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A60683
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A reply to a letter sent by William Newberry, and William Edmunds to Dr. Fowler by William Smythies, his curate.
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Smythies, William, d. 1715.
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1685
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Wing S4369; ESTC R13305
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undisturbed and had the greatest Liberty But they say That he was a Souldier under Collonel Hacker which the Doctor or I never knew of but it seems 't is true Yet if his Enemies had been ingenuous they should have said That he was likewise a Souldier under the Command of General Monk at the time of the KING'S Restauration Methinks this and the King's Pardon should have Dischar'd him from being reproacht for such an old Crime by Peaceable and Christian-like tempered Men. As for the other Stories which the Doctor did not know of he is sorry if they be true but he must have them asserted by those that do not hate Mr. W. before he believes them he knowing by Experience how false the Reports have been which have been spread against himself by the same Authors If that which Men say in their Rage and Passion be true one of these Men was as well a Fifth-Monarchy-Man as the other was a Rebel for this was told him to his Face in the Doctor 's presence But suppose he had known these ill things of Mr. W. Yet Who can blame him for Certifying what he knew to be good concerning him Especially when he exprest Sorrow for what he had done and having had such Reproofs that I really thought there would have been a great Breach between them The next Paragraph insinuates That Mr. Recorder oblig'd them to inform against Mr. W. But one of these two Men may very well remember That the Recorder did expresly deny it in the Doctors hearing so that they cannot wipe off that charge of drinking to him and shaking hands with him and then making their Complaint against him What a bold Affront do they offer to the King's Attorney General in the next words in that they plainly say That He was perswaded to grant Mr. W. a noli Prosequi by great and powerful Sollicitation and consequently that his Hearing the whole Cause and what these Men could say against him was but a Mock-business As to that which they say of Mr. W.'s opposing their disturbing of Conventicle-houses the Doctor professes That he never knew any thing of it nor yet of his Behaviour in Guild-Hall or his being against the Ringing of the Bells upon the 29th of May or his Ringing and making Bon-fires upon the Earl of Shaftsbury's discharge by the Grand Jury whom they call though not out of any ill-will to his person the Doctor 's good lord and master And no wonder that the Doctor should be such a stranger to these things when he came to live in the Parish but the lady-Lady-day before he gave him his Certificate but as to their calling Shaftsbury his good lord and master The Doctor would have them know That though he Officiated one Week for his Chaplain who was his old Friend and School-fellow in the time of his being Lord Chancellor yet he was never his lord and master And that he was so far from being of that Lords principles that he hath enraged him by his plain Dealing He adventured very honestly to declare his mind to him against the Bill of Exclusion upon which the Earl told him He perceived what Company he kept He was likewise so provoked once against the Doctor that he told him He was not worthy to say Grace at his Table I must also tell these Men That a Dignitary of the Church of most Noted Loyalty as also a worthy Doctor Nay and an eminent Prelate likewise can and will Testify if there be occasion That the Doctor had wholly Estranged himself from that Lord whom he very seldom waited upon but for their perswasions not to lose all Interest in him because at one time or other they thought it might be improv'd to the doing some good Service to Loyal-Men and 't is known that so it was improved And the Dean of Worcester can satisfy all Men That the Doctor when Phanaticism was most rampant viz. In the Year 1679. Published an Answer to a very Whiggish Pamphlet much cried up at that time For the Dean surprized him in his Study as he was preparing it for the Press In that which follows they fall very heavily upon my self but after the Doctor is good Manners and therefore I will proceed upon their return to him They accuse him of making them and some others of his Neighbours a parcel of Lewd Vicious Profane Scandalous Debaucht Fellowes in private Discourses and publick Preachments as they very mannerly call his Sermons But I am sure I can affirm that as to his private Discourses they of all Men are least acquainted with them and in his Preaching he hates to use any such indecent Language He never spares Debauchery nor Disloyalty nor Phanaticism in his Pulpit But when he is upon these Subjects he never reflects upon particular Persons so as to charge the guilt of these Vices upon any of his Hearers The Auditors at Coleman-Street can testify for him to whom he Preaches the same Sermons But to return to his private discourses he is so far from delighting to talk against his Adversaries that nothing hath discomposed him more than when he is put upon telling of their behaviour towards him And when he hath done it his own Vindication was that which he insisted upon He doth not deny that out of the Pulpit he hath charged some of them with other Vices besides Malice and is too well able to make good his Charge the more is the pity 'T is confessed that in the Conclusion of his Sermon against Slandering he intimated plainly that those who carried that dreadful false story to the Court which occasioned his Preaching it were some of his Auditors and such as sometimes received the Sacrament from him and I suppose they little think upon what grounds he said This. They say that the Doctor hath not Lest one Stone unturned to defame them with Persons of Honour But it would have saved the Doctor many Pounds in his Purse and prevented much disturbance to his mind if This had not been their own Crime And he tells them by Me that the greatest Defamation they can complain of from him is his not concealing the Barbarous usage which God knows he hath had from them As to what follows of the Doctors disparaging of them to their Customers There never was any thing more false for he professeth that he knows not any one Person that deals with them But it may be their having themselves so publisht their restless endeavours to ruine the Doctor both in his Reputation and Estate may have been the occasion of loss to them for which they must blame Themselves and not Him I come now to one of the most spiteful suggestions that malice it self could have invented viz. That the first visible change of the Doctors Countenance and Carriage towards them was upon their suppressing Six or Seven Conventicles and after that upon their endeavour to purge the Vestry of some very ill Men. Now as to their suppressing of so many