the King's Subjects thinking thereby to ingratiate himself with the Factious Party to the end his mendicant condition may be a little supported being he has shipwrack'd his rusty credit with the Royal Party already who have put Remora's to his pimping under-hand dealings and anticipated the clandestine designs of his Brethren in iniquity the Whigs against them And all his Allegations against Witnesses is only to palliate the flagitious Machinations he was a hatching against the King the innocent Queen the Duke of York the Duke of Ormond and all his Children of whom he told my self The Three Kingdoms would never flourish till they were all Cut off for they were all Drones that was his expression which sucked all the Honey the purer sort of Bees culled for said he the King with his Mistresses eats up all the Fat of the Land and my Lord of Ormond and his Sons have ingrossed into their own hands the best part of Ireland But said he I have almost done their work by my management of the Irish Witnesses And still to give a further testimonial of his zeal to the sinking Cause he incorporates himself with the Whigs and offers impudently in the Face of the Sun to sereen their disloyal Proceedings against their Prince in saying The Irish Witnesses are suborned to drop the Popish Plot and fix another upon the Protestants I would ask one question of Hetherington Whether he knows actually of his own knowledge any Irish Papists that ever wished His Majesty any harm If he knows any he ought to discover them that such pestiferous Members may be cut off by Justice if not 't is an unchristian Action to accuse an innocent People upon the bare Surmises of a few lecherous Irish rascally Priests who have renounced their Functions and violated their Vows with God to satisfie their Beastly Concupiscence with the Whores of London But Hetherington's main scope in spattering of the Irish Witnesses and herding himself with the Whigs is because he may one day have Reprisals in lieu of his own fictitious Lands upon my Lord of Ormond's estate when the Work is effected as the Phanatiques phrase it for they are still so inchanted that they believe the Cause will be still Vpish notwithstanding all opposition and this gratification will be granted him by the Republican Party of England and Ireland for his assidual and indefatigable care by endeavouring to extirpate the Family of the Stuarts and their Adherents and perhaps as I have heard him say be remunerated with the honour of being Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland so that you may see he aims at no small matter but resolves to follow the old saying He violandum est jús regnandi gratia violandum est But let Hetherington and the Factious learn that our Sovereign's great wisdom extends as far as His Regal Power and that His Royal and mature circumspection has and will obviate the preposterous designs of those Seditious Incendiaries of State of which His Majesty never merited the least Disloyalty or ill Thought unless it be in graciously pardoning of them their black Treasons and excerable Murder of the Royal Martyr His Father King Charles of blessed memory for which detestable and crying Sin they deserved a total extinguishment and deletion Amongst all the Divine Graces and Blessings bestowed upon that Sacred Prince one is That Handkerchiefs dipped in his innocent Blood ured very often with a touch thereof the Kings-Evil and this is a certain truth that his very Enemies cannot impugn or gain-say Truly I may say of those Blood-hound Regicides what the great Tertullian pronounced against the Sins of Sodom and Gourorrha that Impiet as illa ignium meruit imbres For certainly no man since the Creation to this day ever heard or read either in Sacred or Profane History that a King which had three Kingdoms devolved to Him by so many Ages and legal Successions received Crowned and Anointed by the common Suffrage of all His People having likewise a long while governed and impartially administred the Laws for divers Years to all His Subjects should be at length Tryed and after Sentenced to be Murdered by a Company of Rake-kennels and lewd Presbyterians Had His present Majesty served these Rascals after His Restauration as Alexander the Great did to the Phanician Slaves who assassinated their Masters and usurped the Government to hang them up all there would be no Plots this day to disturb the Nation Although the old Cavaliers and their Children grumble sometimes of their hard usage since His Majesties Restauration yet we will not suffer in Cromwel's Fellow-Rascals to spurn against our Prince but we will cover the earth with our slain Bodies rather than flinch to support and perpetuate the Rights of the most Serene and Ancientest Monarch Charles II. this day in the Universe and His lawful Heirs and Successors whose Ancestors were Kings of Scotland and Ireland Three hundred and odd Years before the Birth of Christ and this glorious Prince is the 11th King of his own Family as I can prove by an ancient History I have by me Nor will our Loyal hearts ever allow our Sanction of any spurious or besotted Faction to steer the Helm of that Hierarchical Series of Kings And if our present Sovereign were pleased to call to mind the Noble Actions of his Grandfather Henry IV. King of France who spared neither Civilities nor Caresses to Gentlemen who served Him well he could still find Friends enough to espouse His Royal Cause and easily allay the Pride of His Rebellious Subjects 'T is reported of that Heroick Prince Henry IV. that after he was Crowned King of France he was wont to say these obliging words to those that fought for him and faithfully served him That it was great reason they should partake of his Feast since they served so well at his Nuptials with France 'T is also recorded of the same Prince That his very Enemies the Papists had more confidence in his Word alone than in the Writings of others Thus the prudent man never walks but by ways strait and virtuous the cunning on the contrary by paths oblique and wicked The prudent cannot but be generous and good whil'st the other cannot be but base deceitful and unworthy To return to our purpose As for my part I call God to Witness There is no King in the world I love better than Charles II. nor no Government under the Sun I love so well as Kingly Government 'T is true I was discontented because my Father's Estate was given to others without the least colour of Justice and he in his old days miserable and in extream want he and his Ancestors were always Loyal to the Kings of England and the himself was a Prisoner whil'st His Majesty was in Exile for adhering to the Marquis of Clanricard His Majesties Lord-Deputy in Ireland And whereas 't is reported by ill-affected persons That his ancient Estate or what Lands he pretends too was but 40 l. per annum 't is the
falsest Lye that ever was spoke by any man For what he had in his own possession before the late Wars besides several Reversions that fell to him since by his Birth-right if he could have the benefit of them or any other of his Pretensions I will maintain is above 400 l. per annum at this instant If any questions the reality of this Assertion he may have an account by the Post from the Auditor-General's Office in Dublin where he shall see inrolled a Patent in Hughboy-Heyns of Leidigane his name and how he held his Lands of the Crown by Knights-Service This is no Ostentation or Vain-glory but what I am compelled to write by the Laws of Nature and common Justice to release my Family who can vie in Blood or Descent with any in Ireland though not in Estate or borrow'd Honour from the waspish tongues of those who studied with all amaritude to spatter me and my Ancestors for my Loyalty to my Prince Hetherington says in his scurrilous Pamphlet That the English Witnesses herded themselves with these tainted Irish Cattle I would have the Vagabond Beggar learn to distinguish betwixt his infamous Rascals which he picked out of all the Gaols in the North of Ireland and the ancient Irish Gentry who never were contaminated or reputed base until those Rake-kennels of Oliver's Fellow-Brewers Tinkers Coblers Sweep-Chimneys Carr-men and Jakes-men c. were all planted in Ireland These sordid and dunghil Mechanicks instructed and seminated amongst the Irish all Vice and Wickedness so that instead of the Virtue and good Nature that was in the ancient Natives these forementioned Ruscals have taught them Disobedience and all manner of Villany Sure I am the most profound and learned both in Gospel Law and History of the Noble English Nation and formerly no ill Sentiment of the ancient Irish when they celebrated their Encomiums to Posterity in their famous Writings witness my L. Cook in his 4th Institutes fol. 349. For-I have says he been informed by many of them that had Judicial places there and partly of mine own knowledge that there is no Nation in the Christian world that are greater lovers of Justice than they are which virtue must of necessity be accompanied with many others and besides they are descended of the ancient Britains and therefore the more endeared to us Likewise Cambden fol. 370. Patricii discipuli tantos progressus in re Christiana fecerunt ut subsequenti aetate Ribernia sanctorum Patria diceretur Scoticts in Hibernia Britannia Monachis nihil sanctius nihil eruditius fuerit in universam Europam sanctissimorum virorum examina miscrint Jocelinus Anglus in vita sancti Patricii fol. 191. Ita ut Hibernia speciali nomine insula sanctorum ubique terrdrum jure nominaretur paulo post it a ut exteras atque longinquas regiones illustrarent verbo ac religionis exemplo The extraordinary Merits and Loyalty of the Irish Nation was declared in open Parliament 27. July 1660. by our most Gracious Sovereign Charles II. touching the Act of Indempnity in these words I hope I need my nothing of Ireland and that they alone shall not be without the benefit of My Mercy they have shewed much Affection to Me abroad and you will have a care of my Honour and what I promised them And another time His Majesty is pleased to own their Loyalty in His Declaration in these words And in the first place We did and must always remember the great Affection a considerable party of that Nation expressed to Us during the time of Our being Beyond the Seas when with all Chearfuness and Obedience they received and submitted to Our Orders and betook themselves to that Service which We directed as most convenient and behooveful at that time to Us though attended with inconveniency enough to themselves Which demeanor of theirs cannot but be thought very worthy of Our Protection Justice and Favor Here I could quote the Authority of many other ancient Authors besides our present Sovereigns most Gracious and Royal words in extolling the Irish Nation but this taste shall suffice to let all rational men understand the good opinion the English had of the Irish in former Ages And that the defection of Virtue in some few Irish had its emanation from the English Whigs planted in Ireland since 1641 is most apparent and perspicuous by the said Authorities before cited Thus the Phanaticks condemn the Irish for their Loyalty for 't is a common saying with them That none will side with the King but a Rogue or a Papist Here you may see how they crucifie Virtue and countenance Vice they hold Loyalty a Crime and Treason worthy of Reward and Applause Such mungrel Rascals as Petherington have always scandalized the Irish Nation who understands neither Honour nor Learning or the Principles of a true Moralist that says Est act us fortitudinis more pro Patria 'T is the greatest Valor in the world to dye for the good of ones Countrey And although he breathed his first Air in Ireland he is like the Moths or Caterpillary that destroy that gives them their Being or like the Snake that would infect the Countrey-man and his whole house that saved his life a little before from perishing in the Snow There is no English Whig that maliciously reflects upon the transactions of the Irish if he will retrospect and ruminate seriously what intestine Wars and broils the Presbyterians created in these three Kingdoms and how their trayterous and murderous Actions of the Best of King and His Subjects renders them infamous and odious to God and man he can say but very little against the Irish I have seen a learned Treatise in Latine proving the necessity of that War raised by the Irish having begun it in their own defence to prevent the general ruine and destruction designed against the Kingdom and themselves by the beggarly Presbyterian Party that resolved to thrust them out of home and house for no other reason but because they were Papists Yet I will never vindicate any Subject that flies to Arms or to any manner of Hostile Commotion upon any specious pretences whatsoever without his Princes Commission or Power for according to St. Paul's Rule We must not commit evil that good may come thereof but we ought to submit in every thing to our Superiors and not be Judges of our own Cause The Irish Rebellion is more excusable than that of the English Whigs who had no colour to invade the Prerogatives of their Prince not Elective ad nutum populi but Successive by many Ages and that established by all the fundamental Laws of England And whosoever will but read that learned and pious Work Icon Basilikè of King Charles I. where he writes of the Rebellion of Ireland and seiriously balances the occasion of their raising in that Kingdom can never harbour such ill thoughts of the Irish as is spread abroad of them by their constant Enemies the Whigs
And that Royal Martyr having a deep sense of the daily Injustice done to that Nation by those who thirsted after Irish mens Estates more than the settlement of a Peace and Unity writes of that Rebellion in these words following And certainly 't is thought by many wise men that the preposterous Rigour and unreasonable Severity which some men carried before them in England was not the least Incontive that kindled and blew up into those horrid flames the sparks of discontent which wanted not predisposed Fewel for Rebellion in Ireland where despair being added to their former discontent and the fear of future extirpation to their wonted oppressions it was easie to provoke to an open Rebellion a People prone enough to break out to all exerbitant violence both by some Prinicples of their Religion and the natural desires of liberty both to exempt themselves from their present Restraints and to prevent those After rigours wherewith they saw themselves apparently threatned by the covetous Zeal and uncharitable Tury of some men who think it a great argument of the truth of their Religion to endure no other but their own In another place the same Royal Martyr says treating still of the same Rebellion That Men are more greedy to kill the Bear for his skin than for any harm be hath done The confiscation of Mens Estates being more beneficial than the charity of saving their Lives or reforming their Errors And thus this Wise and most Christian Prince considered the Tyrannical Usuage of the Irish under those hellish Fiends the Presbyterians who in those days governed Ireland and forced the Natives to Rebel of purpose to get their Estates as we afterwards saw by woful experience The Emperour Honorius was of the same Sentiment with our Royal. Martyr the said Honorius having discover'd the treasonable practices of Eucherlus against himself and his Empire told the said Eucherius as follows Three sorts of Traytors are to be considered said he by the Sovereign Prince viz. He that commits Treason out of Discontent or Injury done him is pardonable He that acts Treason out of madness is to be pitied And finally He that perpetrates Treason ex dominand libidine ought to feel the keenness of the Axe for said he Ense recidendum est immedicabile Vulnus Which last Sentence I wish His Majesty would put in execution against all those that thirst after Democracy for no other inducement or provocation but because they themselves would Rule all I would expose my Body to the flames of the most violent Fire like that gallant Roman Mucius Scaevola upon condition that His Majesty would make an Edict That all that served under the late Usurper or were Authors of the late Rebellion in Forty One might be banished out of the Three Kingdoms or stigmatized in the Forehead to distinguish them from the King's liege people then every honest man could sit under his own Vine and our King live in his Throne with Honour Tranquility Peace and Plenty hourly enjoying the Fruition of the hearts and affections of His Loyal Subjects until is pleased the Almighty to call Him to Himself and crown Him with immortal Glory Let the Whigs with all laudable Apology shroud their oblique Transactions and present Conspiracy against the King and Government and pretend to all the Loyalty and Innocency in nature none will believe them that has the least spark of reason for to my certain knowledge they have been a plotting these many years to plant a Commonwealth in England and Ireland c. And this is easily made manifest by their frequent Libelling against His Majesty by criminating Him of Incest with the Dutchess of P intimating that she was the Earl of st Alban's Daughter by the late Queen-mother of England Another Libel I saw reflecting upon the King 's Natural Children That His Majesty had Fifty five Royal Bastards Boys and Girls besides those that were in the Panniers That these in time would devour the Three Kingdoms unless they were all knocked in the Head That it was a deed of Charity to crush the old Serpent meaning the King lest He would fill the Land with His Lecherous Brood They have not spared His very Effigies or Statue that is set up in the Stocks Market to Libel against and the other Effigies of the old King set up at Charing-Cross and this Libel was called The Speech between the Two Horses Another of these Libels I saw where the Duke of Lauderdale perswades the King to Rule all by His own Great Will for it was a Mickle Shame for Majesty to be controuled by such prating Loons as were Members of the House of Commons Another of His Majesties Cabinet-Council in the said Libel desires the King to embrace the Mother-Church viz. Rome and destroy all the Hereticks in one Night as they were at Paris and then His Holy Father the Pope would Canonize Him a Saint for rooting out the Enemies of God and the Catholique Church For as the Pope gave Henry VIII the Title of Defensor Fidei so it was given to this King since His Restauration as the said Libel sets forth the Title of Restaurator Ecclesiae Catholicae habuit transmissum and illum Gladium Benedictum ad extirpandos expellendes Haereticos These are the very words of the Pamphlet Moreover That it was the worst thing that ever the Parliament did to settle the Militia upon His Majesty yet Charles could not live long because His whole mass of Blood was all corrupted in His Body as some of His own Physicians related to the Whigs That Nature was all consumed in Him only conserved for some interval of time by high Cordials But if He were once dead farewel then for ever Kings of England And unless the People could have their Ends by Parliament they would hire some of the King 's Physicians that would administer Him a Powder or some Poysonous Dose when He should fall into any Fit of Apoplexy of the same Nature with that which put a period to King James's days Being the Guards and Militia could not be taken from Him Other Pamphlets I have seen one whereof was so Satyrical and Malicious against Henry VII Owen Teusder his Grandfather and all the Welch that nothing could be more venomous The other was against King James and the Scotch Nation and what a great Vilification it was to the lofty hearts of English men to sloop to Welch and Scotch Beggars to reign over England c. These two last Pamphlets were the senecallest and odiousest that ever were penned by man insomuch that Nature it self would even blush to give the least auscultation to the perusal of any thing specified or included in them The person that caused the Sandals Crucifix and Beads several years ago to be fixed to Mr. Speaker's Chair in the House of Commons knew all the forementioned Pamphlets In this Epitome Reader you may see as in a transparent Glass the Phanatiques hearts by their exterior Deportments and Overt
lyed a thousand times to her face And were not all the opprobriums in nature cast upon that Royal Martyr King Charles I. before they brought His Royal Head to the Block Certainly if we do but look back into the Transactions of elapsed times there is no Family under the Sun ought to detest the Whigs more than the Royal Family of the Stuarts for since the Reformation in these Kingdoms that pest of People have not only Rebelled but also do facto murdered Three several Princes of the said Royal Family viz. Prince Henry King James's Father Queen Mary before-mentioned and the best of Kings Charles the late Royal Martyr Had the Whigs any grain of understanding they would never believe that the Author of ⋆ The Earl of S. would have have Holland destroyed Carthago delenda was ever a True Protestant but a Self interested States-mans not ambitious to propagate True Religion but avaritious to accumulate Riches and Honour to himself and to accomplish his unsatiable requests God is the Cloak wherewith he shades his Monstrous * Treason my be compared to a Monster Hydra And to attract a Popular Faction of purpose to acquire his unreasonable ends he deludes the ignorant sort of people with these bug-bear words Religion Property and Liberty are in a tottering state if the Duke of Y. be not Excluded 'T is an old Saying that quoties vis fallere plebem singe Deum If thou would'st deceive the Rabble pretend Piety Such is the subtilty of Crafty men in all Ages to insinuate into the minds of the Vulgar either out of Discontent or Self-interest Rebellion and Treason guilded over with the Blessed Name of * In nomine Domini incripit omne malum God These two Deified Pills viz. Rebellion and Treason exteriourly appearing specious to their corporeal senses though intrinsically venomous are unsensibly swallow'd by the inconsiderate sort of men and in time infects and pestifies their minds and bodies and takes such rooting in their Souls until the intellectual parts are depraved that nothing will stem them from revolution against the Government but the panick fear of a Gallows or being cut off by the Sword But let the States-man animadvert that there is ' no greater Glory than to learn to subdue Ambition when it floweth not from Justice and to endeavour to preserve our Conscience and Honour inviolable rather than acquire an Empire by sinister means Diadems won by ill ways are not Characters of Glory to those Heads that bear them but rather Wreaths of Infany such as are fixed on Varlets and Thieves And whereas 't is alledged in the said Pamphlet that it is altogether incredible that such a sagacious and wise Peer as the Earl of Sh. could be Guilty of so great an Errour as to make such Rascals as the Witnesses are for so the Pamphleteer calls them privy to his Secrets All men will deem the same as morally possible as it was for His Royal Highness and the Noble Lords in the Tower to communicate their Secrets to such Rascals as Thom. D ld and his Accomplices are There is none but a silly crack-obrain'd Whig would publish such a simple Argument For had he consulted the Records of Parliament and how the Noble Peer acknowledged his Errours upon his bended Knees before the Bar of the Lords in these words following he would not justifie the Earl's Infalibility These are the words I do acknowledge that my endeavouring to maintain that that the Parliament is Dissolv'd was an ill-advised action for which I bed the Pardon of the King's Majesty and of this most Honourable House And also I acknowledge that my bringing of an Habeas Corpus in the Kings-Bench during this Session was an high violation of your Lordships Priviledges and a great aggravation of my former Offence for all which I likewise most humbly beg the pardon of this most Honourable House Did not David err that was a man after God's own heart And also his Son Solomon with whom God Covenanted offer'd Victims to Idols and false Gods And shall the Phanaticks presume to say that he that was of the late Usurpers Factions contrary to his Allegiance and the Honour of a true Gentleman cannot err 'T is such a Non-sensical Assertion that none but a stupid Whig would write the same Besides has not the Noble Peer eaten of the King's Bread was he not promoted to all the greatest Preferments in England Si ingratum dâ—xeris omnia dâ—xeris next to a Crowned Heard And how he has remunerated His Majesty by his late Association against His Royal Person and Government I leave to the consideration of any sober person But such is the blind Zeal of those Factious Spawns of a Dunghil that they will Canonine any man a Saint after their own impious manner though never so wicked himself that espouses their Diabolical Intrigues OF the Witnesses that were suborned to appear against Mr. Heyns at Oxford when College was tryed take this short Relation Frist of Betty Oliver who has been a common Whore to several persons and especially to one Mr. Cock that was a Prisonet in the Fleet and after he relinquish'd her she had a Bastard by one Mr. Briwingham a Red-Coat Souldier now living in Tangier afterwards she lived in a Bawdy-house by Doctors Commons If any question the truth of this matter let them repair to the Fleet-Prison where they may be confirmed of most of the premisses but several persons there This Whore was suborned to appear against Heyns at Oxford by one Mr. Angel and the foresaid Cock the former having bought off the Pillory he being convicted of Forgery and several other Misdemeanours as Heyns will make appear if occasion requires The later is the greatrsts Whig and Rogue in Nature and a Pimp to his own Daughter He was a Prisoner in the Fleet for Cheating and Cozening and his Chamber whilst he remained there was always full of Pick-pockets Whores and Bawds As for Edm. Ev d he was born in Ireland his Father â—ilius populi in pain English a Bastard and all his life-time a common Beggar and a Plebean Ev d himself went into France when he was a Boy and one Monsieur Gilow a Ronish Priest seeing him begging like one of the Black-Guard-boys in the streets at Paris he took him up for Charity-sake and kept him till the Beggar began to grow pround but at last he was expelled out of the Colledge for a misdemeanour modesty obliges me not to divulge Afterwards Father Gascoine Sir Thomas Gascoine's Brother having kept a Community in the Colledge of Montague took him for Charity-sake to wipe his Shoes but committing some other Crime he dismiss'd him And afterwards he turned Footman to the Abbot of Rheni and remained in that station for some time One passage I must not omit of him which was this His Father being a common Beggar in Holland where he dyed came to Paris to visit his Son Edm. Ev d expecting some relief from him but he seeing his Father in a most despicable condition absolutely renoune'd the old man to be his Father notwithstanding all his Countrey-men then at Paris knew the same poor man to be his Father The old Beggar was fore'd to take his Staff and his Wallet and mump all the way back to Holland again He has this day a Wife at Paris a Bakers Daughter in the University but she knows not what corner of the Universe he lives in This Villain Ev d with A S and others instructed the most part of those Witnesses that appeared against Heyns at Oxford as some of the said Witnesses deposed upon Oath before a Magistrate since the Tryal of Stephen Colledge After he left being Foot-man at Paris he turned common Cheat for he used to have a Port-mantle stuffed with some heavy mettal and where-ever he took Lodgings he made the folks believe his Port-mantle was full of Cold and Silver and this course of life he led till he cozen'd hundred but a last he was seized upon at Pont-neufe in English New-bridge in Paris and carried before the Judge of Criminal matters who committed him in order to have him Hanged for you must understand Cheats are hang'd by the Civil-Law But his Countrey-men got him off because he was a stranger and a Roman Catholick and conveyed him out of Town in order to his coming for England where he has played several pranks and still will until the Hang-man sanctifies his Neck with a Rope Another of these Rascals that were suborned against Heyns is one H H a common Affidavit-fellow as seveeral in Town will witness when occasion serves This Hickman says he heard Heyns through a Key-hole say to one Mrs. Scot H 's Lodger it was Heyn's Trade to live by Swearing vide Colledg's Tryal fol. 40.41 where the Rascal says in these words I was at the Chamber-door and looked at the Key-hole and he sate at the window When the Varlet was asked by the Judge how long ago it was he heard Heyns say so to Mrs. Scot He replied it was a year and a half before the said Tryal of Colledge whereas it will be made out by the Gentlewomans Daughter and many more who live in Town that Mrs. Scot parted from London the 25th of July 1679. being the Feast of St. James which was 2 yearrs the 25th of July 1681. before the 17th and 18th of August when Colledge was tryed at Oxford so that A S and Ev d did not instruct him to a hairs breadth having mist half a year and above of the time he saw Mrs. Scot as he pretended in Heyns's Company This Villains Testimony against Heyns may be comparted to T O 's who swore he saw His Royal Highness the Duke of York at Mass peeping through a Key-hole Thus these Perjur'd Rascals have endeavoured to stifle the Truth against Stephen Colledge who was known by the very Whigs themselves to be a man of very pernicious Principles against his Sovereign Prince and the present Government FINIS