a Secret Whether I then had or not you bring one into my Remembrance by your enquiry whether the King had been to blame if he had chop'd off some of the Scotch Commissioners Heads and you shall have it I have heard and do believe that the King having against all Justice imprisoned the Earl of Lowdon one of the Commissioners from the Scotch Parliament in the Tower he about three of the Clock in the Afternoon sent his own Letter to Sir William Balfour Lieutenant of the Tower commanding him to see my Lord of Lowdon 's Head struck off within the Tower before nine the next Morning Upon the Receipt of this Command the Lieutenant of the Tower that his Lordship might prepare for Death gave him notice of it He being surprized as well he might prevailed with Sir William to find out the Marquess of Hamilton then in great favour with the King and Master of the Horse and to tell him that he esteemed him to be engaged in Honour to interpose in this matter The Letter being thereupon carried and shewn to the Marquess it struck him with Astonishment and with no small difficulty he made his way to the King being then in Bed and humbly enquired whether his Majesty had given such a Command for beheading the Earl of Lowdon the King answered Yes and I will be obeyed therein he shall die The Marquess finding him inexorable told his Majesty that he would kiss his Hand and instantly take his Horse and be gone for he would not stay to see his Majesty massacred as most certainly he would for before the next Night the whole City would come upon him Hereby the King was wrought upon to hold his Hand and countermand the fatal Warrant This is so incredible a piece of Tyranny that I cannot expect you should believe it upon my bare Assertion I shall therefore shew you that it seems to be pointed at in Bishop Burneâ—'s Memoirs Page 161. in these words There were some ill Instruments about the King Bishops no doubt on'â— who advised him to proceed capitally against Lowdon which is believed went very far But the Marquess of Hamilton opposed this vigorousâ—y assuring the King that if that were done Scotland was for ever lost Now if Curiosity shall lead you to enquire further into this matter you may do well to learn what is meant by the obscure Expression which is believed went very far and if that do not open the whole business to you you will not fail of Satisfaction if you can by any Friend make way to the Original Papers from which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury took his Memoirs and which now are in the Hands of his Grace my Lord Duke of Hamilton A word or two more about Scotland and we will cast an Eye on your Impeachment against our own Nation you very often term the Actions of that Kingdom factious seditious rebellious traiterous Now let me shew you how the Scotch Parliament defined Treason We entreat our Adversaries say they to shew us in good earnest and not by way of Railing in what sense we have incurred the Censure of Rebellion and Treason We cannot be moved to think but the Mitre of a usurping Prelate by the Authority of a National Council may be thrown to the ground without the Violation or smallest Touch of the Crown or Scepter of Imperial Majesty To dethrone a Prelate and to overturn Prelacy we judg it no Treason against the King Traitors to God and their Country must be Traitors to the King and such as are faithful to God and their Country must be the King 's best Subjects The Right of his Majesty's Crown and the Acts of Parliament command all the Subjects to rise with the King and to assist him when he riseth for God and the Country but no Law nor Act of Parliament forbiddeth to stand for God and the Country in the case of publick Invasion Take now from Bp. Burnet's Memoirs a true Account of these Scotch Troubles which have now been so troublesome to you and me and I 'll return to Old England The Lord 's of the Council saith he Page 31 not 782. laid the greatest blame upon Bishops which appears from the Earl of Traquaire's Letter to the Marquess of Hamilton date 27. Aug. 1631. viz. At the meeting of the Council 23 d Instant we found so much appearance of Trouble and Stir like to be amongst People of all Qualities and Degrees upon the urging of this New-Service-Book that we durst no longer forbear to acquaint his Majesty therewith Some of the leading Men of the Clergy are so violent and many times without ground or true judgment that their want of right Understanding how to compass business of this nature and weight doth often breed as many Difficulties and their rash and foolish Expressions and Attempts have bred such a Fear and Jealousy in the Hearts of many that if his Majesty were rightly informed thereof he would blame them and justly think that from them arises the ground of many Mistakes amongst us This Business in good Faith is by the Folly and Misgovernment of some of our Clergy come to that height that the like has not been seen in this Kingdom of a long time No more of Scotland Let 's see what 's next You declare your Resolution to apply your self to the Defence of what you had formerly said in behalf of King Charles and proceed thus Page 26. You say That those Gracious Acts which I mention were bought of him and what then What hath been more usual ever since Parliaments had a being in England Pray look into the Statute-Book and tell me what Gracious Favours can you find bestowed by the several Kings of this Realm upon their People that those People have not made their acknowledgments for them by presenting their Soveraigns with great Sums of Money What ridiculous Stuff is this Gracious Acts Gracious Favours c. It hath been heretofore well observed that some who call themselves Church-men have left their Station to become ignorant and unhappy States-men who have made the Church and the Tenets thereof an Instrument of Bondage to the Subject These Men tell us that Parliaments are not assembled to ease the Grievances of the Subject but to fill the Coffers of the Prince These Men teach Princes that all the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and the maintenance of them are Doals of Grace and Gifts of meer Favour proceeding from the Prince and not the true Birth-right of the Subject which they may truly challenge which are to be continued or changed as Princes shall think fit But pray let us see what these Gracious Acts these Gracious Favours were which we bought as in your Opinion we ought They were Acts to declare the levying Money by way of forced Loan Ship-Money Coat and Conduct-Money to be illegal and against the undoubted Liberty of the Subject to suppress the most accursed and tyrannical Courts called the Star-Chamber and High-Commission
but they were but the King had other Designs than those of Peace in his Head I told you of his Majesty's fortifying Whitehal and that armed Men sallied out thence reviling menacing and wounding many Citizens passing by with Petitions to the Parliament and that when the Parliament and People complained of those Assaults the King justified the Authors thereof so that I must needs conclude as I did before that the Tumults were made at Whitehal by the King 's own People that all his fear of Tumults was but a meer Pretence and Occasion taken of his resolved Absence from the Parliament that he might turn his flashing at the Court-Gate to slaughtering in the Field Pag. 44. you tell me that another Calumny wherewith I reproach the Memory of King Charles is his unwillingness to issue out his Proclamations against the Irish Rebels and when he did commanded but 40 to be printed You then say The truth of it is was this Story true it ' â—would be an inexcusable Fault in the King but to Rufute me you transcribe his Majesties own Vindication of himself which saith that he was in Scotland when the Rebellion broke forth that he immediately recommended the care of that business to the Parliament here That if no Proclamation issued sooner of which for the present he was not certain but thinks that others were issued out before it was because the Lords Iustices of Ireland desired them no sooner and when they did the number they desired was but twenty Now in Truth Sir this doth little mend the matter 't is most strange that the King should publish to all the World in Print that he thinks other Proclamations were issued before he might without doubt have easily been at a certainty in this point for had there been any such thing his Council Books his Secretary of State his Clerks of the Council would have remembred him thereof but to this day no such thing hath appeared nor ever will And 't is a poor excuse to say that the Proclamation was no sooner issued because not sooner desired We of this Age do remember in what manner our Late Princes Fathers ' nown Sons have pursued the least suspition of Rebellion You know that King Charles the Second upon the pretence of a Plot in the year 1683 was so far from deferring by the space of three Months to issue a Proclamation against his own Son the Duke of Monmouth that we had it in three days and I do think there were rather forty Thousand than forty Printed for after we had it by it self for the better spreading thereof it was published in the Gazette the like course you well know was taken by the Late King Iames First in the case of the Duke of Monmouth and then in that of the Prince of Orange But I will shew you what the Parliament said in this case of the Irish Rebels in a Declaration in 1642. That when the Lords and Commons had upon the first breaking out of the Irish Rebellion immediately sent over 20000 l. and engaged themselves for the reduceing of the Rebels yet the King after his Return from Scotland was not pleased to take notice of it until after some in the House of Commons had truly observed how forward his mischievous Counsellors were to incite him against his Protestant Subjects of Scotland and how slow to resent the proceedings of his Papist Traytors in Ireland That altho the Rebels had most impudently stiled themselves The Queen's Army and profest that the Cause of their Rising was to maintain the King's prerogative and the Queen's Religion against the Puritan Parliament of England and that thereupon the Parliament advised his Majesty to wipe away this dangerous scandal by proclaiming them Rebels which then would have weakned the Conspirators in the beginning and have encouraged both the Parliament here and good people there the more vigorously to have opposed their proceedings yet no Proclamation was set forth to that purpose till almost three Months after the breaking out of this Rebellion and then Command given that but forty should be Printed nor they published till further directions should be given by his Majesty That the Parliament and Adventurers had long since designed 5000 Foot and 500 Horse for the Relief of Munster to be sent under the Command of the Lord Wharton but no Commission for his Lordship could be obtained from his Majesty whereby Lymerick was wholly lost That when divers well affected persons had prepared twelve Ships and Six Pinnaces with more than 1000 Land Forces at their own charge for the service of Ireland and desired nothing but a Commission from his Majesty to enable them thereunto That Commission after twice sending to York for the same was likewise denied That altho the Lords Justices of Ireland have three Months since earnestly desired to have two pieces of Battery sent over for that Service yet such Commands are given to the Officers of the Tower that none of his Majesties Ordnance must be sent to save his Majesties Kingdom That the Kings Souldiers took away at one time Six hundred Suits of Cloaths and at another time Three hundred Suits which were sent by the Parliament for the poor Souldiers in Ireland That the Rebels did lately send a Petition to his Majesty Instituâ—ing themselves his Majesties Catholick Subjects of Ireland complaining of the Puritan Parliament of England and desiring that since his Majesty comes not thither according to their expectation that they may â—â—me into England to his Majesty You come page 46 to Examine who were the first Beginners of the War and say The Parliament did really and indeed first draw the Sword and found the Trumpet to Battle Whereas the King set up his Standard at Nottingham in August did not the Lords and Commons in June before make an Order for bringing in of Mony or Plate to maintain Horses Horse-men and Arms And did not the King long before in the beginning of the year 1642. when all things were in perfect Peace send over the Crown Iewels to buy Arms and Ammunition in Holland did not he at that time write to the King of Denmark complaining of the Parliament and asking Supplies from him ad propulsandos Hostes to subdue hâ—s Enemies You were told of these things before but you will not touch them I shall not therefore trifle away more time with you upon this point of the first beginning of the War only I will mind you that the King upon the 4 th of July 1642. Rendezvoused an Army at Beverly in York-shire tho the Parliament did not Vote the Raising of an Army till the 12th And which is more I will give you the Name of the first Martyr who fell in that War in defence of the Laws and Liberties of his Country 't was one Percival of Kirkman Shalme in Lancashire he was Murdered the 15th of Iuly 1642. near Manchester by the Kings Forces under the Command of the Lord Strange Son to the Earl of
kindness to the Dissenters that you received a constant Contribution from such of them as you preserved from Doctors Commons and I know it may be made out that at your own entreaty a Collection was made amongst them by Mr. Ogden and Mr. Hâ—bster to raise the Money for to defray your Charges of Commencing Doctor and is it not an Act of foolish Prodigality in you to throw off such generous Benefactors as these Having thus Examined your Second Defence I shall now Sir recount the Heads of some things which you asserted in your First and which being answered by me you pass over in silence You affirmed page 7th of your first Defence that the Parliament in their Remonstrance Dec. 1641. made Reflections upon the King 's former Government unmanner's and false and that the King answered it and vindicated himself from those horrid aspersions wherewith they Loaded him Now pa. 35. I denied the falsehood thereof and said that the King only answer'd it in saying We shall in few words pass over that part of the Narrative wherein the misfortunes of this Kingdom from our first entring to the Crown to the beginning of this Parliament are remembred in so sensible expressions You asserted pa 12. that the King could by good Evidence prove the Lord Mandevile Mr. Holles Sir Arthur Hasterig Mr. Hambden Mr. Pym and Mr. Strode Members of the House of Commons Guilty of Treason Page 37 c. I gave you the full History of that matter and shew'd that the King retracted that rash accusation which I see is more than you will do tho good manners one would think should oblige you thereto and to beg pardon especially of the right Honourable the present Earl of Manchester as he is a Peer of the Realm and of the right Honourable and most eminently deserving Patriot Mr. Hambden as he is Chancellour of the their Majesties Exchequer and one of their most Honourable Privy-Council for such a horrid slander brought upon their highly deserving Families but you find it a grievous thing to forgo a falsehood that is serviceable to your great undertaking You affirm pa. 26. first defence that the Scots sold the King to the English Parliament I denied it pa. 67. and shew'd that the Scots might with the consent of the Parliament have taken him home to his Native Country but that they refused it fearing he might raise new Commotions there and you have not thought fit to contradict me in this neither You amongst other gracious concessions of the King 's wherein you glory speak pa. 11. 1st Defence of his consenting to a Treaty at Vxbridge I page 61 mentioned many things relating to that Treaty and to shew the King's insincerity in his pretensions of Peace gave a Relation how that at the very instant of that Treaty he used all imaginable means to bring not only 10000 Lorrainers but the Irish Cut-Throats against the Parliament That he declared himself resolved to adhere not only to the Bishops but also to the Papists c. These are Reproaches which you ought to wipe off if you would defend this King to any purpose but you touch them not View now I beseech you the Heads of many of the Articles of misgovernment which I recounted and which you have overlookt only saying in relation to them that some Birds are not to be catcht with such Chasse and I have done I. King Charles I. favoured Popery by his Marriage Articles he agreed that Papists should not be molested he put above a hundred Popish Lords and Gentlemen into great Trusts II. His Bishops were unsound in their principles in particular Land allowed Books which favoured Popery but refused to License Books written against it His Chaplains endeavoured to reconcile England to Rome and got preferment by it III. He Lent Ships to the French King to destroy the Protestants of Rochel which as the French boasted mowed the Hereticks down like Grass IV. He Raised an Army and required the Country to furnish Coat and Conduct Mony and Levied Mony by way of Loane and the Refusers of the meaner Rank Men of Quality being imprisoned were compelled to go for Souldiers or to serve at Sea V. He Suspended and Confined the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury not Land but Dr. Abbot because he refused to make that good by Divinity which the King had done against the Laws He imprisoned Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln for speaking against the Loane and not prosecuting Puritans VI. He turned out the Lord Chief Iustice Crew for opposing the Loane VII He remitted 30000l to Holland for the Levying Horse and Men there to serve his Arbitrary purposes VIII He violated the Petition of Right so soon as it was passed into a Law IX He confined the Earl of Bristol near two years without any Accusation and he Imprisoned the Earl of Arundel in the time of Parliament without expressing any Cause of his Commitment X. He shelter'd the Duke of Buckingham when he was Prosecuted in Parliament as the Patron of a Popish Faction and he Dissolved Parliaments when they were intent upon the Duke's Prosecution and charged him in effect with the Murder of King Iames In Relation whereunto Sir Edward Peyton who was a Member of Parliament in that time doth thus express himself in a Treatise called the Divine Catastrophe The Duke of Buckingham rewarded King Iames by Poyson as appeared plainly in Parliament by the Evidence of divers Physitians especially Dr. Ramsey and King Charles to save the Duke dissolved the Parliament when he was Impeached for it and never after had the Truth Tryed to clear himself from Confederacy or the Duke from so heinous a scandal XI He imprisoned Members of Parliament in the time of Parliament for refusing to Answer out of the Parliament what was said and done there c. XII He threatned the House of Commons that if they did not give him Supplies he would betake himself to New Counsels he asserted that Parliaments were altogether in his Power and therefore as they humour'd him were to continue or not to be You may here see Sir to your shame had you any what a small advance you have made in the defence of that Cause which you so briskly engaged in and how much of your Work you have devolved upon your better Pens Before I take my leave of you I shall observe how little you the mighty defender of Princes are to be relyed upon for tho you tell their Majesties in the Dedication of your first Defence that you wrote it to secure them from Danger and the most Reverend Right Reverend c. had your word for it in your Dedication of this Second Pamphlet that you had nothing more in your aim in putting it out than to preserve the present Government in Church and State A most commendable and highly meriting Undertaking upon my word yet which is a melancholy consideration you their Majesties great Preserver who so bravely engaged never to drop the Cause as long as you could hold a Pen do now flinch and give ground and as vanquished by a grey-headed Man with one foot in the Grave as you Confess me to be you say page 13. that you will not give your self the trouble of Answering me a decrepit crazy Adversary but will spare your self the labour because you understand it is recommended to a better hand It is astonishingly strange that you this vaunting Goliah who came out strutting in a gigantick garb of Pace and Language and with a terrible look to Act a piece of Ecclesiastical Knight Errantry That you who in an unpresidented manner huff'd and threatned the World with that vast magazine of stuff which you had amass'd to annoy the Man that should be found in your way that you whom nothing must atone but a pray Master forgive me and I 'le do so no more That such a Doctor such a Champion as you should on the sudden be crying out for the aid of better Hands of better Pens than your own and that in a quarrel of your own picking upon the success whereof you vainly conceit the Being and Well-being of their Majesties and of every thing that is worth the preserving depends But I see you Inferiour Clergy-men do oft stand in need of Guides and let who will come to your assistance tho I am decrepit this good old Cause I rest assured will abide firm and unshaken against all the attempts of such Assailants as you can list and draw up against it I mean the true Government of old England by King Lords and Commons No more at present dear Doctor only I acquaint you at parting that I am sensible I have not paid you the Tithe of what I owe you but it lies ready for you when you shall draw a Bill upon Your Debtor Edmund Ludlow Geneva May 29. 1692. ALLatres licet usque nos usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas Ignotus pereas Miser Necesse est Non deerunt tamen hac in Urbe forsan Unus vel duo tresve quatuorve Pellem rodere qui velint Caninam Nos hac a scabie tenemus ungues Rail on poor feeble Scribler speak of me In as base Terms as the World speaks of thee Sit swelling in thy Hole like a vex'd Toad And full of Malice spit thy spleen abroad Thou canst blast no man's Fame with thy ill word Thy Pen is just as harmless as thy Sword FINIS Puritans These Desires of the Pope were seconded with continual Endeavours of Swarms of Jesuits and Priests permitted to reside amongst us The Pope well knew that his Design of destroying the Northern Heresy had been considerably advanced in K. James 's time * The Roman Strumpet is very industrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 19.2 * The Iâ—terests of Popery and Tyranny were always found 〈◊〉 well to agree and this Prince was lastly persuaded that his Crown and the Pope's Chair had common Friends and common Enemies * The Pope prepared a strange Wife for him which according to Scripture-truth is a dangerous Preparative for a strange God surely they will turn away your Heart after their Gods 1 King 11.2 * The Doctor saith P. 51. of 2 d Defence I tooke time to Consider the Nature and Terms of Conformity which by my former Education I was wholly a Stranger to * The Vicaridge of Westhom in Essex
Letter to Dr. Hollingsworth 'T IS common Sir to such despicable and malicious Brawlers as you are to rail at those things most that are most praise-worthy I should therefore esteem it scandalous to the Glorious Cause and Noble Performances of the most worthy Parliament of November 1640 which I have endeavoured to viâ—dicate to be commended and account it a praise to be evil spoken of by you And it would provoke a Man to laughter to behold you betaking your self to Slanders and Calumnies to see nothing but Dirt and Filth issuing from your Mouth when you find your Arguments will little avail I should not give my self the trouble to animadvert upon your Follies and Frenzies but that I hear you are swollen with Pride and Conceit to an incredible degree I shall therefore shew that with a great deal of toil you have done just nothing at all and that you are fallen under a most prodigious degree of Stupidity and Madness to take so much pains to make your Folly visible to the World which till now you in some measure have concealed to be so industrious to heap Disgrace upon your self What Offence does Heaven punish you for in making you undertake the Defence of so forlorn and desperate a Cause as that of K. Charles the First and that with so much confidence and indiscretion and instead of defending it to betray it by your Ignorance It was as truly as ingenuously observed by the Learned Bishop Burnet in his Sermon before the House of Commons Jan. 31. 1688. That if one were to make a Panegyrick on Tyranny he ought to turn over all the common Places of Wit all the Stores of Invention and the liveliest Figures with which his Fancy would furnish him to make so odious a thing look but tolerably and by sacrificing Truth to Interest and varnishing it over with Wit and Eloquence he might shew how gracefully he could plead a very ill Cause And 't is certain that most Writers used some endeavour to carry on their Discourses by a Stream of Sense and Reason but you Sir have done it by a Course of Reviling and Railing and it may be truly said That if the dirty and Tinker-like Names the scurrilous and foul-mouth'd Expressions the spiteful and false Accusations I gather these Expressions from your Book were taken out of your Pamphlet it would appear but a poor and shrunken thing unpleasing to your self when you look upon it and of small power to work upon others that read it You seem rather to bawl and hoot at than to answer my Letter and your Book is the best Common-Place for Billingsgate that I have lately seen But it is well known that a Mountebank can neither draw nor keep a Croud about his Stage without the help of a witty or foul-mouth'd Buffoon And the gay Fancy the cutting Sarcasms wherewith your Tract is all-bespatter'd do adorn and render it highly entertaining to some Persons And I must confess that I find some subtilty in your first setting out for you begin cunningly and like an old Cavalier you place the Right Reverend and pious Bishop Kidder in the Front of the Battel just as King Charles the First did the Round-heads whom he had taken Prisoners at the Battel of Edghil these as we find the Relation in Husband 's Exact Collections pag. 758. he set pinion'd in the Front of his Men when he engaged the Parliament-Forces at Braintford to be a Breast-work to receive the Bullets that came from the Brownists and Anabaptists of such the King affirmed the Parliament Army to consist that the Cavaliers might escape them However the good Bishop I plainly foresee will come off as every of them did he may be shot through the Clothes but no way hurt For your Quotations out of the Sermons of this good Man and of that great and well-studied Divine Dr. Sherlock do only endeavour to aggravate the Iniquity of this Martyr's Murder whereas there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters relating to it I only endeavoured to evince That the King intended to bow or break us to perswade or force us to Slavery and that the Parliament when he was enflamed to take Arms against them and to put all into a common Combustion did in one hand present their humble Supplications most earnestly begging to enjoy the English Liberties in Peace and held in the other hand the Sword of just and innocent Defence against the Oppression and Violence of the Enemies of the King 's true Honour and of the Kingdom 's Peace And I am yet to learn that by any Law of God or Nations this could be judged to be Rebellion And I cannot see but Dr. Sherlock is of my Opinion for in his Sermon upon this last 30 th of Ianuary 1691 pag. 6. he saith He shall not dispute the lawfulness of resisting the King's Authority whether it were lawful for the Parliament to take Arms against the King to defend the Laws and Liberties of their Country He supposes that in a limited Monarchy the Estates of the Realm have Authority to maintain the Laws and Liberties of their Country against the illegal Encroachments and Usurpations of their King Now I go no greater length and I think this comes up to the great Lord Russel's Position which you had in my Letter pag. 20. That a free Nation like this may defend their Religion and Liberties when invaded and taken from them tho under pretence and colour of Law Your next step Sir is pag. 6. to my Quotation out of a Sermon of Bishop Burnet's Ian. 30. 1680. which you say you will transcribe to let the World see what a Cheat I am Well seeing you did so I will also transcribe it that the World may judg whether you or I be the Knave in this Matter the words are these I acknowledg it were better if we could have Iob's Wish that this Day should perish and the shadow of Death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the Day nor should the Light shine upon it it were better to strike it out of the Kalendar and make our Ianuary terminate at the 29 th and add these remaining days to February These words say you are wrested by Ludlow and they appear at first sight only a Rhetorical Flight whereby that Right Reverend Person would express the detestableness and horridness of the Fact which he bewailed that day Now because I ever was against judging any thing upon the first sight I have twice read the Sermon of this Learned wise and highly meriting Bishop and must tell you that I did not wrest his words but that he was of Opinion that the observation of that Day had been too long continued and that in regard of the great abuse thereof by some hot-headed Ecclesiastical Make-bates 't was time to leave it off and I cannot but think that every Man will conclude as I do even upon the reading of his Text Zech. 8.19 Thus saith the
mind that he met with hard Fate and such as had you been one of his Iudges with your present sense of things you should not have consented to So that it seems you cannot be confident but you might have been as wicked as Laud himself And by the discovery which you indiscreetly make of your self a little after of which more presently I have reason to suspect that you would have made the worst Bishop of the two and then I am sure you had been a very wicked Bishop indeed You say Let me tell you Sir Dr. Leighton was a great Transgressor and deserved a severe Punishment Must it be Persecution to call such a foul-mouth'd Person to an Account and to punish him But you of all Men Dr. Brazen-face ought to be very tender to justifying the severe punishment of a foul Mouth lest a Jury of your Neighbours should you be called to an account if for nothing more than your malicious slandering of that Reverend Divine Dr. Walker should find you to be a foul-mouth'd Person for in such a case according to your present sense of things I am something of the mind you would esteem it hard Fate to have your Ears cut your Nose slit to be branded in the Face stand in the Pillory pay ten thousand Pounds Fine and be perpetually imprison'd You proceed next pag. 15. saying I have look'd into the Case of Pryn Burton and Bastwick I do upon a full consideration of the whole wish from my Heart their Punishment had been some other way I do not think that the way of punishing these Persons was at all Politick or Prudent because not for the Interest as things then stood either of the King or the Church And if Bishop Laud had kept in his Study at that time and not appeared at all either to hear the Trial or assist in the Sentence it had been better for him and those Designs of Vniformity he had so much set his Heart upon Whoever weighs this last Paragraph must agree in what I but now hinted that you even you Doctor would have been a worse Bishop than Laud. You well approve the punishing of these three Persons but the way was not Politick or Prudent because not for the Interest as things then stood of King or Church Let you subtil Doctor alone for Mischief though you have a very unhappy Talent at writing in Defence thereof you would have done it as effectually but in a more cunning manner you would have been found as Arch and Crafty but a more close Youth like the Persecutors in Ancient Times whose Practices are most ingenuously express'd by Mr. Marvel in these words In Persecution the Clergy as yet wisely interposed the Magistrate betwixt themselves and the People not caring so their End were attained how odious they render'd him And you may observe that for the most part hitherto they stood crouching and shot either over the Emperor's Back or under his Belly But in process of Time they became bolder and open-fac'd and persecuted before the Sun at Mid-day Bishops grew worse but Bishopricks every day better and better You Politick Doctor in your great Wisdom would have taken a more prudent course than Bishop Laud you would in your Study have laid such a Scheme as this A Iefferies or a Wright should have been made Lord Chief Iustice a Graham and a Burton should have pack'd a Iury of London Tories to give such a Verdict as they should have directed Hereby these Gentlemen should have been Whip'd Pilloried Stigmatized and what else Bishop Hollingworth pleas'd and all by the Hands of the Laity and that according to Law the Bishop good Man neither assisting at Trial nor Sentence but close at his Book as innocent as a wild Boar and as harmless as a Tyger Well it had been better for Laud and those Designs of Vniformity which he had so much set his Heart upon And pray tell me Sir in all Love what Uniformity was this which thus run in Laud's Head and which you seem so much to approve It must certainly be the honest Design of coming to a due Temper to a uniting of Protestants No no nothing like it Mr. Whitlock was a good Man and you say pag. 14. That you do not in the least question the Truth of what he writes Take then his Account of this Monster rather than Martyr and you will see which way his Head turn'd Whitl Mem. pag. 97. In Arch-Bishop Laud's Diary under his Hand produced in Evidence against him at his Trial are Passages of his being offered to be made a Cardinal which he said that he could not suffer till Rome were other than it is He wickedly and traiterously design'd that upon the Pope's yielding in some few Points as the Common Prayers to be continued in English and such other Triâ—les he would deliver over the possession of these most noble Isles to the Prince of the Apostles Whitl pag. 92. It was proved against him that he should say The Pope was not Antichrist but the Head of the Church and that the Protestant Religion and Romish Religion were all one and if the one was false so was the other He chid Dr. Hall as in Whitlock p. 91. for giving the Holy Father the Epithets of Antichristian c. He held the Pope to be Metropolitan Bishop of the World He furnished the King's Chappel they are Mr. Whitlock's own words p. 85. ' that Seminary Priests would come thither for their Devotion and Adoration and some of them were instanc'd this was at his Trial still who said they knew no difference between their Churches and this Chappel and some other of our Churches as they were ordered To this I shall subjoin a few Words out of Rushworth's Third Collection Vol. 2. pag. 818. Arch-Bishop Laud endeavoured to advance the Power of the Council-Table the Canons of the Church and the King's Prerogative above the Laws of the Land and said that as long as he sat at the Council-Board they should know that an Order of that Board should be of equal Force with an Act of Parliament And at another time said That he would crush them to pieces that would not yield to the King's Power He stiled the Parliament Puritans and commended the Papists for harmless and peaceable Subjects He said That there must be a Blow given to the Church such as had not been given before it could be brought to Conformity Was not this a rare Head of the Church of England Why may not a Man for once and not practise it borrow your Words dear Doctor pag. 53. and say I cannot think Laud would have talked thus unless he had been acted by seven Devils worse thau himself and then I am sure they must be Devils indeed But no more of Laud in this place I return to you Mr. Chaplain at Aldgate Though you do not commend the doing of the Business of Pryn Burton and Bastwick in Laud's imprudent way and that for a weighty
to bring a Traytor to Justice to secure us of the sitting of a Parliament once in three Years when the antient Laws gave us a right to Annual Parliaments and when he had to the high violation of those Laws kept us without a Parliament for about eleven Years These Acts say you their Majesties Malapert Chaplain at Aldgate are such Gracious Favours that if we will have them we ought in all Conscience to buy them But our English Parliaments have always been of another Mind and Sir Robert Cotton tells us in the Life of King Henry the Third That that King was told in full Parliament that they would not pay his Debts nor give him a Groat postquam coepit esse dilapidator Regni so long as he continued to destroy the Kingdom And pray now turn to your Bible and tell me what Text there doth warrant this your wild Opinion Where are we now But buy these Acts did they Pray who had the disposal of the Money how was it laid out was it given to the King to do what he listed withal No you know a great part of it was bestowed on the Scots for the good Service they did in rebelling against their King and putting two Kingdoms into a Flame I did observe in my Letter to you that the King had out of the Subjects Purse in the first Year of the Parliament Nov. 1640. one Million and an half of Money I also remember that the King upon the Conclusion of the Treaty at Rippon agreed to allow the Scots 850 l. per diem and in answer to your question I say the King had the disposal of the Money and as to what part of it the Scots received the King paid it to them for his having done against all Law and Reason what he listed And I will shew you from the Demand of that Nation who ought to have paid the Reckoning They say We were constrained to take Arms for our Defeâ—ce The War on our part was Defensive and all Men do acknowledg that in common Equity the Defendant should not be suffered to perish in his just and necessary Defence but that the Pursuer ought to bear the Charges of the Defendant The prevalent Faction of Prelates and Papists have moved every Stone against us and used all sorts of Means not only their Counsels Subsidies and Forces but their Church-Canons and Prayers for our utter Ruine which make them obnoxious to our just Accusations and guilty of all the Losses and Wrongs which we have sustained And therefore we may now with the greater Reason and Confidence press our Demand that the Parliament the Kingdom and the King himself may see us repaired in our Losses at the Cost of that Faction by whose Means we have sustained so much damage We will never doubt but the Parliament in their Wisdom and Justice will provide that a proportionable part of the Cost and Charges be born by the Delinquents We wish the Justice of the Parliament may be declared in making the Burden more sensible to the Prelates and Papists than to others who never have wronged us which will conduce much to the Honour of the King and Parliament Page 27. You take notice of my Charge that the King demurred to pass the Bills for taking away the Sâ—ar-Chamber and High-Commission Courts at the time when he passed the Poll-Bill though presented together to him for the Royal Assent and demand whether he ought to have passed them without a Why or a Wherefore No by no means you talk now like a Rational Creature We are then to look for the Why 's and Wherefore's You acknowledg in your first Defence that these Courts were Grievances to the Nation and I said and by many sad Instances proved that they were Arbitrary and Tyrannical Courts Forges of Misery Oppression and Violence There 's then a Why for you Doctor The Parliament agreed with the King to give him the Poll-Bill to remove these accursed Courts of Oppression and Tyranny There 's also a Wherefore Nevertheless though the Parliament voted that he should pass all the three Bills or none at all he snatching up their Money runs away and delays to pass the Bills for abrogating the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Courts and yet you affirmed That HE READILY passed whatsâ—ever Bills the Parliament offered to him for redress of the Nations Grievances And whether he did or not was the point in Controversy between you and me The next thing in course is Page 28. the unhappy Earl of Strafford's Case in relation whereunto you most learned Doctor whose Head is swell'd like any Bladder with Wind and Vapour do â—hus impeach the Lords and Commons Do not you know they were so little satisfied with the Legality of their Proceedings that they in the very Bill for his Attainder inserted a Clause that this should not be made use of as a Precedent for the time to come This is well enough urged for a D. D. and is passable the Man who utters it being considered But I must tell you Sir what I have heard as wife a Man as you say about this Clause of not bringing it into Precedent that in such Cases it could not be otherwise without leaving the same Power to the Judges in Westminster-Hall which by the Statute of Edward the Third is intrusted only with the Parliament for that Statute ennumerating all Treason cognizable by the Judges reserves to the Parliament declarative Treason as that which they might be safely intrusted with though it could not be so in the Hands of any other Jurisdiction And that this is the reason of that Clause I am told no Lawyer though never so much a Tory will deny Allow me now Sir seeing we are talking of Strafford to lay before you a pleasant Dialogue which I find in Whitlock's Memoirs pag. 41. between your three Martyrs the King the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl of Strafford together with the Lord Cottington a Papist and that upon the 5th of May 1640. the very Day upon which the Parliament was dissolved for their refusing to furnish Money to carry on the wicked War then resolved upon against Scotland the Paper is entituled No Danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. Charles How can we undertake Offensive War if we have no Money E. of Strafford Borrow of the City 100000 l. go on vigorously to levy Ship-Money your Majesty having tryed the Affection of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rule of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty having tried all ways and being refused shall be acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may imploy to reduce this Kingdom to Obedience For I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five Months Arch-bishop You have tried all ways and have always been denied IT IS NOW LAWFVL TO TAKE IT BY FORCE Lord Cottington Leagues abroad there may be made for the Defence of the
Lord of Hosts The Fast of the fourth Month and the Fast of the Fifth and the Fast of the Seventh and the Fast of the Tenth shall be to the House of Judah Ioy and Gladness and chearful Feasts therefore LOVE THE TRVTH AND PEACE And I must say that I am strengthen'd in this Belief when I remember that about that Time and indeed upon the very Day when this Sermon was preached viz. Ian. 30. 1680. some of the Clergy I know their Names but will spare them did in their Pulpits deliver up our Laws and Liberties to the King's Will and according to their Doctrine we were to hold all at his Pleasure and in the three or four succeeding Years upon that and such-like Occasions these Beautefeux did raise Despotick Power to that dangerous height that England became too hot for Dr. Burnet as well as for many other good Men and he and I might with equal safety have returned together But to put it beyond doubt what my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's meaning was in that Expression It were better if we could have Job 's Wish c. which you insinuate that I wrest I shall lay before you some Expressions in that Sermon you may read pag. 4. these words Upon their loving Truth and Peace those black and mournful Days should be converted to Days of Gladness Pag. 5. It might have been expected that our 29 th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary and now at the end of two and thirty Years it may be reasonably ask'd should we still continue to fast and mourn Pag. 28. If we come to love the Truth and Peace to live in Love and Peace one with another then our Days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts Then should our 29 th of May swallow up the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary Or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy Deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt to be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should outshine and darken the very 29 th of May If we come to love Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the 10 th Month according to the Jewish Account which according to Arch-Bishop Vsher is exactly our 30 th of Ianuary be to us Joy and Gladness I can now scarce with-hold my self from saying That 't is most evident the Doctor at Aldgate doth appear to be the Person who would wrest Bishop Burnet 's well-intended Words to his own malicious Design A Design to keep up Animosity Wrath and Feuds in the Kingdom a Person who shews himself estranged from Truth and Peace in contending to perpetuate the observation of this Day And seeing we have happily lived to behold the wonderful Deliverances which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury did not only hope for but seem to foretel Seeing we have our glorious 5 th of November rendered famous to all succeeding Ages by our late repeated happy and miraculous Deliverance from Popery and its inseparable Companion Tyranny Seeing we behold our thrice happy 30th of April and 4th of November the Birth-Days of those matchless Princes our most deservedly admired and beloved Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary out-shining and darkening even the 29th of May I would hope that I may live to see the time when his Lordship will make a Motion in Parliament for the annulling the Law which enjoins the Observation of the 30th of Ianuary and that I am sure would be highly acceptable to the sincere Lovers of Truth and Peace But I already see an Objection against it You Doctor say Pag. 2. An Act of State has appointed this Day to be FOREVER observed to bewail the Sin of the Murder of the King However I am sure my Lord Bishop of Salisbury doth well remember that in Times by-past other Days have been appointed to be observed by Acts of State upon such like Occasions and one in particular to declaim against Gowry's detestable Conspiracy which is now forgot His Lordship also knows that in Numb 21. when for the Peoples speaking against God and Moses the Lord sent Fiery Serpents which destroyed many of them Upon their Confession of their Sin Moses at their Entreaty prayed for them and as it is in the 8th and 9th Verses The Lord said unto Moses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it upon a Pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live And Moses made a Serpent of Brass and put it upon a Pole and it came to pass that if a Serpent had bitten any Man when he beheld the Serpent of Brass he lived You see Sir this was God's own Institution and that I hope was at least as good as your Act of State Let us see now what became of this brazen Serpent 2 Kings 18. The good King Hezekiah and there were very few good ones in those days who did that which was right in the Sight of the Lord broke in pieces the brazen Serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it and he called it Nehushtan And that God highly approved this Act of this glorious Reformer is evident from the very next Verse which records that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah nor any that were before him And now Sir to dismiss this Black-Day allow me to observe that there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters reflecting on the Act of State which ordained the Observation of the 30 th of Ianuary but I term it a Madding-Day because our Parasitical Court-Priests would not keep the Peace but on that Day did set the Nation on Madding by infusing Principles of Slavery into her Free-born People Page 7. You pick a Quarrel with me about my Epistle Dedicatory and upbraid me for courting the Populace and Dedicating to Old-England in Aldgate Parish and say Sure the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council might have been made the Patrons of a Work that pretends to what Ludlow 's doth But whatever you think of your self or the World of you methinks 't was something sawcy even in you to prefix their Majesties Sacred Names to so silly a Book as was your first Defence and 't is as arrogant to entitle the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-bishops and Bishops the Nobility Gentry c. to this Second and to begin as if seated on the Throne MY LORDS and GENTLEMEN And it seems most impudent to tell them that upon the Reputation or Dishonour of King Charles the First and the Principles which maintain the one or those that propagate the other as much as if you had said upon my Scriblings depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen But whatever you may do 't is not for the mean
Shrubs of the Laity to soar so high as you presume and I took mine to be a modest and inoffensive Dedication and do yet think it ought to be esteemed such though you snarl and in your gay or angry Humour make Distinctions if not a Schism and that in your own Parish and very prodigally throw out to Ludlow a good number of your old Benefactors because they do not believe that they were the only good Men who took part with the King against the Parliament who you say only did their Duties in standing by their Prince according to the Laws of the Land and the Oaths they had taken Now if this be not an inconsiderate and weak Way of arguing why did not you and your Brethren do your Duty and as the Iacobites query stand by King Iames to whom you were sworn And as to your Old Englishmen whom you cull out and set by for your self under the Notion of Lovers of the Government by King Lords and Commons I doubt not but there are of your Acquaintance a great many Pretenders thereto and yet if a Man could stand behind the Hangings at your Club at the Pye Tavern he might hear many of 'em keck at the Healths of King William and Queen Mary and yet be the first who will propose and urge the drinking the King's Health which every Boy understands is in their meaning Iames's To proceed Page 9. you tell me that I begin my Epistle with a prophane piece of Wit namely THE CHVRCH THE CLERGY but the best of it is but borrowed Now I hope we of the Laity may without committing the Sin of Sacrilege borrow and lend this Commodity amongst our selves and were all Clergy-Men as dull as your self Doctor 't would be as great a Sin to borrow of them as to rob a Spittle The piece of Wit which you here term prophane was only a seasonable Exhortation to you to shew a little regard to Sense Truth and Christianity in your future Writings and this your last Book demonstrates that of all the Scriblers of the Age you ought to have attended to this Caution But this was prophane Wit ay no doubt of it there 's no Salvation can there be any Wit out of the Church Wit is ever prophan'd say these Borderers upon it if any Man touches it but themselves However I will adventure to borrow again from my Old Lay-Friend the most ingenious Mr. Andrew Marvell Albeit saith he Wit be not inconsistent and incompatible with a Clergy-Man yet neither is it inseparable from them So that it is of concernment to my Lords the Bishops henceforward to repress those of 'em who have no Wit from Writing and to take care that even those that have it do husband it better as not knowing to what Exigency they may be reduced You say Pag. 10. I shall betake my self with all the brevity I can to consider your various Charges you so impudently draw up against the King and Queen's Grand-Father both in your Epistle and in your Book it self And Pag. 11. you fall thus to work In your Epistle you tell us of a Letter which the Prince wrote to the Pope which from the beginning to the end savours of Popery and you mention your Particulars to prove it First You tell us that he professes nothing could affect him so much as an Alliance with a Prince that had the same apprehensions of true Religion with himself You are in the right I did say so and if I cannot make it out you deservedly stile me a foul-mouth'd scandalous and leâ—d Miscreant And a Man would think that you should not doubt your having caught me when you bespeak me in these confident Words For God's sake Sir read over the Letter again and tell 〈◊〉 where there is such a word or any thing like it I have the Letter now before me as it is in Rushworth and I assure you upon reading it again and again I find nothing like it and I hope I am not so dull but I understand common Sense and if it was not for the unmannerliness of the Expression I would I am justly provoked to say leave your L I must confess Sir this your Expostulation struck me with no small astonishment and your bold and confident Assertion would if possible have made me ready to suspect my self as you represent me for one of the vilest Impostors that ever appeared in the World for I never doubted but your Mother instructed you in the reading of English and he who hath attainâ—d thereto should not mistake in such a case as this But Upon my second reading you I observed that you say I have the Letter now before me AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH this raised a Suspicion in me that you were conscious that it was elsewhere to be found why else should you say AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH Turning to Rushworth which you were poring upon when you wrote your Defence I was confirmed in my Opinion for in the Margin to that Letter in Pag. 82. I read and you will see when you put on Impartial Spectaâ—les this honest Intimation There is another Copy of the Prince's Letter to the Pope published by several Hands somewhat different from this Well though you affirm that you find nothing like what I charge I can see as you presently shall even in Rushworth several Things as like it as I have found a Doctor to be like a Dunce Indeed this Letter to the Pope is not found in Dr. Gauden's Famous Book called Eicon Basilice nor in the Works of King Charles neither is it in Pembrook's Arcadia in Heylin or in Nalson But you good Doctor may see it in a Book which you have in your Library for you quote it in your 13th Page 't is entituled Cabala Mysteries of State in Quarto Pag. 214. The Royal Words there which you could not or rather would not find are these I shall never be so extreamly affectionate to any thing in the World as to endeavour Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the true Religion with my self The same thing is expressed by Mr. Rushworth in these Words Your Holiness's Conjecture of our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joined in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any Mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated You proceed in the Examination or rather as you affirm Derection of Ludlow's Lying in the Particulars excerpted from the King's Letter to the Pope 2 dly Quoth you What Sir you say That he calls Popery the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion all others Novelty and Faction In what part of the Letter find you this Sir I tell you 't is false there is not one Syllable of this nature throughout the whole and I challenge the whole World of Malice to shew me any thing like it in the Letter And now again Sir
Derby for which that Lord was impeached in Parliament you may see a particular Account of this in May's History of the War pa. 109. in Husbands Collections 611. and in Rushworth's Collections 3d. Part. Vol. 1st pa. 680. Well I see to my Comfort that we shall soon draw to a Conclusion you say p. 49. I have Answered your Grand Impeachments and Accusations of this great and Excellent Prince As for the other things with which you stuft your Libell I say alas Sr. you must not think to catch some Birds and there are thanks be to God great numbers of them in the Kingdom with such Chaffe as this There are indeed in England a great many kinds of Birds and of Beasts also and a great many of every kind and before we part we will a little recreate our selves with some of them you must not think to catch such Birds with Chaffe A witty Conceit upon my word and had your dull fancy chopt upon this other flight neither must Chicken think to feed Capons it would have made you as proud as a Peacock and you would have clapt your Wings crow'd like any fighting Cock at the wit of the Expression But begging pardon of your Gravity I will tell you that it hath been observed that of all Creatures in the Creation the Owle of Birds and the Ass of Beasts are the most grave and Sr. William Temple in his Memoires of what past in Christendom from 1672 to 1679 page 57 saith that Old Prince Maurice of Nassau when he was about 76 years of Age having ever passed for an honest and pious man informed him that when he was Governor of Brafil he heard of a Parrot that spoke and asked and answered common questions like a reasonable Creature and tho he believed nothing of it his curiosity lead him to send for it That when it came first into the Roome where the Prince was with a great many Dutch men about him it said presently What a Company of White Men are here they asked it what he thought that Man was pointing to the Prince it answered Some General or other the Prince asked it whence came you it answered from Marinnan the Prince to whom do you belong the Parrot to a Portugez Prince what do you do heere Parrot I look after the Chickens the Prince laughed and said you look after the Chickens the Parrot answered yes I and I know well enough how to do it and made the Chuck four or five times that People use to make to Chickens when they call them Now one would hope that this pritty Bird which discoursed so rationally might put a braying Beast to silence if any thing but pulling out the Asses Tongue could do it you see Doctor that this Understanding Parrot could distinguish White from Black knew its own Capacity and undertook no other Task than it could well perform crying Chuck Chuck Chuck to the Chickens very pertinently which is more than you do to your Birds that this ingenious fair dealing Parrot when it talked with the Prince not thinking it would pass for an answer to have told him you must not think to catch such Birds as me with Chaffe came close to the point and gave direct and sensible Answers to plain and honest Questions whereas you prevaricate in a most shameful manner and prate as tho you were only fit for the Conversation of a Flock of Magpies Iackdaws Wood-cocks Owles and Buzâ—ods T is evident that your itch of Vain glory and unparalleld Confidence makes you affirm that you have answered me and you would be thought to have said all that can be said when you hardly say any thing but blâ—â—e what you know nothing of you have heap'd up 〈…〉 many 〈◊〉 abundance of Rubbish and Trifles but treated of nothing with Solidity and Judgment nor so much as touched the Tenth part of the matters charged in my Letter but in your natural levity skipping them over would perswade the Birds of your Feather I gave you their names but now that as Chaffe you make them to vanish with a puff of your mouth But indeed when I consider how miserable a Wretch of an Answerer you do here render your self and yet how you persist still in your huffing and strutting and do more and more revile and rail I cannot especially seeing it relates to one of your own Birds but present you with another piece of Mr. Marvel's profane Wit as you will call it I have seen saith he with some pleasure the Hawking at the Magpye the poor Bird understands very well the terrible pounces of that Vulture but therefore she chatters amain most rufully and spreads and cocks her tail so that one that first saw and heard the sport would think that she insulted over the Hawk in that Chatter and huffed her Train in token of Courage and Victory when alas t is all from her fear and another way of crying the Hawke mercy and to the end that the Hawke finding nothing but Tail and Feather to strike at she may so perhaps shelter her Body I have been too long trifling at this Boyes Play of Bird-catching I return now to a more manly Recreation and having already dispatched the Wild Bear the 〈◊〉 Tygre dull Ass I pass by the Monkey the Ape the Baboon and that great Herd of the many other despicable Animals and will a little hunt the barking Woolf. Quoth you Doctor page 5â— I am ready to take my leave of you but before we part I must needs reckon with you upon the 〈◊〉 of a Reflection you have made upon myself you are pleased to say you understand I was a Presbyterian Minister in Essex which words have almost forced me to a smile Now if I were mistaken as to your being a Presbyterian Minister in Essex you are not to make your self too merry with it nor may you deny your having changed your Opinion from what it formerly was for you know there are many of your Contemporaries in the University of Cambridge who knew you to be a Presbyterian there and I could name you an honest Gentleman now in being who you know hath reason to be acquainted with all the steps you have taken from your youth and by saith that you left the Univesity upon a 〈◊〉 of the Ceremonies and persâ—sed in that dislike 〈…〉 Preferment to be got but by Conformity so that I may with truth say you are one of Dr. Wild's Changlings and that he gave us your exact Marks when he thus described you in his Poem called The Recantation of a Penitent Proteus or the Changling My Conscience first like Balaam's Ass was shy Boggl'd and Winc'd which when I did espy I cudgel'd her and spur'd her on each side Untill the Jade her Paces all could ride When first I mounted on her tender Back She would not leave the Protestant Dull Rack Till in her Mouth the Cov'nant Bit I got And made her learn the Presbyterian Trot. 'T was an