their Pleasures before Grievances were redressed and publick Bills of Common-Safety passed because to dissolve and prorogue at Pleasure is a Privilege which belongs to the Crown Answ This word Prorogue is but a new-fangled Business a thing brought up in latter Days but as for dissolving Parliaments at Pleasure that has been the Practice of our former wicked Kings by the Advice of their Roguish Ministers and Judges who laid aside all Law Honour Honesty and Conscience to prostitute themselves to the abominable Lust of a filthy Prince who designed nothing less than the Ruin of the Kingdom What your Father did I will not here concern my self but what your Brother did by your Procurement is my Province at this Time Your Brother when he held his French Parliament at New-Market in 1677 where most of the Rogues and Whores of the Court were present and your gracious Self waiting on him did much aggrandize himself by that Glorious Assembly Upon April 16. the Parliament at Westminster was adjourned till May 21. following Immediately upon the Recess the Duke of Crequi aâ—d that modest sober chaste Man of God the A. Bp of Rheims and Monsâ—eur Barillon and a Train of 3 or 400 Persons of all Qualities appear'd there so that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of France with so many of their Commons made it look like an old-fashioned French Parliament And the Parliament at Westminster had been adjourned for their better Reception But what Address they made to the King or what Acts passed at that Noble Parliament I cannot tell they having not been yet published But I suppose they were these that follow 1. An Act for continuing his Majesty's Subjects in the Service of France 2. An Act for enabling the Dutchess of Cleveland to use the Arch-Bishop of Paris for her Father-Confessor c. 3. An Act to discharge her Grace from farther Attendance upon the King 4. An Act to constitute the French Gentlewoman to be Whore in her room and a Spy for the French King 5. An Act to enable Nell Waal to be Woman and Bawd in ordinary to the said French Gentlewoman and his Sacred Majesty 6. An Act to supply the Extraordinary Occasions of that Whore Portsmouth and her Woman Nell Waal 7. An Act to enable the Dutchess of Portsmouth in order to her Health to possess and enjoy a certain Apartment in a House-Royal called the Lock situate at the end of Kent-street and Nell to have the Reversion after her decease in case of Necessity 8. An Act for the further Supply of French-Money in order to enslave the Kingdom of 3000000 Livres per Annum 9. An Act for enabling James Duke of York to go on with his Conspirators in the Conspiracy against the Laws Liberties and Religion of the People of England and to demand the French King's Purse Credit and Interest for his Help and Assistance 10. An Act to invest Edward Coleman with the Sum of 20000 l. and a good Pension from the French King for his great Services done and to be done for the Catholick Religion and French Interest 11. An Act of Abolition of all Claims and Demands from the Subjects of France on Account of all Prizes made of the English at Sea since the Year 1674 till that Day and for the future 12. Act to supply the extraordinary Needs of the Pensioners at Westminster 13. An Act to continue the Sham-Alliance with the States-General of the Vnited-Provinces There were I suppose several Private Bills in favour of the Pimps Bawds and Whores that were not sworn in Ordinary but passed the Royal Assent as I may suppose because at that time all things between England and France moved with that punctual Regularity that it was like the Harmony of the Spheres so consonant with themselves tho I could not hear the Musick I pray Sir let us know in your next Declaration what other Secret Bills were passed in that August Assembly wherein the Affairs of Peace and War were transacted with the greatest Confidence and when good Boys they had done their Master's Business with your Brother's Aid and Help they were adjourned from New-Market to London where they dissolâ—ed themselves without your Brother's Prerogative to make way for the Westminster Parliament and so rubb'd off with all Demonstration of mutual Affection and Friendship Alas Sir these were Matters of that Import that they required all imaginable Expedition and Secresy and it would have been the highest Presumption for the poor Pensioners in the Westminster Parliament to have intermedled with them Alas if they had been admitted to end the Work it might have ended in their own Dissolution in order to a couragious running away You say by way of Objection Your Partisans made that which your Brother and other Kings did by their Prerogative Royal dissolve Parliaments before Grievances were redressed and necessary Bills past because things did not move with that punctual Regularity between your Brother and them that was between him and the French King I pray what was the Reason Had they not had Gratuities at the Charge of the Nation Or had the Dutchess of Portsmouth jilted them out of the French King's Blessing which the Duke of Crequi and the Arch-Bishop of Rheims brought them of 200000 Lewis d' Ores Who can tell what to say to these things It is no wonder then that Crew of Voters were grown resty and did not move regularly Well what then the Parliament must not sit till some State-Clockmaker had mended their Motions and made them go true the House then had some good Bills over which they roared only and then were sent Home by a blast of Prerogative-Breath Had your Brother any other Prerogative but what the Law gave him and what he was invested with at his Coronation If he had let us know it but for once I will grant he prorogued and dissolved Parliaments at his Pleasure to serve you and your Cut-throat Crew It doth not therefore follow that he had a Right so to do according to a Maxim I learned almost 30 Years since A facto ad jus non valet consequentia especially when such Prorogations and Dissolutions are against so many express and positive Laws such Principles of Common Right and Justice and so many particular Ties and Obligations to the contrary Your Brother might by the Advice of wicked Statesmen and villanous Judges pretend to a Prerogative the Law had given him of which nothing ever was known unless revealed by some French Maxims learned abroad in his Travels Yet such a Prerogative could not justify such Practices for if he had been invested with such Prerogatives by the Law yet the Law could give none to destroy it self and those it protects But Old Hodg and his Inferior Clergy may interpose and say Had not King Charles his Prerogative founded upon Law Who questions Sir but the Kings of England had their Prerogatives Yet observe what Old Bracton saith Pag. 487. That tho the Common Law allows many
therefore in Parliament Notwithstanding these Votes you had a Rogue that rose from a Kitchin-boy to possess as some say 14000 l. per annum of which he wronged the Nation having had the Opportunity to cheat three Governments and suck their Blood to whom the City of London ows much of her Misery he I say furnished your Brother with Money in contempt of these Votes but he has wiped his Mouth and hugs himself as if not one of the greatest Villains that ever England bore I leave him he was a Friend of yours and you have reason to remember him I remember the Votes very well and certainly they were justifiable to the whole Kingdom for consider a little did you take the Revenue to be disposed of at your Brother's pleasure Was it for his private use or the publick Good Sir the Revenue the Parliament had fixed was a publick not a private one your Brother was trusted with the disposing of part only and that not without the Advice of some of his great Ministers of State as a Secretary of State and the Lord Privy Seal for smaller Sums and for all great Paiments the Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal were to have been added the other part of the Revenue was assigned to other Uses the Customs to the maintenance of the Navy The Maintenance of the Household the Tables at Court and Wages of the King's Servants were in our former Kings Reigns so established by Parliament that the Cofferer had his Money paid him out of the Exchequer under great Penalties to be inflicted for the neglect thereof and the House of Lords judged it a great part of their immediate Care It maintained the Dignity and Honour of the Government and contributed much to Love and good Understanding between the King and People no Countrey Farmer had Business at Court but he found those who bad him welcome and so had all Degrees therefore the King's Servants had justly the same Return wherever they came the outward Rooms of the House did not smell of Match nor was the Language of the Court Who goes there there used to be the Smell of better Hospitality this was plain even in your Father's time Besides Sir 't is well known that by the evil Counsel and Course your Brother and you took you made the Bankers of London and elsewhere become the very Bane of the Nation not only to the Gentleman and Farmer but I doubt to the Merchant too they raised and kept up the Interest of Money they drained the Country and bought Warrants so that your Brother paid 25 per Cent. for all his Expences You know the Revenue was in many of its Branches appropriated and provision made that they should not be alienated and if rascally Fellows that had decoyed into their Custody the ready Monies of Merchants Gentlemen and others did by the Strength of their Cash anticipate the Revenues of the Government who could have provided for the Nation Could any but a Parliament do it Now Sir it plainly follows that if your Brother had found out another way to supply his Wants than by Parliament the great hinge on which the Government turn'd was lost therefore what ground you and your Party had to make this a Pretence to put off those Parliaments especially the last Westminster-Parliament I cannot tell and how you could make them Criminals for these two Votes I leave to the Judgment even of your ragged Ministry at St. Germains 4ly A 4th Pretence you had for dissolving the Parliaments aforesaid was a Vote concerning Protestant Dissenters That the Prosecution of Protestant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the Subject a weakning the Protestant Interest an Incouragement to Popery and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom This was the Vote of the Commons in the last Westminster-Parliament Truly Sir they could not but pass the Vote as their Opinion since they judged themselves invited to it by your Brother himself who had often wished whilst his Band of Pensioners sat that he might be able to exercise a Power of Dispensation in reference to Protestants who thro' the tenderness of a misguided Conscience did not conform to the Ceremonies Discipline and Government of the Church and promised he would make it his special Care to incline the Wisdom of the Parliament to concur with him in making an Act to that purpose But Sir I know your Party usually said that these Inclinations of the King lasted no longer than he had a Prospect of giving the Papists an equal Benefit of Toleration also I doubt it was too true and that they had that honourable Notion of the King from your sweet self but whether true or no I will not insist here but shall only mind you that your Brother after he parted with you did on the 6th of March in his Speech to the first Westminster-Parliament after the disbanding your small Officers express his Zeal not only for the Protestant Religion in general but for a Union amongst all sorts of Protestants and did he not command the then Tool of a Chancellor at the very same time to tell them that it was necessary to distinguish between Protestant and other Recusants between them that would destroy the whole Flock and those that wander from it I am much dispos'd to believe and that on good ground that your Brother was not sincere in the thing yet whatever his Heart was in the Case the following Parliament might justly incourage that Vote from the aforesaid Declarations You and your wicked Party especially your Church-Bums did attacque that last Westminster-Parliament as if that Vote relating to Protestant Dissenters was to shew that the Commons had in themselves a Power of suspending the Penal Laws established by the three States of the Realm who yet said it was a Power not to be allow'd in the King and caused to be cancelled all that he had done in relation to the ease of Dissenters from the Church of England and if the King had not Power to suspend the execution of the Penal Laws then had not they To this I answer 1. A few Years before that Parliament sat your wicked Ministers did remember that the whole Nation was justly alarm'd upon the King's assuming to himself by their Advice an arbitrary Power of suspending the Penal Laws upon this they thought it very popular to charge the House of Commons with an Usurpation on that Attempt Now Sir if they did by a Vote declare the Inconvenience of prosecuting Protestant Dissenters at that time or at any time hereafter I cannot see where the Crime was or of what Usurpation they stood guilty since they made the Vote for the very same Reason which your Brother had for expressing himself as he did in his foresaid Speech supposing his Heart had kept pace with his Tongue they had with great Trouble of Soul perceived that the Design of the Popish Party was not against any one Sort
the next how he uses you and why you would not gratify your sweet self with this goodly Sight 4. Your Villains are ever and anon checking me with my being convicted for two pretended Perjuries especially a Friend of yours in a certain Place where your Name is sometimes mentioned but not much to the Advantage of you or your Villanous Crew You being a Man of great Judgment and Conscience I ask you whether or no for such a Villain to be in a Conspiracy against the Life of the King with three Cousin-Germans at once or to have a Hand in or justifying the forging of a Seal to hold an Estate or suborning of Witnesses to swear that that was as false as any thing under the Sun could be true whos 's own dear Relation died upon the Spot with a false Oath in his Mouth ought not rather to have held his Tongue and let me alone and sat down with silence till he had cleared himself and Family in the first place The Fellow had once a Command but wanting Courage Conduct Honour and Honesty he was fairly dismissed If you are willing I suppose he is ready to serve you in a mean Capacity a Footman rather than fail being conscious in himself that his Reputation in the World will not engage him to a much greater Trust Nay Sir he may make a Priest if you please for I think he is too lewd to be a Layman I have more Questions to ask you but I will not give you the trouble now but ask you only how you do and how my Landlady and the little Cub have their Health I suppose you have kept a merry Christmass at St. Germains and I hope you will keep Christmass there or elsewhere abroad till you draw your last Breath I understand the French King takes much pleasure in your Company I do not envy his Happiness in the least and shall no more mourn for it than an old Friend of yours did for his Father's Death after he had cheated the old Gentleman of a fair Estate and left him four hundred Pounds per Annum as a sine Cura the better to enable him to drink Ale in his old Age He now and then bellows for you as loud as some Cattel do when they want Fodder with whom he hath had to do in his Life-time O had the Courage of his Hands kept pace with the Rhodomontades of his villanous Tongue for ought I know he and Sir John Fenwick might have done Wonders towards your changing the Air you live in I have seen him hugging that Traitor as the Devil hugg'd the Witch and being a dutiful obedient Child to his old Sire you would do well to send the Tiler's Son to learn of him But I hasten to your Charge and proceed to the twenty second Article which you will do well to consider Article XXII YOUR Brother and you were very industrious in misapplying of the Taxes and Subsidies given by Parliament When they gave Money for any one or more particular Uses it is well known that for the most part they were not answered to the great hazard of the Kingdom But here I must particularize 1. The Parliament in lieu of several Advantages the Crown made by which publick House-keeping was maintained in your Father's Reign to the Glory of the English Nation gave the Hereditary Excise and took those Advantages away by Act of Parliament who thought of nothing less than that the Publick Tables should have been kept up But you and your Brother having travelled abroad and having not been much troubled with the smell of Victuals when you were come home you began your Show with open House-keeping but it was so offensive to your tender Stomachs that it was laid aside judging your manner of living at Bruxels more sutable to the Constitutions of your Bodies And upon laying down of House-keeping you know what use the Hereditary Excise was put to against the Intent and Meaning of the Act of Parliament that settled it 2. The Customs were given by Parliament in a great measure for the Support of the Navy which is the Bulwark of England But how they were applied to that Use let all the World judg part of the Customs of England having been paid in Pensions and a great part for secret Services I am sure when the King had occasion either to repair or fit out a Fleet or build Ships a particular Tax was made for those Purposes 3. Your Brother was forced to borrow a great Sum of Money of the City nay several in the Year 1664 at which many stood in admiration how he should lie under such a necessity of Money 'T is true there was a great Army to be paid off and disbanded but for that the Convention had made a good Provision had it not been misapplied and he had the Excise settled on him valued at 500000 l. per Annum the Customs then valued at 600000 l. the Chimney-Money 150000 l. the Arrears of twelve Months Assessment commencing the 25th of December 1659 The Post-Office which was valued at 50000 l. per Annum and the Arrears of the Excise and new Imposts And in the second Session of the Long Parliament he had given him 1270000 l. and a Benevolence and 60000 l. to the poor Cavaleers to gratify them in some measure for drinking the King's Health and a farther Relief to the poor maimed Officers who had served your Father in the late Wars he wickedly raised against his People and also four intire Subsidies by the Laity and four by the Clergy besides the forfeited Estates of those that put your Father to death whether in England or Ireland Now seeing after all this your Brother was in Debt so soon after his Restoration can we conclude any otherwise than that you joined together to spend those Revenues Taxes c. in other ways than the Parliament intended Pray how much did you receive out of the Treasury for Secret Service to maintain a whole Regiment of Trapans from one end of the Kingdom to the other If there was such a necessity of trapanning why was not the Parliament moved for an Establishment to keep those Rogues that drew poor Men into Plots and then swore against them nay for hearing the Treason they themselves spake in constant pay But when the Parliament had given Money for the Honour and Safety of the Government you spent it upon these Men that disturbed its Peace and rendred it vile and contemptible And the Money given to fit out a Fleet was expended chiefly in rigging up a Fleet of Land Fire-ships a parcel of nasty Whores that were even the Scandal of their own Profession of Whoring as also the much admired Pimps and Bawds 4. You know the Parliament at Oxford in 1665 gave a mighty Tax of 2500000 l. by which we thought the War against the Dutch would have been carried on with great Vigour and Application the Money being given for that End and truly we did provide a
Fleet but then what Use 1250000 l. was put to the Seamen not being paid is worth the knowing You may remember little was done in the War in 1666 it being famous for Sir Robert Holms's admirable Expedition to the Fly where he burnt 150 Fisher-boats and the never-to-be-forgotten Fire of London But your Brother and you having occasion for the aforesaid Sum you fitted out no Fleet in 1667 for your Mother had assured your Brother and you that the French King had told her the Dutch would not be out that Year and so we lay still But the Dutch provided for War and came to save us some Charges and burnt our Ships in Chatham-Harbour But Sir I observe that tho your Brother was merry and feeding his Ducks yet there was not a Penny of Money and therefore the Parliament was called and when the time of their Sitting came they provided Money for the Dutch who wanted our Money and we wanting Peace were forced to take such a Peace as the French King would give us Now Sir do but observe that had we applied the Money given to carry on the Dutch War to that use our Ships had not to our great Dishonour been burnt in Port. But I pray what use was 1250000 l. put to You know your Brother had contracted a great Debt with Cleveland that nasty Whore and another Debt to the Pimps who poor Rogues had had no great matter of Pay in two Years and the poor Men that fired London were not to be slighted for the Labourer was worthy of his Hire Your Priests complained and their Mouths were to be stop'd and the Queen-Mother must have a Present for interposing with the French King for that base Peace So that truly there was little or no Money left Thus you may see what was the dismal Effect of this misapplying the Publick Money Nay Sir you may remember that the Seamen came down in great Bodies to you for Pay and some of them were in a most gracious manner apprehended and hanged for only asking for their Own which they had so dearly earned with the hazard of their Lives 5. I must not omit telling you that after the Peace with the Dutch was concluded tho but a base one yet we that espoused their Cause at that time were exceeding glad of the Peace There was a Triple League concluded between the Swede the Dutch and our Selves for which great Sums of Money were given as well for a Compensation to the King's Grace in making it as to help him to support it in order to bridle the French King's Insolence So that your Brother had two Millions and a half Sterling in one Year's time for this Triple League but it is well known that upon the strength of this Stock a Peace was clapt up with the French King the Triple League shamefully broken the second wicked War made upon the Dutch and the Exchequer shut up and all this thrô the Misapplication of the Treasure of the Nation Sir let me observe this to you that your Brother by this Triple League had gained much of the Love of his People and you your self shared in it too tho you had no hand in that League unless it were to break it which the People did not see for some time The Design of your Sister 's coming being very dark it past only for a bare Interview But Coventry was a considerable Gainer whilst another lost 2200 l. in the Treaty of Nimeguen and Coventry had 10000 l. and above 100000 Pistols of the French King for his special Service in that Affair All the Ministers sent to Foreign Courts to damn that good Work were rewarded even Sir William Lockyard escaped not the French King's Favour for the Service he did in that Affair But tho your Brother had not only reconciled his Parliament to him by severely treating the Earl of Clarendon for all the good Service and united them so to him by this League that they were ready to give him all they had yet the Tables were quite turned when they saw into his Proceedings and hated him and you too as such Villanous Tools to satisfy if possible the French King's Pride and Ambition Nay some of your Favorites were so offended at these ungodly Miscarriages that they could not but declare their Resentments of this villanous Misapplication of the Treasure of the Nation that it cost them their Places in the Committee of Foreign Affairs 6. Remember that your Band of Pensioners gave the King another small Spell of 1250000 l. for his extraordinary Occasions one would have thought those Liberal Givers designed it for carrying on the War but it was so ill a One that those Scoundrels were ashamed of it and would not say it was for that Use tho they had a pretty deal of Cabbage out of it for their own extraordinary Occasions How was the rest spent Was it applied to the fitting out your Fleet No there was a French Supply for that and this was made use of for an Army that was to have paid themselves out of the Treasure not of Amsterdam but of London which being smoaked in time the Army was in part ordered to be disbanded and Money given for that Use but you made bold to send them into the French Service and the Money was made use of to other Purposes of far greater Advantage to the Conspirators at Whitehall 7. There was a Tax of 600000 l. given for building and furnishing of Ships with very great Ease for your Pensioners were willing to confirm their Continuation or else they had been undone and since their Hand was in they gave the additional Excise of Beer Ale and other Liquors for three Years Which Liberality of theirs was an absolute Orvietan against a Dissolution I pray Sir what Ships were built that were of Service I think you had better have called it an Act for the extraordinary Occasions of the villanous Builders for they got part of the Money and we but a few useless Ships Nay I think some of the Ship-money was applied to supply the extraordinary Occasions of Portsmouth that nasty Whore and the rest of the Pimps and Bawds at Whitehall And upon the strength of the Additional Excise you and your Conspirators most bravely matured your Counsels in order to make the Nation die the second Death 8. There was 1200000 l. given your Brother to enter into an actual War with France yet with that you clapt up a more close Alliance with France and with the Act you and your Conspirators begged a Million of Money this is another instance of your Misapplication of the Nation 's Treasure But this by the way observe that this Peace which you and your Conspirators made with France was but a Treacherous one and it manifested both your Brother and you to be such Persons with whom the Nation 's Money was not to be trusted since the trusting you with such immense Sums tended so much to the endangering the Kingdom
Romish Priests slept in a whole Skin and Meetings of Protestants used with all the Violence imaginable whilst these Men walked about the Streets going from House to House and exercising their Functions with impunity Whence it is plain the Laws were not let loose against them 10. When the Popish Plot was discovered and several Priests Friars Monks and Jesuits were Indicted Arraigned Tried Convicted and Condemned were they not discharged out of Prison And were not Alderman Pilkington and Mr. Shute when Sheriffs of London commanded to discharge them out of Newgate and upon refusal of such an Arbitrary and Illegal Command committed Prisoners to the Tower And were they not then pardoned as also several Priests in the King's-Bench and divers parts of the Kingdom tho some did at that juncture dance the Rope full sore against your Brother's Will and yours And those who you procured to be pardoned were suffered to come into Prison to insult over us poor Protestants who were committed to Prison for the Truth and Testimony of a good Conscience Article XXIV THE Loss of the Dominion of the Seas was wholly owing to the Treachery of you and your villanous Party 'T is true your Brother did attempt the Security of the Seas in supplying the defect of his Coin by a few Copper Farthings whereby his Sacred Resolution was made publick of claiming and preserving the Dominion of the Seas but finding that sort of Metal would not do he changed them into Lead and so the Business was done to all intents and purposes as if your Minister Ned Petre had contrived the Business himself without the help of his Fellow-labourer of Pensilvania in that mighty Work But I shall be very plain in this Point and shew the Steps you took whilst Lord High Admiral of England to betray the English Nation into the Loss of the Dominion of the Seas which was never attempted till your Brother was called Home by the People of England in company with your self when you were advanced to that great Place of Trust which you held for several Years to the Nation 's great Dishonour and when you quitted the Employment you procured Persons of your own Nomination to succeed you who like Villains pursued the Measures you gave them in executing that Office by which the aforesaid Loss was to your Heart 's content in a great measure compleated I remember shortly after your Brother's Restoration the French King obtained leave of him and you to bring 12 Ships of War thrô the Channel but I do not remember of late Years he ever asked such a Boon of either of you nor indeed do I find that any of his Men of War did willingly observe you so far as to give ours the Honour of the Flag or strike to us in the Channel Now pray observe 1. Did you not instead of able Seamen of known Experience and Courage prefer a parcel of ignorant and cowardly Rascals Footmen Pages Pimps c. to be Captains and Lieutenants to the great discouragement of the Seamen And for a Man to be an able Seaman was enough to incapacitate him for a Commission you judging the Commands of the Royal Navy too great and high for such Men. Did not your Creatures then and since say that the King's Castles were not built to be commanded by Tarpawlins And what Conduct there was since your disposing of the Commands of the Fleet is well remembred as also how ridiculous it was judged both by the Dutch French and other Nations that did and still do advance their Navigation It is true when your Brother came home he found a Noble Navy in good Order and the Fleet in good Hands But as Captains and Lieutenants died or were discharged the Service either by Age or otherwise the aforesaid Rogues were put in their Places who when they came home from any Voyage have many times put themselves under the protection of the Friars that with peace they might spend their Money in Whoring and Drinking and have lived so lewdly as to be a Reproach even to the Friars where they sheltered themselves 2. As you took no Care of good Officers so neither of the Breed of Seamen for all the Fishery of England is sunk to nothing You let the French ravish the New-found-Land Trade by which that Fishery is lost and the Greenland Trade is gone and the Northern Fishery is come to nothing as is also the Iseland Trade The French and Dutch are Masters of these Fisheries and we have nothing now lest but the Yarmouth-Fishery which is fallen above 70 in the Hundred It is most notorious that your Brother and you were Enemies to the Happiness Glory and Strength of the Nation and therefore made it your Business to destroy every thing that might contribute to the Advancement thereof 3. In order to lose the Dominion of the Seas as you took no Care of the Increase of Seamen so how were those that you impressed aboard the Fleet under your Command used by your Land-loping Rascals that could signalize themselves no other ways than by breaking the Seamens Bones Nay their Warrant-Officers it may be did not escape their Hands This Usage made Men chuse rather to lose their Pay and run from their Ships An Instance of which we had in the Success a Fifth-rate Frigot besides other Ships where 50 Seamen together with the Watch that looked to them went away in the Night because of their ill usage by these mean Rascals that knew not the Worth and Value of a Seaman This was the Disease that raged in a great part of the Fleet which made them quit the English Service and go into Foreign Services where they expected better Usage 4. How have our Seamen been destroyed by those wicked Wars you made against the Dutch and base Compliance with the Pirats of Algiers c. in suffering our Seamen to lie in Captivity till they died or were useless unless they could redeem themselves at the Market-price By this means we lost the use of several hundred Seamen The last good Peace that was made was by Sir John Lawson but ever since we have been betrayed by your Villains in that Particular I remember that several times Letters Patents were granted to collect the charitable Benevolence of well-disposed People but that when considerable Sums have been gathered they have been put into the Hands of Cheats who perverted the Money to their own Uses and let the poor Seamen perish in most miserable Slavery 5. How have you taught the French to understand our Coasts and way of fighting and building Ships Your Brother and you furnished them with Timber Builders and Models of our Ships nay you permitted them to rob and plunder us to beat and murder our Seamen and never would seek Redress How could you expect the Dominion of the Seas upon these Terms 6. Was it not your Brother's Design to debauch the Nation And did you not place in the Fleet such Commanders as debauched our Seamen by
Factions that put General Cromwell to the Necessity of taking upon him the Government of the Nation by a single Person by the Name and Title of Lord Protector Those who would destroy the Constitution of the House of Lords do endeavour the Destruction of the Ballance of the English Government 3. Consider the King gives Life and Vigour to all the Proceedings in Parliament the Wills and Desires of the People tho approved by the Lords and Commons in Parliament without the King signify nothing unless he bids them be an Act they are abortive Therefore he that shall attempt the Subversion of any of the other two Estates is no more a King but a Tyrant and useless to God and Man You see that your Father undid himself to all Intents and Purposes by following such Measures as subverted his own Government and so have you and if you will not believe it you may ask the French King and he will soon satisfy you of the Matter But from hence Sir you may see that you cannot destroy any one Estate in this Government but the whole is subverted and therefore I may lay down this Proposition that Parliaments are the Essential Part of the Government In a word then to conclude this Head let me ask you or any of your Plotters these two Questions 1. If this be so that by so great Authority viz. so many Statutes then and now in Force the Fundamentals of the Common Law the Essentials of the Government it self Magna Charta your Brother's Coronation-Oath and so many Laws of God and Man the Parliament ought to meet and sit to redress Grievances provide for Common Safety especially in times of Common Danger and that this was so in a most eminent manner none can doubt that did believe the King so many Parliaments the Cloud of Witnesses the publick Judicatures their own Sense and Experience of the manifold Mischiefs acted and the apparent Ruin and Confusion that threatned the Nation by the restless Attempts of you and your bloody Party Then Sir I ask you Whether after the People of England had the Point of the Dagger thus set to their Breasts and the Knife at their Throats Cities and Habitations fired Invasions and Insurrections threatned to destroy the King and Government your villanous Popish Party did not design to destroy the only Remedy hoped for under God to give us Relief that is our Parliaments who with so much Cost and Pains were elected sent up and intrusted for our Help and to turn them off without answering the Ends for which chosen by those frequent Prorogations and Dissolutions Consider Sir the Point in hand Were not the People of England justified in their important Cries humble Petitions to the King your Brother fervent Addresses to their Members and earnest Claims for this their Birthright pleaded with all the Modesty imaginable which the Laws of the Kingdom consonant to the Laws of God and Nature had given them How impudent then were your Abhorrers of such Petitions and Claims What can Withens who was expelled the House for the same say for himself What can the Rascal plead in behalf of himself and a rascally Crew that joined with him in signing an Address of Abhorrence and that Villain Jefferies who did that in London which Wythens had done in Westminster Which brings me to a second Question 2. If it be fo that by so great Authority Parliaments ought to meet and sit to redress Grievances c. what shall we say to those who advised your Brother to this high Violation of their Countries Rights to the infringing so many just Laws and to the exposing the Publick to those desperate Hazards even almost a total Ruine which was done with all the Impudence and Barefacedness imaginable the Advisers not having the least Remorse upon them If K. Alfred as Andrew Horne in his Mirror of Justice tells us hanged Darling Segnor Cadwine Cole and forty Judges more for judging contrary to Law and yet all those faise Judgments were but in particular and private Cases what Death did those deserve who offer'd Violence to the Law it self and all the sacred Rights of their Country If the Lord Chief Justice Thorpe iâ— Edward Ill 's time for receiving the Bribery of 100 l. was adjudged to be hanged as having made the King break his Oath to the People how much more guilty were they that made your Brother break his Coronation-Oath and perswaded him to act against all Laws for holding of Parliaments and passiâ—g 〈◊〉 therein which â—e was so solemnly sworn to do And if the Lord Chief Justice Tresillian was drawn hang'd and quartered for advising the King to act contrary to some Statutes only what did those deserve that advised your Brother to act not only against some but all the antient Laws and Statutes of the Realm Moreover Sir I would say this further to you if you will have a little Patience If Blake the King's Counsel only for assisting in the Matter and drawing up Indictments by the King's Command against Law tho it's like he might plead the King's Order and Command for so doing was drawn hang'd and quartered what was due to them that assisted your Brother in the total Destruction of all the Laws of the Kingdom and as much as in them lay their King and Country too And if Vske the Under-Sheriff whose Office it is to execute the Laws for but endeavouring to aid Tresillian Blake and their Accomplices against some of the Laws was also with five more drawn hang'd and quarter'd what Punishment did they deserve that not only aided your Brother but endeavour'd to subvert all the Laws of the Kingdom And if Empson and Dudley in the time of Henry VIII tho of the King 's Privy Council were hanged for procuring and executing an Act of Parliament contrary to the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom and to the great Vexation of the People when yet they had an Act of Parliament on their Side what ought to have been done to those who had no such Act to shelter themselves and who not only acted contrary to but to the Destruction of the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom I can expect Sir no Answer from you but this The Men that did these things should surely have died if they had been discovered they should have perished without Mercy Is it so then I come to the last Particular to be debated and that is III. You are the Man and your Party was the Party that did endeavour to break the Use of Parliaments by inveighing against that way of Government In a word therefore I shall descend unto Particulars and shew you 1st That your Inclinations were not for Parliaments or that Way of Governing 2ly What those Parliaments were that you and your Party procured to be dissolved 3ly What Arts and Methods you used to expose the three last Parliaments your Brother held in 1679 1680 and 1681. 4ly Your Unreasonableness in so doing 5ly The ill Consequences
Inclination you had for any Parliament for certain you nor your rascally Party could never expect to see a Parliament more ready to assist you in all your wicked Designs 3. Your Inclination to Parliaments was seen by the Notions and Practices of your Party in relation to Parliaments especially from those of them that knew you best Were not Coleman Beddingfield Whitebread Strange Nevil and several other Villains of your Privy Council at St. James's and did not these study to find out your Inclinations and to imitate you exactly And how these and the rest of your villanous Crew stood affected to Parliaments in general is not yet forgotten by some that knew them Was it not their common discourse that they hoped there would be no more need of Parliaments did not your Popish Priests and Jesuits go from Coffee-house to Coffee-house and ridicule Parliaments Alas Sir this was but the Copy which your Villains took from your own Words who sometimes when they wanted a Supply for their extraordinary Occasions would be seemingly content that a Parliament should meet and sit to raise such a Supply but never to redress Grievances nay some of them have said that a King's Proclamation ought to be sufficient to raise Money and that it would never be well with us till the whole Government was reduced to the Model of that of France 4. Your Inclinations to a Parliament were seen in your daily Breaches upon the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom You knew the Parliament had made an Act of Uniformity and several Laws against Dissenters in 1663 and several Laws were made against Papists in former Kings Reigns yet to oblige the Popish Party you broke in upon all these Laws at once and procured your Brother in the said Year to put forth an Indulgence for tender Consciences not for the Encouragement of Protestant Dissenters but the Increase and Growth of Popery And as a necessary thing to usher in your second wicked War against the Dutch you put your Brother upon issuing forth another Declaration of Indulgence in 1671. Many other Instances I could give of this Matter but this shall suffice Now how this could consist with an innate Love to English Parliaments I must leave to better Judgments 5. Your Inclinations to Parliaments were seen in your Unwillingness to let that Parliament meet and sit in which you had so great a Band of Pensioners To my certain Knowledg Messenger after Messenger has been sent to France with begging Letters to get Money from the French King to put off the Sitting of the Parliament Give your Brother his due he never cared for their Sitting unless it was to get a Supply that he might exercise his Talent you know where without Molestation which he could not well do at a Session of Parliament Sir when the Parliament was by Prorogation to have met in Feb. 1672 3 O what Interest was used to put it off till October following and it had been done if your Party had brought in a Million as they promised but bringing in but 356000 l. there was no help but a Parliament must meet who I think made up the Defect in the Supply you expected from the Popish Party You know the Parliament was put off from Octob. 1670 till Feb. 1672 3. by which long Interval you had a competent Scope for the mighty Work you had upon your Hands that you and the rest of the Architects of our Ruine might be so long free from their odious and busy Inspection till it were finished A drinking Companion of your Brother's telling you that the Session of Parliament drew near and asking you what you thought of the Humour the Parliament-men would be in at next Session you answered you trusted there might be no Occasion for their meeting any more for you had hopes to bring the Cause to bear without a Parliament and took it as a great Affront that the Question was asked You know the old Squire your Brother laughed at you for that Capricio of yours tho your Jesuits thought it a piece of Impudence in that Gentleman so much as to mention the name of a Parliament in your Presence he knowing your Opinion as to that way of Government I must conclude that Man to be at a perpetual War with Mankind that will not admit of the sight of either Friends or Enemies If Sir you could not bear the Congress of your Friends that had been so loyal and bountiful you must certainly be averse to the meeting of a Parliament that would call you and your wicked Party to account for your many traiterous Designs against our Laws and Liberties 6. And lastly Your Inclination to Parliaments was seen in your Opinion of the Affection which your Band of Pensioners did bear to you and your Cause You know Sir you had put your self under the Protection of the French King and therefore it was scarce possible for you to engage any more in a Parliamentary way for all English Parliaments are haters of the French Interest Your Friend Coleman in his Letter to La Chaise Sept. 29. says That in Father Ferier 's time he had inculcated the great danger the Catholick Religion and the Interest of his most Christian Majesty would be in at the next Session of Parliament which was to be in Oct 1673. at which I fore saw that the King my Master would be forced to do somewhat in Prejudice to his Alliance with his most Christian Majesty which I saw so evidently and particularly that we should make Peace with Holland that I urged all the Arguments I could which to me were Demonstrations to convince your Court of that Mischief and pressed all I could to perswade his most Christian Majesty to use his utmost Endeavours to prevent that Session of our Parliament Again you find him pressing him for the Dissolution of the Parliament in order to bring the Confederates to a Peace upon the French King's Terms Then he plainly tells you That the Parliament as it was managed by the then Ministry was both unuseful to England and France and the Catholick Religion In another Part he tells you That Prorogations were but loss of time and a means to strengthen those who opposed the Crown and therefore still presses for a Dissolution which would give the Protestant Religion the greatest Blow that ever it receiv'd since its first Birth So that we may see by your Servant Coleman what Opinion you had of the then Parliament But that we may rivet the Matter I pray Sir take but a Note or two of your own Letter to La Chaise wherein you express your self extreamly pleased That the French King was satisfied of the unusefulness of the Parliament in order to the Service of the King your Brother and his most Christian Majesty In another place you say that his Christian Majesty was of Opinion that the Parliament was neither in his Interest nor yours Pray let me know what Parliament would be in your Interest
Popish Adversaries which they could not do but by inflaming the Differences between the Conforming and Non-conforming Protestants that we might not unite our Forces against the Common Enemy 2. You and your Party by this means weakened the Protestant Interest There can be nothing more plain than this for upon the Dissolution of the Oxford Parliament Swarms of Priests and Popish Conspirators returned home and fell to work to pervert the People to the Obedience and Communion of the See of Rome What Pensions then you got for some and Imployments for others and with what care you maintain'd their Interest and defended their Cause and Quarrel against those that pursued them for their many Treasons against the Government we all saw to our great Sorrow And what help was there since you and your Party had so much countenance from your Brother who was ingaged with you in the whole Popish Conspiracy saving that of his own Life 3. You procured a severe Persecution against Protestant Dissenters which you nor none of your rascally Crew durst do during the Session of Parliament but immediately upon their Dissolution you fell upon them either because they had occasioned the sending of good Men to Parliament or because they were zealous Assertors of the Protestant Religion against Popery and of our English Liberties against Slavery these were indeed high Crimes for which you and your Villains made them smart to the ruine of several thousand Families and had you continued somewhat longer in that glorious Adventure you might have made poor England a howling Wilderness tho when your Brother and you came home you found it a Land flowing with Milk and Honey Nay you had rather all should have run into Confusion than the Dissenters should not be ruined because they could not comply with a few Ceremonies for which your Party had no other Authority than a few Acts of Parliaments 4. You advanced Arbitrary Proceedings in Westminster-Hall where you had a Set of rognish Judges exactly of a size for that turn who had as much Impudence for the Court as they had had Dread of being called to Account in Parliament for all their Villanies And tho it was a standing Constitution that if any Man stood impeached by the Commons of England before the Lords in Parliament no inferiour Court could take Cognizance of that Cause or try him for that Treason in Westminster-Hall for which he stood impeached in Parliament which upon the Dissolution of the Oxford-Parliament was Fitz-Harris his Case yet for all this you found out your Pemberton your Jones and your Raymond that had Impudence enough to try the said Fitz-Harris and condemn him for alas good Men they were not to lose their Places for every small Peccadillo if it were to serve the Government especially to do a Job for you and your Crew 5. Upon the Dissolution of the 3 last Parliaments to alienate the King from his People you and your Party did industriously revive the Memory of the late unhappy Civil War between your Father and the Parliament which was your Brother's Interest as well as the Nation 's to have buried in oblivion the mentioning that unhappy War serv'd only to put us in mind of the sudden Dissolution of 3 Parliaments and the 12 years want of one and what the Villains had done in your Father's Reign and the better to colour your procuring the Dissolution of those three Parliaments you had your Parties abroad to asperse and brand the Members as being of the same Complexion with those that met Nov. 3. 1640 but none of your Cut-throats did ever mention the bloody Massacre in 1641 because begun and carried on by your Father's Command and for his Service But Sir let me tell you that none lived more peaceably under your Brother's Government than they who were engaged in that War on the Parliament's side therefore I cannot tell by what prudent Topick you went when you discourag'd those Men in their obedient living by such villanous Reflections and upbraided them with what the Law had pardoned and they had expiated by their Loyalty since supposing they had been Criminals which yet I think they were not But this is plain beyond all dispute that the Parliament that restored your Brother to his Throne and you to be a constant Plague to this Nation made an Act of Indemnity wherein many things were enacted which they judged necessary for the Settlement of the Nation they prohibited under a Penalty one Man's reproaching another with being concerned in that War for the space of three years after the Date of the said Act sure then they never intended Men should afterwards take the liberty to upbraid one another with it 6. Another ill Consequence of dissolving those three Parliaments was that by this means you made a way to succeed your Brother in the Government If those Parliaments had sat and their Counsels not been defeated by their unexpected Dissolutions you must have been disabled from ever inheriting the Imperial Crown of these Realms and it was plain those Whores and other Traitors that procured the Dissolution of those Parliaments aim'd at your coming to the Throne But Sir I think your Party should have shown so much Ingenuity and Candour as to have owned that all the People of England particularly those that were for your Exclusion were as zealous for Monarchy even in the Royal Line as any of your clamorous Bullies durst for their Ears be I am sure nothing so much endanger'd the legal Monarchy of England as your coming to the Crown which the Wisdom of the Nation foresaw and therefore that it might be preserved resolved to pass you by and let it descend to another Heir Nay Sir if you had continued James Duke of York I am sure you might have lived with more Honour and Comfort than you can propose by putting your Feet under the French King's Table but God having ordained you to be a Plague to us for our Sins I think you let us see what you aimed at in your four Years Tyranny There are some blind Puppies whose Eyes are not yet opened I could wish you had their Company at St. Germains being confident you would soon lick them open 7. Another Consequence of the Dissolution of those three Parliaments was the possessing the King of a Design carried on by the dissenting Party for his Destruction and to introduce a Democratical Power which they called a Common-wealth nay that you might hasten the Dissolution of the Oxford-Parliament you made use of this Lie for an Argument which your Brother was willing to believe that he might have some Pretence for quitting that way of Government There were two sorts of Persons charged 1. The Parliaments themselves 2. Those who stedfastly asserted the Power and Privileges of Parliaments the Protestant Religion and Liberties of the People in opposition to Popery and Slavery 1. These Parliaments were charged with a Design against his Majesty's Person and Government Now Sir let us
know what ground you had to raise such a foul Report and Slander upon so considerable a part of the Legislative Power I confess I can give no other name to these Proceedings of yours than a Conspiracy to destroy the use of Parliaments therefore had your Brother called another upon the Dissolution of the Oxford Parliament all English Protestants would have joined as one Man in humble Applications to that Assembly that you and your infamous Crew might have a due Punishment for such scandalous Reflections and false Accusations of those Parliaments It is well known Sir notwithstanding your said usage of these Parliaments that many of those honourable Persons sent up to serve as Members of those Assemblies had ventured their Lives and lost their Estates in endeavouring to restore the Monarchy in opposition to that very thing you charged them withal Nay they were all Lovers of Monarchy not only upon true English Principles but from their own Inclinations for deceive not your self they had too sad experience of a Common-wealth to be in love with that way of Government which they well knew was inconsistent with the Genius of this Nation and that nothing more agreed with the Peoples Temper than a well-regulated Monarchy as ours is by the fundamental Laws of the Realm and if your Brother had but considered the Point he could not have believ'd otherwise than that they were not nor could be true to the Monarchy that joined with you and your Conspirators to subvert the Rights and Privileges of Parliaments 2. The Parliaments not only lay under this filthy Calumny but your Party did also traduce those brave Men that stedfastly asserted the Power and Privileges of Parliament the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of the People as being in a Conspiracy against the King and Government but 't is plain that you knew not one Soul engaged in any such Conspiracy if you did why did you not according to your Duty and Allegiance discover them that they might have been brought to Justice If not why was all that noise made of a Conspiracy against the King's Person and Government But I believe you were afraid that your Folly as well as Knavery would have been manifested to the World and your Malice too into the Bargain Nay Sir let me tell you that upon the Intimation given by your Devil's Broâ—ers and the special Direction of old Hodg the Fidler to your little Parasitical Clerks the Pulpits rung with the noise of a Presbyterian Plot in order to betray us into Popery and Arbitrary Power for many if not all but especially those who made some sort of Figure in the Country hung their Tongues and set the tune of their Preaching to the humour of the Times and like the Devil's Messengers being instigated by your High Priests all they preached was against the Dissenters charging them with a Design to bring in a Common-wealth and Confusion But why was all this noise about a Prebyterian Plot Come I 'll tell you the Reason You may remember that your Popish Party were by me and others charg'd with a Hellish Conspiracy against the Person of the King our Religion and Government and the Lives of all the Protestants in England and this proved against them to the satisfaction of all sober Men as well by their own Papers as the Testimonies of several Witnesses and finding all your devilish Arts and Practices could not bring your selves off from the Reproach you justly lay under or the Punishment you must have suffered had a Parliament been permitted to sit you made this noise of a Dissenters Plot as your last Refuge which you and your Crew said was against the Monarchy under pretence of prosecuting a Popish Conspiracy And therefore with what Application did you form the Intrigue of the Meal-tub and also those Shams of Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey's murdering himself and Lord Howard's penning Fitz-Harris's Libel all which discovered your Purposes as well as your Disappointments at once Surely Sir your Party never considered what a notorious Scandal they endeavour'd to fasten not only upon the most considerable People of England but the whole Kingdom which you caused to suffer much in its Reputation abroad as broken and divided against it self and relapsing into Confusion and Anarchy Nay let me tell you that you and your Party hereby brought your Brother and his Government and Prudence under the greatest Disreputation for must not our Neighbours stand amazed to see a King restored by unanimous Consent to the great Joy of the Nation in so few Years lose that Esteem Honour and Reverence for so great a number of his Subjects as you had caused to be accused What Nation would maintain an Alliance with such a King who had so much sunk his Interest How could they expect he should be able to support and answer the ends of such an Alliance Your great Ally the French King could not but laugh in his Sleeve to see the Nation in such a Posture Nay further what Jealousies did you create in the Peoples Minds so that the Popish Party were strengthned to destroy both Conformists and Nonconformists who were both Hereticks to them Hereby also that Impudent Tyrant the French King was emboldned to proceed in his Ravages upon his Neighbours Countries and if your Brother should have had the least Inclination to put a stop to this Nimrod what a Condition would he have been in since you and your French Pensioners had created such Feuds amongst us 8. Another Evil happening upon the Dissolution of those Parliaments was your Endeavours to perswade the People that they were in a secure State with relation to their Religion Laws and Liberties that so the Nation might be a Prey to your Popish Crew Now Sir how can your Party answer the so doing when we were in the midst of so many notorious Dangers Do you not remember that four Parliaments had represented the manifold Dangers the Nation was threatned with And hath it not been one of the greatest Difficulties that ever a Nation groaned under to preserve it self from your Popish Rage and Fury Nay all thinking Men judged it impossible but God with whom all things are possible did the Work his own way you know well enough to your woful experience I remember your Conspirators used to wipe their Mouths and mimp them up with a maidenly God damme the Nation was in no danger from the Popish Party tho the King in several Proclamations had signified the same and if your Rascals had not the manners to believe the Parliament they might have believed the King since he not only published his Proclamations to let the Nation know its danger but also in divers Speeches to both Houses of Parliament acquainted them therewith and upon the whole not only required their Advice and Counsel but proposed that some effectual Laws might be made to prevent those Dangers and Mischiefs that then attended the Nation But Sir you and your Party may say What danger
often demanded in vain was according to the Law of Nations and the Rules of Justice nay Sir we might have been engaged in his Quarrel with old Kate's native Country which we ought to have had special regard of for the Blessing they sent us in 1662. And pray what was the Quarrel Truly nothing but a treacherous seizing the Island of St. Gabriel which the Portuguese had peaceably enjoyed several Years upon which you know Jack the Portuguese invaded some part of the Spanish Country Also by virtue of this Alliance we were even obliged to assist the Spaniard in case of any disturbance in his own Dominions You and your Brother were admirable good at secret Articles and in one of those it is plainly expressed we were to furnish him 8000 Men for 3 Months so that if he inclin'd to make his Subjects as great Slaves to the Crown as they are to the Church our good King was to assist him in so good a Work Truly Sir when I reflect on Philip the Second's Barbarity to the People of the Low Countries whom our Ancestors thought fit to succour I could not but think this Alliance now under debate was for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion and the Good of the Nation because my Lord Hallifax and old Lauderdale told me so and therefore as the Stars would have it it was not fit the League should be laid before the Parliament lest they should think so too and find a blind side or two in it and think it would contribute but little to the Good of the Nation or securing the Peace of poor Flanders Well Sir your Cake proved Dough that bout for there was Death in the Pot a standing Army aimed at in England that would not down with us at that time of which you were to have been General that would have done more good Business upon Hounslow-Heath than in Flanders for they were not to help the Spaniard till the French had invaded them three Months and it 's well known he could then have been Master of a considerable part of that Country But yet no Money came nor can I help it if I should cry my Eyes out let me therefore be a little more particular with you and ask two or three Questions it may be we may find some Expedient they might have used to allay the matter on your side Now supposing this League the best that ever could be made yet 1. Had not the Parliament just Cause to be very jealous of your Brother's Sincerity in this Alliance and the more because he would not declare what it was nor suffer it to be laid before them Therefore had it been the best in Christendom nay as good as that between him and Cleveland and Mother Knight the Bawd which he had broken for several years or that that was then in being between Mrs. Portsmouth and her Woman Nell Waall yet what could they say to such a League or what Security could they have that it should be kept more than the Triple League or that with the Prince of Orange or that with the States General which were all broken almost as soon as made 2. The Parliaments of England had been ill used by you and your Banditti and therefore you must allow this not to meet with that Temper you desir'd who after they had heard of this Alliance were not suffered so much as to have it laid before them to consider of tho it had been before your Council at St. James's and Barillon the French Ambassadour had perused it and was privy to the secret Article in it and had not like a Man of Truth given a Copy of it to one that let some have a sight of it Surely Sir you and your Party could not but provoke a Parliament by these Carriages and how then could you expect Money to support this new Alliance 3. I pray Sir how was it possible any good could come to Christendom in general or to these Nations in particular by this new Alliance It is plain that all Christendom after the separate Peace with the Dutch could not preserve Spain and the Spanish Netherlands from falling under the Dominion of the French King how then could your Brother by this new Alliance be in a Condition to support them without the Dutch since by the help of you and your Traitors he brought this Nation into a distracted and deplorable Condition Nay Sir one word more What good could these Kingdoms expect by this Alliance since thereby all the Hardships imaginable were put upon our Traders both to Spain and the West-Indies and had that King been as able as willing he would have let you known it ' ere this time 4. Was it not unreasonable to ask Money for the support of this League tho we suppose it the best that ever was made Your Brother was the first King that ever asked Money to support Alliances I have read of Kings when by the Advice of Parliament they have made War upon any of their Neighbours they have called for Money to carry it on with Vigour but I never find any of our Kings that ever called for Money to support Alliances especially when they were justly ashamed to declare what they were 5. Again Your Crew I confess at that time made a horrid noise about the Spanish Alliance and wondered the Parliament would give no Money to maintain it Alas Sir there was never yet an Alliance made with any State in Christendom if a good one but would earn its own living and therefore needed no Money to support it if it were a bad one I am sure it deserved none 6. Once more and I 'll conclude this Point since your Party made such a noise about the Spanish Alliance pray Sir how was it kept If my Memory fails not it was not over-well observed for I think in 1682. your Ally the French King blocked up Luxemburgh and in the year my Lord Russel was murdered took Courtray one of the six Towns delivered up by the French to the Spaniard and keeps it to this Day as he doth Luxemburgh which he took by force in 1684. Now I do not find your Brother ever assisted this Confederate of his according to the tenour of the Alliance or as he was Guarantee in the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle which in his excellent Declaration of War against the Dutch he declared he would maintain Upon the whole I see no reason why the Parliament should have given any Money to support this Alliance 2. As the Parliament would give no Money for the support of this Alliance so neither for the support of Tangier this stuck mightily in your Stomach and in the Maws of all your Party Now Sir Tangier being most valiantly deserted it deserves not to be mentioned but because it so highly offended your Friends who to this day mention it with reluctancy I will say a word or two to it It is some years since that the Commons of England to