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
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
Leave from her Majesty who does not doubt of Receiving from you and your Brethren this Publick Mark of your Duty I am Your most Humble Servant Nottingham To the Mayor of Bath Forbidding to pay such Respect to her Royal Highness as is usually paid to the Royal Family looks like another P. of Wales Discovery say the Jacobites as if People had leave given them to Doubt whether she were of the Royal Family or so near as is believed to the Crown Why else say they should the Respects which are usually paid to the Royal Family be Deny'd to her And the Secretary himself forgets her Stile of Royal Highness that every one may have a Pluck at her Plain Highness must serve her Turn till she Learn better Manners The Executioner gave K. Charles I. the Stile of his Majesty when we was going to Cut off his Head Can the Queens Displeasure forfeit the Princess Title and Quality which she has by being K. James's Daughter Or must she have the Stile of Late added to her Royalty like her Father And the Bishop of London say the Jacobites who Run away with the Princess in his Jack-Boots and Sword Drawn to be the Man pitch'd upon after her Late Royal Highness Return to London from the Bath to give Orders to Dr. Birch of St. James's Church in which Parish she had taken a House to Live in not to pay her any of the Respects usually paid to the Royal Family such as sending her the Text to wait for her Coming or make any Obeisance to her But no doubt it is all for the good of the Protestant Religion And it is hard say the Rogues of Jacobites if when these fall out some Honest Men do not come by their Rights Sir it had been much to be Wish'd for the Honour of the Government That this Civil War of the Royal Sisters had not been so Expos'd And it had not been of less Importance at least to her Majestys Rep. if the Extraordinary Greatness and Intimacy she has of Late Contracted with the Countess of D. had not been altogether so Notorious The Jacobites Laugh in their Sleeves and make Observation That our Godly Queen who for the sake of Religion has Forsaken her Father should at the same time Caress the Great Instrument of his Sin and his Shame Who to Testify her Repentance makes it her Common-Practice to Rail at K. James Condesending even to call him Names and the Billings-Gate Rethorick And to disown all Obligations from him And for a Penance she Submits to a Scandalous Office of an Informer to Betray his Secrets and his Friends who Trusted her And because she does every thing to the Utmost she spares not to shew her Wit at Invention where she wants Truth to fill up an Accusation For these Good Works she is allowed now out of the Secret-Service-Money Five Hundred pounds a Week Paid her by Hen. Guy Secretary to the Treasury And is to have an Order for Ten or Twelve Thousand pounds Arrears of a Grant given her from King James of Thirty Five Hundred pounds a Year out of the Quit-Rents of Ireland Besides the Extraordinary Presents from B. in a Corner which no Body must know For all which she is so Greatfully Good Natur'd as to Bragg in her Cabals how Dextrously she can Manage this Government that as her Phrase is and that not over Privately she can make what she Please pass upon them and as an Instance has Sold them a Treasurer to Secure her own Payments Sir E. S. that Good Man Who never was Unconstant to his Principle of Changing to the Sunny side This is not out of her Disaffection to the Government But some you know would rather loose their Friend than their Jest That Sund. should be a Pentioner of this Government and so own'd by King William in the List of Pentioners given into the Parliament cannot be more Explanatory of his Declaration say the Jacobites than Queen Marys choosing Lady D. for her Confidant is a Demonstration of the true Figure of her Holiness But that Father Simon alias Patrick should be pitch'd upon for Confessor and Guide of this Holy Confederacy seems strangly Consequential to all the Devotional Tracts Written in Covent-Garden And the Education of the Young Lady K. D. in the Protestant Religion being the pretence of this Kindness on the Sudden that he should perform this Charge so Carefully that besides the Example of her Mothers Vertue she has the Instruction of two other Penitents in the same Trade Ladies of Skill and Famous through the Whole Town that we need not Name them who are both Roman Catholicks and Daily Guests at the Countesses Table Not that her Ladyship retains the least Test of her former Conversation but only in Zeal to make Converts of them too For this is a Reforming Age And Generously like Lot would rather Expose her own Daughter to Learn all the Vices of Sodom than fail in her Hospitality to these two Angles who are come under her Roof But as the Bishop of L. say the Jacobites who thought he had Cemented the two Sisters unalterably by making them Quit their Father to meet one another has yet liv'd to be made an Instrument in their Quarrel the late Bishop of E. may have the same luck in good time with the Third Sister who is now put into his Hands And the Jacobites desire us to consider That this Child may come in her Turn to the Crown For she is onely not next in Blood And what Great Matter is that so it be kept in the Royal Family The Succession goes on still tho' she should Usurp in her Sisters Life time And if that shou'd be for the Good of Religion Therefore her Education ought to be a Parliamentary Concern at least a Christian not to leave an Innocent Child where she can see nothing but what may Corrupt her And if there can be any Cause sufficient to Warrant undutifulness to a Parent this Lady has more to Plead than either of her Sisters For it must be Confess'd on all Hands That her Mother is not the best Company for her in the World And it would be an Advantage to her if she could forget that she had such a Mother And to the Government especially to her Pious Majesty that such a Cabinet Councellor had not yet come within White-Hall Sir I cou'd heap up Instances of this Nature upon you of which the Jacobites have Catalogues Upon which singly tho' the least stress is laid yet by their Number they acquire a Weight And in drawing up the Forces of the Jacobites we must not only shew you their Goliahs such as De-Wit Gler-Coe Grandval Koin c. each of which single is an Army of Objections against us But I must likewise lead out the Setters and Small-Fry Fuller Young Blackhead Aaron Smith and Lady D. for these tho' not so Glorious are as useful as the other The Lyon cannot hunt without his Jackall Sir I
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