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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47942	A word concerning libels and libellers humbly presented to the Right Honorable Sir John Moor, Lord-Mayor of London, and the Right Worshipfull the aldermen his bretheren / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1327; ESTC R21957	9,783	16

Rascal a Drunken Blaspheming Wretch a Sworn Papist One that has Whor'd his Mother Betray'd his Prince and in short 't is but Raking of Hell for a Catalogue of the most Damning Sins that ever carried any man thither to furnish out the Character of a Person that Honestly Interposes betwixt Religion and Sacrilege betwixt Sedition and the Laws betwixt the Prince and the Regicide and betwixt Order and Confusion Neither are the King's Ministers Magistrates Justices Juries and Witnesses nay the King himself one jot more respectfully handled in Baldwin's two Parts of the No Protestant Plot and the Scandals run through from one end to the other Janeway in his strange News from Hicks's Hall calls the Middlesex Justices Adulterers Whore-mongers Swearers Drunkards Cheats Pag. 6. and Janeway again in his Ignoramus Justices but of the other day takes upon him to Arraign and Declare Law and to Juggle the People into a Mis-understanding and Contempt of all those wholsome Statutes which the Wisdom of our Fore-Fathers hath provided for the Security of the Protestant Religion and the Peace of the Kingdom With this Sawcy Reflection upon the Bench in the very Title Page Some Directions to the Officers that may be Threatned or Perswaded to Act by such Umwarrantable Orders from such IGNORAMUS JUSTICES It is the Opinion of Men well vers'd in the Trade of Book-Selling that there has not been so little as 30000 Ream of Paper spent upon this Seditious Subject in this Late Liberty of the Press But I shall stop here with an Humble Recommendation of the whole Matter to the Right Honourable your Lordship and to the Right Worshipful the Aldermen your Brethren I shall not need to suggest that the Government of the City can never be fafe while That of the Kingdom is in danger for it was notoriously the Effect of this intolerable Licence that subjected the Regular Authority of the City to Arbitrary Armies and Committees that stripp'd the Magistracy of their Privileges and Ornaments and set up Thimble-makers Dray-men and Coblers for their Lords and Masters I need not mind your Lordship of the Agreement betwixt the Past and Present Degrees Methods and Pretences of Proceeding betwixt their Godly Party and our True Protestants falsly so called nay I have heard of the same Faces now at work again under the same Vizors It is not a thing forgotten that when the fear of Tyranny was pretended the very Pretenders to those Fears exercised the most Barbarous Tyranny in Nature themselves nor was there ever so Base and Scandalous a Vassallage as that which the unwary Multitude drew upon themselves under the hope of Liberty The apprehensions of Popery Vanished in the Destruction of the Canonical Clergy the setting up of a Preaching Ministry concluded in the Plundering Ejecting Sequestring c. All the Orthodox and Loyal Divines of the Kingdom turning the Churches into Stables and supplying the Pulpits with Red-Coats and Mechanicks Consecrating at last the Pretended Purity of the Gospel with the most UnchristJan Outrages of a Barbarous Sacrilege A Tory is the Name now for a Popish Dogg or a Malignant of Forty One And the Insolency of the Rabble upon Captain Griffith in November last when they cry'd Kill him he 's a Tory Kill him knowing him at the same time to be an Officer of the Lieutenancy an Ancient Common Council-man and at that instant upon his Duty and within his own Precinct That Insolence with submission looks like an Earnest of their good Will to the subverting of the Government in General and that of the City in particular and an Essay toward the accomplishing of that Work To say nothing of other Inconveniencies that may arise by Forcing men upon Personal Revenges unless these Scandalous Liberties may be Adverted upon by Publick Justice Having here laid before your Lordship both the Quality of the Crimes suggested and the Names of several of the Criminals and all of them Persons too within the reach of your Command It is not so much L'Estrange as the Common Voice of an Injur'd Government and People that makes this Application But I am further to represent to your Lordship that at the same time while these Libellous Papers and Agents go Scot-free the Authors and Publishers of other Books and Papers whose Business is only to vindicate the Government from the Forgeries Calumnies Malice and Sedition of the Dayly Libels of Care Curtis Janeway Baldwin c. are Presented and the Bills found as Mrs Brome particularly for the Observator by a a c●rtain Grand Jury who according to their Oath could neither see nor hear of any thing on the other hand while yet at the same time almost every Stall is cover'd and every Coffee-House furnished with News-Papers and Pamphlets both written and Printed of Personal Scandal Schism and Treason But I shall now desire your Lordship and your Right Worshipful Brethren to take Notice what it is that the Animals of this Age call the Favouring of Popery and the Creating of Misunderstanding betwixt His Majesty and People The Observator Num. 27. after some Remarks upon the Practices and Positions of a Phanatical Party says to this purpose Never Mince the Matter but instead of Demanding This or That under a Disguise speak plain and put the Sence of the Party into the Form of a Petition And then follows the Petition at length in these very Syllables Your Majesties most Humble and Obedient Subjects having suffered many Disappointments by reason both of Short and of Long Parliaments and the late Executing of the Law against Dissenters the Pretences of Tyranny and Popery being grown stale the Popish Plot drawn almost to the Dregs and the Eyes of the People so far open that they begin to see their Friends from their Enemies to the Disheartning of All True Protestants and the Encouraging of the Sons of the Church We your Majesties Dissenting Subjects being thereby brought unto so low a state that without a Timely Relief We the Godly People of the Land must inevitably Perish May it please your Majesty to Grant the Right of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments Entring into Associations Leagues and Covenants the Power of the Militia War and Peace Life and Death the Authority of Enacting Suspending and Repealing Laws to be in your Liege People the Commons of England And these Things being Granted whereof your Petitioners stand in great need if your Majesty wants either Men or Monies for the Support of Your Royal Dignity and Government your Majesty shall see what we your Loyal Petitioners will do for you The Observator above-mention'd concludes in these Words All the Rest is Cant and Gibberish but This is English This Personated Petition is no more in fine than a Compendium of their Demands and Cemplaints dress'd up in their own Hypocritical Terms So that the Sedition lies in the Defending of the King's Crown and Dignity and the Laws of the Land which necessarily implies an Allowance and Justification of the Libellous Opposers of the Government FINIS John Kidgel● and Richard Baldwin Richard Baldwin Richard Janeway Richard Janeway Suppos'd by Baldwyn John Starkey Langley Curtis Hen. Care Hen. Care Langley Curtis Jo. Starkey Janeway Rich. Baldwin Care and Janeway Care and Janeway Janeway and Care Rich. Baldwin Janeway Janeway