took it from him is the same as to say that no body now possesses it It is to bid us believe nothing we see hear or Feel And is this the Foundation say they upon which you would settle our Conscience and hazard our Damnation If any body took K. James's Crown from him then say the Jacobites will you allow us to be in the Right and your selves to be in the Wrong You must do so if you lay any stress upon this Argument But if no body took it from him then perhaps he has it still and we have him still at White-Hall it is only a Decoptio Visus and we have been but Dreaming of Battles in Ireland and Flanders Ireland is not Destroyed nor have any Men Perished there And now come Popery we are ready for you we will never Plead our senses against you any more Thus the Jacobites insult And I confess it is the point I can least answer for as they say either K. James did Voluntarily Relinguish his Crown which no body in the World believes or he was Frightned from it and chose rather to Lose it for some time and take his hazard of Recovering it again rather than ly at his Enemies Mercy to take that away and his Life together wheâ—… ever he Pleased which no doubt was the Case and I have heard many blame the ill Conduct of suffering him to Escape and Create us so many troubles Would any think him Safe if he were in our hands now Therefore it is a Demonstration that it was his safest Course to Escape when he could Our Author has a witty Sarcasme upon this p. 2. King William says he wont Abdicate nor Steal away The Jacobites Laugh at this and ask our Author whether he would not Advise K. W. to make his Escape if he were in the Circumstances in which K. J. was then Suppose K. J. should Invade and Conquer K. W. Suppose the Engish should Desert K. W. as they did K. J. and that K. J. had made K. W. a Prisoner and put him under French Guards would not our Author or any Friend of his perswade him to Abdicate and Steal Away if he could This the Jacobites say was poor and impotent in this Anthor to strain himself for a Reslection upon K. J. to renen a Blow at him and then to have no more to say against him But to return to our Argument The Jacobites do further insist in behalf of K. J. That suppose his Fears were too Great yet it was to Save his Life that he fled And will any say that this was no Force upon him And shall our Author ask Since he would go as if it were Obstiuacy not Fear that prest him and who could help it as if it were against our will that he went and that we were able and willing to protect him And when he is thus Frightned away and Forced to leave his Crown behind him to Save his Life and then we bestow this Crown upon another and to Declare him to have no more Right to it to say this is not a Taking it from him the Jacobites alleadge is Non-sense even to the Degree of Madness And the Case being thus stated they must needs Gain all man-kind to their side Men may pretend what they will but it is not in a Mans power to Believe as he pleases And therefore Sir I do earnestly intreat you to think of some Topick or other to Answer these Jacobites otherwise the Consequence must be Fatal to the Government to let them have all the plausibility on their side Whether you will pitch upon the way of Scotland to Fore-Fault the King and plainly own as they do his Forfeiting his Crown for Male-Administration and therefore that they took it from him by their Superior and Original Authority and Depos'd him Justly Which I think a much easier way than ours Or whether you will set up Conquest or what other Method to satisfy Mens Consciences I submit to your better Judgment But something must be done other than to say that No body took K. J.'s Crown from him for such a Paradox can never pass upon any Man of Honesty or Common Sense And in your Managing this Cause I shall desire likewise for the Honour of the Government That you would avoid giving the Jacobites such a handle to Retort upon us as you do p. 28 29. where you insist upon the Perjury Mocking of God and Deceiving the Government in those who have taken the New Oath to K. W. and Q. M. and yet should Act against them Here you could not but Imagin That the Jacobites would Retort upon us the Breach of our Oaths to K. J. And for us to Preach up the Obligation of Oaths in one Case and Cry them down in another is exposing our selves to the utmost Contempt unless you had shewn some Difference 'twixt these Oaths which you have forgot As they did the Jacobites say who had the Penning of the Late Proclamation 13. Sept. 92. against High-way-mer and Robbers and yet shew'd us not the Difference 'twixt Robbing or Stealing Pence and a Crown why the Lesser Stealth should be Criminal and the Greater Glorious as if Kings onely of all Mankind were Divested of having any Right or Property If they have then forceing their Right from them is Robbery And the Laws do secure the Right of the King beyond that of the Subject Making a Trespass a Scandal or an Assault against a Subject Treason against the King And yet this Proclamation begins Whereas in Contempt of the Laws and well Establish'd Government of this Kingdom many Robberys have been of late Committed as if say the Jacobites Robbing the King of his Crown were not a greater Contempt of the Laws than Robbing a Private Man of his Purse Unless Princes be Exempt from the Eight Commandment either in an Active or a Passive Sense viz. That
least derogate from the Courage of the English No They shew'd it at Steenkirk to admiration and had they been Supported might have done Maricles surely no Men upon Earth would go farther under Good Conduct They are too Good to be alwayes and rashly Exposed and made the Subject of Dutch Railery who have Painted the English Fighting in this Battle with Lions Paws and Calves Heads i. e. under such Commanders But it is exceeding Childish thus to Undervalue other Men and Vapour of our Victories over the French in Ireland It hinders Men from laying weight upon any thing else that we say And does no small Service to the Jacobite Cause while it is made so easie for them to Expose us As they think it is likewise in a later Instance viz. A True Account of the Horrid Conspiracy against the Life of his Sacred Majesty William the Third c. Published by Authority and Printed in the Savoy 1692. Giving an Account of the Tryal Condemnation and Execution of the Chevalier de Grandval in the Camp 13. Aug. 92. For being concerned in the said Conspiracy There p. 7. K. J. and his Queen are made Partys in this Conspiracy and to have Encourag'd those Officers who were to do him that Service as it is there Worded And I have heard the Hawkers cry that Paper about the Streets by the Name of The Horrible and Bloody Conspiracy carryed on by the late K. James and the late Q. Mary to Murther his Sacred Majesty K. William Of this the Jacobites do highly Complain and say That the Sins of these Nations are yet increasing That instead of their Repentance for the now known Notorious Slanders which in order to the present Revolution were industriously spread abroad against King James as that of the French League the Prince of Wales the Earl of Essex and that Mass of Calumnies laid upon him in Ireland since They say that instead of Repenting for these we are yet going on to load him with new Crimes which the Jacobites are confident they can prove as false as any of the other They will never believe that King James would give his Consent to de Witt or Glenco any Body They say it is not in his Nature Which all that know him well will allow But the Jacobites say that it is not all the Williamites can make this any Objection against King James Because many of them even Officers of the Army have declared and do it openly that they think it a good Act to Stab King James as much and more than any common Thief or Robber because as they say he does greater Hurt than they and is the Occasion of greater Blood-shed and Confusion I have heard several of them when they were not drunk say That they would stab him with their own Hands and go an Hundred Miles barefoot to have the Opportunity But for King Lewis They think it a meritorious Act to rid the World of such a Monster to give Peace to Christendom and to revenge the Cause of the poor Hugonots As for these Men how numerous soever the Jacobites say they must be silent and not blame King James if he had such a Design because it is pursuant to their own Principles But the Jacobites lay no stress upon this nor plead for Assassinations which they detest but they insist against the Truth of the Matter of Fact and that King James never had any such Design nor knew of this Conspiracy of Grandval if there was any such Conspiracy And now Sir give me leave to tell you some of those Grounds upon which the Jacobites do not believe this Conspiracy at least that part of it which concerns K. James and that even before they receive a full Account of it from St. Germains which can be best done there and when they receive it they promise to communicate it for farther Satisfaction In the mean time take what follows for the Reason of their present Infidelity in this Case First It is said p. 7. of the abovesaid Account of this Conspiracy in the very Sentence of the Judges That Collonel Parker one of the Conspirators was with Grandval and Leefdale two other of the Conspirators to take leave of K. James at St. Germains before they began their Journey viz. to K. William's Camp to perpetrate their intended Design where Parker was to be a main Actour and together with Grandval to rescue and bring off Dumont with Fifteen Hundred French Horse after he had shot K. William Now instead of Parker's going as above designed to Flanders and having taken leave of K. James with the other Conspirators in order to their said Journey it is notoriously known that Parker came streight to England which the Jacobites think totally inconsistent with all that fine Story and to give it flatly the Lye But they rest not upon this they give a positive disproof to the Allegation by shewing that Collonel Parker was not at St. Germains the Sixteenth day of April 1692. on which day the Sentence of the Judges p. 7. says that he Parker was there with King James and in Consultation with Grandval and Leefdale about the said Conspiracy Which 16th of April if it should be New-style will be the 6th Old-style when Parker the True Account says was at St. Germains For disproof of this they give you a Journal of Collonel Parker's coming from St. Germains to England in April 1692. which they have from Undeniable Vouchers viz. Collonel Parker having taken his leave of King James at St. Germains he went to Paris Sunday the Third of April Old Style 1692. on Monday and Tuesday the Fourth and Fifth all Day and Night he was actually at Paris on the Sixth by Five a Clock in the Morning at Paris he took Coach to Saint Dennis and that Night he lay at Boumont the Seventh at Bovay the Eighth at Poy the Ninth at Abevile the Tenth he took Post to Callis where he Embark'd for England he was Shipwrackt on the Kentish Shore where soon after he was taken Prisoner and carryed before the Mayor of Rumney and on the Thirteenth he was sent Prisoner to London with a Guard His being at Paris the Fourth and Fifth and taking Coach from thence on the Sixth by Five in the Morning can be prov'd by at least Twenty Credible Witnesses and all along from thence to the Thirteenth by Three Undeniable Witnesses But all this the Jacobites say proves the Matter of the True Account to be only False They alledge other Circumstances in that Tryal which make it wholly Ludicrous and utterly Incredible to any Man of Sense Such is that of Du-mont the Man who was to kill King William having a Secret to charm People's Eyes Indeed nothing less could secure a Man to kill a King at the Head of his Army as this was to be done viz. when the King should ride along the Lines The other two Conspirators Grandval and Leefdale it is said were to keep with those that followed
Design of Assassinating K. William and God's Miraculous Providence in Detecting Preventing c. This may pass perhaps among some of the Vulgar for whom I suppose it was Design'd But it Nauseats Men of Sense exceedingly It looks like putting this story upon us and they wonder at such poor Arts. It had been much easier believ'd if these Visions and Du Monts Charm had been let alone But Sir you cannot readily conceive the Horror and Astonishment which the Jacobites do Express at our carrying on this Sport as they call it so far as to Bantre Allmighty God with it in the Proclamation for a Publick Thanksgiven Dated 22. Octob. 92. Where it is told that Forasmuch as it hath Pleased Almighty God of His Infinite Goodnoss in Answer to the Prayers Humbly and Devoutly offer'd up to Him To Disappoint and Defeat the Barbarous and Horrid Conspiracy for Taking away His K. William's Sacred Life by Assassination And this Thanksgiving Day ordered to be Religiously kept with greater Strictness and under greater Penaltys than is usual in Proclamations of that Nature viz. Not only as they Tender the Favour of Almighty God but upon Pain of Suffering such Punishments as Their Majesties can justly Inflict for the Contempt or Neglect thereof And which is yet more Dreadful if that Conspiracy be a Sham in the Publick Printed Forme of Prayer for the Thanksgiving-Day in the End of the Litany these Words are added More especially we adore Thy Great Goodness to Him K. William in the Discovery and Disappointment of that Bloody and Ba barous Attempt Design'd upon His Sacred Person by His Cruel and Implacable Enemys and in the Communion-Service O Most Merciful God who of thy Infinite Goodness hast Preserved our Sovereign Lord King William from the Treacherous Practises of Wicked and Blood-Thirsty Men c. Add to this the Noise was made with it in Pulpits upon that Ringing-Day the Repetition of the Tirue Account abovesaid being a great part of many of their Sermons J. Cant. himself had it up in his Thanksgiving-Sermon that Day at White-Hall p. 25. Where he Blesses God For the Preservation of our Gracious Sovereign from that Horrid and most Barbarous Attempt Design'd upon his Sacred Person Good God! What Name will this Pageantry deserve if this Blot be not clear'd from all the bovesaid Objections Sir This requires your utmost Pains if you have any Kindness for the Government This is indeed a Terrible Prejudice against us it makes us worse than Hembent or meer Atheists For to Mock God is more Provoking I had almost said more Atheistical than not to Believe a God at all If this be let go without something said to it it will as the Assyrians said of Judith Deceive the whole World Turn all Mankind against us and make us the Abhorring of all Flesh who can Play with things Sacred and Laugh at God to his Face The Jacobites likewise take Great Notice that we should choose one of the Fasts of the Church the Vigil before Saint Simon and Saint Jude for our Thanksgiving-Day As if we Design'd to do Despight to the Constistution of the Church of England like the Phanaticks in Scotland who usually Appoint their Fasts upon the Lords Day Christmas Easter or other Solemnitys of the Church It was some of this Dutch Leven say the Jacobites that made us pitch upon Ash-Wednesday viz. 13. of Feb. 88. For the Day of our Inauguration and Accession to the Crown Either that we thought the greatest Fast of the Church ought in Contempt of that Constitution to be turn'd thereafter into a Jubilee or otherwise that the Day of Ashes and Execrations was the fittest to Solemnize such an Inauguration as claim'd a Propriety say they in almost every Curse was pronounced that Day The 27. Octob. is Mark'd in our Calander and Rubrick as a Day of Fasting or Abstinence and was or ought to have been Proclaim'd as such in all the Churches and Chapples of England the Sunday before as is Appointed in the Rubrick immediately after the Nicene Creed in the Communion Service Now comes Jo. Cant. say the Jacobites and Litensing the Form of Prayer for this Thanksgiving-Day Commands us to break the Canons and Rubricks which are still unrepeal'd by any Lawful or so much as Pretented Authority And they ask in good Conscience which we ought to Obey They say we may perceive by these and many other things which they can Name what Firm Friends our New Bishops are like to prove to the Church of England as by Law Established which us'd to be the Word But we have seen strange things to Day Escotia Fresbyter profugus says the Jacobites a Scotch Dusckify'd Facovian Superintendent to shew the Rock from whence he was Hewn and not to be behind his Arch Brother Jack in his Zeal against set-Forms and Fasting his Foe kept his Visitation at Abington on their own Dear Fast-Day whereby he Preserv'd his Clergy for that Turn from Attending their Churches and Officiating in the Luniversary Superstition and shew'd them Good Example not to Starve the Flesh for Pampering of the Spirit Forgive this Excess But now we are upon Scotland I have one thing more to beseech you most earnestly which is to Remove if Possible a Monstrous Scandal which the Jacobites have taken at our Government in the Matter of the Laird of Glencoe in Scotland who upon the 13. Feb. 91 92 at Five a Clock in the Morning with Thirty Eight of his Servants and Tenants were Barbarously Murdered in their Beds by Captain Campbel of Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers of the Earl of Arguil's Regiment who were Quartered upon them and Liv'd in Terms of Friendship with them And they pretend that all this was done by K. William's Express Command and Produce Orders for what they have done and stand upon their Justification and are to this Day Unpunish'd for it This Story is not much known in England but it makes a Great Noise in Scotland insomuch that I am told that Sir John Lawder there did Refuse to accept of the Employment of Lord Advocate in Scotland which answers to that of Atturney General in England but of much greater Honour and Authority unless he could have Liberty to Prosecute Glen-Lyon and the other Murthers of Glen-Coe But that could not be Granted him and another is put into the Place This Story of Glen-Coe is told at Large in the Answer to Docter King's State of the Protectants in Ireland under the Late K. James's Government To which I referr you Now Sir give me leave I beseech you do not you agree with me that there is an Absolute Necessity to Search into the bottom of this Mystery There is none can be so Wicked as to Imagin that any part of the Blame can ly at K. William's Door and therefore it is for his Honour to have it expos'd and let those be Examplarily Punish'd who have Dar'd to Vouch Royal Authority for the most Barbarous Massacre under the shew of
in his Sermon upon Josh 24.15 § 2. p. 11. Preached before K. Charles II. at White-Hull 2. April 1680. And that this Doctrine might be thorowly Instill'd and Propagated he Instructed the House of Commons in a Strain even beyond this in his Sermon Preached before them 5. Nov. 1678. upon Luke 9.55,56 where he Inferrs that Religion is good for nothing but Temporal Respects and that chiefly to prevent Rebellion And that Rebellion is worse than Atheism or Infidelity For let any Man says he p. 20. say worse of Atheism and Infidelity if he can And for God's Sake What is Religion Good for but to Reform the Manners and Dispositions of Men to Restrain Humane Nature from Violence and Cruelty from Falsehood and Treachery from Sedition and Rebellion Better it were there were no Reveal'd Religion than to be Acted by a Religion that is continually Supplanting Government Teaching the Lawfulness of Deposing Kings Such a Religion as this is as bad or worse than Infidelity and no Religion p. 21. and a Great deal more to the same purpose which makes it more Eligible to Renounce Christ and all Reveal'd Religion than to allow of the Lawfulness of taking Armes against our King upon the Account of Religion I hope he will think it worth his while to Explain these Matters for the sake of others as well as the Jacobites for in Truth Sir they carry a very strange Aspect and Stumble very Well-Meaning Men. Together with his Letter to Lord Russel and Prayer on the Scaffold with his Lordship which are so Notorious I need not Repeat them As likewise these Passages in Doctor Sherlock's Sermon upon the Discovery of the Phanatick and Republican Plot at Rye-House Printed Anno. 1683. Where after Disproving the pretence of Rebelling for Liberty and Property he proceeds to the Grand pretence of Religion The Libertyes and Propertys of the Subject says he p. 2. is an Admirable Pretence to Deprive the Prince of his Libertys and Propertyes and those who have any Liberty or Property to loose seldom gain any thing by this For when you have secur'd their Liberties and Properties against their Prince it is a much harder Task to secure themselves from their Fellow-Subjects But let us hear him as to Religion Page 2. It is a dangerous way for Men to Rebel to save their Souls when God has threatned Damnation against those who Rebel But this is as Vain a Pretence as Liberty and Property for no Men Fight for Religion who have any Religion is a Quiet Peaceable Governable thing it Teaches Men to Suffer patiently but not to Rebel Page 6. How do Men Abhor a Religion which is Nourish'd with Blood Page 7. It was sufficient to prove any man a Papist who durst own it possible for such Good-Men to Rebel or Plot against the King and Government We had been more secure from the Popish Plot than for ought I know we may be yet had not these Men abused Peoples Fears and Dangers of Popery to the Disturbance of the Government and to the carrying on their Antimonarchical and Fanatick Designs And thus the poor Church of England which has escap'd the Rage and Fury of Rome had like to have been Sacrificed to a True Protestant Zeal How things proceeded after this to the Disturbance of the publick Peace and the Interruption of the Ordinary Courts of Justice you all know as well as I and Wise Men quickly Saw and Honest Men could not forbear Warning the People whither those things Tended And they met with a good Reward for it they were all Papists in Masquerade and especially the Loyal Clergy were Loaded with all the Contempt and Ignominy which an Inrag'd and Envenom'd Zeal and some Witless Scriblers could cast on them Whole Vollies of Phamplets flew about to poison the people with Lewd and Seditious principles But to Talk or Write or Preach about Obedience to Government or patient Suffering for a Good Cause was to Betray the Protestant Interest and to Invite a Popish Successor to Cut our Throats And what all this ends in thanks be to God we now see and I hope time enough to prevent it Page 11. There is nothing more expresly contrary to the Reveal'd Will of God than Treasonable Plots and Conspiracies against Soveraign Princes And tho God does many times Permit those things to be done which He has forbid to be done or else no Man could ever be Guilty of any Sin yet his forbidding of it is a plain Argument that he does not Approve it that He will not Countenance it nay that he will not Permit it but where He sees Great and Wise Reasons to do so The Doctor has Recanted this in this Case of Allegiance and taken away the Distinction 'twixt Gods Permission and his Ordering of Evil it would not serve this Turn Therefore he says now that God not only Permits but is the Author of all the Good or Evil which Happens either to Private Persons or Publick Societies c. Case of Allegiance p. 12. But let us go on with his Sermon Page 13. Christian Religion requires us to Obey our Superiours in all Lawful things and Quietly to Submit and Suffer when we can't Obey He the Blessed JESVS Liv'd in Obedience to the Civil Powers and tho' the Jewish Nation which was a Free People the Lot and Inheritance of God Himself were then in Subjection to the Romans yet he would not give them the least Encouragement to shake off the Yoak but Commands them to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars Page 14. Christianity Defended it self only by a Resolute and Patient Suffering for the Name of Christ This is the true Temper and Spirit of Christianity Under the most Barbarous and Persecuting Emperors no Christian ever Suffer'd as a Rebel Papists Plot and Conspire the Death of a Protestant Prince to bring in Popery And profess'd Protestants it seems do the same thing to keep out Popery Page 15. If the Consciences of Subjects will serve them to Rebel for Religion it seems a very hard Case if the Conscience of the Prince must not allow him to Hang 'em for their Rebellion The Truth of this is Readily own'd when it is apply'd to the Papists Page 18 19. The Church of England her self has been a Martyr for Loyalty Page 19. the life of our King King Charles II. and the Ruin of his Government was laid in a mighty Zeal against Popery and for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion Page 20. Tho' few Men dare own it yet the Actions of too many Sufficiently Proclaim that they think they may Strain a point and Dispence with Strict Duty when it is to serve a Good Cause when the Honour of God and the Interest of Religion is Concern'd Thus it is too often seen that Men who begin with a Zeal for Religion slip Insensibly into State-Factions and are Engag'd Vastly beyond what they first Design'd and Engag'd so far that they cannot Retreat with Safety or Honour
Guess who are Meant by this and say that those who were Advocates for the Protestant Cause in the Late Reign and Preach'd down the Deposing Doctrine as a Mark of the Beast and shall come about in this Reign and own Publickly that they were Mistaken and both Preach and Practise now bare-Fac'd that same Popery they Damn'd before deserve not the Name of Protestants but Apostates But on the Contrary those who adhere constantly to their Principles which they profest before this Turne do preserve their Authority and Respect in the midst of the Reproaches of those who are Griev'd that they Live to be a Reproach to them And if they should not find Sutable Rewards for their Constancy in this World it is laid up for them in Heaven The Jacobites give us Instances where the Depriv'd do Force Witness and Attestation even from their Deprivers who somtimes forget themselves to Comdemn what themselves have done Which brought an Old Sier as the Jacobites do certainly Assure us to beg My Lord of Canterbury's Blessing and therein his Pardon the Third Day after he had lay'd his Hands upon the Intruder into his Throne But the Arch-Bishop stop'd his Lord-ship as he was Kneeling and ask'd him if he had forgot what he had been doing on Sunday In the following Pages 20. 21. you shew the Miseries of a Civil-War which you say must follow if the Jacobites should Assist K. James for that K. William will not Desert nor Abdicate And you are resolv'd to Assist him against K. James The Jacobites Laugh at this Argument It is like the Old Saying The second Blow makes the Quarrel I Turn you out of your House and desire you to make no Disturbance about it because I am Resolv'd not to part with it The Jacobites say That if we will not Assist K. William but let K. James Deal with him and his Forreign Troops we shall have very little Civil-War Now which of us is in the Right or the Wrong must depend upon the Justice of the Cause And that is the Issue to which the Jacobites alwaies Press to bring us But Indeed Sir you have given a very unlucky Instance p. 20. where Aggravating the Miseries of a Civil-War you bid us look into Ireland and see to what a Heap of Rubbish a Flourishing and Fruitful Country is Reduc'd by being the Scene of a three Years War Here the Jacobites desire us to take a Specimen of the Advantage of a Civil-War and Rebellion to Defend our Rights c. when that Country could not have Suffered so much in the Reign of Twenty Tyrants as by that Short Civil-War of Three Years They desire us then to think of the Consequences of Entailing many Years Civil-War for ought we know upon these Nations York and Lancaster lasted a Hundred Years and this War in all probability will not cease while K. James or the P. of Wales or any of their Issue stand nearer to the Crown than the present Possessors Which may be till England be Reduc'd to a Heap of Rubbish like Ireland Therefore they desire and request that we would Consider in time for the Preservation of England and the Peace of our Selves and our Posteritys before it be too late And not to Flatter our Selves into our own Ruin by the Notion of our Draining France in the Lengthing out of this War for we have try'd Three Campaigns and find it is not to be done suddenly by Force unless Lewis would lend us some of his Generals It being said Publickly in the House of Commons that England had not a Man fit to make a General of Horse I think we must have a little of his Mony too for he is not half Drain'd so Low as we are nor has this War made him such Miserable Subjects no not in Dauphiny so Poor so Harrass'd so Ruin'd as they are in Ireland almost says Lord Sidney in his Speech to the Parliament there 5. Octob. 92. to an utter Desolation of the Country And yet he tells them That the Necessity of his Masters Affairs Compels him to Ask a Supply from them at a time when the Kingdom is in so Low a Condition and hath Suffer'd so much in the War On the other Hand Grand-Lewis has as the very Dutch News tells us not only freed Dauphiny from all sort of Taxes for Ten Years to come but sent them Great Quantities of Corn and other Supplys that his Subjects may not feel the War which he has carry'd on to this Day without Imposing one Tax upon his People For he has sound a way to make War at his Enemys Cost and cause them to bear his Expence at least so much of it as to make the Rest very easie at Home He lets us Fortify Towns and then takes them from us without Trouble with all our Magazines Stores c. He Trades with our Ships which our Merchants send abroad and is at no more Charge than to Conduct them into his Ports There is hardly a Post but brings us News of the Increase of this Branch of his Revenue which by their own Losses the Merâ—hants have Computed to several Millions Sterl in Cargo besides the Loss of above Two Thousand of their Ships some of Great Force carrying some Forty sone Fifty Guns little Inferior to Men of War Nor have our Men of War escaped much better Last 13. Nov. 91. There came a List into Parliament of more than Thirty Men of War taken by the French and otherwise Lost by several Accidents and Eight Disabl'd since the Year 88. and the List is well Increas'd since that time To Ballance all this the French had one unlucky Accident at Sea last May 92. Whereby they lost the Hulks of Sixteen Ships the Guns and Rigging Sav'd but not one Sunk or Taken in Fight tho' we were twice their Number And I must tell you that the Jacobites think us Horrible Ridiculous even to Madness and that it must appear so to all Mankind to see us so Transported with this as to Equal it to the Miraculous Deliverance of Israel and Overthrow of Pharaoh c. in the Red Sea as you have heard from Dr. Sherlock But that his Predecessor in Paul's has learnt to Cant as far beyond him as he has got in Dignity before him In his Thanks-giving-Sermon 27. Octob. 92. p. 25. He says it was The Greatest and Cheapest Sea Victory that ever the Sun saw from his first Setting out to Run his Course This the Jacobites say they can Forgive in him for several Reasons And because he makes an Humble Apology for it in the same Sermon p. 8. in these Words viz. The Excess of Knowledge and Wisdom if attended with Pride is very Dangerous and does many times Border upon Distraction and Run into Madness For Example p. 33. He Flatters K. William to his Face even to Blasphemy giving as High a Character of him as could be said of CHRIST Himself with Relation to His Humane Nature viz. That he does
Represent it Pamphlat p. 59. He foothes the Roman-Catholick Princes of the Confederacy not to fear any Harm to their Religion from the Protestant Confederates for sayes he The Protestants never did Combine to Exterminate Popery in General Jacobite What does he mean by in General Are we not to be against All the Errors of Rome or only for some part of the Truth or are we to Compound and Abate of it in Favour of the Confederates And Swear to Re-Establish the Pope's Supremacy in France in Order to Secure the Protestant Religion in England The First Article of the Resolution of the Princes Allies and Confederates which was taken in the Assembly at the Hague Feb. 91. as it was done out of the French and Printed here was That they Solemnly Protest before GOD that they will never Break off their Union nor make any Peace with Lewis XIV Till he has made Reparation to the Holy See for whatsoever he has Acted against it and till he Annull and make Void all those Infamous Proceedings against the Holy Father Innocent XI This was but in Parsuance of what was before Concerted in the Particular League with Spain and the Emperor 31. Decem 1690. as it is in the Abstracts of the Foraign Leagues given into the Parliament this Session There Article Fourth It is agreed that no Peace be begun before all things in the Ecclesiasticks be Restor'd as in their Former State Pamphlet Page 52. He says the French King Dragoon'd the Hugonets against his Interest purely out of Vain Glory Jacobite So easily is it for Malice to betray our Reason and Expose us to Forget and Contradict your Selves It was but in p. 47. that he gave a Substantial Reason why it was the French King's Interest to be Rid of these Men The French King knows says he that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt Pamphlet Page 37. He commend the Great Clemency of K. William's Order against the Laird of Glen-Coe and says a Milder Order was never given And that he has Express'd a High Displeasure at it viz. The Massacre of Glen-Coe Jacobite He was too soon Weary of this Subject For he should have told what was the High Displeasure was Express'd against these Mutherers of Glen-Coe particularly against those Bloody Brutes in Commission who sent Orders under their Hands two whereof are Inserted No. 19. Appendix of the Answer to Dr. King's Book and said it was by the Kings Express Command to put all to the Sword under 70. Yet these Infernal Furys are continued still in their Respective Posts and no Mark of Displeasure is to be seen upon them In the next Place K. William's most Mild Order should have been Inserted otherwise it will not be Believ'd that any Officers durst have Vouch'd his Express Command for an Action of this Nature and not have Forfeited their Necks at least their Commissions if they had not a Sufficient Warrant under his Hand to Produce And it is to be Explain'd how Glen-Coe and his Men could be in Arms and in open Rebellion as the Pamphlet Foolishly Alledges at the same time that Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers were Quartered in their Houses This Pamphlet confesses the Matter of Fact but Disproves no one Particular of it Pamphlet Page 30. He undertakes to Free K. William from the Objection of Imprisoning many Lords and others contrary to Law Which he does by Confessing the whole Charge against him and then giving an Excuse for it viz. That the Safety of the Nation Absolutly Requires it when Invasion is Threatned Jacobite But yet when this Method would have Absolutly Defeated the Present Revolution and K. James was Minded of it and Advis'd to Secure but a small Number of those who Betray'd him and were then in the Conspiracy against him and he was Morally assur'd of it he would not do it because not having Informations upon Oath against them it was Contrary to Law as a Noble Earl did very well Remark in the House of Peers this Session of Parliament And the Ministers concern'd in our Modern Imprisonments had an Act of Indemnity to Secure them last Year for this and are Endeavouring another now The House of Lords having this Session Declar'd such Commitments to be Illegal Upon which the Prisoners so Committed were Discharg'd and not from K. William's innate Clemency which forbade the Prosecution as this Pamphlet would have us believe for such Endeavours were us'd to continue them in Custody that Aaron Smith the Plot Journey-Man was forc'd to make Affidavit that he had Informations upon Oath against them tho' when it came to the Issue there was no such thing And the Prosecution of this Perjury was all which the Innate Clemency did forbid Thus Sir say the Jacobites Pamphlet Page 31. Accuses K. James for Prosecuting Lord Macklesfield Brandon Gerard and Lord Delamare upon Monmouth's Rebellion Jacobite Lord Delamare himself cannot but own that he had a Fair Tryal and K. James who was Present shew'd a Particular Satisfaction in his being Acquit Will this Author say that there was not Information upon Oath against him Lord Macklesfield Fled his Case is Sufficiently known Lord Brandon Convict and Pardon'd by K. James and Professed Great Loyalty and Gratitude If such Informations could have been had against those Committed in this Reign the Lords had not Voted their Commitments Illegal But this Pamphleteer avers that the Government could not want Informations against them Tho' it is Evident to all in Westminster-Hall that they did want Informations upon Oath against them and that this was the only Cause of their Acquittal But he had some Reason to think that the Government could not want Informations against whom they Pleased to Accuse considering the Fund of Evidence was Provided and their Qualifications Fuller Young Blackhead and Holland are Notoriously known besides these there are the standing Evidence at every Sessions Capel a Broken Shoomaker of Windsor Low a Fidler in Field-Lane Mrs. Scot a Common Prostitute and others of the like Characters who except the Fidler that keeps an Ale-House among the Butchers have no Habitation but are Absolute Beggars Supported by Aaron Smith But the Wit of such Cattle is not alwaies so ready as their Knavery which is the Reason they have done no more Mischief tho' they have done all they could Pamphlet Of many Hundreds Guilty of Treason Two only have Suffer'd for it During this Reign Jacobite The Author by this would make you believe that he was very Exact in the Account But we can Name Three off Hand In all whose Tryals Law and Honour were as much Strain'd as ever was known in England The Hardness of Mr. Ashton's Case has been more than once taken Notice of in both Houses of Parliament The Second a Poor Chair-Man was Hang'd for Attempting to Raise an Army and Inlisting Souldiers to Restore K. James The Third Cross an Inn-Keeper for his Curiosity in going a Board
one of the French Ships when they lay so long upon our Shore after Beating home our Fleet in the Year 90. of which he thought the less harm because Sir William Jennings and other English Gentlemen and Protestants then Aboard the French Fleet came on shore with the French who Treated the Country with all Imaginable Civility and Kindness and invited any to come on Board them and they shou'd be Civily Entertain'd for they profest that their Master had no Enmity against England but rather Kindness to End their Divisions and stop the Exhausting of their Money and Restoring their Rightful KING and the Laws to their Ancient Channel Upon which this Inn-keeper ventur'd and found them as good as their word and brought Letters from Sir William Jenning's and other English Gentlemen on Board having that occasion to some of their Friends Of which this Fellow was yet so Cautious that he brought them open and delivered them to the next Justice of Peace But he had told that the French were a Civil sort of People and not such Bugg-Bears as some Represent them And was Hang'd without Mercy That more Instances of this Nature are not to be Produc'd is because more however Guilty have not been Convist which was not for want of Good Will Thus say the Jacobites Pamphlet He comes now to the Rarity as the Jacobites call it to Instance a Pardon Granted by K. William Yea one of them says he upon whom Actual Treason was proved hath been Pardon'd after Conviction and Condemnation Jacobite This is the Case of my Lord Preston Which is all over so Extraordinary that Execution had been a Milder Treatment than that he met with He was Taken upon Thursday Janu. 1. 90 91. Try'd and Found Guilty the Saturday Fortnight after The Thursday before his Father-in-Law was Employed to Drink upon him most part of the Day and at Ten a Clock at Night he was Hurry'd away being in Great Disorder to Kensinton where another Treat was Provided and then he was brought before K. William where he Spoke not with that Caution as Reasonably may be suppos'd he would have had at another time On Friday K. William went for Flanders Next Day Lord Preston was brought to his Tryal where he was Confronted with the Lord President and Lord Sidney who had been both Present at his Intercourse with K. William which Lord Preston Declar'd was a Great Awe upon him and Interruption to the Defence he had to make for himself not Remembring what he had said in that Disorder he was in at Kinsinton That he was not Releas'd till about the end of May following All which time he was Delivered over to Satan to be Buffeted under the Conduct of his Renegado Reis-Efendi the most Dexterous of that Sultan's Executioners It would make another Part of the Turkish Spy to tell all the Arts and little Contrivances of this Bloody Officer to Wheedle to Frighten to Circumvent this Condemn'd Lord. The Sheriff being one Day sent to give him Notice of his Execution such an Hour another Day Visited kindly by his Lordships Self and Lord Deu. at other times by other Emissaries with New Threats and Promises of Rewards and Preferments if he would Comply telling him that others had Discovered against him even those whom he endeavour'd to Serve suffering none to come near him to Undeceive him in any Point In short having try'd all ways they Resolv'd to make him an Evidence In order to which it was Necessary to Qualify him by Cranting him a Pardon But his Estate being Intayl'd was the Greatest Security he had for his Life which if they took they would lose the Benefit of Seizing his Estate Therefore they chose to keep that as an Awe over him to Force him to be an Evidence And accordingly having pass'd his Pardon about the end of May and his Lordship gone immediately Home to live Privately he was straight sent for again in June and told that he must be an Evidence Which his Lordship positively Refused That Lord President bid him Remember that tho' his Life was Pardon'd he had an Estate to lose And told him that the Parliament might Undo what the King had Done and Revoke even the Pardon which the King had Granted Lord Preston said he was Surprized to hear that Doctrine from his Lordship K. Charles II. having hazarded a Breach with his Parliament to Support the Pardon his Majesty had Granted to his Lordship upon which Lord N. interpos'd Solving it as well as he could and then Ordered the King's Council who attended to let my Lord Preston know what was yet in the Power of the Government to Inflict upon his Lordship in Case of his Refusal to be an Evidence The Council Learned in the Law then Declared That they could Imprison him During Life and Fine him more than he was Worth His Lordship Answered that he thought Magna Charta and the Laws of England had Limited Fines to be Salvo Contemento And likewise laid down Methods for the Liberty of the Subject However That neither Life nor Estate should prevail upon him to bring Innocent Blood upon his own Head His Lordship was thereupon sent Twice to Newgate whence he Delivered himself both times by Habeas Corpus And his whole Estate was Seized and is still to force him to Hang his own Brother and others whom they do not like And he now Suffers under their Clemency and Good Nature But how came it that this Author did Name but One of the Pardons Granted by K. William For there were Two in his Reign The other was Granted to Crone And the Price he was to Pay for it was to be an Evidence But he was with Great Difficulty and Management brought to it by the Industry of the foresaid Reis-Efendi When he made the â—east Hesitation he was Order'd to Prepare for the Gallows He had Twenty Five Reprives And Three times was brought to the Sledge with the Rope about his Neck At last his Fears prevail'd He said to some of his Friends that he was too Young to Dye considering his Life had not been Strickt And they took his Informations upon Oath after his Condemnation and before his Pardon while he was a Dead Man in Law But to Qualify him to be an Evidence they Granted him a Pardon But least he might Start back the Pardon was given into a Third Hand Sir John Holt who was to be his Judge can tell where it was Lodg'd Upon this he had his Liberty And the very Day before he was to have been Produc'd as an Evidence against the Lives of Honest Men he Struck with the Terror of so Great a Wickedness made shift to get out of the Reach of his Tormentors and still continues so All this Sir the Wicked Jacobites do say I Repeat their Words And they are positive in the Truth of it all and Provoke us to bring them to the Test They say that we our selves know all this to be True Pamphlet Page
29. He K. James Granted Dispensations Contrary to Law and Despised a Parliaments Confirmation Jacobite The Contrary of which is so much True that the Great Objection against him was his Indeavouring to get the Parliaments Confirmation viz. To have the Penal Laws and Tests taken away by Parliament Yet in all that time there was no need found for the Self Denying-Ordinance no Guilt Confess'd in Rejecting it nor Scandal in having it overthrown by the Votes and open Solicitation of Foraigner and Soventeen Court Bishops after it had pass'd the Commons who were most Concerned in it Pamphlet Page 26. As to the Conventions Gift they and K. William believe after the Throne was Vacant that they ought to have Declared his Wifes Hereditary Right Jacobite Yet it is certain they never did Declare it How will this Author Vindicate them in this Pamphlet Page 20. The Convention did Examine it the Birth of the P. of Wales as far as was Necessary to their own Satisfaction and after all Declar'd the Princess 〈◊〉 Orange to be the Right Heir Jacobite This is News indeed It is an Impudence that Points out the Author For none other sure Durst have so positively averr'd what the whole Nation knows to be as False as Hell For neither Parliament nor Convention ever once Touch'd in the least Tittle upon the P. of Wales nor could be Provok'd to it as is sufficiently known Nor did they ever Declare the Princess of Orange to be the Right Heir We desire the Votes of the House may be Produc'd or some Sufficient Voucher Who could Imagine that any Man of Common Reputation would tell in Print a Lye of such a Nature that every Body must know to be so who have the least Conversation in Affairs or have Read but the Votes or a New Letter Pamphlet Page â—0 Where there is no doubt concerning the next Heir upon Cession or Death there the Right Heir Succeeds Immediately But while the next Heir is Ambiguous in an Hereditary Monarchy till the Title he Examin'd Clear'd and Declared none of the Pretenders can Assume the Royal Pignity Jacobite I need not Apply this Pamphlet Page 21. Why should the Convention do his K. James's Business for him and Neglect the Nations Sufety i. e. in Examining into the Birth of the Prince of Wales Jacobite That is if they had Examin'd into it they must have found the Truth of the Birth of the P. of Wales from the Queen and that would have done K. James his Business for him But K. James his Business did not wholly depend upon the P. of Wales for whoever was his Heir did not hurt his Title In the next Place it was not altogether K. James's Business For did it not Highly Concern the Nations Safety to Examine and Clear who was next Heir till that was done by your Rule here set down neither the Princess of Orange nor her Husband could Assume the Royal Dignity without plainly changing our Hereditary Monarchy into an Elective One. Pamphlet p. 20. The Convention Judged viz. of the P. of Wales's Birth and Vnanimously Declar'd for the Princesses Right and in this sufficiently shew'd they did not intend to make this Monarchy Elective in that they Declar'd the True Heir to be Queen Jacobite As if setting up the next Heir during the Life of the True Owner were not an Election Or setting up any other but the next Heir Secondly She ought by this Rule to be Queen in her own Right and he but a Matrimonial King Whereas she is Absolutely Divested of all Manner of Power and the whole Execution put in him insomuch that she cannot Act in his Absence but by Vertue of a Particular Act of Parliament made for that purpose which might Inable any one else as well to Act what she does And yet this Author says p. 27. That the P. of Orange did Accept the Crown in his Dear Consorts Right which as it is Generally told he Rejected with Disdain and said he did not come over to be her Gentleman-Vsher Pamphlet p. 24. Perhaps he might have Seized the Crown by his Power Jacobite This is the Title of Conquest from which that Party cannot Refrain Dr. Burnet began it but stands Ominously Corrected by the Hand of the Hang-Man Pamphlet p. 26. K. James chose to Fly rather than to Treat Jacobite First the P. of Orange never offer'd a Treaty Secondly When the King offer'd it and sent the Lords Hallifax Nottingham and Godolphin to Treat with the Prince and offer'd all Desir'd in the Prince's Declaration viz. Leaving all to a Free Parliament His Highness Return'd such an Answer as made it Visible to all the World he came not to Treat It is inserted p. 93. of the History of the Deser wherein he Demands that the King shall immediately give up the Tower of London Tilbury Fort and Portsmouth That all Papists and others not Qualify'd by Law who adher'd to the King should be Disarm'd Disbanded c. while he himself had more Foraign Papists in his Army than the King had of His own Subjects in His And as if the Law Countenanc'd his Invasion and the Subjects Rising in Arms with him against the King more than the King 's Employing all the Hands he could get upon such an Apparent Necessity Nay more they would not Submit to ask Pardon from the King for their Treason and Rebellion but they must not have so much as an Ill Word nor have it said that they had done Amiss and therefore it was Demanded in the Second Article that all Proclamations which did but Reflect upon the Prince or those who Declar'd for him should be Recall'd By what Name would they have had the King call their Rising against him But farther yet they were not only not to be in any manner Reproach'd for what they had done but to be Rewarded and Incourag'd to Persist it was Demanded Art 6. that the King should Pay them and Assign a Sufficient Part of the Publick Revenue for the Support and Maintainance of the Prince's Troops Such Demands made to a Crown'd Head in his own Kingdom By a Son and a Nephew by a Subject Prince and Servant to a Common-Wealth And by a Company of his own Rebel Subjects whose Advice and Concurrance is Mention'd in the said Demands This Answer was given upon Sunday 9th Decem. 88. his Highness's Lucky Day for Business But let us go on a little and you shall see how Inclinable the Prince was to a Treaty After the King was Taken and Barbarously Treated at Feversham when as the History of the Descr tells p. 102 103. The Body of the Peers of England had according to their Duty sent the Lords Feversham Atlesbury Yarmouth and Middelton most Humbly to Entreat his Majesty to Return to White-Hall The P. of Orange in Opposition to them sent Mounsieur Zulestein with a most Insolent Command to the King to Continue at Rochester for he would have no Treating with him And the next
Day viz. 16. Dec. 88. when the King sent the Earl of Eeversham with a Letter to the Prince Inviting him to a Personal Treaty his Highness contrary to the Laws of God of Nature and of Nations not only Refus'd to Return any Answer but made the Earl a Prisoner which was a Treatment no one King would give to another tho' they were at open Wars But the Priviledge of an Ambassador from a King within his own Kingdom could not Secure that Messenger who brought any Offers of a Treaty And to prevent the like for the Puture the very next Day viz. 17. Decem. 88. his Highness Supriz'd the King his Father in his Bed after Eleven at Night and having Order'd Count Solmes to Dispossess the King's Guards of their Posts at White-Hall and place his Dutch Guards in their Room he sent Three English Lords with an Order Sign'd under his own Haâ—d to Remove their King from White-Hall because his Highness was to be there and peremptorily to Limit his Majesty to the Place whither he was to go nor had the King Liberty to Choose any other Place without Leave first Ask'd and Obtain'd from his Highness but still under his Dutch Guards And his Majesty was positively Requir'd to be gone by such an Hour least he should Meet the Prince so much as upon the Road. This was a hopeful way of Treating And so Modestly Managed that all the World stands Amaz'd at him who never said or did an Insolent thing For which Vertue alone for no other is to be Found or Nam'd in the Famous Thanksgiving Sermon above quoted his Character is Advanc'd above that of the Great French Monarch being Introduc'd in the Comparison with A Greater than he is here Fulsom Cant and Prophane But how could it be expected that he came to Treat Who in a Hostile Manner Entred the King 's own Palace and Castle of Windsor and as a Conqueror Erected his Standard upon that Noble Castle 14. Decem. 88. as the History of the Deser Braggs p. 103. Thus much the Jacobites Answer to your Objection of K. James's not Accepting of a Treaty Pamphlet p. 9. He the Author of Britains Complaint Accuses the Prince for sending him K. James by Water at an Vnseasonable Time thereby Indangering his Health forgetting that K. James went in the Night by Water the very Week before of choice when he crost the River in order to his first Attempt to get into France and this without any Damage to his Health How does this Author know that So that he us'd himself as Ill as the Prince us'd him Jacobite Surely this is the Smartest Defence that ever was made and shews the Prince's Great Concern for K. James's Health What To Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself Because a Man that Flys for his Life would Leap over a Precipice therefore without any Unkindness you may Throw him over for you Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself But yet it was a great deal Worse that the P. of Orange Us'd the King than he Us'd himself For as this Author tells it he only Crost the River but the Prince sent him to Graves-End by Water and that against Wind and Tide and as Britains Complaint says p. 10. The King was Refus'd his own Coach to Carry him by Land tho' he Declar'd that he could not Travel by Water in so Cold a Season and so Great a way without Manifestly endangering his Health Which the Answerer does not Deny Pamphlet As to his King James's Writing to the Bishops his Speaking to the Bishop of Winchester or to Sir R. Clayton or to other Citizens all this is an impudent Fiction The Bishop of Winchester protests that no such Proposition was ever made to him the same is Avorred by Sir R. Clayton Jacobite And hoth their Credits are come to be alike but there are others of better Reputation who do own it and will make Oath that Sir Sim. Lewis did confess it And the Persons who brought the Messages from the King both to the City and Bishop of Winchester will Depose it and Prove it by undeniable Vouchers And had the Courage to go to the Bishop of Winchester upon Monday Morning the 9th of last Janua 92 93. accompanied with a present sitting Lord of Parliament and a Knight of great Honour and Tax'd the Bishop with his having received such a Message from the King which his Lordship Denyed at first with an Oath But the Person binding him with Tokens as that his Lordship kissed the King's Seal which that person brought as a Credential from the King and naming another Person of Note who was present at the delivery of the Message that his Lordship Reply'd he could not give his Answer till next day that then he told that Person he had wrote to the King and that the Bishops were not able to Protect his Majesty and therefore durst not undertake so Great a Trust as the Security of his Majesty's Person and several other Circumstances Upon which the Bishop said That it was possible his Memory might fail him and that though it were so what needed all this stir about it now and that he perceived they had a mind to Expose him and for that Reason as those present and we may reasonably suppose he still continued to Deny the Matter but so faintly and with such confusion as made it Evident to those Noble Persons present that he had Received such a Message but was not willing expressly to own it after having Forsworn it Tho' he Confessed all the Particulars as that Person coming to him c. And from the same Infirmity of his Memory if you please you may imagine it proceeded that he did not Communicate this Message of his Majesty's to the rest of his Brethren the Bishops but Returned the bovesaid Answer in their Names of which their Lordships do justly Complain Pamphlet p. 26. Nor hath he K. W. refused any Acts of this kind viz. Redressing of Grievances which the Parliament hath offered him Jacobite This instead of a Vindication is a manifest exposing of K. W. being such an Evident Protestatio contra Factum for it is publickly known that last Winters Session he Rejected the Judges Bill which Pass'd both the Houses and which therefore to be sure they thought necessary for the Good of the Nation and conducive to make the Judges Bold and Honest in their Station Pamphlet p. 9. The Convention Refus'd to Receive or Read the Letter which King James wrote to them from St. Germains which continu'd his CLAIM according to Mr. Sam. Johnson p. 16. of his Address to the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled and confuted the Desertion because they were told that HE wrote in the Stile of a King Jacobite That was smart He shou'd have Subscrib'd Your Honours most Humble and most obliged Servant as iâ— Duty bound James Stuart His FATHER'S Executioner gave Him the Title of Majesty upon the Scaffold Sir I had