Murdered 300000 Protestants in the Kingdom of Ireland Here Gadbury falls to his old way of quibling again and gravely tells you That it must be either lawful or unlawful if the latter all good men will bewail the Misfortune but if the former he would very fain know how men acting under a lawful Authority and not going beyond their Commission can be guilty of Murder So that at the first dash the Fellow tells us that they were Murdered by Order and says that it is not Murder if they do not go beyond their Commission Here he shews himself a right Saint of Rome and a Casuist for the Devil The meaning of his words is no less than this that if any Popish King shall give a Commission to his Banditi Jamsaries or Murderers to cut the Throats of all his Protestant Subjects if they do not go beyond that Commission and cut the Throats of more than all then it is no Murder Why because he tells you it is done by a Lawful Authority and this calculated for the Meridian of England So that you see he is not for denying the thing nor the person but justifies it to be Lawful because done by Commission And then asketh how I will prove it or whether I can shew any one of the Commissions c. In answer to this There needs no other proof that the Massacre in Ireland was done by Authority than the late Kings Letter to the Court of Claims in behalf of the Lord Antrim the Chief Commander in that horrid Murder Where he tells them that the forementioned Lord had done nothing but what was by the Order of his Father the Royal Martyr and his pious Queen Besides when the charitable Collections were made in London and other parts for the relief of the distressed Protestants that had escaped the Murderers hands and were sent away in order to go for Dublin they were all stopt at Chester and there rotted and perished under the Wall of that City Now by whose power this was done I will leave to the Readers Judgment and for its truth 't is beyond all question Now Countrymen is not this a good warning to Protestants to look to themselves seeing they are told by so notorious a Papist as John Gadbury is that the cutting the Throats of 300000 Protestants in pursuance of the Kings Commission is not Murder Page 6. Of the Murder of Sir Ed. Godfrey at Somersethouse How now Jack what deny that Murder to be in Somersethouse thou dost act thy part as if thou hadst been a Papist these 40 years an absolute Juggler what hath thy new Religion so suddenly inspired thee with its Master-piece of Impudence Thou out-dost all thy Wafer-Godmakers for they perswade us to believe but a little kind of a Cheat about Conjuring Bread and Wine into Flesh and Blood by the vertue of hoc est corpus that is Hocus Pocus but thou dost endeavour to out-face a Truth that no man but those concerned in it can have any cause to question The King Lords and Commons Judges Juries and all unconcern'd persons that have ever heard the Evidence are assured of its truth beyond the least doubt But thou armed with Pardon Pension Guilt and Impudence dost declare to the world that thou wouldest be of any side for Mony. And for Prance's pleading guilty to an Indictment of Perjury I wonder you are not ashamed to mention it if you consider that we know he was hired to do it and that by the Priest at White-hall c For I saw the Letter in his own hand that was sent to him by the order of his Wife 's two Brothers both Popish Priests and others of that Tribe in Which they promised his Pardon and that he should again live like a Man if he would come over and tell the truth about that Murder he then being at Amsterdam upon this he said That to tell the truth in their sense was to forswear all he had swore before and desired Ged to renounce him if all he had sworn about Godfrey 's Murder were not true and that if he should ever deny it he desired us all that were then in Company which were about five or six to call him perjured Rogue and let him deny this if he can Thus Reader you see what stress they lay on the Perjury of this poor deluded Rascal Yet neither he nor this man nor their Wafer-Godmakers themselves have hitherto been able to give better Answers and Arguments to desprove it but to say they are mere Stories And for the vizzanded Villains he speaks of one of them is well known namely the then Queens Confessor who there brandished his Sword on the Scaffold for joy the King was beheaded Page 7. Since that Pious Prince Charles the Second dyed a Roman Catholick and yet Head of the Church of England Here my Friend at the first dash doth confess that pious Prince did dye a Roman Catholick Really the old Gentleman is mightily obliged to him for his kindness to tell it so impudently that he lived a Hypocrite and died an Idolater For it is well known he did communicate three times every year with the Church of England in the Sacrament And yet by this Man he is affirmed to be a Roman Catholick Now confider if he was a Papist Do you think he was not a precious pious Head of a Protestant Body and the Church of England in a fine condition to be protected and defended from Popery by a Prince of that perswasion and the Holy Sacrament of our Lord is by the Lords Annointed made a Decoy to cheat the People into the belief that he was a Protestant But my Adversary says that the Traytors plotted against him while he was not declared to be a Papist and mentions the Rye-house Truly Jack if you did not know or at least believe he was a Papist then you were a very ignorant Fellow for it was was well known that he was so at his first coming into England in the year 1660. And when he talks of the Rye-house Plot he says The King 's precious Life was in danger Why was it more in danger at that time than when Jack Gadbury was in the Meal-Tub scouring Dangerfields Kettle with Mrs. Celier to prepare him for the Murder of that pious King c. I think not but besides the Fanaticks did but talk of killing him but the Papists did it effectually In the conclusion my Adversary takes care that I may know what the Church of England is and therefore directs me to a Treatise called Good Advice c. written by William Pen the pretended Quaker who is a Socinian as appears by his Sandy Foundation shaken where he downright denys the Trinity and a Papist as all men may judg by his Promotion and Favour at White-hal at this time of day so that I am like to be well informed of the Doctrine of the Church of England by such a Fellow as this is And to be plain with
A Short ANSWER TO A Malicious Pamphlet called A Reply Written by JOHN GADBURY the King of England's Juggler and Astrologer in Ordinary to the Pope to help on the work THis Gadbury being a new Convert to Popery hath to admiration armed himself with a vast Stock of Impudence and Villany and these being joined to Folly and Lying makes the Fellow the more Eminent and Notorious as if these qualifications were inherent principles to his new Religion And now he appears barefaced in defending Popery pretending to write a Reply by way of Answer to an Almanack for the Year 1687 designedly writ to ridicule and oppose that Lying Religion And this Reply of his is nothing else but a bundle of lies and forgeries to abuse the Author of that Almanack without the least ground imaginable to give Popery a Recommendation to the World and to vindicate the villanous Agents in the present design of Subverting the Government and Religion of England And in this Answer I shall omit the taking notice of the major part of his Nonsense and Lies as being not worth my pains nor the Readers time to examine and imploy these few Pages to examine and refute those things that are more remarkable the rest being easie and obvious to every impartial man and in the first place I will give you a Character of the Fellow that you may thence guess at his Credit in every thing else that he pretends like a Champion to defend Ex pede Hercules First then This Fellow was by his Father brought up in the Doctrine of the Church of England while he was young and in this he continued for some years but after he came to London as he tells us in his Doctrine of Nativities he shook off that and went among the Presbyterian and Independent Congregations and followed them so long that he says in that Book they made him almost mad by preaching up the Doctrine of Free Grace So that he then began to think of inquiring after a new Religion And the first that he pitcht upon and best pleased his vicious Inclinations was that prophane Persuasion called Ramters Familists or sweet Singers of Israel a sort of profuse debauched Atheists at that time very numerous and to this he was Converted or as the Cant then was Begotten in the Faith by Abiezer Cope whose Piety and Reverence to a Deity may be guest at by this Expression of his who when he was committed to Newgate by the Parliament for spreading his damnable Heresie and being brought to the Prison door he set his Arms on kembo and said Be thou opened thou Everlasting doors and let the King of Glory come in And by the way as he was carried to Prison our Juggler hung on his Coach-side to beg his Blessing calling him Father and in this pious profession Jack grew in a short time so good a Proficient that at London-wall being more than half drunk he undertook to preach his Text being these Words And Jephthah was the Son of a Harlot Judges xi ver 1. This Religion after some time grew out of Fashion with our Juggler and then he was again upon the hunt for a new one and as it happened Cromwel had then taken upon him the Government and Jack began to think of learning the Art of Whineing that he might Cant at Whitehall for he is certainly as all Sycophants are always and in all times of the Government side be it never so base and lawless And to this end he began to ingratiate himself there and make friends to Cromwel that he might be permitted to dedicate his Doctrine of Nativities to him but in this he was prevented to his great grief and I am credibly informed that he had promised all that a base Fellow could to be a Creature in that Government to the best of his power but was not accepted Cromwel being dead and the King likely to return he then began to set up for a Church of England-man and Loyalty complaining of his hard usage in the time of Rebellion and then it was Charles the Martyr at every word In this Course and Cant he went on for some years railing at the Rebels in defence of the Church of England as now he doth at the Church of England in defence of Popery till he was taken notice of by the men then in Power In the Year 1666 he removed to Westminster and turned a Whitehall Broker which in plain terms is a Pimp in which Profession he did mighty well And having used the Trade a few Years and found the Inclination of the Court he began to abuse Parliaments among those he durst trust of whom I was one we then being intimate to cry up the Kings Absolute Power and ridicule all and every thing that was against Popery which indeed at that time was a great Argument to me that Popery was growing upon us for I then thought he spoke the true Language of Whitehal And now the Fellow began to grow intimate with Popish Priests in whose Company I have been with him he then hoping to make me as very a R as himself to accomplish which and bring me off from my Principles he would often tell me that Religlon was nothing else but a Cheat a Bugbear and a meer trick of State. About the Year 1677 and forwards he then being intimate with that worthy Matron Mrs. Cellier Midwife to the Popish Plot and his Kinswoman whose Narrative he afterwards writ she came to him to ask an Astrological Question and that was Whether Dangerfield was fit to be trusted or not Trusted to do what to Kill the King. No No but to know whether Dangerfield was fit to be trusted to get in her Husbands Debts who was a Bankrupt and had never a penny owing to him But this was the sham Question that she told the Council to excuse her self So Dangerfield was trusted and his business was to Kill the King and this by Gadbury's direction as you may see at large in Danger-fields Depositions In 1679. our Squire was for that committed to the Gate house where he used in my hearing to rail often against his Cozen Cellier calling her Whore and Bitch and said she had ruined him and had undoubtedly been hanged if he had come to his Tryal which to prevent he sent a large Bribe to Sir T. D. to desire him to procure his Pardon But that Gentleman's honesty and integrity was above Bribery and besides he knew by what he had confest before the Council too much of his Villany to be concerned in his Pardon and so refused Then he sent 100 Guinea's to the late Lord Angle-say to beg the same thing of him to which his Lordship condescended and by his Endeavour his Pardon was past and he pleaded it in Westminster-Hall the Hillary Term following and so escaped hanging at that time and when he came out of Prison he was by the Papists presented with 200 pound for his faithful Service in the Cause because
him upon what direction he Astrologically dyed and with a great deal of sop-gravity he told him that it was the Physicians chereby intimating that the Physicians had murdered him which was very disingenious of him to blame those Gentleman that used their utmost endeavour to preserve him but indeed he could give no true account of his death Astrologically nor really any at all tho he dyed upon the operation of six or seven Directions and therefore he was obliged to make use of any Sham to stop the Gentlemans mouth that asked him In Page 32. he shews his Skill in Astrology where he denies that the part of Fortune can be directed for lâ—â—e Pray Mr. Gadbury what direction kill'd Charles the first of England I know your Answer for you can make no other but this that he suffered upon the Direction of the Ascendent to the Square of Mars if so why did not the Ascendent to the Square of Mars kill in the Earl of Essex his Nativity Like Causes like Effects for none of your Shams shall pass upon me can you resolve this point now with all your Skill And in the Earl of Strafford's Nativity you make the Midheaven to the body of Saturn kill and the Sun is giver of Life Yet in the Nativity of the Princess Royal the Mid-heaven to the body if Mars gives Marriage is not this fine Stuff And in the Case of Henry the Eighth and Queen Mary neither the body nor the opposition of Saturn would kill are not you ashamed of this Nonsence if you are not you may But I shall expose you and your Collection in a treatise by it self in which Case I will use you very kindly but in the mean time pray tell us fairly in print what Direction it was that kill'd that worthy Gentleman Sr. Frech Hollis He that you promised him he should live some decades of years and he was shot to pieces within fix Months after Just so you will cheat the Papists and your Master too for the part of Fortune is Hileg in his Nativity and so it was in his Fathers Pray tell us by what Rules in Astrology you predicted the Queen of England should be brought to bed of a Boy in the year 1686. Did not the Devil and the Priests deceive you that bout I suppose it was a Whitehal Scheam which you judged that by perhaps of the same mans setting as that was which you predicted the taking away the City of Londons Charter by though you laid the sham on an Eclipse of the Moon you know Now when you have considered all this Nonsense Sham and Cheat how can you have the impudence to pretend to be Master and Teacher of any other Astrology than a false one and who do you think will believe you Fools excepted Likewise in the same Page 32. he is so notoriously bold as to deny my quotations from Ptolomey that is lib. 3. Chap. 12. de parte Fortunae and Chap. 13. Quot sint Prorogatores The first of which he says treats of de Impedimentis Infirmitatibus Nati c. and the second de qualitatibus Animae Nati Now I will appeal to all those Gentlemen that have that worthy Author by them of the best Impression which is that of Melancthon who is in the truth He or I for if the 12. and 13. Chapters of the third Book of Ptolomeys Quadripartite doth not treat the one departe Fortunae and the other de Prorogatoribus then I never have read that Book in my whole life But I suppose this Fellow hath cheared himself with the Translation of Camerarius which is the worst in being but it is indeed good enough for him for if he had a better he knows not what use to make of it Now you that are able to examine this Case and judge it will see what a strange Fellow I have here to do with for the two Chapters he there alledgeth are the 17. and the 18. of that third Book In Page 33. he tells us that he was there about to lay by his pen but upon new Considerations fresh Matter came in and my prevarications and abuse of art makes him enter into a long preamble about the Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter of which he gives you a very lame account but it serves to those that do not understand better but to what purpose he luggs them in I know not neither can I apprehend any occasion for them in his pretended answer to that Alman In Page 40. he brings in the Palladium of Rome to shew you that it is under no such misfortunes as I pretend to say it is neither says he is there any reason for it in the figure he produceth in the first place I never spoke any thing as to the Buildings and Foundations of Rome but the Cheating Crew that there resides for it is not against the stone Walls that I shoot but the Murder Idolatry and Villany of those that pretend to be the Head Members and Body of that cursed Antichristian Society who prophanely call themselves the Church of Christ and Christians for in the same Houses there might good pious People dwell were these removed or destroyed and Rome may be Rome when the Pope and all his Lewd Buggering Clergy are gone But if Gadbury pleaseth to consider the present Affairs between the King of France and the Pope and how dreadfully that Storm threatens the Holy See if it goes forward I suppose he will not be so impertinently positive in his Judgment from the Palladium now as he was at the writing of that Malicious Pamphlet Again let him with this also consider how the Lords Inquisitors and Cardinals did handle the Pope in the Affairs of Molinos I think this is an untoward Omen to the Grandeur of the Infallible Power lodged in the Pope as they say Which is further aggravated by that slight they put upon his Bull at Colien all which considered together tells us that either the Palladium is a false position or else the Prophetical Interpreter thereof gives a Lying Judgment to delude the Papists c. Rome stands 't is true unable to defie One Monarch's Fury or our Prophesy In Page 42. the Fellow tells us that the Heavens shew glorious things not only to England and Rome but to all Christcadom to the advancement of the true Religion and the depression of Heresy and Schism This Heresy that he here speaks of is the Protestant Religion and the 〈◊〉 of the Church of England which you see he hath here 〈◊〉 to destruction and ruin for which they are infinitely obliged to 〈◊〉 and the true Religion to be advanced and established is Popery in which this Fellow is imbarked In Page 46. he says Dangerfield was fetcht out of prison by a kind-hearted old Woman which was Mrs. Cellier the pillory'd Popish Midwife Well Jack did She release him from thence for pure Charity 's sake or not No he was to be her Stallion to kill the King and to