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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64294	Tell-truth's answer to Tell-troth's letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury in vindication of His Lordship / by as down-right an English-man as himself, without scandalous reflections.	Tell-truth.	1680 (1680)	Wing T623B; ESTC R37880	4,627	5

Tell-Truth's Answer TO TELL-TROTH's LETTER To the Right Honourable the Earl of SHAFTESBURY In Vindication of his LORDSHIP By as down-right an ENGLISH-MAN as himself Without Scandalous REFLECTIONS SIR I Have lately seen and perused a Letter in Print to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury from one that stiles himself Tom Tell-Troth a downright Englishman I must confess he begins well and expresseth himself in very good words to the due honour of that truly Noble Lord as owning him to be as indeed he is a stout Asserter of the Protestant Religion and Interest and tells us that Monarchy and the Protestant Religion do suffer in respect of the present Designs of Papists and Common wealths-men but what he meant by coupling good Common-wealths-men and Papists together I could not understand till Reading his Letter a little farther I quickly found and discovered that he was a Wolf in sheeps cloathing and it will be Strange if I do not find him to be a Jesuite or one as bad before the end of this Letter Yet very honestly he in the next words tells my Lord that Ruine and Desolation Confusion and every evil work will come swift upon us nothing more sure if some speedy Remedy be not instantly proposed by the wisdom of the great Council of this Nation by that great Council I suppose he means the Parliament and therein he writes honestly and truely for I will give the Devil his due but it is to be feared if they do not sit speedily it will be too late to prevent that Ruine and Desolation he truly fore-tells is coming upon us though I believe he writes Ironically and in a jeering way In the next place he comes with many words though to little or no purpose from 41 to the happy Restauration of the King in which glorious work I am perswaded he was no way instrumental for His Majesty was thanks be to God wonderfully restored to His Royal Throne by Gods Providence and some worthy Instruments the Earl of Shaftesbury being one eminent in that great work Then he would make a parallel between 41 to this present time concerning the person of the late King Church and Government and that they were the Results of such pernicious Counsels and Designs as are now hatching by these Sons of Belial to the present disturbance of our Church and Kingdom If there were Sons of Belial as you say and I believe there were in 41 I mean the Jesuits and the Popes Emissaries as Dr. Oates that worthy person and ever to be esteem'd hath made appear there were those I suppose are generally dead gone to Purgatory or somewhere else But you say there are now Sons of Belial that study all the mischief they can to King Church and State I suppose you writing so confidently of it must be well acquainted with them and be of their Councils and therefore you would do good service to discover them which I would do did I know them if you will not you must give me leave to tell you in down-right English that you are either a Jesuite of the Church of Rome or a Masked Protestant in the Church of England for I am a truer down-right Englishman and Protestant than I find you are In the next place he tells us That in Forty and after the Papists seeing our Church so well guarded with Purity of Doctrine and Faith that is true behold what Emissaries were sent out and with what cloathing to deceive what cloathing indeed the Puritan is the man he names and three persons that are dead and then tells us that Arch-bishop Laud must be the first called into question and butcher'd for being a Papist or Popishly inclin'd This I deny but must needs say that Archbishop Laud was an Eminent Assertor of the Rights of the Church and a true Protestant as his Learned Books against Fisher the Jesuite do declare for I knew Bishop Laud I think better than you did but by your leave Sir as old as you are Bishop Laud suffered for other matters as the Articles that were against him will inform you Then he comes to tell us that the Rabble in those times cried down Evil Counsellors their design being to bring in Popery and destroy Liberty ay Liberty of the Subject in a jeering scoffing way Sir know it is our Birthright and you are an unworthy man if you are against it and ought never to enjoy it but live and dye a slave And then he mentions Ship-money a huge burden was against Magna Charta so it was though but small in it self as also all other Monopolies in those days contrived by Ministers which were conscious of their ill deserts to keep off the sitting of the Parliament which they knew would call them to account for above Ten years in which time had the Parliament sate it would no doubt have supplyed His Majesty with much more in a legal way and the Subjects would have been ready and willing to have paid it But do you not remember you old Englishman as you stile yourself in the latter part of your Letter what became of those persons that kept off the King from His Parliament for so long a time if you do not I do I wish we had not some such persons now adays if we have they must look for the same success as they had then in the end A King of England in Parliament is Absolute and as Redoubtable as any Monarch in the world nor did ever any King that relyed upon and agreed with his Parliament miscarry As on the other side when ever base Flatterers to serve their own ends and to secure themselves from Justice have perswaded a Prince to slight grow jealous of or be estranged from Parliaments it hath always proved of fatal Consequence to the King and Kingdom Pray God bless and preserve his Majesty from all Popish Conspiracies as he hath hitherto done that he may more and more discover his real Friends from his pretended ones and then his Majesty will finde that those persons whom this Scribler terms Meeters in Clubs at Taverns and other places are his Majesties best and faithfullest Friends he hath for they meet only to enjoy the Society of one another and to study the Preservation of his Majesty the Protestant Religion the Peace and Quiet of the Kingdome against the Attempts and Plots of the Devil and the Pope and all their Party who still study how and nothing more than how Ruine and Destruction may be brought upon King and People as this their late Hellish and Damnable Plot sufficiently and fully have discovered Though Sir you to exasperate the people and tell of 41 to put this Plot aside say Then comes forth a Plot full of Treason and Popery and is there not just cause to suspect you to be concerned in it since you write so slightingly of it as if there were no reality that there was this Hellish Popish Plot But you say it came forth So it