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A new year's gift for Sir Bartholomew Shower
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Percival, Thomas, fl. 1696-1697.
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Recorder of London why that great Man threw it up to what end you were put in and how you did the Drudgery of that Day to such Content that you were to have taken a Seat by the most remarkable Lord Chief Justice that ever sat in the Court of Kings Bench Tresilian himself not excepted I mean Wright had not his Majesty's the then Prince of Orange's Glorious Expedition dash'd all your Hopes Now seeing you were not found upon the Bench it had been a Raree Show to have seen you brought to the Bar together Mistake me not I should not have rejoyc'd to have heard that you died together in Newgate but how could I have prevented it had you been ordered to be conveyed thence to But you having happily escaped by the Lenity of his Majesty's most Benign Government have since been again aspiring to that honourable Place of Recorder of our Metropolis and I care not if I take this occasion to tell the World what you already know and therefore spit your Poison at me that I my self in a Scrip of Paper entred a Caveat against you and you obtained not what you then aimed at Before I conclude I shall remark upon the Accusation you bring against me You say I have been a riding Commissioner for the late Elections It is to this Day remembred that I was taken up by your Friend Atterbury and at the Council Board criminated as now I am by the Lord Keeper North. He upbraided me that I had been riding over the Kingdom to busy my self in Elections to the Disturbance of the King's Government I confess to you Sir If it must be termed busying my self I have done ut potui in abundance of Elections for above 20 years past as is well known to many Members of this Parliament But withal challenge you and all Mankind to shew that I ever acted for an ill Man tho in the Days of Yore we saw too many such in Parliament Now to reason the Cafe with you why I beseech you may not I as lawfully sollicite for a good Man as you plead for any Man 'T is surely at least as commendable to be industrious in the Service of Ones Countrey as for its Destruction I defy you and all the World to prove that I have menac'd or brib'd any one Man for obtaining his Vote nay that I have misrepresented or disparaged any Man further than by calling a Spade a Spade I am very sure that I my self stand at this instant at such a distance from Bribery that I can and do affirm that in about four Months Fatigue I have got nothing beyond the comfortable Reflection that I have engaged totis viribus in the Service of my Generation tho you now take the Freedom to vilify me for doing it Your next Charge upon me is that I drank King James 's Health What now if I should digress a little and tell you a pleasant Passage Being lately in Company with one who usually associates with your old Gang I began King William 's Health and Prosperity to his Government The Tory having chatted on and forgot the Health and what Company he was in very innocently I verily think took up the Glass and clapping his next Neighbour on the Shoulder said Come here 's King James's his Health but instantly perceiving his Mistake was not a little confounded To return now to what we were upon the heavy Charge of my drinking King James 's Health The Story in short was this finding there were some at East-Grinstead smelt rank of Popery more of Jacobitism I had a mind to try the Parson and in a jocose Humour said to him Come Doctor what if you and I should drink King James 's Health you here have the Truth of the Tale and make your best of it Sir I have intimated how I fell under your Displeasure and having mentioned the infamous Lord Chief Justice Wright shall briefly declare how I incurred his In several Elections in the Counties of Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridg in the blessed Reign of your Gracious King I met and to his Face ever boldly opposed this Sir Rob. Wright and the Tory Interest which he ever espoused The Wretch to the astonishment of all good Men as a reward of his Villanies stepping gradatim through all the Courts of Westminster to the Seat of the Lord Chief Justice made me feel the effect of his Fury whereof my next shall give you a full Relation and indeed not only his own Revenge but the Rage of Jeffries irritated him against me for clapping into Nath. Thompson's Popish Intelligence an idle Tale of an untimely Female squint-ey'd Child I am however still a sincere Lover of my Country And Your Debtor T. P.
A New Year's Gift for Sir BARTHOLOMEW SHOWER SIR I Have hitherto chosen to succumb and that for a long time under Ill Usage and Great Oppression rather than to trouble the World with the History of the Life of so inconsiderable a Person as I esteem my self but you having now laid me under a necessity of doing it by vilifying me as you did the last Night in the Committee of the House of Commons I shall set about it and essay my Vindication against the wicked Misrepresentations of a foul-mouth'd Orator and the hard Thoughts of some Good Men who have not rightly understood me and my Case And as an Introduction to it do here lay before you and the VVorld the underwritten Copy of a Letter wrote by that Great and Good Man the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to the truly Honourable the late Lord Chief Baron Atkins and when you have perused that you stand obliged to pardon me that I subjoin a short Relation of some of the Pranks of Mr. Barth Shower which gave him the Honour of Knighthood and were the Ladder to his Preferment and as I ever thought so I now tell you that 't was great Pitty to borrow from the late Earl of Nottingham that you had not had another sort of Advancement And I should rejoice to see you promoted according to your Demerit Not to inlarge at present rest assured that I shall exert my self to quit Scores with you tho now I remain Yours highly indebted Tho. Percivall Ult. Decemb. 1695. London April 28. 1685. Honoured SIR I Think my self obliged to give you some account of the Matter formerly referred to your self and me concerning my Lady Russel and Mr. Percivall against whom I had entertained some Prejudice upon the Reports concerning him but having now together with one Mr. Samuel Faircloth made up the Account so long depending between them except some Law Matters which are referred to the final Determination of Mr. Folkes and Mr. Rawlinson I must do Mr. Percivall that right as to assure you that he carried himself very fairly in this Matter was ready to rectify all Mistakes and to yeild to Justice and Reason in all things we could desire him And as he hath a very good Vnderstanding so for any thing that appeared in this Matter I believe a just and honest Mind All that I can blame him for is want of Care in making up timely and punctual Accounts whereby there happened several Mistakes and Omissions to his own Prejudice as well as my Lady 's which I hope are now rectified on both sides to their mutual Satisfaction This Testimony I do willingly give to Mr. Percivall to set him right in your Opinion fearing lest what I said of him to you upon Report might have done him some Prejudice in your Esteem I am heartily sorry for your late great Loss and rest SIR Your most Obliged and Humble Servant Jo. Tillotson To the Honourable Sir Edward Atkins one of the Barons of the Exchequer A Copy of Mr. BARTHOLOMEW SHOWER's Address to King Charles the Second as in Gazette the 23d of June 1681. To the King 's Most Excellent Majesty The Humble ADDRESS of the Loyal Society of the Middle Temple May it please Your Majesty WE Your Majesty's most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects being sensible of the great Blessings which this Kingdom hath enjoyed ever since Your Majesty's Restauration under your most Gracious and Indulgent Government and most especially in the constant preservation of the established Religion our Laws and Liberties and this our Satisfaction being lately renewed by your Majesty 's MOST GRACIOVS DECLARATION whereby your Majesty hath been pleased further to assure us of your continued Resolutions to have frequent Parliaments and govern according to the Laws Which just Resolution of your Majesty we doubt not but your Majesty will continue and constantly maintain and therefore think it our bounden Duty to declare to your Majesty and the whole World our Affection and Zeal for your Majesty's Person and Government both in Church and State by Law established and that we will not be wanting with our Lives and Fortunes to serve your Majesty against your Majesty's and the Kingdoms Enemies who under specious Pretences and by poisessing the People with groundless Fears and Jealousies would bring us back into Confusion and Anarchy That your most Sacred Majesty may happily disperse and confound the wicked Contrivances of evil and unquiet Men who endeavour to disturb the Peace and Tranquility of your Majesty's Government and that your Majesty may continue a long and happy Reign over us shall ever be the constant Prayer of your Loyal and Obedient Subjects Barth Shower c. Now good Sir Bat for after this Famous Address you ceased to be plain honest Bat. Shower bear with me that I do a little interrogate you about this your Address and in all Love answer me these few Questions 1. Was there not Collusion in the Title of this your Address What was this your Society of the Middle Temple did it in truth consist of more than your own Self and a very small Number of Irish Gentlemen and others not above 12 in the whole 2. Whether was not that very Gracious Declaration a high Violation of the Laws and a Libel upon three of the greatest Parliaments the Nation ever saw 3. As to Life and Fortunes Whether you did not in strictness of Law forfeit the first by Signing that Address and whether at that time the latter had been worth the begging 4. Whom did you then deem the Kingdoms Enemies answer without Evasion or Reserve did not you intend the great and invaluable Earl of Essex Lord Russel Col. Algernon Sidney c. whom such Addresses animated that your indulgent King to murder nay further did not you also mean the Lords and Commons of the Oxford Parliament Speak plainly Man and fear not for to your Comfort there is an Act of Indemnity 5. Did not that Learned and Honourable Society detest your fawning pernicious Address and manifest their Abhorrence thereof and of your Practise by a Counter Address If so was not that proposed and voted in the Middle Temple Hall and signed by almost the whole Body of that Famous Society Sir in your answering these Interrogatories please to allow a Friend to caution you to have a special regard to Truth especially in what you say to the last for you know I had the Honour to be one of that Assembly and to put my Hand and Heart to that Address to the incurring your high Displeasure nay to the hazard of my Life and Fortune which was then at least as good as yours By my next for I find you and I are to fall into a close Carrespondence I shall send you a Copy of it and then shall remember you for what good Services you rose in the World and were in a way of getting the Devil and All had not the Happy Revolution stopp'd your Career I know whom you succeeded as