THe inexpressible favour you have shewn to the Adorer (not only of his Ma­hometan Majesty the Grand Seignior, your self, the Mahometan Laws, and Religion, but also of your Excellency's Discenting Principle from your Christian Master, which is a true Parable with us here in these; King­doms) has fill'd me with amazement to find a Poet of our Party, to answer the in­comparable Letter you were pleas'd to honour me withal; For indeed I am not good at writing or reading, my business is only Plot-vouching; for which (I thank Mahomet) I am famous all over the World. But at last (rather than be silent) I have by many importunities, persuaded him that was Author of a Famous Book, (that I believe your Excellency has heard of) Intituled, a Popish Successor, &c. to write this Answer, which will inform you the truth; the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: which is more then ever I swore, or said in all my life before. In the first place I do from the bottom of my heart assure you (which is more than I durst say of my swearing in the late Popish Plot, tho'I had one Prance an Eminent Murderer by Oath; to back me with a well sworn improbable Murder of a Famous Justice of the Peace) that I have as good wishes and hearty Prayers for the Mahometan Cause, as any man breathing in Christendom, of which I am under colour a Member, tho'never Bap­tiz'd; and have ventur'd my Damnation as far as any that puts forth Christian Cou­lers on a Mahometan Design, as I shall give your Exellency a true Relation. In the beginning of my true swearing, (of which every body is sensible) was to the Earl of Shaftsbury's contrivance, I knowing of the truth of the matter, but was resolved to make my self Famous, as you are sensible I have. I must needs acknowledge my self a sincere adorer of Mahomet by my persecuting Oaths against the true Lovers of the King of England, whether Protestents or Papists; (I mean not the the True Blew Protestants) for as I told your Excellency before, They were for the Mahome­tan Cause, we have always stood by. Therefore to answer your Letter without many more Parentheses (tho' my life does admit of the Devil and all; who is best ac­quainted with all my proceedings) (as our Sea-men say) from Stem, to Stearn. I am, and all the Mahomeatan Protestants, under persecution; for the sham Popish Plot which was to introduce a true Phanatical Conspitacy, that is also confounded: There­fore we have design'd a day of Humiliation, (not only for the defeat of our Un-Christian Cause here) but so. your Mahometan Cause before Vienna, as the Christian Ga­zets do inform us, whose truth we strive to confound, by our good wishes, and daily Mahometan Prayers; and yet we cannot prevail. At the Christian Thanksgiving for the Discovery of our Horrid Conspiracy, did we not abuse the Government, and affrons the Clergy, by sending up perfidious Notes to their Pulpits, wherein we justify'd (those that rightly suffer'd for contriving the death of the King and the Royal Family) to be absolutely Murder'd and yet this does us no good, neither lies it in my power (for what would it avail me to tell your Excellence a lie) to resist by those Methods your Excellence requires? for upon the faith of (what shall I say) a Gentleman, that I am none; a Doctor I never was, and a Christian (my Father be­ing [Page] an Anabaptist) would never make me. But (by Mahomet whom I adore,) I know nothing of the Black-Bills by me sworn in the No Popish Plot: for instead of thousands, I never saw one, nor does it lie in my power to tell you what they are like. Therefore I cannot assist his Majesty, the Grand Seignior, with any thing of that kind: For by our Prophet Mahomet, they were invisible to me too. I perceive, now our Cause is in its Wane, 'twill expire like the snuff of a Candle, having no Sun to renew its light by; unless the Son of Perdition, which will cast a damn'd pur-blind Reflection. For the Spanish Pilgrims (as I have already sworn, I will not tell you a Lie, tho' I scarce know how to frame my self to a Truth,) was an Aldersgate-street Contri­vance, to carry on our Design; and a Stratagem to amuse the Rabble; for upon my Mahometan Faith, there was never any such thing. Therefore his Majesty, the Turkish Emperour, and my ever Honoured Prince, cannot possibly expect any belief from them. I am extreamly willing to change my Climate, had I but money to bear my Charges: for (being in the vein of speaking Truth) I was fore'd to pawn some of my Contribution plate to redeem me from the Tenter-hooks of the Poultry Comp­ters which, an't please your Excellence is a place, a man cannot get clear of with­out tearing his cloaths: And indeed mine began to be out at Elbows, for want of a Plot-allowance. (Nay) my Plot it self I was fore'd to pawn, to Archibald Sparks Serjeant at Mace belonging to the Shrievedom of London, who has no more Faith in my Plot, than a Jew has in Christianity: and now I have nothing else to pawn, unless it be my Soul to the Devil, which I fear he will lend nothing upon, (being his own already) without a Bribe Therefore I do not find any possibility of my going to wait on my Grateful Master the G. S. my Janisaries have left me, having no faith in my swearing, when there is no money stirring And now the Giant Perjuries of your humble Ser­vant, are dwindled to the Dwarfish belief of a Loyal Subject; so that I lie expos'd to Jack Ketch in his Office. I must confess I began to be tired with our True Blue Prote­stant Bums, (having Bugger'd almost the whole Party over) that I long for those Ma­hometan back-sides, assured me in the Grand Seigniors Masculine Seraglio. But that I now despair of, unless his Mahometan Majesty, by a speedy supply of money from his own Treasury, do redeem me from the Justice of those Christian Princes, I have (I must needs confess) by my Perjuries abus'd, and set all honesty in a flame, which is now like to scorch me to death: except I say, the G. S. and your self, (who have exprest so much love to me) relieve your Vassal: for by Mahomet, I adore you be­fore the Crucified Saviour you design'd to persecute. For I was just to the True Blew Mahometan Cause, and will continue stedfast. For I will Lie for it, Swear for it, go to the Devil, and be Damn'd for it, if it will do the Cause any good. If you will send Money to bear the charge of their Voyage, I do not doubt but to bring the G. S. a hundred thousand True Mahometan Protestants, that (since your Letter) I have recommended your Excellencys respects too. Nay, a great part of them are in the Village of London; and do talk, and will do as much for the good old Mahometan Cause, as ever. Our Prince Mon-Teckly has given us the slip; but Bethel-Teckly is as vigorous a Cause-monger still as any man, and will be ready upon the least Summons to head us, with the help of Sir William Waller, who lies ready at a Bawdy-house in Holland, and can easily give us his assistance, as he has promised; for he was the man that burnt his Saviour in Effigy, and therefore is true to the Mahometan Cause. But for those Commissions you mention, I confess by the Mahometan Faith, I never saw one of e'm my self. And for the Vessel that brought me from Spain to Islington in a days time, to tell you the truth, was a great Lye of mine, because I would be thought a worker of Miracles. The True Protestant Mahometans (send but money) you shall have them all; but the Black-Bills, I deny: the Spanish Pilgrims, I know no­thing of: the Irish Ruffins, was a Sham: the French Army was a Dream: Purbeck Invaders, was a trick to raise the Countrey: Screw'd Guns, and Chew'd Bullets were a Jest: but the Protestant-Flails, and Blunderbusses, were a real Truth, to destroy the King, and all the Royal Family: and beat out the Brains of all their Loyal Sub­jects. And if they will serve you, you may command them, from your Excellencies great Admirer,