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
to this the Author makes answer in these Words But since he would leave his Crown who could help it For no body took it from him The Jacobites say they are astonished at this That they could not have expected this from so Celebrated a Pen as that of this Author They ask whether this Author or any Man in England thinks that K. James left his Crown Voluntarily And whether Frighting a King out of his Kingdom he not a taking it from him And then to cry as this Author here who could help it For no body took it from him The Jacobites say they suspect this Author to be turning towards Trans-sub-stantiation he can never be too old to Learn for if he can perswade us out of our Senses in one case he may in another Now say the Jacobites to see K. James Invaded by the P. of Orange and made a Prisoner by him removing his English and clapping Dutch Guards upon him Commanding him out of his Bed and Pallace at two a Clock in the Morning and after Possessing his Crown and then to say that no body took it from him is the same as to say that no body now possesses it It is to bid us believe nothing we see hear or Feel And is this the Foundation say they upon which you would settle our Conscience and hazard our Damnation If any body took K. James's Crown from him then say the Jacobites will you allow us to be in the Right and your selves to be in the Wrong You must do so if you lay any stress upon this Argument But if no body took it from him then perhaps he has it still and we have him still at White-Hall it is only a Decoptio Visus and we have been but Dreaming of Battles in Ireland and Flanders Ireland is not Destroyed nor have any Men Perished there And now come Popery we are ready for you we will never Plead our senses against you any more Thus the Jacobites insult And I confess it is the point I can least answer for as they say either K. James did Voluntarily Relinguish his Crown which no body in the World believes or he was Frightned from it and chose rather to Lose it for some time and take his hazard of Recovering it again rather than ly at his Enemies Mercy to take that away and his Life together wheâ—… ever he Pleased which no doubt was the Case and I have heard many blame the ill Conduct of suffering him to Escape and Create us so many troubles Would any think him Safe if he were in our hands now Therefore it is a Demonstration that it was his safest Course to Escape when he could Our Author has a witty Sarcasme upon this p. 2. King William says he wont Abdicate nor Steal away The Jacobites Laugh at this and ask our Author whether he would not Advise K. W. to make his Escape if he were in the Circumstances in which K. J. was then Suppose K. J. should Invade and Conquer K. W. Suppose the Engish should Desert K. W. as they did K. J. and that K. J. had made K. W. a Prisoner and put him under French Guards would not our Author or any Friend of his perswade him to Abdicate and Steal Away if he could This the Jacobites say was poor and impotent in this Anthor to strain himself for a Reslection upon K. J. to renen a Blow at him and then to have no more to say against him But to return to our Argument The Jacobites do further insist in behalf of K. J. That suppose his Fears were too Great yet it was to Save his Life that he fled And will any say that this was no Force upon him And shall our Author ask Since he would go as if it were Obstiuacy not Fear that prest him and who could help it as if it were against our will that he went and that we were able and willing to protect him And when he is thus Frightned away and Forced to leave his Crown behind him to Save his Life and then we bestow this Crown upon another and to Declare him to have no more Right to it to say this is not a Taking it from him the Jacobites alleadge is Non-sense even to the Degree of Madness And the Case being thus stated they must needs Gain all man-kind to their side Men may pretend what they will but it is not in a Mans power to Believe as he pleases And therefore Sir I do earnestly intreat you to think of some Topick or other to Answer these Jacobites otherwise the Consequence must be Fatal to the Government to let them have all the plausibility on their side Whether you will pitch upon the way of Scotland to Fore-Fault the King and plainly own as they do his Forfeiting his Crown for Male-Administration and therefore that they took it from him by their Superior and Original Authority and Depos'd him Justly Which I think a much easier way than ours Or whether you will set up Conquest or what other Method to satisfy Mens Consciences I submit to your better Judgment But something must be done other than to say that No body took K. J.'s Crown from him for such a Paradox can never pass upon any Man of Honesty or Common Sense And in your Managing this Cause I shall desire likewise for the Honour of the Government That you would avoid giving the Jacobites such a handle to Retort upon us as you do p. 28 29. where you insist upon the Perjury Mocking of God and Deceiving the Government in those who have taken the New Oath to K. W. and Q. M. and yet should Act against them Here you could not but Imagin That the Jacobites would Retort upon us the Breach of our Oaths to K. J. And for us to Preach up the Obligation of Oaths in one Case and Cry them down in another is exposing our selves to the utmost Contempt unless you had shewn some Difference 'twixt these Oaths which you have forgot As they did the Jacobites say who had the Penning of the Late Proclamation 13. Sept. 92. against High-way-mer and Robbers and yet shew'd us not the Difference 'twixt Robbing or Stealing Pence and a Crown why the Lesser Stealth should be Criminal and the Greater Glorious as if Kings onely of all Mankind were Divested of having any Right or Property If they have then forceing their Right from them is Robbery And the Laws do secure the Right of the King beyond that of the Subject Making a Trespass a Scandal or an Assault against a Subject Treason against the King And yet this Proclamation begins Whereas in Contempt of the Laws and well Establish'd Government of this Kingdom many Robberys have been of late Committed as if say the Jacobites Robbing the King of his Crown were not a greater Contempt of the Laws than Robbing a Private Man of his Purse Unless Princes be Exempt from the Eight Commandment either in an Active or a Passive Sense viz. That
one of the French Ships when they lay so long upon our Shore after Beating home our Fleet in the Year 90. of which he thought the less harm because Sir William Jennings and other English Gentlemen and Protestants then Aboard the French Fleet came on shore with the French who Treated the Country with all Imaginable Civility and Kindness and invited any to come on Board them and they shou'd be Civily Entertain'd for they profest that their Master had no Enmity against England but rather Kindness to End their Divisions and stop the Exhausting of their Money and Restoring their Rightful KING and the Laws to their Ancient Channel Upon which this Inn-keeper ventur'd and found them as good as their word and brought Letters from Sir William Jenning's and other English Gentlemen on Board having that occasion to some of their Friends Of which this Fellow was yet so Cautious that he brought them open and delivered them to the next Justice of Peace But he had told that the French were a Civil sort of People and not such Bugg-Bears as some Represent them And was Hang'd without Mercy That more Instances of this Nature are not to be Produc'd is because more however Guilty have not been Convist which was not for want of Good Will Thus say the Jacobites Pamphlet He comes now to the Rarity as the Jacobites call it to Instance a Pardon Granted by K. William Yea one of them says he upon whom Actual Treason was proved hath been Pardon'd after Conviction and Condemnation Jacobite This is the Case of my Lord Preston Which is all over so Extraordinary that Execution had been a Milder Treatment than that he met with He was Taken upon Thursday Janu. 1. 90 91. Try'd and Found Guilty the Saturday Fortnight after The Thursday before his Father-in-Law was Employed to Drink upon him most part of the Day and at Ten a Clock at Night he was Hurry'd away being in Great Disorder to Kensinton where another Treat was Provided and then he was brought before K. William where he Spoke not with that Caution as Reasonably may be suppos'd he would have had at another time On Friday K. William went for Flanders Next Day Lord Preston was brought to his Tryal where he was Confronted with the Lord President and Lord Sidney who had been both Present at his Intercourse with K. William which Lord Preston Declar'd was a Great Awe upon him and Interruption to the Defence he had to make for himself not Remembring what he had said in that Disorder he was in at Kinsinton That he was not Releas'd till about the end of May following All which time he was Delivered over to Satan to be Buffeted under the Conduct of his Renegado Reis-Efendi the most Dexterous of that Sultan's Executioners It would make another Part of the Turkish Spy to tell all the Arts and little Contrivances of this Bloody Officer to Wheedle to Frighten to Circumvent this Condemn'd Lord. The Sheriff being one Day sent to give him Notice of his Execution such an Hour another Day Visited kindly by his Lordships Self and Lord Deu. at other times by other Emissaries with New Threats and Promises of Rewards and Preferments if he would Comply telling him that others had Discovered against him even those whom he endeavour'd to Serve suffering none to come near him to Undeceive him in any Point In short having try'd all ways they Resolv'd to make him an Evidence In order to which it was Necessary to Qualify him by Cranting him a Pardon But his Estate being Intayl'd was the Greatest Security he had for his Life which if they took they would lose the Benefit of Seizing his Estate Therefore they chose to keep that as an Awe over him to Force him to be an Evidence And accordingly having pass'd his Pardon about the end of May and his Lordship gone immediately Home to live Privately he was straight sent for again in June and told that he must be an Evidence Which his Lordship positively Refused That Lord President bid him Remember that tho' his Life was Pardon'd he had an Estate to lose And told him that the Parliament might Undo what the King had Done and Revoke even the Pardon which the King had Granted Lord Preston said he was Surprized to hear that Doctrine from his Lordship K. Charles II. having hazarded a Breach with his Parliament to Support the Pardon his Majesty had Granted to his Lordship upon which Lord N. interpos'd Solving it as well as he could and then Ordered the King's Council who attended to let my Lord Preston know what was yet in the Power of the Government to Inflict upon his Lordship in Case of his Refusal to be an Evidence The Council Learned in the Law then Declared That they could Imprison him During Life and Fine him more than he was Worth His Lordship Answered that he thought Magna Charta and the Laws of England had Limited Fines to be Salvo Contemento And likewise laid down Methods for the Liberty of the Subject However That neither Life nor Estate should prevail upon him to bring Innocent Blood upon his own Head His Lordship was thereupon sent Twice to Newgate whence he Delivered himself both times by Habeas Corpus And his whole Estate was Seized and is still to force him to Hang his own Brother and others whom they do not like And he now Suffers under their Clemency and Good Nature But how came it that this Author did Name but One of the Pardons Granted by K. William For there were Two in his Reign The other was Granted to Crone And the Price he was to Pay for it was to be an Evidence But he was with Great Difficulty and Management brought to it by the Industry of the foresaid Reis-Efendi When he made the â—east Hesitation he was Order'd to Prepare for the Gallows He had Twenty Five Reprives And Three times was brought to the Sledge with the Rope about his Neck At last his Fears prevail'd He said to some of his Friends that he was too Young to Dye considering his Life had not been Strickt And they took his Informations upon Oath after his Condemnation and before his Pardon while he was a Dead Man in Law But to Qualify him to be an Evidence they Granted him a Pardon But least he might Start back the Pardon was given into a Third Hand Sir John Holt who was to be his Judge can tell where it was Lodg'd Upon this he had his Liberty And the very Day before he was to have been Produc'd as an Evidence against the Lives of Honest Men he Struck with the Terror of so Great a Wickedness made shift to get out of the Reach of his Tormentors and still continues so All this Sir the Wicked Jacobites do say I Repeat their Words And they are positive in the Truth of it all and Provoke us to bring them to the Test They say that we our selves know all this to be True Pamphlet Page
Day viz. 16. Dec. 88. when the King sent the Earl of Eeversham with a Letter to the Prince Inviting him to a Personal Treaty his Highness contrary to the Laws of God of Nature and of Nations not only Refus'd to Return any Answer but made the Earl a Prisoner which was a Treatment no one King would give to another tho' they were at open Wars But the Priviledge of an Ambassador from a King within his own Kingdom could not Secure that Messenger who brought any Offers of a Treaty And to prevent the like for the Puture the very next Day viz. 17. Decem. 88. his Highness Supriz'd the King his Father in his Bed after Eleven at Night and having Order'd Count Solmes to Dispossess the King's Guards of their Posts at White-Hall and place his Dutch Guards in their Room he sent Three English Lords with an Order Sign'd under his own Haâ—d to Remove their King from White-Hall because his Highness was to be there and peremptorily to Limit his Majesty to the Place whither he was to go nor had the King Liberty to Choose any other Place without Leave first Ask'd and Obtain'd from his Highness but still under his Dutch Guards And his Majesty was positively Requir'd to be gone by such an Hour least he should Meet the Prince so much as upon the Road. This was a hopeful way of Treating And so Modestly Managed that all the World stands Amaz'd at him who never said or did an Insolent thing For which Vertue alone for no other is to be Found or Nam'd in the Famous Thanksgiving Sermon above quoted his Character is Advanc'd above that of the Great French Monarch being Introduc'd in the Comparison with A Greater than he is here Fulsom Cant and Prophane But how could it be expected that he came to Treat Who in a Hostile Manner Entred the King 's own Palace and Castle of Windsor and as a Conqueror Erected his Standard upon that Noble Castle 14. Decem. 88. as the History of the Deser Braggs p. 103. Thus much the Jacobites Answer to your Objection of K. James's not Accepting of a Treaty Pamphlet p. 9. He the Author of Britains Complaint Accuses the Prince for sending him K. James by Water at an Vnseasonable Time thereby Indangering his Health forgetting that K. James went in the Night by Water the very Week before of choice when he crost the River in order to his first Attempt to get into France and this without any Damage to his Health How does this Author know that So that he us'd himself as Ill as the Prince us'd him Jacobite Surely this is the Smartest Defence that ever was made and shews the Prince's Great Concern for K. James's Health What To Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself Because a Man that Flys for his Life would Leap over a Precipice therefore without any Unkindness you may Throw him over for you Vse him no Worse than he would Vse himself But yet it was a great deal Worse that the P. of Orange Us'd the King than he Us'd himself For as this Author tells it he only Crost the River but the Prince sent him to Graves-End by Water and that against Wind and Tide and as Britains Complaint says p. 10. The King was Refus'd his own Coach to Carry him by Land tho' he Declar'd that he could not Travel by Water in so Cold a Season and so Great a way without Manifestly endangering his Health Which the Answerer does not Deny Pamphlet As to his King James's Writing to the Bishops his Speaking to the Bishop of Winchester or to Sir R. Clayton or to other Citizens all this is an impudent Fiction The Bishop of Winchester protests that no such Proposition was ever made to him the same is Avorred by Sir R. Clayton Jacobite And hoth their Credits are come to be alike but there are others of better Reputation who do own it and will make Oath that Sir Sim. Lewis did confess it And the Persons who brought the Messages from the King both to the City and Bishop of Winchester will Depose it and Prove it by undeniable Vouchers And had the Courage to go to the Bishop of Winchester upon Monday Morning the 9th of last Janua 92 93. accompanied with a present sitting Lord of Parliament and a Knight of great Honour and Tax'd the Bishop with his having received such a Message from the King which his Lordship Denyed at first with an Oath But the Person binding him with Tokens as that his Lordship kissed the King's Seal which that person brought as a Credential from the King and naming another Person of Note who was present at the delivery of the Message that his Lordship Reply'd he could not give his Answer till next day that then he told that Person he had wrote to the King and that the Bishops were not able to Protect his Majesty and therefore durst not undertake so Great a Trust as the Security of his Majesty's Person and several other Circumstances Upon which the Bishop said That it was possible his Memory might fail him and that though it were so what needed all this stir about it now and that he perceived they had a mind to Expose him and for that Reason as those present and we may reasonably suppose he still continued to Deny the Matter but so faintly and with such confusion as made it Evident to those Noble Persons present that he had Received such a Message but was not willing expressly to own it after having Forsworn it Tho' he Confessed all the Particulars as that Person coming to him c. And from the same Infirmity of his Memory if you please you may imagine it proceeded that he did not Communicate this Message of his Majesty's to the rest of his Brethren the Bishops but Returned the bovesaid Answer in their Names of which their Lordships do justly Complain Pamphlet p. 26. Nor hath he K. W. refused any Acts of this kind viz. Redressing of Grievances which the Parliament hath offered him Jacobite This instead of a Vindication is a manifest exposing of K. W. being such an Evident Protestatio contra Factum for it is publickly known that last Winters Session he Rejected the Judges Bill which Pass'd both the Houses and which therefore to be sure they thought necessary for the Good of the Nation and conducive to make the Judges Bold and Honest in their Station Pamphlet p. 9. The Convention Refus'd to Receive or Read the Letter which King James wrote to them from St. Germains which continu'd his CLAIM according to Mr. Sam. Johnson p. 16. of his Address to the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled and confuted the Desertion because they were told that HE wrote in the Stile of a King Jacobite That was smart He shou'd have Subscrib'd Your Honours most Humble and most obliged Servant as iâ— Duty bound James Stuart His FATHER'S Executioner gave Him the Title of Majesty upon the Scaffold Sir I had
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
Popery tho' they fought to set up a Popish Queen against a Protestant Queen who was in Possession and Reigning in London And they say that Theudas and Judas Act. 5. fought against the Jewish Religion tho' they fought to set it up and to pull down the Idolatry of Rome And all this because the Principles of a Religion are more to be Regarded are more the Religion than its Legal Establishment The next Question this Author asks these Jacobites is Page 25. Do they think themselves bound in Censcience to Fight for their Prince against the Laws and Liberties of their Country To this the Jacobites Answer That the Laws of the Country are expresly On their side against Resistance of their King or altering the Hereditary Monarchy upon any pretence whatsoever And they say That we do as good as Confess all this when we will not stick by the Rule of the Law in this Revolution but fly to Original Contract to over-Rule the Law He asks Have the rest of mankind no Rights but only Princes Is there no such thing as Justice due to our selves nor to our fellow Subjects They Answer The Greatest Right and Security of Subjects is to Preserve the Laws and chiefly the Prerogative which is the Greatest Barrier 'twixt Property and the Incroachments of their Fellow Subjects which in Civil-War are infinitely more Destructive to Property than any Tyranny in the Soveraign And therefore that the Greatest Justice we can do to our selves or to our fellow subjects is to beat down all these Popular pretences to Sedition and Rebellion He sayes A Nation which Fights against its own Laws and Liberties is Felo de se Witness Ireland say the Jacobites where in three years one half of the Nation have been Destroy'd upon this Popular Pretence Many more than a hundred Neroes successively would have put to Death What will be the Fate of England in this Revolution none yet can tell but the Jacobites fear the worst They say that England in this Quarrel Fights against its own Laws and therefore is Felo de se Can any English-man sayes this Author whatever Opinion he has of the late K. James's Right think himself bound in Conscience to maintain his Right The Jacobites think this a very strange Question But the Author Adds By giving up his Country to France to make him King and all his Subjects French Slaves First If the Thing be Right and according to God's Laws the Jacobites desire this Author to Answer it whether he would not do it whatever Nation in the World were concerned in it Secondly They say That Recalling K. James is the only probable way to prevent our being French Slaves The Victories of France run in a full Tide against us while they say our small Successes are brought to pass by great Chances even by Miracles and seem to no other purpose than to keep us in heart to give all the Money in the Nation to Forreigners and continue Obstinate till it be past Remedy We Play says the Jacobites like a Gamster who Stakes his whole Stock every cast of the Die one Unluckey throw breaks him and it is a Miracle if that throw do not come if the Play continue long On the other hand he that Plays against us Manages his Stock he lays up before-hand and has already in his Treasury the whole Expence for the Year 93. he Drains his People by Degrees We Squeze our Orange all at once He Manages by Rules and leaves nothing to Chance we leave all to Hazard see what will come on 't He lives upon his Interest we spend off the Principal from Hand to Mouth and our Money is spent before it comes in great part of which goes to pay the Extraordinary Interest upon which we Anticipate our Revenue So that if we trust not to the Dice we have certainly the worst of the Lay and nothing can save us but a sudden ending of the Game which we must lose if Management does Determin it while the Enemy has the greater Stock Now suppose France should Conquer us in this Quarrel for nothing is impossible whether say the Jacobites would we be in the blame who perswade to accept of the Peace which France presses upon us upon no other Conditions than to Receive our King again which they say we are bound in Conscience to do or will not all the Mischievous Consequences of such a Conquest ly at their Door who Reject this offered Peace rather than Return to their Duty or own that they have done amiss If we answer that we have not done amiss The Jacobites desire no better than to bring it to that Test to dispute the Justice of the Cause without Consideration of Politiques And even in Politiques they ask us whether they Judge wisely who are for continuing a War wherein we must trust to Miracles for our Success and that too when we Fight against what most of us do acknowledge to be King James's Right or else he could have no Right to seek for it again which he has by Dr. Sherlock's own Confession But says our Author p. 25 26. Can any Prince have more Right to be King of England than the Kingdom of England has to be England The Jacobites desire this may be further explained It is a fine round saying and no doubt must be true But they see not how we can apply it to the present Case They say that England is most England when its Government is Monarchical and Hereditary when its Monarch is Irresistable by Force even in Case of Male administration or upon any pretence whatsoever for then the Door is for ever shut against all popular pretences for Rebellion which our wise Legislators have found by experience to be infinitly of more dangerous Consequence to England as to all other Governments than the Arbitrariness of the Governours and therefore have made Non-Resistance an Act of Parliament It is our Law say they the Law of England it is our Constitution And therefore that England is least England when you break in upon her Constitution over-turn her Laws and being wiser than your Fore-Fathers open the Door to Eternal pretences for Rebellion and Restless Revolutions They say that we are trying the experiment over again of York and Lancaster of King Charles and Oliver and that England was then least England and so they say it is now and that we may see it plainly by its Tottering Uncertain Aguish Disposition in danger to be Swallowed by France if we will desperately stand that Test to be drained by the Confederates which they say is in a pretty good forwardness or to be divided at home and make England the seat of the War and share the Fate of Ireland which is most of all to be dreaded All this say these Jacobites is owning to our Revolution and cannot be Remedy'd but by Returning our Laws and Constitution to their old Channel But is it not an unaccountable tenderness and scrupulosity of Conscience
they can neither Rob nor be Robbed Because all they get is their own and what others get from them is all well gotten These are Excellent Principles and the onely Foundation of our Government as the Jacobites do object And therefore we should do well to keep off these tender Points and not give these Jacobites occasion against us You upbraid the Papists p. 4. for knowing how to expound Providence to flatter Superstition And you know how the Jacobites upbraid us with expounding Providence to flatter Success tho' it were in Rebellion Treachery and all Wickedness Which if it Succeeds it Immediately Commences not only Right but Divine as if Commanded by an Angel or a Prophet or the Mouth of God Himself according to Dr. Sherlock c. What strange Sermons say these Jacobites have we from your Bishops and Top Divines proving the Lawfulness of this Revolution from Providence by which they mean Success Which was as much made use of and almost in the same Words by the Rump Parliament Oliver and all the Canting Tribe God came from Nasby and the Holy one from Marston Moore Selah This will Justify the French King in all his Conquests and gives Mahomet the better of Christ And yet say the Jacobites we are Deafned with it from your Pulpits You might likewise have Forborn that little piece of Wit p. 10. of reckoning the Loud and Zealous Ladys of the Jacobire side For you know where that is to be Retorted at home With the help of these Loud Ladys you say they the Jacobites are enough to make a Noise but as they were not hands enough to hinder the late Revolution neither can they say you make another Here you make them very inconsiderable when you are upon your vapouring pin as the Jacobites do deride you For they observe that either your Memory or your Courage fails you p. 19. where you make the number of the Jacobites the Great incouragement to the French King to Restore King James For say you Without a hopeful Conspiracy in England the French King is too wary to make such an Attempt And p. 21. Were it not for them our Factions at home we need not fear its France's united Force Nor are you less affraid of the Zealous Ladys you have provok'd some of them may be upon your Top but you Court them again p. 21. where reckoning the Miseries of a Civil War you Reckon the Loss of Husbands but not of Wives this sure will touch them in the sensible part and Charm their tender Hearts This was a great deal Tweeter than what you have six Lines above where comforting us as to the Taxes and other Prices of this Revolution you say While we have left wherewithal to Maintain our selves we have no such great reason to complain This might have been spared because you know we have lest a great many Jacobites in a Condition not to Maintain themselves It had been also advisible if you had thought fit to have let alone that Gentile Rub you gave King James Page 20. We know the Late King too well to take his word For this raises the Devil of an Objection which the Jacobites have against us of our present King not keeping to his Declaration besides many Breaches of Promises since Dispencing with the Law and all those Grievances even Countenancing Popery of which we Complain'd in K. J.'s time In all whose Reign we had no such Example of Favour shewn to Popish Priests and Friars as was seen the Sessions at Old-Baily held 31. Aug. 1. 2. Sept. 92. Where two Friars by name Graham and Thursby were Indicted for the Murder of a Coffee-Man in Holbourn having first behauched his Wife in her Religion and he was Jealous in her Chastity as her self confess'd in Court where she came and was admitted as an Evidence for Graham who run her Husband thorow but she declared That her Husband run himself upon his Sword These Friars had the Interest they say it was by means of the Prince Vaudemont to have a Promise of their Pardon from K. W. then in Flanders But it was thought the best way to prevent the Noise that would make to have them Acquit upon their Tryal towards which all things being Dispos'd and the Necessary Orders given the Conduct was committed to Judge who had shewn himself so zealous against the Deprived Bishops that he corrected the Cryer of his Court for stileing one of them by the Title of Bishop when he call'd to have room made for him to come into the Court whither he was Summon'd as an Evidence in some Cause Depending It is likely the Cryer had not otherwise made the people know whom he meant But the Judge had better Skill in the Force of an Act of Parliament-Deprivation which Hody himself nor his Prompters behind the curtain do pretend to take away the Character that when he chid the Cryer for giving the Depriv'd Father the Title of Bishop What Bishop sayes Judge come Doctor Lloyd what have you to say This Learned Judge altered his Countenance and was all sweetness to these Friars which was observed by the whole Court and when one Objected that they were Popish Priests whom the Laws Discharged out of the Kingdom upon pain of Treason His Lordship temper'd that Man's Heat with the Gravity and Calmness of a Judge telling him That was not the Cause before them In short The Wife gave Evidence The Judge Summ'd it up The Jury Acquitted And All the People took Notice But it is not to be omitted say these Jacobites That in the Printed Account of the Trials that Sessions this of the Friars is left out Which I have heard some say was never done before in any case and durst not have been done now but by Order But they say what need we Instance Particulars It is Notoriously known That Popish Priests have of late not only own'd themselves as such before the Privy-Council but pleaded it as an Argument for their Indemnity and Protection Pursuant to the Secret Articles 'twixt King William the Emperour King of Spain c. And they have been allowed it It is true we excuse all this upon the account of Necessity But that does not stop the Jacobites Mouths They say that Necessity is as pleadable by one King as another And besides That we have Created this Necessity of which we Complain And that if Papists must be Countenanc'd what matter is it whether it be to Gratify the Confederates or the French who are less Papists than either Spain Savoy or the Popish Germans and not more Persecutors than any of these All this the Jacobites do Retort upon us Again p. 22. abusing of the French King you say He has no Scruple of Conscience about the Rights of other Princes all he can get is his own Dear Sir did not you Reflect that this is the very Reproach which the Jacobiees cast upon King William with this aggravation that he has no Scruple of Conscience not
Design of Assassinating K. William and God's Miraculous Providence in Detecting Preventing c. This may pass perhaps among some of the Vulgar for whom I suppose it was Design'd But it Nauseats Men of Sense exceedingly It looks like putting this story upon us and they wonder at such poor Arts. It had been much easier believ'd if these Visions and Du Monts Charm had been let alone But Sir you cannot readily conceive the Horror and Astonishment which the Jacobites do Express at our carrying on this Sport as they call it so far as to Bantre Allmighty God with it in the Proclamation for a Publick Thanksgiven Dated 22. Octob. 92. Where it is told that Forasmuch as it hath Pleased Almighty God of His Infinite Goodnoss in Answer to the Prayers Humbly and Devoutly offer'd up to Him To Disappoint and Defeat the Barbarous and Horrid Conspiracy for Taking away His K. William's Sacred Life by Assassination And this Thanksgiving Day ordered to be Religiously kept with greater Strictness and under greater Penaltys than is usual in Proclamations of that Nature viz. Not only as they Tender the Favour of Almighty God but upon Pain of Suffering such Punishments as Their Majesties can justly Inflict for the Contempt or Neglect thereof And which is yet more Dreadful if that Conspiracy be a Sham in the Publick Printed Forme of Prayer for the Thanksgiving-Day in the End of the Litany these Words are added More especially we adore Thy Great Goodness to Him K. William in the Discovery and Disappointment of that Bloody and Ba barous Attempt Design'd upon His Sacred Person by His Cruel and Implacable Enemys and in the Communion-Service O Most Merciful God who of thy Infinite Goodness hast Preserved our Sovereign Lord King William from the Treacherous Practises of Wicked and Blood-Thirsty Men c. Add to this the Noise was made with it in Pulpits upon that Ringing-Day the Repetition of the Tirue Account abovesaid being a great part of many of their Sermons J. Cant. himself had it up in his Thanksgiving-Sermon that Day at White-Hall p. 25. Where he Blesses God For the Preservation of our Gracious Sovereign from that Horrid and most Barbarous Attempt Design'd upon his Sacred Person Good God! What Name will this Pageantry deserve if this Blot be not clear'd from all the bovesaid Objections Sir This requires your utmost Pains if you have any Kindness for the Government This is indeed a Terrible Prejudice against us it makes us worse than Hembent or meer Atheists For to Mock God is more Provoking I had almost said more Atheistical than not to Believe a God at all If this be let go without something said to it it will as the Assyrians said of Judith Deceive the whole World Turn all Mankind against us and make us the Abhorring of all Flesh who can Play with things Sacred and Laugh at God to his Face The Jacobites likewise take Great Notice that we should choose one of the Fasts of the Church the Vigil before Saint Simon and Saint Jude for our Thanksgiving-Day As if we Design'd to do Despight to the Constistution of the Church of England like the Phanaticks in Scotland who usually Appoint their Fasts upon the Lords Day Christmas Easter or other Solemnitys of the Church It was some of this Dutch Leven say the Jacobites that made us pitch upon Ash-Wednesday viz. 13. of Feb. 88. For the Day of our Inauguration and Accession to the Crown Either that we thought the greatest Fast of the Church ought in Contempt of that Constitution to be turn'd thereafter into a Jubilee or otherwise that the Day of Ashes and Execrations was the fittest to Solemnize such an Inauguration as claim'd a Propriety say they in almost every Curse was pronounced that Day The 27. Octob. is Mark'd in our Calander and Rubrick as a Day of Fasting or Abstinence and was or ought to have been Proclaim'd as such in all the Churches and Chapples of England the Sunday before as is Appointed in the Rubrick immediately after the Nicene Creed in the Communion Service Now comes Jo. Cant. say the Jacobites and Litensing the Form of Prayer for this Thanksgiving-Day Commands us to break the Canons and Rubricks which are still unrepeal'd by any Lawful or so much as Pretented Authority And they ask in good Conscience which we ought to Obey They say we may perceive by these and many other things which they can Name what Firm Friends our New Bishops are like to prove to the Church of England as by Law Established which us'd to be the Word But we have seen strange things to Day Escotia Fresbyter profugus says the Jacobites a Scotch Dusckify'd Facovian Superintendent to shew the Rock from whence he was Hewn and not to be behind his Arch Brother Jack in his Zeal against set-Forms and Fasting his Foe kept his Visitation at Abington on their own Dear Fast-Day whereby he Preserv'd his Clergy for that Turn from Attending their Churches and Officiating in the Luniversary Superstition and shew'd them Good Example not to Starve the Flesh for Pampering of the Spirit Forgive this Excess But now we are upon Scotland I have one thing more to beseech you most earnestly which is to Remove if Possible a Monstrous Scandal which the Jacobites have taken at our Government in the Matter of the Laird of Glencoe in Scotland who upon the 13. Feb. 91 92 at Five a Clock in the Morning with Thirty Eight of his Servants and Tenants were Barbarously Murdered in their Beds by Captain Campbel of Glen-Lyon and his Souldiers of the Earl of Arguil's Regiment who were Quartered upon them and Liv'd in Terms of Friendship with them And they pretend that all this was done by K. William's Express Command and Produce Orders for what they have done and stand upon their Justification and are to this Day Unpunish'd for it This Story is not much known in England but it makes a Great Noise in Scotland insomuch that I am told that Sir John Lawder there did Refuse to accept of the Employment of Lord Advocate in Scotland which answers to that of Atturney General in England but of much greater Honour and Authority unless he could have Liberty to Prosecute Glen-Lyon and the other Murthers of Glen-Coe But that could not be Granted him and another is put into the Place This Story of Glen-Coe is told at Large in the Answer to Docter King's State of the Protectants in Ireland under the Late K. James's Government To which I referr you Now Sir give me leave I beseech you do not you agree with me that there is an Absolute Necessity to Search into the bottom of this Mystery There is none can be so Wicked as to Imagin that any part of the Blame can ly at K. William's Door and therefore it is for his Honour to have it expos'd and let those be Examplarily Punish'd who have Dar'd to Vouch Royal Authority for the most Barbarous Massacre under the shew of