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A58385	Reflections upon the murder of S. Edmund-Bury Godfrey the design of Thompson, Farwell, and Paine to sham off that murder from the papists : the late endeavours to prove Stafford a martyr and no traitor, and the particular kindnesses of the Observator, and Heraclitus to the whole design, in a dialogue ; with a dedication from Mrs. Cellier.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing R731; ESTC R36706	39,638	35

Heaven order'd it That this unfortunate Gentleman should fall by the bloudy hands of those that seek the Nations ruine to awaken the drowsie Kingdom whenever it should grow careless of its safety How much then does it concern all True Protestants to be careful and vigilant when they see the Papists so sedulous to exercise into perpetual oblivion the murther of that Person whose Body Heaven permitted them to sacrifice that so his Soul might be as it were one of the Guardian Angels of their Safety and Religion In the next place he endeavours to complement the Two Houses of Parliament out of their Honour their justice their reason their understanding their prudence and all that advances the Lustre the Grandeur and the high Reverence due to the most Aweful and most Renowned Assembly under Heaven telling them with a fawning snarle with all due submission to the Government in defence of the Innocent That it is not impossible nor altogether without President That a lawful Authority proceeding secundum Allegata probata should be abused and consequently drawn into a mistake by the malice and perjury of wicked men How meanly how lowly does this Mushrom of a Memoir-monger after his sneering complement think of the Lords and Commons of England That which good manners would not impose upon an ordinary Sessions of Oyer and Terminer he most audaciously throws upon the Two Houses of Parliament weakness and mistake and to be cajoll'd by the malice and perjury of wicked men After so many daily Debates and Consultations after so many siftings and scannings of charge and proof the high wisdom and prudence of the Two Houses of Parliament was led away by weakness and mistake to give credit to the malice and perjury of three or four inconsiderable malicious and wicked men and so to proceed to the effusion of innocent Bloud What is this but to charge the Two Houses of Parliament either with folly or impiety the most egregious in the world An indignity for the Nation not to endure There is no question to be made but that Mr. Impartial's allegata probata all his Probables and Improbables all his contradictions and absurdities were duly way'd and ponder'd with all the thoughtful diligence and sedulity that justice and conscience could invent Which not being to be call'd into doubt there is no reason in the world for the Nation to believe that so much justice so much conscience so much elaborate prudence could err The truth of which he himself confirms while he brings an Argument to undermine their Reputation by saying All have not been convicted who were impeached and try'd at the Bar but as some have been condemned so others have been acquitted Which apparently shew'd the equality and impartiality of their Proceedings and that they were not in quest of innocent Bloud but onely sought the deserved punishment of those that were guilty And therefore for such a Flyblow of a pretended Protestant to go about to taint the honour and justice of the Two Houses of Parliament whom he confesses so fair in their Proceedings was an unparallel'd piece of arrogance then which nothing more confirms the truth of the Plot and the Crimes of his Employers So that he might have reserv'd his crafty Cringes and his Presidents for some High German Senate of Mum brewers in the Land of Brandenbourgh Lastly to excuse tho Instances given of Popish Malice and Bloudiness from the Examples of Q. Maries Cruelties the Irish Barbarism the French Massacre c. he recriminates upon the Protestants in Germany France Bohemia and Holland But that is not the Point for there is a great difference between a Massacre or a Persecution and a War though it be a Rebellion wherein there are preceeding expostulations something of a seeming 〈◊〉 pretended claim or grievance but in Massacre or Persecution there is nothing but propense Villany and impiety Had the Christians bin in Arms against their Emperors they could not have bin call'd Persecutions and the Christians had bin in the wrong but as they were Persecutions we find how infamous they have render'd those Emperors Rebellions are headed by Persons of high Quality as the Dutch by the Prince of Orange a free Prince of the Empire that in France by the Coligny's and consequently reduc'd into a formal Hostility Massacres are only tumultuary Riots and Surprises of the Innocent Rebellion pretends a seeming Provocation but Massacre destroys without exception of Sex or Age those that dream'd no harm So that nothing can be more foul more wicked more malicious more spiteful more inhuman more faithless treacherous and destructive to the bonds of Human Society And this is the Charge we lay upon the Papists besides that of Rebellion For if we should muster up the Rebellions of the Papists against their Princes they are innumerable and frequently authoriz'd by the Pope himself As for that same execrable Murder of the Late King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory as it was never committed so it was never own'd but always condemn'd and abominated by all the true Professors of the Protistant Religion It was the nefarious Act of a nefarious Usurper who having at his Devotion an Army which he had long headed with a successful and dareing Conduct took the opportunity when the Nation was quite try'd out with an intestine War of near Twenty Years standing as it were to conquer the whole Kingdom to seize and murder his distressed Sovereign and instead of a King to make himself a Tyrant All this the Protestants lamented and bewailed while the Tyrant having like Otho and Vitellius unjustly invaded the Imperial Dignity environ'd with and engadg'd and well pay'd Hodge-podge of Veteran Levellers Fiftmhonarchy-men an such like Enthusiasts not worth the name of Protestants and ador'd only by those that sought more the preservation of their unlawful Purchases then the good of the Kingdom trampled not only over all true Religion but Morality But should we number up the Murder of Kings committed by Papists we should find more then one Richard the 2d and Edward ●d were both Depos'd and Murder'd by their Popish Subjects Henry the ●d Henry the 4th of France were both murder'd by the Contrivance of their Popish Subjects and openly justify'd by the Priests of that time nay the Murder of the one was applauded even by the Pope himself in a Publick Harangue What does your Worship think of the Emperour Henry the Seventh who was by a Predicant Frier of the Order of St. Bernard murder'd with a piece of the Eucharist sop'd in Poyson By which the Monk evinc'd two things the impiety of the Popish Religion and the folly of Transubstantiation as if the Real Body of Christ could be capable of such a damnable Infection The Emperor Frederick the Second was Excommunicated by Gregory IX with that Impudence that the Cardinals themselves were asham'd of it and express'd their dislike and tho that Pope dy'd yet the Papal fewd continu'd so that at length

they had the least or rather no reason to seek changes the fittest time in the world when they thought they were most trusted and least suspected To kill the King by whose merciful Indulgence they lived in Peace The more ungrateful Beasts they But what 's that to the purpose they kill'd two of their own natural Sovereigns and is it such a miracle they should attempt the Life of a Heretick To wade through Bloud to an uncertain liberty which they already sufficiently enjoy'd not so sufficiently neither they wanted their Abby-Lands their Priests lay under the Lash of the penal Laws and what they enjoyed was onely by stealth To free themselves from which Bondage they thought themselves cocksure of one stroke that would have done their business And for wading in the Bloud of Hereticks 't is as natural to a Papist as bathing in a cool stream in Summer Witness the Massacres of France and Ireland the Monuments of their Cruelty all over Germany Piedmont Q. Maries Persecutions and the implacable and merciless cruelty of their Spanish Inquisitior But then to overthrow the Government for the Re-establishment of which they so frankly in the late Wars expos'd their Lives and Fortunes This is a fair Story but a false one For if there were any that expos'd their Lives and Fortunes in the late Wars they did it meerly for their own ends for preservation and protection as less fearing their Episcopal then their Puritan Enemies Neither will the Author of Vindiciae Caroli Regis who had not a little reason to examin the Popish Loyalty of that Time allow it to be otherwise nay he positively asserts it for the true reason But they were so far from exposing their Lives and Fortunes for the Government that they as well fought against it in the Field insomuch that Salmonet a Popish Priest affirms in his History of the Troubles of England that several Popish Priests were found dead among the slain at Edghill and besides that several Roman Catholicks serv'd in the Parliament Army And in one of his late Majestie 's Declarations in answer to the Long Parlaments false imputation of his favouring and employing Roman Catholicks in his Army we find these words All men know the great number of Papists which serve in their Army Commanders and others So your boasting the Papists so frankly exposing their Lives and Fortunes for the late King is a meer Rodomontado and the contrary is justified by the King himself nay it is plain by His own words in the same Declaration that he forbad them to come to his Succour And therefore let Mr. Impartial not think to flatter the Nation with such an officious lye under the pretence of a moral Improbability For 't is the Roman Catholick Interest in this Nation that Interest which they can never recede from not onely to abrogate the penal Laws and to become capable of employment in the Commonwealth but to introduce their Religion restore the Rights of their Church and extirpate all that they esteem as Hereticks They that fondly otherwise believe do but accelerate the ruine of their Religion and their Country If there were any that did well to assist their Prince then they did as ill now to Conspire his Destruction Neither is it any reason because there may be some Papists good Subjects that others may not be as wicked Which may in part suffice to answer his next wonder For we have nothing else but wonders and miracles deliver'd for Arguments Wonders that any man of sense would wonder how they should be wonder'd at but onely wonder-working Mr. Impartial As for Example This Plot saith He must be carried on by Persons of Quality most remarkable perhaps for firmness and Loyalty that perhaps was well put in and now through Age and Infirmities retired from publick business and weary of the world that is in English Impeached of High Treason and locked up in the Tower Now I would fain know where the wonder lies that a Plot should be carried on by Persons of Quality Persons of Quality are most apt to think themselves injur'd Persons of Quality are most subject to revenge and Persons of Quality are most able to head Parties and Factions in a Nation Nay rather let Mr. Imparial tell me whereever any Plot was carried on without Persons of Quality The very Plots of Simnel and Perkin Warbeck were carried on by Persons of Quality against Henry the 7th There were more persons of Quality in Bycons Conspiracy than Henry the 4th would venture to provoke by a present detection What was the Holy League while it was private but a Plot carried on by the Pope himself a person certainly of very great Quality against Henry the 3d. And why might not their Popish Plot be managed by Persons of Quality as well as other Popish Plots And if so why not by the persons of Quality accused rather than others not accused The Wonder is how those persons of Quality have escaped their punishments so long as they have done That 's a Wonder makes more people wonder than will ever admire at Mr. Impartial's silly simple miracles of Persons of Quality being in a Plot. But then here 's another Wonder That the whole Body of Roman Catholicks Men before this hour of known worth virtue and integrity and unblemished Reputation must be all involv'd by Vows and Sacraments in a Design so black and execrable that God and nature abhor to think of it Setting a side your Complement to God and Nature for God we verily believe is displeased with and nature abhors many foul deeds which the Papists neither abhor nor are displeased with the rest of your Wonder is a meer Hyperbolical Fallacy as groundless as vanity it self For the Body of the Roman Catholicks that is those persons which Mr. Impartial for his Feo calls persons of known worth virtue integrity and unblemished Reputation are the very persons most likely to be combin'd together in this Design which he has leave from his Employers to call black and execrable for such is the nature of Popish Bigottism such the infatuated heat of its professors such the awe and dread of their consciences under the charms of their Priesthood so pinching and terrible are the Chains of their Oath such their inbred enmity to Hereticks that the more conscientious and devout they are they more religiously they believe themselves bound to conceal what ever designs are on foot for the propagation of the Romish Interest and the extirpation of Hereticks so that if Mr. Impartial mean by the whole Body of the Roman Catholicks those persons whom he calls men of worth virtue integrity and uublemished Reputation that is such as the Grand Conspirators thought fit to trust with their Intreague 't is but very weakly supposed that such persons should think it any loss of those high Characters which Mr. Impartial gives them to conceal a design so highly to the advantage of the See of Rome The whole Body Mr.

had any of the Lords in the Tower that they might not trust Dangerfield under the same Sacred Obligation Or what reach above common Women had that busie Lustful Cellier she that was your Jayle-raker Sir and not ours I say what sublimity of Judgment had she that she might not trust her so highly gratify'd Favourite If they were not fit to be trusted why had they those Oaths of Secresie given them why were they treated so often with those Holy Morsels at your Chappels But if those Religious Tyes were put upon them as most certainly they were what wonder is it then they should be trusted Certainly were they those Rakeshames that the Worshipful Mr. Impartial makes of 'em Solemn Oaths of Secresie and the Eucharist go at a cheap rate among the Papists that they should be so often forc'd upon the Whip'd and the Pillory'd and the Infamous meerly to be sent to buy Mapps for a Jesuites Colledge or to pick up a Broken Merchants Debts So then it remains that these persons that could not be other than Demy-Saints when they were Papists as having so much holy Wafer lodg'd in their Bodies are only turn'd Reprobates since they made their discoveries Which being so plain it is not to be question'd but that they had opportunities enough to make their discoveries according to their various Trusts and Employments as being Persons of Quality sacredly bound up by so many holy Obligations as they then believ'd they were Since then it was impossible that among Papists they could be Miscreants after so much Purification and Sanctification tho without the Kings Pardon we will make no dispute to justifie their Honesty their Integrity and their Loyalty now they have obtain'd the Kings Forgiveness For the Papists are to understand that the King of England's Pardon is of greater efficacy to cleanse a man from his offences than if he should bath in a Tub of Holy Water every day i' the Year and then receive Absolution from ten thousand Lubberly Priests Being then made good men by the high Prerogative of the Kings Mercy tho Fools and Knaves still take the boldness to defame them they are Witnesses legal every way justifiable and not to be disputed against by any good or loyal Subject of the King And since they have sworn to a Plot wherein they were Actors themselves design'd to the destruction of the King and Kingdom the Nation is bound to believe 'em notwithstanding all the frivolous clamour of the Lord Staffords Memoirs From these and other the like Grounds the Protestants do infer That there is no credit to be given to the bare Suppositions of a Memoir-monger scribling at such a wild and incoherent rate and so scandalous to the King and the whole Government And they further appeal to the Judgment of every impartial conscientious man whether it be not more likely that the Papists a People generally of debauch'd and murderous Principles that bear no Consciences towards Hereticks persecuted by Penal Laws allur'd by the recovery of their Abby-Lands encourag'd and supported by great Interest in the Kingdom should be induc'd out of their hatred of the Protestant Religion and for the advancement of their own which is the Popish Interest to remove the Obstacles of their Happiness by the destruction of a Heretick Prince and all his most Loyal Subjects then that a few inconsiderable persons without any support or encouragement should dare to create such a bloudy and horrid Plot of their own heads and then venture their lives by daring to justifie such a Plot to the face of King Lords and Commons of England had it bin true that so many Noble Prudent Loyal and Virtuous Persons as Mr. Impartial calls 'em were not really concern'd in it No no Mr. Impartial had not this horrid bloudy tho as you call it absurd and morally impossible Plot bin true really morally unquestionably true your Employers who have spent so many Thousand Pounds besides the plodding designing contriving labour of Great and Politick Headpieces to subdue this Plot and yet for their souls cannot do it would soon have trip'd up the Heels of three or four debauch'd wretches of lost Consciences and desperate Fortunes In the next place he comes to Coleman's Letters tho he make but a short stay upon 'em as finding 'em too hot for his Fingers He is forc'd to bring forth a Confession but disliking the Countenance of his Brat he endeavours to murder it again with a piece of sordid Sophistry so palpable and notorious that any one but an Impartial Papist would be asham'd of it He confesses That those Letters manifestly denote the busie designes and activity of the Writers yet so far from confirming Dr. Oates Plot that they directly evince the contrary As how For the whole subject and context of those Letters bear a plain and open face of what the Authors intended And did not the Tryals and Convictions of the Jesuites and the Lord Stafford himself bear an open face of what the Authors intended Was not Coleman seen at the Grand Consult at Wild House at L●nghorn's Chamber with Harcors and White-bread and others all Members of Dr. Oate's Plot ordering money to the Assassinates and giving money to the Messenger and did not this beat an open face of what he intended and if what he then what the rest of his Correspondents No for the Writers were persons who had there been a Plot were the most likely to have been the main Engines and Contrivers of it Whither the main or no is not material but 't is plain they all did lend their helping hands and heads to it No says Mr. Impartial again for we do not find one single syllable in them from whence 〈◊〉 be gathered any such design Look you Mr. Impartiall you well know that the 〈◊〉 discovered by Dr. Otes was for the destruction of the King and subversion of his Government Now then pray what mean these passages in Coleman's Letters We have here a mighty Work upon our hands no less than the Conversion of Three Kingdome and by that perhaps the subduing of a Pestilent Heresie which has domineerd over a great part of the Northern World a long time there were never such hopes of success since the death of Queen Mary as now in our days but the opposition we are like to meet with is also like to be great so that it imports Us to get all the Aid and Assictance We can Again Your Friends the Emperour and the Pope will have a fair occasion of giving marks of their Friendship to Mr. to make the great Design succeed to undermine the Intreagues of the Merchants who Trade for the Parliament and the Religion and to Establish that of the Associated Catholicks in every Place Here is Pope and Emperour which confirms what Dr. Oats swore as to Emissaries being sent into Germany Here is designs and associated Catholicks which denotes that the Plot was general Then there was 100000 Crowns promised by the Pope