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A67534
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A dialogue between K.W. and Benting occasioned by his going into Flanders after the death of the Queen.
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K. W.
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1694
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Wing W77; ESTC R221934
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with me and let me know all you have heard I may be angry at them but shall think my self oblig'd to you for a True and Faithful Discovery B. Tho' I had much rather this had been done by another yet since it is your Majesty's Pleasure I obey Then know that as to your Religion they say you are a Papist that when you so Barbarously caused the Dewitts to be torn in pieces you transfacted the matter with Romish Priests that when you entered into his Confederacy you took the Sacrament there upon at the Great Church in Brussels That you faithfully promised the Pope to promote the Romish Religion in England and that accordingly you now indulge the Papists greater Liberty than ever they had under K. James and that where he made one Papist you have made Forty and many more things to this purpose and from hence they infer that you have forfeited the Crown of England even by your own Act of Settlement Yet others do not believe this but take you for a perfect Libertine and say that Religion hangs on you like water on a Goose which you make use of for your Turn and shake off at your Pleasure W. These last are most in the Right but they are all a parcel of Fools What is Religion to me except for a Pretence to blind the People Did ever any considerable Action of my Life savour of Religion It had been impossible for me to have driven my Father out of his Kingdom if he had not had too much Reâ—igion I can be a Church of England-man here a Presbyterian in Scotland a Papist in Flanders and of any other Religion that is in Vogue in any other place so that it promote my Designs For after all I will serve God no further than God serves me But go on B. They say you are a very Brute and downright charge you with Sodomy and name your very Catamites Now this Sin is accounted in England not only Unnatural but Monstrous and is no where in a worse Name the Men abhor it and the Women will not endure the name of one guilty of it and therefore you must be wary for if the Women here are once your Enemy the Men will not long be your Friends W. Slaves and Villains What am I a King for if I can have no peculiar Pleasure to my Self The Sotâ— ought to be thankful that I take this course that there may be no more of the Breed of me Have I not been plague enough to them unless they may be blessed with a Succession of such B. Then thuy say that you have given many Honest Men's Estates and almost all the Crown-lands to Forreigners whereby you have ruin'd many Families and impoverished the Crown and set up Forreigners to trample on the Natives VV. Could the Fools imagine that I came hither to enrich them Where should I have it If I came hither for my own Ends what can they expect but that I should advance my Friends and Relations and such as will be true to me What would they have They neither wanted Lands nor Monies nor any sort of Riches before their only Complaint was for Religion and they have Religions enough let them take them and be content and be damn'd their own way B. They Clamour loud against your carrying the Money out of the Nation and encouraging the Dutch in their open Clipping Counterfeâ—ting and Debasing it This last Act against Clipping and Coyning is said to be only a Contrivance to hang Englishmen and to seâ—ure the Profit of all the Good Money that is left to the Dutch and now they say you have Erected a Bank and Mint at Antwerp where you Coin Money of Iron and other base Allâ—â— â—â—â—send it hither and Exchange it for good Money out of the Exchequer which receives none here bad and now pays none good whereby in a short time there will not be one Penny of Sterling Money lest in the Kingdom which will breed Confusion and set them all together by the Ears VV. And let them go together by the ears and tear out each other Throats with all my Heart my Necessities must and shall be Supplied If I do not make vast Contributions the Confederacy cannot be Supported and if that fall I shall be like the Jackdaw in the Fable strutting in the Peacocks Feathers they will begin then to examine the Case and every one will be pulling his Feather and I shall be a Daw again No no I 'll spend their Coin as far as it will go and then make them sell their Plate for Iron Money and when that is spent I 'll sell their Horses Cows Sheep Corn and Themselves too rather than I 'll want B. They complain that whilst you are profuse to others you pay neither the Seamen or Souldiers of the English and yet use them basely and starve many of them and put them on the most desperate Attempts and then leave them in the Lurch on Purpose that they may be â—ut off by which means they say you have Murdered above a Hundred thousand English W. And I wish they had been ten times as many more I had been rid of so many Rogueâ— and Rebeâ— and might have Stockt their Country with others whom I could have call'd in who would have been truer to me than these can be expected B. Very true but these heavy Clod-pated Rascals seem to be sentible of this however they came by it For they do not yet cease to talk of the Attompt to Naturalize â—oâ—reâ—gners by Act of Paâ—â— ament which they look upon as an Invitation of all the Rogueâ— Malecontents and Beggaâ—â— of other Countries to come over and Dispossess them And they do not stick to call even their Dearly beloved House of Commons 〈◊〉 to their Country for that under Pretence of Favour to some particular Persons they passed Bills whereby several Hundreds of Strangers were Clandestinely Naturalized which they say is pursuing the same design by Retale which they fail'd of in Gross W. And that Design I will carry by one means or other what care I what becomes of them so I can secure my self and my own Grandeur B. But you must do it warily for they complain that you are bringing Forreigners over daily and that whilst you disarm the Natives you put Armes into the hands of Dutch VValloons and Refugees and privately Exercise them to what End they say they cannot guess unless it be when opportunity serves to cut the English Threats VV. If I had enough of them they should quickly find what I would do with them B. They say you value more and have a greater kindness for Monsieur Renew and his Hugenâ—ts than for the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common-Councel and all the City of London VV. There is reason for it the one are True to me the others False at least wavering and inconstant It is a Rebellions Headstrong City I care not if it once more lay in Ashes had I but first secur'd