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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97098	The fountain of slaunder discovered. By William Walwyn, merchant. With some passages concerning his present imprisonment in the Tower of London. Published for satisfaction of friends and enemies.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1649 (1649)	Wing W682; Thomason E557_4; ESTC R204437	31,569	29

the hand of the common Hangman wherein with thousands of wel-affected people I was engaged and to which I stand being no more for Anarchy and Le●elling then that Petition importeth the burners thereof and the then aspersers of me and my friends having been since taught a new lesson and which might be a good warning to those that now a fresh take liberty to abuse us but no heart swoln with pride as the politicians nor so scornes advice spurns and jeers and laugh at all yet for all their confidence few of them escape the severe hand of Gods justice first and last even in this world Indeed it hath been no difficult thing to know my judgement by the scope of that Petition and truely were I as deadly an enemy unto Parliaments as I have been and still am a most affectionate devotant to their just Authority I could not wish them a greater mischief then to be drawne to use Petitioners unkindly or to deny them things reasonable upon suspition that they would be emboldened to ask things unreasonable by which rule no just things should ever be granted wishing with all my heart that care may be speedily taken in this particular the people already being too much enclined to be out of love with Parliaments then which I know no greater evill can befall the Common-wealth Another new thing I am aspe●●t withall is that I hold Polygamie that is that it is lawfull to have more wives then one I wonder what will be next for these will wear out or returne to the right owners and this scandall would intimate that I am addicted loosely to women but this is another envenomed arrow drawne from the same Pollitick quiver and shot without any regard to my inclination and shewes the authors to be empty of all goodnesse and filled with a most wretchlesse malice for this is such a slander as doggs me at the heels home to my house seeking to torment me even with my wife and children and so to make my life a burthen unto me but this also loseth its force and availeth nothing as the rest do also where I am fully known nay it produceth the contrary even the increase of love and esteeme amongst them ●● from those whose goodnesse and certain knowledge can admit no such thoughts of vanity or vilenesse in me one and twenty years experience with my wife and fifteen or sixteen with my daughters without the least staine of my person putting the question of my conversation out of all question There are also that give out that I am of a bloudy disposition it s very strange it should be so and I not know it sure I am and I blesse God for it that since I was a youth I never struck any one a blow through quarrell or passion avoyding with greatest care all occasions and provocation and although possibly nature would prevaile with me to kill rather then be killed yet to my judgement and conscience to kill a man is so horrid a thing that upon deliberation I cannot resolve I should do it And though to free a Nation from bondage and tyranny it may be lawfull to kill and slay yet I judge it should not be attempted but after all means used for prevention wherein I fear there hath been some defect and upon extreme necessity and then also with so dismall a sadnesse exempt from that usuall vapouring and gallantry accustomed in meer mercinary Souldiers as should testifie to the world that their hearts took no pleasure therein much lesse that they look't for particular gaine and profit for their so doing and I wish those who have defamed me in this did not by their garnisht outside demonstrate that they have found a more pleasing sweetnesse in bloud then ever I did Now some may wonder why those religious people that so readily seem ●he Polliticians turnes in catching and carrying these aspersions from man to man have not so much honesty or charity as to be fully satisfied of the truth thereof and then deale with me in a Christian way before they blow abroad their defamations or why the taking away of my good name which may be the undoing of my wife and children should be thought no sin amongst them but truely I doe not wonder at it for where notionall or verball Religion which at best is but superstition is author of that little shadow of goodnesse which possesses men it s no marvell they have so little hold of themselves for they want that innate inbred vertue which makes men good men and that pure and undefiled Religion which truly denominateth men good Christians and which only giveth strength against temptations of this nature And as men are more or lesse superstitious the effects will be found amongst them nor is better to be expected from them untill they deeme themselves no further Religious then as they find brotherly love abound in their hearts ●owards all men all the rest being but as founding brasse and tinkling Simbals nor will they ever be so happy as to know their friends from their foes except they will now at length be warned against these cunning wayes of Polliticians by scandals and aspersions to divide them and be so wise as to resolve to beleeve nothing upon report so as to report it againe untill full knowledge of the truth thereof and then also to deal as becommeth a discreet Christian to whom anothers good name is as pretious as his own being ever mindfull that love covereth a multitude of sins But I have said enough as I judge for my owne vindication and discovery of the infernall tongues of Pollititians that set on fire the whole course of nature and am hopefull thereby to reclaime some weak wel-minded people from their ●odain beleeving or inconsiderate dispersing of reproaches and so to 〈◊〉 the polliticians ends in this dangerous kind of delu●ion As for those who know me and yet asperce me or suffer others unreproved all such I should judge to be polliticians their hirelings or favourers and I might as well undertake to wash a Blackmore white as to turne their course or restore them to a sound and honest mind ● However I shall no whit dispaire of the prosperity of the just cause I have hitherto prosecuted because though at present I be kept under yet I have this to comfort me that understanding increaseth exceedingly and men daily abandon superstition and all unnecessary fantastick knowledge and become men of piercing judgements that know the arts and crafts of deceivers and have abillity to discover them so that besides the goodnesse of the cause which commands my duty I may hope to see it prosper and to produce a lasting happinesse to this long enthraled Nation A good name amongst good men I love and would cherish but my contentment is placed only in the just peace and quietnesse of my own conscience I may be a man of reproaches and a man of crosses but my integrity no man can take from