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<HEAD>A REFUTATION Of a fal&s;e and Impious A&s;per&s;ion ca&s;t on the late Lord <HI>COTTINGTON,</HI></HEAD>
<BYLINE>by the Writer of the <HI>Popi&s;h Currant.</HI></BYLINE>
<P>THe Petty Scribler of Popi&s;h lyes in his Sacrilegious Libell, call'd, <HI>The Popi&s;h Currant,</HI> &s;et forth on <HI>Friday</HI> the 18th. of <HI>Feb.</HI> having ca&s;t a fal&s;e and Impious Asper&s;ion on a Per&s;on of great worth and honour, many years &s;ince deceas d who&s;e mo&s;t &s;ignal &s;ervices to his K. and Country during the cour&s;e of his life, de&s;erv'd a mo&s;t grateful Remembrance, it has been thought fit to di&s;abu&s;e the Pub|lick by a plain Refutation of what is fal&s;ly charg'd upon him by this Impo&s;tor.</P>
<P>He &s;ays in the fir&s;t Page of that Popi&s;h Currant, that it s a certain truth which he is ready to Ju&s;tifie to the Teeth of any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ory Cavillers, (for &s;o he calls all tho&s;e that que&s;tion the truth of his malicious Impo&s;tures) <HI>That the Lord</HI> Cottington <HI>dying at</HI> Valladolid <HI>in</HI> Spain, <HI>by his Will ordered his Corps to be for the then pre&s;ent buryed in the Je&s;uits Colledge there, but on con|dition that it &s;hould be tran&s;mitted into</HI> England <HI>as &s;oon as Popery &s;hould be there &s;etled.</HI></P>
<P>To &s;atisfie the publick of what is truth, in this A&s;&s;ertion they are here|by made acquainted that the Lord <HI>Cottington's</HI> Will which he made at <HI>Valladolid,</HI> was brought over into <HI>England</HI> &s;hortly after his Decea&s;e by &s;ome of his Servants, and was prov'd and entred in the Prerogative Office in the month of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1666. where any man may &s;ee it that plea&s;e; in which Will the whole clau&s;e relating to the di&s;po&s;all of his body, is word for word, as follows.</P>
<P><HI>I Order when it plea&s;eth the Almighty God to take me out of this pre&s;ent world, that my body be buried and depo&s;ited in the Engli&s;h Colledge Church of this City, in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chappell and place where my Executors plea&s;e to di&s;po&s;e it, till it plea&s;e the Almighty God to &s;ettle the differences of the Kingdom of</HI> England, <HI>that my Nephews and Executors in due time may have it remov'd thither.</HI></P>
<P>And this is the whole truth and nothing but the truth of the Lord <HI>Cottingtons La&s;t,</HI> and only Will and Te&s;tament at <HI>Valadolid</HI> for the di&s;po&s;al of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> body, as is ready to be ju&s;tified to the Teeth of any impudent Im|po&s;tor that dares que&s;tion it.</P>
<P>As to the Spani&s;h In&s;cription which he &s;ays was on the Lord <HI>Cottingtons</HI> Tomb at <HI>Valladolid,</HI> (though in truth he had no Tomb there) on which the Libellour &s;eems to have grounded his Pre&s;umption for its being that Lords Will to have his Corps tran&s;mitted into <HI>England</HI> as &s;oon as Popery &s;hould be there &s;etled: I &s;ay in ca&s;e there were &s;uch an In&s;cription on a Wall there near the place where his Corps was buried, and that this were a true Copy of it (concerning the truth of which I &s;hall not trouble my &s;elf to enquire) it plainly appears by the many Errors commited in it, that it was written by rote and without any due attention to the truth of what is
<PB REF="2">&s;aid &amp; the Libellour who is free enough to que&s;tion the truth of the Titles and Offices there given him, had he been ingenious might have &s;u&s;pected as well the truth of what is there &s;aid to be his Will concerning the di&s;|po&s;all of his body, and might have &s;earch'd the proper Office, where his true Will was to be found.</P>
<P>Any man of a Candid di&s;po&s;ition having &s;een the carele&s;s wording of that Spani&s;h In&s;cription, would have given at lea&s;t this Candid Interpre|tation of it, that the Fathers there looking upon it as an Honour to their Chappel to have a Per&s;on of his quality there inter'd, thought fit whil&s;t his Corps continued in it to have his Memory pre&s;erv'd by &s;ome In&s;cription, and not minding any accura&s;y in &s;etting down his Honourary Titles, and probably not having &s;een his Will, but hearing &s;omething confu&s;edly of it, or at lea&s;t not minding the Exact words of it for the Future di&s;po&s;all of his body when they read i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, they &s;et up this general Character of him, which being in a Forraign Countrey, and his Corps being not to be con|tinued there, they thought needed not any great Exactne&s;s.</P>
<P>In the mean time it &s;eems &s;omewhat &s;trange that this Popi&s;h Libellour who thinks it unrea&s;onable that a true Prote&s;tant as him&s;elf &s;hould give the lea&s;t credit either to the living Oaths or dying Prote&s;tations, if any Je&s;uit or Papi&s;t &s;hould build &s;o much on a Triviall In&s;cription written by &s;ome &s;uch on a Wall at Randome as to think it a mo&s;t convincing Argu|ment (as he calls it) of the certainty of the Plot.</P>
<P>Another thing which weig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s much with this Popi&s;h writer is that this body was not brought over till &s;omewhat near the time of the di&s;covery of the Plot. <HI>To this its An&s;wer'd.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> a thing well known to hundreds of Gentlemen and Per&s;ons of Honour who have been acquainted with that Family, that they have con|&s;tantly a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all times declar'd &s;ince his Maje&s;ties Re&s;tauration that it was the Will of the Lord <HI>Cottington</HI> that his body &s;hould be brought over upon their being inve&s;ted in his E&s;tate, and that the thing has been often de&s;ign'd though &s;till delay'd till the Year 78.</P>
<P>Secondly, If a Rea&s;on be de&s;ired for the delay, you may con&s;ider of what follows.</P>
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<ITEM>1. After his Maje&s;ties Re&s;tauration, and that Family's being inve&s;ted in the Lord <HI>Cottington's</HI> E&s;tate there were con&s;iderable Summs of Moneys to be rai&s;ed to pay the &s;aid Lords Debts, <HI>which</HI> could not conveniently be done under &s;ome years time.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. There happen'd after that an unhappy difference betwixt the Father Sr. <HI>Francis Cottington</HI> and his Elde&s;t Son, which la&s;ted &s;ome years.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That being ended the Son was willing to &s;ettle him&s;elf in the world by match before he would re&s;olve of &s;ending for his Uncle's body, and being at length happily &s;etl'd in the State of Marriage, he did not Enjoy it long e're he dyed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. As for the pre&s;ent Gentleman who is the Soul &s;urviving Heir of the Family, its well known under what unfortunate Circum&s;tances he has layen for the&s;e many years pa&s;t, and is &s;till, notwith&s;tanding which he at length con&s;idering him&s;elf the la&s;t of his Family, and being without any po&s;&s;ibility of I&s;&s;ue (unle&s;s his Sacred Maje&s;ty comi&s;erating his condition &s;hall at &s;ome time plea&s;e to grant him a Commi&s;&s;ion of Review for the re|hearing of his cau&s;e, a gracious favour which many able Divines and Civi|lians conceive very rea&s;onable to be granted) and being therefore de&s;irous to &s;ee his Uncles Will fulfill'd before his death; he came to a re&s;olve to
<PB REF="2">pay this Pious Devoir to his decea&s;ed Anche&s;ter, and lent for his body accordingly, which being done &s;o many Months before the di&s;covery of the Plot, I wonder whence this Libellour concludes it to have any Relation to it, or what imaginable Rea&s;on he conceives this Gentleman &s;hould have for Anticipating his Uncles Will, if it had been as he from the Spa|ni&s;h In&s;cription concludes it, for can any man imagine if &s;uch an Execrable de&s;ign as is &s;worn by the Kings Evidence had been Executed, but there would have followed great Tumults in the Nation, and is it not Obvious to all men that no time could be proper for bringing over a body in &s;uch an account but when all Tumults were appeas'd.</ITEM>
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<P>Again I would ask any rationall man whether he thinks it not naturally probable that any Noble man of <HI>England,</HI> Papi&s;t or Prote&s;tant dying beyond the Seas, would order in his Will that his body &s;hould be brought over and inter'd in <HI>England</HI> whether the Catholick Religion were e&s;tabli&s;h't here or not, and whether it be not a thing generally done.</P>
<P>As to the Libellous Reflections on the Earl of <HI>Danby</HI> for &s;ending his Warrant to the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e for permitting the <HI>Lord Cottingtons</HI> bones to be landed without paying duty &amp; &s;o <HI>defrauding the</HI> King of his Rights; I only An&s;wer that I do not doubt but his Maje&s;ty is well &s;atisfied how tender this Libellour is of his Rights: in the m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> time if his Maje&s;ty plea&s;e to remit the duty payable for landing a Corps, e&s;pe|cially this being the Relict of a per&s;on who faithfully &s;erv'd him, lo&s;t his E&s;tate, and dyed in Exile for him; I hope no good Subject has cau&s;e to complain.</P>
<P>When this Libellour &s;ays that the Lord <HI>Cottington</HI> was que&s;tion'd by Parliament, I know not what Parliament he means, unle&s;s it be the infernal Rump, (an hone&s;t Parliament I no way doubt to the Humour of this &s;edi|tious Scribler) who gave this Lords E&s;tate to <HI>Brad&s;haw</HI> for his Sacrilegious pre&s;umption in pa&s;&s;ing that Execrable Sentence of death on his dread Soveraign.</P>
<P>If it be true what this Popi&s;h writer &s;ayes that the Lord <HI>Cottington</HI> dyed of the Roman Faith, its no great wonder, if when having before his Eyes the perfidius dealing of the u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">aturall Subjects of <HI>England</HI> with their Soveraign, and finding more In<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">egrity among&s;t the <HI>Spaniards</HI> with whom he had long Conver&s;t, he became at length of their Religion: though the Libellour is impiou&s;ly Injurious to him in this that he calls him a noto|rious Ma&s;queraded Prote&s;tant here, for its well known that he continued a Prote&s;tant for many year after his Exile in <HI>Spain,</HI> and did not become Catholick <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ome &s;hort time before his death, after he had &s;een a Con&s;umation of Malice in the Kings Enemies, and the true Prote&s;tant Church here u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erly &s;ubver ed.</P>
<P>To conclude, I cannot but take notice of this Fellows vilifying contempt of Honourary <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">itles, confer'd on Per&s;ons of de&s;ert by their Soveraign; he calling the Lord <HI>Cottingtons</HI> Titles in the Spani&s;h In&s;cription, <HI>Rhadomontado</HI> Titles and Offices that perhaps never belong'd to him: I mu&s;t confe&s;s there are many Errours in that In&s;cription, but I mu&s;t tell this impudent Scribler (he mu&s;t pardon my Expre&s;&s;ions) if he &s;pent &s;ome time in reading the worthy Hi&s;torians of our Age who record the memorable things of great men, as he &s;pends a good part of his life in reading glo&s;&s;ing and commenting upon the Old Golden <HI>Legend,</HI> (a Book look'd upon by the Papi&s;ts them|&s;elves
<PB REF="3" MS="y">as three Forms below the Story of <HI>Tom Thumb</HI>) he would find that the Lord <HI>Cottington</HI> was Baron <HI>Cottington</HI> of <HI>Hanworth,</HI> and that in his late Maje&s;ties Reign he was Chance<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lour of his Maje&s;ties Exchequer, ma&s;ter of his Court of Wards, Con&s;table of the Tower, Lord High Trea&s;urer of <HI>England,</HI> and one of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t honourable Privy Councill, that he was twice Amba&s;&s;ador in <HI>Spain,</HI> once for the &s;aid King, and a &s;econd time for his Sacred Maje&s;ty now Reigning; and he might read what worthy &s;ervices he did as well there as at home for their Maje&s;ties and the Nation, but its beneath this writer to take notice of any mans de&s;erts but his own, well then let him keep to his dear Legend, and by the continuance of his pretty Fables, let his writings de&s;erve the continuance of the Title lately given them of harmle&s;s innocent Papers, as he &s;hall have my Vote for being as great an Innocent as any in the Nation, and &s;o let him accompli&s;h the third Vollume for&s;ooth, of his Incomparable Hi&s;tory. And if in the plain way of a C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;tian he can at any time make a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y &s;ub&s;tan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iall di&s;covery of a Plot contriv'd either by the Papi&s;ts or any el&s;e a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ain&s;t our Sacred King and Government, let him be accur&s;t who does not afford him his helping hand in it, and embrace him as a Brother for &s;o doing; but for him to be &s;o very po&s;itive in a&s;&s;erting an impious untruth reflecting on the dead who&s;e A&s;hes oug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> to be &s;acred, and vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ifying per&s;ons of Honour, which afterwards mu&s;t &s;hame <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ly be recanted, it &s;hews nothing of a Chri&s;tian, or of a man of any moral hone&s;ty, if it was only a heedle&s;s mi&s;take in him and not a Volun|tary Impo&s;ture, I hope when he has &s;een this Paper <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e will own it to the world a &s;o; when the Kings Evidence has read this I doubt he will lo&s;e their thanks for his Corroborative, the main ingredient of a good Corro|borative, hone&s;t truth, being here wanting had he only with Candour Related matter of Fact concerning the Spani&s;h In&s;cription, and left it to the Judgment of the world without his parergon of malicious in&s;inuations and other u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">chri&s;tianly Reflections he &s;hould have found nothing but matter of Fact Candidly re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urn'd in An&s;wer, but now, if he di&s;likes the name of Libel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our and the like, I appeal to the world whether he has not given the&s;e names to him&s;elf by what he has written, and <HI>I</HI> prote&s;t from my heart <HI>I</HI> hate to call any man out of his Name.</P>
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