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A36246
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Animadversions upon Mr. John Gadbury's Almanack, or diary for the year of our Lord 1682 by Thomas Dangerfeild [sic] and printed for the author.
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Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.
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juncture of time plainly demonstrate the concatenation of the Causes of these solicitous enquiries The Kings life was sought but hearing he was sick a Scheme must be erected to know whether he would outlive the distemper or put them to farther trouble Then Mine in the nick of time for encouragement to proceed in case of His Majesties Recovery Then the Lord Powis's to make a discovery of the issue of the business by his good or bad Fortune Now that the Popish Lords in the Tower should be unacquainted with their Delphian Oracle especially you your self confessing you had din'd with one receiv'd a note from another and telling me that the Lords in the Tower were displeas'd with me and that you knew the reason of it is a thing never to be controverted There is one thing more which I cannot pass by and that is that you call your self a Protestant It was a thing which the Court would not believe nor can any unbsass'd person in the world have any reason to believe it by that which follows The Court demanded of you if you knew of any attempt to change the Government To which you answered you knew of no Plot unless it were a Plot to bring Sir Robert Payton over to the Kings Interest That Plot you had some concern in But why a Plot to bring over Sir Robert Payton to the Kings Interest you 'l say because Sir R. P was a great stickler against the Duke of Yorks Interest and took great pains to incense the People against it Now to shew how like a Protestant you manag'd this design 't is well known that you procur'd a meeting between the Lord Peterborough and Sir Robert Payton at your own house and this under pretence of a long continu'd Friendship and there they met so often that at length Sir Robert Payton was perswaded to wait upon the Duke and did kiss his Hand and was from that time forthwith taken into favour And this you call a Plot to bring over Sir R. P. your great Friend to the Kings Interest by getting of him receiv'd into the Dukes favour only What said the Court to this Not a tittle For they understood better things than to believe you spoke a word of Truth Well knowing that the Kings Interest is altogether Protestant the Peace and Quiet of the Religion and Government in Church and State as it is now by Law Establish'd the Interest of the Duke of another nature as having been declar'd a Romish Catholick So that it was Sir Robert Paytons loss that out of your seeming Protestant Friendship you betrayed him to your own Romish Catholick party whose Interest is so Diametrically contrary to the Interest of His Majesty and to the Genius and Interest of the whole Nation For which kindness would Sir R. P. but take upon him the so much abus'd Character of the Kings most Loyal Evidence I am of opinion I might see you translated from your habitation in Brick Court to another place And now whether He that professes himself a Protestant and acted so like a cordial Papist can be believ'd to be what he only says he is I leave to all the Candid-Readers in the world to judge As for your praying for the King 't is to be look'd upon as a meer piece of convenient and time serving flattery a pretence to cover the malignity of your black Soul Were it real it were highly to be commended but as it is not there are many that pray for the King with their lips yet curse him in their hearts As for all your hatings and abhorrings of this and that while you pray for the King you curse his Loyal and best Subjects under the names of Jugling Nonconformists Papists in Masquerade and Narrative Writers and all this meerly because they obviated your Hellish Designs And indeed he that will betray his friend can never be true to his King And this is demonstrable by your Plot to bring over Sir Robert Payton to the Kings Interest For if that were your design why did you not do it if you did it out of affection to the Popish Interest you were a Traitor to your Friend unfaithful to your Prince and consequently an absolute Papist however you may pretend your self to be a Protestant So that your Honouring Monarchy signifies nothing For England was Monarchical in time of Popery as well as now and under that Circumstance you expected it would ere now have been so again Your professing your self to be a Member of the Church of England signifies as little For in the Ages of Peter-Pence we know the Church of England was then Establish'd by Law and that no question is the Establishment you mean and as you have confirm'd by your own practices As for your Astrological Observations they are not worth the leanest louse that ever suffered under the violence of your needle you speak irreverently of the very Stars you get your Bread by Say you in your Observations upon January The angry Stars do belch out enmity faster than the Planets can breath forth Vnity A strange and unseemly accusation of the Stars as if you were indebted to the Planets for rent and therefore thought to pay your Landlords with good words you speak scandalously of the Justice of the Nation in these words When is there hopes of Vnity When we shall hate Violence Fraud and Perjury As if they who by their Oaths and Testimonies had brought the Conspirators against His Majesty to condign punishment had done it by Fraud and Perjury and that nothing but Castlemaines Compendiums and Manifesto's were to be believ'd Every page of your Observations breaths forth nothing but malice against the Kings best Witnesses advancement of Popery disturbance of the Government and the raising of fears and jealousies between the Prince and his People What have you to do with the Councils at Whitehall or the Councils in Scotland but only to amuse the unthinking and most giddy People of the multitude For most certainly you knew no more than Cowzers dead Broom Tell the Country Gentlewoman when she shall sow her Pease and set her Sweet Marjerome tell the City Haberdasher of small wares when Bristol and Exeter Fairs will be and tell him how far it is between London and St. Davids This is your business Friend John Can any Man of reason abstain from loud laughter to hear you apply your nonsense to State Affairs as for example in your Observations upon the Suns ingress into Aries What shall I say Can Saturn the great enemy of nature bode any good this Year to Mankind Is he not in the 7th angle and the house of his Enemy too What if he be there let him stay who cares a rush But when he shall be Lord of any revolution and in Leo having Northern Latitude he renders the designs and projects of many men frustrate What stuff is this And yet the intent of it is mischievous to keep the minds of men addicted to folly and superstitious imaginations in suspence And that this is the design at which you drive is plain by your quoting a silly Prophesie of that Popish Wizard Nostre-Damus in derision of your enemy Geneva In short such Figure-Casters as you are not fit to be suffered under a Protestant Government nor indeed understand For as your Art is fallacious and consequently impious so when those fallacies and impieties are us'd to a seditious end they are the more to be abominated None but the Superstitious believe ye and never any that did believe ye but perish'd through their folly A sort of People saith Tacitus Treacherous to Princes deceivers of them that believe them and therefore alwaies prohibited from our City And therefore it is a shame that they are so publickly tolerated to hang out their amusing signs in This and to give our their bills about the Streets to inveigle and many times undo wanton and inquisitive Youth After all this I admire what unlucky Star influenc'd you to make this unfortunate vindication and to provoke me to collect these Truths in my own defence to encounter your lies and equivocations For certainly Men are not to live in this world that will hear themselves abus'd and tax'd of Villanies and Perjuries by those that are the Criminals themselves If you have your pardon thank God and the King for it but in my opinion 't is a breach of that Grace to side anew with those that seek all they can to stifle the Plot and vindicate their Conspiracies to the disparagement and high dishonour of the Kings Justice Friend John when you become honest I shall be glad to be yours Thomas Dangerfeild