The POPE'S late Mock-Procession, on Qu. Elizabeths Crownation day, revenged upon Mr. Remmingtons, Nose.
Being a Relation how a Piece of it was bit off by J.C. a Life-gard man.
'TIS an Old and (we find) true Proverb, Revenge is Sweet. Yet if we inquire into the Nature of the Persons to Whose Palate Revenge is so; we shall certainly find them to be the Heirs of Wrath, Sons of that Wicked One, on whom GOD himself hath said, He will be avenged (or revenged, for all the Blood she hath spilt, &c. These impudent ones, who, tho' GOD hath said, Vengeance is mine, and I will repay it: yet these take the Power out of GODS hand, will not stay his Leisure, but will be their own Judges, and their Enemies Executioners.
2. A Revengful Spirit savors of Hell, and those that are sway'd by it must Inn there.
3. 'Tis an Infernal Disease, and never found, regnant, in those that are Citizens of the New Jerusalem: No, such Souls are easily prevail'd with, the least shew of Compliance gains with them to their Detriment, so easy Natured are such.
4. What are they, or to Whom do they belong? who burn Cities, (as London, Sept. 2. A.D. 1666. and Southwark, July 26. 1676. Let Vengeance follow every one of them, that had a hand in it, or but connived at, or consented to it, till hearty Repentance, or the extirpation of That Name or Family be blotted out from under Heaved.
5. But, besides desolating Fires, &c. there's design'd the Subversion of Kingdoms and their Government, the Massacring of Man, Woman and Child (as hath been already sworn to the Secret Committee of the late Parliament, and in Courts of Judicature;) that will not comply with their foolish humane Devises, Idolatries, and Superstitions, for Authority thereof, not one word's in the BIBLE. For satisfaction herein, See The Chronology of Popish Errors, lately published, showing when and by whom brought in.
6. Which Superstitions and Idolatries, have (by the Eminentest of the Sons of the Church of England) been sufficiently wrote against, tho' all, at this present, which hath been done seems nothing, because such hellish and profound Policy is now used (tho' the Protestant sees and understands what they do) to reduce us to that which was our Fore-fathers burden, viz. POPERY, under which they sigh'd and groan'd. And what? are we now become to have a hankering after, or small likings of those Abominations? Therefore let neither Force nor Flattery prevail with you to close with it, let Persons and Families perish that attempt it.
7. BUt to give a farther Account of their revengeful Spirit, Take this Relation of their Severity on the Body of Mr. Remmington, dwelling at the Golden Turn-stile, the Corner house of little More-fields, nigh More-gate: This being the House where some of the Persons attired themselves, on this 17th of Novemb. 1679. being the Commemoration of Queen Elizabeth's Crownation day; when the Mock-Procession of the Pope was solemnized, his Cardinals, with the rest of his Crew, went through the City, he and his Trumperys were burnt at Temple Bar:
8. This being the only Cause, as far as can be yet gathered of this mischievous Accident: But one story is good till anothers heard: And I should be very loth to make them or their Cause any blacker than indeed it is: No, it needs not, Poor England has (witness the Plague in 1665. The Fire in 1666 &c.) and will yet more smart for its Fondness and kindness to the Favorers and Friends of Romes Devices.
9. That the Papists can indure no Affronts to their almighty Idol the Pope, their Mock-worship can indure no mocking, for thereupon (as his Family says) is the Quarrel, and upon that Account I acquaint you with it: for the person J.C. who did this Mischief, and Mr. Remmington, never saw each other before, therefore no old Grudg, but Revenge, brought to perfection thus:
10. On Sunday the 14th of this Instant March 1679. A Purser of a Ship, an Acquaitance of Mr. Remmington's, came with his Friend into the house being a publick one; Mr. Remmington ask'd the Purser to dine with him; he answered him, that if he dined him, he must dine his friend too: Mr. Remmington told him, They should both be welcome to what he had: They sate down, and dined: After Dinner, as an acknowledgment of this Kindness, these strangers invited Remmington to accept a Glass of Wine, after some denyals, he embraced the offer, and they went to the Star-Tavern in Coleman-street; they, going into a Room where other Company were, and they drinking the same wine these call'd for, they joyn'd Companies: after some time, this J.C. a Life-gard-man, quarrelled with Remmington, and challenged him; he answered him, That he used not to fight every one that quarrelled with him, &c. but Remmington asking the Reason of his Rudeness? J.C. bid him come to him and he would tell him in his Ear; Remmington did so, but J.C. pretending to whisper, got Remmington's Nose in his Mouth, and bit off a piece of it, and then spat it under the Table: Remmington cryd Murder, and held him till he was almost strangled in his own Blood, Remmington letting go his hold, J.C. finding no opposition, and the passage clear, made his Escape: A Constable not being to be found, tho Remmington's friends sought one.
Now I.C. seeks composition with Mr. Remmington: yet Mris Remmington (as a loyal Wife) is resolved to be revenged upon J.C. for dismembring her Husband: and nothing less than his Life as the Law gives it, can satisfy her: she being resolved to make him an Example.