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A Return to the letter of a noble peer concerning the addresses
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1682
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suppose he doth only of those who subscribe these Addresses An inconsiderable parcel of Men you say if compared with the Bulk of Nation Pray my Lord tell me whether the Subscribers in Queen Elizabeth's time were a tenth part of the Number Yet were they a joyful Guard to her who having their hands was assured of the rest of inferiour Ranks who were under the Subscribers Command And whereas you pretend these Addresses do proclaim the Weakness of the Government you are out in that Note upon the Text for they most certainly magnifie it rendring it glorious abroad and at home in the Eyes of all who wish the Prosperity of it being also a disheartening to it's Enemies whether Forreign or Domestick Nothing can be imagined more to encrease the Honours of Esteem towards him in our Neighbours Affections than to see the Readiness of the King of Great Brittain's Subjects throughout the whole Kingdom to assert the Royal Prerogatives and give such hearty Engagements to defend his Majesties Sacred Person Crown and Dignities the Religion by Law established and the Right of Succession which last is no less Reputation abroad and at home than the former because all Disputes and Heart-burnings concerning his Successor disturbing his Peoples Affections make him uneasie and frequently proves of as ill Consequence to any Prince as if his own Title were in Controversie but that setled and undubitable strengthens his Power and blunts the sharpest Edge of Malice against that Prince that hath such a Revenger of any his Reproaches or Injuries And when the Heads and principal Members of all Counties Cities Towns and other Corporations do with so filial a Respect purge themselves of all sinister Designs or Intentions-towards the Crown either in the present Fruition or future Inheritance and out of the Ardency of honest Affections abhorr all such vitiated and rotten Members as you and others who are and have been versed in indirect and disloyal Practises not only Forreign Malignity but yours is hereby shattered in pieces and you who pretend you tremble at others are in an Agony with the Thoughts of this and the cooperating Stings of Conscience What your Lordship mentions concerning the Portugal King is Forreign to the Matter discours'd and more ridiculously introduced than I should a Petition that your Honour as a Reward for your Oratory and Manners should be sent to the House of Correction To conclude seeing your Lordship so great a Counsellor and fortunate States-man as never to be believed or loved never to attain to what you seek because your Mind 's more Changling than your unsightly Body gives us to suppose and alway knowing that you never speak Truth but as the Devil did Scripture to corrupt the Holy to Apostacy our own Searchings having caused us strongly to confide in the D. of York's Loyalty and unparalelled Love of his Prince his untainted Candor and Sincerity towards all who faithfully respect their Duty and Allegiance your forming such terrible Dangers to the King and Kingdom by his Authority and Succession doth sufficiently secure us from Fear For were there any real Danger imminent you would never discover it it being impossible but you should have an Hand in it And this Giant Popery as it is magnified by your Opticks to us is but a Dwarfe How much properer he may appear to some when shewn from off your Munkey Shoulders I cannot tell and leave you to the Tryal whom I desire to pardon for any thing harshly expressed because I hope it may prove beneficial to your Honour and if so it is the same to From Newmarket March 16th Your Lordships very Friend and Servant c. Printed for Ralph Stamp 1682.
A RETURN to the LETTER OF A NOBLE PEER Concerning the ADDRESSES My Lord THE Favour you conferred upon me to permit me to write to your Honour with a condescending Invitation occasioned that of March the 4th directed to your hand in which my Thoughts of the numerous Addresses seemed to me so plainly set down that no Mistake could ensue yet it hath otherwise happened and your Answer although not altogether differing from my Expectation is not wholly such nor so ingenious as I expected I could have wish'd that as you printed the Answer you had with it published my Letter which gave the Occasion that if any Knowledge of the Persons between whom this Intercourse is used should give the World occasion to repeat our Names and descant upon our Judgments I might not appear after so much resolute Constancy now dotish and fluctuating But for your whole Discourse Noble Peer I must be plain in telling you that not I but the Likeness of it to that Speech you made in the House which being published the Hangman committed to the Flames hath publish'd you the Author And you do so mince this Association and turn and wind it so tenderly that it seems your own Projection and a Brat so taking in your Affections that every Abhorrence of it is a Daggers point at your Heart You are much in Labour to have it believed never to have a Being thinking that way to secure it from the zealous Abhorrors and yet at every other turn your Fondness of it makes you break out into Commendations of it's pretty Features and Usefulness Indeed your Shiftings shew you have something of a debauch'd Modesty left and that you are ashamed of what you so much love my Willingness to excuse what will bear it saith this of you but the Generality cry out upon your Impudence in saying An Association pretended to have been seized in the E. of S's Closet when nothing was ever more exactly proved nothing more unquestionable and free from dispute nothing more defended by that Lord's Clientage and even owned in the Court by two of his Compurgators for they acted such more than Jury-men who looking upon it said This is the same with that which we saw produced and promoted in the House of Commons And by the way you may take notice what Justice was like to be done the King when his Cause was in the hand of Persons guilty of the same Conspiracy for should they have found the Bill they had directed the Attorney General to draw up one against themselves as truly it is to be lamented that they and all others should escape free from Punishment who in the House saw and promoted this damnable Plot of Association and did not so discover it as to have the Projectors and Forwarders rewarded with their merited Rope The Authors of such Parliamentary Proceedings ought to have their Heads advanced to the House-top to admonish their Successors of Modesty and Allègiance But to return Your Title at the first sight made me merry with the Remembrance of your Lordship's and that Religious Party's you so diligently served accustomed Activity that out run their Sagacity laying open dangerous Plots and Designs before they were detected As your Lordship hath been frequently termed a Catt from your noted Skill in falling safely so you further merit it from the Apology of the Catt changed into a beautiful Woman receiving a Change only in Form not in Conditions You are by the exceeding Greatness of Royal Favour raised to very great Riches and Honour not only out of a mean Fortune but pray pardon my Plainness and necessary Freedom an ill State as you are too conscious that merited Severity yet all Indulgences all immerited Additions of Lustre and Fortune cannot alter you but you must be Catting still playing your old Tricks laying open before detecting Your Wit hath like Galba's very unseemly Lodgings and is no other than what may be conjectured to proceed out of so ill contrived a Frame mischievous and unlucky it serveth to no eminent Counsel but to impose upon the silly and credulous Multitude who adore you as some Idolaters are said to choose and worship their God for it 's excellent Deformity No Man who makes a just and serious Inspection into these Addresses seeth any thing but what becomes generous and loyal Subjects whom the Sense of their own Duty and the odious Practises of Men of your Principles stir up to these Expressions of Fidelity on their own part and a most reasonable Abhorrence and Detestation of the others And now because it is an Answer to my Letter you lay upon me the Task of enquiring what this Monster which you have rip'd up and laid open is You begin to tell me that the Fermentation which the Nation is put into must be cherish'd by the ways that first occasioned it and that the Romish Designs against the Protestant Religion and Liberties of England would miscarry if the Heats and Animosities between Protestants were not artificially fomented Here the Tale you tell of the Romish Designs is so exceedingly stale that it stinks abominably and is rejected by most of the apprehensive Dissenters and Factious Party who see it in vain to talk any more at that rate the Generality of the Nation being cured of those Fits which the affrightful Noise of Popery put it into For as soon as honest and quiet Men hear any begin to blutter those fusty Discourses they leave them as men tainted and rusty Tools as you call them to your Trade of Protestant Joynery And the Truth is you all so torment and saw what you take in hand to polish that it 's great pity the Masters of the Company are not hanged for Company with the Journey-man It 's time indeed some end were put to the Lunacy the Kingdom hath been afflicted with and I hope we may conclude it wrought or near effecting seeing the greatest part of what you stile distracted are recovered and you are found not Lords of the Ascendent Predominant over Affections but Witches and Juglers that have held men under some short Surprizal but are delivered by Divine Providence President at the Council-Table Even they who commend you do not believe you and the rest will never trust you Neither have you shot your Bolt any thing near the Mark in saying the Operation of the Declaration against the two last Parliaments being wholly spent this against the Association is slipt in and managed to perpetuate Rancours for your self I fear to your Grief find the contrary both that the Efficacy of the Declaration is not spent but hath produced this brisk and genuine Off-spring the natural Issue of so incomparable a Conjunction as the Peoples Affections answering their Prince's Condescension and Love and that it is so far from fostering Animosities that it is the most certain Bond of Union that could ever have been framed a League indeed offensive and defensive not as your squinting Loyalty and unmannerly Comparison