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A41181 A letter to a person of honour concerning the black box Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714. 1680 (1680) Wing F749; ESTC R29821 9,320 10

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esteemed her for no less than the lawful Wife of their King and Master Sixthly 'T is of no great concernment who is the immediate apparent Heir in the Regal Line if we do but consider that the Parliament of England hath often provided a Successor to the Government when the Interest of the Publick hath required it without the least regard to such Punctilio's They who preferred William Rufus and Henry the 1st to Robert though Eldest Son of William the Conquerour what can they not do when weighty Reasons and Causes influence them unto it And they who advanced Stephen before Maud and John before his Eldest Brothers Son can they not when the Safety of the Kingdom requireth it put the Scepter into whose hands they please Nor hath Bastardy it self been an Obstruction to the confering of the Crown upon a person provided all things else have corresponded with the desires and Humours of the People For not only Athelstan the Great Saxon King was such but Q. Mary or Q. Elizabeth must be so Blazon'd and yet all three were Exalted to the Regal Throne And two of them not only approved themselves worthy of the Trust reposed in them but have consigned down that stock of Fame and Credit which few attaining unto hath left a Reproach upon most Princes who have succeeded them Even Henry the 7th from whom our King derives his Title and Right of Succession sprung from a Bastard who had nothing to render him capable to conveigh a Claim to his Posterity but that he was made Legitimate by Parliament Seventhly The Councel had done a thing grateful to the Nation and consonant to their Oathes and Duty if in stead of attempting to establish the Duke of York as Heir apparent they had examined Whether notwithstanding his Affinity to the King he hath not by manifold Treasons against the Person of his Majesty as well as against the Government forfeited his Life to Iustice and made himself obnoxious to a Scaffold while he is pretending to a Thorne He is yet a Subject and accountable for the Breach of the Laws and why his Crimes should find shelter in his Greatness I know not 'T is in vain to pretend to the Right of Succession when his Treasons were a Self Deposition were he actually Regnant Whosoever Conspires against any one part of the Constitution forfeits all he can Claim by any other branch of it To be accessory to a Plot for the destruction of the People is to abdicate himself from all Legal pretences of Reigning over them Now the being seduced and seducing so many of his Majesties Subjects from the established Religion to that of Popery is Treason by two Statutes viz. Eliz 22 1. Jam. 3. 4. And for which say the words of the Stat. They shall forfit as in cases of High Treason As the late Proclamation by King and Council hath also fiignifieantly declared The countenancing the Burning of London the endeavouring to alter the limited Monarchy into a Despotick Rule and the combining with the Papists in all the parts of the Late Plot make him lyable to the Ax while he is aspiring to a Scepter Eightly A more unaccountable thing yet than all the former is to see the King so far concern himself in having the Succession declared and determined For it is not usual to find a Prince appear in favour of a Brother when so many are in the Belief that he hath a Legitimate Son of his own Many Kings have endeavoured the advancement of their Bastard Children to the exclusion of their nearest Relations of the right Blood Only Charles the 2d will be the first on the File of History that when nothing but his bare Word was needful to the setling his Dominions on his Son as Legitimately born He alone and in the face of strong suspitions to the contrary would insinuate him to be only his Natural Son and for no other reason but that he would gratify his greatest Enemies I 'm sure we read of few Kings that ever gave any great Countenance to their Brethren when they were their presumptive Heirs though in the mean time they would not deprive them of their Legal Rights providing they came to out-live them Yea there are not many Ages past since the Heir apparent's being only attended by a greater Train than the King then reigning over these Kingdoms used to be accompanied with is theught to have given that jealousy to the Father as cost the young Gentleman his Life Surely considering the present posture of affairs and the obnoxiousness of the Papists to the Law for their many and continued Conspiracies against his Majesties Person the Lives of the People the Protestant Religion and the Peace and Safety of the Government it were the King and Kingdoms Interest to have the D. of Y ' s. Title as to his Succeeding to the Crown to be left undetermined and doubtful Nor can any thing so effectually conduce both to the Kings own Security and that of his Protestant Subjects as to leave the D. of Ys. under a Belief that should the King be taken away there is one still behind that can dispute the Crown with him Nor can the D. of Y. pursuing the having the Right of Succession at this time setled intimate less to considering persons but that the Papists entertain new Designs against his Majesties Life and that only they want such a Declaration for the hastening of the Execution of them Your Lordship knows that Q. Elizabeth would never positively name her Succes●our though often importtned by Parliaments so to do for she very well understood that if this had been once done she should afterwards Reign only by his courtesie and owe the remain of her Life and the Peace of the Government to his Grace and Favour whom she had published for presumptive Heir And truly the Kings falling so immedia●ely ill after the D. of Y. had so errnestly solicited for a formal Declaration of his being next Heir to the Crown occasioned some mens grounds of Fear that his dispatch is not only resolved but the Springs and Causes of it disposed before and that all things being ripe this was meerly contrived to facilitate the Dukes Enterance upon the Government In brief matters are arrived at that pass that the Papists cannot suffer the King to continue and the Duke and they long escape the demerit of their actions For as his Majesty cannot subsist nor preserve the Reputation of his Crown and Government many months longer without a Parliament no more can they through the number quality and palpableness of their Crimes bear one So that the necessity of their Affaires as well as their Inclinations seconded by their Principles oblige them by one means or another to remove him Wherein if they succeed as I see no rational foundation of Judging but that they will there is nothing remains towards the preserving our Religion Lives and Liberties but to endeavour according to the Vote and Resolve of the last