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
Popery tho' they fought to set up a Popish Queen against a Protestant Queen who was in Possession and Reigning in London And they say that Theudas and Judas Act. 5. fought against the Jewish Religion tho' they fought to set it up and to pull down the Idolatry of Rome And all this because the Principles of a Religion are more to be Regarded are more the Religion than its Legal Establishment The next Question this Author asks these Jacobites is Page 25. Do they think themselves bound in Censcience to Fight for their Prince against the Laws and Liberties of their Country To this the Jacobites Answer That the Laws of the Country are expresly On their side against Resistance of their King or altering the Hereditary Monarchy upon any pretence whatsoever And they say That we do as good as Confess all this when we will not stick by the Rule of the Law in this Revolution but fly to Original Contract to over-Rule the Law He asks Have the rest of mankind no Rights but only Princes Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves nor to our fellow Subjects They Answer The Greatest Right and Security of Subjects is to Preserve the Laws and chiefly the Prerogative which is the Greatest Barrier 'twixt Property and the Incroachments of their Fellow Subjects which in Civil-War are infinitely more Destructive to Property than any Tyranny in the Soveraign And therefore that the Greatest Justice we can do to our selves or to our fellow subjects is to beat down all these Popular pretences to Sedition and Rebellion He sayes A Nation which Fights against its own Laws and Liberties is Felo de se Witness Ireland say the Jacobites where in three years one half of the Nation have been Destroy'd upon this Popular Pretence Many more than a hundred Neroes successively would have put to Death What will be the Fate of England in this Revolution none yet can tell but the Jacobites fear the worst They say that England in this Quarrel Fights against its own Laws and therefore is Felo de se Can any English-man sayes this Author whatever Opinion he has of the late K. James's Right think himself bound in Conscience to maintain his Right The Jacobites think this a very strange Question But the Author Adds By giving up his Country to France to make him King and all his Subjects French Slaves First If the Thing be Right and according to God's Laws the Jacobites desire this Author to Answer it whether he would not do it whatever Nation in the World were concerned in it Secondly They say That Recalling K. James is the only probable way to prevent our being French Slaves The Victories of France run in a full Tide against us while they say our small Successes are brought to pass by great Chances even by Miracles and seem to no other purpose than to keep us in heart to give all the Money in the Nation to Forreigners and continue Obstinate till it be past Remedy We Play says the Jacobites like a Gamster who Stakes his whole Stock every cast of the Die one Unluckey throw breaks him and it is a Miracle if that throw do not come if the Play continue long On the other hand he that Plays against us Manages his Stock he lays up before-hand and has already in his Treasury the whole Expence for the Year 93. he Drains his People by Degrees We Squeze our Orange all at once He Manages by Rules and leaves nothing to Chance we leave all to Hazard see what will come on 't He lives upon his Interest we spend off the Principal from Hand to Mouth and our Money is spent before it comes in great part of which goes to pay the Extraordinary Interest upon which we Anticipate our Revenue So that if we trust not to the Dice we have certainly the worst of the Lay and nothing can save us but a sudden ending of the Game which we must lose if Management does Determin it while the Enemy has the greater Stock Now suppose France should Conquer us in this Quarrel for nothing is impossible whether say the Jacobites would we be in the blame who perswade to accept of the Peace which France presses upon us upon no other Conditions than to Receive our King again which they say we are bound in Conscience to do or will not all the Mischievous Consequences of such a Conquest ly at their Door who Reject this offered Peace rather than Return to their Duty or own that they have done amiss If we answer that we have not done amiss The Jacobites desire no better than to bring it to that Test to dispute the Justice of the Cause without Consideration of Politiques And even in Politiques they ask us whether they Judge wisely who are for continuing a War wherein we must trust to Miracles for our Success and that too when we Fight against what most of us do acknowledge to be King James's Right or else he could have no Right to seek for it again which he has by Dr. Sherlock's own Confession But says our Author p. 25 26. Can any Prince have more Right to be King of England than the Kingdom of England has to be England The Jacobites desire this may be further explained It is a fine round saying and no doubt must be true But they see not how we can apply it to the present Case They say that England is most England when its Government is Monarchical and Hereditary when its Monarch is Irresistable by Force even in Case of Male administration or upon any pretence whatsoever for then the Door is for ever shut against all popular pretences for Rebellion which our wise Legislators have found by experience to be infinitly of more dangerous Consequence to England as to all other Governments than the Arbitrariness of the Governours and therefore have made Non-Resistance an Act of Parliament It is our Law say they the Law of England it is our Constitution And therefore that England is least England when you break in upon her Constitution over-turn her Laws and being wiser than your Fore-Fathers open the Door to Eternal pretences for Rebellion and Restless Revolutions They say that we are trying the experiment over again of York and Lancaster of King Charles and Oliver and that England was then least England and so they say it is now and that we may see it plainly by its Tottering Uncertain Aguish Disposition in danger to be Swallowed by France if we will desperately stand that Test to be drained by the Confederates which they say is in a pretty good forwardness or to be divided at home and make England the seat of the War and share the Fate of Ireland which is most of all to be dreaded All this say these Jacobites is owning to our Revolution and cannot be Remedy'd but by Returning our Laws and Constitution to their old Channel But is it not an unaccountable tenderness and scrupulosity of Conscience
says our Author p. 26. to be so concerned for any one Prince's Right as to Sacrifice the Rights and Libertyes of all the Princes of Europe to his To this Question the Jacobites answer That they will Sacrifice no Mans Right to anothers But if one Man will Invade anothers Right as they pretend the P. of O. did to K J. and if a Confederacy of the Neighbourhood should for their own Ends support the Man who did the Wrong they say that all Honest Men are bound in Conscience to Act against that Confederacy And if this should turn to the Loss of any of the Confederates the Guilt lyes at their own Door The Jacobites wonder we should bring so plain a Case as this And they say that standing by the Oppressed in such a Case as this is asserting the Rights and Liberties of Mankind And that taking part with the Invaders of other Mens Right is Sacrificing the Rights and Liberties not only of all the the Princes of Europe but of every Man in the World But our Author Supports his Position in these following words It is to no more purpose to Dispute with men who do not feel the Force of this Argument at the first hearing than to Reason with Blind-men about Colours And the Jacobites think this may be said as to their Arguments which are founded upon the Natural and Universal Notions of Right and Wrong against which if any Man Dispute he is suppos'd to have Denied First Principles and so to be heard no longer They say That all their Arguments are for Supporting Right and that Ours are for Defending Wrong Therefore I see no Remedy but that we must come to the Right or Wrong of the Cause with them and must suffer our selves to be Determined by the Scripture and by the Laws of the Land as Established in former Parliaments If we Refuse this Test we shall have the Cry of the Nation against us for as yet they are not quite wrought off their Good Opinion of Scripture Laws and Parliaments What follows in our Author upon this Argument is say the Jacobites an Effeminate breaking out into passion when Reason sails viz. They have no Sense left nothing but a Stupid and Slavish Loyalty their senseless mistake of the true meaning of this word Loyalty by which they will needs understand an absolute Obedience without Limitation or Reserve when most certainly it signifies no more than Obedience according to Law Thus our Author In return to which the Jacobites say they pitty his Passion and pass by his Complements of stupid slavish senseless onely Admonish him for the future that it is a certain sign of a Lost Cause for while a Man thinks he has the better of the Dispute he is pleased But he grows angry only at an Argument which is too hard for him he bites that as a stone that is thrown at him because it hurts him But say the Jacobites we will not take that advantage of his passion as to over-look any thing of his Argument He sayes That most certainly Loyalty signifies no more than Obedience according to Law Say the Jacobites No more it needs while the Law makes our Obedience Absolute and without Limitation by Declaring it not to be Lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King or those Commissionated by him And therefore the Jacobites do humbly mind this Author that the senseless mistake he speaks of concerning the Meaning of the Word Loyalty belongs to the Parliament however he meant it as well as to the Jacobites For several Acts of Parliament do Enact Non-Resistance upon any pretence and if that be not an Absolute Obedience without Limitation then this Author say the Jacobites does wrong us for we never carried Absolute Obedience farther than Non-Resistance where with a safe Conscience we cannot yield an Active Obedience Allow us that say they and we will seek no more But if you will not then Rail at our Parliaments and our Laws say they call them senseless slavish and what you will but excuse the poor Jacobites for following of these till they be Repealed But Secondly the Jacobites Answer That Sir Edward Coke the Great Oracle of our Law tells us in Calvins Case That Allegiance is prior to all Municipal Laws That the World was long without Municipal Laws And yet Allegiance was then Due from Subjects to their Soveraign And this he calls Natural Allegiance because it arises not from the Obligation of any Municipal Law but from the Law of Nature from that Natural Relation there is 'twixt the Governours and the Governed When this Allegiance comes to be Recogniz'd in the Municipal Laws of any Country it is then called a Legal Allegiance not that it was Created by the Law for it was prior to the Law as has been said or that it receives more strength by the Law but it is Published Ascertained and Recogniz'd by the Law which alters nothing of its Force and Obligation which it had before the Law And hence the Natural and the Legal Allegiance are not two Allegiances but the same Allegiance Considered under different Modifications As the King is the same King before and after his being Crown'd or Recogniz'd by Parliament Therefore Sir Edward Coke tells us The Law did allow the Allegiance of the Subjects in Scotland and England to be the same after King James the 1st came into England tho' the Municipal Laws of both Kingdoms did disser in many things So that our Author 's Most certainty say the Jacobites that Loyalty or Allegiance signifies no more than Obedience according to Law is most certainly otherwise for tho' our Allegiance be according to Law because it is Acknowledged and Recognized by the Law yet it is prior to the Law and therefore takes not all its Force from the Law and Consequently signifies somthing more than Obedience according to Law viz. That Obedience which was before the Law and which the Law it self owns to be so These are all the Arguments every one in this Author concerning the Resolution of our Conscience as to this Revolution The remaining part of this Letter from p. 26 27. is only Reflecting upon the carriage of the present Jacobites while K. James was upon the Throne which is not Material to our present business for if they fail'd in any thing then that is nothing as to the Guilding of our Conscience now this is nothing but personal Reflection and is below Men of Argument that search after Truth This Author there takes a great deal of pains to Convince the Jacobites that they ought to have Fought better than they did against the Prince of Orange when he came over to Dispossess his Father This the Jacobites will readily Grant and what will this Author gain by it But he makes an excuse for them p. 28. They did not expect says he what followed they desired to have their Laws and Liberties secured but not that the King James should loose his Crown And
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
the King and when every Body was pursuing after Du-mont who was Invisible having a Secret to charm People's Eyes they should have time to escape and save themselves This was the Scheme and Manner of executing the said Design which was contrived by the Marquiss of Barbesieux Son to the Marquiss of Louvois as also Secretary of State to the French King Mounsieur Paparell and some of the Ministers in the highest Employments and of the greatest Credit in the French Court as the True Account says If they could contrive no better than this the Jacobites think we should not find so much trouble in our War with Frarce They desire to be excused if it be not in their power to believe that the Great Ministers of France could concert their Business no better than this Not to name several lesser Matters as that Du-mont was to shoot at King William at an hundred paces distance he might have come nearer being Invisible If King William had been alone there was hazard of missing or not killing kim at that distance But consider him surrounded with his Officers and Attendants and that his Stature is not so Great as to be hit over other People's Heads at a hundred paces distance you must then shoot through two or three likely before the Bullet could come at him But perhaps Du-Mont had an Invisible way of taking aim too and could charm his Bullet to follow his Directions It was likewise pretty difficult which was contrived by the Marquiss of Barbesieux Paparel c. pag. 5 6. viz. That after Du-Mont had shot King William at his Grand Guard the Prisoner Grandval and Parker who was in England with fifteen hundred Horse from the Grand Guard of the Duke of Luxemburg's Army were to rescue Du-Mont and bring him off the said Du-Mont giving timely notice to the Prisoner Grandval of the intended Execution Thus the True Account The Jacobites think this almost as impracticable as the other Contrivance of the Charm For Du Mont was to watch his Opportunity to shoot King William as he went to visit the Grand Guard and had no choice left by this Contrivance but to charm King William to stand still and in the same Posture he lik'd till he could give timely notice to the Prisoner of the intended Execution Or if he had a Familiar to fly swiftly with the Errand yet after he had shot King William he would need another Secret to charm Peoples Hands from falling upon him till his Friends should come from the Duke of Luxemburg's Grand Guard to rescue him But this True Account ends with a Material Objection viz. That it was like enough Monsieur Barbesieux would disown that he gave any such Orders or that he was any ways concerned in a Business of this Nature To which Grandval reply'd let him deny what he pleases yet if I were put upon it I would make it appear very plain for I have an Original Paper under Monsieur Barbesieux's own hand which I have Lodg'd with a Friend of Mine who will not part with it to any one but my self and no Body else knows with whom I have Intrusted it Thus ends The True Account To which the Jacobites reply that either the Prisoner was then put upon it since as the True Account tells us in the same place that he sought to Justify himself upon the Orders he had received from the Marquis of Barbesieux or when or how was it he could be put upon it if not to Defend his Life And when he thought that proving the Marquis Barbesieux Orders to him would be a Justification of him why would not he Produce the Orders Was not he then put upon it Would he give such a Ridiculous Answer as to say he had left them with a Friend whom no Body knew and who was Engag'd not to part with them to any but himself after he had without Torture so frankly Confest all the rest of the Conspiracy No. â—ay the Jacobites this has not Common Sense in it this would be rather to Provoke and Defy his Judges than to Plead for himself To say he had Evidence but would not Produce it There must be some other meaning in it And the Jacobites say they can think of nothing else but that Grandval has been put upon to give this Evidence to Blacken K. James and the French Court with promise of Life in ultimo â—…ticulo and then has been taken Short as we know others have been in the like Case of which in likely-hood he being Apprehensive kept this pretended Original Paper of Barbesieux as a Pawn for his Life that if they carryed the Jest too far and gave him short Turn they should never get that Paper of Barbesieux for he had left it with a Friend whom he 〈◊〉 Engag'd not to part with it to any one but himself and no Body else knows says he with whom I have Enâ—…d it And these Jacobites are the rather Induc'd to believe this not only because they can put no other Meaning upon that Passage of Grandval But because that Council of War which 〈…〉 was Compos'd of the Men in the World most Violent and Regâ—…ed against K. James â—… Some of his own Deserters and Prayers Men highly Obliged Rait'd and Trusted by him and who had basely Deserted and Betray'd him past hopes they think of his Mercy and a few Dutch Men whose Affections and Candor to K. James or the French are very well known Those were the Council Ginckle lately made Earl of Athlone General Van Scravenmore and Lieutenant General Talmash the Marquis Da la Forest the Heer Van Weede Count Noijelles and the Heer Zabel Majors General and the Brigadeers Churchill and Ramsey Cornelius Van Wou and Richard Vthwayt Judgas Advocates Assisting who have shewn as much Integrity as Ingenuity say the Jacobites Sir These are some of the Objections which I have heard the Jacobites Urge to Invalidate this pretended Evidence of Grandval against K. James And he came not off so well as the Sham Spy who was to be Hang'd at Notingham when Princess Ann was there But Grandval is taken out of the way to give farther Evidence Therefore it will concern the Government that something be said to this least the Reflection which this Account of Grandval is thought to bring upon K. James return double upon our selves And tho' this has been Published since the Writing of your Letter to a Friend yet I know of no better Hand to whom to Recommend so necessary a Vindications of our Proceedings in this Matter and therefore I Intreat that you would Consider it together with the other Jacobite Objections which I have offered to you in this Paper to receive your Answer for the Good of the Nation And do not think that this is sufficiently done by those Papers that have been cry'd about the Streets and Licens'd by the Government telling us of several Apparitions to Private Souldiers in K. Williams's Army in Flanders giving Account of this
Great Honour to his Country and himself The Jacobites Observe that his Highness could not find even Dutch Judges or Jury would believe such Great Men ought to Dye or would be Guilty of such mean Plots and poorly contriv'd only because his Barber told him so And one of them was not so much as Accused The History owns p. 70. That no certain Evidence or Canfession of the one or Accusation of the other have been made known But Sir these are Old Storys There is a Later Instance which I have heard from the Jacobites and they say it is of a Piece with all the rest In the Year 89. when the States of Holland and Amsterdam Contended against having a Foraign King for their State-Holder and Meen Heer B. was sent over to Act on the Part of the State-Holder and finding Difficulty's arise the Old Politick was again set on Foot say the Jacobites Koin the Jew who is Famous ' for Contriving and bringing on the General Impost upon Coffee there whether they Drink any or not Swore against two of the most Troublesom of these Burghers That they offer'd to Bribe him to Poyson the State-Holder They remembred De-wit Pain and Vin and well knew the Consequence and the Meaning of such Accusations And were glad to Learn how to give their Votes as they ought to do and others took Warning so the Point was Carry'd But when the Tryal of the Burghers came on there was but a single Evidence as there was against De-Wit and the Jew was believ'd as little as the Barber But had not so good Luck For upon the Burghers being acquit the Jew was Banish'd the Territorys of Amsterdam They durst proceed no farther at that time against him During his Banishment he thought himself Neglected by his Patron Meen Heer B. And began to Blabb it out who it was that set him on to Swear against the Burghers Who hearing of it found some means to bring him to Amsterdam Where they had him first Arrested for Debt for they were afraid to venture too far knowing whom they had to deal with and seeing none come to Relieve him concluded that the Drudgery of Swearing being over his Patron had no farther use for him and therefore proceeded to bring him upon the Stage for this Conspiracy against their Lives and to Discover his Accomplices Being put to the Torture he did Confess Was Sentenc'd to the Pillory and to the Rasp-house their Bridwell for Six Years where I suppose he now is to be found But there is one thing Extraordinary The Confession of this Koin is kept up tho' it be the Custom there always to Publish the Confession of those who are Sentenc'd after being put to the Torture for the Vindication of the Government This say the Jacobites is like keeping the Tryals of the fore-mentioned Friars Graham and Thursby out of the Printed Account of the Sessions at Old-Baily Sept. 92. In this Class of Sham-Plots and Impostures they mind us to make a farther Examination into the Business of Fuller who Swore many Noble Lords and others into a Plot his Grace of Canterbury Sancraft the Chief It is certain he has been set up and supported by some Body They desire us to inquire and we will find that he had a Bill of 200 l. this Summer from Meen Heer B. above mentioned And before that he drew a Bill of 50 l. from Flanders to the Great Man at Lambeth by the Name of his Uncle who paid it And said he would do more than that for him if he performed what he had Engaged to him It would be ask'd likewise how he came to be kept from his Tryal all this Summer the H. of Commons last Winter having Voted him an Impostor and desired that the Atturney General might Prosecute him and yet that was forgot till the Parliament was ready to to Meet this Winter And the first Day of his standing in the Pillory according to Sentence was disappointed the Pillory being set up but no Fuller came and it was taken down again Which made so great an Out-cry and gave such Disgust and Jealousy as is not cur'd by his being set afterwards in the Pillory for it shewed how unwillingly it was done and meerly to stop Peoples Mouths There is Greater Care taken say the Jacobites of his Colleague Young who Counterfeited Arch Bishop Sancroft's Hand and others and see them to an Association he has the Honour to be set out by the Bishop of Rochester's Pen for Blackhead the Evidence against him because of his Quality a Taylor must not be sent to Goal but has been suffered to make his Escape from a Messenger in the Savoy Aaron Smith is a Greater Scandal than these being Publickly Own'd and Employ'd by the Government as a Plot-journey-Man His Life would make a History When many Lords and others were lately Commited contrary to Law without any Information upon Oath against them The Matter was indeavour'd to be folv'd up by Aaron Smith's making Oath that he had informations against them which he did But when it came to the Test he could produce none and so they were forc'd to Discharge those they had Illegally Imprisoned But Aaron Smith not Punish'd for his Evident Perjury and Conspiracy against the Lives of so many Noble and Worthy Gentlemen Sir forgive my Repeating these Things from the Mouths of the Jacobites they must be told to the end that their Mouths may be stopp'd and we may all know for no doubt you do how to Answer them There are many other Passages of Different Natures which give great Scandal against the Government The Princes Ann Flying from her Father did not more Allarme the People of England of some Deep and they could not tell what Design on Foot than her Royal Highness present Quarrel with her Sister and of so long Continuance does Amaze and Distract the Common People They think all is Wrong There is something at the Bottom more than we know Is it so that there is not one Wise Man among us to take away or some way Compose so Fatal a Breach 'twixt those in Possession and those in Expectance of the Crown At least not to suffer it to Rise to such an Extravagant height as to have their Guards taken from their Royal Highnesses and Publick Affronts and Indignitys put upon them in all Places and that by Order from Her Majesty One of these came to my hands and is here under Written It was sent to Attend upon her Highness to the Bath last Summer and follows in these Words White-Hall August 30th 1692. THE Queen has been inform'd that your Self and Brethren have Attended the Princess with the same Respect and Ceremony as have been usually path to the Royal Family Perhaps you have not heard what Occasion her Majesty has had to be Displeased with the Princess and therefore I am Commanded to Acquaint you that you are not for the Future to Pay her Highness any such Respect or Ceremony without
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
29. He K. James Granted Dispensations Contrary to Law and Despised a Parliaments Confirmation Jacobite The Contrary of which is so much True that the Great Objection against him was his Indeavouring to get the Parliaments Confirmation viz. To have the Penal Laws and Tests taken away by Parliament Yet in all that time there was no need found for the Self Denying-Ordinance no Guilt Confess'd in Rejecting it nor Scandal in having it overthrown by the Votes and open Solicitation of Foraigner and Soventeen Court Bishops after it had pass'd the Commons who were most Concerned in it Pamphlet Page 26. As to the Conventions Gift they and K. William believe after the Throne was Vacant that they ought to have Declared his Wifes Hereditary Right Jacobite Yet it is certain they never did Declare it How will this Author Vindicate them in this Pamphlet Page 20. The Convention did Examine it the Birth of the P. of Wales as far as was Necessary to their own Satisfaction and after all Declar'd the Princess 〈◊〉 Orange to be the Right Heir Jacobite This is News indeed It is an Impudence that Points out the Author For none other sure Durst have so positively averr'd what the whole Nation knows to be as False as Hell For neither Parliament nor Convention ever once Touch'd in the least Tittle upon the P. of Wales nor could be Provok'd to it as is sufficiently known Nor did they ever Declare the Princess of Orange to be the Right Heir We desire the Votes of the House may be Produc'd or some Sufficient Voucher Who could Imagine that any Man of Common Reputation would tell in Print a Lye of such a Nature that every Body must know to be so who have the least Conversation in Affairs or have Read but the Votes or a New Letter Pamphlet Page â—0 Where there is no doubt concerning the next Heir upon Cession or Death there the Right Heir Succeeds Immediately But while the next Heir is Ambiguous in an Hereditary Monarchy till the Title he Examin'd Clear'd and Declared none of the Pretenders can Assume the Royal Pignity Jacobite I need not Apply this Pamphlet Page 21. Why should the Convention do his K. James's Business for him and Neglect the Nations Sufety i. e. in Examining into the Birth of the Prince of Wales Jacobite That is if they had Examin'd into it they must have found the Truth of the Birth of the P. of Wales from the Queen and that would have done K. James his Business for him But K. James his Business did not wholly depend upon the P. of Wales for whoever was his Heir did not hurt his Title In the next Place it was not altogether K. James's Business For did it not Highly Concern the Nations Safety to Examine and Clear who was next Heir till that was done by your Rule here set down neither the Princess of Orange nor her Husband could Assume the Royal Dignity without plainly changing our Hereditary Monarchy into an Elective One. Pamphlet p. 20. The Convention Judged viz. of the P. of Wales's Birth and Vnanimously Declar'd for the Princesses Right and in this sufficiently shew'd they did not intend to make this Monarchy Elective in that they Declar'd the True Heir to be Queen Jacobite As if setting up the next Heir during the Life of the True Owner were not an Election Or setting up any other but the next Heir Secondly She ought by this Rule to be Queen in her own Right and he but a Matrimonial King Whereas she is Absolutely Divested of all Manner of Power and the whole Execution put in him insomuch that she cannot Act in his Absence but by Vertue of a Particular Act of Parliament made for that purpose which might Inable any one else as well to Act what she does And yet this Author says p. 27. That the P. of Orange did Accept the Crown in his Dear Consorts Right which as it is Generally told he Rejected with Disdain and said he did not come over to be her Gentleman-Vsher Pamphlet p. 24. Perhaps he might have Seized the Crown by his Power Jacobite This is the Title of Conquest from which that Party cannot Refrain Dr. Burnet began it but stands Ominously Corrected by the Hand of the Hang-Man Pamphlet p. 26. K. James chose to Fly rather than to Treat Jacobite First the P. of Orange never offer'd a Treaty Secondly When the King offer'd it and sent the Lords Hallifax Nottingham and Godolphin to Treat with the Prince and offer'd all Desir'd in the Prince's Declaration viz. Leaving all to a Free Parliament His Highness Return'd such an Answer as made it Visible to all the World he came not to Treat It is inserted p. 93. of the History of the Deser wherein he Demands that the King shall immediately give up the Tower of London Tilbury Fort and Portsmouth That all Papists and others not Qualify'd by Law who adher'd to the King should be Disarm'd Disbanded c. while he himself had more Foraign Papists in his Army than the King had of His own Subjects in His And as if the Law Countenanc'd his Invasion and the Subjects Rising in Arms with him against the King more than the King 's Employing all the Hands he could get upon such an Apparent Necessity Nay more they would not Submit to ask Pardon from the King for their Treason and Rebellion but they must not have so much as an Ill Word nor have it said that they had done Amiss and therefore it was Demanded in the Second Article that all Proclamations which did but Reflect upon the Prince or those who Declar'd for him should be Recall'd By what Name would they have had the King call their Rising against him But farther yet they were not only not to be in any manner Reproach'd for what they had done but to be Rewarded and Incourag'd to Persist it was Demanded Art 6. that the King should Pay them and Assign a Sufficient Part of the Publick Revenue for the Support and Maintainance of the Prince's Troops Such Demands made to a Crown'd Head in his own Kingdom By a Son and a Nephew by a Subject Prince and Servant to a Common-Wealth And by a Company of his own Rebel Subjects whose Advice and Concurrance is Mention'd in the said Demands This Answer was given upon Sunday 9th Decem. 88. his Highness's Lucky Day for Business But let us go on a little and you shall see how Inclinable the Prince was to a Treaty After the King was Taken and Barbarously Treated at Feversham when as the History of the Descr tells p. 102 103. The Body of the Peers of England had according to their Duty sent the Lords Feversham Atlesbury Yarmouth and Middelton most Humbly to Entreat his Majesty to Return to White-Hall The P. of Orange in Opposition to them sent Mounsieur Zulestein with a most Insolent Command to the King to Continue at Rochester for he would have no Treating with him And the next
Day viz. 16. Dec. 88. when the King sent the Earl of Eeversham with a Letter to the Prince Inviting him to a Personal Treaty his Highness contrary to the Laws of God of Nature and of Nations not only Refus'd to Return any Answer but made the Earl a Prisoner which was a Treatment no one King would give to another tho' they were at open Wars But the Priviledge of an Ambassador from a King within his own Kingdom could not Secure that Messenger who brought any Offers of a Treaty And to prevent the like for the Puture the very next Day viz. 17. Decem. 88. his Highness Supriz'd the King his Father in his Bed after Eleven at Night and having Order'd Count Solmes to Dispossess the King's Guards of their Posts at White-Hall and place his Dutch Guards in their Room he sent Three English Lords with an Order Sign'd under his own Haâ—d to Remove their King from White-Hall because his Highness was to be there and peremptorily to Limit his Majesty to the Place whither he was to go nor had the King Liberty to Choose any other Place without Leave first Ask'd and Obtain'd from his Highness but still under his Dutch Guards And his Majesty was positively Requir'd to be gone by such an Hour least he should Meet the Prince so much as upon the Road. This was a hopeful way of Treating And so Modestly Managed that all the World stands Amaz'd at him who never said or did an Insolent thing For which Vertue alone for no other is to be Found or Nam'd in the Famous Thanksgiving Sermon above quoted his Character is Advanc'd above that of the Great French Monarch being Introduc'd in the Comparison with A Greater than he is here Fulsom Cant and Prophane But how could it be expected that he came to Treat Who in a Hostile Manner Entred the King 's own Palace and Castle of Windsor and as a Conqueror Erected his Standard upon that Noble Castle 14. Decem. 88. as the History of the Deser Braggs p. 103. Thus much the Jacobites Answer to your Objection of K. James's not Accepting of a Treaty Pamphlet p. 9. He the Author of Britains Complaint Accuses the Prince for sending him K. James by Water at an Vnseasonable Time thereby Indangering his Health forgetting that K. James went in the Night by Water the very Week before of choice when he crost the River in order to his first Attempt to get into France and this without any Damage to his Health How does this Author know that So that he us'd himself as Ill as the Prince us'd him Jacobite Surely this is the Smartest Defence that ever was made and shews the Prince's Great Concern for K. James's Health What To Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself Because a Man that Flys for his Life would Leap over a Precipice therefore without any Unkindness you may Throw him over for you Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself But yet it was a great deal Worse that the P. of Orange Us'd the King than he Us'd himself For as this Author tells it he only Crost the River but the Prince sent him to Graves-End by Water and that against Wind and Tide and as Britains Complaint says p. 10. The King was Refus'd his own Coach to Carry him by Land tho' he Declar'd that he could not Travel by Water in so Cold a Season and so Great a way without Manifestly endangering his Health Which the Answerer does not Deny Pamphlet As to his King James's Writing to the Bishops his Speaking to the Bishop of Winchester or to Sir R. Clayton or to other Citizens all this is an impudent Fiction The Bishop of Winchester protests that no such Proposition was ever made to him the same is Avorred by Sir R. Clayton Jacobite And hoth their Credits are come to be alike but there are others of better Reputation who do own it and will make Oath that Sir Sim. Lewis did confess it And the Persons who brought the Messages from the King both to the City and Bishop of Winchester will Depose it and Prove it by undeniable Vouchers And had the Courage to go to the Bishop of Winchester upon Monday Morning the 9th of last Janua 92 93. accompanied with a present sitting Lord of Parliament and a Knight of great Honour and Tax'd the Bishop with his having received such a Message from the King which his Lordship Denyed at first with an Oath But the Person binding him with Tokens as that his Lordship kissed the King's Seal which that person brought as a Credential from the King and naming another Person of Note who was present at the delivery of the Message that his Lordship Reply'd he could not give his Answer till next day that then he told that Person he had wrote to the King and that the Bishops were not able to Protect his Majesty and therefore durst not undertake so Great a Trust as the Security of his Majesty's Person and several other Circumstances Upon which the Bishop said That it was possible his Memory might fail him and that though it were so what needed all this stir about it now and that he perceived they had a mind to Expose him and for that Reason as those present and we may reasonably suppose he still continued to Deny the Matter but so faintly and with such confusion as made it Evident to those Noble Persons present that he had Received such a Message but was not willing expressly to own it after having Forsworn it Tho' he Confessed all the Particulars as that Person coming to him c. And from the same Infirmity of his Memory if you please you may imagine it proceeded that he did not Communicate this Message of his Majesty's to the rest of his Brethren the Bishops but Returned the bovesaid Answer in their Names of which their Lordships do justly Complain Pamphlet p. 26. Nor hath he K. W. refused any Acts of this kind viz. Redressing of Grievances which the Parliament hath offered him Jacobite This instead of a Vindication is a manifest exposing of K. W. being such an Evident Protestatio contra Factum for it is publickly known that last Winters Session he Rejected the Judges Bill which Pass'd both the Houses and which therefore to be sure they thought necessary for the Good of the Nation and conducive to make the Judges Bold and Honest in their Station Pamphlet p. 9. The Convention Refus'd to Receive or Read the Letter which King James wrote to them from St. Germains which continu'd his CLAIM according to Mr. Sam. Johnson p. 16. of his Address to the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled and confuted the Desertion because they were told that HE wrote in the Stile of a King Jacobite That was smart He shou'd have Subscrib'd Your Honours most Humble and most obliged Servant as iâ— Duty bound James Stuart His FATHER'S Executioner gave Him the Title of Majesty upon the Scaffold Sir I had
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