Kingdom Nay the Government there did in a manner protect you from the Parliament in England that would have excluded you Nay Dr. Nasty-Gusts the then Bishop of Edinburgh found they had done the Business so well that he blest God the Parliament of Scotland had made such a happy Progress in reducing the Laws of Scotland to the Will of the King Now after all this Pother that was made about you pray how came it that you found no more Friends in Scotland Truly at one time I thought the Courtiers there would have pull'd out both their Eyes to have served you yet when you stood in need of them there were but few that appeared for you Truly poor Pilgarlick did stand and wonder at the thing and advising with a parcel of honest Fellows over a Dish of Coffee at a Coffee-house near the Old House out of which the Prince of Orange warned you to be gone without any more to do one of the Company was very frank in the Point and told the Company plainly that Fear and Interest were the two great Hinges on which the Actions of Mankind did turn and thereby insinuated that Fear made them stand for you against the Parliament of England and Interest made them be against you with K. William Well what then Truly I thought with my self that the Princes of this World ought to be vertuous to a very high degree and to have a Magazine of Assurance because their Favours are more acceptable than their Persons are beloved I confess Princes are in a fair way to be beloved when they put themselves in a Posture of doing much good and that Prince is sure of the Affections of his People who will endeavour with all sweetness to gain their Hearts I have therefore this one thing to say that if you had secured your Antient Kingdom of Scotland you might have done mighty things I pray Sir why did you not cultivate your natural Qualities in order to have secured you an Interest in that Kingdom Truly the Reason is plain because you had none about you but mercenary Rascals that ruined you by their Flatteries And did you not find your self in a most forlorn Solitude notwithstanding their Scots Caresses when you really stood in need of their help And should K. William have any of your Rogues about him I can not but think they would serve him as they did you leave him when he has most need of them 2. You having conversed in Scotland and the Bishops there hanging about you and giving you all the Scots Government could afford I pray resolve me what Religion those Rogues were of Certainly if they were Protestants they have shewed themselves to have as little Brains as your Worship for I find by their management of themselves whilst you afforded them your Gracious Presence as well as before and since you left us they neither understood the Interest of their Traiterous Hierarchy nor of Religion In a word one would think by the Current of their Actions they had been a parcel of Irish Teagues trick'd up with the Dress of a true Scots Clergy-man for they must surely be judg'd Sots to the highest Degree if ignorant of the Disgust they had caused in the People of that Kingdom by embracing your Gracious Declaration for Liberty of Conscience in favour of the villanous Popish Crew It may be you will say that to your own knowledg they were Protestants at the Bottom To this I answer That what either your Brother or you ever said weighed no more with me than if you had sworn Mary Queen of Scots had lived and died an honest true English Virgin But what is it to the Point what they were at the Bottom I am sure they and you were a parcel of Sowce-Crowns to think the Scots would long endure Popery and Arbitrary Power always to domineer over them Truly Experience hath taught us tho you and your villanous Scots Bishops were above such Teachings that the poor Scots wanted but a Leader of Resolution and Bravery and they had thrown off your Brother's Yoke and yours long before the Prince of Orange's coming Object You may say because they wrote to you and told you that the Enterprize of the Prince of Orange was a detestable Invasion therefore you judg'd them Protestants they also having been always against such things Answ It seems they were for Passive-Obedience and Non-resistance For I do not find that they or any of their Admirers stirred one step to serve you and you know that Gracious Doctrine has saved the Credit of many a Coward in the World and therefore your Brother and you promoted it with all the Zeal two such Babes of Grace could shew lest the true Protestant Interest should have storm'd Babylon and all the Hellish Crew she has nourished ever since your Restoration till this Day But they were pleased to say that the Glorious Enterprize of the Prince of Orange was a detestable Invasion What! did this bespeak them to be Protestants Well then let me tell you that your Great Ally might as well wear the Name and all the French Court and your villanous Party here at home for I believe they have said so ten thousand times But I do no more believe they were Protestants than I believe Old Hodg an honest Man or R. Ferguson to be without three false Quarters I pray Sir what did they do for the Protestant Interest We had seven Bishops good Lord went to the Tower and all for the sake of the Protestant Religion I was not a bit sorry nor should I have been if all the twenty six had gone upon the same Account tho they had lain by it as long as I and the rest of my fellow Prisoners did in the Kings-Bench for the Testimony of a good Conscience But what your English-Bishops did for the Interest of the Protestant Religion I will leave to better Pens but for your Scots Tools did they not by their Treachery and Lewdness render themselves the Abomination of the People 3. I pray let me ask you a third Question What was the Reason that notwithstanding the Advice of your Devilish Jesuits to the contrary you would not stay and see the joyful Sight the People of England saw and that after so many Divisions occasioned by your Brother's Reign and yours viz. Our King and the Parliament so happily united together You say you ventured your Life on behalf of the Nation and since your Grace and Favour was such as not to strike one Stroke to keep the Crown upon your Head you might have been so good-natur'd as to have staid and seen our King leaving his Interest to the management of his Parliament on purpose to take care of theirs and his and the Welfare of all Europe The King God bless him remitted Chimney-money and entirely threw himself upon the Affections of his People and you threw your self upon the Affection of the French King I pray try his Affection and let me know by
Brother's Debts and the Parliament would give no Money Come Sir a word or two to the point in general and then I will descend to some Particulars 1. What would not the Parliament give Money to support the Alliances I 'll assure you they were a parcel of naughty Boys indeed to be so refractory I pray Sir with whom were those Alliances made with the Dutchess of Cleveland Alas pious chaste Lady she had been a Cast-whore for several Years the triple League between your Brother her Grace and Mother Knight had been broke for many Years and she had made a new Alliance with her good Confessor the Archbishop of Paris and had given him all she had for a Guaranty What Alliances then were they Were they new ones with the Dutchess of Portsmouth and Nell Waal Truly your Band of Pensioners had so often supplied their extraordinary Occasions that one would think they should not have asked any more and if they knew not when they had enough the Nation could tell them they had too much and wanted nothing but an Apartment at a convenient Mansion-house in Tuttle-fields and the civil Usage of that House once a Week or so as the Ladies of their Profession use to be serv'd as a just Reward of their Diligence in their Calling It may be Sir there were Alliances of another nature as with Barillon your old Friend that were to be supported Alas the Parliament knew full well that your Brother and you could not want a Supply for such Alliances and that rather than fail you might have got a new Bill to have passed Intituled An Act to enter into an actual War with France with which you might haâ—e beg'd Money of the French King as you did in 1678. It may be you will say They were Alliances your Brother had made for Preservation of the General Peace of Christendom You say well and it is a wonder since your Brother was graciously pleased to demand Money that he was not as graciously pleased to tell the Parliament what those Alliances were Surely Sir you did not expect a blind Obedience from that Eagle-ey'd Parliament to contribute to the Support of what they were wholly ignorant of or if they had had some Hints from the Court it would not have been amiss to have used them as civilly as your Band of Pensioners were and to have had those Alliances laid before them those humble Curs never parted with Money for the support of Leagues till acquainted with the Nature and Tendency of them And if the Alliances were not designed for the end pretended you might have asked Money with as good Success for the two Whores at the lower end of the matted Gallery both Mistress and Woman as for those Alliances Let me good Sir ask you one fair Question Did your Brother expect Money for these Alliances and nothing else and for once we will suppose Portsmouth and her Woman not to have had one Great no nor Fitz-Harrris so much as a Sop in the Pan tho he had a hopeful Plot upon the Stocks that deserved two but that it should be applied only for Alliances made to preserve the General Peace of Christendom truly then ought not the Parliament to consider well of the General Peace it self and its Influence upon our Affairs before they came to any Resolution or so much as to debate about it since you had a Tool in the Ministry that told us it was more fit for Meditation than Discourse nay he impudently said the Peace was but the effect of Despair and I think he was not much out in it but he might have been so honest as to have told us the true Cause of that Despair yet for all his Worship's Rhetorick the Nation learn'd by whose means they were reduced to so low a Thought of their Condition nay if that Loggerhead were alive I could tell him what Price you and your Brother demanded of the Fr. King for that noble and most Christian piece of Service In a word Sir we had no reason to simper upon the Business unless with the wrong side of our Mouths for we could not sing any Tune but that lamentable one of a bad Market we all knew the effect of this General Peace of Chistendom that it was the Dissolving the Confederacy against the French King the Enlarging his Dominions and his gaining time to refresh his Souldiers almost harassed out of their Lives by long Service the settling and composing the Minds of his Vassals at home increasing his Fleet and filling his Exchequer for new and greater Designs but your Rogues that were Pensioners to the French King grew impudent upon it and expected he might have a spare hour or so to assist you in ruining the Religion Laws and Liberties of England and to have fairly laid aside the use of Parliaments and broke them up as you would have done a Field-meeting in Scotland or a private Conventicle in England and treated them like Traitors and Villains and not like the great Assembly and Wisdom of the Nation Was it the Alliance your Brother had made with the States General Truly your Band of Pensioners had so stigmatized that that neither the first Westminster nor the Oxford-Parliament would foul their Fingers with it much less give any Money towards the Support of it for the Pensioners speaking modestly could not believe it tended to the safety of the Nation Truly I must look again and see what this new Alliance was and good Sir I beg your pardon it was a new Alliance with Spain and would they not give Money to support this Well let us then see how the Case stood in relation to it I confess Alliances to a Parliament make a very pretty noise and may be as diverting as ever old Hodg's Fiddle was to any of his Tory Gang. Indeed old England stood in need of some new Friends being so beset with Enemies abroad and with Pensioners to those Enemies at home but what shall I say to this Point When I view the Speech at the opening of that Parliament that sat down Octob. 21. 1680. there is nothing said of any new Ally except the poor Spaniard whose Affairs at that time thro' the Defects of his own Government and the villanous falseness of our Ministers were reduced to such Extremities that he might sooner have been a Burden to the Nation than a Help unless you let us judg that this Name of a new League was necessary to recommend our Ministers to a new Parliament and bubble our honest Country Gentlemen out of their Money for by it we were like to have trouble enough being to espouse without any Limitation all the Quarrels of the Spaniards tho in the Philippina Islands and the West-Indies or that he had drawn upon himself by any of his Barbarities there or elsewhere nay his difference with the Elector of Brandenburgh was not excepted tho all that Elector had done in Reprisals upon the Spanish Ships for a just Debt
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE PICTURE OF THE Late King James Further drawn to the LIFE In which is made manifest by several ARTICLES That the whole Course of his Life hath been a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion Laws and Liberties of the Three Kingdoms In a Letter to Himself PART The Third By TITVS OATES D. D. LONDON Printed by J. D. to be sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane M. DC XCVII TO His most Excellent Majesty WILLIAM III. By the Grace of God And the Choice of the Good People of England Of Great-Britain France and Ireland Rightful and Lawful KING Defender of the Faith and the Restorer of our LAWS and LIBERTIES As well as the Victorious PROTECTOR of Oppressed Europe TITVS OATES D. D. His Faithful Dutiful and Loyal Subject and Servant most humbly dedicates this ensuing MEMORIAL The Contents of this Third Part. INtroduction on K. James's being deserted by the Pope the Scotish Bishops Pag. 1. c. Article XXII He 's charged with Misapplication of the Taxes c. in his Brother's Time 5. XXIII With suspending the Laws against Priests and Jesuits 9. XXIV With the Loss of the Dominion of the Seas 11. XXV With refusing the Test against Popery 13. XXVI With marrying the Daughter of Modena 14. XXVII With making a French General over the English Army 19. XXVIII With oppressing the Kingdom of Scotland with the several Means he made use of 20. XXIX With attempting to break the Vse of Parliaments which is branch'd out into many Divisions and Subdivisions 30. Conclusion giving some Account of King James's Friends here in England c. 94. ERRATA Pag. 1. and some following Pages for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 30. l. antepenuâ—t for with r. without 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The Third Part of the Picture of the Late King JAMES SIR I Cannot but acquaint you that many of your Friends here in England are much concern'd that the Whore of Rome that is Mystical Babylon laboured no more to support you when you usurped the Imperial Crown of this Realm and that when God gave the Nation Grace to drive you and your Italian Triggrimate and Welch Cub from amongst us he did not move both Heaven and Earth to restore you again And that since you have fought many a bloody Battel for the Honour of the English Nation you would not venture one more as an additional One to save the Crown on your Head Truly Sir Rome's Prelat did not deal well by you nor you by your self You may remember it appeared to your Red-Letter Friends as if the Grandeur of the Popish Religion and Superstition had been your Gracious Aim and Design and that not without Reason for in a most decent manner you lost the Crown and the little Gentleman his Dominion Nay they hold up their Hands lift up their Eyes and curse that old Coxcomb Innocent XI as the worst and basest of Men that betrayed the Interest of the Church in not doing his Duty to which he was obliged viz. in seconding such a Glorious Design and Undertaking But this thing he never did nor do I believe any of his Successors ever will for in my Conscience I believe they have too much Sense to attempt the Support of a falling House notwithstanding the Conduct and Courage they may pretend to in Cases that are of that Weight and Difficulty It 's true Odescalchi pretended he was to act but 't was according to his own Reason not according to your Sense which if he had followed he might have abdicated Rome the very Day you were driven out of England Therefore what a Varlet you had to do withal judg you Truly he saw that you were losing and that you did in time in a comfortable way quit the Kingdom of England and therefore ought to have sacrificed even the Papacy on your behalf But he was so far from that piece of Heroick Justice that I am perswaded the old Priest would scarce have sacrificed a Sop in his Dripping-Pan to your Service Well then what 's next Since the Church left you I pray what hath the French Monarch done for you I must confess he hath done more for you than the Church did for she left you betimes but he allows you a good Pension and hath not as yet taken it away he does not give and take away Pensions at pleasure and say he hath no Money no it is below him But what is the Reason he doth not come over with you and fix your sweet Bum in the Royal Chair and return as you said he would to France again without putting us to the Charge of a Jack of small Beer for his Pains Or since both the Pope and French King have not done their Duties what 's the Reason that you being a Man of Courage ask Tom Jenner else that has fought so many bloody Battels for the Honour to the English Nation and on behalf of the Crown tho Old Hodg and a Conclave of Inferiour Clergy-men consulted all the History of your Life but could not find one Word of it except that which sav'd them from the Gallows did not fight one single Battel to keep the Crown upon your Head You might have done it and your Clothes have sat never the worse upon your Back Well you had the Courage to run and needs must when the Devil drives and so there is the End of an old Song I have thought upon your Case with as much deliberation as ever the Cathedral Logger-head of a Priest did of getting a Bishoprick by threatning us with disputed Titles and an endless War and yet could never make any thing you ever said or did to be of a Piece Therefore I shall ask you a few Questions and hope you will give me the Satisfaction that one Gentleman ought to give another I do not mean thereby to challenge you for I am no Swords-man I assure you and I think you never took any great delight in one unless it was to hang by your Side As for your Enemies I think you scarce ever fought with any unless it were at the Old-Baily Kings-Bench Court or Western-Circuit where the Odds were ten thousand to one on your Side therefore I mean by Satisfaction a plain honest Answer to the following Questions 1. I remember the villanous Bishops of Scotland took it as a great Affront that our Parliament in England could not reconcile the Security of the Protestant Religion with the admitting of you to be King Now these Bishops poor Rogues had clear another Notion of the Business and thought it might be done with as much ease as for an English Man to catch the Itch in a Scotish Laird's House and therefore went roundly to work and procured your Brother to call a Parliament and constitute you high-High-Commissioner which was no sooner said but done and your Succession settled and truly you appeared very formidable in that
I should have much wondered if Scotland had escaped that Grace and Favour of yours which was generally speaking pretty impartial For why should the Administration of Justice be in better Hands there than it was here You were resolved that the doing of Justice in the three 〈…〉 be of a Piece and therefore play'd your Game there tho with more 〈…〉 as you did here To prove this you procured your Brother's Letters â—â— Lauderdale to constitute one Sir Andrew Ramsey one of the Lords of the Sessions who never was bred up to the Law but to Merchandizing Which extravaâ—â—ant Proceeding being complained of in Parliament as of dangerous Consequence Ramsey parted with his Place resigning it up to Lauderdale and was said to have more Knowledg than the other three And by reason of the Insufficiency of the Lords of the Session thereupon Partiality so manifestly crept into that as well as other Courts of Justice that the Foundations of Law and Justice were much shaken as was once ready to be proved in full Parliament in that Kingdom in the Time of Lauderdale's Ministry Now Sir you may see it was not a Fault in a Man to serve the late Protector if he would but join with Lauderdale and you to subvert the Government of that Kingdom and enslave the People in order to establish Popery For this Ramsey had been Provost of Edinburgh in the Protector 's Time and complied with him to the height of being knighted and after that got to be reknighted and reentred Provost by the Favour of Earl Middleton to whom he was a villanous Tool in assisting him to defraud the People of their Religion Laws and Liberties all at once But upon Middleton's Disgrace this Fellow strikes in with Lauderdale who had a greater Sacrifice to offer to Baal than Middleton had yet offered with whom and the Tradesmen of Edinburgh by his long-practised Arts of Flattery and Bribery he so mightily prevailed that continuing Provost for ten Years in that time he so domineered over the poor Citizens and so enriched himself by their Rents and Moneys at his Pleasure that by Lauderdale's Assistance and yours he cheated the King of near 20000 l. Sterling and had an Opportunity of obtaining to be constituted one of the Lords of the Session And tho he with the other three who as I said before were more unskilful in the Law made such Havock that Lauderdale himself could not keep him in that Station so many notorious Corruptions and illegal Proceedings being proved against him and them yet there was not a Change made in that Court without some difficulty And after all their signal Villanies they were let fall by your self and Lauderdale as Men that had overdone your Business 3. Another Step taken to ruin the People of Scotland was the Gift of a Part of your Brother's Revenue called the King's Casualties which is the Wards and Marriages to another of your Creatures there procured by Lauderdale thrô your Interest with the King tho contrary to all the Laws of that Kingdom in that Case which was not only prejudicial to the Government but extreamly vexatious to the People For these Casualties were an Arbitrary Revenue and paid or not as the King pleased Therefore the giving it to any one Man to make his most of it was both against Law and Reason and the Interest of the Subject This Creature of yours was the Earl of Kincaerden who the more to oppress the People in this Point was by the King's Letters by you procured joined in Commission with Lauderdale in the Treasury and also with the extraordinary Lords of the Session by which they went on without controul to grieve the People Sir It is apparent to those that understand the Constitution of that Kingdom that this Gift of the Casualties was never known in Scotland till attempted 〈…〉 Ministry who not being so bad as to join with you in such a piece of â—â—â—â—â—quency it proved one Cause of his Disgrace 4. You know it was your Rogues Design here in England to diminish and debase the Coin and Plate of the Kingdom the direful Effects whereof we feel at this Day and for which this Nation is bound to curse the Names and Memory of you and your wicked Adherents Thus you proceeded in Scotland tho your Father 's own dear Country where you corrupted the Mint and Coinage For by the King's Letters the Lord Hatton Brother to Lauderdale was constituted chief in that Office I think they call the Master of the Mint General but if I am mistaken in the Names I may be in some measure excused But as to the thing I am sure I am in the right for the Corruption of the Mint and Coinage was so great that the Scots People grew very uneasy and made a fearful Complaint in Parliament proving in that August Assembly that for several Years they had found to their sorrow the intrinsick Value of the Silver Coin sensibly diminished both in Weight and Fineness to the great Damage of that Kingdom Nay the thing rested not here but to vex the People care was taken by Hatton to over-charge the Country with a sort of base Coin without considering the Weight and Value of that sort of Money to the manifest hindering of the Trade of that Kingdom and it was an Artifice your Conspirators used for enslaving that People to impoverish them so that you might the more easily bring them under the Yoke of an Arbitrary Power But Sir that you might help on this Lord of the Mint in depraving the Silver Coin you may remember the Dutch Dollars commonly called Leg-Dollars usually imported by their Merchants and currant with them at 58 d. per Piece were cried down by your Bandog Lauderdale to 56 d. for no other reason but because he procured your Favour to obtain a Command from the King for so doing that the said Dollars might be brought as Bullion into the Mint for the Advantage of the Lord Hatton his Brother and your Favorite And notwithstanding the great Complaint of the People there was nothing done But upon the Adjournment of the Parliament a Sham-Trial was obtained and the Lord Hatton indemnified tho it was proved that none of the Money coined in his Time was either Weight or Standard 5. A fifth Step you took to overturn the Government of that Kingdom and defraud that People of their Religion Laws and Liberties was a certain Monster your Brother and you set up a Body of Villains called the Lords of the Articles The most valuable and considering Men of that Nation some of whom I have had the Honour to be acquainted with have judged this Body of Men to be nothing else but a virtual Subversion of the Power and Liberties of Parliament and highly prejudicial to the King and Kingdom I pray Sir observe 1. That this meeting of the Articles when reestablished by you and your Conspirators consisted of 8 Bishops chosen by the Lords and 8 Lords chosen by the
who being a free People hated such a standing Force Now why your dissembling Rascals should use this as an Argument I am yet to learn And as for that Objection that it would have destroyed the Monarchy by a Law and taken all sort of Power from the King and made him less than a Duke of Venice this was as false as could be for as I have said before so I must again that it is evident beyond Contradiction that the Bill of Exclusion could not prejudice the legal Monarchy which your Brother did enjoy with all the Rights and Powers that his Ancestors ever claim'd because many Acts of like nature have passed not only in England but in your quondam antient Kingdom of Scotland without danger of diversting the Monarchs of their legal Power The Preservation of a Government consists in and depends upon an exact Adherence to its Principles on which it was founded and the essential Principle of the English Monarchy being that well-proportioned Distribution of Powers whereby the Law at once provides for the Greatness of the Sovereign and the Safety of the People for this Reason our Ancestors have been more careful to preserve inviolable the Government than to favour any personal Pretences And in your Case we followed the Examples of other Nations I meet with none in Story so slavishly addicted to any Person or Family as to admit of a Prince who openly professed a Religion contrary to that established amongst them it would be easy to produce a Multitude of Examples of those who have rejected Princes for Reasons of far less Weight than the Difference of Religion and this without endangering the Monarch's Power or the Subject's Right therefore your Party talked like Fools when they said the Bill of Exclusion would have divested the King of his Power nothing could have made a King of England so much look like a Duke of Venice as one of the lowsy Expedients your Party proposed to the Houses of Parliament 7. Another Argument against the Bill of Exclusion was That it would have led the Parliament to attempt other great and considerable Changes and thereby endangered the whole Government and the Peace of the Nation Now what your Villains would have had the Nation to understand by this Change is worthy of Consideration Therefore first if by a Change they meant a Change of the Constitution of the Government let me tell you that Hell could never have forged a more villanous Lie than those wicked Wretches did that they might in conjunction with you instil such Thoughts into the Mind of the King as might effectually alienate his Soul from the Use of Parliaments It is evident even to these Hell-born Wretches that there was no Vote or Proposition in either of those Parliaments that could give any Ground for such a malicious Reflection and therefore in this Matter we that were Lookers-on might reasonably charge your Brother and you and your whole Party with a malicious Design against all Parliaments in thus arraigning the whole Body of the Nation upon those ill grounded and malicious Suggestions I am sure this did not become the Grandeur and Justice of Princes nor was agreeable to the Measures of Prudence and Wisdom by which you should have governed yourselves And now Sir I will give the true Reason why you thus delighted in these Men viz. your hating Parliaments being afraid they should have called you and them to account for your high Crimes and Misdemeanours by this Means together with the Inclinations of your dear Brother you so swayed him that you could never want Grounds to dissolve not only three such Parliaments but threescore if there had been Occasion In the second Place Sir If you and your Admirers had understood by attempting great and important Changes that the Parliament would have besought the King that you might no longer have the Government in your Hands that your villanous Conspirators should no longer preside in his Councils nor possess all the great Offices of Trust in the Kingdom that our Ports Garisons and Fleet should no longer be governed by those that were at your Devotion that Marks of Favour and Characters of Honour should no more be placed upon such as the Wisdom of the Nation had adjudged Favourers of Popery or Pensioners to the French King these I confess were great and important Changes such as became English Protestants to believe were designed by those Parliaments and would have been by any other Parliament your Brother should have called in his time and such as the People of England would have prayed for and left the Success to Almighty God who governs the Hearts of Kings and Princes Truly without these Changes the Bill of Exclusion would have signified little it might have provoked but not disabled your wicked Party Nay the Money the Nation must have paid for it would have been used to hasten your Return upon us 8. Another Argument used against the Bill of Exclusion was your great Grace and Favour for your Countrey and the Excellency of your Temper and Vertue Surely Sir if you had heard these Men magnify you for your excellent personal Qualifications you would have spit in their Faces and told them they lied for the Violence of your natural Temper was sufficiently known and your Vehemency in exalting the Prerogative in your Brother's Reign beyond its due Bounds and the Principles of your cursed Religion which carried you to all imaginable Excesses of Cruelty convinced all Mankind that there was a Necessity of excluding you rather than to leave you the Name and place the Power in a Protector for in good truth they must have looked upon it as the greatest Folly to have made such a Change in the Government which would have been a Means to destroy and not preserve the Government Sir they saw your Temper that you who was bred up in such Principles of Politicks as made you in love with Arbitrary Power and bigotted to that Religion which always propagates it self by Blood could never bear with such Shackles as would even disgust a Prince of the meekest Disposition this was your Temper and how it is amended since you placed your self at St. Germains I suppose your Followers can tell better than I. But what Regard and Favour you have born to this Nation was well seen from your first Return to England in 1660 to your leaving it in 1688. You engaged it in two wicked Wars with the Dutch and a third with France I would not have your Cattel low too much of your Grace and Favour but truly if you had any for this Nation you was pleased to conceal it except in two things in which you did England the most signal Service that ever Man did the one was destroying your Brother and the other your running away and if you will keep on the other Side of the small River that parts France from us we will forgive you all the Faults of your Life But notwithstanding all the Noise
People you and this wicked Wretch procured of your Brother another Adjournment tho the Memberâ— waited four Months and were all got together in hopes the King's Word would have been kept and so the Parliament was put off till October the 14th following Upon this I pray remember the Carriages of this notorious State-Villain by which you might see the Nature of the Beast that you your self at last hated 1st Call to mind that to please you and your Villanous Party he did in the most insolent manner undervalue Parliaments which he discovered by that rascally Expression to the King against the Earl of Middleton lessening what he had done as if he had not been serviceable enough to Baal Sir if you had sent down a Dog with your Commission about his Neck to your Scots Parliament he would have done all the Earl of Middleton had done who one would have thought had been Villain enough for doing what he did in the Innovations he brought into Scotland both in Church and State But it seems Sir you found Lauderdale to be a Rogue of a deeper Die and therefore Middleton was laid aside and Covenant-Lauderdale made use of to carry on Designs more wicked than ever Middleton was acquainted withal 2ly Call to mind how he treated some of the Scots Members of Parliament with most unsufferable Insolence for truly had he done as much by me I should upon Consideration of his other Vertues have done his Country and my own that Service that two Parliaments by the Means of your Power could not do But Sir to return to our Scots Parliament-men he sent one to Prison whose Name was Mr. William Moor because he desired after the Order of the English Parliament their Acts might be at least thrice read before they were voted or somewhat to that purpose and using the word We for I said Lauderdale to him What are there any more in your Arse Which base speaking provoked most of the Members as very indecent and unmannerly and not to be used to Gentlemen I will say that for the Earl of Middleton that he understood how to use a Gentleman tho bad enough but this Rascal when in Power understood no body 3ly I suppose Sir you have not forgot his-slighting Duke Hamilton in the most contemptible manner and most of the Antient Nobility of the greatest Interest and Value in that Kingdom whom he did not so much as allow to be named among the Commissioners chosen for the Treaty of Union betwixt the two Kingdoms tho many were named that ought not to have been unless in a dead Warrant which was his desert for many a fair Year and you your self thought so at last 4ly After your Brother and you had made him thus great you may remember how inconstant this Villain was to those with whom he professed the greatest Friendship for in the time of his Greatness he acted according to his Humour and Advantage not according to the Measures and Rules an honest Man should use in Conversation with Mankind witness his dealing with the late Duke of Ormond Earl of Shaftsbury Earl of Rothes Tweddale Sir Robert Murray and others whom as it served his Turn he carest with all open Flattery or rejected when you had given him direction to slight and contemn them 5ly To serve the wicked Designs of you and your Conspirators you may remember how he neglected the Interest of his Country and gratified a parcel or beggarly Rascals that depended on him for Bread by procuring them Gifts upon the Forfeitures of the Penal Statutes then in Force As to Sir John Moncreif a Gift of the Fines upon those who were convicted for Nonconformity in the Shires of Fife and Perth and to one Scot of Ardress and Major Bothwick a Gift upon the Maltmen and Brewers and to the said Bothwick another vexatious Gift commonly called of Peck and Bole. These were known Rogues and Spies for him and were great Persecutors of the People of God in those Parts and to one Carmichel he gave large Sums to accuse Sir Patrick Hume falsly since a Peer of that Kingdom this Carmichel since that died of a languishing Disease in the Kings-Bench Prison where he confessed to me upon his Death-bed his many Villanies against the People of God in that Kingdom 6ly Give me leave to put you in mind of his horrid Prophaneness witness his Compliment to that First-born of all Villany and Falsness the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews that was executed for his many Villanies by a number of injured Men that could not have Justice done otherwise to whom Lauderdale was pleased to say Come in my Lord sit down here at my right Hand and I will make all your Enemies your Footstool This was so prophane that those who heard the Villain utter these words trembled and were so filled with Horror that one of them was sick almost to death Nay Sir you your self was pleased to say that Lauderdale had an odd way of prophaning the Scriptures which was not to be endured by a chaste Ear. 7ly You have heard his rascally insipid and malicious way of jesâ—ing at and against his old Practices and Acquaintance when the Villain was a Professor of Religion One Day at his Table he said He could pray and cant as well as any Nonconformist in the Christian World and to entertain his Company in contempt of the Most High he began a Complaint to God and in derision would confess his Covenant-breaking and other Sins at which many of his Companions left him tho perhaps otherwise lewd enough for fear the House should fall upon them and they perish with him for his abominable Wickedness You may remember how he used his old Acquaintance that kept their Integrity in Religion how he insulted over them when they appeared before him in Council by a reproachful remembrance of former Practices in religious Duties so that some of 'em have used the old Proverb concerning him No Turk like to a Renegado This Sir was a fit Tool for you to use for introducing your base Designs of Slavery into that Kingdom in order to establish Popery Alas Middleton was but an Ass to this Fellow for he had some Grains of a Gentleman but this Villain was the Compound of all Unrighteousness and an Enemy of God and Mankind This was the Man you advanced by Middleton and by him and your sweet self Scotland was bravely bridled and sadled to your Heart 's content Thus I conclude the first step you took to the Ruin of that Antient and your Father 's native Kingdom Concerning these two Men it may be said that Middleton served Baal a little but Lauderdale served him much 2. A second Step you took to ruin that Kingdom and your Brother's Government was the filling the Courts of Judicature there especially their Session which is the Supream Court of Justice with ignorant and insufficient Men. This Sir was the Method you pursued not only in England but in Ireland and therefore