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A63970
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Reflections upon the French Kings declaration for the restauration of the late King James, to the kingdom of England / by John Tutchin.
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Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.
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1690
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Wing T3382A; ESTC R6390
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imagined to lurk-in the Breast of any one that bears the honourable Name of an English man And yet we see that some are weary of their Redeemer and like the discontented Israelites murmur at their Moses for the Bread and Water of Arbiâ—rary Power and Absolute Government and such too whom his present Majesty of the abundance of his mercy has skreen'd from the Justice of the Law and maintain'd by his Bounty In the next place he endeavours by fair Promises to persuade us to take the abdicated King again and tells us That he will restore us our Ships and Effects and Reimburse the Charge of the War Here he promises the English Subjects what he cannot perform without prejudice to his own For most of the English Ships taken since the Rupture were seized by the French Privateers and not one Moyety of the Effects at his dispose Besides it is impossible for him to restore the Effects as he found them most of the Tobacco being shipped off fâ—r Ireland And if our Merchants trust to his Accompt of the Sale of their Goods I am afraid their Factor will take so much per Cent. for his Commission that the poor Merchants will make but a losing Voyage of it and so powerful a Factor as he is not to be sued for an Account at any one's pleasure But I must needs acknowledg his kindness in the promise of reimbursing our Expence in the War and yet he is partly obliged to it being the principal Cause thereof therefore I do not like his Payment at three several times This makes me think that if we should comply with his Proposals that he would serve us as our cheating Traders do here get a Letter of Licence for time to pay their Debts when their only design is to gain time to get their Effects into their hands and then take up their Quarters in White-Fryars or the King's Bench were I to Treat with the French King upon this Head knowing him to be a Shuffling Dealer I should desire that Dunkirk Calais Brest Rochfort Thoulon and Sherrant might in the first place be put into our Hands as Cautionary Towns and as Security for his performance of Articles and payment of our Mony for who can Imagine that the French Tyrant can ever be able to make satisfaction to the English Nation for so many Millions Expence in this War who was forc'd the first Summer after the Rupture to melt down his plate to pay his Army and the Lead of his his Churches to make Bullets But to conclude all he threatens upon our Non-compliance with his Proposals to heap the Misery and Calamity of War upon us the case is much the same we are sure if we do comply or no if ever we come under his Jurisdiction to suffer all the Calamities of War possible to be felt by a Miserable People from a Conquering Enemy Those amongst us that have either read of or seen those Countrys that have unfortunately been the Seat of the French War are throughly convinc'd of what we must expect from a French Army should it get possâ—ssion of any part of this Kingdom how many goodly Towns and Villages have the French Troops laid waste upon the Rhine where the fruitful Lands lie Untill'd and the Grass grows where the Towns formerly stood I could give a Thousand Instances of the French Barbarity where they have had the Fortune to Conquer A Volume might be fill'd with their Cruelties in the Low Countries when our Nation suffer'd them to make a descent upon the States General of the Vnited Provinces in the Year 1673 some of which I shall Transcribe in a Letter written from Vtrecht 11th of January 1673. VVorthy Friend I Cannot out of the abundance of my heart forbear to send these Lines unto you containing an Account of the Cruelties and Murders committed by the French in that last Encounter at Boodegrave and Swammerdam according as I have had it from the mouths of the French and confirmed by many of them yea some of their Officers who have been in the Turkish War do testifie that they never saw or heard of such Cruelties as for Instance in two Gentlewomen who were first stript naked by the Soldiers and then by many of them deflowred which a French Officer seeing rescu'd them and threw his Cloak with what other Covering he could find over their naked Bodies This Officer being commanded to his post was forc'd to leave these Ladies whom he recommended to another But this shameless Villain presently ravish'd them again and let them in the like manner be abused by the Soldiers who having satiated their filthy Lust with them thrust the Rammers of their Guns into their Bodies and so torn them up and most miserably murder'd them The Gentleman that declares he saw these things you know very well as also him who first saved and cover'd them but afterwards to his great grief beheld them lying dead on the way The same person relates that hearing a dreadful screeching in a certain house he went in and found there a young Gentlewoman who was violated by some Soldiers whereupon he took his pistol intending to have shot one of those Villains through the head but it missing fire he struck it in pieces on one of their heads He said also that in the same Chamber lay two old people abed being Man and Wife above 80 years old the Father and Mother of this young Gentlewoman who embracing each the other in their arms lay shaking and trembling for fear of being murdered These should with House and all have been burnt had not he saved them For in like manner they most lamentably murdered a Woman together with her four Children who for Fear and Distress flew about her and crept under her Cloaths to save themselves Amongst those that fled into the Church some they most miserably ravisht afterwards hung them up by the hair and shot them to death Others they cut off their Breasts and then burned them Yea the French themselves declare that they saw several young Maids run into the Fire themselves to escape the Tyranous Cruelty of those Bloodhounds The Gentleman that says he saw these things lies sick abed meerly as he saith from alteration at the sight of these dreadful Massacres and Abuses which he was forced to behold acted upon the poor people A certain Officer who lies here on the New Graft declares that in one house were seven persons whom he endeavoured to protect but being commanded to look after his post was forced to leave them and coming again found them all murder'd And 't is not to be expressed what we out of their own mouths hear daily of their Cruelty But some of the Officers were more compassionate who have brought several Children with them hit her whom they say they snatch'd out of the Fire of which my Lord Peterson hath took one a Girl of Seven Years Old to himself whose parents are also burnt and 't is evident 't is Born of good Reformed parents for of her self she will Mornings and Evenings fall on her Knees and say all sorts of Prayers and can also say the Belief and Ten Commandments A certain Capuchin Monk said to the Duke of Luxemburgh Will you give that Soul to the Devil which we have fetch'd out of the Fire It ought not to be Nevertheless my Lord keeps thâ— Child They have also brought with them another pretty Lud about whom has been no small difference amongst them because some of them out of their Cruelty would still Burn him or dash him against the Wall but they have carried him upwards along with them so can Write no more about him These are but some Samples of their Barbarous Cruelty for should I relate all those Filthinesses and Murders whereof they boast I should too far exceed the Limits of a Letter Your Affectionate Friend N. N. This and much more must we expect if ever a French Army should land upon us But I hope the Commemoration of our mighty Conquests in France under Edward III. where we slew in the Battel of Cressy II great princes above 1000 Barons and Knights and above 30 thousand of the Commons of France not one Man of Honour or Note being slain on our side And many other Conquests I could mention I hope I say the thoughts of this will so animate all that have but the least spark of true English Valor left that we shall never be master'd by those that were the Slaves of our Forefathers but shall bravely stand up in the defence of our natural Rights our Religion and Liberties against all Opposers In doing of which we may expect the blessing of the Almighty who with one gentle touch of his Almighty Hand can disperse all our Enemies were they never so many Advertisements ☜ The Priviledges of the Citizens of London contained in the Charters granted them by several Kings of this Realm and confirmed by sundry Parliaments Formerly published for general Information upon the occasion of the Quo Warranto brought against the said City and now Re-printed upon the account of Reversing that Judgment and Restoring the Charter with all its ancient Rights and Priviledges under our Gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady King VVilliam and Queen Mary Printed for Langley Curtiss ☞ These are to give Notice to all Persons for the Benefit of the Publick That Mr. Elmy Professor of Physick and Operator of known Integrity and above 25 Years practice Liveth at the Blue Ball in Whale-Bone Court at the Lower End of Bartholomew-lane by the Royal Exchange who most safely and expeditiously Cures Deafness and Noise in the Ears in any of what Age soever if Curable and at first Sight by Inspection Resolves the Patient if so or not as most Eminent Persons of Quality in this City can Testifie London Printed for Langley Curtiss at the Sign of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's Head near Fleet-Bridge 1690.