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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43666	Ravillac redivivus, being a narrative of the late tryal of Mr. James Mitchel, a conventicle-preacher, who was executed the 18th of January last, for an attempt which he made on the sacred person of the Archbishop of St. Andrews to which is annexed, an account of the tryal of that most wicked pharisee Major Thomas Weir, who was executed for adultery, incest and bestiality : in which are many observable passages, especially relating to the present affairs of church and state / in a letter from a Scottish to an English gentleman.	Mitchel, James, d. 1678, defendant.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Weir, Thomas, 1600?-1670, defendant.	1678 (1678)	Wing H1860; ESTC R10945	57,651	80

Mitchel's Principles fell upon him that bore them and broke them all in pieces and had not the Tumult been timely suppressed by some moderate Spirits abominable Barbarites had ensued for some maintain'd that if right were done Her Majesties Priests should have been slain according to Gods Law against Idolaters It would be endless to trace these Principles down from the time of the Original Presbyterians to these unhappy days you may see enough of them in the Parliament Sermons and innumerable other Pamphlets of the late times How often did the late Presbyterian Preachers Commend the House of Commons for their Zeal and ransack the old Testament for examples and precepts to perswade the giddy Vulgar that the Rebels fought the Lords Battels and that their cause was his How often did they compare the most active of them to Gideon Samson and Phineas and complement the worthies of the late long Parliament in England as Gregory the 15th Complimented the last King of France when he raised an Army for the extirpation of the Protestants in the Glorious name of the Lord of Hosts Did not that darling of the Faction Mr. Calamy in the bloody Speech which he made in 43. at the Guildhall of London to the Citizens to perswade them to contribute largely towards the bringing in of our Scottish Army justifie himself from the objection of his own tender Conscience that he being a Minister of the Gospel should stir them up to make War by taking an Apology from Numb 10. and Deut. 20. where God ordained that the Sons of Aaron the Priests should sound the Alarm with the Silver Trumpets and that the Priest should make a Speech to encourage the people going out to Battel to fight for the Lord of Hosts So that Naphthali Nehushtan and Mitchels Papers are but the last improvement of the Presbyterian Logick and Zeal which makes our Conventicle-Preachers ride about with Guards like petty Princes and their followers more like Soldiers than Christians come Armed by Thousands into the Field They are now arriv'd at the highest pitch of Enthusiasm and Bigotry and are as ready upon all occasions to do as much for the Spiritual Crown of Christ which they think inconsistent with the Mitre as the Men of the Fifth Monarchy principles are ready to do for the Temporal Kingdom of Jesus So that if God in his good Providence had not sent down the Duke of Lauderdale among us to prevent the storms that were ready to arise in all human probability this Kingdom had been involv'd in such a violent Rebellion as could not have been quell'd without extrinsecal force His Grace came hither without any prospect of trouble and the incredible numbers of Nobility and Gentry that throng'd to meet him several days Journey on English ground were enough to make him presume that all would be quiet and serene But he had not been many days among us when he was surpriz'd with the news of great insolencies and disorders caus'd by the Field-Conventicles in the West Now to make you understand what Wind blew up that secret flame and how those evil principles probably came to be put into fermentation I must lead you back to the year 1674. when some whose discontents far exceeded their causes under the old pretence of redressing grievances did design something else and thereby almost render'd the Parliament useless for the publick ends for which it was call'd The Duke of Lauderdale was then His Majesty's High Commissioner and there was not one real grievance of which he himself did not propose the removal nor any one pretended concerning which he was not willing to treat and if it were found to be really such to have it redress'd in an orderly fair and legal manner according to the fundamental constitutions of the house But this would not satisfie their discontents which enough demonstrates that something else was designed besides the removal of grievances whereupon his Grace returning to Court to give an account of affairs to his Royal Master such great confusions appeared among us as naturally follow palliated discontents Then did Welsh and other declared Traitors take the confidence to Preach openly in Fife and Tiveot-dale which before had been orderly places and there they were entertain'd and encourag'd to debauch the People from their Duty to the King and the Church And if these bold attempts and disorderly practises had not then been timely quell'd by his Grace's care and conduct it is easie to Divine to what eminent hazard our Peace and Government had been expos'd Whether our Fanaticks were then under-hand encourag'd to commit these insolencies by designing malcontents time the revealer of secrets may shew but it is beyond all peradventure that scandalous and unseasonable divisions caus'd by nothing but envy and discontent did then animate and embolden them to these turbulent practices and therefore it seems not improbable that the same discontented party envying the Duke his glorious reception and the just esteem he hath with his Prince and intending to frustrate his best counsels and endeavours for preserving this and by consequence the Kingdom of England in Peace have now conjured up the Fanatical Spirit again to act in more insolent irregularities than at any time heretofore But let the cause be what it will the Conventicles were never so numerous and frequent as they now began and sometime after continued to be in Fife Clidsdale Tiveot-dale Galloway Sterling shire and Carrict the last of which Shires had always been peaceable and orderly till now when they all conspir'd to invade the publick peace At these Field-Conventicles would meet sometimes 5. or 6. thousand sometimes eight or nine thousand at a time as many of which as were fit to bear Arms and could provide them never fail'd to come appointed into the Field For this reason our Laws and Proclamations stile these Field-meetings Rendezvouzes of Rebellion which is as modest a Name as they can deserve For most of the principle Preachers among them as Welsh and Arnott are either attainted or declared Traytors and were actors in the Rebellion of 66. and the Harangues for I will not call them Sermons which they make to the People tend to nothing but to make them rebel and possess them with hatred against the King and the Church In October last at Sanchil in Carrict Mr. Welsh attended with seven or eight seditious Preachers made a preachment to the principal division of a multitude upwards of 7000. people upon St. John 11. 34. 35. In this Preachment among much other Treasonable stuff he spoke these words The King the Nobles and the Prelates are sure the Murderers of Christ and then sitting down in his chair he said Oh People I will be silent Speak O People and tell me what good the King hath done since his home-coming yea hath he not done all the mischief a Tyrant could do At another Conventicle not long after he spoke thus or to this purpose That he was confident that God