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A40424 A new letter from Windsor from a person of quality to his friend and correspondent at London. Freeman, John, fl. 1681. 1681 (1681) Wing F2133; ESTC R9403 2,409 2

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A NEW LETTER FROM WINDSOR FROM A Person of Quality TO HIS Friend and Correspondent at LONDON Honoured Sir THough it be a Matter of vast Moment and mighty Consequence to Rule well and know how to dispose the Reins of Government so justly to the Subjects Tempers that neither the Mild be cast down and trambled on nor the Unquiet and Turbulent through too much Remisness become Insolent the Loyal not discouraged nor the Factious have Reason to rejoyce A Task which none but such to whom Nature hath given Understandings equal to the high Dignity to which they are Born such I mean whom Providence thinks Worthy to be its Vicegerents on Earth are able to undertake much less perform Though I say that Qui bene gubernat est Deo similimus He that Rules well is the Truest Image of his Maker And Consequently it may be thought an unpardonable Arrogance in me to presume to meddle in a Matter as far above the Capacity of a Subject as is the Almighty KING of Heaven above his Vice-Roy amongst Us yet is not any Man debar'd from declaring his Sentiments in such a case so far as he neither pretends to Instruct his Prince nor by prying into his Cabinet-Council betray the Failings or Derogate from the Authority of his Royal-Master which has of late been the Deplorable Effect of too too many Pamphlets whose Authors purpose if truly Search't into was only to spread Sedition and foment Rebellion a thing so different from my Principles that I had much rather desist from an Enterprize Eminently hazardous than either in Thought Word or Deed injure my King were He the worst of Tyrants much less the present KING in whom concenter all those Vertues that Compound a Good Pious Just and Merciful Prince and make Him almost an Object of Adoration to all His Subjects that do not look upon him with Malicious and though Unjustly so a Disaffected Eye However in this Juncture of Affairs when the KING's Prerogative seems on all sides to be forgotten and the Liberty and Property of the Subjects becomes the Chief Business of the Nation I think it the part of not only every Loyal Subject but of all that can pretend either by Birth or Nature to be English-Men to Vindicate their Prince under whose Gracious Government they enjoy all that either Subjects can Modestly require or a King without Derogating from His Authority can Grant Yet has it been the Endeavour of not a few Malignants to insinuate into the Minds of the Ignorant Unsteady People a disliking of the present Government perswading them that Arbitrary-Power is breaking in upon them and that unless they quickly stand up in Defence of their Just Priviledges they will be for ever Sold to Slavery and Popery two things as generally Abominated by the Vulgar as the Thoughts of an Inquisition and I dare Aver as far from the KING's Intentions as the introducing of Mahometanism But however the KING is extreamly Oblig'd to them for their good Will in taking such great Care of His Person and for their unspeakable Zeal to make Him a Glorious Prince But How do they set about it Even by Alienating the Hearts of His Subjects from Him and by Possessing their unthinking Heads with Groundless Jealousies of mighty Dangers from whence they know not but Who can be Ignorant that this is the ready way to make Him like His Blessed Father a Glorious Martyr in this and a King Triumphant in the other World For they need but Cry out against Tyranny and Popery and the Business is more than half Effected Cry but Liberty Liberty and their needs no Drums or Trumpets to Alarm them for then they 'l Swarm like Bees to the Banner of the Good Old Cause nor shall they need Encouragement to Fight the Lord's Battel for there shall Arise in the Camp Men that from the Pulpit shall Justify their Proceedings and by Inspiration no matter whether it be from Heaven or Hell tell 'em 't is Meritorious to Fight against nay to Depose Tyrants a Principle so near a Kin to that bugbear Popery that nought but their Ignorance and Illiterateness can Testify that they were not brought up at St. Omers or some other Popish Seminary And when Matters are brought to this Head when the Vulgar are Run Mad with Devotion 't will be very difficult to reduce them to their Right Sence of Loyalty and Allegiance And when their Minds are Fermented into a Lump of Rebellion nought but the Mill of Oppression under a Grinding Common-Wealth can restore them to their first Purity But Heaven be Prais'd things are not yet grown so Desperate but that by Applying present Remedies the KING may Maintain his Prerogative and the Subjects not lose their Priviledges a Cure that can be perform'd by none but a Moderate Sober Parliament and such it lyes in the Peoples Breast to Choose as neither prefer their own Priviledges so high as to over-power your Reverence to their King's Prerogative We have been now near Three Years under the Sence of a Popish Plot which has possest the People with so panick a Fear of the Popes Supremacy that they have almost forgot the Allegiance and to the greater Amazement of the World At last when every one seem'd so well Satisfied with the Truth of it that none durst distrust it that Party which seem'd most to Prosecute the full Discovery of it and did with so great Zeal Persecute the Actors in it even to Death are found Com-Plotters and I doubt are as deep in the Mire as the other in the Mudd for it has been the continual Practice of some of no low Degrees to Hunt with the Hound and Run with the Hare one of whom has often serv'd as many purposes as he Looks ways at once But I shall leave the Discovery of that to Providence and Time when no doubt the People will be Satisfied that striving to avoid Scylla on the one side they run into Charybdis on the other that shunning Popery on that hand they betray themselves to the greedy Jaws of Phanaticism on the other whose Proselites not to abuse the Scripture Phraise compass Heaven and Earth to Create new Ones whom when they have Gain'd they make Ten times more the Children of Hell than themselves and I hope when the Curtain is drawn from before their Eyes they will clearly See how they have Liv'd almost in Egyptian Darkness and Benighted with Ignorance have been Led into the Paths of Eternal Destruction Having now pursu'd my purpose as far as I believe my Readers Patience will hold out I shall set down this as an undeniable Maxim That Loyalty and Honesty is alwayes the best Policy and they that make these the Pole-Star of their Course shall never Split on the Rocks of Damnable Rebellion Thus having given you in Short my Opinion I remain in all Candour and Sincerity Your c Iohn Freeman London Printed in the Year 1681.