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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49346	The loyal city of Bristol vindicated from Amsterdamism, or Devil's-borough, two appellatives occasioned by the over credulous, who have taken it for granted, that the schismaticks and hereticks of all sorts were more numerous than the truly loyal, orthodox, and liege people there. But at a late tryal of skill, managed by the more vigilant, and worthy angel-guardian of that city, the point has been lately clear'd, and the church-men for an Earl have out voted the fanaticks for a knight, though to little purpose: for they have rallied again, since the dissolution, to fetch in the same persons. But who? or what? and how equipp'd this ensuing letter (to an utopian prelate) will fully inform you.		1681 (1681)	Wing L3340; ESTC R224122	4,047	14

honest a Face as the best of 'em and the impudence not to be out of countenance when the Owner of the dissenting Beast cashier'd his Trooper tho' at the high Cross in Bristol My Lord was the Devil a Limner and imploy'd by a Mahometan to make a Chimny-piece for the grand Visers Dining-room and order'd to describe in it a Regiment of squint-eyed ill-looking Rebels to disparage Christianity by he could not doe it more to the life than this Coetus this composition of Simples whose Mass is call'd Behemoth to make Pills for the Devil on has represented And if any of the back-sliding Sisterhood longs to see such a sight as this was lest she should miscarry of the Babe of Grace let her take a Balcony in Holbourn some few days after the Sessions in the Old Baily to fix her Mercurial Embrio For nothing but the gentle Spectators at Tiburn can Copy this Original In good earnest my Lord the Autometons they bestrid were fitter for a Dog-kennel than a Parade and their Bestriders lookt so like a pack of hungry Dogs that I expected every minute when they should alight and fall on worry and eat the Beasts that brought them hither By the strength of which imagination I had designed a Painter to express the Assailants in this Posture as an everlasting Emblem of Presbyterian Gratitude But oh my Lord had you seen 'em ride you would have taken them singly for so many Centaurs and altogether for a Covy of Witches mounted upon anointed Broom-sticks and Fire-shovels at an appointed Rendevouze by their Grand Master the Devil 'T is too long my Lord for a Letter to describe either their persons or their parts Zancho Pancho pickeering upon Rosinante in Don Quixot and Ralpho riding to the Slaughter of the Fidles and the Bears in Hudibras are too gentile and learned for a Similitude tho' they come the nearest to them I confess in Story For those Squires could reade we hear but the Devil a one of Three hundred in this Farce could tell a Letter of the Book and I am informed it was more for fear than love that this illiterate Crew attended him lest he should use them they say as he did their Cosin Bromfield who he served right enough for being their Kinsman when he hang'd him in this City because he could not say his Neck Verse as was pretended tho' the more Judicious say there was Emulation in the case for this amorous Bromfield you must know was an Ingrosser of Fine Women and two of a Trade can never agree according to the old Greek Distick as aptly apply'd as englished 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cou'd he at Bar change places with the Bencher Then this as that had hang'd for being a Wencher Thus was this noble Knight Sir Robert attended into the same place and by some of the same Persons that had formerly usher'd in James Nayler the Blasphemist with triumphant Hosannahs and marcht hither poor Gentleman as much ashamed of his baggage I warrant ye as the great Godfry of Bullen when he went to the holy War Where the Historian observes that Thieves and Murtherers took upon them the Cross to escape the Gallows But in all this excellent Procession where every individual Devil carried his peculiar Cross to the eternal praise of those that love honour and obey the King and the Church as it is now established by Law there was not one such person seen amongst them And now to undeceive the credulous let them know that Bristol has at length shaken off her Fanatical Fetters which hitherto have hung as Lead on the heels of her jollity and dull'd her motion and is fledged with Loyal Feathers into an activity that will carry her above the reach of those Vermin whose Habitations are in holes and nasty corners that never crawl out but to doe mischief and then skulk again into obscurity hating the light without them because their deeds are evil That she is fortified with a legal Loyal Band a noble and worthy Artillery who with their Abettors are visibly the Major part of her Inhabitants and that may create a Confidence of her continuance in this happy State for when there is more of the Yeomans and Bouchiers than there are of the Scroops and Fines it is not to be supposed she can easily deviate into manifest Murthers again because the Hang-men you see are not so numerous as the Royal party I beg your Lordships pardon for this rude diversion and remain as every honest man ought to his Diocesan My Lord Your Lordships most obedient Son and Servant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS