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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48225	A letter to the author of The Dutch design, anatomized written by a citizen of London, for the promoting of His Majesties service.	Citizen of London.	1688 (1688)	Wing L1725; ESTC R10817	10,401	4

A LETTER to the Author of the DVTCH Design Anatomized Written by a Citizen of LONDON for the Promoting of His MAJESTIES Service Quis Coelum Terris non misceat Mare Coelo Si fur displiceat Verri homicida Miloni Clodius Accuset Moechos Catilina Cethegum Juvenal Sat. 2. SIR I Have read your Anatomy of the Dutch Design with as much patience as a true Member of the Church of England could be supposed to have on such an Occasion and I cannot forbear telling you I am a little Dissatisfied with it and in part the Reasons why First I would gladly have known the Name of this true Member of our Church and of his Person of Quality too for whose satisfaction this piece of Anatomy was composed 2ly Why it comes out with ALLOWANCE rather than with a License which is our legal word And Thirdly Why Randal Taylor and not H. H. is the Publisher These are small Queries but you know we Church of England-men have been so long haunted with Ghosts and Hobgoblins and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing that we are apt to Anatomize all Papers that come forth with ALLOWANCE and if the inside do not answer the outside we cry a Jesuite in Masquerade and then all the World is on the Gaze to observe what the Bontefeu would be at Well Sir I have rubb'd my Eyes this morning and I am ready to hear what it is you have to say To Enquire into the original Causes of the Discontent of the Church of England at some late Proceedings or to search into the Grounds why His Majesty desires to Establish Liberty of Conscience was so stifly opposed were to re-kindle Intestine Contests which ever were and much more NOW are to be Avoided Why Sir is it even so Must all that has been done by the Red-Letter-men since the Defeat of the Western Rebellion be so cleverly conveyed away Now as never more to be thought of Some few late proceedings and Liberty of Conscience are soft Words and surely these Church of England-men are not so hard-hearted as to remember Now such small matters as these how stifly soever they opposed them In truth Sir you are a pleasant Gentleman and ought to be recommended to his Holiness for his Confectioner An Irish Massacre or a German Design to subvert the Laws of a Nation or a French gentle re-establishment of Catholick Religion thus softly and sweetly worded would go glibly down with a good-Natured Heretick The Jealousies the Ferment and the Commotions in the next Section are shewn in such an huddle of confusion as I know not what you mean only I perceive it is so express'd because you were upon the Wing for Holland and had no leisure to talk of what had been done in England but Discontents there were and the Plaguy Dutchmen were told of them by a Party of English and Scotch Male contents Why had it not been for them the Reverend Fathers of England might have done what they had pleased and the Hollanders have so little sense of Religion that they would never have regarded us or at least not have put themselves to the charge of a dozen Flyboats or Herring-Busses to Propagate it especially the Church of England as by Law Established pag. 8. But these Male-contents told them that Protestantism was to be Ruin'd here under the pretence of Liberty of Conscience and besides they had a mighty pair of Bellows and the Rogues kept such a tooting and blowing that at last they kindled a Fire in that Wet Country and a Flame of Zeal burst out for you must know the Hollanders have some Compassion and a little Zeal though they have not one dram of Religion Why who can help this Well What did the Reverend Fathers in the mean time in England Why they made use of Re-enforcements when they perceived neither His Majesty's Word now the Weight of their Reasons could prevail Now Sir What do you mean by Re-enforcements Why they Turn'd all that would not Comply out of all Employments sent Soldiers to Quarter in all places that would not Address Reformed the Corporations once and again and sent Seven of the Bishops to the Tower and they would have sent all the Fellows of Magdalen Colledge to the Devil too but when they would not go they sent them a begging as much as in them lay and were going to Administer the self same Physick to all the Inferior Clergy of England I pray Sir were not these your Re enforcements Are not these Excellent Remedies against the Fumes of Discontent Well all this was in order to gain it ain Parliamentary Way but then the Male-Contents in Holland plyed their Correspondente here with subtle well-penn'd Treatises and made such an Allarm that neither Church-men nor Dissenters would close with them Alas alas We had taken such care of the English Presses that never a Male-content in England durst whisper and we had purchased Honest Henry Care and many another Doughty Scribler to plague the Nation with fulsome Declamations against the Penal Laws and the Tests we had also hired some Preachers to instruct the Brethren in their Sermons and William Pen wrote and preached and travell'd spent himself his money and his time in this Weighty Affair We had sent Commissioners to inspect the Levies made by Justices of the Peace and others to reform the Corporations and some Horse loads of Pamphlets we had distributed into several Counties of England and Suborn'd Men to Address in behalf of themselves and others and after all two or three paultery Male-contents in Holland put out now and then a single Sheet of Paper which was well Penn'd and spoild all again In truth Reverend Father this is a sad Story You must know the Hollanders are a sort of Pagans who Worship nothing but TRADE and the Rogues took up a conceit that the Jesuits were going to set up such a Liberty of Conscience in England as they had lately Erected in France and this would prove very prejudicial to them in their Traffick and draw away their people Now as soon as the Butter-Boxes perceived the Wind was in that Door they smelt out our Designs and immediately were for obstructing all good Correspondence between the Fathers of the Society and the People of England and fearing the Church of England Party were in the Plot with the Jesuits their Politicians to Out-wit us procured some Extremities of Tryal and Disrepute to be inflicted upon the Church of England-men But who were the Instruments imployed the Lord knows And besides they buzzed the Dissenters in the Ear that the Jesuits had no real kindness for them and that the Severities heretofore used by the Church of England Party against the Dissenters were very great and that there was a Lady in Holland who might one day be Queen of England and then it would be a fitter Season to set up Liberty of Conscience Thus all our Proffers were slighted and it was believed the holy Fathers were meer Cheats And