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THE 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 C H A F. I. 
 
 T H E Occajion of the Law^Sait Pag. 5 
 Chap. II. HoiP Bull and ¥roQ greof jea~, 
 ms that the Lord Stvuxx intended to give all 
 eis Cufiom to his Grandfather Lewis Ba¬ 
 boon. 6 
 
 Chap. III. A Copji of Bull and Frog’s Letter to 
 Lord Strutt. j 
 
 Chap. IV. How Bull and Frog went to Law 
 vith Lord Strutt about the Premijfesy and were 
 joined by the reft of the Trade/men. 8 
 
 Clup. V. The true Char alters of John Bull, 
 Mic. Frog, and Hocus. 10 
 
 Chap. VI. Of the various Suecefs of the Law- 
 Suit. 11 
 
 Ctep. VII. How John Bull was fo mightily 
 feas*d with his Huccefsj that he was going to 
 have off his Trade y and turn Lawyer. 12 
 
 Chip. VlII, How John difcovePd that Hocus 
 i.ad an. Intrigue with his Wife^ and what fol¬ 
 low'd thefeu^on. 
 
 
 A 2 
 
 Chap. 
 
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 Chap. Ix. Hotv Sigmor CavalJo, m Italian 
 
 undertook to Ct^e Mrs. Bull of her 
 uLcer.'^ ^ 
 
 Chap X 0 /John Bull’//.«W Wife, the 
 
 good Advice that [he gave him. j g 
 
 ^B/// over his Attorney's 
 
 Cb^.. ^ 2 ^ 11 . Horn. John grext Angrj^ and refolved 
 
 ; ard what.Methods were 
 frkitud by the hampers fo' keeping him from 
 
 Chap. XIII. How He Lawyers agreed to fmd 
 Don Diego Difmallo, thi Conjurer^ to John 
 Bn\], to dtjfuade him fron making an end of 
 
 t em. 
 
 Law 
 

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 Laip IS a Bottomlefs-Pit. 
 
 C H A P. I. 
 
 The Ot^ifon of the LuiV-Suit. 
 
 I Nced not tell you of the great Quarrels that 
 have happen’d in our Neighbourhood, fince the 
 Death of the late Lord Strutt \ how the^arlba 
 and a cunning Attorney, got him to fettle his Eftate 
 upon his Coufin Fhiif Bahen^ to the great Difeppoint- 
 ment of his Coufii Efquire South. Some ftiqk not 
 to lay, thaL th6?arTori an 3 i-tTie Attorney forg’d 
 a Will, for wliich they were well paid by the Family 
 of the Baboens ; Let that be as it will, it is matter of 
 Faft, that the Honour and Eftate have continued 
 ever fince in the Perfon of Philip Baboon. 
 
 You know that the Lord ^rutts have for many 
 Years been pofiefs’J of a very great Landed Eftate, 
 well condition’d, wooded, water’d, with Coal, Salt, 
 Tin, Copper, Iron, &c. all within tlKinfelves; that 
 it has been the Misfortune of that Family, to be the 
 Property of theirStewards, Tradefmen, and infe¬ 
 rior Servants, whicii ha^ brought great Incumbrances 
 upon them •, at thefame time, not abating of their 
 expenfive way of Living, has forc’d them to Mort¬ 
 gage their beft Man>rs : It is credibly reported, that 
 the Butchers and Lakers Bills of a Lord Strutt that 
 lived Two hundred Years ago, are not yet paid. 
 
 When Philip Babwncame firft to the PoITeflion of 
 the Lord 5 frm’s- Efate, hisTradefinen, as is ufuai 
 
 
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 upon fiich Occafions, waited upon him to wifli him 
 Joy, and beffeak his Cnftom; The two chief were 
 John Bull the Clothier, and Nic. Frog the Linnen- 
 draper ; they told him, that the Bulls Frogs had 
 ferv’d the Lord Srutts with Drapery Ware for many 
 Years; that ticy were honeft and fair Dealers; that 
 their Bills had never been quellion’d ; that the Lord 
 Strutts lived generoufly, and never ufed to dirty 
 their Burgers with Pen, Ink and Counters; that his 
 l.ordfhip niigit depend upon their Honefty, that 
 they would uie him as kindly as they had done his 
 PredecelTors. The Young Lord feem’d to take all in 
 good part, and difmifs’d them with a deal of feeming 
 Content, afliiiing them he did not intend to change 
 any of the horourable Maxims of his Predecellbrs. 
 
 C H A P. . II. 
 
 How Bull arA Frog grew jealous that the Lord 
 Strutt intended to give all his Cujlom to his 
 Grandfathr Lewis Baboon. 
 
 I T happen’d unfortunately for the Peace of our 
 Neighbouihood, that this Young Lord had an 
 old cunning togue (or as the Scots call it) a falfe 
 Loon^ of a Grandfather, that one might juftly call a 
 Jack of all Trales ; Ibmetimes you would fte him be¬ 
 hind his Coulter felling Broad Cloath, Ibmetimes 
 meafuring Linien, next Day he would be dealing in 
 Mercery Ware; high Heads, Ribbons, Gloves, 
 Fans and Lac he underftood to a Nicety ; Charles 
 Mather could not Bubble a young Beau better with 
 a Toy'; nay, he would delcend ev’n to the felling 
 .of Tape, Gariers, and Shooe-Buckles: When Shop 
 was fnut up, Ic would go about the Neighbourhood 
 
 and 
 
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 and earn Half a Crown by teaching tie young Men 
 and Maids to Dance. By thefe Methods he had ac¬ 
 quir’d immenfe Riches, which he ufed to fquander 
 away at Back-Sword, Qiiarter-Staff, and Cudgell- 
 Play, in which he took great Plcafure, and chal¬ 
 leng’d all the Country. Yon will fay i: is no wonder 
 if Bull and Frog fliould be jealous of this Fellow. 
 ‘ It is not impofliblc (fays Frog to Sull) but this 
 
 * old Rogue will take the Managencnt of the 
 ‘ young Lord’s Bufinefs into his Handsi befides, the 
 
 * Rafcal has good Ware, and will ferve him as cheap 
 
 * as any Body in that Cale : I leave you to judge 
 
 * what muft become of us and our Families, we mult 
 ‘ ftarveor turn Journeymen to old Lewis Baboon-^ 
 
 therefore. Neighbour, I hold it advbable, that we 
 ‘ write to young Lord Strutt to know the Bottom 
 
 * of this Matter. 
 
 CHAP. HI. 
 
 J Cofy o/Bull ttnd Frog’s Letter to Lord Strutt. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I Suppofe your Lordfliip Inovos that the Bulls and the 
 Frogs havejerved the Lord Strutts viith all Sorts of 
 Drapery Ware, time out of Mind ; and vhereas we are 
 jealous, not without Reafon, that your Lordfitip intends 
 henceforth to buy of your Grand^re old Lfwis Baboon ; 
 this is to inform your Lordjhip, that this Proceeding does 
 not fuit with the Circumfiances of our Families, who have 
 lived and made a good Figure in the Worla by the Gene- 
 roftty of the Lord Strutts: Therefore we fink fit to ac- 
 quaint your Lordjhip^ that you muj} find fuficient Security 
 to us, our Heirs and Ajfigns, that you rill not employ 
 l.ewis Baboon, or elfe we will take our Rtmedy at Law, 
 clap an ASlifn upon you of 20000 1 . for oil Debts, feiz.e 
 
 K7:d 
 
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 avd your Goods md Chattels^ whichy eonjiderinjf 
 
 joTtr Lord^rips CircumfianccSy will plunge you into 
 €utrtes^ from .which it will not be cafie to extricate your 
 felf \ therefore we hopCi when your Lordjldp has better con- 
 fdered on ity you will comply with the Defire of 
 
 ' Your loving friends, 
 
 "John Bully 
 Nic» Frog* 
 
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 Some of Bult% Friends advifed him to take gentler 
 Metlrods with the young Lord but 7 a^»naciiral]y 
 iov’d rough Play. It is impofTible to exprefs the 
 Surprize of the Lord Strutt upon the Receipt of this 
 Letter ^ lie was not flufh in Readyy either to go to 
 Law or clear old Debts, neither could he find good 
 Bail: He offer’d to bring Matters to a friendly Ac¬ 
 commodation \ and promis’d upon his Word of Ho¬ 
 nour,, t^ he would no t change his .Drapers i but 
 all to no purpofc, for Bull and Frog faw clearly, that 
 old Letris would have the Cheating of him. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 /fpip Bull and Frog went to Law with Lord Strutt 
 about the Premijjes^ and were joined by the rep 
 of the Tradefme//, 
 
 all Endeavours of Accommodation between 
 Lord Strwif and his Drapers prov’d vain, Jea- 
 loaiies encreas’d, and indeed it was rumour’d 
 abroad that Lord Strutt had befpoke his new I ,ive- 
 riesof old Lewis Baboon. This coming to Mrs. BuH\ 
 Ears, when Jolw Bull'camz Home he found all his 
 Family ill an uproar. Mrs. Bull you muff; know was 
 very apt. to be Cholerick. Tou ^t^ fays ihe^ yoti 
 
 loyter 
 
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 ioyter about Alehoufes and Taverns^ /pend your Time 'at 
 Billiards^ Nine-pins or Puppet-Jbows^ or flaunt about the 
 Streets in your nevo gilt Chariot^ never minding me nor 
 your numerous Family j dont you hear horo Lord Strutt 
 has befpokehis Liveries at Lewis BaboonV ^op? don’t 
 you flee how .that old Fox fieals away your Cujlomers, and 
 . turns you out of your Bufinefls everyday^ and you fit like 
 an idle Drone with your bands in'your Pockets ? Fie upont^ 
 up Man^ roufle thy flelfl^ I’ll Jell to my Shift before fll be 
 flo ufled by that Knave. You lEuft think Mrs Bull had 
 been pretty well tun’d .up by Frog^ who chim’d in. 
 with her learn’d Harangue. No further delay now, 
 but to Coonfel learned in thegLaw they go, who 
 unanimoufty afiiir’d ^em both of the Juftice and in¬ 
 fallible Snccefs of their Law-Suit. 
 
 i told you before, that old Lewis Baboon was a fort ' 
 of ^Jack of all Trades^ which made the reft of tlie 
 Tradefmen jealous, as well as Bull wd. Frog they 
 hearing of the Quarrel, were glad of an Opportu¬ 
 nity of joining agafnft old Lewis Baboon^ provided 
 that Bull and Frog would bear the Charges of the 
 Suit j even Lying Ned the Chimneyffwceper and 
 Tom the Duftman put in their Claims^, and the Caufe 
 was put into the Hands of Humphrey Hocus the At¬ 
 torney. 
 
 A Declaration was drawn up to Iheyv, ^ That Bull 
 ‘ and Frog had undoubted Right by Prelcription to 
 ‘ be Drapers to the Lord Strutts ; that there were 
 ‘ were feveral old Contrafts to that purpofe ^ that 
 ‘ Lewis Baboon had taken up the Trade of Clothier 
 ‘ and Draper, without ferving his Time, or pur- 
 chafing his Freedom ) that he fold Goods that 
 ‘ were not Marketable, without the Stamp; that 
 ‘ hehimfclf was more fit for a Bully than a Tradef- 
 ‘ man, and went about through all the Country 
 ‘ Fairs challenging People to fight Pri/.es, Wreft- 
 ‘ ling and Cudgel-Play : and abundance more to this 
 purpofe. * 
 
 B CHAP. 
 
CHAP. V. 
 
 The true Chambers of John Bull, Nic. Frog, , 
 and Hocus. 
 
 F O R the better underftanding the following Hi- 
 ftory, the Reader ought to know. That in 
 the main, was an honeft plain-dealing Fellow, Clio- 
 lerick. Bold, and of a very unconftant Temper, he 
 dreaded not Old Lewis cither at Back-Sword, linglc 
 Faulcion, or Cudgel-play •, but then he was very apt 
 to quarrel with his belt Friends, efpecially if they 
 pretended to govern him: If you flatter’d him, you 
 might lead him like a Child. Johnh Temper de¬ 
 pended very much upon the Air j his Spirits roie 
 and fell with the VVeathcr-glafs. John was quick, 
 and underftood his bufinefs very \vell, but no Man 
 alive was more carelefs, in looking into his Accounts, 
 or more cheated by Partners, Apprentices, and Ser¬ 
 vants : This was occalioded by his being a Boon- 
 Companion, loving his Bottle and his Diverfion *, 
 for to fay Truth, no Man kept a better Houfe than 
 John^ nor fpent his Money more generoufly. By 
 plainand fairdealing, had acquir’d Ibme Plumbs, 
 and might have kept them, had it not been for his 
 amhappy Law-Suit. 
 
 Nic. Frog was a cunning fly Whorefpn, quite the 
 reverfe of John in many Particulars *, Covetous, Fru¬ 
 gal i minded domeflick Aflairs; would pine his Bel¬ 
 ly to fave his Pocket, never loft a Farthing by care- 
 lefs Servants, or bad Debtors: He did not care 
 much for any fort of Diverfions, except Tricks of 
 High German Artifts, and Le^er de main -, no Man 
 exceded Nic. in thefe, yet it muft be own’d. That 
 Aic. wp a fair Dealer, and in that way had ac¬ 
 quir’d imnienfe Riches. 
 
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 Hocus wasan old cunning Attorney,what he wanted 
 of Skill in Law^' was made up by a Clerk which he 
 kept, that was the prettieft Fellow in the World • he 
 lov’d Money, was fmooth.tongu’d,gavegood Words, 
 and leldom loll: his Temper : He was not worlb 
 than an Infidel *, for he provided plentifully for his 
 Family,, but he lov’d himfelf better than them all: 
 He had a termagant Wife, and, as the Neighbours 
 faid, was plaguy Hen-peck’d ^ he was feldom ob- 
 ferved, as fome Attornies will praftice, to give his 
 owm perfonal Evidence in Caufes ^ he rather chofe 
 to do it fer teft. copdu^i in a word, the Man was ve¬ 
 ry well for an Attorney. 
 
 C H A P. VI. 
 
 Of the various Saccefs of the Law-Suit, 
 
 L aw is a Bottomlefs-Pit^ it is a Cormorant^ a. 
 
 Harpyy that devours every thing ; John Bull was 
 flatter’d by his Lawyers that his Suit would not lall 
 above a Year or two at moft ^ that before that time 
 he would be in quiet poflelTion of his Bufinefs; yet 
 ten long Years did Hocus ftecr his Caufc through all 
 the Meanders of the Law, andall the Courts *, no 
 Skill, no Addrefs, was wanting ; and to fay Truth, 
 John did not ftarve the Caufe-, there wanted not 
 Tellow-boys to fee Counfel, hire Witnefles, and bribe 
 juries. Lord Strutt was generally Call, never had one 
 Verdia in his favour ^ and John was promis’d, That 
 the next and the next would be the final Determi¬ 
 nation i but alas! that final Determination, and hap¬ 
 py Conclufion was like an inchanted Bland, the 
 nearer John came to it, the further it went from him t 
 New Tryals upon new Points ftill arofej new 
 Doubts, new Matters to be cleared ^ in (hort, I.aw- 
 yers feldom part with fo good a Caufe till they have 
 
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 gottheOyfter, and theiv Clients the Shell. John^ 
 ready Mony, Book-Debts, Bonds,- Mortgages, all 
 went into the Lawyers Pockets *, thel began to 
 borrow Money upon Bank-Stocky Eaji-India Bonds, 
 now and then a Farm went to Pot: At laft it was 
 thought a good Expedient to fet up Efquire Soutlo’s 
 Title to prove the Will forg’d, and difpoflefs Philip 
 Lord Strutt at once; here again was a new Field for 
 the Lawyers, and the.Canfe grew' more intricate 
 than ever. John grew madder and madder ^ where- 
 ever he met any*of Lord 5frM«’s Servants he tore off 
 their Cloaths: ^^ow and then you would fee them 
 come home naked, without Shoes, Stockings, and 
 Linncn. As for Old Lewis Baboon, he was reduc’d 
 to his laft Shift, tho’ he had as many as any other: 
 His Children were reduced from rich Silks to Doily 
 Stuffs, his Servants in Rags and bare-footed, inftead 
 of good Victuals, they now lived upon i^eck-Beef, 
 and Bullocks-Liver-, infhort, no Bo dy go t much by 
 the Matter, but the Men oTXaw. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 How John Bull was fo mightily fleas’d with his 
 Saccefsy that he was going to have off hisTradey 
 and turn Lawyer. 
 
 I T is wifely oblerved by a great Philofopher, That 
 Habit is a fecond Nature: This was verify’d in 
 the r’afeof John Bull, who from an honeft and plain 
 ‘Tradefman, had got fuch a haunt about the Courts 
 of juftice, and fuch a Jargon of Law-words, That 
 h? eoiKluded himfelf as able a Lawyer, as any that 
 p’eaded at the Bar, or fat on the Bench: He was 
 •’erheard one Day, talking to himfelf after this 
 lanLiier, “ How capricioufly does Fate on Chance 
 dif^ofe of Mankind'? -How fcldoari? that Bufi- 
 
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 “ nefs allotted to a Man for which he is fitted by 
 “ Nature ? It is plain, I was intended for. a Man 
 “ of Law: How did my Guardians miftakc my Ge- 
 “ nius, in placing me, like a mean Slave, behind a 
 « Counter? Blefsme! What immcnfe Eftates thefe 
 “ Fellows raife by the Law ? Bcfides, it is the Pro- 
 “ feflion of a Gentleman: What a Pleafurc it is to 
 « be vidorious in a Caufe? To fwagger at the Bar? 
 “ What a Fool am I to drudge any more in this 
 “ Woollen-Trade ? for a Lawyer 1 was born, and 
 “ a Lawyer I will be; one is never too Old toi 
 “ learn”. All this while Iwd con’d overfuch 
 a Catalogue of hard Words, as were enough to con-- 
 jure up the Devil ^ thefe he ufed to bubble indif¬ 
 ferently in all Companies, efpecially at Coflee-hou- 
 fes j fb that his Neighbour Tradefmen began to Ihun 
 his Company as a Man that was crack’d. Inftead 
 of the Affairs of BlackweU-HaU, and.Price of Broad- 
 cloath. Wool, and Bayfes, he talk’d of nothing but 
 Actions upon the Cafe-, Returns^ Captu, Alias capias^ De¬ 
 murrers^ l^enire facias^ Replevins, Superfeda\ Certiora¬ 
 ri's, Writs of Error, Atiions of Trover and Converfiott, 
 Trefpajfes, Precipes & Dedimns : This was matter of 
 Jeff: to the learned in Law •, however Hocsts^ and the 
 reft of the Tribe, encourag’d fohn in his Fancy, af- 
 furing him. That he had a great Genius for Law •, 
 That they queftion’d not but in time, he might railb 
 Money enough by it to reimburfe him of all his 
 Charges i That if he ftudy’d, he would undoubted¬ 
 ly arrive to the Dignity of a Lord Chief Jiiftice -, as 
 for the Advice of houeft Friends and Neighbours, 
 John defpis’d it; he look’d upon them as Fellows of 
 a low Genius, poor grovelling Mechanicks; John 
 reckon’d it more Honour to have got one favourable 
 Verdid, than to have fold a Bale of Broad-cloath. 
 As for Nic. Frog, to fay the Truth, he was more 
 prudent, for tho’ he follow’d his Law-Suit clofe- 
 ly, he negleded not his ordinary Bufinefs, but 
 
 was 
 
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 was Ix)th in Coilrt and in his Shop at the proper 
 Hours.. ■ . • 
 
 CHAP. MIL 
 
 Horv John dijcover'd that Hocus had an Intrigue 
 
 with his Wifey and what folow'd thereupon. 
 
 • 
 
 J ohn had not run on a maddihe fo long, had it not 
 been for an extravagant Bit^ of a Wife, wlwm 
 Hocus perceiving '%hn to be fond of, was refolv’d to 
 win Over to his lioe. It is a trin laying, ‘That the 
 lafi Man of the Pariflt that knows of his Cuckoldom^ is 
 himfelf. It was obferved by all the Neighbourhood; 
 that Hocus had Dealings with look’s Wife, that were 
 not lo much for his Honour ; but this was perceiv’d 
 by John a little too late: She was a luxurious Jade, 
 lov’d fplendid Equipages, Plays. Treats and Balls, 
 differing very much from the Ibler Manners of her 
 Anceftors, and by no means fit for a Tradefman’s 
 Wife. Hocus fed her Extravagaacy (what was ftill 
 more lhameftil) with John'?, ovn Money. Every 
 body faid that Hocm had a Montis mind to her Bo¬ 
 dy ; be that as it will, it is matCr of Faft, that up¬ 
 on all Occalions flie run out extravagantly on the 
 Praife of Hocus, When John us’l to be finding fault 
 with his Bills, fte us’d to reproach him as ungrate¬ 
 ful to his greatefl: Bencfaflor; One that had. taken 
 lb much pains in his Law-Suit, arid retriev’d his 
 Family from the Opprefilon of Old Lewis Baboon, 
 A good fwinging Sum of John\ -eadieft Calh, went 
 tovvards building of Hoemh Comtry-Houfe. This 
 Affair between Hocus and Mrs. Bill was now fo open, 
 that all the World .were fcandali:’d at jt •, John was 
 not fo Clod-pated, but at lafl: he took the Hint. 
 The Parfon of the Parilh preaching one Day a little 
 lharply againft Adultery, Mrs. Bull told her Hus¬ 
 band, 
 
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 band. That he was a very uncivil Fellow to ufe fuch 
 courfe Language before People of Condition, That 
 Hocm was of the lane mind, and that they would 
 join to have him turn’d out of his Living for ufing 
 pcrfonal Refledions How do you mean, lays John 
 by perfonal Refleftbns ? 1 hope in God, Wife, he 
 did not reflea upoi you. “ No, thank God, my 
 “ Reputation is to.> well eftablilhed in the World 
 “ to receive any nirt fi-om fuch a foul-mouth’d 
 “ Scoundrel as he \ his Doftrine tends only to make 
 “ Husbands Tyrails, and Wives Slaves; mult we 
 “ be Ihut up, and Husbands left to their liberty ? 
 u Very pretty indetd \ a Wife mull never go abroad 
 « with a Platonickto fee a Play or a Ball, Ihc mult 
 “ never ftir without her Husband^ nor walk in 
 “ Spring-Garden with a Coufin. I do fay. Husband, 
 “ and 1 will Hand ly it. That without the innocent 
 “ Freedoms of Life, Matrimony would be a moll 
 “ intolerable State, and that aWife’s Vertuc, ought 
 
 “ tobetherefultol herown.Reafon, and not of W 
 Husband^s Government ^ for my part, I would 
 « fcorn a Husband that would be Jealous,’if he faw 
 « a Fellow a-bed vith me All this while 
 Blood boil’d in his Veins, he was now confirm’d in 
 all his Sufpicions ; Jade, Bitch and Whore were 
 the bell Words thrt John gave her. Things went 
 from better to worfe, ’till Mrs. Bull aim’d a Knife 
 at John^ tho’ John threw a Bottle at her Head very 
 brutally indeed : ^fter this there was nothiim but 
 Confufion ^ Bottles, GlalTes, Spoons, Plates, Kmves 
 Forks, and Dilhcs lew about like Dult, the refult 
 of which was. That Mrs. Bull receiv’d a bruife 
 in her Right-fide, of which Ihedy’d half a Yearaf. 
 ter: The Bruife inpollhumated, and afterwards 
 turn’d to a ftinking Ulcer, which made everybody 
 Ihie to come near h;r Ihe fmelt fo; yet Ihe wanted 
 not the help of many able Phyficians, who attended 
 very diligently, and did what Men of Skill could 
 
 do, 
 
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 do, but all to no purpole, for lier Condition was 
 now quite defperate, all regular Phyficians and her 
 neareft Relations having giv’n her over. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 How Stgitior OdiVzWo^ -»« Italian Quack^ under- 
 took to Cure Mrs, Bull of her ‘Ulcer, 
 
 T Here is nothing fo impoffible in Nature, but 
 Mountebanks will undertake •, nothing fo in¬ 
 credible, but they will affirm ; Mrs. Ball’s Condi¬ 
 tion was look’d upon as defperate by all the Men of 
 Art; then Signior Cavallo judged it was high time 
 for him to iuterpofe, he bragg’d that he had an in¬ 
 fallible Ointment and Plaifter, which being applied 
 to the Sore would Cure it in a few Daysj at the fame 
 time he would give her a Pill that would purge off 
 ill her bad Humours, fwceten her Blood, -and re- 
 itifie her difturb’d Imagination : In fpite of all Sig- 
 lior Cavallo's Applications the Patient grew worfe, 
 :very Day fhe Rank fo nq Body diuR come within a 
 itone’s throw of her, except Signior Cavallo and 
 lis Wife, whom he- feat every Day to Drefs her, 
 (he having a very gentle foft Hand. All this 
 while Signior appeehended no Danger. If one 
 ask’d him how Mrs. Bull did ? Better and better, 
 fays Signior Cavallo \ the Parts heal, and her GonRi- 
 tution mends; if ffie fybmits to my Government, flie . 
 will be abroad in a little time. Nay it is reported, 
 that he wrote to her Friends in the Country, that 
 Ihe ffiould dance a Jig next Oltober in Weflmttifier- 
 Hall ; that her lllnefs had* been chiefly owing to bad 
 Phyficians. At laR Signior one Day was Rent for in 
 great haRe, his Patient growing worfe and worfe; 
 when he came he affirmed, that it wasagrofsMi- 
 
 makes 
 
 A. 
 
Hake, that ftie was never in a fairer way : Bring hi¬ 
 ther the Salve, fays he, and give her a plentiful 
 Draught of my Cordial. As he was applying his 
 Ointments, and adminiftring the Cordial,the Patient 
 gave up the Ghoft, to the great Confufion of Signior 
 Cavallo^ and the great Joy of Bw/Zand^ his Friends. 
 Signior flung away out of the Houle in great dif- 
 order, and fwore there was foul Play, for he was 
 fure his Medicines were infallible. Mrs. Bull having 
 dy’d without any Signs of Repentance or Devotion, 
 the Clergy would hardly allow her Chriftian Burial. 
 The Relations had once refolved to lue John for the 
 Murder^ but confidering better of it, and that fuch 
 a Trial would rip up old Sores, and difeover things 
 not fo much to the Reputation of the Decealed, they 
 drop’d their Defign. She left no Will, only there 
 was found in her ftrong Box the following Words 
 wrote on a ferip of Paper, Afy Cttrfe on John Bull and 
 all my Pofterity, if ever they come to any Compofition with 
 my Lord Strutt. There were many Epitaphs writ 
 upon her, one was as follows ^ 
 
 Here lies John’/ Wife^ 
 
 Plague of his Life , 
 
 She [pent his Wealthy 
 She wrong d his Healthy 
 And left him Daughters three 
 As had as jhe. 
 
 The Daughters Names were Pelmiay Difardta z’&i 
 Vfvriai 
 
 CHAP. 
 
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 CHAP. X. 
 
 Of John Bull’j fecond And the good Advice 
 that Jfje gave him. 
 
 J OHN quickly got the better of his Grief, and 
 being that neither his Conftitution, nor the Af¬ 
 fairs of his Family could permit him to live in an 
 Unmarried State, he refolved to get him another 
 Wife; a Coufin of his lafl: Wife’s was propos’d, but 
 John would have no more of the Breed; In fliort, he 
 wedded a fober Country Gentlewoman, of a good 
 Family, and a plentiful Fortune ^ the reverfe ofthe 
 other in her Temper, not but that Ihe lov’d Mony, 
 for Ihe was of a faving Temper, and apply’d hcr 
 Fortune to pay John'?- clamorous. Debts, that the 
 unfrugai Methods of his lall: Wife, and this ruinous 
 Law Suit, had brought him into. One day, as Ihe 
 liad got her Husband in good Humour,' flie talk’d to ' 
 him after the following manner. ‘ My Dear, fincc ^ 
 * I have been your Wife I haveobferv’d great Abufes 
 ‘ and Diforders in your Family ; your Servants arc 
 ‘ mutinous and quarrelfbme)and cheat ^mu moll abo- 
 * minably ; your Cook-Maid is in a Combination 
 ‘ with your Butcher, Poulterer and Filhmonger ^ 
 
 » your Butler purloins your Liquor, and your Brewer 
 c fells your Hogwafh; your Baker cheats both in 
 t Weight and in Tale ; even your Milkwoman and 
 < your Nurfery-Maid have a Fellow-feeling *, youf 
 t Taylor, inftcad of Shreds, cabages whole Yards of 
 « Cloath y befides leaving fuch long Scores, and not 
 • t. going to Market with ready Mony, forces us to 
 |t take bad Ware of the Tradefmen, at their own 
 * Price. You have not polled your Books thefe Ten 
 ‘ Years ; how is it pofiible for a Man of Bufinefs to 
 * keep his Affairs even in the World at this rate? 
 
 ‘ ’Pray 
 
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 * ’Pray God this Hocm be hoaeft ^ would to God you 
 
 * would look over his Bills, and fee how Matters 
 ‘ ftand between Frog and you \ prodigious Sums are 
 ‘ fpent in this Law Suit, and more muft be borrow’d 
 
 * of Scriveners and Ufurers at heavy Intcreft j bc> 
 ‘ fides, my Dear, let me beg of you to lay afide that 
 ‘ wild Project of leaving your Bufinefs to turn Law- 
 ‘ yer, for which, let me tell you, Nature never de- 
 
 * fign’d you. Believe me, thefe Rogues do but flat- 
 ‘ ter, that they may pick your Pocket. John heard 
 her all this while with patience, ’till (he prick’d his 
 Maggot, and touch’d him in the tender point •, thea 
 he broke out into a violent PalTion, ‘ What, I not fit 
 ‘ fora Lawyer! let me tell you, my Clodpatcd Re- 
 
 latious fpoil’dthegreateftGeninsin World, when 
 
 * they bred me a Mechanick. Lord Strutt and his 
 ‘ old Rogue of a Grandfire have found to their Coft, 
 
 * that I can manage a Law Suit as well as another. 
 ‘ 1 don’t denv what you, fays Mrs. Bull^ nor do I 
 
 * call in queftion your Parts, but I (ay It does not 
 
 * fuit with your Circumftances; you and your Pre- 
 ‘ dcceflbrs have liv’d in good Reputation among 
 ‘ your Neighbours by this fame Cloathing Trade, 
 
 ‘ and it were madnefstoleave itoff. Befides,there 
 ‘ are few that know all the Tricks and Cheats of 
 ‘ thefe Lawyers •, does not your own Experience 
 ‘ teach you how they have drawn you on from one 
 ‘ Term to another, and how you have danc’d the 
 
 * Round of all the Courts, (1 ill flattering you with 
 ‘ a final KTue, and for ought 1 tan fee your Caufe is 
 ‘ not a bit clearer than it was feven Years ago. I 
 ‘ will be Damn’d, fays John^ if I accept of any Com- 
 
 * polition from or his Grandfather-, I’ll rather. 
 ‘ wheel about the Streets an Engine to grind Knives 
 ‘ and ScilTors •, however I’ll take your Advice, and 
 ‘ look over my Accounts. 
 
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 CHAP- 
 
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 CHAP. XI. 
 
 Horn John looked over his Attorneys Bill. 
 
 W HEN John firft brought out the Bills, the 
 Surprize of all the Family was unexpreflible, 
 at the prodigious Dimenfions of them ^ in fliort, 
 they would have meafur'd with the beftr Bale of 
 Cloath in John'^ Shop. Fees to Judges, puny Judges, 
 Clerks, Prothonotories, Philizers, Chirographers, 
 Underclerks, Proclamators, Counlel, Witnefles| 
 Jury-men, Marfhals, TipftafFs, Cryers, Porters ^ for 
 Enrollings, Exemplifications, Bails, Vouchers, Re¬ 
 turns, Caveats, Examinations, Filings of Words, 
 Entries, Declarations, Replications, Recordats, 
 NoRe^ Profeejui^s, Certiorari' Demurrers, 
 Special Verdifts, Informations, Scire Facias^ Siiper- 
 fedeas^ Habeas Corpus^ Coach-hire, Treating of Wit- 
 neflts, &c. Ferity^ fays John^ there are a prodigious 
 Number of learned Words in this Law^ what a pretty 
 Science it is ! Ay^ but Husband^ you have paid for every 
 Syllable and Letter of thefe fine Words j blefs wf, what 
 immenfe Sums are at the bottom of the Accompt! John 
 {pent feveral Weeks in looking over his Bills, and by 
 comparing and Rating his Accompts, he difcovcrcd 
 that, befides the Extravagance of every Article, he 
 lud L«en egregioufly Cheated ; that he had paid’ for 
 Counfel that were never fee’d, for Writs that were 
 never drawn, for Dinners that were never drcfs’d 
 and Journeys that were never made ; In fliort, that 
 Hoetts and had agreed to throw the Burden cf 
 the Law-Suit upon his Shoulders. 
 
 p H A p; 
 
V. 
 
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 CHAP. XII. 
 
 How }ohn grew refolved to accept a Com^ 
 
 portion j and what Methods were praHis^d Ly 
 the Lawyers for keeping him from it. 
 
 W ELL might the Learn’d Daniel Burgefs lay,' 
 That a Law-Suit is a Suit for Life. He that 
 lows his Grain upon Marble, will have many a hun¬ 
 gry Belly before Harveft. This John felt by wofiil 
 Experience. Johns Caule was a good milch Cow,' 
 and many a Man fubfifted his Family out of it.. How¬ 
 ever John began to think it high time to look about 
 him i he had a Coufin in the Country, one Sir dicker 
 Bold, whofe Predeceflbrs had been bred up to the 
 Law, and knew as much of it as any body ^ but 
 having left off the Profeffion for fome time, they 
 took great pleafure in Compounding Law-Suits 
 amonglt their Neighbours, for which they were the 
 Averfion of the Gentlemen of the Long Robe, and 
 at perpetual War with all the Country Attorneys; 
 John put his Caufe in Sir Roger’s Hands, defiring 
 him to make the bell of it j the News hid no Iboner 
 reach’d the Ears of the Lawyers, but they were all 
 in an uproar; They brought all the reft of the 
 Tradefmen upon John : ’Squire South fwore he was 
 betray’d, that he would ftarve before he compound¬ 
 ed^ Frog faid he was highly wrong’d; ev’n lying 
 Ned the Chimney-rweeper, and Tom the Duft-mait 
 complain’d, that their Intereft was facrific’d: As 
 for Hoeus’s Wife, (he took a Hackney-Chair and 
 came to yofew’sHouie immediately, and fell afcold- 
 ing at his Vi^ife like the Mother of Belz.ebubf ^ Yon 
 * filly, aukward, ill-bred, Country Sow yon, 
 * have you no more Manners than to rail at my 
 \ Husband, that has fav’d that Clod-pated, Num- 
 
 ^ Skull’S 
 
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 skull’d Ninny-hammer of yours from Ruin, and 
 all his Family ? it is well known how he has lole 
 early and fate up late to make him eafy, when he 
 was Sotting at every Ale-houfe in Town. 1 knew 
 his laft Wife, Ihe was a Woman of breeding, good 
 humour, and complaifance, knew how to l.^ m 
 the World •, as for yon, you look like a Puppet 
 mov’d by Clock-work *, your Cloaths hang up¬ 
 on YOU, as they were upon Tenter-hooks, and 
 YOU come into a Room as you were going to 
 ‘ fteal away a Pifs pof, get you gone into the 
 Country to look after your Mothers Poultry, to 
 milk the Cows, churn the Butter, 
 up Nofegavs for a Holy-day , and meddle not 
 with Matters that you know no more or, than 
 the Sien-poft before your Door: It is well known 
 lilL Husband hk an oltaWifc’d Repatation 
 he never fwore an Oath, i^or told a Lie in all ^ 
 
 • Lite; He is grateful to his Benefaftors, faithtul 
 to his Friends, liberal to his Dependants, and du- 
 
 i tifultohisS-Jperiours •, he values not your Money 
 
 more tbia the Duft under his Feet, but hehaKS 
 ' to be ab'JsM : Once for all, Mx^^ Mynx^ leave off 
 
 • talking of my Husband, or I will pull out theft 
 
 • Saucei>Eyes of yours, and make that red-ttteak 
 ^ Country-face lok as raw as an O.v-Chcek upon a 
 
 Butcher's Still; remember, I fay, that thete aie 
 
 • Pillories and Ducking-ftools_ Wita this, avvay 
 (he flunc, leaving Mrs. Bull no time to reply: No 
 Stone was left unturn’d to fright :john from this 
 Compofition. Sometimes they fptsad Reports at 
 Coffee-houfes, that joh-d and his Wife were run 
 mad i that they intended to give up Houft, and 
 make ever all their Eftate to old Bahoo^ i 1 uac 
 Johfj had been often heard talking to himfelf, and 
 feen i n the Streets without Shoes or Stockings^ 1 nat 
 he did nothing from Momiug to Night but beat ms 
 
 ° Servants, 
 
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 Servants, after having been the beft Matter alive •, ^ 
 as for his Wife, (he was a meer Natural. Sometimes 
 John’s Houle was bcfet with a whole Regiment of 
 Attorneys Clerks, Bailiff and Bailiffs-Followcrs, and * •* 
 Other fmall retainers of the Law, who threw Stones 
 at his Windows, and Dirt at himfelf, as he went 
 along the Street. When John complain’d of want ^ ^ 
 of ready Money to carry on his Suit, they ad¬ 
 vis’d him to pawn his Plate and Jewels, and 
 that Mrs. Bull ftiould fell her Liiincn and wtaring 
 Cloaths. 
 
 CHAP. XIIT. 
 
 Horn the Lawyers agreed to fend Don Diego Dif- 
 mallo, the Conjurer^ to John Bull, to dijfaade 
 him from making an end of his Law-Suit ; 
 and what fajs’d between them. 
 
 Bull. T T OW does my good Friend Bon Diego ? 
 
 Dow. Never worfe. Whocanbeeafie 
 when their Friends are playing the Fool ? 
 
 Bull. But then you may be ealie, for 1 am refolv’d, 
 to play the Fool no longer ;.l wilh I had hearkend 
 to your Advice, and compounded this Law-Suit 
 fooner. 
 
 jyon. It is true ^ I was then againft the ruinous 
 ways of this Law-Suit, but looking over my Scheme 
 fince, 1 find there is an Error in my Calculation. 
 &/and Jupiter were in a wrong Houfe, but I have 
 now difeovered their true Places; I tell you I find 
 that the Stars are unanimoufly of Opinion, That 
 you will be fuccefsful in this Caufe; That Uwis 
 will come to an untimely End, and Strutt will be 
 turn’d out of Doors by his Wife and Children. 
 
 Then 
 
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 ^Then he went oa with a Torrent of Eclypticks^ 
 Cycles, Epicycles, Afeendants, Trines, Quadrants, 
 ConjunSions, Bulls, Bears, Goats, and Rams, and 
 abundance of hard Words, which being put to¬ 
 gether, fignify’d nothing. John all this while 
 ftood gaping and ftaring, like a Man in a 
 Trance. 
 
 FINIS, 
 
 On Taefdaji next will be Publifh’d, 
 
 J OHN BVL L in his Senles: Being the 
 Second Part of Lm is a Bottomlefs Pit. 
 Mnted from a famous Manufeript found in 
 he Cabinet of the famous Sir Humphrey Pole/- 
 wrth. Printed for '^ohn Morphew^ ne^r Stati- 
 ners-HalL Pfice jd. 
 
JOHN BULL 
 
 Ill His SENSES: 
 
 BEING THE 
 
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 SECOND part 
 
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 Lam is a Bottomlefs-Pit. 
 
 Printed from a APanvfcript found in the Cabinet 
 of the famous Sir Humphry Polefworth. 
 
 ^cconti CBitiott* 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for John Morphew^ near Stationer’s- 
 Hall^ 17 x 2 . Price 3 <^. 
 
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CONTENTS- 
 
 C H A P. L 
 
 M rs. BULL’f Vindication of the indi~ 
 ffenfible Dutj of Cuckoldom^ incumbent 
 upon PVives^ in cafe of the Tyranny^ Infide¬ 
 lity or Infufflciency of Husbands : Being a fuU 
 Anfvper to the DoSioVs Sermon againfi Adul- 
 -tery. Pag* 5 
 
 CHAP. IL 
 
 The tm great Parties of Wives^ the Devoto’s 
 and the Hits* 8 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 1 , 
 
 An Account of^ the Conference between Mrs* Bull 
 and Don Diego DiUnallo. 9 
 
 The Articles of Agreement between John 
 Bull and Nicholas Frog. 12 
 
 A 2 
 
 Nichola? 
 
Nicholas Frog’j Letter to Lewis Baboon, 
 jMafter of the Noble Science of De¬ 
 fence. . 14 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 Hotv the Guardians of the Deceas‘*d Mrs. Bull^/ 
 three Daughters came to John Bull, and what 
 Advice they gave him ; wherein is briefly treat¬ 
 ed the CharacHerr^the three , Daughters: Atf^ 
 - 'J ohn BullV Anfwer,tothe threeGuardians. ijj 
 
 C H A P. V. 
 
 Efyuire South’j^ Meffage and ' Letter to Mrs, 
 .. Bull; - • - \i I ^22 
 
 ■ , ' V.'. 
 
 
 8^0JOV.;C X . 
 
 8 
 
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 John 
 
 
John Bull in h is Senfes. 
 
 C H A P. I. 
 
 Mrs.^xxWs Vindication of the indiffenfable Duty, of Cvckol- 
 ■ donty inettrnbent vfon WiveSy in cafe of the Tyranny^ 
 ' Jpfidelityy ur Infufficiency of Husbands ; Being a fuM 
 jdnfwer to (he Doit or’s ^rm»n againji Adultery. 
 
 1r O f/iV^found daily frefh Proofs of the Infidelity 
 1 and^bad I^figns of his deceas’d Wife-, amongft 
 other Things, one Day looking over his Ca¬ 
 binet, he found the following Pager. 
 
 I T is evident that Matrimony is founded npon art 
 originaLGontraft, whereby the Wife makes over 
 the Right fhe/basby the Law of Nature to,the Cwr 
 cubitjts mgTtfy in favour of the Husband, by which 
 he acquiresThe Property of all her Pbfterity; but 
 then the Obligation is mutudl: And where the Con- 
 trnft is.broken ononefidc, it cealesto bind on the 
 other-, wl^re there is a Right; there mult be a Power 
 to maintain it,: and to punilh the offending Party. 
 This Pow^r 1 affirm to be that Original Right, or 
 rather that indifiienfableDuty of Cuckoldong lodg’d 
 in all WiveSytn the Cafes above-mention’d. No Wife 
 is hound by any Law to which fhehcr fclf has not 
 conlcnted: All Occonomical Government is lodg’d 
 originally. in thc'Husband and Wife, the executive 
 part being in the Husband, both have their PrivU 
 leges fecur’d .to them by Law and Reafon ^ but will 
 any Man-infer from the Husband’s being invefted 
 with the executive Power, that the Wife is depriv’d 
 
6 
 
 of her Share,and that which is the principal Branch of 
 it, the original Right of Cuckoldom ? and that Ihe has 
 no remedy left but Preces & Lactymte, or an Appeal 
 to a fnpreme Court of Judicature ? No lefs frivolous 
 are the Arguments that are drawn, from the general 
 Appellations and Terms of HusWd and Wife •, a 
 Husband denotes fevcral different forts of Magiftra- 
 cy, according to the Ufages and Culloms of different 
 Climates and Countries ; in fome Eaftern Nations it 
 lignifies a Tyrant, with the abfolute PoWer of Life 
 and Death. In Jurkey it denotes an Arbitrary Go¬ 
 vernor, with power of perpetual Imprifbnment; in 
 Italy it gives the Husband the power of Poifon and 
 Padlocks; in the Countries of France and 
 
 Holland^ it has quite a different Meaning, implying a 
 free and equal Government, fecuring to the Wife, 
 in certain Cafes, the liberty of Cuckoldom, and the 
 property of Pin-money and feparatc Maintenance ; 
 lb that the Alignments drawn from the terms of Huf- 
 band and Wife are fallacious, and by no means fit to 
 fupport a tyrannical Doftrine, as that of abfolute uii- 
 limited Chaftity, and conjugal Fidelity*^ 
 
 The general Exhortations to Chaftity in Wives, 
 are meant only for Rules in ordinary Cafes, but they 
 naturally fuppofe the-three Conditions of Ability^ 
 Juftice and Fidelity, in the Husband ; fuch an unli¬ 
 mited, uncondition’d Fidelity in the Wife could ne¬ 
 ver be fuppofed by reafonable Men ; it feems a re¬ 
 flexion upon the Ch—ch, to charge her with Do£lf ines 
 that countenance Oppreflion. 
 
 This Dewftrine of the original Right of Cuckoldom 
 is congruous to tlie Law of Nature, which is fuperior 
 to all human Laws, and for that I dare appeal to all 
 Wives: It is much to the Honohr of our EnglijJ} 
 Wives,that they have never given up that fundamental 
 Point ; and that tho’ in former Ages they were muffled 
 up in Darknefs and Superftition, yet that Notion 
 feem’d engraven on their Minds, and the Imprelllon 
 fo ftrong, that nothing could impair it. "Jq 
 
C?) 
 
 To aflert the Illegality of Cuckoldom, upon any 
 Pretence whalfoever, were to cafl: odious Colours 
 upon the married State, to blacken the neceflary 
 Means of perpetuating Families: Such Laws can ne¬ 
 ver be fuppos’d to have been defign’d to defeat the 
 very end of Matrimony,the Propagation of Mankind. 
 I call them necelTary Means, for in many Cafes what 
 other Means are left ? Such a Dofirine wounds the 
 Honour of Families, unlettles the Titles to King¬ 
 doms, Honours and Eftates; for if the Aftions from 
 which fuch Settlements fpring were illegal, all that 
 IS built \jpQn them mull: be fo too ^ but the laft is ab- 
 furd, therefore the firll mull; be fo likewife. What 
 is the Caufe that Europe groans, at prefent, under 
 the heavy Load of a cruel and expenfive War, but 
 (he tyrannical Cuftom of a certain Nation, and the 
 fcrupulous Nicety of a filly Quean, in notexercifing 
 this indilpenfable Duty of Cuckoldom, whereby the 
 Kingdom might have hadanHeir, and a controverted 
 Succeflion might have been avoided ? Thefe are the 
 Efeds of the narrow Maxims of your Clergy, That 
 one mujl not do Evil, that Good may come of it. 
 
 The Aflertors of this indefeafible Right, and 
 Dtvinum of Matrimony, do all in their Hearts favour 
 Gallants, and the Pretenders to married Women ; 
 for if the true legal Foundation of the married State 
 be once fap’d, and inftead thereof tyrannical Ma¬ 
 xims introduc’d, what mull follow but Elopements, 
 inftead of fecret and peaceable Cuckoldom ? 
 
 From all that has been laid, one may clearly per¬ 
 ceive the Abfurdity of the Dodlrine of this feditious, 
 difcontented, hot-headed, ungifted, unedifting 
 Preacher, aflerting. That the grand Security of the ma¬ 
 trimonial State, and the Pillar upon which it fiands, is 
 founded upon the Wife's belief of an abfolute unconditional 
 Fidelity to the Husband's Bed : By which bold Afler- 
 tion he ftrikes at the Root, digs the Foundation, and 
 removes the Baits upon which the Happinefs of a 
 
 married 
 
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 married State is biiitt. As for his perfonal Reflexi¬ 
 ons, I would gladly know who arc thofe Wantm 
 Wivef he fpeaks of? who are thofe ladies of high 
 Stations, that he fo boldly traduces in his Sermon } 
 It is pretty plain who thefe Afpcrfionsarc aim’d' at, 
 for which he deferves the Pillory, or fomethirig 
 w’orfe. 
 
 In confirmation of this Doftrincoftheindifpen'- 
 fablc Duty of Cuckolddm, I could bring the Ex¬ 
 ample ofthc wifeft Wires in all Ages, who by thefe 
 means have preferv’d their Husband’s Families from 
 Ruin and Oblivion, by want of Pofterity ; but what 
 has been faid, isa fufficknt Ground for punilhing this 
 pragmatical Parlbn. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 77:e two irrcitt Fanies ofl(''ives., the Devoto’s dtiti 
 
 Hitts. 
 
 r|^HE Doarinc of unlimited Chaftity and Fldc- 
 J[ lity in Wives, was univerfally efpons’d by all 
 Htsbands, who went about the Country, and made 
 the Wives fign Papers, fignifying their utter DetCr 
 ftation and Abhorrence of Mrs..5«^Ps wicked Doftrine 
 of rhe indifr^enfable Duty of Cuckoldom, _ Some 
 yielded, others refnfed to part with their native Li- 
 fcrty •, which gave rife to nvo great Parties amongft 
 the Wives, the Devoto’s and the Hitts. Tho’ it muft 
 be own’d, the'diftinfrion was more nominal than 
 real • for the Devoio’s would abufe Freedoms fome- 
 times-, and thofe who were diftinguifh’d by theNamc 
 of Hitts.) were often very honeflr. At the fanie 
 time there was an ingenious Treatife came out, with 
 the Title of Gooii Mvice to Husbands \ in which th^y 
 arc counfell’d not to triifl: too much to their Wives 
 owning the Doarine of unlimited conjugal Fidelity, 
 and fo^ to negka Family Duty.^ and a due watchful- 
 
( 9 ) . . 
 
 nefs over the Manners of their Wives; that the 
 greatell Security to Husbands was a vigorous Con- 
 ftitution, goodUfage of their Wives, and keeping 
 them from Temptation; many Husbands having 
 been Sufferers by their trufting too much to general 
 Profeffioas,as was exemplified in the Cafe of a foolilh 
 and negligent Husband, who trufting to the Efficacy 
 of this Principle, was undone by his Wife’s Elope¬ 
 ment from'him. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 An Account of the Conference bemeen Mrs. Bull sinA Dott 
 Diego Difmallo. 
 
 VonDieio.XS it poflible, Coufin that you can 
 ^ forget the honourable Maxims of the 
 Family you are come of, and break your word^ with 
 three of the honefteft belt meaning Perfons in the 
 World, Efijuire Southy Frog and HoctUy that havd 
 facrific’d their intereff: to yours ? It is bafe to take 
 .Advantage of their Simplicity and Credulity, and 
 leave them in the lurch at laft. 
 
 ‘ Mrs> Bu/l. 1 am fin e they have left my Family in 1 
 bad Condition, we have hardly Money to go to Mar¬ 
 ket, and no Body will take our Words for Six Pence. 
 A very fine Spark this Efiluire South ! My Husband 
 took him in, a dirty, fnottj-nos’d Boy, it was the 
 Bufinefs of half the Servants to attend him, theRogde 
 did bawl and make fuch a noife: Sometimes he fell 
 in the Fire and burnt his Face, fometimes broke his 
 Shins clambering over the Benches, often pifs’d a- 
 Bed, and always came in fo dirty, as if he had been 
 dragg’d thro’ the Kennel at a Boarding-School. He 
 loft his Money at Chuck-Farthing, ShulHc-Cap, and 
 All-Fours; fold his Books, pawn’d hisLinnen, which 
 we were always forc’d to redeem. Then the whole 
 Generation of him arc fii in love witi) Bagpipes and 
 < B . PoppeC 
 
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 Poppet Shows i I wi(h you knew what my Husband 
 has paid at the Paltry Cooks and Confectioners for 
 Naples Blfcuit, Tarts, Cuftards, and Sweet-Meats. 
 All this while my Husband confider’d him as a Gen¬ 
 tleman of a good Family that had fallen into Decay, 
 gave him good Education, and has fettled him in a 
 good Credible way of Living, having procur’d him, 
 by his Intereft, one of the belt Places of the Country *, 
 and what return, think you, docs this fine Gentle¬ 
 man make us ? he will hardly give me or my Huf- 
 band a good Word, or acivil Expreflion: Infteadof 
 plain Sir and Madam (which, tho’ 1 fay it, is our 
 due) he calls us CWyand fuch a one, that he 
 did us a great deal Honour to Board with us ^ huffs and 
 dings at fuch a rate, becaufe we will not fpend the 
 little we have left to get him the Title and Eftatc of 
 Lord Strutt \ and then, forlboth, we ftiall have the 
 Honour to be his Woollen-drapers. 
 
 D- Diego. And would you lofe the Honour of fb 
 noble and generous an Undertaking ? would you 
 rather accept the fcandalous Compolition, and truft 
 that old Rogue, Lewis Baboon ? 
 
 Mrs. Bull Look you. Friend Diego.^ if we Law it 
 on till Ijtwis turns honeft, I am afraid our Credit will 
 run low at BlackwellHall’, I wiffi every Man had 
 his own i but I ftill fay, that Lord Strutt’s Money 
 fhines as bright, and chinks as well as Efquire&Krl;’s. 
 1 don’t know any other Hold that we Tradefmen 
 have of thefe great Folks, but their Intcreff; buy 
 dear, and fell cheap, and I’ll warrant ye you will 
 keep jour Cuftomer. The vvorlt is, that Lord 
 Strutt’s Servants have got fuch a haunt about that old 
 Rogue’s Shop, that it will coll us many a Firkin 
 of ftrong Beer to bring them back again, and the 
 longer they are in a bad Road, the harder it will 
 be to get them out of it. 
 
 D. Diego. But poor Frogy what has he done ! On 
 Confeience, if there be an honeff, iincere Man in 
 : the Worlds it is that 
 
 
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Mrs Bud. I think I need not tell you how much 
 Frog has been oblig’d to our Family from his Child¬ 
 hood j he carries his Head high jiow, but he had 
 never been the Man he'is, without our Help. 
 Ever fince the Commencement of this Law-Suit it 
 has been the Bufmefs of Hoctu^ in fharing our Ex¬ 
 peaces, to plead for Frog. Poor Frog, (fays he) 
 in hard Creumfiances, he has a numerous Family, and 
 lives from Hand to Mouth j hU Children don^t eat a 
 rituals from one tear's end to the othir, but 
 live upon Salt Herring, fowr Crud, and Bote^c6U \ he 
 does his utmofi, poor Fellow^ to keep things^' even'in the 
 World, and has exerted himfelf b^ond his aibiilty in this 
 Law-Suit, hut he really h^s not wherc-withal to go on. 
 What Jignifes this Hundred Pounds', place it 'uppnyo^rjide 
 of the Account *, it is a great deal to poor Ffog,' ahd a' 
 Trifle to you. .. This has bc^a Jfacitfs conft3Dit> Lanij 
 guage, and 1 am fare he has had Obltgatiojis enough 
 to us to have aJted another Parf.‘ 
 
 ■ D. Diego. No doubt /ifocw mhant all thf? for the 
 bell, but he is a tender-heaffed charitable, 
 
 Frog is indeed in, hard Cirrtrmffaiices. ' ^ “ 
 
 ■' Mrs. Hull. HaVd Circumltaqccs! I fwear this is 
 provoking fo' the laft degree: All the time df the 
 Law-Suit, a^ fait as I have Mortgaged, FtU Has our- 
 CTas’d-: From a plain Tradefmah, with a Shop, 
 Warehoufe, and a Gountry-Hutt; with a dirty Filh- 
 rond at the end of it, he-is now grown a vety tich 
 Country Gentleman, with a noble-landed Elfate, 
 noble Palaces, Manors, Parks, Gardens and Farms, 
 finer than any we were ever Mjifter of. Is it not 
 ftrange, when niy Husband disburs’d great . Sums 
 every Term, Frog Ihould h‘fe''purchafing fbme new 
 Farni of Manor ? So that if this Law-Snit lalfs, he 
 ^ill be faf the richeft: Man in his Country. What Is 
 Worle than all this, he fteals away my Cuftomers 
 every Day, I have Twelve of the richeft, and the 
 ^ft, that have Jeftnly Shop by his Perfwafton, and 
 ' * B 3- whon^ 
 
vhoni, to my certain Knowledge^hc has under Bonds 
 ' never to return again: Judge you if this be neigh¬ 
 bourly Dealing. T r • i.- 1 
 
 D. Diejro. Frog is indeed pretty clofe in his Deal¬ 
 ings* but very honeft: You are fo touchy, and take 
 things To hotly, I am fure there muft be fome Miftake 
 
 Mru SuU. A plaguy one indeed! You know, and, 
 have bften told me of it, how Hocus and thofe Rogues 
 kept my Husband, 'John Full, drunk for five Years 
 together, with Punch and Strong Watersv, I am fure 
 he never went one Night fober to Bed, till they got 
 him tb fignthe ftrangelt Deed that ever youfaw it^ 
 your Life. The Methods they took to manage him 
 I’ll tell you another time, at prefent i’ll only rea^ 
 the UTitipig. 
 
 Articles of Agreenlfelife betwixt Joh}) BuU, Clothier, 
 and Frog, Linnen-draper. , 
 
 "L for maintaining the ancient good Corrtffon- 
 derico and Friendjhip between’ the /aid Farties, /Nicholas 
 VtOg do folemnly ejtgage and promi/e tv keep Peace in 
 J^ohp Rull’r j that neither his Ufi/e, Children nor 
 
 Seryat^s give him any /rouble, Difiurhmoe cor Molefia-^ 
 tioa-W^s^oever, but ta oblige them all to do their Duty 
 quietly in their re/peBiycBtations ; Affd .whereas the/aid, 
 Johr^ Bull, from the ^ured Confidence that he has-in my 
 jfrtepdptip.^ has appointed me. Executor of his Lafi WiU and 
 /cjlanient^ and Guardian to his Children, I do undertake 
 for met, my Heirs and, j4ffigns, to fee the fame duly-exei 
 iuted and performed, md that it fhall be unalterable in ad 
 its Parts by John Bull or any Body el/e^ For that purpofv 
 it /ball be lawful and allowable for me to enter his Hov/e 
 at any Hour of the- l)e^ or PJight, to break open Bars, 
 Bolts and t)oors, Chefis of Drawers and firong Boxes, m 
 order to fecure the Peace: of my Friend /sfcin ExPlPt Fa-: 
 mily, and to fee his Will duly executed. 
 
 fl. in Con/dersnion of which hind neighbourly Office of 
 
 l^icholas 
 
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 Nicholas Frog, in that he hashecn f leased to accm of 
 the forefaid Trufiy / John Bull, having duly confiaer^d 
 that my Nicholas Frog at thu time lives in a 
 
 marfly Soil and ttnvoholefome Aity infejled with Fogs and 
 Damps y defiruElive of the Health ofhitnfelfWife atm Chil^ j 
 dretiy do hind and oblige mCy my Heirs and AfftgnSy to 
 Tnrchafe for the Nicholas Frog, with the befi and 
 readiefi of myCaJhy Bondsy MortgageSy Goods and Chat^ 
 telsy a landed EfiatCy with Pa^Sy GardenSy Palaces^ 
 Riversy Fields and OutletSy confjling of as large Extettp 
 as the faid Nicholas Frog JhaHthink fit: And whereas the 
 faid Nicholas Frog is at prefent hem^d in too clofe by 
 the Grounds of Lewis Baboon, Mafter of the Science 
 of Defence, I the [aid John Bull do oblige my J}lfy with 
 the readiefi of my Cdjhy to Purchafe and Enclofe the faid 
 Groutidsy for as many Fields and Acres as the faid lAi^ 
 chohs fijall think fit:y to the intent that the faid Nicholas 
 may have free Egrefs and Regrefsy without Lett or Mo^ 
 lefiationy fultahle to the Demands of himfelf and Family^ 
 
 IIL Furtherpiorey the faid Joh n Bull obliges himfelf te 
 piale the Country-Neighbours of Nicholas Frog, allot se 
 certain part of i early RentSy to pay for the Repairs of the 
 faid landed EfiatCy to the intent that his good Friend Ni- 
 c\i^^sYrogmaybeeafed of allpjarges. 
 
 iV- And whereas the faid Nicholas Frog did ContraFl 
 with the deceafed .Lord Strutt about certain Liberties^ 
 Privileges and Irnmnnitiesy formerly in the Pojfejpm of the 
 faid Jt^n Bull y I the faid John Bull do freely y by thefe 
 PrefentSy renounccy quit and make over to the faid Ni¬ 
 cholas the Llbertiesy Privileges and Immunities controlled 
 for^ in as full manner as if they never had belonged to me. 
 
 V. The faid ]o]\XiP^\PA obliges himfelf y his Heirs and 
 AJJignSy not to fed one Rag of Broad or Courfe Cloath to 
 any Gentleman^ within the Neighbourhood of the faid Ni¬ 
 cholas, except in fuch Quantities and fuch Rates^ as the 
 faid Nicholas fhall think fit* 
 
 ♦ Sign'd and Seal’d^ John Bull, 
 
 Nic, Frog. . 
 
 The 
 
( h) 
 
 The reading of this Paper put Mrs. Bull in fuch a 
 Paflion, that fhe fell downright into a Fit, and 
 " they were forc’d to give her a good quantity of 
 , tlie Spirit of Hartfhorn before fhe recover’d. 
 
 - I). Diego. Why in fuch a Paffion, Coufin ? Confi- 
 daing your Cifcuinftanccs at that time, I don’t thih.i: 
 this fuch an unreafonable Contraft. You fee Frog, 
 for all this, is religioufly true to his Bargain, he 
 icorhs to hearken to any Competition without your 
 Privacy. ' ' 
 
 A4rs.Btttt. You know the contrar‘y,read thatLetter. 
 
 the Superfi:riftion.~j For Lewis Baboon.^ Mafter 
 of the Koble Science of Defence* 
 
 -■ S r R,. 
 
 I VnderJlartd ^ai 'yvtrare. at this tifw 'treating wit^ mj^ 
 Friend-]ohn Bull, 'about rcfioring 'the Lora Strutlf/ 
 Cupom., and hejides allowing hiiH iertai'n Privileged of 
 Parfs and Fijh-Ponfs : I.winder howyoti^ dhat are a Jlfan 
 that knows the tfferjfd^'can talk with jhat Jimple' Fepow, 
 ’ffer hast been my Bidtbie thefe ‘Twenty Tears,., and., fo 'inp 
 '€ertainhtfwled[gefimdtrpands no more off iy own j^aiy'^ 
 tfrofT -a €inid in Pwadling-Ftoaijos. ' I 'kHdw' he has gpt '^ 
 Jgrt of a pragmatical {illy fade of aHffegtlpat preteniffio 
 takThifrr'otft of ny'ffandsg but yoii'ofidfhe both wilt find 
 felves m'ijfa^en{ f il^nd thofe 'ihat jlia^ manage, hir y 
 'atfd'fofhim, he dar^SM TSfefl bc'han^f M^ one fieplst 
 his yfifairs., withoi'it'rrtyponfent. ' ffybuwill'givC me wtoap 
 ptoohifed himfi-1 p\lt^aie all iHingseaftey and flop the 
 •Deeds of Ejtllmeht agmj^^^^ Strutr-, if you willnd^ 
 
 take rtf hat follows1 fir.ill'tk'-Je a good fiction againfi.pu^ 
 {or pretending to rob me^ of my BubbUf, fake this wirn- 
 'trtgjrg^ ' ^ 
 
 ■ . Yoiif.lovIhg'Fricnd, 
 
 ’ ■;\ " '' '.i 'S *■ 
 
 , . . ■ i\7»V. Progf. 
 
 I am told, CouHn Diego., you afe oue of thofe Aat 
 . have undertaken to manage me, and that you have 
 
 faid 
 
faid you will carry a Green Bag your ftlf, rather 
 than we (hall make an end of our Law-Suit: I’lltcach 
 them and you too to manage. 
 
 p. Diego. For God’s fake, Madam, why lb Cho- 
 lerick ? I lay, this Letter is (bme Forgery, it never 
 enter’d into the Head of that honeft Man, Nic. Frof, 
 to do any fuclj think. 
 
 Mrs. Bull. I can’t abide you, you have been railing 
 thefeXwenty Years at Efquire Fwand Hocutt 
 cilling them Rogues and Pick*Pocket1, and now 
 they are turn’d the honefteft Fellows in the World ; 
 what is the meaning of all this ? 
 
 p. Diego. Pray tell me how you came to employ 
 this Sir Roger in your Affiirs, and not think of youV 
 old Friend Diego f 
 
 Mrs. Bull. So, fo, there it pinches. To tch you 
 truth, I have employ’d Sir Roger in feveral weight? 
 Afiairs, and have found him trufty and honeft, and 
 tke poor Man always fcorn’d to take a Farthing of 
 me. I have abundance that profefs great Zeal, but 
 they are damnable greedy of the Pence. My Husband 
 and I are now in fuchCircumftances, that we muft 
 be ferv’d upon cheaper Terms than we have been. 
 
 D. Diego. Well, Coufin, I find lean do no good 
 with you, I am forry that you will ruin your felf by 
 trufting this Sir Roger. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 How the Guardians of the deceas'd Mrs. Bull’# Bsm 
 Daughters came to John, aud v^at Advice they gave 
 him i wherein is briefly treated the Osar afters of the 
 three Daughters: Alfo John Bull’# Anfwer to the tljrct 
 Guardians. 
 
 T Told you in my firft Part, that Mrs. Bull, before 
 (he departed this Life, had blefs’d John with three 
 
 Daughters ^ I need not here repeat their Kam?s, nei- 
 
 ther,; 
 
ther would I willingly ule any fcandalous Reflexions 
 upon young Ladies, whole Reputations ought to be 
 very tenderly handled; but the CharaXers of thefe 
 were lb well known in the Neighbourhood, that it 
 is doing them no Injury to make a fhort Defeription 
 of them. 
 
 The Eldefl: was a termagant, impffious, prodigal, 
 lewd, profligate Wench, as ever breath’d Ihe ufed 
 to Rantipole about the Houfe, pinch the Children, 
 kick the Servants, and torture the Cats and the 
 Dogs; Ihe would rob her Father’s ftrong Box, for 
 Money to give the young Fellows that Ihe was fond 
 of: She had a noble Air, and Ibmething great in her 
 Mein, but fuch a noifomeinfeXious Breath, as threw 
 all the Servants that drefs’d her into Confumptions; 
 if (he fmelt to the frelheft Nolegay, it woulcf Ihrivel 
 and wither as it had been blighted : She us’d to come 
 home in her Cups, and break the China-, and the 
 Looking-glalTes, and was of fuch an irregular Tem¬ 
 per, and fo entirely given up to her Pafllon, that 
 you might argue as well with theNorthwind, as with 
 her Lady fliip-, fo Expenlive, that the Income of three 
 Dukedoms was not enough to fupply her Extrava¬ 
 gance. Hocm lov’d her beft, believing her to be his 
 own, got upon the Body of Mrs. Bull. 
 
 The fecond Daughter, born a Year after her Sifter, 
 Was a peevifli, froward, ill-condition’d Creature as 
 ever was born, ugly as the Devil, lean, haggard, pale, 
 with faucer Eyes, a lharp Nofe and hunch-back’d, 
 hut aXive, fprightly and diligent about her AflBirs. 
 Her lll-CompIexio» wasoccafion’d by her bad Diet, 
 which was Coffee, Morning, Noon and Night. She 
 never vefted quietly a Bed, but ufed to diftorb the 
 whole Family with Ihrieking out in her Dreams, and 
 plague them next Day with interpreting them, fot' 
 Ihe took them all for Gofpel. She would cry out 
 Murder, and difturb the whole Neighbourhood ; and 
 when John came running down Stairs to enquire 
 • • what 
 
» 7 ; 
 
 what the Matter was, nothing forfooth, only her 
 Maid had ftuck a Pin wrong in herGown. ’ She turn’d 
 away one Servant for putting too much Oil in her 
 Sallad, and another for putting too little Salt in her 
 Water-Cruel. But fuch as by Flattery had procur’d 
 her Efteem, (he would indulge in the greateft Crimes. 
 Her Father had two Coachmen, when one was in the 
 Coach-bo.x, if the Coach fwung but the leafl: to one 
 fide, (he ufcd to fliriek fo loud, that all the Street 
 concluded Ihe was overturn’d •, but tho’ the other 
 was eternally Drunk, and had overturn’d the whole 
 Family, Ihe was very angry with her Father for 
 turning him away. Then Ihe ufcd to carry Talcs 
 and Stories from one to another, till Ihe had fet the 
 Whole-Neighbourhood together by the Ears ^ and this 
 was the only Diverfion fhe took pleafure in. She 
 never went abroad, but (he bi-ought home fuch a bun¬ 
 dle of raonftrous Lyes as would have amaz’d any 
 Mortal, but fuch as knew her: Of a Whale that had 
 fwallow’d a Fleet of Ships; of the Lyons being let 
 out of the Tower^ to deftroy the Proteftant Religion \ 
 of the Pope’s being feen in a Brandy Shop at 
 
 and a prodigious ftrong Man that was going to 
 (hove down the Cupola of Paulas ; of Three millions 
 of Five Pound Pieces that Efquire South had found 
 under an old Wall ^ of Blazing-Stars, Flying Dra¬ 
 gons, and abundance of fuoh Stuff. All the Ser¬ 
 vants in the Family made high Court to her, for (lie 
 Domineer’d there, and turn’d out and in whom (he 
 pleas’d •, only there was an old Grudge between her 
 and Sir Roger., whom (he mortally hated, and ufed to 
 hire Fellows to (quirt Kennel Water upon him as he 
 pafs’d along the Streets, fo that he was forc’d con- 
 ftantly to wear a Surtout of oil’d Cloath, by which 
 means he came home pretty clean, cxcept’whcrethe 
 Surtout was a little (canty. 
 
 As for the Third, (he was a Thief, anefa com¬ 
 mon mercenary Proftitute, and that without any 
 
 G Solical< 
 
(i8,) 
 
 Solicitation from Nature, for (he own’d fhe had no 
 Enjoyment. She had no Refpeft of Perfbns, a Prince 
 Or a Porter was all one, according as they paid *, yea 
 ihe would leave the fineft Gentleman in the World 
 to go to an ugly pocky Fellow, for Six Pence more. 
 In the practice of her ProfefTion fhe had amafs’d vaft 
 Magazines of all forts of Things •, flie had above 
 Five hundred Suits of fine Clothes, and yet went 
 abroad like a Cynder-Wench : She robb’d and 
 ftarv’d all the Servants, fo that no Body could live 
 near her. 
 
 So much for John^s three Daughters, avhich you 
 will fay weie Rarities to be fond of. Yet Nature 
 will (how it felf; no Body could blame their Rela¬ 
 tions for taking cave of them, and therefore it was 
 that/^^>c/«, vvith two other of theGuardians, thought 
 it their Duty to take care of the liitereft of the three 
 Girls, and give Jolm their belt Advice, before he 
 -Compounded the Law-Suit. * 
 
 Hocus, . What makes you fb fhy of late, my good 
 Friend ? There’s no* Body loves you better than I, 
 nor has taken more pains in your Affairs i As I 
 hop’d CO: be fiiv’d-I would do any thing to ferve you, 
 I WbUld crawl upon all Four . to ferve you; I have 
 fl)ent; my' Health, and paternal Eftate in your Ser¬ 
 vice v.I have, indeed, a fmall Pittance left, with 
 which 1 might retire^ and with as good a Confei- 
 ^cnce as any Man. But the thoughts of this difgface- 
 •.ful Compolition fo touches me to the Quick, that I 
 cannot fleep : After I had brought the Caule to the 
 lad Stroke, that one*Verdid more had quite ruin’d 
 old Ac TV/j a nd Lord and put you in the quiet 
 
 Poirefflon of every thing',' then to Compound, 1 can¬ 
 not bear it. This Caufewas my Favourite, 1 had 
 /et .my. Heart upon it \ it is like an only Child, 1 
 cannot endure it fhould mifearry : For God fake 
 c’onlidc^ only to what a difmal Coqdition old hems 
 
 is 
 
( 19 ; 
 
 is brought: He is at an end of all his Caib, his At¬ 
 torneys have hardly one Trick left, they are at an 
 end of all their Chicane •, befides, he has both his 
 Layv and his daily Bread now upon Trull: Hold out 
 only one Term longer, and. I’ll warrant you, before 
 the next, we lhall have him in the F/ftr. I’ll bring 
 him to the Pillory, his Ears fljall pay for his Per¬ 
 juries-, for the Love of God don’t Compound, let 
 me be Damn’d if you have a Friend in the World 
 that loves you better than I -, there is no Body can 
 fay I am Covetous, or that 1 have any Intcreft to 
 purfuebut yours. 
 
 id Guardian. There is nothing fo plain, than that 
 this Lewii has a defign to Ruin all his neighbouring 
 Tradefmen, and at this time he has fuch a prodi¬ 
 gious Income, by his Trade of all kinds, that if 
 there is not fome flop put to his Exorbitant Riches, 
 he will Monopolize every thing, and no Body will 
 be able to fell a Yard of Drapery or Mercery Ware 
 but himfelf. I therefore hold it advifable, that you 
 continue the Law-Suit, and burll him at once. My 
 Concern for the three poor Motherlefs Children ob¬ 
 liges me to give you this Advice, for their Eftates, 
 poor Girls, depend upon the Succefs of this 
 Caufe. 
 
 c , 
 
 sd Guardian. 1 own this Writ of Ejcelment has 
 coll dear, but then confidcr it is a Jewel well worth 
 the Purchafing, at the Price of all you have. None 
 blit Mr. 2Jr///'s declar’d Enemies can fay he has any 
 other Security for his Cloathing Trade, but the 
 Ejciflment of Lord Strutt. The only Qiieftion then 
 that remains to be decided, is. Who lhall Hand the 
 Expenccs of the Suit ? lo which the AnfWcr is as 
 plain. Who but he that is to have the Advantage of 
 tlie Sentence ? When lifquire Siuth has got Polfet- 
 lion of his Title and Honour, is not John Bull to be 
 , * ^ '^Vho then but ought to put hiin 
 
 la PouelTiou? Ask but any indidh’ent Gentleman 
 
 C) 1 vvho 
 
( 2 ®) 
 
 who ought to bear his Charges at Law ? and he will 
 readily anfwer, his Tradefmen. I do therefore affirm, 
 and I will go to Death with ic,that,being his Clothier, 
 you ought to put him in quiet PoflTeflion of his 
 Eftatc, and with the fame generous Spirit you have 
 begun it, compleat the good Work. If you perfift 
 in the bad Meafures you are now in, what muft be¬ 
 come of the three poor Orphans ? My Heart bleeds 
 for the poor Girls. 
 
 John Bull. You are all very eloquent Perfons, but 
 give me leave to tell you, that you exprefs a great 
 deal of more Concern for the three Girls than for 
 me; I think my Intereft ought to be confider’d in 
 the firft place. As for you, I can’t but fay 
 
 you have managed my Law-Suit with great Add refs, 
 and much to my Honour; and, tho’ I fay it, you have 
 been well paid for it; never was Attornies Bill more 
 Extravagant, and, give me leave to fay, there are 
 many Articles which the molt griping of yourPro- 
 feflion never demanded, I have trufled you with 
 the disburfing great Sums of Money, and you have 
 conllantly funk fome into your own Pocket. I tell 
 you I don’t like that Sinking. Why muft the Bur¬ 
 then be taken off Fred’s Back, and laid upon my 
 Shoulders <’ He can drive about his own Parks and 
 Fields in his gilt Chariot, when I have been forc’d 
 to Mortgage my Eftate! his Note will go farther 
 than my Bond ! Is it not Matter of Fafl:, "that from 
 the richeft Tradefman in all the Country, I am re¬ 
 duced to beg and borrow from Scriveners and Ufu- 
 rers, that fuck the Heart, Blood and Guts out of 
 me, and what was all this for ? Did you likefro/s 
 Countenance better than mine ? Was not I your 
 old Friend and Relation ? Have I nqf Prefented 
 you nobly ? Have I not clad your wh'ble Family ? 
 Have you not had an Hundred Yards at a time, of 
 the fineft Cloath in my Shop ? Why muft the reft 
 
 / 
 
of the Tradefinen be not only indemnified from 
 Charges, but forbid to go on with their own Bufi- 
 nefs; and what is more their Concern than-raine?. 
 As to holding out this Term, 1 Appeal to yoiirown 
 Confciencc, has not that been your conftant Dif- 
 courlc thefe Six Years, one Term more-y and old Lewis 
 goes to Tot ^ if thou art fo fond of my Caufe, be ge¬ 
 nerous for once, and lend me a brace ofThoufands. 
 Ah Hocus! Hocus ! I know thee, not a Sous to favc 
 me from Goal, I trow. Look ye. Gentlemen, I 
 have liv’d with Credit in the World, and it grieves 
 my Heart, never to ftir out of my Doors, but to 
 be pull’d by the Sleeve by fbme Rafcally Dun, or 
 another : Sir , Remember tny Bill: T'here^s a Jtnall Con-" 
 cern of a 'Thoufand Pounds^ I hope you tipnk oiity Sir» 
 And to have thefe Ufurers tranfaft my Debts at 
 Coffee-Houfes and Ale-Houfes, as if I were going to 
 break-up Shop. Lord! That ever the Rich, the 
 Generous John Bully Clothier, the Envy of all his 
 Neighbours, fliould be brought to Compound his 
 I^bts for Five Shillings in the Pound ^ and to have 
 his Name in an Advertilement, for a Statute of 
 Bankrupt. The Thoughts of it makes me Mad. I 
 have read fome-where in the Jpocrypha, That one 
 fliould not confult -with a Woman touching her^ of whom 
 jlie is Jealous y nor with a Aferchanty concerning Ex~ 
 changey nor wtth a B-uyery of Selling ^ nor with an unmer¬ 
 ciful Man of Kindnejsy &c. I could have added one 
 thing more ^ Nor with an Attorneyy about Compounding 
 a LaW'Suit, This Ejeftment of Lord Strutt will ne¬ 
 ver do. The Evidence is Crimp ^ the Witnefles 
 fwear backwardsand forwards, andContradiftthem'^ 
 lelves, and his Tenants ftick by him. If it were pra- 
 fticable, is it reafonable, that when Efquirc South 
 IS lofing his Money to Sharpers and Pick-Pockets, 
 going about the Country with Fidlers and Buffoons, 
 and fquandring his Income with Hawks and Dogs, 
 
 ■ 1 
 
I fhonid lay out the Fruits of my honeft: Induftry' 
 in a Law-Suit for him, only upon the hopes of be¬ 
 ing his Clothier ? and when the Canfc is over, I fhall 
 not have the Benefit of my Projedl, for want of 
 Money to go to Market. Look ye. Gentlemen, John 
 Evfi is but a plain Manbut John Bull knows when 
 he is ill ufedf I know the Infirmity of our Family; 
 wcarcaptto play the Boon-Companion, and throw 
 away oiir Money in our Cups: But it was an unfair 
 thing in you. Gentlemen, to take Advantage of my 
 Wcaknefs, to keep a parcel of roaring Bullcys about 
 me. Day and Night, with Huzza’s, and Hunting- 
 Horns, and Ringing the Changes'on Butchers 
 Cleaversnever to let me cool, aiid make me fee 
 ray Hands to papers, when I could hardly hold my 
 Pen. There will com.'e a Day of Reckoning for all 
 that proceeding. In the mean time. Gentlemen, I 
 beg you will let me into my Affairs a little, and that 
 you would not grudge me very fmall Pvemaindcr of 
 a very great Efiatc. ■ 
 
 C H A P. V. 
 
 Efqmre South’j Mejfage and Letter to Mrs. Bull. 
 
 T il E. Arguments us’d by Hocm^ and the reft of 
 the Guardixins, had hitherto prov’d infuffi- 
 cient. John and his Wife'could not bmperfwaded to 
 bear the Expence of- fifquire Souths Law-Suit. 
 They thought it rcafonatrl.c, that lince he was to 
 have the Honour and Advantage, he would bear the 
 greateif Siiarc of the Charges ; and retrench what 
 he loll to Sharpers, and fpentupon Country-Dances, 
 and Puppet-Plays, to appiy it to that ufe. This 
 was not very grateful to the Efquire : Therefore, 
 -IS the lalt Experiment, he wns rcfolved to lendLSig-* 
 
 nior 
 
C 2?) 
 
 Mailer Of his Fox^Hoiinds, to Mrs. 
 u , ry what good he could do with her. This 
 Signior had all the Qualities of a fine Gen¬ 
 
 tleman, tha^were fit to ChSnn a Lady’s Heart 
 and If any if rfon in the World could have Mrfwa- 
 
 defitt^rn her unlhaLi Fi- 
 
 her conftant Purpofe of 
 
 that were praftis’d, could, 
 ^'he Necklaces, Dia- 
 fhp tich Bracelets that were offer’d 
 
 utmoft Scorn and Difdaiii’ 
 The Muhek and Serenades that were given her* 
 ■funded more ungratefully in her Earsrthan tlie 
 Bf* ^ ^ciccch Owl- however /he receiv'd 
 Efquirc Sojtf/js Letter, by the Hands of Signior 
 with that Refped which became his QnalS 
 The Copy ot the Letter is as follows ^ in which^S 
 will obferve he Changes, a little, hiS u/tial Sciie.^ 
 
 madam, ... - < 
 
 Philip mbdon, 
 
 pretended Lord Strutt, is jt.fi ready topafs-i 'there 
 rt^ts hut a feib necefary Forms; id a re&i^^ 
 
 EJt^e: I^uejl^on mt but that, accord!^ to jour rvont- 
 
 Zu^n/'‘ r'”T anymibri 
 
 order to eafeyouoffirne part of thi ciar^cs, 
 
 I promt fe to furmfl, Fen, M and Paper, provUe/vou 
 pay for the Stamps. Befides, T have ordc/d my'fte-^ard 
 io pay out of the Peadiefi and beft of d>y Bits Five 
 Pounds ten SWU\p a Jear, YdPmy Suifi fhidl / 
 w.flsyou Health and Happinefs, being, dfith dveBelpea, 
 
 M .4 DAM, 
 
 ' " '■ Your alTorcd Friend, 
 
 S OVT H 
 
 _r*_* 
 
 1 
 
( 24 ) 
 
 What Anfwer Mrs. BvU return’d to this Letter, 
 you fhall know in my Third Part, only they were 
 at a pretty good diftance in their Propofals ^ for as 
 Efquire South only offer’d to be at tie Charges of 
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THE 
 
 HISTORY, 
 
 3XJ deGre me to give you fome 
 Account of the Death of thfe 
 Widow at the CROWN-JNN in 
 the Metropolis of this Country^ 
 and how Affairs have gone fince 
 you left the Place. 
 
 The Widow, you know, was a good fort 
 of a Woman j Ihe was pious and charitable, 
 and did a great deal of Good among her poor 
 Neighbours: Went conftantly to the Parifh- 
 Church on Sundays, and in General had the 
 Charafter ofaconlcientious motherly Woman. 
 
 Her Husband, whilft he lived, was one 
 the honefteft Men breathing: *Tis true he 
 would take his Glafs in Company, as all his 
 Countrymen will do: But he was a downright 
 honeft Fellow, and lov’d the Town 5 and 
 we fhall never forget howti^ly be flood by 
 us when Sir Jacob, our High Sheriff, would 
 have infring’d onomR^ht dOmmomng. Po0t 
 Man! he kept her from ill Advice whilft 
 
 A 2 be 
 
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 he lived, and the whole Gjuntry was heartily 
 forry for his Death, having not left an hone- 
 Oer Man behind him in the Parijb. 
 
 But what need I tell you things which 
 you are as well acquainted with as my felf, 
 only to refrefli your Memory in fome Pajfages 
 previous to your Requeft } You defire to know 
 the Difpofition of the Eftate, and how the 
 Tkree Farms ftand affeded at this Day. 
 
 You remember at her firft coming to the 
 Houf^ Ihe found the Debts of an old 
 Suit to be paid, which had lafted long, and a 
 new one juft ready to begin, which no body 
 could guefs the Event of. Money there was 
 little or none in the Houfe ^ and only a few 
 ^chequer Notes, which no body but the Ex- 
 cifeman would take for Ready Money. 
 
 Her Tenants and Cufiomers were very un¬ 
 willing to fee her ruined 3 and as Ihe had 
 treated them very handfomely at her Houfe- 
 voarmng^ they fwore they would ftand by her 
 againft all Oppofers. By Oppofers you know 
 who they meant: For it was by this time 
 certainly known, that old the Ex¬ 
 
 tortioner, had fet up a Competitor againft her, 
 pretending he was a real Branch of the anti- 
 cnt Family of the formerly Lords 
 
 of the MANOR, and brought a Writ of E- 
 jedmcnt in his Name, and fee’d Council a- 
 gainft the Widow. This is one who 
 
 has always made it his bufinefs to entertain 
 Renegadoes and Impoftors 3 and by forged 
 Deeds and Wills to take PolfelTion of Eftates,- 
 
( 5 ) 
 
 and then maintain them by troubJefome Law- 
 • Suits^ till at lafl: he hasIhareda handfome Cora- 
 pofition for himfelf. You cannot chufe too 
 but know, that both by Will and Deed of 
 Gift, the Houfe it felf as well as the Three 
 Tarms had been fetled on her near Kinfman 
 Mr. WRIGHT, (aMan whom all the 
 honeft Tenanti wilhed to fucceed her) as well 
 in her Life, as in the time of her Predeceffor. 
 
 To be fliort ( as you muft needs know ) a 
 hazardous S 7 iit commenced 5 and becaufe it 
 fliould not lye too hard upon the Widow, ma¬ 
 ny of her Friends became Parties to it. Ho- 
 neft John Trujly, by general Confent was 
 made chief Agent in the Caitfe, who the firft 
 Term put the Widow's Affairs in a good Po- 
 fture 3 and for feveral Terms following w'as 
 continually gaining one Advantage or other 
 over her Adverfariesj fo that they began now 
 to fue for Compojition, and a Meeting was 
 appointed on both fides 3 but refufing to al¬ 
 low fufficient Colls and Damages, t& Law 
 went oa 
 
 In thispromifing State flood Affairs, when 
 that furious Pulpteer, the Curate of High- 
 Ham, came to preach at Hockley, where hav¬ 
 ing pack’d up a Sermon for the purpofe, he 
 infus’d Sedition among the Widow's Tenants 
 zndi Cujlomers, infinuating, that Ihe began to 
 fell in Jbort Meafure, Brew’d with Home-made 
 Malt, and let her Lawyers, Book-keepers, Ofi- 
 lers, Chamherlais, Tapjter, ^c. run away 
 with wi^t Ihould pay the Excife, He in¬ 
 veighed 
 
(«) 
 
 veighed vehemently againft the Parfon dj 
 the Paripy and other Heads of the Town, 
 for not repairing the Church, one part 
 of which he faid was damaged and ready 
 to fall:, whilfl; the Conventicle was up¬ 
 held by fome about her, and a Parcel of GPP- 
 SIES kept privately in the Barn to eat her 
 out of Houfe and Home. 
 
 'I'he Fellow had a good Talent at Railing, 
 and could run on witli as much Impudence 
 as a Mountebank exhibits his Pacquet : In 
 fhortthe PoHbn worked fo fubtly, that the 
 whole Country was put in a Ferment. The 
 Curate was taken up, and brought before the 
 Benc^ of JuJiices 5 where tho’ he was repri¬ 
 manded, and ordered to find Sureties for his 
 Good Behaviour for 3 Years, yet it did not 
 quiet the People, who cry’d out, The Churchy 
 the Church I 2 xA ran up and down in Tu¬ 
 mults, as tho’ it had been falling on their 
 Heads 5 whiift to ftrengthen the matter, the 
 Curate took a Journey round the Country, 
 pofTefling the People that the Houfe was haun¬ 
 ted- and bid them take care how they came 
 near it any more, direfting them to the pope’s 
 and -©aggeif, near the CtOfSl. 
 
 At this time one Robin Sly-boots^ a Welch 
 Button-maker, a notorious cunning Fellow, 
 and fam’d for a Conjurer, who had formerly 
 belonged to the Family, but was turned out, 
 formaking too bold with the WidovPs Secrets. 
 This Fellow took his Opportunity td Cor- 
 *^ipt one of the Witfow’s Maid^ by pretending 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 to teii her her Fortune, which fuch gighiig 
 Wenches are generally fond of 5 To that taking 
 her one Day, as fhe was fvveeping the Rooms, 
 and making the Beds, he began in this manner. 
 “ tJab, fays he, I have often taken notice 
 that thou art a Pains-taking, induftrious 
 “ Girl, and haft lived a great while in thy 
 Service without coming to any Advance- 
 “ ment. Tis true, you fweep the Rooms, 
 “ make the Beds, and get a little ferry 
 “ Vails of the Guejis^ but ’tis Mrs. Sarah 
 “ runs away with all the Profit, and keeps 
 “ her whole Family at your Miftrelles charge. 
 “ But tho* fee now flouts the Widm^ and 
 flies and bounces like bottled Ale, thou 
 “ fealt one day, if thou tak’ft my Advice, 
 “ come to be as high as fee: Remember it, 
 ¥ak, I fay, thou fealt come to be a Lady. ’ 
 ** Bleft me, lays Nab^ ^ with a fimpering 
 “ Countenance, knowing he had long had the 
 ** Reputation of a Conjurer) is it poffibJe 
 that I feould come to fuch Preferment as 
 « you lay,? That you may believe me, fays 
 “ Robin, go prefently, and look on the Bed 
 “ in the Green Room, there lies ^Calicoe Gmm 
 " and ReticoaL lin’d thro’ with the lame: 
 “ ask your Miftrels for it, and fee win give 
 ** feyou. Asyou find this true, believe me 
 “ in the reft. 
 
 I^ab, na longer able to contain, lien jfelf 
 flung doty nhejc Befora, and ran to the place; 
 where fin^gitas^he.had faid,. fee returned 
 Qvetpje^ 
 
 !! But, 
 
( S ) 
 
 But, Mr. Slyboots, fays "Nab, how is 
 “ this thing to be eifeded > I’ll tell you, fays 
 “ Robin, —At Midnight, when all things 
 “ are quiet, you ftiall plant me in feme Cor- 
 “ ner ^ and for the greater Solemnity I will 
 “ have my Conjurers Gown on. You muft on 
 “ your part infufe ftrange things into her 
 “ Head, and tell her as many Tales as you can 
 “ of the Servants. Then bring in fome talk 
 “ of the Curate ^ tell her what a good Man he 
 “ is, and that he had always a great Refpedt 
 *• for her ^ infinuate that the Defign of bring- 
 V ing him before the Bench of Jufiices was 
 to difgrace the Church, and that thofe who 
 “ were his Friends, Ihe may alfure her felf 
 “ are hers 5 and whilft flie is mufing on thefe 
 “ things, for 1 know it will work on her Re- 
 ligious Spirit, I will appear, and then leave 
 the reft to me. 
 
 Vab, in the mean time, had got the Gown 
 and Peticoat which Robin fpoke of, and was 
 pretty fure the reft oi \i\s 'Preditions vfonAd 
 follow. In fine, the Widow was fo poflelTed 
 and deluded by Nab's whining, and this Cojf- 
 juring R 2 i{caPs Cant, that, tho’ otherwife a 
 Woman of Senfe, ftie grew perfeftly enflam’d, 
 fo that without examining farther into the 
 matter, giving Ear- t6 Nab’s Tales, ftie pre- 
 fently began to reform her Family 5 and a 
 great many of the honefteft Tenants had war¬ 
 ning given them againft the next Quarter- 
 day. However the Law-Suit continuing, 
 they did not yet think fit to turn out honeft 
 
( 9 ) 
 
 ^obn the Agents becaufe the taking the Papers 
 out of his hands might be dangerons to the 
 CAUSE. 
 
 Among the reft, to niake room for Robin^ 
 Ralph the Cajb-keeper was difmifl'ed, a down¬ 
 right honeft bellow, and had held his Place 
 long with great Integrity, tho’ many of her 
 beil CtfJlomfTs told her they would leave the 
 Houle, and Hand by her no longer, if Ihe 
 took thefe Courles. But all did not avail 5 
 every thing went as Robin advifed 5 in fine, Ihe 
 turn'd away all her old honeft Servants, dil- 
 folved the Club that was kept at her Houfe, 
 and none were held in favour, but (uch as had 
 appeared to be Friends to the Curate^ or were 
 RobiiPs Creatures. Robin was firft made Book¬ 
 keeper and Under-CaJb-keeper, and after Head 
 Caflhkeeper^ which was what he ail along aim¬ 
 ed at. He grew angry now at being called 
 plain Robin^ and nothing would go down but 
 Mr. Slyboots at every word. He changed his 
 Sign, which was before the three Button-moles.^ 
 and hung up in the room of it the Star and 
 Carter finely painted, and had Vanity and Im¬ 
 pudence enough to take the two Angels for 
 Supporten to his S^n-Pofi. All that he 
 faid or did, if it may bear an old Pun, was 
 Bob as a Robin 5 he brought in all his Friends, 
 Fellows as poor as Hoxvlets^ to rule tiie Roaft, 
 and fill their hungry Bellies at the Widow’s 
 Table j luch an avaritious Crew as were hard¬ 
 ly worth hanging 5 a Medley of Welch Crate- 
 Carriers, Pedlars, Retalers of Hob-nails, Brick- 
 
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 dufi, 6Cc. an4 among the reft advanced HtfT'ry 
 Aucumy^ the Brazier, an audacious, lewd young 
 Fellow, to be one of xht Clerks the Breve- 
 houfe. This was a docible young Dog forRo^>jVs 
 Purpofe, and by a pert wayof fpeaking in the 
 Club, dextroufly advanc’d the Reputation of 
 Robins Proceedings. In fliort, ail went fwim- 
 mingly in tht INN fora Year or two, and 
 the Rogues with thriving Faces, carefled one 
 another in their Iniquity. 
 
 But they found the Law-Suit began to hang 
 heavy on their Hands; they had not the 
 fame Credit that the former Servants had to 
 borrow Money, and they had none of their 
 own to lend : The Rino was wanted to pay 
 Fees, and the Tenants were very backward to 
 advance more ^ fo that finding they were like 
 to bring an old Houfe upon their heads if thej\ 
 went on, they were refoived at any rate to come 
 to an Accomodation and Harry Aucumy was 
 fent privately to old Houfe to treat 
 
 about it, tho’ they had ftill told the Tenants 
 it fliould be pulh’d on vigoroujly next Term^ 
 and conftantly got Money out of them for that 
 purpofe. 
 
 Thinking their Bufinefs was now done,they 
 put honeft John Trufty out of the Agency, 
 and like a Parcel of ungrateful Curs, fet their 
 Black Guard to pelt him 5 but the honeft Peo¬ 
 ple of the Town could not forbear exprefiing 
 their Love in refpeft to his upright and judici¬ 
 ous dealing,by welcoming himHomewitn loud 
 Acciamations, which fretted the Rogues to the 
 
 Plucks 
 
{ II) 
 
 Pluclcs to fee him fo careffed, by whofe good 
 Management the Cau^e had beea brought to 
 that HTue, that Judgement was order’d to be 
 enter’d up, and Execwriow would certainly have 
 followed the very next Term. It will be te¬ 
 dious to relate all the intricate PaflTages of the 
 Law, and how the Widow’s Friends refolv’d 
 to carry the Caufe on without her, but that 
 ^obin had ordered the new Agent Jacob 
 Vjijb toftifle many of the chief Witnefles, by 
 which the Adverfary’s Attorney found means 
 to flop Judgement. 
 
 To amufe the Tenants^ who they knew 
 would be alarm’d at this Proceeding it was 
 given out, that the Widovd's Friends had not 
 paid their fhare of the Lave-Churges., but that 
 all the Burden had lain upon her, which had 
 Tun her grievoufly in Debt, and that flie 
 was in a manner forc’d to a Compofition, and 
 had Offers now of a very good one, much to 
 the Advantage of her felf and her Friends, 
 This took with the Ally People, and infpight 
 of all the Intreatics of her honeft Tenants, an 
 Agreement foon followed, which however 
 had taken up more time and Money to effed 
 than would have decided it at Common-Law. ’ 
 ’Tis true we burnt our Faggot-ftacks, fet 
 the Bells a ringing, and illumined our Win¬ 
 dows, but we foon experienc’d, that Humilia¬ 
 tion would have become us better. TheHoufe 
 loft its Trade, and no body in Town almoft 
 had any thing to do. People began to fee into 
 this, when it was too late, and no Remedy 
 
 B 2 could 
 
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 ^ould be found to help them. Our old Friends 
 exclaimed againft us, as a treacherous and bale 
 fort of People, and Ihunn’d the Town, and 
 our new ones apparently flighted us, tho’ wc 
 had done them fuch iignal Service : Nor 
 could we fo much as obtain to have the Qiiar^ 
 ter^SejUiom kept here, tho our Credit before 
 ufed to draw every Botly to us. 
 
 They began to cavil how at the Widorv’s 
 Will in favour of Mr. Wright, and tho’ 
 they durft not openly declare themlelves, yet 
 ’tis known they were endeavouring to invei¬ 
 gle the People into an Opinion of young 
 Title, anddifpers’d Papers to prove 
 it, nor did they ufe Mr. Wright as tho’ they 
 ever expeded he would come to the Eftate. 
 All we cculd do was to wilh them hang’d be^ 
 fore they fhould bring it to pafs 3 for you 
 niuli know we hate the young Fellow heartily : 
 His Father Sir yacol? (if he washoneftly be¬ 
 got) ufed us horribly, quarter’d Soldiers up¬ 
 on us, threaten’d our Charter^ and play’d the 
 Devil for God’s fake thro’ the whole Country 
 till we were fain to fend him packings 
 and 'tis very well known the young Rogue 
 will never forgive us for’t. 
 
 The Widovo being to fend one to old 0 a:« 
 Ijage stoadjuftAccounts on theAccomodation, 
 
 * whofliould thefe^c/;rto^Mf advifeherto but 
 Booty notorious Friend to theFamily of 
 the ^j^Utc’s. I’his put us in fuch aFright that 
 we were ready to offer a Leg or Arm, out of 
 every Family for Indemnity: for we fuppofed 
 
 he 
 
 i 
 
( >5 ) 
 
 he could have no Other Bufinefs but to ftn'ke 
 up a Bargain at old gJatiage’s^ but as it 
 happened we had the good Fortune to fee him 
 die in a Ditch before he fet out, and favc the 
 
 H-n a labour, whofe Occupation, ’tis 
 
 faid, he had merited a few Fears before by en¬ 
 deavouring to give the Tsung Gentleman Pof- 
 feflion of the l^onh Farm, with defign to 
 burn and plunder it, if he could not hold it 
 by Law. 
 
 In Ihort, every day produced frelh Inftances 
 of our Misfortunes and of the Villanies of thofe 
 who had betrayed us: Old who be¬ 
 
 fore we had reduced to be as poor as z Church 
 Moufe, fo that he lay even at our Mercy, be¬ 
 gan to bully us again, referving many of the 
 Conditions of the Agreement unexecuted. 
 He demolilhed a upon the River 
 
 which had been a great Annoyance to our* 
 Trade, but fallaciously ereded another a lit¬ 
 tle nearer home, and eluded the chief Article 
 of the Accomodation ^ he promifed to difmifs 
 young ©IjtttC out of his Family, and with a 
 mental Refervation only fent him to board 
 with one of his Tenants at next door. More¬ 
 over he engaged to ufehis Intereft with young 
 Savage his Grandfon in behalf of fome Poor 
 People that lay at his Mercy on account of 
 ferving the Wirfvw, who appear’d under a great 
 concern for them, inftead of which like an ac- 
 complilh’d Hypocrite, he fent his Mirmdons 
 and Bayl^s to haul them to Execution- 
 
 Every 
 
( >4 ) 
 
 Every thing was aded with the fame Can¬ 
 dour, and feem’d to be pulling on our Ruin, 
 whilft our Agents at home, out of the poor- 
 nefs of Spirit, durft not wag a Tongue or a 
 Finger againft him, they lay fo open and fo 
 expofed by the Rogueries he was privy to. 
 Ah poor Country ! what could relieve thee but 
 a Miracle ? Or what animate thy hopes, but 
 the Interpofition of Providence^ that 4 e.ar, 
 that eternalProvidence,which had refeu d thee 
 in thelike Cafes of imrainent Danger ? Would 
 you believe it. Sir, that thefe Dejperados hav¬ 
 ing no other way tolhelter them(elves,werejuft 
 entering into a Confpiracy to undermine Mf, 
 W RIG t’s Intereft, and carry th? Trade to 
 the 
 
 It could not be expeded that Mpn affociat- 
 ed inMifchief ftiould long agree among them- 
 felves, which Maxim ’tis very probable pro¬ 
 duced the old Proverb ^ When R—r-r—-s and 
 
 W-8 fall out ht^efi Men copie, by their 
 
 Goods, You may apply it as you plpale ^ the 
 ufei fhall make of it is only to tell you that 
 theHoufe began to be divided againft itfelf, 
 and fo could not ftand long^ Ro^whad noyr 
 brought up a Bird to pick out his Eyes ^ his 
 Pupil Harry had got the Start of him and jock¬ 
 eyed him out of the Widow’s Favour, Harry 
 took up a refolution to fpur at aft, aut C^far 
 aut nttllus'y but Rolnn^ who had always a gt^t 
 Veneration for his Neck, was willing to jpg 
 onfoberlyt Harry^ out of the Vivacity of hjs 
 Temper, told him, he was a Fellow of no Spi¬ 
 rit, 
 
( '5 ) 
 
 rit, and that his Cowardice quite baulk’d the 
 Caufe: Yes, fays Robin^ ( very dryly ) but it 
 may be a means of faving your Neck, if you 
 take Example by it, and aft with a little more 
 Deliberation and Gravity. This in the end 
 came to an open Rupture, fo that one Day a- 
 bove the reft they fell to it Pel-mcl before the 
 Widow. Robin among other things charged 
 him with Ingratitude, and told him, “ He 
 “ took him up an idle, loofe, young Fellow, 
 “ ftragling alwut the Town, when he had 
 hardly nine Pence in his Pocket to go to* a 
 “ Whore withal 5 that lie brought him ac- 
 “ quainted at the Widow’s, and put him into 
 “ Bufincfs he might live handfomely upon^ 
 “ if he had the Grace to follow it ^ but that 
 “ it was plain he was as loofe as. ever, and his 
 Management would be the Ruin of his Mi- 
 “ ftrefs, if he went on as he begun. Harr^ 
 “ juftly fired at this Language, call’d him 
 muddy-headed fellow, and faid, “ If it had not 
 been for him his Mijirefs might have made 
 “ a more advantageous Compofuion. Robin, in 
 return to that, upbraided him with his hair- 
 brain’d Negotiations, and that he fuffer’d hkn- 
 feJfto be made drunk, and over-reached at old 
 where, fays he, unlefs your Inter- 
 view with young g»i^ute ( for which I hope 
 to fee you hang’d,) a few fine Congees, 
 and two or three lewd Intr^ues, the reft 
 was owing to your Companion Matt, the 
 Tavem-Boy, who was fain to carry Brains for 
 his Maftier. Harry could hardly contain him- 
 
 felf, 
 
( i6 ) 
 
 felf, but with a very cloudy Brow told him, 
 he had neither Brains nor any other Merit to 
 raife him above the Charader of a Tnckfler ; 
 We know now, fays, he, why none but Coufin 
 Tom could be trulted at Mr. Wright’s ^ but 
 thou waft ever a trimming, equivocal Rafcal, 
 and woo tfo continue. 
 
 Sim the Scrivener put in a word on the fame 
 fide, whom Kobin took up very fmartly. As 
 for your part, lays Robin, did I not raife you 
 from a Petifogger to be vr hat you are,, took you 
 from vcriting hackney up and down, lent you Mo- 
 Tiey to pay your Debt's, and help'd you to live like ■ 
 a M-m, and you to confpire againji me too: But 
 by Jove, rapping his Knuckles upon the Ta-' 
 ble. I'll make you all as poor and beggarly as I 
 found you! Thou wert always a Trickfter, 
 replyed Sm. I hated you before, but now I de- 
 fpifejiou. Nab. too open’d her Quail-pipe at 
 Kobin, but what Ihe faidis hot recorded. 
 
 Th&'Nidow heard all this with a mixture of 
 Grief and Surprize 5 but above all Ihe won¬ 
 dered to hear them talk of abetter Compofiti- 
 on, when Ihe had all along been told, it was 
 a very good one ^ Ihe plainly perceived now 
 Ihe had been trick’d, efpecially by Robin, who 
 (lie declar’d, had not told her one word of 
 truth from the beginning ; fo that Harry for 
 the prefent feein d to carry his Point. Kobin 
 was order’d to deliver up his Books, which 
 were foon after given to the Chamberlain, 0i0& 
 ef the honeftelt Servants in the Family,whi9h 
 partly (hewed the Widow’s good Difpofition 5 
 
( '? ) 
 
 ibr as he was known to be very well afFe<3e(! 
 to Mr. W Fv IG H t’s Title, it Ihewed her 
 own Inclination thereto, by pitching on a 
 Perfon fo very acceptable. This rejoic'd 
 People flrangely, and the more, becaufe there 
 had pafled a current Rumour for fome time, 
 that they had been tampering with her fo 
 transfer the Eftate to young after her 
 
 Deceafe, contrary to Law. How true it is, 
 God knows, but itfeems they were difappoint- 
 ed. And I can alfure you flie told fome of 
 her Friends, that flie had often repented the 
 difmifling her old Servants, who had ferved 
 her faithfully, and given Content to her Cu- 
 ftomers 5 and if it pleafed God to grant her 
 Life and Health, fhe would make a very great 
 Aheratiim in Affairs. 
 
 But in fhort, what thro’ the Grief and 
 Fright flie had conceived at their unmannerly 
 Behaviour before her, and the Anguifh of a 
 former Diftemper, it threw the Pain into her 
 Head with fuch Violence, that it foon put an 
 end to her Life, for which the whole Town 
 fliew’d a general Concern, and lamented her 
 as a pious, good, and charitable Woman, whom 
 it may be truly faid, they brought with Sor¬ 
 row to the Grave.. 
 
 Immediately after fhe ei^ir’d, the Trujleet 
 took Pofleflion of the Fremifes in Mr.W rights 
 Name I cannot defcribe the infinite Joy on 
 this Occafion, and that wonderful Satisfaflion 
 that appeared in People’s Countenances: All 
 was aded with that Calmnefs and Unanimity, 
 
 C that 
 
( ) , , 
 
 <hat Cheerfulnefs and Alacrity, as feemed 
 
 clainly to proj^nofticate our future Good: No 
 one was wanting to do bis part^ nay, even 
 the Parfon of the Parifi, tho’ crazy with Age 
 and Infirmities, yet appear d abroad that Day 
 to countenance Mr. W a i g H T slitle, be¬ 
 ing one of the Feofees mTruJl iox him. 
 
 Poor Harry Aucumy^ indeed, appeared un¬ 
 der a very deep preffure of ^ind ^ not fo 
 much for the Lofs of the Widow, as the 
 foie Power and Grandeur he conceived him- 
 felf fallen from, and the Inconveniences \m 
 paft Condud might bring him into^ for he 
 ■ knew in his Confcience he ftiould find it a dif¬ 
 ficult matter to acquit himfelf honeftly to Mr. 
 Wright. This occafion’d a vifible Ai- 
 aeration in his Countenance, and poor Hariy 
 i/ooked as queer and dejeded as one of the 
 Vulgar. He put himfelf in clofe Mourning, 
 and exploded all Lewdnefs for nine Days 
 which you know is the ultimate date of all 
 Wonders, efpecially with Harry. John Squea-^ 
 ?mlJ} the Head-Tapfter, a queer mfignificant 
 Fellow of BoPs preferring^ Pettcoat, the 
 
 Warehoufe-keeper^ Wil/. Wildfire, Barry s In¬ 
 timate i UcK the Powder-Monkey, and Hab, 
 his Sifter, with fome others feem to lament 
 with the fame Humiliation and Concern the 
 great Viciffitude of Fortune. ... 
 
 We expert our new Landlord with the ut- 
 moft Impatience i and then you ftmll have a 
 farther Account of what happens^ affuring J^u, 
 that this leaves us under the moft 
 
Afpeft of having our Affairs retriev’d again 
 from the languifhing Condition the lafl three 
 Years had thrown them into ^ and perhaps you 
 never faw a more vifible Spirit of Joy than 
 appears at prefent. 
 
 TourSy 
 
 P. S. As I divined, poor Harrj is difmifs’d 
 from his Clerkjhipy by order of Mr. Wright, 
 and a Padlock clapp’d on the Counting-houfe s 
 Juft now I learn from a Freind that his Acr 
 counts are very confufed, and occafion divers 
 Speculations. We are like to have a great Sef- 
 lions on’t next titne. B»t> laughs in his 
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 OF THE 
 
 history 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Cl own - Inn: 
 
 With Characters of Ibme of the late 
 
 SERVANTS; 
 
 And the Proceeding of the 
 
 trustees 
 
 To the Coming of the 
 
 New Landlord. 
 
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 The Second Edicioa. 
 
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 A 
 
 CONTINUATION 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 HIST OR. Y, 
 
 O many things of confequencc 
 offer at this time, that I find 
 I (hall fwell my Defign to a 
 much greater length than I 
 imagined : Inftead of Writing 
 once a Week, I ffall never be able to retain 
 fo many memorable Particulars, or get thro* 
 my Promife, without adjufting the Subftance 
 every Port, ' 
 
 You would fplit your Sides at the late Set 
 of Servants, and their Favourers^ in this 
 Xown, were you to fee how they behave 
 riiemfelves in their prcfent Circumftances > 
 
 What 
 
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 What a mixture they difcover in their Coun¬ 
 tenances of the Sullen and the Impertinent 5 
 or indeed of the Spaniel and the Lion. They 
 wou’d fain lay a timely claim to the good 
 Graces and Favour of Mr. WRIGHT^ 
 but their Pretenfions are awkardly made out 
 and built on fuch fencelefs Foundations, that 
 ’tis C2ueer enough to hear them explain ’em. 
 
 Harry Ancumy, who is at leizure now to 
 catpy on all the Intrigues that lay upon his 
 Hands, has had a very great Levee of Condo- 
 lants fince his late Misfortune ^ for fay they, 
 Harry appeared a Man of Spirit, and was al¬ 
 ways firm to his Purpofe. Harry was relblute 
 and conftant ip the Meafures he purfued, and 
 wou’d have puflied Things w’ith another man¬ 
 ner of Spirit than that unaccountable Fellow 
 Slyboots fliew’d, rvho had been ajleep for three 
 Tears, and always kept his Friends as well as 
 his Enemies in doubt what he defigned. Harr * 
 fvas the Life of the Caufe, the Joy of the Par - 
 ty, andthe Toaft oftheCLt^jB. From HiW- 
 ry we expeded fomething very great and fur- 
 prizing 5 he had a Spirit and Impudence really 
 fitted for it. Opr hopes in him daily increaf- 
 ed 5 wefaw him, on Robins Downfal, which 
 was owing to his dextrous Condud, placed 
 in a Sphere, whereby his excellent Talents 
 wou’d have eoroe to Ihine ip their full Lu- 
 ftre 5, nay, he had manag’d it fo admirably, 
 that he {^t the Trick^et Jktdnp off the St^ 
 
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 with the utmoft pifgrace, which for Reafons 
 well known to us, would have proved of Ser¬ 
 vice to future Furpofes. 
 
 But 1 tnuft not ftay to finifh the Bnccmun^ 
 thefe Vififants of Harry's bellow’d on him, 
 without letting you know, that they were 
 fuch Frieijds of young S>]^ute’s, as began to 
 place the greateft Confidence in him, from 
 the feveral fteps which they plainly faw 
 he had taken in his Favour. The reft 
 were fuch as Harry had really let into the 
 Secret ^ and among whom there ran a mutu¬ 
 al and entire Chain of Confidence, in which 
 they wou’d all rather have Hang’d together, 
 than to have broke their Faith with one 
 another. 
 
 Muft it not therefore be the moft fenfible 
 Mortification to Men elated with fuch Hopes, 
 and inlpired by a Gemus fo very promifing as 
 Harry's to promote their Views, to fee him 
 at two Steps fall headlong from fuch an Emi¬ 
 nence of Power and Authority, and lye the 
 bleeding Sacrifice of a Ruine^Party at the 
 Feet of his Enemies, defpis’d, threaten’d and 
 level’d to their Refentments by the Ad of the 
 new LAND LO RJ)y who fingled him out, 
 like a Deer for the Chace, to be the common 
 Sport of all the honeft Servants and Tenants 5 
 my, even to his Antagonift Robin i What 
 can ftxew a Man mo^ defpis’d than the Mef- 
 
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 fage delivered him by the TRUSTSES 
 for his Difmiflion. 
 
 Mr. Aucumy, 
 
 Torir Proceedings having rendered your Con- 
 duB [uJpeBed, we are Order'd by our new 
 LANDLORD Mr. Ki&m to tell 
 yoUy that he has no farther Service for you 5 
 with DireBions likewife to take from you 
 your Books of Accounts^ and Seal up the 
 Counting-House. 
 
 You may be fure his Friends bleed inwardly 
 for him^ but they have, indeed, the moft 
 admirable way of out-facing Things that e- 
 ver was known. They had before this given 
 out, that he ftood on no bad terms with Mr. 
 Wright, and chiefly, that on the lirfl; In- 
 difpofition of the WiddoWj it was he who pro¬ 
 moted the Delivery of B 0 iB’s Conjuring- 
 V/'and into the Hands of the Chamberlain 3 
 which He could not chufe but acknowledge as 
 a peice of good Service: But this is fome- 
 what like BOW^ INVIOLAB LE 
 ATTACH. 
 
 This they maintain’d with an Afllirance 
 peculiar to them, till the time of Harry's dM- 
 ^ace, when a frefli Aftonifhment appeared 
 in them 3 and for two or three Days there 
 was a general run of Guilty confufed Faces a- 
 
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 mong the Party, Harry himfelf Hood this 
 fhock= with a great deal of outward Confi¬ 
 dence before his Friends, becaufe he was un¬ 
 willing to difcourage them, but alas we know 
 that nothing but a clear and unfpotted Con- 
 fcience can really fupport a Man’s Spirits un¬ 
 der fuch fudden and capital Affliftions. This 
 required that they fliould give their Senti¬ 
 ments a new turn, and now Harry was confo- 
 led by his Friends as a Man purely fuffering 
 for his Principles, and one who deferved all 
 the Confidence they had placed in him. 
 
 One wou*d think this Indication fhould 
 have taught them a little Modefty, but they 
 go on at the old rate : They will not ftand 
 convinced that they have a lefs fliare of the 
 Favour of Mr. Wright than others, tho* 
 it is with the utmoft Impudence and Vanity 
 they dare even make Pretences to it. They 
 are the molt impatient People at the lofs of 
 Power .imaginable, and certainly make the 
 worit ufeofit when they have it of any living, 
 for they are all Heat pd Choler ; whence 
 it IS oblervable, thro’ their precipitate and Poft- 
 haftc Fury, that they have never been long 
 berore they finilhed their Courfe. 
 
 They have the merrieft Way of Inter¬ 
 preting Things that can be : They pretend 
 they are very impatient for the arrival of the 
 New LANDLORD, being uneafie at 
 
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 Maftagerhcnt of the T R tj S T E E S, 
 who have gone a great way toward putting 
 the Affairs of the INN in a better Pofture, 
 and to draw a better Trade to the whole 
 Tovcn, They cannot, or rather will not be¬ 
 lieve, that the Choice of the T R U S T E E S 
 has any thing of the true Meaning of Mr, 
 Wright in it 5 but that it was dqne up¬ 
 on their own Solicitations and Intelligence 5 
 and that they doubt not, hut they pall foon 
 convince him xohen they come fo talk with 
 him, 
 
 Wou’d it not anger one that thefe Fel¬ 
 lows (hould have the Impudence to form 
 thefe prepofterous Suggeftions ? ( for J will 
 forgive the Folly of it^ Do they think he 
 has forgot, or ever will, their turning two 
 or three of his Servants out of the Houfe in a 
 rude Sort of Manner, though they paid ho- 
 neftly for what they called for, only becaufe 
 they gave their Mafter Notice of their In¬ 
 trigues > Was any thing more grolly Impu¬ 
 dent than Harry's Condud in this Matter > 
 Or his infpiring the CLUB to do all they 
 could to hinder Toung Mr. VVright ftom 
 coming among them ? They are millaken if 
 they think him a Perfon fo Ihort-fighted as 
 to be deceived in diftinguiftiing his Friends 
 from his Foes : And if thofc who have al¬ 
 ways appeared in his.Intereft,; and on all Oc- 
 cafions juff ihed their Love to him, are not to 
 
intitied to his Favour 3 nay, if his own 
 Sence of this, in chufing fuch for T R U S- 
 T E E S, is not fufficient to prove it, I leave 
 them to be correded by their own Folly. 
 
 Every Reed ferveS a drowning Man to 
 catch at 3 you wou’d finile, did you but 
 Know the mighty Splutter they make, that 
 their Confort, Tom Scattermt^ has Ihook 
 Hands with Mr. WrigHt; Now you 
 hiuft know there is no more in it than this. 
 Tom was Agent for the Widow at NI C'K 
 FROG'S, efpeciaily on the Compofition ? 
 Tbz®, like the reft of his Fraternity, was a 
 very adive furious Fellow, and when Reafoii 
 wou’d not do, he ufed to cock his Hat and 
 tread upon N 1 CK’s Toes. NICK made 
 damn’d four Faces, but was not able to cope 
 with the young Bully. Nick, in his Time 
 had been a very fturdy FeBow, biit he was 
 then curfedly pinched with Corns, and 
 could hardly ftir oiit of his Elbow-Chair: ’Tis 
 true, he kicked and winced a little, but Tom 
 ^ways turned Him by main Strength, and 
 in the End work’d him into Temper to con- 
 fent quietly to the Agreement. Tom, on the 
 mdovc's Death, lay under dreadful Appre- 
 henuons 3 he was eoiifcious that a very good 
 Underftanding wou’d enfue between Mr. 
 W R I G H T and 3 and that if NICK 
 mould remember the Smart of his Toes it 
 wou'd prove but 3 little queer for him. 
 
 Tom 
 
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 Tom therefore came to NICK, and fiiewed 
 a' gear deal of unufual Condefcenfion. In- 
 ftead of the Bully Cock, he now came Cap 
 in Hand, and entered into an Expoftulation 
 fomewhat fervile. He defir’d NIC K to for¬ 
 get old Qrudges, ajid to make the belt of 
 Matters to Mr. W right. N ICK 
 looked a little four on him, as remembering 
 the curled Gripes he had given him ^ howe¬ 
 ver like a Man of Honour, he told him he 
 forgave him, and (hould be glad to hear of 
 bis ConverfionJ Another thing likewife laid 
 Tows Friends under feme Apprehenfions for 
 him • he was dipped in Harrfs Projed of 
 ertering into a League with Old 
 and his Grandfon, tending to the Prejudice 
 of Mr. W Ri GHT s Intereft^ and had un¬ 
 luckily written for further Orders herein 
 luft at the Time of the Widow’s Death 5 
 which Pacquet falling of courfe into the 
 Hands of the T RU STEES, they fealed 
 it up, and fent it to Mr. Wright* 
 
 Poor Tom looked plaguy queer upon it 
 at firft^ but it feems he has had a long 
 Conference with Mr. Wright on his 
 arrival at NICK FROG\:, which his 
 Friends interpret ftrangely to his Adtantage^ 
 not that they think Tom will prove very 
 Stanch, but that they love a Fellow of a 
 predominant Spirit. Moft People laugh hear¬ 
 tily at this, and fay, xh^t Tom, who is an ex- 
 
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 cellent Fellow at Conpee and Grimace, took 
 all Opportunities to wriggle himfelf into Mr, 
 W R I G H t’s Acquaintance, and fcrew’d in 
 at the lower End of the Table to Dinner. 
 
 J^ick Spitfire, was to have played the fame 
 Game at ’Squire SOUT H's, but the ’Squire 
 being a Man of Spirit forbid l^ick the Houfe, 
 and refolved to receive no MelTage from the 
 Widow by fuch Hands 5 which put Mck up¬ 
 on the Splutter for lofing fo favourable an 
 Opportunity of exc^-ting himfelf. 
 
 Bob Bmpey is felling his Equipage again,' 
 fenlibly aftiided at the Mifcarriage of his Bu- 
 finefs to J 5 ab 00 n. Bob breeds excel¬ 
 
 lent Bullocks, and has got Money by it ^ but 
 was never looked on to be a Fellow of any 
 tollerable Sence. 
 
 Matt Spindlepanks, the Tavern-Boy, is in 
 a ftrange Quandary whether he lhall return 
 Home, or Itay at Old 'Tis noted 
 
 for excellent Air in a Confumption, and ’tis 
 very probable that Matt, who is a little in- 
 frm, will chufe it for his Health’s Sake. 
 Life is fweet, and ’tis very probable that 
 the late Damps that have happened in this 
 Country may be apt to fuffocate poor Matt^ 
 fo that hisPhyficians haveadvifed him, that 
 the other Air is more fafe and convenient fot; 
 him. ' 
 
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 Peregrine Scamper^ who makes fuch a migh¬ 
 ty Noife of his C O N D U G T, is lately 
 return’d from his laft Errand. He pleads a 
 great dal of Merit, and is angry he was not 
 nam’d ate of the TRUSTEE S. To fay 
 Truth, tlie Man had had never much Harm 
 in him but being always thought a little 
 Troubltfome at Home, was ufually fent out 
 6 { the Way, for Qpietnels Sake. Moft Peo¬ 
 ple world believe he had done foine Service, 
 if he ulk’d lefs of it, and had fliewn lefs 
 Compliince to fome Points which render him 
 a little difagreeable. 
 
 Jacol Rufi^ the New Agent, is the lefs 
 concerned at being fliut out of the Manage¬ 
 ment of all Affairs at the INN, becaufe 
 it furnihes him with an Opportunity to 
 indulgehimfelf in a voluptuous Life, He was 
 a zealots Promoter of J^rr/s ISiew Scheme 
 and a jreat Clofeter of the BUFF-COATS 
 upon tkt Occafion. Jacob has loft his for¬ 
 mer Reputation, and has the Misfortune of 
 being looked on as a Tool, when perhaps too 
 much hdolence and good Nature only has 
 been his Fault. . 
 
 Old Biafs the Malfter, has a greater Incli-- 
 nation than a Spirit to do Mifehief; Cove- 
 tomfneC, which is in others a Crime, has in 
 him proved a Virtue. He wou’d have gone 
 
 greater 
 
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 greater lengths in Young Favour, 
 
 but for theexceflive dread of lofin; his Pelf: 
 Befides, he faw no reafon why he fliould Em¬ 
 bark on a Level with Fellows of defperate 
 Fortunes. Biafs dropt them in feveral Im¬ 
 portant Points, andcry’d, Sa\es the Word: 
 He was willing to come in for fonething a- 
 moHg thepi, but wou’d not run the Hazard of 
 
 lofiiig one of his G-s for ne’er a Caufe in 
 
 Chrifiendom 3 fo that People fay, Ihough he is 
 no very honejl Man, yet he has providan excel- 
 lent BOWLER. 
 
 1 know no one lies more expofel than Sint 
 the Scrivener: Siw’s Principles prevailed over 
 his Gratitude, to (hew his good Inclinations 
 to Young ’Tis whifpertd. that he 
 
 has already receiv’d his ^ietus^ and no 
 doubt but a Poll or two more will confirm it. 
 Will Bromingham, notwithftanding his great 
 Pretences, looks with a very form;dable dull 
 Air. He wou’d lain be thought ta merit his 
 
 Place, but I hear Mr. W r i o h 1 is of ano¬ 
 ther Opinion. 
 
 BOB and Harry Jucwmy are is far from 
 being Friends as ever; Bob has laft his Re¬ 
 putation with both Parties, but Htrry Ifand# 
 fair with one fide at leaft. In fl»rt, Harry 
 
 ypmrs i^ft Guilty, but Bob Jm the more 
 defpicabk Phiz* 
 
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 Will Wildfire would be a. folitary Fellow 
 too if he was capable of thinking 5 but that 
 is what he never did in his Life; He is a 
 great Comforter to Harry under his Affii( 3 :i- 
 on, and talks mightily of his 'Intereft in a 
 certain Family he is allied to by Marriage, 
 that are like to come into Favour 5 but a 
 Bottle I believe is the more folid confoiation 
 of the two. 
 
 Arthur Skipkennelh.2i% packed up his Move¬ 
 ables and is ready for the Scamper. Con — 
 is turned out of xh.& Weft: Farm by the 
 TRUSTEES. A Fellow that has done 
 a damn’d deal of Mifchief to the Country 
 there. More of this in my next. 
 
 Tom Dimple has recovered his former Repu¬ 
 tation. Tom you muft know, was pitched on 
 to carry Inftruftions to Jacob Rujb, in relati¬ 
 on to ftifling the Evidence, mentioned in my 
 laft. Toml thought he had been fent to in¬ 
 fluence the C A U S E i but by a curfed Ar¬ 
 tifice found, that Bob and Harry had fealed 
 his Pocket up. tom was chofe Steveard at the 
 next CLUB, and has (hewn himfelf a very 
 honefl; Friend of Mr. Wright’s. 
 
 ,Honeft Charles Barrier is made Clerk of 
 the Brewhoufe in Harrf^ Room, which is 
 highly Satisfaftory to all honeft Men here 5 
 
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 and no doubt is aninftance of Mr. Wright’s 
 Efteem to Nick Frog^ and to take off the Odi¬ 
 um of his Conduft in concert with Charles^ 
 when the CLUB at the INN, in the 
 Vfidove^s Time fell foul on him in opprobious 
 Words ^ and had like to have fent Charles to 
 the Stocks for the Bargain he made with Nick 
 in relation to fome Copfes and Inclofures on 
 Efq; South's Eftate, which were to be put in¬ 
 to 2^/^/ C K’s Occupation ^ wherein Charles, 
 as they alledged, fuffer’d him to infringe on a 
 TURNIP FIELD or two of theTi^- 
 dovo’s 
 
 Never was Man fo joyfully careffed and en¬ 
 tertained as Mr. W right wasat NICJTs 
 Houfe both he, and all his Tenants were 
 ready to devour him for Joy. And indeed, to 
 fay Truth, NICK had a great deal of Rea- 
 fon for his Exaltation, for he had been ufed 
 but a little fcurvily in the latter part of the 
 VVidovp's Days. Many of the New Servants 
 -hated him in their Hearts 3 and ’twas feared, 
 that to bring about fome other Defign, they 
 wou d not have ftuck to perfuade the TVidow 
 into a Law Suit againft poor NICK. But 
 thefe Fears are all cured now, and NICK 
 begins to fpeak and ad with his ufual Spirit 
 again. 
 
 i T am yours, &c, 
 
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 Poftfcript. 
 
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 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 T he fwift Current of Affairs at this 
 Time, will not let me, I find, con¬ 
 clude without a Pojifcript. 
 
 Jacob Rujb is difmift from the Agency, 
 and hcmeft Jobn Trufiy has got his Place 
 again. John met Mr. Wright on the 
 Road, and wifhing him Joy on his Acceffi- 
 on to the Eftate j Mr. W r i g R t an- 
 fwer’d. That he veas fatisfied a great deal 
 veas ovnng to him on that Occafion 5 and be 
 fimid always very gratefully remember bis Ser¬ 
 vices, 
 
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 This Mr, Wright arrived in 
 Town : Nothing can exprefs the great Joy 
 and Satisfaftion of the People; He was met 
 
 by 
 
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 by the Heads of the Town, and conduced 
 to the lliN thro’ Crowds of Spedators 
 making loud Acclamations. 
 
 I juft now learn that Harry Aiicumy is fent 
 for to be prefent at the opening of the CoiiiNT- 
 ing-House 5 and that he comes with a hea¬ 
 vy fpJenetick Air, The ftme Hand informs 
 me, that poor has receiv’d a very civil 
 MelTage from Mr. Wright, to deftre his 
 Abfence from the Houfe, to make room for 
 honeft ILL COOPER. A Man 
 that can SE E a little farther into a Mil- 
 ftone than the other. Sim takes liis misfor¬ 
 tune very heavily 5 and fonie queer Fellows 
 that ufed to write Hackney under him, are like 
 to be reduced to the Circumftance of wanting 
 Heels to their Shoes again. Thefe feurvy Dogs 
 had juft as much Love for Mr. W r i g h t as 
 their Matter. / 
 
 I am likewife credibly informed that 
 Charles the HEAD-OSTLER, NedTc^- 
 fail^ and leveral other of the honeft: old Ser¬ 
 vants will have their Places again at the 
 INK The Houfe begins to flourifti, and 
 none are to be admitted but what are known 
 to be Men that have always promoted its Ime- 
 reft. 
 
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 I mutt now finifli, for every moment almoft 
 ^ings me fome firefli Particular, and 1 ne’er 
 
 C flipuli 
 
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 fhould have done if I waited for any Conclut 
 five Period. 
 
 I wifli this tnay come fafe to your Hands 3 
 for the is fuch a damn’d impudent 
 
 Rafcal, one is hardly toexprefs it. The 
 Dog fold Ballads up and down the Town be¬ 
 fore and now fets up for Writing New? 
 Letters. He was .a , great Lurker about Har¬ 
 ry % Offce, and ’tis thought, has convey’d 
 many a private Packet for him to Young 
 He has been often bafted for his 
 . fcurrilous fawcy Tongue, without an^ Elfeft, 
 but ’tis very probable we ftiall now bring him 
 to the VFhippiv^-Poji. When VVill Droming- 
 ham troops off, he will be forbid coming near 
 the I N N 5 and we hope then to rid the 
 Town of fuch a fcurrilous Varlet. 
 
 * Even whilft I am Writing this Ihort Poft- 
 fcript, there is News of other numerous 
 Changes at the IN N, but I cannot enter 
 into Particulars till my next. 
 
 Honeft Dan. Soherjides is popp’d into old 
 Biafs'% TWO-ARM’D-CHAIR, at 
 the CLUB. Jemmy Brisk, one of the pret- 
 tieft Fellows in Town, is made Chsef &erk 
 in the room of VVill. Bromingham, 
 
 You may perhaps not give this Ai^le its 
 full Weight, but I CfUi sUmire yoh *tis tsssseA 
 
 as 
 
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 ’ as a diftant Compliment to ’Squire SOUTH, 
 Jemmy is one he has a particular Efteem for; 
 and his Preferment is an Argument that a 
 good Underftanding is renewed with the 
 \Squire. I believe you’ll foon fee Young 
 removed to a little farther Diftancc 
 from the Eftate. If I don’t conclude now, | 
 never ihail. 
 
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 Farther Continuation 
 
 OF THE 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Crown - Inn. 
 
 Part Hi. 
 
 Containing the prefent State of the 
 Inn, and other Particulars. 
 
 The Second tdition. 
 
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 A 
 
 Farther Continuation 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Crown - Inn, <tc. 
 
 N my laft I told you what furi¬ 
 ous Pretentions were made to 
 Mr. Wright’s Favour, by a 
 Set of Fellows, who, you will 
 > conclude' little deferve it 3 and 
 if you confider that the greateft part of that 
 Letter was writ before His coming to Town 5 
 you will likewife agree, that I fpoke fome- 
 what like a Prophet. 
 
 But indeed, what is eafier than to forefee 
 Things which have fuch natural and una- 
 A 2 voidable 
 
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 voidable Confequences ^ for nothing but the 
 groffeft Impudence, as well as the moft abfurd 
 and vain Conceptions, could have given them 
 the leaft Pretence to it ^ or have urg’d them, 
 to hope what they were neither intituled to, 
 or qualified for. 
 
 They were very officious in their Attend¬ 
 ance on Mr. Wright when he arrived near 
 theTown,andas fuppliant as SpanjieJs in their 
 Sycophantick hevoires. They feigned and 
 wrung out an hundred Compliments which he 
 topk littlenotice of 5 But of all,you would have 
 laught heartily at BOB, with his INF 10 ~ 
 LABLE ATTACH, Md boaftedInterejl j 
 BOB aftefr all was fain to implore the Favour 
 to be introduced 5 and when he had duck’d 
 himfelf into a low and obfcquious Cringe, as 
 he drew near, Mr. W right by a hidden Pre¬ 
 fence of Mind, turned his back upon him, 
 and poor BOB's Countenance fell like a We^- 
 tber-GJafs at the Alteration'of the Weather. 
 
 This admirable Farce wou’d have lafted 
 much longer, to the great Diverfion of the 
 Town 5 but that Mr. Wrigrt who is the 
 raofl; free and unaffefted Man living, and 
 cannot endure any thing that looks like con- 
 ftraint, or fervile Flattery, refolved not to be 
 I pefter’d with ’em ^ and therefore by difoiif- 
 ling Rujj}, Swl, and forae other of the 
 Bingkaders, defigned to convince the reft, 
 
 what 
 
what he thought of their Company 5 and 
 that he was capable to diftinguifli thofe who 
 had merited from him, from thofe who had 
 not. 
 
 You will hardly believe me, when I tell 
 you, that the CURATE had the Impu¬ 
 dence to appear publicity at the INN, Sure¬ 
 ly the Front of that Fellow muft be of the 
 moll folid and obdurate Brafs. Can it be for¬ 
 got how often he has drank young 
 Health ^ and preach’d up his Intereft by Inu- 
 mendo’s, in diredl oppofition to Mr. Wright’s 
 SuccelTion > Is any thing more notorious, un- 
 lefs his own corrupt Life, than his encou¬ 
 raging his Enemies, both in Life and Do- 
 drine ? How often has he been drunk at the 
 |&OpeiS*l|ealJ, the and 
 
 itty with the Friends of young g)j^ute > 
 For he promotes no Houfe, that is not even in 
 its very Defcription well affeded to him. Was 
 this a Wretch now to appear bare-faced to 
 Mr. Wright ? or can any thing better dif- 
 cribe the unaccountable Vanity of an unthink¬ 
 ing termagant Party > 
 
 ^ The Conclufion of this was, that the 
 Wretch was huftled out of the Houfe, and haid 
 been buffeted, but out of deference to his 
 Coat. Can you divine now, what fhould be 
 in die Man’s Head? His Friends indeed, ac¬ 
 cording to their ufual Vanity, laid we fhou’d 
 
 fee 
 
(«) 
 
 fee Him a B-p, but couKl even the tnoft 
 
 Oupid Clodpate alive, really hone or be¬ 
 lieve this, after he faw his Confederates under 
 the deplorable Circumftances of Difgrace^ and 
 the Intereji enrirely funk that could fupport 
 his unjuft Pretenfions ? Weil oi all the Sence- 
 lefs furious Creatures that breath in the open 
 Regions of the Air, commend me to the 
 C 17 R jT is and his Party, for fomething ve¬ 
 ry ridiculous, and out of the common Road 
 and Propriety of Thinking. 
 
 A Friend of tpine gives a very good turnto 
 this and fays, it was a Defign of the Party to 
 fend him thither on purpofe to be affronted, 
 thereby to give a fecond handle to enflame the 
 Mob, as at an Injury or Difrefped offered to the 
 Church 5 and this to be founded by the Trum¬ 
 pets of Zion among the People. 1 will grant 
 for once they may be capable to I'hink, for 
 there are Tome {hallow Trickflers among them 5 
 and therefore my Friends Notion may be juft 
 but if ever they are hanged for Conjurers I’U 
 be Shot, or throw iny ielf out of the 
 dow, as an Aufpicious Patron of his did, 
 when he remembered the irreparable Injury 
 he had done his Country, by Charioting and 
 Countenancing fuch a pernicious Incendiary. 
 
 Upon the whole, the Party have now 
 changed their Sentiments 5 it is at length beat¬ 
 en into their fortified Skulls j that their 
 
 mighty 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 mighty Pretences to Mr. Wright’s Favour 
 were frivilous, and without Ground. They 
 do not fo warmly, and proudly affirm now. 
 That they were the Men who brought him in ^ 
 and all the Love, and previous Grimaces, and 
 the faint Acclamations before his Arrival, 
 are turned into dull and infignificant Shruggs. 
 
 The glorious Changes at the I Ntl have 
 almoft work’d them into their Ancient Spi¬ 
 rit : The Conlteniation is great, but they 
 have always a Body of Referve ready to fu- 
 ftain them under the moft (hocking and terri¬ 
 ble Defeats. It is pleafant to hear thefe Fel¬ 
 lows, who but a few Days ago, were heard 
 to utter the moft melodious Things imagina¬ 
 ble of Mr. Wright, now alTume a dogmati¬ 
 cal Air of reafoning upon his Conduft 5 and 
 ftraining themfelves into ambiguous and ridi¬ 
 culous Hints 5 as if his known and celebrated 
 Virtue^ were any way in the Cafe of dif- 
 countenancing fuch a pack of deep Mouth’d 
 Curs, that are always full Cry in running 
 down Tr^uth and Innocence 5 and where 
 they hav. neither Courage nor Honefty to 
 fpeak the^*^ Minds, are Villains enough to 
 make dift^nt and raskally Reflexions. But 
 let them t^ke care, for we have a fubftantial 
 pair of Stacks here, and a Whipping-Poft of 
 Ae fitteft Magnitude, equal to the brawnieft 
 mck of the moft Sizeable Villain among 
 them 3 befides two fturdy young Elms Sit the 
 
 Towns- 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 Towns-end that grew in a true rroteftant 
 Count y where HEREDITARY RIGHT, 
 slavery, and ARBITRARY POWER 
 were never heard off. 
 
 1 am vexed that 1 muft trouble you with 
 fuch Trifles as thefe, but I (hall never get 
 through my Purpofe without letting you into 
 thefe little Details ^ nor wou d you be fo ca¬ 
 pable to relifli Things more momentous if 
 you were not truely poffeffed of tte preffnt 
 ^tate and litigious Spint of the Party You 
 remember what they were in Power and tis 
 proper you ftiou’d know what they are in Ad- 
 
 verfity^ 
 
 They forget the old Proverb Jhat Sawe 
 
 fcitbhoof^ U Sa«a!« 
 
 havock they made m turning out the Old Ser- 
 St upon the moft'frwolous Pretences, and 
 Srrablinff they made to get their Fin- 
 
 Never wasfuch 
 
 f Set of &r«r«r(r known,, they devMred 
 by wholefaK'yer went on with «ager Com- 
 Xnts aeainft the OldSemntj, the tetter to 
 mnceal their own voracious Stomachs: One 
 was accufed of taking l^‘f 
 the Bakers Basket, another for Embezling the 
 Hay and Oats, and a third for rweiving Rec- 
 komngs md not 
 
 Bar: But for Truth, they left th« to be 
 
 made out by Jonathan^ormwood ihtit Ama- 
 
 "a Zy tor Fellow againft aU rite 
 cM Watr, a witty &CMlous VarK and 
 
.( 9 ) 
 
 and hanger on to Bob, who kept him for fucli 
 Furpofes, for’ which he was excellently qua¬ 
 lified, for he was as wicked as his Heart could 
 wifli ; and had the bed Talent at Railery and 
 Liei a Man could pofiibly be endued withal. 
 
 How he handled the IVidorv's Friends and 
 Servants you have heard already ; it was 
 however equal to the Juftice and Candour of 
 all their other Proceedings, and helpt to fur- 
 nilh half the Blockheads in Town of that 
 Party with Matter to hold an Argument. 
 Some drew the whole Bd^maro into a kind of 
 ufeful Common Place, for the greater Eafe to 
 their Memory’s ^ and every Jackdavo or Ow/ 
 in Town could hoot out fonie fencelefs Ledbii 
 takenfrom his Scurrilous Memoirs. 
 
 Boh had half a Dozen of thefe Fellows at 
 his Beck, who hated him heartily, but for the 
 Bread they receiv’d out of the Widow's Basket. 
 Every Raskal had his feparate Indrudions. 
 To one it was given to blacken the Widow^s 
 Friends, and fhew the Neceffity of coming 
 to an Agreement without them ^ to another, 
 to render our own Condition defperate, the 
 better to frighten People into a Sence of 
 , it 5 a third was to run down the Credit of the 
 Old Servants, and cry up the great Honedy 
 of the new 5 a fourth, to difcant ori the Church 3 
 a fifth dti Trade 3 and a fixth incedantly to 
 cry out FaSion^ PlotSj wicked Dejigns, &c. 
 and keep the Town in continual Alarm, to 
 
 B ' pre- 
 
( lo ) 
 
 prevent their cooling, or recovering their pro¬ 
 per Sences. 
 
 Thefe Tools, as infamous as they were, an- 
 fwer’d the Ends they were employed on 5 the 
 Mob efpecially, and the moft unthinking and 
 injudicious People, were taken by the Ears, 
 and liltened to them with great Attention, 
 and by fuch Mountebank Methods, the Cre¬ 
 dit of their Proceedings at the Inn was wholly 
 fupported. 
 
 The Widovp, poor Woman, they kept up 
 in her Chamber, and perfuaded her, that 
 her appearing below Stairs might be. prejudi¬ 
 cial to her Health, arid that every thing went 
 on well, and her appeared all very 
 
 much pleafed with their Entertainment: So 
 that fhe feldome came into the unlefs 
 now and then on a Market-day or fo, or at a 
 CLUB- SUPPER, when it was necelfa- 
 ry for her to pafs fome Accounts. The Rogues 
 had indeed fome Reafon to fay, fhe was milled 
 and abufed by the Old Servants, if they 
 judged from the refult of their own Condud, 
 for they found the was a perfeft eafie Woman 5 
 and if her Tenants and Cufiomers were but 
 pleafed with their Ufage, Ihe feldome en¬ 
 quired further, and they took ’fpecial Care 
 that none of the Old Servants might come 
 near her, and ftifled all Letters by the Poft 
 when they fufpeded the Hand Writing, for 
 
( '« ) 
 
 ear fliefliou’d get any Intelligence of the true 
 Statof the Houfe^ 
 
 They were taking all other Methods they 
 could think on to make the Game fure, when 
 they differed among ihemfelves about the 
 Means, and to the great Satisfadion of the 
 Town, fell together by the Ears. Nah, jike 
 an ungrateful Slut as Ihe was, had not that 
 regard to the Advancement Bob had been a 
 Means to promote her to ^ and perhaps there 
 was fomething in it more than ordinary : Bob 
 was on the decline, aged Fifty-five, and up¬ 
 wards ^ of a temperate and phlegmatick Con- 
 ftitution. Harry w^as in the meridian of his 
 Days 3 a robuft young Dog, full of Life and 
 Fire, with a vigorous Shape, ftrong Back, 
 and hale Complexion, fed high, and had an 
 amorous Soul of his own. The Rogue has 
 good Blood in his Veins too, but no more 
 the Son of o\d H A R R T than 1 am of Ju- 
 piter- The old Man difowiis his Proc^dings, 
 and fays, he always feared he would come to 
 fome violent End, from his turbulent difobc- 
 dient Spirit. That his Mother, reft her Soul, 
 dreamt of a Comet the Night flie was deli¬ 
 vered of him, and could never govern him as 
 he l^ou'd be.. Nay, you muft know the 
 pung Knave took up a Belt againft his Own 
 Father once at a WRESTLING, and 
 threw him out of the Rkg, 
 
 B a But 
 
 A 
 
 / 
 
( >2 ) 5 
 
 But to proceed. Harry, by thefe ftron;» 
 Perfuafions, drew Nab into his Party: Not 
 thatfhe has many Babies to be feen in her 
 Eyes, for they have for fome Years paft, dif- 
 played but a very dull Water, yet the Jade 
 had a feeling Conception of the foregoing 
 Qualifications, and there was an excellent 
 Charader Pirring of his fingular Talent that 
 Way. Nab Evefdropt dropp’d all that pafs'd 
 between the VPidow and Bob, and gave Harry 
 an Account ftill ^ and rook all Opportunities 
 to improve Things to his Advantage; for I 
 ihould have told you^ that Nab, according to 
 Bob's Predidion, was by this Time become a 
 Lady 5 and I can afiure you, valued herfelf 
 not a little upon it: She looked as much above 
 her former Occupation, as an Upftart 'Squire 
 does above a Hack, when he has dipt the 
 ANTiENT SEAT, for a Gilt Chariot, 
 and a Pair of SveiJ!) Tails. Nab was Hand 
 and Glove with the VFidovc, and not a Pin 
 could be ftuck right, if it was not of Nab's do¬ 
 ing 3 for Nab had been well brought up, 
 and could handle her Needle, tiff up a Fal- 
 below, or do any other Work, as well as 
 Drudgery 3 tho’ the BEESOM was mdeed the 
 moft exquifitely adapted to her Hands of any 
 other Perquifite of her Office. Nab kept the 
 VVidove's Purfe, and bought Perfumes, Pow~ 
 der, and Patches, &c. and made many a 
 round Penny of her Markettings; She had 
 
 a 
 
( 13 ) 
 
 a Liquorifh Tooth of her own, and loved a 
 Cordial at her Heart, which Ihe always 
 ported in her Bill of Incidents : They fay 
 'twas pretty large at the VVidovps Death. 
 
 There were other of the F^^male Servants 
 at the INN violently attached to Harry % 
 Ferfon, through the Imprertion of his fmug 
 Countenance, and brawny Shoulders : No 
 Fage cou'd (wallow Quince-Mannalet more 
 greedily, than thefe Simpering Baggages did 
 the Complimental Addrelfes of the young 
 Brazier ^ every one believing, like Don Johns 
 fix Wives, That Jbe noas the VVoman ! and 
 each putting herfelf forward, with the great- 
 eft Addrefs to ferve him, and render him gra¬ 
 cious in the Eyes of the Widow : This it is 
 to have the Reputation of being what we call 
 a Woman's Man : Bob, with all his Politidc 
 Airs, and Set Faces, could not conjure hira- 
 felf into the Womens Graces 5 and Harry 
 had a favourable Gift beyond all the Magicx 
 of his VFand. Harry wou’d Dance with 
 them on the Green, play at Dro^-G/ox;?, StooU 
 Ball, and the like ^ which Boh was too fee¬ 
 ble and ftiff in the Hams for 3 and could 
 wily figh that he had introduced fuch a 
 Smock-feced young WhoreJUrd to Supplant 
 him. 
 
 Thus 
 
( H ) 
 
 Thus you fee by what Meafures Ham 
 carried his Point, and engag’d the Private Ser¬ 
 vices of thefe Female Advocates^ whofc Ihort 
 Triumph, and fudden Fail, is now the Subjed 
 of their Tears and Concern, Real?, the 
 Fellow might be very happy, could he but 
 lay afide Ambition, and confine himrdf to 
 a rural kind of Life. The great Refort of 
 Females his Reputation wou'd foon draw a- 
 bout him, could not but afford a very happy 
 Profped of Pleafure to one, who is by Na¬ 
 ture fitlier qualified for the lacivious Drudge¬ 
 ry of a Seraglio^ than the Gravity of Pub- 
 lick Bufinefs. In fhort, Harry's a very pret¬ 
 ty Fellow, and a boon Companion 5 but the 
 Rogue was fo near facrificing his Country 3 
 he’s never to be trufted at the IN N more, 
 if he comes off no worfe. 
 
 I muft not forget, that I promifed you an 
 Account of the prefent State thereof 1 con¬ 
 cluded with telling you of the feveral 
 Changes made at the INN, and what wag 
 likely to enfue. Charles^ the Head-Oftler^ 
 and Ned-Topfail^ zs I hinted, are both re- 
 ftored to their Places: Honeik FyUlTruby 
 has joftled that queer Fellow Jack Squeamijk 
 out of his STEWARDSHIP 5 and 
 Frank Stirrups Son of old Ralph the Cajb- 
 heper^ has received the Keys of the C OF¬ 
 FER 
 
( >5 ) 
 
 FER ag^in, from the reluftant Hinds of 
 Kah's enabled Confort, 
 
 Every thing looks with a good Afpeft, and 
 the Houfe begins to appear in its ancient Gran¬ 
 deur : You may remember in what a Plight 
 you left us ^ Solitary and Difconfolate & our 
 Credit funk 5 eur Trade cramp’d and ruin’d 5. 
 the Country Beggard 5 and the INN in the 
 Hands of a Set of Arbritrary Fellows that 
 drove on ^f^t^-like to our Deftrudion 5 our 
 Friends affronted and difeouraged^ Honeft 
 Men put out of all, and none but a parcel 
 of indefeafible R.askals preferr’d, W'^ho de- 
 ferved hanging for their known Zeal to 
 young ; But you will now find us 
 
 with fmiling Countenances, chearful Spirits, 
 and compofed Minds. We could hardly 
 fpeak before for fear of our Tashnafiers 5 but 
 we dare now Nofe thofe Villains that ufed 
 to gibe us. Men of Integrity are only looked 
 on at the IN N, and to have been well at¬ 
 tached to the New LANDLORD, is 
 the beft Argument for prefent Merit. 
 
 RoHn Bddy the Plummer, Dick Ftk‘-duji^ 
 tlie Smith, IJick Siher-Tornguey tlic Lapira- 
 ry, and the reft of the honeft Lads that flood 
 titdy for him at the laft WRESTLING, are 
 brought into Play again, and are ready to take 
 up a on the fame whenever Occ^on 
 
 offers. Tliey threaten us hard m fomc Parts 
 
 of 
 
( 1(5 ) 
 
 of \ht Country^ but we have as good as carried 
 the Belt in this Town already aJmoft two to 
 one ^ and we doubt not but to fliew ’em fair 
 Play for it every where elfe ; We have a Par¬ 
 cel of mettled Lads that have been ufed to 
 Sport, and are not afraid of a broken Head or 
 two, if it comes to the Pulh. 
 
 You may remember, I always told you 
 Things could not laft long .as they went on 3 
 and ’tis confirmed what I told you in my Firft, 
 that the Widow defigned to have made great 
 Alterations at the INN, had Ihe recovered. 
 ’Tis likewife as certain, that they broke her 
 Heart among them, by difeovering one ano- 
 thers Rogueries,when they fell out. . Poor Wo¬ 
 man! they had harrafs’d her fo for 3 Yeats to¬ 
 gether, and made her break her Word fo 
 often with her honed friends and Tenants, that 
 when file came once to refied, it cafl her 
 into fuch a deep Melancholy, as carried her 
 precipitately to the Grave. In her laft Inter¬ 
 vals, (he entered into the following Soti- 
 loquy, “ Unhappy Woman! have I for this 
 “ fo long eat the Bread of Carefulnefs ? Took 
 “ Pains early and late to promote a Trade, 
 “ and gain Reputation to the INN, on 
 “ purpofe to make all thy Tenants and Cufio- 
 ** mers eafie and happy > And is all my Trou- 
 “ ble and Care come to this at laft ? It was 
 “ not fo, fays (he, in the Days of my old 
 ‘‘ Servants: My Afeirs went well then 3 
 
 and 
 
( '7 ) 
 
 “ and nothing I undertook but was Succefs- 
 “ iul. 1 had a Reputation far and near, and 
 
 was efteciucd and courtH even by my very 
 “ Adverfaries ; My Tenants and Cultomers 
 ‘‘ were perpetually Rejoicing ^ but I fear 
 “ I have now given them too great an Occa- 
 “ fion for Sorrow. Could 1 recal a little 
 “ Time, But Ip^tU ve'er outlive it 5 I w'ou’d 
 “ endeavour to remove the Caufe, and make 
 “ them all eafie again. But this is referved 
 “ifor Heaven and my SuccelTor ; Tell my 
 “ poor People I dye theirs^ and yet I am for- 
 “ ry 1 cannot do more to redrefs them before 
 “ 1 depart. This faid, (he turned about, 
 and with a Sigh breathed out her Soul to him 
 that gave it. 
 
 Were thefe Fellows capable of Corredioti, 
 Ture this would have fome effed on them: 
 -But 1 defpair of ever feeing them fhew the 
 leaft Signs of Grace and Repentance. 
 
 You have heard how they wou’d have infi- 
 nuated therafelves into Mr. W r i o h t’s 
 Favour, and what a fawning and cringing they 
 ufed at firft, but when they faw he was not w 
 • be cajoled, and made a very juft Diftindion of 
 their Proceedings toward him, by clearing 
 the Itottfe of them 5 they prefently changed 
 ' their Notes, and are forming a Cabal againft 
 his Condud. 
 
 The 
 
 \ 
 
 C 
 
( >8 ) 
 
 The rewarding the long and eminent Ser¬ 
 vices of honeft ' John Trujiy^ is one of the 
 greateft Cuts to ’em of all 5 for tho’ they bear 
 the reft with Spleen and Impatience enough, 
 yet there is in this a double Portion of Acri- 
 iiiony. John was the Honour and Support of 
 the old Servants, and the Terror and Difgrace 
 the Neix): jfoZ'w caried the CAUSE a- 
 gainft Old S>al3agC for many Years toge¬ 
 ther, to the great Difadvantage of their Idol 
 Young John refufedto Countenance 
 
 their Schemes in making the Compofition, 
 and rather chofe to retire out of the Country, 
 than breath the fame Air with fuch Villains 
 as feemed to have abandoned all Faith and 
 Honour, and were driving at the Ruin of their 
 Country. And if that Raskal Slyboots had no¬ 
 thing elfe to anfwer but the Perfecution and ill 
 Treatment of this worthy Man, that were 
 enough never to have him forgiven. 
 
 How eafie it is to guefe the Rage and Fer¬ 
 ment thefe Fellows are in at Mr. W rich t’s 
 glorious Proceedings. They fay, he begins 
 too foon, moves too faji, and that this can¬ 
 not lajl long, with other fuch rediculous Stuff: 
 But thefe are rather their Wifhes than their 
 Sentiments 5 both which are as much below 
 his Refentment, as the fencelefs Refledion of 
 the Party, He came here to govern, and 
 chofe rather to (hew them, that he faw no 
 
C 19) 
 
 Reafon to conceal his Refentraent, nor tocon^ 
 tinue Men about him uiiom he cou’d not 
 chufe but be uneafie at ^ and if they have any 
 Modefty, they ought to believe themfelves 
 obnoxious, and make a filent Retreat. 1 hat 
 there was more Sincerity andjuftice in open¬ 
 ing himfeif freely at firft, and letting them 
 fee he had no Reafon to dilgaite himfeif, than 
 to adt in Deference to their Judgement, or 
 have any regard to the cenfure of People he 
 had fo lutle reafpn to value. They Miftake, 
 he has both too much Courage and too. much 
 Honefty to .endeavour to veil his Condudj or 
 proceed with the leaft regard to their empty 
 Commendations ; Hipocrijte was Property a ra¬ 
 ther hecofiiiihg the laft Three Years, than the 
 Prudence, Jultice, Honour, and 'fexceilent 
 Management of the New L A N D L O R D, 
 who#i 4 T O R E W A R D H I S 
 F R I F; N D S, D O j U S T I C E T O 
 HIS ENEMIES; AND FEAR 
 NONE. 
 
 They are endeavouring to polTefs the Peo¬ 
 ple that he dehgns to curtail the Dignity of 
 the IN N ; by reducing the Gates two Foot 
 narrower in Circumference ; to prohibit-the 
 Eatir^ of Beef ; abridge the Servants^Wdges 5 
 and allow them only Small Beer at their Vidu- 
 als; and finally, that he intends to fake down 
 the Steeple^ and employ the Stones and Rubbi(b 
 to make a Fence for the Conventicley with other 
 
( io ) 
 
 Jirepoflcrous Cant. Then, to give terrible 
 Idea’s of his Perfon, they reprefent him with 
 a furious Hern Look, and a Head like a Dragon^ 
 with Scales and Fins like a Fifti ^ and with 
 fuch'like incredible Stuff endeavour to make 
 ^n Imprelfion on the People: But let them 
 go on : when they have Lyed till they are 
 weary of it, the Banter will end ip their ovyn 
 Shame and Confuhon. 
 
 I coujd enlarge egr^gioufly on bis admirable 
 Qualities 5 the great Temperance, Juftice, 
 Candour and Moderation of his Temper: 
 buti fliallomit it till a more favourable Op- 
 portunnity, having already almoft fill’d up 
 tiny Scrole. 
 
 > I had almoft forgot to tHl you, that fqrae 
 .unlucky Knaves, dn a Pifture Iprrad privately 
 ?about^ have drawn poor Harry in Deep Mourns' 
 ingy with the LEAGUE in one Hand, and a 
 Halter in the other, the Hangman carrying an 
 Axe before him with theS^^ towards him j 
 In the upper Grpartment ‘^tht QaiUm lyarg 
 vmjn Black Baysyini Arthur Blpp-keimeU Mut. 
 f th^.TavemrBoy, Con, ahd of,the reft of 
 there. ,l 9©, 
 
 FI N X S, 
 
THE 
 
 Fourth and La ft PART 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 O .F THE 
 
 Crown “ Inn: 
 
 With the C H A R A C T E tt of 
 
 JOHN BULL, 
 
 AND OTHER 
 
 NOVELS . 
 
 Part IV. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for J. Moor, and Sold by the Book- 
 f^ers of London and Vfeptinpr, 
 
 Price 3 4 i7/4 ‘ 
 
THE 
 
 Fourth and Laft PART 
 
 o F T H E 
 
 HISTORY, 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Crown - Inn, &c: 
 
 Shall for once chufe to begin 
 where other People end: Yon 
 may be aflured how much I 
 am yours, when I ufe all this 
 Pains and Diligence to ac¬ 
 quit my felf of my Promife 
 
 to you. 
 
 I was in hopes I fiiould have had no 
 farther Occafion tocontinue it: I mean, that 
 your Affairs would by this time have per- 
 A ® tnitted 
 
 
( 4 ) • 
 
 mitted you to evidence the glorious Things 
 I fo confufedly write to you. Pardon me, 
 for I cannot forbear owning ray felf fome- 
 what tranfported at our prefent happy Con¬ 
 dition. Many other of your intimate Ac¬ 
 quaintance are the fame 5 and nothing would 
 add more to it than the pleafure of fharing 
 with you that perfonal Satisfaftion which a- 
 rifes among Friends from fuch agreeable 
 Subjedfs. 
 
 1 thank you for the laft Favour ^ nothing 
 but a Friendfliip fo valuable as yours could 
 be more acceptable. I cannot lofe this Op¬ 
 portunity to congratulate with you, that Mr. 
 Worthy^ your prefent Fatron^ who I know 
 you particularly honour, has been fo early 
 recommended to Mr. WRIGHT’S Efteem. 
 He has always afted like an honeft Man, and 
 juftly merits whatever Favours are be flowed 
 on him 5 I hear with Pleafure he will be 
 employed at the INN: ’Tis now a time for 
 honeft Men to be feen there. 
 
 There is a vifible Appearance of the In- 
 creafe of Trade, by the great Refort that 
 is made there: Yet I cannot affure you, that 
 among thofe who frequent the Houfe purely 
 out of refpedf to the New LANDLORD, 
 there is not fome, and perhaps a pretty many, 
 who go thither only to fpy Faults, and carry 
 Intelligence to the ^tid other 
 
 difaffeded 
 
(5 ) 
 
 difaffedied Houfes. One of thefe Fellows, a 
 whiffling young Coxcombs, vei'y well known 
 for his Affedlion to young being 
 
 obferv’d there Eves dropping the Company, 
 was challeng'd as a Spy, and decently whipt 
 thro’ the Guts, as a Terror to the reft. This 
 young Fellow, you muft know, was parti¬ 
 cularly noted for his having hung the Pi- 
 aure of Mr. WILLIAM WRIGHT, one 
 of our former Landlords^ on the Back of his 
 Houfe of Office Door ; But according to an 
 old Efiglijh Phrafe, We lived tofie it come home 
 to hifHy rho’ *tis pity it was without the Ce¬ 
 remony of a Halter, for I would have eve¬ 
 ry thing done in its proper kind. He was 
 one of the Favourite Difciples of Harry 
 Aucumy^ but is not worth the faying ten 
 Words more of. 
 
 There are a great many of this Fellow's 
 Complexion among us, who require Cha- 
 ftifementj Men of mighty Tongues, but 
 fmall Hearts 5 who can do more Mifchief 
 &wningly, than it was poffible for them to 
 do in Armour: For I dare affirm, that let 
 'em hut difcover what they aim at, and no , 
 Men fhall be fooner anfwered, or fhew more 
 peaceable Spirits when they are oppofed : 
 There are a great many of them have jump’d 
 over a Stick already, to fhew the Praftice 
 of the Party, and the excellent SfonieUViVit 
 Qualities they can difplay upon Occadon $ 
 
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 and you may "a{fare your felf, that thofe who 
 make moftNoife are Only the Ajfes that bray 
 in Lions Skins. 
 
 Were it not natural for one to coramife- 
 rateMen under unfortunate Circumftances, 
 no Quarter was to be affigned thefe Fellows, 
 
 who will neither confefs they love G-d, 
 
 nor bate Mammon. 
 
 In the laft three Years of the Widmv^ the 
 Prerogative ran fo high, that they never 
 came near the Houfe^ without pulling off 
 their Hats to the Sign^ tho’ their inviolable 
 Obedience had not flept fo quietly for nine 
 Years before. They cannot but remember, 
 that the Old Servants were taxed with in¬ 
 fringing on the Widotps Right and their ho- 
 neft and wholefome Advice c2L]kd ^Savc^ ar¬ 
 raigning their MiHrefs'sCondi^. Whra they 
 reafoned with her in the moft fubraifhve 
 way, and befought her not to make a hafty 
 and precarious End of the to 
 
 the Difadvantage of her felf and Friends 5 
 was not the Prerogative^ thrown in their 
 , teeth, with a great deal of vehemence, to . 
 ftop rhefr Mouths? That as foon as they" 
 had! flnjffled themfelvca into Play, they ho^ 
 fted the fix Foot higher than it bad 
 been before 5 infomiidt that fonK ^honeSt 
 did not know it from the 
 that was then tome within aDoor 
 
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 two of it. But now you may depend on’t, 
 Mr. WRIGHT will move it farther off in 
 a little time, or try his Title to the Pre- 
 mifes. 
 
 The Explication of their Conduft is this, 
 they would love the New LANDLORD 
 plaguily, (for heartily they can’t fay) pro¬ 
 vided he would be fo good to them as to let 
 them have the foie Power in their Hands a- 
 gain, and do nothing at all to contradia 
 them: Let them engrofs every Place of 
 Power and Profit, turn the INN topfie-tur- ’ 
 yy, and never be called to any Account for 
 it: Infliort, to go on as they did for three 
 Years pad, raife themfelves from Beggars, 
 throw the Houfe out at the Window, fell* 
 their Country, and glory in their Roguery 5 
 and thefe Men would be Mr. WRIGHT’s 
 very humble Servants. Nay, there is not 
 one of them, but would fet his Hand and 
 Seal to thefe Articles, and cry him up for 
 the moft Wife and Hofieii Man breathing, an 
 excellent CHURCHMAN, and the very 
 Ma» of Men. And yet with all this Cant^ 
 theie Fellows are very Rafcals, Hypocrites 
 Cowards and Panders \ and if ever young 
 fliould make the leaQ bold or pro¬ 
 bable Attempt, they yioxi\ 6 fneak their Heads 
 out of the Collar, and not venture a Sife, 
 or one Drop of bale Blood to keep him 
 out, tho‘- Phlebotomy were necelTary to cure. 
 
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 them of a Fever; Such Fellows therefore 
 ought to be cur'd by Leeches clapt to their 
 Jugular Veins. They would then be as really 
 PMve, as at other times they are pretended- 
 ly fo^ tho’ take them right, they are the 
 hottefr and moft furious Fellows imaginable, 
 when a Faggot is clap’t to their A—-es. 
 
 It would be a very happy Circumftance 
 if thefe Men would reconcile their Princi¬ 
 ples with their Praaice : If they who have 
 advanced the Meafures ot Obedience, till they 
 have even made another Babel of it, would 
 not be the firft that overthrow their own Ar¬ 
 guments. It is worth reraembring what 
 a Splutter they made about the yVidorvs 
 Right to difplace her old Servants, upon the 
 meSt groundlcfs and frivolous Pretences of 
 their Enemies ^ but 'tis imputed as an Error 
 in Mr. WRlGST’s Condua. to create about 
 him at his firft Coming, fuch a Set of Ser¬ 
 vants as he has reafon to like, upon the 
 moft palpable and convincing Prooft ^ and 
 throwing out others, who in all their Aai- 
 ons plainly fhewed they never defigned to 
 have had his Company, if they could any 
 way have helped it. Was not Will. Snap- 
 dtapon 3, pKtty Fellow to have the Keeping 
 of the Back Door which young gil^Ute was 
 to be let in at > He that has always made it his 
 Bufinefsto fpeech for him in the CLVBB, and 
 
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 maintained, That to wrong an Hair of hit 
 Headi was a cruel or Unchrifian Proceeding, 
 
 Was not Tont Scaiterwit an excellent Fd- 
 Jow to be kept at N/C'iC FROG\ to bully 
 and hare honeft NICK out of his Senfes, 
 and. theaten h'm every foot with the IVi^ 
 t/tfa’’sRefentinent, if be durft fignhisLeale 
 with Squire South without her Approbation, 
 So that A'/C 7 C muft have been forc'd to have 
 left bis Fences open, and hh Ground unp!ough‘d^ 
 had not Providence interven’d. 
 
 Was not Jacob Booty a pretty Implement 
 to be made ufe of at old ^abagg’s ? He 
 that always boafted publickly liis iniegrity 
 and Zeal to young and his Family, 
 
 and was fo openly and apparently known 
 to have invited him to take Poflcflion of the 
 Eftate? What could be his Bufinefs there, 
 but to have propagated thofe Schemes at old 
 S>abag0’s, which his Fellow-Traitors had 
 cut out for him at home 5 and to have me¬ 
 rited what he was always ambitious of, the 
 Honour of reftoring the Family of 
 to the INN again. 
 
 Was not Ned Bufflehtad a fpecial Fool, to 
 be fent to Mr. WRIGHT, to banter him out 
 of fais Senfes, when no body el(c would 
 undertake the Office ? Could any one but 
 fuch an empty Skull promife himfclf to be 
 
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 received there but as a Spy, who was em¬ 
 bark’d on the Subjedt of three fuch Letters, 
 as no body could have Impudence enough 
 to diftate but Harry Ancumy ? Was there 
 none for them to make their Stalkwg-horfe 
 * on but the Widow's Relation ? A nd does not 
 the poor Fellow look very queer on’t now 
 he’s come home ? 
 
 Was not Con a precious Stick, of Wood to 
 be trufted with the Mai/ageme»t of the Wefi- 
 farnt^ who ow’d his Rife to the Defence of 
 the Curate, and v,^as chofen to that honoura¬ 
 ble' Station for his known Zeal and Integrity 
 to the Cd^UfC ? A Fellow that trampled all 
 Law and juftice under his Feet, and cut 
 thro’ all Oppofition to do the Journey-Work, 
 of his Matters at Home. He that in three 
 Years had advanced young Intereft 
 
 in that Country more than ever T -/ 
 
 did with fix rimes his Power : He that had 
 certainly done the Bufinefs he was fent on, 
 had not honeft CHARLES the Chamberlain 
 fnubb’d him a little, and fet the Club there 
 to fift into his Rogueries. We (hall foon 
 fee what Account he gives of himfelf, and 
 vih^tLeafes were drawn for Enfeoffingyoung 
 OfijiVitt til the Efiate. 
 
 Was not Arthur SkfP’konnel a hopeful 
 Rafcahto be trufted with the prindpalBranch- 
 es of our Trade 5 who would not only have 
 
 fold 
 
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 fold'his Country for half the Sum of 2000 
 PiftoUs a Year, but his Wife and Children 
 into the Bargain? All hi AnctUors in Te^ut- 
 land fince the Conqneft, fcarce ever heard 
 the bare mention offuch a Sum? Who would 
 not venture to be voted a Kogue for to great 
 a Mafs, if he efcapes unhanged for it ? 
 
 There are others chat need no particular 
 rizing, you know therr (^haradiers well e- 
 nough. The INN was like to have come ^ 
 to a fine pafs in time, had fuch Fellows con¬ 
 tinued in the Management of it. Matt, fleeps 
 in a whole Skin at old @)at>age’s. 'Twould 
 be a good Jeft to have him turn Evidence 
 againft his Mafters. Who knows what may 
 happen ? 
 
 H re are many Occurrences ftlrring 5 yet 
 it is very probable 1 may omit fome : Vou 
 muft take the Will for the Deed. My Incli¬ 
 nation makes me think every thing a Plea- 
 fure I do to ferve you ( in this cafe efpecia {- 
 ly)i but you muft excufe my Judgment in 
 the proper Application and Method of 
 things. 
 
 £ohf or fomebpdy for him, has hung up 
 a Declaration at the Market'Crofs, in Vindi¬ 
 cation of his Proceedings. The Country 
 People that come to Market, have por’d their 
 Eyes out tbefe two or three days to read k, 
 
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 and have fent to all the adjacent Towns fo' 
 SpeSacleSf but fwear they can make neithe" 
 head uor tale of it. Some fay, he ha^ 
 rolled himfelfin Goofe Feathers, tomake him 
 look white, and hide his own Tardinefs and 
 Guilt; But ’tis very probable he will heplftch 
 ed by chat time the CLVBB meets again j 
 when it will be feeh whofe A—~*-(e is blacked. 
 Boh has fathered all the Iniquity upon Harry 
 jiucttmy, and his Affociates^ and is curfed by 
 Bell, Book, ^”d Candle among the Party. He 
 has (hewn more the part of a Conjurer in this, 
 than perhaps in any of his former Praftices 5 
 but with this difference in refpeft to other 
 Conjurers, that the Storm he has raided may 
 be of Benefit to the Publick, if the old Pro¬ 
 verb bolds good. Pray Heaven blefs every 
 honed Man’s Cattle however: The very 
 Mountains in Wales have trembled before 
 now at Bob’s Exploits, and the Goats have 
 skipped up and down like parched Peas it 
 the Motion of his Wand. Many a poor Cov 
 or Pig has gone to Pot when Bob has been 
 ruffled by his Neighbours^ for he is known 10 
 be a Fellow of a fhrewd unforgiving Tempa. 
 
 Harry and his Friends have fet the Cryer to 
 work to judify themfelves from BoPs Afperfi- 
 ons 5 and’tis pleafant enough to hear how they 
 Rogue and Rafcal one another in the open 
 Streets; You mud believe it is fome Satisfi- 
 £tion to honedMen to fee that they are pleas'd 
 
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 to give one another their proper Titlefi, her 
 ing beft acquainted with each others Pcr^ 
 fettions. 
 
 I cannot but compare them, fince the 
 Death of the Widovpy to a fturdy Oak, that 
 has been violently rent by fome luddenClap 
 of Thunder, which has afterwards withered 
 and decayed, and its ancient Memory been 
 committed to the Flames.. 
 
 This fplitting and dividing the Party into 
 Collateral Branches, cutting the Gordian Knot 
 afunder may perhaps be ominous. An arch 
 Fellow here, by way of Emblem, has hung op 
 the Sign of a She-Tyger with two Heads,giving 
 Suck to a Litter of French Spaniels. I cxpedt 
 ^ the Fellow will incur their Refentment 5 but 
 he has drawn a great Refort to hisHoufe by it. 
 
 Another, more politically, has hung op the 
 Funeral of JOHN BULL, attended to the 
 Grave in very great Pomp and Splen¬ 
 dor 5 the CURJTE following the Corps, 
 with feveral'of ^fJN’s Relations in com- 
 pleat Mourning. What gives the greater 
 Caufe of Speculation is, the Crucifix that 
 goes before the Hearfe, from whence they fay 
 that JOHN died a Papiff. 
 
 Nowyoumuft know the Man’s Principles 
 >vere always leaning that way 5 yet he was 
 
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 a ^xldiChurchtuM ui Profellion. His Family 
 fprung out of the Seeds of Ignatius IjfyaU^ 
 tho’ many of our expert and learned Genea- 
 hgijis deduce their Original from Pbalaris. 
 Sir He&or BulU one of JOHN'S Ancestors 
 fulFtrcd about the time of the Reformation^ 
 for his Adherence to the Pilgrimage of Grace .* 
 Another of them in the Days of good Q. 
 Befs was a great- Pcrfecutor of the Puritans j 
 and entailed his Principles upon his Genera¬ 
 tion, which they have made good in all 
 Ages. 
 
 JOHN'i Family have always been great 
 Pretendtrs to Loyalty 5 and this is to be faid 
 for them, that they were never the Men who 
 once^rangled with, or oppofed that LAND- 
 LOflD who indulg’d them in all their 
 Hearts required 5 nor accorded well with 
 any who abridg’d them of theleaft Favours 
 which their own Vanity fuggefted to them 
 was owing to their Merit. After all their 
 boahed Submijfton and Nonfenfical Pajfive 
 OWrc»ce, they were the firft Men that took 
 up the Cudgels againft Sir JACOB^ and led 
 down the againft him, when he threat- 
 ned their Inclofures. What AddrefTes they 
 made to his Succefibr is eafily remembered 3 
 and how they ferv’d him, will never be for¬ 
 got, when they faw he would not lodge the 
 foie Power in their H|nds< 
 
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It was the fame with the Widow^ when 
 Ihe came firft to the INN: Never Men were 
 to elevated with the pleating ProtpedI: of 
 new Days of Grace. The Faggot Mongers 
 and Tallow-Chandlers blcfled the time of their 
 Exaltation ^ were crown’d inH alchs 
 
 to the glorious Projefts they had formed. 
 Some of them for a time were taken into the 
 INN, but foon beth—t their Offices? ior 
 there was a Set of honeft Servants employ’d 
 with them, who oppofed their ancient Princi¬ 
 ples and dejiruliive Schetues : So that for almoft 
 nine Years they looked on the fVidow as a 
 Comet or darl{ Cloud that obfeured their Ho¬ 
 rizon , and conftantly mormur’d and repin’d 
 at all her Proceedings^ ' But when Rage and 
 Madnefs worked among the People, and 
 the evil Genius of the Country was fo aftive 
 to advance them into Favour, (he was then 
 ehangd into a Conflellation of Virtue 
 who elfe Irad (hared all the malicious Rcfle^ 
 ftions that a furious Party is capable to in¬ 
 vent, and lain under the common Cahjmrfy* 
 of their Tongues, as her Glorious Pndecejfor 
 had done upon the like Occafion. 
 
 It is not to be remfimbred in what Age 
 the Family of the BZJLL's have adied under 
 any other Refhriaion of Principle. In the 
 time of Sir Jacob's Brother they (hew'’d the 
 fame predominant Spirit ? and by their fatal 
 
 Counfels 
 
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 Counfels drew him into almofl: infuperabic 
 Difticuliies, who, had he not been a very 
 eafy Man, and led away by his Pleafure.had 
 had more Liiture to infpedl: their Condufl. 
 They inveigled him to join wirh old 
 in a LAW $Uir againft N/(CiC fJROG, to 
 the inconteftible Prejudice of bis InterelV^ 
 but very much to the Advantage of their 
 . own, by (Iiaring large Lremiutas of old 
 ©abagc’s Gold. 
 
 Now was the time that we truly felt theEf- 
 fefts of the ^JLL's Conduft: The CROWN' 
 INN was almoh reduc’d to a ftate of Bank- 
 rupcy: The Cellar vcas emptied^ the Barns 
 ranfacl(d^ and the Counting-houfe Jhut up. This 
 was the Jun£fure that fome Rafcals took the 
 Opportunity to fet up the en¬ 
 
 couraged by Sir JACOB and other Fapififf 
 to draw all the Trade from the INN. The 
 Family of the BULLS were here very adive: 
 They prais’d the Wine, promoted Cuftom, 
 and were very obfequious to Sir Jacoby whofe 
 Intereft they vehemently fupported, when 
 the Bench of Jujiiccs, to prevent the Ruin 
 of the Toa>»f would have cut off the EntaiL 
 .and prevented his fucceeding to the Eftate. 
 How they ufed him after, I have hinted al- 
 ' ready, when they plainly found that Sir 
 ] JACOB was engrofs’d by another Set of Fa¬ 
 vourites. 
 
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 It is in vain to reap up more, you know 
 fomethingot the Hiftory of ibole times, and 
 what Analogy it bears with the Management 
 * of the laft Years. I almoft tremble to 
 think ofthe dtfperate Condition we were iu : 
 I compare it to looking down a very fteep 
 and amazing Precipice, when a Man has e- 
 fcapedthe Danger 3 and lam hardly cur’d of 
 the Fright yet ^ fo generous a Concern has 
 every honeft Man that loves his Country. ‘ 
 
 Thus I have given you fome Account of 
 the Family of the BVLLS, and their Beha¬ 
 viour under all Circumftances: Not but 
 I can allure you there are foroe very honeft 
 Men among them, and well-affcfted to the 
 prefent Interefl. I hope others in a little time 
 will hear Reafon, becaufe I forefee. they will 
 have no Opportunity in anyCompafs of time 
 to exert themfelves again. 
 
 JOHN himfelf was a Man of tolerable 
 Sence, and underftood a little of Politicks y 
 but intolerably addicted to Paffion anti 
 falfe Keafoning: In (hort he was too much 
 infedted with the common Infirmity of the 
 Family^ yet was otherwife a good Neigh¬ 
 bour enough, and had lived very peaceably 
 forfome Years, till the feditious time of the 
 CDRAIB’s bellowing at Hockley C 
 deicended ot theBHll'sFamilytoo^ and as fome 
 fay, of the TOWN-BVLL^ 5) when JOHN^ 
 ^ C who 
 
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 who had better have minded foraewhat elfe, 
 being poflf (hrd with the inherent Spirit and 
 Qjialitks of his famous AftceJiors^Uft his Corn 
 ftanding, bis Grafs unmowed, and all his Af¬ 
 fairs at Sixes and Sevens to muddle himfelf 
 again in Politicks. 
 
 You cannot but have heard how a^live a 
 Man JOHN was at this time, and the great 
 hand he bad in compofing the LAW-^IT. 
 Tho’ he had a fore Struggle with N/C 2 C 
 TROG about it: NICK tvrefiled well, but 
 JOHN was clearly too hard for him at 
 ter-fiaff ; and by that confounded Rap over 
 NICK’S Knuckles quite put him out of his 
 Play: Yet I rauft tell you, that for fome time 
 NICK was judged to have the better of the 
 Combat, till he receiv’d that unlucky Stroke 5 
 which fome Men of the Science will tell ye, 
 was not fo fair in JOHN as might have been 
 cxpcQied: However, he cleverly won the 
 Stage by it, and that was fufficient. 
 
 JOHN had very near brought all his Pro^ 
 jeSs to bear ^ and was big with the Glorious 
 Harveft he fhould reap for all his Labour: 
 JOHN grew very Grand and haughty, and 
 Would hardly fpeak to his old Neighbours 5 
 when on a fudden,tofee the Inftability of hu¬ 
 mane Fortune, the Widon>*s Death blew up the 
 Train of JOHN’s Greatnefs, and all his rich 
 Schemes vanifh’d away in Smoke. JOHNre- 
 
 : turn’d 
 
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 turn’d to his own Houfe, found a defolate 
 .ruin’d Place of it, and hhFamily under a deep 
 Melancholy. Confider whether this Man was 
 to be reputed in hit Sences^ And whether he 
 was not fitter to be bound in his Bed, than to 
 have been truftcd with his Liberty. Poor 
 Man ! they fay he died ravingmad at laft, and 
 that the Diftemper is like to fpread farther in 
 the Family, 
 
 But ’tis time to conclude. — I hope we ihall 
 have your Company here at Mr. WRIGHT’s 
 Inauguration. We are like to have a Glorious 
 Day of it % but I cannot tell how the Family 
 of the B 2 JLL’s will behave themfelvesw The 
 Arrival of young Mr. WRIGHT’s Confort 
 with her dear Progeny, and fome other late 
 mortifying Gircumftances, have given them 
 frelh Fits of the Spleen 5 but as I have told 
 you, the Men can jump over a Stick, and 
 do all their Tricks, uponOccafion. 
 
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 JTTENDIX 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Crown - Inn, 
 
 Mn(^ aflure you, that had I not, 
 thro’ the great Hopes and Ex- 
 peda ration of feeing you e’re 
 ethis, omitted fomething in my 
 laft which I thought proper 
 to communicate to you, and 
 would have done it Perfonally if our good 
 Stars had fo direded, 1 (houid have had no 
 farther Occafion of adding to all my former, 
 being of themfelvcs fufficiently long and 
 tirefome; 
 
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As in the greateft Variety we are always 
 put to the hardeft difficulty in fixing our 
 Choice 5 fo in the vaft Field, the numerous 
 Subjects for Difcourfe, one is at greater lofs 
 to put one’s Thoughts into any Method: for 
 in all Infiances, we find, there is no furer 
 Evidence of a good Genius than that which 
 is (hewn in the EfFe£k of Choice. 
 
 I have very great reafon to believe, that 
 every thing is well receiv’d by you 5 not 
 thro’ any Motive, but your fincere Friend- 
 fliip, nor any Merit but the Subjeft 5 both 
 I know are particular, but one much more 
 worthy your Attention. 
 
 One wou’d believe by their Actions, that a 
 Setdf People here are really infefted in their 
 B'aihs-j and that jhey lie under the fame In¬ 
 fluence with Creatures of another Species 
 which have lately been vifited with a very 
 oddDiftemper: There is fome kind of cor- 
 reipcndencv in their Maladies^ only that 
 which afftfts the Two-legg’d Creatures 
 fe rns to be of the moft fearful* ahd 
 tretr.cndous Confequence, and -to threa¬ 
 ten the Country in the mofi dear and 
 tender Part: But thank God the Difiem- 
 ‘ per is net Epidemical 5 tho’ it feems the 
 Nature of thofe infected, to endeavour all 
 they can to fpread it aboutj and to make 
 
 others 
 
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 Others in the fame pickle with thein- 
 felveSf 
 
 The Symptoms they are fciz’d with, are a 
 kind of Splc'natick Mad Fits, not much un¬ 
 like Madnefs; they foam at the Mouth, 
 roll their Eyes, and utter lirange incoherent 
 Speeches, and in this manner go raving up 
 and down the Town. The dire£l Cure for 
 this we know were a Dark Room, and 
 Clean Straw, with fome Manual Exercife, 
 (lender Diet, and other proper Methods to 
 correct the Fumes of the Diftemper: But at 
 the rate they go on, I defpair of any Cure 
 for them; and were it not for the Honour of 
 living in a Free Country, where LIBERTY 
 has been always the Peoples Right, they are 
 fuch as ought rather to be (hut up in Peji~ 
 houjet to prevent a Contagion, than to 
 breath in the open Air among Men of free 
 and generous Principles. 
 
 Some of thefe Creatures appear in Furrd 
 Gowns, Tufted Garments, and fit in the High 
 Places, but are indeed Men of the moft (hal¬ 
 low and humble Underftandings 5 and you 
 will find very few among them that aft with 
 a Spirit of Difintcreftednefs, or are not at¬ 
 tached to the Perfon of young 
 
 I have fcarce Patience to Preface any lon¬ 
 ger, when I think what degenerate Fellows 
 
 I treat 
 
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 F treat on. Good C—d, what is become of 
 that ancient Spirit that ufed to reign in this 
 Kingdom ! or for which of our Sins was this 
 ftubborn Generation fown among us, which 
 have fprung op like the Tarex that almoft 
 choaked the good Cortt! 
 
 Wou’d they produce an Inftance of that 
 Time when they have not been Tumultuous 
 andTroubl$fome, I would fpare their Shamej 
 unlefs It were like the D—-I, who is good 
 when he is pleafed. They had fet their Hearts 
 fo upon Rule, in the Widow's Reign, when 
 they carry d their Point as far, and fat with as 
 inuch SecuritVj as the memory of any known 
 Time ever afforded them, (the Days of 
 Sir JACOB excepted) that ’tis no very 
 , great wonder they are fo Impatient under 
 their prefent Circumftances. They had 
 really under Her procured a pretty Te'- 
 nantable Leafe, few COPT-HOLDS were 
 firmer ^ and they were endeavouring to get 
 3 Grant of the Inheritance in Fee-fimple 5 
 when, alls, the l^afe itfelf depending on 
 one Angle Life cafually expired. 
 
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 Confidering the Mifchief they might do, 
 by the Influence of their former Power, and 
 how likely the Defperatencfs of their Cafe 
 was to put them upon it 5 what a Happincfs 
 muft we acknowledge their Stupidity to be, 
 In fancying they had Pretenfionsto Retew it 
 
 under 
 
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 un 4 er Mr. WRIGHT? And how iuaiy mav 
 we impute our Safety to their miierably de¬ 
 ceived Expe^tions^ and regret the lefe 
 that It is the deplorable Occalion of their 
 prefent Inveteracy, Rage, and Fury. 
 
 I told you the State they flood in at prefer- 
 ring the Old derv 4 »tf again, and the grievous 
 Clamours they railed againft it; tho* their 
 ;uftitying the fame thing in the had 
 remarkable Precedent; which 
 Ql all Men they ought to bethelafl toCen- 
 fure: But Nature is predominant. ’Tis true 
 one Inconveniency feems to arife from their 
 
 eing difplaced, which is, that they are too 
 much at leizure to Plot and Cabal with t^ 
 t<rfe«dx of young who by that En¬ 
 
 couragement and Audition to their Part, 
 begin to gather Life again, and to rouK 
 themfelves from a Defpair that the late Al¬ 
 teration had thrown them into. Their Bufi- 
 nels IS now to ad in concert together, and 
 nor uulikely as Propperties to each other x 
 the of fBe BhUs, by their Affiftance 
 
 to introduce themfelves into Power again s 
 and the other, by affiftiiig them, to advance 
 the Intereft of young %aC 0 f 3 . One 
 thing in this IS certain, that they i,ave uni¬ 
 ted their Forces again; and the daily Cla¬ 
 mours and Difturbances we hear of in the 
 Country, are the true EfFefts of it. Tis 
 ftrange, that the BULLS FAMIIT, who 
 
 have ' 
 
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 bave always been the Tools to Sir JACOB 
 and his Jjfae^ Ihould not once endeavour to 
 honour themfelves, by difclairaing fo fcan- 
 daldus a Correfpondence. But Reproofs are 
 vain. 
 
 The Widom, poot Woman, began feverely 
 to feel the Effeft of Patronizing them fo 
 long 5 and *tis pity a Life of fuch Confe* 
 quence (hould be fulUed with their MIS- 
 CARRIAGES. I -can hardly mention with¬ 
 out Tears, the Advantage it may give Pofte- 
 rity of treating her Memory with Contempt, 
 and obfcuring a Hiftory that would elfe 
 have appeared as bright as the Element her 
 own Vertues ihone in, and could have been 
 liable to no Coniradiftion from the moft 
 partial Pen. 
 
 But we will forgive them this 5 forgive 
 the fad Occafion of her Death ; But (hall we 
 forgive their going on in the fame Road, their 
 repetition of Praftices that have always been 
 pernicious to the Interefi of their Country. 
 Tis well known, they were her Averfion 5 
 the leaft of her Care or Concern for Nine 
 Years 5 which they fufficiently revenged, 
 by teazing her out of her Life in lefs 
 than half the time j and heaping on her 
 anxious Head as great a weight of 
 Trouble and Perplexity, as their Pre- 
 decelTors the OLD SFjRVANTS had 
 
 loaded 
 
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 loaded with accumulated Glory and Ad* 
 vantages. 
 
 But 1 will have done with this Repetition 5 
 you know the Truth of it too well already : 
 Do but revolve the Paffages and Incidents 
 of their laft (hort Reign, ( for you muft un¬ 
 derhand they have been in Power in other 
 part Times to as good a Purpofe ) and you 
 will find, that not one fingle Aftion or Con- 
 fequence Went well from the very footing of 
 their Adminiftration : Unlefs you will be¬ 
 lieve that idle Story trumpt up by them at 
 that time, of their beginning with Saving 
 iht Church which in reality never flouriflied 
 with greater Tranquillity than during the 
 Widows time : And I.believe they will them- 
 felves acknowledge, when they have not 
 a mind to be merry with us, that it was the 
 higheft Infolence and Affront to impute the 
 contrary to Her. 
 
 Now I am fpeaking of this, I cannot but 
 acquaint you with an odd Accident that 
 happen’d here t’other Day: An innooenc 
 Country Vicar Preaching in Town, was 
 Infulted and very rudely Treated bv the 
 Parilhioners of the BULtlAN PARITY* 
 The Offence he was guilty of, was, blejfing 
 Heaven for the happy Situation of Affairs, and 
 the iwwinent Danger me mere lately refeued 
 front. But that is not the Occafion I men- 
 
 B tion 
 
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 tion it on. I cannot but fmile to think, 
 that the firft Infuk or Indignity literally 
 offered to the Church fince the time ol 
 Sir JACOB, (hould be by the Famlji of the 
 Bulls themfelves, who have always expreffed 
 fuch Keverence and Venera'ion to the Place, 
 and juftified the Dignity of its Priefts even 
 to Rage and Madnefs. 
 
 Had the other Party done as much, good 
 Heaven, what Clamours wou’d have been 
 raifed ! It could not have efcaped the Cenlure 
 and Conftru^hon of their going to pull the 
 Church down, if no worfe. I hope they 
 will not forget it, together wirti their pulling 
 down of Cotfuenticles, if there fhould be Oc- 
 cafion for the future to mention it to them 
 by way of Alternative. 
 
 Poor M.m, they have really been unfor¬ 
 tunate, for the moft part, in railing up Pre¬ 
 cedents againft themfelves y tho’ they are the 
 leaft inclinable to be judged by their own 
 Laws of any Men breathing. Had they 
 forefeen the Confequence of juftifying the 
 Widm\ Proceeding in Difplacing her Old Ser¬ 
 vants, and that the Splutter they made about 
 her Right to do it, which they termed the, 
 higheft hhblence in any one to queftion, 
 wou’d fo ioQiJ have reverted upon them- 
 felyes, they v,^ouM' not probably have been 
 fo viuleiu in maintaining the Legality and 
 
 Jufticc 
 
( ” ) 
 
 Juftice of it. Had they devifed how foon 
 that tremendous IVord the PREROGATIVE 
 would have rifen in judgment againft tliem- 
 lelves, no doubt, but they would have been 
 more fparing in afllrting it on every trifling 
 Occafion. 1 his was tbe Healing Conferve to 
 palliate every Bolus the People were to (wal¬ 
 low : And it a Squ amifli ftomich’d Per- 
 fon now and then happen’d to boggle or 
 keck at Tt. the ^tacVPoliticians cry’d imme¬ 
 diate! v. "Loons^ Sir, Is it not the PRERO^ 
 GATIVE > 
 
 I’m afraid they will be the firtV that find 
 fault with their own Preferiptions, and not 
 eafily fwaliow any thing that comes recom¬ 
 mended to them in a Sence fo repugnant to 
 the life they always intended it for. There is 
 a difference in the Conflrudfion of the Word, 
 tho’ not perhaps in the Word it felf 5 and 
 that Authority or Power which binds a Man 
 over to his own Behaviour, his own Incli¬ 
 nation, is always like o be moft acceptable 
 to him. The PREROGATIVE was a glo¬ 
 rious Word, while they held the Reins of 
 Power, and ferved on all Occafions to juftifie 
 their Condua. IT IS VNDOVBTEDLT 
 THE PREROGATIVE OF THE CROWN, 
 l^vid.Crown-Inn'] was the general Preamble 
 to all Dilputes, erpecially that on the 
 Widows COMPOSIIION 5 when indeed her 
 Authority was never queftion’d in that 
 
 B 2 Point 5 
 
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 Pointy buf, whether it were not better to 
 continue the LaW-STJIV^ than make a 
 bafe and difadvantageous Agreement i 
 
 This latter, which can. only be the Caufe 
 of iutailing another tcdijous SUIT upon 
 us, will bring thefe People to a Tryal how 
 they can relifli a Submiflion to their own 
 Do6lrine. It is much to be fear’d, that the 
 Seeds of the late Accommodation, fo welcome 
 to our Adverfaries, and fo unfatisfaftory to 
 many of our Friends, may produce an 
 earlier Occilion of commencing a new LdfT- 
 SVlr than we imagine 3 for I muft tell you, 
 that Affairs Abroad feem at prefent very 
 much out of Frame, and depend not a little 
 on Mr. WRIGHT’s Reputation to compofe 
 them. ; Now, how won d thefe Men clamour 
 agiihff fuch ,an Article ! What -imaginary 
 .Dangers vyou’d they fuggeft to the Populace, 
 that . a freffi LAW'SVlT wou’d ruin us, 
 tlio’ it were the only Means to fave us 
 from Fluin > And how unwilling wou’d 
 they b? '.o contribute toward the Charge of 
 it, notwitldtanding it was owing to their 
 ow-n wretched Cpnduft, and the falfe and 
 clandcffine Steps they had taken ? t 
 
 This you muff know I lay by way 
 of Compaffion, not Complaint 3 for I 
 could heartily vvilh they wou’d have more 
 regard to thejr own Welfare and Reputation, 
 
 ’ ' and 
 
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 and not to be the firft that break through 
 their own Precepts, and fet up Fences lO 
 keep others in awe, which they can leap 
 over themfelvcs at Pleafure. 
 
 They have ftarfed the old Hare again^ that 
 is, the Church’s Danger y and the Pack are 
 fet on it full Cry: Tis open Weather, and 
 the Sctrt lies rarely .• This has always been 
 the Artifice, when they found themfelves 
 our of Power, and ’t'S the moft excellent 
 Muliok they can devife, to tickle the Ears of 
 the Mobb, upon whoie Shoulders they gene¬ 
 rally-auen! to Preferment 5 when in reality, 
 upon the nictU Survey that can be made, 
 not a ?fone Ts amifs, hoFTbe leaft piece of 
 painted Glafs broke in all the Church Win- 
 doWi, to occafion this mighty Squabble 5 and 
 if they will promife for the future to forbear 
 injuring and dilhonouring the Church them¬ 
 felves, as they lately did, by infulting and 
 abufing one of the Priefts of it, in his holy 
 Veftments, and even in the Temple it felf, 
 I will engage it (ball never receive lb mani- 
 feft an Affront from any of the Well-wijhert 
 to the prefent Adminifiratiott. 
 
 I will not trouble you any longer ^ only 
 to tell you, that all their Endeavours are like 
 to prove fruitlefs, in difturbing the glorious 
 Circumftances are like to accrue from the pre¬ 
 fent happy profpedt of Affairs. They threa- 
 
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 ten ns hard in the choice of the next Clnh, 
 aihl the Curate is very bufie in the Country 
 again, fpiriting up the People 5 but we may 
 detire them to remember, there is a Word 
 made up of five fmall Syllables, which they 
 were once very fond of, and were the laft 
 that ufed it. 
 
 lam y 
 
 TourSy See'. 
 
K i Y 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 HI S TO R Y 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Crown - Inn, .(^c. 
 
 
 PART I. 
 
 C Roven-Intty The C — . t* 
 
 Widovpy The late ^ -. 
 
 Her Hujhttndy P. G- e» 
 
 Sir Jacob, Late K. J -x. 
 
 Right of Commomngy Liberty and Property, 
 The Three Farmt, Great B‘ — ft and T 
 Her Houfe-warmingy Sp—h on herAcceflw^ 
 
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 Old Savage, The Fr. K — ^g. 
 
 Competitor, The Pre^ -r. 
 
 Family of the Shutes, K. J — '/s Lineage, 
 Mr. Wright, K. G— e. 
 
 Lavp-Suit, The late War^ 
 
 John Trufty, The D. of M- h, 
 
 Cheif Agent in the Caufe, Gen —1 of the Ar — s. 
 Term, The Campaign. 
 
 Compofiiton, The Ptace. 
 
 The Curate, Dr. S— - 4 
 
 Lawyers, Book-keepers, &c. Officers and Cour¬ 
 tiers. 
 
 Pay the pxcife, Publick Debts. 
 
 P^trfm of the Parijh, Arfti. B. of C- y. 
 
 Heads of the Town, The B - ps, 
 
 AparceiofGypftes, Penfioners. 
 
 Bench of Jujiices, H. of P - rs. 
 
 Popes~head and Dagger near the Croft, Popery. 
 
 Robin Slyboots, The late.T-r. 
 
 Flab, L. Af- tit. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah, D — ;-fs of M. -- —. h. 
 
 Ralph the Cajlt-keeper, late E. of G- », 
 
 Harry Aucumy, L. B --- 
 
 Clerk of the Brewhoufe, Sec - ry of S - te* 
 
 -J he Club, TheP - -t. 
 
 Jfidgment ordered to be enter’d up, Meafurcs 
 concerted to enter France. 
 
 Next Term, Next Campaign. 
 
 Jacob RuJIj, D. 0-. 
 
 Widow’s Friends, The Confederates; 
 
 Law Charges, Expence of the. War. 
 
 Honejl Tenants, The WhiggS. 
 
 Decided 
 
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 Decided it at Common Lan>^ Made an end on’c 
 by the Sword, 
 
 The Hofi/e loji its Tradcy Decreafe of Trade 
 upon the Peace. 
 
 Toung Shute^ The Pretender. 
 
 yacoh Booty^ Late D. H - 
 
 I^orth Farm, Scot—-^d. 
 
 Tnrp^pike^ Dunkirk. 
 
 Accommodation^ The Peace. 
 
 Promifed to difmifs yomg Shnte out of his Fa- 
 
 Promifed to remove the Pretender ' 
 out of his Dominions. 
 
 One of his Tenants at necet Door, D., of I_ n. 
 
 Poor People, The Catalans. 
 
 Set his Mirmidons and Bailiffs to haul them to 
 Execution, Sent his Troops to reduce 
 them. 
 
 Matt the Tavern-Boy, M— P _ r. 
 
 Sim the Scrivener, . i'hc late C - j. 
 
 The chamberlain, D. Sh - y, 
 
 TheTrufiees, Thve Lords J—-_ 
 
 fohn SqueamiJJj, E-P - —t. 
 
 Sam Petticoat, L. M ---. 
 
 Will Wildfire, SirW - PT—. 
 
 ' Dic^ the Powder Monkey, G —I H _/. 
 
 Counting-Houfe, Se - ys Office. 
 
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 'jpRiendt of young Shute, The Jacobites. 
 
 ^ Ruined Party^ Tory M .— y. 
 
 New Landlord^ K-G • - e. 
 
 Bob*/ Conjuring'Wand. T—*———rs Staffl 
 Bob/ Inviolable Attack See his Letter to 
 H -r. 
 
 Tom Scott emit, E. S-'- - d. 
 
 Nick Pfog, The D—-^ck 
 
 Trod upon Nicks ToeSf His Condu^ to th^Rl 
 
 on the P-e. 
 
 Nick Spitfire, E. S - : — e. 
 
 Squire Sout/j, The —r. 
 
 Boh Bungey, L. B - y. 
 
 Phil. Baboon. See ^ohn Bull. 
 
 Matt SpiftdleJhankSf M - P -r. 
 
 Peregrine Scamper, E-P-. 
 
 Jacob RuJIh See the Firft Part.' 
 
 The Buf-coats. The Officers. 
 
 Old Bias, D. B -«w. 
 
 Sins —. See the ift Part. 
 
 Will. Brotningham. Vid. German DoHor, 
 Arthur Skipkcnnel, A — —r M — r. 
 
 Con -- Late C —- of I - d. 
 
 Tom. Dimple, Sir Tho - H -r. 
 
 Charles Barrier, Ld. Town/ - d. 
 
 Copfes and Inclofures on ‘Squire South’/ Efiafe, 
 The Towns given the Dutch by the Barrier 
 Treaty. 
 
 Turnip-Eield or two of the Widow' Our 
 Flanders Trade, . ' • Will 
 
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 WiU> the Cooper, Prefcnt Ld. Ch— 
 
 head OJller^ M-r of the Horfe. 
 
 Ned. "VopfaiL E. of Or ——— d. 
 The PoJi-Boj^ Abel Roper, 
 
 HoneSi Dan. Soberfides, E). of ^ __ 
 
 Jemmy Bris^^ General S -- pg. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 pOpes Head^ Crofs-Keyf and jVf/Vre, Houfcs 
 ^ aft'a d to the Pre/Wer. 
 
 Trumpets of Zron. The Cl-—v. 
 
 N- 
 
 Aufpicious Patron.^ S. G 
 
 Jonathan. Wormwood, Dr. 5"- 1. 
 
 Clnb-'Supper, PalSng of Bills. 
 Wrefiling, Eledion. 
 
 Will. Truly, D, of D — -— r$. 
 Fran^ Stirrop, E. of G 
 
 Robin Bold* Robert W - ;—le Efqj 
 
 Dkb'Filedufl, Richard St——e Efq^ 
 
 Nicb. Silvertongue, Sir hich. L— - 
 
 Carried the Belt in this Town, 
 
 Sheriffs. 
 
 * 4 , 
 
 -n. 
 
 -re 
 
 Eledion for 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 JijR’Worthy, L. C - if. 
 
 ^ . Will Snapdragon, L. N -G-- 
 
 Back-door to let the Pretender in at, Portf^th. 
 
 To/n Scatterwit, See the 2d Part. 
 
 Jacob 
 
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 ooty. See ift Part. 
 fflehead^ E. C———^ 
 
 The WeJi-Far//f^ Ire - d, 
 
 Cba, the Chamberlain. See i ft Part,' 
 
 T-r—* - ly Tyrconntl, 
 
 Declaration at the M.arket-Crofsy Secret Hi- 
 ftory of the White Staff. 
 
 John Bully A general Name for the Tories. 
 Family of the Bulls^ The Tories. 
 
 Sir yacob's Brother, K. C —^ IE 
 Cut off the Entail, Bill of Exclufion. 
 
 Mr. lVright*s Inauguration, The Coronation, 
 
 ERRATA.. 
 
 P Age 14. (2d Part) for Pachet k' Pocket. 
 
 Pag. 5. (4th Part) for Coxcombs r.Coxcomb. 
 Pag. 9. ( 4th Part) for Pool r. Tool. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 'T'HE Preface pag. 5 
 
 Chap. I, The Sequel vf the Htjlory of the 
 Meeting at the Salutation, 9 
 
 Cliap. II. H01V Jolin Bull and Nic Vrog fettled 
 their Accounts^ P* 15 
 
 Chap. III. i-/b)V'John Pvi\[ found all his Farnily 
 in an 'Idf roar at hornet . p. 21 
 
 Chap. IV. Horv Lewis Baboon came to Vi fit 
 John Bull, and rvhatpajfed between them^ p.26 
 Chap. V. Nic. Frogb- Letter to John Bull; 
 wherein he endeavours to vindicate alt his Con- 
 di0 with relation to John Bull and the Law- 
 Suit, P‘ 3 1 
 
 Chap. VI. The Difcourfe that pajfed between’ 
 Nic. Frog and Efquire South, which John 
 
 overheard, P* 34 
 
 Chap. VII. The refi 0/Nic.V Fetches, to keep 
 John out of Ecclefcloun Caftle, P* 39 
 
 Chap. VIII. Of the great foy that John exprej- 
 Jed whettbegotPofiefiion ofVjzchAAQxxn, p. 4 j 
 
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 Eloquence ! tlie quaint ^Metaphor, rfie'pol- 
 nant Irony, the proper Epithet, and the lively 
 Simile, zxfi^tdiX.o Burleigh o» the Hill: Inftead 
 of thefe, we fliall have I know not 
 —— '^The HiterAte will tell the 
 ^eji with PleAfure ! I hope the Reader p«faS * 
 will excufe this Digreflion, due by 
 way ofCondolance to my worthy Brethren of 
 Gruh-fireet, for the approaching Barbarity 
 that is likely to overfpread-ail its Regions, . by 
 this oppreffive and exorbitant Tax. It has 
 been my good Fortune to receive my Educa¬ 
 tion there ; and fo long as I preferv’d fomc 
 Figure and Rank amongft the Learned of thac 
 Society, I fcorn’d to take my Degree either 
 at Vtrecht or' Leyden^ though I wasofFer’id it 
 grAtis by the ProfclTors there. 
 
 C H A P. I. 
 
 The Sequel of the Hifiory of the Meeting 
 At the Salutation, 
 
 W Here, I think, I left fohn Bulf fit¬ 
 ting between Nic. Frog and Lewis 
 Bahoon, with his Arms A-kimbof in' 
 great Concern to keep Lewis and Nie. afun- 
 der. As watchful as he was, Nic, found the 
 Means j now and then, to fteal a Whilper, 
 and, by a cleanly Conveyance under the Ta¬ 
 ble, to flip.a fhort Note into Lewts'^s hand^ 
 
 JB . whieW 
 
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 which Lewu as flyly put into Johns Pockeit, 
 with a Pinch or a Jog, to warn him what he 
 was about. John had the Curiofity to retire 
 into a Corner, to perufe thefe BiUet deux 
 of MV’s; wherein he found, that Nic. had 
 ufed great Freedoms, both with his Intereft 
 and Reputation. One contained thefe wordsj 
 'Dear Lewis, Thou feeli clearly that this Blocks 
 head can never bring Im Matters to bear: Let 
 thee and me talk to night by our felves at the 
 Rofe, and VU give thee Satufa£lion. Another 
 was thus exprcfs’d; Friend Lewis, Has thy 
 Senfe quite forfaken thee^ to make Bui] fuch Of- 
 fers? Hold fast, part tpith nothings and I will 
 give thee a better Bargain, I'll warrant thee* 
 
 In fome of his Billets, he toX^ Lewis “ that 
 “ John Bull was under his Guardianfliip ; 
 “ that the beft part of his Servants were at 
 * his Command; that he could have John 
 gagg’d and bound whenever he pleafed, 
 by the People ci his own Family.” In all 
 thefe Epiftles, Blockhead, Dunce, Afs, Cox- 
 C(^imb, were the beft Epithets he gave poor 
 John: In others he threatned, “ that He, 
 Efquire South, and the reft of the Tradcf- 
 “ men, would lay Lewis down upon his Back, 
 beat out his Teeth, if he did not retire 
 “ immediately, and break up the Meeting. 
 
 I fancy I need not tell my Reader, that 
 John often chang’d Colour as he read, and 
 that his Fingers itch’d to give Nic. a good 
 Slap on the Chops j but he wifely moderated 
 
 his 
 
C II 3 .. . . 
 
 his diolerick Temper: “ I favM this Fellow 
 “ (quoth he) from the Gallows when he ran 
 “ away from his laft Mafter, becaufe I thought 
 “ he was harfhly treated j but the Rogue was 
 “ no fooner fafe under my Pioteftion, than 
 he began to lie, pilfer, and fteal, like the 
 “ Dpvil: When I firll fet him up in a warm 
 ^ Houie, he had hardly put up his Sign, 
 “ when he began to debauch my beft Cti- 
 " ftomers from me: Then it was his con- 
 « ftant PraQiice to rob my Fifh-ponds, not 
 « only to feed his Family, but to trade with 
 ^ the Filhmo.ngers: I conniv’d at the Fellow 
 “ till he began to tell me, that they were 
 ** his as much as mine: In my Manour of 
 ** Eajfcheapf becaufe it lay at fome diftance 
 « from my conftant Infpeclion, he broke 
 “ down my Fences, robb’d my Orchards, and 
 beat my Servants. When I us’d to repri- 
 “ mand him for his Tricks, he would talk 
 ^ faucily, lye, and brazen it out, as if he 
 ^ had done nothing amifs. Will nothing 
 cure thee of thy Pranks Nic. (quoth I?) I 
 “ fiiall be forced, fome time or another, to 
 « chaftife thee : The Rogue gqt up his Cane 
 ‘‘ and tbrcatncd pne, apd was well thwack'd 
 ^ for his Pains: But I think his Behavibar 
 at this time worft of all; after I have al- 
 “ moft drowr*ed my fclf, to keep his Head 
 “ above Water, he would leave me fticking 
 ** in the Mud, trufting to his Goodncfs to 
 “ help me out. After I have beggar’d my 
 
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 feif with Ins troublefome Law^-Sult, with 
 f a pox to him, he takes it in mighty Dud- 
 geon becaufe I have brought him here to 
 end Matters amiyably, and becaufe I w’on’t: 
 let him make me qver, by Deed anil Inden-j 
 ture, as his lawful Cully; which, to my, 
 certain. Knowledge, he has attempteck fe-, 
 veral iime?. But, after all, canft thou%a-v 
 ** ther Grapes froni Thorns ? A'/c,..does not, 
 “ pretend to be a Gentleman, he is a Tradefr; 
 ‘‘ man^ a felf-feeking Wretch j but how ca- 
 meft 11100 to bear all this, ’^john ? The Rea-- 
 ‘‘ fon is plain; Thou conferreil: the Benefits,; 
 
 and jiP'receives , them ; the firft produces 
 ^ Lovjs, and the_ laft Ingratitude: Ah! Nic. 
 
 art a damn’d Dog, that’s eer- 
 tain ;'thou knoweft too well, that T will. 
 ‘‘ take carp of thee; elfe thou wouJd^h: not 
 ufe me thus: I won’t give thee up, it is 
 “ true 5 but as true as it is, thou fhalt not fell 
 me, according to thy laudable Guftom. 
 “ While 'Johff was deep in this Soliloquy, 
 Nic. broke out into the following Proteha- 
 tion. i 
 
 Goitlemen] 
 
 I believe every body here prefent will 
 “ allow me to be a very juft and difinte-^ 
 refted Perfon. My Friend ‘John Bull here 
 “ is very angry with me, forfooth, becaufe 
 I won’t agree to his foolifh Bargains. Now 
 4 declare to all Mankind-1 fliould be ready 
 
 
(■15 ) 
 
 tK 3 fecrlfice tny own .Conce;^hs to his Quiet; 
 but the care’of his IntereO^ and that ot the 
 honelt Tradeffnen that are embark’d with 
 ‘‘ us, keeps me from, entrii^ into this Com* 
 pofkioH. ^:,What fhall become of thofe pooc 
 Creatures ? Thoughts of their iropen-. 
 ‘‘ ding Ruin difturbs my Night’s Reft, there- 
 fore I defire they may f{>ealc for themfclves. 
 If they are willing to give up this Affair, 
 
 I flian’c make two words of it, ' . 
 
 John Bull begg’d him to lay afidc that 
 immoderate' Concern for him; and withal, 
 pur-him in mhid, that the imereft of thofe 
 Tradcfmcn bad. not fat quite fo Iieavy upon 
 him fome iTears ago, on a like Occafion. Nfe. 
 anfwer’d little ro that, but immediately pull’d 
 out a Boatfvyaift’s Whiftle ; upon the firft: 
 Whiff, the Trgdefmen came jumping into the 
 Room, and began to furround Lenis like fo 
 many yelping Curs about a great Boar, or, 
 to life a modefter Simile, like Duns at a great 
 Lord’s Levb the Morning he goes into, the 
 Country j one pull’d him by the Sleeve, ano¬ 
 ther by the Skirt, a third hallow’d in his 
 Ear; they began to ask him for all that had 
 been taken from their Forefathers by Stealth, 
 Fraud, Force, or lawful Purcjiafe ; feme ask’d 
 for Manours, others for Acres, that lay con¬ 
 venient for them ; that he would pull down 
 bis Fences, level his Ditches; all agreed in 
 . one common Demand, that he jbonld be 
 " ~ .. purg’d, 
 
[ 14 ] 
 
 purg’d, Tweated, vomited, and ftarvM, till 
 be came to a fizeable Bulk, like that of his 
 Neighbours,- one modeftly ask’d hLm Leave 
 to call hini Brother. Nic, Frog demanded twd^ 
 Things, to be his Porter and his Fifhmonger, 
 to keep the Keys of his Gates, and furnifh his 
 Kitchen. 'John's Sifter Peg only defir’d that 
 he would let his Servants fing Pfalras a Sun¬ 
 days. Some delcended even to the asking of 
 old Cloaths, Shoes, and Boots, broken Bottles, 
 Tobacco-pipes, and Ends of Candles. 
 
 Monfieur (quoth Lewis') you Teem to 
 be a Man of fome Breeding y for God’s fakfr 
 ufe your Jntereft with thefe Meffieurs, that 
 they wou d fpeak but one at once; for if one 
 bad a hundred pair of Hands, and as many 
 Tongues, he cannot fatisfy tfiem all at this 
 rate. John begg’d they might proceed with 
 fome Method ; then they ftop’d all of a fud- 
 den, and would not fay a word. If this be 
 your Play (quoth John) that wfe may not be 
 like a Quaker’s dumb Meeting, let us begin 
 fome Diverfion; what d’ye think of Rouly- 
 Pouiy, or a Country-Dance? What if we 
 ihould have a Match at Football! I am furd 
 we lhall never end Matters at this rate. ' 
 
 C H A P. 
 
( ^5 > 
 
 CHAP. ir. 
 
 H(wv John Bull a»d NIc. Frog fettled 
 their ^ccompts. 
 
 J. Bull. this general Cejfation of Talk^ 
 
 ■C-' rvhat if Toa and 1 Nic. jhould en¬ 
 quire hoiv Money-matters ft and hetmen m? 
 
 Nic. Frog. With all my Hearty / love exact 
 Dealing ; and let Hocus Judithe knorrs hoiv 
 the Money was disburs'*d. 
 
 Bull. I am not much for that at prefent ; 
 fettle it between Ourfelves : Fair and Square 
 Nic. keeps Friends together. There have been 
 laid out m this Law-Suity at one time 36000 
 Pounds and 40000 Crowns : In fome Cafes /, t» 
 others youy bear the greatell proportion. 
 
 Nic. Right: / pay three Fifths of the greateft 
 Number , and you pay two Thirds of the lejfer 
 Number: I think this is Fair and Square as yea 
 call it. 
 
 John. Well, go on. 
 
 Nic. Two Thirds of 36000 Pounds are 24000 
 Pounds for your Share, and there remains 12000 
 for mine. Again, Of the 400QO Crowns / pay 
 24000, which is three Fifths, and you pay only 
 16000, w^ich is two Fifths ; 24000 Crowns make 
 6000 Polands, and 16000 Crowns make 4000 
 Pounds : 12000 and 6000 make 18000 : 24000 
 and 4000 makes 28000. So there are 18000 
 Pounds to my Share of the Expences, and 28000 
 to yturs^ After 
 
 / 
 

 . After Nic. had bambouzied ’Joha a while 
 ibout the 18000-and* the 2S000, John call’d 
 for Counters ; but what with Slight of Hand, 
 and taking from his own Score and adding 
 to John% A^/V. brought the Balance alv.^ays 
 on his own fide. 
 
 - J, Bull. Nay, good Friend A 7 f. though t 
 am not quite lb nimble in the Fingers, I 
 underiland Cyphering as well as you : I will' 
 produce you my Accompts one by one, fairly'’ 
 writ out of my own Books; And here I be¬ 
 gin with the firlt. You mufl: excufe me if I 
 don’t pronounce the Law Terms right. 
 
 \_Joh» Reads.'] 
 
 \ Fees to the Lord Ch. Jufiice and^ I. s. d. 
 other Judges, by way of Di ^200 lo q6 
 vidend -- -- Y 
 
 Fees to puny Judges -— 
 
 To Efquirc South for pojl Ter 
 
 50 00 00 
 100 10 06 
 
 nnnums - - 
 
 To ditto for Non eft TaBums 
 To ditto for Dijcontinuance^ Noli 
 
 200 00 00 
 
 To ditto for Cafas and Fifas af- 7 
 
 J300 00 00 
 
 7 
 
 y500 00 00 
 
 Garry over—j^Si ii 06 
 Brought 
 

 X 
 
 
 AM.) - 
 
 i. s. d. 
 
 Brought ^yer-j.481 n 06 
 
 To ditto fora Capias Tjqq 
 
 .' tandut!^ - --- 3 
 
 Fred’s n<iw Tejiants per At- 1 '; 
 
 ^ \oirnt''tcr/!/i?c«f,forV^oo 00 00 
 relays -v—^ ‘ - j ' 
 
 On the faid Account for Writs! 
 
 of Ejeiimmt and Difiringas ,3 ^ 
 
 To Efqiiire South's Quota for a 7 
 
 Return of a Non efi invent, pg 150 10 00 
 and nulta habet bona —— j 
 
 To—^—foiy a Pardon in T^gqp ^ 
 
 loo 00 00 
 
 pauperis 
 
 00 o< 3 t 
 
 To Jack for 'z Melius 00 co 
 
 upon a Fdo de fe •—* S 
 To Don Diego for a Defecit —— 50 00 00 
 
 To Coacluhire --*—• 500 00 00 
 
 For Treats to Juries.^nd Witnefles 300 00 eo 
 - i r ^ ' 
 
 Sum 3582 12 Ob 
 
 Due by Nic, Frog 1691 06 00 
 Of whioh paid by Nic. Frog 11 00 
 
 Remains, due by Nic. Frog 654 15 00 
 
 Then Nic. Frog pull’d his BUI out of his 
 Pocket, and began to read, 
 
 . G Nicholas 
 
(IS) 
 
 Nicholas Frog*s Account. 
 
 Remains to be deduced out of the former 
 Account, 
 
 To Hocus for Entries of a Rege 7 
 inconj'ulto -— — - r- 
 
 To '^ohn BulRs Nephew for a Ve¬ 
 nire facias^ the Money not yet 
 
 all laid out --- - 
 
 To Coach-hire for my Wife 
 and Family, and the Carriage 
 of my Goods during the time 
 
 of this Law-Suit -- 
 
 For the extraordinary Expences 
 of feeding my Family du¬ 
 ring this Law-Suit __ 
 
 To Maj or ji. 
 
 To Major Will, 
 
 '200 00 00 
 
 JOO 00 00 
 
 200 lO 06 
 
 500 00 00 
 
 joo 00 00 
 200 00 00 
 
 T7 1 • L t *700 TO 06 
 
 From which dedud 1691 06 00 
 There remains due to Nic, Frog 09 04 06 
 
 I believe 
 
 Diego’s Defeat. 
 
 fohtt Bull. As for your Venire facias, I have 
 paid you for one already; in the other, I be¬ 
 lieve you will be Nonfuited: PH take care of 
 my Nepliew my felf. Your Coacb-hire Ld 
 Family-Charges are moft unreafonable Dedu- 
 
 ^fions; 
 
( 19 ) 
 
 ftions; at that rate, I can bring in any Man 
 in the World my Debtor. But who the 
 Devil are thofe two Majors that confume all 
 my Money? I find they always run away 
 with the Ballance in all Accompts. 
 
 Nic. Frog. Two very honeft Gentlemen, I 
 affure you, that have done me fome Service. 
 To tell you plainly Major Ab. denotes thy 
 greater Ability^ and Major Will thy greater 
 WilUngnej's to carry on thisLaw-fuit. It was 
 but reafonablc thou fliouldfl: pay both for thy 
 Fomr and thy Pofttivenefs. 
 
 J. Bull. I believe I (hall have thofe two 
 honeft Majors difeount on my fide in a little 
 time. 
 
 Nic. Frog. Why all this Higgling with thy 
 Friend about fuch a paltry Sum? Does this 
 become the Generofity of the Noble and Rich 
 ° 1 ohn Bull ? I wonder thou art not afham’d. 
 Oh Hocus! Hocus! where art thou? Itufedto 
 go another-guefs manner in thy time j when a 
 poor Man has almoft undone himlelf for thy 
 fake, thou art for fleecing him and fleecing 
 him ; is that thy Confcience John? 
 
 J.Ball. Very pleafant indeed i it is well 
 known thou retainft thy Lawyers by theYcar, 
 fo a frefh Law-fuit adds but little to thy Ex- 
 pence, they are thy Cuftomers, I hardly ever 
 fell them a Farthings worth of any thing; 
 nay, thou haft fet up anEating-houfe, where 
 the whole Tribe of them fpend all they can 
 rap or run? if it were well reckon’d, I believe 
 • • C 2 thQil 
 
( 20 ) 
 
 thou get ft more of my Money than thou fpends 
 ofthy^own: However, if thoti wilt needs 
 plead Poverty, own at leaft that thy Ac* 
 compis are faile. ^ 
 
 No 'Mfry.won’tl, I refer my 
 felf to tiiefe honeft Qentlemen, let them judge 
 between us ^ let Efquire iiouth fneak his Mind, 
 whither ray Accounts are not rigHt, and whi- 
 
 tner wo ought not tO; go on with our Law- 
 fmt. . v» 
 
 . Coofult the Butchers about keep¬ 
 
 ing of Lent, I tell you once for all, ^ohn MuU 
 knovys vvhere his Shoe pinches, none of your 
 Efqoires ftiall give him the Law, as long as 
 he wears this trufty Weapon by his fide, or 
 has an inch of bro^d Cloath in his Shop. 
 
 I arty; lam forry thou difeo- 
 vereft fo much of thy head.ft'r,ODg Humour 
 before thefe ftrangc Gentlemen, I have often 
 told you that it would prove thy Ruin fome 
 time or another. 
 
 John faw clearly he ftiould have nothing 
 but MTanghng, and that he, fhould have as 
 1 tie Succefsm fettling his Accounts as ending 
 
 rlmf (quoth John}l fhall throw 
 
 fhem r Burden with a fqualh amongft 
 
 th^r Vr! ^ combination of Sharpers, 
 
 ook I Hou'fty- J"*” 
 
 0 thy fcjff 014 . makes realbnable 
 
 Offers, 
 
( 21 ) 
 
 Offers, when fhoU haft fpfent the fmall 'Pit¬ 
 tance that is left, thou wilt make a glorious ’ 
 Figure, when thou art brought to live updn 
 Nic. Frog and Efquire South’s Generofity and 
 Gratitude; if they ufe thee thus, when they 
 want thee, what will they do when thou 
 wants them? I fay again, %ht7^ look to thy 
 felf. ^ 
 
 "^ohn wifely ftiffled hi» Refentments, and 
 told the Company that in a little time he 
 fliould give them Law, or foraething better. 
 
 All. Law! Law! Sir, by all means, what 
 is Twenty Two poor Years towards the fi- 
 nifhing a Law-fuit? For the Love of God 
 more Law, Sir! 
 
 Bull. Prepare your Demands, how ma. 
 many Years more of Law you want, that I 
 may order my Affairs accordingly. In the 
 mean while farewel. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Horv John Bull found all his Family in an Vj>~ 
 roar at Home. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 N lc. Frog., who thought of nothing but 
 carrying John to the Market, and 
 there difpofing of him as his own proper 
 Goods, was mad to find that John thought 
 himfelf now of Age to look afer his 
 own Affairs: He refolv’d to traverfe this 
 
( 22 ) 
 
 new ProjeQ-, and to make him uneifieln 
 his own Family. He had corrupted or de¬ 
 luded moft of his Servants into the extrava- 
 ganteft Conceits in the World, that their Ma¬ 
 iler was run mad, and wore a Dagger in one 
 Pocket, and Poifon in the other j that he had 
 fold his Wife and Children to Lewiiy difin- 
 herited his Heir, and was going to fettle his 
 Eftate upon a FArijh Boy ■ that if they did not 
 look after their Mafter, he would do fome 
 very mifehievous Thing. When John came 
 home he found a more furprifing Scene than 
 any he had yet met with, and that you will 
 fay was fomewhat extraordinary. 
 
 fie call’d his Cook-maid Betty to befpeak 
 his Dinner. Betty told him. That Jbe heg^d his 
 Par dots, /be could not drefs Dinner till fje knew 
 what he intended to do with his Will. Why Betty, 
 forfooth (quoth John) thoh art not run mad, 
 art thou ? My Will at prefent is to have Din¬ 
 ner. That may be (quoth Betty) but my Con- 
 fcience won’t allow me to drefs it, till I know 
 whither you intend to do righteous Things by 
 your Heir. I am forry for that Betty (quoth 
 John) I muft find fome body elfe then. Then 
 he call’d John the Barber. Before I begin 
 (quoth John) I hope your Honour won’t be 
 offended, if I ask you whither you intend to 
 alter your Will ? If you won’t give me a po- 
 fitive Anfwer, your Beard may grow down 
 to your Middle, for me. I gad and fo it fhall 
 (quoth for J will never truff my Throat 
 
 in 
 
Bdoon below ^antfed to ^eak with 
 John had got an Impre#iori that Lemis was- 
 fo deadly a cunning Man, that he was afraid to 
 • venture himfelf alone with himAt laft he ; 
 took heatt of Grace. Let him come $tp (quoth 
 he) it is but flicking to m) Point^ and be can 
 never over-reach me. 
 
 Lewis Baboon. Monfieur B«// I will frankly 
 acknowledge, that my Behaviour to my 
 Neighbours has been fomewhat uncivil-; and' 
 I believe you will readily grant me, that I 
 have met with Ufage accordingly. I was 
 fond of Back-fword and Gudgel play from my ' 
 Youth,and I now bear in myBody many a black 
 and blue Galh and Sear, God knows. I had 
 as good a Ware-houfef and as fair Pc^elTions 
 as any of my Neighbours, tho’ I fay it; but 
 a contentious Tempet, flattering Servants, 
 and unfortunate Stars, have brought ntc in¬ 
 to Circumftances that are not unknown to 
 you. Thefe my Misfortunes are heighten’d 
 by domeftick Calamities, that I need not re¬ 
 late. I am a poor old batter’d Fellow, and I 
 would willingly' end my Days in Peace: But 
 alas, I fee but fmaill hc^es of that, for every 
 new Circumftance affords an Argument to 
 my Enethies to 'purfue their Revenge ; for¬ 
 merly I was to be bang’d becaufe I w^s too 
 Strong, and nOW becaufe I am too Weak to 
 refift. lam to be brought down when toO' 
 Rich, and oppreffed when too Poor. AW. 
 
 has ufed me like ^ Scoundrel h You are A 
 .. D 3 Gen- 
 
< f-s) 
 
 Gentferriaiiy arid ffjqely put my 'jCcIf dn yotir* 
 Hands, tQ.tlifpof? as yoUfthijil^fiti, .vf 
 
 J. B(^L ..Loo.fc; yt)u,^. jVlafler {uB<t^g»yias to ’ 
 yogn.Ufagc of youriiNg/ghbonr^ yoftfi'ad beft.■ 
 not dwell toQ^rauch upQn that th^pripfi; fet it c 
 fofRce at.yrprent' that you ..teen ntep; 
 
 with, you have been rolling a gtea<,Stone .up-,, 
 hill !a)l yppr Life, apd has come tum- 
 
 biiiOg 4owp tj|l it'iaiikp tp cfuflii y;,pu lo^pieces: 
 IMaip d|gI|Bgiis.be 4 ;;;(Jf yotf haye-jgny parr 
 tipylaf:wher^feu ope m^y 
 knpyv I whp you pib,., a nd' \Mhen/you,- fpea k. 
 T'^pch* you had-pel): peil it :rae,vtJfet one may * 
 proceed pycoj-dingly.ii^ut prerum 
 
 know ofynone rfugb^iiit; is d^t^r 
 
 £bould itrpft. mg) ttljgp tkat d,;.0voyli jiuftn 
 
 , 1 pf^PO pirtygtdar A'lark- 
 
 of;y§¥ftciiy,_ among^,lbs, .tradekpeUv but la- 
 :8Bd it is manifcftly: m.ipg, nOttO: decgiv,e^ 
 yOUgM;;fkis. time.;, yqu fafely trpft me, 
 loano^nkfgyouv. ilj . -juLdu . .. • i* 
 
 1 frrp.ft, |giveii 5 tm Omrt ,thi§,'j 
 
 muft bavje.fomething ,in hapd,before J makp 
 the .'Bargaip, 'and the bjefdrt it: is con- 
 oiuclied>rnf;;. . bidH;. . . , r, :- 
 - To Slew yon i'dgfti fajrly, name 
 
 your, g«m[et,hmg,,,cj : - j ; ^ ^ 
 
 need not tell thee, old Boy > thou 
 ca-nii: gdefs., , . . : 
 
 LuBa^oojfi IL’Jb warrant 
 
 pu,; bficaufi? .it has been fprm^iy;. in your 
 ■ :: < i Fa ini; 
 
( *9 ) 
 
 FjimilyT ^y;rib ftore, yourflilill Iiavc ft. . 
 
 Ijfhatt have it td m^bwn felf? • 
 
 ; Lj> Bahov. Iraiihy.n’own &if. - 
 
 J. Bull. Every Wallj ^ate, Room, and 
 loch'of Ci/'/f, you fay ? . . Aj 
 
 ' L. Bakom. n ; 1 J 
 
 'B^lh Evefy^ fitigk Stone of Eeclefdown 
 Cajlle, to tn’bwO''fclf, fpccd>iii>y 1 ' 
 
 ^[L. Baho/f. When you pltafe, whac needs 
 more Words? • : ' 
 
 fij, BulL But tell me, old Boy, haft thotfi 
 laid aftde all thy and Menfals m 
 
 this cafe? j;: 
 
 Ba(HK>fi,' 'ThQr6 is nothing like Matter of 
 Fa£^,; Seeing is Believing^ , ' ^ ^ 
 
 J.Ball. Now .<hdu talk’ft to the putjtofeii 
 leti Us fha'kenHands, old Boy, Let me ask 
 the$ one Qu^ftJoft more, What haft thou to 
 do to meddle with the Affairs of my Famil^y,- 
 todifpofeofmyEftate, ofd Boy? 
 
 /,L, B<^o9ffi Jh|f as much as you have to 
 cjo with the Af&irs of Lord Strut. 
 x.'^iBull. Ayfi btit my Tradey my Very Be¬ 
 ing* was. coacemM id that. ;i j-it ’ 
 
 iif Biboou. my Intereft was concern'd 
 in the other: but let us drop both our Pre- 
 tcncds'i for I behe've it is^ inoot point, whe- 
 tjief I am mote likely to imako a Mafter BuH, 
 \ or you a Lord Strut. ’ •* ‘ • 
 
 J. Bull. Agreed, old Boy ; but then I muft 
 have Security that I fhall carry my Broad¬ 
 cloth-tor Market, old Boy. 
 
 L. Ba' 
 
( J ) 
 
 L. Biboott, iiThat you Ecdefdown 
 
 Cajlle! Ecdtfdotvnt Remember that: Why 
 would’rt; thou-not take it vuheh^ it was offer’d 
 thee fome Tears ago? v 
 J. Bull. I^would not take it, becaufe they 
 told me thou would’ft not give it me. • 
 x L. tiAboan, How could Monfieur Ball be fo 
 grofly abufed by downright Nonfenfe? They 
 that advifed- you to^ refufe, niufl have belie¬ 
 ved I intended to ^ive, elle why would they 
 i¥>t tnake the Experiment ? But I can tell you 
 mOre.-of that.Matter than perhaps you know 
 at prefent. j 
 
 Jy Ball. But what fay’ft thou as to the 
 Efqiiire, AUc. Frog^ and the reft of the Tradcf-* 
 meni^ I, muft- take care of them.^ ^ 
 
 L, BAboon. Thou' haft but firidll Obligationsi 
 tQ-AVV, to my certain Knowledge: He has? 
 aot us’d, me like a Gentleman. , ij 
 y. Bull. Nic^ indeed, is not very nice in^’ 
 yO]ur,Pu<)cliIio’s of Ceremony j he isClownifh, 
 as a Man may fay j Belching and Calling of 
 Names have; been allow’d hiin time out of 
 mind, by Prefeription: but however, weare^ 
 engag’d in one Common Caufe, and I muft 
 look after him. 
 
 L. Bibpon. All Mattel^ that relate to him, 
 and the reft of the Plantiffs in this Taw-Suiti- 
 i will refer to your Juftice. 
 

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 ( 3 * ) 
 
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 0-- ' ) ■ '. C. H A P.iViRi- ^;: = n;jn,. 
 
 J ? / » 
 
 
 .» : q r 01/? 
 
 Nic. FrogV Letter^ io John Bull? ttherem e^- 
 
 dtAvouTs Po .viiidicitte ail'.hU.GonduSiy mith 
 
 : lAtion to John Bull oad theiLiw^Suit. 
 
 ■ (•1 ■ -j 3:;' .i -Ino 1- i -■‘-•i 
 
 N /C.:perceiv!d naw''thati his; Cully had 
 elop’d, tliat '^ohn intended htneeforth 
 todeal without.a)Broker; but he.was refolv’d 
 
 to leave no Stone uhturn’d to recover his Bub- 
 ..ble:’ Amongft other Artifices^ he wrote k 
 ‘maft obliging Letter, whrch he fent him 
 Printed in a fair Charadter. . 
 
 ■ . !■ ^ ;r/ rr::;^ 
 
 . Dear Friend. ; ^ .. , * 
 
 WhenLco/ifider the late.ill Ufage Lhave 
 met with fi-om you, I was refiefting:what 
 f‘ it was that could provoke you to it y but 
 ** upon a narrow Infpeftion Into my Corf- 
 .« duft, I can. find nothing to reproach my 
 lelf with^ but too partial a Concern fc^ 
 ^ your Intereft. You no fboner fet thi^ 
 Compofition a-foot, but I was ready to 
 comply, and 'preyented your very Wilhes‘; 
 and the Affair might havd been ended bc» 
 fore now, -had it not been for the greater 
 « Concerns of Efq; Souths and the other poor 
 M Creatures, embark’d in the fame Common 
 “ Caufe, whofe Safety touches me to the 
 “ Quick. You feem’d a little jealous that I 
 “ had dealt unfairly with you in Money-mat^- 
 ‘ ■ “ ters, 
 
 / 
 
 ! 
 
€C 
 
 c 32; 
 
 ters, till it appear’d by your own Ac- 
 counts, that ithcfie Avis fiimething due to 
 me upon the Ballance. Having nothing 
 .td.anfwer tri&fplain a Demofiftfatioo, 
 
 A. beganTloxodipiiin as if I bad been,fami- 
 har .with-yoiir Reputation ;-itvbea it isvivell 
 
 meaneft Ser- 
 
 ^^ irant ^ Family; taft of you.'iiii* jtfe 
 utmoll ^pea.' ; I haye^Iw^ysi asl^ks 
 lies,', j^horted youraScrvarits iaod 
 tlwiful; -notCthat.I.iany 
 ^ -ways meddle rih ynur .idomeftick ,AfikiriC 
 w.,which were, vecy unbecdm^ng for rafr to 
 
 do. 11 fome of.your ,Ser.vaaitScxprer& their 
 
 great Concern for you in a manner that is 
 .<«. you ought to impute^t 
 
 ^ tbkbeir extraordEoaby2:eal, .whicli deferves 
 j^na/Reward rather than a RepciodL '/Yottnan- 
 
 - - ;npt 4 reproach'riie.' fian Want of Siicccls .at'the 
 ‘fiooe I am not Mafter nfi ithe 
 >rPdflions and IntercRs ^of other. Folks* 4 
 « ' have beggar’d my felf with this Law-Suit, 
 
 iirtd^rtaken uicrcjy in Complaiiance to -yoth* 
 
 ' ^ and if you wiould have had but a iittleSpa- 
 
 * 4 f ter things jn Relervc 
 
 Sjtbat 1 intended .to. have done for you. I 
 ^.hoM whatl have faid will prevail with yon 
 to Jay afide your unreafonable Jealoufies, 
 and that u-eDmay have no more Meetmgs 
 
 ii fpending our Time and 
 
 <^:Money to no Purpofe. My Concern Tor 
 
 - - your Welfare^and Profperity, .almoR mtlkes 
 

 1 
 
 ‘‘ me mad. You may be alTur’d I will con^ 
 “ tinue to be 
 
 Tour affeUiomte 
 Triend and Servant^ 
 
 Nfc frog: 
 
 ■‘^ohn receiv’d this with a good deal of 
 Sangfroid', Tranfeat (^quoth John) cum caterk 
 erroribtfs : He was now at his Eafe; he faw 
 he could now make a very, good Bargain for 
 himfelf, and a very fafe one for other Folks. 
 Mj Shirt (quoth he) is near we^ but my 
 Skin is nearer : Whilft I take care of . the 
 Welfare of other Folks, no body can blame 
 me, to apply a little Balfam to my own Sores.*^^ 
 It’s a pretty thing, after all, for a Man to do 
 his own Bufinefs; a Man has fuch a tender 
 Concern for himfelf, there’s nothing like it* 
 This is fomewhat better, I trow, than for 
 John Bull to be handing in the Market, like 
 a great Dray*horfe, with Tro^s Paws upon his 
 Read, What mil ye give me for this Beaftt 
 Serviteur Nic. Frog, you may kip my Backfide if 
 you freafe. Though John Bull has not read 
 your Arijlotles, Plato% and Machiavels, he can 
 fee as far into- a MilflOno as another; With 
 that John began to chuckle and laugh, till he 
 W «5 like to burft his Sides. 
 
 t CU&f. 
 
 
C H A P. VL 
 
 The Difcoarfe that paf/d- between Nic. Frog and 
 Efjuire South, which John Bull overheard, 
 
 J ohn thought every Minute a Year till he got 
 \ntb Ecclefdowfi Caftle-, he repairs to the 6'*- 
 Irimion^ with a Pelign to break the Matter 
 g^tly to his Partners: Before he enterd, he 
 overheard Nic‘. and the Efquire in a very plea- 
 l^t Conference. 
 
 Ef^; South. Oh the Ingratitude and Injuftice 
 of Mankind! That yohn Bull, whom 1 have 
 honour’d with my Fricndfliip and ProteQien 
 fo Joh^, (hould flinch at iaft, and pretend that 
 he ciiti disburfe no>more Money for me; that 
 the f^amHy of the Souths, by his fneaking Tem¬ 
 per, f^uld be kept out of their own. 
 
 Nic. Fro^:. An’t like your Worfhip, I am in 
 amaze at it ; I think the Rogue fiiould be 
 cbmpelfd to do bis Duty. 
 
 . South. That lie fhould prefer his Ican- 
 daldus Pelf, the Dud: and Dregs of the Earth, 
 to the Profperity and Grandeur of ray Fa¬ 
 mily,! ' ' 
 
 Nic. Fro^. Nay, Ite is miftaken there too; 
 for, he would quickly lick himfelf whole a- 
 gain by his Vails. It’s ftrange he fbould pre¬ 
 fer Philip Baboon's Cudom to E/^; South's. 
 
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t ?? 3 
 
 Efj\ South. As yofu fay, that my Clothier, 
 that is to get fo much by thfe Purehaftj, ihbuld 
 refufe to put me in Polleflton^ did you evdr 
 know any Man’s TradcsTman fervo him fo 
 before? 
 
 Nic. Fro^. No, indeed , an’t pleafe your 
 Worfhip, it is a Very unufual Proceeding; 
 and I would not have been guilty of it for 
 the World. If your Honour had not a great 
 Stock of ModsiratiOn and Patience, you would 
 not bear it fo well as you do. 
 
 Efq-, South. It is moft intolerable, that’s 
 •certain.MV. and I will be reveng’d. 
 
 Nfc Frog. Methinks it is ftrange, that Phi¬ 
 lip jB46e7(5/9’s 1 enants do not all take your Ho¬ 
 nours part, confidering how good and gentle 
 a Mafter you are. 
 
 Ef^i South. True, Nic. but few are fenfible 
 of Merit in this World': It is a great Com¬ 
 fort, to have fo faithful a Friend as thy felf 
 in fo critical a Junfture. 
 
 • Nic. Frog. If all the World fbould forfake 
 you, be affur’d Nic. Frog never will; Jet us 
 flick to our Point, and we’ll manage JS«//, 
 I’ll warrant ye. ‘ ' 
 
 Eff, Sout'h. Let me kifs thee, dear Nic. I 
 have found op..e honeft Man amongft a thou- 
 fand at laft. 
 
 Nic. Frog. If it were poffible, your Honour 
 has it in your Power to wed me l^ill clofer 
 to your Intereft 
 
 Ff^‘, South. Tell me quickly, dear A^/r. 
 
 B 2 Nic- 
 
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C 3« ] 
 
 Nic. 'Frog, You know I am your Tenant; 
 the Difference between my Leafe and an Inhe-- 
 j'itance is fucli a Trifle, as I am fure you will 
 not grudge your poor Friend; that will be 
 an Encouragement to go on; befides, it will 
 makeF«//as mad as the Devil: You and I 
 ihall be able to manage him then to fome 
 purpofe. 
 
 Eff-) South. Say no more, it fliall be done 
 Nic. to thy Heart’s Content. 
 
 Joh»^ all this while, was liflening to this 
 comical Dialogue, and laugh'd heartily in his 
 Sleeve, at the Pride and Simplicity of the 
 Efyuire., and the fly Roguery of his Friend 
 ^ic. Then of a fudden bolting into the Room, 
 he began to tell them, that lie believ’d he had 
 brought hexiU to reafonable Terms, if they 
 .would pleafe to hear them. 
 
 Then they all bawl’d out aloud. No Com- 
 fofition., Long live EJqaire South and the Law! 
 As John going to proceed, fome roar’d, 
 fome ftamp’d with their Feet, others Hop’d 
 their Ears with their Fingers. 
 
 Nay, Gentlemen (quoth if you will 
 but flop proceeding for a while, you fhall 
 judge your felves whether Lewises Propofalsare 
 reafonable. ; . 
 
 All. Very fine indeed, flop proceeding, and 
 fololeaTerm. 
 
 BuU. Not lb neither, we have fomething 
 by way of Advance, he will puf us in PofTel- 
 of his Manner aq.d Caftle of Ecchfdoun. 
 
I 
 
 
 \ 
 
 Nic. Frog. What doft talk of us, thou 
 mean’ft thy felf ? 
 
 jf. Butli When Frog took Pofleffion of any 
 thing, it was always faid to be for Vs ; and 
 why may nQt'JohnBuUhQ Vs^ as well zsNtc, 
 . Frog was Vs? I hope "John Bull is no more con- 
 /inM to Singularity jthan Nic. Frog ; or take 
 it fo, the conftant Doftrine that thou haft 
 preach’d up for many Years, was that Thou 
 and I are One; and why miift we be fup- 
 pofed Two in this Cafe, that were always 
 One before ? It’s impoflible that Thou and I 
 can fall out Nic. we muft truft one another. 
 ]. have truftcd thpe with a great many things, 
 prithee truft me with this one Trifle. 
 
 Nic. Frog. That Principle is true in the 
 main; but there is fome Speciality in this 
 Cafe, that raak^s it highly inconvenient for 
 us both. ’ ' 
 
 J.Bull. Thofe are your JealouGes, that the 
 common Enemies fow between us; how of- 
 fen haft thou warn’d me of thole Rogues, 
 Nic. that v/ould piake us miftruftful of one 
 another? 
 
 Nic. Frog. This EccleJdoun-QdiBlQ is only a 
 3 one of Contention. 
 
 J. Bull. It depends upon you to make it fo, 
 
 . for my part I am as peaceable as a Lamb. 
 
 Nic. Frog. But do you confider the un- 
 wholefomnefs of the Air and Soil, the Expeh- 
 Ipes of Reparations and Servants, I would 
 fcorn to accept of fuch a Quag-mire. 
 
 . - 4 
 
 X 
 
[ ] 
 
 You are a great Man, Nic. but in 
 my Circumftances, I muft be e’en content to 
 take it as it is. > 
 
 A^ic. Frog. And you are really fo filly, as to 
 believe the old cheating Rogue will give it 
 
 J. Bull. I believe nothing but Matter of^ 
 Fact; I ftand and fall by that, I am refolv’4 
 
 to put him to it. 
 
 Nic. Frog. And fo relinquilh the hopefuleft 
 Caufe in the World, a Claim that will cer¬ 
 tainly in the End, make thy Fortune for 
 ever. 
 
 J. Bull. Wilt thou purchafe it Nic ? thou 
 lhalt have a lumping Pennyworth.; nay, ra¬ 
 ther than we fluould differ, I’^^li give thee 
 fomething to take it offmy Hands. 
 
 Nic. Frog. If thou would’ft but moderate 
 that haffy impatient Temper of thine, thoii 
 fliould’ft quickly fee abetter thing than all 
 that: What fhould’ff thou think to find old 
 Lervis turn’d out of his paternal Rftates and 
 Manfion-houfe qf Clay-Pool? Would not 
 that do thy Heart good to fee thy old Friend 
 .Nic. Frog Lord of Cla/ Pool ? Then thou and 
 thy Wife and Children (hall walk in ray Gar¬ 
 dens, buy Toys, drink Lemonade, and now 
 and then we fliould have a Country-dance. 
 
 J.BuH. I love to be plain, I’d as lievefee 
 my felf in Ecclefdoun-OxBXCf as thee in Clay- 
 fool. I tell you again, gives this as a 
 
 Pledge 
 
Pledge of his Sincerity, if you won’t flop 
 proceeding to hear him, I will. 
 
 CHAP. VIT. 
 
 The reji of Nic’i Fetches to kee^ John oar of 
 Ecclerdoun-City?/?. 
 
 W HEN Nic. could not difwade Johm 
 by Argument, he try’d to move his 
 Pity, he pretended to be Tick and like to dye, 
 that he fhould leave his Wife and Children 
 in a ftarving Condition, lifohn did abandon 
 him ; that he was hardly able to era ill about 
 the Room, far lefs capable to look after fuch 
 a troublefome Bulinefs as this Law-fuit, and 
 therefore be^’d that his good Friend would 
 not leave him. When he faw that John was 
 Itili inexorable , he pull’d out a Cafe-Knife, 
 with which he ufed to Sneaker-Jnee ^ and 
 threaten’d to cut his own Throat. “ Thrice 
 he aim’d the Knife to his Wind-pipe with a 
 “ raoft determin’d threatning Air. What 
 “ fignifies Life (quoth he) in this languiflTing 
 Condition, it will be fome Flealure that 
 “ my Friends will revenge my Death upon 
 “ this barbarous Man, that has been the 
 Caufe of it ? All this whWQ ffofm look’d Se¬ 
 date aad Calm, neither offering in the lead: to 
 fnatch the Knife, nor ftop his Blow, trufting 
 to the Tendernefs Ntc. had for his own Pef- 
 
 fon. 
 
L 40 J 
 
 fon: When he perceiv’d that . was im¬ 
 moveable in his Purpofe, he appty’d himfelf 
 to Lervis. 
 
 Art thou (quoth he) turned Bubble in thy 
 Old Age, from being a. Sharper in thj fouth'f 
 what occafton hajljhou to give up Ecclefdoun- 
 Cafile to John'Bull? his friendJJjip is not 
 rvotth A Kajb , give it fne and /’// make it 
 worth the while. If thou dipkefi that Propo- 
 pion, keep it thj felf, I'd rather thou fiould- 
 eft have it then he. If thou hearkens not to 
 my Adifice^ take what follows ; Efquire South 
 and I will go on with Our Law-fait in Jpite of 
 ^ohnBuWs Teeth. , 
 
 L.Baboon. Monfieur B»//has ufed me like 
 a Gentleman, and I am refolv’d to make good 
 my Promife, and truft him for the Confe- 
 
 ^ Nic. Frog. Then I tell thee thou art an old 
 doating Fool. With that Nic bounc’d up with 
 a Spring equal to that of one of your nim- 
 blefl Tumblers or Rope dancers, falls foul 
 upon John Bull to fnatch the Cudgel he had 
 in his Hand, that he might thwack Lewis 
 with it. fohn held it faft, fo that there was 
 no wrenching it from him. At laft Efquire 
 South buckl’d to, to affift his Friend Nic. 
 fohn hail’d on one fide, and they two on the 
 otherforaetimes they were like to pull fohn 
 over^ then it went, all of a fudden again, 
 on John's fide; fo they went fee-f awing up and 
 down, from one End of the Room to tho 
 
 
41 ; 
 
 other: Down tumbl’d the Tables, Bottles, 
 GtalTes, and Tobacco Pipes: The Wine and 
 the Tobacco were all fpilt about the Room, 
 and the little Fellows were almoft trod un¬ 
 der Foot, ’till more of the Tradefmen joyn- 
 ing with Nic. and the Efquire, ^ohn was 
 hardly able to pull againft them all, yet 
 never quit hold of his trufty Cudgel; which 
 by the contranitent Force of tvvo fo great 
 Powers, broke Ihort in his Hands. Nict, 
 •feiz’d the longer end, and with it began to 
 Baftinado Old Lw/V, who had Hunk into a 
 Corner, waiting the Event of this Squabble. 
 Nic came up to him with an infolent mena¬ 
 cing Air, fo that the old Fellow was forc’d 
 to skuttle out of the Room, and retire be¬ 
 hind a Dung-cart: He call’d to Nic^ thou 
 infolent Jackanapes, time was when thou 
 durft not haye ufed me fo, thou now takeft 
 me unprovided, but old and infirm as l ai^, 
 I fliall find a Weapon by and by to chaftif® 
 thy Impudence. 
 
 When 'John Bull had recover’d his Breath, 
 he began to parly with Nic, Friend Nic, I 
 am gUd to find thee fo ftrong after thy great Com- 
 f taints \ really thy Motions Nic. fretty Vigo¬ 
 rous for a confumptive Man, As for thy world¬ 
 ly Affairs if it can do thee any Service^ 
 I freely make over to thee this profitable 
 Eaw-fuitj and I defire all thefe Gentlemen 
 to bear witnefs to this my Aft and Deed, 
 yours be all the Gain, as mi^ne has been the 
 ■.' F * Charges, 
 
K J 
 
 t-fiiarges, i nave brought it to Dear hneiy; 
 However, all I have laid out upon it goes 
 for nothing, thou (halt have it with all its 
 Apporteriances, I ask nothing but leave to 
 go home. 
 
 Ntc, Frcg. The GoUnfel are fee’d, and all 
 Things prepared for a Tryal, thou llialt be 
 forced to ftand the IlTue: It fliall be plead¬ 
 ed in thy Name as well as mine; Go home 
 •if thoucan’ft, the Gates are fliut, the Turn¬ 
 pikes locked, and the Roads barracado’d. 
 
 - J. BulL Even thefe very ways Nic that 
 thou toldeft me, were as open to me as thy 
 fclf ? If I can’t pafs with my own Equipage, 
 what can I expeft for my Goods and Wag¬ 
 gons? lam deny’d Faflage through thofe ve¬ 
 ry Grounds that I have purchafed with my 
 own Money; however, I am glad I have 
 made the Experiment, it may ferve me in 
 Ibme Read. 
 
 ‘John Bull was fo over-joy’d that he was 
 going to take PofTeffion of EceleJdofWy that 
 nothing could vex him. Nle (quoth he) 
 7 Am jufi A going to leave thee, caji a kind look 
 upon me at farting, 
 
 Nic look’d fewer and grum, and would not 
 open his Mouth. 
 
 J, Ball, 1 mjb thee all the Saccefs that thy 
 Heart can defire, and that thefe honefi Gentle- 
 men of the long Rohe may have their Belly fuU -pf 
 Law, ; i 
 
 . Nte , 
 
(4r> 
 
 Nic coiiB ftahd It no longer^ but “ 
 
 of the Room with diBainj and beckon’d the 
 Lawyers to follow him. \> 
 
 J. Bull, R’j, .h'*y Nic, not one poor Smite -M- 
 partings tffdn^i -.ydujloake diy^ MlO ? 
 
 Nfo; With that match’d out fif the • 
 common Road crofe the Country, to takeFof- 
 feffion of 
 
 -- _ --- -- 
 
 CHAP. \an. 
 
 Of the great "Joy that, John exprcfs^d jvhen b.f 
 got PojfeJJion of Ecclefdoun. 
 
 HEN fohn had got into his Caftle, he 
 focm’d like 'Olyjfes upon his Plank after ■ 
 he had been well lous’d in Salt-water who 
 ( as Homer fays ) mts as giad as a f udge go- 
 ing, to jit down to Dinner ^ after hearing d 
 loeg C.auje' upon the Bench. . I dare fay john 
 BulPs Joy was equal to that of either erf' the 
 two; he skip’d from Room to Room; ran 
 up Stairs and down Stairs, from the Kitchen 
 to the Carters, and from the Garrets to the 
 Kitchen ; he peep’d into every Crany j fome- 
 times lie admired the Beauty of the Archi- 
 te£lure, and the valt Solidity of theMafons 
 Work; at otlier times he commended theSy- 
 ntetry and fepportion of t!ie Rooais.He walk’d 
 
 ’ F 2 about 
 
( 44 ) 
 
 about the Gardens; he Bath’d himfclf in the 
 Canal, fwimming, diving, and beating the li¬ 
 quid Element, like a milk-white Swan. The 
 Hall refounded with the fprightly Violin and 
 the martial Hautboy. The Family trip’d it 
 about and Caper’d like Hail-jiones bounding 
 from a Marble Floor: Ale and .Gftober ^ 
 
 flew about as plentifully as Kennel-Water; " 
 then a Frolick took ^ohn in the Head to call 
 up fome of Frog’fi Penfioners that Iiad been 
 lo mutinous in his Family. 
 
 Bull. Are you glad to fee your Mafter 
 in Ecdefdoun-Czlklt ? ’ • 
 
 AIL Yes indeed, Sir. 
 
 Ba//. Extremely glad ? 
 
 , All. Extremely glad, Sir. 
 
 ^* BulI, Swear to me that you- are fo. 
 
 Then they began to damn and firik their 
 Souls to the lowed: Pit of Hell, if any Perfon 
 in the World rejoye’d more than they did. 
 
 J.Bu/l. Now hang me if I don’t believe 
 you are a parcel of perjur’d Rafcals; howe¬ 
 ver take this Bumper of 06lober to your Ma¬ 
 her’s Health. 
 
 Then John got upon the Battlements, and 
 looking over he call’d to Nrc Frog. 
 
 How do’s ye do, Nic ? D’ye fee where lam 
 Nic ? I hope the Caufe goes on fwimmingly 
 Nic ; when doll thou intend to go to Clay- 
 Pcof Nic? Wilt thou buy there fome High- 
 Heads of the neweft Cut for my Daughters ? 
 Fktw comtil thou to go with thy Ann ty’d 
 
(45) 
 
 Up ? Has dd LewU given thee a rap over the 
 i^uckles ?. Tiiy^' Weapon was a good one 
 when I Weildtd it,. but the Butt-end remains 
 in my Hands. I am fo bufy in packing up 
 my Goods, that I have no time to talk with 
 thee any longer: It would do' thy Heart 
 good to fee what Waggon Loads I am prepa- 
 ri^ for Market; if thou wahteft any good 
 Office of mine, for all that has happen’d, £ 
 will ufe thee well Nic ; b’y Nie. 
 
 John Bull’f Thanks to Sir Roger, and. 
 Nic FrogV MdediStion ufon all Shrews, the 
 Original Caufe of his Misfortumsy are rejefvd 
 for the next Volume. ^ 
 
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 Pany^ that it was indiiftrioully difpers’d throughout the whole 
 Kingdom, and has met with too many credulous and injudicious 
 People, who having not Reafon to difeern its ill Tendency, 
 have fuffer’d themfelves to be impos’d upon with Cant and Ha¬ 
 rangue. Tho’ the Delign of it was in general againft the whole 
 Body cf the Church Party^ to exclude them out of the Prefent 
 Elefiiori^ and the Favour of thtir Country, yet as fome particu¬ 
 lar Strokes point out their Objeft, fo was it peculiarly levell’d, 
 as a Perfonal Urand on that worthy Gentleman Sir "^ohn Packings 
 whofe greateft Enemy is fuppos’d to be its Author, and 
 who by his high Station and Ohice in the Church, one would 
 have thought had been oblig’d not to have call fuch an Un- 
 chrillian Abufe, and fiiCh a notorioully Falfe and Scandalous Li¬ 
 bel upon fo eminent a Patriot and Defender of it. Yet he has 
 appear’d fo open and barefac’d in it, that this Lampoon was 
 difpers’d by his own Son, and his Officers the through¬ 
 
 out the County o^Worcefler (and which was both a Rebuke and 
 Cpntradiftion to it) with the Proclamation again]} Imtno^ 
 
 rahty^ to every Minifter or Church-warden in the Diocefe. 
 How Tkii honotirabk Gentleman came to be Obnoxious to fo 
 much Spight and Malice, fhall be reveal’d in its iuroper Place, 
 wherein his Charafter is more immediately ftruck at. What 
 finilter Praftices have been carry’d on to keep him out of the 
 Reprefentation of Thif Cou?iiy^ to which He and his Whole Pamily 
 liave been fuch a Succejjive Honour, is too well known to be re¬ 
 cited here. But however it may be obferv’d, that a certain Great 
 Man^ in his Vifuation at Worcefler^ told his Reverend Brother, 
 whefe joint Endeavours in this Matter have been too apparent 
 not to diftinguiffi him, Tl:at though the Zeal of the Lord of Hofts 
 had not Eaten Him get it had forely Bit Him : which Refleflion 
 fome thought a little too fevere upon one that had done very 
 well for a Prelate of his Years, who by that time he comes to 
 his DiocefarPs, Age, if he makes the like Progrefs, may not only 
 Lv Pity but like him Pdim Mad too with Prophecy and Enthifiafm* 
 
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 But to leave very Hot in the Eleftion, and Tam¬ 
 
 pering with their Clergy^ to jTeduce them againft their Prpmiles, 
 Protelrations and Intereft, .to give their Votes to fuch as they 
 know to be the profeffed Enemies both of their Church and Rc- 
 ligion, let Us come to conlider 'fheir Character : Turn the Ta¬ 
 bles^ and , fee how juftly it may be Retorted upon them. 
 
 And now a Man cannot but wonder at the Itrange Impudence 
 of this Author, v/ho in the very Beginning enters upon an In- 
 veaive againft that Praftice, which this very Paper is fo noto- 
 an Inftance and Example of. But always the Cant of a 
 is upon Chaftity and Modefty, more elfeftually to blind 
 and catch her Cully^ Here we are told of the Rower and Mlfchisfof 
 Party Names, that are fo apt to Deceive Us into falfe Opinions of Men ; 
 v^hen they are either ignorantly or defignedly apply\i to wrong Perfons, 
 and what controlling Influence they have had in Publick Eledions, To 
 what Party of People this vile Pradice juftly belongs let the 
 World judge, and the Sufferings of this Nation decide. But one 
 would have little expe^ed to find the Ckaratler of a Church^man 
 rank’d among thefe odious and diftinguifliing Appellations, and 
 reprefented by any one pretending to bear it,as only a Party-Name, 
 inlidioiis Sound, and enfnaring Title, that carried nothing in 
 it but Atbeifm and Infidelity,hypocrljy and Alalice, Vice and Irreligion, 
 Sedition, Difloyalty and Rebellion, Difention and Superflition \ and, in 
 a wmrd, Republicanifm and Fanaticifm, A Man that underftands the 
 Senfe of the Word, and knows the Perfons it has been always juft¬ 
 ly apply’d to, by the imiverfal Confent of the Nation, cannot but 
 W’onder how any one could be fo ignorant as to appropriate it, or 
 fo villainous as to Defign to couch fuch a vile Heap of Inconfiften- 
 cies, under a Term that is a profefs’d Contradiftion to everyone 
 of’em. But this Author^s Wit and Reafon are both of a piece, and 
 his Logick and Prophecy equally infallible. He ought to have conli- 
 der’d tliis to be a very high Charge and heinous Accufation, and 
 to have been well aftur’d, bothof the d.n(d Charader, before 
 
 he prefum’d to fix his odious Imputation upon either, Efpecially 
 fince He tejls Us, that ’cis Sufficient to Unqualify any Man to ferve 
 Cod, his Ki?ig^ or his Country in Church and State, or to bear any Pub^ 
 lick Office or Trufi in either. Here truly the Defign is laid Open, and 
 f his Brand and Mark fet upon fomg Men to exclude ’em out of 
 that Government, which this Party has fo bafely Ufurp’4 and 
 Abus’d, and which they know others of true Principles, that have 
 either a real Loye for their Church or Country, would endeavour 
 to redrefs and relieve. Which is one of the greafe ft Objertions fte 
 has againft this Honourable Gentleman, Sir John Packington, 
 More cffeftually to expofe thefe Perfons to the ill Will and Malice 
 of the Multitude, they are ftigmatiz’d with the diftinguifliing 
 Ch2Lva,cicx of Nigh-Church-Men, and fet out as theQbjeft of all the 
 Infotence and Affront that Malice, join’d vfith Power, cou’d pafs 
 upon them. Whilft they Sandify and Confecrate thofe of the Diffe- 
 kent Principle, with the f afliionable and Endearing Name ofXj^Tr- 
 Church-Men, endeavouring by theAbUfe of the Name, utterly to 
 
 B 7 , Subvert 
 
Subvert ^nd Extirpate tlie Thing it felf* For whilft the Church 
 is thus Divided againflitfelf, uftd the World impos’d upon, with 
 wrong arid fcaildalous Notions of it, it is impolhble t,hac either its 
 Religion or Confticution Ihould be kept up from falling, when 
 thofe that are its Supports prove its worft Traj/tors znd Vuder/^^mers, 
 To undeceive thefe who have been milled in this Matter, and to 
 vindicate the Church audits True Sofis from this unreafonable Ca¬ 
 lumny, let us fee which Side can lay the fairefi Claim to her aw- 
 racter^ which hjs the clcareji Right to it^ can beft Anjrver^ and mojt 
 fhnour that Name. To follow' the Method our Author has prefcri- 
 bed, we will put the lifue of the Tryal on the Examination of thefe 
 Six Heads, i. As to Faith and Principles, a. As to the Com¬ 
 munion of the Church. 3. As to Life and Con verfation, 4. As 
 to Lovalty and Obedience to the Civil Government. 5. As to 
 Conformity to the Ecclefiaftical Government and Difeipline.; 
 6 . As to Steadinefs and Uniformity in dll Times, Governments 
 and Circumftances. And As to Faith and Principles. Here 
 .we meet with a mighty Difeovery, that a True Church-man ought to 
 be aChriftiani As if’twere poflible to feparate thofe Terms, and 
 it was not as muchSenfe to atom a Man might be a Chriftian and 
 of no Church, as that he can be a Church-man and not profefs the 
 Principles of Chriftianity. We raulf certainly expe^:! wonderful 
 Demonftration to follow, when fuch Oracular Sentences lead the 
 way. But Error is of that fruitful Nature, that having committed 
 one Bliinde/, he cou’el not chufe but make another JduU^ to keep 
 it in Countenance. We are therefore told u^Km his Divifion of 
 the Church, that the other part of it confilts oi Atbeifts and 
 dels^ wiiich befides the uncharitable and unjuftifiable Suppofition, 
 were it True, makes them no longer a Part or Branch of the 
 Church : fo chat here is a Divifion into One. This Pifecc of Spiri¬ 
 tual Pride of dirtinguifhing Men by their Sanftity, and calting 
 Villamoiis Names upon Others, under the Pharifaical Pretence 
 2LndForm ofGodHnefs^ is one of thofe pious Doftrines and Policies 
 the LotorChurch Party hzve learnt of their Dear Friends and Bre¬ 
 thren the Panaticks-y^nd to make them all of a Piece, and as agree¬ 
 able in tlieir Language as they are in their Pradice. Wc find ’em 
 here Borrowing their Old Cant^ and reviling their Neighbours in 
 the Solemn Dialeft of XLl. l^at they are 7%e synagogue of Satan, 
 and no Great believers in God and Chriji ; th-at they are Blafphe- 
 mere and Kidiculers of the Scripture, &c. Certainly the Church of 
 England never taught her Sons to ufe this unmannerly and re¬ 
 proachful Stile, in which they, as much Ihew their Breeding, as 
 their Senfe and Religion* But to enter into the Merits of the 
 Caufe, and to fee where this Charafter is to be plac’d. It may 
 not only be affirrh’d, that thofe that callthemielves Low-Church¬ 
 men are not, but that by their.very Principles they are oblig’d not 
 to be Ghriftians. For a Man that is of no Religion can never pre¬ 
 tend to that Name. And he that is of All Religions is. really ot no 
 Religion. Now to cloak this Impiety, they ftUe tflcmfelves in 
 Indefinite TermSj Proteftanis at large/j that is, of all Religions be- 
 
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 naes Ae P»fiA wKich they will not allow to befucK and lb bv an 
 Pfurjerjal latitude Comprebe»fwn and Indifference to every Seftlnd 
 Party, but that of the T,ue EfiabliJIn CUrch, they run fn^ the 
 j ^'ocimans, ^Juahers, Anabaptijh or 
 
 ailh^A \ upon Occafion, take all to be equally 
 
 Orthodox, as it luits beft with their Intereft : and efpoule the 
 
 wUhIh.?/"-’ Serriceabli to thei? 
 
 ■ Thlrll S? ‘ ^^arry on which, they can find Nine and 
 Thirty Senfes to every one of the Nine and Thirty Articles and 
 yet an equally True and Conliftent; and tho’ never^fo Deftruaive 
 
 ^ L fnbfcribe ’em all with a 
 
 Umpreknjtve tank tind General Belief, as fo many Fundamental 
 
 \4en^ ralwrC^iHions. With what Impudence can thef^ 
 
 V the Faith and Dotfrine of 
 
 ‘’■^n ^ Partakers in that Sacred 
 
 fZtT?’ inanifeltly endeavour to deftroy andan- 
 
 what Confcience can they fall foul on others as 
 w/ X who have not the leaft Shadow of any Belief i* 
 
 Xf/ AU^^ Party fuch as they reprefenr, ye^ven in 
 
 V “« Srant them the Superiority and Prete, 
 XX i- f?- I'atience hear fuch Ambodextets objeff the 
 
 of Kehgion, ard the Scriptures, and Blafpkming Cod, 
 Contempt, Mock and Affront upon ’em 
 aU, and Fftabhlh nothing, by their fordid C-ompliance, burA-- 
 
 SnS'J r ? Can any- Le Believe the 
 
 Word of God, that thus Diftorts and Wrefts it to any Meanir- 
 pnd makes it fpeak what Senfe he pleafes, to Authorize and Coum 
 tenance a Secular Defign ? That can Juftify the Revolution out 
 of the Apocalypfe, and maintain RebeUm out of the i^h of the 
 ? Refolve Monarchy into Popular Power, And Epifeopney 
 into Presbytery out of Ttmotfy and Titm ’ Thefe Men ufe the 
 ^fiptuies as an Otvietan to all their Poyfbns, to expel theira- 
 lignity to make’em go down, and pafs glibly olF, without Dan- 
 ger or Inmry ? But to make this Matter clear. We will fum up the 
 ■ArttcUs of a Low-Church-man^s Creed, Tho’ We mufr intreat the 
 Reader to be content with a Negative Defeription of it for Ne’m’-; 
 no Pofnive flanding Rule of Faith. J F » oi it, tor tienas 
 
 JJe Believes or m Revelation, and hadratkr lay Hu 
 
 TeAiiii upon tk Subflanttal Evidences of His Own Reafon, than tk 
 precarious Author,ty of Divine Tefiimony. So that if He does Snp- 
 pofe the Being of a Ood, cos for tk Nature of Tefus Chrift Hr X 
 ,l,„ m Divinity, Hv^teL 
 
 Terms in Religion. 
 
 And therefore Scholaftick Jargon of tk Trinity will iUfuit 
 with One offo VoltK a Genius, fo that He had rather be a Deiff 
 Reiman, or Neftonan, than to Affront his Own UnderP.andin'o with 
 Believing what h Incomprehenlible, or be fo Rude un to ObtXde on 
 Others ^at He cannot Himfelf Explain. He Think tie Articles of 
 Formal and Strait-lac’d a Rule to Confine 
 Faith in^ and Compkmintrew out of tksir Rigour Severity. 
 
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 Ht feu Loofe to M Ophtions, can Embrace thofe of Evety SeB, ani 
 V too Good-Natured to Profecute any One for Herefy or Schifm. He 
 looks upon the Cenfuriny Athcifin, Infidelity or Doanne, <w 
 
 a Doematical Ufurpation, as an Intrufion and Breaking in upon 
 nat Human Libertv, which He fets up as '/i^cafure Extent 
 of His Belief. He makes the moft He can of This World, being not 
 Over-confident of <i«y Other : However^ Jfie jvrd be bet- 
 
 ter than His Word, and not fo Cruel <tr to Punijh Him with Ever- 
 laftine Torments for a Jhort and Temporary Enjoyment, 
 
 ‘voJ'nn He comes to He does not Trouble Ihmfelj about Confefli- 
 on. Repentance or Sacraments, tbofe Formal Ordinance^wfiae to 
 Ou2f*i Ttmerous and Scrupulous Confciences^ hut concludes 4 Spiritual 
 Guide U of m Ufe to One who U Gotn^ to take a Leap in the Dark. 
 ‘God Deliver Us from Such Church-men, and the Church from 
 the Scandal of fuch Pretenders. 
 
 The Second Criterion alledg’d, whereby We are to Difcern the 
 Charaaer of a True Ckurcfyman, is by HU Communion wnh the 
 ChuTcho, Which Communion is here ftated on a bare, naked Cow- 
 municaxini only in Religious Offices, Prayers and Sacraments. But it 
 this is alone Sufficient to Entitle Men to This Sacred Charaaer, 
 certainlv Owen, Bates and Baxter were as Good Church-men as Our 
 Author* who knows in particular, that one of’em received the 
 Sactament in a Church in London, Sitting, from the hands of one 
 of hif Hear Friends. It is well knowm how Great Patrons and Ad¬ 
 vocates they were of this Principle of the Low-Church, in allow¬ 
 ing Occafional Communion, the moll Pernicious and Deliruaive 
 Principle that ever the Church of England lutfer’d under, and the 
 Greateft Cloak for Spiritual Hvpocrify ; tor a Redrefs wtereof. 
 She has long made Her Complaint irt Vain to Ae Royal Power, 
 and the HQembly of the Nation, Ihis is that whifh Blinds Her 
 Eyes, that She cannot Difcern Her Enemies from Ilex Eriends, 
 that She often takes thofe to be Such, who make'no other Ufc 
 of Her Ofirces and Favours, than to Qualify themfelves more 
 Secretly and efFetdually to Undermine Her. Who upon Occafion 
 can Swallow Her Sacraments with as much Eale, astprmerly they 
 did the Covenant. And take an Oath from Her, more Religioully 
 to be againft Her. A Church-Panatick is no ContradiMion m Pra- 
 itice and Experience, whatever it may be in Terms. Neither is 
 it any ftrange News to meet with thefe Church-goers, as they are . 
 tailed, who lhall conftantly frequent Her Communion, ?nd yqt 
 keep 3 Presbyterian Chaplain in their Houfes, to Debauch Their 
 Families with their Extemporary Cant *,and at the Hearing where¬ 
 of feme of thu Hutkor^s Great Friends have Patiently attended, 
 notwithfranding their Obligations to Affert the Common^Prayer : 
 So that ’tis not in the ieaft impofliblc, but that anv Man m^y 
 thus*op.mly pretend a great Outward Zeal and Alreaion for the 
 vTrue Eftablilh’d Worfhip of the Church of England, and be ^ot- 
 withftanding Privately as Great Friends and Promoters of the 
 1 mere ft of the Conventicle. There’s no knowing Men’s Principles 
 but bv their Praftice, and if their Pretended Principles and real 
 ^ ‘ * Practices 
 
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 thwart and interfere. We are to judge the Man by the 
 vidence of the one, and not by the ProfeJJion of the Other ; 
 
 fomething more Effential to entitle a Xian to 
 ;n Vc / V’’^ Ckurch-man, than barely Communicating 
 
 in Its Offices, which the moll rigid of the Fanaticks will allow ; 
 namely. An hearty Promotion of its true Interells, a Heady Ad- 
 herence to its Ellablilhment, a ftrift Defence of its'Dodlrines and 
 Uilcipline, and Obfervance of its Rules, an Open and a Publick 
 Appearance for its Rights and Privileges, for its Honour and 
 whenever they lye at Stake, or are call’d in Queftion. 
 'Jn the rantrary, how Cautious are thefe Lovi-Church-tnen in de- 
 Openly their Opinions in its Favour ? How will they 
 Shuffie about, and Guard themfelves with.Excufes, when its In- 
 tereit comes m Competition with their Own, or any ways expo- 
 les them to Danger r Is there any of ’em that will Stick by Her 
 in a Plunge and Diftrefs ? In this alone they are the true Dife 
 ciples of Chrill, when their Lord and Mailer comes to try their 
 Faith and TruH, they never fail to Forfake Him and Fly. Have 
 they not always Join’d our Enemies, when any Vote that con- 
 cern d Us, or the Publick Welfare of the Church or Nation, was 
 to pars ? Were they not, even the Greatell among ’em, under 
 Me Iretence for being/or the Government^ induftrious to Subvert 
 iJur Conjutution, and for the Church, to overthrow its Eflablijk- 
 meat •’ Let their Principles be what they will, Interell alone is 
 that they Aft upon, which will make ’em Trim and Comply 
 With any Party, look one way and Row another, protell for the 
 Communion of the Church, and Betray it, whenever they can 
 do It with Safety and Advantage : And yet thefe Religious 
 ble^calers, in Our Author'& Opinion, are as llanch Church-men 
 as Himfelf, and may perhaps asjullly lay Claim to the Charafler; 
 Who here under a Pretence of Inveighing againll a Man of no 
 Religion, has fo cunningly manag’d His Point, as if,He infmu- 
 ated, that a Church-man might Comply with any, and If the 
 Communicating with Vijfenters, can give any Men the Title of Church- 
 I own they have the bell Claim to it of any under Heaven: 
 And 1 think ’tis a Queftion of no great Difficulty to be Decided, 
 whether One had not as well profcfs no Religion, as efpoufe one 
 Notoriouny made up of Inconlillencies and Self-Contra- 
 difhons, of Superftition, Herefy and Enthuliafm. We are here 
 ^ God, and Difir only in Modes of 
 
 tvorjhij). By this we may Guefs what Our Lathudinarian Writer 
 meaiK by Modes of Worjhip, that is not only' the whole Orders and 
 Dtfciphne of the Church, but moll of its Effential DoBrines and 
 Aacraments, which are it feems. Things Indifferent in their Na- 
 *^5 ‘^omply'd with or RejeBed at Pleafure : But before I 
 ^Imifs this Paragraph, which is very full of kind Inuendo’s to the 
 Dillenters and their Nearnefs to the Church of England, which they 
 would make much Nearer, it may not be amifs to Obferve ano¬ 
 ther Pernicious Mlllake, wherein the Divilion of the Church- 
 Alembcrs is brancht out into Men profefftng Jome Religion, and Alen 
 
 profeffing 
 
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 frofe{fin^ ftone, as iko* Some jithtifls were Men of Religion, and 
 he Intimates who they are, vi^. Such as don’t pretend to be 
 Chunk-men, but go often to. Church or Conventicle (here infinuated 
 if not allow’d) with fome Signs of Devotion. T. hefe it feeins are 
 frienh, and mull be Spar’d, for ’tis well known how Serviceable 
 they have been to This profligate Party^ which confifts of fuch , 
 a Majority of ’em, that their Iriteteft and Charafter is cliiefly, 
 if not wholly fuppofted by Them. 
 
 that rk ^ the UWe WWd aUow\i, the Company a Min 
 leepsy and the Friends he ^ahes Ufe of U the beii ViJUnpon of ktf 
 Char Oder, a Low-Chiuch^mail U who though He profefes Htm^ 
 JeJf to be of the Cotnmunjon of the Church of England, and 
 iimes *fo'tns in Its Religious offueSy in Pravers arid Sacraments, 
 
 He has that Tender Regard to, Weak Brethren, that upon Occafion; 
 He cdn fee the Infide'^f a Conventicle^ be of any Synagogue, but 
 tha t of Satan, and can Shew more Signs of Devotion, at the Heat 
 4ind Rapture of an Extemporary Cant, than at the Coldy hldt Forms 
 of the Ungifted Liturgy. He is of fuch a Condefcending Spirit, 
 shat rathef than Offend Religious FarSy He mil Silence the Unhallowed^ 
 Sound of an Organ, and fo careful to Avoid All the Reliques of ■ 
 Popery, that tie will not by any means Chant hU Litany or Creei^ 
 but before Sermon can Whine out a Long-winded Prayer ; and iri 
 Nothing more ffews HU Obflinacy againfl Siiperftition, than in Stdnd- 
 ihg Stiff at the Name of jefus. He can dijpenfe with tl?at Jddlatrou/S 
 Pofiure Kneeling at the Sacrament, and that He may not lofe my. 
 LadyV Favour^ He will Chriflen the Cluld at home^ and Omit the 
 Sign of the Crofs. If HU Presbyterian Patron requireSy He can 
 .leave off the Surplice, and ratkr than.give Scandal in Lawn, can 
 even Confecrate Scotch-Cloth. To ferve HU Good Oli-Caufe, He 
 can quit hU Dear Tvloderation, and warmly exprefs hjs Zeal at 
 Eleaions, where He can Charitably Infinuate Men vf the Cleareit 
 Reputations, Fortunes and Families, to be Enemies to the Go¬ 
 vernment, lacobites and French Pcnfloners; And rj hu 
 . 4rd Friends advance Him to be a Member, neither the Inierejl o| 
 Church nor State jhall Brit>e Him from being Grateful, m being 
 a Man of that fieaii Honour and Confcience, that He mU never 
 Betray the Triift repos’d in Him. There is too Great a Party ot 
 thefe, their Neighbours mull know them, and I hc^pe for the 
 Honour of Religion,\ will never call them Church-men. 
 
 The Third Criterion pro loos’d to Judge a True Ckurclj-manhf, 
 is l>is Life and Converfation. Nowf tho’ ’tis certain, that Tjue 
 Principles ought to havj'that Power over a Man’s Aftions, ds to 
 render ’em conformable, yet ’tis as certain, that a Man. s 
 may he Right, and yet His Praftice Wrong. There is not fuch 
 a Neceflary and Irrefiftible Influence from the Undcrltanding 
 over the Will, but that^the Confcience niay ckarly Apprehend 
 one iri Sin and Error, and at the fame time Explode and Dil- 
 allow it in Judgment. So that lU Lives mull not be charg d up- 
 on the JDoBrines and Principles of a Churchy nor the true Part ot 
 the Church of FncJani cbndemriM, becaXifeof its Members io 
 
 •i tlnti 
 
not Come up to I^s Doftrines. Ihere is no Church in the 
 World, that has laid ftriaer Rules of Vertiie and Morality on 
 her Sons, than the Church of Englctniy but neverthelefs it cannot 
 bc‘expertcd, but that (he niuli ha.ve fome in W'^x Comniumon^ 
 that cannot rite to that Pitch of Holinels and Perfeaion flp has 
 enjoin’d, and that mav be Guilty of fome Errors and Mifcarri- 
 a^es in their Lives. This is the common Ivlisfortune, not only 
 of Her fclf (who has Guarded the moft Cautiouily again ft the 
 Objefiion) but of all Other Churchei in the World, and can t be 
 otherwife, as long as (hey conlift of Men. Thcfe are the Excre- 
 fcences of its Bod^', and are to be lookt upon as Preternatural 
 Tumours, which may indeed a little Difadvantage its^ Beauty, 
 but no ways reticft on its Conftitution : But why that Catalogue 
 of Enormous Sins here mention’d, DrufikenmfSy Svifcaring^ Adul^ 
 Fornication^ &c. fhould with a SW Inuenfo be put as a Di- 
 ftinftion of Her ProfeiTors, will be found as little unaccountable 
 for in Reafun, as ’tis manifeftly' Falfe in Experience. If thefe 
 General, Scandalous Imputations have not fome Particular Aim 
 and Obieft, they are meer Arrows Ihot at Random, and the Et- 
 fe^fs of Envy, ^pight and Malice, calling about their Venom, 
 in hopes it may Light upon fome, that may have theMisr^tune 
 to come in their Way and Reach. This was the Old Policy 
 of the Fanaticks\ to draw a General Charatlcr^ and to leave the 
 Application of it to thofe whofe Humoury Jntereii “ 
 
 induce ’em to appropriate it to their Enemies. ^ This Specious 
 Pretence to Godlineis, and San^bify^i Ratling againft Vice, fmells 
 fo ftrong of the Pparifeey that ’tis always to be fufpeaed to 
 the Mask and Dilguife of Hypocrify, to cover Scandal in thofe 
 that Heferve it, and to derive the Reproach of it upon thofe 
 that do not. Now if to Recriminate were an Argument, how 
 eafy were it to Retort thisObjeftionupon the Lm-Church 1 any^ 
 which has been the meer Cenjiax and Sink of £>ebauckty, the ve- 
 iadJfflum oi Villains of all Sorts, Sizes and Charaiiers ? 
 when they have been Spew’d out of the Communion of the Churchy 
 there they never fail’d of a kind Treatment, and a ^vourable 
 Reception, as Perfons of their Own Colour, Hue and 
 xion, enrag’d againft the Church, ready to undertake any ^ 
 nous Defign, and to join in any Confpiracy to Subvert and Ove^ 
 turn its Conftitution. And now with what Face can ttefe Men 
 call out for Church-DifeipUne, who are fuch a Standing Mo?k and 
 Affront upon it ? What a Sokwn Ridicule is it for 'vhd 
 
 have always made Ufe of fuch Lewd, Profligate and Scandalous 
 Inftruments to manage their Caufe, to 
 cal Authority, and aurch^Cenfures, and to tell Us 
 Reftraints, aU cannot be duly Executed. But I delire them to tell 
 Me, Who have occafion’d thefe Reflratnts who ^ 
 
 Obftacles and Impediments that have $ 
 
 Power and Execution, and have fo P^andaloufly prevented it . 
 To whom does the Church owe Weaknefs and Imiw^ 
 but either to thofe Supream Officers that are its Judges, w 
 
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 ftopt that Power in themfelves^ or have given it out of the 
 and Betray’d that Sacred Branch ot its Preregative, Its 
 only Support and Defence, into the Hands of the CivH Power ? 
 What a wretched Inftance had We of this in the I^ail Convoca¬ 
 tion ? Wherein the Lowcr-Hoiifey well knowing what hiifchievoiis 
 ElFefts the Unlimitei licenfc of the had produc’d, to cor¬ 
 rupt and delfroy both the Peligion and Morality of the Nation, 
 wifely interpos’ej, to put a Stop to the Growing Evil, by feleft- 
 ing out of that Infinite Number that Swarm'"i up and down, 
 one of the moft Atheijlical Pamphlets that ever was fuiFer’d to 
 be Publifhed in any CbijUan Church and Government ; and 
 puffing their Juft Cenfure upon thefe Damnable Tenets and Per¬ 
 nicious Principles, that fo evidently overturn’d all Chriftianity. 
 Both the iSook and the Author^ if He had been apprehended, had 
 undergone the fame Juft Fate in Ireland^ which had feta.very 
 handlbme Prefident for the En^IiJ}) Church to follow, who certain¬ 
 ly e.ught not to be lefs Jealous^ or concern’d for their Jntereffy 
 J?oS:rine and honour^ which W'Cre all fo Vilibly ftruck at. How 
 notorioully impudent and bare-fac’d were not only the Profeffors 
 or Heifn/y Socinia/iiJm\ Herefy^ Atheifniy and all forts of Infidelityy 
 together with the Patrons of Re belli on^ Regipidey Re public anij'm and 
 Paganifmy with all their Scurrilous and Reproachful WritingSy 
 (enough to link a Nation) let pafs up and down araongft us 
 ‘with Freedom and Impunity, I am unwilling to fay Approba¬ 
 tion ? And was it not then High Time for the Church to begin 
 to Exert Its Authority, and to execute that Powder deriv’d to 
 it, as well from its Primitive ConjUtution^ as Lodg’d in it bv the 
 Le^^aiCranty and Corroborated ' by the Civil Efiablifimenty to 
 prevent fo Threatning a Danger, bv Branding one of the moft 
 Notorious Offi^/nierSy for a Dreadful Example to the Reft ? 
 
 And could one Imagine, that fo Laudable, fo Pious and fo 
 Necelfary a Delign, upon which the Welfare and Subliftence of 
 our Governmenty'dis well as Religiony depended, fo much for the 
 Honour of the Kingdomy as well as the Glory of Gody fhould have 
 been Openly: Opi>os’d and Prevented by thofe who were the 
 Mep^al Sworn E^etcutioners of this Power ? And that when fuch a 
 Yilean.i Dejecrable Wretch, dsTolandy ftcodin Competition with 
 the Church, that She fliould I.ofe Her Caufe, even by Her Own 
 yud^esy and in Her own Court ? But it feems, there was fome- 
 thing more at the Bottom. If this Cenfuring was carry’d on, they 
 did not know where 'it might end, and fome Dear Friends might 
 coim; under the lyafh of this Ecckfiaflical ScourgCy and acciden¬ 
 tally partake, of that Punllhment, which was delign’d only for 
 Enemies. This was a Tender Point, and made a Self-Confciom 
 Prelatey With wife Precaution, ftep in to Guard againft that 
 Danger which, fo vifibly threaten’d him. But the Courage and 
 Reibiution of the Eower^koi^'ey that would not be born down 
 by anv Oppolirion, though troin never lo Powerful a Partjy ob- 
 . Itioately perfifted in their juft Endeavours, and charg’d Error 
 and. UteroAoxj on One of the moft Coniiderable Members of 
 
 the 
 
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the Upper-ffoufe, iii mifreprefenting, diftortlng and cornipting 
 t^e true and Genuine Scope and Senfe of the Jnrcley cf the 
 Church, which feem’d to be a JVork framed with fo pernhioui and 
 7 ^ Defign, as if the Author intended to laV thefc Sacred 
 
 JiQuniaries of Our Tahh wide 0\x:n, to let in all Our Enemies, 
 Perfuafion, into Our Communion, to Trrun\ph in 
 Ruin of the Dodrine, Difeipline and ConlHtution cit Our 
 r This Piou 5 Piece, which was a Draught cf the j^uthor"^ 
 Dittulive Charity and Moderation, was it Teems Contrived to 
 have led the way for that noble Defign of Arch-bilhop llllotfon. 
 Beginning of the La^l Revolution, to have"fetch’d in All 
 ^iilertters upon the fame Bottom with that of the C7;«rc/j 
 iand-y and by altering, circumcifing and aboliihing its-Rubrick, 
 arid Canons, to have Effablifli’d the Low^Church Party 
 their Own Univerfal and Comprehenfive Principles : But 
 the Clergy cou’d do no more than Exprefs theit Juft Zeal in this 
 Matter, arid were forc’d at length to make thCit j^ppeal to the 
 frefs, where We doubt not, by thofe excellent Spectmens they 
 ^j^teady given to the World, but that they will makegood' 
 ttor Charge, and vindicate the Honour and Faith of their AW 
 five Church, againft all the falTe and fcandaloiis Reprefenrations’ 
 a Foreign Invader and a Falfe^ Defender can call upon them. 
 
 therefore thefe Perlbns be afham’d to impolb upon the 
 World, with the idle Pretences of the Inefficacy, and Rejtraints of 
 Ecclefiaflical Power and Difeipline, which they themfelves have thus 
 Weaken’d and Enervated, and in time, had not zn- Opportune 
 Providence interpos’d, would have utterly annihilated and de- 
 ftroy’d : And to Colour this Defign a little o%'er, and make it 
 took a little more plaufible, inftcad of this Ancient, Primitive 
 Difeipline of the Church, which for fo many Ages has, like a Ram* 
 pa^t, Tecur’d its Religion from F/Ve and Immorality, Schifm and 
 P^^refy, we mull have fubftituted in its Place, ' Society for the 
 ^formation of Manners, wherein every Tradefman and Mechanick 
 upon him the Gift of the Spirit, and to expound the 
 Difficult Paflages of Scripture, and every Jufiice of Peace is al¬ 
 low’d to fettle Its Canon, and Infallibly Decide what is Ortho¬ 
 dox or Heretical: And now to what End or Purpofe muft all 
 thefe Alterations be made, and this Mungril Inftitution be 
 brought into the Church ? But only to Infinuate an Infufficiency 
 in Its Difeipline, to oyer-turn Its Ancient Genuine Confiliution, 
 tp betray Its Power into the Hands of Eay^ElderJhip and Fana- 
 ticifm, and to leave it dependant and precarious on the Will 
 &nd Humour of the Senfelefs and Giddy Multitude ? Thus, in 
 all their Proceedings, This Party, to Curry Favour with the 
 People, the main Inftriiment and Engine of thdr Defigns, have 
 complemented ’em at no lefs an Ex pence than the Corruption of 
 the faith, the Subverfion of the DiJeipUne, and the Alienation of 
 the Rights^ Powers and Privileges of the EJlablrJh*d Church : And 
 yet thefe are the Men that Boaft of their Sanftifv’d Lives, and 
 fo Devoutly Reproach Thofe of much Better, and who atlually 
 
 C 2 (hut 
 
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 (hut Others out of that Church, to which They have not the lea ft 
 Claim themfclves ; hut are fo Unqualify^ to enter 
 roouU ctvohi both the Name and Place, dtd the/ no want a Cloak 
 for their SI/ Impieties and Immorahues, and hope, that a pretended 
 Zeal for Religion Jhould Jttone for their Real Enmity to the Church. 
 
 Now, though IVe are Unwilling to Recrimm^e, Drawing 
 
 a Low-Church-man’r Life, We mud joNim 'fhts ^uflice, to fit it 
 out in its Proper Colours, and to the bed uddvantage, and to let tie 
 World know. That He if as Good in hit Aaions, M He is m hu 
 Principles. Teoueh He U as much a Friend to the Sm as He would 
 reprefent hit Adverfafy the High-Church-man, ^ 
 
 Enemy to the Scandal j and as for thofe Enormous Crimes of Drunk- 
 ennels, Fornication, Adultery, Swearing, dc. He hates 
 Nothin? fo much as in the Name and Difcovery : Ne pews Himjetf 
 an Entire Mafter of the Saint’s Perfethion, Hypocrifv' ; and can 
 with an Outwdrd Simplicity, Varnilh the Blacked Villanv, and 
 make Faftion, Rnaverv and Rebellion, pafs for Religion. Ho won- 
 der that He who allows fuch a Latitude to Hts Thoughts, JhoM 
 no lefs Indulge it in HU Life. He U in every Thing for the Li- 
 bertv of the Subjetf. He looks upon Matrimony as too Great a 
 Confinement, and U not for Stinting HU Pleafures to fcither Sex . 
 But takes Care to Manage hU Private and Sly Intrigues fo elyely, 
 as to keep himfelf out of the Reach of that Spiritual Correction, 
 which he U fo iorward to bring upon Others, He U always ueci^iiR" 
 ine againd the Vice of the Age, and the Infuffciency of ow- Laws 
 to Refrain it ; and more fecurcly to Cloak it. He Skreens Htnfelf 
 under a Pretended Society to Reform it. But whatever Tto* 
 teaion or Advantage tlw Name of Religion may, by the Un* 
 warinefs or Defign of others, gain thefe Men, I am lure it cart 
 bring nothing but Scandal and Reproach upon the Churc • 
 Never let a Sacred Name be thus Proftituted, to Countenance 
 Wickednels, or take off any Part of the Shairte and Infamy that 
 
 The Fourth Mark We have of a Church-man'i ClnATzfkej is his 
 Lo/ait/: That He U True to the intered both of Church and State, 
 as by Law Efiablifh'd. This indeed. He juftly tells Us, has 
 the Glory of the True Sons of the Church of Engjcind : And being 
 fomething Confeious how little Claim the Low-Church Party could 
 in Right lav to this Charaffer, which they have fo Bafely Vio> 
 latei,>he .very Cautloully Guards them with a Diftinftion, con- 
 tradifts what He had juft before Laid down, and accules th? 
 aurch of England of Falfe Doftrine, being Convinc’d, thatjier 
 Principles . relating' to Government were utterly inconliltent 
 with, and repugnant to their Pratfices ; To wij^ on which 
 Reproach, He iniinuates, She has pred the Point of Obedience an* 
 Subktlion too far, even to the feUtng up Arbitrary^ Power, and the 
 Will of the Prince above Law ; But He recalls himfelf, and tells 
 Us 'hat thU U a Mifreprefemation of the True Dodrine V 
 (nee taught in Our hurcb, which was Oppos’d to f'adicn and peai- 
 tion, not to a Legal Government r. This is ffrarigC IncOh«cn,t 
 *' > ^ Shuffling, 
 
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 Shuffling, and fhews Our Author to be Frefi'd with an Oh 
 jefhon, whatever Our aunh is with Her Dortrine • For 1 
 true Knowledge whereof, this Paper has very juftly dirertcj 
 s to her JoMihes, Liturgtes Camm, ifec. Wherein I defy the 
 tolhew Me any fuch hilly, Time-ferving and Rebellious 
 1 iftinftion, as is heie alledgd of a Le^al Government, vie find 
 Fafne Obedience zs tis Stated there, without any Limitations or 
 Exceptions, and as no Condmonal, but as an Mfolute Dutv 
 Let the Confequences oi it be what they will, we are not m 
 conlider them m Subiuiflion to any of God’s Commands ; th^ 
 as’tis thus Explain’d, it does not ftand 
 ratify d by the Vivtne Authority, and the h'xprej's Hoards of the 
 Scripture. That this was the Opinion of Our CkurcL as well ^ 
 our Lawyers as well as Divines, I fhall appeal only to the 
 
 V^c^in^ordso(the Oath of Allegiance. 1 ihaU not enter upS 
 this ^gUment, which of late Years has been lb fully Difculs’d 
 that It has left the Point under no Doubt or AmbiguS" 
 
 ^ devolution in Mens Opinions, together with Times 
 and Circuinftances, this Doarine however will be found of an 
 Eternad in^ Jniifpenfable IrMth, and is as much the greateft 
 Guard and Support of Government, as ’tis the nobleft Dilfinrtion 
 of the Loyalty of our Ancient Church. What Prince or Govern- 
 
 Author's Principle is admitted. That 
 Obedience ^fty onp Owin^ to fettled Gervernments adminijired 
 ? For it the People arc to be Judges of the 
 Legally of Princes Aaions, and every Mifeonduft or Male-a^ 
 miniitr^ion is a Eorfeiture of the Croton, Obedience is fo treca- 
 rious a Duty, that it lofes its Nature according to the fiu^r,^ 
 mi or of tho Multitude , and ther”^“ t 
 
 thing as Rebellion m the World, which never yet wanted a i, 
 J’retwre to Juftify it: But to give thisPoftion a New Turn* 
 leaft It might be made ufe of againft Themfelres, We find On» 
 Author Softening and Tempering its Rigour, and telling Us, that 
 in All Governments m the Imperfebb State of thU World, there ever 
 ^ve, and will be feveral Faults and Mifearriages in the Admini- 
 jiration: And. how eafy it is to improve, exafperate and blacken 
 thofe with the worft Cpours, to the Subverfion of any State we 
 need recur no farther for an Example, than to the Misfortoe of 
 that Felt as well as UnkappteS of Kings, Charles the FirS. 
 
 But confidering the pernicious Confeqgence of this Political 
 1^'rn FfligicuO tenet, whit a Paradox is 
 
 XT Inveighing againll its Natural and 
 
 Neceffary Produif, Fachon and Sedition, and Jmbroiling Govern.- 
 merit . Which IS a piece of J^rangue calculated for the X«»c 
 
 Gentlemen, here Struck at 
 
 aL 1^.5 T a Tender concern for the 
 
 W'WMre of the Atft/c», as well zs the Prefervation ind 
 y^Eflablipnentoi is to be charg’d on lint Party znd 
 
 ^‘ftiflry z\one which fo \ ifibly Endanger’d Both. If his 
 s Perjen or Authority was brought under any dtfregard or con, 
 
 tempt,’ 
 
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 fempf, It was owing to Their Falfe Counfds and Enfndr^n% Tra- 
 ^ices \ who, to accompHfh their Own Pri\^ate Ends, h^d Trickt 
 and Betray’d Him into a Jealoniy of his BcH Friends^ and a con- 
 fideiice in his and His Kingdom’s V/or§l Ene/^ks^ in fuch a Bafe, 
 Treacherous and undermining Set of Fellows, who w^re polled 
 fo rmnY' State-Machiw!s ready to Say, Do or Be any Thing, 
 as they were Afted by thofe behind the Curtain^ to Amufe the 
 People, and Pick their Pockets. To Maintain this Nufame g{ 
 the Nation fuch prodigious Sums were Lavifh’d, as. may Entail 
 a Handing upon' bur Pofterity, and made Us as Poor zt 
 Home as they had reprefented Us Scandalom and Contemptible 
 Abroad. To Remove thefe Publick Blood-Suckers^ that had 
 brought our Kingdom and Government into a Confumtion^ was 
 the noble Defign of thefe Patriots^ who were for Dijabufing the 
 KiT^, clearing that Mift they had call before Ms Eyes, and tct 
 prefenting the Danger they had brought his Honour^ Inter'e^ and 
 Crown ir\to : To prevent which, they fhew’d him the Neceffity 
 of Eftablilhing a Triennial Parliamejity to fecure it, from that 
 Corruption and Bribery z gxtzt Number of its Members iiood: fo 
 fcandaloufly convicted ot ^ That for the Satisfaftion of his Peo¬ 
 ple, the Publick Accounts ought to have been ftated, and the 
 Mifapplication and Embexxelment of that vaft Quantity of Money 
 ithd torfeited Efiates laid Open, that at leaft we mi^ht have feen' 
 hcfw we came fo deeply involv’d in Debt : That the Tredty of 
 Partition^ inftead of bringing Us an Honourable Peace, had not 
 only brought a eenerarDif^ra(^JU]>on Our Selves arid Allies,’ 
 but "had engag’d'us fdrther intoTfV'and P^uin .- With many 
 other Great and EilOTtrious Grievances, enough, to link and fub- 
 vert Our Conflimion. On the other Han4, This Party, think¬ 
 ing themfelves not Secure, Labour’d ha^d for a Stanih^ ^rmy^ 
 to the dCingdom 'under Terrbr Slavery \ thz% failing, 
 
 they brought a Mob vrt the Houfe' kf CoMmons to hinder their 
 Itnpeac^ments^ and to <fr%ht them lhto-tho Betraying that Great 
 Rampart of th&^m^n:Pi^htiz^^ and at lall forc’d 
 
 the Ksing, as contrary‘ttf'his Own' Irttefefl as that gf .the Na- 
 fion, to Diflblvb tfcsTafliament, wholb,utm.oft Endeavours and 
 etinfaltations were to fettle and eftablilh’Both vand who. in all their 
 Votes had Ihewn themfelv^ theJ5eH i^afriots'^ and the moft Refolute 
 Afferters of the HoiiOur and Liberty -oT their Qw«fr>, ‘and the 
 Povver-and FrivHeges'of thfcir r So that this 
 
 Scandalous Refleflidn'here of rind Pa^ion^.vihiQh i^ iti 
 
 'partlculat charg’d u^on Sit^^ohtd Pdckmgton^ who ^ad .tI k Ho¬ 
 nour to be One of thofe Worthy"GentleiUbn that fo Glbrioufly 
 Signaliz’d themfelves in the'Defence of the Nation, is a Gene¬ 
 ral Brand and Repreach ‘ upon‘the lEkirle Body of the Mpufe of 
 Commons \ who to pfejyeht uny;'falfe Repreferltatioris of them, 
 have, by Order Printed'their'Re^ Ad* 
 
 Vlrefles to his Majejlyj xvhfch will for ever Hand'^as an Undeni- 
 iible and Immortal Viridicatioit of their ^Proceedings.^ * . ‘ 
 
 ;:-.v ■ . > • ^ V - ‘ ' ■. ■ * 
 
 And 
 
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 will"? State 
 
 the Welfare of their a finvere I^ve and Concern for 
 
 only to excels their n Vthemfelycs Oblig’d not 
 i^oi to eKo.VrL^/ .■*" the Duty of their 
 
 not been lome \lirr i' • were to be VVifh’d there had 
 
 conduft in ibme of its''nf^f r‘^rv" 
 
 not without Tronine r!l ^ r^'^-^ ^ouid 
 
 and Well-wifher« tn ri ^/y were IneKds to its Coiiflitutioi^ 
 induc’d OtJicrs Reafons might have 
 
 Jilood vet Ther^ ^ Authority in J>oubtful Cafes of 
 
 Jurifktholi .^^^"'Ptod .themlelves fronr that 
 
 lladiy a Sed e-n"-? ' have 
 
 wher^it feein’d ^o rnn more 
 
 prefs Law < f rk. V “ counter to the common Senfe and ex- 
 
 Tranfa^finn ^i'’ 1*^.m this and fome other Publick 
 
 meddle if k the C/er, 5 y were not Obliged to Inter- 
 
 riv^T aJi had Profitfuui their CwJrr, and de- 
 
 who were concern^ *^f r"^R*'^k^hofe 
 ll^ritinfs tlw /in u ®p^h, it either in their Converfation or 
 
 t^4 whi§ tl\Z ir « /-* of their SpiLal fI 
 
 in fome Meafure^fi7rf?r due to their^Sacred Function, was 
 ther iLv were cL ■" « = Who,’whe- 
 
 compliance i ^ Sordid 
 
 of Thofe wh^-^l ‘^‘founts fell in with the Honour and Fancf 
 
 and i ”ig„.> E°^ »d lu HonouJ 
 
 mies fri if-c "'ho were profefs’d Ene- 
 
 E/i Ihewnlt /f^ The F^ur and Tet 
 
 So? “ V" «f tteit din Ikf^SZ 
 
 whowe^ nugtt jiiftly Demand the contran^, and 
 
 for Vindicarm Brow-beaten, and Abus’d 
 
 rodoxical M'r^^ C)p<Jrines of their Church from their Heu^ 
 as well to might be thought a fiiliicient caufe. 
 
 Cannn 7 ^ ^candalous Objection of Failure in Point 
 
 SveStortEk’ tLt Open complaint^ 
 
 clinJfcal r ^hefe F>efells in Our oLmors eI 
 
 ha. fK,r fo Great and Manifeft, as ought per- 
 
 eithe?b»^SSy°'^ Lamented, but by None ciuld 
 
 SiSot\JrKlH^.fi thePublicfc Pre- 
 
 of rA„ ^^k^ ^he Eternal Difadvantage and Ruin 
 
 bt* iiifl-r, • whom the expofing the Epif opal Order is to 
 
 SfE: ^iHtZlCo"Tf£ Im";aSRy iS uprTghtDe"? 
 
 ly tontern’d^the Tlnn ’ o''«r an Affair which fo high- 
 
 y concern d the Honour and Reputation of the Ck/sp : And if 
 
 that 
 
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 fiat wis a little better confiilted, We fhould not hear thofe /w- 
 pruderit Invcai-jes fo frequently call: uj^n ’em by their Vifitors in 
 ithelr and. Scrtfions out of which the hdity gather fuch 
 
 ScanidloM Mate.n(thy to al[>erle and abufc tlieir Minifiers by this 
 iioly Example let before ’em : But if to txpofe Failings rvhers they 
 arcy or to make them where they are mt^ wsrs never any part of the 
 Spirit of Our Churchy hovv exatily foine Men aft by its RulCj and 
 whether He that fo much pretends to the Revelation of the Spi¬ 
 rit, has had this Spirit upon him, let the World Judge : if 
 Railing^ as ’tis fiippos’d here, is a Title to the aurch, it is the 
 only Qiialltication thefe Lovo-Church^men have to lay claim to it, 
 who have been refolv’d to make their Party Good one way at 
 leaft, and to Ihew themfclves no ways Deficient in Eying^ Scan* 
 dal zndL Reproach, whatever they were in or Learning, Good 
 JLanguage or Good Manners : One Notorious In fiance whereof I 
 cannot hut take particular Notice ot, which to the Shame and 
 Difgrace or Our Nation, Church and Government, has been fuP 
 fcr’d fo Openly and Impudentlv to appear every where, I mean, 
 that Fanatical and Villainous Blafphemmg the Sacred Perfon of 
 King Charles the Firll, together with All his Royal Ofjsprmg ; 
 whole Lives and ATions have been fo bafely Bely d and Tra¬ 
 duc’d, and their Reigns and Chaj'aclers fo infamoully Miirepre- 
 fcnted and Abus’d, that this Blefjed Prince, w^ho fo bravely Seal d 
 Our Faith with his Blood, has as ’twere undergone a Second 
 Martyrdom, and felt a Double Share of Malice, Revenge and Mur* 
 der, in his Memory. What was the Aim of this Rebellious and 
 zDamnable Defign was too apparent, by that Glancing Turn they 
 gave their Scandals : For, belides wounding the Church of Eng* 
 Lind in the moft tender part of Her Honour, they though this 
 was the moft effeftual way to J3eftroy it, by deriving fuch a 
 Reproach upon the Lail Relique of th Royal F]^amily (which God 
 tout of his Alercy has preferv’d as Its, Laft Support and Onlv 
 Defence) to have firll Excluded Her out of Her Mih‘]e[ls good 
 Opinions, and afterwards out of Lhat Throne to whmh not only 
 Her Succejftve Right, hut Her Perfonal Merit has by Good Provi¬ 
 dence Advanc’d Her ; And we need not Qiieftion, though 
 Mercy and Piety will prevail upon Fler to forgive T heir wicked 
 Intentions, vet Her Prudence and Policy will effeftually Guard 
 botii Her Self and Her Church, Fiev Government and 
 for the future, againft fuch haithlefs, Treacl^erous and Infidious 
 
 Enemies. \ c ^ ^ v 
 
 And now. If We come to take a further View of a Low-Chufcii- 
 nianV Life, We fhallfnd HU Behaviour, in relation to the Publick, 
 exalkly cerrefpondent to what He does in Private • He can jirike tn 
 with All Governments, but ts Tue to None : When a Court 
 vours it. He can make Paffive Obe^fience a Primitive Dpdrtne \ 
 but a Revolution can give a new Turn to hU Thoughts, and quickly 
 charge HU PafTive Q^uality into an Aftive One, <^id HU Evang^i- 
 cal into a I^gal Duty, Owing only to Settled Governments Efta^ 
 blilh’d by Their Own Laws t He Defended 
 
 i' ran 
 
and be in evsry Hoing His Own Re- 
 verie : he is fo tender in bringing an Accufation on the Church 
 or England for carrying its Oodrines too High, that He thinks 
 1 • Low enough ; and U refolv^d not to Prels 
 
 us Obedience fo far, as to make Himfelf an Example of it. If 
 ^ hjs any Settled Principles, they are for Repablicanifm and 
 J rcsbvtery ; and to Jhew himfelf ivs True a Patriot of hit Country 
 ^ a Son of His Church, He tvouU Vote His .King a Standing 
 / Army to He fend the One^ and give up all the Powers and Privi- 
 leges of the Convocation into His Orthodox Bifhop’j bands^ 
 tojupport the Other as being the mo^ fecure Guards againdi the Sub- 
 and Our Civil and Religious Rights, at the 
 Will of the Prince. He n Openly a profefted Enemy to all the 
 Arts of Sedition and Faflion, but nicely underflands the Secret of 
 Privately Embroiling Government ; and can Bribe a whole 
 
 their Own Jnteredl to fupport His, and Lavijh away 
 the Revenues of a Kingdom in Taxes to fet himfelf upon Its Poverty 
 and Ruins, He flicks at no ViUany to carry on His Hefigri^ and tho^ 
 He Inveighs as much againdi Railing as Sedition, can as Slyly APt 
 ^ ; and under the Pretence of Excufing can more 
 
 hjfeclually Expofe the Defefts of his Governors. His ponverfa- 
 tion and Writings are both of a piece^ full ol Malice and Hypo- 
 ^iiy, wherein He always Perfonates the Charafter of a True 
 Church-man more Hexteroufly to Betray it. But God be thanked, 
 this was never any part of the Spirit of Our Church, which al¬ 
 ways in/Kird more Loyal and Religious Leffons. 
 
 Fifth Characlerejiick of a True Church-man is drawn from 
 his Conformity to the Dif ipline of the Church, He is One ( fays 
 our Author ) wlao takes the Meafures of his Behaviour as a Son of 
 the Churchy from tl^ Rule that Our Church hcrfelf has laid down for 
 His Dire^ion in her Liturgy and Rubricky Her Article$y Homilies 
 and Canons : This is the Rule, in Subordination to the Holy 
 which Our Conftitution has laid down as the Diftin- 
 gui/hing Mark of Its True Hifciples : From which we are told 
 there are Two Sorts of Men HeviatCy thofe who tranfgrefs its 
 dBoundSy and thofe who come not up to themy Both which our Author 
 trails Vijfenters on either Side, Now if we examine this Diftin- 
 dion, we fhall find Our Acute Writery with his LTfual Sagacity 
 and Penetration, making Another Hivifiony but with One Member, 
 for a Hijfenter beyond the Church is a Bull and meer Contradiftion 
 in Terms : For the Principles and HoBrines of the Church of Eng^ 
 land are carry’d up to the utmoft Height, Pitch and Extremity 
 of the Chriftian Religion ; and if a Man Believes and PraBices 
 them according to Her Injimdion, it is iinpoffible He fliould Err 
 beyond the Rules of the Church. To put any Shadow of Senfe 
 u pon 'This ViflinBion^ We mu ft fuppoTe, that there are feme 
 Men that fully and entirely conform to all the Injunftions of 
 the Church, and have a Sort of Supererogatory Religion befides, 
 and beyond what is therein commanded : And who they are to 
 Whom this Imaginary and Utopian Charaftec belongs, We muft 
 
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 be contented to wait for Information till Our Jhnhor tliinks fit 
 to Reveal His Secret; But 1 am apt to think, for That rie is 
 hiwfeJf as much in the Dark as he has left his Header : For it 
 is evident, this Charafter cannot agree to any Perfon before de- 
 ferib’d, Whom He has all along drawn as One that does not 
 come up in the leaft to the Rules of the Church, even the moft 
 Solemn and Neceffary Duties enjoin’d in it^ as frequenting the 
 Church, and Comrymmcating in its Religiom O0ices^ attending to 
 Its Doftrines Preach’d therein, and partaking of the Prayers and 
 Sacraments of the Church, all which He is faid politively to 
 Negleft and Omit, and to be fo far from (hewing any Signs cf 
 Devotion, that he has not the leait Senfe cf God or Religion, 
 that he is a meer Heathen and Infidel, believes nothing, but 
 lives like an is a common Vrunkard^ Swearer^ yUultsrery 
 
 Fcrnicatory and is pofl'eft with a Legion of Sins and Devils^ and 
 to clofe and finiih his Pifture, is a Debauch’d Hake-Ull and He¬ 
 bei : But now Our Author confidering the Matter a little Bet¬ 
 ter, is for Varying his Charafter, and tells Us, he is a Man of 
 moft Exalted PreienceSy that he Goes beyond the Rules of the Churchy 
 even up to Superflition. This is a ftrange Mixture and Medley of 
 a Man, a nicer Hyppocentaur in Religion, that is Both an High- 
 Clurch->man and a Low-Churrh-tnafiy both ylbove and LelorVy Ee-, 
 yond and Befide the Rules of the Church : What moft Incom- 
 prehenfible Nonfenfe is this ? He might as well have told Us, 
 that the Charafter of a Bijhop w’as an Utter Enemy to Epifccpacy 
 and Monarchyy a great Favourer of the PresbyierianSy no Irieni of 
 the Common-Prayery One that Believ'd neither the Jlrticles nor the 
 Phmilies of the Church, and never conformed to the Rubrick or Ca- 
 nenSy that hated Confirmaiiony and tv ^ for altering the Form of that 
 and other Parts in the Liturgy ; that was for complying with all 
 Sjrts of SetlariftSy and was for introducing them into the Commu¬ 
 nion of the Church by a fne Stratagem of Comprehenfion and Modera¬ 
 tion y without Epifcopal Orders ; and in forty was both in Principle 
 and PraUice a Latitudinarian, and a Low-Church-man. 
 
 And now', who would Believe this Contradiftious and Incon- 
 fiftent Charafter ? And yet might He not with the fame Rea- 
 fon and Jiiftice couple fuch Difagreeable "fargon together ? Could 
 Our Author find any credit if He told Us, that He knew a 
 ctrrain Bp. in the Church, who in King y^we^’s Time preach’d 
 dewm the Pofijh-Ploty wTich He had preach’d up before in the 
 Biginning 0 / that Reign ; that He was a Friend and Co-adjutor 
 to L. Ch. f. y. yet that in the Beginning of the Revolution He 
 courted the .DiJfemerSy and gave the Holy Communion in a 
 Church at London to an Eminent Presbyterian-Preachery Sitting in 
 a Pew. Why would not this be Exploded at firft View as Mon- 
 ftrous, Abfurd and Incredible, for a Bp. of The Church cf Eng¬ 
 land thus to proftitiite and betray his Sacred Funftion, Truft 
 and Charafter ? And yet Our Author perhaps would Replyy that 
 fome Men can do any thing with Gravity in their Looks, and 
 the Name of God in their Months ; that they can Aft at one 
 
 Time 
 
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 at another Time Move the Huh. as the ProT- 
 
 & li t aT,f'’'^V'‘r ■ “"W s»ctificc i 
 
 „.vV . u ^ them on Veifls, Sodniam or Z«t/x>- 
 
 coml “any Ami-rauh, be- 
 
 tain that ‘the a convenience oiFer’d main- 
 
 A %ft! fr, f7Tn f'"‘^ are but about 
 
 vilte ^ Things^ whilft thofe who never dc- 
 
 fl-irlf s^ueamijh Higk-Church-men. that will 
 
 I(s Honour, Dokineand AuthoritV. 
 
 Charaaer Sir John ruck- 
 
 7 oucccj^ion^ l^rghXov the X/fz/r-r/Vr acainft 
 
 cSof hI Doftri^^ ani DiK 
 
 Hi mLif / i, P’thaps He would add, that 
 
 SLw the Deftruaion of the Epbfiopal Uu -ch in 
 
 i thi He l^r“ Addrefllng Her Maje% to rellore 
 
 be a nf,« ^ from the Church of England to 
 
 the Reverend X/ie//er's dear Friends 
 
 the 7o;^T/-r^ Dangerom State, notwithftanding 
 
 hJvZT: He would whifper, that hI 
 
 L7Z h 5 all Mcommodations to Comprebenfon and Trim- 
 
 2'f /^oder<tt,on .. that He is fo High as to Obferve zhe Tral- 
 
 Hed S-sT’’f ^aws of the Church j that 
 
 5 4/1 AnT: "7'^ Low towards the Altar, and at the Name 
 om^ H-'c u ^”1." "P His Charaaer, perhaps he wou’d not 
 mliThr^n? Conquest and Tranjlauow, tlio’ the Laft he 
 
 fwf ^ M greateft Reafon to wilh of anv Man in the Dh- 
 
 cye. Now what a Formidable and Dangerous Charaaer is this ? 
 Was It not enough to Exafperate his Diocefan, to try his utmoli 
 a"/- amongft his Clergy and Tenants, and with 
 
 frightful Menaces and Threats conjure them not to 
 ri. i ^ Enemy to the Church of England, and 
 
 uch a Pernicious Patriot to his Country i but that they would 
 tlpou^ the Perlon He recommended, whom He would affure. 
 Word and Honour, deferv’d not the leaft of 
 tnts Lharatler, but was as Point Blank a Contradiilion to Everv 
 Particular as Hnnfelf; That He was a Man fo far from beiiJ 
 He believ’d nothing at all in Religio^ 
 
 -n" c“ ^ He would be a 
 
 Heilf Sof/n/an or Hepuiluan, or any thing, to promote their, 
 and His, and the Ourch’s Intereft ; and in a word, a Thorough* 
 Tac d an^i Seafon d Loro-^hurch^man. 
 
 But to fee Our Author right in his Diftinaion of an High. 
 Church-man and Lorc-Church-man, \ will for once be fo kind and 
 charitable as to tell him a Secret I believe he is not acquainted 
 With : Namely, -Who was the God-father and Original of thefe 
 Part^Hames, viz. No lefs a Friend to the Church of England 'thAn 
 his pear Cou.ntry-man Mr. Baxter ; who (in his Anfwer to that 
 
 ^ ^ Great 
 
r 20) 
 
 Great TlSar and Ltghi of Our Churchy the Venerable Mr. Ifookr) 
 firft Broach’d this Canting Viflindion^ which He call upon that 
 yjpojlolical and Prh^itive Writer, as the greateil Brand of Re-* 
 proach, and as the moft Inodiating Title (as indeed ’twas in tliofe 
 times of Rebellion and Confufion) that could be fix’d upon a Man’s 
 Charafler, to mark him out for the Fury and Deftruftion of the 
 Multitude. Now I appeal to the Whole Body of the True Sons of 
 the Church of England^ whether the Application of the Name of 
 of Higk’-Church-man to Such a Pcrfon (who was as great an Ho¬ 
 nour and Support to it as ever She enjoy’d) be not as manifeft 
 a Proof of Our Author’s Ignorance as ’tis of His Malice^ in falfly 
 reprefenting and appropriating it to wrong Perfons. And what 
 other Defign he could have in this but to Expofe the Church and 
 its True Members^ I leave them to judge ; So that I hop^ he 
 will give Me leave to place the Fnnatick and Tijfenter on its 
 Proper Objefl, upon this Vile Latitudinarian Parify Who can go 
 on any Side of the Ruky and comply with any PrincipleSy to pro¬ 
 mote and cllabHfh their Interelr, which is the Rubric}?y ArticleSy 
 Homilies and Canons by which they direft themfelves, and for 
 which at any time they are ready to difpenfe with or give up 
 thofe of the Church, And now with what Impudence can fuch 
 Wretches prefume to take upon them the Sacred and Inviolable 
 Title of the CJ^urchy who are thus for Sinking it into the LomU 
 Degree of Presbytery and Ruin ; that are not only for betraying 
 its Confiitiition^ Rights and LibertieSy but for corrupting its Do- 
 ftrine and Undermining the Civil State and Government, upon 
 w'hich alone it depends ; and reducing the Kingdom into Attar- 
 chYy Atheifm and Vefolation ? if therefore they will make any 
 HiflinPeiony let it bc of Church-men and Athelflsy Higl^-Church and 
 No Church, 
 
 From hence We may Draw a Low-Church-man’j CharaBer^ In re- 
 hition to Church Government and Difcipline, 'H^at He U not One 
 
 Exalted Pretences to and never Goes Beyond the Rule of the 
 Church. He Ms upon the Homilies a/s tolerably Good for the 
 Time they were compiled in ; but that they contain fome DoBrines 
 not fo Suitable to ThU Age. Being a Man of a condefeending 
 and peaceable Temper^ He u for making the Articles and Liturgy 
 to comply with tender Confciences, and fo very charitable, iks to 
 let kif Diffenting Brethren even into the Enjoyment of the Church- 
 Revenues. He will not maintain the Divine Right of Epifcopacy, 
 for .Pear of Offending the Reform’d Churches Abroad ; and to 
 Pleafe his Dear Friends the Fanaticks at HomCy will in cafe of Ne- 
 celTity AUow even a Lay-Brother to Ordain a Presbyter. He 
 thinks the Ecclefiaftical Canons an Encroachment upon the Civil 
 Power, and that Chrift’s Kingdom if not to be Efiablijh*d by Force 
 and Ufurpation, While his Intereft and the Church is on a fide, 
 it may perhaps expeft Him her Time-ferving Friend : But In- 
 terefl will not Lye, if the Church and Intereft part Farewcl 
 the Church. 
 
 The 
 
Governments and Circumftances : For We are^mu i/ 
 
 1^:o governs htmfelf by Pnruiple, and not by the U>^^^na^nT*‘ 
 Humour or Interea. He will not be Zealous fnr mT Turns oj 
 eop^y at one time, and at another faU in with Meafur^ fofn'^ 
 rzrjhtng the y«S Prerogative, and Heprefmg bis EcflefildZl sZ" 
 nors. Now how much like a folenm Tefi- 
 found, to hear this Low-Church Party talkin*^ in^Vi'n r ^ 
 Prerogative, who were the very I^rfSs thft in e" 
 
 in the Church was Favonr'd, were i[s Worft 
 
 Arguments that Over-nower’d 
 
 more particularly ftruck at, that What Our AuS ciils^th^ 
 Jua Prerogative no Part of the Prerogative ^fore thfxxv 
 L .t^^cfore is no Effemial Preroga^ve of 
 5 pf i^l'^^^itious by Hil of Pafliament, and bT A el 
 
 of Parliament, without any Hurt or HiIheriCnn r,rfU» 
 
 may be taken away. And Ih fufficiently know]( how the Surch 
 has Groan'd under this Prer<,^<rpVe ^/of the LeTrM^S Zs 
 Terror of the Penalty for not Obeying it, the Pain<i p" 
 ever lince that Aft was made : tven the lea cLZ Z“' 
 
 Tn- ‘t as a Mighty GrievancfzntZur" 
 
 den ; and I will lay, I hope without Ofenc^ that it was a Tite 
 upon the Neck of Our Fathers, and vet Our Anfhnr 
 tring into Meajures to take off that %ke, HiminiJhinftL PrlrSt 
 tjve and H^reffmg the Ecclefiafiical Superiors. Whfreal >tis /vT 
 dent, that u only put the Church and Clersv into „ 
 
 of fuH Liherty which they had before the yf/f nf v / State 
 reduc’d them into that Tiri’retrwhth waffe^^^^^^^^ 
 by the Fira Article of Ma^na Chartaand wMch Z/,^ 
 
 England ought to enjoy, by the Con’ftituion of the Soui 
 Church. Now cerrainlv, there could not be mnrZp^i^r.r 
 
 an Honourable Gentleman wiS^the 
 Vile Charafter of Eepubluan and Fanatick foroni 7 ra<T;„.,n 
 poling with the Royal Power, and LalLuHv LT/, ® 
 
 prefsiis Good-wiirto the Oiurch aTd iTfferti^^ ^o ^ 
 
 ..ent. Uit „d „»«ri„s ttem to?,; 
 
 of 
 
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 of Liberty' aiij Freedom they have both fo long Lamented, and 
 lb earneftly Wifh'd for. 
 
 But now the Plot begins to Thlchn^ and the whole Myftery 
 Unravels; We have here a heinous Accufation, that Our Au¬ 
 thor doubts not but will effeftually fix this Charge upon Six^bn 
 Packtngton^ and as much afFeft his Reputation as Our Writer's 
 Intereft ^ which being touch’d in his Copy-hold, makes him very 
 Indultrious to prevent the fame Defign ever being brought into 
 Play again ; I mean his BlUagalnSl Tranjlations of Bljhops : Which 
 is an Objeftion of the fame Nature with the former ; and which 
 if it had fucceeded, had brought Our Church fo much nearer 
 the State of the ancient Pr/w/tix/e, Jlpofiollcal Conftitution, 
 wherein a Bifhop Married to His Dlocefe ; and it would 
 have been efteein’d as an Aft of Spiritual Adultery^ to be Vivor^ 
 ced from His Spoufe^ or Forfabe kU Flril Love, And how much 
 this pefign had been for the Intereft, Happinefs and Honour of 
 the Church of England^ is evident from that Guard and Security 
 it would have Rais’d againft Corruption and Scandal; for then 
 the Court could not Bribe or Buy their Votes, with the Pro-: 
 rnifes and Expeftations of Removals ; nor Our Fathers} to their 
 Difgrace, be fo Tranflated from See to See^ meerly for Wealth 
 and Revenue. However Pious and Honourable this Delign was, 
 it was no wonder it met with Oppolition from Some, who could 
 not with Patience hear of fo Tender a Point of Reformation, A 
 S^me certainly that cannot be MentipfPd hut with Approbation in 
 any Reign, or by ahy One pretending to promote the true In- 
 tereft and Glory of our Church and Religion : And yet here we 
 find the Good Projeflor Reproach’d, with the Nonfenfical Scandal 
 of being an Advocate for the Popular Flexion of Bijhops^ as if the 
 Eleftion of Bijhops by their Provincial Biflops^ or by the Clergy 
 of the Convocation^ were a Popular EleUlon : But however, this 
 falfe Colour mull be caft on this Laudable Propofiil, to miflead 
 the C/er^ againft him with a Bafe and 'Villainous Infinuation : 
 But ceminly, the Name and Charaftcr of Sir John Packington^ 
 and his Family^ are fo well known to the World, and more espe¬ 
 cially to the Clergy, that it would be as much an Affront to the 
 One a Difhonour to the Other, to offer to fay any thing in Vin¬ 
 dication of That which is above the little AC\^CTi\ons of Vulgar 
 Malice and Reproach^ And ’tis truly Surprizing, that any One 
 pretending to be a Mlnifler, and much more a Bljhop of thf 
 Church of England, flipu’d fo much forget both Their and His 
 Own Charafter and Obligations, as ungratefully to Traduce, 
 Revile and Oppofe. That which was fo much its Succour and 
 Defence in the time of its fevereft Sufferings and Troubles. 
 This is enough to raife the Venerable Ghofts of Old Bp. Morley, 
 Fell and Hammond, to upbraid their Brethren with the paft Ser¬ 
 vices done for their Church, when it flood under thc'moft pref- 
 fing Want and Neceffity of their Afliftaiice/ And 1 doubt 'i\ot 
 in the lealV, but that the Clergy and Country will 'fo much 
 <^onfider both their Intereff- and obligations^ as to make a Grate- 
 
from ]„ «>ey have reeeiVfl 
 
 both a rr^e So ft r/ of it, who 
 
 a/id Religion hu //i, ^^ and Vefettder of hit GJiurch 
 
 and-that K^illnor'"^^^^ by JW;;,/e/and by ; 
 
 bnown to have neither * ferfon before Him that h well 
 -!ty, nor nor Zoj- 
 
 Cm.S,;'L‘r;y'‘"r?''r“'l Ctonner. H. .V „c „,., 
 
 ^our and jJJlif h "’a \ b^ke^eruh, Turns of Bu- 
 
 fr likelv 4 fiSeed ft rmfff Arn(s not 
 
 chv and an ill’n- Monar- 
 
 cf Thf Dimmiflnng the Tult Preroearivi* 
 
 Tn toSf?^ Oeprelhng his HccleliafticalCoerfors? il? 
 
 Advocate L 
 
 /we Abolifh’dr In^lhfr/Hets^a^r’^'^ V’hUh formerly be 
 dcr All Governments an.i -f i’ ” v * primming Villain un- 
 
 ?k5;s "j‘o"' I'"'" );«“”* wSSb'jS o“?cot 
 
 Church and lSr h^oundations of Peace and Order in 
 
 &mmmm 
 
 r r!”“ 
 
 fiirmw -V),^ ’ '■f'P^nc'nS the Metropolitical Authority U- 
 
 “ !¥?1? ftSli 
 
 K Rite"*"!. ^ ” '■» » F»Sr« 
 
 •t He Rigits and Inteiefc rf ChBicli; tlat Uk L “ 2 
 
 effeftuaJIy 
 
( 24 ) 
 
 efFeftually Settled and Secur’d as the Other is Vindicated beyond 
 the Reach of Malice or Rejiroach. To the Profound and Po¬ 
 lite Labours of thele Worthy Gentlem-n^ certainly the Thanks, 
 Honours and Preferments, and not the Cenfures of Our Church 
 are due : to whom the Support of Its Orthodox and True Re¬ 
 ligion, the Ellablifhment of its Power and Conftitution, and the 
 Enjoyment of its Liberties and Privileges are fo vifibly Owing. 
 
 And ’cis not to be doubted, but that the Clergy will confider 
 their Merit and ServiceSy and follow both their Duty and Inte- 
 reft in the choice of fuch Perfons of Steadinefs, Knowledge and 
 Principles, to reprefent them iit That Convocation, 4 (vhere tliey 
 gave fuch Signal and Eminent Inftances of it : And ’tis to be 
 hop’d, they will carefully Diftinguifh thofe to Brethren^ 
 that then ran counter to Their Honourable Deligns, that (haw’d 
 themlelves Men of as little Learmng as keligioriy as little Probity 
 as Courage or Fidelityy that would have comply’d with any Ufur^ 
 fation^ and Betray’d the Rights, Powers and Doftrines of that 
 Church, they were fo unhappily Entrufted to Defend and Main¬ 
 tain. ^>id horo fit fuch Men are to Leady or Reprefent ihenty I 
 hops All Honsli Bpifcopal Clergy-men will confider. 
 
 Had we to deal with any Sovereign of lefs PrudeneSy Tentper and 
 Infight into Men^ than Her Prefent Gracious Majefiyy Whom God 
 long Preferve, What an Opinion would this give Her of the Church 
 of England, when She would find Men pretending to be its Patrons 
 and AiemherSy to have neither ReVtgiony MoralSy Boyaliy or Steaii^ 
 nefSy to be Troublefome and Fadiou&y and Great Vifturbers of Her 
 Governmenty and of all that She Defigns for the Publick Good of the 
 Church and State ? But ’tis not to be Doubted, but that Her 
 Majefty, who fo throughly underlfands the True Intereft ofBoth, 
 will Guard them from thefe Treacherous, Wily and Perfidious 
 Enemies, and fettle them upon a Secure and Immoveable Foun¬ 
 dation. 
 
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 O R, A N 
 
 E S SAY 
 
 UPON 
 
 The Original Caufe, Progrcfs, and Mif- 
 chievoiis Gonfec|ucnccs of the Facfkions 
 in this Nation. 
 
 SHEWING, 
 
 That the Heads and Leaders on both Sides have always 
 imposd upon the Credulity of their refpeftive Parties, 
 ^ order to conipafs their own Selhlh Defigns at the 
 of the Peace and- Tranquility of the 
 
 SINCERELY INTENDED 
 
 For the allaying the Heats and Animohties of the 
 t eople, and perfuading all Honeft, Wcll-mcanini! 
 Men to compofc their Party - Quarrels, and unit? 
 n Uearts and Affcdlions for the promoting the 
 Publick Good, and Safety of their Q U E E N and 
 Country. p- rn if-, 
 
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 By way of Anfwcr to the 
 
 Thoughts of an Honest Tory. 
 
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 FAULTS oil'both SIDES; 
 
 O R, A N 
 
 ESSAY 
 
 UPON 
 
 Ihe Original Caufe, Progrels, 
 
 and Mifchievous Confequences ot the 
 Fa(5tions in this Nation, 
 
 By way of Anfwer to the 
 
 Thoughts of an Honelt Tory. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 Y our Thoughts and mine agree in fo many 
 things, that 1 could pleafe my Icif ro think that 
 there were a PofTibility of reconciling and 
 Toriei, if there were to be found among your Party jS-len 
 of fuch Moderate Sentiments as you have expreii. through 
 your whole Letter; but, 
 
 Timeo Danaos^ df Dona ferentes, 
 
 your Conceffions are fo large in our Favour, that you 
 give me Caufe to fufpedb you have only affum’d the 
 Name of a Tory, but are indeed a Crafty whig at the 
 bottom; however, I am willing to incline to the Chari¬ 
 table Side, and had rather fubmit to the Dcluiion, than 
 
 A i omit 
 
(4 ) 
 
 omit fo fair an Occafion to own my Belief, that there 
 arc honeft Men m both Parties i and to endeavour to 
 convince the Honeft as well as the Honeft Tma 
 that the D^erence of their Opinions in reiation to Re¬ 
 ligion and Civil Government is not fo great as they arc 
 made to oelievc and chat they nii^it ealily be brought 
 to agree in jpreferving the Publick Tranquility if there 
 \vere not dcfigning Men in both Parties, who have each 
 in their turns arttully contriv’d to keep open the Breach 
 and ventilate the Heats and Animolities of ignorant Peo¬ 
 ple-, that by the Strength of their refpc6live Fadions 
 they may be enabled to promote their own ftnifter De- 
 ligns, which generally have been to engrofs the Places 
 and the Profits of the Government into their own hands: 
 o raife vaft Eftates to thcmlelves by purloyning all they 
 can from the Pubhek, and toeftabliftj fuch an intereftas 
 may always fupport them from being call’d to account 
 for their Mi (managements. 
 
 • likely to create a 
 
 right Undcrftandmg between us, than by .an Impartial 
 Inqmry into the Original Caufe .md Spring of our dc- 
 ftriiftive Feuds and Divifions, w/iich is priimriJy the af- 
 tecting a greater Power than our Conftiturion admits, 
 on ^ he^ part of the Crown i and the endeavouring to 
 maintain the ancient Rights and Privileges of the N.-;cionj 
 on the 1 art of the People : But there is a fccond Caufe, 
 Jiuhetto Icfs cibfcrv’d by the Writers on this Subjed 
 which has, ^it were by a Natural Courfe, led us into 
 there Contefts; and riyt is, the mighty Alteration that 
 has happen d in the Property of the Lands, and confe- 
 qucntly in the conftituent Strength and Power of the Go¬ 
 vern ment,ftnce the Reign of King Hemy the Seventh : 
 
 the Peers of this Kingdom 
 were pofleft of vaft Trads of Land, (fome of then^er- 
 haps equal to whole Counties) they liad by virtue of 
 their Tenures, the Power of Sheriffs in the Civil Admi- 
 mlfratioD, and the Power of Lord Lieutenant in the Mi¬ 
 litary, whereby tlicy did for many Ages hold the Bal- 
 J.ince of the Government, and were able to defend their 
 own and the Peoples Rights, and check the Exorbitant 
 I ower of Inch of oiir Kings as have at any time attem¬ 
 pted 
 
^ r ^ ^ ^ 
 
 ptcd to ufijrp upon them. A very large Proportion alfo 
 of the Lands or the Nation was, in thofe Times, annex'd 
 together with all the -Military Servkcs 
 dependent thereon j and then the Pofleffions of the Ah! 
 
 Tenure orUndr‘“ 
 
 that in the Coiirfe of one Century 
 Prn^J forementioncd Reign, this vaft Allotment of 
 Property (which perhaps amounted to not !efs than three 
 quarter Parts of the whole Lands of the Kingdom) was 
 quite alienated and fold off from the former SerfuJ 
 PolTeffors, ai^ divided into the hands of a numerous 
 Gentry aid Commonalty, who (for the moft part) by 
 making their Purchafes in fmaller Portions, anS by the 
 SiiWivifions that have been fince made, natle^bed the 
 Military Services that were annex’d to Tenths 
 (which have ^ fmee quite aboliOi’d) and by this 
 means the mediate Power which the former great Pro! 
 prictors of Lands exercis’d over at Jeaft Seven Pinhr 
 Parts of the Militia of the Kingdom coming to fall, the 
 Crown took to the immediate Ad min iff ration of the 
 whole; which great Affumption of Power, feemslikely 
 to have been the prevailing Argument with the falfe 
 Politicians of K- Charles the i/?’s time, to put that Prince 
 (contrary to the Gootlnefs of his own Natural Inclina* 
 non) on fome Arbitrary Methods of Government, up¬ 
 on a Prefumption, that now the Strength of the £ords 
 was broken, there was no Power left in the Kingdom 
 able to difpute or oppofe the Royal Will and Pleafure 
 in any thing ; and the Parliament of 41 were doubtlcfs 
 very apprehenfive of the Danger that threaten’d the 
 ^nlfitLition from this Encreafe of Power on the Crown 
 line, and therefore endeavoured to have the Militia fet¬ 
 tled by A61: of Parliament in fiich a way that it might 
 not be rnade life of to dehroy the People’s Libertfes-, 
 and the King’s utterly refuffng to confent to this, feems 
 to be the principal point that occafion’d that fatal War 
 between hirn and bis Parliament. 
 
 If that King had found himfelf in the Pofleffion of a’l 
 the Ancient Crown Lands, together with the Military 
 Strength annex’d to them, he might have been enabled 
 
 A 3 to 
 
. . ( 6 ) 
 
 to raile and maintain fnch an Army out of his own Lands, 
 
 enough CO fubjugate thcNation; 
 bccaiile the balJancing Power which had been fix’d in the 
 
 vffiSr'sS f ^ broken, and the People had now no 
 vilibic St^dard to reforc to for the Defence of their Li¬ 
 berties; But as the Natural Power, inherent to the 
 Lands, was now alfo fallen away from theCrown, it foon 
 l^camesnhble, that the effeaual Strength of a Limited 
 Monarchy IS illfcparably united to the Property of the 
 Lands and Riches of the I^ation; for tho’ the King, 
 with the Affiftance of fiicli of the Nobility and Gemrv 
 as yoluncanly joyn’d with him (many of them rather 
 
 TeaJIv S^od Terms, than 
 
 wUhl) ri bim to yanquilh the Parliament, and 
 
 withal their own Liberties) carrieef on the War with 
 
 chher^SV?'/ ' of his own 
 
 h? p‘f or Strength, the finglc Authority of . 
 
 pLL precarious 
 
 velfid^fJ. rl °D property, which was now fo largely 
 wiv '^ben they had found the 
 
 fc 7 th J ' c''' Affairs into a Method, and came to 
 
 “ u ‘^bey were able to bear down all 
 
 ’ probable chat this Maxim in Po- 
 
 1 cks had never been conlidcred by the King’s Advifers, 
 
 perimem^'^"'" convinc’d by this Unhappy Ex- 
 
 /Tis at tin) Period then that I would place the bepin- 
 
 which,^from the lime 
 Unginal Gallic, and by the fame evil Arts and faiSlious 
 ‘^h^ijiguifli’d by different Names of mu- 
 J m rd I Circumftanccs, hath con- 
 
 Sivi Aff tjiis time mifcrabiy to diffraft the pub- 
 Sn^ry^*'^^’ obfirua the Tranquility of our dear 
 
 ^Cither in my Inclination or Purpofc, to vindi‘ 
 thofe many U a Kings that were afted in the 
 Irofccution of that Civil War^ but fince my Lord C/a- 
 re»Jon himk f fairly acknowledges. That that Prince was 
 milled into many Millakes in the Conduct of his Govern- 
 ment, we imy modeffly fiiy, that ’twas the proper Bu- 
 
 finefs 
 
, ( 7 ) 
 
 finefsof the Parliament to infift upon a through Refor¬ 
 mation of all that been done amifs, and to obtain (iich 
 Laws as might cfFcffually feenre tfie Liberties and Pro¬ 
 perties of the People from the li*ke Invalions for the fu¬ 
 ture: If the King, at fird, adher’d to ihe Advice of thole 
 who difliiaded him from giving llich Satisfedlion to his 
 Parliament as he would have yielded to at lad*, and if 
 he was perfuaded to decide the Difpute by the Sword, 
 and to begin it by difplaying his Standard of War againft 
 his People, what could then remain for them to chiife, 
 but either to give up for ever all their Rights and Li¬ 
 berties, and to I'ubmit themfelves and their Pofterity to 
 be govern’d by the Will and Pleafure of all their future 
 Kings: Or to refolve to defend their ancient Laws and 
 Privileges to the utmod, and to oppofe Force with 
 Force? 
 
 There is, doubclefs, a tyue Didintlion to be made be¬ 
 tween a Rebellion and a Civil War •, the fird is notorious, 
 when Subjefts take op Arms againd Lawful Governors 
 Lawfully governing-, bite when a Prince violates the 
 Edablilh’d Laws of the Nation, raifes Taxes by his own 
 Authority contrary to the known Rules of the Condi** 
 tution, invades the Liberties of his Subjedis by illegal 
 Imprifonments, un;ud Profecutions, and other grievous 
 Opprelfions, and perlids in fuch arbitrary Adts of Go¬ 
 vern men t fora Courfc of Years; if a People can find no 
 other means to preferve their mod valuable Intereds, 
 but by having recourfc to the lad Remedy, and (hall 
 take up Arms to compel fucha Prince ro redore their 
 Rights, and reform his ill Government; ’tis evident, 
 from the Hidorics of the Civil Wars of France and ocher 
 Countrie'', chat grave and impartial Hidorians have 
 not thought fit to treat this way of oppofing the un-' 
 lawful Llfurpation of Princes with the odious Name of 
 Rebellion-, and ’tisobferv’d, that our Parliaments have 
 had the Caution, that in the Adis pafs’d after the Redo- 
 ration, in relation to the preceding War between the 
 King and Parliament, they would never give it the 
 Name of a Rebellion, doubtlefs out of the Conlidcra- 
 tion that it behov’d them to keep up the Sandtion of the 
 Parliam«nrary Authority: and that that' War was au- 
 * A 4 thoriz’d 
 
C« ) 
 
 thoriz’d by a Legal Parliament, who had Right to vin-^ 
 dicate the Liberty of the Nation- ^ 
 
 The Names of Rcprmch. which pafs’d in thefe times 
 vitvtCa^aUcr for thofe Virho fided with the King 
 ^undbeads for luch as took part with the Parliament 
 
 bring the kvi Counfcllors to condign Puniihment to 
 
 fhd/c*ri S'"'™™ S 
 
 their Uvil and Religions Liberties, and then to reftorc 
 him to the Regal State under fuch Limitations as m ehf 
 
 l^wUcrV^Tth?^^ l''h“r of their Rights a^nd 
 
 of thoTthit tcJk'Jp Ar.tTfir'lS'lt S 
 thofe Roundheads Ihoiild lie under a harder Cenfure^for 
 what they afted at that time, than may be imputed to 
 Icives for what we have done in the late^fpov 
 R.cvoliKion, for the rcfciiinc our La.wc 
 
 from the Violations of the latl'King^r, ^ 
 
 I min r"° T'''7 ‘'“'■g''''' a fUi;, hot 
 Ml Iron Ihcw you that I am not inclin’d to bcpa“ 
 
 FoL^tk kL™LT™'"* reduc'd^the 
 
 roices ot iiiG Ring, and twas in their power to have nnt 
 
 a good end to the War, they fell into^Faaions and S 
 
 vilions among themfclves, and many of thofe that had 
 
 eminently cliftinguilh’d themfelvcs and gain’d the Ap- 
 
 plaufc of the 1 cople, entered into Dcligns to advance 
 
 form’d^ great Officers^of the Army 
 
 form d Cabals in the Houfe of Commons, who by them 
 Strength and Intercft violated the Rights of Parliament 
 by imprifon.ng reveral of their Fellow Members wkhonl 
 {“^„^^rifc, and excluded fuch as oppos’d their linider 
 ^ the Houfe with new Elcftions- 
 
 fo that they became no true Reprefentative of the 
 People, and carry’d on all their extravagant Adions af 
 terwards by a fmall Number of their own FaS • t 
 King was at laft brought to yield to 
 
 fh^v rT N^t'on in Peace 
 
 ji y manner of Accommodation with him* 
 
 hurried him to the Block, ufurp’d the Regal Powe?’ 
 
 f^'l^Port their own TvTanny, op- 
 prefsd the People with illegal Exadions, and tm X 
 
 ■ Thre« 
 
Three l^ations by the Sword ^ and if thofe whn a:u 
 
 twf-et7?r^r^ Rebellion, had but diftinguilh’d be¬ 
 tween the Commencement of the Civil War and the 
 time when thefe Aflions were perpetrated, I ftould be 
 
 leges from the Invafionsof a miTguided but Leeal Kincr 
 they were cheated out of all by t^e Chiefs of tlel own 
 Side, who made It evident to the World, that their Hv- 
 
 fnr Religion, and their fpecioiis PrecencL 
 
 for Civil Liberty were made ufe of as Artifices r^d? 
 jude the fimple People, and make them their wiJlfiS 
 
 ficnf ? fl’cir own ambitious 
 
 Jigns; and I have the rather gone fo far backwards 
 to bring in this Inftance of the Deceits of thefe Men 
 becaufe tis my Intent to Ihew that from the beginning 
 of our Contefts to this very time, the Zeal anS AffJ 
 ftions of the People have always been kept up by botii 
 Parties with fiur and fpccious Pretenfions of I^ibJick 
 Good till the Heads and Leaders of cither Side can set 
 ihernfclvcs into the Saddle, and then they have drwn 
 on their own interefts, and left the poor People to Ihifr 
 
 of 
 
 n Obfervations in what man- 
 
 ner the Frame ot our Government is varied from the 
 ancient Conftitution, and to (hew what mifehievous In- 
 conveniencies have been introduc'd thereby: as I have 
 already noted thai the ancient PoIRffioris alloied for 
 thcSiippotcof ihep.gn.typf theCtown were alienated 
 
 celiity to find out fome other ways of raifinc Monev m 
 enlarge hnall Revenue that remain’d, fd'as ic niighc 
 enable the King to live honourably, and to maintain 
 the Charge of the Civil and Military Lifts: TJie Cu 
 Items on Merchandize were much advanc’d, great Du¬ 
 ties of Excife t^cther with that of Hearth-Money were 
 given and thefe new ways of taxing the People rc- 
 quir d a Miiltuude of Officers for the Collc61ion, and 
 
 manv 
 
 \ 
 
 V 
 
 V 
 
( foj 
 
 many profitable Places for Men of QiialitV) all in the 
 Gift of the Crown, and confequently a means of enga¬ 
 ging abundance bf Creatures and Dependants upon it. 
 
 it mav be aflerted for a Truth (though it has been 
 cbntefied by fomc^ that rfie Reprefentatives of the Peo¬ 
 ple (or Houfe of Commons) did in ours, and in all- 
 right Gothic Governments, make a conftituent part of 
 the Aflicmbly of the States, (or Parliament) tho’ it be 
 certain that in old times they bore a much IcflTcr Figure 
 than now, and were much at the Devotion of the great 
 Lords,* but as their Power decreas’d, that of the (Joni- 
 raons grew, and (as is faid before) their larger Share of 
 Pro^tv has naturally devolv’d the Ballance of the Go¬ 
 vernment upon them, and their Authority is much en- 
 creas’d lince the Crown is brought to ha\»e fo great a 
 rX'pcndcnce upon them for its Support; but as theCom- 
 rnons were formerly wont to be cleded, and to fit and 
 Vote W'ith Freedom, having nothing more in view than 
 to ferve theit Country faithfiilly, now our Kings came 
 to apply their ntmoft Endeavours to influence Eledions, 
 anti Vlfch to gain as many Members as they could into 
 tlicir Interefts, by giving them Honours, profitable Pla- 
 ccG itnd Pcniions: 'So that our Parliaments have fince 
 come fo be divided into the Court and Country Fadtons, 
 by which means the Crown has acquir’d a new fort of 
 Power, th-U has fometimes prov’d more dangerous, to 
 our Cjnftttution than its former Power, which (as I 
 have (hewn) was foiiudcd upon Property, bccanfc a fuf- 
 fitient Ballance was provided to cheek the Excefs of 
 that; whereas this introduces a Corruption into our very 
 Clonffiation, and it appears a Matter of the utmoff diffi¬ 
 culty to provide a fufficient Rcmecy againfl: it. 
 
 I muft not omit aifo to obferve, that in the times of 
 Popery the great Preferments of the Church depending 
 upon the Pope, the Clergy Were then as Zealous as the 
 Temporalty in defending the Liberties of the People 
 againfl: the llfnrpations of the Crown v but when, ill 
 the Reign of the Vlilth, the Parliament aboli/h’d 
 this, Foreign JurifeiidiOn, and plac’d the Power of con¬ 
 ferring the Dignities of the Church in the King, this laid 
 the Foundation for Men of afpiring Tcmfiers, fince the 
 
 Reformation, 
 
() 
 
 Reformation, to drain their Inventions to form fuch 
 Schnnesof Divinity as tnight rentier them acceptable to 
 the Court, and become a means to advance them to Dea- 
 nancs and Bilhopricks; and thus they came to wreft the 
 holy Scriptures,and to pervert the pure and uncontrover- 
 '’Xur Chriftianity to maintain Falfities and 
 
 Abuirdities, to flatter Princes with an Opinion that God 
 had plac’d them in a Sphere above all human Laws, and 
 that they were accountable to him alone for their Malead- 
 miniftrations j to teach the People that they are bound 
 the Precepts of the Gofpel to pay an unlimited pafiive 
 Ooedience to Princes in all pofiible Cafes; and that them- 
 felves may not want a fair fliare in thefe Heavenly Privir 
 JegeSj they would make_us believe that they arc ^mD*- 
 ■wwo God’s peculiar heritage in a diftind Superiority, to 
 theLaycty, and that their Order is exempted from any 
 dependency upon the State, &c. But 1 fhall leave the exa¬ 
 mination of thefe Opinions to another place, my intent 
 at prefent being only to (hew, that asthcClergyarcdif- 
 pers’d over the whole K’ngdom, and have a great influ¬ 
 ence upon the People, they have deluded multitudes of 
 unthinking Men intothcfe talfe Notions of Government, 
 and almolt perlwadcd them out of their own Bit th-right; 
 and have ruin’d more than one King by milleading them 
 into the actual pra6licc of Arbitrary Rule, from a confi¬ 
 dence that thefe Principles would fupport them iu it: And 
 in this manner they are become another additional Power 
 to the Crown with a Mifchief, for it hasoperated but like 
 a Sword in the bauds of a Madman, cohis own deflru- 
 (51ion. 
 
 By what has been laid then you’ll fee that the cffential 
 Powers of our Conftitiuion are very much chang’d, and 
 ’tis from thence that the firfl: Occafion of all our Natioiul 
 Contentions fpring, while on the one hand, the Crown 
 is ftruggling rofupply the Lofs of it’s natirral Strength by 
 Arbitrary or Artificial Innovations ; and the People, on 
 the other hand, are contending to pi'clcrvc their Ancient 
 Rights and Privileges-, when in the mean time both are 
 made a prey to the Ambition and Avarice of fcJf-fccking 
 Men ; and we iniift always expeifli to bCifubjejfi to the 
 breakings out of this old oore, ’till fome good Patriots 
 
 fhall 
 
I 12 ) 
 
 (hall be fo happy as to find out fach a Temperament as 
 may make the Crown cafy and the People (ecurc-, where¬ 
 in, as it will always be the true Interclt of the latter to 
 keep to the ancient Conftitution as near as poflible in pre- 
 ferving the Luftre and Salutary Authority of the Crown, 
 fo on the other, it will be more for the eafe and fafety of 
 the Prince, toloftcnany fuch Powers of the Prerogative, 
 as may tend to keep up fears and jealoufies in the Sub;e6f.s, 
 and which indeed arc more apt to be made ufe of by Fa¬ 
 vourites and evil Minifters to promote their own Gran¬ 
 deur and private Gain, than to contribute any real Ad¬ 
 vantage to the Crown. 
 
 After the Redoration, the Nation run into an excels 
 of Loyalty, and f except the violent Perfecution of the 
 poor DiflTenters) things went on fmoothly for feveral 
 Years, the generality of the People not much concerning 
 themlelvcs in the contefts between the Court and Coun¬ 
 try Parties in the Houfe of Commons, ’till after the Dif- 
 covery of the Poptfli PUt^ which alarm’d the whole King¬ 
 dom, and then all forts of Proteftants thought thcmfelves 
 equally concern’d to oppofe the impending Danger, the 
 Court itfelf was forc’d for a time to give way to the Cur¬ 
 rent, ’till they had form’d new Intrigues to lliam the 
 pift Plot and turn it upon the Presbyterians; too many 
 of the Clergy came into this Scheme, and by theirs and 
 the Court influence many of the Gentry and common 
 People were drawn off from their late Indignation againft 
 Papifts, and taught to believe that the Presbyterians (not 
 excepting the other Diffenters) were a more dangerous 
 People i and, as great numbers of the more confideratc 
 People of all ranks who had always adher’d to the efta* 
 blilh’d Church, join’d with the Diffenters in the common 
 apprehenfion of the danger of Poperv, and in their mu¬ 
 tual Jcaloufy of the Intrigues of the Court; all thefe (who 
 made at that time the much greater Party ) were by the 
 others reproach’d with the appellation of f^higs, which 
 was a name that had been formerly put upon the Scotch 
 Presbyterians i they, on the other fide, call’d their Ad- 
 verlaries Teriet, which originally-denoted the wild Irtjh 
 Papifts: And thus began thefe opprobrious Diftimftions, 
 which with fometimes more fometimes lefs warmth. 
 
( «3 ) 
 
 have divided this poor Nation, and kept up Feuds and 
 Animohiics between the unhappy People for more than 
 Thirty Years. 
 
 It may be very material alfo to obfervetoyou, that as 
 thefe Names ofdillinftion are taken from words hgnify- 
 ing Parties differing in their religious Sentiments, the 
 World has been led into, and (fill perlifts in a miffake, 
 as It the one fort were altogether DiflTenrers, and the o- 
 tber included all that were true Church of England- 
 whereas there has always been a great number of the Wbi(r 
 Party, even of the Clergy as well as the Laiety, who are 
 as zealous for the Epifcopal Church Government as the 
 Tone! themfelvcs; fo that they are indeed more truly to 
 be accounted Fadioiu in the Stare than in the Church ; 
 nor can wc have a more juft Idea of rhe real difference be¬ 
 tween them, than that in the beginning, the^%/confi- 
 der’d that the Duke of Torkwnsz Papift, and gave Life 
 and Strength to that Party ; that if he fhould live to in¬ 
 herit the Crown, our Religion and Liberties would be in 
 the utmoft danger j that he had a great influence over the 
 King bis Brother 5 that fuch Minirters were employ’d in 
 the Adminiftration of the Government as were in his In- 
 tercfts,and who were evidently inclin’d to Arbitrary mea- 
 hires •, they every where us’d their utmoft diligence in the 
 Eledions of Magiftrates for Corporations, and Members 
 for Parliament, tochufe fuch as*thcy believ’d to be zea¬ 
 lous for the good of the Publick, and would oppofe the 
 Deh'gns of the Court in any thing that might tend to the 
 prejudice of the People in their religious or civil Plights; 
 they forclaw and endeavoured to prevent the many Mif- 
 cliiefs that have fince fallen upon us, fo that all Men of 
 candour muft coufefs that they were then true Patriots, 
 and had efpous’d the beft Caufc: On the other hand, the 
 Torie$ apjplauded the Duke oiTork and promoted his Inre- 
 reft all they could; they contended for fuch Fleftionsas 
 Ihould be intirely devoted to the Court; the Magiftrates 
 of that fide opprefs’d the IVbigs with vexatious prolecuti- 
 ons, violently pcrfccuted thole that were Diflenters, and 
 went fo far, as by pack’d Juries and ft.rain’d Laws to de- 
 ftroy fomc of the beft Men in the Kingdom •, in fhorr, 
 that Generation of Toriei gave themfclves up to fulfil the 
 
, ( 14 ) 
 
 will and pleafure of the Court in every thing that lay in 
 thdr Power, ard.by what we have fince feen come to paft 
 ’tis evident that they engag’d on the wrong lide, and were 
 made the very Inlirumcnts to bring about thofeevil De- 
 ligns of the Duke of Tork and the Papilh, which broke out 
 upen the Nation in the next Reign : I will not yet doubt 
 butthat many honcil well-meaning Men, zealous for the 
 Monarchy and the Church, were impos’d upon by the 
 , Leaders of that Party, (who were all the while playing 
 their own game at Court preferments) and deluded into 
 a ground lei's Jealoufy that the Diffenters were aimincat 
 the ic(lru£tion of both. 
 
 When the lace King Jantes to the Crown, the 
 
 Toria deafened him with, the noife ‘of their AddrWes 
 from all parts of the Kingdom, ftulF’d with expreffions 
 of the mod: extravagant Loyalty and unlimited paffive O- 
 bcdicnccand non-reliftmce, profcfltng them to be even 
 Principles of their Religion, and the very Charaffcriftic 
 of their Church v and, after the fappreifion of the Rebel¬ 
 lion of the unfortimate Duke of to compleat 
 
 t,ljie., enllaylng of the Nation, (and ^hemfelvcs withal) 
 they furnifh’d hini with a formidable ihnding Armvi 
 :^nd thus provided he foon difeovirr’d his long pro)e^ed 
 &hc;ne, and fell on amain tocftablilh Popery and Arbi¬ 
 trary Power. 
 
 ^ It was by his influence ( when Dnkc of Tork') that the 
 violent Pcrfecutions were carryed.pn againll the DilTcn- 
 ters, and the Chief Inliruments wtre , known to be his 
 preaaircs and Parcizansthis hard ufage had begotten 
 in the Diffenters the utmoli Animafity againd the perfe- 
 pting Churchmen i and now he changes the Scene, and, 
 in an inftance fo plauuble, breaks through all the Laws 
 to gratify them, { and the Papilh withal ) with a Decla¬ 
 ration for Liberty of Coiifcicncc, pretending alfothat it 
 had 2 ;ways been his owm Principle i.i;hc Charters of Cor¬ 
 porations arc taken a\yay and (by thedifpenfing Power) 
 Diifeaters arc made Maglll rates, to revenge themfcJves 
 ijpon :hc Chnrchmcn,'and thus Proteftancs were toman! 
 one aiiodier that PoperY.might Hide in with the lefs ubife 
 and rc lent men t •, Pap'iffs; are brought into the King’s Pri¬ 
 vy Council, then mto,j:hc Univerfities, and Ecclcfiafti- 
 
 ' ‘ cal- 
 
, ( I5r ; 
 
 cal Commiffions executed to deprive fuch of tber lucum- 
 bencies as oppos’d thefc illegal Innovations j Piotefbnts 
 Piipifts brought into the Amy and 
 Magil racy in InlanJ^ and fa that whole KineJofn out 
 hands-, Popifli ChapeJs arc fet up lud Mafs 
 pubhckly celebrated in the Q'ty of London ; Papifts 
 
 S'fiv ‘"/'n •« Army 
 
 or nve Thoufand Papilts brought over from IreldnJ, 
 
 At length the flattering Addreffers and Acorers of 
 jame3 the Jiiit have their Eyes open'd tqjfce how icar Po¬ 
 pery and ryranny was approach’d to'thcir owi dwei- 
 hngs-, now they begin to (tir themrdv-es. Seven Bifhops 
 Oo their great honour be Jt rcmeinbred tho’ ney .had 
 tKcii all of the hiah fide ) took the courage to Petition 
 tne King^ for which ih.cy were fent to the Tover. the 
 ^ whole Party were frighten’d out of their paflivtObedi- 
 ence ai^ Non-refiftancc Dodrine, Hmean in chit undi- 
 itingiulhd ienfetbat many of them had preach’dit) they 
 enter’d into a Confederacy ( othetwife call’d a F/ot)to in¬ 
 vite the Prince of Orsȣ^ to conie over with an Army,, 
 (not to reafl: or compel, you’ll fay, but with PraTcrs and 
 tears,.or lome way or other) to bring King to 
 LtheKeligion, Laws and liberties 
 a ^ fecutc Foundation j now thevcoirrc- 
 
 cathc^%/ (who were forward enough to ;on with 
 them. It having always been their Principle to enceavoiir 
 what was amifs in the Government) aid pro- 
 rcls d their readinefs to come to a rempfr for the Eafc of 
 tender Confcicnccs ^ and thus when they thcmfelvis came 
 to feel me weight of the Power which they had leen hi 
 many Years raihngup, they faw their Error b-ftire it 
 Was quite too late, and both Parties heartilv jon’d to 
 bring about the i.ue happy Revplucion.i thd’, to their 
 honour, it mufl be acknowledged that” for alnrifl the 
 Whole merit of the contrivance i and-thc larger flurc of 
 the fuccefs’, wc flood indebted to the Tartet. 
 
 But as foon as the Convention Parliament camt to dcr- 
 clarc King Jama abdicated, the Throne Vacan , and 
 m fettle the Crown upon King jTiiSfww .and Mary 
 
 cchold ! the Tory Spirit returns ppon many of tlem a- 
 gain. 
 
 Nitttram 
 
(Ifi ) 
 
 Naturam txfeHas furca licet ufijue recurrtt. 
 
 they ftruggled to fct up a new fort of Government, a Re¬ 
 gency over a King that was a grown Man, a thing that 
 Laws never knew, probably they had a mind to be 
 Regents themfcives: Surely if the People have power lb 
 far to unking their King, and leave him nothing but the 
 bare name-, they us’d their Authority much better in ma- 
 king a new King, and keeping to the Conftitiuion : But 
 thofe of them who refus’d to fwear to the new King and 
 Queen, (in that yet much honeftcr Men than thofe that 
 took the Oiiths and remain’d Enemies to the Govern- 
 ment) how could they have better kept their Oaths and 
 maintain’d their Allegiance to King James, if they had 
 let up a Regency over him ? However, I muft dill own 
 that the wifer and better part of thofe that had teen call’d 
 Torses became true Converts, came into the Government, 
 and I doubt not (though they may have fometimes con¬ 
 tended about other matters) but that they have been 
 . hearty in it’s fupport ever fince. 
 
 And now the Faftions are at peace for a time, and the 
 general expeftation was, thatfome, atlcaft, ofthema' 
 ny that had been the Advifers and Indruments of King 
 James'^ Malcadminiftration would have been punilhed for 
 an Example to deter others from the like Attempts; and 
 that Laws fhould be made to fettle the Government on 
 fuch a foundation that it might not be in the power of 
 any future King to endanger the Rights of the Nation ; 
 For the firft, It feem’d as if King James alone in his own 
 Perfon had done all the milchief, for cot one Man could 
 tefound whom they thought worthy to be profccuted : 
 The other Point, for fencing the Conllitution againft any 
 future Invafipns of the Crown, was llightly pafs’d over 
 with only a Bill of Rights, which was no more than a 
 bare Recognition of fuen Privileges as were well known 
 to te the Pebples due before ^ but no Provifion was then 
 made for frequent Parliaments, for punifliing the Delin¬ 
 quency of Minifters of State, or for purging the Houfe of 
 ^mmons from the Dead Weight of Court Officers and 
 Dependents on the contrary, ’twas, now become the 
 
 Language 
 
 
 
C i? ) 
 
 Language of rri/g-/, that we muff not make the King a 
 Doge of rtnieti^ (though no body thought of any fuch ex- 
 trcam ) nor make the Crown iineafy for him to wear,^f. 
 The truth is, that many of the Leaders of the Party 
 run into the Court for Preferments, and were very well 
 content to fit down with a mixture of Tories to teach them 
 their bufinefs, and that Jeaven fbon prov’d firong enough 
 to icaven the whole Lump. 
 
 At the beginning of this Government the Whigs had the 
 ■Afcendcnt, but in a little time the Torses got Ifrength, and 
 the King was perl waded to change the Militia and the Ju- 
 ft ices in their favour ^ however the former prevailing in 
 the Houfc of Commons, work’d out the later again, and 
 (with a few of the complying Tories ) kept in the Admi- 
 niftration’till the later end of this Reign ; but we were 
 foon convinc’d by woful experience that, like the Round- 
 heads in th^Olivertan time, they were no foonergot into 
 Power, but their former zeal for the publick turn’d all 
 into words and profeffions, when in deeds they greedily 
 purfu’d their own private Tntcrefts, and fell on the rea- 
 dieftways to enrich thcmfelves at the Nation’scoft, pro- 
 ftituting their Principle to their profit: Tistrue indeed 
 ( what they faid for themfelves) that ff^oigtjirs do’s not 
 oblige us to ftand always in oppofition to the Court when 
 they manage every thing well ^ but thefe Men were fo 
 tender of difpleafing, ana fo devoted to ingratiate therp- 
 felves with the Court for Places and Advancement, that 
 they came into all the wrong meafurcs that were taken 
 . in that Reign. 
 
 It has been found by experience that the raoft natural 
 Way of exerting the Power of this Ifland in time of War 
 has been by our Naval Expeditions, wherein we are cer¬ 
 tainly capable of being Superiour to any of our Neigh¬ 
 bours; (but unhappy for us) King?f;//w»»’sGenius in¬ 
 clining more to Land Armies, we were drawn in by de¬ 
 grees, from the moderate CJiiota which was agreed to 
 at the beginning of the War, to maintain fo great an 
 Army beyond ica, that the Nation was drain’d of not 
 lefs than two Millions of its Treafure for feveral fuccef- 
 five Years, whilft in the mean time we fell into fo Scan¬ 
 dalous a management pf our Sea Affairs, that our Coafts 
 
 B were 
 
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 beaten, and our Merchants 
 rum d by the depredations of the Enemies Privateers. VVe 
 did mdeed at length gain a confiderable Advantage over 
 the French Fleet, and burn’d feveral of their beft ihips at 
 La Hogue ^ and, if that Viftory had been clofely purfu’d 
 there appear’d the utmoft probability of deftroying the 
 T” ^ *f fcem’d as if fome People had no mind to break 
 the -Na val Power of France at once •, for the Admiral re¬ 
 turn d immediately in^o Port, and tho’ he was forthwith 
 ordered out aoain to attempt thofe Ships that had fav’d 
 
 'rmade fo many frivolous delays- 
 that the Enemy gain’d time to fortify themfelves fo well 
 that nothing could then be donc^ and being accus’d in 
 prhament for his Mifmanagement in that whole Affair, 
 IS Eticnds the Whigs were ftrong enough to bring him off, 
 tk of Thanks from the Houfeof Commons into 
 
 e^ argain, But any one that will beat the pains toex- 
 amtnetheiMinnus of the Houfeof Lords upon that Acai- 
 l^ation, will find great Reafon to fufpeft, that there was 
 either Treachery m the Cafe, or at lead fo apparent a 
 defiqicocy in Condua, that fuch a Perlon ought never 
 
 Command of the 
 
 Royal Navy, and yet even after this, he had the good 
 fortune to contmiie in that weighty Employment 'till he 
 
 R ?, c 7? to obtain a 
 
 1 rivy Seal for the pairing his Accounts, after he had been 
 acciisd by an honeft Coromillioncr of the Vidualing for 
 having defrauded the Pubhek of great Sums. But to re¬ 
 turn to the Whsg Adminiftration. 
 
 yaft Receipt in theTreafury, and 
 we have feen what Mighty Eftates have been fince rais’d 
 „'L through whofe hands the publick Mo- 
 
 y las. pals d ; never was the Nation engag’d in fo great 
 
 n™ “ MaDagem.?trthc PuE 
 
 <1,1. a V ’^^‘ch up from lo to ao, ao, 40, 
 for which, robefure, the Govem- 
 Fopprtion for what they bought j 
 ?h7r 7^™i°l8'ven for the borrowing of ready MonHy •, 
 
 fpoiJ’dthrough thefupineSe: 
 giett ( if not connivance in feme > of thofe who had the 
 
 Direction 
 
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 Ditcftion of the publick Receipts; private Advantages 
 made of the publick Monty •, Accountants fuffered to iye 
 behind in their Accounts to the lofs and dcfrauding’of 
 the Publick ; Mifapplication of Taxes, and no care ta¬ 
 ken for thediltovery or prevention of theie Abufes. 
 
 It had been the part of a provident and careful Mini- 
 ftry, when they had found by two or three Years pro- 
 grefs of the War, at what cxpence it might be fupported, 
 to have fought out cffedlual means toraife annual Supplies 
 fuffident to carry on the War without involving the Na¬ 
 tion in Debt *, but thefetook up with mean Prbjefe for 
 raifing Money, and gave divers infufficient Funds, ’twas 
 enough with them to give in name the Sum required,and 
 they had no more to care for, than to add in me Defici¬ 
 ency to the next Year’s Sum total, and then as deficiently 
 to fupply it i from which improvidence ( if not artifice) 
 arife fo many diftant Tallies, and, the depreciating of 
 the publick Credit, whereby the Nation loft fome MiK 
 lions, which the Tally-Jobbers and Money-mongers ( not 
 excluding the skilful Minifters and their Friends ) got 
 among them •, and they had fo little regard to pfdvide 
 for the future, that the annual Revenues of the Hxcifes, 
 Cuft:oms,e^c. were made Funds of Appropriation to nay 
 htghlntereft for Millions taken up every Year fSt the Ser¬ 
 vice of the War, ’till, by a continuando aft^f tips’evil 
 precedent, the Kingdom is become plung’d intd fid im- 
 menfe Debt, to be work’d off by a prolongation of heavy 
 Taxes on us and out Pofterity for a long traft of Years ra 
 come 5 and we are at length fo far exhaufted that it will 
 be impoffiblefor us to fuftain the War much longer in 
 thi'way ; when yet we have the mortification to fe'fleft, 
 that all this Mifchief might have been prevertfed hy ati' 
 honeft and prudent Management at firft: i fot’tis plain 
 that five Millions per Ann. wotfM have defrav'd the whole 
 Expence of the Government from the beginning, and 
 kept us clear of Debt, and tho’ we have been brought by 
 degrees to raife a fix’d annual Revenue, which ( with the 
 Lamd and Malt-Tax ) amounts to more than that Sum, 
 mthebettef half thereof mull: now be apply’d to pay 
 Taxes; owr fellow Subje^s for Intereft-Monev and 
 ' w 3i Annuities 
 
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 Annimies, and wc are to feck for above two MiUions per 
 Ann. more to lupport the War. ^ 
 
 But the vvor(t is yet to come ; that dcteftablc Art of 
 
 ofIhSTfen/r*'^ the Members 
 
 ot the Houfeof Commons with Gifts, Places and Prefer- 
 
 ments, was practis’d by them with as much aDDlicatimi 
 
 ^^’‘^‘^clsfuily as it had ever been in theVor» times 
 
 IS hard to difcovetj but the turning out and brinsine 
 
 il!? ^ M'nil’fr'behav'd thcmfcive in 
 
 c,r Vaes, „„ notorious to all the World, and twei- 
 tv ExKflant! were kept in awe for one vacant Place 
 thole that mifs'd itatlalf, being ftill kept i”hopc^ that’ 
 then u,rn would come next, from whence it came to 
 
 fhcHoi'fc'of'r"’'' ■■■ 8"”' Maioritvof 
 
 tneHoufe of Commons were led and governed at'the 
 
 plcafbrc of the Mini^ftry , and voted unanimoufly in 
 
 whaKwer they d.redcd ; the Mifearriages of Men in great 
 
 Trufts; the wrong Methods of managing the War^ the 
 
 mifapplying the publick Money, exorbitant Grants to 
 
 Hvoputes -, and that |candalou.s Squandering away of the 
 
 Forteicures to the vaiueof iear a Million,^wh d' 
 
 5 T A*' of Refumption ; all 
 
 tbefe dcftrudivc Enormities, which it was the Bufinefs 
 
 of 1 arliaments to inquire into and fee redrefs’d, were 
 uiftered to go on without Controul. 
 
 But what will fix a perpetual mark of Infamy on the 
 Heads of that Minidry is,that ( being under Appre- 
 henfions that thew. Ihoiild be laid by after the Peace )^t?icv 
 J^re the Men who enter’d into a Compafl with King 
 rhat if he would keep them and their Friends in 
 his Mmiftry, they would nfe their Intcreft in the Houfc 
 of Gommons to procure him affandiug Army of Twen¬ 
 ty Thoufend Men; and tho’ in this worfe than Tory at- 
 tempr, the wife and honed Men of their Party deferred 
 them and they could not carry their Point, yet they 
 
 fib »P as many of the Army aspof- 
 
 iiblc, anddifpcrsd Pamphlets to perfwade the dllv Pco- 
 among their own Party, that Forces kept up from 
 Year to Year by Conlcnt of Parliament, were not to be 
 accounted a Handing Array, and that the great number 
 
Cl*) 
 
 wha^ othertheFre«cA King, and I know not 
 tbrarfm^n it abfoJntely neccffary 
 
 don of H S) ^ they have infultcd lince the Ihort dura- 
 iV. ft, • cace, and would have ft thought they v^ere 
 
 Enemies 
 
 7 Z J? . the Army v but all this is odious 
 
 language from the Month of a with whom it 
 
 hould be a Maxim never to be departed fromT noTto 
 
 mn Mible over-ballanccof l>owcras 
 
 can enable It to enaangcr the Liberties of the Nation; 
 
 beeif^'^r fl? had fo lately made, might have 
 
 iW againft ever fuflfering^a ftand- 
 
 tururc; and is it not evident to a Dc- 
 :j Ctown is ill thc pofleflion of 
 
 tn^S Vr than ever our 
 
 fecf ,?"r A^'^'tted, and ihall withal have a 
 regular Army at it’s Command, that then the People 
 
 intirelv'^denp at,all left for their defence, but muft 
 nirely aepci^ ^he meer goodnefs of thc Prince 
 and thc honefty ofhis Minifters for the cnloyment S' 
 their Rights ? And tho’jt be acknowledg’d that we had 
 nothing to fear from png mUtam^ yet’tis never good 
 
 !o^iPrecedents, and wliat after King 
 will think htmlclf kindly us’d if a Parliament ftould re- 
 fiile ro triifl: him with thc Cime Confidence ? If then* to 
 allow them their mod plaiifible Argument, it had been 
 judgd requifite to have kept up an Army forfome time. 
 
 1 am lure that when I was firft a whig^ we fliou’d have 
 accounted it abominable Totifm, to have enrrufted the en¬ 
 tire djfpmal of them to any King whaefoever, and that 
 at Jealt the Money rais’d to maintain them, Ihould have 
 miffioncr k)ircddion of Parliamentary Com- 
 
 Butour Court Wbigt were by this time grown fo very 
 tender ophe Prerogative, that they fhew’d little regard 
 for fccuringthe Propercie, of thc People: Many MilHons 
 have been advanc’d upon the Funds of thc appropriated 
 Revenues, but dill the Receipts and Payments are to pafs 
 through thc old Courfe of the Exchequer ; what if ever 
 ^ fhoiild arife that would not think Ivirii" 
 Icit lafe Without a danding Army j we don’t fay that our 
 
 3 ? Kings 
 
ir- ^ ) 
 
 m^v not by thqr own Airtbority raife as 11307 
 
 iiiaincaiii, but the Ballance againlt that 
 chat they c^n’t liipypn them without Parlia- 
 ^eptat^ Alps j but what if fuch a King Ihould (acccrding 
 Precedenc y flop the Payments of the Exche- 
 ‘JPy.if- fle would certainly find means' enough to nain- 
 
 f;hc 5ub)e6ts,,would find ifaem- 
 Condition to difpute with him fortheir 
 . iSPf?Properties: Cpuld any Courtier have min- 
 tamd an mgunicnt ^ainft the rearonablcnefs of conlli* 
 by Authority of Parliafnent for tlie xcei- 
 r>f thefe R.eveniies, which were 
 
 now bc^^me thej3jjreb?^’4 P*^dP?f5y <’P-'tfie PeopJeJ Qr 
 
 ^?*P:.''^P^ffPp‘; 5 J..ibauhc^K^ would 'liavefcrupled thtgra- 
 tjfying the Pnblick wijihjfiiich a Seciirity^at that tine of 
 ' dWrtben can we or think of the Wifdmi or 
 Hc^nefty of thok IfMg J^u^iaers.whoto render rhcni'cives 
 grate^ fo the CqurCj^and jh,!}:. thqy., might make clicir 
 beWd the Nation into fo loofe and iire- 
 carious.a; Copditipn^ P^v.iwell in. regard; to theiti Liberties 
 as. to ,t//C^ jEir^tcs ?. ■ 
 
 t. PicGcofctuiniugto rema'-k rn 
 
 thisMuu(h;y:.^heHoureofCominonsbegan to faJ in¬ 
 to the con lidcrat ion, that ’twas fit for themto appoirt In- 
 dpeaors into the piibhck Managements, and accordbgfy 
 they proceeded to cpnftitutc Commiflioners for exaiiin- 
 jug die pubhek Accounts •, for ftatingthe Accounts of the 
 Army j for inquiring into the Infl, forfeitures,. &c. But 
 thefe cratty Mmiftcrs darted a Notion that’twou’d be dif- 
 nonomable and unbecoming Parliament Men to credt 
 .new Places of I rofitLor chemfclvcs, and fo after a vthile 
 they pei fwadcd the Hpule to exclude their own Members 
 roni being nomniared to thofe Employments , well 
 forefeemg that this would be the likeiie,ft way to tring 
 tneminto a tieglcd of thofe Scrutinies, when they verc 
 ^hlce to get nothing for themfelvcs j but the Myfiery vas, 
 diat if the Parliament Ihonld come into this right wiy.of 
 husbanding the National Bufinefs, it might not oolydif^ 
 cover and deftroy the profitable juggling of the Court 
 j lana^fs, but-if a competent Number of good JEmpov- 
 mcntsGiouldonce come into the annua! difipofal oftte 
 
 Houfe 
 
Houfe of Commons to reward their moft iifcful and dc- 
 Icrving Mcmbers,many would come to be drawn off from 
 tiwr dependence upon the Court ^ when they mightex- 
 pc6l: a quicker Advancement by exerting their fidelity to 
 the National intereftin fhe Houfe : But if this provident 
 care had been exercis’d fo far by the Parliamenr, as that 
 they had frorn the beginning appointed Commiflioners of 
 their own to mfpea: the true Mufters of the Army, and 
 to have oyerfeen the Payment of the Armies, Fleet, and 
 avl other Disburfments relating to.thc War, I leave it to 
 any thinking Man toconfider whether the Nation might 
 not have fav’d many Millions in the Expence, and have 
 made much greater Efforts in the profccution of the VVar > 
 1 know well that the prerogative have been ready 
 to objciStagainft fuch an Interpofition of the Parliament 
 in the executive part of the Government, as an entrench¬ 
 ment upon the Prerogative of the Crown i and tho’ I am 
 as faras thcmfelvcs trom defiriug to alter the true Me- 
 th^s of the Adminiftration, yet as the raifing of fuch 
 vatt Taxes yearly upon the People, and fuch a w'ay of 
 managmg War, were things wholly unknown and unpro¬ 
 vided for by our Anceftors^ lean fee no fjft Rcalon 
 fince now rhe People bear the whole Expcnce, why their 
 Keprefentatives fhould not thin k it their duty to conftitutc 
 Stewards of their own, to fee their Money well husband¬ 
 ed i nor yet arc wc without former Precedents of our Par- 
 lyimcnts having nam’d Commiflfoners to manage the 
 Taxes they have given. 
 
 _ The Projea of Exchequer Bills was fcrviceablc to the 
 Government at that time, tho^ the Circulation was con¬ 
 triv’d in Inch a way that the Nation paid dear for it, all 
 which might have been fav'd by raifing one half Million 
 in ready Money at'firft, which might have maintain’d 
 me circulating Cafti from time to time, but then them- 
 lelves and their Friends, who had always the preference 
 3f fubferibing what they pleas’d ( and ’tis. believ’d that 
 .much of it was fupply’d with the publick Money ) would 
 lavc loft the opportunity of getting many Thoufand 
 I ounds. T he keeping up the F^s of the Exchequer 
 when the multiply’d Taxes created fo vafta Receipt, nay 
 ihc taking Fees (or that very Money tha? was bropght in 
 
 B 4 to 
 
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 to be recoin’d, was an unrcafonablc Improvidence to the 
 Publick, however very gainful to the Officers. Moreo¬ 
 ver, their felling of Places, ncglcding many deferving 
 Men of their own Party (and even the extraordinary Mr. 
 Johnfon) that had been fufferers in rhe late Reigns, never 
 tiering to take oft' the Sacramental Teft when ’twas in 
 their Power, cum muUis <*/;». were Peccadilios in compa- 
 rifon with their greater, hanlts. After all, it muft be laid 
 in their Commendation, that they were always hearty in 
 the fupporting King WiUiam'% Government, but withal 
 they were ever for doing it in fuch ways as they might be 
 fure to get moil by it. 
 
 Thus thefc Miniftersand their Mercenary or Mifguided 
 Party in the Hioufc of Commons, became as inrireiy de¬ 
 voted to the Court as the Toritt formerly had been. ( with 
 this hiudablediltinifion however, that the later (acrific’d 
 onr Liberties and all, but the former only our Purfes) 
 and were in their ATions realy turn’d Torw^ tho’ they 
 ftill afte£ted to be accounted as good ns ever, and 
 
 generally the well-meaning People of that fide through 
 the Jvlation, not feeing into their rnifdceds, nor diftin- 
 guiftiing between the name and rhe thing, continued their 
 good C)pinion of them, and ’twas naiifcotis to fee how 
 their Creatures and Emilfaries labour’d in Coffee-boufis 
 and publick Converfation to give favourable turns to e- 
 very thing they did, hide their Faults, and keep up their 
 Reputation with the Party; and tho’ this has been the 
 common Artifice of both lides to delude their Followers 
 and engage them heartily to cfpoufe their Inrcrcfts, yet 
 things will always fpeak thcmfelves, and we have fecii 
 and felt the many Milchiefs that have been brought upoit 
 the Nation, and know under whofe conduct Affairs have 
 been managed when we have been made to fuffer by ei¬ 
 ther Fa61:ion in their turns; both have taken care to pro¬ 
 vide well for themfelves, but the Tories better for their 
 Friends than the ivhigs. 
 
 'T\^c.Toftes had hin under a long mortification to fee 
 their Adverfaries rule the roaft and themfelves kept our, 
 and this, as ’tis natural for Men in Affliction, gave them 
 bccafion toconfidcr the Misfortune of a Nation when the 
 publick Affairs arc unfaithfully manag’d, many of them, 
 
 who 
 
( ) 
 
 who in their younger years bad been (educ’d by the Lea¬ 
 ders ot that Faftion in the Houfe of Commons, to engage 
 in their wrong Meafiires, were grown older and wifer 
 and like cbofe we call’d enlighten’d Cavaliers, faw their 
 former miftakes, and cfpons’d the Country-Intereft, if 
 forrte did it in Policy to make tncmfelvcs popular, I will 
 not doubt but others did it upon Principle, however, the 
 Nation was ferv’d by both, and we havccaufe to rejoice 
 in it, as the Apoftlc did when Chrift was preach’d out of 
 contention and thus thcToriet themlelves ^came Wj/W 
 in praftke, may they never repent the change ; Divers 
 alfo of the old ftanch^i/;?i kept fteddy to their Principle, 
 and form’d what we call’d the Fifing Squadron, dividing 
 from the Courtiers on inch Occafions when they faw the 
 publick Good neglf£l:ed 3 and ’tiswe l known how induf- 
 trious the Party were to calumniate, vilify and render o- 
 dious the Harlys^ ihc Foleys^ Scc. Who were account¬ 
 ed the Principals in this ( as they reckon’d it) defeftion.of 
 whom it may be truly faid, they have born the reproach 
 of many ^ however, they may be worthily efteem’d the 
 Inftruments of much good to the Nation in their joining 
 with ( thofe that were ftill call’d ) the Tory Party, to flop 
 the career of thofe corrupted H^higs, whereby many a 
 Hundred Thoufand Pound came to be fav’d to the pub- 
 lick,the forfeited Eftates oilreland were reclaim’d,and this 
 deftru<?live Miniftry with much ado work’d out atlaft. 
 
 By this time both the Faftions had taken their fuc- 
 ceflive turns of humiliation, and their heats were pretty 
 well allay’d,while in the mean time,the People had found 
 by experience that C fpcaking of the Leaders) neither 
 Barrel had prov’d the better Herring, fo that they were 
 grown more calm and indifferent in their affeftions for 
 Parties than they had been for feveral Years part,and moft 
 Men feem’d rather to defire that the publick Affairs lliould 
 be put into the hands of the honcfi and moft moderate 
 Perfons of both forts,than that it fhouJd fall into cither ex- 
 rream, and the King himfelf, who had been too much 
 inclin’d to make his Advantage of Party, (tho’ I believe 
 without ever having hadany defign to invade our Liber¬ 
 ties ) came into this difpofition towards the latter end of 
 his Keign. 
 
 After 
 
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 Her pj-efent Ma)efty’s happy Acceflion to the 
 Crown,, tins moderate temper continued for fome time 
 ’tiii^ through the Corapetirion of fome great Men, the 
 Apimohtics of the People were again ftir’d up and nude 
 ufept an,Engine>to work about their own ambitious 
 peiignj.; Thc.Qiiccjp hjtd made choice of certain extra- 
 ^rdiwry Perfpns ( whoste number did not amount to that 
 of the pkiral. aceprding ;to tlic Greek uiage) of whofc 
 Wudom and Abilities, ihc had had many Years experi¬ 
 ence^^ to whom (he rcfolv’d to commit the prime Ck^nduff 
 of; her Govern iperit j thefe therefore may be dilfingmih’d 
 by rhe name of the.Winiftcrs. There were others (and 
 ampng themu Chief whofc pretenfions and capacity rco- 
 dred him fecond to none had he but been qualify’d with 
 more temper and lefs zeal for a l4rty ; who thought 
 themfelves worthy to be admitted into an equal lhare of 
 the Queens Confidence, but not peceeding tb; rein, we 
 remark thena by {hq Appellation of the difappoint- 
 snd thepthetbeen a,Iw3ys 
 pfrheTtfry Partyj but the Miniife-rs-forcfccing that the 
 others would have a great influence upon the Toriei foon 
 entet’d into a feccct Correfpondence w-idi the Wtips rc- 
 m'-ving to fccinq that Intereft for cheir Support againftall 
 Events 5 they did indeed carry it fairlv with the Toms for 
 a time, brmging fcvcral of them into the Miniflry and 
 U^'-o places,^ and jomd with them in the procuring tlie 
 EiC^tpn of many.. Members for the flrfl Parliament 
 which by that means came to be compos’d of a great ma¬ 
 jority qf that Sider 
 
 The Miniflers-had a^cd wifely, they had reflor’d the 
 Credit of die Nation, manag’d the Affiiirs of the War 
 well, and manifefled focareful a Conduct in every thing, 
 that hichcrco they had given no occaflon to thofe that 
 ^atch d for their halting : But the difappointed Lords 
 found out another way ro work, they were become very 
 careful for Religion, and a Bill is brought into thcHoufc 
 ofCommons to'prevent Occaflonal Conformity, where 
 H paLsd in two fuccefiivc Seflions, but was loii by the 
 Lords •, and ’twas remarkable that though the Minifters 
 openly concur’d and voted for the Bill, yet they declar’d 
 their Opinion of it as unfcafonable, fecretly difcoirrag’d 
 
 it. 
 
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 it, and artfully contriv’d to drop it. The Myflery of 
 this Project was to raifc the Spirit^ of the 7wy Party, to 
 create in the Queen an Opinion of their tormidable 
 Strength,and by degrees to model the Corporations,wccd 
 out rhe Diflcntcrs^ and 2 .t length-to difT^blc thciu in their 
 elefting Members of Parliament-, and their De/ign:was 
 IHll more evident, when in the third Seffion they atrera- 
 pted to tack it to the Land-Tax Bill, that if by that 
 compulfion they (hoiild get it pafs’d, or if the Lords (as 
 they had formerly declar'd) wotild rather rejedf a Money 
 Bill than adxriit of any Tack, the Queen might be over¬ 
 aw’d by their Power and neceffitated to take them into 
 her Miniliry : But here they quite loft thcmfelvcs and 
 broke their Reputation for ever hiice, and the bigotted 
 Party men bad herein a convincing hiftamchow much 
 their Leaders ufe them as TwJs to Work their own £nd^ 
 for ieverai of the moft conlidcrahie Men of that hde hai- 
 ving been taken off by the Minifters, andgrachy’d with 
 good Places, they Ictc their Party in the Lurch, and vo- 
 ■ted againft theTack. And thus this Noify, Milchief¬ 
 making, Party-driving, Good-for-nothing Bill came ro 
 -be utterly loft. 
 
 Now again the Faflions are blown up into a flame; 
 the Danger of rhe Church cry’d out on one Side, the Daft^ 
 'ger of High Church Perfecution on the other-, Rebearjal's 
 Revttws, O^ervaiors y Pamphlets on both fldes , all 
 fluff'd with nt matter to keep up the ferment, and no care 
 taken to fupprefs them ; cunning Minifters know how to 
 find their account in Party contentions, ’tis but to Ibid 
 their Power to make one fide much the ftrongeft, and 
 -then they will be likely to fupport each other againft all 
 oppofirion. Our Minifters declar’d openly for the 
 and this created a new thing call d zjunto^ a Miniftry 
 within a Miniftry; Some of this Juy>to had formerly been 
 eminent Leaders of the unanimous in the Houfe of 
 Commons but they made their bargain before they 
 would engage in the work, if the Minifters would turn 
 out and take in as they pleas’d, then their Party in the 
 Parliament Ihould ftand by the Minifters on all C)ccafi- 
 ons; however, ’twas fomc Years before they could work 
 it up to an iiitire confidence in each other, fometimes the 
 ' . Minifters 
 
[ .. . [ iny ' 
 
 Mmillcrs promis'd to gratify them with fuch Changes of 
 hands as they requir’d; and, after the ParJiament was 
 up, neglefted the Performance: The next Seflions the 
 would be hire to thwart them by their Friends in 
 the Houfe of Commons, then all was made up again by 
 a new Bargain, which yet was perhaps but half per¬ 
 form’d ; then the 7 «»fo quarrel’d again, upbraided them 
 with Breach of Promife, fought out for Faults to rax 
 them with, and now and then gave them a pinch in the 
 Houfe of Commons, till they promis’d a full Comply- 
 ance, and thus it pafs’d through fcvcral Seffions, forac- 
 times in League, fometiines at Daggers drawing, till at 
 iaft an Occurrence happen’d that gave the Junto fuch an 
 Advantage over the Minifters. that they have fince led 
 ^em as in a cleft Stick; and ’twill be no unprofitable 
 Digrefiion to look backwards to the Original Caufes 
 that brought it about, fince a great deal of the ill Ufage 
 or the Minifters will thereby appear. 
 
 The Brave Earl of Veterhorou^b had gone on with a 
 Courfe of furprizing Succeffes in Spain, Cities and Kiug- 
 4 ows were reduc’d to the Obedience of King Charki 
 even fairer than the Couriers could bring us the Intelli- 
 gcnce, and his Competitor mull: have Ijccn quite driven 
 out in the fecond Campaign, had not that King been un¬ 
 happily diverted from purfiiing the right Meafures that 
 had been concerted; and another General negleffed both 
 the fecuring of Madrid, and the getting in Provifions to 
 fupport the Army for a few Weeks: After this Mifcar- 
 nage the Earl went to Ge»«4, and pawn’d his own Credit 
 to rake up Money to preferve the Army from ftarving; 
 from thence he proceeded to Turtn, and form’d fuch a 
 Scheme for the taking of TbouUn, that (morally fpeak- 
 ing) It could not have mifearried, if the principal part 
 of the Projea, (which was to begin the Campaign early 
 by entring into Roufilton in order to invade France on that 
 hde, with an Army to be compos’d of a Detachment 
 from Savojf, another of but fooo from our Forces in 
 Sfatv, the reft to be made up of Miquelcts; and when 
 the French jhoiiId have drawn their principal Forces that 
 way, then the Duke of Savoy was to have march’d to 
 ThiUion) had not been disappointed by tjie Earl of QaBo^ 
 
 waj% 
 
(.^p) 
 
 W 4 /S utterly rcfiifing to fparc 5000 Men from that Ar¬ 
 my on pretence that he Ld pofitiVe Orders from kL 
 iMd not to divide his Forces; whether he had any fuch 
 Orders or nor, or whether his Orders were to crofs S 
 the Earl ot Veter borough's Defigns (which he effc61:iiallv 
 did) IS not yet plainly difeovered, but worth the En¬ 
 quiry of a Parliament in fit time ; this is certain th^r 
 when all the World applauded that Earl’s Condud, and 
 whiljl the whole Nation were cxtrcamly pleas’d and gra- 
 tdydwith his unparallel’d Atchicvmcnts, the MiniSers 
 thought fit to turn him out of all Command, and that 
 they might affront him beyond Example, they even 
 vvrit to Foreign Princp to difcountcnance him-, whether 
 they were afraid that he fhould eclipfc the Glory of ano¬ 
 ther, or that too quick a period would be put to the War 
 or that the French King was fo alarm’d at the Progrefs 
 of our Arms in thofe parts that he began to make Over- 
 turcs of Peace (as the Earl had more honcftlv than wi- 
 ri^ let them know) and might probably give us the 
 Advantage of treating the Peace on that fide, to the dif 
 appointment of thofe who never intended it fhould be’ 
 negotiatiatcd in any other plaec but HolUnd j or what¬ 
 ever it were they Hop’d the Progrefs of our Arms in 
 thofe parts, loft two Kingdoms to the Enemv, depriv’d 
 their Country of the Services of one who had in fo fliort 
 a time given fuch a Specimen of an enterprizine Geniuc 
 fuch Pro^s of his fuperior Abilities, fuch Demonftra- 
 tions of a Condud always fuccefsful, and never fubied to 
 Miftakes or Difappointmenrs, and had made fo many 
 audio great Conquefts with a handful of Men, that he 
 has rarely been cqual’d, never exceeded bv any General 
 of the prefent or former times ^ his Entmi« had no bec- 
 
 D proceedings againft him than 
 
 falfe Reports, Afperfion and Calumny; and tho’after 
 his coming home, a Minifter of State fent him five Ar¬ 
 ticles of pretended Accufations, yet one of them was 
 a Miftakc of their own, and the Earl 
 himfelf the other four, by producing their 
 own piredions and Orders for what he had done, fo far 
 had thefe Minifters forgotten their own Ads and Deeds- 
 and ’tis fince evident to the whole Kingdom that they 
 
 had 
 
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 had nothing at all to lay to his Charge, for when in the 
 next Seffions he dcfircd to be heard in his own Vindica¬ 
 tion, his Adverfaries had no other fliift than to order 
 Multitudes of Papers to be brought in, tiring the Houfe 
 with reading them, ftill avoiding to enter upon any 
 Matter of Faft, arid adjourning it from time to time, 
 t^Jl they had fpun out the Seffions. 
 
 I am now led to the Matter of which I was fpeaking. 
 The Mifmanagement of our Affairs in Spain came to be, 
 enquir’d into in the Houfe of Commons, and it was 
 found, that tho’the Parliament had voted and provided 
 for the maintaining of 28000 Men for the fecond Year’s 
 Operations in Spain, there were not actually 9000 of 
 that Quota employ’d in that Country-, this Bufinefs was 
 brought on by the T07 Party, who prefs’d hard that the 
 Houfe fhoulci prepare an Addrefs to the Queen, roundly 
 to fepfefent this fatal Mifcarriage, and to pray Her Ma- 
 jefty Co lay before them the Occafion of it; the Court 
 IVhigs knew then no better but that’twas their Bufinefs 
 •to ftand by the Minifters in everything, and therefore 
 they labour’d to mitigate the matter, and that the Ad¬ 
 drefs might only be to pray chat due Care might 
 betaken to prevent the like Faults for the fiiture, they 
 fpecch’d it out rill late, and ftruggled hard to get the 
 I^ebate adjourn’d for fome further time, which at Jaft 
 they carry’d but by Nine Votes (for it mull be noted, 
 that there have always been fome of the true Old whigi 
 that will not baulk their Principle to Vote through thick 
 and thin, like the Moderns in fuch notorious Cafes) but 
 after all it appear’d, that the Mercenaries had fought 
 this Battel on the wrong fide for want of their Orders j 
 the Junto wanted at this time fo fair an Opportunity to’ 
 bite the Minifters, and force them into aComplyan^e 
 with what they had been long bargaining for, and there¬ 
 fore directed their Creatures by all means to let the Ad¬ 
 drefs pafs as fmart as the Tories wou’d have it; fo when 
 this Debate came on again, the Warriours were grown 
 as tame as Lambs, and the Addrefs went without any 
 more than a little faint (hewilh Oppofition: The Mini¬ 
 fters were frighten’d our of their Wifs, here was a Gap 
 open’d that led into a Difeovery of all the foul pl^’ 
 
 ibal 
 
!o?he*Addrer^fe^'i™d“' 
 
 Er.w"'’“ t''”cl!.'iSmweohye^thc 
 
 hl ,;?,T?® ‘1’“' not willins to 
 
 of 4 ' ■'’'Nation is told plainly that onl thiS 
 of our Army has ahvavs ^en allow’d for Officers 
 
 vantss <alineChcar fdr mii. w comical itr 
 
 Sowl'’!?'""'-'' '>»■'Rain"™Srpo%t Td 
 
 Houfe were to Jet tin's naft fnr 
 tisfaftton, and fo tlie Minifters were broueht off from 
 this difficulty. Thus the fame JVlcn who at Irft fet them 
 jeiveswith ail their might to defend rhe Miniftcrs in a 
 Matter wherein the Nation had been notoriouflv abmM 
 prefently when they arc bid. leap over the Stick ?o?hcr 
 
 ^Sainft the fame Miniftcrs 
 fan f'’' '^“‘1 ofCommand 
 
 mbs Warn’? V* yo’”"’'; all? well done. No-body 
 mi mean an Opinion would the honeil 
 
 n how iittJc regard^thev 
 
 had to the true Intereftsof their Country, and^ow eafv 
 th^ are to betray it to ferve a turn ? ^ 
 
 nnl ^7 hf“"S at a Secretary of State, and 
 
 now the h^nifters durft not deny them any thing, and 
 wr he muft, tnough to the great Regret of thc^Good 
 manifeft Proofs of his great Abi- 
 Jity and Pidelity, yet tliey had the Hardinefs to exaft a 
 from Her Majefty that ffic would not fee him v 
 faithfully difcover’d to the Queen 
 lome Mifmanagements of the Miniders that wouM be 
 ot III Conlequencc if not redrefs’d in time, the Party 
 gave out that he h<^ been working underhand to throw 
 very Minifters thcmfeJves, whenas the utmollr 
 
 rlf- p A V f or balhancc; for to 
 
 think of difplacing and difgracing them at that time of 
 
 day, was fit for no Man in his Wits: But this was a tri¬ 
 fling Slander in comparifon, to what they made it the 
 Bufinefs of their EmilTaries to load him with. He had 
 flimfeJf entertain’d a Sufpicioii that one of the Clerks 
 
 of 
 
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 of hts Office held a Treafonable Correfpondence with 
 the Enemy, and in order to dilcover it, he writ to the 
 Poft-maher on the other iidc to fend him back a certain 
 Packet of Letters, wherein ho found a Letter ot this 
 Clerk's written to a Minifter of State in France-^ hefirft 
 acquainted Her Majefty alone with it, and then appoint¬ 
 ed a Committee of Council to meet at his Office, fenc 
 for the Clerk, and then furpriz’d him at once by pro¬ 
 ducing and reading the Letter before his Face-, the Clerk 
 was Committed, Arraign’d, pleaded Guilty, and was 
 Executed for the Treafon : The Party us’d ail their En¬ 
 deavours, and had their Creatures in publick Converfa- 
 tion to make the World believe that the Secretary him- 
 felf was privy to this Trayrerous Correfpondence; feven 
 Lords were deputed from that Houfe to examine the 
 Clerk in Prifon, and ’tis remarkable that they were all 
 of one iide: Surely they that knew the manner in which 
 the Secretary furpriz’d him, muft believe in their Con- 
 fcicnces that no Man durfl: treat a Perfon with Inch a Se¬ 
 verity if he knew it to be in the Criminal’s power to 
 accufe himfclfi but the Secretary’s Innocence was amply 
 vindicated, when the Clerk at his Execution deliver’d a 
 Paper to the Ordinary of Neiv^ate^ declaring, That his 
 Mailer was wholly ignorant of this Treafonable Corre¬ 
 fpondence till he made the Difcovcry himfelf, and 
 thank’d God that he gave him the Grace not to do fo 
 vi!c an Aflion for the faving his own Life, as fome 
 would have put him upon-, but the Ordinary was not 
 permitted to publiffi this Paper (as is ufual) and fo it 
 was fupprefs’d for a time, till care was taken to print it 
 from a Copy that had been given to another hand, and 
 then Vattl Lorrain got Leave to publilh it alfo. 1 have 
 been the larger in this Narrative, that all well-meaning 
 IFhigs may be truly inform’d, that tho’ thcmfelves and 
 their Principles abhor fuch Prafticcs, yet there are great 
 Men among their Leaders that flick at nothing that they 
 think will ferve their own inrerefts, and deftroy thofe 
 they hate, and the fame Men that could fo lately both 
 accufc and acquit the faulty in one Breath, were now as 
 ready to attempt the Ruin of their Enemy by Subor¬ 
 nation, and to llifle and fupprefs fo clear a V indication 
 
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 of his Innocence. Nor is it lefs worthy the notice of the 
 ii'Sigt that this very Gentleman who has been rendred fo 
 odious in their efteem, if his Oonduft ihall be impartial¬ 
 ly confidcred, it will be found that his Adions have 
 flicwn him much more a Patriot and a true than his 
 Adverfaries v ’twas their deferring the true Intercft of 
 their Country and running into and fupporting all the 
 Mifmanagementsof the late Reign, that made him join 
 with thofe that were call’d Tories (tho’ I am fiircthey de¬ 
 fer v’d the good opinion of all true Engbflmen in thole oc- 
 calions) to refeue the Nation from the rapine of that cor¬ 
 rupt Minillry •, and, as St. Paul became all unto all that 
 he might gain fome, if this Gentleman has employ’d the 
 Dexterity of which.he is fo great a Mailer, to draw off 
 the bed Men of that Party from the extrearn which they 
 had formerly fallen into, and to win them into the true 
 Jntereft of the Nation, his Voting with them, pleafing 
 them, and gaining their good opinion in order to good 
 Ends, are lo far from faults, that they deferve the high- 
 eft applaufe, and both Parties ought to look upon him as 
 the happy Inftrument that is content to Sacrifice his own 
 eafe, to pafs through good Report and bad Report, and 
 to labour conftanrly to deftroy Faftion, and to reconcile 
 the honeft Men of all forts who really delign the good of 
 their Country : I am furc his bringing of fo many of the 
 High Party upon the laft ftruggle lor thcOccalional Con¬ 
 formity Bill, and the lolingit by the Tac.k, ought to be 
 look’d upon by the Diffenters, as fuch a convincing Proof 
 of his Inclination tO keep them eafy, that they Ihould 
 never fuffer themfelves to be deceiv’d by the Impolitions 
 of thole, who, Toferve their own turn, would perfwadc 
 them to think him their Enemy. 
 
 It will alfo be needful to fay fomething of another Per- 
 fon, whom, together with the former, they have been 
 pleas’d to make the Obje£ls of their Slander and Ca¬ 
 lumny : This is a certain Lady related to, and intro¬ 
 duc’d into her Majefty’s Service fome Years lince by a 
 very great Lady who had long engrofs’d the Bounty and 
 Beneficence of her Sovereign y.bur when the young Lady 
 had by her Vertuous Qualities and prudent Behaviour 
 gain’d alfo fome lhare in*hcr Royal Miftrels’s Favour and 
 
 C Efteem 
 
"P®" 3s a Com- 
 P or, nowmuch the more the jcaloufies of the 
 
 former labour 
 
 ^ by a fubmiffivc demeanour and avoid- 
 12^^ij Pf^’blc occalions of Offence, ocherwife than what 
 would always be fo taken as long as (be fhould continue to 
 
 Favour,, and even in 
 thefe Ihe befought her Mifelly to be more Iparing to- 
 waros her, rather than thereby to cncreafc the other's un- 
 ^**n^*>j I *■ Lady was of a temper not to 
 
 ^llrfy d,thc thonghtsof any Competition in the Queen’s^ 
 ravour, though in a degree much inferior to what hct- 
 ich continu’d to enjoy, could not be born, no t eal Fault 
 coiild be found, therefore fomething miift be invented to 
 Enemies, the Junto were told that fhc 
 id them ill Offices to the Queen, was the fntire Conti- 
 dent of the late Srcretary (fhe is indeed his near Relation) 
 and abated himin his(nobodv knows what) Intrigues 
 againfbthcm; they lift hard to get her out, but the 
 ^-iccn had too great a confidence in her Innocence and 
 luiCguty to be prevail’d upon to part with her, however 
 the great Lady prefum’d to turn her out of her lodgings 
 at Kenfington^ with left decency than became the regard 
 doc toner Royal Miflrefs, and the Mouths of the Party, 
 were open’d to traduce and render her odious among the 
 Whi^s ^ who are perfwaded to believe her to be the worlt 
 of Tories tho* at the fame time ihe’s married to the Son of 
 oncof the l^ft If^higs in the Nation,and hath never engag’d 
 heflelf in cither Faffion : Thus froiti the private ammo* 
 nty of a Mimflerial Lady, a modefl, diftreer, inofien- 
 live. virtuous Gentlewoman, is fet up for the very mark 
 of Reproach and Indignation of the Junto and their 
 Friends,and the Qiiecn herfelf to be dilVefpeafuIly treated 
 through her hdes. 
 
 ^ By this time the Minifters and the Junto were grown 
 into the highefr degree of mutual Confidence, and, what 
 with the intire command which the former had over the 
 Members who cnjw’d Civil and Military Offices, and the 
 ftrong influence which the later had over the milled una¬ 
 nimous Whigs ; they had fo large a Majority in the Houfc 
 or Commons, chat they had great aiTurance of carrying 
 
 every 
 
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 every thing tlieic according to their own minds : The 
 Lord High Admiral ( who had manag’d that high Truft 
 with unexceptionable Condutl) mnft be laid by, and the 
 Nation burihcn’d with a Pen/ion of 3000 I per Ann. for 
 no other Reafon but that one of the Principals of the 
 Junto might be plac’d at the Head of the Admiralty \ 
 hirely Men will tnink thcmfelvcs Great,Strong,and Pow- 
 crful, when^ the Parliament, Array, Navy, and Trea- 
 fury of a Kingdom arc at their Devotion \ and we had 
 reafon to think fo^when a certain very great Man. whofe 
 general Behaviour had always been remarkably fofr, 
 cafy, courteous and cool to all, could nowprefumc todif- 
 pute thedilpofal of a fingle Regiment in the Army with 
 his Sovereign, and to fuch a degree of animolity,as to de¬ 
 part from her prefence in difgull:, without returning till 
 the good Qitecn ( may I fay ) fubmitted and yielded the 
 Point to him. But this was foon exceeded by a higher 
 Step of Infolcnce; I have noted before that the Queen 
 would not be perfwaded to give up the pcrfecuted Lady, 
 fo now they meditate on a way to force her from her 
 Arms, ana, depending upon their Strength in the Houfc 
 of. Commons, rcfolve to procure an Addrefs to Her Ma- 
 jefty from that Houfc to pray Her to remove this harm- 
 JefsLady from Her Prefcncc, which had certainly been 
 carfy’d on if the Qiieen had not concern’d herfelf to flop 
 it, by lettingfomelioneftGentlemen of the Houfe know, 
 that if file knew the Lady to be guiltv of any Crime, &e 
 fliould be as rcadv to part with her as they to defirc 
 it, but flie hop’d that thofewho had any regard for hcr- 
 Iclf, would never ufc her fo hardly, as to confent to an 
 Addrefs topull from her a Servant whom Iheefteem’d, 
 without conviffirig her of the leaf! Crime •, this indeed 
 prevail’d at laft to break this audacious Attempt. I muft 
 yet tell you of another Step larger than this, and even fo 
 high that it wanted, but one of the top i in a word, they 
 had prole£l:cd to get the great. Man created General for 
 Life. •• 
 
 ’Twas time now for our good Queen to look about her, 
 and having loft the Support of her dear Confort, the an¬ 
 xiety of her mind was become fo great that Ihe was'even 
 overwhelm’d with grief, ’till the had found fome hutmul 
 
 C a ' ■ Advifcrs 
 
( 3 ^) 
 
 mnrhr^Vl^ had bcCD 
 
 muchtoblameif they had noc feduloiifiy apply’d them 
 
 elves to conluir fuch mcafures as might render their So 
 
 vcreign fafe and cafy, and rclhain the Power and Ambi 
 
 ;n°W! grown too great. It falls on 
 
 aff • unhappy Conjunaure with refped to on 
 
 Afta^ bwh at home and abroad, that there Ihould b 
 ny Uccalion tor an alteration of the Mini dry, but as 
 nave ftewn yon, from Fafts that are well known, thi 
 real L.aulc and Foundation from whence all arifes. voi 
 rauftneeds be convinc’d, that what has alreadv, or mat 
 urther be done therein, proceeds not from Caprice, oi 
 from a greater Inclination to the Tones than to the mips. 
 
 ^*'^ed”f’velty to change hands whcT 
 - ^ P‘'*rty vainly noife it through 
 
 the Nation ) but trom an inevitable neceffity ofgivinc 
 lomc fpeedy cheque to the formidable Power of a few 
 t Indications too evident to be 
 
 - f red into Confederaries, and 
 
 taken Refolunons to govern both Qjecn and Nation ac- 
 
 MinnKrb" becaufc the great 
 
 Vhh?L M- -I? r thcmfclves 
 
 v^rc thefe dangerous Intrigues, and di- 
 
 K lonLr''’'” ITJ thcmfelves too obnox ions to 
 
 Ife longer confided m i it therefore became unavoidable 
 to have rccouric to Inch who have indeed rang'd them- 
 
 Seam?” but have feen the Error of cx- 
 
 Willing to enter into healing and mode- 
 rl,\t ?i i!“r^* 'r "P*’ theleaft Rtalbn to doubt, but 
 
 Defons'of who Ihall abandon the ill 
 
 their^ow^pt-^ concur (accordingto 
 
 Good i’" the Promotion of the publick 
 
 IS well rt-a-^rA A^ admitted to Employments, and 
 as well regarded as ever-; nothing being more defired 
 
 hn«throvr °fwin ofll,t"aes ro tet 
 
 "ift “I?'"'’ 
 
 rluc ™ HfSi: 
 
 Hir’d 
 
ftiVd chemfelves to provide for flicker againft thcAorm. 
 ’ ris eafy to imagineat whofe Inilances our good Allies the 
 Stares of Holland order’d their Envoy here to dclire Her 
 Majcfty not to change her Minifters •, ’tis true that tiiis 
 Meffagc was delivered with as much modefly as the uib- 
 jc£t matter would bear,but perhaps Monfleur Vrybirg may 
 be noted for the hrft Foreign Minifler that ever was 
 charg’d with fuch an Affair, and it would havelot^d 
 with”fomethinga better Grace, if he had been luitrpaed 
 to have made this fort of Interceflion by way of Confe¬ 
 rence with Ionic of the Queen’s Minillers, who probably 
 might have been ordered to give him luch aii Apfwer as 
 would have fatisfy’d his Mailers, without his applying 
 dircflly to Hcrlclfina Bufinels which could not poffibly 
 be void of fome Offence, tho’ Her Majefly would take 
 every thing as well intended that came from a St^uc for 
 whom She has ever had fo linccrc a regard, and who 
 have fo lignally exerted thcmfelvcs for the good of the 
 common Caufc, 
 
 * Their next Attempt was to play the Bank upon Her 
 Majcfty; this was contriv’d by procuring thcGovcrnour 
 with fome of thcDireaors(and we may gucis who lent 
 them and gave them their Errand V to requeft certain 
 great Lords to reprefent to Her Majcfty, that the Appre- 
 henlions of a change in the Miniftry had migholy di- 
 fturb’d the Trading People in the City, Shock d Credit, 
 and they fear’d if a ftop were not put to it, would caule 
 a run upon the Batik, and difablc them from lerving the 
 Government; the Mefiage was delivered, and it was dc- 
 lired that Her Majcfty would be pleas’d to permit them 
 to receive her Anfwer from her own Mouth, accordingly 
 they were appointed to attend the next Morning (and this 
 thev have fince been pleas'd to call a being fent for ) and 
 had a moll gracious Anfwer from Her Majefly. I am 
 unwilling to reflcft fo hardlv as the thing dcfcrv?s wpoti 
 Men whom 1 efteem fo confidcrablc in thcmfcives and Jo 
 iifcful to the Publick, but yet ’tis fit their Principals Inoiild 
 know that they have not well deferv’d of them by ^heir 
 medling in this Affair, which (as I fliall ftiew 
 not at all concern them, if they manage their Bank (as 
 i r?aliy believe they do ) prudently and honeitly, and 
 
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 gmary not real worth. If there be a certain knowlcdpe 
 t at cae prinapal Scock is improv’d by management* iiift 
 io much IS the intrinlick Value rais’d, if it be as certainly 
 Known that the principal is leflencd by Ioffes,the intrinfick 
 Value IS fallen jo the fame proportion v but as Ions as 
 this profit or lofs fiiall rcmain doubtful or uncertain, the 
 principal Stock muft always be accounted the intrinfick 
 Value, becaufe the expe6tancy is precarious and mav 
 provc'better or worfe than the expedation, and confe- 
 quently any^variation from this wav of valuing will al- 
 waysbe but imaginary,never the real Value of any thing.. 
 It IS indeed a common Saying, f^alet i^uantum 'vmdi 
 
 'Jujh as vftich Monty, as ^twiU hrb-^ 
 
 Is ib^ tvue PVoTth of c'vetj 
 
 thclc are Maxims in vented by Knaves to cheat fools 
 1 o conlider then the truc worthof Indiamd Bank-Stock- • 
 as thefe Companies do make a Yearly dividoid of Profit’ 
 Value of thefe Stocks can be accounted for no o- 
 ■ r? principal Money paid in with an 
 
 Addition of fo much of the Annual Dividend as has ac¬ 
 crued fince the Jaft Payment; I will not pretend to be 
 fo perft-a in the Myftcry of Stock-Jobbers as to knowex- 
 adtly how much »cr Cem.hai been aftually paid in by the 
 but I take it from the general Voice, that 
 t lofe Stocks continue fiill to be fold coniidcrablv above 
 the intrinfick Value, iothat the great noife that'is made 
 about the falling of Stock has been a mccr Impofition.and 
 a palpable untruth y for though we daily fee that thefe 
 Attics are run up and down by the new Science of Stock- 
 K*;?’ y« t'^'sean never be truly faid to operate any 
 thing upon the real intrinfick Value, which can never be 
 
 Profit or Lofs 
 management of the Bank 
 IS profitable, and that the bunds fettled for the Payment 
 
 ^^rurc as any other 
 
 Poffeffions in the Kingdom , for whatfoever overturns' 
 one mult overturn all, but ifVomc People will be S- 
 
 Ihould fell their StoSs 
 forlefs than the real Va uc, what Rcafon is therje for a 
 
 Govern- 
 
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 oovern-mcnt to be mov’d at this, more than at fiich an¬ 
 gry Children who throw away their Bread and Butter > 
 
 Well, but Foreigners will withdraw all the Money 
 they have put into our Stocks and publick Funds : i (ay 
 they can’t, for the Money muft lie where it isj O! but 
 they’ll fell it all off; with all my heart, then Englijhmen 
 muft buy it, and the Sums that they Yearly carry out of 
 the Nation for their Inrereft or Annuities will remain 
 ^erc and circulate amongourfelves. This, weak though 
 it be, they may think fufficient to puzzle the ignorant 
 and ferVC their turn well enough, if it do’s but fet the 
 People a grumbling. 
 
 Now for our publick and private Credit, a new Mini- 
 ftry, fay they, will certainly defiroy both, bring all 
 things into Confufion, and difable us from carrying on 
 the War. I hope not -, but, in the mean time, what do 
 we owe to thofe Minillers that have brought the Nation 
 into fuch a condition, that, as they think, (he cannot 
 fubfift without a depcndancc upon them and their Crea¬ 
 tures ? However, if our future Parliaments will give as 
 good Funds, and as good Bargains as they have done, how 
 can they tell but that the People (and the Foreigners a- 
 mong the reft ) will throng as hard to get in their Money 
 as they u.s’d to do ? But they tell us the moncy’d Men are 
 on their fide, and they’ll Lend no more j no, not when 
 they don't know how to employ their Money fo well in 
 any other way ? 1 believe yet, if there (hould be fome 
 froward Children ( as I noted lx:fore ) that would throw 
 away their Bread and Butter, we (hall lind more hungry 
 ones that would catch it up and eat it. But what if our 
 new Miniftry Ihould do better for us than they have done, 
 and find wavs and means to raife the needful Supplies 
 within the Year ? This furely would heigthen our publick 
 Credit, and put us into a Condition to live of ourfelves, 
 without having fomuch occafion to borrow,and to Mort¬ 
 gage the Nation to future Generations; a moderate ge¬ 
 neral Excife addaJ to a juft Land-Tax would do all, and 
 there is a ncceflity for us to come to it at laft, or ruin 
 ourlclves if we go on in the borrowing way. What do 
 they mean by deftroying private Credit i Shan’t we be 
 able to find t^uft for our daily Bread ? Or will the Mer- 
 
 chants 
 
< 41 ) 
 
 chatitsor VVholcfalc-Traders refufc their bcft Chapmen 
 unlcfs they come with ready Money in their hand ? Wo 
 be to bad Pay-mailers then, yet the Nation may be com¬ 
 forted in this, that then we fhalJ have fewer Bankrupts j 
 be it as it will, I am of the opinion that let whos’will be 
 in the Miniilrv, Men of fubitance and probity will never 
 want as much credit as they defire, and they that have 
 neither, if they ihould ever get it, will never be able to 
 keep it: A certain Wn'ter (jull as if he were an humble 
 Servant of the Party on all occalions) is reading us a 
 large Ledlnre on this Topic-Credit, he trims her up like 
 ® py Lady , and tells us flie can do Miracles and cap 
 Wonders ^ he had better a liken’d her to a loving Spamel- 
 Bitcb that will never Iwve a Mailer who ufes her well-, 
 blit if he gets up to ride her, llie links under him, Ihc 
 on do no more than Ihc can do. But what if under this 
 1 itle of private Credit they mean alfo the Paper Credit j 
 and would have us think that Trade could not fublift 
 Without it for want of a fufficient quantity of Spccie-Mo- 
 . nev to circulate Payments? But this, like the rcll, is all 
 neither Bank nor Bankers give out their Bills 
 r ^ adlually lodg’d in their hands, and tho’ 
 
 thclc Bills may pafs through twenty hands before one 
 ■comes to fetch the Money, yet there’s not one Penny more 
 or Icfsemploy’d in Trade than would have been if this 
 Money had been paid from hand to hand; the whole Bu- 
 Ixnefs is limply no more than this, Men in Commerce 
 muH always owe Money to fome, and have it to receive 
 mom others, and if they make a Bank their common 
 Calhier, their mutual occalions of receiving and paying 
 meet tluTc as in a Center, and they arecnaBicd by means 
 or the bank-BilJs to make their Payments to each other 
 by Aflignment, without the trouble of telling the Money, 
 and the Bank’s Securitv for the Payment creates a more 
 general Acceptance and Currency than the Bills of pri¬ 
 vate Men, becaufe Banks always pay at the firll call, wlien 
 a good Man may make you come two or three limes for 
 the Money; and thus Banks, and Paper-Credit, are 
 goon Eafc and Convcniency to Tradcfmen, but add no- 
 thingtothe encreafe or diminilhing of Trade or Money» 
 After all, when the Citizens (hall have any Rcafon to 
 
 doubt 
 
.... . ^ 4 ? ) 
 
 doubt the infallible Punaualfcy of the Bank or Bankers 
 they may blame themlelves for any Inconvenience they 
 may fufter, becaulc they might have prevented it by ta^ 
 king the pains to keep their own Caih as their Grand- 
 fothers didi tis true, fuch a turn of Caution and good 
 Husbandry might have hindered the Profit of the Han 
 kers, but it concerns not at all the Government, who 
 haveno reafon to trouble themfeives whether the tra- 
 f> their Bulinels wilclv or otherwife. 
 
 Our Party-Politicians alfo had better let the World rub 
 on in Its own way than make a noife about things which 
 they don t well undedland ^ and ’tis becauib the v Jamour 
 about them has been very great, that 1 have thouglit it 
 worth while CO Uiy fo much as might undeceive Inch as 
 have entertain’d wrong Notions thereof, and convince 
 them from the Nature and true Reafon ot the things that 
 Gourt-Changes can no more ieffen their real Value thin 
 oiir other Subilancc, and when’thefe 
 groundlefs Fears are abated, People will refume their for¬ 
 mer good Opinion of them at Icaff, thofe that continue 
 their Interdfs and don’t mind Stock-Jobbing, will find 
 their Stocks in thefe Companies to be employ’d to as 
 much Advantages as ever. 
 
 But thefe are not all the falfe and malicious Suggeftions 
 that the jP««fo-Party have invented to inflame the minds 
 of tlifir credulous Admirers; they teJl them nothing Ids 
 is intended than a total Change of hands, all m,n> fo be 
 turn’d oiit ot the Miniffry, and the Toriei to rule ail • 
 then the DijTcnters muff expeft another Occafional Con- 
 rormicy Bill, nay even their precious Liberty of Con- 
 fciCTicc will be taken away: Wc (hall foon fee whether 
 they have any ground for fuch Reports, or whether thev 
 are altogether hdiaoas and falfe ; let honeft Men biit 
 take nonce of, and remember the Pcrfbns who rrtakc 
 It their Bufinefsto talk up thefe Stories in Converfation, 
 that, when they fhall fee the Event to be otherwife 
 they may know who are the Tools of the Party, and ne¬ 
 ver more fufter them to impofe upon their Credulity • 
 m the mean time I darcaftLire them that thev have none’ 
 of thefe things to fear, and that Her Majeffy is as firmlv 
 rcfolv’d againft all Extreams as they can wifli, that She 
 
 will 
 
c 44; 
 
 will bear equal regard to Men that behave themfcives 
 well of either (ide, and defirci that the Names of Parties 
 and Faftions may be buried in Oblivion, and that wc 
 may have no other Mark of Diftinftion among us than 
 that of Knaves from honeif Men j that they will find 
 fuch of Tories (as People ftill call them) as fliall be 
 admitted into the Miniftry,will come into moderate mea- 
 fares, and when any of them a6l otherwife they will be 
 laid by •, and that the Queen has declar’d, as a Principle 
 Ihe will always (fand by, that fhc will never fuffer Her- 
 fclfto be prevail’d upon to make the Diffenters uneafy 
 by an Occafional Conformity Bill, or any thing like it; 
 and that She will inviolably maintain the Toleration 
 they now enjoy. 
 
 Nor will the Party flop here, but to (hew that they 
 have no Limits to their Scandal, they give out, that 
 nothing lefs is delign’d by thefe Changes, but that fuch 
 Men may be put into Power as will work about another 
 Revolution, and bring the Pretender in upon us •, they 
 tell us too of a Spunge that (hall wii^e out all the publick 
 Debts, and cancel the appropriated Funds. Foruter ca~ 
 tumniare^ ali^md adhareat, is an Old Maxim which they 
 praftife as freely as any People ever did before them, 
 they know that nothing can more expofe Men to the 
 Odium of the Nation than fuch Imputations,^ and there¬ 
 fore they labour to fix them on their Enemies without 
 the lead: regard to Truth : But fuch things can’t be 
 brought about without fome previous Indications,’twill be 
 then "time enough to fufpea fuch villainous defigns when 
 any thing like them appears, and, God be thank'd, 
 there is fo general a Difpolition in the People of this 
 Kingdom (notwithftanding their Party-Feuds and Divi- 
 lions) to fupport Her Majefty’s Title to the Crown, 
 the Succeffion in the Hotife of Hanover, and their own 
 Rights and Properties, that we have no reafon to di- 
 fturb our felves with fuch Apprehenfions, or think it in 
 the power of a few Minifters if they had the Will to at¬ 
 tempt them j and I am in no doubt but that wc ihall 
 fee fuch Men in the New Miniftrv as will foon convince 
 the Nation, by their Aftions, tlpat they will ihew as 
 much Zeal for the prefent Government, more Duty to 
 
tJ 
 
 '■^Sard to their own private Inte- 
 rclt, than their Predeccflbrs; in the mean time, we need 
 take no more pains to anfwer thefe Calumnies, than 
 
 Cardinal, and that was 
 to tell him in fliort, Bdlarmtn thou Ivefl. They have 
 y^ld us that thefe Changes would Ihoclc our Allii and 
 rorcc us into a diflionourable Peace, but we have feen 
 
 o '"^ perfuaded that 
 tnele Clalhings among our felves have encourag’d our 
 
 Enemies to break off the Treaty ^ I hope for the better 
 itiJi, and that in the next, more tegard will be had to 
 tne 1 rading Interell of Great Britain than thefe Minifters 
 Had fhewn in the former Preliminaries. 
 
 The laft of their Clamours which I (hall here take 
 notice of, is that againlt diffblving the Parliament. A 
 1 arhament, fay they, that have given fuch vaft and 
 cdcdtual Supplies to fupport the War, and done every 
 thing that could be exptftcd from them to fhew their 
 Iteddy Zeal to the Queen and Government; in all this 
 they did but their Duty, and why (hould wc fear that 
 the next will not do it as well? But it muft be faid 
 Withal, that the junto had wrought up fo great a maio- 
 nty into Engagements to hand by them on all Occa- 
 lions, by Voting unanimoufly in every thing that con¬ 
 cern’d the Minihry, that ’twas from thence they took 
 the Confidence to make thofc large Steps 1 have former¬ 
 ly mention’d j and therefore ’tis no wonder that they 
 are lo extreamly fond of this Parliament, and fo much 
 afraid of its Diffolution •, take aw.iy chi', and wc know 
 their Strength is departed from them j if thev can but 
 get this Parliament to fit, they have hope, and ’tis the 
 only hope they have left, that their Party will hill hick 
 t^ethcr and be hrongencnigh to retard the Supplies till 
 they have forc’d a kind of neceflity upon the Qiiecn to 
 ^do all that has been clone, and lubmit Herfclf to their 
 Dominion again ^ and perhaps Her Majehy may think 
 that a fufficient Reafon utterly to deprive them of that 
 Hopci of what Ufe is that Right of the Prerogative to 
 ^flblyc Parliaments, if it may not be exercis’d on fuch 
 Occauons? No Wrong can be done to the Sub;c(^s bv 
 it, for their Right of Eleflion remains free to them, 
 
 and 
 
and they may chnfe as many of the fame Members a- 
 galn as they think fir. After all, I muft own that 1 
 Ihould be glad that the chufinga New Parliament could 
 be avoided at a time when the People on both lidcs arc 
 in fo high a Ferment, 1 know alfo that a great many 
 good Men equally zealous for their Qi^ieen and Country, 
 would be cxtreamly gratifv’d tf it could be forborn •, and 
 I can’t doubt, but that fuch a Number of the true old- 
 principled Whigs (fuch asVoted for the Bill again 11 Officers 
 fitting in the Houfe) would come over into Her Ma)efl:y’s 
 Juft Meafurcs, that they would leave the Junto-VAny vc- 
 rv thin and impotent •, but I freely fubmit to the Wif- 
 dom of my Superiours. 
 
 I will, Sir, own to you,That I have always efpous’d the 
 true Principle; that is, to be heartily affeded to 
 the Court and Miniftry when they a£l uprightly for the 
 publickGood, and asheartily to oppofe them when they 
 do otherwife, and you’ll fee that 1 regard the thing it 
 felf fo much more than the bare Name of it, which 
 foinc Men have affum’d only to work their own ends, 
 that I have as freely animadverted on the late Proceed* 
 ings of fomc of my own Party as you have done upon 
 yours; but Hill 1 defire you’ll take notice, that as the 
 Number of the Whigs is made up for the moft part of 
 Men of Thought and Induflry, who undetftand their 
 Principle and arc. careful to preferve Liberty and Pro¬ 
 perty, Icftcem thcin to be generally honeft well-mean¬ 
 ing People, and to intend the publick Good ; but then 
 when their Leaders have proved otherwife, they have 
 been too apt to be deceiv’d and mifleJ by them through 
 the Confidence and good Opinion they have of them, 
 being blind to their Faults, and conftantly ftanding by 
 them in Oppofition to thofc they account Tories even tho’ 
 the former fliould purfuc wrong meafures, and the later 
 be in the right. 
 
 On the other fide, I take the Generality of the Tories 
 to confift moftly of a loofer and lefs thoughtful fort of 
 People, who look no further than the Outfide of things, 
 and take up with Notions they don’t underftand, 
 condemning the very fame things in others which they 
 have practis’d thcmfelves ^ they are mightily influenc’d 
 
 by 
 
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 by the High-flying Clergy, and dance after their Pine in 
 every thing, and we fee what a Madnefs thev are run into 
 for the (i encing an Incendiary •, What a Noife do thev 
 make with their Nonfcnfical AddrclTes and Furious InS- 
 lenc Sermons ? We know that the Queen has both an 
 Hereditary and Parliamentary Title, but without the 
 
 ia/ 7 happily fill’d the Throne • 
 
 What do they mean then by crying up the Hereditary.' 
 and llightingthe Parliamentary Title? And wliat Noii- 
 lenjc is It m them to lay fo great Strefs on the former 
 and yet at the lame time to profefs their Adherence to 
 the Succeffion in the Houfe of Hanover, which can ore 
 rend to no Claim but bv Aft of Parliament > But if 
 their own Ignorant Partizans don’t fee, we know what 
 the Contrivers intend by it *, for one of their own Wri¬ 
 ters has told us plainly, that Hereditary Rhht, and the 
 Natural Aliegtance due to it, is a (ittbborn thing, and ‘will not 
 bend even to an of Parliament, nor to a tboufand Vjurpa^ 
 ttons. This is plain enough without a Comment. Wlw 
 do they make fuch an Out cry againft Rebellion and Re¬ 
 bellious Principle.s, when, (except the notorious Jaco¬ 
 bites who herd with them, and what has lately appear’d 
 on their own fide),ihe whole Nation is full ofDutv Loy¬ 
 alty, and Hearty Affcaion to Her Majcfty? ToVhac 
 end do they cry out againft Republicans, when at this 
 dav there is not the leaft Appearance of any Party chat 
 affca any Change of the Eftablilh’d Government ? For 
 my own part, I am fufpidous that the Non-jurorsand the 
 High-Chiirch Clergy, who think their Ecclefiaftical Do¬ 
 mination too much clip’d by our prefent Confticution 
 are at the bottom of all thefe Out cries, that if polliblc 
 tlicy might ftir up their giddy Devotocs to bring in the 
 Pretender, with whom they may imagine that they could 
 make their own Terms. Such talfe and malicious Sug- 
 geftions as the above-mentioned, do indeed Ihcw the true 
 Spirit of Torifm x, but then we muft do fo much Right 
 to others who are reckon’d of that Party, as to acknow- 
 Idge that there are many Gentlemen among them, who 
 tho’ they may have a more than needful Concern for the 
 Monarchy and the Eftablilh’d Church, arc yet zealous for 
 the fupportlng Her Majefty s Title and the Hamvtr Suc- 
 
 ceflion. 
 
 
( 4 ^ 
 
 cdTion, and do finccrely approve the Revolution-Prin¬ 
 ciples. and abhor the Slavifh Doftritie of Unlimited 
 Paflive Obedience : And thefe do, in refped to Civil 
 Government fo nearly mean the fame thing with the 
 honeft, well meaning,' difinterefted Whigs, that if thefe 
 two forts would but let fall their mutual Jealouiies, and 
 unite themfelvcs in all thofe things that apparently con¬ 
 cern the publick Good, the Nation might be fo happy 
 as to fee a fpeedy end put to our Faftious Divihons, and 
 the deiigning Grandees on both Sides would find them- 
 fcives left without Followers tofliift for themfelvcs. 
 
 *Tis moft certain that all good Men mean well, and 
 that their Animolities again!! each other on account of 
 their differing Sentiments, arife more from the prejudices 
 of Education and Converfation, than from a through 
 Examination and well-grounded Knowledge of the 
 Points ill Controvcrly, and the Strife between them 
 feems indeed to be more about words than the things 
 themfelves/othat the admitting but a few modeftand eafy 
 Diftinaions would go a great way towards reconciling 
 their various Opinions: To inftance jn fomc Particu¬ 
 lars •, the Tories value themfelvcs highly upon their Prin¬ 
 ciples of Loyalty to Princes, and fay they are net to be 
 rcfifted, butmuft be obey’d Actively or PafTively, thus 
 ht the Whfgs agree with them, and allow that Lawful 
 Authority is not to be refiftcd •, th.at Civil Government 
 is the Or'dinance of God for the procuring and confer- 
 vina the Peace and Quiet of hnman Societies •, that ’tis 
 the indifpcnfible Dmv of all Chriftians to live peaceably 
 and quietly under their Princes and Magiftrates, to reve¬ 
 rence their Perfons and efteem them Sacred, and if ip 
 any cafe they cannot obey them Aftivcly, yet they are 
 bound to olTcythcm Paflivclyin every thing relating to 
 their juft Power; this, and nothing lefs, is what they 
 think fufficient to anfwerthe End of Humane GoVerm 
 ment * But then the Laudean Church men have, from 
 thefe true Principles, taught by the Scriptures, and be¬ 
 liev’d by every good Chriftian, extorted .cxtraVaganE 
 Confcquences no-where warranted by the Sacred Wri¬ 
 tings, and utterly deftruaive of the Rights of Mankind, 
 and contrary to the common Diftates of Reafon and the 
 
 Laws 
 
s 
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 Lava of Nature ; they would perfuade us tlwt all Kings are Jure Divitn 
 phc’d above the Laws, and accountable to no Power, on Earth for rbeir 
 Mlfgovcrnmcnr, that we arc bound to fubmit oui ft Ives to thtm with ad 
 Uulimired Paffive Obedience, and if they (hould violate alJ the Laws of Li* 
 berty and Property, and ihould attempt to cake fr-.m us our Etiates, Wives* 
 Children, nay our Lives mcerly to gratify their own Will and Plcaiure, we 
 are not to make the lead Rehdance on pain of Eternal Dutnnarion. This 
 now is fiich a Doilrioe of Slavery that if perverts the very end fur which 
 God Almighty inftirured Governnienr, and is fo contrary to his Divine At¬ 
 tributes of Wifdom, Judice and Goodnefs, tha% rho’ it may pafs for goosi 
 Mahowctdnifw I am fore therc^s no Chridianiry in it: The Scriptures in* 
 deed give us a Defeription of what wicked Kings would do, foch a$ God 
 gave to his People in his Anger and took away in his Wrath, and their 
 Tyranny is denounc’d as a Curfe upon the Jfraehus for rcjc6^ing-tbcir God, 
 but is no-where approv'd, nor were the People bound to fubmic to it; rh« 
 one Indance (befides many others) of the Ten Tribes rejci^ing Rehohaw^ 
 and making Jereiosm their King, and that this is faid to be from the Lord, 
 J8 fuflScient to confute Gaiofayers: All Hidory is full of Examples of tha 
 People’s rclcuing thcmfelvcs from the Tyranny and Opprertion of their bad 
 Princes whenever they were able j the Hugonots in France^ the Outch and 
 the Scots, have in thefe later times taken up Arms againd their Lawful 
 Princes when they opprefled them in their Civil and Religious Rights, and 
 yet they have been approv'd therein by all good Prottdants. The fVkigi 
 therefore fay, that the Precepts of the Apoftle enjoin fuch an Obedience as 
 is due to all Lawful Government, and claim not the lead Pretence to Re/i« 
 dance, but in fuch extream Cafes when the Prince breaks through the 
 Fundamental Laws of his Country, and fets himfelf to dedroy Lioerry, 
 property. Religion, and all that is near and dear to the People, then they 
 believe that Chndianity does not require Free-born Subje^ls to fubmit them- 
 drives to become Slaves, but that they may wfe fuch Power as God has gir 
 ▼en them, to defend and preferve rhemrelves, a d to redorc the Laws and 
 Liberties of their Country ; this mud be admitted by all who approve of the 
 late Happy Revelation, wherein there feemsa Dehgn of Providence roex^ 
 pofe the great Sticklers for Paffive Obedience and Non Rciidanpc* who, 
 when they began to feel the Rod of Perfecution .upon their own Backs^ 
 foon forgoc their own DoiElrincs, were ihe drd that invited then Pr*»rcp 
 of Orange to come over with an Army, and jom'd heartily w»th the Whigs 
 to rclid the late King and refeue |he Nation from tlje impending 
 
 Ruing; and thus wc have fe«n that how much foever thefe parties have 
 differ’d in words, ihcy^both agree in the necediry of the thing;, and lot 
 thofe that have fince drain'd their Inventions to perfuade the World.fhac 
 marching with an Army againd the late KJng/^wrj, firing upon his Forces 
 at Readings and driving him out of the Kingdom was no Rcfidaoce, but 
 dill good Paffive Obedience, their ridiculous Sophidry dcfrrves no other 
 AnCwcr but Coutempr. But the Tories think this Notion ot Reliflancc eu* 
 courages Trcaions and Rebellions, for every one may think bimdlf a com¬ 
 petent Judge when the King mifgoverns, and confequently may oppofe him; 
 Wc fay DO, *Cis not Ai2s of private Injudicc or meer Errors in G* vtrrmcuC 
 that can warrant a People to refid the Autliority that God has plac’d over 
 thciPi here wc own Faflivc Qbcdience to he Chfidi^os and con- 
 
( 50 ) 
 
 *’ i B“' '^hen a Prince (hall cxcrciferc- 
 
 AekJnt! i OpP’"*®®" “p°'' his People, (liall difpeufe with 
 
 ^5 own wnu*;, vf r' Conftirution. and to make 
 
 as Vifible tr. rh " h f *w ^ *’'® ^o'^^mment, and all this is 
 
 Z £i T ^he Sun that (hines at Koon. then, and never 
 
 t.l then IS the t,me (,t no other mean, be left) for the People to have re- 
 
 r unprejudic’d 
 
 « ka?d.mi. h *’" 7 '^)'/“'’'"'^^'’ theChrillian Doarine of Obed.ence, 
 
 «Uent sfr™ ’^n “f Archbilhop of r.ri in his Ex- 
 
 «ll nt&r^o„ preach d before the Houfe of Lords on the 30th of January, 
 
 «!//»>country are the 
 Rule of the Subject Obedience and not meerly the Will of the Prince 
 
 ry^nKnA Suppottets of Monar- 
 
 Pr^ncioles ^Thpf'^T hlcn of Republican and Antiraooatchical 
 
 Principles. Thefe Terms indeed render them as diredly oppofite in their 
 Opinions as Liberty is to Slavery, and yet. when what each of them mean 
 by there Terms ,, fa.rly explain’d, I believe it will appear that the honert 
 andoodicioas Men on both Sides arc equally enclin’d to fupport and oppofe 
 he fame kinds both of Monarchical and Commonwealth Governments. Ho- 
 htieuns have diftihgailhcd Monarchy into Abfolute and Limited : Abfolute 
 Monarchy is where rhe Prince in his own Perfon is above all the Laws, and 
 governs alone by his own Will and I'Icafure, ihe Lives. Liberties, and E- 
 (lates of all his Subjects (or rather Slave,) being mtirely at his own D.fpo- 
 
 "*** **■ ''■* Pl^fure. bis Angle Will 
 
 S "'hatfoever Taxes here- 
 
 PrW ofther«rki, the King of Perfia, and other Eaftern 
 
 Princes govern after this manner, and the French Ring, with fome other 
 
 com'^hrH Have foppiefs’d the Authority of the,r Parliaments, 
 
 come little (hort of it. What they call a Limned Monarchy is, where rhe 
 
 I MaJe^y equal with the other, 
 
 u' "f the Government, but has not ih 
 
 h.mfelt Authority to make abrogate, or difpei.fe with the (landing Laws 
 of the Kingdom or to raife Taxes npon the People, but the Parl^ment 
 
 hf I P»t»'-'-P“<= with him in the Power of Leginatjon. 
 
 and they have a Right to enquire into any M.fnanagement of the Govern¬ 
 ment, and to pun.Qi fuch Minifters or Officers as have afted contrary to 
 T Petriment of the publick Weal! in 
 
 o °t pardon the Delinquents j and 
 
 rtm U hi I defended and fecured to 
 
 “'•tbfmall Alteration, was 
 r t' '^■««doms of Europe by the Gothic People, in 
 
 fo thi’* Hereditary, but not always ronfin’d 
 
 m Birth-Right. A Republick or Common, 
 
 inmanj* Power ot both Legiflarion and AdrainiBration is plac’d 
 
 TuS’leP fobjeastor their Wifdom or Merit, without 
 
 ouf Mnnl ^1 Government. Now 
 
 m ITu ! T “"r Conftitution is call’d a 
 
 fam/pn*”x Advantage of the word to attribute to our King, 
 the fame Powers that are taken by an Abfolnte Monarch, and havemagnt- 
 
 fy’d 
 
-rtnctents could have forefcen how much the 
 
 Word Monarchy Would have nerverrpd ii’c: f Vimnin.'rtr, 
 
 tion, that the People rather chofe to fet. u|i a Broomftick and 
 ubn^t to It, than to be without a finale ^ad or Supreani lO- 
 the Government, and it appear'd! plainly in the CbnvehrJSnii 
 Parliament, that the number of thoie was very inconltderable 
 who Ihew d any Inclination to change our limited Monarchy, 
 mto a direa Commonwealth, fo that the Refleaion upon'the 
 
 at this day is wholly malicious and groundicis on that 
 Account. 
 
 In like manner our religious Contefts are more about Cere* 
 monies and Church Difeiphne than theWorlhipof God, which 
 Conhlts in Spirit and Truth, and therein I am afraid all Parties 
 Will be tounJ too much wanting. God created Man in a State 
 or Innocence, Uprightnefs and Spiritual Union with his Maker, 
 ^t through the Difbbedience of our firft Parents this Heavenly 
 Condition was loft, and the Curfe of Sin,Death and Hell entail'd 
 upon all their Pofterity i hence it is that every Man, whofe- 
 rioufly examines his own Heart, finds by experience that 
 hi3 Will and Affeaions are deprav’d , fo that his chiefeft 
 Cove and Defire are turn’d away from the Supreme Good 
 Snd plac d upon the Creatures and worldly enjoyments; the 
 foie End of Religion then is to reform and correa our evil 
 Natures and corrupt Inclinations; in order to which, God in 
 bis ipfioite Mercy hath given us Divine Help? and Means fuifi- 
 
 P a 
 
 cicni 
 
(50 ; 
 
 cient to recover m out of this undone State and Condition \ and 
 toconduA us to his Heavenly Kingdom j the firft and Foundati¬ 
 on of all was his promife to fend his only Son,who in the fulnefi 
 of time came into the World, took upon him our Nature, be- 
 parae acquainted with our Infirmities, and was made like unto 
 us in all thingSj Sin excepted ^ having perform'd the Will of 
 hii Father upon Earth, he gave himfell up unto Death asa Sa¬ 
 crifice to appeafe the Wrath of God for the Sins of d(frMan- 
 kind >, alter his Rcfurridtion from the Dead he lent forth the 
 Hol^ Spirit, and Ihl-dabroad the Love of God in the hearts of 
 ibeEaichlul, and gave them his Grace to enable them to live 
 lllghreoufly andGodiy in this prefentevil World, then he af- 
 pended into Heaven, >^here he fits at the Right Hand of God 
 fhe Father making fnrerceffion for us, till he (hall come again 
 at the laft Day to judge both the Quick and the Dead according 
 tDOjthejr deeds done in*ihe Body • and as God has thus given Ul 
 bis Son, be hath truly wi:h him given us all things, all fecon- 
 Helps and Means for oqr encouragement to perfevere in 
 ebe way^iof fpirituai Religion ^ fiich as the Holy ScriptufeSj 
 the Ordinance?^ Cfiilrth Fuiowfhips, and Communion of Saints, 
 ar^ Teachets^ with all other heavenly Gifts and Graces, 
 for the edifying ihe Body in Lore, and building up in the rnoft 
 holy Faith. This*!thcn is fuch a Syftem of Religion, as 1 
 ^hink all Ghriftiarts do agree in ^ and cho’ ail reafcnable Men 
 bold for a that the End is always more worthy than the 
 
 Mean? nectlfary to the attaining it, yet fuch is the miferable 
 Apoftacy of pfofefs’d.Chriftiuns, that both Clergy and Laycty 
 pf all f 9 T^^ have manifefted a much greater Zeal for the Means 
 pr outward form of Rtligion, than forthe End, which is the 
 pbangi jg our deprav’d Nature and (an6fifying the Soul •, they 
 have wrangled, fought, and contended Id long and fb bitterly a- 
 pouf the fhtnoWj that they ftem ro have loft the Virtue, Pow- 
 ier and Subllance of it j nay to fuch a degree of Profanenefs ar^ 
 Men grown/ that ’fis too frequent to hear fome Swear and exe¬ 
 crate for their Church ^ but we feldom (ee the fierceft Conten* 
 ders for Religion Ihew. any in their Lives and Converfation j 
 whilft the foher pra<^ical Chriftian finds be has enough ro do to 
 watch agajnft the infirmities of his own Nature, to Mafterhis 
 own WiJl, and to mortify his carnal Aflfeifions and finful Incli- 
 natjcM)?, and is fo ftnfible of his own Unworthinefs, that he’s 
 much readier to judge and condemn himfclf than others ^ be 
 
 falls 
 
TH . 
 
 faHa not out With hw Brethicn by the way, but is full of Meek- 
 ne(s, rcndernefs, Love aid Compaffion, and bears good will 
 and univtTlal Charity to al Chriftiana, without regaiS to iheit 
 differing Forim oi Worfliip: How little of this Traper do we 
 Ue in the condu«a of mant who pretend to be Mipiflers of the 
 
 <il° ^ Sermons with Reviling, 
 
 r TI^vedfive, to ft.r up Men’s minds to Wrath and 
 Uifcord ? May we not then from their works conclude thatthefe 
 have «r> favour o' th-ihing$ of God, but are of the fame Spi¬ 
 rit wrh (uch whom our Satiour denominated Wolves in Sheeo’a 
 dothmg and that they ate of their Father the Deri), who^fe 
 Woik» they "Ju? rij bightime for the Multitude to open their 
 ^ and look about them to fee whether thefe Guides are Ica- 
 Airgthein^ and for the Government to awake, and provide 
 fuch Laws as may flop all Mouths and Pens from weakeninff 
 our Cor.lhtution, betraying our Liberties, expofingthe Revo- 
 lu iw, itnd undermining tie Qiien^s Parliamentary Title and 
 the Proteffant Succellion. But thefe High-flying Clergy-men 
 would place th^elvM m a Station above the reach of Human 
 Laws they tell us they are Jure Dtvho, God’s Heritage, a 
 Royal Pricffhood, touch lot mine Anointed, ^c. We fee 
 rtity would be flying as high as Popery itfdf if we would let 
 em : But though thefe gbnous Titles are predicated of the 
 Divine Spiritual Gofpel-Oiurch and Miniftry, let not thefe 
 Men be too forward to attribute them to themfeivcs, till thev 
 hrft convince us that they hiyc no ambition to exceed the bounds 
 ot the Gt^pcl difpenfationj ’is not enough for them to tell us that 
 they are the SucedTors of th? ApoftIes,unlefs withal they flicw u* 
 that they arc aaed and guided by the fame Spirit that dwelt in 
 
 yield to them that the Ofiice 
 •f Chnftian Bifliojw Paftors, dfc. are of Divine Inffitution, 
 burthen let them dilbnguih with us between what is Divine^ 
 ^d what IS bat Human in the Exercife and Appendices of thofe 
 Othces i many Powers and Emoluments have been added to 
 them which were not know, or thought on in the Days of the 
 Apoftles, fuch as Lordly Tiles, Temporal Pofleflions, Jurifdi- 
 ttions and Immunities, with the divers Forms, Powers, Litur. 
 g^es and Ceremonies of Natonal Churches, and the Dominion 
 of the Clergy oyer the Layery; thefe things may be ufefui to 
 Religious Societies fo far as bey conduce to their Support De¬ 
 cency and good Order^ buttre nqt indeed any part^ true Spi- 
 
 , ritual 
 
I 5r4 ; 
 
 ritual Religion,no more than the Garment is a part ot the Body, 
 and may be enlarged or diminifhed, put on, or put off, as the 
 differing drcumftances of time and place, and the Inclinations 
 of the prince and People may require : In ftiort, we ought to 
 diftingnifli between the Political Churches of Nations, which 
 areiubjefit to be fet up and pulPd down, limited and reform’d 
 by the: AtKhority of the Chriftian Magiftrate ; and theinvifible 
 Chuixh of Chritt, which confifts ot all fuch of ihc whole Body 
 of Chriftians, who Worfliip God in Spirit and Truth, whofc 
 Powers and Privileges are not Carnal, but Spiritual, andean 
 never be alter’d or taken away ; God grant that all Men of 
 good-will, of whatfoever perfwafion may be found of this num-^ 
 ber, without which all our Zeal for the outward Forms of Re¬ 
 ligious Worfliip will ftand us in no (lead, in this J am fure all 
 fincere Virtuous and Pious Chriftians agree with each other, and 
 for the reft, they do but prophane the venerable Name of God 
 by their pretences to Religion ; and if fuch (hould come to be 
 made Legal Biftiops and Paftors of Political Churches, thpy 
 niight yet have no part or portion in the Royal Priefthood or 
 in God’s Heritage. 
 
 -I am very (enQble that my Argument has led nae to fpeak of 
 things which may touch fomc great Men whom I yet honour in 
 my heart, but all the refpeft I was able to fhew on fuch an oc- 
 cafion, was to forbear their Names; the Fa6i:s I have mention¬ 
 ed are known to be true, ’tis therefore their own Actions that 
 refletff: the Cenfure, not the Relation ; I have the utmoft aver- 
 fion to detra6t from the merit of fuch who have deferv’d well 
 of their Country, but when any Man has done the moft glo-^ 
 nous A£lions, has defervedly gain’d an univerfal Efteem both 
 at home and abroad \ and bas obtain’d both the grcaicft Riches 
 and the bigheft Honours that his Country is capable to confer, 
 he ought ftill to conGder on his parr, that he has done but his 
 Duty, that he has been bountifully rewarded, and to remember 
 that he is ftill but a fubjeif, and the greateft of fubjefts owe 
 the fame regard to the good Pleafure and juft Con^mands of his 
 Sovereign as the meaneft Peafant in the Kingdom j we know 
 that the greateft and wifeft of Men are ftill lubjeft to human 
 Infirmities, and may have ftronger Xeraptacions to ambitious 
 Excefles than fuch as move in lower Spheres ^ in fuch a Cafe, 
 the beft of our wifhes in his behalf (hould be, that hc^may be 
 reform’d by fome feafonabl? reproof, and be prefervM fron^ 
 
 falling 
 
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 falling into any fucb txtream as might cancel the merit of his 
 paft ServiceSj and in the mean time, tho’ we are willing to 
 bear a large mcafnre of Refpea and Good-will for him j yet 
 our indifpenfible Duty and Love to our moft Excellent Qyeen 
 and our Country ought always to engage our chiefeft regard 
 to them. 
 
 Thus, Sir, 1 have taken the Occafion of your Letter, to con¬ 
 vince the honed Men on both Sides, that they have b^n all a- 
 long deceiv’d and cheated through the Opinion and Confidence 
 they have had of their refpetftive Parties, who have prov’d to 
 us like a Whip-faw, which foever Extream is pull’d, the Na* 
 tion is dill miferably fawn between them. ’Tis time for us 
 then to grow wifer, and for all fuch as fincerely defire the pub- 
 lick Good and Welfare of their Country, to bury their Ammo- 
 fities, and labour to reconcile their imaginary Differences, that 
 they may no longer fuffer themfelves to be made ufe of as Tools, 
 and to be play’d againd one another by crafty and defigning’ 
 Men, who regard them no further than as they can make them 
 fubfervient to their own purpofes. It would be a great Hap- 
 pinefs to the Nation, if in Cities and Corporations, both Sides 
 would meet together in a friendly manner to confult of their 
 Elections for Reprefentatives in Parliament, and unite in ma¬ 
 king choice of Men of the greated Integrity and Probity, with¬ 
 out any confideration of their Party ; a Man that is Wife, Ho¬ 
 ned and Independent, will never be led by any Party to a com¬ 
 pliance in fuch matters as he thinks detrimental to his Country-, 
 they know the temper and qualifications of Gentlemen who 
 live in their Neighbourhood, but fuch as are wholly Strangers 
 to them, and live at a didance, they will have reafon to fuf^iff 
 as fet up to ferve, net their Country, but themfelves or their Pa¬ 
 trons : Pity it is to fee, that People who have fo noble a Pri¬ 
 vilege as tbaf of ufing their own Freedom and Judgment in 
 chuflng the Makers and Confervators of their Laws and Liber¬ 
 ties, fliould throW' it away and Sacrifice it to the Solicitations 
 and Recommendations of Men in Power, or, which is worfe 
 fell it to thofe that bid mod -, would the free People of Great- 
 Britain but once exert their own Power to reform the Houfe of 
 Commons by eleiffing a Majority of Virtuous and Defintereffed 
 Members, we might foon expedt to fee the publick Manage¬ 
 ments reform’d, and fuch an improvement might be made of 
 the invaluable BlefSng we enjoy in Her prefent Majedy,as would 
 
 root 
 
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 foot out ouf Fa<9:ion?, heal our Breacbesj and fo equally fettle 
 the Bounds of Prerogative and Liberty, that no room fhould 
 be left for clalbing about them for the future j oar Lrc Kin^s 
 have bad lb ftrong Inclinations to extend rheir Power to gain all 
 the Advantages they could upon the People, that thofe Courts 
 have always had feparate and diftiniSf Interefts of their own to 
 carry on, which, ( as I have before (hewn ) was the firft caufe 
 of all our Difcords *, b«c our prcfent Qyeen has never niani:efted 
 the lead regard to any Intercft divided from that of her People, 
 and has indeed no other thing fo much at heart as the eafe and 
 tranquility of her SubjciSfs *, this then is the happy Conj jnfture, 
 wherein nothing but our own Divilions and Folly can h ndei' us 
 from making our Queen (afe and ca(y, and our val ;able Rights 
 as fecurc as our hearts can defire, and leaving them fo to our Po- 
 fterity ; and ’tis fur that end only, that I have tulten this pains 
 to ftir up my Country-men to be wife for themfelves, and to 
 beware of the Impofitions and fpecious Pretences ot their guil- 
 ful Managers. 
 
 For your felf, Sir, though we are equally Strangers, and 
 like fo to remain, yet "our happier Style ihews me your Supe¬ 
 rior Capacity, and my own Inability to contraif, like you, my 
 Matter into a narrow compafs, but if I have been able to ex- 
 pofe the Faults of fucb who have been the unhappy Occafion 
 of the prefent Diftetnpers of the Nation, and to vindicate the 
 Proceedings of thofe who are endeavouring to reform what has 
 been amifs, and to put the publick Affairs into a better w.ay, 
 
 1 hope the fincerity of my Intentions will atcone for my prolixi¬ 
 ty and the weaknefs of my performance- i conclude then 
 with a Precept of the Ancients fit to be obferv’d in thefe timesj 
 and with afTuring you that I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Tublica privatis Seeeraite, Sacra frefanis^ ^ 
 
 Tturt andmy Countryt 
 very bumble Servara^ &C, 
 
A 
 
 SUPPLEMENT 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 Faults on Both Sides : 
 
 Containing the 
 
 Compleat History 
 
 O F T H £ 
 
 Proceedings of a PARTY ever 
 fince the REVOLUTION- 
 In a Familiar DIALOGUE be¬ 
 tween S T E D D T and T V R 
 
 S’ S T aVe ^ Officers 
 
 Which qay fertre to Explain 
 
 Sir THOMAS DOUBLE; 
 
 And to (how 
 
 How far the Late Parliament were Right 
 m Proceeding againft Dr. SACHErEKELL 
 
 by way of impeachment. ’ 
 
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 preface 
 
 TO THE 
 
 reader. 
 
 A s the Faults on both (ides 
 have given a general Satis- 
 Jaction to Impartial Men, and' 
 wch as wi(h well to their Native 
 Country; fo I d<Jubt not but the 
 Method which is taken in this 
 Treatife, will be as Acceptable: 
 The Author has no Defign but to 
 lay the Faults were they ought to be, 
 and Honeftly to Ihow which of the 
 Contending Parties are the beft 
 Friends to our Conftitution, and 
 are like to prove the beft Subjeds 
 A 2 to 
 
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to Her Majefty, Tile Reader will 
 here find a True and Compleat 
 HI S TO R Y of the Proceedings of 
 a Farty ever fince the Revolution; 
 ■and may fee how far the iate Houfe 
 
 i I • _ ere in the R ight, in 
 their Proceedings againft Dr, Sach^. 
 vereU [ fliall not fpend much time in 
 prefacing, but rather refer the Rea¬ 
 der to the Book it felf, which I doubt 
 not, if he be an Impartial One, will 
 give him Satisfoiiion j by fliowing 
 him what Methods have been taken 
 by a Party of Men amongft us, to 
 Kuine our Conftitution i and how 
 far It may be Convenient to Truft 
 them again. 
 
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 THE 
 
 States-Man out of Place, &c, 
 
 T H E World has been told. That the 
 Whiggs arc very much Baulk’d, hand- 
 Ibmely Banter’d, and wittily Expos’d, 
 in a late Book, Entituled) &V Thomas 
 Doable at Courts &c. The firft Jeft in the Ac¬ 
 count is. That Nobody ever told them fo but the 
 thor iand moft Men that have Charity for the Au¬ 
 thor, iay. When he told as fo^ he did not believe it 
 himfelf. 
 
 Two Gentlemen meeting over a Bottle, and 
 reading this Book, found the Malice run fo high, 
 and theWit run fo low, that it mov’d them to en¬ 
 ter a little into Difeourfe upon the lame Subjeds. 
 The Amufement and Suggeftions, which, tho’ un- 
 proVd in the leaft, the Author would have call’d 
 Satyr, were fo grofs, that at firft they began 
 to be Surfeited with the Thoughts of running 
 through the whole • Rapfody j but recolleaing 
 therafelves, they^ concluded that they would 
 enter by way of Conference upon the fubjeft 
 of the late management and turns in the State, 
 and perhaps, by Difeourfing thefe things freely, 
 in which they were both throughly verft by their 
 long experience, they might better clear up to 
 one another the true ftate of our Cafe in this 
 A 2 Natioi^ 
 
Nation, and expofc the Malitious Suggeftions 
 of the pretended Dialougues, than by entrine 
 into part, or by ^ taking any of the Redicnlous 
 Schemes, mention d therein, to pieces by them' 
 fclves. 
 
 Wc lhaU bring our Two Gentlemen to fpcak 
 dircftly to Things, without fpending Eleven or 
 Twelve Pages about Introdudions to Difeourfe, 
 and faying fomething or other, which fignifie* 
 nothing, of their Grand-Fathers, their Great E- 
 ftates, <rc. 
 
 Steddy. Coufin Tura-KouMd^ How do you do? 
 
 I am very Glad to fee you : I find you are a Bro* 
 ther of Affliftion, I hear you are out too, 
 
 7ura.RMnd. It’s very true, I had ray difmifs 
 this Morning. 
 
 Siedd;^. It’s the more Surprizing to the Town, 
 bccaufe wc aU knew you were come in to the 
 New Court Mcafurcs: Indeed it is not ftrange 
 to me i for I always believed you had Turn’d a- 
 gainft your fedatefl: Thoughts, and that, when 
 your Judgment return’d upon you, it would bring 
 you round again to your old Honeft Party who 
 you were at firft fo Zealous for. 
 
 Turn-Kound. Indeed I did at firft go in with 
 them •, they made their pretences fo fpecious, and 
 talk'd fo feemlngly fincercly, that I really thought 
 they would A(ft like Men of Temper and Modera¬ 
 tion, and that they only fought to reftifie fomc 
 Exorbitances, which, indeed, I was as unealie at as 
 other People; But now I think I find what they ' 
 drive at j That the Old Game is to be Reviv’d; that 
 
 the Qi -n is bat to Change her Rulers, as they 
 
 call ’ens, not at all, to be more at Liberty : and F 
 doubt that in the end, i?ic will be either Abandon’d 
 
 or 
 
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 or given Up: And theft things have opened my 
 
 Steddy. I am glad your Eyes are open ■, and I 
 doubt not but m time, the Eyes of all the ' eople 
 m England^ a jew who are Willfully blind only ex~ 
 upted^ will be opened, and when this Illuniination 
 happens, thefe People will have Rcafon to look 
 about them. 
 
 7uri^Rour,d. Well. I hope you will ufeme Gent- 
 ly, I have been a Tory but a little while,-1 may 
 HT' the Excurfion, by expofing the 
 
 Villainous part I fee they are aSing, for a fair 
 warning to others, that they be not deluded or 
 f^u^d ; Penitents are always an Advantage to 
 the Church, and Ihould be received kindly, you 
 know there is more joy in Heaven^ &c. 
 
 Steddy. You are to be the more valued, becaufc 
 you come off from them upon mccr Convidion, 
 when you might have made your Fortune with 
 them j you can have no motives to come Round 
 to us, juft now we have no Places to give, no 
 Honours to confer, no Encouragements for a Falfe 
 Brother among them to betray them to us j yours 
 moft be the mecr ftrength of Rcafon and Con- 
 viftioa. 
 
 7wrn-Romd. Why truly I am not ftuddying my 
 Interefts in it, that’s Confeft; but to tell you the 
 truth, I fee fo much Mifchief in their Delign, fo 
 much Tricking, Sharping, and Cheating in their 
 Methods, and fuch Iharing the Spoil before they 
 have gotten the Viftory that it filled me with 
 an Averfionto the bafenefs of the whole. 
 
 Steddy. I do not doubt you might have had 
 your lhare among them too. 
 
 Turn Round They have not been wanting to 
 pake me very good Offers, befides what 1 enjoy’d 
 
 among 
 
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 ttftm before ; but it would not do : I muH; own 
 I look’d upon my felf as a Tray tor to my Coun' 
 try, all that little while I was amoug them, that 
 was felling Her to the Enemy, only to get a little 
 lharc in the Purchafe Monty. 
 
 Steddy. 1 make no queftion they have made yon 
 good Offers, and are doubtlefs at a great lofs 
 for want of you: I know they valued thcmfelves 
 mightily upon you when they began to make 
 'their hew appearance ; They knew the Interereft 
 you have in the Country was Great, and however, 
 perhaps, they might let you into as few of their 
 Secrets as they con’d, being willing not to fhock 
 that Principle they knew well enough you afted 
 from, yet they knew how fatal it wou’d one time 
 or other be to have you againft them % therefore I 
 do not Wonder, that they endeavour’d aD they 
 could to engage you to them. 
 
 Turn-Round. Truely they took fome low ftepa 
 that way, and fuch as I thought they would hard¬ 
 ly have ftoop’d too. 
 
 Stoddy. I cannot conceive what they could offer 
 you ; for as you pofleft already one of the belt 
 Pofts in the Kingdom, it was not in their Power 
 to do much more for you. 
 
 Turn-Round. You art greatly Miftaken, there 
 are new Methods of making a Man’s fortune be- 
 fides Places j but I am not about to turn Evi¬ 
 dence againft them, let them alone, they will en¬ 
 tangle thcmfelves when they get a little further. 
 
 Steddy. I ask your Pardon, I was not fiftiag, 
 nor am 1 curious to look into the Secret part of 
 this New Management ; I have fecn fo much of 
 the Introdudlon, that I need not look into the 
 Reft of the Book: But one thing you may give 
 me leave to ask of you. Pray, How did you codie 
 
 to 
 
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 to ibcw your Alienation to them, tho’ if there 
 bc anyfecret in it, pray Pardon the Queftion i 
 and leave rae without an Anfwer. 
 
 Tura-RonmL No Secret in it at all. I’ll be as 
 plain in my Anfwer to yo\j, as I was in the Thing 
 It felr to them, when firft they propos’d to me the 
 Hands j 1 confefs the Pretences are 
 Plaufibk, ai^ I readily enough came in to them ^ 
 1 pad feen fome People Uneafic, the Minillry, 
 we thought, engrofsd the Management too 
 
 attempted to a^ upon the 
 call differing Point from them, with too much 
 crerity ; d with too much eagernefs and 
 Profits pf PlaccS) and Preferments 
 ot the Nation* 1 had been formerly concern’d, 
 when thofe we call’d the Juntto, or ^hige 
 Lord^ were of the lame Opinion, and found 
 thcMmiftry were fatis^’d the Pretence was fo 
 Jolt, tntt they opened to them and took them in i 
 but {found ftill this Opening took in but a few. 
 Who temg, as it were, fatisfy’d for themfelves, 
 abandonea rtc Popular Part ot their Pretenfions, 
 and left t^ir Friends to fliift* Thefe and fomc 
 other Confiderations, which 1 fhaP hint at by and 
 by, made me think a Change was not in the leaft 
 
 **Ii*j*rh^**^**'V being Dangerous} 
 
 But thtn^ you arc 
 ill Inclination 
 
 mnfl-airS and fupported by their 
 
 conftant Declarations of fetting op a Moderate 
 Management, a middle way, by which the fears 
 and apprehenlions of the Nation fliould be Rc- 
 ^ved; That they would fingle out the Men of 
 
 without Diftinftion of 
 Parties; That the belt Men of every Party fhould 
 be employ ds That the Hot Ungo^m’d^Spirits 
 

 
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 that had fo near ruii’d us before fliould not ap¬ 
 pear again, or meet vith the leaft Countenance ; 
 That the Qiieen being left Perfeftly free and un- 
 belieg’d by Parties, rtrould extend Her Favours 
 were Merits recomiren’ded, without Refpea to 
 Jhe Byafs of this or that Interell; That none 
 Ihould be brought in but what would give Aflii- 
 rancesof afting with a perfeft indifferency to all 
 Parties, and purfue tie PuUick Service with all 
 pollible Moderation. 
 
 Thefe were the Anufements by which I was 
 drawn in to joyn witk the Party, and particular¬ 
 ly in the firftRemoves that were made; and I 
 cannot deny but my acijuiclcing might encourage 
 them to think their Game fure, and from that 
 Q)nfidence to throw off the Mask fooner than 
 they otherwife would have done j for the Integrity 
 of Mens Defigns is always difeover’d when they 
 fancy themfelves paft Danger of a Difafter in the 
 making them Publick. 
 
 Steddy. Youraccouitof thefe things is furpri- 
 2iDg, and that more !b, when you acknowledge 
 you believ'd them: Did ever One Man but you 
 believe they could afl Moderately in any thing? 
 It may be in their Poi ticks to contrive a Mode¬ 
 rate Management, and 1 believe—who governs 
 ; them in the Schemes of thele things might pro- 
 pofe it; for he knowsno other Method can draw 
 In the Nation : But it is no more in their Power 
 than it is to pull the Stars out of Heaven » A 
 Tory ,'caa no more be a Moderate Manager, 
 than the Elemants car ceafe to out forth their 
 Oimpleat Vigour when left to Nature and freed 
 from Conftraint. Ey;ry thing in Nature atts 
 Its utmolt Power: Fiie cannot Burn moderate¬ 
 ly, or Water Flow moderately, neither can a 
 
 Tory 
 
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 Tory Govern moderately ; he may pretend to 
 what he will, but U is not in his Nature: His 
 Blood Boyls too Hot; his Circulations are too 
 Rapid ; in Religion he mu ft Perfecute, in Go¬ 
 vernment he rauft Opprefs; in Office he muft 
 Infult ; in Power he muft Plunder and Deftroy; 
 ’tis the Nature of a High Tory, and it cannot 
 be other wife. 
 
 Turn-Round. It is true, I was formerly of that 
 Opinion, and begin to be fo again ; but the Pro- 
 teftations of this Party were fuch as would have 
 Deceived the very EleB-, and I was the eafier 
 brought to be Credilous in this Cafe, becaufe 
 fomc of them were the very Men, that to ray 
 Knowledge, were formerly the Inftruments to 
 Depofe the Raffi Party we now call High-Men, 
 when they had the Publick Affairs in their Hands, 
 and turn’d them out with all imaginable Con¬ 
 tempt, as Men that were polhing ns upon Rocks 
 and Precipices, and that by the Fire of their 
 Party would Deftroy is. 
 
 St eddy. Well, and when did you come to cclai- 
 ricifment in this Affair ? for I find you difcover’d 
 them very early, confidering you as one that did 
 not fufpedthem ; for me, indeed 1 always believ’d 
 them what we all find them to be, and therefore 
 it is no wonder to find me, and fuch as I am, be- 
 fore you in our Mealoies : But for you that were 
 periwaded of their Sucerity, it is very ftrange, 
 and no lefs happy, that you Ihould fee into them 
 
 fb foon. > n , 
 
 Turn.Round. Why, they had no fooner ftruck 
 
 the Blow, but like Cafar when be paft the 
 Rubicon, they threw off the Mask, and as he 
 difcover’d plainly that he aim’d at the Empi¬ 
 re. fo I thought they difcover’d themfelves 
 
 * B to 
 
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 luc^ ^ Management, AS 
 
 SUCH, that they were already link’d in with 
 
 wasthe Word 
 
 OM them, and they had refolv’d to jorrow an 
 Old urty Motto m their Dealings with the 
 
 fhi.i^'Ch ( ^ and Branch: In purfuance of 
 
 this their Genuine Delign, the void Places 
 were nnmediately fill'd, as faft as they c^uld c?S 
 
 anaioft^h^M^ the very Men they had protefted 
 
 wifl^fh“pm freedom to espoftulate 
 
 Terms, and told them. This 
 was not agreeable to the Schemes propos’d ;That 
 they were not going the way to a Moderate 
 
 into the Hands of the High Party • That rhf*. 
 Party "ere the declared Enemies of the Settle¬ 
 ment, and had openly wajh’d their Hands of the 
 
 them, and every Man that wift’d well to the Na- 
 
 p ofeft Enemies of the Revolution upon us, and 
 Bn j)t etence of delivering us from the Influence 
 f one Party, tins was delivering us up to 
 another Party, of whofe Temper and Prudence 
 eSce^^^*^” already had too muchExperi- 
 
 Ho» dfd-,h™te? irT 
 
 T«r«.^W They bore ir Calmly ; for I ex- 
 prels d my felf with Refpea: But they told me 
 - r Anfvver, That thele Men, had bom their 
 Iharynthe Oppofition of the Miniftry, and had 
 Rood fait to them in bringing the New Change 
 to pafs i that they couid not Abandon them enr 
 
 tirely, 
 
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 fireiy, but would bring as few of them in as 
 poflible i and tbofe that were brought in had 
 given their Words to Aft with a differing Spirit, 
 and to put on all the Temper and Calmnefs ima¬ 
 ginable, efpecially while the other Party carry’4 
 it vith any Common Refpeft* 1 told them, I 
 was forry to fee they Ihould go from their moj^ 
 foUemn and early Engagements, and that for the 
 Raroll thofe People had given, 1 had a very mean 
 Opinion of it, from experience I had of their 
 antient Conduft ; and that I expefted nothing 
 couid Succeed in their Hands after fucji a ftep as 
 this. 
 
 Sieddy. In this you afted with a great deal of 
 Candour and Honeffy, and 1 make no doubt, but 
 thb plainnefs rendred you unealle to them. 
 
 7urn-Round. I never fpar’d them upon all oc« 
 caffms, and being fo conftant in thefe Expoffula- 
 dors, 1 found they quickly grewUneafie j I Ihew- 
 ed always as much Uneaiinefs as they, and told 
 them often, I Ihould be Thankful to them, if they 
 woiM pleafe to give me the Coup it Grace and let 
 me go i which at laft they have done, and now I 
 coae among my Friends again. The little time I 
 have beenabfent, has let me into the Secrets of 
 the Society, and I regret the Time 1 have loft 
 among them very much. 
 
 heMy. You are very well come to your felf a- 
 gaia 1 doubt not, and I am fure you are ib to 
 yocr Friends \ for I know no Man among them, 
 we regretted the lofs of fo much as of your felf. 
 
 Turn-Round. But methinks 1 look like a Torn- . 
 Cojt, like a Renegado, my Cloaths fmells of the 
 * Sulphur, and the Language founds ftill in my 
 Ears. 
 
 B % Steddf. 
 
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 Ste^Jy. 1 confefs I haveaa Averfion to Turn¬ 
 ing of all kinds; but of all thofe that Turn 
 they only are Happy who Turn Quite Hound-, for! 
 tho at firft they may be a little deluded, when 
 they come to be Illuminated and to fee the 
 Mirtake^ they Turn on, and come about where 
 they began : Such always embrace the Truth 
 with more Conftancy and Steddynefs than other 
 
 People, and I doubt not you will do fo too; 
 and therefore I Congratulate our Intereftupon 
 your Return 
 
 ft oW. There are many more will take 
 the fame Mcafures, or I am very much Mifta- 
 ken-, for lam very well fatisfy’d, they are at 
 this time made up of filch a Mixture, that 
 they cannot go on far together; Nay, I am ve¬ 
 rily perfwaded, that even Mr. - himfelf 
 
 cannot go the Length that thefe People exped 
 irom him, but that in 3 little while you will fee 
 that either they will break off from Him or He 
 from Them. ’ 
 
 jteddy. I find you have a good Opinion of 
 
 T^rn-Kound I have not a good Opinion in the 
 leaft of the Meafures he is now taking but I 
 own I have not fuch Thoughts of him’ in the 
 main as others have ; I am very defirous to be¬ 
 lieve, that however he may aft in Dark the at 
 pe.ent, he has not the Pretender in his View 
 he cannot have the Subverfion of theConftitu- 
 tion in his Defign: I think fo, you will excufe mv 
 Chanty. ^ 
 
 Steddy, For ^my part I differ from you extreme- 
 r ^ Meafures he is now taking, 
 
 or the Meafures he ever took: He h no Kin to me : 
 I thank God, I am of the Family of the Steddfs^ 
 
 and 
 
( 
 
 and I think he is not the leaft Related to us. 
 
 Turn-RoHnd. I know not whether he may be 
 of your Branch, but I think he U Steddy too-, 
 and that in particular to his own Intereft; I am 
 perfwaded this is what he is chie fly pnrfuing : 
 He would have purfu’d his Intereft and our Caulfe 
 together, but you threw him off, and he went 
 away to thofe People; and 1 am perfwad^ 
 he is onlyferving his Intereft of them, and they 
 underftand him fo, for they are ferving their In¬ 
 tereft of him ; You will fee this in the Confe- 
 fequence; as foon as ever thele Intereftsare 
 ferved either on one Hand or other, you will 
 find they’ll break, and then we Ihall have him 
 again. 
 
 Steddy. Not I! Never have him again ! No, 
 we have done with him ; we took a fair leave of 
 him, he may. even ftay where he is with bis new 
 Friends, Steddy is the Word, we’ll never have 
 more to do with him. 
 
 'Twrn-Romd. Nay, there you muft Pardon me 
 for faying you are in the Wrong \ 1 wi(h he were 
 as heartily with us again, as he was once, I fliould 
 think it a good Step to thro’ out all this Tory 
 , Management again, and reftore os all to our Pri¬ 
 mitive State. 
 
 ^eddy. I never believed he was hearty with 
 us, or that he ever will *, and Ihould he come 
 over with never fo much Sincerity, I doubt 1 
 fliould never believe him. 
 
 Twn-Romd. In this you Ihock my Opinion of 
 your own Sincerity to me, for by the fame Rule 
 you may not believe me Honeft, who am return’d 
 to you, fince I have confeft to you that I have 
 b^p in the Intereft of the fame Party. 
 
 Steddy. You 
 
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 Steddy.^ You have not given fb many Proofs of 
 Unfteddinefs, as I think he has done, nor can 
 you have the fame Profpefts ^ Do you remember 
 when he was with us, how near he was to have 
 Hipplanted the Miniftry, and delivered us to the 
 fame Party he has now brought in ? 
 
 Turn Komd. Why truly, as to the De0ga then, 
 I have heard a great deal of it, tho’ 1 never was 
 convinc’d that he had defign'd half that was fug» 
 gelled. But (uppoie it all true, 1 cannot but 
 think they treat him Impolitickly ^ for had 
 they ufed him Tenderly, removed him Decently, 
 and aded calmly, he might ha’been fix’d in 
 cumftanccs, which would have been his Intereft 
 to have fat down with ;but they call him offwith 
 all the Ignominy and Contempt poflible, as you 
 dafli a piece of Cheiny againfl a Hearth, never 
 \XT ^ together again. This was declaring 
 Ww with him,and fetting him at open Defiancei 
 and 1 could not blame him lb much for attempt¬ 
 ing to reftore hirafelf at jthe Expence of thofe 
 that had ruin'd him j all I reflect upon him for, 
 IS, in going over to a Party which, I believe, lie 
 IS n(rt very well latlsfied with: This, however 
 , politick it may feem, is like j4cheronta Movebo. 
 that he refolved to carry on his Relentment, tho* 
 he call’d in fuch Anxilliaries as he did not ap- 
 prove of. 
 
 Steddy, I^think they could do no otherwile 
 than they did, and that he had treated them in 
 a manner which forced them to the utmoft Re- 
 ftntment; but we will not Dilpute that Part. 
 .You lee the Mealbres taken now, and what a 
 Party is brought in upon us,What can we expeft 
 from them ? It cannot but fill you with Indig- 
 natfcn and Regret, to fee a Party let in, who 
 
have more than once toM us what we are to ex¬ 
 pert from them. I cannot but wonder what the 
 Gentlemen who arc now lhaking Hands with 
 ffyers and Jacohitts^ who they have fo many y 
 appeared againft, can think of themfelves. O Sttd^ 
 dy ! Steddy ! If my Grandfather Sir Anthony Sted. 
 diy and hts Hundred Sons were alive now« thefi 
 People durft not aft fo j but our Family is vert 
 much declined, and a great many of my Great 
 Relations are dead. King James cut trff fome of 
 them , as William Lord Russel*Steddt 
 Arthur Earl Of Essex Steddy, Alger- 
 kon Sidney-Steddy, and the like ; thefe 
 WCTC Relations of mine, which if they had been 
 alive now, thefe People could never have come 
 in thus upon us *, but they are gone, and there are 
 very few of the Name now in being. 
 
 Tarti.Kound. I kno’ yours has been a flourifliing 
 Family, and I am of Opinion you will rift again, 
 for there are feveral of your Relations that are 
 at prefent deluded and deceiv’d, and are turn’d 
 to theft People; but when they come to fee wUlt 
 they are all going to do, they’ll turn quite round, 
 come over again to the Steddy\ and offer them- 
 ftlves to match into your Family, and you will 
 prefenrly grow formidable again j for they will be 
 all Steddys when they come again. 
 
 Steddy. I am of Opinion it muff be fo again. 
 
 Turn-Round. I kno' it will be lb, and I would 
 have you receive them all with open Arms, tbo’ 
 Mr. ——. himftlf were among them. 
 
 Steddy. No: Any Body but him. 
 
 Turn-Round, You are very implacable fnrej 
 why that is the true way to prevent the tfaing'it 
 fclf, which, I believe, every Honeft Man dehres: 
 What can be your Reafohs for being fo ftiff ? 
 
 Steddy. If 
 
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 Stedj^. If you had been Mafter of the Mi- 
 ftery of Iniquity^ which has been tarried, on by a 
 wicked Party of Men for thefe Twenty years laft 
 part, you would be as pofitive as I ^ and I think 
 it might not be amifs, in order to underftand 
 this Party perfedly, to go back into the Secret 
 Hiftory of the Parties which have ftruggled fb 
 long, and with fuch Anitnofity in thcfc King¬ 
 doms, and which have brought Matters between 
 them to fuch a height, that the Breach feems im- 
 praifficable to be healed and made up. 
 
 Turn-Round, 1 fhould be very glad to enter in» 
 o the whole Story with you; I believe it is the 
 only way to come to true Notions of thefe things, 
 and may ferve as the belt Anfwer to all the Ca¬ 
 vils and Objedions that are made againft us j 
 for the Judgment is-fiothjng fo much impos d up¬ 
 on as in thefe State Matters, when they are fet in 
 awrongLight. 
 
 Steddy. We mufl: go back for this purpofe to 
 the Revolution; but need make bat light touches 
 at things in the Beginning of K. W^V/<V»ot’s Reign, 
 
 It was a natural Coniequence, that a Revoluti¬ 
 on of fuch a magnitude, fo wonderful in its Be¬ 
 ginning, fb furprizing in its Succefs, and fo ef- 
 fedual in all its Parts, fhould leave a Party that 
 would ftand out and oppofe the Settlement of 
 things on the new foot. 
 
 King James was not fo ill beloved but he left 
 fome behind that adhered to his Inter eft; to 
 thefe, as to Davidzt Hackelah^ all that were dif 
 content or uneafy at any thing, joyn’d themfelves. 
 The making the Prince of Orange King difgufted 
 many ; the entire SupprefTion of Tyranny difo- 
 bliged others; and the feveral Parties applied 
 themfelves to their refpeftive Methods to fhew 
 their diflike of things. To 
 
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 To fupprefs thefe growing Parties,feveral Par¬ 
 liamentary Methods were taken fuch as double 
 Taxes, Oaths, Abjurations, AlTociations, Re¬ 
 cognitions, and the like. 
 
 Some took the Oaths, others refufed them, and 
 paid whatever was airclTed upon them for that De¬ 
 ficiency ^ hut it is chferved^ thofe that took the 
 Oaths, were the moft troublelcme Enemies the 
 Government had, and the fafteft Fripds to the 
 Pretender. 
 
 On all Occafions thefe People have perplex’d 
 and harraft the Government ever lince, and that 
 ftveral ways: Nothing has at any time offer d to 
 the Advantage of the eftablifli’d Government, 
 whether in Parliament or out,but thefe have been 
 the Oppofers of it \ no Management has ever 
 pleafed them, or ever will, except fuch as will 
 pleafe no Man elfe, / mean their own •, they have 
 appear’d on every Occafion againft every thing 
 that has tended^ to cur former Eftablilhment; ana 
 have efpoufed 'every thing that has in the leaft 
 perplex’d us. 
 
 The Proteffant Succeffion has been pulh’d in 
 their very Teeth, and the Union was carried o- 
 ver the Belly’s of their Mob; when they were in, 
 they 'brought things to the utmofl: Diforder; and 
 now they have been out, they chooft rather to 
 halfzard the whole Caufe than not put us all in 
 Coafufion : They have vifibly albalong pulh’d on 
 the Intercfl of the Pretender, tho’ they have 
 abjur’d him; they have, difeovered by Innu¬ 
 merable Circumftances what they aim at, and , 
 that they will ftick at nothing to-bring it to pafs. 
 
 Turn-Round. Do you think they really aim at 
 the BwCftoration, as it’s call’d ? . . 
 
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 Steddy. I do not think they do; but its evi- 
 dent they have all along been joyn’d by the Par¬ 
 ty which ate apparently in that Intereft ; in 
 which they Dilcover, that if they cannot bring 
 about their Defigns without it, as fame 
 they would not /tick to come into it; tho’ I'ra- 
 ther believe that they are as much Enemies to a 
 Reftoration, as the Party that efpoufe 'em are 
 Friends to it. 
 
 'turn Round. Pray go on with your Hiftory. 
 
 Sieddy^ As foOD as King WtlUant was Eftablilh’d 
 on the Throne, this Party fet themfel^^es with all 
 their might to Counter-aft him in every thing; 
 The Brigiies with which they continually Em- 
 barraft his Affairs, made every thing heavy to 
 him, and made his Difficulties double upon him. 
 They had with their utmoff Skill oppos’d his 
 being plac’d on the Throne, and their Friends 
 were the firfl: tiiat Protefted againft it on one 
 hand, and V^otel againft it on the other, when¬ 
 ever they had opportunity; but the Kings Merit, 
 and the nearncls of the Danger, were too New 
 to be Refifted; the Torrent of the Peoples In¬ 
 clination was not to be Rcfiffed ; and here be¬ 
 gan o ir Pnibftaut Settlement. 
 
 Turn-Komd Yet you fee He immediately took 
 into His Service thole very Men. 
 
 Steddy. That was the Mildnels of His Temper, 
 willing to w'inond engage them, and was the 
 only incoiivcnience we found in his not being a 
 Native or England: He thought they might have 
 been won by a Gentie and obliging Treatment; 
 and above all, he thought that to put him- 
 felf upon them, was fuch a Conlidcncc, asmuft 
 have engaged them in Honour, and' havejnade 
 them his own; But he did not know them. 
 
 Turn- 
 
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 Turn-Hqimd. Indeed they are a Party never to 
 be obliged by KindnelTes j and I wonder no body 
 had Fidelity enough to tell the King plainly what 
 kind of Men they were. 
 
 Steddy. I never fail’d to do it as opportunity 
 ofier’d, but the King could not be biou^ht for 
 a long time to fufpeft them ; and af er he did 
 fufped them, He was loth to life them as they 
 Deferved : He thought it was not a time for it. ^ 
 
 Turn-Round. But its evident they made their 
 advantages of his lenity. 
 
 Steddy. They did fo \ and by that one advan¬ 
 tage, they laid the Foundation of all the Mifehiefs 
 that have fince agitated this Nation, and of ail 
 the perplexities which follow’d his Affairs, info- 
 much as He was heard often to regret the Treat¬ 
 ment he met with from them, even fometimes tp 
 wifhirfg he had never concernM himfelf with 
 them. 
 
 Turn-Romd. But ftill he had many of them,:!^- 
 ways near him, which gave the other Faithfut 
 part of his People great Uneannefs. 
 
 Steddy, They were the Gannanitesin the L and, 
 and were left for a CorreSion upon us, for the 
 negle(ft of doing Juftice upon them at the Re¬ 
 volution, when their own Guilt had laid them 
 fo loW, that Banifhment and a Retreat to fbme 
 IRand or Caftle on the Coaft, was the Icaft they 
 had in their Thoughts ; and was a Favour they 
 would have Capitulated for ^ and foir.e viferefb 
 poflefs’d with the fears of the Gallows that they 
 lay ready for flight, offer’d a Thoufand Pounds 
 to obtain a Pardon, and would have Commuted 
 their Crimes for mmh more *, not expeding to 
 come iuto Cabinets md Councils agaiu without 
 the kaft Reprehenfion for paft Coadud ; By this 
 
 C z ftep 
 
A ^ ^ 
 
 ftep they began, not to look up only, but to 
 think themfelves tniftaken about themlelves, and 
 tancy they were not fo great Villains as they than 
 knew themfelves to be, and that the fame Things 
 might be carried on in that Reign, as they had 
 carried on before. 
 
 Tmn*J!mnd. Thefe are fad Truths: Ivvilhthey 
 were buried in Forgetfulnsfs. . 
 
 _ Steddy. They had been fo, had not the fame 
 Party forced iis to Revive them, to fhew which 
 wei e the Real Authors of all our Milchiefs.. and 
 where the Iburce of them began, by their new 
 attempts to lay the weight of all our Mifcarria- 
 ges upon the Whigg Adminiftration. 
 
 Tn^’RoHnd, 1 am lenllble they have made it 
 necelTary to rip up thefe things ; I wonder they 
 Ihould be fo foolim, fince they cannot but know, 
 It would return upon them to their manifeft 
 dilaavantage. 
 
 ^Steddy. ^:i Jupiter vult perdere has Dement at \ 
 they are bercav’d of their forelight by the Fate 
 of their Party ^ and they will be Ihewing their 
 own Nakeduels infpightof any ones willingnefs 
 to cover it. 
 
 Turn Round. Pray go on with your Hiftory 
 ^ fatisfied it is very ulefulthat 
 thefe things Ihould be made known, that the Peo¬ 
 ple who they boaft of having deluded, may lee 
 into the Party, and know a little what they are 
 a doing. 
 
 Steddy. Having gotten into the-Management, 
 they put a Face of Zeal on the out-fide of 
 their Actions, but fecretly they kept eyery 
 thing backwyd; Difappointed every good De- 
 lign ^ Betray’d every Secret; and employ’d En¬ 
 gines .about, to Countermiae the veiT ProjeSs 
 t)i tiicir own Contriving. Had 
 
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 Had Dr. Double known any thing of the Hi- 
 ftory of that time, he would have known that 
 theft were the Men who delayed the Treaty 
 with Tyrconnell in Ireland^ when he had made a 
 kind of propofal to come in \ and got a Traytor 
 to befentoverto him, on pretence of making 
 the Treaty ; whofirft encouraged him to go back 
 from hisl3efigns, adhere to Arms, and begin the 
 War j and then went over to him himfelf. The 
 Afl'uranceof the Party is very great, that in Print 
 lays this to the Whiggs, vide Sir Tho. Double. 
 
 Then they prepare an Army to go for Ireland, 
 and put on a mighty face of Zeal for the Relief 
 of London Derry •, but with Indnftrious Delays, 
 they kept every thing back folong, that if pof- 
 iible, that little handful of Valiant Proteftants 
 -might be devoured, aad Ireland be wholly re- 
 '^flored to King James: And ’tis known who 
 Curs’d the Cowardly Behaviour of the Iri(h Ge¬ 
 nerals, that could not take that Paltry Town in 
 fo long Time. At laft they were forc’d to let it 
 be Reliev’d to pacify the King who was fo warm 
 upon it, That he faid he could not bear to fee 
 his Subje^ls Sacrificed in that Manner*, and,t/»'» 
 Body could be found would do him fuch a Service, he 
 would go and Relieve them himfelf. 
 
 The next thing was fending over the Army 
 with Duke Schomkerg : Were the black Coun¬ 
 cils of that matter Ravell’d into, doubt the 
 Tory Party would find more Reafon to Blulh, than 
 would confift with the Zeal they pretend for the 
 general Intcrefl: of the Nation i the Troops were 
 ordered to encamp at Wefi chefter, whither the 
 Foot came very flowly, the Horft not at all: 
 The Duke earneft to be in Aftion came thither 
 himfelf to haften the Embarkation, but was o- 
 ' blig’d 
 
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 bilg’d to Wait; the Dutch Guards, Six Preach Rat 
 talions, oae Prufian Battalion, and Two Eaaliii, 
 made up the Cpp: But with Jong waifine 
 Four Ea_sl.p, Regiments Arrived, Two more a! 
 Leverpooli and the Duke Refolved to Embark 
 depending upon the Horfe and Dragoons follow! 
 
 Landed at Carnckfergus^ took the Place • 
 March d on, took the Pafs of the and 
 
 encamp d in the view of the Enetny at 
 and during that whole Time, but Two Rest’ 
 ments of Horfe and Three of Dragoons, of Se 
 Troops promis’d, were fent after him ; here for 
 want of Troops, but efpeciaJIy Horfe, that Gal¬ 
 lant Army was entirely wafted and loft, and the 
 very People that retarded the Supplies, were he 
 fomardeft to Reproach that 6 enerh for not 
 
 Troops 
 
 ^^'^^ncing, and it was rather a Mira¬ 
 cle of his Condu^, that his little Army was not 
 entirely Cut in Pieces. ^ 
 
 HisMajeftywas fo fencible of this, andfoln- 
 cenfed at it. That refolving to go in Perfon the 
 next year, he would not truft any Body with the 
 Preparations, any more than he would with the 
 
 K ’ i^”i canfed the accounts of every 
 thing to be laid before him, and order’d the 
 
 rfos°himfelf Necefla- 
 
 Ties himlelf 5 , and, as a Man may fay, faw them 
 
 difpatch d before he went away. 
 
 This to the Great Mortification of the Partv 
 
 tv took°^*^ Tory Par- 
 
 there and r ^Lters 
 
 to that length, 
 applying himfelf to 
 the Work in fWfr.', which his Eye was princi¬ 
 pally mtenfuponi in Order tothC th/ firft 
 
 Siege 
 
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 Siege of iiwmV was diredly delay’d, till it was 
 too late to expeft the Redudior of a place fo 
 ftrong^and that Siege effeduaily broke,by betray¬ 
 ing the fupply of Cannon and Ammunition 
 w/is toming to them, to SarsfieU the Irijh General. 
 
 At laft the Earl of was drawn in to 
 
 fight the Battleof at fuch Diladvantages, 
 
 and with fuch Superior Forces, that in all Proba 
 bility our Army bad been IJefeated, and the 
 War in Ireland to do all over again i But Hea- 
 ven /»r^>‘poiV,the French and Irtji) Troops were put 
 into Confufion by the Death of Monlieur St. Rath, 
 who was taken off by a Cannon Ball, juft as he 
 was giving Orders for Pouring in between our 
 Right Wing and Main Battle, by which our Foot 
 had been all cut off, and fb we gain’d a Vidory, 
 which the bell Officers we had, thought Impradi- 
 cable, and the General had Difpair’d ofl 
 
 Turn-Kcund. Thefe are Melancholly things in* 
 deed, and ferve to let us fee how this Nation has 
 been often faved by the immediate Hand ®f Pro¬ 
 vidence, contrary to probable Means and fecond 
 Caiifes; and how there has been always a Party of 
 Men among us, willing to Deliver us up. 
 
 Steddy, 1 (hall pal's over for the prefent the 
 Affair of Scotland, tho’ it affords plenty of obfer- 
 vations of this kind; but 1 am not willing to make 
 my account, which I delign but for an Abridg¬ 
 ment of the Villany of the Party, fwell too big. 
 
 Turn^KoHnd. 1 know pretty much of the Affair 
 of Scotland, and ftall be very willing to talk with 
 you of it by it lelf, when you Pleale ifor the Par¬ 
 ty have aded a Hellilh part upon that poor Peo¬ 
 ple from the beginning ; firft, they were Bully'd 
 by Claver-Houfe, after Vifcount Dundee, and aWar 
 begun by down-right Jacobitifm, in which God 
 
 him- 
 
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 himfclf interpos’d alfo, juft as yon p^yhe Mdat 
 
 r%- for Dundee had the Viftory at 
 
 Cith^anky ^ hnt Was himfelf /hoc by a Dying 
 Soldier juft when aU the Game was his own^ 
 
 ; *rt the Highlanders having no Leaders, Difperft 
 
 ^ Edinburgh, whkh 
 they had done if Dundee had lived. Next thev 
 were bubled by. a knot of I’rojeftors with that 
 Honeft Man Paterfon at the head of them, into a 
 Known theat, and the whole Nation fet Mad 
 upon Golden Mountains in the Barren Wil- 
 aerners of Darien, in which, tho’ it was an Ori¬ 
 ginal naud, and only contriv’d by that P _ k 
 
 P f to enrich himfelf at the expence of 
 his Country, for which Meritorious Ad he 
 lollicitsa Reward of 5000 / yet our Party mide 
 this a handle to abule the Scots, and if poffible 
 topuibthem upon doing fomething chat might 
 give us a pretence to fill upon them. Nature up- 
 on this Notorious Ufage, put the Scots upon Re- 
 pn&Is, which was fo improved here,that all tend¬ 
 ed to a Breach with*of/W; We demanded 
 they fhould fettle the Succe/fion ablblutely with 
 us} they faid this was a Breach of equality, afiert- 
 ed their Independency, and refufed to fettle the ‘ 
 Sncceffion but upon Conditions. Our Party In- 
 dufh-iouflyenflam’d things,Pamphlets were writ- 
 ^ here by known hands, all of the Party to 
 Irritate and enflame them, alferting the Debt of 
 Homage -due to England fi-om Scotland j and all 
 poffible Methods were uftd to Provoke the 
 They again refolv’d to aflert their Independency ’ 
 a Right which does not at all diipute *' 
 
 made their act of Security; and Voted to put 
 their Kingdom in a Pofture of Defence: Now the 
 
 Party 
 
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 Party thought they had gain’d their point, and 
 had made a War Inevitable; upon which, they 
 voted and carry’d an A€t to prevent Dangers a- 
 riling from the A£t of Security : An Aft fo Un- 
 juft in its Nature; fo Dilhoncurable to Scotland- 
 and lb fatal in its Confequences; that the Wiler 
 fort of People difcovered the real defign of em¬ 
 broiling us in it, and the next Parliament Re¬ 
 peal’d it. 
 
 By this Aa we were oblig’d, before the asth 
 of December following, to fit out a Squadron of 
 Men of War, to interrupt the Commerce of 
 Scotland^ which was indeed a War. 
 
 But when this Party overthrew themfelves in 
 
 their Tacktt^ Adventure^ all that Scheme of Blood 
 and Confulion dy’d with them: The&o/'j came 
 into a Treaty, after having receiv’d Satisfadion, 
 in Repealing that aforefaid Adi; and in that 
 Treaty they made it plain, they had no Averfion 
 to the Proteilant Succellion ; no delign by their 
 Aft of Security to do any thing, but defend 
 themfelves: And thus that Treaty ended in a 
 Union, to the infinite Regret of the Party 
 who, for the moft part, have left their Protells 
 againltit upon Record. 
 
 Steddy. Your account of this is Ihort, but ve. 
 ry full; and 1 crave leave to add, That in this is 
 to feen the Injuftice of thofe who blame our 
 Miniftry, for advifing tbeQjieen to Sign orPafs 
 the Aa of Security in Scotland, as if it were a piece 
 of Treachery to En^lmd ^ whereas, firft, it was 
 lb juft an Aa to Scotland, and at that time lb 
 ncceflary, that as Qiieenof Scotland it could not 
 well be denied; and next, if I am not mifin- 
 form’d, they had Power by fbme of their Laws 
 to pals it, without Her Majefty’s Aflent, 
 
 D if 
 
< 26 ) 
 
 If the Council ^there had Confentcd to it. 
 
 *? manifeft, the Union was 
 ne Happy elfeft of this Aft of Security i it De¬ 
 feated the end of thofe People who defien’d a' 
 
 “ fettled the 
 
 Proteftant Succeffion by Treaty, which can never 
 be hroKeu : And it’s no wonder the Means Ihould 
 J*^^^^Abhorr’d, when the End is fo Mortifying 
 
 Suddy. It IS very certain the Union with 
 Wis the Averfion of this Party •, but it is too 
 not a thing tor them to meddle with, and I be¬ 
 lieve will at laft be tonnd one of onr bell Bul- 
 works againfl all the Reftoration Schemes, of 
 which we have been told fo much. 
 
 7urn.Koiind. Well, Pray will you return to the 
 Hiltorical part you were upon? I will give you as 
 tew Diverfions as I can. 
 
 Steddy 1 left you at the end of the Irilh War: 
 That AfTair being over, the King pufh’d the War 
 on in Handers, and that with more Vigour than 
 our Party here wilh’d him to go on with j and 
 th^efore to make every thing as difficult as 
 poffible, they took ofl his Chariot Wheels at 
 Horae i in every Houfe they Embarraft his 
 Altairs the Taxes were given late •, and Bills 
 for Money hung long in Hand; So that tho’ the 
 Nation paid the Money, the late ling’ring Grants 
 came fo, that the Campaigns were render’d fruit- 
 lefs. The Enemies were always in the Field be¬ 
 fore usi when we came there, we came Un- 
 cloath’d, Unpaid, with empty Magazines, and 
 fometimes without our Train ^ and thus the King, 
 belides the Enemy, had the Infuperable Difficul¬ 
 ties of want of Neceflaries to ftruggle with: 
 which Defeated his Defigns, Perplext his Mind, 
 
 and 
 
( 27 ) 
 
 snd expos’d him to be frequently Infulted by the 
 Enemy, 
 
 Turn-Round. The King did as good as tell 
 them this in his feveral Speeches to the Parlia¬ 
 ment ; tho’ to no pnrpofe. 
 
 Buddy. All this while their Party fill’d the 
 Town with Reproaches of the King, of the Ex- 
 pence of tlw War, of Carrying the Money out of 
 the Nation i The Palquinades, the Lampoons, the 
 Libells, againft his Management and Conduct, 
 were infinite, in order to render his Perfon Odi¬ 
 ous, and the War a Burthen ; and when at laft* 
 none of thefe would ferve their purpofe, to Ro¬ 
 quet the Invincible Spirit of this Great Prince, 
 they enter’d into the abhorr’d Projedof Mur- 
 ther and Aflaflination: W hen this Plot firfl: came 
 to light, and the Perfons Concern’d appear’d to 
 the World, our High Church Men were exceed¬ 
 ing bufie to throw it off from themfelvcs •, they 
 were loath to bring the French King in, becaufe 
 he was their Friend j they would have book’d the 
 Papifl in, but they, however averfe to the Courfe 
 of that Prmcc’s Conquefts, had preferv’d fo much 
 regard to his Perfon, that they could not, as a 
 Body, bn brought into fo Bloody and Diftionour- 
 able a Praftice \ fo the Scandal of it lay wholly 
 upon the Tories, even thofe that call themfelves 
 Churchmen, and fpeak loud for the Churchy of 
 England : And when the Criminals, tho’ owning 
 the Fadi, came to Die, they were Abfolv’d by 
 Church of Clergy-men, without owning 
 
 it to be a Crime ^ and thoft Clergy-men- Recei¬ 
 ved no Cenfure for it from the Reft. 
 
 Turn-Round. This is a Truth fo well known, 
 that they have never attempted to wafli the Guilt 
 of it off 5 and indeed it is impoffible to do it. 
 
 D 2 St eddy, 
 
to «rf Afflir. 
 
 o‘“3t cxtrcuicties: however 
 
 have wifh’d hrm?^n hecoold 
 
 fin^fault with 
 
 iU rS « being made upon 
 
 Intereftof Religion, and the 
 
 trae^^ihB they complain of were 
 
 He that\anio?makfwai^ beforeGod and Man, 
 had been 13 yLT, W/^vj ’ ^ 
 
 without ai Army Id R‘" 
 
 fore, Li 4 fo»h^RS.Sf“i-'f •’"■ 
 till you could ^, 7 ^“®R«‘!®‘^«>noffr.^we 
 Conquer France Ahm ^l could both 
 
 Parties and the Obllruaion of 
 
 plalKrof’pScfj5ftK'”,°^S?""‘®’ ‘■’ofeCO.i; 
 
 Will not bear the R efl a- ^^a^dlefs^ and 
 
 them which are made upon 
 
 4'SS °„Sich s;efe‘p’''*‘,":cr'*^ 
 
 reft to have no ^“^‘^^ttbat it was our Inte- 
 all-, they would h»S^°h ^ that Trade made at 
 
 WoolIenVnufaaJ?«!^/'^^«r^^ 
 
 ing, for, alas ' t not coalider- 
 
 6. ror, alas, they knew nothing of the matf- 
 
 ter. 
 
( ^9 ) 
 
 tfT, that theft we hiuft hire opened the doof to 
 the Im^rts of Wine and Brandy, and Wroueht 
 
 Great Man fay, When tfleQueftionlas leSh; 
 Houf^ Whether the Trade with France fhould'be 
 open d during the War, upon the Petition of tL 
 /^/rjfiwwMerthants? That there was Daneer it 
 
 for the fake of having 
 
 wHaH That there arc ihaie Men 
 
 who would not fcruple Wounding the General 
 
 feve the Particular j is too manifeft, but particu¬ 
 larly ift this Party; their other ObjeSSS 
 
 A it W«, ?n uSfettl4*iSlpcaie,lS 
 
 tw King to break the Arifty and Disband^ ? Rnt 
 ““* *® "^lyi as if they 
 “ Ne» War IhoaS 
 
 *^ey fell upon 
 ^ Partitron ; With what Virule^e 
 they fell upon the King, how theycaU’d it a Fel- 
 
 ^^®y at the Per- 
 *>y his Mafter’s 
 
 gprefs Command, need not be look’d back upon: 
 ^Mhh IS wmh Remark, That after Seven Years 
 ar, and a Series of Victory, we were willing 
 enough to make Peace upon the Foot of a Parti? 
 
. , ( 30 ) 
 
 tion, and thcilc Men blame us becaule we did not 
 doit 
 
 Twtt.Sound, It is true, as I have heard, we 
 were content to give Sicily, Sardinia, and fomc 
 other fmalJ things to the Duke of /injou, provi¬ 
 ded he had voluntarily evacuated Spain New and 
 Old, and tbefe People lay we ought to have done 
 It ; nay, they Charge the Duke of Marlborough 
 with a defign to carry on the War, and prolong 
 the Miferies for his own Gain, hecaufe he was not 
 for ^ncluding the Peace; forgetting, firfi, that 
 tire Terms of this Peace were partly the lame for 
 which they themfelves Quarrell'd the laft Treaty; 
 and not conlidering. Secondly, that the Securities 
 for the Evacuating Spain, were found by all the 
 Confederates, to be fuch, as could not be De¬ 
 pended upon. 
 
 St eddy. We are now brought to the Interval 
 betwen the Two Wars; I Ibould not name here 
 the Town fwarming with RaiUng Pamphlets, and 
 bitter Invedives, againft, not the War only or 
 the Partition Treaty, but againft the Perfon of 
 the King and the putcb Forces, who having come 
 here to Fight for us, faithfully fpent their Blood 
 for us, and been Thirteen years in our Service 
 were Treated with all the Contempt, Infolencel 
 anAbufe, that it was pofllble for a Nation to 
 give them, hnd at laft, Ibme of them were fent 
 Home without their Pay, which, no longer fince 
 than the laft SelTion of Parliament, was Sollici- 
 ted for in the Houle i I lay, 1 fliould not name 
 thefe, but that the Author of Sir Tho. Double 
 a late lory Pamphlet or Invedlive againft the 
 Revolution, is pleas’d to take notice of the 
 fervator and Kevicro Publilhing their Papers of 
 
 Re? 
 
( ) 
 
 r-_* j ; ^ VT ^ ^6» that ever was fu/- 
 
 fer d m any Nation in the World 
 
 deS'reDr^rf, o"' Aolhor did in- 
 
 calW ?Ki‘« 'V ^"“'1”.“"' ^'*“- 
 
 the WNatir, wh’ich^k'T'"!j *" 
 
 Km^fo^wHchlhaftete/r 
 
 i^^Komd. But I remember verv w<»ll that- 
 
 wh/tbrfh?wa‘r“&d r ^ 
 
 sssi^af 
 
 Refolr’d to pall hin down "“'“'Time the, 
 
 Ste^tfy. Bnt to whom was that Necc/Ktv nwino- 
 waa It not to oar Part, herei who A°d ^ 
 
 Cards 
 
( 32 ) 
 
 Cards in their Hands, and play'd to one anothers 
 Hand? They amus’d the King fo long with De¬ 
 lays and Pretences, that his Majefty knew not 
 either how to keep the Peace with Honour, or 
 how to begin the War with Safety v mean time 
 the'King of France prefs’d the T>Htch^ block’d 
 them up in their Frontier Towns, held their Re¬ 
 giments Prifoners of War, which, by the Trea¬ 
 chery of the Duke of Bavaria^ fell into his 
 Hands, in the feveral Towns of Banders, which 
 that Duke put into thefr#»f^> Power all at once. 
 The Dutch fent Exprefs after Exprefs, the King 
 reprefented their Cafe to the Parliament, yet 
 nothing moved. The ftipulated Aid of Ten 
 Thoufand Men, agreed by the Peace of Nmi£utte 
 to be lent to the Dutch whenever the French 
 Ihould Invade them, was delay’d, till at laftan 
 Expoftulary Letter from the States being laid by 
 the King before the Houfe, brought on a kind of 
 Neccffity for the lending over that Alfiftance, and 
 thus we came llowTy on. 
 
 Theft things gave the whole Nation fo much 
 Unealinefs, that they began to difcover it many 
 ways; but one intervening Accident alone effeft- 
 ed their Illumination, and ehedually unhing’d ’ 
 our Tory Party, and broke all their Schemes. 
 Heaven juft at this Jun^ure Summon’d King 
 James out of the World, and the King of France, * 
 
 who by the late Treaty at Reftmk, had been 
 obligd to acknowledge King William, and there¬ 
 by reduc’d that Unhappy Prince, King James, 
 to be quite hopelefs of Reftoration to bis 
 former Condition*, the King of France finding 
 by the addition of Spain, his Adairs in a new 
 Pofture, and his Strength fo much Superiour to 
 the Allies, that he feem’d out of the reach of 
 
 their 
 
(??) 
 
 their Refentments, lie makes no difficolty of ac¬ 
 knowledging the Pretender as King cf all Eng- 
 land,, Scotland, and Ireland, in Breach of his 
 former ConccOion, and in Dircd contravention 
 to the Treaty of Eefmck. 
 
 This, I fay, broke all onr Tory Meafarcs ; 
 They had till now kept the King at Bay, and kept 
 off the approaches of a War •, they had given 
 the French Room and Time to aff in fettling the 
 Pofleflion of the Spanifh Monarchy without any 
 Oppofition, and rock’d the Nation ■ deep as to 
 thofe things but the whole Kingdom now took 
 the Alarm; the Affront to the King was fogrofs, 
 the Indignity was fo open, fo palpable a Viola¬ 
 tion of his Faith and Honour, and the Contempt 
 of the whole Englifh Nation was fo Great, and 
 gave fb general a Dilgull, that no Tory had the 
 face to open their Months againfl: it: The Na¬ 
 tion feem’d roufed out of the Deep Sleep which 
 thefe Managers had caft them into, and Addrefies 
 came from all parts of the Kingdom to his Ma- 
 jefty, exprelTing their deep Relentment of the 
 Injury done to his Majefty, and the Affront pat 
 upon the Kingdom *, Humbly prelllag the King 
 to declare War immediately againft France, and 
 promifing with Heart and Hand to AffiJl him to 
 the Utmoft; This brought on the Difiblation of 
 that Parliament, another being call’d in that hap¬ 
 py jundiire, the War was Declar’d, and thus the 
 Second Scene began. , 
 
 His Majefty however faw but little of it: He 
 opened the Seffion with that Honourable Speech 
 which Graces our Honfes now, as the beft Pifture 
 an Heart can look on ; and as the Parlia- 
 
 menc fell in Heartily into the W'ork, Troops 
 
 E were 
 
( 34 ) 
 
 were Chearfally rais’d, and an Army appear’d 
 fooner than the Enemy expefted ; the Troops 
 and Stores was at hand ; the King hurt with his 
 fall from his Horfe, fell ill, Languilh’d a few 
 pays, and to the inexprellible loft of this Na¬ 
 tion, Died March the 8ch, 1701. 
 
 Tttrn-Koun^. You Ihould have hinted here that 
 the French^ by the negled of our Tory Managers, 
 and during their delays aforefaid, bad lecured 
 Portugal us, or at leaft to a Profefs’d 
 
 Neutrallity, which prevented all poflible Attack 
 on the Spaniards oil that lide, and coll us a 
 great deal of Time and Expence to Retrieve. 
 
 Steddy. 1 thank you for remembring me of 
 that i It is hard to run over this whole Mifte- 
 ry of Darknefs and forget nothing. 
 
 The Death of the King ftruck all Europe with 
 Aftonilhmeut, and this Nation efpecially: How¬ 
 ever Her Majefty, at firft ftep, entring. into the 
 lame Meafures, and the War being declar’d, 
 there Teem’d no Immediate Lofs but of a Head to 
 thg Arrriies, and the King having recommended 
 the Duke of Marlborcugh to the Q,u E E N, as 
 the moft Capable Perfon for lb High a Station ; 
 this Recommendation fuiting exadly with Her 
 Majclly’s Inclination, who had always been a 
 Witncfs to the Fidelity and Concern the Duke 
 bad always fhown to Her Interefl:, there was no 
 difficulty in bis Advancement; and Her Majefty 
 forthwith declar’d Him General of the Forcesi 
 and Toon after difpatch'd him over to Holland^ to 
 Concert with the States the Operations of the 
 War. 
 
 However the War came in with the Deatli of 
 the King, and the Tories reviv’d with the coming 
 
 in 
 
in of the Queen j only with this Difference, that 
 as before they hung back from tbeWar, to defeat 
 and difappoint the King whofe Glory they En- 
 vy’d, becaufe they Hated his Perlbiij fo now they 
 flew with the greateft eagernefs imaginable upon 
 iheWar, prefuening they had a Queen, a Generali 
 and a Miniffry, all their own. And the firft thing 
 we heard ofl^ was retrieving England’^ Honour ^ 
 a Word meant for a Reproach to the Manage¬ 
 ment under the late King: How they brought it 
 to Pafs we (hall Toon Enquire. 
 
 Tura-RoHttd. I remembervery well, that Phrafe 
 was made ufe of, rather to banter the former 
 Management, than from any real view of doing 
 more than was done before; and they grew 
 alhamed of it Quickly after upon many ac¬ 
 counts 
 
 Steddy. Upon the Queen’s coming to the Crown, 
 they began, jufb as they do now, to R-un into ail 
 manner of Exorbitances and High flying Excefles, 
 they infalted the ff'higgs and Diflenters at fuch a 
 Rate, that had they gone on, it would not have 
 been fafe in a little Time more for any Diffent- 
 ing Preacher to have appear’d, but in Difguife. 
 
 ^urn-Round. What could work fuch a fuddain 
 Turn among them ? Could they imagine that the 
 Queen being juft come to the Crown would fet 
 up for a Perfecutor, and poll down one Part of 
 her Sobjeds to fet up another ? Nor could they 
 fuppofe that the Queen, whofe Felicity and Glo¬ 
 ry confifted in the Safety and Satisfaction of all 
 Her People, fliould be pleas’d to fee them thus 
 cutting one anothers Throats. 
 
 E i 
 
 Sttddy, 
 
Steday. They were no lefs foolilh than that 
 comes to: Nay, they put it upon that Iflue, and 
 began to flatter themfel/es that the QiJeen was ca 
 their lide m all this, and that this kind of beha. 
 viour would recommend them to Her Majelty, 
 and therefore it was that they Infulted the IVhigfs 
 With It, that now the Qiieen was ou their lide ; 
 now they had got a Qiieen entirely Englifli^ a Nom 
 .e Guerre alfo, which they uled in oppofition to 
 a Foreign Birth, and that therefore the Whig?s 
 were to expedt the worft. 
 
 I urn-Round- 1 Remember this too very exadi* 
 ly, and that upon this very account, feveral 
 Hundreds, I might,fay Xhoufands, who 
 weie Profeft Jacobites, came in at that Time 
 and took the Oaths. 
 
 St eddy. They did fo, not that they were left 
 Jacobites than they were before, but that they 
 Ihould be by this enabled to carry on their Caufe 
 v/ith more S’jccefs ^ after which, they tell us they 
 have the Pretenders Difpenfation for, and his 
 Approbation of it, in particular, as what is for 
 .his Particular Service on many accounts. 
 
 Turn-Round. What-ever was the Dellgn, I can¬ 
 not fay, but this ! know. That they filled all 
 the Nation with the Noife of their Tryumph • 
 That now they had a Queen of the Right Line • 
 That they were all content the Queen ihould en¬ 
 joy the Crown during Her Life, and that they 
 would wait to be next Oars. 
 
 ^ St eddy, i fhall come to that in its Time ; but 
 It maft not be omitted to obferve the wild ex- 
 cefles of a Tory Management, becaufe we may 
 the better judge what we are now to expedf from 
 fo much of the lame kind as is now before ns— 
 
 The 
 
(37 y 
 
 The Queen Unhappily, / mean to thenty in Her 
 Majelly’s Firft Speech, promifing all Her Sub- 
 je£ts Her Royal Protedion, yet told them to thi* 
 Purpoftf That, as Her Education and Choice had 
 eJfetlHally ty'd her to the Church of ENGLAND, 
 fo thofe who were MOST ZB ALOVS for that 
 Churchy would be the Perfonsjhe fhould tnofi Regard ; 
 and thai’ Jhe would give her Protetlion to all without 
 diftinHion^ thofe fhould havi the great efi (hare in 
 Her Favour, Thefe Words MoST ZE ALOVS, 
 being with eagcrnels fnatch’d at by the High 
 Tories, They Conftrue to mean, the utter fup- 
 preffing and extirpation of the Dijfenters ^ and this 
 fet the Warm Men of that Party ftark Mad, in 
 fo much, that the fame Dr. SachevereU who has 
 now made fo much Mifchief with the like Mad 
 Exprefiions, told the People at Oxford, That he 
 could not be a True Son of the Church of England, 
 who did not lift up a Banner or Flagg of Defiance 
 againB the Dijfenters, and Other fuch Unaccount¬ 
 able Expreflions. This was that Sermon, which 
 as it is alkdg’d, gave rife, among many other 
 Oblervations, to that well known Pamphlet, 
 call’d The Slsorteft tFay with the Dijfenters ; which, 
 after having amus’d the People a few Days, ap¬ 
 pear’d to be Written by a fThigg, and was a fe- 
 vere Iroiinical Satyr upon that Party; for which 
 they treated the Author, Daniel de Foe, with all 
 the unjult Severity polTible, to bis entire Ruinc 
 as I have been inform’d. 
 
 Turn-Round. That’s a known Story too, and 
 the Man is an E^e Sore to them Hill, and Galls 
 them very often with it in his Weekly Papers. 
 
 Steddy, Let 
 
 V 
 
( J8 ) 
 
 Steady. Let them ufe him as they wiD, that 
 Book weaken’d and expos’d them, and the Nation 
 began from that Time to fee what they drove at# 
 
 Ttim.Round. That Sermon is well known, the 
 Dodor has Preach’d no New Doftrine in his late 
 Sermon \ it is nothing but what be has formerly 
 attempted, tho’ it tended before to A Harm and 
 Awaken the Nation, now to Blind and Delude 
 them. 
 
 Sted^. No Man, however, that Remembers 
 theTwo firft Years of Her Majefty’s Reign ; but 
 may remember how high they run Things, and 
 how feir they bid to put us all in Confufion j 
 how, flattering themfelves that they ihould car^ 
 ry all before them, and Preftming upon the 
 Wicked Conftro(aion they had put upon Her Ma- 
 jefty’s Words MOST ZE ALOVS, they infultcd 
 not the Oiilenters only, but every Man, were 
 his Quality ever fo Great, or his True Zeal for 
 the Church ever fo well known, that did but ihew 
 the leaft True Regard to the Publick Peace, or 
 were for obferving any Meafures or Rules of 
 Charity or Moderation towards the Diflentersi 
 as if Her Majefty, when Ihe fpoke the Words 
 MOST ZEALOVS for the Church, could mean 
 nothing lefs than giving op all Her Diflenting 
 Snbjeds to Fire and Fagot j That Perfecution was 
 the only ftep to be taken ; and that the (iueen 
 had abandon’d them to Rapine and Plunder. 
 
 They were going on with fuch Warmth in thefe 
 Excelles, that the whole Kingdom took the A- 
 larm, and the Enemy, as in all fuch Cafes it is 
 obfervablc they do, made great Advantages of 
 it. 
 
 But 
 
( ?9 ) 
 
 But their haft overthrew them ; for Men of 
 Moderate Principles interpofing, their Aim at>. 
 pear d wrong taken, their Mine fprong too foon 
 ^d blew up, not the Conftitution as they had 
 Deligned, butthemfelves. ^ 
 
 The neceflary Confeqoence of this, was a new 
 
 by the Qc^iwfs of her own Inclination, always 
 dcfiringthe Good, the Peace, and theSafetyS 
 Her Pwple, was oblig’d to Jet thefe Pewk 
 iT’ K had Miftaken Her, in fuppofing 
 
 that when Ihe prompted their Zeal for theChurcb 
 they Jhould think it confifted only in Extiroal 
 ting the Diflenters; That Her Royal De^n^ 
 both irore Chriftian, and more becoming a Chri- 
 ftian Queeb, and a Nurling Mother of Her Peo- 
 
 and Union 
 with, and to one another* the 
 Pradife of Charicy,Good Neighbourhood,and for¬ 
 bearance in Matters of Difference, to be the tnie 
 way to fupport and maintain the Church • and 
 that confequently, thofe that were moff 
 for the Church o| Enj^Uad, would encourage and 
 promote, to their Utmoft, a general Charity, 
 and a Spirit of Union among all Her People 
 
 To Undeceive them therefore in this Thine. 
 and further to explain the Meaning of what hS 
 bera faid, Her Majefty declared upon all Occalions. 
 That me had at Heart nothing more than tlw 
 lafe and Peace of all HerSubjeds : That flu* 
 y^uld Proted the piffenters in their Peaceable 
 ^ Clmet l^baviour, and would inviolably 
 Maintain the ToUeration. r 
 
( 40 ) 
 
 This indeed blew them all np ; their Rage Was 
 equal to the Ihortnefs of their Power: Inftead of 
 going on with the furious Attacks upon the DiC- 
 ftnters as before, all was turn d on a fudden a- 
 gainft the Queen ^ Lampoons upon the Moderate 
 Bilhops*, Inlbient Inveftives againft the Mode- 
 rateCouncils, that guided Her Majefly’s Affairs; 
 calling the Bilhops Presbyterians; the Queen a 
 Deferter of the Church ; and all the Moderate 
 Gentlemen of the Church, Betrayers of their 
 Mother, and givers of Her up to be Ravilh’d and 
 Butcher’d by Wolves in Sheeps Clothing. 
 
 This they carried to fuch a height of Extra¬ 
 vagancy, that Her Majefty could not but Refent 
 it ; and adhereing firmly to the ProfelTion Ihe 
 bad made of her Concern for the general Peace, 
 and feeing plainly what thefe People drove at, 
 the Necelfity of Diveftiag them of a Power to 
 put in Pradice the Mifchief they had apparent¬ 
 ly Defign’d, appear’d inevitable ; Thus they were 
 Turn’d Out of the Min ftry, and the Weapon 
 of Adminiftration taken out of their Hands, as 
 you take the Sword out of the Hand of a Mad¬ 
 man, or Knives from your Children, that they 
 may neither do Harm to other People, or to 
 themfelvcs. 
 
 lurn-Round. This is a very Diftimft recital of 
 the Fad indeed *, but you mu(t give me leave to 
 add foroething alfo that came within the Verge 
 of ray Knowledge : As firll. That there was 
 always a Party among thefe People, who Vifibly, 
 and indeed without any Difguife, aim’d at the 
 Pretenderjvix,. That they fhould pretend to fub- 
 mit to the Qiieen Daring her Life, and therefore 
 as before, they came in and took the Oaths; but 
 
(4*) 
 
 that after Her Majefty the Pretender was the 
 uiiboubted Heir, and this they pufli’d to that 
 height, That Her Majefty was frequently ftil’d 
 Tennant for Life, and that Oie enjoy 'd the Crown 
 by way of Annuity. They had not the Face, as I 
 could ever bear, to propofe it in Council j but 
 it is not unknown to many, that they ufually 
 laid. That to finifti our Peace, the Pretender 
 Ihould be declar’d Proteftant, and that he Ihould 
 be acknowledg'd Succellbr; 
 
 This frightned many that had a True Zeal 
 for Her Majefty’s Perfon, and Concern for Her 
 Safety, to think, that having reduc’d the Pof- 
 leflion of the Crown to be only a Tennant for 
 Life, they had then nothing to do, but to make 
 the Leafe as Ihoit as they could, and the whole 
 Revolution, with all its Dependences, fuch as 
 Liberty, Law, Proteftant Religion, Property 
 of Eftate, Tolleration, and the like, lay at the 
 Mercy of every Aflaflinator ^ a fort of People 
 that Party hath never wanted, and which no 
 Loyal Snbjea to Her Majefty, could think of 
 without Horror. 
 
 Steddy. 1 thank you for your afllftahce in this 
 Article, which I was not fo much as let into the 
 Secret of as yet, tho’ I faw the thing in its Con- 
 fequences plain enough, and had occafion often 
 to argue it, in the Prefence of thofe who were 
 moll nearly concern’d in it. 
 
 Turn-Kottrid. I remember very well they buoy’d 
 themfelves up in the hopes to make it Pradticable 
 from Two things i The Rupture, or at 
 ‘kail the probable failing of the Treaty of U- 
 
 F ' nion 
 
C 42 ) 
 
 nion ^wUh the Scots^ which was all this while 
 c^rry’d on, but without any great Proijpea: of 
 Succefs, together with the Averfion thereof; had 
 declar’d to fettling the Succeffion with us j 
 andi Secondly, From the powerful Influence they 
 thought their Friends had at Home. 
 
 Steddy, This is moll evident in the Condudt 
 6f the Qovernment here* after that Turn was 
 given for no fooner was the AdminillratiaQ 
 gotten into Wiftrand Honefter Hands, but they 
 began with them, in their own way, to Defeat 
 . their Hope* from Scotland, and efleifliuany fettle 
 the Inheritance of the Crown in the Proteftant 
 Line: Her Majefty recommended a Hearty and 
 Effbaual Treaty of a U n i o N with Scotland, 
 and that not with the infuperable Difficulties of 
 Uniting or Subjeaing.Two different Churches, 
 and the Confufion of fteferved Interefts ^ but a 
 compleat entire Encorporation, and blending the 
 Two Nations in an indrlToluble Union, Ica-' 
 ving their refpedive Eccleffaftic Conftitutions 
 ■Entire, Defended, Butted and Bounded, a- 
 ' gainfl any poffible Invaffon of one another; and 
 fec-ured from any poflibility of either fide en¬ 
 croaching upon the other ; or of both lidcs to¬ 
 gether, tho’ by mutual Agreement, being able 
 (0 feparate. 
 
 This fet about Heartily, and Happily fiailh’d, 
 Naturally took the Proteftaut Succeffion, and 
 has left it out of the reach of any Legal Power 
 of the United Body to Repeal it. 
 
 The next ftep was to find out feme Method, 
 that the fimple taking tJxi Oaths might not be a 
 
 Screen 
 
' ( 45 ) 
 
 Screen to thoft, ^ho Went upon the Notion 
 of the Right of Poffefllon and Reverfion, which 
 you mention’d jnft now ^ and this was to Efta- 
 blifli a Recognition of the Settlement of the 
 Crown on the Houfeof fJanmver, by Abjuring 
 the Pretender. 
 
 ■ Turn-Round. Thefe Two things form’d an 
 Eflential Security to the Life of the Queen ^ foi- 
 now the Union being Settled, the Pretender 
 Abjur’d, and the Method of declaring the Suc- 
 ccITor alfo fettled by the Aft*, appointing a 
 Certain number of Lords to Adminifter the 
 Publick Affairs, in Cafe of the Queen’s Death, 
 till the Succeflbr could come over, which Lords 
 are obliged and enjoyn’d on Pain of HighTrea-: 
 fbn, immediately to Proclaim the Succeflbr 
 Thefe things have made the Pretender’s Caufe 
 fo exadtly the fame, whether the Queen Lives 
 or Dies, that Her Majefty’s Life is fecured by this 
 'fuore effeftually, than by Ten Thoufand Men to 
 Guard Her Perfon, (ws..) That it will not be the 
 leafl: advantage to them to deftroy Her, nay. 
 Happy for Her Majetty it is ^ Their Cafe would 
 appear the worfe, fmee they would immediately 
 have a Powerful Martial Aftive Prince, ready 
 to pour in upon them in Proflecution of his juft 
 claim, in oppofing whom, perhaps, they might not 
 find tfle fame Clemency, Tendernefs, and For¬ 
 bearance, which they have, till now, prefom’d 
 upon. 
 
 Steddy. That is a good Obfervation indeed; 
 for I take her Majefty’s Security, to lie much 
 more in its not being for their Advantage to 
 
 F 2 Hurt 
 
(44) 
 
 Hurt Her, than in all thetyesof Honour, Hu< ' 
 manity, or Oaths in the World. 
 
 Tmrn-RoHnd. therefore «re find, That 
 lince this Union and Abjuration, they have 
 left off Talking of the Queen’s enjoying the 
 Crown for Life, and the Pretenders coming 
 after Her i and with moreOpennels, (I might 
 have raid Impudence ) AlTert the Right of 
 the Pretender to be Hereditary and Indefea- 
 zable, and the Queen’s Pofleflion a meer Rob¬ 
 bery and Ufurpation. In purfaance of this 
 we have feen him once at the Head of the 
 French Army attempting to Inflate Himfelf, and 
 Invading Her Majefty’s Dominions to Di^oflefs 
 Her by Force and we are hereby inflruded, 
 in what the Queen has to exped from the 
 Party, if Power fhould be put! into their Hands 
 to efFeft it. 
 
 Steddy. It is but too plain that they would 
 do it by Force rather than by any other Method 
 if it were in their Power j and one Reafon is* 
 becaufc if they come in by Force, they have 
 the better pretence to Role by Arbitary Power 
 what they gain againfl our Confent ^ and we 
 have the more Reafon to be flcddy in our Op- 
 pofition. 
 
 Tnrtt'Round. I have made too long a Digref. 
 fion upon this Head, but I have done ; I pray 
 Will you go on now with your Hiftorical Ac.* 
 count were you left off? 
 
 Steddy. 
 
( 45 ) 
 
 Steddy. I think no Man need go any farther 
 for Reafons, Why Her Mhjefty Ihould for the 
 Security of Her Subjeds, and for the Safety of 
 Her own Life, take down, in its new Elevation, 
 this High Tory Scheme, and Difmifs from Her 
 Perfon and Councils, thofe People who had lb 
 Eminently difeover’d their Heat, in the Profle- 
 cution of Principles fo Diftrudive to the Peace 
 of Her Subjefts : And no other Anfwcr need 
 be given, to the Memorials and Dialogues which 
 Infuit the Party that alfifted in plaf ^ g 
 and fuch Men as they pretend to give Glorious 
 Charaders of. 
 
 Turn-Round. I think there was no need of o- 
 ther Reafons indeed : But here remains a <^ue- 
 ftion Ibmewhat Nice. How comes it to Pals, 
 that Ibme People, who were then Zealous for 
 the Safety of the Queen, and forward in Dif- 
 pofleffing thefe Men, are now the Men Zealous 
 for their being brought into Play again ? 
 
 Steddy. This is a Nice Queftion I own; but 
 it admits an Anfwer fo Plain, and fo much to 
 the Mortification of the High Tory Party 
 themlelves, that 1 fhall rather choofe to let the 
 Caufe of my Relation, take away the Reafon 
 for the Queftion, than to take up your time in a 
 particular Anfwer. 
 
 T urn- Round. I am fatbfied : Pray go on then. 
 
 Steddy. Upon the Happy Succeft of thefe Mo¬ 
 derate Councils, Her Majefty having quitted 
 ]Her Hands of a Tricking Defiguing Party, their 
 
 attempt 
 
( 46 ) 
 
 attempt in Parliamenc againft the Diffenters 
 haTiag Mifearry’d, add the Party expofed to the 
 higheft degree to the whole Nation, in their 
 moft Weak, and Impolicick attempt, call’d the 
 Tack, Things began to look with a new 
 Face both at Home and Abroad ; Succelles one 
 on the Neck of another. Vidlory Abroad \ 
 Riling Credit at Home; the Happy Condo* 
 lion^ of the Union ; and the continu’d De¬ 
 clining of the French Affairs; took up the 
 Time, of near Four Succeflive Years: Ercry 
 Year ended with Thanklgivings, Triumphs, Pro* 
 cellions, Te Deums^ and Rejoycings of every 
 kind : The Duke of Marlborough has 
 fill’d our Great Halls with Trophies, anjj our 
 Magazines with the Spoils of the Enemies Ar- 
 *nies. The World has been amazed with the 
 Surprizing Accounts ; Armies entirely Over¬ 
 thrown *, whole Countries Recover’d ; Impreg¬ 
 nable Cities Taken : He has never Attack’d 
 a Town, but he has Taken it; never Fought 
 a Battle, but he has Won it; Never undertaken 
 any Negotiation, but he has Accomplilh’d it; 
 Our Treafurer has produc’d Immenfe Summs; 
 bur Credit rifen beyond what the World ever 
 ftw, or any other Nation can pretend to; and 
 Tr4»«, Humbled by his many Irrecoverable 
 Lodes, has been brought thele laft Years upon 
 Knees to Soliicite for Peace. 
 
 In doing this. He has Submitted to take Law 
 from the Confederates in all Cafes ; He has font 
 to the HugHe to ask Peace of the Dittch at 
 their own Doors; When He comes to a Second 
 Treaty, He Submits to fend His Plenipotenti¬ 
 aries to a little Obfeure Hole in the Dutch 
 
 ' Do- 
 
( 47 ) 
 
 Dominions, where they Treat, inviron'd by a 
 Strong Garrifon, arc not permitted to come a 
 Foot nearer the Dutch \ but when they have 
 any thing to fay, Meflengers of a mean Qpa- 
 lity are fenc to fetch it like a Meflage, and carry 
 their Anfwer, and when this proves not Satis- 
 faSory, they are fent Home ^ as if they had 
 fa id, yPhenyou are further HumhUd, Come again. 
 
 In thefe Treaties the Coaceffion of France 
 arc Prodigious, and Greater than is likely to 
 be obtain’d by Force in many Years War^ even 
 to the Demolilhing of Dunkirk^ that coftly Work 
 the Quitting his Grandfonj and Contributing 
 Money to aflift us to Dethrone Him ; It were 
 endlels to recite all the Countries, Cities, and 
 Strong Towns, he offers to give up in a 
 Peace. 
 
 This is the State of the Cafe upon the 
 Adininiftration of a New Miniftry; who this 
 New Minifiry were need not be Repeated, you 
 know them well enough ^ and both you and I 
 know, and have fpoken it to his Honour, that 
 
 Mr. fi -, for whatever Reafons he has linco 
 
 mov’d in another Sphere, was fhs Happy In- 
 ftrument that freed the Nation from the Mt^ 
 chiviiian Projeds of that Party 9 and while he 
 piirfued the Meafures, fo Happily begulii in Con- 
 junaion with the Treafurer, the General, and 
 others, the Affairs of this Nation were under 
 the beft Influence, and went on in the mofh 
 Flourilhiag manner imaginable ; And It was 
 during this Conjunaion, that raoftof thegreac 
 Succeifes which i mention’d juft now were ob- 
 taiakl. 
 
( 48 ) 
 
 Turn-Round. That is very true; and this 
 the Reafon why I faid before, That I cannot 
 believe that Gentleman has in his view the Refto* 
 ring a High Tory Management; He can never 
 be for building up that Fabrick of Folly and 
 T-y, that he was ib Inftrumental in pol¬ 
 
 ling down: 1 am yet in great Hopes that he 
 means Honeftly, and has Ibmething ftill in view, 
 by which he will fccure things upon the old Foot 
 of Safety and Peace. 
 
 Stcddy. 1 am Steddy ftill, and have no Opini¬ 
 on of that kind; however, let me go on: 
 The firft breach which was made in the Mioi- 
 ftry, whether it Sprung from his Ambition to 
 overthrow.others, or any ill Ufage which is 
 pretended, is not to the Purpofe*, but this is 
 certain, it has been a very unhappy Blow : From 
 that time to this the Unity of Councils, the 
 Peace of Parties, and the general Tranquili¬ 
 ty of the Nation have declin’d j we have 
 b^n fill’d with Complaints oif Management 
 withont Doors, and many buile endeavours to 
 make the People Unealie j nor has things paft 
 without feme Reciprocal Refentments and Un* 
 kindnefles within, and on both lides: No want 
 of Emillaries and Incendiaries to blow the Coals, 
 to Raife Feuds, keep up Animofities, and In¬ 
 fluence Parties; things naturally Tending to 
 a Breach, and to Interrupt the Felicity of this 
 Nation, which had fo happily been our lot fop 
 the paft Years. 
 
 This 
 
( 49 J 
 
 This is grown to fuch a Height, as we fee at 
 this Time, when the Miniftry that had mana¬ 
 ged with fo much Succefs, and had brought us 
 to fuch happy Circumftances, feem to have lolt 
 the Favour of their Miftrefs; and private Dif- 
 fafters, falling in with Party Interefts, have 
 turn'd the Scalesj Her Majefty has been pre¬ 
 vail’d with to change Hands in the Adminiftra- 
 tion, and we have a New Court-Revolution. 
 There is no doubt but Her Majefty has an un- 
 queftion’d Authority to change Hands as often 
 as feems meet to Her Royal Judgment; that 
 Prince has but little Authority left, that cannot 
 beftow Her Perfonal Eftcem, as She herfelf 
 pleafes. Thofe Pamphlets, who reproach the 
 Queen with Turning out Minifters of State, 
 without juft Reafon, or without Ihewing Caufe 
 for Her Diflikc, are Lampoons upon the Prero¬ 
 gative, Satyrs upon the Conftitution, and very 
 Unmannerly upon the Qiieen, who has fo Un¬ 
 doubted a Right to employ who She pleafes, 
 that no Loyal Subjedt will offer to fay to Herj'in 
 that Cafe, dofi thonf It would be to di- 
 
 Veft the Qiieen of Her true Regaha, the Scepter; 
 to take from Her the Power of Regulating Her 
 Houlhoia, and Putting in, or Putting out Her 
 Servants- 
 
 Nor is Her Majefty’s Power of Diffolvingor 
 Prorogueing Parliaments any more to be difput- 
 cd, than that of Placing and Difplacing Officers 
 and Servants ; and therefore 1 am to contefs 
 to a Paper calPd Queries lately Publijh^dy I think 
 the firft Qiiery ^ moft abfurd and ridiculous 
 Thing (viz.) Whether ever any Parliament had 
 more deferv’d to fit again than this f Speaking 
 ftriaiy of the Duty of Parliaments, and the 
 
 O Reafutt 
 
( 50 ) 
 
 Rcafon and End of their Sitting, no Parliament 
 cm defervf of the Queen •, they may deferve the 
 Acknowledgment Of the People: But to fay a 
 Parliament are to deferve of the Sovereign, 
 would be a keen Satyr upon the Houfc, or upon 
 the Crown, and tliat for many Reafons not fb 
 fit to enlarge upon ^ all the Zeal,the Vigour, the 
 Pidelity and Application they arc capable of^ in 
 L'cfence of the l .iberties of the People, which 
 they are entruffed with, is their indifpenfible 
 Duty, all their Care for the Honour and Sup¬ 
 port of the Monarchy, and Defence of the Per- 
 foil and Authority of their Sovereign, that is 
 confilfent with the Zeal, Vigour and Fidelity a- 
 forelaid, is their Duty •, in doing this, they dif- 
 eharge their Triul like true Patriots and Loyal 
 Subjects ; But to talk of their Deferving by this 
 to fit again, is a Language very llnparliamenta- 
 ry, and may have Conltfucdions. very Fatal put 
 upon it \ by the fame Rule they may deferve to 
 fit for ever and for aye \ and the Triennial Aft 
 which we juftly think a fife Guard to our Liber¬ 
 ties, would, ipfo faclo^ be repeaPd by the Na¬ 
 ture of the Thing. 
 
 Turn-Round. All this wc own. But Why do 
 you premife this with fo much Caution juft 
 now ? 
 
 Steddy. Becaufc thefc Things are thrown in 
 our way as Aufwers to our Objeftions, when 
 we really make no fuch Objeftions \ and there¬ 
 fore it is necelTary to Hate the thing, as we go 
 along, to anticipate the Cavils we meet with of 
 that kind. 
 
 Turn- Round. Therefore I fuppofe it is, that, 
 as I have obferv’d, they make ufe of the (Queen’s 
 having a Right to do this to another Purpofe. 
 
 bteddy. 
 
r50 
 
 Steddy. They do fo •, and take upon them to 
 fpread about among the People, a Notion that 
 there was an abfolnte Neceflity to make this 
 Change. And could they make this out, the 
 Thing were at an End. We own Her Right to 
 do it, and they inflfl: upon the Neceflity. 
 
 Turn-Round. This is indeed the Sum of the 
 prefent Difpute. Indeed I fee no Neceflity the 
 Queen has been under. 1 miifl: own, Others 
 may fee it, tho’ I do not; and therefore I will 
 not fay as fome do, that there was no Neceflity 
 at all. But I have waited long to hear what 
 this Neceflity is, and from whence it proceeds. 
 
 Steddy. All that I can fee of Neceflity, de¬ 
 pends upon Her Majefly’s being Convinc’d that 
 thefc new Men arc Faithful to Her, and more 
 Devoted to Her true interefl:, more Capable to 
 fupport Her than the other. 
 
 Turn-Round. Nay, that does not prove the 
 Neceflity, unlefs it were that They were only 
 Capable of fupporting Her, and not the Other. 
 
 Steddy. There is another Neceflity, which 
 may have fomething in it (viz.) a Necfllty on 
 the High Tory fide (viz.) that whereas they had 
 fb behav’d and jnitly expos’d themfelves to the 
 Relentment of the Parliament and Miniftry, 
 that they muft be fure to be ruin’d, if they con¬ 
 tinu’d, it was abfolutely ncceflary to them to 
 have the one DilTolv’d, and the other Chang’d. 
 But will any Man call it a Neceflity upon the 
 Sovereign, that She Ihould Diflblve a Parlia¬ 
 ment, Faithful and Dutiful Servants, and Change 
 Her whole Miniftry to lave Sacheverell from far¬ 
 ther Refentment, or to skreen that Infamous 
 Scribler, Abel Roper., from the Pillory, for abu- 
 fing the Houfe of Commons in Print j a Fellow, 
 G 2 Illiterate 
 
i ) 
 
 Illiterate and Ignorant to a Proverb, and whole 
 Pen, grown fcandalous to themlelves, is only 
 made ufe of for his daring to fay any thing with¬ 
 out regard to honour the Reputation of Per- 
 Ibns, or the Truth of Fact. Sure this can be 
 no part of the Necefllty. 
 
 Turn-Round. But they allege, the Heat of 
 Parties was come to that height, and the Ani- 
 mofity was ib great, that there was an abiblute 
 Necefllty to give Things a new Turn, that the 
 Edge might be a little taken off on both Sides, 
 that both Sides might be cool’d, the Fury aba¬ 
 ted, and Things brought to a Temper. 
 
 Steddy. Then you are to fuppofe this new 
 
 M-y are to bring Things to Temper. But 
 
 will you firft examine what Men of Temper are 
 among them ? Have they not thrown us all up¬ 
 on the 'Tories for Moderation, and upon the 
 Men of Fire to cool our Heats? How can this 
 bring us to Temper? 
 
 Turn-Round. Why this is the very Thing I 
 complain of, and for which, as you know I told 
 yen, I am come off from them •, and yet I am 
 ftill of Opinion, they will not pretend to the 
 Neafures they took in the beginning of the 
 Queen ^ and that when they come to Ad, you 
 will fee they will ftcer quite another Courfe. 
 
 Steddy. I find you are of Opinion of the Re- 
 view^ That tho’ they arc Tories by Inclination.^ 
 they rnuft be W’higgS^’^ Ojjice and that by the 
 Nccejftty of the Confiitutien they mufi atl upon Re¬ 
 volution Principles. 1 am in part of that mind 
 looi but 1 cannot but think ’tis dangerous to 
 have a VTnigg Conftitution adminiftred upon 
 To y Principles. There is a certain Necefllty, 
 t^t either the Conftitution mull reftrain the 
 
 Principle, 
 
c 5?; 
 
 Principle, or the Principle will dcftroy the Con- 
 ftitution- And is it fafe to run the Rilbue ? 
 Had the Review prov’d the Neceflity of makin*^ 
 that dangerous Experiment, he had faid more 
 to the Purpofe. 
 
 Turn-Round. I agree with you, and vvilh the 
 Experiment had not been made^ but lincc it is 
 made, I am of that mind too^ let it be whofe it 
 will^ that they can aft upon no other Foot than 
 that of the Revolution ; and tnercfore 1 am not 
 fo Chagrin at the Change as fomc People are. 
 I want to lee what Meafures the New Gentle¬ 
 men will take. 
 
 Steddy. How is it poflible they can take good 
 Meafures with fuch Inftruments as they have. 
 Now upon their V/ork to begin where they be¬ 
 gun, I mean with Dr. Sacheverell. It is below 
 me to give him the T erms he deferves. But as 
 General Stanhope obferv’d upon his Tryal, A 
 Contemptible Tool^ Jet up by a Party to infult the 
 Confiitutiony and fly in the Face of the Adminijlra- 
 tion. They could not have pick’d out of the 
 whole Nation, a Man, whole Impudence was 
 fitter to be at the Head of a bad Caufe, and 
 whofe Charafter is lefs able to fupport him j a 
 Man of little Learning, lefs Modefly, and no 
 Virtuej Scandalous in his Behaviour in every 
 Particular, of a molt Infamous Reputation, and 
 of a molt Unheard of Degree of Pride, (luali- 
 fy’d for any thing that was Affronting either 
 to God or Man; who could calf God to witnefs 
 to a Thing at a Bar of Juftice, and make a jefl 
 of the fame Thing in Converfation in the fb- 
 lemneft manner ; and with a whining Accent, 
 to move Compaffion upon his Tryal before the 
 Lords, proteft his Loyalty to the Perfon of the 
 
 Queen, 
 
(54) 
 
 Queen, and Zeal for Her Intereft, and Drink 
 on his Knees to the Pretender as his Lawful So¬ 
 vereign in another Company i a Fellow quali- 
 fy’d to Bully the Nation, and to make Mad¬ 
 men more Lunatick. Can any Man believe, 
 that a Party, to whom this Creature is a Tool, 
 have any Work to do that is fit for an honeft 
 Man, or an honeft Party, to embark in ? 
 
 Turn-Rotmd. This is very True. But if you 
 will give me leave fo far to fpeak in the Pei Ions 
 of a Set of Men; whofe Party I have quitted, I 
 (hall difeharge myfclf impartially, 
 
 Steddy^ 1 eould be glad to have room but to 
 think of them with fome Charity, and I will be 
 fiir enough from doing them any Injuftice. 
 What can you have to fay to this Bachanalian 
 Prieft, that has thus ruffled the Nation ? 
 
 Turn-Round. I’ll tell you firft. I fay that you 
 cannot fpeak more Contemptibly of him than 
 they do thcmfelves •, and indeed aU his Party, 
 that have any Senfe, 1 have been with them in 
 fome of their Clofets, Councils, they always, 
 condemn’d him,- and look’d upon him as a Fire¬ 
 brand. Nor do I believe they had any hand 
 in his late unfufferable Infolencc in his Country 
 Cavalcade. His Sermon they condemn das a 
 piece of Pulpit-raving. And had you Voted 
 him to Bedlam, he had been carry’d away, 
 
 BPemine Contradicente. ri- a 
 
 Steddy. But have they Cenfur d any of his A- 
 bettors^ HaiigM any ot his Riotois, Funifhd or 
 Difcoimtenanc’d any of thofe that have broke 
 the Peace, and infulted their Neighbours on 
 his account. 
 
 Turn-Round. Iffl tcll you what they fay: They 
 fay the prefent Humour of the People ferves 
 
 their 
 

 ( 55 ) 
 
 their prefent Defigns , it is not a Time to pufii 
 Things too far. The Affair of Sacheverell broke 
 the Icc for them ^ ’tis become Popular •, it has 
 been a mean to run down the other Party j and 
 thus far they have ferv’d themfelves of it. That 
 the Impeachment was a wrong Step, and 
 brought the Church into theQuan el j that they 
 were oblig’d to take the Occalion, and bring 
 about what they aim’d at before, when they 
 knew nothing of that Accident: But that for 
 the Man they abhor him; and whereas he is 
 blown up with Pride, upon the Opinion of their 
 Approbation, they have nothing to ridicule 
 him for more that he has no more Countenance 
 from them, he has done their Bufinefs', and they 
 have no more to fay to him. 
 
 Steddy. I make no queftion, but he vvill ren¬ 
 der himfclf as Contemptible to them in Time, 
 as he is to us; but in the mean time the Nation 
 is full of intollerable Infolency on his account, 
 and a Spirit of Tumult and Riot runs thro’ the 
 Nation, which fits the People for any Violence, 
 the Conniving at which, by thefe new People, 
 encourages it fo much, that it may foon rife to 
 an Height, too great for themfelves to quench^' 
 and to prompt a People to Tumult and Rebelli¬ 
 on, was never, that 1 knew of, thought any. 
 part of good Politicks, in a Government calcu-’ 
 lated as ours is, to fupport Property, and pro- 
 teel: Juftice. Thefe Things give me a general' 
 Sufpkion of the Party, that their Defign cannot, 
 be good, when the Means to bring it to pafs ist 
 fb pernicious to tire Nation’s Good. As to the' 
 Impeachment^ I am clear, the. Neccflity of pu— 
 nilhing fo much Infolence was unavoidable ; if. 
 it had any evil Effefts, it was from the Conduft 
 
 
 ! 
 
( 5 ^; . 
 
 of that Party, who prevented his being treated 
 more fiiitablc to his Deferts, and who fufFer’d 
 our Mobbs unpunifh’d, not only to infult Ju- 
 ftice in its very Execution, but to ridicule and 
 triumph over that Part of it, which on all other 
 Occaftons mould have been call’d Moderation^ as 
 an EfFeft of Fear, and a Submiflion to the Cla¬ 
 mours cf the Street. But 1 look on this Im¬ 
 peachment as a very fmall Part of this Affair; 
 the Blood was llagnate before, and the Difeafe 
 mull have broken out Ibmewhcre, if not 
 there. 
 
 Turn-Round. I know, had the Thing been 
 prolecuted, as I think it fh.ouId have been, and 
 the Criminal been fcverely punifh’d, the Im¬ 
 peaching him was a Step founded on Wifclom, 
 Prudence and Neteflity ; and / think ho body can 
 deny it. But as it was run down by a Party, it 
 has been a Handle to ruin the belt Inter eft, 
 
 . and has been the Foundation of all the Con- 
 fufion that has follow’d ; and on that Score, 
 I wifh they had taken other Meafures with 
 him. 
 
 Steddy. I am never for reproaching the Means 
 if the End w as right, tho’ perhaps thofe Means 
 do not fucceed; I am Ilitisfy’d the Houfe of 
 Commons could have done no left, except they 
 would lit ftill and lee themlelves infulted every 
 Day. But come w e next to the Confequences of 
 this Mifchief, which is the Remove of the Idi- 
 niftry ; and this, they fay, there was a Neccfll- 
 ty for. I cannot fee this Nccefllty. This Cavil¬ 
 ling Author, who under the Title o{Double., is 
 brought in owning more Crimes than the Age 
 has feen committed, lays the Univerfal Scandal 
 of every thing upon the Miniftry, tho’ if me 
 
 knom 
 
( 57 ) 
 
 Inow him fight, lie has been kept from Starving 
 
 i)y that very Miniftry, which Dr. D -.-r can 
 
 bear Witnels of. Nay, he goes back and tells 
 you, it was long of them the Old Coin was 
 Clip’d and Defac’d, tho’ all the World knows 
 they had no other Concern in it than to rectify 
 that Evil, which they did to a Prodigy. Here 
 he rummages every Adtio'n, not for what is well 
 in it, but for Ibmewhat to find fault with the 
 Vidorics gain’d have not been enough improv’d 
 to fatisfy him: The Credit has fuffer’ditho’ rais’d 
 from Nothing to the higheft pitch : The Na¬ 
 tion has been impos’d upon: The Generals 
 prolong the War and a Thoufaiid fuch 
 Things. But where is the Matter of Fad to 
 appear ? The March into Bavaria was againft 
 the Will of the Party ; they Infulted and Threa¬ 
 ten’d the Duke oi Marlborough upon it, and a 
 certain Perfon of Figure (wore by G--d it Ibould 
 colt him his Head. Had he miicarry’d in it, no 
 doubt he would have done his Devoir to have 
 it fo. The March itfelf was the greateft the 
 World ever law of that kind, and Hill greater 
 in its wonderful Confequences; Suahia was De¬ 
 liver’d, Bavaria Conquer’d, the Vpper Palatinate 
 Reduc’d, the Invincible Vrench Army Vidori- 
 oufly cut in Pieces j the Confederate Army re¬ 
 turn’d, purfu’d the flying Army over the Danube, 
 and over the Rhine, took all the Enemy were 
 poflefs’d of for iSo Miles, Befieg’d Vim, and 
 after that Landau, and took them both i and all 
 this in one Campaign ^ and yet this Vidory was 
 not well purfued. The People who will com¬ 
 plain of theleT hings. What can be fuppofed to 
 plcafe them? What gains the Admiration of tiK 
 whole World, what is inimitable m its Condud 
 
 H beyond 
 
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 beyond the Feirs of Enemies and the Hopes of 
 Friends, pafles for Mifmanagemcnt with this 
 doubling Author, who calls himftlf Sir Tho. 
 Double, or we may call Dr. Double D~—anc. 
 
 But it is necellary to the Caufe, to the great 
 Eflential Point of bringing in a fJ!£h Tory Party 
 upon us, that every A<^ion of the former People 
 ihould be expos’d if pofiible. This is as ridicu¬ 
 lous as the fulfom Characlers he gives of his 
 Great Men j in this he has the advantage ex- 
 treamly <5f any Rlaa that can Write now, and 
 th^efore 1 (hall not fay much to it. The Au¬ 
 thor Teems duller at Panegyrick than at Scandal 5 , 
 his Charafters would bear much Addition: One 
 would have fuppos’d him labouring hat'd to 
 Praife this Man for his Glorious Anccftors*, that 
 for his great Succefs in his Projedfs, with very 
 little of Perfonal Merit raeation’d, tho’ there 
 was room enough for it. One would have 
 thought he might to much more Advantage have 
 fet forth the D. of S —- whofe CharaSer and 
 Meric would have fupply’d him very fufficiently 
 with Subjed of Praife, than fingly the Merit of 
 his Anceftors, who we know were all Popilh. 
 Of another Great Man be fpeaks fo Loofely,thae 
 fomc People fufped him fpeaking Ironiplly, 
 and think he had faid more in his juft Praife if 
 he had only faid He mat an Honeft Man, and a 
 good Bowler. 1 (hall not venture at fetting out 
 thefe Gentlemens Charaders in a true Lighc,Ieft 
 I (hould not do it to pleafe this Author. Men 
 for true Merit need no Man’s Praife, and to 
 Praife Men without it is below my Temper ^ it 
 is fitter for him, that enjoying a Thoufand 
 Pounds a Year from the Bounty of the late Minir 
 ftry, which he gain’d alfo by Doubling againft 
 
his Principles, can, as Occafion offers, DoMt 
 again^ and Flatter that Party whoaie now in a 
 pofture to let him keep it, and this too at the 
 Expence of his Benefaftor *, nor can the Men of 
 Quality who he makes his Court to value them- 
 felves upon this DoBor's O^inion^ fince he has 
 brought their Charadlers in an;ong liieh horrid 
 Company as fpoil all the reft of his Compliment: 
 Here he Panegyricks a Duke, then joyns to him 
 William Paterfon^ one a Noble Perfon of Birth 
 and Fortune, whofe Merit no Man difputes, the 
 other an Infamous Ckeat^ that having led his own 
 Country-men Blind-fold into the ruinous Projed 
 of Darien,with a manifeftView of Enriching him- 
 felf,and Defrauding the Woild,thisAutlior Com¬ 
 pliments with being the framer of the Union, 
 and pretends the Hon<^r due ro him, tho’ we all 
 know the Union was a Tranfadion fram’d and 
 the Model of it fix’d, approv’d, and treated of 
 by both Nations, before this Scandalous Fellow 
 or any of his Cheats were heard of in the 
 World. 
 
 Turn-Round. The Gentlemen whofe Cliara- 
 ders are attempted by this Doubling uiuthor^ can¬ 
 not think thcmfelvcs Oblig’d to him for joyning 
 them in his abfurd Paffages, with a Man, who 
 when at the clofe of the Union, he had the Im¬ 
 pudence to defire to be recommended from Scot¬ 
 land by the Parliament there j a Gentleman, as 
 I have heard, very fuitably mov’d, that with 
 him they would be plcafed to recommend alfb 
 Her Majefly^s Hangman of Edinburgh who had 
 faithfully diftharg’d that Great Truft, and me¬ 
 rited much more the Favour of his Sovereign. 
 
 H z Steddy. 
 
C6o) 
 
 Steddy, This Pattern ofBl-uftering ia theCha- 
 rafters of Great Men I take no Rule from, I 
 leave it wholly to Dr. Double: I think, were I 
 to Print any thing in the World, the greatell; 
 Panegyrick to the Characlefs of fome People, 
 wc^Id be to leave their Charaders quite out. 
 
 I iirn-Roiifid. But now you feem to Ihoot at 
 Random and run at all the Men now brought ini 
 Do you not think it juft to make fome Diftin- 
 ^lion ? 
 
 Steddy. I am fer doing Right to all Men, and 
 therefore you fee I have explain’d my felf as I 
 go on j, and indeed I would not be mif-under- 
 liood in all 1 have laid ; 1 am to be underftood 
 of the IDgh Tories 3 thefe are the Men that have 
 all along aimed at our Deftruiftipn ^ thefe are 
 the Men that have brou^t all our Diftractions 
 iipon us •, thefe are the Men that have often 
 brought as to the brink of Ruine, and who will 
 again, if ever they are Cloaf'icd with Power: 
 And if any of thefe Men are put into Office, fo 
 far I think we are abfolutely.Unfafe; This is. 
 what renders us llneafy, and frights us at the 
 Appreheufions of Changes. 
 
 Turn-Round. This is juft my Senfe of the 
 Thing ^ I am not Chagrin at the Changes made 
 at the Court, it thefe Mad-men are but kept 
 out^ but it was the bringing thefe People in 
 that made me quit the other Party, as I told 
 you already. 
 
 Steddy. Bringing Ter/fa in, or purfuing Tory 
 Mealures is the fame Thing-, yet I own 1 fhould 
 have been iefs pneern’d, had not a Set of Men 
 come in at this lecond Remove, who we once 
 tried, and found to our Coft, Dangerous to the 
 v'ery tiicnce of the Revolution; 1 do allow I 
 
 » - . ought 
 
() 
 
 Gijglit to make a difference between Men and 
 Men, and that the Chief Managers do give us 
 hopes thcj will act upon Moderate Principles; 
 but this bringing in a Rate of mad High Tories 
 is the Thing I fear, and which makes me with¬ 
 draw from them as from a Houfe finking. 
 
 Tnrn-Roimd. I knew you and I fliould agree 
 at laff, I know who you mean, I cannot believe 
 he will ever be lb abandon’d, or lb weak in his 
 Politicks, as well as fo contrary to his General 
 Practice, as to play rhe Tory^ the World will 
 allow he is no Fool, and we knovy he cannot aft 
 in his prefent Station but within the Circle of 
 the Conflitution; he has lerv’d himlelfof them, 
 and I do not blame him for that, but he always 
 bi'oke with them jn Meafures, and mufl of courfe 
 do fo again. 
 
 Steady.. I am’of that Opinion too as much as 
 you, but I am Steddy to this, that we are brought . 
 into now and greater Hazards, both as to Tory * 
 Management at Homc,and Mifearriages Abroad, 
 than wc were in before ; I am fairly to Diftin- 
 guilh between the New Miniftry, and a High- 
 Tory Adminiftration. The New Miniftry,as Da¬ 
 niel De Foe fays in theRevicw^lVhatever 'they are in 
 Opinion.y?tttfl be Whiggs in RraElice ; for they mufl 
 fupport the Alliance, and carry on the War, 
 maintain the Qficen, and adhere to the Protc- 
 ftant Succeffion. But tire not this New Miniftry 
 more in Danger to deliver us up to a mad High 
 Tory Adminiftration than the other were? Are 
 they not bringing Tories into Places of Publick 
 Truft and Employment ? This will lay us open 
 to the Party that would Ruin us.all, and in the 
 End, if let loofc, will Ruin them too. 
 
 Turn- 
 
 I 
 
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 Turn-Round. We arc Joynt Coraplaincrs in this 
 Matter, and I mufl own 1 expert no Good from 
 any Miniflry where the People are admitted 
 whofe aim has been the Ruine of the Nation for 
 thefe Twenty Years pafr. 
 
 Steddy. It is no wrong Step in Politicks fome- 
 times to take our Meafures from the Enemy, we 
 have too plainly feen the Encouragement the 
 French have taken from this Divifion, and that 
 it has been the True and perhaps the Only Rea* 
 Ion from which they have encourag’d therafelves 
 to carry on the War. The World knows it is 
 not in their Power to fiipport themfelvcs by 
 Arms, and that if we continue firm to our Con- 
 federates,they mufl: (Ink : Nor are they fo Igno¬ 
 rant of this themfelves, but they have promis’d 
 themfelvcs a Deliverance, from the fccret cx- 
 pertation of our Private Breaches, and that w^ 
 ftiall fall to pieces among our fclves. This alone 
 has encourag’d them to carry on the War, and 
 to venture all,in which if they are difappointed, 
 as I hope they will, yet we mufl: own they have 
 taken their Meafures right, and that from their 
 Meafures we may make a Judgment of our 
 felves, 
 
 Turn-Round. I cannot think, even in this, that 
 France experts to beat us in the Field, for let our 
 Meafures be what they will at Home, he finds 
 Abroad he can do nothing with us. 
 
 Steddy. The St. Germains Letter found at Do- 
 vay States it very plain, they promife themfelves 
 nothing by Force ; but two Things they mufl 
 build upon, both derived from our New Brea¬ 
 ches. \fl. The linking of our Credit. 2 /y The 
 Diffidence of our Allies in the Point of our 
 ftanding by tliem. I will not fay that both thefe 
 
 may ‘ 
 
( «o 
 
 may be fuggeftcd from a bare Change, but they 
 rife from a Suggeftion of lettingin thefe High¬ 
 flying People, and bringing us into aToryAd- 
 miniilration i and this is what I point at; The 
 French are no otherwife concern’d in it, wlio are 
 in, or who are out, than as they lhall appear for 
 or againft their Iniereft 5 from the Tories he ex¬ 
 perts all that he wants i he expefts falling upon 
 one another at Home, breaking in upon the To¬ 
 leration, affronting the ScotSy whollbmc Severi¬ 
 ties, as Dr. Sacheverell calls them, i. e. Perfecu- 
 tion upon the Diffenters ^ Univeifal DiflatisfaSi- 
 on, and want of Confidence in one another, and 
 a furious War of Parties j this he expedts will 
 open a Door for the Pretendery complcatly Em- 
 ' broil us in a Civil War, and by Confluence 
 take us off from the Grand Alliance, and would 
 leave him the reft of the Confederates either 
 to make a feparate Peace with, or to ruiae 
 gradually by War: Nor do I do the Tory Par¬ 
 ty any wrong to fuggeft, that the French pro- 
 mife thcmfelves fuch great Things from their 
 Adrainiftration, it was evident even from the 
 Mouths of the French Plenipotentiaries at Cer- 
 truydenburgy who upon all Occafions fpoke with 
 that Contempt of the Englijh Af&irs as of what 
 bore no weight in the Alliance, and as a Nation 
 that would foon have their Hands full at Home : 
 What could this be but from their hopes of a 
 New High Tory Adminiftration ? 
 
 Turn~Round. If that be fo, the Cafe is very 
 clear, that the French have taken thefe new 
 Meafures from their Profped of this Tory Ad- 
 miniftration, as a Thing certain. 
 
 Steddy. 
 
Steddy. That makes me lay, it is not an ill 
 Aim CO take Meafures from a View of their 
 Schemes ^ if they Hope, we have the more rea- 
 Ibc to be Jealous; if they are Gonfident, ie 
 gives us a proportion’d degree of Fear, and that 
 very juftly too. But that is not all, we know 
 theie High-fliers, we have experienc’d their Po¬ 
 liticks, the precipitant Councils they always run 
 
 tv: into, the viiible aim atour Confnfion, and have 
 
 V feea bow far they have gone in it, and how near ' 
 they brought our Ruine to pafs 5 wc have rea- 
 fon to keep them out, and to oppofe all that 
 would bring them in. 
 
 ,T Turn-Round. I cannot but think, and indeed I 
 prcmife it my felf from the New Miniftry, that 
 tho’ the Door has been fee open to fome of 
 thefe People, they will go into none of their ‘ 
 Meafures. 
 
 Steddy. Then it is a Myllery to me, and which 
 I believe I lhall never be able to fathom, why 
 they fliould bring them in at all. People never 
 bring Men into Offices on purpofe to turn them 
 out again, and they can never fay they brought 
 them in for want of proper Hands to em¬ 
 ploy, there were a great many Gentlemen in 
 Polls of Truft, and are ftill, who tho’ they 
 were not forward for the Changes, yet were not 
 fo Prejudic’d in favour of the Old Miniftry that 
 they would have failed in their Duty to the 
 New Men of Honour and Principle, ferve their 
 Country, and ferve their Queen in the Employ¬ 
 ments they are Trufted with ; they do not 
 ferve this or that Minifter of State, but 
 they ferve the Government •, and if the 
 New Miniftry purfued the juft and proper 
 Meafures fuited to the Foundation on which 
 
4 
 
 ( ^5 ^ 
 
 we iland, there was no need of putting theft 
 out, and confequently no NeccHIty of bringing 
 in Tories for want of Hands* 
 
 Turn-Round. Their great Argument in that 
 Cafe is, that they bring in no more than they 
 Gan over-rule in matters of Council \ and if 
 they will not joyn in purfuing the moderate 
 Steps they refolve to take, they may be turn’d 
 out again* 
 
 St eddy. If they, the Miniftry, do purfuc mo¬ 
 derate Meafures, the Tories will either not joyn 
 with them, or if they do, they mult aft as ne¬ 
 ver Tories acted yet. 
 
 Turn-Round. They fay the Meafures laid are 
 moderate already, and if any other arc taken, 
 it is the Whi^gs that drive them to the Nccefli- 
 ty of it, by refilling to joyn in fuch Meafures as 
 are allow’d to be for the Publick Safety, only 
 becaufe they pretend not to like the Per- 
 Ibns. 
 
 Steddy. Thofc People who purfue their Per- 
 fbnal Piques rather than the Publick Good, 
 may have thofe narrow Notions *, for my part, 
 my Refentment is at no Man’s Perfon, any far¬ 
 ther than the Publick Good is concern’d: If 
 theft Men would purfue the general intereft of 
 Rritain., fupport the Alliance, carry on the 
 War efft<ftHally, fupprefs the violent and info- 
 lent Abettors of the Pretender., defend the To¬ 
 leration, the Union, the Succeflion, and carry 
 on the true Enghlh lotercll:; it’s all one to me, 
 whether I am Out or In ^ God forbid I (honld 
 oppofethem ; I would lend them all the Aflift- 
 ance I could for it’s the Nation’s Good I re¬ 
 gard j and tho’ I do not think as they think, 
 tho’ I lik’d the Old Miaiilry, and faw no rea- 
 
 I fon 
 
i 66) 
 
 fon for difitiidliig them, yet if thefe Men purfoc 
 with an hoiicft Zeal, and by proper Meafures, 
 the Pubiick Good, I tan be very g»od Friends 
 with them too. But how can this be done by 
 Tories^ and Enemies to the Conftitution ? Did 
 not the Q.qcen once try thefe Men ? Was She 
 not oblig’d to throw them off? Was not, as 
 you noted juft now’’, this very Gentleman, now 
 - at the Head of the Management, the very Man 
 that aflifted in Turning them all out, and to his 
 Hononr fav’d the Queen and the whole Nation 
 from their unaccountable Projefts ? It is the 
 ftraUgeft Meafure, to my Apprehenfion, that 
 ever a Man could take in the State, to bring in 
 a Party that he had thrown out before, purely 
 upon Principles of Safety. What Credit, what 
 Foundation have they for the Government to 
 reft upon, or by which they can uphold the Na¬ 
 tion in this time of Exigence ? 
 
 Turn-Round. Indeed the Credit of that Party 
 is low enough, and that is, no doubt, the Rea- 
 Ibn why the Pubiick Credit has funic fo much 
 upon their being brought in. 
 
 Steddy. The Pubiick Credit has, till now, 
 Surmounted all that ever went before it ^ and 
 by this Thing, call’d Credit., we have, for thefe 
 many Years paft, carry’d on the War at an 
 Expence much fuperior to our Strength, and 
 this Breach upon the Miniftry, as in all fuch 
 Cafes, it will be, muft be a Shock to it. I will 
 not fay, but this Blow might be warded oft, had 
 they gone on at firft with moderate Steps j but 
 this bringing Tories in. Hot, Mad, RagingTc- 
 ries, this wUI, in my weak Judgment, quite 
 finilh the Tragedy, , and deftroy that Credit, 
 which was wounded before. No Man will ven¬ 
 ture 
 
re?) 
 
 tnre his Money in Tory Hands , they have no 
 Honour, no Regard to the Publick Good, or to 
 private Right, otherwife than as it fiiits with 
 their Party : The Nation expefts nothing from 
 them, and therefore will do nothing for them. 
 
 THrn-Ronnd. The great Complaint they make 
 runs juft the fame way, they tell you, that the 
 Management of the Exchequer has been Prepo- 
 V fterous, that the Order of Things has been par¬ 
 tially Difpos’d, that a great Debt lies on the 
 Navy to fupport other Avocations ^ and they 
 run a mighty Length on the Difeount of the 
 Vi(ftualling Bills, the Price the Government is 
 oblig’d to give for Provifions, Stores, ©-r, and 
 they lay this all to the Door of the Old Mini- 
 ftry. 
 
 Steddy. All this is begging the Qiieftion, be- 
 caufe there is a Court where this Canfc is to be 
 heard, if there has been any thing of that kind 
 done, which there are not good Reafons to 
 juftifie, and which the Neceftity of the Publick 
 Service did not require ; then indeed the Weight 
 will fall upon Perfons-, and we do not fee that 
 they make the leaft Preparation to efcape you, 
 or to Ihun coming to a Hearing: ’Tistimee- 
 nough to raife an Argument upon this, when it 
 has been try’d on the other hand, if the Exigen¬ 
 cies of the Government, unexpeded Occalions, 
 unforefeen Service, or juftihable Accidents of 
 the War has call’d for greater Sums than was 
 expeded, or has call’d for thofe Sums fafter 
 than they could be gotten in. This is part of 
 the general Calamity of the War, and may be 
 the Fate of the prefent, as it may have been the 
 Fate of the paft Miniftry. But leaving thefe 
 Things to their Examination, dhis is not the 
 
 I 2 State 
 
 t 
 
( ^8 ; 
 
 State of the Cafe, with all thefe Difadvantages ^ 
 the Credit of the Nation w’as Great to a Degree 
 not to he ecjuaird-, and the Value of that Cre¬ 
 dit to us, in our prefent Circumrtances, is too 
 great to be flighted. 
 
 Turn-Round. They pretend this Credit was 
 finking before, and would have fallen lower 
 than it is now by a great deal, if this Change 
 had not been made, and that the Old Minillry 
 could not have fupported it or themfelves much 
 longer. 
 
 ^teddy. There has been a Party that has all- 
 along faid fo i and have told us, that we could 
 find no more Funds, that ivecould not ftand a- 
 nother Year, that we muft make Peace, and 
 that Ways and Means would fail us. Yet when 
 the Time came, we always found my Lord 
 Trtafurer had his Schemes ready, and Money 
 was never wanting to lend, or Funds on which 
 to borrow. But if come into play, we 
 
 fhall fee where they will produce either as to the 
 Debt upon the Navy, Viclualling Stores, gS-. 
 It is true, they run to a great Difeount^ but 
 this was owing only to the Uncertainty of Pay¬ 
 ment. My Lord T-r bad no more to do 
 
 in the next Parliament, than to bring them up- 
 on the Foot of fome certain Fund, which Ihould 
 afeertain when they fhould be paid, and in the 
 mean time fhould difeharge the Intcrefl:, and 
 that Clamour would ccafe, the Difeount would 
 not only fall, but the People would be as eager 
 to lay them up, as they are their Annuities, 
 Exchequer Bills, and other certain Credits on 
 the Government, So that all the Noife rais’d 
 about the great Debt of the Navy, turns upon 
 this Hinge only, not whether a Parliament can, 
 
 or, 
 
(< 59 ; 
 
 or (hall make it good, but whether the Trea- 
 furer is blameable in letting it run on, as it has 
 done, or not. 
 
 Turn-Round. You have ftated this very clear¬ 
 ly. Credit was at a Pitch it cannot be reftor’d 
 to. But thofe People tell us, as 1 faid before, 
 wc were going down the Wind before that Cre¬ 
 dit began to decline, and could not be fiipport- 
 ed, nor could the Fall of our Credit be pre¬ 
 vented. 
 
 Steddy, Had that been true, there was the 
 lefs need of this Blow to give a Stab into the 
 Vitals upon prefumption of Curing it again. I 
 know what a certain Great-man, and now 
 Leader of this Management, has been pleas’d 
 to publifh to the World in Print, in his Ejfay 
 upon Credit (viz.) That Credit depends not on the 
 Adiniftry, nor on this or that Great Manager., but 
 upon the Tarliament., and upon a 'Juft’., Honourable 
 and FunUual Difcharge of every Trujl^ and a fair 
 Management. And this is very true. But then 
 it follows, which I fuppofe the Right Honoura¬ 
 ble the Author did not forget, but omitted, for 
 good Reafons, That this Honourable., PunBual 
 Difcharge^ Stc. muIt be, and appear to be, Quia 
 Idem eft non ejfe & non apperere., before the faid 
 Credit, which he fays depends upon it, can be 
 produc’d. Every Caufe is Prior and Antece¬ 
 dent to its Eftcd •, and can’t he tell us what we 
 muft do in the mean time ? An Interregnum in 
 the Kingdom of Credit is entirely Dcltrudive 
 of its Conftitution ; it mull require (bme Time 
 of Probation, it feems, for this Pundual Ma¬ 
 nagement to appear. I will not fay, that Au¬ 
 thor, who has fo muqh of it in his Power; can- 
 |iot bring it to pafs. Nor will 1 fuggeft, that 
 
( 70 ) 
 
 be win not take all pofllble Meafurcs to do fo. 
 But I may be allow’d to fty, it will require 
 Ibme Time to do it; as in a Pleurifie, if the 
 Surgeon be too far to fetch, the Patient may 
 Pie, for want of opening a Vein to give a due 
 Circulation fo Credit once loft, for want of 
 the Experiment, may be paft fetching to Life, 
 xvhen ’tis done. 
 
 The juft Refleftion of rhefe^ Things makes 
 them talk of the Landed Men fetting upagainft 
 thcMoney’d Men, and the Error of borrowing 
 npon Funds, when theMoney Ihould have been 
 rais’d Yearly for every Year’s Expence j but 
 thefe that know thefe Things perfedly, muft 
 know that the Annual Sums the War has re¬ 
 quir’d, have been too great for this Nation to 
 raife within a Year •, and that the borrowing 
 upon Funds has been the happy Expedient, 
 without which, the War could not be carry'd 
 on. That Land is a good Security for the Sup¬ 
 port of the War, and the Landed Men, who, 
 they lay, are on their fide, may do much ; yet 
 I fhould begin to pity them, tho’ they had all 
 the Land in the Nation on their Hands, if the 
 Money’d Men, by any particular Fate, fliould 
 be prevented lending their Help, and Credit 
 ftoiild fink fo low, as that their Funds fhould 
 meet with no Anticipations. 
 
 Tnrn-Round. TheyboaftmightlyofthePow- 
 er of the Landed Men. 
 
 St eddy. 1 hope for them, and for the fake of 
 the Publick, they will not be put to the Necef- 
 lity of making that Experiment, left it Ihould 
 firft fink all other Methods, and then fail in the 
 Performance, we muft expert the Ifliie of that 
 in Time. 
 
 Turn-Rotind. 
 
( 70 
 
 THrn-Romd. And what think yon of their 
 carrying on the War ? 
 
 Steddy. I know what to think of it; if the 
 People that we are fpeaking of may have their 
 Minds, it is eafy to know how they would car¬ 
 ry it on. 
 
 Turn-Komd. I find you arc of my Mind, for 
 you are for diftinguifhing between thofe that 
 are come in^ and thofe that rnay come in^ and fo 
 am I. 
 
 Steddy. You miftakc me again, I am for di- 
 ftinguilning clofer than that; I am for diftin- 
 guifting between thofe that are come in^ and 
 thole that are to come that is, between thole 
 that were firll put in, and thofe they may be, 
 have been faid to bring in after them. I own, 
 I was among them that regretted the firfl: Re¬ 
 move ; I thought there was not the leaf! Occa- 
 lion for it. Things went on well abroad, the 
 Enemy began to fubmit, and with this Cam¬ 
 paign we might havefeen France humbled. If 
 there were any UnealinelTes, any Errors, any 
 Objeftion, they were not among the Incurables, 
 they would have eafily admitted a Remedy *, and 
 all our Party DifTercnccs might have been ac¬ 
 commodated among us without a Breach that 
 Ihould influence our Allies, touch our National 
 Peace, and put new Hopes into a Defponding 
 Enemy. Thefe were my Thoughts upon the 
 general Article, when 1 law the firlt Removes, 
 tho’ I confels 1 was lorry for it, yet I thought 
 there might Hill befome room for the Re-ema- 
 hlilhing Things, and that the Men put in, as 
 they had no Views before them, but what were 
 laid on a moderate Management, would have 
 brought in Men quallify’d for a Concurrence 
 
 with 
 
. ( 72 ; 
 
 •;whh fuch a Principle ; but when a fecond and a 
 third Truft was given, and I faw who followed 
 to the Breach, and who Enter’d Pell-nietl, with 
 ,thc firflr, Then / gave up all^ and Defpair’d j nor 
 have 1 any thing left to expedf, iinlefs One of 
 Two Things fall out, which I wilh may appear 
 Prafticable. 
 
 Turn-Round. Pray may I ask yon what they 
 are ? 
 
 Steddy. I am a Plain-Dealer, and will tell yon 
 freely my Thoughts: Suppofing thefirft of thefe 
 ^People are really adling upon Moderate Schemes 
 and Revolution Principles, and this you will al¬ 
 low is a great deal to grant: But fuppofe it, the 
 fays they mufi, that they cannot ftir Hand 
 or Foot but in that ftraic Line, 1 am not of his 
 Opinion, there may be middle dark and by 
 Ways that neither he or I know of. But I’ll 
 fuppofe for once, what Jjhouldbegladto fee, (viz..) 
 That the New Managers (hall proceed by Mo¬ 
 derate Meafures and Schemes taken from the 
 Revolution, that they (hall carry an even Hand 
 in their Steering between the Parties, and make 
 no Breaches upon our Settlements, either Reli¬ 
 gious or Civil, thefc two Things mull: follow, 
 
 I. That they mull: Over-rule, and Reftrain the 
 Tories they have taken in, or, 
 
 II. Turn them out again. 
 
 Thefe are the Two Things of which I fay I 
 have nothing left to e.tpeft,' unlefs one of them 
 lhall happen ; and if either of them Ihould fall 
 out, I lhall own ’tis more than I look for alfo. 
 
 Turn-Round. Thele are material Things, and 
 1 know they pretend to fay, that is their Refo- 
 Intion in their Publick Managemeilt. 
 
 Steddy. 
 

 
 buEif they;do}t;etenrrty^ 
 wey would do well to tell us j^w ttle^hiaj^'ill 
 rtey lhall not let in too many forsdEew^^M^I 
 fier, Ike Men cutting a Ba^k in a^^^rnffirver 
 to Water the Grounds , naer it the force of the 
 Stream makes the BreacTfo wide, that they that 
 made IE cannot flop it, and fo the Lands inficad 
 ot being Watered, are Drowned. A Man makes 
 a Lire to warm hirti, but if be does not keep it 
 under, and within the Bounds op the Fire-place, 
 It takes hold of the Hoiife, and he cannot quench 
 1C; then be cries out for help, but it’s too late, he 
 ^ have taken care to have made no moreFire 
 ^than he could keep onder.Now,if they pretend to 
 i^ej-rule and reftrain the Tories they bring iir/ 
 
 , they had belt take heed they do not let in too ma¬ 
 ny. The like is to be faid as to the Second, The 
 Tories will not be Over-rul’d or Reftrain’d, fays 
 the Scheme j they may be turn’d out: But re- 
 mernber the Soldier that took a Tartar^ he would 
 neithw come with him, nor let him come with* 
 out hiri; If they can fay they w ill not be Re- 
 Itrain’d, they may fay they will not Turn Out nei¬ 
 ther : Aid Irom this farther; for if ModcrateMen 
 cannot ge; Tories turn’d out, the Tories will cer¬ 
 tainly get he Moderate Men turn’d Out: And 
 thus all th« Good Defigns we pretend to will 
 fink in this. The Flood is too firong for us, and we 
 '.unnoE helpit. This will all end as Sir George 
 Jefferyes his Glory expired, when after all his 
 £levation,bc i«und himlelf in a clofePrifon,alI he 
 thought fit to Ly of it was, Who would hd’ thought 
 it ? 
 
 Turn-Round. I Ihould rather have laid, Who 
 would not ha’ thought it! How could it be o- 
 therwifc ? 
 
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 St eddy. 
 
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 Jteddy. I think,after all they can fay for it, the 
 i>f 4 Mifcarriage is too much, the Ven- 
 . ture ^^c%t, and the Confcqnences fo fatal, 
 that wB\A^e Man wojiild venture it j the Rubicon 
 ispaft, and'they havo_^entnr’d it: i (hould be 
 lefs Concerned if the COnfequences were not to 
 the Nation more than to the Miniftry, they may 
 Fall, and few would Pity them ■, but our Liberty, 
 Religiotkand Conftitution mult fall with them, 
 aQ:d:-that\tbe Foundation of my Concern in it. 
 
 Turh-^nd. This brings you back to my 
 Qpeftibrni4boot the War-, I would be glad to 
 have a A\^rd or two about that with you, for I 
 • am in no fmall Pain about it, and really the Dif¬ 
 ficulties ftate themfelvcs very formidably to me, 
 jl^at^^afraid of/l^ie War, afraid of the Peace ; I 
 kaow not what Point to come to in the Cafe. 
 
 Steddy. It is a'Point no Man can be Eafy in,thaC 
 has a Juft concern for the Event of Things. I 
 make no doubt carrying on the War will be the 
 Pretence, yet they openly charge the Old Ma¬ 
 nagement with having a Dcfign to protr^ft the 
 War: They tell us in the Concelfions/of the 
 ' French in thtfir laft Propofal, (wx..> Of/ontinu- 
 ing Mony to the War in Spjtin, to Dif-plTefs the 
 Duke of ^njoH, were fufficient, at laft it was 
 all you oould have Realcn todemartl of himj 
 , That feo bid him furrender Spain afttf you had 
 koblig’d him to withdrawal! his Auxlary Troops 
 ^from thence, was Ridiculous, and assing him to 
 give what was not in his Poflefipn, that you 
 might have demanded Cautionary Towns for the 
 ■ Security of the Performance : And there was no 
 doubt it would have been granted and that 
 you had brouglit the French to fuch low Terms, 
 |hat if you had been at the Gates of Paris^ you 
 s could 
 
could have asked no more, tliefe are thfc Ar¬ 
 guments they biing to prove that wc had no 
 defign tomake Peace at all; that carrying otj 
 the \A^r is rather the View, and that other Ends 
 arc relerved by it, and the like. ^ 
 
 Turn.RoHnd. For-my part whatever they mav 
 lay of managing the Treaty, I think ’tis clear the 
 War has not been carry’d on as if that were the 
 the Duke of Morlboroagh has not fought 
 as if he defign’d to carry on the War, oulelsie 
 ot to the Gates of Paris, no Prince has ever puft’d 
 a War on with more Ardour, and With better 
 Succefs, and ’tis to this Polhing th^Fremh, that 
 we owe the Concellions for a Peace which thev 
 nave made. ^ 
 
 Steddy. It is very clear to mc,**f1iat the War 
 has been carryy well on ; it is alfo clear to us 
 all, that the Offers of the King of Frame were 
 far from a Security to us for the forrendef of 
 i the Infincerity of the French in all their 
 Treaties fufficiently Mifies the Allies ufing 
 the utmoft Concern in^the point of Security • 
 Confcquences it feems clear to mel 
 that the bench had no Defign to aft with Can- 
 
 apparent to all 
 
 e World, that at the lame time they were 
 Negotiating 'i Treaty with Spain Ofienfive and 
 Defenlive, a^d the King of France bad given 
 Affurances to his Grandfon that he would ne¬ 
 ver Abandon \)ira. If thefc Things are true, 
 then from an utanfwerable Proof that all that 
 Cautmn and Backwardnefs of the Allies in 
 the Treaty were aeceflary, and juflifiable to 
 Reafon and the Pnteftant intereft; And if 
 thefc Gentlemen think fit to put an end to 
 
 the 
 
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 ^ the War, by maWog a Peace left fafe and up- 
 
 ■ on Icfs feverc Condhions than thf othei^ it 
 
 fwiU DOC be Jang I believe Kadoa 
 
 I will be convinc’d who bat^i^’l^hfe^ight ^ 
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 dialogue 
 
 BETWEEN 
 
 A SachevereJite Parfbn," 
 
 AND 
 
 An Hoadlean Gentleman: 
 
 In the pUinefi Terms, many Gentlemen and 
 Tradefmen (of each Party ) prelent •, and all 
 at liberty to ask Queftions, in order to a 
 RECONCILIATION: 
 
 For which Puipofei 
 
 An Expedient is propos’d, to which both 
 Sides fubmltting, each Party becomes fubjea to 
 SUCH a Power in the Oown A S to them 
 rerpe61ively Teems moR conliRent with Lav? 
 aad GolpeL 
 
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 in Pater-Nefter-RoTV. 1710 . Price 3 d. 
 
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In the following DIALOGUE, 
 
 This .11 Dr.'Sdche- Tj Y a SaS)ever elite is meant one 
 ^ettU $ Dodtiine. Jjj ^^Ijeves it ATOT hawful to 
 RESIST the Execution ofAe K'tn£s Command^ IN 
 ANT CASE WHATSOEVER. 
 
 This^ ii Mr. »«». By an Hoadlean is meant one 
 Hoadie^'s Doitrinc. beljeves, when, in govetning 
 the People, no Religion orLaws ate regarded •, and 
 upon repeated and the maft proper Aj^lications, 
 with all dutiful Refpeft to the Terfpn of the Sove¬ 
 reign, NORcdrefs can be had, that THEN it is 
 both lawful^ andt a DUTI, by WRCE and AR/MS, 
 to RESIST that TTRAKNT, in order to punifh 
 ONLY the 1NSTRUAIEJ\TS thereof, and to Re- 
 fore a due Execution of tk Laws. 
 
(J) 
 
 A 
 
 DIALOGUE 
 
 between 
 
 A Sacheverelite Parfon, 
 
 AND 
 
 An Hoadlean Gentleman, 
 
 Hoad. Gent. Doftor, my old Schoolfellow, 
 
 ' ■ ■ and very good Friend, 1 am hear- 
 
 tily glad I have thus happily met 
 you; lor, tho’ we are of different Principles in relation 
 to Governmont, yet we have always been, and 1 hope 
 lhall ftill continue, trae Friends to each other. 
 
 Sach. Far/. Sir, I defire the fame; and if we do nor, it 
 fliall not be my Fault. 
 
 Hoad. Gent. Do£lor, I have been inform d that at 
 this Coffee-houfe, there are, every Night, very warm 
 Difputes in relation to our unhappy Divifions, and 
 more elpecially upor that DoOrine ot NON RESI¬ 
 STANCE and PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. You know, 
 Doftor, that we two have often difeours'd of thofe 
 Matters without any Heat, or breach ot Charity of 
 either fide : I hope we may now do the fame, before 
 all thefe Gentlemen, mthout giving any Offence to either 
 CHURCH STATE 
 
 Without doubt, Sir, we may, as long as we 
 do in fuch our Difeoerfe, obferve a pioper Decorum ; 
 Itill Ipeaking of Met! and Things in luch refpc-atul 
 Terms, as lhall become us. . 
 
 ’ A. 2 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 Hoad. Gent. That Rule is ncceflary to be obferv’dat 
 aUTimes,and tnoft of all in publick Places: And feeing 
 our Difcourfe is thus publick, and, probably, may be 
 of fome Advantage to the reft of the Company j and, 
 in fome meafure, tend to allay that Ferment, to which 
 too many, of both Sides, now ieem to be fubjc&, (for 
 there are ignorant Zealots, and, without doubt, in fe- 
 veralrefpefts, FAULTT PERSONS ON BOTH 
 S/D£5-, Let us, therefore, endeavour to exprefs 
 ourlelves in the plainefl Terms j and if at any time 
 either of us ufe fuch Words or Phrales as any of this 
 Company do not well underftand, upon the Requeft 
 of any Petfon prefenr, let thofe Terms be fo clearly 
 explain'd^ that this Company may perfefUy underftand 
 what we fay. 
 
 Sach. Par/. With all my Heart. 
 ji Sach, Taylor. Herein you will oblige us all y for 
 we Tradepnen, not being bred Scholars, do often, in 
 Convetfation and Reading, meet with Words which 
 we do not underftand; and fo, many times, remain 
 Ignorant, for want of an Interpreter. 
 
 Hoad. Gent, I have often, of late, been very Melan¬ 
 choly, when I confider’d thofe violent and unchriftian 
 Paflions, with which each Party Ipeak of, and revile 
 rte other, too often to the endangering the common 
 Peace. This, at many Eleaions, bath rifen to fuch 
 a pitch, as gave Hopes to our common Enemy, (whofc 
 Inftruments, in proper Difguifes, blew the Coals) that 
 we would cut each others Throats, as the Jews at Je^ 
 rujalem are recorded to have done, whilft the Romans 
 
 were befieging that City._ 
 
 An Hoad. Butcher. Maftcr, was that poffible ? 
 
 Hoad. Gent. Yes; not only poffible, but true in Fa8:; 
 and we, by our barberoufly treating each other, feem to 
 threaten the like Fate. 
 
 •4 Sach. Shoemakar. God forbid 
 Hoad. Gent. So we feem all to fay, when too many of 
 us give our common Enemy juft grounds to hope, that 
 oui DeftruSlion will be from ourlelves, unlefs a proper 
 
 Remedy 
 
f 5 ) 
 
 Remcay for thofe unnatural Heats can be found out 
 Now, as in the curing Diftetnpersin the Natural Body 
 the firft thing to be conlidei’d, is the Difeafe i fo in the 
 rc-eftabli(hing the Health of the Body Politick._— 
 
 Hoad. But^. Sir, I beg your Pardon for interrupting 
 you j but both you, Gentlemen, having promise to 
 explain fuch Words as any of us do not underftand, I 
 defirc to know, what you mean by the Body Po¬ 
 litick ? 
 
 Hoad.Gent. All the People of Great-gntain, in their 
 Civil Relation, confidei’d-, that is, confider’d asSubjeas 
 ^ to our happy Government: For, the Word Body is 
 herein ufed, not in a literal, but borrow’d Senfe, by 
 way of Likenefs j for, as aq humane Bodyconfilts of 
 Head, Hands, Feet, and fevcral other Parts, and the 
 whole together is call’d ©ne Body» fo in Kingdoms 
 and Common wealths, there are feveral Orders of 
 Men, which compofe the whole Body, and with us, 
 the ^een is the Head of this Political Body ^ and the 
 Lords and Commons in Parliament aflembled, the Re- 
 prefentative Body Politick 5 and all the Subjeas, of 
 
 what Decree fbever, the Body Politick reprefenred._ 
 
 And give me leave now to tell fbmeof you who are 
 the moft warm of each Side, That by this plain 
 Utfeourfe.^ you will find, that your Ignorance of the 
 true and proper Meaning of Words., hath often been 
 the only Caule of your Difputes, for that, in truth., 
 you both meant the fame thing, and both wifli’d 
 well to Great Britain, differing only in the Men 
 
 and Means to be uled in ferving the fublick. - - 
 
 But, as I was faying, in re ettablifhing the Health 
 of the Political Body, the firtt thing to be confidet’d, 
 is the Difeafe ; and 1 very much fear, that the People 
 of GreauBritain, in their Political or Civil Relation 
 confider’d, are, at prefenr, infc£led with a complication 
 of Diftempers, that is, feveral Diffempers join’d or 
 met together 5 and our Two principal Diftempers in 
 this Complication, 1 take to be a DifafiFe^ion to the 
 
 prelent 
 
(tf > J 
 
 pielent Government, and a Bitternefs of Spirit, or a 
 lyant of Cbriftian Charity towards each other. Now, 
 as in the dittemper’d Natural Body, that Dileafe is hrlt 
 to be attack’d which doth moft endanger the whole ^ 
 fp ought that InfeSion of our Political Body be firft 
 and principally confider’d, which doth moft endanger 
 the Nation’s Happinefs. Were all People poflels’d 
 with that iMODf’RilT/OAf - 
 
 Sack Butcher. Now, Mafter, I perceive that you 
 are a Low Chiirch-Mzn, to the laft Degree, and* the 
 greateft Enemy to the Church and 
 
 Hoad. Gent, Pray, Friend, have a more charitable 
 Opinion of a Strangefj and now 1 defire you to explain 
 that Wordj the very Sound whereof feems to have rais’d 
 your Choler, 
 
 Sack Butcher. A moderate Man, I take to be a ^eat 
 Lover of the Diflenters, and of a Common-wealth,'and, 
 therefore, an Enemy of both Church and Queen. 
 
 Hoa.Gent.y{or\dk Friend, you do entirely miftake the 
 proper Signification of that Word MOJDERAT10]Sj 5 
 for you take it in a quire different Senfe from what 
 all Philofophcrs and Divines have us’d it, or I did in¬ 
 tend it -y and that you would have foon found, if you 
 had butdefir’d me to explain that Word, which I fhall 
 now do, and thereby hope to beget in you a better- 
 Opinion of me, than you now leem to have. By 
 Moierationy I mean that Virtue which doth regulate 
 our Appetites or Paffions, and makes us to be con¬ 
 cern’d lor any Truth, or Fa 8 , in a due Meafure, and 
 not either more or lefs than the Evidence lor, or IM¬ 
 PORTANCE of that Matter doth require. Now, to 
 make this the better underftood, I fhall apply it to 
 fome'ofyour particular Trades. You that are Butchers, 
 fhould not be fo much concern’d for the Lofs of the 
 Liver, as if the Thief had ftole the whole Ox, to 
 which it belong’d. You that arc Taylors, ftiould not 
 be fo much troubl’d for cutting a Suit half an Inch 
 too big, as you might, in cafe you had cut it an Inch 
 too little. You that are Bakers, fhould not be fo 
 
 much 
 
1 
 
 much griev’d for the Lofs of a Peuhy LoaF^ as fbt 
 the over or under baking a whole Batch of Brcadi And 
 fo alfo in relation to all other Trades. That is, every 
 Man Ihould Moderate his Defires, his Hopes, his 
 Fears, his Sorrow, and all his Paffions, in fucb a due 
 Proportion, as the particular Thing, which at any 
 time occafion’d any of ihefc Paffions, might reafona- 
 bly require. And now, to apply it to the Govern¬ 
 ment : People Ihould not be immoderately Solicit 
 tous who did a£f in fuch or fiich particular great Offi¬ 
 ces, as long as the Duty of each Office was RIGHTLY 
 dilcharged, and all proper Mcafures taken which were 
 neceflary to defend us againft the common Enemy. 
 If all proper METHODS are taken to prelerve 
 both Church and StatCj it matters not much, to 
 the People in general, whom Her Majefty employs as 
 the principal Inftruments in fuch our Prelervation; 
 Did we all moderate our Paffions as we ought, we 
 fhould not be violent for what was not of the leaft 
 Importance, and by fuch our Ignorant Heat, diftarb the 
 common Peace of the Nation. And to illuftrate this 
 Virtue of Moderation^ in relation to the Government, 
 and to (hew how the want thereof hath been of fatal 
 Conlequences, I (hall quote a ((range, but (in Sub* 
 (lancet true Story out of the Dutch Hiftory, the Moral 
 whereof may very well be apply’d to ourlelves. — The 
 Story is thus: ‘ Many Years fince, two Men in Holland 
 
 * were walking along, and difputing whether the Cod 
 
 * took the Hook, or the Hook took the Cod,—and up- 
 
 * on that Difpute they laid a Wager, and did agree it 
 ‘ (hould be decided by the Majority of the next Gom- 
 
 * pany they (hould meet. Soon after this Agreement, 
 
 ‘ they met fix Filhermen, to whom they propos’d the 
 ‘ faid Queftion. Thcfe fix grave Judges were likewife 
 
 * equally divided, and did argue the Matter with a 
 
 * great deal of Heat. Such as argued, that the Cod 
 
 * took the Hook, faid, It was moft plain th?t the 
 
 * Hook was purely paffive, and that if the Cod did 
 not catch at the Bait upon the Hook, he would never 
 
 / ‘be 
 
« be catch’d. On the other fide, it waJ alledg’d, by 
 
 * them who held that the Hook took the Cod, That 
 « the Cod might bite at the Bait an hundred times 
 ^ without being caught, was not the Hook made of 
 ‘ that Metal, Figure, Strength^ and Sharpnefs, as to 
 ‘ enter the Mouth of the Cod upon his catching at tlie 
 
 * Bait, and thereby take himj and therefore, twp 
 ‘ the Hook took the Cod, and not the Cod the Hook. 
 
 * Thefe fix Judges, inftead of determining the firlt Wa- 
 9 ger, laid three more between themfelves, and upon 
 
 * the fame Point ^ and all thefe did agree to be de- 
 ^ termin’d by the Majority of the next Company they 
 ‘ fliould meet. Soon after which, they met a Multi- 
 
 * tude, who, upon heating theQueftion, became alfo 
 ‘ divided in their Opinions relating thereunto, and 
 ‘ that Divifion begat a very paflionate Debate, and 
 
 * therein hard Words were given on both Sides from 
 ‘ Words they fell to Blows, and with that mifehievous 
 
 * Futy that ibme receiv’d their mortal Wounds in the 
 ‘ Scuffle. To be Ihort, in a little time the whole Pro- 
 
 * vince was divided into thefe two Faflions} thofa 
 
 * who were of Opinion that the Cod took the Hook, 
 
 ‘ were call’d--, and they of the contrary 
 
 * Opinion, were call’d « , i - — — —And thefe ridi- 
 ‘ culous Fa£lions became univerfel, and continued ma* 
 
 * ny Years, to the frequent Difturbance of the com- 
 ‘ mon Peace of that Country, and to the DeftiuHioa 
 ‘ of very many particular Perfons, in the many Ren- 
 
 * counters which were thereby unhappily occafion’d. 
 Now, to apply this Story: If thofe People had been 
 poffefs’d of that Virtue of MODERATION j that is, 
 had been concern’d for the Truth of that Qjieftion ac¬ 
 cording to a due Meafure, and not either mote or lefs 
 than the fmall JdfPORTANCE of it did requite, 
 there never had been any paffionate Difputes, much 
 lels many thouland Blows, upon lb foolilh a Contto- 
 verly. 
 
( 9 ) 
 
 "A Shoemaker. Sir, I think that all that Country 
 were inhabited by Cods-heads, or there never would 
 have been that general Divilion among them upon that 
 ridiculous Account. 
 
 H.Gen. I wifh from their Folly and Misfortune there* 
 in, we ourfelves may learn to be wifer, in refpeft of 
 our unhappy Divifions ^ and if I have another Oppor¬ 
 tunity to meet you here, I fhall deaionftrate to you 
 all, that our fooUfli Difttnaion of High Church and 
 Low Churchy is (in truth) as ridiculous as that old Di- 
 flinflion amongft the Dutch j And I am afraid, unlcfs 
 thofe at the Helm take timely Care of us, may be at¬ 
 tended with more fatal Confequences than from thofa 
 two "butch Faflions in that Country were then occa- 
 lion’d. But before I proceed any farther, I defire to 
 know of that Perfon who was, at firlt, ofifended at the 
 Very Name of MODERATION, whether he doth ftill 
 Continue to have fo bad an Opinion of that Word, as 
 1 have explain’d it, and according to tbeSenfe in which 
 I ufe it > 
 
 Butcher^ No^ Sir, I do find that I did not rightly 
 nnderltand the Meaning of that Word 5 and in your 
 Senfe thereof, I do heartily wifh that all Men, of 
 what Opinion foever, in relation to Church or State, 
 were Moderate Men, But pray. Sir, proceed v.'here 
 you left oflt' by my Interruption, which hath occaCon’d 
 the Dutch Story, whereby we have been diverted, 
 and, at the fame tithe, well inform’d of our Duty, in 
 relation to our prefent unhappy Divifions. 
 
 H. Gent, We fhould all of us be thus Moderate to¬ 
 wards one another, if we had that Chrifllan Charity 
 amongft ourfelves which by the common Principles of 
 our Religion we alt of us, who bear the Name of 
 Chriftians, pretend unto, tho’ fubdivided into particu¬ 
 lar Opinions* and ate of different Churches or Con¬ 
 gregations. Charity, confider’d as a Chriftian Grace 
 or Virtue, doth enable us to wifh well, and to endea¬ 
 vour to be helpful and ferviceable unto-al!, according 
 to that due Proportion we are obliged unto, either by 
 
 B uatural 
 
f 10 ) 
 
 natural or revealed Religion.-The univerlal Praftice 
 
 ot this one Virtue, would neceffarily deftroy thofe un¬ 
 natural Heats, which in tnoft Parts of this Kingdom, 
 of late, have been ready to break out into open Re¬ 
 bellion ; and this too much encourag’d by fome, whole 
 Prolcffion it was to preach this Duty, of all others, 
 the moft beneficial to Mankind. If any Man was to 
 judge of fome Men by their Praflices, (and this only 
 is the true Teft of our Principles) one would think that 
 the old Jewijh Tradition, Thou Jhalt love thy Neigh¬ 
 bour^ and hate thy Enemy, had of late been univerlally 
 preach’d, as it hath been univerfally praflis’d •, and 
 that People had been taught to hate all thofe who 
 did not declare themfelves to be, in every refpefl, of 
 their Opinion, in reference to both Men and Things, 
 relating ^o both Church and State; For, if a Man was 
 never lo zealous for Her Majefly, and never fo devout 
 a Member of the Church of England, and did only 
 differ in relation to his Opinion, whom he thought 
 fitteft to be employ’d in the principal Offices of State, 
 —;—too many fiery Men (of each Side) from this only 
 Difference, would brand each other with the moft 
 odious Terms of DilfinQion, and too often fallely ac- 
 cufe each other with fuch Confequences, as the Per- 
 fons accus’d did never intend, and for the prevention 
 whereof they would chearfully hazard their Lives.-— 
 When our blefled Lord comprehended the whole of 
 our praftical Religion under thofe two general Heads, 
 viz. The Love oj God, and our Neighbour 5 our Lord 
 was ask’d. Who (in this Senfe) was to be ejfeent’d our 
 
 Neighbour? -To which our Saviour gives an An- 
 
 fwer, by way of Parable, of a certain Jew that fell 
 amongft Thieves, that both robb’d and wounded him, 
 and then left him a molt milerable Objefl of Compaf- 
 lion. The two greateft pretenders to Religion amongft 
 the JeiQSy the Fharifce and the Levite, pafled by this 
 unhappy Man ^ and tho’ they could not but obfervs 
 him to liand in great need of their Help, yet both 
 thefe negleflcd him: But the good Samaritan no Ibo- 
 
( n ) 
 
 ner beheld this tniferable Wrench, but he took Com- 
 paflion on him j and tho’ he knew him tobe a and 
 that there then were as great, and (if poflible) greater 
 Divifions and more violent Animolities between the 
 Jews and Samitritans^ than there now are between Pa. 
 piji and Protejiant, Whig and Tory^ High Church and 
 Low Church, (for the Jews and Samaritans did not lb 
 much as fpeak to one another) yet that very Samaritan 
 took all proper Mealures for the Relief of this affliQ- 
 cd Jew. ■ ■ ■' - Upon telling this Parable, our Saviour 
 anfwer’d their Queftion, by asking another, viz. Who 
 was the Neighbour to that affliiied Jew ? To which it 
 was anlwer’d. The Samaritan. Whereupon, our bleT 
 fed Lord anfwer’d their Qticffion, by making thisi Ap¬ 
 plication, GO THOU Am DO LIKEWISE. The- 
 Do£lrine which doth naturally reliih from that Com¬ 
 mand, is this, vis. That whcnlbever 1 lee a Perfon in 
 Diftrefs, be his Principles in Religion and Government 
 never lo inconfiftent with mine yet that very Man I 
 am obliged (as a Chriftian) to help. Was this Love 
 univerlally praflis’d by each Party towards the other, 
 Differences in Opinion, whether relating to Religion 
 or Government, would never be attended with any ill 
 .Conlhquences. For, what Prejudice would any parti¬ 
 cular Man fuffer for my not being of his Perfuaiion, 
 as long as I was (by my Love towards him) reftrain’d- 
 from doing him the leaf! Injury, either in Soul, Body, 
 or Eftate ; and upon all Occafions cordially lerv’d him 
 in every one of thofe refpefls, as far as it was within 
 
 my Power, and could realbnably be defil’d.-One 
 
 of the greateft and beft of Men which this Age hath 
 produced, above thirty Years fince, preaching upon 
 this Subjeft (in Subftance) laid. That was this univerfal 
 Love praths'd by all who pretend to own it as a Duty^ 
 no part of ^Mankind would long labour under any Nitj- 
 fortune, if it was within the Power of that part of 
 Mankind who knew of the Misfortune.^ to relieve it. — 
 
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 Sdcb. Par/. I am afraid this univerfal Love will nei 
 ver be praftic’d, as long as Men accufe one another 
 with fuch Principles as naturally tend to the.Subver- 
 lion of both Church and State. 
 
 H. Gent. Name forpe one of thofe particular Opi¬ 
 nions vphich, in your Judgment, are fo deftru£tive. 
 
 S. Par/ We that hold an uncondition’d Obedience 
 to our Sovereign, do accufe Men of your Principles, 
 with holding it to be lawful (upon any Difguft which 
 the People may have againft their Prince) to take up 
 Arms, and to dethrone their Sovereign. 
 
 H.Gent. In this your Charge is unjuft t for l ean 
 fpeak for myfelf, and for all thofe whofe Principles I 
 do know, that our Principles are herein mifreprefented, 
 and, therefore, I defire this common Juftice from you, 
 that you would know our Principles before you con¬ 
 demn them; and that you may be fure of mine, I will 
 now, under my Hand, declare my Opinion in relation 
 to the Doflrine of Rejtfiance., viz. That whenfoever 
 He or They who, in any Kingdom or Common-wealth, 
 are entrufted by the CONSTITUTION --~— 
 
 S. Shoemaker. Pray, Sir, what do you mean by that 
 Word Conflitution ? 
 
 H. Gent. The Laws of the Place:-1 fay, that 
 
 Prince, or thole Men who by the Laws of the King¬ 
 dom or Common-wealth are entrufted with the Exe¬ 
 cution of their Laws, lhall, in the Government of the 
 People, have no regard to thole Laws, but make their 
 Will and Pleafure their Rule of Government, to the 
 unjuft Deftruflion of either the Perfon or Properties of 
 the SubjeU j and upon this Milgovernment, the Sub- 
 jeUs make their moft humble Application, in the moft 
 proper manner which the Laws of that Place require ^ 
 and fuch their Reprefentation, tho’ made in the hum- 
 bleft manner, and With all imaginable RefpeU to the 
 Perfons of the Prince or Governors, is falfely call’d a 
 flying in the Face of the Government, and profecuted 
 as Seditious, as was done by the late King/^rwt^r, in 
 the Cafe of the feven Bilhops, -— Then, in fuch 
 
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 Cafes of Extremity, the SubjeSs, by the Laws of 
 God, of Nature, and of Nations, are empower’d to 
 defend themfelves againft fuch unjuft Violence, and 
 may bring thole luflruments of Tyranny to their de- 
 ferved Punilhment. —— 
 
 S. Parf And in 1 ( 548 , their Sovereign himfelf fell a 
 Sacrifice. —— 
 
 H. Gent. That was carrying the Matter too far 5 
 for the Perfon of the Prince, in luch Cales, is not Tub- 
 je£l to Punilhment j but all his Arbitary Inftruments 
 do juftly deferve it; and if once ihofe milchievous 
 Minifters of Violence, which the Prince lhall firft ufe, 
 receive their Deferts, other Men, from their Fate, will 
 take Warning, and be thereby reftrain’d from obeying 
 any arbitrary and illegal Command; and we all know, 
 that no Tyrant - - ■ —« 
 
 S. Weaver. Pray, Sir, when doth a Prince become 
 a Tyrant ? — 
 
 11. Gent. The principal Defign of Government, ij 
 the good of the People govern’d : Now, when a 
 Prince who hath the Power of making or executing 
 Laws for the good of his People, doth in the general 
 Courfe of his Afljons relating to hjs Subje£ls> aim at 
 the fatisfaflion of his Lulls or Paflions, to the wrong¬ 
 ing the Perfons or Properties of bis Subjefls; when, 
 inftead of being the Minifter or Steward of God to his 
 Subjefts for their good, (which is the CharaQ^r the 
 Holy Ghoft gives of thole Governors to whom Sub- 
 jeftion is due) he becomes the Steward of the Devil to 
 his People for their Hurt j when inllead of being a 
 Terror to Evil-doers.^ and a Prai/e to thofe that da 
 voell.^ which is the Defeription the fame Apoftle gives 
 Of a Magiftrate whom we ought to obey, he becomes 
 a Terror to Well-doers, and incourages the moft profli¬ 
 gate Aflions, ——Then, and in the like Cafes, fuch a 
 King degenerates into a Tyrant, and to him Subjection 
 is no longer due.- 
 
 H. Carpenter. Sir, we all thank you *, and we defire 
 .you to proceed. 
 
 U.Gent, 
 
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 H. Gent. As I was faying, no Tyrant can any more 
 work without making ill Men bis Inftruments of Ty¬ 
 ranny, than zCa-fenter or other Mechankk can work 
 without his Tools- —We have a Maxim in Law, 
 that The Ting can do no Wrong. The reafon of which 
 Maxim is this, viz. The King’s Power being limited 
 by the Law, if therefore the Prince command any 
 thing contrary to that Law, the Command is void, 
 that is, carries no Authority, cannot fee pleaded in 
 luftificaiion of doing that thing commanded ^ fb that,. 
 he who doth obey fuch an illegal Command, is as much 
 to be punilh’d, as if there was no luch Command ; 
 and he that doth it, is the Criminal, and the AQion 
 (in Law) properly his; for every Man is bound, at his 
 Peril, to take knowledge of the Law. 
 
 S. farf. But in thefe Cafes of Rejiflance^ you make 
 the Subjeft'; Judges of their Sovereign’s Power, and 
 this delfroys all Government j and every Prince, then, 
 feerhs to hold his Crown only during the Pleafure of 
 the People, which is as bad, if not worle, in relation 
 to Kings, as that Power unjuftly claim’d by the Pops, 
 That all Princes of Europe hold their refpeQive Crowns 
 during his Pleafure: Don’t you hold, that the People 
 are, in thofe Caics of Extremity, Judges of the Prince’s 
 A61ions ? 
 
 H. Gent. Yes, for none elfe are appointed. -Is 
 
 there ever a fovereign Power upon Earth, that is ap¬ 
 pointed by rbe common Content of Mankind, to 
 whom Appeals fhall be made by an oppre/s*d People^ 
 againlt their tyrannical Sovereign ? Is there any Prince 
 or State upon Earth, by a general Confent of all Na¬ 
 tions, that is veiled with a Power., upon Application 
 made by fuch an epprefs'dPeople., to call the Tyrant to 
 Account, and to dethrone him ? 
 
 5. Purf. No; there is not. 
 
 U, Gent. Why, then, who mull judge, if not ths 
 People, in fuch Cafes of Extremity. 
 
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 S. Vdrf. The People may then pretend fuch a Cafe 
 of Neceffity, when, in truth, there is no grounds 
 for it. 
 
 H. Gent. There is no great danger of that. 
 
 S. Varf. What fhould hinder them ? 
 
 H. Gent. Nothing lefs than Death and Damnation: 
 For, if their Cafe be not fuch as, before God, will 
 julfify their Refiftance, then do thofe Relifters run the 
 hazard of forfeiting their Lives and Eftates, and ma¬ 
 king their very Children infamous and miferable in this 
 World, and alfo (without true Repentance) themfelves 
 
 will be damn’d in the next. -And pray, Do£for, 
 
 do you think thofe great Dangers no Hindrances,and of 
 no Weight to prevent Refiftance in all Cafes, but of the 
 greateftNeceflity,and when the generality of the People 
 leem to be willing to hazard their Lives to redeem 
 their Liberties 5 for if the Prince become never lb great 
 a Tyrant, and the People mifearry in attempting their 
 own Deliverance, the Tyrant will (tho’ in truth un- 
 ^uftly) punifti them as Traytors. This is always done 
 by Tyrants, in all Ages and Nations upon Earth j 
 which gave occafion to that old Saying, that 
 
 Reafoa was 'Xreafen if it da fail -• 
 
 For fuch it would be made in the Punifhment, tho’ 
 not in the Guilt. — 
 
 S. Varf, Suppofe the Prince of Orange’s Forces, and 
 thofe who join’d him in England, had been beaten by 
 King James’s Troops, what would have become of 
 thofe EngUJh Noblemen that King fames fhould have 
 taken Prilbners > 
 
 H. Gent. Undoubtedly, King James would have be: 
 headed moft of them. 
 
 S. Parf For what would they have fuffer’d ? 
 
 h. Gent. For that which King James and the Lords 
 ol his FaUion would have call’d Treafbn. But, DoQor, 
 pray confider, you can’t reafonably argue from Punijh- 
 merit to Guilt, tor then thofe which Oliver put to Death 
 
 for 
 
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 for confpiting the Reftorarton of King C!jarles\ were 
 Traytors. Hiftory affords a multitude of Inftances, 
 where an ufurp’d Power did punilh thofe as Traytors, 
 which endeavour’d its Subverfion. —— This ever was, 
 and always will be, praflic’d. 
 
 S. ?arf. I am afraid, that if it was not much more 
 for the Dangers in this World, than the PunUhment 
 in the next, we fliould have more frequent Rebel¬ 
 lions. —— 
 
 h. Gent, Pray explain that Word 'Rehelliin^ which 
 by the Pulpit, Books and Converfation, fcems to be 
 ' often mifunderftood. 
 
 S. 'Sarf. Rebellion I take to be a violent refifting 
 the Execution of the Prince’s Conitnand, whether fig- 
 nify’d by Proclamation, Privy-Seal under his Hand, 
 nay if only by Word of Mouth commanded. 
 
 H, Gent, Then you fay, that a violent refifting the 
 Prince’s Command, in any cafe, is a REBELLION ? 
 
 S. Yarf, I do lb. 
 
 U, Gent. Then the violent refifting the King’s own 
 Perfon, is fo in any cafe whatever. 
 
 S. Tarf. Moft lure, and the moft impudent of Trea- 
 fons. How ! refift him in his Royal 'Perfon ! 
 
 U. Gent. And is fuch your Rebellion and Treafon, 
 that Sin which is by the Apoftle made damnable, when 
 he faith. He that rejijleth, fioaU receive to himfolf Dam¬ 
 nation ? 
 
 S. Parf. Moft afiuredly it is. 
 
 H. Gent. I can put you a Cafe wherein, I am afraid, 
 you would become that violent Rebel, and molt im¬ 
 pudent Tray tor. 
 
 S, Parf. You can by no Suppofition put me under 
 fuch Circumftances, as fhould make me violently to 
 oppofe the Execution of my Prince’s Command, much 
 lefs by Violence to refift his facred Perfon. 
 
 H. Gent. 1 hope, Doftor, you will keep your 
 Temper whilft I put the Cafe ? 
 
 S, Parf. That I will. 
 
 H. Gcni, 
 
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 . if. Gent. You have a beautiful, an^^ I believe^ a 
 very venuous Lady lor your Wife: Now, ifuppofe 
 yourfelf in and a trenchmaff, and your Sove¬ 
 
 reign fhould tell you, that fuch a Night he would 
 lodge at your Houfe—- 
 
 S. Par/. I fhould be proud of that Honour, and 
 would entertain my Sovetelgn with every thing that 
 was good, and within my power to procure —— 
 if. Butcher. Not with your Wik, I hope ? 
 
 H.Gent. Pray, Gentlemen, hive a little Patience-^ 
 And when His Mijefty came to your Houfe, he fhould 
 be deeply Imitten in Love with yoi;r Lady, for you 
 Well know, Doftor^ that PrincfS are Plejl) and Bloody 
 and as much fubjea to that Paflion as the manefi of 
 their Subjefts ■ ~ 
 
 S. Par/. That I know : -But what ^hen ? 
 
 if. Gent. Why then, Dedor, your Sovereign, ha¬ 
 ving been nobly regal’d, and after that divettid with 
 Vvhat was proper upon fuch an Occafion, commands 
 you and your Lady to Ihew him the Room in which 
 
 you do intend His Majefty (hall lodge- -^ 
 
 S. Par/. We would fopn wait on HisMajefly to the 
 
 beji Room we had in the Houfe—- 
 
 if. Gent. I don’t doubt that^ bur you do interrupt 
 me, in making my Suppofition—— 
 
 S. Par/. 1 beg your Pardon -, and pray go on. 
 
 H. Gent.—Whin your Prince, with you and your 
 Lady, come to that Rooin, His Majefty commands 
 you to wuhdraw— — — 
 
 A JocuLr Barber. I fmell a Rat. • 
 
 U. Gent. But pray let me go on —— » f^Yj 
 commands you to withdraw, and to lock the Door 
 and take the Key with you, and ftand near the Door* 
 till His Majefty commands you to open ir. You be¬ 
 ing withdrawn, the King, with fuch Terms and A<L 
 drefies as he thinks moft proper, carejfes the Lady, al¬ 
 luring her, that he doth extremely admire her Perloni 
 and offers to make her a Duchefs and yourfelf a 
 
 B _ -p, and to give her an PMve Juificient to lup- 
 
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 port' her Quality, if file wWlyidi unto his Defires.— 
 But your Lady’s true Honour and Religion is fuch, 
 that fhe rejells ihcfepowerfa/ Temptations*, and in 
 therncftrelpeflful manner, with all Arguments/);•£'/)<’;' 
 for her to ule tipon that «;!,^rfy?^yOccafion, endeavours 
 to prevail with the Piince, to Gefiitfrom thole unlaw¬ 
 ful Addiefies 5 allijring His Maiefiy, that could (he 
 gain the KhokWorld by Such a Compliance, Ihe would 
 ttot grant his Requeft.--The Kirg finding thole Ar¬ 
 
 guments not Effetlual^ ufeth FORCE to accomplifii his 
 Defires, and your Lady, with her utmcft Strength, 
 
 WITHSTANDS him- - 
 
 li Apothecary. The Doftor’s Lady did wtII in only 
 V\'ITHSTNAD 1 NG the King’s unlawful Dehgns ^ for 
 therein fhe atled purfuant to the great Examples of tfae 
 tnojl Dignify’d in our Churchy for according to the 
 Addrejs oi the BISHOP and CLERGY of London and 
 Wcjiminjlcr., thofe Dolors WITHSTOOD King James’s 
 Arbitrary and Popijh Defign;. ^ vhwte .s, I am fure, 
 feveral of them daily preach agMou RESISTING the 
 King UPON ANY ACCOUNT'VVHATSOEVER— 
 li. Taylor, in that you have rightly obferved ; for I 
 am fure none of thofo go'd and katned Divines would 
 
 have refifted King James - 
 
 S. Shoemaker. No, they would much rather hive 
 Tu,ffefd him to'have fciz’d all car Elfates, and impri- 
 foil’d our Perfons - - 
 
 An Hoadlean, Alagdalen-CoUcge.^ and the leven Bi- 
 ffiops, are Proofs of that. 
 
 S /Smith. Nay farther, they would rather have fuf* 
 fer’d him, by his Dragoons, to have made us all the 
 moft milerable of Slaves •, and by his Priejis, to have 
 reduced' us all to Popif!) Idolirty, and thereby have 
 put the whole Nation under the greateft Danger of 
 Damnation in the next World, as well as a certain De- 
 Jiruldon in this; for all thofe Doflors fubmit to the 
 Doftfine of one of the greatefl Kfon in the laft Age, 
 Dr. Saunderfon, who pofitively faith, That vse mujt 
 Not resist our Sovereign, tbo’ ‘'tmre pojfible 
 
 thereby 
 
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 thereby to fave the whole World from hein^ Eternally 
 
 DAMNED. . ^ . o. I 
 
 h. Surgeon. You Sacbevereliie JaYlOT^ ShoemKer, 
 and Smith, herein appear very ridiculous, ^ for the 
 Gentleman who pretended to diftinguilh betvyeen wui^ 
 ft ending and feftftingy fpoke ironic illy, Jf. ’ 
 
 in Truth intending contrary to what he did lit- 
 terally fpike •, for Refifting and wiihJhnJing are only 
 two Words for the fame Thing; Reftjhng is borrowed 
 from the Latin^ and Withftandihg \s an old Enghjo 
 Word, and the fame as. 
 
 H. Butcher. Then, is that Refiftance of your Lady 
 damnable ? 
 
 S. ?arf I do not fay it is - 
 
 H Gent. But pray. Gentlemen, let me proceed, tor 
 I am not yet come to the lX>Q:or s Cafe. 
 
 S. Butcher. Mdier, we beg your Paidon ^ pray then 
 
 proceed to the Doctor. or? .u 
 
 H. Gent, I lay, your Lady with her utmon Strengtti 
 Ref ft s : But Women being the weaker VeflTels, ^ur 
 Lady perceives, that without your Affiftancc Ihe tnall 
 fall a Sacrifice to her Sovereign’s Luft -777 
 upon (he crys out, with a very loud and daiejut VQice, 
 
 - ' ■■ JTiy Dear, for the Lord’s fake help me, or 1 am 
 ruin’d! 
 
 S. Barber. I am afraid all our Wives, when oy t..eit 
 King (6 tempted, would not cry o\nvety loud 
 H. Gent. But pray let the Doflor anlw'^. 
 
 S. Tarfi. VYhy then I would open the 
 deavour, with all imaginable Duty and Relpett, to 
 dffiade my Prince from that unlawful Enterpnze. 
 
 H. Apothecary. Why, DoQor, even in your opening 
 the Door, youdi/obeydyouT King’s Command^ tor ne 
 commanded you to ftay without till H;S Maj-l ) t'a , 
 and not till your Lady cryd out. ^ . 1^, 
 
 H. Gent. That is rightly oblerv d ; bat pr^y ma 
 
 in this anfwer the Doaor -; But t^hofe Ar£tnep« 
 
 of yours, Doaor, do w/gevail with tbeKmg^^om 
 
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 perfiOing in his 'unlawfui\)t'a^r \winch that he may 
 accomplilh, he COMMANDS you out of the Room. 
 
 But I would flay, and even upon my Knees^ 
 with Tears and the moll humble Supplications, be- 
 leech my Sovereign to delift——— 
 
 H.Gent. Therein, Doftor, yOu would be mV/yof a 
 lecond Dijabediefice < 
 
 H, Barber. Truly, Doctor, I fancy your Prince would 
 then much rather have you abfent, than to be difturb’d 
 by thole your Prayers and Tcars^ 
 
 But 1 defire you that I may proceed with 
 the Do£lor, for I am nor yet come to the Doctor’s 
 main Cafe-- 
 
 p{. Barber, But I perceive the King is very near co¬ 
 wing to the Doctor’s Lady’s main Cafe, which the 
 Doctor feems to value. 
 
 H. Gent. Once more, I beg you to let me go on— 
 r{. Waterman- Pray, Mailer, don’t be angry with 
 the Company tor making feme pleafani Remaiks upon 
 your more ferious Difeourfe ^ for this is tome Refrelh- 
 ment to us working Men, alter twelve hours bard 
 Labour, and with my Head all day in the Rain. But 
 pray, Mafter, proceed to the Doflor. 
 
 h. Gent.-^ -But thofe your moft humble Suppli¬ 
 
 cations, tho’ attended with a thoufand Tears, do not 
 ^evail with the King from petfifting in his unlawful 
 Dcfign, which that he may accomplifh, (feeing his 
 Commands can’t fend you out of the Room) His Ma- 
 j:fty ufeth Violence, and endeavouis to force the Key 
 tbruft you out of the Room •, your 
 piftretied Lady all that while, with a Flood of Tears 
 and laud Entreaties, begs you to ftay and proteft her 
 
 * ilr'^ Ciueftion in your own 
 
 Cale, Houldyou, under thofe Circumftances, by your 
 rrince be puftied out of the Room, and fo fufFer your 
 jLady to become a Sacrifice ? Or would you ftrivc 
 ( being Stronger than your Sovereign ) and endeavour 
 by main Force to hold your King, and thereby prote£t 
 your Lady t;c>ra ihols v-ioltni unlawful Attempts of 
 ' ’ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■' your 
 
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 yout Sovereign ? Pray anfwer direSly to this Qpe* 
 hion. 
 
 S. Varf. I could not anfwet the offering Violence to 
 my Prince*, for. Who can lift up bis Hand againthe 
 Lord’s Anointed^ and be blamelefs ? ^ ^ 
 
 H, Apothecary. 1 never till now heard Scripture urg’d 
 to oblige a Maa to fufFer himl^f tQ be made a Cuc¬ 
 kold——— 
 
 Surgeon. And to give the Prince an Opportunity to 
 commit a Rape. 
 
 Butcher. Before* 
 
 S. Par/. Hold, Neighbour, do not fwear. 
 
 Butcher. ’Twould make a Parfon, much more a 
 Butcher to fwear, when told, that he muft fufFer his 
 tVife to be ravifli’d before his face, and Scripture 
 brought to prove it- 
 
 H. Surgeon. The Do£i:or may as well pervert one 
 Text in permiflion of a particular Kavifhment, as other 
 Parfons have perverted multitudes of Scripture Au¬ 
 thorities, to the Juftification of the Prince’s ravifhing 
 from the People, their Liberties, Properties, and Reli¬ 
 gion, as too many of thofe, who arc now Non-Juring 
 Parfons, did, in Juttification of King//iwr’s Arbitrary 
 Power, by which we (hould, long e’re this, have been 
 depriv’d of all Liberty, Property, and true Religion, 
 had not the late King, and the PraQice of Refinance, 
 prevented it. 
 
 ' H. Shoemaker. Why truly, Doftor, if you would 
 fufler yourfelf in that Cafe to be pulh’d out of the 
 Room, when you could prevent it, and prote£t your 
 Lady (by holding your Frincel till (he made her efcape, 
 1 think you are, by permiflion, little better than a 
 Pimp to your own Wife-—— 
 
 G/over. It may be the Do£lor would fulF^r his Lady 
 to make him a B--—-p and herfelf a Duchefs; and 
 fo quickly, without any other Trouble than that of 
 the Confcience, to purchace an Eltate fufficient to 
 maintain that Qyaliiy* 
 
 H, Butcher" 
 
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 II. "Butcher. Truly, Doftor, I thougEt rnyfelf as 
 piuch for Brjjive Obedience and Kon-B.eJijimce as any 
 Man living could bs j but under thofe Cifcuniftances, 
 I (h uid tbi^k, that neceflary Refinance of hold'ng my 
 Sovereign till my Wife ran away, to be fb far from be¬ 
 ing a Sin,that I fhould think rnyfelf obliged to praftice 
 it. For, fhould J patiently Ibffer my King in that 
 Cafe to pulh me out of the Room, and fo permit my 
 Wife to be forc’d, tho’ to recompence that Injury, His 
 Majefty gave me treble an Alderman’s Effate, and I 
 foon in our City took place of thefirft Peer oi England^ 
 yet I believe my Wive’s old Friends in our Market 
 would call me a pitiful pimping Cuckold, and even 
 our Butchers Boys make Horns at me, as I rid in my 
 Coach of State.-- — 
 
 H. Butcher, f believe, Jack., you do prophefy right, 
 — for tho’ I fhould then defire to be your Lordfhip’s 
 Butcher, yet at the fame time I fhould in my Thoughts 
 defpife thee. 
 
 H. Carpenter. And in cafe your Wife fhould become 
 reconcil’d to the Ravifher,—my Wife Sally would nox 
 envy her Happinefs, but think herfclf a much better 
 Woman. 
 
 A 'Taylor. Tho’ I have a very good Opinion of my 
 Wive’s Chaftity, yet I Would not fwear that fhe could 
 refift fuch a powerful Temptation, nor that I fhould 
 break my Heart under fuch Preferment. 
 
 H.Gent. Honeft Friend, that Honour, by all good 
 arid wife Men, is juftly effeem’d Infamous, which is 
 purchafed by bafe and corrupt Compliances, with un¬ 
 lawful Defigns 5 and tho’ there were never fb many 
 and large, falfs and flattering Prefaces in the creation 
 of fuch Dignities, and the Broad.Seals of all Princes 
 of affix’d to fuch Patents^ the Fojfejfor of fuch 
 Tarchinent-Honours would neverthelefs Ifill remain 
 truly infamou.'?, and by all good Men bedefpifed, tho’ 
 according to What is obfervt’d in all civiliz’d Nations, 
 and in compliance, with Cuftom, we were obliged to 
 
fhew external Marks of Kefpe£l towards his Lord, 
 when in fuch a fuperior Relation to us. 
 
 T}o 3 or. But you fhould not put a Cafe which can 
 never be fuppos’d to happen. 
 
 Shoemaker. Nay, Dol/ar., fuch a Cafe is very poffi- 
 ble, and (hould fuch a Prince afcend the Throne as 
 King Charles II.. vjhom you in your Pulpit often call 
 of Biefled Memory, fuch a Cafe may become praQ:!- 
 cables - 
 
 H. Geat. But to be more general: I will put yon 
 another Cafe, where 1 believe moft, if not all prefenr, 
 will acknowledge Refiftance a Duty, il' there be any 
 regard to be had to our Civil or Religious Rights. 
 
 S. f arf. As how ? 
 
 U. Gent. To carry on a neceffary War, the Parlia¬ 
 ment grant the Prince four Shillngs a Pound upoa all 
 Land, Houfes, &c. and proper Impofitipns upoa all 
 Imports and Exports of Trade ■ Upon the rifing 
 of that Parliament, the Sovereign iflues out a PrtJfAr- 
 tnation, pretending anforefeen Exigencies of State, and 
 that thofe Parliamentary Taxes will fcarce-anfwerone 
 half of the publick Wants: And therefore commands 
 all Coramiflioners, AflefTors and ColleSors, and all 
 Officers of the Cuftoms and Excife, fJ'c. to levy dou¬ 
 ble to what was before due in all parts of the Revenue 
 of the Grown. —Under colour of this Proclamation, 
 a Colieftor comes to a bold Britain., of a great Ettate, 
 (fuch as Mr. HambJen in former Times) and demands 
 after the rate of eight Shillings in the Pound for the 
 fittt Quarter. The Country Gentleman tells the Col- 
 leftor. That the Parliament (of which himfelf was a 
 Member) had impos’d but four Shillings a Pound upon 
 Land, Clc. and that as his Eftate was valued at 4000 /. 
 per Annum, he would readily pay 200 /. which accor¬ 
 ding to that Valuation, was due for the firft Quarterly 
 Payment: But,as for the Proclamation-Tax of double 
 that Sum, he thought it nor legal, and therefore re¬ 
 fus’d to pay it, telling the Colic^for, That if by ver- 
 rue of that Proclamation he diftrain’d, be would fue 
 
^ *4 ) . ’ 
 
 him {or fo doing.——The Colle£lor reply’d, That he 
 had very good Affurance given him, that he ffiould be * 
 fav’d harmlels in obeying the Froclamation, and there- 
 ♦ upon makes a Diftrefs accbtdingly. Hereupon the 
 Country Gentleman fues the Colleftor; and it being 
 try’d before futh Judges as in the Reign of K. Charles 1.- 
 juftify’d Ship-Money ^ —- thefe Judges juftify that Di¬ 
 ftrefs, and thereupon Judgment in Weftminder-Hall is 
 , given againft the Country Gentleman.—The Country 
 Gentlemen upon this brings a Writ of Error, in order to 
 reverfe that Judgment in the Houfe of Lords. >— The 
 Prince, being the Fountain of Honour, to fecure a Ma¬ 
 jority in that Heufe, creates fuch and fo many new 
 Lords, without having any refpeft to their Eftares, as 
 he could intirely influence to aft as they fliould be di- 
 reftedj and by means of this numerous creation of 
 Lords, that Judgment is affirm’d, altho’ nine parts in 
 ten of all the other Lords both Spiritual and Temporal, 
 were for reverfing that Judgment. .... Would you 
 ' not pin with any foreign Power, in order to bring the 
 chief Advifers and Inftrumencs of that Tyranny to 
 Juftice——— 
 
 DoSor. Not even in that Cafe:, which is farther put 
 than was ever praftis’d, or ever fuppos’d ; for the Scri¬ 
 pture is plain and pofitive againft refilling the higher 
 Powers. 
 
 
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