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A51160	The spirit of calumny and slander, examin'd, chastis'd, and expos'd, in a letter to a malicious libeller more particularly address'd to Mr. George Ridpath, newsmonger, near St. Martins in the Fields : containing some animadversions on his scurrilous pamphlets, published by him against the kings, Parliaments, laws, nobility and clergy of Scotland : together with a short account of Presbyterian principles and consequential practices.	Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?; S. W.	1693 (1693)	Wing M2446; ESTC R4040	71,379	106

use their utmost endeavours Naph pag. 155. 41. We ought not to believe that the Primitive Christians were so numerous as the first Apologists for Christianity did give out they were deceived in a Matter of Fact for the Sufferings of the Martyrs do not at all militate against the lawfulness of Defensive Arms. Lex Rex pag. 2. 71. 42. The very power to Extirpate the present Government is God's Call to do so Cargil's New Cov. Art 1. 43. We are no more bound by any tie of Allegiance to the present Governours than we are bound in Allegiance to the Devils Cargil's New Cov. Art 9. If the Scotch Presbyterians under the former Reigns had satisfied themselves with the Theory of Rebellion and if they had not actually practis'd according to the full extent and tendency of their Principles then their Writings and Seditious Sermons might have been tolerated with the greater Ease but since those active Gentlemen ventur'd upon the Natural Conclusions that their Principles yielded so that none of the Kings Loyal Subjects knew but that they were to be murder'd as soon as they stept out of Doors I hope modest Men will allow that severe Laws were very necessary when the Holy Scriptures were perverted to destroy the General Peace of Mankind and fiery Enthusiasts were made believe that they might make bold with the Life of any Man whom they took to oppose their own Dreams if they fancyed that their Neighbours were Canaanites and Moabites Most of them that bawl'd against the Government of Charles II. are such as never understood the Temper of our Religious Incendiaries or were themselves deeply ingaged in the Rebellion and therefore I have added to the former Papers the following Letter to undeceive such as are misinform'd and to let the World see that it was impossible for our Kings and Parliaments to forbear the making of such Laws as our Enemies complain of when the Holy Scriptures were wrested contrary to their True Meaning and made to truckle under the hellish designs of incorrigible Hypocrites The following Paper is a very Authentick one written by the famous Assassin Mr. James Mitchel who attempted the Life of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews upon the Streets of Edinburgh and in doing so wounded the Bishop of Orkney This Sacrilegious Effort he endeavours to justifie from the Holy Scriptures The Presbyterians cannot take it ill that the Monuments of their Martyrs are preserv'd if they say that all Presbyterians have not such Principles I say so too but then they must remember that such were the Presbyterians against whom the Laws were made under the former Reigns and 't is difficult to know whether all of them have not the same Principles if once they are provok'd to anger and if they are consequential to the Doctrine of the first Puritans for Goodman saith expresly That If the Magistrates shall refuse to put Mass-mongers and false Preachers to death the people in seeing it perform'd do shew that zeal of God which was commended in Phineas destroying the Adulterers and in the Israelites against the Benjamites Let any sober Man consider what Improvemnnts the Principles of the following Letter are capable of and then let him tell me whether he can name any Crimes punished by any Magistrates in any Corner of the World more dangerous to human Society than the Doctrines that he may read with his own Eyes in this Letter I have copied it from that Collection of Mr. Mitchel's Papers which his own Consederates took great care to Print and preserve in the latter Editions of Naphtali THE COPY OF A LETTER FROM Edinburg Tolbooth February 1674. ME who may justly call my self less than the least of all Saints and the chiefest of all Sinners yet Christ Jesus calleth to be a Witness for his despised Truth and trampled on Interests and Cause by the wicked blasphemous and God contemning Generation and against all their perfidious wickedness Sir I say the Confidence I have in your real Friendship and Love to Christ's Truth People Interest and Cause hath encouraged me to write to you at this time hoping you will not misconstruct me nor take advantage of my Infirmity and weakness You have heard of my Inditement which I take up in these two particulars First As they term it Rebellion and Treason anent which I answered to My Lord Chancellor in Committee that it was no Rebellion but a Duty which every one was bound to have performed in joyning with that party and I in the Year 1656 Mr. R. L. being then Primar in the Colledge of Edinburg before our Laureation tendered to us the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant upon mature Deliberation I found nothing in them but a short compend of the Moral Law only binding us to our Duty towards God and towards Men in their several Stations and I finding that our banished King's Interest lay wholly included therein and both Coronation and Allegiance Oaths c. and they being the Substance of all Loyalty and my Lord it was well known that many were taking the Tender and forswearing Charles Stuart Parliament and House of Lords I then subscribed both the doing of which My Lord Chancellour would have stood at no less rate if as well known than this my present adhering and prosecuting the Ends thereof doth now and when I was questioned what then I called Rebellion I answered it is in Ezra vii Verse 26. And whosoever will not do the Law of God and of the King c. but being questioned before the Commissioner and the Council therea nent I answered as I said to my Lord Chancellour before in the Year 1656. Mr. R. L. being then Primar in the Colledge of Edinburg before our Laureation he tendered to us the National and Solemn League and Covenant He Stopt me Saying I 'll wad ye are come here to give a Testimony And then being demanded what I called Rebellion if it was not Rebellion to oppose his Majesties Forces in the Face To the which I answered viz. My Lord Chancellour if it please your Grace I humbly conceive they should have been with us according to the National and Solemn League and Covenant at which Answer I perceived him to storm But saith he I heard ye have been over Seas with whom did ye converse there Answer with my Merchant But saith he with whom in particular Answer with one John Mitchel a Cousin of mine own Saith he I have heard of him he is a Factor in Rotterdam to which I conceded But saith he did ye not converse with Mr. Livingston and such as he to which I answered I conversed with all all our banished Ministers To which he replyed banished Traitors ye will speak Treason at the Bar. Then he answered himself saying But they would call the shooting at the Bishop an Heroick Act. To which I answered that I never told them any such thing but where did you see James Wallace last Answer Towards the Borders of Germany

him and an invitation to Prentices and all others to joyn in this their Association Now a Bond of this Nature is by many Laws and Acts of Parliament declared Treason and that not only since the dreadful effects of the Infamous League and Covenant but even by very old Acts in the Reigns of King James the First and Second So much for this This Scoundrel was committed who was not then a Boy but a Fellow come to Years and then a Servant to two Sons of one Gray a person living on the English Border and of the same Gang with his Man Ridpath The Fellow confess'd before the Committee of Council that he had drawn this Bond but would not own that he had been prompted to it or assisted in it by others though the Council well knew that many of the Ringleaders of the Party were the promoters of this Trick which was design'd as a Prologue to a Rebellion against the then Government For this Villany the Law here might have justly sent him to the Gibbet and perhaps the Council had put him in the hands of the Judges Criminal had he not been preserv'd by the unparallel'd Clemency of the Prince that then sate at the Helm here which you know is so natural to that Sacred Race I remember the Duke of Rothes the Chancellour and several other great Lords having examin'd him and finding him very false and obstinate in his Answers ordered him to be committed Close Prisoner till he were further examin'd And as he was going to Prison seeing a Crowd about him and considering them as a Rabble he cry'd out aloud that he was suffering for the Protestant Religion the ordinary but false pretence of all Seditions and Rebellions here For which he was for some days put in Irons and a little after by the Goodness of his then Royal Highness who was always too compassionate to that Generation of Vipers he was dismissed This is all I can remember or learn of this Creature I hear in his late Pamphlet which I have not yet seen he has the Impudence to say that one Margaret Paterson a Prostitute sufficiently infamous should have confess'd somewhat before the Criminal Court relating to the Archbishop of Glasgow and me I am satisfied that all that that Villain has scribled of the Bishop be believed if ever she named either the Bishop or me in her Confessions either before that Court or any Confessions else whether publick or private Nor did the Bishop hear of such a Creature till the noise was made at her being taken naked in the Bed with the late Presbyterian Moderator Kennedy his two Sons for which they stand declared Fugitives in the Justice Court Books for the horrid Crime of Incest As to what relates to the C ks I make you this distinct Return In the year 1684 Sir Hugh and Sir George Campbels of C k with Baylie of Jerviswood Commissar Monro Mr. William Spence Mr. William Carstairs and some others were sent down Prisoners here by Sea and were kept close for some Weeks during which time I had occasion to be often with them for the Council ordered any of their Friends to converse with them and see them in presence of any of the Clerks of Council and such of them as are yet alive and their Relations will bear me witness that I was as easie to them that way as they could desire For the truth is they all professed so much Innocence in the matter they were accused of which was for being in a Conspiracy with the late Monmouth and Argyle for raising a Rebellion in both Nations at the same time and which fell out the next year accordingly and that with all the circumstantiated Imprecations to them and their Families that I began to believe the Government had been imposed upon in this matter and contracted such a compassion for them as made some of our then Statesmen angry with me and yet Carstairs upon the first application of the Thumb-Screw even the first touch of it confessed all as may be seen in his Printed Confession in the Tryal of Jerviswood and then Monro and afterwards the two C ks themselves which two Campbels were upon their Judicial Confession forefaulted in plain Parliament 1685 and their Estates annex'd to the Crown tho the King gave them not only both Remissions for their Lives but even ordered their Estates to be returned to them upon their paying a very inconsiderable Composition to some of the then Statesmen That which the Rascal Ridpath aims at I suppose is a Process which was commenced some time before that against old C k the undisguised matter of Fact was truly this which you may rely upon for certain and recorded Truth There was one Wallace a Collector or Surveyor in Airshire This Man gives Information to the Secret Committee that there were three Men in that Country who had assured him that old C k had encouraged several Country People to the Rebellion at Both well Bridge 1679 and that particularly he had said to themselves whom he rencountred with upon a place called the Bridge of Gastoun near his own House What meant such young lusty Fellows to stay at home when the People of God were in Arms for their Covenanted Cause and bid them go on to the rest the Whig-Army being then at Hamiltoun within ten Miles or thereby to that place for he and the rest of the Country would quickly be with them Upon which Information the three Fellows are brought in and kept some time in the Cannon gate Prison I heard them examined before the Secret Committee and all of them both jointly and separately were very positive clear and distinct in their Depositions Upon this an Indictment is raised against C k and the same Witnesses are again examined upon Oath before the Justices which is called by our Law a Precognition and there they were again very firm and seemed altogether clear and sincere But the Day of the Tryal being come and a disaffected Crowd getting in about these Witnesses when they came to depone they began to waver much and upon the matter deny much of what they had twice clearly made oath of before so that the Jury brought in C k not guilty and so he was acquitted from that Indictment And the next day the same three Rogues begged to be heard before the Council where I heard them again upon their Knees and with all the Solemnities of Truth and Sincerity Protest and Swear that what they had first Sworn was simple Truth and that their Carriage the day before in the Court was occasioned by their being terrified to swear against C k so great a Man in that Corner of the Country But upon the whole Matter the worthy Sir George Mackenzie had no more hand in all this Affair but meerly to pursue as the King's Advocate And in general I can affirm as in the sight of the God of Justice and Truth I do believe after all the Enquiry I