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A50646	Some remarques upon a late popular piece of nonsence called Julian the apostate, &c. together, with a particular vindication of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, by some bold truths in answer to a great many impudent calumnies raised against him, by the foolish arguments, false reasonings and suppositions, imposed upon the publick from several scandalous and seditious pamphlets especially from one more notorious and generally virulent than the rest, sometime since published under the title of A Tory Plot, &c. / by a lover of truth, vertue, and justice.	Meredith, Edward, 1648-1689?	1682 (1682)	Wing M1784; ESTC R23540	71,436	69

out of it and I hope Hang'd too and all I humbly conceive no breach of Privilege neither But our Noble Author to shew how fit an Advocate he is for his Party will needs be at it and Juggle in his very Preface which should be his Apology None shall be questioned out of Parliament for any thing spoken or transacted in it That is None shall be liable to the Law for what he says in Parliament provided he keep the bounds of Privilege which I humbly conceive is limited notwithstanding the late new started Doctrines That they are the only Judges of it themselves why else do they desire the Continuation of their Privileges every new Sessions by their Speaker The King is the Judge of those Provileges then for how can any Man grant what is fitting that is not suppos'd the Judge what is so Though therefore none be liable to the Law for what he says in Parliament provided he keep the bounds of Priviledge yet I hope any Corporation that sends up a Member to Serve for them in Parliament being sensible that that Member has abus'd or not discharg'd his Trust by proceeding unwarrantably in his Station running into a faction to do nothing the King desires of them to vex him with Bills for Dis-inheriting a dearest Brother with a thousand other Contrivances to perplex the good of the Kingdom and Embroil rather than Settle it I hope such a Corporation in an honest sence how they have been misrepresented by the Servant that they have sent to the King may have liberty to censure the Proceedings of such an unfaithful Servant and to Vindicate themselves too by any humble Address to His Majesty to assert their constant and loyal Adherence to his Government and if need be Abhorrence of any Transactions either of their own Servant or any else that would grow their Master tending to the Disturbance or Dissolution of it Oh But have a care says the Preface a little farther when His Majesty shall say to those dry Bones Live and they shall stand upon their feet they will be the fittest to declare their resentments c. Now do but mark this facetious Gentleman rather than lose his Jest what will he not do Just now he was Pleading the reverence and deference due to the Memory of the Parliament and here he scurrilously calls ●●m a Company of dry Bones can there be any thing more Prophane than that the dry Bones of a dead Carcass commonly stink in the Nostrils of the living a very civil Metaphor and a great Complement to the Representatives of a Nation truly Oh but look to it they will be fittest to declare their resentments I hope it will never come to that that we of the Country who send up Members to Serve for us in the great Convocation of the Kingdom shall stand in awe of the Power we trust 'em withal I hope they are to sit there for our good and our peace not for our terror But more of this hereafter And now To the first part of his Pamphlet let us see how far he has proved the rise growth and discovery of a Popish Plot Have at it He sayes If the declaration of the common or publick Judgment be not a competent ground for us to settle our belief upon he knowes not what can be suppos'd to be for if ever the King be infallible he would the readiliest expect him to be so when he has the concurrent Advice and Consent of the whole Nation Nay he sayes there is infinitely greater cause for conforming our belief to the Opinion of the King Lords and Commons in a matter of fact throughly examin'd then to obey the Lawes they make To this I answer That King Lords and Commons are not nor can be infallible As they are Men they are liable to errors and may be deceived in matters of Opinion by the imperfections of their humane Nature in matters of fact by the false Informations of Perjur'd and profligate Villains who are to swear for bread and have no longer hopes to eat then their Evidence is useful For could any Government or Authority upon Earth be Infallible one might as well as another and Consequently our Author would make a good Argument for the Church of Rome and the Pope in Cathedrà may with as much reason pretend to be Infallible as any Prince in Christendom in his Senate I hope our Pamphleteer is a better Protestant then this Argument amounts to Granting then that King Lords and Commons are not Infallible he has not yet by his argument prov'd the rise growth and discovery of a Popish Plott But now he comes to supposing well let us see what he supposes Supposing sayes he that the aforesaid Resolves and Proclamations were not made nor issued without the maturest deliberation and fullest assurance of the truth of those Testimonies and Evidence that occasioned them it cannot be reputed too great credulity to believe that Popery was to be introduced by those Means and Methods that the Discoverers of the Plott attested very good Here he supposes that the aforesaid Resolves and Proclamations were not without the fullest assurance of the truth of the Evidence and yet not three lines farther he tells us that as to Scotland and Ireland in which the Design was laid as well as in England Affairs have been so managed that it is still as to us kept in a great manner secret Was then that Vote of the House of Commons that there was a Popish Plott in Ireland as well as here made upon the maturest deliberation and fullest assurance when affairs have been so managed that it is yet a Secret why was this Fellow trusted with Pen and Ink Well but now look too 't now let us look about us He has been but tuning his Instrument all this while now he 's resolv'd to tickle it away indeed as for Example Old sturdy England being as he sayes a Nation alwayes Jealous of their Rights and Liberties it was despaired that she would be wheedled to put on the Roman Yoke and therefore there was no hopes of bringing that about but by force The Author of this Book must be some Jesuited bewhiggify'd and privy to all their Councels he could never give so round an account what they thought else And now sayes he there wanted a plausible pretence to get up an Army Politick Worm and therefore that we may Epitomize his long-winded Impertinent story he tells us there was a Sham War propos'd with the French and the Parliament induc't to comply with the design he makes a very Worthy Parliament of it the mean while For if a Sham-War were to be impos'd upon the Nation he makes the Parliaments as guilty of the Imposture as any Minister of State he would pretend to blacken Then he goes on how An Army of 30000 men was appointed to be raised and a Tax levied for their Pay Well and they were pay'd as far as the Tax would go and what harm

SOME REMARQUES Upon a late Popular Piece of Nonsence CALLED Julian the Apostate c. TOGETHER With a Particular VINDICATION OF HIS Royal Highness THE DUKE of YORK By some Bold TRUTHS in Answer to a great many Impudent Calumnies raised against HIM by the Foolish Arguments False Reasonings and Suppositions imposed upon the Publick from several Scandalous and Seditious Pamphlets Especially from one more Notorious and generally Virulent than the rest sometime since Published under the Title of A TORY PLOT c. By a Lover of Truth Vertue and Justice Si fractus Illabatur Orbis Impa●idum ferient Ruinae Horat. Lib. 3. Ode 3. LONDON Printed for T. Davies 1682. PREFACE TO THE READER THe Pamphlet called A Tory Plot coming sometime since to my Hands when I was far distant from London and at a Quiet Retirement did very much surprize me and gave me in the midst of my dear Shades and Meadows often very Melancholy wayward Thoughts When I read the Matter it contained Considered the End it aimed it and reflected on what sort of Creature might probably be the Author of it I could not forbear Condemning in my self the Vice I know not sometimes how to get rid of called Ambition for when I reflected that half a score sheets of Paper so weakly furnished as I found that Trifle to be carry'd popular force enough to shake the Affections of a People towards a Prince whom they Owe so much to as this Thankless Nation does to the Heroick Vertue Valour and Sufferings of His Royal Highness I could not but in some measure prize my own poor Condition which Fate had placed too low to be worth the Malice of Knaves and yet in a happiness too finely wrapt up and couched for the Envy of Fools to find it I waited much and expected long an Answer to a Libel which Reflected so notoriously as that did upon the Government and struck so impudently at the very being of it I thought it impossible that in so glorious a Metropolis as that of London the Center of all the Arts and Learning of this flourishing Kingdom so Good and Gracious a King as our present Just and Merciful Sovereign so Gallant a Prince so Unfailing a Friend and so Kind a Master as his Generous Brother could ever want Servants able and ready to take in hand so glorious a Cause and not suffer so lewd and bare-faced an Affront as that to the Dignity and Prerogatives of the Crown as well as the Rights of the Royal Family to go uncorrected I thought all this but I was much deceived In just Indignation then ●o the Ingratitude or Ignorance of Unprofitable Servants and in honour to the Authority and Character of that Glorious Monarch whom it is my greatest Pride that I was born to live a Subject under I thought it my Duty as an Englishman and an Honest man to exert what little Abitities I have if I have any at all to do his Cause either as he is personally or relatively concerned in that sawcy Libel the Justice it deserves I was ashamed to think that Men who live by the Service and Favour of a Prince and whose Well-being does or ought to depend entirely upon his should when their Bellies are fill'd every day with his Bread and their Purses with his Bounty lay their hands upon their Mouths or keep them in their Pockets and neither say or do any thing for his Vindication and Service but are rather apt to cringe and bend the Knee to the most insolent of his Enemies and when they falsly tell him they are his Friends whisper it in his Ear for fear some Acquaintance spy whom they know to be in the Train should hear it Of this sort are those who come and bow at his rising in the Morning and then go to some Rebel Clubb and tell the Secrets of the Bed-Chamber for a Dinner Of this sort are those who get Preferments in the best and most profitable Offices of a Court and employ the credit of their Master's Service against his Interest in the Country And of this sort are those that often divert a Princes Encouragements and Favour from his Friends and when the stream of his Goodness is running the right way turn it aside from the Merit it was aimed at to flow upon Tools like themselves whose Bribes have corrupted them unable and unfit to be Employ'd and too unfaithful to be Trusted After having therefore vainly expected some Months an Answer to the above-mentioned Pamphlet I took it in hand though late most for my own Satisfaction and in Complyance to the desires of some private Friends that often mourn with me for the Calamities of their afflicted Native Country And after having finished it and pleased them with something they found in it more than my self I lay'd it by thinking it too late to make it Publick in regard the Credit of the Paper it Corrected seemed to be blown over and the noise of it utterly forgotten Besides being in hopes by the daily Success of the King's Affairs that some lucid Intervals were coming to ease the Publick Madness I thought it would not be proper to disturb the tender Peace that was brooding over us by stirring up anew the unruly Storm that seemed at present to decline to some Calmness But in the midst of these soothing hopes I was alarum'd afresh with another gust from the Old unquiet Corner and that was the stinking blast of a Deacon that had long been grip't and in pain with the Business till out it came rattling with the Title of Julian the Apostate I read it over and lay'd it by for the use I thought it only deserved 'till being accidentally one day at Court for as little Bus ness as I believe Forty more had there who seemed nevertheless Fifty times busier than I did up comes me two meer Motions with their Politick faces on a little Worm wriggling behind them impatient of an approaching Knighthood near trim'd they were and their shooes very clean Sedate their Countenances and soft their aspect till one of them of a sudden gathering his browes over his eyes cry'd How Julian the Apostate Ay says his Companion with the same dull Grimace Julian the Apostate A shrew'd Fellow I 'll warrant him an unanswerable Piece Things as they stand will never do Measures must be altered Bless us thought I surely I am in a Trance and this is one of Don Quevedo's Visions Can this Fellow be fit to serve in the Palace of a King Administer in Office to the Mighty Ruler of Three great Kingdoms and talk at this wretched rate So I bit my Lip turn'd aside went home entered my Closet and taking Pen Ink and Paper resolved for once to convince a Politician if by chance he can read that the Author of Julian the Apostate is not so dreadful a Bugbear but that a Man of Moderate gifts may answer him without breaking his Brains or falling into a Consumption And so having made

done Oh but a Peace being Concluded at Nimeguen this Army that was got together by one Sessions of Parliament was hardly got dissolv'd by two And all things rightly examined was not that One Sessions too soon for presently after the Disbanding of that Army 't is very memorable and observable what Rebellion broke out in Scotland and how it was tim'd and as for the many Papists which he would insinuate were thrust into that Army it is a most notorious Lye for those Papists that were in it were only some few Officers that came home upon the King's Proclamation with the Duke of Monmouth's Regiment out of France and they too were cashier'd their Commands long before the Peace made or the Disbanding of the Army was thought of and how this Army as he suggests was probably to be made use of in carrying on of the Popish Plot may be gather'd if I mistake not from an Information Oates once gave in That the Officers of it were all to be Murdered in a Night by the Popish Party to render the Army useless for any Service against them Then besides this Open Force sayes he there was Listed under-hand a greater of which Oates 's Narrative acquaints us with the chief Officers So the Noble Dr. did with Commissions too but the Devil a one was ever yet produced for us to see nor as I have been told did the Dr. himself know one of these principal Officers he has made bold to mention viz. My Lord Arundel of Warder when he very lately did see him but that worthy Divine is something apt to be troubled with dimness of sight when over-strain'd with swearing as some Privy Councellors in being can bear him witness In the next place to his Malicious and Impudent Suggestion That the succeeding Parliament after the Long Parliament were by their sudden Dissolution prevented from bringing those to their Tryals which the Former had committed I answer and the whole Kingdom must testify with me It is most scandalously false For had they so intended they sate time enough to have brought six times the Number to their Tryal No the face of things began to look then another way The Popish Plott seem'd like a Card turn'd up Trumps only to be play'd upon a hard Push when any Trick they aim'd at was like to be lost As for Example When the King would not give up the E. of D. to be torn in pieces trump with the Popish Plot that will fetch it or nothing immediately New Dangers of Popery are Apprehended and there is a Young Plot in the Belly of the Old One But at last when that Lord had rendered up himself and desired a speedy Tryal difficulties and perplexities were started about Joyning Issue then immediately there arises a squobble about Priviledges An Endless confus'd Riddle which no body e're yet could tell the meaning of but not a grain of Justice weigh'd out all this while but the course of it stopt and the Nation kept in suspence terror and perplexity with almost every man's hand at his Neighbours Throat and all for a punctilio Justice I doubt was not what the prevailing Faction at that time Aim'd at For as I promised before I will speak Truth A prevailing and a dangerous Faction were in that Parliament and will be in every Parliament 't is to be feared so long as Schismaticks and Make-bates are tolerated in their Insolencies by Wilful blindness or scarfulness of Magistrates that should suppress them and enabled to carry so great a sway in Elections as to return frequently so many Old Rebels against the last King to sit in the House of Commons only to raile and bandy Factions for the Ruin of this No the Popish Lords in the Tower were to be well husbanded and that Parliament was Dissolv'd not that they should not bring those Lords to Tryal but because they would not Having shot this Bolt Now he runs on his Story to several Worthy Peers Petitioning for the Sitting of a Third Parliament whereof by the way let us take notice the E. of Hunt was One who having since discover'd the foulness of the main design at the bottom has avoided the Infection return'd home into the Favour and Service of his King and Safety of his Honour And as that Petition was followed by Others of a more tumultuous nature so the reflections our Author makes upon 'em are to deal plainly as Impertinent as they were for he sayes That his Majesty was possest by some about him that such Petitioning was tumultuous and that at the same time little Emissaries were ordered to discourage it amongst the rest Sir George Jeoffries here in the City Prithee Brother Pamphletteer why little Emissaries Sir George Jeoffries is a Gentleman and was at that time Recorder of London and as I conceive under that character not so very unproper to advise the City how far in Loyalty Obedience to the Law and good Manners they ought to preserve their Duty Respect and Deference to their Sovereign and his Commands and for all that quoted scrap of the Parliaments Address against him wherein they accuse him for Informing the City of London that such manner of Proceedings might hazard the Forfeiture of their Charter I suppose it had been never the Worse for that Wise City to have taken his Counsel and have sav'd perhaps the trouble which a small Instrument Entituled Quo Warranto lately got amongst them may put them to But it is the way of hireling Scriblers for that Party now-a-dayes to Quote Votes Resolves and Addresses of the House of Commons for Lawes forsooth as if we were no longer to respect the Statutes of the Realm for our Guide but buy a pennyworth of Votes every day and consult out of them how far we are to yield Obedience to Edicts of so great an Authority as a Kings who is over us in all Causes next under God the Supreme Head and Governour For he is at the same rate again as to the Anti-Petitions as he calls emor Abhorrencies that were by many of the Loyal part of the Kingdom presented to his Majesty in a just resentment and detestation of the former Undutiful and Irreverent Proceedings of their fellow Subjects which as it was at that time the most seasonable and honestest course that good Subjects could take to clear and signalize their Respect and Fidelity to a Prince nos'd and affronted by the Insolent and Vile behaviour of a dangerous and unruly Faction So I cannot but with Horrour remember the Tyrannical and Oppressive Authority which the House of Commons durst usurp afterwards over their fellow-Subjects how many of us were persecuted by their Ban-dogs and Pursuivants how many that knew not so well the Charter of their Liberty were forced to yield obedience to their Unwarrantable and Peremptory Votes Led in Captivity shamefully several Miles through their Native Countries up to London committed to Illegal and Chargeable Prisons harrass'd with Arbitrary Fines or Censures brought on