They
arrested
all that were in debt to any of their party, &c.
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reply d with vety foul language, That bis brother shouldfit in the house in Jpite of the queen, and all the Jacobites in England, and even the king of France too.
Which words were taken in writing, to be prov'd when
there is occafion.
Thus the letter. I have set down names at length, with
time and. place, to give all room that may be for a disproof; our cause having no need of invention, or any indirect methods.
There is anothery? ary agrees with this, which I have attest ed under the hands of two witnesses, and more may be had) that the notorious Mr. Rob. Mead in Theviej-Jnn cefee
ls
colours were expos'd,
am with a (as told)
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in Holhorn, the day before he went down to the I
house
Ailsbury election, faid,
Iwill make the
thous ashamd of what they have done.
last house of comtil And a gentleman
asking him whether Mr. Harcourt was likely to come in t
at Ail/bury, answer'd, No boys ! •we'll fendyou Mr. Meyne, TM the sou of me of the glorious ludges -asking Charles tit
First.
The same word runs thro' the forty. Now think of
what I told you before, of some body's •white neck, and then judge whether, if it be past 1 2 o'clock with the mitre, it is not, in these men's opinion, hear fun-set with the crown? when besides their hearts boiling over in their
words, they dare expose the crown pubHckly as tumbled down, with the heels upmost, under the arms of the com
monwealth; and this in the market-place, in so great a concourse of people of all ranks as appear at an eleSion.
Many towns have been disfranchis'd for less insolence than this, un-reprov^d, un-punisFd, and therefore we must suppose allow d of and encourag'd by the magistrates.
These are the saints (the vipers ) whom all the succeed ing kings since the royal martyr have warntd\ii their i»- foms ; and every one of them have been fiung by them.
These are the true penitents, and deserving all favour f who have taken such care to preserve these precious ri- licks of their rebellion and triumph over their martyr dso vereign, the scarfs and the standards, &c. bat have not
//ct/V to fjepo/e them till now
. now, but that they think their party so strong as not to 'beopfoo'd ; and therefore, that now is the time to hang out the flag of defiance, to encourage theirfriends, and dis pirit thejr enemies.
Their trumpeters have been employ'd ever since the revolution to sound an alarm against the church and the
succession, but have not appear'd so bare-fac d against the crown as wo w ; from what encouragement I will not exa mine. Thou gav'st warning to thy countrymen (Vol. 2. "if. to get themselves compleatly arm'd-, and to fhew in what cause they were to ^%Ær, thou nam'st the goad
protestant muskets, and basket hilt swords that were used
! nor durst have done it
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at Marston-Moor ^WEdge-Hill. Aud (Vol. 2. N. 89. ) thou justifies the murtber (or de-collation, as thou in sultingly call'st it) of king Charles I. and makes a jest of the cal<ues4>ead feasts . And no w y o u R banners are p. ub-
lickly display 'd at Sandwich ! your lie that perceives not, in the whole rraÆ «f
proceedings, a form'd to attack both the church and the monarchy, cannot see the woodfor trees.
O. This letter from Sandwich fays, that France
Hooke's appears to the cutting offthe bleffed martyr's head. Was he one of the king's judges, and then but a
Jhoe-maker ?
C. Why not as well as blind Hewfon the cobler ? but
he was got to be a colonel then. See what mechanicks that
revolution raised to be above the / bleffed reformation i
liberty ! and property !
But after the murtber of the Æ/*g-, there was an instru
ment fe^it thro' England for the saints to subscribe, wherein they own'd the legality of the soar/ ofjustice, and of their sentence against the ; that they might be
throughly guilty of his blood ; and that it might lie upon them and their children. Here it was that thisspare ofa
shew'd his zeals which you see continues hot and flaming unto this day ! and yet it is one of the cryers- tUt for MOdERATION.
A threatning moderation! with which most of their declamations for peace and union end. As the wea- tber-cock Review before nam'd concludes with a very in- Suu&iBg story of one Peter, who having got a fellow un der him, was boxing him. Thefellow cry'd out, pay me Peter, pay me Peter, ''twill be my turn by and by. And at last thefellow got Peter under him, and maul'd Peter to content. Then he makes his application to the church, in. the fame terrible words of his shortest way (he is still
fond of that performance ! ) of gallows and galleys ; he fays, Ifye willie mad, if ye will be all persecution, and
conformity or nothing must be the case, dragoon them into it at once, shew your selves fairly, set up the gallows and gal leys, fend the parents to gaol, and confiscate their estates,
shoe-maker
(4. )
N2 take
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take their children from them, and educate them isjw
Mil blessedprinciples, affront the queen, dispshve thesettle Ient, king and declare your minds. But thin
m
beseech
his fellow.
C. No, we will notforget it !
But there
thee. you Have
O. Yes.
further instruction in for let me ask not full and free toleration
restore James
you, gentlemen, do not forget the Peter and
ber d! Here we see what a character you draw of the thurch; and then what she is to expect at your hands next time you get into the saddle ! even the fame she met with before ! which you have described exactly. And this is a good argument not! ) for Peter to let that
fellow get up again We will not forget the story of Pe ter; we thank you for it.
story os
it is to be remem worthy
not confirm to
you
C.
can be given, that is, an act
by as great security as parliament
O. Yes, but may be repealed.
C. Can you have any greater security for that than the assurances from the queen, the lords, and the commons?
O. No Yes.
C. What dost mean
O. By no mean, that there no othersecurity can
yes mean, that there further security, and that we are not secure while we have a queen upon the throne whose heart entirely English, who has been educated from her
infancy in the church of England, and expects to save her soul in who has promised to support and maintain
and to transmit fasely secured and settled to posterity, and to bestow her favours chiefiy upon those who are most
zealous for it. And we doubt not she will be, in all these things, semper eadem.
We cannot be secure while we have bench of bishops and set of temporal lords as zealous for the church as her majesty.
be asked, or given as the cafe now stands. But
a
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While we have so many tackers and higb-fliers in the
house of commons, who are continually pressing for new se curities to the church.
C. They are not new, only to guard those fences that the law has already made for her security, which You have most jesuitically eluded.
0. I care not — new or old — 'tis security still, and that will never do our business. What! to have the church
fim'ilC. Then t\ie and
on't you can have over-turn' root tend and the mitre as well as the crown lie inverted and eclipsed under the shadow of the trunk-hose of your
(y. )
no security
short
till the government
long
branch
old puss
And till then all the indulgence and toleration can be
given you, till you can ask no more; and all the secu rity that in the power of the law or government to grant, cannot please you, nor fop your mouths from the
fry of persecution, dragooning, gallows, and galleys com ing upon you! This to enfiame the mob, and hinder all peace or union, while this government stands.
This
tmse. upon
the plain English on't, and the short issue of the Let any man in the world put other construction he can you have all that you can ask, or
the government grant yet, persecution persecution /——— That is, you think you cannot secure the share you
have the government, without gaining the w hole.
From
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From •f>at. May 26, to &at. June 2, iyoe. N° 44.
1 . The different virtues ofthose who are for and against the church, in the elections. 2. On which fide tbefi-
pists are. particularly
Abington.
3. 72s agreement 0/' whigs and didentas ; on Good- Friday at RatclifF-Cross and
4. The different appearance at elections.
An instance ofthat at Honiton. 5. Ofsplitting Free holds; and the remedy. 6. The behaviour os the quakers in the elections.
(1. ) Coun. f~T^HE present elections have silled both
town and country with multitude ofpam
JL
phlets and papers upon the occafion. Those against the
church and the crown have sll agreed to airy on a general cry, that the papists, &c. are on the side of the church. And this with nub, if believ'd, will determine the enusk at once ! whatever side the pepishes axe on mufi he naught The Review of the 1 9th last month, Vol. 2. N. is-ixf*, Ok which side shall the papists, the atheists, the DrUNKEN, SWEARING, and most vicious of the ptopl*
vote? .
Is by all mankind, and in every place in Englamo it it
not given against you, andproved, that ail these generally are for the high-church men, tackers, &C TU
for ever lay down this cause, and have not one word more to fay to it.
O. I fay the fame, and so we fay all ; and thou would'st
would'st thou
C. I'll cesire no fairer issue. Let the cause then be
termin'd this And to begin our reckoning give your list of any Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Jew or Gentile En gland, that not against the tackers, and the hill which they tacked.
Then for the other class of drunken, swearing, Sec. the . kit-cat for that. Can you shew such another virtuous cUi
disprove
it, is
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flui among the high-church? so pretty witty and pro- phane !
Who was it built the temple of Venus in Hay-Market f And who fung the /« P<ean at the dedication ?
Who go into churches, and tear and common-
prayer-books, pollute the ct//ar and pulpit, and sing /nW ye^fs to the people assembled for devotion ?
Are there any high-church-men, or any who •vote for tuckers, to be found among these sort of •virtuofoes ?
(2. ) O. We can dispense with all these ! they hurt not
oar cause ; but thou hast not faid a word of the papish, 1.
O these papishes ! They are all for your high-church and the tackers.
C. The quite contrary of which is the f>-«/£. I told thee before, Num. 42, that the papists in Snsfoli made all the interest they could against the tackers. They did the fame in Essex, in Lanc^Jhire, notoriously ; and I doubt not the like will be found in other places all over the kingdom. Can'st thou give any instance to the con trary ?
O. No, not I. Why? am I! bound tohunt upand down M sind instances far thee i but WI fay it f isn'tthat enough? our party can take our •word, like gentlemen,
without />nw/'.
($4 But thou deals, very jtfidticalfy in the argument
you biing as to ouk godbnefi f show speaks only of •£z'/- tat and the whigs, who tbo' at present cut dear confe derates, and ,/az'a/s (for wi must own none other) yet no body takes them fox extraordinary Christians! ' But what
fay'st thou as to our dissenter st there's' men of fbict lift, prohity, and every thing ! and it was of theft Review
meant to make the comparisim-wahjoar high-church-men,
in what thou hast quoted above. you C The comparison he, and the rest of
make upon this point of elections, is only as to the voters ; and therein vou have the whole body o£ •whigs, atheists, kit-cat and
all ! they're all on the side of the diffenters, and the pa pists too, as I have shew'd.
But when you're all together, and doing the fame N 4 thing.
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thing, who can distinguish you ? Which were the -whip, and which the dissenters, at the Sb/p-Tavem at Ratclif
last Good-Friday? of which I told thee before
N. 38.
Whkh were the wbigs, and which the dijsenters, the
fame Good Friday at Abington, when you were all beastly
drunk, about concerting your election there ? and in di stance of the day, got all the fiddles in town to glory in your delauch, and contempt of the passion of Christ, which the high-fiers were remembering at church, with fasting and prayer ; but the 7/•rio and Jews, the whigs and •i/- make it their trtating-day ! Whether can it be
Cross
fenters
more truly faid of the whig or the dissenter ?
Who with more care keep boly-diy
The wrong, than others the right way.
They're so very like one another, in all these things,
That put ,em in a bag, andshake 'cm,
Yourselfotb-sudden wouldmistake 'em.
(4. ) But there is another difference very observable 'twixt those that are for or against the tackers and higb-church. The former are attended to their election by the body of the
principal gentry, both for estates and reputation. The other by tag, rag, and long tail, the refuse and scum, the ta^i of the people. Every body took notice of this, almost in as/ the elections, especially for the counties ; and I believe
there are very sew exceptions as to the boroughs. I
could sill my papers with instances since the elections began ; I
told thee of a sew, Suffolk, Hertford, Coventry, Exeter, Honiton. And because thou did'ft sputter grievously about the last, and put it upon mob, that Sir John Elwill was affronted, and heads broken, upon his coming there to make interest for his election, I'll now tell thee how it
proceeded upon the election-day, which I have in a letter thence dated the I gth last month, from one present, acd concern'd in the election.
Thursday about 8 in the morning Sir John Elwill
'/
cam M horseback to our town, accompanied by about 200 burst
ti his
And now
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os allsorts, but I think there wcre not fix centlemen among them. About half an hour after came in Sir Wal
ter Young accompanied by several gentlemen and farmers of the neighbouring country. At nine came in Sir William
Dr a kb (•who was a tacker^ accompanied by all the
neighbouring GENTlEMEN and ClIrG Y, and near a thou sand horse. He was met at the end of the borough by the
•voteri who were sor him. They wcre led by the bailiff of the borough, with ten constables, who marched in order, with laurels in their hats, and tackers in gold letters. The
poilfor Sir William Drake was 256, for Sir Walter Younc z$6,for Sir John F. lwill i6z, for Capt. Blay--
Bon 164. Upon which all Sir John ElWlll's/rswwSr sneak'd away, not one of them being left to accompany him
a little
you to judge of their honesty by their actions. They brought
shew
of
their and leave dealings,
to be polsd several fellows from Oaters, Olscomb, Buckerel, Monton, Cotley, Branscomb, and'
other places, some of whose faces he employed to make ther return never saw before, with witnesses to prove their boil ing of the pot ; and threatened him, if he did not take their votes, to make him answer for itsomewhere else ; this was in my presence ; this 1 saw andheard. In short, there was not a dissenter in the parish but they brought within the borough ; and not one young fellow of 2 1 years of age, but they produc'd for votes, 20 shillings a vote was given, ar was prov'd at the poll, befides drink.
They arrested all that were in debt to any of their party, &c.
Thus the letter. And the like has been their practice in other places, which may be examin'd in a committee of elections.
O. But Review has observ'd, that those tackers who-
have carried their elections, have met with more than usual
difficulties, and carried it by a less majority than formerly, C. And yet those sew who lost poll'd more con
siderable numbers thanformerly.
O. That seems contradiction.
(5. ) C. Your godly deeds cNan explain dhiidin;
estates
it, by
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estates intosree-hJds of40/. only for the time ofelrjka^ and taking bonds of refignation, as you practise upon (flil
clergy. , where you have attvowfons. By this means-, mak J ing hundreds of the poor people forswear themselves. But they whoscruptc not at sacrilege, wirl never beggit at PERJURy.
But we may have lists printed ofthefree-Boldtrs in seve
ral counties, where this trick has been most practisU ; 1 whereby the nenx. ones will appear.
And if all these free-holds be consirm'd by aeJ aspar liament, and the sham-conditions voided, it will be a good bar for the future ; especially if they make the
qualification 1 o pounds at least, instead of 40 fallings ; and' if the house of commons throw out all who have come in by siich motes, which are declar'd to be void and of none ef
fect, by an act 7th and 8th of K. William.
.
if you a church of England oi
you have been baffled and exposed vtCt, till you are become
the contempt of the nation ; your impeachments are ajiyf/> I my self, John Tutchin, have stood it out bluff againft
all your prosecution, tho' the jury found' me guilty How many have you order to be prosecuted, for this and" /Æa/? and has one •uw•/beeir faid to any one of them They /«ajÆ at you, and despise you in every companyP Don't shew your teeth more, till you can bite. '
(6. ) The very quakers, like rats, have quit falling; house. brag and of them in mine of 26 last month*
Vol. N. 16. The whole body of them have appeared,
every where, on our side, against the church, ar these
elections and to Ihew their integrity beyond the corrupt tion of bribes, they threw out, by their mates, the very man who brought the bill to make them peers, to have
their aff,rmation equivalent to the oaths of other plebeians. C. No other return has the church met with, or can.
ever expect* for the favours fhe shews to any of you Ms1 senters,\vho are her sworn enemies principle and inclination,
tho' you one another, as the quakers were served• New-
O. Ay
get
com
? and looft inta
!
mons, you'll reform matters !
will
house
ye
past miscarriages ! I thought you had' had enough of that f
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h civ-England, when my sort of you have the power i and tho' the quakers complained heavily ofpersecution, in your reign before the rejiauration, 1660, and their pro-, fhets, particularly James Nay lor, was then bord thro' the tongue and set in the pillory ; yet all these things, and all things possible, cannot alter the nature of the beast. Dis senters, of all forts, will ever bandy against the church-, is-HerodmA Pontius Pilate agreed against her mafier.
And if the church carmot stand upon her own legs, and be supported, under God, by her truesons who love and reverence her ; she will find the help ofwhigs, dissenters, and occafional conformists, what a great man very appo-
fitly term'd it,
A wooden leg.
The letter from. Ipswich in last Obser•vator will be spoke to in my next. In the mean time the Observator is de-. sired to name his nine baronets, &e. it being no prejudice to them, and the fact is denied by eye witnesses ; as also that there were not ;o clergy who poWd, as that letter fays, for it is still insisted upon, that they were 200, and the poll-books are appeal'd to.
Note, The truth of the advertisement concerning S. H. . . Ash — t N. 42 requires, as I'm told, further consirma tion, which shall be done in my next, and justice done to S. H.
.
From §>QL June 2, to &at. June 9, 1 70? . N° 45
l. Concerning Sir H. Ash—— t. 2. Of the letter from . Ipswich, j. Of the weather-cock at Oxford. 4. The Observator's story from Northampton confuted.
5. Down with the church at Chester. 6. The peace able election at Exeter. '
(1. ) Coun. ' I "'HE following paper I received from a X friend, on the behalf of Sir H. /sh—t, with a desire it might be inserted in the Rehearsal. The
;
paper is as follows,
N 6 Whereat.
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Whereas in my saper on igth instant, I inserted an ad vertisement, that it was not Sir W. Jsh t, but Sir H. Ajb 1 thatsent a message to Mr. Vaudre, that it
was past 12 a clock with the church of England, lSe. 1 am fince by credible persons inform' d that it was a mistake, and that Sir H. Ash / never (aw Mr. Vaudre in his life, nor never wrote nor received any letter from him ; nor never had any communication with him whatsoever. So as to its relating to Sir H. Ajb t, it needs further
confirmation, I have spoke to my friend to write to his correspondent in the country, to know whether he will stand to the account he has already sent, and to make diligent inquiry if there is any mistake in the matter. If this comes in time, it shall be inserted in this. Ifnot, as soon as I get it : which I think is doing justice, upon the square, to both sides.
(2. ) O. Come now perform what thon promis'd'st i» thy last, to fay some more to my letter from Ifswicb.
C. I have put the proof upon you, to name the nine baronets Sec. that accompany d your 2 candidates into the town. And for the poil of the clergy, I have appeal'd
to the poil books. L—y was not at O. But my letter fays, that Mr.
the election.
C. And my letter did not fay he was. You will still
mistake the matter ; that you may seem to confute some
body f
O. But what fay'st thou to my noble defence of Sir
confirmation.
Thus that safer word for word. And for the further
Dudly Cullum and Sir Samuel Barnardiston, against thy
tmfudent lying and standering them !
C. Nameany orstander have faid ofthem else
thou art the imfudent i. yer andstanderer. have given no charafier at all of them, nor faid word of them,
but that they were candidates at that election, and had the iotes of the whigs and dissenters: if thou rec- kon'st that ascandal have not yet learn of tbee,
the' have converst long with thetf. to cast fersattal re~
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277 in hand ; and throw Billingsgate at gentlemen, to bespatter and dirty all
efleffimts, which concern not the cause
come near. To call i
To ridicule a great general, with fine clade and riding in
great lady AwitchaxuL Proserpina.
triumph over his q n. And then as servilely flatter him, when he was a victor, and accuse others (tho' fair ly) for giving bad words to him : as thou did'st in thine of last April 14. Vol. 4. N. 4. of the Suffolk gentlemen :
which was an errant lye: and thou art provok'd to prove it. How didst thou throw most villanousty and falsely at Sir George Rook, and plaid'st Sir Cloudefly Shovel against him. Now tho' I vindicated Sir George, even to demonstration,
and to stop all reply (but not thy foul mouth) yet thy ex ample cou'd not tempt me to fay the least reflecling word upon Sir Cloudejly ; but rather to vindicate him too from
the scandal of being ctmmendedby thee, and such injuri ous use made of his name, to blacken his friend and ad miral Sir George Rook.
• Thy way and mine, Bayes, are very different. I have been taught that scandal is a great jin ; nay even, uncha ritable truths j where the endof telling is to expose, and
not to amend. And I believe thou can'st not charge me with refletJing upon any man, otherwise than to disco
ver his principle. No personal vices or immoralities concern not the matter in dispute, but merely to throw dirt upon the person : This is wicked ; and thy daily
fraflice. Nay, even to invent lyes ; and when disprov'd, to repeat them over again and again, instead of retrac
ing, or making reparation. This is the very spirit of the devil, the accuser of the brethren.
(3)0. Come, leave off thy preaching, and answer to die charge against thee in the Review of the 3 1 st M^ji last. Vol. 2. N. 38. concerning the weather-cock at Oxford.
C 111 not answer //5>ff.
such foul language as thou hast : and has more
And I will give all encouragement to get out of sense.
I'll
answer him. He has not
it
Therefore I fay to the Review, that without examining
hills and and finks,
sight
upon
I will take that story as he tells vi2. that was the-
2.
work
fair dung ground.
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workman who
under the -weather-cock on Met ton- college. And it was innocently as well as ignorantly done of the workman.
For as the Review tells, it was usual at Merton-collcge (as
well as other places) to have the kings-arms upon the fanes of the buildings. There was on one fane the arms
of king Charles, with the usual motto. On another the arms of king #7//. with je maintiendray, which he used instead of Dieu & man droii. And a new fane being to> be set up, in the room of one was broke, h was thought
proper to have the queen's arms upon, it- And why not
her motto as well as the rest! Wau-'d it have been any re flection upon, queen Elizabeth, who sirst us'd that motto,. to have semper eadem put under he; arms, tho' upon at
weather-cock? However, to take away all occasion (and. we see now there was reason) that motto was taken away ;. and the sane set up without it
Now the Re•view quoted in the Rehearsal, N. 43^
charges the gentlemen of' Oxford with putting up the semper eadem- Sec. when it was not put up. And by the.
ftory, as he now tells he must know to be so.
But suppose had been set up, which, as have
faid, might have been done very innocently what reason
had the Review to call this an emblem at device
at such, reflection upon the college, as being reflection. upon her majesty leave to every body, whethec the maker of such an application, not the author of
the /caudal?
And then may not afle what reason die Review had
to give very hard character of the Rehearsal, as tOi call him equally olj}h:œte (even with the Obscriator) i*
ignorantly put that motto of semper eadim
When he advanc'd nothing; at all he only took quotation out of the Review. Andt added letter from; Oxford which deny'd the fact. And
left the Review to search into that the best manner he eou'd. The Review and not the Rehearsal was the iroach- er of the slory. But Fll return no hard words.
(4) But now we are upon stories, desire theeto give an account of what thou teWfthsxn. Northampton thine
advancing pofitive falshaod?
and,
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oflast. M«j/ gith. V»k 4. N. ip. where thou foerit'sti of
a coffee-house (meaning Mrs. Laforcers) frequented), as- thou fay'ft, byjacohites and tackers, but were especially the
Am is- am errant lye, whieh- 1 have in a letter from art
unquestionable hand at Northampton, dated last May 24th.
Black-robe;
who left a ratf treat was provided for them on the 33d of last, because the news came of
am to telf thee, that
the French feet being beat:. Now I
Which fays, that there was but- one person in Mrs. La-
po&ce's coffee-house- that night, andhea whig ; se
veral clergy aW sestlbmJN herfriends, being at the
Rose Crown that night to drink the qvwnCi- health,
being the day of her coronation, by an appointment
made the 6th of Feb. last, being the day of her birth, Sir William Wheeler, an honest gentleman^ cameintohA- forge's coffee-house on Tuesday last, andsaid, that Sir
William Craven tola* him (Isuppose on the authority, of
the ObservatorJ of several gentlemen leaving their treat, at La force's, on the- news of the FRENCH' being;
beat, as before. The ObsErvato* fays, the woman mar-
rieda Frenchman (infinuating, by her lately goingfime- times to ch-urch) a papist; tho' ,tis well known her
husband was a hugonot. The Observator wou'csivstnuate ae if only very mean people came to her house ; tho' the present knights, most- of the GB. NTlEMEN, and! believe three parts' of Mr clergy in this county was at her'
house this election; and'I'believe at'no other' coffee
house, unless it were ta enquire for somebody they want ed. 1 believe she took more money than all the other three
COFFEE-HOUSES.
Thus fays theletter. And tho' the story seems of no
great consequence in- it self, yet these are the inferences- thou wou'dst draw from it. tst. To represent the clergy
and gentry as disaffected to" the queen and government ; and in the interest of France, idly. To shew the hu , wear of the people so averse to. the church and the tochers, that the coffee-house which they frequented, ,w&S'de/frtcd- by all others. And ^dly, that those in the interest of the
(hurch were fofew, azs not to be able to support one , - coffee
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coffee-house. And we sind this malicious story was le- lirvd, at least reported, by others, upon the creeBt of
For which reason, I have taken this
paint to dete8 it. But the eleclion in Northampton which
follow'd, wherein trut churchmen were chosen i is a fuD
confutation of all that this story was contriv'd to sug
gest. And shews, that the malice and industry of a certain
/or/y is indefatigable I
( 5 . ) But their W/boil'd over upon the county election
at Chester ! where upon their carrying the election (by
what means I leave to the committee of elections
cou'd not contain their joy, nor conceal their
rryV ca/, Down with the church! Nb church!
there is occafion.
Thus the letter. I have set down names at length, with
time and. place, to give all room that may be for a disproof; our cause having no need of invention, or any indirect methods.
There is anothery? ary agrees with this, which I have attest ed under the hands of two witnesses, and more may be had) that the notorious Mr. Rob. Mead in Theviej-Jnn cefee
ls
colours were expos'd,
am with a (as told)
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in Holhorn, the day before he went down to the I
house
Ailsbury election, faid,
Iwill make the
thous ashamd of what they have done.
last house of comtil And a gentleman
asking him whether Mr. Harcourt was likely to come in t
at Ail/bury, answer'd, No boys ! •we'll fendyou Mr. Meyne, TM the sou of me of the glorious ludges -asking Charles tit
First.
The same word runs thro' the forty. Now think of
what I told you before, of some body's •white neck, and then judge whether, if it be past 1 2 o'clock with the mitre, it is not, in these men's opinion, hear fun-set with the crown? when besides their hearts boiling over in their
words, they dare expose the crown pubHckly as tumbled down, with the heels upmost, under the arms of the com
monwealth; and this in the market-place, in so great a concourse of people of all ranks as appear at an eleSion.
Many towns have been disfranchis'd for less insolence than this, un-reprov^d, un-punisFd, and therefore we must suppose allow d of and encourag'd by the magistrates.
These are the saints (the vipers ) whom all the succeed ing kings since the royal martyr have warntd\ii their i»- foms ; and every one of them have been fiung by them.
These are the true penitents, and deserving all favour f who have taken such care to preserve these precious ri- licks of their rebellion and triumph over their martyr dso vereign, the scarfs and the standards, &c. bat have not
//ct/V to fjepo/e them till now
. now, but that they think their party so strong as not to 'beopfoo'd ; and therefore, that now is the time to hang out the flag of defiance, to encourage theirfriends, and dis pirit thejr enemies.
Their trumpeters have been employ'd ever since the revolution to sound an alarm against the church and the
succession, but have not appear'd so bare-fac d against the crown as wo w ; from what encouragement I will not exa mine. Thou gav'st warning to thy countrymen (Vol. 2. "if. to get themselves compleatly arm'd-, and to fhew in what cause they were to ^%Ær, thou nam'st the goad
protestant muskets, and basket hilt swords that were used
! nor durst have done it
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at Marston-Moor ^WEdge-Hill. Aud (Vol. 2. N. 89. ) thou justifies the murtber (or de-collation, as thou in sultingly call'st it) of king Charles I. and makes a jest of the cal<ues4>ead feasts . And no w y o u R banners are p. ub-
lickly display 'd at Sandwich ! your lie that perceives not, in the whole rraÆ «f
proceedings, a form'd to attack both the church and the monarchy, cannot see the woodfor trees.
O. This letter from Sandwich fays, that France
Hooke's appears to the cutting offthe bleffed martyr's head. Was he one of the king's judges, and then but a
Jhoe-maker ?
C. Why not as well as blind Hewfon the cobler ? but
he was got to be a colonel then. See what mechanicks that
revolution raised to be above the / bleffed reformation i
liberty ! and property !
But after the murtber of the Æ/*g-, there was an instru
ment fe^it thro' England for the saints to subscribe, wherein they own'd the legality of the soar/ ofjustice, and of their sentence against the ; that they might be
throughly guilty of his blood ; and that it might lie upon them and their children. Here it was that thisspare ofa
shew'd his zeals which you see continues hot and flaming unto this day ! and yet it is one of the cryers- tUt for MOdERATION.
A threatning moderation! with which most of their declamations for peace and union end. As the wea- tber-cock Review before nam'd concludes with a very in- Suu&iBg story of one Peter, who having got a fellow un der him, was boxing him. Thefellow cry'd out, pay me Peter, pay me Peter, ''twill be my turn by and by. And at last thefellow got Peter under him, and maul'd Peter to content. Then he makes his application to the church, in. the fame terrible words of his shortest way (he is still
fond of that performance ! ) of gallows and galleys ; he fays, Ifye willie mad, if ye will be all persecution, and
conformity or nothing must be the case, dragoon them into it at once, shew your selves fairly, set up the gallows and gal leys, fend the parents to gaol, and confiscate their estates,
shoe-maker
(4. )
N2 take
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take their children from them, and educate them isjw
Mil blessedprinciples, affront the queen, dispshve thesettle Ient, king and declare your minds. But thin
m
beseech
his fellow.
C. No, we will notforget it !
But there
thee. you Have
O. Yes.
further instruction in for let me ask not full and free toleration
restore James
you, gentlemen, do not forget the Peter and
ber d! Here we see what a character you draw of the thurch; and then what she is to expect at your hands next time you get into the saddle ! even the fame she met with before ! which you have described exactly. And this is a good argument not! ) for Peter to let that
fellow get up again We will not forget the story of Pe ter; we thank you for it.
story os
it is to be remem worthy
not confirm to
you
C.
can be given, that is, an act
by as great security as parliament
O. Yes, but may be repealed.
C. Can you have any greater security for that than the assurances from the queen, the lords, and the commons?
O. No Yes.
C. What dost mean
O. By no mean, that there no othersecurity can
yes mean, that there further security, and that we are not secure while we have a queen upon the throne whose heart entirely English, who has been educated from her
infancy in the church of England, and expects to save her soul in who has promised to support and maintain
and to transmit fasely secured and settled to posterity, and to bestow her favours chiefiy upon those who are most
zealous for it. And we doubt not she will be, in all these things, semper eadem.
We cannot be secure while we have bench of bishops and set of temporal lords as zealous for the church as her majesty.
be asked, or given as the cafe now stands. But
a
a
it ;
it
I is it
it ;
is
Is it
by it,
I
is a
a d
!
is
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(is it
?
a
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While we have so many tackers and higb-fliers in the
house of commons, who are continually pressing for new se curities to the church.
C. They are not new, only to guard those fences that the law has already made for her security, which You have most jesuitically eluded.
0. I care not — new or old — 'tis security still, and that will never do our business. What! to have the church
fim'ilC. Then t\ie and
on't you can have over-turn' root tend and the mitre as well as the crown lie inverted and eclipsed under the shadow of the trunk-hose of your
(y. )
no security
short
till the government
long
branch
old puss
And till then all the indulgence and toleration can be
given you, till you can ask no more; and all the secu rity that in the power of the law or government to grant, cannot please you, nor fop your mouths from the
fry of persecution, dragooning, gallows, and galleys com ing upon you! This to enfiame the mob, and hinder all peace or union, while this government stands.
This
tmse. upon
the plain English on't, and the short issue of the Let any man in the world put other construction he can you have all that you can ask, or
the government grant yet, persecution persecution /——— That is, you think you cannot secure the share you
have the government, without gaining the w hole.
From
in
if
; ;
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is, J,
it,
is ! ; is
is
is
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From •f>at. May 26, to &at. June 2, iyoe. N° 44.
1 . The different virtues ofthose who are for and against the church, in the elections. 2. On which fide tbefi-
pists are. particularly
Abington.
3. 72s agreement 0/' whigs and didentas ; on Good- Friday at RatclifF-Cross and
4. The different appearance at elections.
An instance ofthat at Honiton. 5. Ofsplitting Free holds; and the remedy. 6. The behaviour os the quakers in the elections.
(1. ) Coun. f~T^HE present elections have silled both
town and country with multitude ofpam
JL
phlets and papers upon the occafion. Those against the
church and the crown have sll agreed to airy on a general cry, that the papists, &c. are on the side of the church. And this with nub, if believ'd, will determine the enusk at once ! whatever side the pepishes axe on mufi he naught The Review of the 1 9th last month, Vol. 2. N. is-ixf*, Ok which side shall the papists, the atheists, the DrUNKEN, SWEARING, and most vicious of the ptopl*
vote? .
Is by all mankind, and in every place in Englamo it it
not given against you, andproved, that ail these generally are for the high-church men, tackers, &C TU
for ever lay down this cause, and have not one word more to fay to it.
O. I fay the fame, and so we fay all ; and thou would'st
would'st thou
C. I'll cesire no fairer issue. Let the cause then be
termin'd this And to begin our reckoning give your list of any Atheist, Deist, Socinian, Jew or Gentile En gland, that not against the tackers, and the hill which they tacked.
Then for the other class of drunken, swearing, Sec. the . kit-cat for that. Can you shew such another virtuous cUi
disprove
it, is
by :
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de
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flui among the high-church? so pretty witty and pro- phane !
Who was it built the temple of Venus in Hay-Market f And who fung the /« P<ean at the dedication ?
Who go into churches, and tear and common-
prayer-books, pollute the ct//ar and pulpit, and sing /nW ye^fs to the people assembled for devotion ?
Are there any high-church-men, or any who •vote for tuckers, to be found among these sort of •virtuofoes ?
(2. ) O. We can dispense with all these ! they hurt not
oar cause ; but thou hast not faid a word of the papish, 1.
O these papishes ! They are all for your high-church and the tackers.
C. The quite contrary of which is the f>-«/£. I told thee before, Num. 42, that the papists in Snsfoli made all the interest they could against the tackers. They did the fame in Essex, in Lanc^Jhire, notoriously ; and I doubt not the like will be found in other places all over the kingdom. Can'st thou give any instance to the con trary ?
O. No, not I. Why? am I! bound tohunt upand down M sind instances far thee i but WI fay it f isn'tthat enough? our party can take our •word, like gentlemen,
without />nw/'.
($4 But thou deals, very jtfidticalfy in the argument
you biing as to ouk godbnefi f show speaks only of •£z'/- tat and the whigs, who tbo' at present cut dear confe derates, and ,/az'a/s (for wi must own none other) yet no body takes them fox extraordinary Christians! ' But what
fay'st thou as to our dissenter st there's' men of fbict lift, prohity, and every thing ! and it was of theft Review
meant to make the comparisim-wahjoar high-church-men,
in what thou hast quoted above. you C The comparison he, and the rest of
make upon this point of elections, is only as to the voters ; and therein vou have the whole body o£ •whigs, atheists, kit-cat and
all ! they're all on the side of the diffenters, and the pa pists too, as I have shew'd.
But when you're all together, and doing the fame N 4 thing.
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thing, who can distinguish you ? Which were the -whip, and which the dissenters, at the Sb/p-Tavem at Ratclif
last Good-Friday? of which I told thee before
N. 38.
Whkh were the wbigs, and which the dijsenters, the
fame Good Friday at Abington, when you were all beastly
drunk, about concerting your election there ? and in di stance of the day, got all the fiddles in town to glory in your delauch, and contempt of the passion of Christ, which the high-fiers were remembering at church, with fasting and prayer ; but the 7/•rio and Jews, the whigs and •i/- make it their trtating-day ! Whether can it be
Cross
fenters
more truly faid of the whig or the dissenter ?
Who with more care keep boly-diy
The wrong, than others the right way.
They're so very like one another, in all these things,
That put ,em in a bag, andshake 'cm,
Yourselfotb-sudden wouldmistake 'em.
(4. ) But there is another difference very observable 'twixt those that are for or against the tackers and higb-church. The former are attended to their election by the body of the
principal gentry, both for estates and reputation. The other by tag, rag, and long tail, the refuse and scum, the ta^i of the people. Every body took notice of this, almost in as/ the elections, especially for the counties ; and I believe
there are very sew exceptions as to the boroughs. I
could sill my papers with instances since the elections began ; I
told thee of a sew, Suffolk, Hertford, Coventry, Exeter, Honiton. And because thou did'ft sputter grievously about the last, and put it upon mob, that Sir John Elwill was affronted, and heads broken, upon his coming there to make interest for his election, I'll now tell thee how it
proceeded upon the election-day, which I have in a letter thence dated the I gth last month, from one present, acd concern'd in the election.
Thursday about 8 in the morning Sir John Elwill
'/
cam M horseback to our town, accompanied by about 200 burst
ti his
And now
quarters. Iwill
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os allsorts, but I think there wcre not fix centlemen among them. About half an hour after came in Sir Wal
ter Young accompanied by several gentlemen and farmers of the neighbouring country. At nine came in Sir William
Dr a kb (•who was a tacker^ accompanied by all the
neighbouring GENTlEMEN and ClIrG Y, and near a thou sand horse. He was met at the end of the borough by the
•voteri who were sor him. They wcre led by the bailiff of the borough, with ten constables, who marched in order, with laurels in their hats, and tackers in gold letters. The
poilfor Sir William Drake was 256, for Sir Walter Younc z$6,for Sir John F. lwill i6z, for Capt. Blay--
Bon 164. Upon which all Sir John ElWlll's/rswwSr sneak'd away, not one of them being left to accompany him
a little
you to judge of their honesty by their actions. They brought
shew
of
their and leave dealings,
to be polsd several fellows from Oaters, Olscomb, Buckerel, Monton, Cotley, Branscomb, and'
other places, some of whose faces he employed to make ther return never saw before, with witnesses to prove their boil ing of the pot ; and threatened him, if he did not take their votes, to make him answer for itsomewhere else ; this was in my presence ; this 1 saw andheard. In short, there was not a dissenter in the parish but they brought within the borough ; and not one young fellow of 2 1 years of age, but they produc'd for votes, 20 shillings a vote was given, ar was prov'd at the poll, befides drink.
They arrested all that were in debt to any of their party, &c.
Thus the letter. And the like has been their practice in other places, which may be examin'd in a committee of elections.
O. But Review has observ'd, that those tackers who-
have carried their elections, have met with more than usual
difficulties, and carried it by a less majority than formerly, C. And yet those sew who lost poll'd more con
siderable numbers thanformerly.
O. That seems contradiction.
(5. ) C. Your godly deeds cNan explain dhiidin;
estates
it, by
a
5
it,
by
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estates intosree-hJds of40/. only for the time ofelrjka^ and taking bonds of refignation, as you practise upon (flil
clergy. , where you have attvowfons. By this means-, mak J ing hundreds of the poor people forswear themselves. But they whoscruptc not at sacrilege, wirl never beggit at PERJURy.
But we may have lists printed ofthefree-Boldtrs in seve
ral counties, where this trick has been most practisU ; 1 whereby the nenx. ones will appear.
And if all these free-holds be consirm'd by aeJ aspar liament, and the sham-conditions voided, it will be a good bar for the future ; especially if they make the
qualification 1 o pounds at least, instead of 40 fallings ; and' if the house of commons throw out all who have come in by siich motes, which are declar'd to be void and of none ef
fect, by an act 7th and 8th of K. William.
.
if you a church of England oi
you have been baffled and exposed vtCt, till you are become
the contempt of the nation ; your impeachments are ajiyf/> I my self, John Tutchin, have stood it out bluff againft
all your prosecution, tho' the jury found' me guilty How many have you order to be prosecuted, for this and" /Æa/? and has one •uw•/beeir faid to any one of them They /«ajÆ at you, and despise you in every companyP Don't shew your teeth more, till you can bite. '
(6. ) The very quakers, like rats, have quit falling; house. brag and of them in mine of 26 last month*
Vol. N. 16. The whole body of them have appeared,
every where, on our side, against the church, ar these
elections and to Ihew their integrity beyond the corrupt tion of bribes, they threw out, by their mates, the very man who brought the bill to make them peers, to have
their aff,rmation equivalent to the oaths of other plebeians. C. No other return has the church met with, or can.
ever expect* for the favours fhe shews to any of you Ms1 senters,\vho are her sworn enemies principle and inclination,
tho' you one another, as the quakers were served• New-
O. Ay
get
com
? and looft inta
!
mons, you'll reform matters !
will
house
ye
past miscarriages ! I thought you had' had enough of that f
in
by
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h civ-England, when my sort of you have the power i and tho' the quakers complained heavily ofpersecution, in your reign before the rejiauration, 1660, and their pro-, fhets, particularly James Nay lor, was then bord thro' the tongue and set in the pillory ; yet all these things, and all things possible, cannot alter the nature of the beast. Dis senters, of all forts, will ever bandy against the church-, is-HerodmA Pontius Pilate agreed against her mafier.
And if the church carmot stand upon her own legs, and be supported, under God, by her truesons who love and reverence her ; she will find the help ofwhigs, dissenters, and occafional conformists, what a great man very appo-
fitly term'd it,
A wooden leg.
The letter from. Ipswich in last Obser•vator will be spoke to in my next. In the mean time the Observator is de-. sired to name his nine baronets, &e. it being no prejudice to them, and the fact is denied by eye witnesses ; as also that there were not ;o clergy who poWd, as that letter fays, for it is still insisted upon, that they were 200, and the poll-books are appeal'd to.
Note, The truth of the advertisement concerning S. H. . . Ash — t N. 42 requires, as I'm told, further consirma tion, which shall be done in my next, and justice done to S. H.
.
From §>QL June 2, to &at. June 9, 1 70? . N° 45
l. Concerning Sir H. Ash—— t. 2. Of the letter from . Ipswich, j. Of the weather-cock at Oxford. 4. The Observator's story from Northampton confuted.
5. Down with the church at Chester. 6. The peace able election at Exeter. '
(1. ) Coun. ' I "'HE following paper I received from a X friend, on the behalf of Sir H. /sh—t, with a desire it might be inserted in the Rehearsal. The
;
paper is as follows,
N 6 Whereat.
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Whereas in my saper on igth instant, I inserted an ad vertisement, that it was not Sir W. Jsh t, but Sir H. Ajb 1 thatsent a message to Mr. Vaudre, that it
was past 12 a clock with the church of England, lSe. 1 am fince by credible persons inform' d that it was a mistake, and that Sir H. Ash / never (aw Mr. Vaudre in his life, nor never wrote nor received any letter from him ; nor never had any communication with him whatsoever. So as to its relating to Sir H. Ajb t, it needs further
confirmation, I have spoke to my friend to write to his correspondent in the country, to know whether he will stand to the account he has already sent, and to make diligent inquiry if there is any mistake in the matter. If this comes in time, it shall be inserted in this. Ifnot, as soon as I get it : which I think is doing justice, upon the square, to both sides.
(2. ) O. Come now perform what thon promis'd'st i» thy last, to fay some more to my letter from Ifswicb.
C. I have put the proof upon you, to name the nine baronets Sec. that accompany d your 2 candidates into the town. And for the poil of the clergy, I have appeal'd
to the poil books. L—y was not at O. But my letter fays, that Mr.
the election.
C. And my letter did not fay he was. You will still
mistake the matter ; that you may seem to confute some
body f
O. But what fay'st thou to my noble defence of Sir
confirmation.
Thus that safer word for word. And for the further
Dudly Cullum and Sir Samuel Barnardiston, against thy
tmfudent lying and standering them !
C. Nameany orstander have faid ofthem else
thou art the imfudent i. yer andstanderer. have given no charafier at all of them, nor faid word of them,
but that they were candidates at that election, and had the iotes of the whigs and dissenters: if thou rec- kon'st that ascandal have not yet learn of tbee,
the' have converst long with thetf. to cast fersattal re~
I
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277 in hand ; and throw Billingsgate at gentlemen, to bespatter and dirty all
efleffimts, which concern not the cause
come near. To call i
To ridicule a great general, with fine clade and riding in
great lady AwitchaxuL Proserpina.
triumph over his q n. And then as servilely flatter him, when he was a victor, and accuse others (tho' fair ly) for giving bad words to him : as thou did'st in thine of last April 14. Vol. 4. N. 4. of the Suffolk gentlemen :
which was an errant lye: and thou art provok'd to prove it. How didst thou throw most villanousty and falsely at Sir George Rook, and plaid'st Sir Cloudefly Shovel against him. Now tho' I vindicated Sir George, even to demonstration,
and to stop all reply (but not thy foul mouth) yet thy ex ample cou'd not tempt me to fay the least reflecling word upon Sir Cloudejly ; but rather to vindicate him too from
the scandal of being ctmmendedby thee, and such injuri ous use made of his name, to blacken his friend and ad miral Sir George Rook.
• Thy way and mine, Bayes, are very different. I have been taught that scandal is a great jin ; nay even, uncha ritable truths j where the endof telling is to expose, and
not to amend. And I believe thou can'st not charge me with refletJing upon any man, otherwise than to disco
ver his principle. No personal vices or immoralities concern not the matter in dispute, but merely to throw dirt upon the person : This is wicked ; and thy daily
fraflice. Nay, even to invent lyes ; and when disprov'd, to repeat them over again and again, instead of retrac
ing, or making reparation. This is the very spirit of the devil, the accuser of the brethren.
(3)0. Come, leave off thy preaching, and answer to die charge against thee in the Review of the 3 1 st M^ji last. Vol. 2. N. 38. concerning the weather-cock at Oxford.
C 111 not answer //5>ff.
such foul language as thou hast : and has more
And I will give all encouragement to get out of sense.
I'll
answer him. He has not
it
Therefore I fay to the Review, that without examining
hills and and finks,
sight
upon
I will take that story as he tells vi2. that was the-
2.
work
fair dung ground.
that
it,
it
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workman who
under the -weather-cock on Met ton- college. And it was innocently as well as ignorantly done of the workman.
For as the Review tells, it was usual at Merton-collcge (as
well as other places) to have the kings-arms upon the fanes of the buildings. There was on one fane the arms
of king Charles, with the usual motto. On another the arms of king #7//. with je maintiendray, which he used instead of Dieu & man droii. And a new fane being to> be set up, in the room of one was broke, h was thought
proper to have the queen's arms upon, it- And why not
her motto as well as the rest! Wau-'d it have been any re flection upon, queen Elizabeth, who sirst us'd that motto,. to have semper eadem put under he; arms, tho' upon at
weather-cock? However, to take away all occasion (and. we see now there was reason) that motto was taken away ;. and the sane set up without it
Now the Re•view quoted in the Rehearsal, N. 43^
charges the gentlemen of' Oxford with putting up the semper eadem- Sec. when it was not put up. And by the.
ftory, as he now tells he must know to be so.
But suppose had been set up, which, as have
faid, might have been done very innocently what reason
had the Review to call this an emblem at device
at such, reflection upon the college, as being reflection. upon her majesty leave to every body, whethec the maker of such an application, not the author of
the /caudal?
And then may not afle what reason die Review had
to give very hard character of the Rehearsal, as tOi call him equally olj}h:œte (even with the Obscriator) i*
ignorantly put that motto of semper eadim
When he advanc'd nothing; at all he only took quotation out of the Review. Andt added letter from; Oxford which deny'd the fact. And
left the Review to search into that the best manner he eou'd. The Review and not the Rehearsal was the iroach- er of the slory. But Fll return no hard words.
(4) But now we are upon stories, desire theeto give an account of what thou teWfthsxn. Northampton thine
advancing pofitive falshaod?
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oflast. M«j/ gith. V»k 4. N. ip. where thou foerit'sti of
a coffee-house (meaning Mrs. Laforcers) frequented), as- thou fay'ft, byjacohites and tackers, but were especially the
Am is- am errant lye, whieh- 1 have in a letter from art
unquestionable hand at Northampton, dated last May 24th.
Black-robe;
who left a ratf treat was provided for them on the 33d of last, because the news came of
am to telf thee, that
the French feet being beat:. Now I
Which fays, that there was but- one person in Mrs. La-
po&ce's coffee-house- that night, andhea whig ; se
veral clergy aW sestlbmJN herfriends, being at the
Rose Crown that night to drink the qvwnCi- health,
being the day of her coronation, by an appointment
made the 6th of Feb. last, being the day of her birth, Sir William Wheeler, an honest gentleman^ cameintohA- forge's coffee-house on Tuesday last, andsaid, that Sir
William Craven tola* him (Isuppose on the authority, of
the ObservatorJ of several gentlemen leaving their treat, at La force's, on the- news of the FRENCH' being;
beat, as before. The ObsErvato* fays, the woman mar-
rieda Frenchman (infinuating, by her lately goingfime- times to ch-urch) a papist; tho' ,tis well known her
husband was a hugonot. The Observator wou'csivstnuate ae if only very mean people came to her house ; tho' the present knights, most- of the GB. NTlEMEN, and! believe three parts' of Mr clergy in this county was at her'
house this election; and'I'believe at'no other' coffee
house, unless it were ta enquire for somebody they want ed. 1 believe she took more money than all the other three
COFFEE-HOUSES.
Thus fays theletter. And tho' the story seems of no
great consequence in- it self, yet these are the inferences- thou wou'dst draw from it. tst. To represent the clergy
and gentry as disaffected to" the queen and government ; and in the interest of France, idly. To shew the hu , wear of the people so averse to. the church and the tochers, that the coffee-house which they frequented, ,w&S'de/frtcd- by all others. And ^dly, that those in the interest of the
(hurch were fofew, azs not to be able to support one , - coffee
the Obsenvator.
The REHEARSAL.
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coffee-house. And we sind this malicious story was le- lirvd, at least reported, by others, upon the creeBt of
For which reason, I have taken this
paint to dete8 it. But the eleclion in Northampton which
follow'd, wherein trut churchmen were chosen i is a fuD
confutation of all that this story was contriv'd to sug
gest. And shews, that the malice and industry of a certain
/or/y is indefatigable I
( 5 . ) But their W/boil'd over upon the county election
at Chester ! where upon their carrying the election (by
what means I leave to the committee of elections
cou'd not contain their joy, nor conceal their
rryV ca/, Down with the church! Nb church!
