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L'Estrange his appeal humbly submitted to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the three estates assembled in Parliament; Appeal humbly submitted to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the three estates assembled in Parliament
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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Design to destroy the Hierarchy and all the Sons of the Church by the name of Papists in Masquerade and get all the places of Profit to themselves Now for my Suggesting the Popish Plot to be only a Blind to enrage People I defy the world either to shew that I have misrecited my Self in what I have already deliver'd or to produce any one passage out of all my Writings that without extreme Violence will in any degree countenance Such a Construction But still as I am Innocent of rendering That to be only a Blind which King Lords and Commons have pronounced to be a damnable and hellish Plot So am I thoroughly convinc'd on the Other hand that there are Several Sham-Plots contriv'd and Started where there was no colour or pretense for a man to Imagine that there was any Plot at all and that great use is made of these Inventions for a Blind to the Advancing of a Fanatical Design And how far That Project may reasonably tend toward the destruction of the Hierachy and the Sons of the Church under the notion of Papists in Masquerade and the engrossing of all Power into their own hands shall be set forth in its proper place But how comes L'Estrange to be charg'd with turning the Popish Plot over to the Presbyterians now in 1680. that has been perpetually ringing the same Peal in the ears of the Government ever since 1661. that he does at This Instant And I do not remember any Popish Plot that was taken notice of in those days In the Epistle Dedicatory of my Holy Cheat to the House of Commons 1661. I have these Words speaking of the Presbyterians they cast the blood and guilt of the late War upon his Majesty make his Adherents Traytors place the Supreme Authority in the two Houses Subject the Law to an Ordinance the Government to a Faction and Animate the Schismatiques to Serve his Majesty in Being as they did his Father This is the Drift of their Seditious Libells c. And a little farther This Citation of Douglas's Coronation-Sermon Then newly Reprinted This may serve to justify the Proceedings of this Kingdome against the late King who in a Hostile way set himself to overthrow Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties Pag. 10. What could I say lesse to the Insolence of such Pamphlets or what is it more that I do now upon this Subject that what I did twenty years since §. 3. About disparaging the Kings Wittnesses The next Calumny layd to my Charge is the discrediting of the Kings Witnesses wherein I once again repayre to my own Papers which without a new Dictionary and a new Grammar will abundantly acquit me For according to Common English and Syntaxe I have rather strain'd a point of Modesty upon an Excess of Respect then on the Other side been wanting to it As for Example in my Further Discovery to Dr. Oates They are wonderfull things Dr. which you have done already and I am Perswaded that you are yet reserved for more wonderfull things to come which must be the work of Time to disclose when Truth shall deliver her self from the Rubbish of Oppression and Slander and in despite of Envy and Imposture render your Name as famous to Posterity as your Virtue has made it to the present Generation And this I write with little lesse then the Genius of a Prophet Pag. 21. These very words from the Pen of a Servile Parasite would have pass'd for a Panegyrick which in L'Estrange must be Interpreted for a Libell Nay all the force of Argument and Intention must be destroy'd and the very Standard of the English Tongue alter'd to do me a good Turn Every Syllable is put to the Torture to know what Moutbs I made upon the Writing of it And if I do but stumble upon a Figure that would be an Ornament perhaps upon another mans Paper it is a Blot upon mine and the most Innocent of my Metaphors and Allusions are melted down into Articles and Depositions without the Allowance of so much as one grain for Humane Frailty And all this by the virtue of a kind of Inverted Alchymy that instead of the more Generous Operation of exalting Baser mettles into Nobler and turning Copper into Gold sets up a New Profession of turning Gold into Dirt. Who was it but You again that so effectually layd open the Intrigues of the Priests and Jesuits with the Schismatiques in the late Rebellion That shew'd his Majesty so plainly who they were that Dethron'd and Murther'd his Father and painted the whole Conspiracy so to the Life that a body might Wink and see thorough it Who but you Sir to trace them down to this very Instant through all their Disguises and Caballs Fomenting a Rebellion in Scotland with the Presbyterians Incendiaries in London with the Millenaries and up and down Tampering with the whole Crew of of Sectaries Who was it but You that first found out the Conspiracy it self and then the Conspirators Who but You the Eminent Instrument in the opening of the Combination What is all this but to Trace the Dr. in the very History of himself And to say more to his Honour then perchance ever any man sayd before me bating only the Person that First gave him the Title of THE SAVIOUR OF THE NATION It cannot be deny'd but that the Kings Witnesses have ventur'd as far and done as much as men could do under Their Circumstances to make out the Truth of a Damnable and Hellish Popish Plot upon the Life of his Sacred Majesty our Religion and Civill Government Ib. pa. 23. It would be endlesse to encounter the Malice of every Scurrilous Buffoon that neither dares own his Name to the Government nor to the Subject of his Outrage and Venom But yet in regard that the whole pack of them fall in with full Cry upon two Passages in the Second and Third Pages of my Further Discovery I shall bestow a word or two more upon those Reflections The Words are These I have naturally a Veneration for the Government and all that Love it for the Kings Loyall Wittnesses and the Preservers of his Sacred Life in the First place with an Equall Horror and Detestation for all his Enemies under what Mask or form Soever I believe the Plot and as much as every good Subject ought to believe or as any man in his Right Wits can believe Nay I do so absolutely believe it that in my Conscience You your Self Doctor do not believe more of it then I do Pag. 2. Now where 's the disparaging of the Kings Wittnesses in all This I believe the Plot and as much of it as an honest man ought or a Sober man can believe nay as much of it as the Dr. himself believes And would any body have me now to believe more But the whole World Say I shall never bring me to believe or to Say that I believe That
which I neither do nor can believe As the businesse of Bedingfields being alive again or that I my self am in the Conspiracy Suppose my Boy should come in and tell me that it rains Butter'd Turnips I should go near to open the Window to see whether it be so or no Pag. 3. Shall any man call This now that is with so much Caution and Distinction apply'd to Cases that are manifestly false and groundlesse shall any man I say call This an arraigning of the Doctors Evidence Or rather how shall any man dare to apply these false and groundlesse Storys to the Doctors Case does it follow because I do not believe a thing that is False that therefore I do not believe a thing that is True §. 4. For abusing all Sorts of People in my Citt and Bumpkin The Fourth Article runs for Comprehending all the States Orders and Divisions of men both Lords Citizens and Commons of England under the Opprobrious names of Citt and Bumpkin And is not the World much beholden to the Authour of this Discovery now for the Resemblance he finds betwixt the LORDS CITIZENS and COMMONS of England and my CIT and BUMPKIN For it is he alone out of his own mother Wit that has found it out And yet he pronounces in another place that I make my Bumpkin to represent a Cunning Projecting Canting Knave which He by Interpretation makes to be a Common Representative of the Nation But so far am I now from confounding men of Honour and Integrity with Rascalls that I have set upon these Varlets an Expresse mark of Opposition to the Sober and considerable part of the Land and I have done This too with all the Clearnesse and Contempt imaginable And YOU says Truman are the Representative forsooth of the City and YOU of the Country Two of the Pillars of the Nation with a Horse-Pox a man would not let down his Breeches in a House of Office that had but two such Supporters Do not I know you Cit to be a little Grub-street-Insect that but to'ther day Scribled handy dandy for some eighteen pence a Jobb pro and con and glad on 't too And now as it pleases the Stars you are advanc'd from the Obort the miscarriage of a Cause-Splitter to a drawer up of Articles and for your Skill in Counterfeiting hands preferr'd to be a Sollicitor for Fobb'd Petitions You 'l do the Bishops business and you 'l do the Dukes businesse and who but you to tell the King when he shall make War or Peace call Parliaments and whom to Commit and whom to let go And then in your Fuddle up comes all what such a Lord told you and what you told him and all this pudder against your Conscience too even by your own Confession Pag. 26. And then Truman again Pag. 35. Who made You a Commissioner for the Town or You for the Country But we are like to have a Fine businesse of it when the Dreggs of the People set up for the Representatives of the Nation to the Dishonour of the most considerable and Sober part of the Kingdom Pre'thee Bumpkin with thy Poles and Baltiques how shouldest Thou come to understand the Ballance of Empires wbo are Delinquents and who not the Right of Bishops Votes And you forsooth are to teach the King when to call a Parliament and when to let it alone Our Libellers should do well now to name the Lords Citizens and Commoners that sat for their Pictures to the Designer of These two Figures But Calumny is shamelesse they would never else have bespatter'd me for an Abuse wherein I have so many Thousands of Wittnesses to the Contrary But no better can be expected from the Scum of the Rabble whosc Blouds run as Course as their Manners And then they hit me in the Teeth with it upon all occasions what Rogues I make of the Citizens and it is not a pin matter to Them whether a Suggestion be True or False provided that the matter of it be but Scandalous and the Consequence of it dangerous Where was This Zeal I wonder for the Honour of the Lords Citizens and Commons in the case of the Appeal from the COUNTRY to the CITY where they were all of them made Rascalls indeed and under the very notion too of the Representatives of the Kingdom It strikes In with a ONE and ALL at the very first dash Most Brave and noble Citizens With you we stand and with you we fall Appeal Pag. 1. This is one of the most virulent Libells against his Majesty in his Person Authority and Administration against the whole Body of the Clergy and against all the Faithfull Friends and Subjects of the Church and Crown that ever yet was Printed Nay it proceeds even to the Tacit Proposal of a New King This was no bespattering was it of the Nobility Citizens and Commonalty to represent them all as in so lewd a Conspiracy against the Establisht Government But our pretended Patriots and Zealots are all of them blind on That Side and there is not so much as one man of them that has ever taken any sort of notice of these daring Affronts upon Authority unlesse to countenance the Sedition But Recrimination is no discharge wherefore I shall remit my self upon the matter of Respect to the Citizens of London to the Reply I publisht upon the coming out of That villanous Libel It is a wonderfull thing the Confidence of this audacious Pamphlet in addressing it self to the City after so Fresh so Loyal and so Generous an Instance of their Scorn and Detestation of any thing that looks like a Seditious Practice Why should a Wat Tyler expect better Quarter from a Lord Mayor under Charles the Second then he had from a Lord Mayor under Richard the Second Nay that very Rebellion of Forty One is most injuriously charg'd upon the City of London for Gournay Ricaut Garraway and the most considerable of the Citizens were not only against it in their Opinions but opposed it to the Utmost with their Estates and Persons And That Honourable Saciety has not yet forgotten either the Calamities of the War or the Methods and Instruments which brought so great a Reproach upon the City Answ. to the Appeal Pag. 2. And again How can the Appellant imagine that the most eminent City of Christendom for Purity of Religion Loyalty to their Prince Power good Government Wealth and Resolution should be cajoll'd out of all these Blessings and Advantages by the Jesuitical Fanaticism of a Dark-Lanthorn Pamphlet Ibid. Pa. 38. There is a Passage in my Second Citt and Bumpkin Pag. 27. which some of my Over-Critical Adversaries pretend to lay a more then Ordinary stresse upon and I shall here submit it to any Impartial Judgment Prethee says Bumpkin let 's leave This Noddy Truman a little and talk of something else What dost think was the Reason that Parliaments have been put