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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52939	A new narrative of a gent. of Grays Inn, relating to Mr. Turbervill's last narrative concerning the horrid Popish-Plot	Gent. of Grays Inn.	1680 (1680)	Wing N678; ESTC R3504	4,926	4

A New NARRATIVE OF A Gent. of Grays Inn Relating to Mr. Turbervill's Last NARRATIVE Concerning the Horrid Popish-Plot Parce PUER Stimulis fortius utere Loris Ovid. 'T Is a piece of Jesuitism to do evil that good may come thereof but it is the duty of every good Christian to do good for evil To tell a Lie politickly to clear a man's self is an evil of the Church of Rome and a ready way to prove a man a Jesuit But if that falshood is designed for the ruine of our Neighbour it carries a more ugly aspect and is a positive contradiction to the purity of that Doctrine which commands us To render good for evil and to love our Neighbours as our selves I cannot therefore when I see a Lord beheaded or a Traytor hanged refrain from pity or with-hold my Prayers and I am not of the humour of the rabble to insult and glory in anothers misery I know that it is an argument of a villanous disposition to tyrannize and abuse those wretched ruines which are under the mercy of the Law whose severity is bitter enough without aggravation A noble mind doth out of native goodness shew a kind of sweetness in the disposition which if not the man doth pity his misfortune but never doth increase his sorrow by baser usage than doth become his Justice In the Title-page of a late Narrative which bears the Name of Mr. Turbervill here are these words An Account of the Gentleman of Grays-Inn who appeared in Court before the Lord High-Steward to invalidate Mr. Turbervill 's Evidence which words are the Prologue to an after lying malicious imperti●●nt and unchristian-like Tragedy of the said Gentleman's Reputation and might much rather have been termed An horrid Account of a barbarous and bloudy Design to bury a man alive What is spoken of me in the Title-page is false and the first Scene a Lie So that what concerns me in that Narrative is like the Devil a Lyar from the beginni●g And thus I prove 〈◊〉 I did appear barely in obedience to an Order of the Honourable House of Peers dated 27 November 1680 And I was no voluntary Witness as may appear by the Lord Stafford's Tryal p. 121 122. I take it there is some difference betwixt summoning upon a Design to invalidate and appearing upon a Design to invalidate which if Mr. Turbervill had well considered I verily believe he would never have shewed his Teeth so much against me Yet notwithstanding I was no voluntary Witn●ss I do here profess and stand upon it as a Principle of my Religion That had I known any matters certainly true which would have preserved the Lord Stafford's Life though I were in all li●●●●●hood to be murdered by the Papists or 〈◊〉 being exposed as now I am to popular fury I would and ought to have declared them Cruelty is no sign of Courage in a martial humour and rashness is a grand impeachment of a man's discretion I and my Family are quite undone should the World believe what Mr. Turbervill so cruelly rashly and impertinently to his purpose reports of me Let him remember the saying of Valence to Edward II. In heat of Bloud to kill may tast of valour which yet on co●ler terms may touch of murder Your victorious sword is imbrewed with honour let it not ravage where is no resistance To spill where you may save obscures your Glory to save where you may spill proclaims your Goodness If due thoughts of this shall not excite his pity then ●●serere 〈◊〉 Deus I thank God I have read something and I do both remember and abhor the damnable Principles of the Papists death and destruction are the Jesuits M●●hinatius And Mr. Turbervill himself left his Cloister because amongst those Brethren instead of seraphick Piety and Purity of Religion he could observe nothing but Malice Envy Backbyting and Detraction of one another How his proceedings against me in his last Narrative with such violent scandals agrees with this so pious an● chri●ian-like Resolve I cannot de●ermine but this I know that I am abused 'T is not the least of our happiness as English-men that every man is allowed by the wholsom Laws of this Kingdom the liberty of being heard before he can be legally condemned I therefore as my Birthright claim that Freedom and humbly begg of all the World especially all good Protestants not to wrest or enforce the plain meaning of this my just and absolutely necessary vindication of my self to deviate from its true Design to the service of Malice or Popery And I do sincerely profess That I do not here intend to detract from the credit of Mr. Turbervill's Testimony but if any thing herein shall efface the monstrous ugliness of that Character he is pleased to give me and falsifie what he says in my particular I humbly beg that it may not be construed to invalidtae his Evidenc What his Narratiue speaks in relation to the truth of that does not concern me further than that I am a Protestant and highly obliged to himself and all the rest of those worthy Gentlemen who by their timely Discoveries have been blessed Instruments in the preservation of our Lives Religion and Government Mr. Turbervill is pleased to say That without doubt I had large promises from the Popish party which I thought would be prevalent 'T is beyond a Petitio principii and some sort of Presumption in him to determine what I thought Heaven has reserved that as the peculiar business of his own Omniscience And whether it happens to be right guess'd or not I must leave to the judgments of such as know me better however it is an uncharitable stabbing censure The Evidence I gave was about a Discourse that had happened betwixt Mr. Turbervill and me which you may see in the Lord Stafford's Tryal page 121. I am not here about to vindicate the Truth of my Testimony I leave that to the World to believe as they please It 's strange to me that Mr. Turbervill should imagine that I was bribed to give that Evidence which I must needs know being a Barrister at Law would be improper for the Prisoner's purpose Or that if I had been bribed I presume no man will believe but that the Roman party would have made a better bargain than for me to declare an impertinent Evidence But yet I do say That if what I spoke had greater weight than I believe it had and was received by every Body as an undoubted Truth even that could not abate the due credit of Mr. Turbervill's Evidence for if he was as I believe a Papist at that time when he spoke to me it was then his Principle to conceal any thing that might tend to a Discovery of their Hellish Plot And now good Mr. Turbervill why so angry Impetit animum nec potest cernere verum I would faign know how my Wifes Fortune concerns his Credit What he now means by small or great And why he seems

to summon me to an account by saying that the same is now almost spent O impertinent insulting Tyranny 't will be good to remember Altius evexit quam te Fortuna Ruinam Majorem timeas Juven Too great a care improperly exprest doth often lose the cause it strives to advantage But that Mr Turbervill should know and make it as part of an undoubted Truth in his Narrative that I was first called to the Bar and then afterwards upon the credit of that married a Wife seems wonderful to me and in that I may say he is more than Omniscient for he knows that and declares it as a positive Truth which really never was as I believe for I dare not be positive since he affirms the contrary I take it chst I was first married in April and afterwards called to the Bar in Trinity-Term 1679. Perhaps Trinity-Tirm might be before April who can tell No no there is something in this more than I understaud 't is a kind of a charm upon my intellects and I may say that I am almost brwitched not to believe my own senses and yet I do not hold the Doctrine of Transubstantiation But suppose I had been married upon the credit of my being called to the Bar what is that to his purpose or how does it strengthen his or weaken my Evidence The Long Robe is no mean Foundation to build a good Fortune on Had my condition ever been as calamitous as Mr. Turbervill would make the world believe it once was his charitable endeavours are not now wanting to render the same much worse by exposing me to the hatred and fury of mankind And I need not fear the more 's my sorrow of finding some to cut my throat if he should be so cruel at any time as to shew me daw●'d after his manner to the rabble Temptations are the Works of the Devil And if at any time he assaulted me so as to draw me in to be guilty of my own murder I heartily thank Almighty God for his Grace that I am still living and do defie thee Satan I was never yet guilty of any sort of TREASONS Murders Felonies Perjuries Forgeries c. So that if I was once poor I kept my self honest Dr. Oates says That a man's poverty is no objection against his honesty And when not very long ago I saw Mr. Turbervill in a low condition as I thought I pityed him and would now fain know how he comes to dash Poverty in the Teeth of Evidence If a man as he says would do much to gratifie a person that had preserved him from starving I do verily believe he would do much more to keep himself from starving But that a man ought to perjure himself on a point of Gratitude or upon any other account whatsoever I thank God is none of my principle nor indeed had I ever any temptation that way which I protest to be true upon my hopes of Salvation What Mr. Turbervill designs to do with me I cannot tell he renders me a man unprincipled and in that a Beast as far as in him lies yet when I think on God's providence in my preservation against the hatred of froward men I have no reason to renounce my humanity bu● much rather to admire his divine goo●●●ss I will now give Mr. Turbervill a tast of my principles which I have most r●●son to use in these lamentable ti●es of distraction True Piety bindeth the Subject to deliver a good Sovereign to 〈◊〉 with a bad and to take up the burthen of Princes with a bended knee hoping rather in time to merit abatement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The King in his Throne is like the Sun in the Firmament whose in●●uence animates all sublunary Beings So the Authority of a Prince gives life and vigour to every particular Member of the Body politick And he is not only Caput but also Anim● Relpublicae And no Member ought to move against that Soul which is the Life of its being or presume to accede too near this resplendent Head by intermeddling with the scorching influences of the State Ar●●● lest the brightness thereof should dazle the Adventurers into Blindness and Faction and the heat thereof scorch them into 〈◊〉 and Destruction But suppose a Magistrate really tyrannical it is no contemptible Question Whether the evils of the redress may not be equivalent to the mischiefs imposed I remember Livy 's Nec morbum ferre pos●●●●● nec remedium And Tacitus ' s ●erend a Regum ingenia neque 〈◊〉 effe crebras mutati●●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 don●● homines sed neque haec continua Et meliorum interrantu pensantur And Seneca 's Infaeliciter aegrotat cui plus pericull à Medico quàm Morbo Poise the miseries of a Civil-war with the grievances of an unjust Magistrate and the Ballance seems to me so unequal that if my Christianity fail the apprehension of the inevitable miseries by the sword is sufficient to deter from such a damnable Practice For though the fury of incensed Tyranny may fall heavy upon many particulars yet the bloudy consequences of an intestine Sword are more epidemical and lasting But if there be such Distempers in a State as shall require amendment let it be left to the course of providence and not against the disposition of Heaven be attempted by the sword of violence For I never read that Illegal or Tumultuous or Rebellious were proper Epithets for Reformation And the learned Bodin saith Albeit by the sufferance of the King of England controversies between the King and his people are determined by the High-Court of Parliament and sometimes by the Lord Chief Justice of England Yet all the Estates remain in full subjection to the King who is no ways bound to follow their advice neither consent to their requests And yet as to the right of the Subject I held with Fortescue That Rex Anglia neque per se aut ministros suos subsidia aut alia quae vis oners imponit Ligeis suis sine assensu totius regni sui in parliamento suo expresso So much for a tast but should I proceed instead of a compendious Narrative I might make a large Volumn wherefore I will conclude with a few Negative Votes viz. That Dominion is not founded in Grace as the Jesuits and some others hold That passive Obedience is fit for Fools and those that know no better Or that it is lawful to bear Arms against the King and resist him in mattess of Religion and Conscience I utterly deny and abhor And from such as hold the contrary I will conclude upon our present Distractions Novi ego hoc saeculum quibus moribus sit Malus bonum malum esse vult ut sit sui simil●●● turbant miscent mores mali Ralpa● Avarus Invi●us sacrum profanum publicum privatum habebit Hiulca gens c. From the Lords in the Tower and SOME that are out From stabbing the King with Dagger or Vote From Ruine point blank or nine miles about Good Lord deliver us LONDON Printed for the Author 1680. L. Stafford 's Tryal p. 130.