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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52845	The Duke of Monmouth and, Earl of Essex, with the rest of the noble peers, vindicated in answer to a printed Letter to a noble peer of the realm, about his late speech and petition to his Majesty.		1680 (1680)	Wing N5; ESTC R216394	3,449	2

THE Duke of Monmouth AND Earl of Essex with the rest of the Noble Peers VINDICATED In ANSWER to a Printed LETTER to a Noble Peer of the Realm about his late Speech and Petition to his Majesty THis licentious Age doth abound with so many unclean Spirits like Frogs Rev. 16. 13. As not only creep into Kings Palaces as the Frogs of Egypt did into the King's very Chamber to croak in his Face and to crawl on his Bosom when neither Walls not Weapons B●rrs nor Bolts could keep them out Exod. 8. 1 3 4 6. But dare also croak there with their continual Breke ke kex coax coax as Aristophanes phraseth it out of their black Mouths and bespatter some principal Peers of our Realm for no other Fault but because they desire Their Sov'raign to preserve these Kingdoms free From popish Cut Throats and Egypt's Slavery Those Spiritual Fathers the Jesuits who are the Pope's Janizaries and ultimus Diaboli crepitus the last Crack-Fart of a daring Devil are called Frogs for their Loquacity Impudency and Impurity 'T is a thousand pities that the famous White-Hall should harbour any such Black mouth'd Creatures with all those three Black-brands upon them I dare say 't is not cum Privilegio as the dirty Dogs do bark at the splendid Moon which yet keeps her Course and continues her Lustre notwithstanding their Barking So those croaking Fr●g● do endeavour to darken some Stars of the first magnitu●● in our British Sphere with their Out-cryes against them yet I doubt not but those Noble Peers will m●●●tain their Grandeur and Splendour notwithstanding their Croaking 'T is a thousand pities such Scandalum magnatum may now sculk so under unknown Masqueradoes as to scape Scot-free with their pretended Letters from Scotland though writ at home against such Noble Peers and Loyal States-men Aesop's Frog is deemed an able and couragious Champion that durst encounter the silly Mouse and run a Tilt at him with a Bull-rush for his Spear but this Pamphleteer is a bolder Frog yea a more daring Devil or unclean Spirit who dare encounter no less then sixteen at once when Hercules himself durst not contend with two at one time Ne Hercules contra duos and those sixteen all great Peers of the Land This is an Enterprise dignum tanto worthy of a poor Frog to undertake Assuredly he conceited himself to be that other Frog of Aesop's who would needs swell and stretch himself out till he became as big as an Ox but the issue was he brake himself all asunder and so perished The like Fate may in due time befal this Bombasting Bragadocto and over bold undertaker Or perhaps he fancied himself of the Off-spring of those the Poet mentioned who waged War against Jove himself subjectum Pelion Ossae c. Throwing great Trees huge Rocks and vast Mountains against Heaven to throw Jupiter out of his Throne but they were answered with hot Thunder-bolts whereby that Giganto machia had a Period put to it in the Giants Destruction Or lastly he might imagine himself to descend from the Zamzummims Deut. 2. 20. Those big and boistrous Men that durst bid defiance to the true Jehovah and challenge him to a Duel whom yet the Lord destroyed before Israel This Thrasonical Libeller feareth none of these Fates daring to ou●dare both God and Man yea great and the greatest of Men And if he falls in his Essay as fond Phaeton did in his with my consent he shall have Phaeton's Epitaph writ upon his Tomb may he be capable of that Honour only with change of the Name and Employ Hic situs est Thraso Baronum contaminator Quo si non valuit magnis tamen excidit ausis And how can he hope for any better success then a Fall to fight against so many G●●nd Heroes all at once and that with no better a Weapon than that Spear of the Frog aforesaid w●●● a poor Bulrush All his Arguments he urgeth against them are not worth a Rush and n● better than a Bulrush as the Sequel evidenceth The Observation whereof looseth my long silent Tongue as danger did the dumb Son 〈◊〉 Croesus who all on the sudden cryed out kill not King Croesus Facit indignatio versum A just Indignation at this sordid Sycophant and Pick-thank Parasi●e hath constrained me to cry out Undo not the King and his Kingdoms with your precipitant Counsels and your prejudicate Suggestions undo not your self who like the silly Wezel that dare nibble a● the Heels of a Lion that saith nemo me impune lacessit whom the provoked Beast easily destroys with his Paw how much more a Nibler at the Heels of so many Lions at once One that casteth so much Dirt upon them is in the high way to be destroyed and the Nobles themselves not much damag'd thereby For if Dirt be cast upon a Mud-Wall it may possibly stick but it cannot do so upon Marble This scurrilous Libeller as suspecting his own strength in his Essay doth supplie with Policy his want of power and prowess Dolus an virtus quis in hoste requirat He therefore first singleth out the Noble Earl of Essex that brave Patriot for his King and Kingdom as their Forlorn Hope which could he but rout then will he fall foul upon the main Body that stood in a double File or two in a Rank behind him And in pursuance of this project he first assaults that single Earl with subtile Insinuations dipping his Nail he had to drive in Oil to make it drive the deeper not only to the Head but to the Heart also Thus like the Devil he accosts the Earl with Flattering before he come to his Frowning Work which he comes to in the second place Not only frowning upon the Earl in telling him that he threatens his Majesty which his humble offer of Advice as he saith there can in no Grammatical sence without notorious wresting be so interpreted but also in giving that Noble Peer Tantamont the Lie in upbraiding him with his weak Observation without the least ground in History as if this obscure Whiffler ashamed of his own Name knew more both of the History and Mistery of our State than all those sixteen Lords and all other the wisest of States-men However he craftily quotes Baker's Chronicle only and because he there found nothing of the Parliament at Clarendon in Henry the II.'s Time therefore he affronts the Earl with telling an Untruth and he saith the cause of that King's Unhappiness was from ambitious and discontented Grandees But had he consulted Fuller's Church History Cent. 12. lib. 3. pag. 32. and Prideaux's Introduction pag. 319. edit 2. both of them true Sons of the Church and under Prelatical O●●●r he would have found there that the Parliament was called at Clarendon to retrench the Enormities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clergy where the Foundation of a Feud was laid not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 twixt him and any ambitious Nobles as the Pamphlet hinteth as betwixt him and that Traitor-Saint Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who was a stubborn Patronizer of the debauched Clergy with whom that King had many Bickerings and 't was not the Secular Lords as this Whiffler saith but this proud Spiritual Lord B●cket who fomented the Difference betwixt this King and Lewis the French King Fuller p. 33. with whom his own Son Henry sided against him p. 40. And as to Henry the III. this Pamphl●teer might have consulted the two fore-named Authors as well as Baker and there he would have found ●ikewise something of an Insanum Parliamentum at Oxford which proved pr●judicial to Regality Prideaux p. 322. and how his immoderate and exasperating Favours cast upon Strangers drew on the Barons Wars and that the King's Non-age after his Full-age such was his Weakness of Spirit and Lowness of Resolution was a great Cause of his Trouble Fuller ut supra p. 55. who further saith That the Barons had then too much Matter whereon justly to ground their Discontent partly because the King distrusting his own Native Subjects employed so many French Forreigners in Places of Power and Profit and partly because he had used such indirect Courses to recruit his Treasuries c. More at large Fuller ibid. p. 66. Sect. 33. Yet was he happy in this to redress all his Errors before he died Sect. 38. granting that good Magna Charta c. As to Henry the VI. our Libeller shuffles that up and never quotes Baker as he might have done who tells us how the Duke of York first began to whisper for the Crown p. 188 Col. 2. then secondly made his way to the Crown p. 190. Col. 1. After all this takes the Oath of Allegiance to Henry the VI. p. 192. Col. 2. whom he cast out of his Throne notwithstanding his Oath of Fidelity two several times there being no less than four Changes in his Reign But not a word of this must we hear from him lest that should create the like Fears about the Duke of York at this time For then did Richard Duke of York Edward the IV.'s Father get it confirmed by Parliament to be Heir Apparent of the Crown and this is the great Contest of this Day Neither doth he mention that Parliament held at Coventry which that Honourable Lord in his Humble Address hinteth at wherein the Duke of York was convicted of High-Treason and all his Lands and Goods confiscate to the King This also had a Noli me tangere upon it as being like the afore-said unsuitable to his Design tho his Baker whom he only quotes do speak fully to all this p. 196. Col. ● As to the Body of the Petition I observe this Libeller is a fast Friend to the plotting Papists and would give us a Diversion from that kind of Cattel to the Presbyterians whom he judges far worse as if he had an hand in the Meal-Tub Intrigue Dat veniam Corvis vexat Censura Columbas The Lord drive these unclean Spirits the croaking Frogs far from us as Zech. 13. 2. So prays C. N.