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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61170	The Bishop of Rochester's second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's household	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5049; ESTC R15013	15,012	68

Imprimatur W. CANT March 27 1689 THE Bishop of Rochester's SECOND LETTER To the Right Honourable The Earl of Dorset and Middlesex LORD-CHAMBERLAIN OF His MAJESTY's Houshold In the Savoy Printed by Edward Iones MDCLXXXIX THE Bishop of Rochester's SECOND LETTER To the Rig ht Honourable The Earl of Dorset and Middlesex c. MY LORD I Cannot in Good Manners make my Address to your Lordship in another Letter without premising my most Humble Thanks for your favourable Acceptance of the former and for your kind Recommendation of my Plea to Men of Honour and Goodness by the Powerful Authority of your Approving it And now My Lord since you have in so generous a Manner admitted me once to be your Client I am come again to put my whole Cause into your Hands For it was my Chance I know not how to have such a share in One or Two other Public Affairs of the late Times as obliges me to make a Second Defence Though I have always thought that next to the committing Offences nothing can be more Greivous to an Ingenuous Mind than to be put upon the necessity of making Apologies However upon the Encouragement your Lordship has given Me I take the boldness to say that in the Matters about which I trouble you this once more I trust I have good Ground for an honest and open Vindication of my self The One was My Part in King Charles the Second's Declaration touching the Conspiracy the other was My acting in the Commission for the Diocese of London during the Suspension of my Lord Bishop But then my Lord after my Apology I shall crave leave to add that which needs None I mean an Account of what past between King Iames and some of the Bishops a little before the late wonderful Revolution which tho' the Circumstances of it are not so generally known as they ought to be yet I am sure had a very considerable effect for the benefit both of Church and State in that Critical time And therein I may presume to say that I had some part So that when I come to that perhaps I shall be able to Speak more freely and shall venture to insist upon it as a manifest proof to the World that the Bishops had then as difficult a Post to Maintain and Maintain'd it as firmly as any other Order of Men in the Kingdom could do Theirs for preserving the Liberties and Properties of the Subject as well as the Interest of the Protestant Religion First my Lord as for the Book of the Conspiracy 't is true I have often heard that some Noble and Eminent Persons whose Kindred or Friends were unhappily concern'd in the Subject of that History had entertain'd a prejudice against me thereupon But to them I shall make this equitable Request that they would suspend any farther Censure of me for what I did write till they shall be fairly informed how much there is that I have not written I will not deny that it was at the Request or rather the Command of King Charles the Second that I drew up a Relation of that Plot And to that end I had free liberty to consult the Paper-Office and Council-Books whence I was plentifully furnish'd with such Authentic Materials either of Papers Printed by Authority or of Sworn Depositions and Confessions as have been always thought the best Ground for an Historian to work upon But now my Lord I can still allege That tho' a vast heap of such Matter was immediately supplied to my hands and tho' I often received earnest Messages and some Sharp words from that gentle King to quicken my Slowness yet more than twelve Months had past before I could be brought to put Pen to Paper out of my Natural Aversion to any Business that might reflect severely upon any Man my own Inclination rather leading me to the other Extream that is Rather to Commend too much what in the least seems Well-done than to Aggravate what is Ill-done by others However upon King Charles's frequent Commands and continued Importunity I did at length obey and the rather because I had formerly somewhat incurr'd that King 's and his Brother's Displeasure by my declining to write against the States of Holland during the time of the First and Second Dutch-Wars Being thus over-persuaded I made my Collections and Presented them to that King Which his Majesty having himself perused was pleased to direct me to put them into the Hands of the Lord Keeper North who carefully Read and Corrected what I had done and added divers matters of Fact which had escaped my Observation Thus the Work stood in Preparation for the Press when the deplorable Death of that King hapned And shortly after King Iames the Second calling for the Papers and having read them and Altered divers Passages caused them to be printed by his own Authority as is to be seen before the Book But now my Lord I can truly declare that during my composing those Collections I earnestly requested King Charles the Second and your Lordship knows as well as any Man how agreeable such a Request was to the Benign Temper of that King I requested him I say that few or no Names of Persons should be mentioned whatever probable suggestions might be against them but only such upon whom public Judgment had passed which it could be to no purpose for me to conceal I could indeed have wish'd that my Lord Russel's and some other Names of Persons of Honour might have been of the Number to be omitted upon that very account But 't was none of my fault that they were not I could not hinder nor did I in the least contribute to their Fall. Nay I lamented it especially my Lord Russel's after I was fully convinc'd by Discourse with the Reverend Dean of Canterbury of that Noble Gentleman's great Probity and Constant Abhorrence of Falshood But that was a good while after All that I did was the Publishing or rather indeed the putting together methodically what before was sufficiently published in printed Papers that were Licensed And out of them to draw the Substance of a Declaration of State in Vindication of that which the Authority of the Nation at that time called The Public Justice of the Kingdom But my Lord to return to what I was saying King Charles having granted my desire of Concealing divers Names according to this Allowance I proceeded leaving out some and abbreviating others endeavouring all along to spare Parties and Families and particular Persons as much as would be allowed All which may be demonstrated from the Copies of the Depositions as they went out of my hands where there were several Names visibly marked by my own Pen to be passed by in the Publication So that if some Indifferent Man should now compare the Informations as they are in Print with the Originals in the Secretary's or the Paper-Office he would it may be be apter to suspect Me of Connivance than of Calumny on that side If