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A modest plea both for the caveat, and the author of it with some notes upon Mr. James Howell, and his sober inspections / by Roger L'Estrange.
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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Wing L1272; ESTC R37601
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A Modest Plea Both for the CAVEAT AND The AUTHOR of It. WITH SOME NOTES UPON Mr. IAMES HOWELL AND His Sober Inspections By ROGER L'ESTRANGE Laudatur ab his Culpatur ab illis Horat. LONDON Printed Aug. 28. 1661. For Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy lane A Modest Plea REport speaks me a Prisoner for my last Pamphlet and if I knew who raised it or would have it so I would in earnest thank them for it First as the greatest honour they can do me to bring my Innocence upon the Stage and make me suffer in a Cause which every honest man prefers before his Being Next I should thank them for assisting toward the Discovery of the Kings Enemies which beyond doubt those people are that will torment themselves for a Reflection that concerns no other I say again there is an appearance of a Confederacy but I sixe nothing upon Persons whoever says There he means mee is in the right if he be one of the Conspirators otherwise not They know their own Affections best and I my own meaning which yet I take to be so plainly expressed as that no Englishman can make a Question of it This General Rumour has made me call my Papers and my Thoughts to shrift and neither in the One nor in the Other do I find any thing according to my judgement of my Duty that suits not with the strictest Obligation of it So let my Soul find Comfort as I believe the King is betrayed and if I had the honour of His Majesties Ear I would present him with my particular reasons for that opinion My expectation was that some of the Seditious Stationers and Lecturers of whom I have complayn'd should have been call'd to accompt and not to have been threatned my self effectually for complayning of them If there be any matter of exception I offer up my whole Life to the Scrutiny of the whole World and if from the first Moment of the Quarrel to this Instant they prove me Guilty either of the least remisnesse toward the Kings Cause any the least complyance with his Enemies or the least colour of Irreverence toward his Person I am content to lose my Head for 't I have now serv'd his Majesty in being and his blessed Father these One and Twenty years without either asking or receiving any thing Let him that charges mee make the same challenge T is a wise Precept That of Machiavell Encourage ACCUSATIONS and suppresse CALUMNIES I ask no more but to be either followed home or Let alone I come now to enquire into the Subject of the Controversie the Caveat it self which with great reason is by some Opposed and with as much by mee Defended for Their DIANA lyes at Stake My Repute Safety Freedome and which is more then All the Soul of every Loyal Subject the King himself But to be Thristy of my Time and Paper where lyes the Exception what Law does it offend either of Honour Conscience or of the Nation Does it presume to taxe the King or his Councill to kindle Iealousies betwixt united Brethren or to enflame the Rest into Impatience and Distemper Does it excite Revenge or Tumult If it does any of this I 'll bind my self to be his Slave that shews me where That is let it be Try'd by Indifferent Iudges and taken in Coherence for to catch here and there a snap is to destroy my meaning and at that rate ye may make Quidlibet ex quolibet Treason of the Law and pick Blasphemy out of the Holy Bible But Blam'd it is and why Not for the Preface I hope That only advises Warynesse and gives the Reasons for it There 's not a day that passes without seditious Lectures in the City some Openly others more Covertly bidding the People to prepare for a Persecution and Then ah Lord sayes Hancock give the King ANOTHER Heart a NEW Heart Lord and make him Thy Servant Meade seconds his Fellow-Schismatick with a word of Consolation but be of a good Heart says he Ye do not know what a year nay what a MONTH may bring forth This did he repeat so often and with such an Accent upon MONTH that upon my Soul I thought it related rather to the Timing of a Plot then to the pressing of a Duty for the Emphasis was much stronger upon the Time then upon the Exhortation This was a little above a Fornight since and in my own Hearing to which Add that the whole Crew are of the same Leaven I hope there is no harm in This and as little in charging Tyton a Stationer with dispersing Treason since his Majesties return for there 's a Combination betwixt the Presse and Pulpit to do mischief Now to the Matter of the Book wherein I shall omit nothing considerable First Note that to the 17. Page 't is a Reply upon I. H. his Cordiall The first Two Pages are only Prologue the Third is Mr. Howells the Fourth Mine and there I begin Telling I. H. that as the Cavaliers have liv'd true to their Prince upon a Rule of Honour Loyalty and Conscience so are they as well dispos'd to Dye for him if occasion require without the Aid of borrowed CORDIALS In the Fifth and Sixt Pages I fault his using of the word Reward as not becoming a Subject to his Prince for whether we receive any thing or nothing our Duty is still the same My Seventh Page only acquits the Cavaliers of causing the Kings wants or pressing them and fairly checks I. H. for being over-busy with that Argument In the 8 9. Pages I. H. objects and answers I deny his Twenty Cavaliers to One of the other side and with due Reverence to His Majesties Prerogative to bestow where and what he pleases I affirm that divers unknown persons are recommended to his Royal Favour who are very unworthy of it Page Tenth I blame the Authour of the Cordial for entring further into the Kings Actions then becomes him Pag. 11. I. H. exhorts us to Patience in expectation of a Reward and I tell him that we never serv'd for wages but it is our Duty to be Patient The Twelfth â—age carries the best Colour for a Cavil but first I 'll recite it and then explain it to a Syllable We find the Court dangerously thronged with Parasites Knaves represented to the King for Honest men and Honest men for Villains a watch upon his Majesties Ear to keep out better Information seditious Ministers protected and encouraged Libells against the Authority and Person of the King dispersed even by his Majesties sworn Servants and to Discover Treason is of a consequence in some respects more hazzardous then to commit it To this I explain my self that divers persons whom I know of dangerous principles and scandalous Report are crept into Office and Preferments These are the Parasites I mean and when I am commanded I shall name them That many Knaves have been represented for Honest men is evident in several whom His