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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66539	The legacy of John Wilmer, citizen, and late merchant of London humbly offered to the lords and commons of England.	Wilmer, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing W2884; ESTC R9494	27,537	38

latter were promoted to the best Dignities in the Church that by the mutual assistance of each other the Kings might enslave the Bodies and drain the Purses and the Priests enslave the Souls and ride the Consciences of all Men But after our late State-Mountebanks had thus for a time tried their Tricks at length they felt the Weight of the Nation to fall like a Mill-stone upon them and found that the People of England would be the People of England still and be govern'd as reasonable Men and free-born Subjects Nevertheless in every bad Reign Evil Counsellors will be at the old Game and better is not to be expected unless in a good one we find Justice to be executed in Terrorem and it be made the Interest as well as 't is the Duty of every Man to serve the Publick The Politick States of Holland do make it so and thereby is it that they not only stand but prosper and are well served for every private Man there finds his Account of Interest and Profit in serving the Common Good whereas here in the late Reigns every Judas to his Country that most betrayed the fundamental Rights and debauched his Country had Honours and Profits for so doing and on the contrary where any stood in their way to oppose them they were certainly taken off or ruined Which shews how precarious the Lives Liberties and Properties as also the Religion of the People of England were made What Rapines barbarous Murders and Outrages were in the late Reigns such as no Chronicle can parallel Ahab and Jezabel's Murder of Naboth and taking possession of his Vineyard so blackned in holy Writ and so revenged by God seems to be far out-done by the cruel and barbarous Murder of the Brave and Noble Earl of Essex the first was done in the face of the World and owned but the latter in Hugger-mugger when he was under the Custody of the Law in Confinement and which highly aggravates the Heinousness of the Fact it was perpetrated at that moment when it was made to serve the wicked Design of destroying another of our greatest Men the Noble Lord Russel And lastly to throw the Odium of it on himself which if England take not off I am sure will cost them dear and they must feel the Vengeance of Heaven until Justice be in some kind satisfied When we took God's Way he blessed us and when we return to him he will return to us and bless us again I cannot but admire the Fineness of God's Providence how he called forth the Vertuous Puissant and Illustrious Family of Nassan to rescue his People out of the Jaws of Spanish Tyranny under Charles the Fifth and broke that Hellish Yoke made by Popish Priests and now to call the same Family in his present Majesty to break the French Yoke This is a stupendous Providence an amazing Work which will give him a glorious Name more lasting than that of Sons and Daughters God is shaking the Earth he hath begun with us in Jamaica in a terrible manner and since hath come to our own Doors and given us a Warning of his Power to shew us what he can do Let us labour to understand the meaning of the Voice of God in the Earthquake Shall we say the People of Jamaica were more wicked than we because they perished I tell you God seems to call to us in this still Voice and say Repent or ye shall all likewise perish Let us away with our dastardly Cowardliness and sordid Covetousness and Self-seeking which is the Root of all Evil and seek more the things of God and things of good Report amonst good Men in our Generation Let us reform and amend our Manners our Ways and Doings or else leave those Names of Protestants and Christians for our Immorality is a Shame to them all and the old Heathens and Turks will condemn and rise up in Judgment against us and it will be more tolerable for them in the Day of Judgment than for us The CASE of JOHN WILMER Citizen and late Merchant of London With Reflections thereupon SECTION I. THAT there was a damnable Conspiracy to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government carried on long before the great Alarm thereof was given to the three Kingdoms about the Month of September 1678 was well known to all thinking Men and is now put out of question as it is that the late unhappy King James gave Life to it The House of Commons in the first Westminster Parliament after the Dissolution of the Long Parliament in January 1678 declared That the Duke of York being a Papist and his Hopes of coming such to the Crown gave Countenance and Encouragement to the Popish Conspiracies It appeared at that time to both Houses of Parliament by Letters from several Cardinals and others at Rome that the Duke held great Correspondences with the Pope and that his pretended Holiness could not but weep for Joy at the reading some of the Duke's Letters Whereupon a Bill was brought into the House of Commons to disable the Duke to inherit the Crown which upon a second reading in a Committee of the whole House being carried by the Majority of near two to one that Parliament was dissolved and never sat more The honest and most necessary Resolution then taken being thus defeated to the Grief and Astonishment of the greatest part of the Nation the undernamed Lords and Gentlemen viz. the Earl of Shafesbury Earl of Huntingdon Lord Grey of Werk Lord Russel Lord Cavendish Lord Brandon Thomas Wharton Esq Sir William Cowper Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Henry Calverly Sir Scroop How Thomas Thynne Esq William Forrester Esq and John Trenchund Esq went in Person upon the 26th of June 1680 and presented Reasons to the Grand Jury which served in the Court of King's-Bench for the County of Middlesex for the indicting the Duke of York as a Popish Recusant whereupon that Jury took the Indictment into Consideration But the Judges of that Court getting Information thereof sent for the Jury and in an unheard-of manner hastily dismissed them at a time when many other Indictments were depending before them The former Lords and Gentlemen no way discouraged by the aforesaid denial of Justice upon the 30th of July following together with the Earl of Clare Sir John Cope Sir Rowland Gwynn and Mr. Wandsford did personally prosecute the same Accusation against the Duke before a second Grand Jury but they were in the same arbitrary manner dismissed by the Court to the obstruction of that Prosecution In the ensuing Michaelmas Term 1680 I John Wilmer was returned and sworn upon the Grand Jury which served in the Court of King's-Bench for the County of Middlesex at that time began the Parliament commonly called the second Westminster Parliament from the Dissolution of the late Long Parliament and upon the 11th of November the House of Commons passed a Bill entituled An Act for securing the Protestant Religion by disabling James Duke