and all places Ecclesiastical Civil and Military were put into the papists hands In K. James's time the Protestants were two hundred to one papist and he could never have got a Popish Parliament The K. of Spain was then as Formidable to England as the French King is now and had much greater pretence He was Married to our Queen and all our Acts of Parliament were in his name he was stil'd King of England There were great Objections against Q. Mary's Title to the Crown The validity of K. Henry the VIII's Marriage with her Mother was disputed all over Christendom and the whole Nation was Sworn by Act of Parliament to adhere to the Issue of Queen Ann who was Mother to the Princess Elizabeth 26 Hen VIII C. 2. Yet all this notwithstanding neither did that Protestant Princess pretend to the Crown neither did the Protestants contend for her during her Elder Sisters Life tho' it was given out That there was a Design of imposing a False Son upon the Nation to Cut off the Princess Elizabeth's Succession who was next Heir to the Crown Publick Thanksgivings having been thro' the Nation for Queen Mary's being with child and some foolish Friars even in their Sermons giving out before hand That it must be a Prince of Wales which their Pryaers had obtain'd to prevent a Protestant Successor c. But none of these things had any Witch-craft then in that sober age of Protestancy to prevall with the Protestants to lift up a hand against the Right of Queen Mary tho' a Bill of Exclusion had past against her in her Fathers time and the Nation had sworn to adhere to the Princess Elizabeth the next Protestant Heir But they did not think their Oaths ought to bind them against the Right and notwithstanding that Queen Mary did plainly and without any Disguise endeavour to Defeat her Sister Elizabeth's Succession to the Crown having first got an Act of Parliament to Establish her own Legitimacy and consequently to throw off her Sister as Illegitimate But secondly She had sent her Sister Elizabeth to the Tower in order as was generally believ'd to Cut off her Head Speed tells That a Warrant was once Sign'd for her Execution Yet not to Rescue her nor to Assert her Right of Succession nor for any other cause whatsoever wou'd our Loyal Protestant Fore-Fathers take Arms against the Popish Queen either in behalf of this Princess Elizabeth or of Queen Jane another Protestant against whom they Fought to set up Queen Mary And thought they consulted best in so doing for the preservation of the Protestant Religion by asserting its Principles tho' to the Loss of its Legal Establishment and all other visible worldly Advantages These things the Jacobites urge And they Glory in the wonderful protection which GOD at that time shew'd towards these Protestants in their Faith and Dependance upon Him turning all the whole Scheme to the Protestants advantage taking away Q. Mary without their Guilt and giving her Condemn'd Sister Forty Four years Possession of her Throne to Establish Adorn and make Glorious that poor despis'd and persecuted Principle of Non-Resistance They tell us likewise of the Case of Theudas and Judas of Galilee Act. 5.36,37 who took Arms against the Romans in Defence both of their Religion and their Property It was against the grievous Taxing which was then impos'd by the Romans that Judas rose in Arms and Drew away much people after him They say That all the Declamations in this Letter to a Friend against the Jacobites will hold as strongly against the Protestants in Q. Mary's time But much more strongly against Gamaliel and other Jews who Condemn'd Theudas and Judas in behalf of their Lawful Governours the Romans who were profest Heathens Idolaters Despisers and Persecutors of the Law of Moses yet Fighting against them tho' in Defence of the True Faith was inferr'd to be Fighting against God Act. 5.39 And Christ would not be Defended by Resisting a Heathen Magistrate The same do the Jabobites think of fighting for a Religion in a Case which that Religion does not allow to be a Good Cause of fighting for it They think this to be fighting against that Religion On the other hand If we should fight to the visible prejudice of the outward profession and Legal Establishment of our Religion in pursuance of a Principle of that Religion This the Jacobites would call a fighting for our Religion That is To Maintain Assert and Honour the Principles of our Religion which only are the spiritual part of Religion tho' to the Loss of Temporal advantages and outward ornament which are but the Out-side and Trappings of Religion Therefore they go not upon the Outward advantages but upon the Justice of their Cause for the love of which they have forsaken all their Outward Advantages Upon the whole they say That unless you can prove their Principles to be Vnjust all you Argue against them is against the Law of God against Justice against Reason and all Christian Religion And that Humane politicks are too weak to over-ballance all these Nay they pretend that even Humane policy and the Good of the Nation is on their side That K. James's Tyranny suppose it as bad as you will would not have Cost the Nation so many Lives so much Money nor been so hard to be Redrest after his Death as the present Revolution Now they complain That all this is not sufficiently Answered in this Letter to a Friend where it sayes page 28. which is all the Answer given to it in that Letter that If they the Jacobites say they would fight for him K. J. I give them over sayes the Letter as profess'd Enemies to the True Religion and the Liberties of Man-kind And This I hope sayes the Letter may satissy the Non-swearers that they are not bound in Conscience to Fight for the late King c. Now these perverse Jacobites do say That they can see no Reason why the Author of this Letter 's Giving them over should be a Satisfaction to their Consciences They call this Scolding instead of Answering Whereas they pretend that their Principle is pursuant to the True Religion and most for the Good and Liberties of Man kind to Save men from the Great Destruction of Civil-War and Rebellion which they say is infinitely of more mischief to man kind than any Tyranny ever was in the world And that Religion loses more Ground and lessens more in the Opinion of man-kind by a change of principles which have been long profess'd than by suffering persecution in Defence of those Principles These things they think a full and sufficient Answer to all this whole Letter to a Friend And therefore do insult and rejoyce that no Answer is possible to be given to them since this Best Answer which is yet come out has not one word against the Truth or Honesty of their Principles only argues from Inconveniencies that may attend them which is incident to the
THE Anatomy of a Iacobite OR THE JACOBITES Heart Laid Open WITH A Sure Certain5 Method FOR THEIR CURE Address'd to the AUTHOR of A Letter to a Friend Concerning a French Invasion to Restore the Late King JAMES to His Throne c. CAMBRIDGE Printed in the Year 1692. The Jacobites Heart Laid Open c. SIR YOUR Letter was Read by none with Greater Delight than my Self to Consider the Pitch of your Reasoning in a Cause so Important as this And I Congratulate your Good Success in the Words of King Lemuel Many have done Nobly to this Theam but thou Excellest them all The Jacobites Despis'd the Swarms of Pamphlets have hitherto come out against them and made it their Sport to Toss them like Chaff in the Air. But now Sir their Eyes are all Fix'd upon you Entring the Stage like Almanzor they Buckle their Armor Close and bend all their Force against you They Know and Feel that this Letter of yours is deservedly Esteem'd by all in this Government as the most Celebrated and Top-Piece of the Party and thought Vnanswerable That it may Continue and Encrease its Reputation it will be Necessary that you Sir should know and Refute all the Poor Objections which the Jacobites Start against it Some of which I have gather'd together for your Service but more that the Honor and Justice of the Present Government might as far as possible be Vindicated and even these fame Jacobites Reclaim'd of which we have Reason to Conceive Great hopes if you be able to Satisfy their Scruples First Their Arguments from Principles and Reason Secondly Matters of Fact which they Charge upon this Government and are to them an insuperable Prejudice against it Both these I have set down Full and Broad in their own Words that you may miss nothing of the Force of their Objections And I hope you Sir nor any in the Government will take it Amiss from me seeing I only Repeat their Words and that in Order to the Necessary Vindication of the Government Which if you Perform to Satisfaction for you or none must do it we will leave these Jacobites nothing to say or nothing but what will Expose them And let us Deal Fairly and upon the Square with them and hear the uttmost of their Defence the sooner we shall have done And we need not fear to give them this Liberty for we can sew the Jacobites in Bears Skins when we please cry out upon them Wou'd you have the French wou'd you have Popery come in We can easily make such a Noise as that they shall not be heard Therefore let us Venture for once to give them a hearing We do not suspect them for any Inclinations to Popery notwithstanding of all this On the Contrary they were the Men who stood in the Gap against it when it threatned us most and are still ready and I doubt not wou'd be as forward as any to do so again Much less can they be suspected to have faln out with the Country of England so as to desire the French might Conquer it They have Estates and wou'd be as loath to lose them as other Men and no doubt love their Liberty and Property as much And pretend as Great Regard as any People to the Laws of England which they say do Justify them and Condemn us who Support this Government But they plead greater things than these The Law of God and His Express Command which if true will supersede all our Arguments drawn from smaller Topicks The People of Athens Rejected a Method which Themistocles propos'd to them Plutarch Life of Aristides much to their Advantage and Security and which could be easily effected upon the only account because it was not Just And shall not Christians say these Jacobites Depend as much upon the Protection of God in their Obedience to His Reveal'd Will as Heathens upon their general notions of Justice which were much more Fallible They say that the Folly of God is Wiser than men He can bring Good out of Evil and turn all the Seeming good and prosperity of the wicked into evil and mischief upon their own heads And therefore that all your Politicks and Conjectures what may happen is not so sure a Foundation for men to venture their Souls upon as the Reveal'd Will of God In short the Jacobites seem to bring the Matter to this Issue That we must either Deny the Scriptures or Answer their Objections out of the Scripture And they seem very apprehensive that the first of these will be chosen That it is chosen by too many already They say there are Examples in all Ages of men going against their visible Interest to preserve a Good Conscience They tell you of the Protestants in Q. Mary's time who fought for her against Q. Jane a Woman of vast Endowments of mind and a Protestant That these Protestants had as sad a prospect in what they did as can be suppos'd in the Restoration of K. James You may say that they met with it accordingly Q. Mary broke her word to them and persecuted them with Fire and Faggot But this will be no Argument against the Jacobites for they say that the Protestants did their Duty in adhering to Q. Mary else they had been Rebels and not Martyrs That her Persecution prov'd infinitely to the Good and Establishment of the Protestant Religion which has liv'd Great and in Reputation with all the world ever since upon the Fund of that Loyal and Christian Principle of Non-Resistence And they say that the Church of England has Suffer'd more by forsaking that Principle now than She cou'd have done by a Persecution which wou'd still have added to her Glory They call themselves the only stay that has kept the Church of England from sinking utterly in the opinion of all good Christians by their present Suffering for that Old Doctrine of their Church Non-Resistance They say That a Church is more Destroyed by the loss of her Principles than of her Livings Pureness of Doctrine not Outward Pomp or Legal Establishments denominate a True and a Holy Church They say Rebellion brings greater Destruction than Persecution That not three hundred suffered during Q. Mary's five years Reign That a thousand times as many have perish'd within these three years in Ireland besides those have been lost in Scotland at Sea and in Flanders They say the Protestants in Q. Mary's time were in much more Deplorable Circumstances than we were in K. Jame's time He was well advanced in years when he came to the Crown and the three next Heirs Protestants Q. Mary a young Woman Married to the King of Spain the Princess Elizabeth declared to be Illegitimate by Act of Parliament and sent to the Tower in order to a further security And after her the Royal Line run out of sight into Popish Families The Reformation was but young and tender then in England The Parliament were papists and popery set up as the Establisht Religion
us continue on the War And therefore that he desires we should give seven or eight Millions more next Sessions If he did not there are some who tell us that it is in his power to hinder it even by Bribing the Parliament Men. We all know what a Noise the French Pensioners made in King Charles the II's Parliaments and we remember since the French Faction were the Major Number among the Burgers of Amsterdam Let no Man suppose it an impossible thing that men may be Brib'd to Destroy their own Country there are Examples of it in all Ages Jugurtha Brib'd the Senate of Rome to have sold their Country if he could have found a Merchant Vidit urbem quam venalem quandoque Perituram si habuisset Emptorem cecinerat L. Flor. Lib. 3. Cap. 1. and we believe the French Monarch to be as Powerful as Rich and as Cunning as Jugurtha King of Numidia in Africk and the Romans as Great and Brave as the English themselves and their Senate as Zealous of Liberty and Property as our Parliaments Now say the Jacobites all this is prevented and these Designs of the French King 's if these be his Designs are totally frustrated if we take Home our King Then we shall preserve our selves a considerable People and True Old England still whom nothing but a Miracle can Ruine while it continues upon its Old Foundations of Vnalienable Hereditary Monarchy But in this Hurricane and Earth-Quake of State which has set us upon Original Contract and the Election of any Prevailing Faction who call themselves The People who the Jure-Divino-men say never were and it is impracticable ever should be truly Represented they tell us our selves do confess that nothing but Miracle has Preserv'd us hitherto and they say by the same reason that Miracle must Preserve us if the War does continue The Dutch MOB tho' all our Money is spent among them are crying for Peace and will get Peace before us They think all those to be French Pensioners who are for continuing the War and now and then mind them of the Fate of the De-Witts Trade is the Circulation of their Blood and if a Sufficient Stock be not Preserv'd all other Receits are useless We must not Bleed our selves to weak if we stop not while we have Money in our hands it will be too late after And it will be a Miracle indeed if Jugurtha do not then find a Merchant for us And the Jacobites desire us to Reflect what a Condition we are in when we must trust to Miracles every Year to Save us out of the hands of the French Is this a Nation to be Despis'd Is there no hazard to be apprehended from them But if we can Secure our selves and have their Peace and Friendship upon no harder terms than to Receive our Rightful and Natural KING which the Jacobites say Is our Duty by the Laws of GOD and Man Then they Appeal to every True and Sensible English-man whether they do not seek the Good of England more than those who would continue such an expensive and dangerous War wherein they cannot hope to prosper if they Fight in opposition to the Reveal'd Will of God and whether they do or not in the present opposition to K. J. the Jacobites desire no more than that we should Dispute with them upon that Head Now whether our Lives and Religious Conversation be such as that we ought to expect that God should Work Miracles to Rescue us rather than send a Rod to Scourge us for our unexampled Loosness and Prophanity not to name what they eall Rebellion in the present Case the Jacobites say is a Consideration worth our most serious Thoughts Jamaica is now struck with an astonishing Perdition And except we Repent Luk. 13.3 The Jacobites wish this may not be a Fore-runner of Judgments to England The Relations of that Earth-Quake from Jamaica do speak of the mighty Loosness and Prophanity of that Country especially of Port-Royal where the Judgment fell most heavily and that there were several small motions of the Earth such as we had on the 8th of this Sept. 92. in London and other parts of England Some weeks before that dreadful Overthrow wherein the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed up Houses and Churches and Men descended like Korah Dathan and Abiram with their Wives Children and all that appertained to them alive into the Pit And the Jacobites desire us to Observe that this was for Rebellion in the State of Dathan and Abiram with Two Hundred and Fifty Princes of the Assembly Famous in the Congregation Men of Renown against Moses and for Schisme and Vsurpation in the Church of Korah and Two Hundred and Fifty Levites against Aaron their lawful Superiour and Metropolitan and they got the Generality of the People on their side For it is said That Korah gathered All the Congregation against them Moses and Aaron Numb 16.19 And as this Destruction of Korah c. did not Convert the Israelites for ver 41. On the morrow all the Congregation were gathered against Moses and Aaron So we are told from Jamaica That they were Robbing the Houses which were sinking and themselves with them And that the Boldness and Impudence of the Prostitutes there is nothing abated How far London does Equal or Exceed Fort-Royal in these Sins especially in a Hardness of Heart and Insensibility of God's Judgments and contempt of His Ordinances and that chiefly among the Gentry and better sort of more free and generous Education of which they think it a part to ridicule and despise all that is Sacred Or how far we ought to reckon the Punishment of Jamaica to be our own since they are part of us and learn'd their Sins from us I leave to the Meditation of the Reader Whom I would have likewise observe that tho' Earth-Quakes are less frequent in England than in those Hotter Climates yet God has often shewn us we are not Exempt from that Judgment of which we have frequent instances in our Histories even of the like dreadful Effects as that in Jamaica In the 13 Year of Q. Elizabeth the 17 of Feb. Sir Richard Baker tells of a prodigious Earth-Quake which happned in the East part of Herefordshire at a little Town call'd Kinnaston where a Hill with a Rock under it lifted it self up a great height and travel'd from Saturday in the Evening till Monday Noon with Trees Cattle and all things upon it leaving a Gaping distance Forty Foot broad and Eighty Ells long overturning Churches Houses removing Trees Hedges High-ways made Tilled ground Pasture and turned Pasture into Tillage That on the 24. May in the Sixth Year of Rich. the 11. there happened so great an Earth-Quake that it made Ships in the Havens to beat one against another That on Christmass-Day in the 24. year of Hen. the II. in the Territory of Derlington in the Bishoprick of Durham the Earth lifted up it self in manner of an High Tower and so
than a yielding of the Cause What Effect this may have upon England I cannot tell especially at a time when all the Nation were made to expect from the Possessing Clergy a Conviction from Scripture Reason and Antiquity of all that could be said against them by the Depriv'd And that Mr. Hody had in Their Name cast the Gantlet as himself braggs in his Letter to a Friend Printed at Oxford this Year 1692. pag. 19. and compares himself to Sampson Rouzing up himself against the Philistines viz. The Deprived Bishops and Clergy pag. 4. And that he had plainly given them a Fall and made them hold up Dirty Hands pag. 2. and abundance of such Tantivy in Almanzor strain in Defence of his Oxford Treatise against Schism which he Dedicates with great Pomp Summo sapientissimo sanctissimoque vere Orthodoxo to their New Arch-Bishop And after all when his Adversary enters the Lists to Hide himself behind a Proclamation and his Party send for Constables and Baylifs to their Aid If this should turn the Nation against them and their Cause that alone would have Consequences as to England worthy to be fore-told by an Earth-quake But as to other Countrys where this Earth-quake has been let them Apply for themselves We have already heard of it from Paris Holland Cologne and the Confederate Camp in Flanders where our News tells us it happened the very same Minute as in London and was like to have shook the House down over King William's Head and Chafed him from his Dinner as our Gazzet gives the Account At the same time our publick News and private Letters tell us of a prodigious Storm and Tempest in Scotland which continued without intermission the 7th 8th and 9th of September the Day of our Earth-quake and the Day before and the Day after with a Violence not known in this Age the Drops of Rain being observ'd to be as big as Hazel Nuts and swel'd the Rivers to that degree that several Ships were carry'd to the Sea and lost and the men perished Stacks of Corn were swept off the Land Houses and their Inhabitants Drown'd the Bridge of Lieth damaged and many other Mischiefs done The Jacobites say they make no Comparisons nor Applications yet cannot but take Notice of Things strange and unusual when they happen But above all of that Extraordinary Mark which GOD sent with our Earth-quake in England which was a strange sudden swimming in the Brain and unaccountable Giddiness that some thought themselves Seiz'd with a Fit of Apoplexy others of the Palsy some Stagger'd in the Streets and were sick Head and Stomack like Sea-sickness I felt this Effect of it very sensibly but did not own it till I heard it Generally Complain'd of all over London and it stay'd with some Twenty-Four with others Forty-Eight hours after the Earth-Quake was over I am told That the small Earth-Quake which preceded the Great one at Jamaica had the same Effect upon the Inhabitants there The Jacobites will say That it is a sign of Infatuation that our Brains are turn'd to run head-long Impatient or Incapable of Conviction to our own Destruction For they say they can meet with few or none of us who can give any Rational hopes of our Success against France but confess that something Desperate must be attempted And what can it be say they but Infatuation to Oppose all the Laws of God and Man and to Refuse an Honourable and Advantagious PEACE to Play out a desperate Game Unless we trust to the Religiousness of our Lives to have Interest enough with Heaven to work a Miracle for us to Disable the French all on a sudden For it must be suddenly or it may come too late And the Jacobites plead for themselves That they ought not to be esteem'd as Enemies to the Nation because they are unwilling to Trust the Fate of England upon such a Sandy Foundation as our own Godliness or the Weakness of the French Which Hopes we must expect to fail us at some time or other if we believe there is a God in Heaven unless we can Defend the Justice the Truth and Honesty of our Cause And therefore the Jacobites do provoke us upon this point And I must confess that without saying something to this point we do not Answer them Which is the reason has moved me to Write all this That I may perswade the Learned Author of the Letter to a Friend to afford us another Edition of that Ingenious Letter and to give Satisfaction to these Demands of the Jacobites some of whom we are bound in Charity to believe are Honest and Well-meaning Men and therefore do deserve thus much at our hands If we will not vouchsafe them an Answer to this we leave them Ground to say That we shift the Question and seek to put them off with Politicks when they require Satisfaction in a Matter of Conscience Tho' even in Politicks they think That the weightiest Considerations for the Good of the Nation are those which they offer But they do not lay the Stress upon this That which they insist upon is the Law of God the Laws of the Land and Natural Justice against which they say our poor Fallible Politiques ought not to Prevail This is what the Jacobites say in the General and they pretend it is a sufficient Answer to all the Arguments in the said Letter But for greater Plainess let us Apply what they have said to the Arguments in the Letter in the same Words in which they are set down in the Letter Page 24. of the Letter The Question is Resolv'd as to Conscience and his Reasons he puts by way of Questions to the Protestant Non-Swearers The First Question is Whether they can think themselves bound in Conscience to Fight for Popery against the Protestant Faith and Worship that is to Fight for Heresie and Idolatry against the True Faith and Worship of Christ or to Fight for Anti-christ and against Christ Can any Consideration make this Lawful To this the Jacobites Answer That no Consideration can make it Lawful But then they say That if the Christian Faith and Protestant Principles do Condemn the Deposing Doctrine they Fight against both who Fight for the Deposing Doctrine And this the Letter to a Friend does Confess in plain Terms in the same place viz. That we must not Fight against our Prince for Christ because Christ in such Cases requires His Disciples to Suffer and not to Fight for Him And the Jacobites are still ready to maintain that the Doctrine of Resistance and Deposing Kings are Contrary to the Christian and Protestant Principles And that to Practise Popery viz. The Deposing Doctrine Dispensing with Oaths c. will be a means to Introduce not to Extirpate Popery And therefore without speaking to this Point all the Declamations this Author can make are to no purpose They say the Protestants who fought for Queen Mary against Queen Jane fought For the Protestant Religion and against
they can neither Rob nor be Robbed Because all they get is their own and what others get from them is all well gotten These are Excellent Principles and the onely Foundation of our Government as the Jacobites do object And therefore we should do well to keep off these tender Points and not give these Jacobites occasion against us You upbraid the Papists p. 4. for knowing how to expound Providence to flatter Superstition And you know how the Jacobites upbraid us with expounding Providence to flatter Success tho' it were in Rebellion Treachery and all Wickedness Which if it Succeeds it Immediately Commences not only Right but Divine as if Commanded by an Angel or a Prophet or the Mouth of God Himself according to Dr. Sherlock c. What strange Sermons say these Jacobites have we from your Bishops and Top Divines proving the Lawfulness of this Revolution from Providence by which they mean Success Which was as much made use of and almost in the same Words by the Rump Parliament Oliver and all the Canting Tribe God came from Nasby and the Holy one from Marston Moore Selah This will Justify the French King in all his Conquests and gives Mahomet the better of Christ And yet say the Jacobites we are Deafned with it from your Pulpits You might likewise have Forborn that little piece of Wit p. 10. of reckoning the Loud and Zealous Ladys of the Jacobire side For you know where that is to be Retorted at home With the help of these Loud Ladys you say they the Jacobites are enough to make a Noise but as they were not hands enough to hinder the late Revolution neither can they say you make another Here you make them very inconsiderable when you are upon your vapouring pin as the Jacobites do deride you For they observe that either your Memory or your Courage fails you p. 19. where you make the number of the Jacobites the Great incouragement to the French King to Restore King James For say you Without a hopeful Conspiracy in England the French King is too wary to make such an Attempt And p. 21. Were it not for them our Factions at home we need not fear its France's united Force Nor are you less affraid of the Zealous Ladys you have provok'd some of them may be upon your Top but you Court them again p. 21. where reckoning the Miseries of a Civil War you Reckon the Loss of Husbands but not of Wives this sure will touch them in the sensible part and Charm their tender Hearts This was a great deal Tweeter than what you have six Lines above where comforting us as to the Taxes and other Prices of this Revolution you say While we have left wherewithal to Maintain our selves we have no such great reason to complain This might have been spared because you know we have lest a great many Jacobites in a Condition not to Maintain themselves It had been also advisible if you had thought fit to have let alone that Gentile Rub you gave King James Page 20. We know the Late King too well to take his word For this raises the Devil of an Objection which the Jacobites have against us of our present King not keeping to his Declaration besides many Breaches of Promises since Dispencing with the Law and all those Grievances even Countenancing Popery of which we Complain'd in K. J.'s time In all whose Reign we had no such Example of Favour shewn to Popish Priests and Friars as was seen the Sessions at Old-Baily held 31. Aug. 1. 2. Sept. 92. Where two Friars by name Graham and Thursby were Indicted for the Murder of a Coffee-Man in Holbourn having first behauched his Wife in her Religion and he was Jealous in her Chastity as her self confess'd in Court where she came and was admitted as an Evidence for Graham who run her Husband thorow but she declared That her Husband run himself upon his Sword These Friars had the Interest they say it was by means of the Prince Vaudemont to have a Promise of their Pardon from K. W. then in Flanders But it was thought the best way to prevent the Noise that would make to have them Acquit upon their Tryal towards which all things being Dispos'd and the Necessary Orders given the Conduct was committed to Judge who had shewn himself so zealous against the Deprived Bishops that he corrected the Cryer of his Court for stileing one of them by the Title of Bishop when he call'd to have room made for him to come into the Court whither he was Summon'd as an Evidence in some Cause Depending It is likely the Cryer had not otherwise made the people know whom he meant But the Judge had better Skill in the Force of an Act of Parliament-Deprivation which Hody himself nor his Prompters behind the curtain do pretend to take away the Character that when he chid the Cryer for giving the Depriv'd Father the Title of Bishop What Bishop sayes Judge come Doctor Lloyd what have you to say This Learned Judge altered his Countenance and was all sweetness to these Friars which was observed by the whole Court and when one Objected that they were Popish Priests whom the Laws Discharged out of the Kingdom upon pain of Treason His Lordship temper'd that Man's Heat with the Gravity and Calmness of a Judge telling him That was not the Cause before them In short The Wife gave Evidence The Judge Summ'd it up The Jury Acquitted And All the People took Notice But it is not to be omitted say these Jacobites That in the Printed Account of the Trials that Sessions this of the Friars is left out Which I have heard some say was never done before in any case and durst not have been done now but by Order But they say what need we Instance Particulars It is Notoriously known That Popish Priests have of late not only own'd themselves as such before the Privy-Council but pleaded it as an Argument for their Indemnity and Protection Pursuant to the Secret Articles 'twixt King William the Emperour King of Spain c. And they have been allowed it It is true we excuse all this upon the account of Necessity But that does not stop the Jacobites Mouths They say that Necessity is as pleadable by one King as another And besides That we have Created this Necessity of which we Complain And that if Papists must be Countenanc'd what matter is it whether it be to Gratify the Confederates or the French who are less Papists than either Spain Savoy or the Popish Germans and not more Persecutors than any of these All this the Jacobites do Retort upon us Again p. 22. abusing of the French King you say He has no Scruple of Conscience about the Rights of other Princes all he can get is his own Dear Sir did not you Reflect that this is the very Reproach which the Jacobiees cast upon King William with this aggravation that he has no Scruple of Conscience not
onely about the Rights of other Princes but of his Father and Vncle And if he can catch his Crown too it shall be his own And if he did this for Religion why may not the French King do the same for his Religion and see to get King William's Crown if he can Is the one more Impious than the other King William gives it for one Reason of his War with France to Restore the Hugonets and other the French Subjects to their Rights by Law To Re-settle their Parliaments in their Ancient Authority free from the Encroachments which have been made upon them by their Kings c. And he has the same Grounds of War against Denmark and Sweden Let them look to it Now say the Jacobites if it be Lawful for Princes thus to look into one anothers Kingdoms and take upon them to redress what they find amiss in the Governments of other Nations why do we blame the French King to indeavour to Re-settle King James having the Laws of England to plead on his side Dr. Sherlock himself in his Recantation allows King James to have still the Legal Right and upon that Ground a Right to Regain the Crown if he can Why should the French King Rectifie the Incroachments of our Parliaments against our Kings as well as we take upon us to Rectify his Incroachments against his Parliaments We shall make a fine World of it when every Prince must Govern his Neighbours Country or as a Modern Author Words it when one Prince must Interpose 'twixt another Prince and his Subjects when he uses them Cruelly If Loss of all we have and frequent Imprisonments contrary to Law without Information upon Oath if double Taxes and Twenty other such Treatments be Cruel Usages Then by this Argument say the Jacobites the French or any other King may interpose 'twixt K. William and his Subjects And they appeal to you or any Man in the World whether making the Refusal of an Oath which is against a Mans Conscience to be a Premanire as it is in Ireland be not some Degrees worse than any French Dragooning as it is Painted to the Worst And then Imposing this upon all Women as well as Men above eighteen Years of Age may be Aggravated say the Jacobites upon these Principles to Provoke all Kings and States to Interpose 'twixt these Subjects and their Prince Good Sir I beseech you to Dis-ingage the Government from these Intanglements which its Convert Advocats and False Friends have brought upon it But by none more than your self Sir in this Letter to a Friend p. 28 29. Where speaking of the Oath to K. William and Q. Mary you expound Faith and Allegiance to the lowest Sense that possibly can be supposed even by Jacobites and you make it to exclude under the Guilt of Downright Perjury any Attempt against their Persons or Crowns to whom we have Sworn or to hold any Correspondence with or to give any Assistance to their Enemys This you did to deter the Swearers to K. William and Q. Mary from Countenancing the French Invasion or to Assist the Late King in Recovering the Throne But did you foresee Sir That this Rule you set down will Involve all those in Down-right Perjury according to the very lowest Sense of Allegiance that can possibly be made even by Williamites who held Correspondence with the P. of Orange or Assisted him in this Revolution Sir you are one who Turn'd late And to save your own Credit and new Hypothesis would make Perjur'd Miscreants of all who came into this Revolution before your self Now the Fish is Caught you come in for a Snack but give all those to the Devil who provided Hooks or Nets Sir I am not now Personating the Jacobite I speak plainly in behalf of those who had a Hand and Glory in it in bringing about this Wonderful Revolution They cannot think their Part to be wholly Diabolical in the Contrivance and Effecting of that which must be all over Divine to you in the Enjoyment of their Labours and Dangers You cry that K. James went no doubt as was determined of him But to them by whom he was Betray'd And yet you will take a Share in the Price for which he was Sold. Besides if it was such a Damn'd Design in them to bring in the P. of Orange his Highnesses's Design could not be very Heavenly But you are content to make a Rogue of him too to save your own Bacon Sir this deserves some Animadversion from the Government For all your skil will never perswade plain Honest English-Men that it was Knavery and Down-right Perjury in all the Subjects of England who Plac'd the P. of Orange upon the Throne And yet when he is there by such Wicked Act of theirs that this can give him Divine Authority and their own Wicked Act Absolve them from their former Lawful Oaths and Oblige them in Conscience to Maintain and Defend their said Wicked Act and to Swear never to Return from it This all Men will call Swearing never to Repent And to give such an Account of our Revolution by one who sets up now for the Chief Advocate of it is Betraying it and Exposing it more than all Jacobites or Profest Enemys can say It shews us to stand upon such Ridiculous Foundations as must Nauseat all who pretend to Common Sense And it Confirms the Jacobites Irrecoverably in what they think to be Loyalty while they see us Defend our selves like Fools and Mad-Men by Arguments which evidently Destroy our Cause And Sir you needed not have done this you might easily have avoided these sort of Stumbling Blocks Therefore I advise you to avoid Excursions March on straight your Road Tread warily say no more than you must And do not go out of your way for the pleasure of Lashing the French King himself for it does not alwaies turn to Advantage p. 23. You pursue him to the Boyne to Athlone to Agrim to Limrick and say we Beat him in all these Places and in a Word say you we Beat him out of Ireland And have now got a Habit of Beating the French This indeed Sir with all due Deference to your Judgment is horribly Ridiculous Or you speak without Book and know not what you say for it is most certain that at Athlone at Agrim at Limrick there were not above Forty or Fifty French in the whole Irish Army And there were more than Twenty times as many in K. William's Army Therefore to cry we have Beat him the French King that we have got a Habit of Beating the French If you had a mind to have Beaten K. Lewis you should have sought him in Flanders not in Ireland where he never was how very Comical do you think would this Passage of your Letter look to him if he saw it Would he not desire you to remember Namure and Steenkirk and ask you how you came to forget your Habit there Do not Mistake me as if I did in the
least derogate from the Courage of the English No They shew'd it at Steenkirk to admiration and had they been Supported might have done Maricles surely no Men upon Earth would go farther under Good Conduct They are too Good to be alwayes and rashly Exposed and made the Subject of Dutch Railery who have Painted the English Fighting in this Battle with Lions Paws and Calves Heads i. e. under such Commanders But it is exceeding Childish thus to Undervalue other Men and Vapour of our Victories over the French in Ireland It hinders Men from laying weight upon any thing else that we say And does no small Service to the Jacobite Cause while it is made so easie for them to Expose us As they think it is likewise in a later Instance viz. A True Account of the Horrid Conspiracy against the Life of his Sacred Majesty William the Third c. Published by Authority and Printed in the Savoy 1692. Giving an Account of the Tryal Condemnation and Execution of the Chevalier de Grandval in the Camp 13. Aug. 92. For being concerned in the said Conspiracy There p. 7. K. J. and his Queen are made Partys in this Conspiracy and to have Encourag'd those Officers who were to do him that Service as it is there Worded And I have heard the Hawkers cry that Paper about the Streets by the Name of The Horrible and Bloody Conspiracy carryed on by the late K. James and the late Q. Mary to Murther his Sacred Majesty K. William Of this the Jacobites do highly Complain and say That the Sins of these Nations are yet increasing That instead of their Repentance for the now known Notorious Slanders which in order to the present Revolution were industriously spread abroad against King James as that of the French League the Prince of Wales the Earl of Essex and that Mass of Calumnies laid upon him in Ireland since They say that instead of Repenting for these we are yet going on to load him with new Crimes which the Jacobites are confident they can prove as false as any of the other They will never believe that King James would give his Consent to de Witt or Glenco any Body They say it is not in his Nature Which all that know him well will allow But the Jacobites say that it is not all the Williamites can make this any Objection against King James Because many of them even Officers of the Army have declared and do it openly that they think it a good Act to Stab King James as much and more than any common Thief or Robber because as they say he does greater Hurt than they and is the Occasion of greater Blood-shed and Confusion I have heard several of them when they were not drunk say That they would stab him with their own Hands and go an Hundred Miles barefoot to have the Opportunity But for King Lewis They think it a meritorious Act to rid the World of such a Monster to give Peace to Christendom and to revenge the Cause of the poor Hugonots As for these Men how numerous soever the Jacobites say they must be silent and not blame King James if he had such a Design because it is pursuant to their own Principles But the Jacobites lay no stress upon this nor plead for Assassinations which they detest but they insist against the Truth of the Matter of Fact and that King James never had any such Design nor knew of this Conspiracy of Grandval if there was any such Conspiracy And now Sir give me leave to tell you some of those Grounds upon which the Jacobites do not believe this Conspiracy at least that part of it which concerns K. James and that even before they receive a full Account of it from St. Germains which can be best done there and when they receive it they promise to communicate it for farther Satisfaction In the mean time take what follows for the Reason of their present Infidelity in this Case First It is said p. 7. of the abovesaid Account of this Conspiracy in the very Sentence of the Judges That Collonel Parker one of the Conspirators was with Grandval and Leefdale two other of the Conspirators to take leave of K. James at St. Germains before they began their Journey viz. to K. William's Camp to perpetrate their intended Design where Parker was to be a main Actour and together with Grandval to rescue and bring off Dumont with Fifteen Hundred French Horse after he had shot K. William Now instead of Parker's going as above designed to Flanders and having taken leave of K. James with the other Conspirators in order to their said Journey it is notoriously known that Parker came streight to England which the Jacobites think totally inconsistent with all that fine Story and to give it flatly the Lye But they rest not upon this they give a positive disproof to the Allegation by shewing that Collonel Parker was not at St. Germains the Sixteenth day of April 1692. on which day the Sentence of the Judges p. 7. says that he Parker was there with King James and in Consultation with Grandval and Leefdale about the said Conspiracy Which 16th of April if it should be New-style will be the 6th Old-style when Parker the True Account says was at St. Germains For disproof of this they give you a Journal of Collonel Parker's coming from St. Germains to England in April 1692. which they have from Undeniable Vouchers viz. Collonel Parker having taken his leave of King James at St. Germains he went to Paris Sunday the Third of April Old Style 1692. on Monday and Tuesday the Fourth and Fifth all Day and Night he was actually at Paris on the Sixth by Five a Clock in the Morning at Paris he took Coach to Saint Dennis and that Night he lay at Boumont the Seventh at Bovay the Eighth at Poy the Ninth at Abevile the Tenth he took Post to Callis where he Embark'd for England he was Shipwrackt on the Kentish Shore where soon after he was taken Prisoner and carryed before the Mayor of Rumney and on the Thirteenth he was sent Prisoner to London with a Guard His being at Paris the Fourth and Fifth and taking Coach from thence on the Sixth by Five in the Morning can be prov'd by at least Twenty Credible Witnesses and all along from thence to the Thirteenth by Three Undeniable Witnesses But all this the Jacobites say proves the Matter of the True Account to be only False They alledge other Circumstances in that Tryal which make it wholly Ludicrous and utterly Incredible to any Man of Sense Such is that of Du-mont the Man who was to kill King William having a Secret to charm People's Eyes Indeed nothing less could secure a Man to kill a King at the Head of his Army as this was to be done viz. when the King should ride along the Lines The other two Conspirators Grandval and Leefdale it is said were to keep with those that followed
Design of Assassinating K. William and God's Miraculous Providence in Detecting Preventing c. This may pass perhaps among some of the Vulgar for whom I suppose it was Design'd But it Nauseats Men of Sense exceedingly It looks like putting this story upon us and they wonder at such poor Arts. It had been much easier believ'd if these Visions and Du Monts Charm had been let alone But Sir you cannot readily conceive the Horror and Astonishment which the Jacobites do Express at our carrying on this Sport as they call it so far as to Bantre Allmighty God with it in the Proclamation for a Publick Thanksgiven Dated 22. Octob. 92. Where it is told that Forasmuch as it hath Pleased Almighty God of His Infinite Goodnoss in Answer to the Prayers Humbly and Devoutly offer'd up to Him To Disappoint and Defeat the Barbarous and Horrid Conspiracy for Taking away His K. William's Sacred Life by Assassination And this Thanksgiving Day ordered to be Religiously kept with greater Strictness and under greater Penaltys than is usual in Proclamations of that Nature viz. Not only as they Tender the Favour of Almighty God but upon Pain of Suffering such Punishments as Their Majesties can justly Inflict for the Contempt or Neglect thereof And which is yet more Dreadful if that Conspiracy be a Sham in the Publick Printed Forme of Prayer for the Thanksgiving-Day in the End of the Litany these Words are added More especially we adore Thy Great Goodness to Him K. William in the Discovery and Disappointment of that Bloody and Ba barous Attempt Design'd upon His Sacred Person by His Cruel and Implacable Enemys and in the Communion-Service O Most Merciful God who of thy Infinite Goodness hast Preserved our Sovereign Lord King William from the Treacherous Practises of Wicked and Blood-Thirsty Men c. Add to this the Noise was made with it in Pulpits upon that Ringing-Day the Repetition of the Tirue Account abovesaid being a great part of many of their Sermons J. Cant. himself had it up in his Thanksgiving-Sermon that Day at White-Hall p. 25. Where he Blesses God For the Preservation of our Gracious Sovereign from that Horrid and most Barbarous Attempt Design'd upon his Sacred Person Good God! What Name will this Pageantry deserve if this Blot be not clear'd from all the bovesaid Objections Sir This requires your utmost Pains if you have any Kindness for the Government This is indeed a Terrible Prejudice against us it makes us worse than Hembent or meer Atheists For to Mock God is more Provoking I had almost said more Atheistical than not to Believe a God at all If this be let go without something said to it it will as the Assyrians said of Judith Deceive the whole World Turn all Mankind against us and make us the Abhorring of all Flesh who can Play with things Sacred and Laugh at God to his Face The Jacobites likewise take Great Notice that we should choose one of the Fasts of the Church the Vigil before Saint Simon and Saint Jude for our Thanksgiving-Day As if we Design'd to do Despight to the Constistution of the Church of England like the Phanaticks in Scotland who usually Appoint their Fasts upon the Lords Day Christmas Easter or other Solemnitys of the Church It was some of this Dutch Leven say the Jacobites that made us pitch upon Ash-Wednesday viz. 13. of Feb. 88. For the Day of our Inauguration and Accession to the Crown Either that we thought the greatest Fast of the Church ought in Contempt of that Constitution to be turn'd thereafter into a Jubilee or otherwise that the Day of Ashes and Execrations was the fittest to Solemnize such an Inauguration as claim'd a Propriety say they in almost every Curse was pronounced that Day The 27. Octob. is Mark'd in our Calander and Rubrick as a Day of Fasting or Abstinence and was or ought to have been Proclaim'd as such in all the Churches and Chapples of England the Sunday before as is Appointed in the Rubrick immediately after the Nicene Creed in the Communion Service Now comes Jo. Cant. say the Jacobites and Litensing the Form of Prayer for this Thanksgiving-Day Commands us to break the Canons and Rubricks which are still unrepeal'd by any Lawful or so much as Pretented Authority And they ask in good Conscience which we ought to Obey They say we may perceive by these and many other things which they can Name what Firm Friends our New Bishops are like to prove to the Church of England as by Law Established which us'd to be the Word But we have seen strange things to Day Escotia Fresbyter profugus says the Jacobites a Scotch Dusckify'd Facovian Superintendent to shew the Rock from whence he was Hewn and not to be behind his Arch Brother Jack in his Zeal against set-Forms and Fasting his Foe kept his Visitation at Abington on their own Dear Fast-Day whereby he Preserv'd his Clergy for that Turn from Attending their Churches and Officiating in the Luniversary Superstition and shew'd them Good Example not to Starve the Flesh for Pampering of the Spirit Forgive this Excess But now we are upon Scotland I have one thing more to beseech you most earnestly which is to Remove if Possible a Monstrous Scandal which the Jacobites have taken at our Government in the Matter of the Laird of Glencoe in Scotland who upon the 13. Feb. 91 92 at Five a Clock in the Morning with Thirty Eight of his Servants and Tenants were Barbarously Murdered in their Beds by Captain Campbel of Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers of the Earl of Arguil's Regiment who were Quartered upon them and Liv'd in Terms of Friendship with them And they pretend that all this was done by K. William's Express Command and Produce Orders for what they have done and stand upon their Justification and are to this Day Unpunish'd for it This Story is not much known in England but it makes a Great Noise in Scotland insomuch that I am told that Sir John Lawder there did Refuse to accept of the Employment of Lord Advocate in Scotland which answers to that of Atturney General in England but of much greater Honour and Authority unless he could have Liberty to Prosecute Glen-Lyon and the other Murthers of Glen-Coe But that could not be Granted him and another is put into the Place This Story of Glen-Coe is told at Large in the Answer to Docter King's State of the Protectants in Ireland under the Late K. James's Government To which I referr you Now Sir give me leave I beseech you do not you agree with me that there is an Absolute Necessity to Search into the bottom of this Mystery There is none can be so Wicked as to Imagin that any part of the Blame can ly at K. William's Door and therefore it is for his Honour to have it expos'd and let those be Examplarily Punish'd who have Dar'd to Vouch Royal Authority for the most Barbarous Massacre under the shew of
your Wit which could Search so Deep as to find Reasons why Wives may Leave their Husbands and Subjects Abdicate their Prince at their Pleasure And nothing is so Surprizing as these Reasons which you produce for this viz. Because a Wife may be Ravished and forc'd from her Husband therefore it is Lawful for her to yield to an Adulterer Nay to invite him to come and Drive away her Husband to Intrigue with this Gallant under-hand Contrive and Assist him to Frighten her Husband out of his House to save his Life and then to make a Present of it together with her self to her Deliverer And then it is Justly and Legally their own for What made him Run away and leave his House And his Wife holds still Faithful to her Matrimonial Vow she only Change the Object she is for Matrimony still And therefore by her Vow to her First Husband she is bound to the Second She only Transferrs her Allegiance And therefore it is the same Allegiance still All this the Jacobites think is the Consequence of Comparing this Revolution with the Conquest of the French King in Flanders c. p. 7. Because they are Ravished and Forc'd from their Natural King therefore you would Insinuate that your Case is the same who Invited over a Foraign Prince Intrigu'd with him under hand did Assist him to Frighten away our Natural and Lawful King to Save his Life and then made a Present of his Crown together with your Selves to your New Deliverer from the Slavery of an Old Husband And all his Possessions are now Justly your own for What made him Run away and Leave his Kingdom We are still Faithful to our Oath of Allegiance we only Change the Object we are for Monarchy still and therefore by our Oath of Allegiance to K. James we are bound to K. William which is a Topick taken up in Soloman and Abiathar and several of our late Pamphlets for say they we only Transferr our Allegiance and therefore it is the same Allegiance still c. And the Jacobites desire you to remember that Marriage is a Mutual Contract and there is a Due Benevolence and Duty on both sides which if either Party the Husband as well as the Wife shall Neglect or be Guilty of Male Administration why should he not be Depos'd Propter Inutiâ—… Imperium and Good-Womam have the leave to choose another Husband And yet our severe Law will not allow it If you say there are Divorces in Marriage and why not in Government They will answer That for the Case of Adultery only Divorce is Allowed in Scripture and Consequently in our Law But that neither Scripture nor our Law Allows of any Case wherein it shall be Lawful for Subjects to take Arms against their King but on the Contrary Declares it to be unlawful upon any Pretence whatsoever And they make use of this as a strong Argument against us For say they The Law of God and of the Land would have made Exceptions in the one as well as in the other if they had thought it Reasonable And therefore that we must not make Exceptions against the Laws both of God and Man But to come close to the Matter without Smiles or Innuendo's They Desire your Answer whether if Dixmuyde and Furnes had Invited the French to come thither and had Betray'd these Towns into their Hands whether this could in Justice and Good Conscience have excus'd their Transferring their Allegiance and Swearing Oaths to the French King If you do not speak plainly to this they say you do not come up to the Case in hand Unless you will say as some of late have done that the P. of Orange has Conquered England as much as the French King has Dixmuyde c. And that tho' he does not at present set up the Title of Conquest for what Cause he thinks fit yet that he has it in 's Sleeve and may justly set it up when he Pleases For which Gilbert's Pastoral and several other Licensed Pamphlets have already made way And then we all hold our Lives Estates and Liberty only at his Good Pleasure I cannot Imagine why the Parliament does not take Notice of these sort of Pretenders to Politicks who would make them all absolute Slaves under the Arbitrary and Despotick Power of a Conqueror You say in the same place p. 7. That the Principle of Rights of Hereditary Kings to their Crowns being Sacred and Inviolable is Dangerous to the Vnfortunate because it lays a Necessity upon the Conqueror to take away his Life if he can as well as his Throne since he cannot lose his Throne without losing of his Life This say the Jacobites is the very Reason which Frightned K. James away for he Observed in his Father's Words that there are but few Steps 'twixt a Prince's Prison and this Grave And tho' some Kings have been suffered to Live some time in Prison as Edward the Second and Richard the Second c. Yet it still ended in their Murther Therefore K. James the Second had no mind to stay any longer in Prison least he might have made another of the Number But it often falls out that the Murther of one will not Secure the Usurpers Title And therefore Richard the Third Murther'd all he could get who stood 'twixt him and the Crown as did Athaliah O. P. c. And there are many Examples of the like in History And these Jacobites do think that this Consideration should rather Operate against such Bloody Attempts which cannot stop in one or two single Murthers but Run often to the Destruction of whole Families and even Nations rather than against the Right of Succession in Hereditary Princes The Preservation of which would have stopt these Oceans of Blood which have Drown'd many Great and Wealthy Nations for their Violating of this Sacred and Inviolable Right But you say Sir p. 8. That if this be so Princes have no Remedy against the Injury of Neighbour Princes for it is only the fear of Conquest and losing their Crowns that can keep Princes in Awe and bring them to Just and Equal Terms This the Jacobites say is too great a Reflection upon Kings as if there were ne're a Just King in the World And your putting it in these General Terms without an Exception they say Discovers you to be no Friend to Monarchy But even as to the Argument Have Princes no Remedy against the Injury of their Neighbour Princes but taking their Crowns from them Does every Injury deserve so great a Reparation When a King Grants Letters of Mart is not that some Remedy short of Dethroning his Neighbour Prince who has Injur'd him If I owe you a Penny it is Just to take a Thousand Pounds for it It will be Convenient Sir to Explain this a little further Page 9. You shew the Necessity of Swearing to a Conqueror because the whole Nation cannot Run away Answer If the whole Nation were against him there wou'd be no
need of this Question in our Case And for particular Persons you know the Cavaliers Refus'd to Swear to Oliver or the Rump And yet tho Persecuted they were not Destroyed No Conqueror will think it his Interest to Imbroyl his new Acquisition by falling upon a Great part of the People to Drive them to Arms And if the Dissenters be but a small part of the People than your Objection Ceases it is not the Case of a Whole Nation nor the Major Part. The Jacobites do likewise Quarrel much at your Argument p. 14. That K. James would use the Non-swearers ill because the French King used the Hugonots ill They say there is no Consequence They say there is a vast Difference 'twixt K. James's Character and that which goes with some Men of the French King The one a Mild and Merciful Man in his own Nature the other as some would make you believe of a more Fierce and Cruel Temper But that which is a Greater Security is the Disproportion of the Hugonots of France to the Protestants of England The Protestants are Two Hundred to One Papist in England The Hugonots are not as some Compute One to a Hundred Papists in France Now tho' there might be Reasons for Destroying or Banishing Two Men for the Safety or Peace of Two Hundred yet say the Jacobites the Argument will not hold to Destroy Two Hundred for the sake of Two But lastly they say The Difference is Great 'twixt the Non-Swearers of England and the Hugonots of France as to the Principles of Loyalty For tho' the Hugonots stuck to this K. Lewis against the Prince of Conde Yet this was no Religious Quarrel Both these Princes were Roman Catholicks And so they had not the Byass of Religion on either side But it cannot be deny'd that they have often Rebell'd and made many Dangerous Commotions in France of Old And we know it was said how true I cannot tell that the French King had Discovered Plots and Combinations amongst them even in Favour of the P. of O. so long a go which was the Reason of that Persecution for which he is so much Blam'd Whether there be any Truth in this or not yet it is rendered the less Improbable because of our mighty Braggs that the Hugonots and Hugonot Converts are in League with us have Invited us over and are ready to Joyn us upon our Descent for whom we carry Armes and Depend upon them to Rise with us and Declare for King William as soon as he is Able to Protect them The Answer to Great Britains Just Complaint acknowledges Frankly p. 47. in these Words The French King knows that if he be Invaded by a Protestant Prince these Men will Endanger him by a Revolt How far this will Justify the French King in desiring to be Rid of these Men we need not Dispute But I could wish that you had not Mentioned that Matter at this time For there is none but must see that their Case is toto Colo different from that of our Non-Swearers who suffer Expressly for a Principle of Loyalty And they for the Contrary Your 15th Page moves the Jacobites Spleen very much You are there Bemoaning your self What would become of the Church of England if K. James should Return By which say they you only mean your selves the Swearing-Clergy Now they say that you cannot be Ignorant that the Non-Swearers do think themselves the True Church of England and the others though more Numerous to be the Deserters O but say you in the Name of the Swearing-Clergy they would it may be Hang us in that Day and possibly Exchange Smithfield for Tyburn This the Jacobites say is only a twinge of an akeing Conscience And they wish much rather that you should live to Repent like Peter who Denyed his Master out of Fear But that Grace was not given to Judas who Betray'd Him out of Covetousness And he was Delivered over to the most Terrible Executioner the Shame and Confusion of his own Guilt But why do they fear the Cruelty of the Non-Swearers They are Generally Mild and shew Signs of Good Nature enough They who are so much for Passive-Obedience and practise it are thereby in a Good Preparation of mind towards Christian Humility Resignation of themselves to God Forgiveness and even Loving of their Enemies And till they do something Contrary to this they think we ought in Charity to put the best Construction upon their Actions But you Discover what it is which Frightens the Swearing-Clergy and makes them so Apprehensive of Revenge from the Non-Swearers And that is the hard Words they Receive from some of them They call us no better say you p. 15. than Hereticks and Schismaticks and Perjur'd Apostates Alas Did they do it 'T is a very hard Case But say the Non-Swearers What would you have us Call you Either You or We are Schimaticks and Apostates from the Doctrine of Christ as formerly Professed in the Church of England And would you have us to take the Blame off You to lay it upon our Selves And if we believe you to be Perjur'd and would Reprove you for it in the Christian Method What shall we call Perjury but Perjury If you will tell us a more Gentile Word you shall be Gratify'd with it But you say in the same Page They the Non-Swearing Clergy seem to Comfort themselves under their present Sufferings more with the sweet hopes of Revenge than any great expectations of future Rewards This is not say the Jacobites so very Charitable a Censure in the Swearers By this you free them from Convetousness and making Interest the Guide of their Conscience only you think they cannot want a little Sweet Revenge Because their Provocations have been Great and you would think it very Pallatable if their Case were yours But say the Jacobites if they be afraid of an after Reckning they should be have with greater Moderation now And not Hunt us with Messengers and Proclamations if we Print a Word in our own Vindication at the same time that they are Provoking us to tell our Scruples openly and that they will Answer fairly and take no Advantage Among other Examples of Cruelty in this Sort they Instance in the Case of a Young Lad of 12 Years of Age Thom. Ross his Mother a Widdow and Lives upon Charity This Orphan was found with a Paper in Defence of Passive Obedience it was Doctor Tillotson's Letter to Lord Ruffel and the Trimming Court Divine And because he would not tell or may be could not where he had them he was without any Tryal at Law or Jury charg'd with him first set in the Pillory and then Fin'd a Hundred Mark which his Mother not being able to Pay he has Lain now Two Years in Nemgate and is there still and no Applications have Prevail'd tho' his Poor Mother offer'd Part of the Fine that is all she had in the World for his Release Excessive Fines was once a Complaint Of
themselves mightily Pleas'd with the Performance of the Answerer to Great Britains Complaint who Vindicates K. William they say at such a Rate as Exposes him more than the Book he pretends to Answer They say he brings in by way of Apology the severest Objections which K. William's Greatest Enemys could Suggest and then says nothing in the World to Clear them That it is known to every English-Man in England that K. William had no Battle in England Therefore that it is most Ridiculous in this Author p. 65. to Bragg of King William's Victories in England and to Advance his Prowess for this above that of the French K. whom he calls a Coward Was this in his Zeal to make England a Conquest Which is the Notion of late much Advanc'd That it would appear full as Comical to the French to Boast of K. William's Victorys in Flanders as this Author does in the same Place Would they not desire you to Name them Or to remember what the Dutch Narrative above-quoted Names viz. The Battle of St. Nuef the Siege of Mastricht of Woerden Oudenard and of Charleroy And once at Mons they say he Attempted to Steal a Victory with the Articles of Peace in his Pocket They Ridicule him and say that none but the Irish have been Civil to him For none else will be Beaten by him and not that but when he is much Superior in Number as he was at the Boyn which was the first time the French say that ever he saw himself a Victor and is like to be the last For the Irish themselves Baffled him afterwards at Limerick and Forc'd him to Turn his Back But this Author says ibid. That K. William Dar'd the French Army and makes his Great Prowess consist in that Whereas this is the very Jest which the French put upon him viz. That he Stood at the Head of a Hundred Thousand Men to see the French King in Person take Namur amat Victoria Testes without Daring to Strike a Stroak in its Defence tho' he came thither on purpose for its Rescue And his Daring to see the English Butcher'd at Stein-Kirk before his Face without Daring to come in to their Relief tho' he had drawn them into that Snare by his Conduct And the Inference this Author Draws from K. William's thus Daring the French is in the next Words viz. That if the French have the Advantage yet K. William hath Entirely the Honour of the Campaign Which is as severe a Satyr as any of K. William's Enemys could have made upon him to set up a Hero for his Non-Resistance Valour in War Doubtless the Honour is as Great In being Beaten as to Beat Pamphlet p. 64. It is observed that K. James never Won a Battle in his Life Jacobite He has certainly Mistaken an J. for a W. There can be no Excuse for his Malice unless he Plead such a Gross Ignorance as never to have heard that K. James when D. of York did on the 3. of June 1665. in fair and open Fight with the Dutch Blow up their Admiral Opdham and as it was Express'd in the Lord Chancellor's Speech to the Parliament 10. Octo. 65. In that Great Action Sunk Burn'd and took Eighteen Good Ships of War whereof half were the Best they had with the loss of one Single Small Ship of Ours The Actions and the Blessing of that Day that Glorious Third of June hath been Celebrated in all the Churches in England and in the Hearty Devotions of all True English-Men c. And the Commons of England to Express their Great Sense of the Valour and Magnanimity of his Royal Highness did upon this Occasion Grant to his Majesty one Months Assessment amounting to 120902. 15. 8. as a Present to be Given to his Royal Highness The Act begins thus We your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament taking Notice of that Heroick Courage with which your Majesties Royal Brother Expo'd his own Person for the Defence of your Majesty and your People against the Dutch Fleet and of the Glorious Victory through the Blessing of Almighty GOD by him Obtained are Humble Suitors unto your Majesty That we may have leave to make some Expressions of our Humble Thanks to his Royal Highness for the same and that for this end your Majesty would Graciously Please to Accept from us your Loyal Subjects the Sum of Money herein after Mentioned and to Bestow the same upon your Majesties Royal Brother Now what a Witless and Malicious Scribler must this be Reputed who dare out-face the Sun and what is so Publickly known and upon Record in England Nor was his Royal Highness more Celebrated at Home than he was Glorious abroad During his Brother's and his own Exile he was General for France and Spain Alternativly where he Signaliz'd himself to that Degree that the Famous Mareshal Turenne who Instructed his Royal Highness in the Rudiments of War us'd to boast of him that he had Bred up one who did Exceed himself in the Military Capacity And his Fame was Trumpeted no where Louder than in England for about Twenty Years together till the Foundations lay'd for the Bill of Exclusion made it Necessary to have another Character Rais'd of him Pamphlet P. 65. Says of a certain Monsieur but Names no Body that he never got one Inch of Ground nor a Single Town by True Valour and Bravery Jacobite This is True of some Body but not of the French Monsieur Witness in the last Campaign Namur Steinkirk Dixmuyd Furnes c. But if you will say all this was by Treachery on the Confederates side it will follow That they know not among them all a Man they can trust A good Presage of a further Victory But why then was the Valour and Fidelity of the Governour of Namur so much commended You Contradict your selves on all hands In whom lay the Treachery at Steinkirk at Dixmuyd and Furnes Why are not those Traitors call'd to an Account The French King Fights when he pleases and Conquers when he Fights and Those whom be Beats call him a COWARD to make Themselves more Ridiculous and Contemptible Pamphlet p. 62. As for those who declare they ought to Fight against this Government so soon as an Enemy appears I hope the Government will with-draw its Protection from them and pair their Nails in time Jacobite This spoils all the mighty Braggs which this Pamphlet has p. 54. of Dr. King's Book concernign the Affairs of Ireland which he there calls a Convincing Tract and that every Page of it is a Demonstration For the Protestants then there do now declare That it was their Principle to Fight against that Government so soon as an Enemy appear'd and did accordingly And K. James was told of it and was Morally assur'd they would do so And therefore by this Rule he cou'd not have been blam'd if he had pared the Protestants Nails there much closer than even as Dr. King does
one of the French Ships when they lay so long upon our Shore after Beating home our Fleet in the Year 90. of which he thought the less harm because Sir William Jennings and other English Gentlemen and Protestants then Aboard the French Fleet came on shore with the French who Treated the Country with all Imaginable Civility and Kindness and invited any to come on Board them and they shou'd be Civily Entertain'd for they profest that their Master had no Enmity against England but rather Kindness to End their Divisions and stop the Exhausting of their Money and Restoring their Rightful KING and the Laws to their Ancient Channel Upon which this Inn-keeper ventur'd and found them as good as their word and brought Letters from Sir William Jenning's and other English Gentlemen on Board having that occasion to some of their Friends Of which this Fellow was yet so Cautious that he brought them open and delivered them to the next Justice of Peace But he had told that the French were a Civil sort of People and not such Bugg-Bears as some Represent them And was Hang'd without Mercy That more Instances of this Nature are not to be Produc'd is because more however Guilty have not been Convist which was not for want of Good Will Thus say the Jacobites Pamphlet He comes now to the Rarity as the Jacobites call it to Instance a Pardon Granted by K. William Yea one of them says he upon whom Actual Treason was proved hath been Pardon'd after Conviction and Condemnation Jacobite This is the Case of my Lord Preston Which is all over so Extraordinary that Execution had been a Milder Treatment than that he met with He was Taken upon Thursday Janu. 1. 90 91. Try'd and Found Guilty the Saturday Fortnight after The Thursday before his Father-in-Law was Employed to Drink upon him most part of the Day and at Ten a Clock at Night he was Hurry'd away being in Great Disorder to Kensinton where another Treat was Provided and then he was brought before K. William where he Spoke not with that Caution as Reasonably may be suppos'd he would have had at another time On Friday K. William went for Flanders Next Day Lord Preston was brought to his Tryal where he was Confronted with the Lord President and Lord Sidney who had been both Present at his Intercourse with K. William which Lord Preston Declar'd was a Great Awe upon him and Interruption to the Defence he had to make for himself not Remembring what he had said in that Disorder he was in at Kinsinton That he was not Releas'd till about the end of May following All which time he was Delivered over to Satan to be Buffeted under the Conduct of his Renegado Reis-Efendi the most Dexterous of that Sultan's Executioners It would make another Part of the Turkish Spy to tell all the Arts and little Contrivances of this Bloody Officer to Wheedle to Frighten to Circumvent this Condemn'd Lord. The Sheriff being one Day sent to give him Notice of his Execution such an Hour another Day Visited kindly by his Lordships Self and Lord Deu. at other times by other Emissaries with New Threats and Promises of Rewards and Preferments if he would Comply telling him that others had Discovered against him even those whom he endeavour'd to Serve suffering none to come near him to Undeceive him in any Point In short having try'd all ways they Resolv'd to make him an Evidence In order to which it was Necessary to Qualify him by Cranting him a Pardon But his Estate being Intayl'd was the Greatest Security he had for his Life which if they took they would lose the Benefit of Seizing his Estate Therefore they chose to keep that as an Awe over him to Force him to be an Evidence And accordingly having pass'd his Pardon about the end of May and his Lordship gone immediately Home to live Privately he was straight sent for again in June and told that he must be an Evidence Which his Lordship positively Refused That Lord President bid him Remember that tho' his Life was Pardon'd he had an Estate to lose And told him that the Parliament might Undo what the King had Done and Revoke even the Pardon which the King had Granted Lord Preston said he was Surprized to hear that Doctrine from his Lordship K. Charles II. having hazarded a Breach with his Parliament to Support the Pardon his Majesty had Granted to his Lordship upon which Lord N. interpos'd Solving it as well as he could and then Ordered the King's Council who attended to let my Lord Preston know what was yet in the Power of the Government to Inflict upon his Lordship in Case of his Refusal to be an Evidence The Council Learned in the Law then Declared That they could Imprison him During Life and Fine him more than he was Worth His Lordship Answered that he thought Magna Charta and the Laws of England had Limited Fines to be Salvo Contemento And likewise laid down Methods for the Liberty of the Subject However That neither Life nor Estate should prevail upon him to bring Innocent Blood upon his own Head His Lordship was thereupon sent Twice to Newgate whence he Delivered himself both times by Habeas Corpus And his whole Estate was Seized and is still to force him to Hang his own Brother and others whom they do not like And he now Suffers under their Clemency and Good Nature But how came it that this Author did Name but One of the Pardons Granted by K. William For there were Two in his Reign The other was Granted to Crone And the Price he was to Pay for it was to be an Evidence But he was with Great Difficulty and Management brought to it by the Industry of the foresaid Reis-Efendi When he made the â—east Hesitation he was Order'd to Prepare for the Gallows He had Twenty Five Reprives And Three times was brought to the Sledge with the Rope about his Neck At last his Fears prevail'd He said to some of his Friends that he was too Young to Dye considering his Life had not been Strickt And they took his Informations upon Oath after his Condemnation and before his Pardon while he was a Dead Man in Law But to Qualify him to be an Evidence they Granted him a Pardon But least he might Start back the Pardon was given into a Third Hand Sir John Holt who was to be his Judge can tell where it was Lodg'd Upon this he had his Liberty And the very Day before he was to have been Produc'd as an Evidence against the Lives of Honest Men he Struck with the Terror of so Great a Wickedness made shift to get out of the Reach of his Tormentors and still continues so All this Sir the Wicked Jacobites do say I Repeat their Words And they are positive in the Truth of it all and Provoke us to bring them to the Test They say that we our selves know all this to be True Pamphlet Page
here taken Leave again But the Delay of the Press has lengthned your Trouble and mine and Obliged me to Offer to your Consideration the Advantage the Jacobites have taken as to the Story told before of Grandval from a Pamphlet lately come out Called Reflections upon the Late HORRID CONSPIRACY Contrived by some of the French Court to Murther his Majesty in Flanders and for which Grandval one of the Assassinates was Executed Printed for RICHARD BALDWIN 1692. The Design of this Piece is to Lay the whole Odium upon King James and the French King making Them the Contrivers and Managers of this Conspiracy To which the Jacobites say That it was done so Foolishly and in such Faint Harangue as Confutes it self and makes it impossible for any Man of Sense to believe not only that either of these Kings or their Council But that Du-Mont himself who is said to be the Assassinat would or did Engage in such a Ridiculous Contrivance For p. 23. telling of the French Court's Management with Regard to Du-Mont viz. Their Fine Project of Rescuing Du-Mont with Fifteen Hundred or Three Thousand Horse he adds as if he were playing Booty these Words viz. This is all Stuff and in the Opinion of every body that Vnderstands any thing of War was next to an Impossibility And he Confesses in the next Line that Du-Mont could not see throw this which he Acknowledges was very strange because says he the Evenues of his Soul were all Intoxicated and Shut up with the Impression of Twenty Thousand Livers This is Stuff indeed And this is the Defence of the Grandvallian Plot Which I should believe some Malicious Jacobite had Wrote to Expose us still more But that I find two Remarkable Passages of the L. B. of S. which I suppose he would not Discover to any of them The First is p. 19. where he tells of a Proposition made to K. William by the Means of the B. of S. to Kill the French King But that he the said Bishop Started up Immediately and said be thought the King was too well known for any to Dare to come with such a Proposition he hoped he himself had been also so well known that none should have made it by him he was Sorry a Promise was given of Safety but he bid the Rogue be gone immediately And that K. William Order'd the Bishop to be sure to Seize upon him that had made the Proposal if ever he could set Eye on him again The Jacobites wonder if K. William or the Bishop had so Great a Mind to find out this Man how it came to be kept a Secret all this time That the Bishop sure must know something of the Man and some Marks of him with whom he had had such Familiar Conversation And never to make an Enquiry after him Tho' the Bishop tells that K. William was so Earnest in it and look'd on Propositions of this kind with so much Horror that he thought that which on all other Occasions was the most Sacred with him I mean his Word did not bind him in this And tho' he had given Promise of Safety to that Man yet he would even break his Word the Most Sacred thing to him in the World to have him Taken This is say the Jacobites to make us believe that no Man could make such a Proposition to K. William and hope to Live tho' it were against the French King himself And yet p. 2â— He tells of some that when he the P. of Orange came First into England Propos'd to him Proceeding against K. James's Person And how he Rejected the Advices given him at Windsor when he had K. James in his Hands but that he said whatever he might do in the way of War he could not bring himself to do any thing Personally against him Yet we heard of no Body Punished for such Proposals In the same p. 20 21. We have another Proposition made to K. William in Ireland and sent by the B. of S. which was to send a Ship to Dublin and Declare for K. James and then K. James himself was to come on Board and so they were to Run away with him to Spain or Italy When K. William heard all this says the Author he said it look'd Plausible and he verily believ'd it would take I bessech you Sir let some more Care be taken of those who are Employed to Write in Defence of the Government that they do not Expose our King at this Ridiculous Rate Nay more to Load him so Odiously as this Author does p. 22. with the Suspicion of having Order'd the Marquiss de Louvois the Great Minister of France and Father of the Marquiss Barbesieux to be Poisoned Which this Author there says the Marquiss of Barbesieux gave as a Reason to Grandval for his Engaging into that Plot of Assassinating K. William 'T is True this Author says it was but a Suspicion But that leaves it still a Suspicion And is no small Reflection upon K. William as likewise o have heard so many Proposals for Assassinating his Father and the French King without any Punishment Inflicted upon any of the Ruffians The Jacobites will make use of these Innuendoes much to his Disadvantage Nor will the Bishop of S. his Flagrant Harangues Satisfy without better Vindication as to Matter of Fact But as to his Lordships Great Tenderness and Starting at the Proposal of Killing the French King for which you have his own Word the Jacobites know a Passage nearer Home which is better Vouch'd and they say does set the Meekness of that Prelate in a Clearer Light and that is When K. James was Seized at Feversham by the Mobb Mr. Napleton who had been very Active in this Revolution and was one of those who under K. James's Window at Feversham Read the P. of Orange's Declaration and is one of the Excepted Persons in K. James's Declaration came up to London to give an Account to the P. of Orange of what they had Acted and Done at Feversham And at the Prince's Court Meeting Dr. B t who seem'd very Inquisitive to be Inform'd what had Pass'd and amongst other things Mr. Napleton telling him that the Mobb were so Barbarously Rude to his Majesty in the House to which the King was First brought that his Majesty Resolv'd to go to some other House in Town where he hop'd he might be better Secur'd from the Barbarity of the Mobb and called upon Sir Edward Hales to come along with him and Declar'd that he would not go without him and that as the King was going to the Door of the Room the Mobb very Outragiously lifted up their Clubbs Staves and what Weapons they had and Mr. Napleton told the Doctor that he verily believed had not he Stopt the King from going they would certainly have Knock'd out his Majesties Brains To whom the Doctor Replyed Why did you Stop him He Repeating the same Reason the Doctor several times Reiterated Why did you Stop him And that with