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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42164	The grand inquest, or, A full and perfect answer to several reasons, by which it is pretended His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, may be proved to be a Roman-Catholick	Garbrand, John, b. 1646 or 7.	1680 (1680)	Wing G203; ESTC R13237	5,669	26

THE Grand Inquest Or a full and perfect ANSVVER To several REASONS By which it is pretended His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Duke of York May be proved to be A Roman-Catholick LONDON Printed for James Vade at the Cock and Sugar-Loaf near S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-Street 1680. Courteous READER HAving seen a Pamphlet some time since Entituled Reasons whereupon the Duke of York may most strongly be reputed and suspected to be a Papist Not knowing but that it may come into the hands of some whom I would not have Poy 〈…〉 with those fallacious Arguments I thought it my Duty to Answer them That the World may see the Malice and Rage of some Seditious Persons who by loading the Duke with Scandalous Aspersions endeavour to lessen his esteem with the King And if that will not do to brand his Reputation in the opinion of the Credulous Multitude That they may the sooner introduce their own Maximes into the Government which are not more fatal to the King than Destructive to his Subjects Therefore kind Reader beware and think not whilst these Stigmatize the Duke they are Innocent themselves 'T is their Guilt makes them endeavour to overthrow the Government And they had rather see the Nation Ruined then themselves brought to answer their breach of Laws And observe it when you will Whoever shall go about to Fortify the present Government against Faction and Rebellion shall by the Seditious be reported to introduce Popery Or to be Popishly affected Knowing at the same time they do so they win upon the giddy Vulgar who have no greater Antipathy then against the Bishop of Rome And by this Device commonly they deliver themselves from that Punishment which they ought justly to undergo And this to me is a better Argument that the Duke of York is no Papist since the Seditious only would have him thought so then all the Reasons they have given can probably make him one Your belief of this will compleat my wishes which are that you may be Happy Farewel A full and perfect ANSWER To the REASONS Whereupon the Duke of York MAY Most strongly be reputed and suspected to be A Papist c. Reason 1. BEcause 25 Car. 2. When an Act was made to throw Popish Recusants out of all Offices and places of Trust The Duke of York did lay down several great Offices and Places of Trust As Lord High Admiral of England Generalissimo of all his Majesties Forces both by Sea and Land Governor of the Cinque-Ports and divers others Thereby to avoid the Punishment of that Law against Papists Answer 1. This Act of 25 Car. 2. doth not reach the Duke of York For it was made as the Reasoner well observes to throw Popish Recusants out of all Offices and Places of Trust And to displace them from the Houshold Service or Employment of His Majesty Or of His Royal Highness the Duke of York which words Or of His Royal Highness the Duke of York are a plain Exception of his Person and that he is not within the meaning of the aforesaid Act. For the words of the Act bear this Natural Construction viz. That no Person or Persons whatsoever are intended to be in any place of Trust or Service about the King or Duke of York but such who are well affected to the Established Government of this Nation But admit the Duke had taken the Test as in the Act mentioned when he was not obliged to do it Had he not too officiously declared himself even in that point that the Parliament did not think convenient to oblige him Would not his Adversaries have insinuated into the Vulgar that what he did was a force upon him and not his own inclination Nay what should he have gained in the opinion of the People by passing such a Complement Are not many in the House of Lords notwithstanding this Test traduced for Papists And many more to be Popishly affected Are not those that do not humour them according to their Capricio called Recusants And those who affect coming to Church called Church-Papists By this it is plain the Duke did not lay down his several great Offices because he was a Recusant Or to avoid the punishment of that Law against Papists But for some other Reason best known to the King and himself This shall suffice for an answer to the first Reason Reason 2. In 30 Car. 2. When an Act was made to disable Papists from Sitting in either House of Parliament there was a Provisoe inserted in that Act that it should not extend to the Duke of York on purpose to save his Right of Sitting in the Lords House Though he refuseth to take those Oaths which the Protestant Peers ought to do Answer 2. This Act nor any thing contained in it does in the least asperse the Duke of York as a Papist For if out of respect and kindness the Parliament would not reach Him with an Oath of which they knew he had no need but only inquire into themselves to find out who were Papists and who not by this disabling Act Was it not necessary that a Provisoe should be inserted into that Act that it should not extend to the Duke of York I wonder therefore with what impudence this should be construed to be done on purpose to save his Right of Sitting in the Lords House though a Papist when the words of the Provisoe will bear no such Construction But rather value him as a Person of that Honour and Generosity that they could do no less than distinguish him from the rest of his Majesties Subjects Especially since he is so nearly related to the Crown Has so well deserved of the King And has been so often thankt for his good Services by Themselves Reason 3. That His Majesty in his Speech on the sixth day of March in the one and thirtieth Year of His Reign does give for a Reason to the Parliament why he sent his Brother out of England Because he would leave no man room to say that he had not removed all causes which might influence him to Popish Councels Answer 3. This Reason is not strong enough to make any person suspect the Duke to be a Roman Catholick For when his Majesty did complement his Parliament and had acquainted them with what great things he had done for the Uniting of the minds of all his loving Subjects to himself and one another by excluding the Popish Lords from their Seats in Parliament the Execution of several men upon the account of the Plots and of the Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfry and Disbanding the Army then on foot at last his Majesty declares Above all I have commanded my Brother to absent himself from me because I would not leave the most Malitious Men room to say I had not removed all causes which could be pretended to influence me towards Popish Councils Was ever the sence of a King and of a loving Brother so evilly wrested For when his Majesty commands his Brothers absence

Is it not to stop the mouths of the most Malicious And is their spiteful calling of the Duke Papist Or inclining him towards Popish Councils called by his Majesty any thing else than a Pretence What then shall be said to such Malitious Pretenders If even their own requests granted though never so unreasonable will not give them satisfaction It behoves therefore his Majesties good Subjects to be more Unanimous and hearty to one another That so it may break the hearts of all Malitious Pretenders who under the Vizzard of Liberty Property and Religion Endeavour the Destruction and Ruine of the King and Kingdom Reason 4. There have been divers Letters read in both Houses of Parliament and at the secret Committee of both Houses from several Cardinals and others at Rome And also from other Popish Bishops and Agents of the Popes in other Forraign parts which do apparently shew the great correspondence between the Duke of York and the Pope How the Pope could not choose but weep for Joy at the reading of some of the Dukes Letters What great Satisfaction it was to the Pope to hear the Duke was of the Catholick Religion That the Pope has granted Briefs to the Duke And sent him Beads with ample Indulgences and much more to this purpose Answer 4. I perceive we are not like to want such Men as William Prynne to search into Princes Cabinets God forgive them that do it But if it fare with them as in King Charles the First 's time it did with others upon that account I shall not wonder 'T is prudence in Princes to keep a correspondence even among their Enemies Must therefore their Subjects quarrel their proceedings that know not what it tends to A Civil Behaviour or Complement is the least that is due to the Turk or Pope We are obliged to Trade in those Countries Yet we cannot with safety and Security without a Correspondence Neither can any Foreign War be Commenced without Allyances And who are more proper to transact such Affairs than prime Ministers of State Those are to be wondred at who call the Duke Papist When the Reasons they give for it are no more to be valued than the Rheume that issued from the Popes Eyes when he read the pretended Letters The Pope might probably weep when he heard the Duke was a Papist It being such a report as formerly ruined the Romanists in England And brought our most Protestant King Charles the First to the Block And under such another pretence against Popery probably the Duke may Suffer though no Papist The Pope's Joy may be great for the Fall of Charles and James But his Tears are for his Catholicks who are many times obnoxious to the Law but must alwayes be the Sacrifice to the unhallowed Fury of Faction and Fanaticism In Fine it is strongly to be believed that those who will not relinquish their Scismatical Wayes and gross Lying Will not at last stick at Perjury and Subornation And therefore no wonder if such simple Pamphlets of Briefs Beads and Indulgences and such Stuff is part of the Dukes Accusation Reason 5. That the whole House of Commons have declared him to be a Papist in their Vote Sunday April 1679. Wherein it is resolved Nemine Contradicente that the Duke of York being a Papist and the hopes of his coming such to the Crown Has given the greatest countenance and incouragement to the present Conspiracy and Design of the Papists against the King and the Protestant Religion 2 What this Conspiracy is will appear by a Declaration of both Houses of Parliament March 25 1679. Wherein it is Resolved Nemine Contradicente By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament that They do declare They are fully satisfied by the Proof they have heard That there now is and for divers Years last past hath been a Horrid and Trasonable Plot and Conspiracy continued and carried on by those of the Popish Religion For the Murthering His Majesties Sacred person and for Subverting the Protestant Religion And antient and well Established Government of this Realm Answer 5. It is affirmed in this fifth Reason That the House of Commons have declared the Duke of York to be a Papist I should sooner have believed it if the King and House of Lords had concurred with them Or rather if the Duke of York had declared it Himself But till then I must suspend my Belief what ever is said to the contrary And it would be prudently done of all Persons none having Authority as things stand to inquire into that matter to do so too lest they depart with as little satisfaction of what they came about as those Doctors who came to Queen Elizabeth to question her about the Real Presence in the Sacrament To whom that Oracle made this wise Answer Christ was the Word that spake it He took the Bread and brake it And what the Word did make it That I Believe and take it Reason 6. That besides all this Proof And much more to this purpose It is most notoriously evident He has for many Years absented Himself from all Protestant Churches during Religious Worship Answer 6. Should many Years absence from Church during Religious Worship be a Badge of Popery then all or most of the Non-con-formists must go under the same Livery And the Duke by that Reason might be esteemed a Phanatick as well as a Papist Therefore since this Reason is illegal And has no force of Argument in it I shall pass it by Only I shall hint thus much to the Reasoner That had he enquired of the Dukes Chaplaines He would not have been so ignorant of the quality of that Devotion and Piety that the Duke does constantly exert Reason 7. By the Evidence of Credible Witnesses He has been seen at Mass Receiving the Sacrament and at Confession Answer 7. The Reasoner would do well to consider that according to the measures himself has taken a man may have been of several Opinions And after that be a true Protestant of the Church of England But since all the foregoing Reasons to prove the Duke a Papist are only Sophistical Malitious and Spiteful the Reasoners Witnesses to make good his seventh and last Argument are not to be believed For admit the Duke had been at Mass c. If they be honest Papists 't is not to be thought they would inform against the Duke If they are false Knaves they ought not to be Credible Witnesses Besides there is something to be said for Curiosity The Duke as other Protestants may have been at a Quakers Or other Fanatick Meeting or at Mass must this therefore render him suspected to be of this or that Opinion No I rather think that those who are true Protestants according to the Church of England by hearing and observing the Errours of the One and Ridiculousness of the Other are better confirmed in our Protestant Doctrine And further this Argument is to be looked upon as most fallacious For if the Reasoner be unable to prove the Duke to be a Papist by his Witness that he has ready to produce Yet he may by the same Evidence prove him to be a Member of the Church of England allowing only Our Liturgy to be the English Mass which to the hot headed Phanatick seems to be as Criminal and Superstitious as the other so that the Reasoner seems to aim at nothing else but to make the Duke declare Himself And therefore he will call Him Papist or what he pleases rather than be ignorant of what he so eagerly desires to know And probably he is so inquisitive because he would suit his Religion according to a prospect of the Times as 't is very likely he has often done heretofore which this reservedness of the Duke perhaps may hinder And to such nimble Wits it is a great disgrace to be outwitted in paying an early Devotion to what is like to succeed be the Doctrine what it will And for this cause perchance the Reasoner may think himself obliged to remain an Atheist till he knows better what to trust to But now if these Answers shall give him Or his Adherers any Satisfaction I shall be very glad And that I may the better secure them from that wicked Sin of Atheism I say that those who will not allow the Duke to be a Protestant do seem Together with Himself to condemn His Royal Father who Educated Him And also the Clergy of England and the whole Episcopal Party who do adhere to him and think him Innocent of these accusations Yet these have taken the Test I shall conclude with this serious Admonition to all those who are Traducers of Others and Disturbers of Government under the Masque of Religion That they speedily pull off their vizards and really appear what they pretend to be Loyal to the King and mindful of his Countreys good Otherwise the time may come and the sooner the better That their Disguise shall be torn off by the hands of Justice And when the People shall see their Wolfish Faces And how under their Sheeps Cloathing they have been deluded by them Then Then will be the Joyful Day Then shall Treasons and Factions Cease when the Traytors and Seditious shall suffer according to Law FINIS