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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43659	The judgment of an anonymous writer concerning ... I. a law for disabling a papist to inherit the crown, II. the execution of penal laws against Protestant dissenters, III. a bill of comprehension : all briefly discussed in a letter sent from beyond the seas to a dissenter ten years ago.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing H1854; ESTC R5996	17,943	35

and many other Points with that of Rome did ever oppose both in Word and Deed. And since that Kirk and Nation have been of this Opinion we need not wonder that the English Disciples of their Buchanan and Knox have practised those rebellious Principles which have so debauched and corrupted the Subjects of the Kings of England as to make them be proverbially called The Kings of Devils And which the Anababtists in Germany improved into this Maxim That Saintship was the Foundation of Soveraignty and that the Righteous ought to Inherit the Earth And furthermore if Crowns ought to descend upon Protestants only then it is but just that the Estates of all Subjects whatsoever should be so Entailed and if for example the D of Y must be cut off from his Rights for being a Roman Catholick then let the rest of the Papists lose theirs they are all alike Idolaters and let them all alike suffer And to bring the Case to your own House can you imagine that you your self ought to lose your Right to the Estate you have or may have hereafter upon that supposition that you should turn Papist which men as firmly resolved against it as you have certainly done These Practises and Proposals are such that they have left a blot on the memories of some men that seem more zealous than their Brethren And I am glad at present that the Religious Lord Chose is the Chief Patron and Promoter of such an Unreasonable and Romish Design It is unreasonable to exclude a Popish Heir from a Crown to which he derives his right from Popish Ancestors and I have more than ordinary reason to call it Romish because I have heard it maintained here among all the Priests I converse with It is a Doctrine dearly beloved by the Romanists And put but the Name of Heretick to a Prince here and it is just the same case as when you call a Prince a Papist in England where if there be no more than my good Lord Chose that are Fautors of this Romish Doctrine my Country is in a far better case than I thought it to be And truly this noble Project of the late Lord Chose was condemned by all Protestants as soon as it took air in France not only for that it was an Ungospel way of Proceeding and savours strongly of the Doctrine of Rome which they abhor but because it puts their King in mind of a Project he is very much inclined to viz. To make a like Law here that none but a Roman Catholick shall ever be King or bear any Office or Trust in the Kingdom And certainly if it should ever please God for our sins to suffer our Princes to backslide into Romish Idolatry and Superstition we have nothing to do but to pray and like our Glorious Ancestors in Queen Mary's days suffer quietly when we cannot flie And therefore I wonder that you would so obliquely reflect upon the Bishops and censure them for doing that which in Honour and Duty they were bound to do and represent this to their Disgrace which all good and well advised Protestan's must needs Command them for if they will be Impartial But put the case such an Act were made who can see the bad consequences thereof The Union of Great Brittain will be broke upon it and War entailed upon both Kingdoms and by the same reason that none but a Protestant shall succeed now Faction still increasing none perhaps within a while will be thought fit to Inherit the Crown but a Presbyterian c. For you that are used to talk of Numbers and Strength can best tell how Numerous and Powerful they are that are possessed with as firm a prejudice against the Church of England as the Church of Rome it self denying Communion equally with both and who educate their Children in perfect hatred of the one as the genuine Daughter of the other I have wrote all this to present to your view what perhaps in the hurry of Zeal you have not had time to consider And though I think it very impious and unreasonable to debar any such Prince from the Crown upon this account yet could we imagine the Government were to be formed again I would be as Zeal us for this condition as the greatest Zealot of them all And I am as sorry as any other good Protestant that it was not always one of the Fundamental Laws of England though now it be too late to make it such You tell me also that my Lord intends to come and live in London I suppose it may be under pretence to secure his Person from the Papists but I wish it may not be with a design to act over the same things under a pretence of securing the Protestant which the Duke of Guise acted in Paris under a seeming Zeal to secure the Popish Religion The Reason that makes me fear it is the conformity of our times in England with those in France as you may see by the following account The Duke who was a man of an High Spirit and not able to bear the least disgrace being removed by Henry III. from the most Rich and Honourable of his Court-Preferments became thereupon Male-content and retiring from the Court which he now did hate went to live at his House in Paris where by many Arts as in particular by the subtle Practises of the Priests and Jesuits he became in a short time the Minion of the People whose Affections he drew off from the King by representing him though a hearty Roman Catholick as a favorer of the Hereticks who under the protection of the Princes of the Bloud increased mightily in his Reign He also represented him in particular to be a great favourer of the King of Navarre against whom he himself had a particular ill will and whom the People through the Instigation of the Priests and Iesuits did perfectly hate because he was a Protestant although he was Primier Prince of the Blood for whom the French commonly have a great Reverence and by Consequence Heir Apparent or as a Friend of yours would have said Heir Presumptive for the King had no Child to Inherit to the Crown of France After he had thus made the credulous People by the help of the Priests and Iesuits zealous for the Defence of their Declining Religion he drew them to League into Rebellion against their lawful Soveraign under a pretence of securing the same by removing Evil Councellors from his Person and obliging him to employ his Royal Power in suppressing the Protestants and in particular by declaring the Heretick King of Navarre afterwards H. IV. uncapable of succeeding to the Crown For the sake of Peace the King was willing so far to deny himself as to grant the two first but could never be made so false to the Interest of the Royal Family as to consent to the last by changing the order of Succession to the Crown by which his Ancestors had Reigned so many hundred years and which