imagine they would desire to get rid of it if they could tho' by the Kings Death On the other side for the Parliament to supply him with mony that they know cannot be done but by taking off the Heads of their Faction excluding their Succession and consenting to such Laws as must of Necessity ruin them Besides his Majesty hath allready permitted the Executing so many of their Party as they never can or will forgive it It falls out Happily that the force of his Argument does not come up to the Drift of it But the Weakness of the One takes off the Edge of the Other He tells the whole world that the Papists have no way in the Farth to save themselves but by the Murther of the King The One half of this spoken in a Corner to a Knot of Priests and Jesuits and fairly prov'd upon a man would be as much as his Head 's worth And is the Crime ever the Lesse for doing the same thing in Publique where the Provocation is stronger These Discourses are not to pass for Simple Declarations of a mans Opinion but Artificiall Encouragements rather and Advises toward the doing of the thing especially coming from the Pen of a Person that calls himself Iunius Brutus and recommends himself to the City by the Borrow'd name of a King-killer Tho' I cannot inform my self of any of that Family that lives near Richmond His First Argument runs thus The King wants mony and there 's none to be got but either of the Papists of the Parliament The Parliament he says will give his Majesty none and therefore the Papists will Murther him to save Charges This is a Policy far fetch'd The Fathers Head we know was set at a Price but we hope better of the Sons Now in his prejudging the Parliament upon an Assumption that the King gets not a penny of Mony of them but upon such and such Terms he does not so much speak his thought as vent his Proposition rather Desiring then Foreseeing that the House of Commons will hold the King to such unhappy Conditions And then he finishes his Contemplation with this Conclusion that the Papists will never forgive his Majesty for what he has done allready Wherein First he Contradicts himself in supposing the King an Enemy to the Papists whom he has hitherto insinuated to be their Friend And Secondly instead of proving the Papists Design against the King in this Particular he advances One of his Own Now if he would have come roundly up to the Point of the Papists Interest he should have told us of the Ecclesiastical Dignities and Preferments that the Church of Rome has confer'd upon their Emissaries into his Majesties Dominions And he should have expounded it to the people what pains they take and what Hazzards they run only in the playing of their Own Game and making way to their advantages in Reversion This is so great a truth that most of the serious Catholiques themselves reflect familiarly upon these Busie People as the common troublers of the Peace of Christendome But then I should have oppos'd an interest also on the Fanatiques side to Ballance this For they have their Reversionall prospects too their sequester'd Livings and Estates their plunder'd goods their profitable Offices and Commissions Crown and Church Lands c. And they wait for their day again as impatiently as the Iews do for their Messias Nay to keep their title still a foot they stand fast to their Old Covenant still as the Fanatiques Magna Charta by which they pretend to make out a Religious claim to all the advantages they got by sacriledge and oppression So that their principles and interests lying indifferently against the Establisht Order both of Church and State there will be no need of casting eithers faults upon the other After a worse then Astrological Determination upon the Kings Fate he bestows another Cast of his Cunning upon the City and Citizens of London which he says is in danger to be consum'd by Fire It is a lewd and a seditious Hint in both these Cases the putting of it into the head as it is much in the power of any profligate and desperate villain to verify his calculation Besides that in telling the Citizens what they are to expect he does at the same time Counsell the Papists what to do They will burn London he says First as the only United force able to withstand Arbitrary Government and without that Popery can never prevail If â—…opery cannot come in without Arbitrary Government 〈◊〉 the Iesuits design the burning of London as the only Unâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…hat can withstand that power either there is no fear of Popery and Arbitrary Government and consequently of such a design taking place in this Kings â—…ign or the whole calumny falls directly upon his Majesty himself or otherwise if the Appellants prospect looks forward into the future what s the meaning of all these Alarms so unseasonably to trouble our present peace with the sickly Visions of things to come And he should have done well also to have expounded himself a little upon the United Force that should withstand and the Arbitrary Government to be withstood For otherwise it may be taken for the sounding of a Trumpet to a Rebellion For the Arbitrary Government which he phansies to himself must be exercised either by a Lawful Prince or by an Usurper If by the Former his Tyranny is no Warrant for our opposition if the Latter there 's no appearance of any other Usurpation then as we shall see presently of his own setting up Secondly he says that London is the only place where by reason of their Excellent Preaching and dayly instruction in the Protestant Religion the people have a lively sense thereof and douhtless will not part with it to pleasure a Prince but perhaps rather lose their Lives by the Sword in the Wars than by Faggots in Smithfield The passage now is plain English and as many indignities upon the Government crouded into one sentence as could well be brought together Here is First an Exhortation to a Rebellion For the Prince here in question against whom the sword is to be drawn can be no other upon his supposition then actually the King And let him take his choice now whether it shall be intended of his present Majesty or of his Successour It is a Rebellion against the King that now is in the one Case and against the Next King in the other And Secondly It is not only a simple Rebellion but to the scandal of the Reformation and particularly of the Church of England a Rebellion founded upon the Doctrine of the Protestant Religion Thirdly It is no other then as he himself has worded it the Hellish Tenet of Murthering Kings in a disguise only a Iesuitical Principle in Masquerade It is Fourthly a Condemnation of the practices and submissions of the Primitive Christians and the whole story of our Protestant
us in mind of the Rebellion of Forty-one and the Regiâ—…idal Principles of Seventy-nine mind us of the Regicide it self of Forty-eight For these Principles and Practices are nothing in the World but the Venom of the Old Cause swallow'd and Spew'd up again and all the Treasons of the Consistory are cast upon the Conclave As if the Murther of Charles the First by the Treachery of Mock-Protestants were ever the less Detestable because the Two Harries of France were Assassinated by Profest Papistss These are the Puritan Iesuits that turn the Bible into a Nose of Wax that make God the Author of Sin that Depose and Murther Kings by a Text and Intitle their Sacrilege and Treason to the Inspirations of the Holy Ghost These are the Straight-lac'd Christians that make less scruple of Robbing the Altar than of Kneeling at the Communion They can swallow the Blood of Widdows and Orphans and yet Puke at a Surplice Let me ask the worthy Gentlemen of the City now which of the two carry'd them the easier the Schismatical and Sacrilegious or the Episcopal Tantivy Or which they take for the more dangerous Enemies our Appellants young Beggarly Officers or their Old Acquaintances Pen Fulks and their Fellows who violently thrust out the gravest and most substantial of their Citizens as the late King has it and took in Persons of desperate Fortunes and Opinions in their places Let them compare the Appellants Courtiers too with the Old Sequestring Plundring and Decimating Committees with their Court Marshalls and Major-Generals when London was made little better then a shambles and their Merchants only Cash-keepers to the Tyrants at Westminster and then against his Over-hot Church-men we 'l set the Mechanique Pulpâ—…teers and Tub preachers that not only divided the people from their Sovereign but Wives from their Husbands Children from their Parents and Preacht away Apprentices by Droves into Rebellion Carrying the Schism through Church and State into private Families This is the Blessed change that is now propounded and laid before us Lastly says he the chief and most dangerous of your Enemies are Papists who to make sure of their own Game allure all the three forementioned Parties to their side by the arguments aforesaid Their design is to bring in Popery which they can no ways effect but either by a Popish Successour or by the French Arms. There is no doubt of the danger of the Papists but still while the Government has One Enemy in Front it is good to secure the Flank and Rear from another So that the Ciâ—…yes only safety lies in the mean betwixt the two Extremes of Popery on the One hand and Libâ—…inism on the Other The Former he says can never be effected but by a Popish Successour or the French Arms. See now how this hangs together the same Faction clamour'd against the late King just at this rate and yet there was no prospect at that time of a Popish Successour but yet Popery was charg'd most injuriously as all the World can Witnesse upon the King himself And then for the French Arms so far was his Majesty from calling them in to his assistance that upon the Scottish Rebellion they were Sollicited and Implor'd into a Confederacy against him And yet we remember to our griefs that those very Rumours and Apprehensions of Popery even when there was not any Danger of it east us all into Confusion And now our Appellant to shew how good an English-man he is as well as a Subject enters his Protestation a little lower in the same Paragraph that he would rather of the Two Live under a French Conquerour then the Duke as Successour I must acknowledge says he in the next clause that there is some Coherence between the Beginning of the Late Civill Wars and this our present Age. For as well then as now the Ambitious Papists and French Faction were the chief nay the only Incendiaries which set us all in flame That the French Cardinal did Artificially improve the Turbulent Humour of the English and Scottish Schismaticks to the advancing of the Interest of France and to the Embroyling of these Kingdoms I make no question But to call them the Only Incendiaries is to give the Lye to the constant current of History and the known Certainty of Fact even within our own remembrance How were the Papists and French Factions concern'd in the Scottish Uproar of 1637 and a hundred Sacrilegious Tumults after that in the course of the Rebellion and to set him right now in his Calculation of his Majesties French-friends we shall enform him that the Kings Principall supplies of Men Arms Money and Ammunition were furnished from Holland He tells us further that the Catholique Cause like the Chesnut in the Fable hath ever since Q. Marys days been in the Fire and that both then and now the Papists make use of the Episcopall and Court-parties â—…law to take it out the First of these they allure to their assistance by the Fright of Presbytery the Latter by the apprehension of a Republique tho' nothing is lesse Designed or more Improbable 'T is a hard case to have to do with an Adversary that has neither Candor in his Reports nor any force of Argument in his Reasonings and yet it is the more tolerable here because it is all that either the Story or the Cause will bear He makes the Episcopal and Court-Party to be the Passive Instruments of the Church of Rome for the advance of Popery ever since the Reign of Queen Mary which is so notorious a mistake that Queen Elizabeth and the Hierarchy in Her Reign oppos'd the Errours and the power of that Church with all possible constancy and Resolution King Iames made himself famous by his Pen as well as by his Practices upon the same Subject The Late King lost his Life in the defence of the Reformed Religion and his Majesty that now is hath manifested his affection to the Church of England as by Law Establisht in despight of all Calumnyes and through extream difficulties with the highest Acts of Solemnity Imaginable And now on the other side let but any man trace the History of the Schismatiques from Queen Mary to this Instant and the restlessness of that Faction will appear through every step of his way and that whensoever the Papists prest upon the Government on the One hand the Separatists never fail'd of pinching it on the Other And yet again whereas he talks of the fright of Presbytery and the apprehension of a Republique as neither designed nor probable there 's no man of Thirty years of Age but knows the contrary and that this Nation was actually enslav'd to that Double Tyranny under pretence of delivering us from the danger of Arbitrary Power and Popery Nay and but two lines further he charges the Late King for countenancing Papists no less then This which to every honest man is constructively a Vindication of them
AN ANSWER TO THE APPEAL FROM THE COUNTRY TO THE CITY LONDON Printed by M. C. for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Pauls Church-yard 1679. AN ANSWER TO THE APPEAL FROM THE COUNTRY to the CITY c. THIS Appeal has made a mighty noise about the Town and yet Heaven knows there is neither Good Faith in it nor Argument But all things misapply'd or mis-reported to bring an Odium upon the Government and to inâ—…ame the Multitude The pretended Reasonings of it are no more than fallacies and non-sequiturs from the beginning to the end and yet it serves in a Coffer-Hense for a Test of Honest Men and Mutiniers Taking it barely in in self it is scarce worth an Answer But in the circumstances of the Boldness and the Malice it is but reasonable to bestow such a Reply upon it as may give it a Recommendation to publique Justice Especially having already taken notice of it by the By in another place It is a wonderful thing the Confidence of this Audacious Pamphlet in Addressing it self to the City after so Fresh so Loyal and so Generous an instance of their scorn and detestation of any thing that looks like a seditious practice Why should a Wat Tyler expect better Quarter from a Lord Mayor under Charles the Second than he had from a Lord Mayor under Richard the Second Nay that very Rebellion of Forty-one is most injuriously charg'd upon the City of London for Gournay Ricaâ—…t Garraway and the most considerable of the Citizens were not only against it in their Opinions but oppos'd it to the utmost with their Estates and Persons And that Honourable Society has not yet forgotten either the Calamities of the War or the Methods and Instruments which brought so great a Reproach upon the City Beside that it is as much their Interest as their Duty and as much their Inclination as either to support the Government For by a War they must of necessity suffer doubly And not only in the loss or abatement of their Trade but in the deep proportion of their Taxes toward the publique Charge So that these are not a sort of people to be Wheedled out of their Honour and Allegeance But we shall now take a view of the Pamphlet it self An Appeal from the Country to the City IT begins Most brave and noble Citizens And a little lower With you we stand and with you we fall your example directs our Conduct c. Now if the greeting had been to the Club of Subscribers that which follows would have been much more Consequent for it is a great Truth that the Conspirators of both sides must expect to stand and fall together and that the Factions in the Country can never make any thing on 't without a Tumult in the City to lead the Dance which God be prais'd there is no fear of and then for the Credit which this busie Mutineer can pretend to under this present Government with the Noble Citizens as he claws them I am perswaded if the Author of the Appeal were but known to the Court of Aldermen and Common Councel it might cost him Dear the very Complement Not but that in so great a body there may be some few little Fellows a float too that cry out with the Horse-turds among the Apples in the Emblem How We Apples swim In the next clause the Scribler gives to understand that he has read Hodge upon the Monument and writing after that Copy he follows the phansie of the Citizens looking about them from the top of the Pyramid Now to match this dismal prospect of Imaginary Calamities to come we shall give you a Parallel in a brief Summary of what this Nation has really suffer'd in Fact and in Truth brought upon it self by believing such stories as these without either Foundation or Effect First says he Imagine you see the whole Town in a flame occasioned this second time by the same Popish malice which set it on fire before First say I Imagine you see the whole Nation in a Flame and brought to the extremities of Fire and Sword occasioned this second time by the same Schismatical and Republican Malice which embroil'd it before At the same instant phansie that amongst the distracted Crowd you behold Troops of Papists ravishing your Wives and Daughters dashing your little Childrens brains out against the Walls Plundering your Houses and cutting your own Throats by the name of Heretique Dogs At the same instant Phansie Decemb. 1659 once over again whole droves of Coblers Dray-men Ostlers upon Free quarter with you till some of your Wives and Daughters are forc'd to Prostitute themselves for Bread your Councels affronted by Armed Troops and your fellow Citizens knockt on the head like Dogs at their own doors for not so much as barking your Apprentices discharg'd of their Indentures by an Arbitrary Power your Houses Rifled your Account-books examin'd your Servants corrupted to Betray their Masters your â—…ersons clapt under â—…atches transplanted or thrown 〈◊〉 â—…asty Dungeons or in mercy perhaps your Throats cut by the Name of Popish Dogs and Cavaliers And all this only for refusing to Renounce God and your Soveraign 〈◊〉 represent to your selves the Tower playing off 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and battering down the Houses about your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 present to your sleves the Thimble-maker 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Tower your Citizens clapt up St. Pauls and Gresham-Colledge turn'd into Garrisons orders for the demolishing of your Gates and Chains and nothing less than Military Execution threaten'd you unless you will redeem your selves with ICCCCO l. a moneth Contribution towards the perpetuating of your Slavery Also casting your Eye toward Smithsield Imagine you see your Father or your Mother or some of your nearest and dearest Relations ty'd to a Stake in the midst of flames when with hands and eyes lifted up to Heaven they scream and cry out to that God for whose cause they die which was a frequent spectacle the last time Popery Reign'd amongst us Also casting your eye toward Cheap-side Cornhil Charing-cross Palace-yard Tower-hill nay Whitehall it self Imagine you see your Father or some of your nearest Relations your Citizens the Nobility Gentry nay the King himself and his best Friends under the hand of the Common Executioner appealing to God in whose Cause they dy'd which was a frequent spectacle when Rebels and Usurpers under the title of Reformers reign'd last amongst us Phansie ye behold those Beautiful Churches erected for the true Worship of God abused and turn'd into Idolatrous Temples to the dishonour of Christ and scandal of Religion The Ministers of God's Holy Word torn in pieces before your eyes and their best Friends not daring even to speak in their behalf Phansie you behold those Beautiful Churches erected for the true Worship of God abused and turned into Stables the Pulpits into Iuggling boxes to Hocus your Wives and Daughters out of their Bodkins and Thimbles
and nothing to be heard there but Heresie and Sedition to the dishonour of Christ and scandal of Religion The Ministers of Gods Holy Word cast out of their Livings by hundreds and their Children expos'd to the wide World to beg their Bread and not a Friend that dares open his mouth for them Women running with their Hair about their ears Men cover'd with Blood and Children sprawling under Horses feet and only the Walls of Houses left standing Your Women running with their Hair about their ears one half to the Works like Pioniers the other dancing Attendance at some Merciless Committee to put in Bail perhaps for some Malignant Friend or Husband Men cover'd with Blood lost Limbs and mangled Bodies from Edg-hill Branford c. and with horror of Conscience over and above Altars Robb'd Churches Demolish'd and only the Walls left standing In Fine What the Devil himself would do were he here upon Earth will in his absence infallibly be acted by his Agents the Papists Those who had so much Ingratitude and Baseness to attempt the Life of a Prince so Indulgent to them will hardly be less cruel to any of his Protestant Subjects In Fine What the Devil himself would do were he here upon Earth will in his absence infallibly be acted if they may have their will by his Agents the Perjurious and Hypocritical Regicides that Betray'd their Prince and their Country by the Solemnity of a Covenant and Poyson'd the unwary People in that very Sacrament Those who had so much Ingratitude and Baseness not only to attempt but take away the Life of a Prince so Indulgent to them as the late King was who deny'd them nothing but his Crown and his Blood which afterward they took These I say again that are so ungrateful to our present Soveraign as after so much Mercy and Bounty to the Murtherers of his Father and of his Friends have now enter'd into fresh attempts upon his Life his Crown and Dignity will hardly be less Cruel to any of his Majesties obedient Subjects Now to shew you that this way of Incentive to the Multitude is only the Old story new furbish'd and not our Appellants Mother-wit and Contrivance as he would have the world imagine See his Majesties Declaration of Aug. 12. 1642. Husbands Collections pag. 540. One day the Tower of London is in danger to be taken and Information given that Great Multitudes at least a Hundred had that day resorted to visit a Priest then a Prisoner there by Order of the Lords and that about the time of the Information about fifty or sixty were then there and a Warder dispatcht of purpose to give that notice Upon Inquiry but four persons were then found to be There and but eight all that day who had visited the Priest Another day a Taylor in a Ditch over-hears two passengers to Plot the Death of Mr. Pym and of many other Members of Both Houses Then Libellous Letters found in the Streets without Names probably contrived by themselves and by Their Power Published Printed and Enter'd in their Iournals and Intimations given of the Papists Training under ground and of notable Provision of Ammunition in Houses where upon Examination a Single Sword and a Bow and Arrows are found A Design of the Inhabitants of Covent-Garden to Murther the City of London News from France Italy Spain Denmark of Armies ready to come for England And again Pag. 536. they cause Discourses to be Published and Infusions to be made of Incredible Dangers to the City and Kingdom by that our coming to the House in the case of the five Members An Alarum was given to the City in the Dead time of the Night that we were coming with Hâ—…rse and Foâ—…t thither and thereupon the whâ—…le City put in Arms And howsoever the Envy seem'd to be cast upon the Designs of the Papists mention was only made of Actions of our own Upon a fair understanding of the whole this supposition of his is no more than the Counterpart of the old Story and the Declamatory dangers that he foresees in Vision were outdone by those sensible Cruelties and Oppressions that this poor Kingdom suffered in very deed If it be true that these and forty times more Cruelties were committed And that the People were frighted into these Precipices only by shadows If it be true again that those Glorious Pretenders when they had the King and his Papists as they call'd his most Orthodox Friends under foot that these People I say never lookt further after Religion but fell presently to the sharing of the Church and Crown Revenues among themselves It will concern every sober man to look well about him and to make use of his Reason as well as of his Faith for these Fore-boders seldom Croak but before a Storm We in the Country says he have done our parts in chusing for the generality Good Members to serve in Parliament But if as our two last Parliaments were they must be Dissolv'd or Prorogâ—…ed when over they come to redress the Grievances of the Subject we may be Pitied but not Blam'd If the Plot takes effect as in all probability it will our Parliaments are not then to be Condemn'd for that their not being suffer'd to sit occasion'd it Fol. 1. There are just as many Affronts put upon the Government in these two Periods as in the Printed Folio there are Lines in 't First Upon the House of Commons for a Representative constituted for the generality of such men as our Appealer calls Good Members would lâ—…y the Kingdom in Blood which is manifestly the deist of the Libel from the one end of it to the other Secondly The Appellant Usurps upon the Kings Authority as if his Majesty were bound to give an Account to every Libeller why he Prorogues or Dissolves his Parliaments which is a Priviledge inseparable from the Supreme Power in all forms of Government Thirdly It is a Tacit Charge of Tyranny upon the King for it is done he says when ever they come to redress the Grievances of the Subject And lastly He makes the King a Promoter of the Plot but whether with more Indignity or Folly it is hard to determine either in the Intimation oâ—… in the Supposal of his Majesty to be Felo de se and a Party to the Conspiracy against his own Liâ—… The Plot he says will in all Probability take 〈◊〉 and he is the occasion of it that would not suffer these Parliaments to sit The Plot is now 〈◊〉 so far out of our Enemies reach that no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Triâ—…k can ever hope to extinguish it Wherefore they must either suffer all to come oâ—…t or begin by force to justifie it which we see they are going to do by their endeavouring to get those Worthy and Brave Commanders Banished who as they think are the most likely Persons to conduct and lead us up against any Popish Army Fol. 1. The Appellants