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A47942	A word concerning libels and libellers humbly presented to the Right Honorable Sir John Moor, Lord-Mayor of London, and the Right Worshipfull the aldermen his bretheren / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1327; ESTC R21957	9,783	16

A WORD CONCERNING LIBELS AND LIBELLERS Humbly Presented To the Right Honorable Sir John Moor Lord-Mayor of London and the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen his Brethren By Roger L' Estrange LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome at the Signe of the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard 1681. To the Right Honorable Sir John Moor Knight Lord-Mayor of the City of London and to the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren BEing given to understand that your Lordship and the Court of Aldermen have lately taken into consideration the bus'ness of Seditious Libells and Papers and that for want of particular Enformation the matter proceeded no further at that time then to a Generall Admonition which extended to the Innocent as well as to the Guilty through the False and Malitious Practices of the Criminalls for the Involving of both forts under the same Scandall and Condemnation I reckon it my duty to the King the Church the City to every Honest man and in the last place to my Self to present your Lordship and the Bench of Aldermen your Brethren with the means of distinguishing the One from the Other In full assurance that your Loyalty Generosity and Wisedom your love of Truth Peace and Common Equity will dispose you to Vindicate his Majesties Crown and Dignity the Royal Family the honour of the Government and all that is Sacred in humane Society against all Insults whatsoever and Cause Exemplary Justice to be done upon such Offenders in these Cases as shall be found properly under your Authority and Jurisdiction I shall not Clog this Paper with Instances either superfluous or of Ancient Date but keep my self within compass both for Time and Bulk Citing the Book and the Page still as I go along with the Publishers Name in the Margent And it will likewise appear from the Pamphlets themselves that there 's a Form'd Conspiracy against both Church and State for the destruction of the Whole and of every Part of it Root and Branch The Book that deserves the first place in this consideration was printed for John Kidgel at the Atlas in Cornhill 1682. and publish'd by Rich●rd Baldwin in the Old-Bayly A Bold and a Common Agent for the promoting of Sedition and it carries the designe in the very Title and Face on 't Rights of the Kingdom or Customs of our Ancestors touching the Duty Power Election or Succession of our Kings and Parliaments Our TRVE Liberty DUE Allegeance Three Estates THEIR Legislative Power Originall Judiciall and Executive with the Militia Freely discussed through the Brittish Saxon Norman Laws Histories This Gallimawfrey of Fragments was first publish'd in 1649. in favour of Cromwells Proceeding and Government the main Stress of the Discourse resting upon these two Points First that the Late King was lawfully put to death Secondly that the English Monarchy is not Hereditary but Elective And so the Author by Presidents either Impertinent Unwarrantable Perverted or misapply'd supports his Pretensions the best he can Finding this Treasonous Piece to be now Re-printed I could not but bethink my self To what end And this Curiosity put me upon comparing the Two Editions to see how far they Agreed wherein they Differ'd or whether this Latter Impression were the very same with the Original Upon the Examination I find severall sly Variations and Additions and many things Omitted in the Latter Copy which gives first to understand that this is not the work of a Bookseller or Printer for profit but a Regular and Industrious Disposition of the matter for some other purpose And what that Purpose is may be easily gather'd from the Pulse and Biass of the Treatise For the Omissions though Many Large are only such as apply the Arguments for the Sovereign Power of a Parliament or the People to the Defence of the Late Kings Murther or else such as strike so directly at the Subversion of the Monarchy that the Age is not as yet either so Mad or so Wicked as to bear it But his Arguments and Reasonings all this while for the Peoples Right of Calling their Kings to an Account remain Whole and Vntouch'd So that his Maintenance of the Peoples Power over the King even to the Deposing and putting of him to Death stands as good against this King as it did against his Father and speaks the Publisher and the Author to be both of a mind in the Case In One word the two Pos●ions of this Villanous Book are the Two Pillars of the Associating Plot. And if the Faction can but first perswade the Multitude that if the King will not do as the People would have him the People may deal with the King as they please And Secondly That this is an Elective Monarchy there 's the King's the Duke of York's and the Governments business done at a Blow But I shall leave the Author to Expound his own meaning in three or four passages omitted in this new Edition I cannot see says he why it should be a Crime for any to desire that an Action of such Concernment putting the King to death might be fully Clear'd to be Just and acted Justly Page 2. And again I would gladly have spoken all that I justly might to have saved him from death till I had seen that his Life could not consist with Peoples Peace and Safety which I may acknowledge to be the Supreme and Highest Law Humane P. 3. Further My work shall be to Enquire of matters of Law And how by the Laws and Customs of this Kingdom it may be known Adjudged and Declar'd what is the Duty of our King and whether he hath done it or not and in case of failure how it may be judg'd who they be that must determine it so that the Subject may and should be quiet and submit to such an Act Judiciall and Conclusive Pag. 4. Once again It may seem a short work and soon sayd when the King breaks his Trust the Parliament must Judge him and when the Lords refuse the Commons might and must because it was Necessity but I am loth to hide my self in a Dark Chaos I had rather see it Cleared in the Open Sun P. 4. This is sufficient to shew the Opinion and the Drift of the Author wherein he declares himself that the Late King was Justly put to death and undertakes by Law and Reason to prove it So that his Pretended Proofs being now Expos'd to the Publick by Kidgell and Baldwin in the very same terms with the Original must necessarily render the Late Publishers as Guilty as the Author There runs a Vein of Sedition through the whole Tract but some Few Instances out of this late Impression shall serve the Turn Let us Discusse it says he by Law and Reason what is our Legall Fcalty how made how Limited how kept or how DISSOLV'D P. 11. So that our Allegeance may be Dissolv'd it seems and is only Conditionall And again Allegeance was ad Legem to the Laws the Kingdom and the Kingdoms good or

whole Process Ridicul'd in the very Form and Terms of the Law and Dress'd up in so Contemptuous a manner that nothing was ever more Rudely and Spitefully treated then the Kings Authority and the Wisdom of the Scottish Nation in that Act of State After these Affronts upon the King himself it is not to be expected that they should treat his Royal Highness at a Civiller rate But how this Privilege of Questioning Sovereign Authority Discharging Subjects of their AllegJance and Disposing of the Crowns of Princes comes to be the Subject of every Mean and Mercecenary Pen will be taken I hope into a seasonable Consideration One of the most Seditious Impostures that has yet seen the Light was a Libel that passed under the Title of Bedlo's Narrative of the Fires which was almost wholly and Verbatim taken out of other Scandalous Libels of Former Date and Fobb'd upon the Nation under the Name and Authority of one of the Kings Witnesses Care put it together and it was Printed in Bedlo's Absence The main Scope of the Pamphlet was to possess the People as if the Duke of York the Guards and the Court-Party had Countenanced and Promoted the Conflagration The Kings Life-Guard he says rescued a Man that was taken in the Act of Firing a House Pag. 9. And again One of the Life-Guard threw Fire-Balls into a Womans Lapp Pag. 10. The Duke of York too a French-man into his Custody and said I will secure him but he was heard of no more Ibid. Four Life-Guard-men rescued another French-man c. Ibid. Another French-man carried before the D. of Y. and heard of no more Pag. 11. And so another in like manner Pag. 13. There 's another Charg'd with Burning the City and his Father is said to answer for him My Son doth nothing but what he has a Patent from the King for Pag. 11. In the Popish Courant of Jan. 14. 1680. The same Henry Care and Langley Curtis kill two Birds with one Stone 'T is certain every Papist is Implicitly at least a Rebel and a Traytor Here 's no Exception of either Queen or Duke nor of the very Preservers of his Sacred Majesty when the Rebellious Schismaticks pursued him to Murther him Nay 't is so far from an Exception that he points with his Finger to That he would be at If ever says the Courantier a little below we get a Popish Successor into the Saddle and the Black Tantivy-men to hold the Stirrup whilst his Holiness rides the dull Beasts at Pleasure We 'll burn all the Heretical Doggs c. so that it seems we have a Popish Clergy too as well as a Popish Successor And then to Finish his Complement July 22. 1681. We have says he got a New Fry of Church-men prepared by Hobbs and the Play-house that care not a farthing for any Religion provided they may but Swagger and Domineer and Swear and Damn and Drink Healths with a Huzza I shall only take a Taste here of that Venemous Character of a Popish Successor Though sufficient to give any Honest man Horror for the very Syllables of it but much more to see such Daring Insolencies pass Unpunished He calls his Royal Highness Pag. 10. the Greatest and only Grievance of the Nation the Universal Object of their Hate and Fear and the Subject of their Clamours and CURSES And a little further with as much Malice to the King as to the Duke he pronounces his Majesty as good as lost for his Friendship as he Expresses it to that One GANGREEND Branch of Royalty This is a Subject too Foul to Enlarge upon and I make no question but those Generous and Loyal Magistrates that Entertained so Honourable an Indignation for a Brutal Outrage upon the Duke's Picture will be answerably sensible of these Affronts upon Common Morality and Justice and the Honour of their Sovereign in the Person of his Royal Brother How does Janeway Rage in his Vox Patriae against The Wretched Pensioners in Pag. 2. Those Execrable Villains that by receiving Pensions betray'd our Trusts and our Libertys in the Late Long Parliament Pag. 17. Those Abominable Monsters Pag. 20. And what were these Pensioners at last but a List of Honest Gentlemen Proscribed as the StraffordJans were upon the Entrance into the late Rebellion for Adhering to their Consciences and their Duty 's Divers Privy Councellors and other Persons of Value and Credit in their Stations and of Unquestionable Worth in the Opinion of all that ever knew them And the Addressers are to be served with the same Sauce too A Popish and Arbitrary Design at the Bottom Baldwin's tendency of Addresses F Pag. 9. The Scum and Refuse of the Places where they live Pag. 12. Though the most Eminent Subjects of the Nation Some little Bankrupt Tradesmen a Scandalous and Disgrac'd Attorney one whose Necessity Exposes him to be Biassed by Crusts of Bread and Pots of Ale Ibid. And now to Janeway and Care in Conjunction Most of the Subscribers says the Impartial Numb 15. are RuffJans and Beggerly Vermin drawn in by Pots of Ale and not Apprentices and there 's nothing scapes better that falls in their way And the Impartial again Numb 16. Alderman Pilkington and Mr. Shute are fit Persons to Serve the City next Year in Quality of Sheriffs c. But there are a Pack of People that scarce know what they would have Most Industriously Endeavouring by Caballs and Drunken Factious Clubs to pull up some other Persons c. This is to say in short that whosoever gives his Vote for any other man is a Drunken Factious Rascal What work has Janeway made Impartial Numb 47. With a Scandalous and Malicious Forgery of a Debaucht committed upon Michaelmas day last in the Church of All-hallows Staining and the Story False from one end to the other But it was the Spleen of the Faction when they could not disappoint the Election though by the Meanest Practices Imaginable to be Revenged upon those Honest Gentlemen that were desirous by Ringing the Bells to welcome the Person Elected into his Office It would be Endless and truly as Needless to run through the History of the Scandals upon all those Places and Persons that have Acted Dutifully and Affectionately for the Common Serof the Church and the Crown Is not the King Twitted for his Venison to some of the Addressers Is not Norwich Bristol c. Charged with Designs of Setting up Popery and Arbitrary Power The Artillery Company of Bristol Blasted as an Illegal Usurpation and Calumniated for a Private Test as if there were a Popish Con●piracy in the Bottom of it Let but any Man open his Mouth for the King and the Government and he is presently a Bogg-Trotter a Witness in such a Cause a Jury-man in such a One a Judge in another and Branded for all the Villanies which that Sink of Infamy the Faction can throw upon him A Turn-Coat a Fidler a Beggarly