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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60055	A short answer to a malicious pamphlet called, A reply written by John Gadbury, the King of England's juggler, and astrologer in ordinary to the Pope, to help on the work.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3559; ESTC R39538	24,418	26

to the Test are Traitors notwithstanding the Judges Opinions and the Kings Dispensing and this the Papists know full well Secondly that this dispensing power can last no longer than the King lives and then those that are offenders with the Judges c. will hardly escape the Gallows But I wonder my Adversary is so confident as to say the Test was made to exclude the Duke of York from the Crown when he was the only person therein excepted by name but indeed it is no wonder if we consider his Folly and Impudence in every thing else Likewise the Nole prosequi that he mentions it is of the same nature wich his power to pardon and both ought to be used only in particular Cases of Necessity to save or relieve the Innocent but not to make a common practice of either to protect known Villains Thieves Murderers and Papists from Justice and so I have done with the Ridiculous Obligations false Assertions and impertinent Arguments about the Chronology made of John Gadbury the present Advocate for the base Actions and Treasons of the Enemies of England and the Protestant Religion I come now to take notice of the rest of his Malicious Stuff which I find so Idle that I shall pass by most of it and only take notice of some of the most absurd things to shew you how Malice and his new Religion hath transported the fellow and made him forget to write truth In Page the 18th he tells us of the great plenty and abundance of Fruit and Herbage in the year 1687. When says he have we had a more peaceable calm and quiet year when were we blest with greater plenty of fruit and herbage Now observe for in the pag. next following the Summer Ingress in his Almanack for the year 1688. he says We have had great Scarcity of Fruit and Herbage every year since the great frost in 1683 / 4 and particularly he says that the two last years of 86 and 87 wheat yielded almost two thirds less than it used to do in other years Now do you think that this man understands his own non-sence himself For first he comes with a when were we blest with a greater plenty than in 1687 and then in his other Libel he says When have we had more Scarcity than in the years 1686. and 1687 Thus you see what a kind of fellow I have to deal with but Papists may say any thing at this time He also calls it a peaceable and quiet year but for my part I have not known the Nation in a greater Convulsion for many years than it was this last and is still How many worthy Honest Gentlemen were turned out of the Commission of Peace Lord Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants Governours of Towns Commanders c. Men of Honor turn'd out and Scoundrils put in Tory's turn'd out and Whiggs put in Whiggs put out and Papists put in English Gentlemen turn'd out and Bogtrotters put in Law destroyed Religion invaded the Fundamental Laws and Rules of Government turn'd up by the Roots the Liberties and Rights of Cities and Vniversities seized by force and all to bring in Popery And yet this Fellow calls it a peaceable quiet year Then he Blusters up again and Asketh when was Westminster Hall less thronged in term time than now Alas Jack that is not from Jupiter in the 7th as you fondly imagin but the people are sensible that the Judges who sit there are neither wise nor honest And what wise man will put his Cause or Estate into the hands of Fools and Knaves if he can help it for let a Papist be Plaintif and an Enemy to Popery the Defendant you may know who will carry the Cause without setting a Figure And this is the present Case of poor Ireland which Gadbury says is in a very good Condition And perhaps so it may in his sence that is to destroy the Protestants Page 24 and 25 he makes a long impertinent story in order to abuse Commonwealths and after he hath emptied himself of his frothy stuff he comes in page 26. to give reasons why Commonwealths are to be abhorred and Monarchy preferred because says he if God had intended a man should have been in love with a Commonwealth he would have created him with a head on each shoulder A very learned Reason and then by the same Rule if God had intended the world should have been governed by Arbitrary and Lawless Monarchs he would have sent all Princes and Kings into the world with Boots and Spurs on and all Subjects should have been born with Saddles on their Backs that they might have been rid without Controule as their Riders had seen fit A second Reason is If Government like the body natural should have many Heads it would be a Monster and would it not be the same if it had but one Head and that a great deal too big for the body or a very ugly one for a single Head may be a Monster as well as two Heads A third Reason is because there is one Sun and but one Sun in the Firmament ergo c. What the Fellow brings in this for to prove Monarchy seems to me a Paradox and especially such a King as he pleads for which is to consume his Subjects Wealth to destroy the Laws he is sworn to maintain and to bring in and impose what innovations in Religion He thinks fit or rather what the Villanous Priests of Rome shall perswade him to that is most advantageous to their Cheating Trade under the notion of Religion But the Sun is the universal body of Light and like a steward in trust doth disperse and dispence it to all Stars and to the World likewise but doth receive from none also the Sun preserves the Order and Government of Nature which God ordained in the beginning but destroys none Lastly let him make the best of it and the Sun is no more than a Stadtholder or a King by Compact For the Moon hath as great a share in the Government of the World as he hath and Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury as much as either of them So that by his impertinent notion there ought to be as many Kings as Planets in the Government of every Nation .. Because there is but one Sun one Moon one Saturn one Jupiter c. For each Planet hath his share and power in the production of men and things neither would the order of Nature be perfect if either of them were wanting for God made nothing in vain But to tell you the truth of all this is an Arbitrary Notion which he learned of Sir George Wharton above thirty years ago and therefore he might have told us here also that he spoke in that Gentlemans Cant as well as in the Powder Plot. c. But one thing I cannot pass by without taking notice of it And that is in Page 27. he tells us that a Commonwealth is the Bramble of Confusion alluding there to the

Parable of Jotham on mount Gerizzim about the Trees going forth to choose a King and they chose the Bramble for their King. Now you know it is the nature of a Bramble to scratch and tear all that it comes near as Gadbury observes but the Bramble was not chose for a Commonwealth but for a King. Therefore how he will make this serve to set out the greatness of a King I cannot tell unless he hath made choice of this to abuse and affront them for I am sure it can be taken no otherwise However pitty his Folly and his Ignorance in this and every thing else for if he knew better he would do better for when he calls the Bramble a Commonwealth he calls himself a Common Coxcomb But it is no wonder in this Case because he is the same in every thing else In his Astrology he is a very Ignarant Fellow And his scandalous Libel throughout is nothing else but Cant and Noise As you see in the Nativity he there talks of which is all false his Palladium of Rome his Quotations out of Haly his pretended Astrological Reasons to prove the predictions in the Month false in all which it is nothing else but Trick and Sham. But I do not much wonder he is got into this false Course and Custom when I consider he is turned Papist a Lying false Religion and never was Religion and Proselyte better matcht than now in Jack Gadbury and Popery And this is the Course and Custom he will live in till the Government altars in England for when Popery goes out of fashion then he leaves it and I suppose about twelve Months hence it will be Hey for a new Religion c. Page 28. he says There was never such a civiliz'd Army in England as at this day and he is sure no man hath been wronged of a Pig Hen or Egg without Redress c. Here let the whole Nation be Judges For the behaviour of the Soldiers and the Complaints of the People from all parts of the Nation are visible evidences of the Fellows Impudence But perhaps the Rapes Robberies and Murders they commit are nothing if they let the Pigs and the Hens alone or perhaps he thinks the hanging of a poor Lousy Souldier or two for Robbing is redress and Satisfaction enough for their own Crimes and those of their Officers but I would advise the Fellow to go down to Hounslow and the parts adjacent or into the Countreys where they quarter and inquire there and no doubt but he will hear of many Abuses and Wrongs done that are yet unsatisfied even Rapes and Murders But perhaps Jack may be in the right of it too for the Soldiers have done no man an injury in his sence that is no Papist for in his opinion the Protestants are but like Caterpillars and Vermin that stands in the good Catholicks way and ought to be knocked on the Head and sent out of the world and therefore it is no injury to Rob and Murder them In Page 29. he makes a great Noise about the King's Nativity and says I have calculated it for which he doth not a little Abuse me with his unmannerly Billingsgate Complements and says also that I have predicted the King's Death Yet after all he tells the world that the King's Nativity is not known Why is not this next door to Nonsense For me to do a Nativity that is not known But if it be known or believed to be so the King is the less beholding to that scandalous Fellow Gadbury who printed it the year 1659. But he gives us one special Reason and he says that must serve for all why the Nativity he printed was not the Kings true one and that is No Imperial Nativity can have the Moon in the twelfth House Now how far he would strain the word Imperial I know not I suppose he means not less than a Crowned Head and in that sence I will take it Now observe if you look into the Collection of Genitures printed by Mr. J. Gadbury pag. 23. there you shall find that Henry the second King of France had both Sun and Moon in the twelfth House and in Page 52. of the same Book you will find the King of Denmark hath his Sun in the twelfth House and both these printed and published by that ignorant but great Impostor J. G. Now whether he forgot these or impudently asserted this to out-face the matter to make his Master believe that what he hath writ is true I will leave to his own Confession and conclude that a Lyar ought to have a good memory the want of which is it seems this poor Gentlemans misfortune for these were both Imperial Nativities and both Crowned Heads Of which I could give you more Examples were it convenient but two out of his own Book is more than ten out of the most Authentick Author in being and proves the Fellows Impudence the greater In Page 30. he basely abuseth me when he says that I doom'd the French King to Death three years ago which is false for I never had any Discourse with him in three years before that except September the 9th 1685. and then we had no discourse of that nature So that I perceive he had it by hear-say or else he made it to serve the turn at this time but be it how it will I suppose there is an ingenious Gentleman living near Ludgate that can justifie me in this that I shall now say and he understands Astrology well Mr. C. B. who is the Gentleman I mentioned before met me in March or April 1685. in an evening between Lydgate and St. Pau's And after other Discourse about Nativities he asked me if the King of France would dye that year and if I had ever said so I told him that he had two very bad Directions then coming up but I durst not be positive concerning his Death but I did believe if he did not dye yet he would very narrowly escape it but I had never said positively that he would dye And in this thing that Gentleman if he pleaseth can do me Justice till I can come to do my self Justice upon this Lying pittiful Fellow Now let any man that observed that year and the French King's Affairs remember in what condition he was between October that year and April or May the year following when he lay in that wretched fulsom Condition that as the Letters gave us an account he stunk and was noisome to his Attendants by reason of that Distemper in Ano yet it held him about a year and more but the greatest danger was in the first six Months Now the reason why I could not be positive whether he would live or dye was from directions he then had to operate that I had not had Experience of neither doth Gadbury know any thing of it to this day But I remember a certain Gentleman that I could name went to Gadbury after the late King dyed and asked