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A25327
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The Anatomy of a Jacobite-Tory in a dialogue between Whig and Tory : occasioned by the Act for recognizing King William and Queen Mary.
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1690
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Wing A3053; ESTC R22595
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THE ANATOMY OF A Iacobite-Tory IN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN WHIG and TORY Occasioned by the ACT for Recognizing KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Black Bull in the Old-Baily 1690. THE ANATOMY OF A Iacobite-Tory In a DIALOGUE between Whig and Tory occasioned by the Act for Recognizing King WILLIAM and Queen MARY Whig WHither away in so much haste One word with you for the sake of Old Acquaintance when we were fellow-Murmurers in the late Reign Tory. Pray be brief then for I am upon the King's Business and must lose no time W. It is very well if His Majesty's Affairs have lost no time in the hands of Men of your Opinion But you may pardon me if I ask what King you mean King William or the late King T. What a Question is that to one in such an Office as I have under King William W. I very well know your Office tho' how you came into it is a Mystery and I cannot but observe the steps which you have taken since you had it Nay know how much you value your self with your Party upon being the same Man which you were when you shewed your parts in opposing this King 's coming to the Crown and therefore I may very well ask you under the Rose whether you will own King William to be your King T. I should be very unworthy if I did not since I have not only Protection but Profit and Preferment from him W. I grant it would be Unworthiness and downright Treachery not to own him but that makes it never the clearer to me that you do T. I have sworn Allegiance to him and do you think I would Perjure my self W. I cannot tell how far you may have improv'd in Romish Equivocations to evade the plain meaning of what you have sworn T. I make no Evasion for I either declared at the time of swearing or it is implyed in my Oath that it obliges me no farther than not to oppose him or his Arms till I may be able to do it with a fair prospect of Success and without the imputation of acting like a Mad-man W. Did you mean no more when you swore Allegiance to King James T. Yes much more and upon very good Reason for in my very Oath I recogniz'd him to be lawful and rightful King and I swore to do my best Endeavour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear to be against him or any of them W. I can see no cause to doubt but if you had never sworn Allegiance to King William yet you are bound to the same Allegiance to him which you owed to the late King in vertue of that very Oath which you took to the former as King William is his Successor T. That is very good indeed a Successor to a man alive and in Possession of his Kingdom and the Possession of part is in Law a Possession of the whole befides 't is Heirs and Successors and you will not say that this King or Queen can yet at least be Heirs to the last W. I have long since learnt from Bracton and others that an Heir is from the Inheritance and where-ever the Law or Lawful Authority places that our Allegiance is to follow T. I know of no Authority that can make this King more than King in Fact W. Have not the Nation duly declar'd him King upon the other's Abdication And does not that Declaration manifest or make a Right T. King James could not lose his Right it was inseparable from his Person which he cannot but bear about with him should he go to the Indies Indeed this King got into Possession of part of his Dominions by force King James retir'd out of fear with an intention of returning and we submitted to the Prince of Orange in the day of his Power W. According to you he is neither King of Right nor in Fact as long as the late King is Powerful in Ireland T. Not a word of that I beseech you till his Rival has left England who in the mean while may be called King he has the Sword in his hand and we may be allowed to take Quarter and promise not to fight against him especially since we never lay under any Obligation to fight for the other W. You seem to believe that King William has conquer'd England T. Yes surely does not the Fate of a Nation depend upon its Head If King James was beaten or ran away this must be a virtual beating of the whole Nation W. Then at least King William is Rightful King as he is King by Conquest T. I beg your pardon for that For 1. There ought to have been just cause of War What had he to do to call a Soveraign Prince to Account if he had treated his Subjects as Slaves Besides all that has been said against him or the Servants of his Crown are but the Clamours of Male-contents and blushless Lies as has been well observed by the Eloquent Author of The Magistracy and Government of England Vindicated Third and last Part of The Magistracy and Government Vindicated p. 1. 2. Admit this King had Right to free an Oppressed People and they really had been Oppressed however he ought according to the Law of Nations to have made a Formal Declaaation of War before his coming W. Tho' I admire not your Author whose Character you may see in the Man-Hunter Vid. The Man-Hunter in Answer to the third and last Part of the Magistracy c nor believe that King William coming for our Rescue had need to Proclaim a War yet I must confess the want of Proclaiming War may be a full bar to a Right by Conquest of the Nation But all you say against King William's Right by Law and the Declaration of the People is but a begging the Question T. You will not easily convince me that I go upon wrong grounds W. Whatever your lurking Reasons may be me thinks you should consider the Obligation of the Oath which you have taken to be faithful and bear true Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary by which as much is plainly implyed as was expressed in the Oath of Allegiance sworn to James II. and requir'd by the Statute 3 Jac. I. No more being required by that Statute setting aside what relates to the Pope than was at the Common Law meant in being faithful and bearing true Allegiance to a King of England And by consequence if the late King is still King with you the Oath which you have taken to this is contradictory to the former T. Do you think a Man shall be Perjur'd by Consequences W. Yes no doubt but he may if they are so palpable that he cannot but discern them T. As a Divine of our Church tells us A Modest Examination of the New Oaths by a Divine of the Church of England Printed for Randal