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prince_n	duke_n	king_n	york_n	6,009	5	9.6875	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47913	A reply to the second part of The character of a popish successor by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1298; ESTC R7146	29,660	38

Rohan's business to be a General Proposal of an Allyance the Other only a Bare and Particular Intercession for the Hugonots of France The one only makes the Duke acquainted with the Proposal the other Addresses Expressly to the Duke for his Recommendation Now says the Character again This Royal Heir or Masquerader or by what other Title Disguis'd or distinguish'd with a seeming Cordial Friendship Embraces the Poor Hugonots Cause and day after day Receives his Addresses with many Solemn but Airy Promises of Speedy Assistance but in the mean time Disgusted and Gall'd to the Soul at so Audacious and Impious a Petition as the Protestant Pr●●ervation and Abhorring so Detestable an Employment Nay 〈◊〉 very Name of the Hereticks Defender instead of his Promised Aid he on the contrary most cunningly laid the Platform of a Revenge as exquisit as so Hainous a Petition deserved Immediately ●e goes to the French Ambassador and tells him how one of the French Subjects had very Arrogantly and Scandalously Calumniated his Great Master with Opprobrious names of Tyranny Oppression and Breach of Faith into which very language he himself before had Exasperated him on Purpose to make his Ruine Secure which the Bare accusation of a suit in behalf of his Religion would not alone have Effected The Ambassador as bound in Duty for the vindication of his Kings Honour desires a further Testimony of the Offence and Offender which the Royal Informer effectually gives him by appointing another Conference with Rohux Where Privately he Plants this Kingly Representative as an Honourable Eves-dropper to overhear a Repetition of the whole Discourse and Confirm his Belief from his own Ears This Conference P. 4. Contriv'd and Manag'd as heart would wish the Ambassador Posts over this Rohuxs Treachery to France whilst he Poor unsuspecting Innocence Continues his Dayly Prayers to his Great Advocate But finding in time so many Dilatory Demurs He luckily at last Discovers he is Betrayed Vpon which Dreading the French King not daring to Return to France He steals away into Switzerland for his Protection but the French King being advertiz'd of his Motions gets him Trep●nn'd by an Ambuscado in the night and being by Surprize forced out from thence into France he is broken upon the Wheel Now hear the Letter Mounsieur Rohan hauing acquainted the Duke of York with his Errand after he had in a Private Conference or two transacted with the King about it this Royal Prince out of his wanted kindness to Protestants and the Reformed Religion caused Ruvigni Lieger Ambassador from France at this Court to stand behind the Hangings at St. James while he made this Innocent Gentleman discourse over the whole busness Vpon which Mr. Ruvigny being obliged to acquaint his Master with it M. Rohan who upon some Information that the Duke had betray'd him had withdrawn hence to Switzerland was there seized by a Party of French-Horse and brought to the Bastile whence after some time of Imprisonment he was carried to the Place of Execution and broken on the Wheel Here 's nothing in this Letter of the Seeming Friendship mention'd in the Character the Promises of Assistance the Plot of Revenge the Trepanning of Rohux into Outrages against his Master nor of the Dukes Lewd Contemplations upon the whole matter which 't is Impossible for him to give an account of too and fitter in short for a Stage then a History So that all these Aggravations are only the Old Story Corrected and Amended with Additions for the Credit of his Character And what 's his Authority now for this Diabolical Report but that Infamous Composition of Forgery and Scandal the Letter about the Black Box Wherein after all these Vile Imputations upon his Royal Highness the Duke comes off yet better in 't then the King After his Utmost Effort upon this Romantick Master-piece of Defamation he lets himself down for a while into a vein of Quirk and Cavill and then takes wing again P. 8. into another fit of Rapture and Imagination Were there a Country says he where Commissions of Peace day after day and Time out of mind have been taken away for daring but to lift a hand against a Son of Rome Nay at the same time when all other Recusants have been Prosecuted and that with Encouragement and Reward And all by a Royall Heirs Pretection and Interest c. This way of Trifling might do well enough in a Chimney Corner with a Once upon a time there was a Country c. but Majesty is not to be play'd with at this Idle Rate The Plain English of it is this Look to your selves Good People the King is Popishly affected he will not let any man touch a Papist but the poor Protestant Dissenters all this while they go to pot c and then he thinks to bring it off by casting it upon the Interest or Power of the Duke with his Majesty The very affirming of it is a Scandal for how does he know whether it be so or no Or what if it were so Is it not the Kings Act whoever advises him to 't Or can any man say that the King does an ill thing however influenc'd without reflecting upon his Majesties Honour and Justice Beside the Evident untruth of the matter of Fact the Laws being vigorously Executed against the Papists and the Recusants on the other side Indulg'd till they so far abus'd the Kings mercy by dayly affronts that it was not safe to forbear them any longer His Ninth Page is stuff'd with Reflections upon the Government and first upon the Bench for the Sentence upon Harris for Publishing the Appeal a Libel that excites Rebellion and supports it self in the Encouragement of it upon this Position that He that has the worst Title makes the best King And again in the same Page had the Papists Execrable Blow succeeded the Bloud of Majesty might in all Probability have found the same Inquisition as the firing of London What is this but to Imply an Imputation upon the House of Commons that had the Examination of the whole matter before them and likewise upon his Majesty himself his Ministers and Courts of Justice as if they had not done their parts toward the Discovery of it in their Respective Stations And yet once again Ibid Has not our Late Design against both King Religion and Government in Contradiction of the Vnanimous Vote of the whole Nation in Parliament being Confidently Retorted upon the Presbyterians And that too without the least Proof or shadow for 't And then how easily might the Papal Policy have made a Popish Murther a Fanatick Stab They do ill Certainly that turn the Popish Plot upon the Presbyterians and little better sure that turn the Plots of the Scottish Presbyterians and their Fellow-Covenanters in England upon the Papists And for the Popish Policy of making a Popish murder a Fanatick Stab that 's only a shift they learn'd of the True Protestant Papists that turn'd a Fanatick murder into a