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ME MO IRES.
Here is nothing Which of late hath been more furprizirtg
than the confideration of the wonderful Induftry which
a fort of Deluded People, for lo in charity I would di-
jftinguifh fome of them, from others who aCt out of
Malice, Intereft, and Revenge, and what pains they
have taken to make themlelves and all others unealy;
and to lee this toillome and laborious Diligence, ine¬
vitably and in its natural and moft rational conlequertces, tending to the
pulling down upon their own heads the united vengeance of Heaven and
Earth, the feverity of Humane Laws, which by provoking, they daily
exalperate to ule the utmoft rigor, and the more terrible and inexorable
punifhments of Hell and Damnation, as certainly the portion of thole
who refill the Higher Powers as that there is a God , and that the
Scriptures are lo true, that Heaven and Earth (hall , but not one
fingle lota of thole dreadful Comminations pafs unfulfilled. This confide¬
ration, as it increafes my alfonilhment, lo it moves my compaffion; nor
is the Compaffion I have for the Difenters from the Governmental England,
for luch indeed are all thole who are commonly called from the
Church, and eo Nomine punilhed by the Laws of the Civil Government,
the Peace of which they dillurb and endanger, only a bare fity, which
looks no farther then a few tender Exprellions, foor Creatures or God
help them! or luch like; but I have long had in my thoughts to do fome-
thing that might tend to their real advantage, ana lecure them from the
dangerous Precipice of Ruin here, and Damnation hereafter, upon which
they leem to Hand.
It is the misfortune of thele People, to have the blind lead the blind,
their pretended Guides blinded with Rage, and the fear of lofing their
Shrine-making, which brings them in their Gains, will not let them fees
their danger, but exhort them to obllinacy againft the Laws and Govern¬
ment, under the colour of Conllancy and luffering Perlecution for Reli¬
gion , when there is not the leaft foundation of truth in it; and they
wildly buoy them up with expectations of lome miraculous deliverance
from Heaven, while in the mean time, they endeavour to draw all their
hopes of afliftance from Hell; and fupport them in their obftinacy a-
gainftthe Laws, and their Lawful Governours, by the expectation of a
revolution in the Government it lelf, which they have and do with
their utmoft art and induftry endeavour to undermine and overthrow.
The luccelslels attempts they have of late made againft it, would if
they would fit down and beftow a few moments cool Reflection, be fuf-
ficient to convince them, that they are not at all either the Care or the
Favourites of Heaven ; and I am perlwaded, that would they but lee how
like Pharaoh and his Chariots, and his Horfe-men, and all his Hoft, they
have purfued the Church into the midft of the Sea, and that the Waves
As , have
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liave begun to return towards their ftrength, that the Wheels of their
Chariots have been lo often taken off, and have driven lb heavily , they
would be obliged to lay with the Egyptians, Let us fly from the face of the
Englifh Ifraei, for God fghteth for thern againfl the Egyptian ; and
I wilh they do not by their obftinacy drive the Allegory too far, and re¬
pent when it is too late.
Among all the variety of thoughts upon which I might fix, in order to
do this milerable and miftaken People a real kindnels, I could not think of
any more proper, than the expofing to their view one of the great occa-
fions of their Delufion, the late E. ot , the dileales of whole
Mind lay in a great meafure concealed from their eyes lo long as he lived,
as many titties thole of the Body do to the moft learned Ions of ,
till the death of their Patients, does by diffetfion of their bodies give
latisfaCfion to their doubts and curiofity ; and not only lo,- but may be
of advantage too to the living, by fhewing the true caufes of lome efte&s,
which were before wholly unknown, and therefore incurable: And truly
this is the principal realon of this Anatomy LeCture upon the Life and
Death of that Noble Peer. And if we find in his Character, that his
Religion was always calculated for the Latitude of his Interefls and De-
figns, that he could therefore certainly have Hone, who could be occafio-
nally contented with any ; that he could under ah Ulbrper countenance
and promote the trarttpling down of the Laws and Liberties of the En¬
glifh Nation, and therefore could not by inward Principles be an Enemy
either to Popery or Arbitrary Government; it may be a means to unde¬
ceive fuch as have beeil feduced by his Speeches and Profefiions, to be¬
lieve him lo great a Pillar of the Proteftant Religion, and fo Itrong a
Baftion againfl: Arbitrary Government; and not only lb, but may teach
them for the future, to give no credit to, any liich, who hereafter by a
State Metempfychofis, fhall leem to have received the Soul of Shaftshury by
tranlmigration, arid lhall with the lame principles and pretences ftand
in opposition to the eftablifhed Government, and thereby endeavour to
maintain their Ground, and lecure their own heads from punifhment,
by courting and animating a Popular Faftion to oppole the Govern¬
ment, which in all humane probability muft end in the ruin andconfu-
fion of thofe refractory and obftinate oppolers of the Peace and Happi-
nels of the Nation. I know it will look like a cowardly and ungenerous
infolence, to tread hard upon the fame of the Dead, and if it contradicts
the old Proverb, De mortuis nil nifl bo, to Ipeak > of the Dead, I
muft lay this by way of Anticipation to that Objection, that the dead
mult firft have deferved to be well fpoken of; and that the intention of this
Paper was never level'd at lo low a mark as to trample upon the Fame
of his Lordlhip, but to prevent the mifchiefs which yet he may do even af¬
ter his death, if the world lhall Itill be permitted to go on in the belief
that his Lordfhip was all that which he pretended to be; and others who
fhall ftep up into the place of this head of the Hydra, which Providence
hath newly cut off, lhall be alio luppoled to fucceed him in thole imagi¬
nary Qualifications and Excellencies of Zeal for his Country and the Pro¬
teftant Religion, which this Paper undertakes to demonftrate he was as
far from, as Catiline, or Sejanus, or their far lurpafling Oliver, ever were
from being Friends to their Country, the Liberty, Peace and Happinefs of
the People who had the misfortune to be under the power of their Ty¬
ranny. •
This
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This Noble Peerwwas born in the County of to a competent
good fortune, but with a fpirit which very early fhewed he was of a tur¬
bulent, reftlefs and changeable Temper, rather fubtile than Politick, and
malicious than Wile ; and to contribute to this unletled humour, efpeci-
ally in Religion, he was committed in his Minority to the tuition of one
Mr. Strong, a Nonconformift Minifter, whom afterwards, ingratitude,
he got preferred for his Excellent Talent in haranguing the People a-
gainft the King and the effablilhed Government both in Church and
.State, to be placed at St. Margarets in as I doubt not but
diverfe ftill living there can remember : From this Minifter he received
thole early prejudicesagainft Epi/copacy, which ftuckby. him tohislaft;
and it may be, the wanting of a good Foundation of that Apoftolical and
Primitive Chriftianity taught and maintained in the Church of ,
did not only prejudice him againft that conftitution and form of Govern¬
ment, but gave him, as it hath done thoufands betides, thole ldole and
rolling lands of opinion, which makes them fhift their Religion with e-
Very tide of alteration in matters of State.
Sir Ahtbony Ajhley Cooper,for filch was then his Title, was very young
at the breaking out of the late Horrid Rebellion railed by the Fa6f ion of
Dtjftnting Proteftants, which were united in one common intereft (the
only way that I know of Uniting Dilfenters) againft the King and the e-
ftablifhed Church and Government; and in the beginning of the Civil
War, he was Captain of a Troop of Horlein the Royal Party, though
there do not remain upon Record any great Monuments of his Chivalry;
but the Kings affairs beginning, after many fharp conflifts with the Re¬
bels, to be in lome dilorder, the young Knight Errant, who was relblved
that Vi&ory Ihould be his Mi^refs, upon what party fosver fhe bellows
her fmiles, quickly turned Apoftate, and at the fame time,with his Troop,
quitted his Loyalty and the Kings Service.
The young Delerter, who now began to let up for aPolititian, was a
very welcome man among the Traitors, for this fealbnable Trealon 5 and
it was not long before he got into the Commons Houfe, where he met
with notable Tutors in Antimonarchical, Rebellious, and Seditious Po¬
liticks; and his natural Talents lying that way, he quickly grew a Profi¬
cient in all the Arts of traducing the King, his Mrnifters and Government,
and haranguing the Nation out of all the little remainders of Loyalty, by
frighting them with the Dangers and Fears of Popery and Arbitrary Go¬
vernment ; with which as they had firft excited the People of the feve-
ral Seels and Schifrns,Presbyterians, Independents, Anabapti/ls, Brorvnijlsfoc.
to rebel, lo they animated them to perfift dclperately in that unnatural
War, by telling them, that fhould the Royal Party prevail, Pope¬
ry and Arbitrary Power would inevitably [wallow up By thele Arts they
prevailed to that degree, that the whole World was a witnefsof the
infamous Tragtdy, which was affed upon the Perfon of the molt Excel¬
lent Prince King C HA R LES the Firft.
But it happening that the Traitors who had been fo long as
the King had either Intereft, Power or Life, which they could fear, when
by taking away his, they thought they had fecured their own lives, af¬
ter having divided the Kings and Church-Lands, and the fpoil of the
whole Nation, among themlelves, this Vnion came to be diffolved; and
the Indtpendents having fupplanted the Presbyterians in the Army, the
Army were relblved todilfolve the Parliament, and Rule by the power of
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the Sword : And here our little Polititian again turns Renegado to the Par¬
liaments before he had done to theKing; and judging that Oliver was now
like to be the Supream Governour of the Nation, he immediately ftrikes in -
with his Intereft,and contributes his utmoft endeavours to make him Lord
Prote&orof the three Kingdoms; and that he might rivet himfelf the
clofer into the favour of the Ufurper, he was very follicitous to marry
Cromwell*s Daughter, that fo though he could not have thafconor himfelf,
hisPofterity liowever might come to be Princes of the Blood; But though
he was not very fuccefsful in his Amours, yet he was in his Politicks
ftill, for he got to be of the Protectors Council of State, where, to the Book,
his Hand, A. A. Cooper, may be feen to a tboufend of the molt Arbitrary,
Illegal, and Tyrannical Orders, for the raifing of Money of
Parliament, and for imprifoning the Subje£t§ contrary to Magna Chart a, and
the fe> much Magnified Petition of Right: Nay his little Honor, for he
was not yet a Peer, was alfo then a violent Perfecutor of the People of
the Lord, following the example of , and the thriving Religion,
who filled the [ails with Quakers, notwithftanding they were very good
Protejlant Dijjenters, and many of them had been helpful to him, in Cur-
fing Meroz, and fighting the Lords Battels againjl the Mighty.
The difappointment however of the honour of being the Prote&ors
Son-in-Law, did not a little fhock the Ambition of Sir and ha¬
ving a moft admirable faculty of never forgiving any perfon, or to [peak
in his own Language, having ever the good fortune to be revenged upon
thofe who did him any injury, though for the prefent he put it in his
Pocket, yet it was but as he did his Book of Memoires, to be ready upon
occalion to return it with a vengeance ; arid therefore the feme whirlwind
that hurried away Oliver, infpired the Triple-named Knight with refblu-
tionstoquit [cores with that trifle of a Proteftoret Richard, for the fins
of his Father Oliver, in refufing him his alliance: So foon therefore as he
few Queen Dick begin to totter in the Coach-box of Government, he was
relblved to have one whip or two at the pamper'd Jades in the Harnefs,
not doubting but to break the neck of the Charriotcer, although his Fa¬
ther had the fortune to efeape the danger of the Horfes prefented to him
by the German Prince jn Hyde-Park; he got in therefore with the Rump,
who voted down Richard1 s highnels into plain Dick Cromwell again; and
in all thofe feveral turns, where the Government was made a meer Foot¬
ball, and now the Rump run away with it, then the Committee of Safety
got a kick at it, fomctimes Wallingford-Houfe had it at their foot, fome-
times Lambert and his Levellers, Sir Anthony ftill was at the Goal of the
Winning Party, ever giving thofe whole heels were laft tript up the
Go-by; as true to his Principles as the reeling Needle in a Storm is to its
beloved North, which though it be twirled about the 3 2 points of the
Compafs, yet at laft fettles and points to its kind Star : So did our Knight,
who was always relblved to be fomebody, and to feil by the Star of his
own Intereft, let the wind blow from what quarter of the World it plea-
icd.
The Nation grown weary of this tumbling and tolling of the Go¬
vernment from one hand to another of the Fathom true Protejlant Rebels,
begun after the dear bought Experience of being feduced, at the rate of ft>
many Millions of Treafureand whole Seas of Chriftian blood, to grow
weary of the pretended Reformation and Reformers, of the ftanding Ar¬
mies, Major Generals, Free Quarter, and Endlefs Taxations, with which
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• they were oppreffed, to defend that Freedome and Liberty which they
found was in reality a moft intolerable flavery ; and now it was evident
that Ship-money and all the Monopolies , were but as a little finger of
the Kings compared to the Loins or Rump of a Parliament, and there
ieemed to be Inch an liniverfal Wtjbthroughout the three Nations, for
the Reftau ration of the King, our now Gracious Soveraign, that wife Men
every where now began to fee it muft be fo ; the beft moft ardently
hoping it, and the worft who feared it, ftruck with fiich apannickfear
and horror that they durft not oppofe it; and General who with
the firft perceived the Motion of the Angel in this Troubled Pool, wasre-
folved to help the Cripled Kingdoms into the Water, that they might be
healed. And here our Politician made a moft meritorious virtue of Ne-
ceffity, as many others of the Fa&iondid, who glory much of their
ing to reftore his Majefty, when in truth, they law if they did not, it
would he done without their help. Sir Anthony finding the wind ifefbing
up thus ftrongly for the Coaft of Loyalty, brought all his Tacks ahoarcg
and ftood in with Monk with all the Sail he could make, to bring in the
King, cunningly forefeeing that this would bring him into Reputation and
Play again under Monarchy, as he had before been again ft it ; but for a
parting blow however, he was one of thofe who thought to have broken
MonPs neck, and thereby have made their own Game, by impofing up-
. on him that Arbitrary Order and the great eft ajftont that was ever done to
the City of London, by pulling down their Gates, Pofts and Chains, and
inarching his whole Army into the City. Thefe were then no Crimes
with Sir A. A. Cooper, no Violations of the City Charter; though lately
the marching of the Royal Guards through it, and the Guards them-
felves, have by him and his Party been thought and called a thou-
fand Standing Armies and Illegal, Arbitr, Mercenary Popifb , and
motions made not to permit any of them to march through the City of
London.
Well, in comes the King, and (with his Auguft and Sacred Perfon and
Government) Law, Liberty and the beft Reformed Government and Re¬
ligion in the World, Peace and Plenty Crown the Land, Joy and Glad-
nefs fmiles in every Face, nay the greateft of his own and his Fathers
Enemies, the infamous Regicides only excepted, drink Brimmers of the
Royal Bounty, all are pardoned, many preferred to places of Honor, Truft
and Reputation : And if you will but draw the Curtain, you fhall fee Sir
Anthony fitting as a Judge at the Old Bayley, helping to Hang Draw and
Quarter his Quondam Mafters, whole treafonous Commands he had for¬
merly obeyed, but had the good luck to keep his hand from Brad/ham Ink,
So true it is, IlleCrucem fcelerispretium tulit hie Diadema ; For not long af¬
ter thofe notorious Villains delervedly got their Necks incircled with a
Halter, Sir Anthony got his Temples impaled with a Coronet, being advan¬
ced to the honour of a Baron of England, and Chancellor of the Fx che¬
quer ; and indeed running fo very hard up the hill of his own Ambition,
which was to be the Premiere Minifter of State, very many who then
obferved it, made prefages of what hath fince fallen out.
Not long after, happened the difference between his Majefty and the
States of the United Netherlands; and as the Noble and never enough La¬
mented Earl of Oftpry told him, (upon occafton of his reflecting upon his
Grace the Duke of Or mo/A, in the Houfe of Lords, to which he was able
to make no Reply) his little Lordfhip advifed t he {butting up of the Cheaper,
to
breaking the 7 tv^/e League, feiving the Dutch Smyrna Fleet, and feveral other
things, which fince his Lordfhip and his Faftion have fb often charged as
mifcarriages upon his Majeftics Government; and being now advanced
to be Lord Chancellor of England, fb fbllicitous was his Lordfhip for
the Proteftant Religion and Intereft, that he made that famous Speech
of Dtltnda eft Carthago, animating the great Council of the Nation
the Parliament, to profecute the War againit the Dutch, though DilTent-
ing Proteftants, with the lame animolity, as Cato did the Romans, to
the utter fubverlion of the Pagan Carthaginians, to level the proud and Re¬
bellious City of Amfterdam, after the example of that City,
which contefted with Rome for the Empire of the Univerfe.
And here you fee his Lordfhip upon the top of the Hill ; but it was not
long before he fell into the difpleafure of the Commons, who for fome
Councels of his, tending as they Laid to the breach of their Priviledges,
were framing Articles againft him ; of which by his Efpials being adver
tized, he immediately makes a fhort turn, and ftrikes in with thofe of
the Commons Houfe, who then called themfelves the Country , a-
gainft the Court Party,as they were invidioufly diftinguilhed, and having
the Purfe, Seal and Mace taken from him, which before hung in his eyes
that he could fee no fuch matter, thofe beams were no fboner removed,
but he pretended to fee Popery and Arbitrary Government as plainly com¬
ing in upon the Nation, as in a clear day a man may fee Sands from
• Dover Cliff.
The. whole Nation being in a violent agitation upon the Diffolution of
the Long Parliament and the breaking out of a Popifh Plot, his Lordfhip
who was admirable at the fport of fiihing in troubled Waters, was now
got into his own Element, and refblved at once to be revenged of all his
Enemies,and who but he to be the head of the United Fabtion of Dilfenters
throughout the Natiojj^Jby way of eminence, he had the Title of the
tejlant Peer, as if all Others who did not come under his protection had
been Papifts. All the Applications of the Party, all Informations, all
Counfels and Cabals were at Lhantt-Houf; there the Proteftant Joyner
Colledg, and fourteen of the Jury who brought in the Bill againft him Igno¬
ramus, who were of his Lordfhips Neighbourhood, the Anabaptift Book-
fellers Smith and Harris, Jack Starkey, 8cc. the Libellers of the Govern¬
ment, Care, Fergufon, &cc. found warm Entertainment; there was the
conftant Rendezvous of the Basket-hilted old Olivarian Officers, who
had loft their Crown and Church-Lands, there all thofe mifchiefs were
contrived which have given the Government and Nation fb much trou--
ble ; thither the Green Ribbon Club and their Foreman Sir /LP. ufed
to repair conftantly to take their Meafiires for what was to be done in the
Commons Houfe, there the famous Pill of Exclusion was hatched, which
was to invade the Prerogative of God Almighty, as well as the Kings;
from thence came the Seditious Addrelfes and Petitions of the Furious
Diffenters, infblently to teach their Reprefentatives to demand the Militia
of the King, to exhort him to part with his Councellors; fothey
called, as they did his Fathers, the Lo , Friends to the Crown
and Church ; promifing to affift them in their demands with their Lives
and Fortunes, and above all not to fnpply the Kjng with a Penny of Money
but upon thofe Conditions, though at the fame time, theNation was con¬
ftantly alarm'd with the formidable power, and dangerous greatnefs and
defigns of the French King upon us. From thence came the Invention of
ftealing
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Healing the Sword from the Kings Scabbard, by putting on fuch Sheriffs
as Bethel, who as it is averred under the Town Seal of , offered
his fervice to be the late Kings Executioner, and fuch Sheriffs, returning
fuch true Proteftant Juries, as would crack Oaths as faff as a Squirrildoes
Nuts, as Wilmorts, &c. who could return Ignoramus upon a Bill of Indict¬
ment of High Treafon though fworn by a thoufand legal Witneffes: There
was found the Traiterous Affociation, which was to overturn the Foun¬
dation of the old EnglijbGovernment, and deftroy not only Monarchy,
but the very Effence and Conflitution of Parliaments, veiling the Govern¬
ment in the hands of fuch Perfons, as fhould take that damnable Oath.
It were endlefs to recount all the Speeches of this Noble Peer, made in
the Houfe of Lords, not to truft the King, or to give him Money, &c. or
the whole fhoals of Lewd and Seditious Pamphlets, Letters to ,
Appeals to the City,Dialogues between Tutors and , which were Written,
Printed and Difperfed by his DireClion and Approbation; every Coffee
houfe, every Town, City, and corner of the Land is full of thefe trea-
lonous and difloyal Papers; and the late abominable Pamphlet of the/e-
<rondpart of the Growth of Popery, a Libel that has more Lies than Lines in
it, as it is confidently reported came as a parting blow from his
enfis, ffergulon.
And they who faw his Lordfhip^march with his Armed Guards to the
Parliament at Ox on,will without difficulty believe, that the Defign of
feizing his Majelties Perfbn there was hatched in Alderfgate-ftreet, and
though, not with Handing the legal Trial of Colledg, and his ConviClion for
that Treafon, 'tis endeavoured to ridicule that matter, yet I doubt not but.
a little time will make turther clear difcoveries of it to the world.
But now we mufl think of bringing his Lordfhip to his Journeys end,
for after all his endeavours,and thofe of his FaCtion, to fubvert the Govern¬
ment, had proved infuccefsful, and even his Iriflj Evidences , whom he
drew over to accufehis Grace the Duke of Ormond, "proving himfelf not
only guilty of Subornation, but of Plotting againfl tfte Government, and
the Tide of Loyalty turning very fwift upon him, beyond his forefight of
expectation, his Lordfhip durft not truft to the innocence of his ACtions,
or abide the Legal Trial of his Peers; but thinking Heels the beft fecu-
rity for his Head, he refolves to fly for the fame, in hopes that the Treafon
which he had tap'd and left abroach at parting, might work fo effectu¬
ally as yet to give him the hopes of another fqueek at leali for his Life;
and whether fhould his Lordfhip retreat but to that Carthago of Amfterdam,
which, had his advice been followed with fuccefs, had not been capable of
fecuring his Lordfhip : But his Lordfhip found but very cold entertain¬
ment there, for the Delenda eft Carthago, which was by publick Order of
the States General entred upon their Books of Journals, came frefh into
their Memories, fo that he was neither Complemented upon his arrival,
nor any notice taken of him by either the Magiflrates or Miniflers of
the Eftabliftjt Church there; nor indeed by any other fort of People than
a few pitiful Brownifts, the defpifed Diflenters of Holland, fuch perfons
being his Companions, as had either fled from Jufliee like himfelf, or
were the Sons of Traitors, and perfons difafteCted to the Perfbn of his
Majefly and his Government, fuch as Mr. , Mr. r. Venner,
Mr. Medlay, Aid. Freeman Ifrael Hayes, Hayeses Son, Thomas Garret; and
John S'arkey, who for printing divers feditious and treafonable Pamphlets*
wasTorced to leave the Mitre, and hang upon his Lordfhip for fubfiftance,
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but gave Hirii little Reputation among the fober and decerning Protefmts
of that Countrey, as will appear by a Letter from thence, to a worthy
Cifizeli of London, and a Speech made to the Lords the Burge-Majlers by
the late Englijh Conful, which I (hall here prefent the Reader with.
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My Lords the Burge-Mafters,
I Am come to take my leave ofyour Lordjhips,and to let you, the KJng
of Great Britain my Majler bath thought ft to me of any fur¬
ther attendance in this City,in the quality of Conful of the Englifh , his
Majefly being gratioufy p leafed to honour Mr. Henry Bull , with a
Commifjion to be Conful in my place.
And now my Lords, I am come to give your Lordjhips thanks for the many fa¬
vours and civilites I have received during in your City, as freeing
me from paying thofe Taxes and Duties your Burgers pay.
My Lords, give me leave to a (jure your Lordjhips, that during my living in
your City, I have fudied all ways and means that might render mi acceptable to
the Magift rates and Government of our , and fo far as lay in my power have
endeavoured to facilitate the preferving a right and amicable under (landing be¬
tween fuch as deferved the Char after of Loyal Subjects to the Kjng my Majler,
and the Burgers of this City ; and my Lalthough I am called to other *
ployments, yet wherever I am, or in what condition foever, I jhallnot ungratefully
forget the Obligations I have received from your Lordjhips, but confiantly with
and pray for the welfare and prof per ity of your City, and do everything in my
power that may add to, or preferve the now alliances between my Maflers
and Tours. . •
My Lords, I have but one word more to fay, and that is, that as I have now
made my fmcere profejjion of Friendjhip and Service to your Government and
City,fo I mufl beg leave to Caution your Lordjhips in one particular j I know your
Lordjhips are wife in a high degree, and need no mans Advice or Caution, but as
I look upon it as a Duty incumbent upon me to the Kjng my Mafter, and the true
rej'pefts I have for your Lordjhips, I cannot but take notice of feme reports I meet
with in your City, which are, that feveral bad men, obnoxious to the Kin? my
Mafter,and his Government; nay fuch as have been fo impudently bold as to Print
and Publijh Treafonable and Seditious Libels againft the Honour and Dignity '
of the Kjng Majler and his Government,and the Honour of his Loyal
]\ Unifiers of State,fuch whofte fpirits are fo turbulent, and Phanatically Seditious
that they are not con fen ted to aft mifchiefs again (I their own Prince and his Gc-
vernment efablijhedby Law, but have wijhtd the worfi of Evils to their
tejlant Neighbours and their Government,as may be fern by that uncharitable
Speech Delenda CarthagoNow my Lords, I fay if fuch bad men as thefe
jjj all fly hither , and be prdtefted, and made Burgers of your City, it may as I
humbly conceive, in time do prejudice to thefair under funding and friendly al-
Hemes now had between the Kjng my Mafter and the States General, which may
reach this City, the Confequences of which, I leave to your Lordjhips wife and
grave Conftdtrations.
The Letter I mentioned before was to thiseffeft.
Sir,
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\JOur Letter of the i 5th of Jan. I a ft, in which you fent me a brief Cha-
I rafter of the Earl ofShaftsbury, SirVJ. Waller, and Mr. fergufbn,
came not to my hands until the very day that the Earl of Shaftsbury died; yet I
have made ufe of it, by giving Copies of it to feme of our Magiflrates, and al-
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fo to fame, of the PreachingMinijlers of our who his Lord*
fhip to be -fuels a fort of Chrifianas you have are very (fad
that Providence hath eafed them of fo ill a Grief as he might have proved to be
to their Government, fearing that his bad Principles might in time have poy-
foned the giddy Mobile of Amfterdam, as he had done in England ; I hope
his death will difperfe the fmall Inconfid.trable Party he had with him in our City.
When his Lordfhip frjl came to Amfterdam,Agents Mr. Perguion.Mr.Ifrael
Hayes and others, endeavoured to perfwade us, that there were fever al Noble¬
men, and above 200 Rich Merchants of London, that were all dtfigned to quit
England, and if poffible get tkemjelves made Burgers of our City ; all which
proves veryfalfe, for I find that thefegreat numbersof Rich Noblemen and Mer¬
chants, are fum'd up in a Bankrupt if night, a fcandalous Scotch Independent
Parfon, formerly Teacher of the Browni^.-Church in Amfterdam, and about
two or three miferable poor Printers and Bockfellers, who now the Earl is dead
muf either live upon the Poors Box of the Browni or elfe with
Ropes about their Necks, beg their Pardons of the merer fullejl of Princes : And
here give me leave to remark fomethingyou mention in yours to me, and that was
where you fay, that certainly, the turbulent reftlefs foul of the Lord Shafts-
bury, could not long fubfift, and live amongft fuch a Rafcality of People
as his Lordfhip had to converle with, the which I underftand was one great
caufe that hafiened his Death; for I am informed, that when he found that the
Magi fir at es and Minijlers of Amfterdam did not vrfit and court him, as was.
promifedhis Lordfhip by the Englifh Phanaticks at Amfterdam, efpeer ally be¬
ing refufed to be made an Upper Burger, as they term it here, and his Lord¬
fhip receiving rather a difcouragement from the Magiflrates than otherwife, I
fay this was it which fetmed to jhortenhis days, and fo he died miferably in a
Broken Coffee-mans Houfe, one of the Elders of the Brownift'r Church. I will
fay no more, but wifh that all the Enemies of your Kjng, this State, and the
Prince of Orange, may make no honour abler an Exit than this once Great Peer
of England hath done.
Yours to Command,
By this time you lee in what Reputation our Noble Peer was like to
have ftood in Holland, as well as in England ; and that we may commit him
to his long repofe, for his Religion, he was as good a Proteftant, as any one
can be fupofed to be, who could atheiftically call the New Teflament the
New Cheat; his Fortitude was evident as well as his Loyalty, by the Cou¬
rage he had to oppofe a moft potent Monarch, and his Natural Liege Lord;
Mother to whom in his fplendor, with the Purfe, Sea! and Mace, he
made a publick vifit,fhall depole for the fevere virtue of his Chafiity; and his
timely flying from Juftice, and opportunely dying, will demonftrate his
Conduct and Prudence ; the Exiles who will want it, (hallatteft his Charity ;
the Diflenters upon whom he hath, by animating them againft the Go¬
vernment , intailed the leverity of the Laws, and left them fluttering in
the Net which he had elcaped, will ftand obliged to him for their fuf-
ferings \\ and I hope the King and the whole Nation whom he hath in¬
formed of the Temper of men of his Principles, Defigns and FaSfion,
will havereafbn to thank him for their we Settlement and Eftablifh-
ment againft the Red Fears and Dangers of Phanaticifm and Arbitrary
Tyranny its infeparable Companion.
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I have nothing more to add, but to wifh the Diffenters who have been
fond of this Noble Peer even to Idolatry, to read in his, their own De-
ftiny; there is a long An ear due to them for the former , the Blood
and Rapine, the Sacriledge and Hypocrily of them and their Fathers ; and
a new Reckoning too for their Jnfolent Difobedience to the belt and moft
merciful of Princes, their ingratitude towards God and Men, their ftub-
bornefs againft the belt Reformed Church in the World, and refraclori-
nefs to the moft Excellent Civil Government under the Sun, which they
have as wickedly, as vainly attempted to fubvert: They have had a long
time given for Repentance, but they may lee if they be not willfully
blinded, that there is a time coming, if they withftand Gods and the
Kings Clemency and Mercy, when they fhall be paid all this long Arrear;
and in the opinion of many wile men, who have particularly remarked
how Providence hath by their own folly baffled all their late Deligns,
blafted their Hopes, and cut off the Engineers of the Fa&ion, it looks as
if they were even weary of that happinels they might yet enjoy, and
that with their own hands they urould pull down thole punifhments up¬
on their own heads, which commilerating Heaven and a Companionate
Prince have fo long delayed to execute upon them ; for certainly they muft
be weary of their Lives, and out of their Wits, who dalh out their own
Brains againft the Government in hopes to overturn its ftrong Founda¬
tions. 1 wifh they may recolleflt themlelves, and remember the Earl of
Shaftsbury, who when he might have lived Glorious, Ealy, and Happy by
obeying his Prince, and Country Laws, died a milerable, defpiled Fugi¬
tive, the Scorn of the prefent, and the Contempt of all future Ages.
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