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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93529	Some remarks upon a scandalous libel, intituled, The declaration of James Duke of Monmouth, &c.		1685 (1685)	Wing S4604B; ESTC R184454	12,639	15

and series of His private as well as publick actions are soe notoriously known through the whole world that all Christendome with the Kings and Princes thereof would unanimously concur and beg to become His Compurgators and from theire souls abhorr and detest those most villanous men and worst of Traitors who soe falsly maliciously and sawcily have dar'd to profane the Sacred Caracter of soe Incomparable a Prince but that I may undeceive some Innocent men and strangers to Our Country who it may be have been poysned by the false reports false Oaths and perjuries of these profligate out lawd and insolent Traitors I must humbly beg His Majesties leave that I may speak to two of those particulars of which being my self an eye witnesse to the one and a competent and Impartial Judge of the other I perswade my selfe that according to the truth of these two cases Those who shall peruse these Papers will equally judge of the rest The first is that of the burning of London The beginning of that fire with its growth and progres is now as generally known as its end I shall only their fore say this That being my selfe present most part of the time both by day and by night and a sufferer in that fire as well as my neighbours I had many several occasions to be very nere His present Majestie then Duke of York and I doe testifie That His diligence care and pains in stopping that dreadful fire was almost equal to any particular sufferer in it That His compassion and affliction for its progres both in words and actions seemd soe great as if He Himselfe had been the only Sufferer and His advice in quenching those flames soe pressing and soe reasonable that had not mens fears outrun theire dangers or had His advice been vigorously followed in all moral probabilitie they had put a much earlier stop to that vast conflagration and all honest men are throughly and fully convinct that His then Royal high the Duke of York did no more directly or indirectly contrive as they call it the burning of the City of London then of the soe much celebrated Temple of Diana soe many thousand of yeares sence at Ephesus The second case Is the poysning His Majestie of bless'd memorie Indeed the horror of soe damd and false an accusation with the stupendious inveterate malice of Jams Scott late Monmouth and his most accursed associates doth almost confound my thoughts and stop my pen However I must say in general That had it pleas'd God Almighty in his great mercy to us to have sent an Angel from heaven and assured us that he would take in his due time His late Majestie from us but by a death soe natural that there should not be the least circumstantialt conjecture of violence I dare be bold to affirme that the witt of man could not have found out or desired a kind of death more natural and free from the suspicions of humane malice then that of the late King In particular the manner of the Kings being taken with the first fitt was Apoplectical the Effects Apoplectical the Method and cure of his first fitt by Cupping Scarifying and suchlike accordng to the rules of art in those cases answerd Apoplectical indications the lettle distortion of this Mouth and failing in His speech Apoplectical every circumstance soe much Apoplectical that His last fitt was plainly and truly for told Him according to the Nature of such Apoplexies many hours before their was any outward appearance of the fitt His Body when opend His gutts vitals brains and All were soe farr from showing the least suspicion of poyson that they sufficiently declared an Apoplexie the unanimous concurrance of all his Phisitians pronounc't a natural death And were all these circumstances with many more insufficient to prouve the same yet the soft hearthy tears alone of that Undaunted Hero King James the second would convince Opinias trite and incrudulite it selfe thatt was impossible He should with soe much sorrow lamant a Death which as they urge He not only had desird but contrived whilst the Hypocrisie of the bravest of men must have exceeded the vile dissembling art of the most mercinary slave And I defye Brinvillers were she now alive with all the art of Indian or Siciliane Poysoners to invent a dose which should soe fully in all points Circumstances resemble such a natural Apoplexie as that which caried off our late Blessed Soveraigne I have only one objection to answer which how frivolous soever it be yet since it is particular and believed by some men I beg leave to speak to it they say then that when the late King perceved he was poysned he should with great passion utter these words Good Lord what have they done unto me Now as some circumstantial truths have been ever mingled with material falshood like leafe gold over bitter pills to make them passe the better soe I must ingeniosluy confesse that I have heard His Majestie should have spoken some such words as those but good God upon how different an occasion from what it is now applyed I have been credibbly then told that after the King was recouvered from his first fitt in which his Chyrurgeons had cupt Him sacrifyed and cutt him upon the shoulders and other parts the King not knowing what had past whilst He was sencelesse and feeling at last the smart and pain of those wounds which in His fitt he had received being surprised at what he had not felt before should say some such words as those Good Lord what have they done unto me Thus we see Innocencye brought to support the fowlest malice and truth it selfe enjag'd to confirme the most accursed lye Yet notwithstanding all this James Duke of Monmouth declares he will prosecute James Duke of York as he calls His present Majestie for the aforesaid villanous and unnatural crime in pursuance of a vote torevenge the Kings death upon Papists he shoold have said for such was the vote in case he came to an untimely end until he hath brought Him to suffer what the laws adjudged to be the punishment of soe execrable a fact and in a particular manner being deeply sensible of that barbarous and horrid parricide committed upon his father doth resolve to persue the said James Duke of York as a mortall and bloody Enemie and will endeavour as well by his own hand as by the assistance of his friends and the law to have Justice executed upon him Gently gently yong man and put not your selfe into passion dog days are coming on and if you heat your blood too much phlebo to my in the Jugular veyne will prove your only cure But to be serious Never was villanous cause supported by a more sutable argument one of the most glorious Princes and worthiest of all mankind must be hectord thus and suffer if they could compasse it for an Imaginary crime which was never committed by any mortall besides themselves in their