to this the Author makes answer in these Words But since he would leave his Crown who could help it For no body took it from him The Jacobites say they are astonished at this That they could not have expected this from so Celebrated a Pen as that of this Author They ask whether this Author or any Man in England thinks that K. James left his Crown Voluntarily And whether Frighting a King out of his Kingdom he not a taking it from him And then to cry as this Author here who could help it For no body took it from him The Jacobites say they suspect this Author to be turning towards Trans-sub-stantiation he can never be too old to Learn for if he can perswade us out of our Senses in one case he may in another Now say the Jacobites to see K. James Invaded by the P. of Orange and made a Prisoner by him removing his English and clapping Dutch Guards upon him Commanding him out of his Bed and Pallace at two a Clock in the Morning and after Possessing his Crown and then to say that no body took it from him is the same as to say that no body now possesses it It is to bid us believe nothing we see hear or Feel And is this the Foundation say they upon which you would settle our Conscience and hazard our Damnation If any body took K. James's Crown from him then say the Jacobites will you allow us to be in the Right and your selves to be in the Wrong You must do so if you lay any stress upon this Argument But if no body took it from him then perhaps he has it still and we have him still at White-Hall it is only a Decoptio Visus and we have been but Dreaming of Battles in Ireland and Flanders Ireland is not Destroyed nor have any Men Perished there And now come Popery we are ready for you we will never Plead our senses against you any more Thus the Jacobites insult And I confess it is the point I can least answer for as they say either K. James did Voluntarily Relinguish his Crown which no body in the World believes or he was Frightned from it and chose rather to Lose it for some time and take his hazard of Recovering it again rather than ly at his Enemies Mercy to take that away and his Life together wheâ—… ever he Pleased which no doubt was the Case and I have heard many blame the ill Conduct of suffering him to Escape and Create us so many troubles Would any think him Safe if he were in our hands now Therefore it is a Demonstration that it was his safest Course to Escape when he could Our Author has a witty Sarcasme upon this p. 2. King William says he wont Abdicate nor Steal away The Jacobites Laugh at this and ask our Author whether he would not Advise K. W. to make his Escape if he were in the Circumstances in which K. J. was then Suppose K. J. should Invade and Conquer K. W. Suppose the Engish should Desert K. W. as they did K. J. and that K. J. had made K. W. a Prisoner and put him under French Guards would not our Author or any Friend of his perswade him to Abdicate and Steal Away if he could This the Jacobites say was poor and impotent in this Anthor to strain himself for a Reslection upon K. J. to renen a Blow at him and then to have no more to say against him But to return to our Argument The Jacobites do further insist in behalf of K. J. That suppose his Fears were too Great yet it was to Save his Life that he fled And will any say that this was no Force upon him And shall our Author ask Since he would go as if it were Obstiuacy not Fear that prest him and who could help it as if it were against our will that he went and that we were able and willing to protect him And when he is thus Frightned away and Forced to leave his Crown behind him to Save his Life and then we bestow this Crown upon another and to Declare him to have no more Right to it to say this is not a Taking it from him the Jacobites alleadge is Non-sense even to the Degree of Madness And the Case being thus stated they must needs Gain all man-kind to their side Men may pretend what they will but it is not in a Mans power to Believe as he pleases And therefore Sir I do earnestly intreat you to think of some Topick or other to Answer these Jacobites otherwise the Consequence must be Fatal to the Government to let them have all the plausibility on their side Whether you will pitch upon the way of Scotland to Fore-Fault the King and plainly own as they do his Forfeiting his Crown for Male-Administration and therefore that they took it from him by their Superior and Original Authority and Depos'd him Justly Which I think a much easier way than ours Or whether you will set up Conquest or what other Method to satisfy Mens Consciences I submit to your better Judgment But something must be done other than to say that No body took K. J.'s Crown from him for such a Paradox can never pass upon any Man of Honesty or Common Sense And in your Managing this Cause I shall desire likewise for the Honour of the Government That you would avoid giving the Jacobites such a handle to Retort upon us as you do p. 28 29. where you insist upon the Perjury Mocking of God and Deceiving the Government in those who have taken the New Oath to K. W. and Q. M. and yet should Act against them Here you could not but Imagin That the Jacobites would Retort upon us the Breach of our Oaths to K. J. And for us to Preach up the Obligation of Oaths in one Case and Cry them down in another is exposing our selves to the utmost Contempt unless you had shewn some Difference 'twixt these Oaths which you have forgot As they did the Jacobites say who had the Penning of the Late Proclamation 13. Sept. 92. against High-way-mer and Robbers and yet shew'd us not the Difference 'twixt Robbing or Stealing Pence and a Crown why the Lesser Stealth should be Criminal and the Greater Glorious as if Kings onely of all Mankind were Divested of having any Right or Property If they have then forceing their Right from them is Robbery And the Laws do secure the Right of the King beyond that of the Subject Making a Trespass a Scandal or an Assault against a Subject Treason against the King And yet this Proclamation begins Whereas in Contempt of the Laws and well Establish'd Government of this Kingdom many Robberys have been of late Committed as if say the Jacobites Robbing the King of his Crown were not a greater Contempt of the Laws than Robbing a Private Man of his Purse Unless Princes be Exempt from the Eight Commandment either in an Active or a Passive Sense viz. That
your Wit which could Search so Deep as to find Reasons why Wives may Leave their Husbands and Subjects Abdicate their Prince at their Pleasure And nothing is so Surprizing as these Reasons which you produce for this viz. Because a Wife may be Ravished and forc'd from her Husband therefore it is Lawful for her to yield to an Adulterer Nay to invite him to come and Drive away her Husband to Intrigue with this Gallant under-hand Contrive and Assist him to Frighten her Husband out of his House to save his Life and then to make a Present of it together with her self to her Deliverer And then it is Justly and Legally their own for What made him Run away and leave his House And his Wife holds still Faithful to her Matrimonial Vow she only Change the Object she is for Matrimony still And therefore by her Vow to her First Husband she is bound to the Second She only Transferrs her Allegiance And therefore it is the same Allegiance still All this the Jacobites think is the Consequence of Comparing this Revolution with the Conquest of the French King in Flanders c. p. 7. Because they are Ravished and Forc'd from their Natural King therefore you would Insinuate that your Case is the same who Invited over a Foraign Prince Intrigu'd with him under hand did Assist him to Frighten away our Natural and Lawful King to Save his Life and then made a Present of his Crown together with your Selves to your New Deliverer from the Slavery of an Old Husband And all his Possessions are now Justly your own for What made him Run away and Leave his Kingdom We are still Faithful to our Oath of Allegiance we only Change the Object we are for Monarchy still and therefore by our Oath of Allegiance to K. James we are bound to K. William which is a Topick taken up in Soloman and Abiathar and several of our late Pamphlets for say they we only Transferr our Allegiance and therefore it is the same Allegiance still c. And the Jacobites desire you to remember that Marriage is a Mutual Contract and there is a Due Benevolence and Duty on both sides which if either Party the Husband as well as the Wife shall Neglect or be Guilty of Male Administration why should he not be Depos'd Propter Inutiâ—… Imperium and Good-Womam have the leave to choose another Husband And yet our severe Law will not allow it If you say there are Divorces in Marriage and why not in Government They will answer That for the Case of Adultery only Divorce is Allowed in Scripture and Consequently in our Law But that neither Scripture nor our Law Allows of any Case wherein it shall be Lawful for Subjects to take Arms against their King but on the Contrary Declares it to be unlawful upon any Pretence whatsoever And they make use of this as a strong Argument against us For say they The Law of God and of the Land would have made Exceptions in the one as well as in the other if they had thought it Reasonable And therefore that we must not make Exceptions against the Laws both of God and Man But to come close to the Matter without Smiles or Innuendo's They Desire your Answer whether if Dixmuyde and Furnes had Invited the French to come thither and had Betray'd these Towns into their Hands whether this could in Justice and Good Conscience have excus'd their Transferring their Allegiance and Swearing Oaths to the French King If you do not speak plainly to this they say you do not come up to the Case in hand Unless you will say as some of late have done that the P. of Orange has Conquered England as much as the French King has Dixmuyde c. And that tho' he does not at present set up the Title of Conquest for what Cause he thinks fit yet that he has it in 's Sleeve and may justly set it up when he Pleases For which Gilbert's Pastoral and several other Licensed Pamphlets have already made way And then we all hold our Lives Estates and Liberty only at his Good Pleasure I cannot Imagine why the Parliament does not take Notice of these sort of Pretenders to Politicks who would make them all absolute Slaves under the Arbitrary and Despotick Power of a Conqueror You say in the same place p. 7. That the Principle of Rights of Hereditary Kings to their Crowns being Sacred and Inviolable is Dangerous to the Vnfortunate because it lays a Necessity upon the Conqueror to take away his Life if he can as well as his Throne since he cannot lose his Throne without losing of his Life This say the Jacobites is the very Reason which Frightned K. James away for he Observed in his Father's Words that there are but few Steps 'twixt a Prince's Prison and this Grave And tho' some Kings have been suffered to Live some time in Prison as Edward the Second and Richard the Second c. Yet it still ended in their Murther Therefore K. James the Second had no mind to stay any longer in Prison least he might have made another of the Number But it often falls out that the Murther of one will not Secure the Usurpers Title And therefore Richard the Third Murther'd all he could get who stood 'twixt him and the Crown as did Athaliah O. P. c. And there are many Examples of the like in History And these Jacobites do think that this Consideration should rather Operate against such Bloody Attempts which cannot stop in one or two single Murthers but Run often to the Destruction of whole Families and even Nations rather than against the Right of Succession in Hereditary Princes The Preservation of which would have stopt these Oceans of Blood which have Drown'd many Great and Wealthy Nations for their Violating of this Sacred and Inviolable Right But you say Sir p. 8. That if this be so Princes have no Remedy against the Injury of Neighbour Princes for it is only the fear of Conquest and losing their Crowns that can keep Princes in Awe and bring them to Just and Equal Terms This the Jacobites say is too great a Reflection upon Kings as if there were ne're a Just King in the World And your putting it in these General Terms without an Exception they say Discovers you to be no Friend to Monarchy But even as to the Argument Have Princes no Remedy against the Injury of their Neighbour Princes but taking their Crowns from them Does every Injury deserve so great a Reparation When a King Grants Letters of Mart is not that some Remedy short of Dethroning his Neighbour Prince who has Injur'd him If I owe you a Penny it is Just to take a Thousand Pounds for it It will be Convenient Sir to Explain this a little further Page 9. You shew the Necessity of Swearing to a Conqueror because the whole Nation cannot Run away Answer If the whole Nation were against him there wou'd be no
need of this Question in our Case And for particular Persons you know the Cavaliers Refus'd to Swear to Oliver or the Rump And yet tho Persecuted they were not Destroyed No Conqueror will think it his Interest to Imbroyl his new Acquisition by falling upon a Great part of the People to Drive them to Arms And if the Dissenters be but a small part of the People than your Objection Ceases it is not the Case of a Whole Nation nor the Major Part. The Jacobites do likewise Quarrel much at your Argument p. 14. That K. James would use the Non-swearers ill because the French King used the Hugonots ill They say there is no Consequence They say there is a vast Difference 'twixt K. James's Character and that which goes with some Men of the French King The one a Mild and Merciful Man in his own Nature the other as some would make you believe of a more Fierce and Cruel Temper But that which is a Greater Security is the Disproportion of the Hugonots of France to the Protestants of England The Protestants are Two Hundred to One Papist in England The Hugonots are not as some Compute One to a Hundred Papists in France Now tho' there might be Reasons for Destroying or Banishing Two Men for the Safety or Peace of Two Hundred yet say the Jacobites the Argument will not hold to Destroy Two Hundred for the sake of Two But lastly they say The Difference is Great 'twixt the Non-Swearers of England and the Hugonots of France as to the Principles of Loyalty For tho' the Hugonots stuck to this K. Lewis against the Prince of Conde Yet this was no Religious Quarrel Both these Princes were Roman Catholicks And so they had not the Byass of Religion on either side But it cannot be deny'd that they have often Rebell'd and made many Dangerous Commotions in France of Old And we know it was said how true I cannot tell that the French King had Discovered Plots and Combinations amongst them even in Favour of the P. of O. so long a go which was the Reason of that Persecution for which he is so much Blam'd Whether there be any Truth in this or not yet it is rendered the less Improbable because of our mighty Braggs that the Hugonots and Hugonot Converts are in League with us have Invited us over and are ready to Joyn us upon our Descent for whom we carry Armes and Depend upon them to Rise with us and Declare for King William as soon as he is Able to Protect them The Answer to Great Britains Just Complaint acknowledges Frankly p. 47. in these Words The French King knows that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt How far this will Justify the French King in desiring to be Rid of these Men we need not Dispute But I could wish that you had not Mentioned that Matter at this time For there is none but must see that their Case is toto Colo different from that of our Non-Swearers who suffer Expressly for a Principle of Loyalty And they for the Contrary Your 15th Page moves the Jacobites Spleen very much You are there Bemoaning your self What would become of the Church of England if K. James should Return By which say they you only mean your selves the Swearing-Clergy Now they say that you cannot be Ignorant that the Non-Swearers do think themselves the True Church of England and the others though more Numerous to be the Deserters O but say you in the Name of the Swearing-Clergy they would it may be Hang us in that Day and possibly Exchange Smithfield for Tyburn This the Jacobites say is only a twinge of an akeing Conscience And they wish much rather that you should live to Repent like Peter who Denyed his Master out of Fear But that Grace was not given to Judas who Betray'd Him out of Covetousness And he was Delivered over to the most Terrible Executioner the Shame and Confusion of his own Guilt But why do they fear the Cruelty of the Non-Swearers They are Generally Mild and shew Signs of Good Nature enough They who are so much for Passive-Obedience and practise it are thereby in a Good Preparation of mind towards Christian Humility Resignation of themselves to God Forgiveness and even Loving of their Enemies And till they do something Contrary to this they think we ought in Charity to put the best Construction upon their Actions But you Discover what it is which Frightens the Swearing-Clergy and makes them so Apprehensive of Revenge from the Non-Swearers And that is the hard Words they Receive from some of them They call us no better say you p. 15. than Hereticks and Schismaticks and Perjur'd Apostates Alas Did they do it 'T is a very hard Case But say the Non-Swearers What would you have us Call you Either You or We are Schimaticks and Apostates from the Doctrine of Christ as formerly Professed in the Church of England And would you have us to take the Blame off You to lay it upon our Selves And if we believe you to be Perjur'd and would Reprove you for it in the Christian Method What shall we call Perjury but Perjury If you will tell us a more Gentile Word you shall be Gratify'd with it But you say in the same Page They the Non-Swearing Clergy seem to Comfort themselves under their present Sufferings more with the sweet hopes of Revenge than any great expectations of future Rewards This is not say the Jacobites so very Charitable a Censure in the Swearers By this you free them from Convetousness and making Interest the Guide of their Conscience only you think they cannot want a little Sweet Revenge Because their Provocations have been Great and you would think it very Pallatable if their Case were yours But say the Jacobites if they be afraid of an after Reckning they should be have with greater Moderation now And not Hunt us with Messengers and Proclamations if we Print a Word in our own Vindication at the same time that they are Provoking us to tell our Scruples openly and that they will Answer fairly and take no Advantage Among other Examples of Cruelty in this Sort they Instance in the Case of a Young Lad of 12 Years of Age Thom. Ross his Mother a Widdow and Lives upon Charity This Orphan was found with a Paper in Defence of Passive Obedience it was Doctor Tillotson's Letter to Lord Ruffel and the Trimming Court Divine And because he would not tell or may be could not where he had them he was without any Tryal at Law or Jury charg'd with him first set in the Pillory and then Fin'd a Hundred Mark which his Mother not being able to Pay he has Lain now Two Years in Nemgate and is there still and no Applications have Prevail'd tho' his Poor Mother offer'd Part of the Fine that is all she had in the World for his Release Excessive Fines was once a Complaint Of
which the Jacobites shew another Instance in the Case of Mr. George Sheals a Clergy-Man who will not Swear but Read the Liturgy of the Church of England in his own House and did not Deny some Devour People who sometimes came thither the benefit of Joyning in the Common-Prayers of the Church For which Fault alone he was Fin'd a Hundred Marks which being much above his present Ability for he is Depriv'd and has nothing where-withal to Subsist a Wife and Parcel of Young Children he Lay Three Monthes in Newgate for his Fine Add to this the Imprisonment of Arch-Deacon Fitz Gerrald Mr. Collier and Mr. Newton Three Non-Swearing Clergy-Men this last Summer without having any thing to lay to their Charge And Dr. Bryand Sent to the Gate-House for Reading the Common Prayers The several Lords and Gentlemen Committed without any Information upon Oath contrary to Law has been brought before the Parliament Many more Instances the Jacobites offer to give of the like Usage from us and they desire a List of all whom we have Pardon'd since the Revolution who have come under the Lash of the Law to teach them by our Mercy to return our Kindness They likewise mind us That the Refusal of the Oaths was not at first thought so Heinous a Matter but that the Parliament Allowed Twelve of the Clergy who should Resuse it the Third of their Bishop-ricks or Livings during Life and it was left to K. William's Clemency to Name which Twelve of the Depriv'd Bishops or Clergy he Pleas'd But he was Pleas'd with none of them And their Successors whom the Jacobites call Intruders follow say they the Example of his Charity and keep all they can get to themselves They the No-Swearers hope to Live say you ibid. to see the Swearing Bishops and Priests the Contempt of Princes and People This does not shew say the Jacobites that they are Greedy of Life For they may see that every Day they go into the Streets The Turne of the Clergy this Revolution has made them in a Literal Sence the By-word of the People O but their great Grief is That if we had a Jacobite Parliament they would make no Scruple to Declare the Legitimacy of the Prince of Wales p. 18. That need not say the Jacobites for he is Legitimate by all the Laws in the World without their Declaration unless you think that Three or Four Foolish Ballads and Drunken Songs Laught at now by those who made them for they have serv'd the Turn for which they were intended can Disinherit a Prince or any other Man of his Birth-Right For there is no other Evidence against the P. of Wales no one Information of any Person whatsoever no Sentence of any Court nor has even the present Parliament said one Word against his Legitimacy There is a Terrible Discovery in the Words following viz. They would take care for new Jacobite Tests to Renounce and Abhor all the several Hypotheses and Principles of Government which have been Vrg'd to Justify our Submission and Allegiance to their present Majesties These Jacobites are a Cruel sort of People It is Ten to One but they might do all this And then we must be saying and un-saying all over again But they who have done it twice or thrice will find it easier and easier they will never want Distinctions And Shame is over But besides the Jacobites say it is impossible for them to Reproach you more than you do one another Even the chief Top-Men of your Party For Example When K. James lost the Boyn then Dr. Sherlock thought it would never be Day He Immediately cry'd up Success as Divine Right And upon that Point he Staked down his Soul to all Eternity and all theirs who would be perswaded by him Vide Dedication to his Book of Judgment and of Death 'Twixt these two he only found Conversion But since that the Whore Success has been Courting that Handsom Portly French King Waited upon him at Mons Namure Steenkirk the Rhine Savoy Dixmuyd and Furnes and we know not where it will End Therefore it is good to look about and Damn that Doctrine of Success in time before it be made use of against us For this Great Work Tillotson is set up to pull down what Sherlock had so Artificially built And he does it Effectually but not with so great Respect to his old Friend in his Thanks giving Sermon before quoted p. 30. where he tells us that The Cause must be first Manifetly Jast before Success can be made an Argument of GOD's Favour to it and Approbation of it Meer Success is certainly one of the worst Arguments in the World of a Good Cause and the most Improper to Satisfy Conscience And yet does in a very Odd but Effectual way satisfy the Consciences of a Great many Men by shâ—wing them their Interest And p. 17. Knowledge and Skill to Devise Mischief and Power to Effect it are the true Nature and Character of the Devil and his Angels What Jacobite could have Damn'd the Doctrine of Events more Effectually And when they see such Great Doctors fall out among themselves in the Method of Satisfying their Consciences as to this Revolution it is a mighty Scandal to them and a Tentation to think that having forsaken their old Foundation they are yet to seek where to settle upon true or certain Principles Meer Success says Sherlock is Divine says Tillotson it is the Devil and his Angels And each Ventures his Soul upon the Truth of his Hypothesis because an Error in this Involves them in Rebellion which both of them do Confess to be a Damnable Sin But as to this Principle of Doctor Tillotson's I must tell you that the Jacobites are very well pleas'd with it viz. That the cause must be first Manifestly Just before Success can be made an Argument of GOD's Favour to it or Approbation of it And they hope now to come soon to a Good Conclusion the Case being thus Stated upon its True Bottom Therefore we must suppose that it was Manifestly Just to Plot against K. James while he was upon the Throne and to assist the P. of Orange against him otherwise the Success of this Revolution can be made no Argument of GOD's Favour to it or Approbation of it The Great Terror before us was Popery and the most popular pretence for what we have done was Securing the Protestant Religion And whether Religion be a Manifestly Just Cause for taking Arms against our Natural Prince the Jacobites say is as Manifestly Decided as any principle of the Church of England or any Act of Parliament in our Statute Book They say moreover that this same Dr. Tillotson her gone a length in this beyond whatever the Church of England own'd in her highest Altitude of Passive-Obedience Which is to make it Unlawful even to Preach the Gospel without leave of the Civil-Magistrate unless we can prove our Mission by Miracles as the Apostles did This you will find
Day viz. 16. Dec. 88. when the King sent the Earl of Eeversham with a Letter to the Prince Inviting him to a Personal Treaty his Highness contrary to the Laws of God of Nature and of Nations not only Refus'd to Return any Answer but made the Earl a Prisoner which was a Treatment no one King would give to another tho' they were at open Wars But the Priviledge of an Ambassador from a King within his own Kingdom could not Secure that Messenger who brought any Offers of a Treaty And to prevent the like for the Puture the very next Day viz. 17. Decem. 88. his Highness Supriz'd the King his Father in his Bed after Eleven at Night and having Order'd Count Solmes to Dispossess the King's Guards of their Posts at White-Hall and place his Dutch Guards in their Room he sent Three English Lords with an Order Sign'd under his own Haâ—d to Remove their King from White-Hall because his Highness was to be there and peremptorily to Limit his Majesty to the Place whither he was to go nor had the King Liberty to Choose any other Place without Leave first Ask'd and Obtain'd from his Highness but still under his Dutch Guards And his Majesty was positively Requir'd to be gone by such an Hour least he should Meet the Prince so much as upon the Road. This was a hopeful way of Treating And so Modestly Managed that all the World stands Amaz'd at him who never said or did an Insolent thing For which Vertue alone for no other is to be Found or Nam'd in the Famous Thanksgiving Sermon above quoted his Character is Advanc'd above that of the Great French Monarch being Introduc'd in the Comparison with A Greater than he is here Fulsom Cant and Prophane But how could it be expected that he came to Treat Who in a Hostile Manner Entred the King 's own Palace and Castle of Windsor and as a Conqueror Erected his Standard upon that Noble Castle 14. Decem. 88. as the History of the Deser Braggs p. 103. Thus much the Jacobites Answer to your Objection of K. James's not Accepting of a Treaty Pamphlet p. 9. He the Author of Britains Complaint Accuses the Prince for sending him K. James by Water at an Vnseasonable Time thereby Indangering his Health forgetting that K. James went in the Night by Water the very Week before of choice when he crost the River in order to his first Attempt to get into France and this without any Damage to his Health How does this Author know that So that he us'd himself as Ill as the Prince us'd him Jacobite Surely this is the Smartest Defence that ever was made and shews the Prince's Great Concern for K. James's Health What To Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself Because a Man that Flys for his Life would Leap over a Precipice therefore without any Unkindness you may Throw him over for you Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself But yet it was a great deal Worse that the P. of Orange Us'd the King than he Us'd himself For as this Author tells it he only Crost the River but the Prince sent him to Graves-End by Water and that against Wind and Tide and as Britains Complaint says p. 10. The King was Refus'd his own Coach to Carry him by Land tho' he Declar'd that he could not Travel by Water in so Cold a Season and so Great a way without Manifestly endangering his Health Which the Answerer does not Deny Pamphlet As to his King James's Writing to the Bishops his Speaking to the Bishop of Winchester or to Sir R. Clayton or to other Citizens all this is an impudent Fiction The Bishop of Winchester protests that no such Proposition was ever made to him the same is Avorred by Sir R. Clayton Jacobite And hoth their Credits are come to be alike but there are others of better Reputation who do own it and will make Oath that Sir Sim. Lewis did confess it And the Persons who brought the Messages from the King both to the City and Bishop of Winchester will Depose it and Prove it by undeniable Vouchers And had the Courage to go to the Bishop of Winchester upon Monday Morning the 9th of last Janua 92 93. accompanied with a present sitting Lord of Parliament and a Knight of great Honour and Tax'd the Bishop with his having received such a Message from the King which his Lordship Denyed at first with an Oath But the Person binding him with Tokens as that his Lordship kissed the King's Seal which that person brought as a Credential from the King and naming another Person of Note who was present at the delivery of the Message that his Lordship Reply'd he could not give his Answer till next day that then he told that Person he had wrote to the King and that the Bishops were not able to Protect his Majesty and therefore durst not undertake so Great a Trust as the Security of his Majesty's Person and several other Circumstances Upon which the Bishop said That it was possible his Memory might fail him and that though it were so what needed all this stir about it now and that he perceived they had a mind to Expose him and for that Reason as those present and we may reasonably suppose he still continued to Deny the Matter but so faintly and with such confusion as made it Evident to those Noble Persons present that he had Received such a Message but was not willing expressly to own it after having Forsworn it Tho' he Confessed all the Particulars as that Person coming to him c. And from the same Infirmity of his Memory if you please you may imagine it proceeded that he did not Communicate this Message of his Majesty's to the rest of his Brethren the Bishops but Returned the bovesaid Answer in their Names of which their Lordships do justly Complain Pamphlet p. 26. Nor hath he K. W. refused any Acts of this kind viz. Redressing of Grievances which the Parliament hath offered him Jacobite This instead of a Vindication is a manifest exposing of K. W. being such an Evident Protestatio contra Factum for it is publickly known that last Winters Session he Rejected the Judges Bill which Pass'd both the Houses and which therefore to be sure they thought necessary for the Good of the Nation and conducive to make the Judges Bold and Honest in their Station Pamphlet p. 9. The Convention Refus'd to Receive or Read the Letter which King James wrote to them from St. Germains which continu'd his CLAIM according to Mr. Sam. Johnson p. 16. of his Address to the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled and confuted the Desertion because they were told that HE wrote in the Stile of a King Jacobite That was smart He shou'd have Subscrib'd Your Honours most Humble and most obliged Servant as iâ— Duty bound James Stuart His FATHER'S Executioner gave Him the Title of Majesty upon the Scaffold Sir I had
and all places Ecclesiastical Civil and Military were put into the papists hands In K. James's time the Protestants were two hundred to one papist and he could never have got a Popish Parliament The K. of Spain was then as Formidable to England as the French King is now and had much greater pretence He was Married to our Queen and all our Acts of Parliament were in his name he was stil'd King of England There were great Objections against Q. Mary's Title to the Crown The validity of K. Henry the VIII's Marriage with her Mother was disputed all over Christendom and the whole Nation was Sworn by Act of Parliament to adhere to the Issue of Queen Ann who was Mother to the Princess Elizabeth 26 Hen VIII C. 2. Yet all this notwithstanding neither did that Protestant Princess pretend to the Crown neither did the Protestants contend for her during her Elder Sisters Life tho' it was given out That there was a Design of imposing a False Son upon the Nation to Cut off the Princess Elizabeth's Succession who was next Heir to the Crown Publick Thanksgivings having been thro' the Nation for Queen Mary's being with child and some foolish Friars even in their Sermons giving out before hand That it must be a Prince of Wales which their Pryaers had obtain'd to prevent a Protestant Successor c. But none of these things had any Witch-craft then in that sober age of Protestancy to prevall with the Protestants to lift up a hand against the Right of Queen Mary tho' a Bill of Exclusion had past against her in her Fathers time and the Nation had sworn to adhere to the Princess Elizabeth the next Protestant Heir But they did not think their Oaths ought to bind them against the Right and notwithstanding that Queen Mary did plainly and without any Disguise endeavour to Defeat her Sister Elizabeth's Succession to the Crown having first got an Act of Parliament to Establish her own Legitimacy and consequently to throw off her Sister as Illegitimate But secondly She had sent her Sister Elizabeth to the Tower in order as was generally believ'd to Cut off her Head Speed tells That a Warrant was once Sign'd for her Execution Yet not to Rescue her nor to Assert her Right of Succession nor for any other cause whatsoever wou'd our Loyal Protestant Fore-Fathers take Arms against the Popish Queen either in behalf of this Princess Elizabeth or of Queen Jane another Protestant against whom they Fought to set up Queen Mary And thought they consulted best in so doing for the preservation of the Protestant Religion by asserting its Principles tho' to the Loss of its Legal Establishment and all other visible worldly Advantages These things the Jacobites urge And they Glory in the wonderful protection which GOD at that time shew'd towards these Protestants in their Faith and Dependance upon Him turning all the whole Scheme to the Protestants advantage taking away Q. Mary without their Guilt and giving her Condemn'd Sister Forty Four years Possession of her Throne to Establish Adorn and make Glorious that poor despis'd and persecuted Principle of Non-Resistance They tell us likewise of the Case of Theudas and Judas of Galilee Act. 5.36,37 who took Arms against the Romans in Defence both of their Religion and their Property It was against the grievous Taxing which was then impos'd by the Romans that Judas rose in Arms and Drew away much people after him They say That all the Declamations in this Letter to a Friend against the Jacobites will hold as strongly against the Protestants in Q. Mary's time But much more strongly against Gamaliel and other Jews who Condemn'd Theudas and Judas in behalf of their Lawful Governours the Romans who were profest Heathens Idolaters Despisers and Persecutors of the Law of Moses yet Fighting against them tho' in Defence of the True Faith was inferr'd to be Fighting against God Act. 5.39 And Christ would not be Defended by Resisting a Heathen Magistrate The same do the Jabobites think of fighting for a Religion in a Case which that Religion does not allow to be a Good Cause of fighting for it They think this to be fighting against that Religion On the other hand If we should fight to the visible prejudice of the outward profession and Legal Establishment of our Religion in pursuance of a Principle of that Religion This the Jacobites would call a fighting for our Religion That is To Maintain Assert and Honour the Principles of our Religion which only are the spiritual part of Religion tho' to the Loss of Temporal advantages and outward ornament which are but the Out-side and Trappings of Religion Therefore they go not upon the Outward advantages but upon the Justice of their Cause for the love of which they have forsaken all their Outward Advantages Upon the whole they say That unless you can prove their Principles to be Vnjust all you Argue against them is against the Law of God against Justice against Reason and all Christian Religion And that Humane politicks are too weak to over-ballance all these Nay they pretend that even Humane policy and the Good of the Nation is on their side That K. James's Tyranny suppose it as bad as you will would not have Cost the Nation so many Lives so much Money nor been so hard to be Redrest after his Death as the present Revolution Now they complain That all this is not sufficiently Answered in this Letter to a Friend where it sayes page 28. which is all the Answer given to it in that Letter that If they the Jacobites say they would fight for him K. J. I give them over sayes the Letter as profess'd Enemies to the True Religion and the Liberties of Man-kind And This I hope sayes the Letter may satissy the Non-swearers that they are not bound in Conscience to Fight for the late King c. Now these perverse Jacobites do say That they can see no Reason why the Author of this Letter 's Giving them over should be a Satisfaction to their Consciences They call this Scolding instead of Answering Whereas they pretend that their Principle is pursuant to the True Religion and most for the Good and Liberties of Man kind to Save men from the Great Destruction of Civil-War and Rebellion which they say is infinitely of more mischief to man kind than any Tyranny ever was in the world And that Religion loses more Ground and lessens more in the Opinion of man-kind by a change of principles which have been long profess'd than by suffering persecution in Defence of those Principles These things they think a full and sufficient Answer to all this whole Letter to a Friend And therefore do insult and rejoyce that no Answer is possible to be given to them since this Best Answer which is yet come out has not one word against the Truth or Honesty of their Principles only argues from Inconveniencies that may attend them which is incident to the
says our Author p. 26. to be so concerned for any one Prince's Right as to Sacrifice the Rights and Libertyes of all the Princes of Europe to his To this Question the Jacobites answer That they will Sacrifice no Mans Right to anothers But if one Man will Invade anothers Right as they pretend the P. of O. did to K J. and if a Confederacy of the Neighbourhood should for their own Ends support the Man who did the Wrong they say that all Honest Men are bound in Conscience to Act against that Confederacy And if this should turn to the Loss of any of the Confederates the Guilt lyes at their own Door The Jacobites wonder we should bring so plain a Case as this And they say that standing by the Oppressed in such a Case as this is asserting the Rights and Liberties of Mankind And that taking part with the Invaders of other Mens Right is Sacrificing the Rights and Liberties not only of all the the Princes of Europe but of every Man in the World But our Author Supports his Position in these following words It is to no more purpose to Dispute with men who do not feel the Force of this Argument at the first hearing than to Reason with Blind-men about Colours And the Jacobites think this may be said as to their Arguments which are founded upon the Natural and Universal Notions of Right and Wrong against which if any Man Dispute he is suppos'd to have Denied First Principles and so to be heard no longer They say That all their Arguments are for Supporting Right and that Ours are for Defending Wrong Therefore I see no Remedy but that we must come to the Right or Wrong of the Cause with them and must suffer our selves to be Determined by the Scripture and by the Laws of the Land as Established in former Parliaments If we Refuse this Test we shall have the Cry of the Nation against us for as yet they are not quite wrought off their Good Opinion of Scripture Laws and Parliaments What follows in our Author upon this Argument is say the Jacobites an Effeminate breaking out into passion when Reason sails viz. They have no Sense left nothing but a Stupid and Slavish Loyalty their senseless mistake of the true meaning of this word Loyalty by which they will needs understand an absolute Obedience without Limitation or Reserve when most certainly it signifies no more than Obedience according to Law Thus our Author In return to which the Jacobites say they pitty his Passion and pass by his Complements of stupid slavish senseless onely Admonish him for the future that it is a certain sign of a Lost Cause for while a Man thinks he has the better of the Dispute he is pleased But he grows angry only at an Argument which is too hard for him he bites that as a stone that is thrown at him because it hurts him But say the Jacobites we will not take that advantage of his passion as to over-look any thing of his Argument He sayes That most certainly Loyalty signifies no more than Obedience according to Law Say the Jacobites No more it needs while the Law makes our Obedience Absolute and without Limitation by Declaring it not to be Lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King or those Commissionated by him And therefore the Jacobites do humbly mind this Author that the senseless mistake he speaks of concerning the Meaning of the Word Loyalty belongs to the Parliament however he meant it as well as to the Jacobites For several Acts of Parliament do Enact Non-Resistance upon any pretence and if that be not an Absolute Obedience without Limitation then this Author say the Jacobites does wrong us for we never carried Absolute Obedience farther than Non-Resistance where with a safe Conscience we cannot yield an Active Obedience Allow us that say they and we will seek no more But if you will not then Rail at our Parliaments and our Laws say they call them senseless slavish and what you will but excuse the poor Jacobites for following of these till they be Repealed But Secondly the Jacobites Answer That Sir Edward Coke the Great Oracle of our Law tells us in Calvins Case That Allegiance is prior to all Municipal Laws That the World was long without Municipal Laws And yet Allegiance was then Due from Subjects to their Soveraign And this he calls Natural Allegiance because it arises not from the Obligation of any Municipal Law but from the Law of Nature from that Natural Relation there is 'twixt the Governours and the Governed When this Allegiance comes to be Recogniz'd in the Municipal Laws of any Country it is then called a Legal Allegiance not that it was Created by the Law for it was prior to the Law as has been said or that it receives more strength by the Law but it is Published Ascertained and Recogniz'd by the Law which alters nothing of its Force and Obligation which it had before the Law And hence the Natural and the Legal Allegiance are not two Allegiances but the same Allegiance Considered under different Modifications As the King is the same King before and after his being Crown'd or Recogniz'd by Parliament Therefore Sir Edward Coke tells us The Law did allow the Allegiance of the Subjects in Scotland and England to be the same after King James the 1st came into England tho' the Municipal Laws of both Kingdoms did disser in many things So that our Author 's Most certainty say the Jacobites that Loyalty or Allegiance signifies no more than Obedience according to Law is most certainly otherwise for tho' our Allegiance be according to Law because it is Acknowledged and Recognized by the Law yet it is prior to the Law and therefore takes not all its Force from the Law and Consequently signifies somthing more than Obedience according to Law viz. That Obedience which was before the Law and which the Law it self owns to be so These are all the Arguments every one in this Author concerning the Resolution of our Conscience as to this Revolution The remaining part of this Letter from p. 26 27. is only Reflecting upon the carriage of the present Jacobites while K. James was upon the Throne which is not Material to our present business for if they fail'd in any thing then that is nothing as to the Guilding of our Conscience now this is nothing but personal Reflection and is below Men of Argument that search after Truth This Author there takes a great deal of pains to Convince the Jacobites that they ought to have Fought better than they did against the Prince of Orange when he came over to Dispossess his Father This the Jacobites will readily Grant and what will this Author gain by it But he makes an excuse for them p. 28. They did not expect says he what followed they desired to have their Laws and Liberties secured but not that the King James should loose his Crown And
least derogate from the Courage of the English No They shew'd it at Steenkirk to admiration and had they been Supported might have done Maricles surely no Men upon Earth would go farther under Good Conduct They are too Good to be alwayes and rashly Exposed and made the Subject of Dutch Railery who have Painted the English Fighting in this Battle with Lions Paws and Calves Heads i. e. under such Commanders But it is exceeding Childish thus to Undervalue other Men and Vapour of our Victories over the French in Ireland It hinders Men from laying weight upon any thing else that we say And does no small Service to the Jacobite Cause while it is made so easie for them to Expose us As they think it is likewise in a later Instance viz. A True Account of the Horrid Conspiracy against the Life of his Sacred Majesty William the Third c. Published by Authority and Printed in the Savoy 1692. Giving an Account of the Tryal Condemnation and Execution of the Chevalier de Grandval in the Camp 13. Aug. 92. For being concerned in the said Conspiracy There p. 7. K. J. and his Queen are made Partys in this Conspiracy and to have Encourag'd those Officers who were to do him that Service as it is there Worded And I have heard the Hawkers cry that Paper about the Streets by the Name of The Horrible and Bloody Conspiracy carryed on by the late K. James and the late Q. Mary to Murther his Sacred Majesty K. William Of this the Jacobites do highly Complain and say That the Sins of these Nations are yet increasing That instead of their Repentance for the now known Notorious Slanders which in order to the present Revolution were industriously spread abroad against King James as that of the French League the Prince of Wales the Earl of Essex and that Mass of Calumnies laid upon him in Ireland since They say that instead of Repenting for these we are yet going on to load him with new Crimes which the Jacobites are confident they can prove as false as any of the other They will never believe that King James would give his Consent to de Witt or Glenco any Body They say it is not in his Nature Which all that know him well will allow But the Jacobites say that it is not all the Williamites can make this any Objection against King James Because many of them even Officers of the Army have declared and do it openly that they think it a good Act to Stab King James as much and more than any common Thief or Robber because as they say he does greater Hurt than they and is the Occasion of greater Blood-shed and Confusion I have heard several of them when they were not drunk say That they would stab him with their own Hands and go an Hundred Miles barefoot to have the Opportunity But for King Lewis They think it a meritorious Act to rid the World of such a Monster to give Peace to Christendom and to revenge the Cause of the poor Hugonots As for these Men how numerous soever the Jacobites say they must be silent and not blame King James if he had such a Design because it is pursuant to their own Principles But the Jacobites lay no stress upon this nor plead for Assassinations which they detest but they insist against the Truth of the Matter of Fact and that King James never had any such Design nor knew of this Conspiracy of Grandval if there was any such Conspiracy And now Sir give me leave to tell you some of those Grounds upon which the Jacobites do not believe this Conspiracy at least that part of it which concerns K. James and that even before they receive a full Account of it from St. Germains which can be best done there and when they receive it they promise to communicate it for farther Satisfaction In the mean time take what follows for the Reason of their present Infidelity in this Case First It is said p. 7. of the abovesaid Account of this Conspiracy in the very Sentence of the Judges That Collonel Parker one of the Conspirators was with Grandval and Leefdale two other of the Conspirators to take leave of K. James at St. Germains before they began their Journey viz. to K. William's Camp to perpetrate their intended Design where Parker was to be a main Actour and together with Grandval to rescue and bring off Dumont with Fifteen Hundred French Horse after he had shot K. William Now instead of Parker's going as above designed to Flanders and having taken leave of K. James with the other Conspirators in order to their said Journey it is notoriously known that Parker came streight to England which the Jacobites think totally inconsistent with all that fine Story and to give it flatly the Lye But they rest not upon this they give a positive disproof to the Allegation by shewing that Collonel Parker was not at St. Germains the Sixteenth day of April 1692. on which day the Sentence of the Judges p. 7. says that he Parker was there with King James and in Consultation with Grandval and Leefdale about the said Conspiracy Which 16th of April if it should be New-style will be the 6th Old-style when Parker the True Account says was at St. Germains For disproof of this they give you a Journal of Collonel Parker's coming from St. Germains to England in April 1692. which they have from Undeniable Vouchers viz. Collonel Parker having taken his leave of King James at St. Germains he went to Paris Sunday the Third of April Old Style 1692. on Monday and Tuesday the Fourth and Fifth all Day and Night he was actually at Paris on the Sixth by Five a Clock in the Morning at Paris he took Coach to Saint Dennis and that Night he lay at Boumont the Seventh at Bovay the Eighth at Poy the Ninth at Abevile the Tenth he took Post to Callis where he Embark'd for England he was Shipwrackt on the Kentish Shore where soon after he was taken Prisoner and carryed before the Mayor of Rumney and on the Thirteenth he was sent Prisoner to London with a Guard His being at Paris the Fourth and Fifth and taking Coach from thence on the Sixth by Five in the Morning can be prov'd by at least Twenty Credible Witnesses and all along from thence to the Thirteenth by Three Undeniable Witnesses But all this the Jacobites say proves the Matter of the True Account to be only False They alledge other Circumstances in that Tryal which make it wholly Ludicrous and utterly Incredible to any Man of Sense Such is that of Du-mont the Man who was to kill King William having a Secret to charm People's Eyes Indeed nothing less could secure a Man to kill a King at the Head of his Army as this was to be done viz. when the King should ride along the Lines The other two Conspirators Grandval and Leefdale it is said were to keep with those that followed
the Jacobites do Observe That as our Present Revolution was brought about by Dissolving all our Former Oaths and Obligations so it was in Holland 25. of Feb. 72. says the bovesaid History p. 7. His Highness was made Captain General over the Forces of the State but with all possible Restrictions an Oath having been taken of him That he should never seek to be State-Holder of any of the Provinces nor accept of it if he should be desired to it Yet he was made State-Holder within Four Months after this viz. in June 72. The States had likewise made a Perpetual Edict against Electing a State-Holder and Sworn to it But the History tells p. 44. That 29. June 72. The Lords thus Terrify'd viz. by the Threatnings of the Mobb Discharge themselves and also his Highness of their Oath concerning the Perpetual Edict and so made him State-Holder As also the Magistrates of most of the Citys of Holland and Zealand were about that time either through Actual Insurrection or Threatned Peril Forced so to Advance his Highness Whereupon by the Deputys of the Citys having a Voice the Assembly of the States of Holland the Perpetual Edict was Mortify'd July 1. and so by the Annulling that Oath the Members made Capable to Elect a State-Holder Thus the Historian In this Revolution the two Brothers the De-Wits were Non-Swearers But in Vain for Cornel. De Wit Ruart of Putten and Old Burgo-Master of Dort by the Perswasions of his Wife and the Lords Present but Principally by the Threatnings of the Citizens was Constrained thereto says the History p. 44. And if ever any thing fell out to be Wondred at says he p. 45. it was this That both the Brothers the De-Wits were by Indisposedness hindred one at Dort the 29. June the other at the Hague July 1. and 3. to be Present at the Council And the Case was so Precipitated that there was no time to Advise with these Lords For who knoweth but by their great Subtilty they yet might have found some hindrance to this Work The De-Wits finding it Impossible to withstand the Torrent of this Prince carryed upon the Shoulders of the Mobb who had broke throw all the Dykes and Fences of their Laws Sanctions of Oaths and Perpetual Edicts c. Resolv'd to Appease him by Sacrifice and giving up all their Power and Authority which might stand in his way or be an Eye-Sore to his Ambition Accordingly Johan De-Wit Great Councellor and Pentionary of Holland and West-Frizeland having upon the 1. of Aug. 72. Complemented his Highness upon his Illustrious Character and Advance says the History p. 63. did on the 4th in the Assembly of the States of Holland lay down his Office of Pontionarship His Brother Cornel. De-Wit Ruart of the Land of Putten had before viz. 24. of July been brought Prisoner from Dort to the Hague And being thus Humbled at the Feet of his Highness they thought they might have liv'd safe at least as to their Lives under his Protection For they fear'd no Tryal but that of the Mobb being Confident that as to all Matters of the State they could sufficiently clear themselves in any Judicature where they could be heard And nothing of it was ever so much as Objected against them in any Judicature Only blown about amongst the Populace by the Humble Servants of his Highness Who some say did under-hand Promote those ill Measures which they afterwards did Aggravate against the De-Wits and that on purpose to Disgust the Nation at them as Great Britain's Complaint says Sunder and others set on by his Highness served King James who made these Blotts They knew so well how to hit But our Scene is now in Holland His Highness could not forget the Opposition which the Ruart Cornel. De-Wit gave him at Dort about 29. of June 72. Where his Highness first set up for State-Holder-ship But the Ruart would have Preserv'd the Constitution of the Government to which both his Highness and they were Sworn And he would have minded his Highness of his Declaration and that upon Oath made but Four Months before viz. 25. of Febru 72. When he was made Captain General that he had no. Aim at the State-Holder-ship that he would neither seek it not accept of it if it should be offered to him Tho' some say the Jacobites at that time were so hardned against any good Opinion of the Sincerity of that Prince that they believ'd as it prov'd that an Oath would never keep him back from the State-Holdership or even from a Crown if he could make his way to it But the Fall of the Ruart De-Wit from all his Greatness and Authority could by no means Satisfy his Highness's Fury And since no Miscariage as to the State could be laid to the Ruart's Charge one of his Highness's Domestiques says Sir Will-Temple in his Memories p. 21. the 'bove quoted History calls him a Barber p. 67. Accused the Ruart for endeavouring by Mony to Engage him in a Design against the Prince's Life But no other Witness appearing he was Sentenc'd to be Banished without any Crime in the World Specify'd or Named in the Sentence which is inserted in the ' bovesaid History p. 67. and says only as the Ground of their Sentence that having considered what was in the Case to be taken Notice of or might any ways be serviceable in it do Declare the Prisoner to be Banished c. any way Serviceable Serviceable to what Say the Jacobites to Please the Prince's Spleen Was there ever such a Naked Sentence It speaks as plainly as the Judges Durst that they did not think him Guilty but being Accused of a Design against his Highness's Life and the Accusation carry'd on by one of his Highness's own Domestick Servants they must consider what they could find in the Case to be Serviceable to his Highness Yet it was not Serviceable he will not be Serv'd by Halves Banishment will not do where the Thirst is after Blood And since the Judges will not go the length nor the Law will bear it the never-sailing Mobb must be Rouz'd up again The History p. 28. says they were set on by the Instigation of the Barber This was a Diligent Officer We know says a Later Dutch Account Written in Amsterdam 6. Nov. 76. that the House-hold Servants of Zuylestain the Bastard of Prince Henry and other Ruffians were Employed in the Massacre of the De-Wits and Stirred up all the Towns against their Rulers and with Violence and Force Promoted the Prince and his Interest In short Both the De-Wits were Tore in pieces by this Godly Mobb thus set on and Instigated And no States-Men of the Age left a Greater Character either of their Ability or Integrity Sir Will. Temple in his Memoires p. 22. speaking of John De-Wit says Thus ended one of the Greatest Lives of any Subject in our Age after having served or rather Administred that State as Pentioner of Holland for about Eighteen Years with
Great Honour to his Country and himself The Jacobites Observe that his Highness could not find even Dutch Judges or Jury would believe such Great Men ought to Dye or would be Guilty of such mean Plots and poorly contriv'd only because his Barber told him so And one of them was not so much as Accused The History owns p. 70. That no certain Evidence or Canfession of the one or Accusation of the other have been made known But Sir these are Old Storys There is a Later Instance which I have heard from the Jacobites and they say it is of a Piece with all the rest In the Year 89. when the States of Holland and Amsterdam Contended against having a Foraign King for their State-Holder and Meen Heer B. was sent over to Act on the Part of the State-Holder and finding Difficulty's arise the Old Politick was again set on Foot say the Jacobites Koin the Jew who is Famous ' for Contriving and bringing on the General Impost upon Coffee there whether they Drink any or not Swore against two of the most Troublesom of these Burghers That they offer'd to Bribe him to Poyson the State-Holder They remembred De-wit Pain and Vin and well knew the Consequence and the Meaning of such Accusations And were glad to Learn how to give their Votes as they ought to do and others took Warning so the Point was Carry'd But when the Tryal of the Burghers came on there was but a single Evidence as there was against De-Wit and the Jew was believ'd as little as the Barber But had not so good Luck For upon the Burghers being acquit the Jew was Banish'd the Territorys of Amsterdam They durst proceed no farther at that time against him During his Banishment he thought himself Neglected by his Patron Meen Heer B. And began to Blabb it out who it was that set him on to Swear against the Burghers Who hearing of it found some means to bring him to Amsterdam Where they had him first Arrested for Debt for they were afraid to venture too far knowing whom they had to deal with and seeing none come to Relieve him concluded that the Drudgery of Swearing being over his Patron had no farther use for him and therefore proceeded to bring him upon the Stage for this Conspiracy against their Lives and to Discover his Accomplices Being put to the Torture he did Confess Was Sentenc'd to the Pillory and to the Rasp-house their Bridwell for Six Years where I suppose he now is to be found But there is one thing Extraordinary The Confession of this Koin is kept up tho' it be the Custom there always to Publish the Confession of those who are Sentenc'd after being put to the Torture for the Vindication of the Government This say the Jacobites is like keeping the Tryals of the fore-mentioned Friars Graham and Thursby out of the Printed Account of the Sessions at Old-Baily Sept. 92. In this Class of Sham-Plots and Impostures they mind us to make a farther Examination into the Business of Fuller who Swore many Noble Lords and others into a Plot his Grace of Canterbury Sancraft the Chief It is certain he has been set up and supported by some Body They desire us to inquire and we will find that he had a Bill of 200 l. this Summer from Meen Heer B. above mentioned And before that he drew a Bill of 50 l. from Flanders to the Great Man at Lambeth by the Name of his Uncle who paid it And said he would do more than that for him if he performed what he had Engaged to him It would be ask'd likewise how he came to be kept from his Tryal all this Summer the H. of Commons last Winter having Voted him an Impostor and desired that the Atturney General might Prosecute him and yet that was forgot till the Parliament was ready to to Meet this Winter And the first Day of his standing in the Pillory according to Sentence was disappointed the Pillory being set up but no Fuller came and it was taken down again Which made so great an Out-cry and gave such Disgust and Jealousy as is not cur'd by his being set afterwards in the Pillory for it shewed how unwillingly it was done and meerly to stop Peoples Mouths There is Greater Care taken say the Jacobites of his Colleague Young who Counterfeited Arch Bishop Sancroft's Hand and others and see them to an Association he has the Honour to be set out by the Bishop of Rochester's Pen for Blackhead the Evidence against him because of his Quality a Taylor must not be sent to Goal but has been suffered to make his Escape from a Messenger in the Savoy Aaron Smith is a Greater Scandal than these being Publickly Own'd and Employ'd by the Government as a Plot-journey-Man His Life would make a History When many Lords and others were lately Commited contrary to Law without any Information upon Oath against them The Matter was indeavour'd to be folv'd up by Aaron Smith's making Oath that he had informations against them which he did But when it came to the Test he could produce none and so they were forc'd to Discharge those they had Illegally Imprisoned But Aaron Smith not Punish'd for his Evident Perjury and Conspiracy against the Lives of so many Noble and Worthy Gentlemen Sir forgive my Repeating these Things from the Mouths of the Jacobites they must be told to the end that their Mouths may be stopp'd and we may all know for no doubt you do how to Answer them There are many other Passages of Different Natures which give great Scandal against the Government The Princes Ann Flying from her Father did not more Allarme the People of England of some Deep and they could not tell what Design on Foot than her Royal Highness present Quarrel with her Sister and of so long Continuance does Amaze and Distract the Common People They think all is Wrong There is something at the Bottom more than we know Is it so that there is not one Wise Man among us to take away or some way Compose so Fatal a Breach 'twixt those in Possession and those in Expectance of the Crown At least not to suffer it to Rise to such an Extravagant height as to have their Guards taken from their Royal Highnesses and Publick Affronts and Indignitys put upon them in all Places and that by Order from Her Majesty One of these came to my hands and is here under Written It was sent to Attend upon her Highness to the Bath last Summer and follows in these Words White-Hall August 30th 1692. THE Queen has been inform'd that your Self and Brethren have Attended the Princess with the same Respect and Ceremony as have been usually path to the Royal Family Perhaps you have not heard what Occasion her Majesty has had to be Displeased with the Princess and therefore I am Commanded to Acquaint you that you are not for the Future to Pay her Highness any such Respect or Ceremony without
29. He K. James Granted Dispensations Contrary to Law and Despised a Parliaments Confirmation Jacobite The Contrary of which is so much True that the Great Objection against him was his Indeavouring to get the Parliaments Confirmation viz. To have the Penal Laws and Tests taken away by Parliament Yet in all that time there was no need found for the Self Denying-Ordinance no Guilt Confess'd in Rejecting it nor Scandal in having it overthrown by the Votes and open Solicitation of Foraigner and Soventeen Court Bishops after it had pass'd the Commons who were most Concerned in it Pamphlet Page 26. As to the Conventions Gift they and K. William believe after the Throne was Vacant that they ought to have Declared his Wifes Hereditary Right Jacobite Yet it is certain they never did Declare it How will this Author Vindicate them in this Pamphlet Page 20. The Convention did Examine it the Birth of the P. of Wales as far as was Necessary to their own Satisfaction and after all Declar'd the Princess 〈◊〉 Orange to be the Right Heir Jacobite This is News indeed It is an Impudence that Points out the Author For none other sure Durst have so positively averr'd what the whole Nation knows to be as False as Hell For neither Parliament nor Convention ever once Touch'd in the least Tittle upon the P. of Wales nor could be Provok'd to it as is sufficiently known Nor did they ever Declare the Princess of Orange to be the Right Heir We desire the Votes of the House may be Produc'd or some Sufficient Voucher Who could Imagine that any Man of Common Reputation would tell in Print a Lye of such a Nature that every Body must know to be so who have the least Conversation in Affairs or have Read but the Votes or a New Letter Pamphlet Page â—0 Where there is no doubt concerning the next Heir upon Cession or Death there the Right Heir Succeeds Immediately But while the next Heir is Ambiguous in an Hereditary Monarchy till the Title he Examin'd Clear'd and Declared none of the Pretenders can Assume the Royal Pignity Jacobite I need not Apply this Pamphlet Page 21. Why should the Convention do his K. James's Business for him and Neglect the Nations Sufety i. e. in Examining into the Birth of the Prince of Wales Jacobite That is if they had Examin'd into it they must have found the Truth of the Birth of the P. of Wales from the Queen and that would have done K. James his Business for him But K. James his Business did not wholly depend upon the P. of Wales for whoever was his Heir did not hurt his Title In the next Place it was not altogether K. James's Business For did it not Highly Concern the Nations Safety to Examine and Clear who was next Heir till that was done by your Rule here set down neither the Princess of Orange nor her Husband could Assume the Royal Dignity without plainly changing our Hereditary Monarchy into an Elective One. Pamphlet p. 20. The Convention Judged viz. of the P. of Wales's Birth and Vnanimously Declar'd for the Princesses Right and in this sufficiently shew'd they did not intend to make this Monarchy Elective in that they Declar'd the True Heir to be Queen Jacobite As if setting up the next Heir during the Life of the True Owner were not an Election Or setting up any other but the next Heir Secondly She ought by this Rule to be Queen in her own Right and he but a Matrimonial King Whereas she is Absolutely Divested of all Manner of Power and the whole Execution put in him insomuch that she cannot Act in his Absence but by Vertue of a Particular Act of Parliament made for that purpose which might Inable any one else as well to Act what she does And yet this Author says p. 27. That the P. of Orange did Accept the Crown in his Dear Consorts Right which as it is Generally told he Rejected with Disdain and said he did not come over to be her Gentleman-Vsher Pamphlet p. 24. Perhaps he might have Seized the Crown by his Power Jacobite This is the Title of Conquest from which that Party cannot Refrain Dr. Burnet began it but stands Ominously Corrected by the Hand of the Hang-Man Pamphlet p. 26. K. James chose to Fly rather than to Treat Jacobite First the P. of Orange never offer'd a Treaty Secondly When the King offer'd it and sent the Lords Hallifax Nottingham and Godolphin to Treat with the Prince and offer'd all Desir'd in the Prince's Declaration viz. Leaving all to a Free Parliament His Highness Return'd such an Answer as made it Visible to all the World he came not to Treat It is inserted p. 93. of the History of the Deser wherein he Demands that the King shall immediately give up the Tower of London Tilbury Fort and Portsmouth That all Papists and others not Qualify'd by Law who adher'd to the King should be Disarm'd Disbanded c. while he himself had more Foraign Papists in his Army than the King had of His own Subjects in His And as if the Law Countenanc'd his Invasion and the Subjects Rising in Arms with him against the King more than the King 's Employing all the Hands he could get upon such an Apparent Necessity Nay more they would not Submit to ask Pardon from the King for their Treason and Rebellion but they must not have so much as an Ill Word nor have it said that they had done Amiss and therefore it was Demanded in the Second Article that all Proclamations which did but Reflect upon the Prince or those who Declar'd for him should be Recall'd By what Name would they have had the King call their Rising against him But farther yet they were not only not to be in any manner Reproach'd for what they had done but to be Rewarded and Incourag'd to Persist it was Demanded Art 6. that the King should Pay them and Assign a Sufficient Part of the Publick Revenue for the Support and Maintainance of the Prince's Troops Such Demands made to a Crown'd Head in his own Kingdom By a Son and a Nephew by a Subject Prince and Servant to a Common-Wealth And by a Company of his own Rebel Subjects whose Advice and Concurrance is Mention'd in the said Demands This Answer was given upon Sunday 9th Decem. 88. his Highness's Lucky Day for Business But let us go on a little and you shall see how Inclinable the Prince was to a Treaty After the King was Taken and Barbarously Treated at Feversham when as the History of the Descr tells p. 102 103. The Body of the Peers of England had according to their Duty sent the Lords Feversham Atlesbury Yarmouth and Middelton most Humbly to Entreat his Majesty to Return to White-Hall The P. of Orange in Opposition to them sent Mounsieur Zulestein with a most Insolent Command to the King to Continue at Rochester for he would have no Treating with him And the next