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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>An An&s;wer to a Lybel, called, a Speech lately made by a Noble PEER of this REALM;</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By a better Prote&s;tant than the Author of it.</BYLINE>
<P>I Have heard much of the &s;ad &s;tate and condition we are in, and I am convinced of it, &s;ince I &s;ee &s;uch reflexions made with impunity up|on the Kings Per&s;on and Government. I &s;hall &s;ay little to the Precedent of our <HI>Hary</HI> the fourth; Unbridled violence, and mean conde&s;cen&s;ions, are the unhappy nece&s;&s;ities of an U&s;urper; but a good and a lawful King is oblieged to maintain His Own Pre|rogative, as well as the Rights of His Subjects. But is it po&s;&s;ible, that the &s;uppo&s;ed Author of the Printed Speech, &s;hould already forget, how lately the King (after a great Re-trenchment of His Family) did at once, and (as it is &s;aid) by his Lord|&s;hips advice, Change almo&s;t His whole Council? and yet the People (or tho&s;e that &s;till make u&s;e of their Names) never were, nor will yet be &s;atisfied. I will not put his Lord&s;hip in mind of the Court-Ladyes, &s;ince he doth not remember he &s;poke of them: But unle&s;s he make him&s;elf a <HI>Samuel,</HI> I do not know what authority he has to examine <HI>Saul,</HI> about the bleat|ing of the Cattel? I cannot believe his Lord&s;hip could have the heart, to &s;acrifice the faire&s;t of them; His Lord&s;hip may read in the &s;ame place, <HI>That Obedience is better than Sacrifice;</HI> but if a Sacrifice mu&s;t be made, <HI>It is not to the People, but to God and Justice.</HI> I would fain under&s;tand what is meant by the People? For now every man calls him&s;elf the People; and when one man calls for one Thing, and another for Something, directly oppo&s;ite, both cry out, that if this, or that be not done, the People is betrayed; that is to &s;ay, they will endeavour to per&s;wade them &s;o. But the People in this Speech, hath a &s;trange Dialect, &s;uch as I hope, no <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Man under&s;tands; <HI>Must,</HI> was never the Language of a good Subject, nor Sub|mis&s;ion the part of a King; (<HI>We must,</HI> &amp;c. and no new Converts) I am &s;orry, that with all our Zeal, we are &s;o unkind to <HI>Pro&s;ylites,</HI> we had a greater value for them not long &s;ince; for though <HI>L. B.</HI> was accu&s;ed of the Plot, his Conver&s;ion &s;ecured him without a Pardon, though either his Lord&s;hip was deeply guilty, or the Kings Evidence gro&s;&s;ely perjured. Till the Author di&s;cover who he means by <HI>Sempronia,</HI> I &s;hall not tell him who I believe to be as bad as <HI>Catiline.</HI> But it is prodigious, that while we are frighted with Bugbeares of invi&s;ible Di&s;pen&s;ations from the Pope, his Lord&s;hip with his arbitrary <HI>Mu&s;t,</HI> &s;hould di&s;|pen&s;e at once, with the Law of God, as to the Queen; with the Law of Nations, as to forraign Mini&s;ters; with the Laws of Ho&s;pitality, as to Strangers, and all that part of the Oath of Allegiance, that concerns the Heir of the Crown, which is equal|ly binding with the re&s;t, to all who&s;e &s;u&s;pected hone&s;ty cannot accept of &s;uch an Arbitrary Di&s;pen&s;ation. His Lord&s;hip &s;eems much concerned to hear of a Bargain between the King and the Hou&s;e of Commons; and &s;o am I, for things are too ripe for mi&s;chief, when Subjects are permitted to capitulate with their Soveraign. The Kings Subjects (by His permis&s;ion) have made Capitulations with forraign Princes; but his Lord&s;hip would not have the King &s;o far tru&s;ted, as that His own Subjects may Capi|tulate with him, becau&s;e as his Lord&s;hip &s;ays, he has &s;o often deceived (that hard Word) <HI>the People.</HI> And I beg leave to u&s;e the &s;ame expres&s;ion of His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> patience, which his Lord&s;hip u&s;es of his little care of his Per&s;on, That no Story affords a parallel of him. The actings of the Duke are indeed admirable to all, but incomprehen&s;ible to &s;uch as have not the true Principles of Loy|alty rooted in them. But his Lord&s;hip (who in <HI>Cromwel's</HI> time was much better acquainted with what pa&s;t at <HI>London,</HI> then at <HI>Bruxells</HI>) avers, That the Duke had an early aim at the Crown, before the Kings Re&s;tauration; this is a high Charge, and ought to be better proved than by a bare a&s;&s;ertion: Hath his Lord&s;hip any Letters to produce from His <HI>Royal Highne&s;s</HI> to Him&s;elf, or any other chief <HI>Mini&s;ter of the &V;&s;urpers?</HI> Or to what Crown could the Duke pretend, when they had robbed the King of His own? The Duke can &s;how undenyable proofs of his Allegeance, even in tho&s;e days; For what could an exiled Prince do more, than leave the great Commands, and Pen&s;ions that he had abroad, and all the advantages that his Birth, his Courage and his Reputation promi&s;ed him, to follow the Fortune, and the Wants of His <HI>Maje&s;ty?</HI> But how will his Lord&s;hip make out, that after the Match with a <HI>Portugal</HI> Lady (for that is the only Title his Lord&s;hip allows the Queen) The Duke and his Party made Proclamation to the World, that We were like to have no Children, and he mu&s;t be the Certain Heir; Where is the World? and where is the Proclamati|on? He &s;ayes the Duke took his Seat in Parliament, as Prince of <HI>Wales;</HI> but his Lord&s;hip knows, that the Seat on the Right Hand of the State, was, and is re&s;erved for the Prince of <HI>Wales,</HI> The Duke took that on the Left Hand; the Printed Pictures of the Hou&s;e of Peers, &s;itting upon the Tryal of the Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI> &s;how, that this is no Innovation; And His <HI>Royal Highne&s;s</HI> had the &s;ame Seat, when the King, His Father Called the Parliament at <HI>Oxford.</HI> He urges, That the Duke had his Guards about him, up|on the &s;ame Floor with the King, and &s;o the King was every Night in his Power; It was a timerous ambition that lo&s;t &s;o many opportunities. But what an Impudence is this? The Duke never had Guards; they are the Kings, the King pays them, they wait in their turn upon the King, and have but the Name of the Duke, as the Foot-Regiments have of Collonel <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> and my Lord <HI>Craven;</HI> So the Duke was every Night in the Kings Power. Next he fires his greate&s;t Guns, <HI>The Duke is plain|ly the Head of the Plot;</HI> By who&s;e evidence? Long before the Duke was Named&punc; Mr. <HI>Oats</HI> declared to the Lords, that he had no more to accu&s;e; If he accu&s;e him now, and <HI>Oats</HI> be divided again&s;t <HI>Oats,</HI> how can his Te&s;timony &s;tand good? <HI>Bed|low</HI> &s;aid as much; and here appears no Evidence, where the greate&s;t would be little enough. I &s;ay nothing of a <HI>Presbyterian Plot;</HI> but (with his Lord&s;hips leave) what has been, may be. The Calling, the Proroguing, and the Di&s;&s;olving of Parliaments, are &s;o ab&s;olutely in the King, that they ought to be Riddles to a Subject. When the Duke was Commanded to leave the King|dom, I appeal to all the World, how readily, how Submis&s;ively, he obeyed; and comparing his immediate Obedience, with the ob&s;tinate Refu&s;al of others, who &s;till &s;tay in oppo&s;ition to the Kings Commands, let any Impartial man of Sen&s;e decide, which has &s;hewed mo&s;t Loyalty and Duty. His Lord&s;hip and his Party (for he &s;ays, <HI>We</HI>) expect every hour, that the Court &s;hould joyn with the Duke, again&s;t them; but I find, <HI>the Court</HI> is as hard a Word, as <HI>the People,</HI> and as boldly, and as odly u&s;ed; If by that Word, he means the King, all his Lord&s;hips Rhetorick will &s;carce per&s;wade us, that the King &s;hould Con&s;pire with the Duke, again&s;t His own Crown, and His own Life; If not, what can the Court do without the King, and again&s;t the Nati|on? Be&s;ides, his Lord&s;hip has too many Friends among the Courtiers, to &s;u&s;pect them; and the Duke has met with too much Ingratitude, to tru&s;t them. His Lord&s;hip avers as truely, that the King has declared the Duke to be dangerous; as, That His <HI>Roy|al Highne&s;s</HI> is now rai&s;ing men in <HI>Scotland,</HI> that whole Council, that whole Kingdom, will di&s;prove Him; And by the apparent fal&s;hood of this A&s;&s;ertion, let all men judge of the Truth of the re&s;t. If the Arms, the Gari&s;ons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> be in &s;uch hands as the King thinks &s;afe, We are &s;afe too; But if not, it concerns His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> to &s;ecure them, &s;ince his Lord&s;hip declares, the King is to be tru&s;ted with nothing, till he has Re&s;igned Him&s;elf to his Lord&s;hip, and his Party, and is wholly theirs; and yet then too, He mu&s;t tru&s;t their good Nature, and Surrender upon Di&s;cretion; They will allow Him no other Terms, no, not to be Him&s;elf, and have His Sen&s;es, unle&s;s they can fright Him out of them. <HI>I will yet charitably hope, that the pretended Author is abu&s;ed; It concerns him to vindicate him&s;elf, by wi&s;hing, as I do, That the true Author may have the &s;ame Fate, that his Speech had, by order of the Hou&s;e of</HI></P>
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