DR
.
BURNETS
Vindication
of
himself
from
the
Calumnies
with
which
he
is
aspersed
,
In
a
Pamphlet
,
entitled
,
Parliamentum
Pacificum
,
licensed
by
the
Earl
of
Sunderland
,
and
printed
,
at
London
in
March
,
1688.
A
Silence
for
so
many
moneths
,
in
which
my
name
has
been
so
much
tossed
in
libells
,
as
well
as
in
Gazettes
,
has
shewed
the
world
,
with
how
much
uneasines
I
am
drawn
to
say
any
thing
,
in
my
own
defence
,
when
so
sacred
a
name
has
been
made
use
of
to
give
an
authority
to
what
has
been
said
or
done
against
me
:
A
Christian
cannot
fail
when
he
goes
by
so
divine
a
pattern
as
our
Saviour
himself
has
set
the
world
.
He
when
he
was
accused
,
for
a
great
while
answered
not
a
word
,
yet
at
last
being
required
to
do
it
by
the
High
Priest
,
he
spoke
for
himself
:
But
when
he
was
reviled
,
he
reviled
not
again
.
In
a
humble
Imitation
of
that
Example
,
as
I
will
return
no
reviling
words
,
for
all
those
that
are
so
liberally
thrown
out
upon
me
,
so
the
Justifying
of
my self
,
being
now
become
An
Apology
for
the
Protection
that
is
granted
me
by
the
States
of
Holland
,
(
whose
subject
I
am
)
as
well
as
for
my self
,
I
am
in
some
sort
forced
,
again
to
appear
in
my
own
Defence
.
If
this
Pamphlet
had
not
carried
such
a
licence
as
it
has
in
its
front
,
and
if
the
States
had
not
been
worse
used
in
it
then
I
my self
am
,
I
had
passed
over
all
the
malice
that
is
in
it
,
with
the
same
silence
that
I
have
shewed
on
other
occasions
.
But
it
being
judged
necessary
that
I
should
plead
my
own
cause
a
little
,
since
the
Protection
that
the
States
give
me
has
made
it
now
likewise
theirs
,
and
that
it
may
appear
that
they
have
no
just
reason
to
be
ashamed
of
me
,
I
shall
answer
all
that
relates
to
my self
,
except
the
foul
language
that
is
in
it
.
But
I
will
repeat
nothing
that
was
in
the
Paper
that
I
publisht
last
June
:
in
which
I
set
down
the
first
Citation
,
together
with
the
Answer
that
I
made
to
it
,
and
my
letters
to
the
Earl
of
Midletoune
,
together
with
some
reflections
upon
the
whole
matter
,
so
I
offer
this
only
as
a
supplement
to
that
Paper
.
I
will
begin
with
setting
down
the
second
Citation
,
after
I
have
made
this
short
remark
on
the
first
,
that
those
very
persons
,
for
conversing
with
whom
,
I
was
accused
in
it
,
being
now
pardoned
and
in
Scotland
,
the
Government
there
,
has
a
sure
means
in
their
hands
,
to
know
the
falsehood
of
that
accusation
:
so
that
those
who
offered
those
Informations
against
me
,
which
gave
the
rise
to
all
that
has
since
followed
,
ought
to
be
lookt
on
as
Calumniators
,
and
to
be
punished
accordingly
:
and
if
any
ill
chosen
expression
had
fallen
from
me
in
the
letter
that
I
writ
to
the
Earl
of
Midleton
,
the
privacy
of
the
letter
,
the
respect
that
was
in
it
,
and
the
provocation
that
drew
it
from
me
,
(
an
Accusation
of
High
Treason
,
which
is
now
Evidently
made
out
to
be
a
Calumny
)
all
these
,
I
say
,
give
me
some
reason
to
conclude
,
that
if
a
secret
animosity
of
some
of
my
Enemies
that
have
abused
their
credit
with
the
King
to
my
prejudice
,
had
not
wrought
more
than
a
regard
to
Justice
,
there
had
not
been
a
second
prosecution
,
when
the
First
was
found
to
be
so
ill
grounded
,
that
they
were
forced
to
let
it
fall
.
The
Citation
is
in
these
words
.
JAmes
be
the
Grace
of
God
King
of
Great
Brittain
,
France
and
Ireland
defender
of
the
Faith
,
to
our
Lovits
:
Heraulds
/
Pursevants
/
Macers
and
Messre
at
armes
conjunctly
and
severallie
speciallie
Constitute
Greeting
.
Forsameikle
as
it
is
humbly
meant
et
Complaind
to
us
be
our
right
trusty
and
familiar
Councellour
Sr.
John
Dalrymple
the
younger
of
Stair
our
Advocat
for
our
Interest
Upon
Doctor
Gilbert
Burnet
,
That
wher
by
the
common
Law
/
by
the
Acts
of
Parliament
/
and
the
municipall
Lawes
of
this
Kingdome
/
the
declyning
or
impugning
our
Soveraigne
Authoritie
or
puting
Treasonable
Limitations
upon
the
prerogatives
of
our
Crown
upon
the
native
allegeance
due
by
any
of
our
subjects
borne
Scots-men
whether
residing
within
our
dominions
or
not
/
are
declared
to
be
High
Treason
/
and
punishable
by
the
Paines
due
and
determined
in
the
Law
for
treason
.
Nevertheless
it
is
of
veritie
That
Doctor
Gilbert
Burnet
,
who
is
a
Scots-man
by
birth
and
education
/
being
cited
at
the
peir
and
shoar
of
Leith
at
the
instance
of
our
Advocat
for
severall
treasonable
Crymes
to
underly
the
law
by
vertue
of
particular
Command
from
us
direct
to
the
Lords
of
our
privy
Councill
/
and
ane
act
of
our
said
privy
Councill
hereupon
ordering
our
Advocat
to
Intent
the
proces
:
Instead
of
appeiring
before
the
Lords
of
Iusticiery
Doctor
Gilbert
Burnet
did
write
and
subscribe
a
letter
dated
at
the
Hague
the
third
day
of
May
last
/
directed
for
the
Earle
of
Middletoune
one
of
our
principal
Secretaries
of
State
for
our
Kingdome
of
England
:
In
the
which
the
said
Doctor
Showes
That
in
respect
the
Affairs
of
the
United
Provinces
falls
to
his
Lordships
share
in
the
Ministry
Therfore
he
makes
the
following
Addresses
to
his
Lordship
/
and
by
him
to
us
/
and
gives
ane
accompt
that
he
is
certiorat
of
the
proces
of
treason
execute
against
him
at
the
instance
of
our
Advocat
;
And
for
answer
there
to
the
Doctor
Wrytes
/
that
he
hes
be
in
thretteen
years
out
of
the
Kingdome
of
Scotland
,
and
that
he
is
now
upon
the
point
of
Marrying
in
the
Netherlands
,
and
that
he
is
naturalized
by
the
States
of
Holland
,
and
that
therby
during
his
stay
there
his
Allegeance
is
translated
from
us
to
the
Soveraignity
of
the
Province
of
Holland
;
and
in
the
end
of
his
letter
he
Certifies
/
that
if
this
decly
natur
be
not
taken
of
his
hand
to
sist
the
proces
/
he
will
appeir
in
print
in
his
own
defence
/
and
will
not
so
far
betray
his
own
Innocence
as
to
suffer
a
thing
of
that
nature
to
pass
upon
him
/
In
which
he
will
make
a
recitall
of
Affairs
that
hes
passed
these
twenty
years
/
and
a
vast
number
of
particulars
which
he
beleives
will
be
displeasing
to
us
;
and
therfor
desyres
that
he
may
not
be
forced
to
it
/
which
is
a
direct
declyning
of
our
Authority
/
denying
of
his
allegeance
to
us
/
and
asserting
that
his
Allegeance
is
translated
from
us
to
the
Soveraignty
of
the
States
of
Holland
,
And
a
threatning
us
to
expose
/
traduce
/
disparage
and
belie
our
Government
/
and
the
publict
Actings
for
twentie
years
past
;
Though
he
acknowledges
it
will
be
displeasing
to
us
yet
by
a
most
Indiscret
and
disloyall
insolence
he
threatens
to
doe
it
in
contempt
Except
forsooth
wee
will
acquieste
and
suffer
the
derly
natur
of
our
Royall
Authorite
and
pass
from
the
proces
as
having
no
Allegeance
due
to
us
from
the
Doctor
/
&c.
After
this
follows
the
form
of
Law
ordinary
in
such
Citations
,
by
which
I
am
required
to
appear
,
on
the
9th
.
day
of
August
in
order
to
my
Triall
,
which
was
to
be
six
days
after
that
,
under
the
pains
of
being
declared
a
Rebell
and
a
Fugitive
;
and
all
bears
date
the
10th
of
June
1687.
I
shall
offer
only
two
exceptions
to
this
,
in
point
of
form
;
1st
there
is
no
Speciall
law
set
forth
here
,
upon
which
I
am
to
be
Judged
;
which
,
as
I
am
Informed
by
those
who
understand
the
Law
of
Scotland
makes
the
Citation
null
in
point
of
forme
,
since
High
Treason
is
a
Crime
of
such
a
nature
,
that
no
man
can
be
concluded
guilty
of
it
,
but
upon
a
speciall
Law
.
2d
,
In
Criminal
matters
:
no
Proofs
of
any
Writing
upon
the
similitude
of
Hands
,
are
so
much
as
admitted
by
the
Law
of
Scotland
;
so
that
all
such
Proofs
are
only
Generall
Presumptions
;
and
therefore
since
there
is
no
other
Proof
that
can
be
pretended
in
this
case
;
it
is
not
possible
according
to
the
grounds
and
practise
of
the
Scottish
Law
,
to
find
me
Guilty
upon
this
Citation
.
Upon
my
not
appearance
on
the
ninth
day
of
August
,
the
matter
was
for
some
time
Delayed
.
At
last
a
Writ
was
issued
out
against
me
called
in
the
Law
of
Scotland
Letters
of
Horning
,
becasue
they
are
published
with
the
blast
of
a
Horn
;
in
which
I
am
declared
the
Kings
Rebell
:
but
this
is
not
issued
out
upon
the
account
of
the
matter
in
the
Citation
,
of
which
no
Cognisance
has
been
taken
:
But
only
for
my
not
appearance
to
offer
my self
to
Triall
:
and
the
operation
of
this
in
law
,
is
only
the
putting
me
out
of
the
Kings
Protection
,
and
the
present
seising
on
my
personall
Estate
,
and
after
a
year
the
seising
any
thing
that
I
enjoy
for
term
of
life
:
but
this
writ
does
neither
affect
my
life
,
nor
my
posterity
,
nor
can
an
Estate
of
Inheritance
be
so
much
as
Confiscated
by
it
:
and
tho
the
term
Rebell
is
put
in
it
,
that
word
is
only
a
form
of
law
:
for
every
man
that
does
not
pay
his
debts
is
liable
to
such
a
writ
,
and
he
is
Declared
the
Kings
Rebell
,
just
as
the
Chancery
in
England
,
issues
out
a
Writ
of
Rebellion
upon
Contempts
:
so
that
if
the
being
called
a
Rebell
in
such
a
writ
,
gives
the
Government
a
right
to
Demand
me
,
then
every
man
that
retires
into
Holland
,
either
out
of
England
or
Scotland
,
upon
the
account
of
a
disorder
in
his
affairs
,
may
be
demanded
,
as
soon
as
any
such
Writ
goes
out
against
him
.
As
for
the
matter
of
this
Citation
,
I
said
so
much
upon
it
in
my
former
Paper
,
that
since
no
answer
has
been
made
to
that
,
I
do
not
think
it
necessary
to
say
any
more
,
then
what
will
occur
to
me
in
the
account
of
the
Progress
of
this
affair
.
Mr.
d'Albeville
his
Majesties
Envoy
,
did
in
the
Moneth
of
July
last
,
put
in
a
Memoriall
against
me
,
which
being
already
in
Print
,
I
shall
only
offer
here
the
abstract
of
it
.
In
the
Preamble
it
sets
forth
,
that
wheras
I
had
obtained
letters
of
Burgership
in
the
Town
of
Amsterdam
;
In
the
vertue
thereof
these
Letters
being
presented
to
the
States
of
Holland
,
by
the
said
Town
I
had
obtained
the
Protection
of
the
States
:
with
which
I
was
not
satisfied
,
but
by
my
Libells
I
defamed
the
King
and
his
Government
:
of
which
it
offered
two
Instances
:
one
,
that
I
represented
my self
as
Persecuted
upon
the
account
of
Religion
;
which
was
so
false
,
that
all
Religions
were
tolerated
by
the
King
:
The
other
was
,
that
I
pretended
that
my
life
was
in
danger
:
for
which
,
if
I
had
any
grounds
,
I
ought
to
have
represented
it
to
the
Kings
Ministers
in
England
,
or
to
his
Minister
here
:
and
that
it
was
Notorious
that
the
greatest
of
all
Criminalls
,
were
in
safety
here
,
for
fear
to
draw
upon
themselves
his
Majesties
displeasure
:
who
abhorrs
such
practises
,
tho
by
the
Kings
Lawes
every
one
of
his
subjects
,
was
warranted
to
seise
on
them
here
,
in
what
manner
soever
:
upon
all
which
it
concluded
,
that
the
States
ought
to
punish
both
me
,
and
my
Printer
,
without
naming
him
.
I
hope
I
may
without
being
wanting
to
the
respect
due
to
his
Character
,
make
some
observations
on
this
.
It
is
well
known
,
that
I
was
never
made
Burgess
of
Amsterdam
,
so
that
all
the
Preamble
falls
:
and
it
appears
,
that
the
Envoy
has
not
taken
the
pains
that
forraigne
Ministers
ordinarily
do
,
to
be
rightly
informed
of
this
matter
,
when
he
began
to
move
in
it
.
I
applied
my self
Immediatly
to
the
States
of
Holland
,
in
order
to
my
being
Naturalised
,
and
in
my
Petition
I
set
forth
the
Reason
of
it
,
which
ever
since
Solons
Laws
,
has
been
thought
the
justest
ground
for
it
,
and
that
was
a
Marriage
,
and
this
was
no
pretended
colour
,
for
I
was
contracted
the
same
day
.
I
had
lived
before
that
a
year
at
the
Hague
,
and
I
saw
clearly
a
storm
coming
upon
me
,
yet
I
had
used
no
precaution
to
cover
my self
from
it
:
but
when
a
Marriage
and
a
settlement
in
Holland
,
made
it
necessary
for
me
to
desire
the
Rights
and
Priviledges
of
the
Countrey
,
it
cannot
be
thought
strange
if
I
petitioned
for
it
:
and
the
States
,
who
know
how
long
I
had
both
lived
and
preached
publickly
at
the
Hague
,
under
the
eyes
of
two
of
the
Kings
Ministers
,
one
after
another
,
saw
no
sort
of
reason
,
so
much
as
to
deliberate
upon
my
petition
,
but
granted
it
to
me
as
a
thing
of
course
:
As
for
the
matter
,
that
His
Majesties
Envoy
objected
to
me
,
I
said
nothing
in
the
paper
I
printed
but
what
plainly
contradicts
the
first
point
:
my
words
relating
to
it
are
,
that
it
is
yet
too
early
to
set
on
a
Persecution
for
matters
of
Religion
,
and
therefore
Crimes
against
the
State
must
be
pretended
and
fastned
on
those
whom
these
men
intend
to
destroy
.
Now
it
is
plain
,
that
by
these
men
,
I
intend
those
who
had
Informed
against
me
,
the
matters
that
are
in
the
first
Citation
,
and
that
being
let
fall
as
a
Calumny
,
too
gross
to
be
any
longer
supported
,
I
had
all
reason
to
pass
that
censure
on
these
men
.
But
these
words
cannot
be
supposed
to
have
any
relation
to
the
King
,
unless
in
that
part
of
rhem
,
that
it
is
yet
too
early
to
Persecute
for
matters
of
Religion
,
which
import
that
my
Enemys
date
not
attempt
to
carry
his
Majesty
to
that
;
so
that
this
period
in
my
paper
is
evidently
contrary
to
the
Inference
that
is
drawn
from
it
.
The
2d
point
is
no
better
grounded
:
since
I
published
nothing
relating
to
the
Danger
in
which
I
was
,
but
my
Letters
to
the
Earl
of
Midleton
,
so
that
I
had
begun
my
Complaints
to
him
:
but
I
was
never
encouraged
to
go
to
the
naming
of
particulars
.
As
for
that
period
,
that
the
greatest
of
Criminalls
are
here
safe
from
such
Attempts
,
for
fear
of
drawing
upon
themselves
the
Kings
displeasure
:
(
de
peur
de
s'attirer
)
certainly
the
Envoy
was
in
hast
,
when
he
drew
it
;
for
the
want
of
a
clear
sense
in
it
,
is
such
,
that
it
cannot
be
carried
off
by
an
Ignorance
of
the
French
tongue
:
since
sure
those
Criminalls
,
are
not
affraid
to
Draw
upon
themselves
the
Kings
displeasure
by
attempting
on
themselves
.
So
that
some
such
words
as
these
(
all
his
Majesties
good
subjects
avoiding
such
practices
,
for
fear
of
drawing
upon
themselves
his
Displeasure
)
must
be
supposed
to
make
the
period
Clear
sense
.
But
if
I
had
any
apprehensions
of
Danger
before
this
Memorial
,
they
are
justly
encreased
by
it
:
since
the
Envoy
concludes
the
paragraph
,
by
saying
,
that
every
one
of
the
Kings
subjects
were
warranted
by
his
Laws
,
to
seise
on
such
here
in
what
manner
soever
(
a
s'y
emparer
en
quelque
maniere
que
ce
soit
)
in
what
manner
soever
does
always
,
on
such
occasions
,
signify
either
Dead
or
Alive
.
Now
when
the
Kings
Envoy
did
in
a
Memoriall
to
the
States
,
which
was
afterwards
printed
,
assert
,
that
this
was
Law
,
It
is
easy
to
Infer
from
hence
,
what
just
apprehensions
this
might
suggest
to
me
.
As
for
his
desire
to
have
me
Punished
for
that
libell
;
he
did
in
that
Appeal
which
he
made
,
to
the
Justice
of
the
States
,
acknowledge
me
to
be
their
Subject
:
but
if
I
have
by
printing
of
that
or
any
other
Paper
,
made
my self
liable
to
the
punishment
of
the
States
,
the
Complaint
ought
to
have
been
made
in
the
form
of
Law
,
to
the
Court
of
Holland
,
as
it
would
be
in
England
to
the
Kings
Bench
,
since
the
States
themselves
do
not
enter
into
the
prosecutions
of
Justice
,
and
to
that
Court
I
most
humbly
submit
my self
,
and
acknowledg
,
that
if
I
cannot
justify
my self
of
every
thing
that
can
be
laid
to
my
Charge
,
they
ought
to
punish
me
with
the
utmost
severity
of
Justice
.
Since
a
man
of
my
Profession
,
as
he
ought
to
be
an
Example
for
his
good
behaviour
,
so
he
ought
to
be
made
an
Example
of
Justice
,
when
he
brings
himself
within
the
compass
of
the
Law
.
This
was
the
first
step
that
was
made
in
my
affair
,
which
lay
in
this
state
till
the
Envoys
return
from
England
in
December
last
:
upon
which
he
gave
in
a
long
Memorial
,
of
which
I
was
made
one
Article
.
He
set
forth
,
that
I
being
now
Judged
a
Rebell
and
Fugitive
in
Scotland
,
the
States
were
bound
to
deliver
me
up
,
or
to
banish
me
out
of
their
Dominions
,
and
so
he
demanded
that
this
might
be
executed
.
Upon
this
I
was
called
before
some
of
the
Deputies
of
the
States
:
and
both
the
Envoy's
Memorials
being
read
to
me
,
I
was
required
to
offer
what
I
had
to
say
upon
them
.
I
could
not
but
first
take
notice
of
the
great
difference
,
that
was
between
them
:
The
first
,
complaining
of
me
as
a
subject
of
the
States
,
and
demanding
that
I
might
be
punished
by
them
;
and
the
second
,
demanding
me
as
the
Kings
subject
.
To
the
first
,
I
answered
according
to
the
Reflections
that
I
have
already
mentioned
:
To
the
second
,
I
said
,
I
could
not
be
a
Fugitive
since
I
had
come
out
of
Scotland
fourteen
years
ago
,
and
after
eleven
years
stay
in
England
,
had
come
out
of
it
three
years
ago
,
by
the
Kings
Leave
.
As
for
my
being
a
Rebel
;
I
could
answer
nothing
to
that
,
till
I
saw
the
Judgment
that
had
passed
upon
me
:
but
I
was
now
the
Subject
of
the
States
,
and
as
I
humbly
claimed
their
Protection
,
so
I
pretended
to
no
Protection
against
Justice
:
but
offered
my self
to
a
Tryal
,
if
any
thing
was
laid
to
my
charge
This
being
reported
to
the
States
of
Holland
,
they
were
so
far
satisfied
with
my
Answer
,
that
the
substance
of
it
was
put
in
the
form
of
an
Answer
to
the
two
Memorials
:
The
whole
amounts
to
this
,
that
I
was
become
their
subject
by
being
naturalised
before
this
process
was
begun
against
me
:
so
that
I
am
now
under
their
Protection
:
But
if
there
is
any
thing
to
be
objected
to
me
,
that
can
bear
a
Tryal
,
they
will
give
order
that
full
and
speedy
Justice
shall
be
done
upon
it
,
in
the
Court
of
Holland
.
Upon
this
a
3d
Memorial
was
given
in
,
to
which
the
Articles
of
the
Treaty
,
between
the
King
and
the
States
,
were
annexed
,
relating
to
Fugitives
and
Rebells
;
and
it
was
said
in
it
,
that
the
States
were
bound
to
execute
these
with
relation
to
me
,
without
taking
upon
them
to
examin
the
grounds
,
upon
which
the
sentence
was
past
.
And
because
here
lies
the
strength
of
the
whole
matter
,
I
shall
offer
such
Considerations
upon
it
,
as
will
I
hope
satisfy
all
persons
.
1.
No
Sentence
is
either
passed
or
produced
against
me
:
for
I
am
not
declared
by
any
Judgment
either
Rebell
or
Fugitive
,
and
by
the
7th
Article
all
Condemnations
ought
to
be
notified
by
publick
and
Authenticall
letters
:
which
must
be
understood
of
a
Record
of
the
sentence
,
that
ought
to
be
produced
:
whereas
there
is
nothing
shewed
in
my
case
but
only
a
Memoriall
.
2.
All
Treaties
,
especially
in
the
odious
parts
of
them
,
are
to
be
understood
according
to
the
common
acceptation
of
the
termes
contained
in
them
,
and
not
according
to
the
particular
forms
of
any
Courts
of
Justice
;
the
common
acceptance
of
Fugitive
is
a
man
that
flys
away
after
a
crime
committed
,
from
the
prosecution
of
Justice
;
and
a
Rebell
in
the
common
acceptation
is
a
man
that
has
born
Armes
against
his
Prince
:
since
then
I
am
not
so
much
as
charged
with
either
of
these
,
I
cannot
be
comprehended
in
the
Article
of
the
Treaty
,
for
this
must
be
the
only
sense
,
according
to
which
the
States
are
bound
to
deny
harbour
to
Declared
Rebels
and
Fugitives
.
3.
That
which
puts
an
end
to
the
whole
matter
is
,
that
before
I
writ
that
Letter
,
upon
which
I
am
now
prosecuted
;
I
was
become
a
Subject
of
the
States
,
and
by
Consequence
was
no
more
in
a
Capacity
to
be
either
the
Kings
Rebell
or
Fugitive
.
And
the
point
of
Naturalising
Strangers
,
is
now
such
an
Universall
Practice
,
that
the
right
of
granting
it
,
is
Inseperable
from
Soveraigne
Power
:
so
that
either
the
States
have
this
Right
or
they
are
no
more
a
free
and
Soveraign
State
.
And
the
obligations
of
honour
that
all
Soveraignes
come
under
to
protect
those
whom
they
naturalise
,
against
every
thing
but
their
own
Justice
,
is
no
dark
point
of
Law
:
but
is
that
which
every
Prince
knows
and
practises
as
oft
as
there
is
occasion
for
it
.
The
King
of
France
has
used
all
the
Naturalised
Strangers
in
the
same
manner
that
he
has
used
his
own
subjects
,
in
the
point
of
Religion
:
and
tho
the
French
Protestants
,
that
are
gone
into
England
,
are
according
to
the
severity
of
the
Edicts
passed
against
them
,
made
Criminalls
for
flying
out
of
that
Kingdom
,
so
that
according
to
the
Letter
of
those
Edicts
they
are
Fugitives
,
yet
the
King
has
received
them
all
,
owned
them
for
his
Subjects
,
naturalised
some
,
and
supplyed
others
of
them
,
by
a
Bounty
truly
worthy
of
so
great
a
Prince
;
and
if
the
King
does
this
to
those
of
another
Religion
,
that
do
fly
out
of
the
Dominions
of
a
Prince
,
with
whom
he
is
in
peace
,
The
States
could
not
with
any
colour
of
reason
,
refuse
to
Naturalise
me
who
am
of
their
own
Religion
,
when
after
so
long
a
stay
among
them
,
it
appeared
that
the
King
had
nothing
to
lay
to
my
charge
;
and
they
having
Naturalised
me
,
if
they
should
with-draw
their
Protection
,
before
I
had
forsoired
it
by
any
illegall
Action
of
mine
,
they
should
make
a
Breach
upon
the
Publick
Liberty
,
upon
which
their
Government
is
chiefly
founded
.
And
it
is
to
be
observed
,
that
the
Treaty
between
the
King
and
them
,
as
to
the
Articles
concerning
Rebells
and
Fugitives
,
is
Reciprocall
;
as
all
the
Ancient
Treaties
between
the
Crown
of
England
,
and
the
Princes
of
these
Provinces
,
before
the
formation
of
the
Common-wealth
,
ever
were
as
to
this
particular
;
so
that
they
can
be
no
more
bound
to
the
King
by
it
,
than
the
King
is
bound
to
them
.
Now
let
us
suppose
that
the
King
Naturalises
a
Dutchman
,
by
which
he
is
admitted
to
all
the
Priviledges
of
an
Englishman
;
if
the
Dutch
should
after
that
condemn
this
person
,
as
guilty
of
Rebellion
,
the
King
could
not
upon
the
States
demanding
of
him
deliver
him
up
or
banish
him
at
his
pleasure
,
since
this
cannot
be
done
arbitrarily
to
any
Englishman
,
without
a
legall
tryall
by
his
Peers
;
and
therefore
it
is
plain
that
my
case
does
not
at
all
fall
within
the
Articles
of
the
Treaty
,
so
that
in
this
whole
matter
the
States
have
acted
as
a
free
State
,
that
was
carefull
to
maintain
its
Honour
,
and
to
assert
its
being
an
Independent
Soveraignty
:
and
for
my
own
part
,
I
can
appeal
to
all
the
Members
of
the
States
of
Holland
,
if
I
made
any
applications
to
them
,
as
if
I
would
value
my self
on
my
being
supported
in
opposition
to
the
Envoys
Memoriall
,
I
staid
at
home
,
while
the
thing
was
under
consultation
,
without
making
Addresses
to
any
one
of
them
as
to
my
own
particular
.
It
is
true
,
I
would
not
withdraw
of
my
own
accord
,
from
my
own
house
,
which
I
thought
would
have
been
a
forsaking
the
Rights
of
the
Country
,
a
mistrusting
the
Protection
of
my
Soveraigns
,
as
well
as
my
own
Innocence
,
and
an
abandoning
of
the
post
in
which
God
by
his
Providence
has
placed
me
.
And
I
am
resolved
rather
to
run
the
risque
of
all
that
with
which
I
am
threatned
,
than
show
the
least
unbecoming
fear
.
I
thank
God
I
may
make
use
of
that
common
but
Noble
expression
,
that
I
am
neither
affraid
to
dye
,
nor
ashamed
to
live
.
I
will
not
go
further
into
dark
thoughts
,
tho
I
know
enough
of
the
contrivances
against
me
,
by
an
order
of
men
,
whose
souls
are
as
black
as
their
Habits
.
Tho
for
a
great
while
I
thought
that
the
meanness
of
my
person
was
such
,
that
even
success
in
any
design
against
me
could
not
have
counterballanced
the
Infamy
of
it
.
Thus
I
hope
those
hard
words
of
high
treason
or
Rebellion
will
make
no
Impressions
on
any
to
my
prejudice
:
for
it
is
with
them
,
as
with
Blasphemy
or
Heresy
,
which
are
very
odious
words
;
but
if
mens
passions
carry
them
to
apply
these
to
the
most
Innocent
things
,
they
lose
that
force
which
is
in
them
,
and
this
will
make
the
antient
observation
return
into
mens
minds
,
that
Treason
was
become
the
crime
of
those
(
qui
ab
omni
crimine
innoxii
erant
)
who
were
free
from
all
crimes
;
so
when
all
this
prosecution
is
so
slightly
founded
,
I
make
no
doubt
that
the
world
will
do
me
Justice
in
it
;
and
I
can
as
little
doubt
,
that
if
my
cause
could
be
so
fairly
represented
to
His
Majesty
,
that
he
might
see
it
without
those
false
colours
with
which
the
Malice
of
my
Enemies
darken
it
,
he
who
has
of
Late
shewed
a
disposition
to
receive
even
into
his
favour
those
who
were
formerly
esteemed
,
both
his
Fathers
Enemies
,
his
Brothers
and
his
own
,
would
return
to
juster
and
softer
thoughts
of
me
.
For
since
I
have
done
nothing
that
deserves
his
displeasure
,
it
would
be
a
greater
crime
,
then
any
of
which
I
stand
accused
,
to
think
that
it
would
be
lasting
.
This
Author
lays
several
Papers
to
my
charge
;
but
he
does
not
prove
that
they
were
writ
by
me
:
and
I
do
not
think
my self
obliged
to
satisfy
every
spiteful
man
,
that
will
fasten
all
such
things
upon
me
,
as
he
thinks
will
render
me
odious
.
I
did
solemnly
purge
my self
of
the
matters
laid
to
my
charge
in
the
first
Citation
:
but
I
said
then
,
that
I
would
not
give
my
Enemies
the
satisfaction
of
doing
that
any
more
;
or
of
clearing
my self
,
as
oft
as
they
should
think
fit
to
lay
any
thing
to
my
charge
:
so
when
there
is
any
thing
brought
against
me
in
a
legal
way
,
I
make
no
doubt
but
that
I
shall
be
able
either
to
clear
my self
of
it
,
or
to
justifie
my self
in
it
;
But
since
this
Author
thought
fit
to
fasten
so
many
Papers
on
me
which
I
have
not
owned
,
he
should
in
common
equity
and
decency
,
have
taken
some
notice
of
a
Discourse
which
I
have
owned
:
and
that
was
my
Preface
to
Lactantius's
book
of
the
Death
of
the
Persecutors
;
in
which
I
had
pleaded
against
Persecution
,
perhaps
with
more
force
than
most
of
those
who
have
of
late
undertaken
the
Argument
:
I
carried
the
point
so
far
,
as
to
include
even
the
Papists
,
in
that
General
Toleration
which
I
recommended
.
This
I
had
writ
before
either
the
Kings
Declaration
appeared
,
or
that
the
Proceedings
against
me
were
begun
:
but
tho
the
state
of
Affairs
with
relation
to
my self
,
was
upon
that
altered
,
and
the
point
was
so
tender
,
that
I
had
reason
to
apprehend
it
might
offend
many
of
my
Brethren
and
best
Friends
,
at
a
time
when
I
had
no
Reason
to
make
Enemies
to
my self
,
yet
I
published
it
,
without
altering
it
in
any
one
thing
.
In
the
circumstances
in
which
I
was
,
I
could
do
nothing
more
to
shew
how
far
I
was
from
desiring
to
Imbroil
matters
then
when
I
touched
so
nice
a
matter
,
with
so
much
plainness
.
As
for
all
the
other
Reproaches
with
which
he
pursues
me
,
I
think
it
below
me
to
answer
such
a
Scribler
but
for
the
sake
of
the
License
,
I
take
the
liberty
to
say
,
that
I
am
not
affraid
,
neither
of
the
Calumnies
,
nor
the
Violences
of
my
Enemies
.
I
lived
many
Years
in
England
under
a
great
deal
of
displeasure
from
the
Court
,
and
yet
there
never
was
found
the
least
appearance
of
any
Guilt
in
me
,
with
relation
to
the
Government
.
Many
of
my
friends
have
had
pardons
,
and
by
consequence
did
very
probably
discover
all
they
knew
of
me
:
for
I
have
been
credibly
Informed
,
that
many
have
been
Interrogated
,
and
some
under
Torture
with
relation
to
me
:
but
there
never
appeared
the
least
shadow
of
a
guilty
Compliance
with
ill
Principles
:
not
only
was
I
free
from
accession
to
ill
things
,
I
was
free
also
even
from
faults
of
Omission
,
with
relation
to
the
Publick
;
for
I
never
failed
as
oft
as
I
saw
the
least
occasion
for
it
,
to
bear
down
all
things
that
tended
to
disturb
the
Publick
Peace
,
and
this
both
in
Books
,
in
Sermons
,
and
in
private
Conversation
:
and
I
have
Compurgators
in
this
matter
,
that
are
beyond
exception
,
as
well
as
above
Scandal
.
I
do
not
carry
this
matter
further
,
tho
I
could
say
that
which
might
cover
all
my
Enemies
with
Shame
:
and
which
will
perhaps
appear
to
their
amasement
when
they
may
have
put
an
end
to
my
being
in
this
world
.
I
have
ever
gone
by
the
Principles
in
which
I
was
bred
up
at
first
,
under
a
Father
that
from
first
to
last
,
adhered
to
the
Kings
Cause
,
without
so
much
as
one
stumble
,
or
making
even
an
Address
of
Civility
to
his
Enemies
:
but
was
as
much
an
Enemy
to
Arbitrary
Power
,
as
he
was
to
Rebellion
,
and
thought
it
was
as
base
and
unwarrantable
a
thing
,
for
Subjects
to
give
up
their
just
and
legal
Rights
,
as
ir
was
for
them
to
fly
out
upon
every
pretended
violation
of
them
.
In
these
Principles
I
have
fortified
my self
,
by
study
and
observation
;
and
I
may
Love
them
,
for
they
have
stood
me
very
Dear
.
I
went
no
further
than
to
assert
an
obedience
and
submission
according
to
law
when
I
was
Imployed
to
assert
the
Lawes
of
Scotland
,
against
those
who
studied
to
overturn
them
,
in
which
it
was
thought
I
did
the
Government
some
service
,
and
for
which
the
late
King
was
pleased
to
thank
me
.
It
is
true
,
I
never
could
descend
to
the
Methods
of
aspiring
to
Preferment
that
are
expected
in
some
Courts
:
but
if
this
made
some
look
on
me
as
Sullen
or
affected
,
yet
it
might
have
freed
me
from
the
Imputations
of
being
Malecontent
,
when
there
are
many
Vouchers
for
me
,
who
know
that
I
avoided
all
Preferment
as
Industrously
,
as
the
most
ambitious
do
court
it
.
I
came
under
ill
Characters
both
In
the
Court
,
and
elsewhere
,
because
first
and
last
I
was
always
against
the
Prosecution
of
the
Dissenters
:
and
I
always
thought
that
greater
endeavours
ought
to
have
been
used
for
the
Composing
of
the
small
Differences
among
our selves
,
and
that
greater
gentleness
ought
to
be
expressed
even
to
those
who
could
not
be
brought
within
any
termes
of
reconciliation
.
These
were
my
only
Crimes
and
Heresies
;
and
for
these
Opinions
I
was
represented
as
a
favourer
of
the
Kings
and
the
Churches
Enemies
.
And
therefore
it
cannot
but
seem
strange
,
that
I
,
who
was
hardly
used
upon
those
accounts
,
should
be
now
singled
out
to
be
the
chief
Instance
of
an
unrelenting
severity
.
The
designs
against
my
Person
,
seem
not
enough
to
satisfy
that
Malice
that
works
so
quick
against
me
,
but
they
must
lash
out
on
my
goad
name
,
and
my
Reputation
,
which
I
confess
is
the
greater
tryall
of
the
two
to
my
Patience
:
but
tho
with
relation
to
God
I
must
Lay
my
hand
on
my
mouth
,
and
say
,
that
I
am
the
Chief
of
sinners
;
yet
as
to
all
men
I
may
boldly
say
,
What
have
I
done
?
I
hope
God
will
not
Lay
to
the
charge
of
my
Enemies
,
all
those
Slanders
and
all
that
Injustice
with
which
they
have
prosecuted
me
.
This
Author
and
some
others
have
often
given
it
out
as
if
I
had
Betrayed
a
Master
,
and
I
may
expect
the
next
time
,
that
they
will
say
,
that
I
Murdered
my
Father
;
for
the
one
is
as
true
as
the
other
.
I
never
had
a
Master
but
the
King
for
the
whole
course
of
my
life
raised
me
above
the
serving
af
any
Subject
.
A
Design
proposed
to
me
,
by
one
that
is
now
dead
,
and
therefore
shall
not
be
named
by
me
,
of
bringing
in
an
Army
out
of
Scotland
for
the
spoiling
and
subduing
of
England
,
gave
me
a
just
horrour
at
the
proposition
,
and
I
did
all
I
could
to
withstand
it
.
The
same
great
Person
did
quickly
take
up
such
a
Jealousy
of
me
,
that
he
did
all
he
could
to
ruin
me
,
tho
His
present
Majesty
,
who
had
then
the
Goodness
for
me
to
endeavour
to
pacifie
him
,
owned
to
me
that
he
could
see
nothing
in
his
hatred
of
me
,
but
a
violent
Passion
:
Yet
he
was
resolved
to
throw
me
in
a
Prison
where
very
Probably
I
had
languished
away
the
rest
of
my
life
,
if
the
King
,
that
now
is
,
had
not
been
so
gracious
to
me
as
to
warn
me
of
my
danger
:
which
made
me
leave
Scotland
:
and
after
I
had
suffered
near
two
years
,
all
that
Wrath
armed
with
Power
,
could
do
to
me
,
at
last
while
I
was
under
one
of
the
sharp
effects
of
that
great
Ministers
anger
,
I
told
a
person
of
Honour
that
which
I
believed
was
one
of
the
grounds
of
it
.
That
Gentleman
set
this
so
about
,
that
as
he
himself
was
a
Member
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
so
it
was
known
to
a
great
many
others
;
upon
which
I
was
sent
for
by
the
House
;
I
declined
for
four
several
times
,
to
say
what
had
been
proposed
to
me
:
and
at
last
being
threatned
to
be
prosecuted
by
the
House
of
Commans
as
an
Ennemy
to
the
Nation
,
I
was
thus
unwillingly
brought
to
own
it
.
But
that
Great
Man
fell
no
sooner
under
an
Ecclipse
of
favour
then
,
tho
I
had
felt
the
weight
of
his
Credit
for
seven
years
together
,
I
made
not
only
all
the
steps
necessary
for
a
reconciliation
,
but
I
engaged
some
then
in
Favour
,
so
far
into
his
Interests
,
that
he
expressed
a
very
thankful
acknowledgment
of
it
,
and
a
perfect
Reconciliation
with
me
:
Tho
upon
some
reasons
of
his
own
our
meeting
was
not
thought
convenient
:
and
his
own
Nephew
,
who
being
now
of
the
Roman
Communion
,
is
a
Witness
,
to
whom
I
may
the
more
freely
appeal
,
brought
me
very
kind
Messages
from
him
,
and
signified
them
to
me
after
his
death
.
As
for
all
the
other
things
that
can
be
objected
to
me
,
I
pass
them
over
,
as
things
which
can
very
little
hurt
me
.
This
Author
it
seems
pities
Varillas's
defeated
Condition
,
who
as
my
friends
from
Paris
write
to
me
,
does
not
so
much
as
pretend
to
justify
himself
of
all
those
gross
errours
of
which
I
have
discovered
him
Guilty
;
but
says
,
he
has
received
an
order
from
the
King
to
Insist
no
more
in
the
Dispute
,
in
which
he
and
I
were
engaged
.
Our
Author
will
be
a
very
fit
person
to
succeed
to
that
Despicable
Writer
;
who
fancies
that
I
contradict
my self
,
in
setting
forth
.
Q.
Maries
Clemency
in
one
place
,
and
yet
shewing
in
another
how
unmerciful
she
shewed
her self
towards
those
that
were
condemned
of
Heresy
.
The
best
Natures
in
the
World
can
be
corrupted
by
a
false
Religion
:
and
they
being
once
possessed
with
cruell
principles
,
the
more
pious
they
are
,
they
will
be
the
more
true
to
the
Doctrines
of
their
Church
;
and
by
consequence
,
they
will
execute
all
its
severe
Decrees
with
an
unrelenting
Rigour
.
And
we
have
clear
Instances
of
this
in
the
Age
in
which
we
live
;
of
Princes
whose
Inclinations
to
Clemency
,
are
as
well
known
as
the
Severities
to
which
the
credit
of
the
Society
has
carried
them
are
Deplorable
.
There
is
another
spiteful
Insinuation
with
which
I
shall
conclude
my
Apology
:
This
Author
finding
that
the
Matters
of
State
,
for
which
he
had
accused
me
,
were
not
like
to
blemish
me
much
,
resolved
to
try
what
he
could
do
in
a
subject
of
another
nature
,
which
was
indeed
above
him
:
for
tho
it
seems
he
is
entertained
to
scrible
upon
the
Politicks
,
yet
the
matters
of
Divinity
probably
do
not
lie
within
his
Province
;
but
it
seems
he
thought
that
any
thing
was
to
be
ventured
on
that
might
Defame
me
.
He
represents
me
as
an
Enemy
to
the
Divinity
of
Jesus
Christ
,
because
of
the
various
readings
of
a
verse
in
S.
John's
Epistle
,
that
I
gave
from
some
Ancient
Manuscripts
,
which
I
saw
in
my
Travels
.
And
these
men
who
have
of
late
studied
to
make
all
the
world
either
Deists
or
Socinians
,
if
they
cannot
make
them
Papists
,
by
representing
that
unless
we
believe
the
Infallibility
of
the
Church
,
we
cannot
upon
good
grounds
,
believe
either
the
Christian
Religion
or
the
Mysteries
of
it
,
and
this
with
so
much
heat
and
Industry
,
as
if
their
design
were
to
have
us
to
be
any
thing
rather
than
Protestants
,
yet
will
accuse
some
of
our
Church
of
those
Doctrines
,
against
which
we
have
writ
with
greater
force
than
any
of
our
Calumniators
.
(
For
we
have
Accusers
of
the
other
side
too
.
)
All
the
Fathers
that
writ
against
the
Arians
believed
those
Mysteries
,
tho
they
never
cited
that
passage
,
from
which
it
was
reasonable
to
conclude
,
that
it
was
not
in
their
Bibles
,
otherwise
it
is
not
to
be
imagined
,
that
such
men
as
St.
Athanase
and
St.
Austin
should
not
have
mentioned
it
;
now
the
many
other
places
of
Scripture
that
determin
me
to
believe
the
Divinity
of
the
Saviour
of
the
world
,
are
so
clear
,
that
I
believe
it
equally
well
,
whether
this
passage
be
acknowledged
to
be
genuine
or
not
.
But
having
for
some
years
taken
pleasure
to
compare
Manuscripts
,
those
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
were
naturally
the
most
looked
into
by
me
:
and
since
a
man
that
has
but
a
transcient
view
of
M.
SS.
cannot
stay
to
examin
them
in
many
passages
,
that
passage
being
the
most
Important
of
all
that
are
controverted
,
I
turned
always
to
it
,
and
have
given
the
account
of
what
I
saw
sincerely
,
both
for
it
and
against
it
.
For
I
have
learned
from
Job
,
not
to
lie
for
God
,
since
truth
needs
no
support
from
falsehood
;
And
I
may
well
forgive
those
of
a
Church
,
who
have
built
so
much
upon
Forgeries
,
and
Conterfeited
Pieces
,
to
be
angry
with
me
,
forgiving
so
sincere
an
account
as
I
did
of
a
matter
of
fact
.
But
that
Divine
Saviour
whom
I
adore
Daily
as
God
equal
with
the
Father
,
knows
the
Injustice
that
is
done
me
,
in
this
as
well
as
in
the
other
false
accusations
with
which
my
Enemies
study
to
blacken
me
:
I
can
assure
them
,
that
I
have
that
detestation
of
all
Idolatry
and
of
theirs
in
particular
,
that
I
should
never
adore
him
as
I
do
,
if
I
did
not
think
him
to
be
by
Nature
God
,
over
all
,
blessed
for
ever
.
And
now
to
conclude
,
if
men
will
not
receive
this
Vindication
of
my self
,
with
the
Justice
that
is
due
to
me
,
I
humbly
commit
my
cause
to
him
who
judges
righteously
;
who
sees
all
things
,
and
who
will
bring
to
light
the
hidden
things
of
dishonesty
:
and
who
will
either
compass
me
with
his
favor
as
with
a
shield
,
and
cover
me
from
the
rage
of
my
Enemies
or
if
he
letts
me
fall
into
their
hands
,
will
accept
of
the
sacrifice
of
my
life
that
I
offer
to
him
,
and
receve
me
into
his
presence
where
I
shall
be
at
quiet
,
and
safe
both
from
the
Strife
of
tongues
and
from
the
pride
of
man
.
GILBERT
BURNET
.
FINIS
.
REFLECTIONS
On
A
PAMPHLET
,
Entitled
,
PARLIAMENTUM
PACIFICUM
.
Licensed
by
the
Earl
of
Sunderland
,
and
printed
at
London
in
March
,
1688.
I.
PEace
is
a
very
desirable
thing
,
yet
every
State
that
is
peaceable
is
not
blindly
to
be
courted
.
An
Apoplexy
is
the
most
peaceable
State
,
in
which
a
mans
Body
can
be
laid
:
yet
few
would
desire
to
pacify
the
humours
of
their
Body
at
that
rate
.
An
Implicite
Faith
and
Absolute
Slavery
are
the
two
peaceablest
things
that
can
be
;
yet
we
confess
,
we
have
no
mind
to
try
so
dangerous
an
Experiment
:
and
while
the
Remedies
are
too
strong
,
we
will
choose
rather
to
bear
our
Disease
,
than
to
venture
on
them
.
The
Instance
that
is
proposed
,
to
the
Imitation
of
the
Nation
,
is
,
that
Parliament
which
called
in
the
late
King
:
and
yet
that
cannot
so
much
as
be
called
a
Parliament
,
unless
it
be
upon
a
Commonwealth
Principle
,
that
the
Soveraign
Power
is
radically
in
the
People
:
for
its
being
chosen
without
the
Kings
Writ
,
was
such
an
Essential
Nullity
,
that
no
subsequent
Ratification
could
take
it
away
:
for
all
People
saw
,
that
they
could
not
depend
upon
any
Acts
passed
by
it
:
and
therefore
it
was
quickly
dissolved
:
and
ever
since
it
has
been
called
by
all
the
Monarchical
Party
,
A
Convention
,
and
not
a
Parliament
.
But
now
in
order
to
the
Courting
the
Commonwealth
Party
,
this
is
not
only
called
a
Parliament
,
but
is
proposed
as
a
Pattern
to
all
others
,
from
the
beginning
to
Page
19.
II
.
But
since
this
Author
will
send
us
back
to
that
time
,
&
since
he
takes
it
so
ill
that
the
Memory
of
the
late
King
should
be
forgotten
.
Let
us
examin
that
Transaction
a
little
,
and
then
we
shall
see
whether
it
had
not
been
more
for
his
Honour
to
let
it
be
forgotten
.
The
King
did
indeed
in
his
Declaration
from
Breda
promise
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
on
which
he
insisted
in
a
large
and
wise
Declaration
,
set
out
after
he
was
setled
on
the
Throne
:
but
after
that
he
had
got
a
Parliament
,
chosen
all
of
Creatures
depending
on
himself
,
who
for
many
years
granted
him
every
thing
that
he
desired
,
a
severe
Act
of
Uniformity
was
passed
:
and
the
Kings
Promise
was
carried
off
by
this
,
that
the
King
could
not
refuse
to
comply
with
so
loyal
a
Parliament
.
It
is
well
enough
known
,
that
those
who
were
then
secretly
Papists
,
and
who
disguised
their
Religion
for
many
years
after
this
,
as
the
King
himself
did
to
the
last
,
animated
the
Chief-men
of
our
Church
,
to
carry
the
points
of
Uniformity
as
high
as
was
possible
;
and
that
both
then
,
and
ever
since
,
all
that
proposed
any
expedients
for
uniting
us
(
or
as
it
was
afterwards
termed
,
for
comprehending
the
Dissenters
)
were
represented
as
the
Betrayers
of
the
Church
.
The
Design
was
then
clear
to
some
;
that
so
by
carrying
the
Terms
of
Conformity
to
a
great
rigidity
,
there
might
be
many
Nonconformists
,
and
great
occasion
given
for
a
Toleration
,
under
which
Popery
might
insensibly
creep
in
:
for
if
the
Expedients
that
the
King
himself
proposed
in
his
Declaration
,
had
been
stood
to
,
it
is
well
known
,
that
of
the
2000.
Conscientious
Ministers
,
as
he
calls
them
pag
.
14.
by
an
Affectation
too
gross
to
pass
on
them
,
that
were
turned
out
,
above
1700.
had
staid
in
.
Their
Practices
had
but
too
good
success
on
those
who
were
then
at
the
Head
of
our
Church
:
whose
Spirits
were
too
much
foured
by
their
ill
usage
during
the
War
,
and
whose
Principles
led
them
to
so
good
an
opinion
of
all
that
the
Court
did
,
that
for
a
great
while
they
would
suspect
nothing
.
But
at
the
same
time
that
the
Church
Party
,
that
carried
all
before
them
in
that
Parliament
,
were
animated
to
press
things
so
hard
,
the
Dissenters
were
secretly
encouraged
to
stand
out
:
and
were
told
,
that
the
King's
Temper
and
Principle
,
and
the
Consideration
of
Trade
would
certainly
procure
them
a
Toleration
:
and
ever
since
,
that
Party
that
thus
had
set
us
together
by
the
ears
,
has
shifted
sides
dextrously
enough
;
but
still
they
have
carried
on
the
main
Design
,
which
was
to
keep
up
the
Quarrel
in
the
Intervals
of
Parliament
,
Liberty
of
Conscience
was
in
vogue
;
but
when
a
Session
of
Parliament
came
,
and
the
King
wanted
Money
,
then
a
new
severe
Law
against
the
Dissenters
was
offered
to
the
angry
men
of
the
Church
Party
,
as
the
price
of
it
;
and
this
seldom
failed
to
have
its
effect
:
so
that
they
were
like
the
Jewels
of
the
Crown
,
pawned
when
the
King
needed
Money
,
but
redeemed
at
the
next
Prorogation
.
A
Reflection
then
that
arises
naturally
out
of
the
proceedings
in
the
year
1660.
is
,
that
if
a
Parliament
should
come
,
that
would
copy
after
that
pattern
,
and
repeal
Laws
and
Tests
:
The
Kings
offers
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
as
may
indeed
be
supposed
,
will
bind
him
till
after
a
short
Session
or
two
such
a
meritorious
Parliament
should
be
dissolved
,
according
to
the
precedent
in
the
year
1660.
and
that
a
new
one
were
brought
together
by
the
same
Methods
of
changing
Charters
and
making
returns
,
and
then
the
Old
Laws
de
Heretico
comburendo
might
be
again
revived
,
and
it
would
be
said
,
that
the
King's
Inclinations
are
for
keeping
his
Promise
and
Granting
still
a
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
yet
he
can
deny
nothing
to
a
Loyal
and
Catholick
Parliament
.
III
.
We
pay
all
possible
respect
to
the
King
;
and
have
witnessed
how
much
we
depended
on
his
Promises
,
in
so
signal
a
manner
,
that
after
such
real
Evidence
all
words
are
superfluous
.
But
since
the
King
has
shewed
so
much
zeal
,
not
only
for
his
Religion
in
general
,
but
in
particular
for
that
Society
,
which
of
all
the
other
Bodies
in
it
,
we
know
is
animated
the
most
against
us
,
we
must
crave
leave
to
speak
a
little
freely
,
and
not
suffer
our selves
to
be
destroyed
by
a
Complement
.
The
Extirpation
of
Hereticks
,
and
the
Breach
of
Faith
to
them
,
have
been
decreed
by
two
of
their
General
Councils
,
and
by
a
Tradition
of
several
Ages
;
the
Pope
is
possessed
of
a
Power
of
dissolving
all
Promises
,
Contracts
and
Oaths
;
not
to
mention
the
private
Doctrines
of
that
Society
,
that
is
so
much
in
favour
,
of
doing
ill
that
good
may
come
of
it
,
of
using
Equivocations
and
Reservations
,
and
of
ordering
the
Intention
.
Now
these
Opinions
as
they
have
never
been
renounced
by
the
Body
of
that
Church
,
so
indeed
they
cannot
be
,
unless
they
renounce
their
Infallibility
,
which
is
their
Basis
,
at
the
same
time
.
Therefore
tho
a
Prince
of
that
Communion
,
may
very
sincerely
resolve
to
maintain
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
and
to
keep
his
word
,
yet
the
blind
Subjection
into
which
he
is
brought
by
his
Religion
,
to
his
Church
,
must
force
him
to
break
thro
all
that
,
as
soon
as
the
Doctrine
of
his
Church
is
opened
to
him
;
and
that
Absolution
is
denied
him
,
or
higher
Threatnings
are
made
him
;
if
he
continues
firm
to
his
merciful
Inclinations
.
So
that
supposing
His
Majesties
Piety
to
be
as
great
as
the
Iesuites
Sermon
,
on
the
30.
of
Ianuary
lately
printed
,
carries
it
,
to
the
uttermost
possibility
of
Flesh
and
Blood
,
then
our
Fears
must
still
grow
upon
us
,
who
know
what
are
the
Decrees
of
that
Church
;
and
by
consequence
we
may
infer
to
what
his
Piety
must
needs
carry
him
:
as
soon
as
those
things
are
fully
opened
to
him
,
which
in
respect
to
him
,
we
are
bound
to
believe
are
now
hid
from
him
.
IV
.
It
will
further
appear
,
that
these
are
not
injust
Inferences
:
if
we
consider
a
little
what
has
been
the
Observation
of
all
the
Promises
made
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
to
Hereticks
by
R.
Catholick
Princes
,
ever
since
the
Reformation
.
The
first
was
,
the
Edict
of
Passow
in
Germany
,
procured
chiefly
by
Ferdinands
means
,
and
maintained
indeed
Religiously
by
his
Son
Maximilian
the
Second
,
whose
Inclinations
to
the
Protestant
Religion
made
him
be
suspected
for
one
himself
:
but
the
Iesuites
insinuated
themselves
so
far
into
his
younger
Brothers
Court
,
that
was
Archduke
of
Geats
,
that
this
was
not
only
broken
by
that
Family
,
in
their
Share
,
but
tho
Rodolph
and
Mathias
were
Princes
of
great
Gentleness
,
and
the
latter
of
these
,
was
the
Protector
of
the
States
in
the
beginning
of
their
War
with
King
Philip
the
Second
,
yet
the
violence
with
which
the
House
of
Grats
was
possessed
,
overturned
all
that
:
so
that
the
breaking
of
the
Pacificatory
Edicts
was
begun
in
Rodolph's
time
,
and
was
so
far
carried
on
in
Mathias's
time
,
that
they
set
both
Bohemia
and
Hungary
in
a
Flame
;
and
so
begun
that
long
War
of
Germany
.
2.
The
next
Promise
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
was
made
by
Queen
Mary
of
England
,
but
we
know
well
enough
how
it
was
observed
:
the
Promises
made
by
the
Queen
Regent
of
Scotland
,
were
observed
with
the
same
Fidelity
:
after
these
came
the
Pacificatory
Edicts
in
France
,
which
were
scarce
made
when
the
Triumvirate
was
formed
to
break
them
.
The
famous
Massacre
of
Paris
was
an
Instance
never
to
be
forgot
of
the
Religious
Observance
of
a
Treaty
,
made
on
Purpose
to
lay
the
Party
asleep
,
and
to
bring
the
whole
Heads
of
it
into
the
Net
,
this
was
a
much
more
dreadful
St.
Bartholomew
than
that
on
which
our
Author
bestows
that
Epithete
pag
.
15.
and
when
all
seemed
setled
by
the
famous
Edict
of
Nantes
,
we
have
seen
how
restless
that
Party
,
and
in
particular
the
Society
,
were
till
it
was
broken
;
by
a
Prince
,
that
for
thirty
years
together
had
shewed
as
great
an
aversion
to
the
Shedding
of
Blood
,
in
his
Government
at
home
,
as
any
of
his
Neighbours
can
pretend
to
:
&
who
has
done
nothing
in
the
whole
Tragedy
that
he
has
acted
,
but
what
is
exactly
conform
to
the
Doctrine
&
Decrees
of
his
Church
:
so
that
it
is
not
himself
,
but
his
Religion
,
that
we
must
blame
for
all
that
has
fallen
out
in
that
Kingdom
.
I
cannot
leave
this
without
taking
notice
of
our
Author's
Sincerity
,
who
page
18.
tells
us
of
the
Protestants
entring
into
their
League
in
France
,
when
it
is
well
known
that
it
was
a
League
of
Papists
against
a
Protestant
Successor
,
which
was
afterwards
applied
to
a
Popish
King
,
only
because
he
was
not
zealous
enough
against
Hereticks
.
But
to
end
this
List
of
Instances
at
a
Country
to
which
our
Author
bears
so
particular
a
kindness
;
when
the
Dutchess
of
Parma
granted
the
Edict
of
Pacification
,
by
which
all
that
was
past
,
was
buried
;
and
the
Exercise
of
the
Protestant
Religion
was
to
be
connived
at
for
the
future
:
King
Philip
the
Second
did
not
only
ratify
this
,
but
expressed
himself
so
fully
upon
it
to
the
Count
of
Egmont
,
who
had
been
sent
over
to
him
,
that
the
easy
Count
returned
to
Flanders
so
assured
of
the
King's
Sincerity
,
that
he
endeavoured
to
perswade
all
others
to
rely
as
much
on
his
word
,
as
he
himself
did
.
It
is
well
known
how
fatal
this
Confidence
was
to
him
:
and
(
see
Meteren
lib
.
3.
)
that
two
years
after
this
that
King
sent
over
the
Duke
of
Alva
,
with
that
severe
Commission
,
which
has
been
often
printed
:
in
which
,
without
any
regard
had
to
the
former
Pacification
or
Promises
,
the
King
declared
,
that
the
Provinces
had
forfeited
all
their
Liberties
,
and
that
every
man
in
it
had
forfeited
his
life
:
and
therefore
he
authorised
that
unmerciful
man
to
proceed
with
all
possible
rigor
against
them
.
It
is
also
remarkable
,
that
that
bloody
Commission
is
founded
on
the
King's
Absolute
Power
,
and
his
zeal
for
Religion
.
This
is
the
only
Edict
that
I
know
,
in
which
a
King
has
pretended
to
Absolute
Power
,
before
the
two
Declarations
for
Scotland
in
the
year
1687.
so
whether
they
who
penned
them
,
took
their
pattern
from
this
,
I
cannot
determin
it
.
I
could
carry
this
view
of
History
much
further
,
to
shew
in
many
more
Instances
,
how
little
Protestants
can
depend
on
the
Faith
of
Ro
.
Catholicks
:
and
that
their
condition
is
so
much
the
worse
,
the
more
pious
that
their
Princes
are
.
As
for
what
may
be
objected
to
all
this
,
from
the
present
State
of
some
Principalities
or
Towns
in
Germany
,
or
of
the
Switsers
and
Grisons
;
it
is
to
be
considered
,
that
in
some
of
these
want
of
power
in
the
Ro
.
Catholicks
to
do
mischief
,
and
the
other
Circumstances
of
their
affairs
,
are
visibly
the
only
Securities
of
the
Protestants
:
and
whensoever
this
Nation
departs
from
that
,
and
gives
up
the
Laws
,
it
is
no
hard
thing
to
guess
how
short-lived
the
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
even
tho
setled
into
a
Magna
Charta
would
be
.
V.
All
that
our
Author
says
upon
the
General
Subject
of
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
is
only
a
severe
Libel
upon
that
Church
,
whose
principles
and
practices
are
so
contrary
to
it
.
But
the
Proposition
lately
made
,
has
put
an
end
to
all
this
dispute
;
since
by
an
Offer
of
Repealing
the
Penal
Lawes
,
reserving
only
those
of
the
Test
,
and
such
others
as
secure
the
Protestant
Religion
;
the
question
is
now
no
more
,
which
Religion
must
be
tolerated
,
but
which
Religion
must
Reign
and
prevail
.
All
that
is
here
offered
in
opposition
to
that
,
is
that
by
this
means
such
a
number
of
persons
must
be
ruined
,
Page
64.
which
is
as
severe
a
way
of
forcing
people
to
change
their
Religion
,
as
the
way
of
Dragoons
.
I
will
not
examin
the
particulars
of
this
matter
,
but
must
express
my
joy
to
find
,
that
all
the
difficulty
which
is
in
our
way
to
a
happy
quiet
,
is
the
supplying
such
a
number
of
men
with
the
means
of
their
subsistence
,
which
by
the
execution
of
the
Law
for
the
Test
,
must
be
taken
from
them
.
This
by
all
that
I
can
learn
,
will
not
come
to
near
an
hundred
thousand
pound
a
year
:
and
indeed
the
supplying
of
those
of
the
King's
Religion
,
that
want
it
,
is
a
piece
of
Charity
and
Bounty
so
worthy
of
him
,
that
I
do
not
know
a
man
,
that
would
envy
them
the
double
of
this
in
pensions
:
and
if
such
a
sum
would
a
little
Charge
the
King's
Revenue
,
I
dare
say
,
when
the
Settlement
of
the
Nation
is
brought
to
that
single
point
,
there
would
not
be
one
Negative
found
in
either
House
of
Parliament
,
for
the
reimbursing
the
King
:
so
far
are
we
from
desiring
,
either
the
Destruction
,
or
even
the
poverty
of
those
that
perhaps
wait
only
for
an
occasion
to
burn
us
.
I
will
add
one
bold
thing
further
,
that
tho
I
will
be
no
undertaker
,
for
what
a
Parliament
may
do
,
yet
I
am
confident
that
all
men
are
so
far
from
any
desire
of
Revenge
,
but
most
of
all
,
that
the
Heroical
minds
of
the
next
Successors
,
are
above
it
,
that
if
an
Indemnity
for
that
bold
violation
of
the
Law
,
that
has
been
of
late
both
practised
and
authorised
among
us
,
would
procure
a
full
Settlement
,
even
this
could
be
obtained
:
tho
an
Impunity
after
such
Transgressions
,
is
perhaps
too
great
an
Encouragement
to
offend
for
the
future
.
But
since
it
is
the
preservation
of
the
Nation
,
and
not
the
ruin
of
any
party
in
it
,
that
is
aimed
at
,
the
Hardiness
of
this
Proposition
,
will
I
hope
be
forgiven
me
.
It
is
urged
pag
.
63.
that
according
to
the
Dutch
pattern
at
least
the
Ro
.
Catholicks
may
have
a
Share
in
Military
Employments
,
but
the
difference
between
our
Case
and
theirs
is
clear
:
since
some
Ro
.
Catholick
Officers
,
where
the
Government
is
wholly
in
the
Hands
of
Protestants
,
cannot
be
of
such
dangerous
consequence
,
as
it
must
needs
be
under
a
King
that
is
not
only
of
that
perswasion
,
but
is
become
nearly
allied
to
the
Society
as
the
Liege
Letter
tells
us
.
VI
.
It
is
true
,
our
Author
would
persuade
us
,
that
the
King
's
dispensing
power
has
already
put
an
end
to
the
dispute
:
and
that
therefore
it
is
a
seeming
sort
of
perjury
,
see
pag
.
48.
to
keep
the
Justices
of
peace
still
under
an
Oath
of
executing
those
Lawes
,
which
they
must
consider
no
more
.
Some
Presidents
are
brought
from
former
times
,
p.
22
,
23
,
24.
of
our
Kings
using
the
dispencing
power
in
Edward
the
3d
,
Richard
the
2d
,
Henry
the
7th
,
Henry
the
8th
,
Edward
the
6th
,
and
Q.
Elisabeth's
time
.
It
is
very
true
,
that
the
Lawes
have
been
of
late
broke
through
among
us
with
a
very
high
hand
:
but
it
is
a
little
too
dangerous
to
upbraid
the
Justices
of
Peace
with
their
Oaths
,
lest
this
oblige
them
to
reflect
on
so
sacred
an
engagement
:
for
the
worthy
Members
of
Magdalen
Colledg
are
not
the
only
persons
in
England
,
who
will
make
Conscience
of
observing
their
Oaths
:
so
that
if
others
are
brought
to
reflect
too
much
on
what
they
do
,
our
Authors
officiousness
in
suggesting
this
to
them
may
prove
to
be
no
acceptable
piece
of
service
.
I
will
not
examin
all
his
Presidents
:
we
are
to
be
Governed
by
Law
,
and
not
by
some
of
the
excesses
of
Government
:
nor
is
the
Latter
end
of
Edward
the
Third
a
time
to
be
much
imitated
:
and
of
all
the
parts
of
the
English
History
Richard
the
2ds
reign
should
be
the
least
mentioned
:
since
those
excesses
of
his
produced
so
Tragical
a
Conclusion
as
the
loss
of
his
Crown
and
Life
.
Henry
the
6ths
feeble
and
imbroiled
Reign
will
scarce
support
an
Argument
;
and
if
there
were
some
excesses
in
Henry
the
8ths
time
,
which
is
ordinary
in
all
great
Revolutions
,
he
got
all
these
to
be
either
Warranted
,
or
afterwards
confirmed
in
Parliament
.
And
Q.
Elisabeths
power
in
Ecclesiastical
matters
was
founded
on
a
special
Act
of
Parliament
,
which
was
in
a
great
measure
repealed
in
the
year
1641.
and
that
Repeal
was
again
ratified
by
another
Act
in
the
late
Kings
time
.
We
are
often
told
,
of
the
late
King's
Repealing
the
Act
concerning
the
sise
of
Carts
and
Wagons
:
but
all
Lawyers
know
,
that
some
Laws
are
understood
to
be
Abrogated
without
a
speciall
Repeal
,
when
some
Visible
Inconvenience
enforces
it
:
such
as
appeared
in
that
mistaken
Act
concerning
Wagons
:
so
the
King
in
that
case
only
declared
the
Inconvenience
which
made
that
Law
to
be
of
it self
null
because
it
was
Impracticable
:
It
is
true
,
the
Parliament
never
questioned
this
:
a
man
would
not
be
offended
if
another
pulled
a
flower
in
his
garden
,
that
yet
would
take
it
ill
if
he
broke
his
hedge
:
and
in
Holland
,
to
which
our
Authors
pen
leads
him
often
,
when
a
river
changes
its
course
,
any
man
may
break
the
Dike
that
was
made
to
resist
it
,
yet
that
will
be
no
warrant
to
go
,
and
break
the
Dike
that
resists
the
current
of
the
same
River
:
so
if
a
dispencing
power
when
applyed
to
smaller
offences
,
has
been
passed
over
,
as
an
excess
of
Government
,
that
might
be
excusable
,
tho
not
justifiable
,
this
will
by
no
means
prove
,
that
Laws
made
to
secure
us
against
that
which
we
esteem
the
greatest
of
evils
may
be
superceded
,
because
twelve
men
in
Scarlet
have
been
hired
or
practised
on
to
say
so
,
the
power
of
pardoning
is
also
unreasonably
urged
for
justifying
the
dispensing
power
;
the
one
,
is
a
grace
to
a
particular
person
for
a
crime
committed
,
whereas
the
other
is
a
warrant
to
commit
crimes
:
in
short
,
the
one
is
a
power
to
save
men
,
and
the
other
is
a
power
to
destroy
the
Government
.
But
tho
they
swagger
it
out
now
with
the
Dispensing
power
,
yet
rode
caper
vitem
may
come
to
be
again
in
season
:
and
a
time
may
come
,
in
which
the
whole
party
will
have
reason
to
wish
that
some
hare-brained
Jesuites
had
never
been
born
,
who
will
rather
expose
them
not
only
to
the
Resentments
,
but
even
to
the
Justice
of
another
season
,
in
which
as
little
regard
will
be
had
to
the
dispencing
power
,
as
they
have
to
the
Laws
at
present
;
then
accept
of
reasonable
propositions
.
VII
.
Our
Author's
kindness
to
the
States
of
Holland
,
is
very
particular
,
and
returns
often
upon
him
;
and
it
is
no
wonder
that
a
State
setled
upon
two
such
hinges
,
as
the
Protestant
Religion
and
Publick
Liberty
,
should
be
no
small
eyesore
,
to
those
who
intend
to
destroy
both
.
So
that
the
Slackning
the
Laws
concerning
Religion
,
and
the
Invading
that
State
,
seem
to
be
Terms
that
must
alwayes
go
together
.
In
the
first
War
began
the
first
Slackning
of
them
And
after
the
Triple
Alliance
had
laid
the
Dutch
asleep
,
when
the
second
War
was
resolved
on
,
which
began
with
that
Heroical
Attempt
on
the
Smirna
Fleet
(
for
our
Author
will
not
have
the
late
Kings
Actions
to
be
forgotten
)
at
the
same
time
the
famous
Declaration
suspending
the
Laws
in
1672.
came
out
:
And
now
again
with
another
Declaration
to
the
same
purpose
,
we
see
a
return
of
the
same
good
Inclinations
for
the
Dutch
,
tho
none
before
our
Author
has
ever
ventured
in
a
Book
licenced
by
My
Lord
President
of
the
Council
,
to
call
their
Constitution
,
Page
68.
A
Revolt
that
they
made
from
their
Lawful
Prince
,
and
to
raise
his
stile
to
a
more
sublime
strain
,
he
says
P.
66.
that
their
Commonwealth
is
only
the
result
of
an
absolute
Rebellion
,
Revolt
and
Defection
from
their
Prince
,
and
that
the
Lawes
that
they
have
made
,
were
to
prevent
any
Casual
return
to
their
natural
Allegeance
.
And
speaking
of
their
Obligation
,
to
protect
a
Naturalised
Subject
,
he
bestows
this
Honour
on
them
,
as
to
say
,
Pag
.
57
,
58.
Those
that
never
yet
dealt
so
fairly
with
Princes
,
may
be
suspected
for
such
a
superfluous
Faith
to
one
that
puts
himself
upon
them
for
a
Vassal
.
Time
will
shew
how
far
the
States
will
resent
these
Injuries
:
only
,
it
seems
our
Author
thinks
,
that
a
Soveraigns
Faith
to
protect
the
Subject
is
a
superfluous
thing
;
a
Faith
to
Hereticks
is
another
superfluous
thing
:
so
that
two
Suiperfluities
,
one
upon
another
,
must
be
all
that
we
are
to
trust
to
.
But
I
must
take
notice
of
the
variety
of
Methods
,
that
these
Gentlemen
use
in
their
Writings
.
Here
in
England
,
we
are
always
up
braided
with
the
Revolt
of
the
Dutch
,
as
a
scandalous
Imputation
on
the
Protestant
Religion
:
and
yet
in
a
late
Paper
,
entitled
,
an
Answer
to
Pensioner
Fagel's
Letter
,
the
Services
that
the
Roman
Catholicks
did
,
in
the
beginning
of
that
Commonwealth
,
are
highly
extolled
as
signal
and
meritorious
:
upon
which
the
Writer
makes
great
Complaints
,
that
the
Pacification
of
Gaunt
,
and
the
Union
at
Utrecht
,
by
which
the
free
Exercise
of
their
Religion
was
to
be
continued
to
them
,
was
not
observed
in
most
of
the
Provinces
:
But
if
he
had
taken
pains
to
examin
the
History
of
the
States
;
he
would
have
found
,
that
soon
after
the
Union
made
at
Utrecht
,
the
Treaty
at
Collen
was
set
on
foot
,
between
the
King
of
Spain
and
the
States
,
by
the
Emperors
Mediation
,
in
which
the
Spaniards
studied
to
divide
the
Ro
.
Catholicks
of
these
Provinces
from
the
Protestants
,
by
offering
a
Confirmation
of
all
the
other
Priviledges
of
these
Provinces
,
excepting
only
the
point
of
Religion
:
which
had
so
great
an
effect
,
that
the
Party
of
the
Malcontents
was
formed
upon
it
:
and
these
did
quickly
Capitulate
in
the
Walloon
Provinces
,
and
after
that
not
only
Brabant
and
Flanders
Capitulated
,
but
Reenenburgh
that
was
Governour
of
Groening
,
declared
for
the
King
of
Spain
,
and
by
some
Places
that
he
took
both
in
Friseland
and
Over-Issel
,
he
put
these
Provinces
under
Contribution
:
Not
long
after
that
both
Deventer
and
Zutphen
were
betrayed
by
Popish
Governours
:
and
the
War
was
thus
brought
within
the
seven
Provinces
,
that
had
been
before
kept
at
a
greater
distance
from
them
.
Thus
it
did
appear
almost
every
where
,
that
the
hatred
with
which
the
Priests
were
inspiring
the
R.
Catholicks
against
the
Protestants
,
disposed
them
to
betray
all
again
to
the
Spanish
Tyranny
.
The
new
War
that
Reenenburgh's
.
Treachery
had
brought
into
these
Provinces
,
changed
so
the
state
of
affairs
,
that
no
wonder
if
this
produced
a
change
likewise
with
Relation
to
that
Religion
,
since
it
appeared
that
these
Revolts
were
carried
on
,
and
justified
upon
the
Principles
of
that
Church
:
and
the
general
hatred
under
which
these
Revolts
brought
the
Ro
.
Catholicks
in
those
Out
Provinces
,
made
the
greater
part
of
them
to
withdraw
:
so
that
there
were
not
left
such
numbers
of
them
as
to
pretend
to
the
free
exercise
of
their
Religion
.
But
the
War
not
having
got
into
Holland
and
Utrecht
;
and
none
of
that
Religion
having
revolted
in
those
Provinces
,
the
Ro
.
Catholicks
continued
still
in
the
Countrey
:
and
tho
the
ill
Inclinations
that
they
shewed
,
made
it
necessary
for
the
Publick
Safety
,
to
put
them
out
of
the
Government
,
yet
they
have
still
enjoyed
the
common
Rights
of
the
Countrey
,
with
the
free
Exercise
of
their
Religion
.
But
it
is
plain
,
that
some
men
are
only
waiting
an
Opportunity
to
renew
the
old
Delenda
est
carthago
:
and
that
they
think
it
is
no
small
step
to
it
,
to
possess
all
the
World
with
odious
Impressions
of
the
Dutch
,
as
a
Rebellious
and
perfidious
State
:
and
if
it
were
possible
,
they
would
even
make
their
own
Ro
:
Catholick
Subjects
.
Fancy
that
they
are
persecuted
by
them
:
but
tho
men
may
be
brought
to
believe
Transubstantiation
,
in
spite
of
the
Evidence
of
Sense
to
the
contrary
;
yet
those
that
feel
themselves
at
ease
,
will
hardly
be
brought
to
think
that
they
are
persecuted
,
because
they
are
told
so
in
an
ill
writ
Pamphlet
.
And
for
their
Rebellion
,
the
Prince
that
is
only
concerned
in
that
,
finds
them
now
to
be
his
best
Allies
and
Chief
Supports
,
as
his
Predecessours
acknowledged
them
a
Free
State
almost
an
Age
ago
.
And
it
being
confessed
by
the
Historians
of
all
sides
,
that
there
was
an
express
proviso
,
in
the
Constitution
of
their
Government
,
That
if
their
Prince
broke
such
and
such
Limits
,
they
were
no
more
bound
to
obey
him
,
but
might
resist
him
;
and
it
being
no
less
certain
,
that
King
Philip
the
Second
authorised
the
Duke
of
Alva
to
seise
upon
all
their
Priviledges
,
their
resisting
him
,
and
maintaining
their
Priviledges
,
was
without
all
dispute
a
justifiable
Action
:
and
was
so
esteemed
by
all
the
States
of
Europe
;
and
in
particular
here
in
England
,
as
appears
by
the
Preambles
of
several
Acts
of
Subsidy
that
were
given
the
Queen
in
order
to
the
assisting
the
States
,
and
as
for
their
not
dealing
Fairly
with
Princes
,
when
our
Author
can
find
such
an
Instance
in
their
History
,
as
our
attempt
upon
their
Smirna
Fleet
was
,
he
may
employ
his
Eloquence
in
setting
it
out
:
and
if
notwithstanding
all
the
Failures
that
they
have
felt
from
others
,
they
have
still
maintained
the
Publick
Faith
,
our
Author's
Rhetorick
will
hardly
blemish
them
.
The
Peace
of
Nimmegen
and
the
abandoning
of
Luxemburgh
are
perhaps
the
single
Instances
in
their
History
,
that
need
to
be
a
little
excused
.
But
as
the
vast
expence
of
the
late
War
brought
them
into
a
Necessity
that
either
knows
no
Law
,
or
at
least
will
hearken
to
none
,
so
we
who
forced
them
to
both
,
and
first
sold
the
Triple
Alliance
,
and
then
let
go
Luxemburgh
,
do
with
a
very
ill
grace
,
reproach
the
Dutch
for
these
unhappy
steps
to
which
our
Conduct
drove
them
.
VIII
.
If
a
strain
of
pert
boldness
runs
thro
this
whole
Pamphlet
,
it
appears
no
where
more
Eminently
,
than
in
the
Reflections
the
Author
makes
on
Mr.
Fagel's
Letter
:
He
calls
it
,
Page
62
,
a
pretended
Piece
,
and
a
Presumption
not
to
be
soon
pardoned
,
in
prefixing
to
a
surreptitious
and
unauthorised
Pamphlet
the
reverend
name
of
the
Princess
of
Orange
:
which
in
another
place
(
Page
72.
)
he
had
reason
to
imagin
,
was
but
a
Counterfeit
Coyn
,
and
that
those
Venerable
Characters
were
but
Politically
feigned
,
and
a
Sacred
Title
given
to
it
without
their
Authority
.
All
this
coming
out
with
so
solemn
a
Licence
,
has
made
me
take
some
pains
to
be
rightly
informed
in
this
matter
:
those
whom
I
consulted
,
tell
me
,
they
have
discoursed
the
Pensioner
himself
on
this
Subject
;
who
will
very
shortly
take
a
sure
Method
to
clear
himself
of
those
Imputations
,
and
to
do
that
right
to
the
Prince
and
Princess
,
as
to
shew
the
World
that
in
this
matter
he
acted
only
by
their
order
.
For
as
Mr.
Stewarts
Letter
,
drew
the
Pensioner's
Answer
from
him
,
so
this
Paper
licensed
as
it
is
,
will
now
draw
from
him
a
particular
recital
of
the
whole
Progress
of
this
Matter
.
Mr.
Albeville
knows
,
that
the
Princess
explained
herself
so
fully
to
him
in
the
Moneth
of
May
and
June
1687.
upon
the
Repeal
of
the
Test
,
that
he
himself
has
acknowledged
to
several
persons
,
that
tho
both
the
Prince
and
Princess
were
very
stiff
in
that
matter
;
yet
of
the
two
,
he
found
the
Princess
more
inflexible
.
Afterwards
when
Mr.
Stewart
by
many
repeated
Letters
pressed
his
Friend
to
renew
his
Importunities
to
the
Pensioner
for
an
Answer
;
He
having
also
said
in
his
Letters
,
that
he
writ
by
the
King's
Order
and
Direction
;
upon
this
the
Pensioner
having
consulted
the
Prince
and
Princess
,
drew
his
Letter
first
in
Dutch
,
and
communicated
it
to
them
,
and
it
being
approved
by
them
,
he
turned
it
into
Latin
:
but
because
it
was
to
be
shewed
to
the
King
,
he
thought
it
was
fit
to
get
it
to
be
put
in
English
,
that
so
their
Highnesses
might
see
that
Translation
of
his
Letter
,
which
was
to
be
offered
to
His
Majesty
:
and
they
having
approved
of
it
,
he
sent
it
with
his
own
in
Latin
,
and
it
was
delivered
to
the
King
.
This
account
was
given
me
by
my
Friend
,
who
added
that
it
would
appear
ere
long
in
a
more
Authentical
manner
:
and
by
this
I
suppose
the
Impudence
of
those
men
does
sufficiently
appear
who
have
the
brow
to
publish
such
stuff
,
of
the
Falsehood
of
which
they
themselves
are
well
assured
:
and
therefore
I
may
well
conclude
that
My
Lord
Presidents
Licence
was
granted
by
him
,
with
that
carelessness
with
which
most
Books
are
read
and
licensed
.
Our
Author
pretends
,
that
he
cannot
believe
that
this
Letter
could
flow
from
a
Princess
of
so
sweet
a
temper
,
page
62.
and
yet
others
find
so
much
of
the
sweetness
of
her
Temper
in
it
,
that
for
that
very
reason
,
they
believe
it
the
more
easily
to
have
come
from
her
.
No
passion
nor
indiscreet
zeal
appears
in
it
:
and
it
expresses
such
an
extended
Charity
and
Nobleness
of
Temper
,
that
these
Characters
shew
it
comes
from
one
that
has
neither
a
narrowness
of
Soul
,
nor
a
sourness
of
Spirit
.
In
short
,
She
proposes
nothing
in
it
,
but
to
preserve
that
Religion
,
which
She
believes
the
true
one
:
and
that
being
secured
,
She
is
willing
that
all
others
enjoy
all
the
Liberties
of
Subjects
,
and
the
Freedoms
of
Christians
.
Here
is
Sweetness
of
Temper
and
Christian
Charity
in
their
fullest
extent
.
The
other
Reason
is
so
mysteriously
expressed
,
that
I
will
not
wrong
our
Author
by
putting
it
in
any
other
words
than
his
own
,
Page
62.
She
is
certainly
as
little
pleased
to
promote
any
thing
to
the
disturbance
of
a
State
,
to
which
She
still
seems
so
nearly
related
.
She
seems
still
,
are
two
significant
words
,
and
not
set
here
for
nothing
.
She
seems
(
in
his
opinion
)
only
related
to
the
Crown
;
that
is
,
She
is
not
really
so
:
but
there
is
something
that
these
Gentlemen
have
in
reserve
to
blow
up
this
seeming
Relation
.
And
She
seems
still
,
imports
that
tho
this
apparent
Relation
is
suffered
to
pass
at
present
,
yet
it
must
have
its
period
:
for
this
seems
still
can
have
no
other
meaning
.
But
in
what
does
She
promote
the
disturbance
of
the
State
,
or
patronise
the
Opposers
of
her
Parents
?
as
he
says
afterwards
,
(
ibid
.
)
Did
She
Officiously
interpose
in
this
matter
,
or
was
not
her
sense
asked
?
And
when
it
was
asked
,
must
She
not
give
it
according
to
her
Conscience
?
She
is
too
perfect
a
pattern
in
all
other
things
,
not
to
know
well
how
great
a
respect
and
submission
She
owes
her
Father
:
but
She
is
too
good
a
Christian
,
not
to
know
that
her
duty
to
God
must
go
first
:
and
therefore
in
matters
of
Religion
when
her
mind
was
asked
,
She
could
not
avoid
the
giving
it
according
to
her
Conscience
,
and
all
the
invidious
Expressions
which
he
fastens
on
this
Letter
,
and
which
he
makes
so
many
Arguments
,
to
shew
that
it
could
not
flow
from
her
,
are
all
the
malicious
and
soon
discovered
Artifices
,
of
one
that
knew
that
She
had
ordered
the
Letter
,
and
that
thought
himself
safe
in
this
disguise
,
in
the
discharging
of
his
malice
against
her
.
So
ingratefully
is
She
requited
by
a
party
for
whom
She
had
expressed
so
much
Compassion
and
Charity
.
This
Author
,
page
53.
thinks
,
it
is
an
Indecent
forecast
to
be
always
erecting
such
Scheams
for
the
next
Heir
,
both
in
Discourse
and
Writing
,
as
seem
almost
to
calculate
the
Nativity
of
the
present
:
and
he
would
almost
make
this
High
Treason
.
But
if
it
is
so
,
there
were
many
Traitors
in
England
a
few
years
ago
;
in
which
the
next
Heir
,
tho
but
a
Brother
,
was
so
much
considered
,
that
the
King
himself
lookt
as
one
out
of
countenance
and
abandoned
;
and
could
scarce
find
Company
enough
about
him
for
his
entertainment
,
either
in
his
Bedchamber
or
in
his
Walks
;
when
the
whole
Dependance
was
on
the
Successor
:
so
if
we
by
turns
look
a
little
at
the
Successor
,
those
who
did
this
in
so
scandalous
a
manner
,
ought
not
to
take
it
so
very
ill
from
us
.
In
a
Melancholy
State
of
things
,
it
is
hard
to
deny
us
the
consolation
of
hoping
that
we
may
see
better
Days
.
But
since
our
Author
is
so
much
concerned
,
that
this
Letter
should
not
be
in
any
manner
imputed
to
the
Princess
,
it
seems
a
little
strange
,
that
the
Prince
is
so
given
up
by
him
,
that
he
is
at
no
pains
to
clear
him
of
the
Imputation
.
For
the
happy
Union
that
is
between
them
,
will
readily
make
us
conclude
,
that
if
the
Prince
ordered
it
,
the
Princess
had
likewise
her
Share
in
it
.
I
find
but
one
glance
at
the
Prince
in
the
whole
Book
,
Page
52.
when
the
Author
is
pleasing
himself
with
the
hopes
of
Protection
from
the
Royal
Heir
out
of
a
sense
of
Filial
Duty
:
He
concludes
,
Especially
when
so
nearly
allied
to
the
very
Bosom
of
a
Prince
whose
way
of
worship
neither
is
the
same
with
the
National
here
,
and
in
whose
Countries
all
Religions
have
been
ever
alike
tolerated
.
The
Phrase
of
so
near
an
Alliance
to
the
very
Bosom
of
a
Prince
,
is
somewhat
extraordinary
:
An
Author
that
will
be
florid
,
scorns
so
simple
an
Expression
as
married
:
he
thought
the
other
was
more
lofty
.
But
the
matter
of
this
Period
is
more
remarkable
:
it
intimates
as
if
the
Prince's
way
of
Worship
was
so
different
from
ours
:
tho
we
hear
that
he
goes
frequently
with
the
Princess
to
her
Chappel
:
and
expresses
no
aversion
to
any
of
our
Forms
,
tho
he
thinks
it
decent
to
be
more
constantly
in
the
Exercises
of
Devotion
that
are
authorised
in
Holland
:
and
as
for
that
,
that
all
Religions
have
been
ever
alike
tolerated
there
,
it
is
another
of
our
Authors
flights
.
I
do
not
hear
that
there
are
either
Bonzis
or
Bramans
in
Holland
,
or
that
the
Mahometans
have
their
Mosques
there
:
And
sure
his
Friends
the
Rom.
Catholicks
will
tell
him
,
that
all
Religions
are
not
alike
tolerated
there
.
Thus
I
have
followed
him
more
largely
in
this
Article
,
than
in
any
other
,
it
being
that
of
the
greatest
Importance
,
by
which
he
had
endeavoured
to
blast
all
the
good
effects
which
the
Pensioners
Letter
has
had
among
us
.
IX
.
I
have
now
gone
over
that
,
which
I
thought
most
Important
in
this
Paper
:
and
in
which
it
seemed
necessary
to
inform
the
Publick
aright
,
without
insisting
on
the
particular
Slips
of
the
Author
of
it
,
or
of
the
Advantages
that
he
gives
to
any
that
would
answer
him
more
particularly
.
I
cannot
think
that
any
man
in
the
Nation
can
be
now
so
weak
,
as
not
to
see
what
must
needs
be
the
effect
of
the
Abolition
of
the
Tests
:
after
all
that
we
see
and
hear
,
it
is
too
great
an
Affront
to
Mankind
to
offer
to
make
it
out
.
A
mans
understanding
may
really
mislead
him
so
far
as
to
make
him
change
his
Religion
,
he
remaining
still
an
honest
Man
:
but
no
man
can
pretend
to
be
thought
an
honest
Man
,
that
betrays
the
Legal
,
and
now
the
only
Visible
Defences
of
that
Religion
which
he
professes
.
The
taking
away
the
Test
for
publick
Employments
,
is
to
set
up
an
Office
at
F.
Peters's
for
all
Pretenders
:
and
perhaps
a
Pretender
will
not
be
so
much
as
received
,
till
he
has
first
abjured
:
so
that
every
Vacancy
will
probably
make
five
or
six
Proselites
:
and
those
Protestants
who
are
already
in
Employments
,
will
feel
their
ground
quickly
sail
under
them
,
and
upon
the
first
complaint
,
they
will
see
what
must
be
done
to
restore
them
to
favour
.
And
as
for
the
two
Houses
of
Parliament
,
as
a
great
Creation
will
presently
give
them
the
Majority
in
the
House
of
Lords
:
so
a
new
set
of
Charters
,
and
bold
Returns
,
will
in
a
little
time
give
them
likewise
the
Majority
in
the
House
of
Commons
:
and
if
it
is
to
be
supposed
that
Protestants
,
who
have
all
the
Security
of
the
Law
,
for
their
Religion
,
can
throw
that
up
;
who
can
so
much
as
doubt
that
when
they
have
brought
themselves
into
so
naked
a
condition
,
it
will
be
no
hard
thing
to
overturn
their
whole
Establishment
:
and
then
,
perhaps
we
shall
be
told
more
plainly
,
what
is
now
but
darkly
insinuated
to
us
,
by
this
Author
:
that
the
Next
Heir
seems
still
to
be
so
nearly
related
to
this
State
.
FINIS
.