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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63920	A third representation of the case of the hospitaler of St Thomas wherein the point of law is argued and discussed, humbly addressed to the right worshipful the president and the court of the governours at their next general meeting.	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3318B; ESTC R26336	7,700	12

for ever incapacitated and disabled by not taking the Test as he should have done Mr. Turner humbly hopes that he is every whit as able and fit to serve the King and Queen in this or any other Station as his Competitor Mr. Hughes though he were another sort of Man in many respects than really he is As to Mr. Hughes his particular merit to the Royal Family it is too well known to need many words to express it and because Mr. Turner is accused by some that want something to find fault with of Disingenuity and Malice in representing Truth tho he was forced to it in his own defence to let the World see that the Man and his Title were both of them alike both equally rotten and vicious at the bottom and that it was at least a mistaken and a sinful Charity to support him any longer either in respect to his Person or his Cause yet as to what rela●●● to his Sermon preached at Abingdon if it be thought too invidious to reflect upon it he desires it may be considered by such Censurers as these that nothing was more essential to his Argument than that was nor any thing that could less be spared or omitted by a Man that would defend himself as he ought to do against him for notwithstanding the Regulation that had been made in this House in the Reign of K. Charles II. yet upon the Solicitations that were made in behalf of Mr. Hughes it is well known to all that are not unacquainted with the History of that Affair that he had certainly been restored again had it not been that this very Sermon was put into the hands of one of the then Principal Secretaries of State and by him a Representation made of it to the King himself after which His Majesty and those that were then in power were deaf to all Entreaties and Solicitations in his behalf so that this being the very reason of his ejection from his Place the very and the only motive that turned the Scale against him when all other Considerations were either forgotten or forgiven or neglected I offer it to any Man of common sence to consider whether a greater Affront could possibly be offered to the memory of that excellent Person and beloved Prince whose Death was so universally lamented that no Age no History can afford a parallel of so epidemical so sympathetique so strange and wonderful a Grief a Grief that smote every breast with horror and surprize that made all Faces pale all Knees to shake that tapped like Moses even the Rocks themselves and made the most hard and unrelenting weep than to rescind his legal Act or at least to pretend to do it by one that neither is nor can be so and an Act that was done not only by him that had full power and authority for what he did but also upon so just so great so personal and so sacred a resentment Have we forgot those Tears and the respect that is due to the Ashes of a Prince whose life was so inestimably precious in our sight Or do we disallow the reason upon which he went in this particular Action Do we condemn the Piety and the Duty that forced his gentle nature to a very gentle but yet unwilling severity upon so great an Offender whom tho he had forgiven by an Act of Grace yet without some testimonies of Repentance some retaliation of Service for the Fault he had committed he thought it a sin to encourage and reward or to let him eat like Mephibosheth at the Kings Table and be fed with the Bread of those Princes whom he had like Shimei cursed and like some proud and haughty Philistin had defied In a word do we pretend to justifie those Principles which he once espoused those Practices which he publickly defended How can we else go about to restore him to a Service which he lost to his advantage and out of which he was ejected for no reason but this the greatest and the worst of provocations by him that could have done it legally and unaccountably for no reason at all Or is it not rather certain that those worthy Gentlemen whose charity and good nature hath inclined them to restore him were unacquainted with the true State and History of his ejectment which was done out of a principle of natural affection to a Prince and Father and for a Cause in which all the Royal Family are equally concerned However Mr. Turner is certainly excusable for urging this against him because he is the Person struck at by Mr. Hughes and all Weapons are lawful to him that is unjustly assaulted and he is still the more excusable because he had no hand nor so much as the tip of either of his little fingers in the management of that fatal Accusation against him nay he really knew nothing either of him or his Sermon and now he would have spared him the repetition of that Crime as he would have done formerly of several others if an hard necessity had not forced him to do things contrary to his nature and if sparing of him who seeks his ruin so contrary to all sense and justice had not been injustice and cruelty to himself But yet he doth not urge this as matter of Law the Law will defend him upon another bottom because he was put into this station by one King and confirmed by another whose Power was paramount to that which Mr. Hughes hath recourse to and who had a legally arbitrary and unaccountable disposal vested in themselves of the Affairs and Officers of this House and if neither they nor the Law which is nothing else but common right and justice are able to defend him then his Case is worse than that of the Rulers of Jezreel with respect to Jehu for how shall he be able to defend himself against a Power which neither two Kings nor the Law it self have been able to withstand To conclude whatever becomes of the Place for the future the Arrears for the time past and so much longer as till he be ejected by a competent Authority are unquestionably his and it is plain injustice to give it the mildest term to keep them from him and Mr. Hughes who neither can nor dare put Pen to Paper to assert his Title is neither more nor less than a Robber for receiving them Mr. Turner therefore begs and entreats of the Court of Governours at their next general meeting that they would consider and redress the injustice that is done him without putting him to the trouble and formality of bringing an Action against a litigious Fellow or those that have paid him what they cannot answer Mr. Turner is willing to submit his whole Cause to be argued by Council on both sides before the Court of Aldermen or before the Governors at their next general meeting or to refer it to my Lords the Bishops as many of them as are now in Town or to any five of them whom Mr. Hughes shall choose or to the House of Commons who are the Guardians of the Liberties of the People or to the House of Lords who are the supreme Judicature of the Nation and he would add also to the King and Queen themselves but that they are indeed Parties their Royal Prerogative being interested in it or to the Privy Council but that they have already determined in his favour and in one word he submits it to all Mankind and to his Enemies themselves if they will speak their Consciences as they will answer it at the day of Judgment always provided that they expect and believe there is such a day a coming whether Mr. Hughes or he be in the right or which hath the juster and the plainer Title of the two to the Place of Hospitaler of S. Thomas Southwark or whether a more baffled and shamefully defeated Cause than Mr. Hughes's is were ever known or heard of in any Story FINIS