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A65468 Animadversions on the late vindication of Slingsby Bethel, Esq., wherein the ancient and laudable customs of the city of London are asserted against the scandalous reflections he has made upon them : in a letter to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen / by a loyal citizen. W. W., Loyal citizen. 1681 (1681) Wing W138; ESTC R12206 4,794 5

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ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE LATE VINDICATION OF Slingsby Bethel Esq Wherein the Ancient and Laudable Customs of the City of LONDON Are asserted against the scandalous Reflections he has made upon them IN A LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR AND Court of Aldermen By a Loyal Citizen My Lord and Fellow Citizens AS it has been the opinion of many worthy Members of our City since the Election of this Sheriff that we did very ill to call a Person to that Office from his private station in the Country tho' not so qualified for this place by the Laws as some others were so it has been of very great trouble to us to find him not answer either the Design or Honour of such our Election 'T is his pleasure to acknowledge he was getting an Estate by Trade when the Rebellion broke out in England and that I suppose fitted him afterwards to bear a part in that blustrous Government as to have the honour to be nominated a Steers-man in that Committee of Safety which had like to have ruined the whole Commonwealth And yet 't is true a man may be of very ill Principles in 1658. and become a wonderful good man again in 1660. when his beloved Estate and safety begins to be call'd in question which made the pleasant Fellow who walking with a great Lanthorn and Candle lighted at Noon-day on the 29 th of May on the King's Return said That he had been seeking for a Round-head all that day but verily and truly could not find One from Westminster to Aldgate But to come to the point Was there ever such a man of Vertue heard of since Adam that managed a Trade who thus confidently avers That his conversation has been such in all his dealings in the World as to deserve no reproach from any man upon Earth We all well know that in Traffique and Trade in the World the justest man falls seven times a day as occasion may offer And 't is to be supposed that a man that gets an over-grown Estate amongst us in a way of Trade cannot get every peny so exactly just as not to be liable to the reproach of any Tongue whatsoever surely if that had been true which our Sheriff affirms he had never fallen under the present obloquy But Now after all this since you called him forth from his private retirement to the Honour he now enjoys Behold good man how he calls in one of the Prophets to testifie against you for maliciously reproaching scandalizing and making his Office troublesom to him Why now let any man judge if ever Sheriff since Richard the Ill 's time was so abused by his fellow Citizens surely we have not lost our manners and due regards to that Honourable Office have we Come let us but impartially enquire into the reasons of these things First he says We charge him with being a Papist and a Jesuit and to colour our Lies call in the Kings Evidence to testifie against him Why truly this could not be said but by an errant Tory or some Masquerading Fellow no loyal honest or sober Citizen could have offer'd such an affront to his Worship And yet Dr. Oats is a shrewd man too at guessing But however we may say there was an odd Jesuitical Principle that actuated in the late times to do even such things as Jesuits would if they could and so possibly there may be colour for some such tittle tattle among the People at the Election in Southwark But when Dr. Oats comes to Town he will clear this point And for the Election in Southwark I may freely say this That the Commoners did very discreetly in Electing two unquestionable Loyal Persons Capt. Rich and Sir R. How And in such Elections there do not want reflections on each Candidate for I have been told that some of the Sheriff's party did bespatter them too with the Title of Abhorrers and I overs of Arbitrary Power so that 't is pretty even on both sides As for what he is accused of in being a Souldier of the late times I am apt to believe his Worship says truth But what to say to that malicious whisper of words spoken by him at Hambrough about the King's Death I leave that to be decided by Law only a man would think our Sheriff no good King's man since he is thus traduced by Persons of the same Rank and Place he dwelt in and his daily Companions But for the next malicious slander of his being one of those in Vizards that assisted at the Death of His late Majesty I profess I wonder any person should be so confident to accuse him for after all the imaginable care and scrutiny to find the Truth by the Council and the Parliament upon His Majesties Return they never yet could learn who those bloudy Villains were that murthered our dear Sovereign o● blessed memory so that we might as well have said they were two of Oliver's Chaplains as well as our Sheriff and another person in Masquerade so far I must do him all the right I can As to the story of the Waterman's coat 't is very odd such a thing might be for all men are not in a good humour with Watermen at all times tho' a Kings Waterman to some constitutions is more obnoxious than a City Waterman And so much for that point too But I shall now come home to the matter in hand so far as concerns us Citizens in taking notice of our Sheriff's Vindication As for his House-keeping he does very elaborately let us know that he does not dwell in a Garret nor hired Cellar or Pantry I suppose and that if we had not anger'd him in choosing Mr. Pilkington a meer Commoner Alderman of the Ward and gave him the go-by he would have dwelt in a larger Taylor 's House and established his Tables and taken in Officers c. Why truly this is a very good reason for a man to be angry with House-keeping and maintaining any part of the Repute and Honour of the City and so for ought I see we must be contented with it for there is an honourable thriftiness as well as an honourable prodigal lavish House-keeping especially among the Magistrates of the City of London and for a man to relieve poor distressed Citizens and Prisoners and others in want when the Law of the Land provides for them otherwise is a thing so lavish and prodigal that no Sheriff of London ought to evade it especially when the loss of being Alderman of the Ward and Knighthood is in the case And then when a man consults the wholsom Laws against excess of Feasting which our Sheriff says are the most wholsom nay more wholsom Laws than the 35 th of Eliz. or 16 th of our King ten to one why truly no man breathing would feast every day or endure it in his House When I came to one Paragraph which is a quotation out of some modern Jesuit I protest I stood amazed to hear of a meritorious congruity as