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The anatomy of an arbitrary prince, or, King James the II set forth in his proper colours, and what England may expect from such a one : written for the information and satisfaction of all the grumbletonians in Their Majesties dominions / by a son of the Church of England.
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Son of the Church of England.
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Wing A3054; ESTC R17596
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The Anatomy of an Arbitrary PRINCE OR King James the II. Set forth in his Proper Colours and what England may expect from such a one Written for the Information and Satisfaction of all the Grumbletonians in their Majesties Dominions By a Son of the CHURCH of ENGLAND I Shall first relate his Actions in England Scotland and Ireland when King thereof and afterwards his present Actions in Ireland which may serve as parallels to his former Actions To begin He that designs to be a Papist and a Slave and that all his Posterity should be Papists and Slaves after him may be supposed to fight for the Restauration of King James the Second and no others For he has broken his Oath before God and Man and the Laws of the Land and his repeated Promises of keeping them inviolable by building of Popish Churches and Chappels erecting of Monasteries setting up Colledges for Jesuits for corrupting of Youth and making one of that Order a Privy Councellor and Minister of State by making of Popish Judges and Ecclesiastical Commissioners one whereof declared himself a Papist which is against the express Laws for any Papists to be in any place or places of Trust by raising Persons to Ecclesiastical Dignities who have no zeal for the Protestant Religion Suspending the Bishop of London turning out the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge from their Freeholds and putting Papists in their Room by commanding the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience which was contrary to Law to be read in Churches and citing all the Chancellours and Arch-Deacons of England requiring them to certifie the names of all Clergy-men who did or did not read the Declaration though they were not enjoyned by their Bishops who were their Ordinaries by subjecting the Honours and Estates of the Subjects and the Established Religion to a Despotick and Arbitrary Government seizing of the Charters of Towns and putting in Popish Magistrates in many of them by causing a great deal of Blood to be shed in divers places of the Kingdom against all the rules and forms of Law not suffering the Persons accused to plead in their own defence By putting the Administration of Justice in Papists hands arming the Papists and putting them in the greatest places of Trust both by Sea and Land as well Strangers and Irish as English By imprisoning of the Bishops for their humble and lawful Petition and afterwards trying of them By treating of a Peer as Criminal for speaking the Truth in saying that the Subjects were not bound to obey the Orders of a Popish Justice of the Peace and requiring all persons that were in any Imployment or Esteem to declare that they would concur in the Repeal of the Test and Penal Laws and give their Vote for such Parliament-men who would be for repealing of them and turning out all persons in places of Trust who would not concur in it and putting those in their places who promised to comply and many of them professed Papists By sending an Ambassadour to Rome and receiving one from thence and admitting of vast numbers of Popish Priests and Jesuits Dominicans and Fryers into England By making of Popish Councellors Popish Lieutenants of the Counties High Sheriffs and under Sheriffs and Popish Justices of the Peace By keeping up a standing Army with Popish Officers By Invading the Fundamental Constitution of Scotland and altering it from a legal limited Monarchy to an Arbitrary Despotick Power and hath exercised the same to the subversion of the Protestant Religion and the violation of the Laws and Liberties of that Nation and perverting all the ends and designs of Government and declaring of an absolute power there and that all the Subjects were bound to obey him without reserve and by disbanding the Protestant Officers and Souldiers in Ireland and putting in Papists in all places of Trust and turning out Protestants and taking away Protestants Estates because they had them contrary to Justice or Reason only because the good Catholicks cut a little parcel of about one hundred and fifty thousand Hereticks Throats and made Candles of their Grease I had almost forgot one thing not worth speaking of the Dispencing with the Laws of the Land. These instances may suffice to shew his desire to use his own words to use no other than Lenity and Mercy and are very proper to be compared with the following Speech which he made to the Council upon his coming to the Crown February the 6th 1684 with his after assurances JAMES R. MY Lords Before I enter upon any other business I think fit to say something to you since it hath pleased Almighty God to place me in this Station and I am now to succeed so good and gracious a King as well as so very kind a Brother I think it fit to declare unto you that I will endeavour to follow his Example and most especially in that of his great Clemency and Tenderness to his People I have been reported to be a man for Arbitrary Power but that is not the only story has been made of me and I shall make it my endeavours to preserve this Government both in Church and State as it is now by Law Established I know the Principles of the Church of England are for Monarchy and the Members of it have shewed themselves good and Loyal Subjects therefore I shall alwaies take care to defend and support it I know too that the Laws of England are sufficient to make the King as great a Monarch as I can wish And as I shall never depart from the just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown so I shall never invade any mans Property I have often heretofore ventured my life in Defence of this Nation and shall still go as far as any man in preserving its just Rights and Liberties In his Speech to the Parliament May the 30th 1685. he says that he has an English Heart if he had said and a Popish Conscience as much as any Man and will go as far when there is occasion in defence and support thereof we should have known what to trust to In his Speech to the Parliament after the defeat of Monmouth November the 9th 1685. speaking of the Popish Officers that were in the Army I will neither expose them to disgrace nor my self to the want of them knowing that without such he could never bring about his Designs concluding with these words I will ever make you all returns of Kindness and Protection with Resolution to venture my own Life in the defence of the true Interest of this Kingdom And though the Parliament Addrest him the 17th following desiring him to lay aside those Popish Officers as being contrary to Law yet he would by no means hearken to it but was very angry with them in his Speech in answer to their Address concluding with these words I will be steady in all the Promises I have made you and be very just to my word in every one of my Speeches But in his
Speech to Father Clare he said he would either Convert England or dye a Martyr and that he had rather dye to morrow that Conversion being wrought than Reign fifty years without that in Happiness and Prosperity To begin with his present Actions in Ireland upon his arrival at Dublin the few Protestants that remained in Employs were turned out not a Protestant was allowed to sit in Council or bear Arms the Lord Granard Lord Chief-Justice Keating Sir John Davis Sir Tho. Newcomen Collonel Russel c. were all turned out and none permitted to hold any Place but Papists tho' these Gentlemen were so true to the King and went so far to serve him as made them suspected to be of his Religion See his gratitude to the Bishop of Chester who coming with him from France died a Protestant at Dublin and was so miserably poor as to want common necessaries and being dead was buried at the charge of a Charitable Prelate there but to proceed the Lord Viscount Mazerine hath been plundered in Plate Money Household Goods c. to the value of near twenty thousand pounds and others proportionable notwithstanding several Declarations from Tyrconnel and King James to the Contrary and upon a modest computation they have plundred already in Money Plate Household-Goods Horses Corn and Hay c. to the value of two hundred thousand pounds One Mr. Robert Boroughs an Attorney and Rich had all his substance taken from him and turned out of doors who died for hunger and cold and they have killed many persons in cold blood without any provocation given for example the Lord Galmoy took one Dean Dixies Son and another young Gentleman tho not in Arms and hanged them upon a Sign-post Upon King James's arrival in Ireland the Protestants thought they should have had some redress for the Robbing and Pillaging of their Cattle and moveable goods and other inhumanities which the Irish Soldiers daily committed on them as likewise for the future but behold the lenity and mercy of this King who upon several complaints made to him would answer that he would do for them what he could but they never received any further satisfaction or Justice particularly the Lord Galmoy cut off a Gentlemans head in the North and made his own Son carry it on a Pike in triumph before his Regiment Upon Complaint of this to the King he seemed mightily displeased yet the Lord Galmoy carried the Sword before him the very next day If we did relate all the dismal relations we have from thence it would make a Volume These are mercies fit to be acted by none but Papists and Popish Kings An Irish Lord who came with King James from France speaking to a Clergy-man of Dublin said That King James can never expect possession of his Kingdoms by the Protestants means unless tied and settered with Conditions which he cannot nor shall not observe to them 't is by the force of Arms of his good Catholicks and by assistance of France that he designs to regain his Dominions and then he comes in free and boundless like an absolute Conquerour and shall afterwards do what he pleases we have had one taste of the sincerity of his Intentions as well before as when King and he that desires another in God's name let him go to him or to the French King 't is much as one but suppose he 's sincere now and that he repents of all his former illegalities and miscarriages and resolves for the future never to commit the like what security can he give us that he 'll always continue so to govern us according to the Rights Priviledges and Laws of the Land Certainly he can give us none besides his Oath or Promise which signifies nothing for it 's impossible for him to keep them without damning his own Soul and can any man believe he 'll damn his Soul to keep his Oath or Promise when he shall go to Heaven for breaking of them according to the Doctrine of their Church but what signifies it to break two or three Promises when every body breaks them or an Oath or so 't is in fashion now as for the French King he has kept his Oaths and Promises in such an extraordinary manner that all the Histories now extant cannot come near to a Parallel and our King James has only been there to learn a few of his Morals and is coming to teach 'em with French and Irish Dragoons intermixt with a little Liberty such as we nor our Fathers were able to bear And now good Folks prepare your selves for this happiness for he 's coming with open arms and stretched out hands to make ye happy that is Papists whether ye will or no and I doubt not but that you 'll see your own happiness which is coming upon you like a Torrent and prepare for it accordingly I hope all the People in England will make a just judgment of what has been said and consider what they may expect from such a King who is so much Jesuited All the World cannot but acknowledge that this great Revolution has been by the miraculous Providence of Almighty God and we ought as St. Paul did to bless God that we are once delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon and should we not affront that Providence if we should let him into our Bosoms again would it not be just with God to let him destroy us but can we be guilty of such a notorious folly or madness as to maintain the Ambition of the late King James to the ruine and destruction of our selves which can be nothing else if we contribute to restore him to the Crown on the contrary if we design to be happy and that our Posterity should be happy after us in enjoying the Gospel in its purity and its true Religion and what the Laws of Nature and our Countrey have conferred on us we ought to oppose the late King James as the common Enemy of our Religion and Liberty for this is the time to Entail happiness on our selves and our Posterity Now and Ever Now or Never ADVERTISEMENT AN Answer having been sent to the Sheet of the Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Jure Divino disproved and Obedience to the present Government proved from Scripture Law and Reason the Author does promise to perform his Challenge and Print it very shortly with a Reply annext to it wherein shall be explained those places of Scripture which relate to Government or Monarchy Licensed June 24. 1689. Printed for R. Baldwin near the Black-Bull in the Old-Baily 1689.