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A54939	A letter from Moses Pitt, to the authour of a book, intituled, some discourses upon Dr. Burnet, now Ld. Bp. of Salisbury and Dr. Tillotson, late Ld. A.B. of Canterbury occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the latter.	Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1695 (1695)	Wing P2307; ESTC R7270	27,662	34

mighty Things are concerned in this Passage of yours that is Truth and a Good-name the latter of which Solcmon tells us is better than precious Ointment And for the former Truth it 's an Attribute of our great and good God and it 's the Duty of all Men to imitate God in this Attribute and That Man is worse than the Beasts that perished that is not a Man of Truth and Truth makes a Man as bold as a Lion Ask the Lawyers what plead for they will tell you for Truth Ask the Ministers of all perswasions what they preach and they will tell you Truth Ask all Writers of Books in all Arts and Sciences what they have written and they will tell you Truth You your self say in this your Book speaking against Dr. Burnet You say you could produce more Instances out of Beedle's Life to shew how apt he was to write his own Inventions for true History and thereby impose upon the World and you believe you have brought enough for that purpose and hope you have thereby convinced all Lovers of Truth more than of Men's Persons how unsase it is to take things upon Trust from him page 33 and Sir I find you your felf so much a Lover of Truth as you pretend at least that I hope you will not be angry with me for declaring the Truth in this Passage you your self appeal to me in between the late Duke of Lauderdale and the now Lord. Bishop of Salisbury mentioned in the 18th and 19th Pages of your said Bock And Sir I shall speak the Truth so as you are pleased to express it in the 1st and 2d Pages of your Presace to your said Book So as it may serve to inform and entertain inquisitive Searchers after Truth And then you go on and say speaking of Dr. Jo. Tillot son late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr. Gilbert Burnet now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Against whom you say you have been provoked to draw up two several Charges or Informations which somewhat blomish their Honour so you hope you have proved them in every part by very good Evidence And as some Trials are longer than others according to the Number and Length of Depositions so if this Book of mine which contains as it were so many Depositions against them hath proved longer than I would have had it that is none of my Fault And you farther say you know very well it will be called a Libel and a Defamatory Libel but you care not for that since many excellent Books were so miscalled in the Times of our former Usurpations which detected the ill Men of those Times and their Hypocrisies and Imquities to the World The same thing have I done lately in a Book called The Cry of the Oppressed printed 1691. Wherein I have detected many Men by Name now hving some of them in great splendor of Oppression Extortion Bribery Perjury Blusphemy and several other the like Crimes and there has not to this Day Nav. 1695. any one of the Passages therein mentioned been contradicted and I still challenge any one therein accused to clear himself from those Villanies I therein charge him with for I am still ready to prove on them all the Matters of Fact I have therein related thus hold is Truth And then you go on and say and I agree with you and so I believe will all good Men. And besides to speak properly and justly of the Nature of a Libel all Books onght not to be so called which expose Men's Reputations but such only as expose them falsly injuriously and out of pure Malice But this Book though in some things it blemishes the Fame and Reputation of these Men yet it doth it truly justly and deservedly and so far am I from bearing the Person of the one or the Memory of the other any Malice that had I been acted by that evil Passion I could have written against them both much sooner and have been better provided to write against them now Men that do ill things openly and with an high hand though under never so splendid Pretences ought to hear of them especially when they go about to make Saints and Heroes of one another with a Design to cover their own Iniquities and deceive the People When this happens to be the Case Charity to the People's Souls and the Love of the Publick obliges all Lovers of Truth and Righteousness to unvizard such Men and expose them in their true Appearance before their credulous and deluded Admirers As to this last Paragraph so far all good Men will agree with you but how far the World will believe you as to these two popular Divines as you are pleased to call them when I have told my Matters or given my Deposition as you your self are pleased to term it I leave it to judgment And as I have endeavoured in the following Discourses to do so by these two popular Divines so I assure the Reader I have done it purely upon these generous Motives wishing with all my Heart that neither of them had given so many and publick Provocations to undeceive any part of the World by writing such severe Truths So much I have taken out of your own Preface and now Sir I will go on and give you the Truth of this Matter you mention in Page the 18th and 19th of your Book as touching that Passage of the Dedication of Dr. Gilbert Burnet's Vindication of the Authority c. of the Laws of Scotland to the Duke of Lauderdale as far as I know or can any way call to my Remembrance And this I do as in the Presence of the Great God who is the God of Truth and the True God and of Angels and of Men and that without any Respect to the Person of the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Gilbert Burnet with whom I have had no Conversation neither by word of mouth not by writing or otherwise since he lest England in King James's Days otherwise than that very soon after I printed my Cry of the Oppressed which was in 1691 or before I believe I might send him as I did several other of the Bishops and Judges c. a Letter with one of my said Books but I never received any Answer from him neither directly nor indirectly only Mr. Richard Chiswel the last Time but one that I saw him told me that the Bishop ask'd him how I did and that he was sorry for my Misfortunes but whether Mr. Chiswell did this in a Complement I know not neither did it affect me neither doth the Bishop know of what I now write neither have I or any Person for me any way applied my self to him about this or any other Matter although very much urged to it by some of my Friends since he came into England with King William Neither has he the said Bishop applied himself to me neither by himself or any Friend that I know of to declare my Knowledge in this Matter neither is

testifie if living I shall raise to my self Legions of Enemies however Truth I will own seeing you have called me so fairly to it and if you and your Party be disobliged I will say in my Dear Lord and Saviour's Words whom I will imitate and follow so far as He is to be imitated by poor Mortals Am I your Enemy because I tell you the Truth It 's Truth you have given me a very fair Character with which a great many Men in the World would have pleased themselves with and parted with Truth and not declar'd it and liv'd and hug'd themselves with the vain Conceit of the World 's believing them honest Men and that they had a good Name in the World but I for my own part must part with that Character of a good Name though it be better than precious Ointment when it stands in competition with Truth and therefore I must undeceive you and the World I do not remember neither do I believe that there ever was any such Passage as you have related or that I ever gave the Bishop any such good Reason you mention and so farewel a good Name when it stands in competition with Truth And then you go on and say Upon which He I suppose you still mean the Lord Bishop of Salisbury was angry and threatned Him I presume you mean my self Moses Pitt with the Loss of all the Favours he intended to do him in his Trade This Sir is so very harsh an Expression that it 's not to be supposed I could forget it if the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury had said it to my dying Day but I declare I do not remember neither do I believe he the Lord Bishop of Salisbury ever said it or any thing like it Then you say This Mr. Pitt can testifie if he is living I hope you are now fully satisfied I am living and who knows but the Great and Good God has preserved my Life and the Life of Mr. Angus also hitherto to glorifie his Name in declaring and testifying the Truth in this particular Matter Indeed Sir I own a Prison is a living Grave and he that by Charity takes a Man out of Prison does a Work next to raising the dead some Account of this shall be given of one of those great Men you mention in your Book towards the latter End of this my Letter As for my being in the Land of the Living it had been no hard Task for you to have satisfied your self either by your Bookseller or Printer or both for I presume that most I was going to say almost all but I consider before whom I speak of the Master-Booksellers and Printers in London personally know me or have heard of me and the Oppressions I am under so that they could soon have satisfied you I was living wh n you penn'd this Passage But say you if he is not it can be attested by an honourable Person who heard him solicite Mr. Pitt to this base and unworthy practice It 's True it had been a base unworthy Practice of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury I believe he himself would own it provided it had been Truth But Sir I wish you had nam'd whose Acquaintance this Honourable Person is that can attest this that he heard the Bishop solicite me whether of the Bishop's or of your own or of Mine or of all or either of us and when it was and where it was And if he can put it into my remembrance by naming Tokens and Circumstances or any way whatsoever whereby I may call it to my Memory and remember the thing so as to attest it I will assure you Sir I will observe what my Lord Bacon directs in this Case in his Moral Essays Alway turn to the Pole of Truth so that if this you write of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury's be a Truth and I be fully in my Conscience convinced of it as I am now convinc'd it is false I will then Recant Repent Confess and Publish to the World my great Sin and beg Pardon of God and You for it But Sir I have often been thinking who this Honourable Person should be that can attest this it cannot be the late Honourable Robert Boyle Esq who was that worthy I want proper words to express my self Gentleman that brought my Lord Bishop of Salisbury and me first acquainted and recommended me to print for him and we have been in Conversation together but he is dead so he cannot be the Person Sir I wish we had this great Man I mean Robert Boyle's Life wrote fully by a good Pen and though it were by the present Bishop of Salisbury whom you so much despise it would be very acceptable to the Great and Learned Men of the World Sir I cannot think but of one Honourable Person more that I had at that time the Honour of a familiar Acquaintance with but I think it not proper for me at this time to name him but if I should I should do it with as much Respect and make him in my opinion as great a Heroe as the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury has made the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury as you have exprest it in your Preface for indeed he is the Gamaliel unto whom I do own I had the best of my Knowledge in Authours of Books and the Subjects they wrote on he being a Man of gentile and universal Learning but I forbear to speak his due Commendations lest you and the World should think I flatter him but I will assure you that I do not remember that ever the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury and him and my self were ever in Conversation together but I do own that the present Lord Bishop of Worcester Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet with this Person of Honour and my self have been in Conversation together and this Person of Honour was the Spoaksman and I have reason to believe that his Lordship had then a great Honour and Respect for him and did value him as one of his chiefest Acquaintance and did present him with one of his Books soon after they were printed and I have several times in King William's Reign met with this Honourable Person passant in the Street and we saluted each other after a friendly Manner and therefore he could not be ignorant of my being in the Land of the Living And then Sir you go on and tell the World But though Mr Pitt would not consent to sell the Books without the Dedication yet he was content to let him have them again and then they came abroad without it Sir as to this Paragraph I do not believe neither do I remember that ever I did consent to the Sale of one of the Books without the Dedication neither do I believe or remember that ever I was content to let him have them again or that he ever had them again from me or that ever they came abroad without it And then you tell the World again And so hard it was till

but he refused it and said also his Partner Hill should not or would not do it neither on Jan. 3. following B. Hinton died he could not die in his Bed but lay on Jan the 2 d. and 3 d. on a Trundle-bed just in the same place where He and his Creditor and I had the Dialogue here related neither could he die there till he was put into that Chair he rose up out of when he appealed to the Great God he could not pay 20 s. per Week aforesaid and his Nurse whose Name is Rebecca Trowel that was with him when he died and helped to strip him and put him into his Coffin was the very Woman that about a twelve Month before begged 2 d. of him for the Woman that was brought to bed as afore related and there was also assisting to her one Mr. Richard Sandy a Barber-Chirurgeon living in Southwark who was also by us when the Nurse begged the 2 d. as aforesaid He had vast Riches by him at the time of his Death in Gold Silver Jewels c. although he had some time before swore himself not worth 10 l. for to get off by the Act for Release of Prisoners they that would be further satisfied in this Story may inquire of Mr. Reginald Heber who lives in the Temple and may be found most Mornings and Evenings at the Temple-Church at the Hours of Prayer Now Sir I have told you and the World what experience I have had of the present Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Charity for by it he has fed the Hungry cloathed the Naked relieved and released the Prisoners and therefore do you not think Sir that Blessing does not belong to him and all such charitable Persons which our Dear Lord and Saviour has pronounced Come ye Blessed of my Father enter into my Kingdom for when I was an Hungry ye fed me when I was Naked ye cloathed me when in Prison you visited me Lord say they When saw we thee Hungry and fed thee Naked and Cloathed thee and in Prison and visited thee In that saith our Saviour You have done it to the least of my little ones you have done it to me And I hope it may be said of this great and good Man what I heard Dr. William Bates say of my Lord Russell they are the same Persons you mention in your Book when an Object of great Charity was represented to him that my Lord gave 50 l. Dr Bates praising him for it my Lord replies Doctour I thank God my Heart is as large as my Purse so I have found the present Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and I hope it will so continue I would not have you think that I flatter him far be it from me I speak nothing but what I know to be Truth and if I knew as much of you as I have here related of the Archbishop I would publish it as freely if I had the same Opportunity as I do this Sir I would not have you in the least think that this good Man the present Archbishop has given his Alms or blown a Trumpet to be seen and to be praised of Men. No he knows nothing of what I here write you but if you be displeased at what I have here by my own Experience and Knowledge related of him you must thank your self for it for if you had not called on me to attest what you were pleased to relate as touching the Difference between the late Duke Lauderdale and the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury and at the same time spoken slightly of the Archbishop these great Acts of Charity of him had been buried in Oblivion as to Men but Sir would you have me act the part of an ungrateful Man which is one of the worst sorts of Men when I have so fair an Opportunity from your self to tell the World the good Works of this Charitable great Man that so they may glorifie our Father which is in Heaven and I hope Sir you your self are of the Opinion of St. James who tells you That pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction And was it not Cornelius's Praise that he gave much Alms to the People and did they not come up into remembrance before God And does not Job when his three Friends contended with him glory in that he delivered the Poor that cried and the Fatherless and him that had none to help him and caused the Widow's Heart to rejoyce and that he was Eyes to the Blind and Feet to the Lame and was a Father unto the Poor But I stop my Pen lest I be censured Sir I have one reason more why I so much commend this great and good Man's Charity which is I want Imployment I have told you my Circumstances and therefore I would willingly be your or any other charitable Person 's Almoner as I have been this present Lord Archbishop's And I will assure you Sir what Moneys I shall be intrusted with upon such Account shall be disposed of with the Wisdom of a Serpent and the Innocency of a Dove in feeding the Hungry cloathing the Naked supporting the Oppressed relieving and releasing the Imprisoned all this shall be done with a chearful heart and pleasing Countenance my Labour and my Time shall also be given into the Bargain this is the darling Imployment I should covet whilst I have a Being in this World and therefore Sir if you or any other charitable Person will intrust me as the present Lord Archbishop hath already done you or they shall hear of me at Mr. Lewis Prescot's Chambers in Searle's Court in Lincolns-Inn Number 4. Sir I must further beg your Pardon if I acquaint you with one Story I find related in Dr. Franklin's Annals of King James the First which is all Invention and therefore ought to be detected which none living that I know can do it better than my self It 's related in the 33 d. Page of that Book unto which I refer you it being too large a Romance to be incerted here it 's of a strange Murther at Penrin in Cornwall committed by a Father and Mother upon their own Son and then upon themselves The Truth of which as he tells you was frequently known and flew to Court in this guise but the imprinted Relation which was but a Ballad conceal their Names in favour to some Neighbour of Repute and a Kin to that Family and saith he the same sense makes me silent also But Sir being one time in Conversation with one Mr. Tho. Melhuish a Merchant born in that Town and that lived there most of his Days he drawing towards 80 Years of Age when he died and left one Daughter which is now a Baronet's Lady in that County I ask'd him about this Story of Dr. Franklin's who told me that he had before heard of it but saith he it 's all Invention the occasion of which was this There was some Cornish-men