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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48175	A Letter to a friend occasioned by my Lord Howard of Escricks letter to his friend with his protestation at the receiving the Blessed Sacrament in the Tower, July 3, 1681.		1681 (1681)	Wing L1654; ESTC R36357	3,825	4

A LETTER TO A FRIEND Occasioned by my Lord Howard of Escricks LETTER TO HIS FRIEND With his Protestation at the receiving the Blessed Sacrament in the Tower July 3. 1681. SIR THough I have never received a Line from you these ten years or know whether you have so much as heard of the late Imprisonment of the great Triumvirate viz. Two Protestant Lords and a Joyner much less read the Idle Stuff with which they or their Friends have Pestered the Town in their Vindication yet because it is the new way of telling all the world what we please and especially our Sir Pol. Conceits of Affairs of State by pretending to whisper 'em only to a Friend in a Corner I must beg your leave to write now to you that this Sheet of mine too may come out with the Title of a Letter to a Friend Wherein I shall give you some account of a Paper called A Letter of my Lord Howard of Escrick to his I riend together with his Protestation at his receiving the Blessed Communion in the Tower The Publisher of this Letter and Protestation of my Lords Ushers it in with an Harangue of his own and very gravely tells us That there are two times in which his Charity does oblige him to think men especially such as stile themselves Christians dare not speak any thing deviating from Truth to wit at their approach to Death and to Gods Holy Table Indeed I can't choose but be very much inclin'd to his Charitable opinion and must needs think it very hard that any person especially if he has been of a Conversation void of Offence towards God and towards man and of a Life that might testify for him that he did not only stile himself a Christian but was really so that such a one I say should not be believed in either of these two Circumstances But I am as sure that it is very reasonable that what is utter'd in the very moment of Death with all the circumstances that usually attend such Protestations ought to carry much greater force than that which is never so Religiously protested at the receiving of the Communion where the hopes of avoiding punishment by Swearing off a Guilt that is Capital and the distance of the Judgment that is threatned this Violation and perhaps the disbelief of any future punishment for it at all may be very strong Inducements to any person in these Circumstances to venture to approach this Holy Table with a Lye in his Mouth especially if his Life and Conversation has been such and particularly his Reverence for this Holy Sacrament at other times so little as may give but very small grounds of Credibility to his Protestations at the same Holy Sacrament when either to serve his Interest or to save his Life they are made and how far this may concern our Noble Protestor we shall shortly enquire If then the Scribler that tells us There are two times in which we are chiefly to believe men tells us as he does immediately after that for all this he can't believe what has been so solemnly asserted by several Gentlemen at one of these his two times and that which of the two is least lyable to suspition of Falshood he cannot sure be offended if some persons are as hard of belief to what is as solemnly Protested at the other And particularly by my Lord Howard if some reasons appear that may very well justify the incredulity that suspects this Honourable Lords Declaration And first let People very well consider the last Confession of Fitz-Harris so deliberately written each Period so Religiously Sworn to upon his Knees and with such dreadful Imprecations own'd and asserted for Truth both at his Penning it and at the last moment of his Life without any hopes of Pardon upon Earth or any possibility of Pardon in Heaven if he should die with a Lye in in his Mouth and and then let them tell me which Protestation ought to have greatest weight that of a Dying Penitent or such a Communicant Sure if Oaths and Protestations make men either Innocent or Guilty my Lord Howard's and this being compar'd by Impartial Judges it will go very hard on the Peers side But alas there are other Testimonies Living Witnesses which in these Cases are to make good such a Charge as is laid to his Lordship before that Tribunal whose Justice is not here to be Forestal'd And therefore 't is the Protestations on both sides and the Solemnity of them that is fittest for us to examine In a word then if Mr. Fitz-harrys his Declaration be true my Lord Howard's at least the first part of it is false For the last part of it viz. That he never was in that house in Shandois Street where the said Fitz-Harrys was taken and where his Wife soon after was brought to Bed save only once in the company of a Lady c. It may perhaps be true but here is withal a Mental Reservation as had we no other grounds might make us suspect all the rest he labours to perswade us For perhaps that Lady his Lordship speaks of can attest and I am sure several others can that he has not been once or twice but very frequently at divers times not only in publick at Dinners and Suppers but also privately with Fitz-Harrys not indeed in that House wherein he was taken and wherein his Wife soon after was brought to Bed as his Lordship so cautiously protests but in that House where he formerly lived Mr. Fitz-Harys having removed from that to another not many doors distant a little while before he was apprehended I beseech you my Lord why all this Caution Why so tender of naming Fitz-Harys his House without adding these qualities to it wherein he was taken and wherein his Wife was brought to bed Was it not to evade the including the other House of Mr. Fitz-Harys his in Shandois-street where he and your Lordship have sate up almost whole nights together with all the privacy imaginable with no ill intention alas only to smoak an innocent Pipe and have a little indifferent chat by your selves or so Or were you affraid that without this Restriction you might be in danger of swearing that you had not been above once in your whole Life at your own House Your own House my Lord which entertained Fitz-Harys so long almost a whole Winter that by an easie figure it might be called Mr. Fitz-Harris his House or at least Mr. Fitz-Harris his Lodgings Or was this mighty care and exactness used to make people believe that you really valu'd what you swore Was that the Policy to make a mental Reservation on purpose to be found out that the World might think your Conscience a little more scrupulous and your Veneration for a Sacrament somewhat greater than when your Lordship administred it your self in Lambs-wool Indeed you would put this upon us and therefore you tell us in your Letter how solemnly this Protestation was made under the