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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88428	The vindication of an injured lady written by the Lady Francesca Maria Lucretia Plunkett, one of the ladies of the privy chamber of the queen-mother of England.	Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1667 (1667)	Wing L2829A; ESTC R43695	14,965	30

then the Church Quovis Commento they used any shift to remedy it and although these Ladies want ingenuity to confess the figments and prevarications which they have used to make me seem otherwise in my words and actions then truth can warrant them to report of me yet thanks be to God I am happy in this that he hath placed me in the Noble City of Dublin inhabited by very many prudent and truly Noble Persons of both sexes who have observed my deportment and are not unacquainted with the Maskaries these Ladies have used against me in their late Earie-like Scenes wherein they would have represented me to the eye of the World in the false dress of their malicious impositions It hath been long since said of Stage-players that they are many times high in applause but poor in reputation These Actrices perhaps in their first Scenes found some applause amongst themselves but the World knows they have not mended their own reputations by endeavouring to destroy mine and it now appears in great visibility to every understanding person that though they have wounded their own consciences to stain my reputation their wounds will not be so soon cured as my reputation cleared Wherefore I do so much pity them as that I desire they may escape the Satyrical Whip of Poets and Lampoons and that they may be freed from the Strapadoes of an evil Conscience by using the due remedies prescribed by the Casuists which are Retractation Compensation and a lowly penitent dejection of mind before God which if they forbear to perform they will not onely render themselves hereafter hateful to their own imaginations but also lyable to be cast headlong to the lowest and most painful tormentory of hell which I pray God to prevent in his mercy by giving them a sight and true sense of their sins and thereby to put a seasonable stop to the fury of their malicious proceedings against me for if their own awakened prudence cannot bring them to these sentiments yet I am well assured it is possible that the Omnipotent Lord of Heaven and Earth who made the Sun that mighty Creature the Prince of all the Lights in Heaven to stop and stand still in the rapid Career of its greatest velocity can in an instant prohibit their causless prosecution against me or render it vain and of no effect and that the same God who made the impetuous Current of the raging Sea to recoil and the merciless flame of devouring fire to become a soft refreshing air can so temper the rage of these tumultuous Ladies as to make them immediately pull in their horns and blunt their stings otherwise at least when their immortal fouls shall be summoned by grim Death to diflodge from their tottering tabernacles of cold clay and shall begin to enter into the disputed Confines of Eternity then will they wish that they had been as free from injuring me by their Calumny as I am innocent of the matters they falsly lay to my charge I shall not at this time say much more to these Ladies I shall therefore dismiss them with a few Observations I must confess that though they have all been culpable yet I do not think that they have been equally cruel to me notwithstanding which I shall say that every one of them hath been too cruel for it is observed that the most tame of Tygers is a cruel beast Secondly I observe that those Ladies who were interwoven in the Contexture of so strong a Faction against me are not the onely persons who have injured me for they who have excited them to detraction are not without sin nay perhaps more guilty for Malletus the Casuist saith These do not onely offend as the Detractour effectu detractionis but also are unto others causà detrahendi Nay the Detractour is but the Authour of his own sin but these are Authours of their own and others for which cause sayeth another Casuist Tenetur ad restitutionem nisi Detractor ipse restituat Thirdly Whosoever hath delighted himself in hearing detractions though as the Casuists say he doth not offend contra justitiam because he is not efficax causa damni yet he offends against charity for that he takes pleasure malo Proximi which cannot stand with charity Fourthly Superiours in Government who do not correct Detractors do not onely sin against charity but also against justice Cum Obligatione restituendi si subditus non restituat so say Lessius Reginaldus and Molina Fifthly Parents Husbands and Masters who have silently heard their Children Wives or Servants detract from any one though without delectation are guilty of a moral incitation to detraction for Qui tacet consentire videtur and Fernandes gives two reasons for this Observation Tum quia non impedit malum Proximi tum quia non emendat errantem Sixthly They who have defamed any one by detraction are bound to restitution not onely where the party had a positive good fame i. e. bene audiebat and therefore did suffer the loss boni cessant●● but also where the party had but a negative good name i. e. non male an●ichat and therefore suffers an immergent loss by positive infamy brought upon him but especially in the former case wherein I have been so highly injured Seventhly Restitution is not always made according to the quality of the offence before God but proportionable to the infamy arising therefrom and therefore he who divulgeth a true crime to the defamation of his neighbour shall make equal restitution with him who objected or imposed a false one wherefore Fernandes saith Aequalitas restitutionis non oritur ex aequalitate culpae sed ex aequlitate damni Eighthly Though Tolet be of opinion That where a good fame is not to be restored in proprio genere by retractation it is not to be restored by way of another compensation and though he enforceth his opinion from this consideration That as life so a good fame is not pretio aestimabilis and therefore cannot be proportioned to any estimation I shall hold the opposite opinion maintained by the Angelical and subtil Doctors Thomas Aquinas and Scotus Thom. q. 32. ar 2. Scot. in 4. d. 15. 9 4. as also by Soto 4. q. 6. art 3. who say That though life as well as a good fame do entitatively and essentially exceed any price yet in respect to she estimation of men they may be reduced to a certain value and I have read that it is held to be the common opinion of School-Divines that quando debitum compensari nequit ad aequalitatem in eodem genere compensandum est in al●o quoad fieri potest compensando I am afraid that I have held the Courteous Reader too long in the thorny terms of Casuistical and School-Divinity yet because it is necessary to cure my Adversaries not onely by a prick of reprehension but also by stirring up their Consciences by some pungent incitations to repentance and satisfaction I hope to be excused and the rather for that I shall lead the Readers patience by a mor● easie and short way to a Conclusion having but one Consideration more to subjoyn which is this If the private dislike of so many Ladies fomented by envy after so many spies set on my behaviour and so vigorous an inquisition had against me and having a voracious will to destroy my Credit cannot find any evidence to convince me of any thing scandalous it is no slight Argument of my Innocency If all their endeavours against me met together as the beams of the Sun on a burning-glass cannot kindle a fire to my destruction their most frequent attempts proving as the Rayes under the meridian which cannot produce a flame by reflection on a burning-glass for want of solid matter to work on I hope the Reader will free me from all Attachments of busie suspition for the future and that no man will own a necessity of believing suggestions upon the reputation of their accusing me hereafter for the reputation of such people as are found false accusers or like an Irish pair of Tongs which grow shorter in the use I shall conclude with a stedfast Declaration of a well-grounded hope which is that all Persons of Quality of both sexes in this City which is the Metropolis of Loyalty as well as preheminency will compassionate my injured innocency hitherto groaning under the insolency of she-cruelty and oppression trampled upon as it were to dust by the barbarous feet of pride and unwomanly insultations but that which begets in me my most secure confidence is that of Ioh Behold now my Witness is in heaven and my record is on high whereunto appealeth Frances Plunkett FINIS ERRATA P. 14. lege Syria p. 19. l. Endive p. 21.