WIth a great deal of Patience I forbore, and almost slighted the phrensical Malice of the Raging Whigs, who are not only con­tented to term me a Papist, but also a Thief, Burglarer, &c. Nay, with all the Virulency imaginable, they have printed in all their scurrilous Pamphlets, That there was not a Crime in Nature, whereof I was not Culpable, although they can produce no Record of Infamy against me. And all these Calumnies I passed by, for these subsequent Reasons:

First, Because there was no Name to the two first Pamphlets, com­monly called, No Protestant Plot; so that I was to seek whom to answer.

Secondly, The Author of the third Pamphlet, is so Infamous a Vil­lain, viz. Newgate-Thomas Dangerfield, that I would not honour him so far, as to take the least cognizance of what his Dangerfield BURNT in the iland. stigmatized Paw scrib­led against me; And in this I followed the Rule of Law, which says, Semel malus, semper praesumitur malus, in eodem genere mali. I was really possessed in my soul, that no man of Worth or Conscience, would give the least atome of credit to what he wrote or spoke with his im­pious Dangerfield compares in: Reproaches to Christs, in his Pamphlet dedi­cated to Sir John Moore Lord Mayor. tongue against any man; for a Fellow that was Convicted often by Law, of so many Notorious Felonies, and other Crimes, can never lodge Belief (in my judgment) in the Intellect of any sober or honest Christian, although he had a thousand Pardons: For though a Pardon obliterates Poenam Culpae, yet it alters not the intrinsick and es­sential inclination of a man once depraved; For what a man imbibes in his infancy, and thereof attracts a habit, is not with facility excussed, but still there remains a tincture of it, according to that Axiom, Quo se­mel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem testa diu; unless the Reformation be, by a supernatural grace, infused by God into a rational soul, which useth often the true Acts of Contrition, and hearty Repentance; but such celestial Blisses descend not by Jacob's Ladder often in this Iron Age, especially to that profligate Scum, of Mankind, Thomas Dan­gerfield.

And these precedent Reasons, were the sole Motives wherefore I vili­field Dangerfield's Dangerfield stood in the Pil­lory. Pillory Pamphlet. At last I saw a silly a silly Pamphlet, In­tituled, The Irish Evidence Convicted by their own Oaths, and subscri­bed by pettifogging William Hetherington; In which, after this wonted rascally impudence, he reflects upon Bryan Heyns, viz. That Heyns was one of the foresaid Evidences that forswore himself about the Irish Po­pish Plot: Therefore Heyns, to acquit himself of that Reproach, is willing to let the world know, That he never was concerned in the Irish Plot, not knew more of it, than the Child unborn; neither did he ever know any of the Irish Witnesses, till he saw them here in Lon­don; nor was he ever a Witness in Ireland against any man; neither does he believe, that any of the ancient Irish Nobility or Gentry, would hurt a Hair of His Majesties Head, though they may condole and lament, to no purpose, their unparallel'd Oppression, under the late Usurper's Trayterous Crew, and worst of Rebels. The Emperour Adrian, though a Pagan, and none of the best Princes, took no notice of this kind of Vice in his Subjects, when actually oppressed by his wicked Ministers of State, whom he trusted to administer Justice to his people. 'Tis and old saying, That Losers have leave to speak; and if so, no History either Sacred or Profane, ever made mention of the like oppression, as is done to the Irish Nation; their Estates are given to those that actually fought against the King, murdered His Royal Father King Charles I. and His Subjects. In fine, perpetrated all the Villany under Heaven.

Pardon me (Reader) for these Excursiions, being touched to the quick, to see my Native Countrey planted with Presbyterian Traytors, whil'st the innocent Natives are famished with hunger and thirst, being wholly shut out from all mercy by the Messias, in which they hoped to be redeemed.

To return to our purpose: Heyns has not been in Ireland since his Minority but once, about eight years ago, and then stayed not two months; so that it was impossible he could in so short a time, come to the knowledge of any design the Irish Papists had on foot, against the King or Government; his Business then into Ireland was about his own pri­vate Concerns, as several persons of Honour can testifie, if occasion re­quires. Moreover, Heyns declares before God and the world, he never was bribed by David Fitz-Gerald, as Hetherington alledges in his said Pamphlet, much less managed by him, or any man whatsoever, to swear against any person, living or dead; neither does he imagine Fitz-Ge­rald or Hetherington, capacitated to suggest to him, such plenty of resi­ned Reason; for Heyns his natural Genius was better cultivated, than to borrow from such blundred Fountains; and better principled, than to perjure himself through any man's persuasions. Had Heyns no other reason to eschew Fitz-Gerald's company, but how he brought his own chief Sir John Fitz-Gerald to trouble, 'tis a convincing argument to him, he would never be true to a man altogether a stranger to him, as Heyns was; besides, he can safely vouch, That he has not been in Fitz-Gerald's company one quarter of an hour, since Heyns has been recon­ciled to His Majesty; And, to speak the truth, Heyns has so little a kind­ness for him, that he never salutes him passing by; and in this point, he follows King James's Rule, who was wont to say, He never loved a Dog that bit his own Tail. And notwithstanding all these lucid demonstrati­ons, Heyns must be managed by Fitz-Gerald, because Hetherington ipse dixit: But this, with divers other acervations of Villany, are falsly imputed to Heyns, by the pestiferous Presbyterians, that Bane of Man­kind, to alleviate their present nefarious Conspiracy against the King and Government.

An whereas Hetherington affirms in his lowsie Pamphlet, That as soon as the Earl of Shaftsbury and Wilmore were sworn against, &c. the Evidence were rigged, and had plenty of money in their Pockets.

Heyns, to wash off that name of Prevarication charged upon him by that lying Varlet, declares, He never was cloathed upon the King's ac­compt in his whole life, nor ever received any Bribes; and his Watch and other things which he pawned when he was in the City, he never was able to redeem them since he came from thence. But Hetherington takes his norme from the insipid Whigs, who have not spared with all acrimo­ny to maculate and blast Heyns's Reputation, since he has been instru­mental to discover their treasonable Practices: But the offers here a fair Proposal to all the Phanatiques living, That if they can produce any man, that is bona fide an honest man, and of the Church of England, (without compulsion) as by Law established, which will depose upon Oath before the King and Council, That the said Heyns was in all his life either Beyond Sea, or in England, before any Magistrate for any Capital, or supposed Capital Matter or Crime, onely for the Peace, or before Mr. Secretary Jenkins, the day he was apprehended by the Mes­sengers, or when he endeavour'd with other Prisoners to escape from the Kings-Bench; he will recant whatever he said, and acknowledge his testimony in publico foro, to be invalid, and of no efficacy. 'Tis true, such a Rascal as John Lunn may swear any thing, to boulster up [Page 4]the eclipsed Cause, who offered at Oxford, when Colledge was tryed, to take the Sacrament, that he met Heyns's, four days after Colledge's Igno­ramus at the Old-Baily, in the Darby Ale-house, near the Ditch-side, in Fleet-street, when twenty persons can testifie, that Heyns was then, and a great while after close confined in a Messenger's house by the Hay-market. Moreover, this Villain was made a lying, perjured Rogue, in open Court, at Oxford, by Mr. White the Messenger, vide Colledge's Tryal, fol. 45. So God infatuates pernicious men, when they undergo wicked designs.

Another Bankrupt Villain of these Daemonish Whigs, by name John Whaly, whom Heyns since arrested, said also at Oxford, That Heyns of­fered to steal a Silver Tankard when he was a Prisoner in the Kings-Bench, and was therefore sent by Mr. Lenthal, then Marshal, to the Common Side of the said Bench, which is the falsest and infernallest Lye that ever was uttered by Man or Devil, for most of the Officers of the Kings-Bench can justifie, when occasion requires, that Heyns was turned to the Com­mon Side, for offering to escape out of the said Bench. 'Tis a Paradox that he should never be charged with such a Fact by the said Whaly, or any other these six or seven years, whereas Heyns never absconded him­self, but was publickly to the seen every day in the City and Suburbs, where he practised: But the Devil, who, ab origine, gave life and birth to the Presbyterians, still governs their hearts and actions, and, as he is the Father of all Mischief and Lyes, they are by Regeneration his adopted Children in all Vice and Iniquity, witness their Rebellions, Murders, Massacres, stamping of the blessed Sacrament of our Saviour's Body under Foot, Sacriledges, Depredations in all parts of Vide Dr. Hey­ [...], Histo [...]y of the Presbyteri­ans Printed in 16 [...]0. Europe, from the very commencement of them, to this very day, that it would fill a whole Volume, to set down the Particulars of their horrid and bloody Proceedings, insomuch that the Name of a Presbyterian is a shame and a scandal to Christian Religion. Hetherington, the Manager of the Po­pish Plot, who durst tell so many Notorious Lyes before the King and Council, As that he was a Justice of Peace about the age of sixteen years: And like wise he told Mr. Atterbury the Messenger, that he kept his Coach and six Horses, besides his vast annual Revenues in Ireland, when effectively he is and was always a Beggar, (though Mr. Atterbury out of meer Charity, at that interim of time, bought him Cloaths to his Back) will not scruple to forge all Untruths to poyson the King's Sub­jects, thinking thereby to ingratiate himself with the Factious Party, to the end his mendicant condition may be a little supported, being he has shipwrack'd his rusty credit with the Royal Party already, who have put Remora's to his pimping under-hand dealings, and anticipated the clandestine designs of his Brethren in iniquity the Whigs against them: And all his Allegations against Witnesses, is only to palliate the flagi­tious Machinations he was a hatching against the King, the innocent Queen, the Duke of York, the Duke of Ormond, and all his Chil­dren, of whom he told my self, The Three Kingdoms would never flou­rish till they were all Cut off, for they were all Drones (that was his ex­pression) which sucked all the Honey the purer sort of Bees culled: for, said he, the King, with his Mistresses, eats up all the Fat of the Land, and my Lord of Ormond, and his Sons, have ingrossed into their own hands [Page 5]the best part of Ireland: But, said he, I have almost done their work, by my management of the Irish Witnesses.

And still to give a further testimonial of his zeal to the sinking Cause, he incorporates himself with the Whigs, and offers impudently, in the Face of the Sun, to sereen their disloyal Proceedings against their Prince, in saying, The Irish Witnesses are suborned to drop the Popish Plot, and fix another upon the Protestants. I would ask one question of Hetherington, Whether he knows actually of his own knowledge any Irish Papists that ever wished His Majesty any harm? If he knows any, he ought to discover them, that such pestiferous Members may be cut off by Justice, if not, 'tis an unchristian Action to accuse an innocent Peo­ple, upon the bare Surmises of a few lecherous Irish rascally Priests, who have renounced their Functions, and violated their Vows with God, to satisfie their Beastly Concupiscence with the Whores of London. But Hetherington's main scope in spattering of the Irish Witnesses, and herding himself with the Whigs, is, because he may one day have Repri­sals in lieu of his own fictitious Lands, upon my Lord of Ormond's estate, when the Work is effected, as the Phanatiques phrase it, for they are still so inchanted, that they believe the Cause will be still Ʋpish notwith­standing all opposition; and this gratification will be granted him by the Republican Party of England and Ireland, for his assidual and inde­fatigable care, by endeavouring to extirpate the Family of the Stuarts, and their Adherents, and, perhaps, as I have heard him say, be remune­rated with the honour of being Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, so that you may see he aims at no small matter, but resolves to follow the old saying, He violandum est jús regnandi gratia violandum est. But let Hetherington and the Factious learn, that our Sovereign's great wisdom extends as far as His Regal Power; and that His Royal and mature cir­cumspection, has and will obviate the preposterous designs of those Se­ditious Incendiaries of State, of which His Majesty never merited the least Disloyalty, or ill Thought, unless it be in graciously pardoning of them their black Treasons and excerable Murder of the Royal Martyr His Father King Charles of blessed memory, for which detestable and crying Sin, they deserved a total extinguishment and deletion. Amongst all the Divine Graces and Blessings bestowed upon that Sacred Prince, one is, That Handkerchiefs dipped in his innocent Blood, (ured very often, with a touch thereof, the Kings-Evil; and this is a certain truth, that his very Enemies cannot impugn or gain-say. Truly I may say of those Blood-hound Regicides, what the great Tertullian pronounced against the Sins of Sodom and Gourorrha, that Impiet as illa ignium meruit imbres: For certainly no man since the Creation to this day, ever heard or read, either in Sacred or Profane History, that a King, which had three King­doms devolved to Him, by so many Ages and legal Successions, received, Crowned, and Anointed, by the common Suffrage of all His People, ha­ving, likewise a long while governed, and impartially administred the Laws, for divers Years, to all His Subjects, should be at length Tryed, and after Sentenced to be Murdered, by a Company of Rake-kennels, and lewd Presbyterians.

Had His present Majesty served these. Rascals after His Restauration, as Alexander the Great did. to the Phanician Slaves who assassinated [Page 6]their Masters, and usurped the Government, to hang them up all, there would be no Plots this day to disturb the Nation. Although the old Cavaliers and their Children grumble sometimes of their hard usage, since His Majesties Restauration, yet we will not suffer in Cromwel's Fel­low-Rascals, to spurn against our Prince, but we will cover the earth with our slain Bodies, (rather than flinch) to support and perpetuate the Rights of the most Serene and Ancientest Monarch Charles II. this day in the Universe, and His lawful Heirs and Successors, whose An­cestors were Kings of Scotland and Ireland, Three hundred and odd Years before the Birth of Christ, and this glorious Prince is the 11th King of his own Family, as I can prove by an ancient History I have by me: Nor will our Loyal hearts ever allow our Sanction of any spurious or besotted Faction, to steer the Helm of that Hierarchical Series of Kings. And if our present Sovereign were pleased to call to mind the Noble Actions of his Grandfather Henry IV. King of France, who spared nei­ther Civilities nor Caresses to Gentlemen who served Him well, he could still find Friends enough to espouse His Royal Cause, and easily al­lay the Pride of His Rebellious Subjects. 'Tis reported of that Heroick Prince Henry IV. that after he was Crowned King of France, he was wont to say these obliging words to those that fought for him, and faith­fully served him, That it was great reason they should partake of his Feast, since they served so well at his Nuptials with France. 'Tis also recorded of the same Prince, That his very Enemies the Papists, had more confi­dence in his Word alone, than in the Writings of others. Thus the prudent man never walks, but by ways strait and virtuous; the cunning, on the contrary, by paths oblique and wicked. The prudent cannot but be generous and good, whil'st the other cannot be but base, deceitful and unworthy.

To return to our purpose: As for my part, I call God to Witness, There is no King in the world I love better than Charles II. nor no Govern­ment under the Sun I love so well as Kingly Government. 'Tis true, I was discontented, because my Father's Estate was given to others, without the least colour of Justice, and he in his old days miserable, and in ex­tream want; he and his Ancestors were always Loyal to the Kings of England, and the himself was a Prisoner whil'st His Majesty was in Exile, for adhering to the Marquis of Clanricard, His Majesties Lord-Deputy in Ireland.

And whereas 'tis reported by ill-affected persons, That his ancient Estate, or what Lands he pretends too, was but 40 l. per annum; 'tis the falsest Lye that ever was spoke by any man: For what he had in his own possession before the late Wars, besides several Reversions that fell to him since, by his Birth-right, if he could have the benefit of them, or any other of his Pretensions, I will maintain is above 400 l. per annum at this instant. If any questions the reality of this Assertion, he may have an account by the Post from the Auditor-General's Office in Dub­lin, where he shall see inrolled a Patent in Hughboy-Heyns, of Leidigane his name, and how he held his Lands of the Crown by Knights-Service This is no Ostentation, or Vain-glory, but what I am compelled to write by the Laws of Nature, and common Justice, to release my Family (who can vie in Blood or Descent with any in Ireland, though not in Estate, [Page 7]or borrow'd Honour) from the waspish tongues of those , who studied with all amaritude to spatter me and my Ancestors, for my Loyalty to my Prince.

Hetherington says in his scurrilous Pamphlet, That the English Witnes­ses herded themselves with these tainted Irish Cattle. I would have the Vagabond Beggar learn to distinguish betwixt his infamous Rascals which he picked out of all the Gaols in the North of Ireland, and the ancient Irish Gentry, who never were contaminated or reputed base, un­til those Rake-kennels of Oliver's Fellow-Brewers, Tinkers, Coblers, Sweep-Chimneys, Carr-men, and Jakes-men, &c. were all planted in Ireland. These sordid and dunghil Mechanicks instructed and semina­ted amongst the Irish all Vice and Wickedness, so that instead of the Virtue and good Nature that was in the ancient Natives, these foremen­tioned Ruscals have taught them Disobedience, and all manner of Villa­ny. Sure I am, the most profound and learned, both in Gospel, Law, and History of the Noble English Nation, and formerly no ill Senti­ment of the ancient Irish, when they celebrated their Encomiums to Posterity in their famous Writings, witness my L. Cook in his 4th Institutes, fol. 349. For-I have (says he) been informed by many of them that had Judicial places there, and partly of mine own knowledge, that there is no Nation in the Christian world, that are greater lovers of Justice than they are, which virtue must of necessity be accompanied with many others; and besides, they are descended of the ancient Britains, and therefore the more endeared to us.

Likewise Cambden, fol. 370. Patricii discipuli tantos progressus in re Christiana fecerunt, ut subsequenti aetate, Ribernia sanctorum Patria dice­retur, & Scoticts in Hibernia & Britannia Monachis, nihil sanctius, ni­hil eruditius fuerit, & in universam Europam sanctissimorum virorum ex­amina miscrint.

Jocelinus Anglus in vita sancti Patricii, fol. 191. Ita ut Hibernia spe­ciali nomine insula sanctorum ubique terrdrum jure nominaretur, & paulo post, it a ut exteras atque longinquas regiones illustrarent verbo ac religionis exemplo.

The extraordinary Merits and Loyalty of the Irish Nation, was de­clared in open Parliament, 27. July 1660. by our most Gracious Sove­reign Charles II. touching the Act of Indempnity in these words: ‘I hope I need my nothing of Ireland, and that they alone shall not be without the benefit of My Mercy; they have shewed much Af­fection to Me abroad, and you will have a care of my Honour, and what I promised them.’

And another time His Majesty is pleased to own their Loyalty in His Declaration in these words: ‘And in the first place, We did and must always remember, the great Affection a considerable party of that Nation expressed to Us, during the time of Our being Beyond the Seas, when with all Chearfu­ness and Obedience they received and submitted to Our Orders, and betook themselves to that Service which We directed, as most conve­nient and behooveful at that time to Us, though attended with incon­veniency enough to themselves: Which demeanor of theirs, cannot but be thought very worthy of Our Protection, Justice and Favor.’

Here I could quote the Authority of many other ancient Authors, be­sides our present Sovereigns most Gracious and Royal words in extolling the Irish Nation; but this taste shall suffice, to let all rational men un­derstand the good opinion the English had of the Irish in former Ages. And that the defection of Virtue in some few Irish, had its emanation from the English Whigs planted in Ireland since 1641, is most apparent and perspicuous by the said Authorities before cited.

Thus the Phanaticks condemn the Irish for their Loyalty, for 'tis a common saying with them, That none will side with the King, but a Rogue or a Papist. Here you may see how they crucifie Virtue, and countenance Vice; they hold Loyalty a Crime, and Treason worthy of Reward and Applause. Such mungrel Rascals as Petherington have al­ways scandalized the Irish Nation, who understands neither Honour nor Learning, or the Principles of a true Moralist that says, Est act us fortitu­dinis more pro Patria: 'Tis the greatest Valor in the world to dye for the good of ones Countrey. And although he breathed his first Air in Ireland, he is like the Moths or Caterpillary, that destroy that gives them their Being; or like the Snake, that would infect the Countrey­man and his whole house that saved his life a little before from perish­ing in the Snow. There is no English Whig that maliciously reflects up­on the transactions of the Irish, if he will retrospect and ruminate se­riously what intestine Wars and broils the Presbyterians created in these three Kingdoms, and how their trayterous and murderous Actions of the Best of King and His Subjects, renders them infamous and odious to God and man, he can say but very little against the Irish. I have seen a learned Treatise in Latine, proving the necessity of that War raised by the Irish, having begun it in their own defence, to prevent the general ruine and destruction designed against the Kingdom and themselves, by the beggarly Presbyterian Party, that resolved to thrust them out of home and house, for no other reason, but because they were Papists. Yet I will never vindicate any Subject that flies to Arms, or to any man­ner of Hostile Commotion, upon any specious pretences whatsoever, without his Princes Commission or Power; for according to St. Paul's Rule, We must not commit evil, that good may come thereof; but we ought to submit in every thing to our Superiors, and not be Judges of our own Cause.

The Irish Rebellion is more excusable than that of the English Whigs, who had no colour to invade the Prerogatives of their. Prince, not Elective ad nutum populi, but Successive by many Ages, and that esta­blished by all the fundamental Laws of England. And whosoever will but read that learned and pious Work Icon Basilikè, of King Charles I. where he writes of the Rebellion of Ireland, and seiriously balances the occasion, of their raising in that Kingdom, can never harbour such ill thoughts of the Irish, as is spread abroad of them, by their constant Enemies the Whigs. And that Royal Martyr having a deep sense of the daily Injustice done to that Nation, by those who thirsted after Irish mens Estates, more than the settlement of a Peace and Unity, writes of that Rebellion in these words following:

‘And certainly, 'tis thought by many wise men, that the preposterous Rigour, and unreasonable Severity, which some men carried before them [Page 9]in England, was not the least Incontive, that kindled, and blew up into those horrid flames, the sparks of discontent, which wanted not predispo­sed Fewel for Rebellion in Ireland; where despair being added to their former discontent, and the fear of future extirpation to their wonted op­pressions, it was easie to provoke to an open Rebellion, a People prone enough, to break out to all exerbitant violence, both by some Prinicples of their Religion, and the natural desires of liberty; both to exempt them­selves from their present. Restraints, and to prevent those After rigours, wherewith they saw themselves apparently threatned, by the covetous Zeal and uncharitable Tury of some men, who think it a great argument of the truth of their Religion, to endure no other but their own.’

In another place, the same Royal Martyr says, (treating still of the same Rebellion) ‘That Men are more greedy, to kill the Bear for his skin, than for any harm be hath done. The confiscation of Mens Estates being more beneficial, than the charity of saving their Lives, or reform­ing their Errors.’

And thus this Wise and most Christian Prince, considered the Ty­rannical Usuage, of the Irish, under those hellish Fiends, the Presbyte­rians, who, in those days, governed Ireland, and forced the Natives to Rebel, of purpose to get their Estates, as we afterwards saw by woful experience.

The Emperour Honorius was of the same Sentiment with our Royal. Martyr, the said Honorius having discover'd the treasonable practices of Eucherlus against himself and his Empire, told the said Eucherius as follows: Three sorts of Traytors are to be considered (said he) by the Sovereign Prince, viz. He that commits Treason out of Discontent, or Injury done him, is pardonable. He that acts Treason out of madness, is to be pitied. And finally, He that perpetrates Treason ex dominand libidine, ought to feel the keenness of the Axe; for, said he, Ense recidendum est, immedi­cabile Vulnus: Which last Sentence I wish His Majesty would put in execution, against all those that thirst after Democracy, for no other in­ducement or provocation, but because they themselves would Rule all. I would expose my Body to the flames of the most violent Fire (like that gallant Roman Mucius Scaevola) upon condition that His Majesty would make an Edict, That all that served under the late Usurper, or were Authors of the late Rebellion in Forty One, might be banished out of the Three Kingdoms, or stigmatized in the Forehead, to distin­guish them from the King's liege people; then every honest man could sit under his own Vine, and our King live in his Throne with Honour, Tranquility, Peace and Plenty, hourly enjoying the Fruition of the hearts and affections of His Loyal Subjects, until is pleased the Almighty to call Him to Himself, and crown Him with immortal Glory.

Let the Whigs, with all laudable Apology, shroud their oblique Tran­sactions, and present Conspiracy against the King, and Government, and pretend to all the Loyalty and Innocency in nature, none will believe them, that has the least spark of reason; for, to my certain knowledge, they have been a plotting these many years, to plant a Commonwealth in England and Ireland, &c. And this is easily made manifest, by their frequent Libelling against His Majesty; by criminating Him of Incest [Page 10]with the Dutchess of P—, intimating that she was the Earl of st. Alban's Daughter, by the late Queen-mother of England.

Another Libel I saw, reflecting upon the King's Natural Children: That His Majesty had Fifty five Royal Bastards, Boys and Girls, besides those that were in the Panniers: That these, in time, would devour the Three Kingdoms, unless they were all knocked in the Head: That it was a deed of Charity to crush the old Serpent, meaning the King, lest He would fill the Land with His Lecherous Brood. They have not spared His very Effigies or Statue that is set up in the Stocks Market, to Libel against; and the other Effigies of the old King, set up at Charing-Cross, and this Libel was called, The Speech between the Two Horses.

Another of these Libels I saw, where the Duke of Lauderdale per­swades the King to Rule all by His own Great Will; for it was a Mickle Shame for Majesty to be controuled by such prating Loons, as were Members of the House of Commons.

Another of His Majesties Cabinet-Council, in the said Libel, desires the King to embrace the Mother-Church, viz. Rome, and destroy all the Hereticks in one Night, as they were at Paris; and then His Holy Father the Pope would Canonize Him a Saint, for rooting out the Enemies of God, and the Catholique Church: For as the Pope gave Henry VIII, the Title of Defensor Fidei, so it was given to this King since His Restauration, as the said Libel sets forth, the Title of Restau­rator Ecclesiae Catholicae, & habuit transmissum and illum, Gladium Bene­dictum, ad extirpandos & expellendes Haereticos: These are the very words of the Pamphlet.

Moreover, That it was the worst thing that ever the Parliament did, to settle the Militia upon His Majesty; yet Charles could not live long, because His whole mass of Blood was all corrupted in His Body, as some of His own Physicians related to the Whigs. That Nature was all consumed in Him, only conserved for some interval of time, by high Cordials: But if He were once dead, farewel then for ever Kings of England. And unless the People could have their Ends by Parlia­ment they would hire some of the King 's Physicians, that would ad­minister Him a Powder, or some Poysonous Dose, (when He should fall into any Fit of Apoplexy) of the same Nature, with that, which put a period to King James's days: Being the Guards and Militia could not be taken from Him.

Other Pamphlets I have seen, one whereof was so Satyrical and Ma­licious against Henry VII. Owen Teusder, his Grandfather, and all the Welch, that nothing could be more venomous. The other was against King James, and the Scotch Nation; and what a great Vilification it was to the lofty hearts of English men, to sloop to Welch and Scotch Beggars to reign over England, &c. These two last Pamphlets were the senecallest and odiousest, that ever were penned by man, insomuch that Nature it self would even blush, to give the least auscultation, to the perusal of any thing, specified or included in them. The person that caused the Sandals, Crucifix, and Beads, several years ago, to be fixed to Mr. Speaker's Chair, in the House of Commons, knew all the forementioned Pamphlets.

In this Epitome (Reader) you may see, as in a transparent Glass, [Page 11]the Phanatiques hearts, by their exterior Deportments, and Overt Facts; for qualis arbor, talis fructus; such is the Tree, such is the Fruit; Et qualis vir, talis oratio; such is the man, such is his talk. The Whigs sement Treason in obscurity, and when it is ripe, and ready to be acted, it is gilded over with the Cloak of Religion, Liberty and Property: So when they determine to murder Princes, it must not be as Raviliac or the Jacobin privately that murdered two Henry III. & Henry IV. Kings of France, but publickly, by common seeming Justice. Here I offer every loyal heart, to give a compendious Relation of the design of these Stygian Rascals against Church and State, and their constant malice to imbase all honest and loyal Subjects, to their King and Countrey. St. John Damascenus writes, That in exordio nascontis Ecclesiae, unicum crat cor, una anima, & una sententia: And if all honest Subjects, and true Church of England men, would be of one Heart, of one Mind, and one Opinion, as the primitive Christians were, the Whigs might be easily scatter'd like dust in March. The Arians were more numerous and more learned than every they were, or are at present in these Three Kingdoms; yet the Orthodox Christians, by their Concatenation and pious Union to­gether, soon suppressed and dissipated those contagious Hereticks, and common Incendaries of Mankind.

Let us therefore join our hearts and hands together against these cankerous Vermine, to defend our Religion as by Law established, and our Sovereign's Rights, hoping that God may infuse into His Royal Heart, in due season, to reward His Loyal Subjects, and chastize Rebel­lious Villains, who thirst after His Blood, as they did His Fathers: So he that does not wish CHARLES II. our dread Sovereign, the San­ctity of David, the Wisdom of Solomon, the Years of Nestor, the Wealth of Croesus, the Glories, Trophies, Lawrels and Triumphs of Cae­sar; That God may confound his Devices, and his Name be razed out of the Book of Life, and Memory of Future Ages: