Chapter XI: Part IV: To Be Continued (2)

London, ss. The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their oaths
present that Francis Smith, late of London, Bookseller, being a
man seditious and pernicious, plotting and intending the peace
and common tranquillity of this kingdom to disturb, and discord,
differences and ill will, amongst the citizens and inhabitants
of the city of London, to stir up, provoke and procure; also the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City of London, now in being,
and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City of London, for
the time past in great odium, contempt, and base accompt to bring;
the same Francis Smith, the 17th day of August, in the reign of our
Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. the
two and thirtieth at London, viz. in the parish of St. Michael
Cornhill in the ward of Cornhill London, aforesaid, with force
and arms &c. unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously, scandalously, and
seditiously printed, and caused to be printed, a certain malicious,
scandalous, and seditious book, of and concerning the expences of
the Lord Mayors, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the City aforesaid, in
their houses, in the time of their several offices; entituled _An
Act of Common Council of the City of London, (made in the first
and second years of the reign of Philip and Mary) for retrenching
of the expences of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs &c. Published with
additional Reasons for putting the said Act in present Execution,
and now offered to the Consideration of all good Citizens by some
Well-wishers of the present and future prosperity of the said City.
Presented to my Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs._ In which
book by the said Francis Smith then so as aforesaid published,
printed and caused to be printed, the same Francis Smith then and
there, viz. the day and year before mentioned, at the parish and
ward aforesaid, mischievously, unlawfully, wickedly, maliciously,
scandalously, and seditiously printed, made known openly, and
published, mischievously, malicious, scandalous, and seditious
sentences, in these English words following, viz.:--

_Reader_,

_As by this Act you may observe, that our Predecessors taking
notice, that the extravagancies of Mayors and Sheriffs caused (as
they say) almost all good citizens to flie and refuse the service;
so to prevent that mischief in the future, they limited them in
their living to the method directed by this Act. And if when little
was spent besides the growth of our own Country, Beer and Ale
being then their drink, they thought it their wisdom to set bounds
to Luxurious Profuseness, there is much more reason for it now,
when Debauchery is come to that height, that the fifth part of the
charge of a Shrievalty is in Wine, the growth of another Country.
And when Feasts, hardly heard of in former times, are risen to
that Excess, as would be scandalous to mention, as those called
the Chequer and Spittle Feasts; the first costing in Wine betwixt
Seventy and Eighty Pounds; and the latter, after the pretended
Service of God in hearing a Sermon, costs above Three Hundred
Pounds to each Sheriff. And though much after this rate is the rest
of the year spent, yet when the Example of this Act is urged for
laying aside these sinful Feasts, and reducing the rest unto this
Pattern, which is a wholsom Law; some who should see to the putting
it in execution, will not hear of it; and possibly, because they
would have others be as profuse as themselves have been, though
there are these Reasons for a Reformation herein._

And these mischievous, malicious, and seditious sentences, in these
English words following, viz.:--

_Because nothing can tend more to the Advancement of any City or
Country than the having wise and good Magistrates; and that so
long as the great expence of Shrievalties continue, the City must
(as this Act suggests) have an Eye to Wealth, more than Parts or
Vertue, in the choice of their Sheriffs; and that such as their
Sheriffs are, such will the Court of Aldermen be: and therefore as
necessary for the good Government of this great City, the charge of
Shrievalties ought to be reduced to such an Order and Method, as
may be an Encouragement to Men of more Honesty than Riches to serve
the Place._

And these mischievous, malicious, scandalous, and seditious
sentences, in these English words following, viz.

_No man hath reason to be expensive in his Shrievalty; because
though the Court of Aldermen hath a rule for supplying, as any die
their vacant places out of those that have served Sheriffs, yet
they make their Election to depend upon the uncertain humour of
their Court, thereby frustrating when they please all Compensation
for the Expence and Drudgery of a Shrievalty, as lately appeared
in their Choice of Sir Simon Lewis, one of their present Sheriffs,
rejecting Sir Thomas Stamp, who had served the Place several years
before with good approbation, and was presented to them by the
Ward he lives in as a deserving Person. And whereas each Ward when
they want an Alderman, do present two Commoners to the Court, for
them to chuse one; the Ward of Bassishaw, to the end that Sir
Thomas might unavoidably be chosen, joyned the younger (and not
the elder) Sheriff with him, not thinking that an old Sheriff
would be baulked, to chuse one that had not served his year; and
yet notwithstanding, the Court by their Prerogative passed by Sir
Thomas, to the disappointing of the Ward that sent him. And this
Example is, I suppose a good reason for Sheriffs in the future not
to spend more in their Shrievalties, than is necessary, when their
Reward is so uncertain._

And these mischievous, malicious, scandalous, and seditious
sentences, in these English words following, viz.

_Debauchery in this Expence is a Sin before God, and were it known,
would be a scandal in the sight of Man; as appears in that of Three
thousand Pounds Expence in all manner of ways, above Five hundred
Pounds is in Wine; when a Lord, or Gentleman that formerly lived at
the rate of Ten or Twelve thousand Pounds per annum, did not, as is
well known (but thirty years ago) spend an hundred Pounds in Wine._

To the great Scandal and Contempt of our said Lord the King, to the
great Reproach and Scandal of the Authority of the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Sheriffs, of the City aforesaid; to the great Disturbance of
the Peace of our said Lord the King, to the Evil Example of others
in the like case offending, and against the Peace of the said Lord
the King, his Crown and Dynasty, &c.

A copy of this pamphlet is preserved in the Guildhall Library,
London.

252.

Malice defeated: or a brief relation of the accusation and deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her proceedings, both before and during her confinement, are particularly related, and the mystery of the Meal Tub fully discovered. 1680.

For writing, printing, and publishing this book, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cellier, was tried at the Old Bailey, in September, 1680, and found
guilty. She was sentenced to a fine of £1000, and to be imprisoned
until payment; and also to stand on the pillory three times, the
first time at the Maypole, in the Strand, the second time in Covent
Garden, and the third time at Charing Cross; and her books were to
be burnt by the Common Hangman.

The indictment against her is as follows:--

Juratores pro domino rege super sacramentum suum præsentant quod
Elizabetha Cellier uxor ---- Cellier de parochia Sancti Clementis
Dacorum in comitatu Middlesexiæ generosi, eadem Elizabetha
existente religionis papalis, Deum præ oculis suis non habens
sed instigatione diabolica mota et seducta et falso et malitiose
machinans et intendens serenissimum Dominum nostrum Carolum
Secundum Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regem et
gubernationem suam hujus regni Angliæ necnon veram religionem
protestantem infra hoc regnum Angliæ lege stabilitatam, in
odium, infamiam et contemptum inducere et inferre, et scandalum
et infamiam imponere super quibusdam personis qui producti
fuissent testes et testimonium dedissent ex parte dicti domini
regis contra prædictam Elizabetham Cellier et alias personas de
alta proditione indictatas primo die Augusti anno regni dicti
domini regis tricesimo secundo apud prædictam parochiam Sancti
Clementis Dacorum in Comitatu Middlesexiæ prædicto falso malitiose
et seditiose scripsit et publicavit et scribi imprimi publicari
causavit quendam fictum falsum et scandalosum libellum intitulatum
_Malice defeated: or a brief relation of the accusation and
deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her proceedings both
before and during her confinement are particularly related, and
the mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered. Together with an
abstract of her arraignment and tryal, written by herself, for
the satisfaction of all lovers of undisguized truth._ In quo
quidem libello continentur hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba
et figuræ sequentia, scilicet. _I hope it will not seem strange
to any honest and loyal person, of what way or religion soever,
that I being born and bred up under Protestant Parents, should
now openly profess myself of another Church._ (Ecclesiam Romanam
innuendo). _For my education being in those times, when my own
Parents and Relations, for their constant and faithful affection
to the King and Royal Family, were Persecuted, the King himself
Murthered, the Bishops and Church destroy'd, the whole Loyal party
merely for being so, opprest and ruin'd; And all as was pretended
by the Authors of these villanies, for their being Papists and
Idolaters, the constant Character given by them, to the King and
his friend, to make them odious, they assuming to themselves, only
the Name of Protestants, making that the Glorious title by which
they pretended right to all things. These sort of Proceedings, as
I grew in understanding, produc'd in me more and more Horror of
the party that committed them, and put me on Inquiry into that
Religion, to which they pretended the greatest Antipathy, wherein
I thank God, I found my Innate Loyalty, not only Confirm'd, but
Incourag'd, and let Callumny say what it will; I never heard from
any Papist as they call them, Priests nor lay-man, but that they
and I, and all true Catholicks, owe our lives to the defence
of our Lawful King, which our Present Soveraign, Charles the
Second is, whom God long and happily preserve so. These sorts of
Doctrines agreeing to my Publick Morralls, and no way as ever
I was taught, contradicting my Private ones, Commending at the
same time to me, Charity and Devotion, I without any scruple,
have hitherto followed Glorying to myself to be in Communion with
those_ (papistas innuendo) _who were the humble Instruments of his
Majesties happy Preservation, from the fatall Battel at Worcester,
and whom though poor, no Temptation could invite, to betray him
to those, who, by a pretended Protestant principle, sought his
Innocent blood. These truths I hope may satisfy any indifferent
person in my first Change, nor can they wonder at my continuance
therein, notwithstanding the Horrid Crimes of Treason and Murther
laid to the charge of some persons considerable, for their quallity
and fortunes in that party. For when I reflected who were the
witnesses, and what unlikely things they deposed, and observ'd,
that many of the chiefest Sticklers for the Plot, were those, or
the Sons of those, that acted the principal parts in the last
Tragedy, which History told me too, had the Prologue of a pretended
Popish Plot. I say, these things made me doubtful of the whole;
and the more I search'd for Truth, the more I doubted that the
old Enemies of the Crown were again at work for its destruction.
I being fully confirm'd in this, thought it my duty, through all
sorts of hazards, to relieve the Poor Imprison'd Catholicks, who
in great numbers were locked up in Gaoles, starving for want of
bread, and this I did some months before I ever saw the Countess
of Powis or any of those Honourable persons that were accused, or
receiving one penny of their mony directly or indirectly, till
about the latter end of January, (78) the Prisoners increasing very
much._ Et in alia parte ejusdem libelli (inter alia) continentur
hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba scilicet. _About this time I
went daily to the prisons to perform those offices of Charity I
was oblig'd to, And on Thursday, January the 9th, (78) I Din'd in
Newgate in the Room called the Castle on the Master's side Debtors,
and about four in the afternoon, I came down into the Lodge with
five Women, of which three were Protestants, and we all heard
Terrible Grones and Squeeks which came out of the Dungeon, called
the Condemned Hole. I asked Harris the Turnkey, what Dole-full cry
it was, he said, it was a Woman in Labour. I bid him put us into
the Room to her, and we would help her, but he drove us away very
rudely, both out of the Lodge, and from the door; we went behind
the Gate, and there lissened, and soon found that it was the voice
of a strong man in Torture, and heard, as we thought, between his
grones, the winding up of some Engine: these cries stop'd the
passengers under the Gate, and we six went to the Turner's shop
without the Gate, and stood there amaized with the Horror, and
dread of what we heard; when one of the officers of the Prison
came out in great hast, seeming to run from the Noise. One of us
catcht hold of him, saying, Oh! What are they doing in the Prison?
Officer. I dare not tell you. Mistres. It's a Man upon the Rack,
I'le lay my life on't. Officer. It is something like it. Cellier.
Who is it Prance? Officer. Pray Madam do not ask me, for I dare not
tell ye, but it is that I am not able to heare any longer: Pray let
me go, with that he run away toward Holborn as fast as he could.
We heard these grones perfectly to the end of the Old Bayly, they
continued till near seven of the Clock, and then a person in the
habit of a Minister, of middle stature, Gray hair'd, accompanied
with two other Men, went into the Lodge, the Prisoners were locked
up, and the outward door of the Lodge also, at which I set a person
to stand, and observe what she could; and a Prisoner loaded with
Irons, was brought into the Lodge, and examin'd a long time, and
the Prisoners that came down as low as they could, heard the person
Examined with great vehemency, say often, I know nothing of it,
I'me innocent: he forc'd me to bely myself, What would you have
me say? Will you murther me because I will not bely myself and
others? Several other such like expressions they heard spoken as by
one in great Agony. About four of the clock the next morning, the
Prisoners that lay in a Place above the hole, heard the same cry
again two houres, and on Saturday Morning again, and about Eight a
Clock that morning a person I employ'd to spy out the truth of that
affair, did see the Turn keys carrying a Bed into the hole, she
asked whoe it was for, they told her, it was for Prance, who was
gone Mad, and had tore his bed in pieces. That night the Examiners
came again, and after an houres Conference Prance was led away to
the Press-yard: This, and many things of the like nature, made me
very Inquisitive to know what passed in the Prison. Soon after
this Francis Corral a Coachman, that had been put into Newgate,
upon suspicion of carrying away Sir Edmond-Bury-Godfrey's body,
and lay there 13 weeks and three days in great missery, got out, I
went to see him, and found him a sad spectacle, having the flesh
worn away, and great holes in both his legs, by the weight of his
Irons. And having been chain'd so long double, that he could not
stand upright; he told me much of his hard and cruel usage, as
that he had been squeez'd and hasped into a thing like a Trough,
in a dungeon under ground; which put him to inexpressible torment,
insomuch that he soonded, and that a Person in the habit of a
Minister stood by all the time. That a Duke beat him, Pull'd him
by the Hair, and set his drawn Sword to his breast three times,
and swore he would run him through; and another great Lord, laid
down a heap of Gold, and told him it was five hundred Pounds, and
that he should have it all, and be taken into the aforesaid Duke's
house, if he would confess what they would have him; and one F. a
vintner, that lives at the sign of the Half Moon in Ch---- St----
by whose contrivance he was accused, took him aside, and bid him
name some person, and say, they Imploy'd him to take up the dead
body in Somerset-yard, and gave him mony for so doing; that if
he would do this, both F. and he, should have mony enough. He
also told me, that he was kept from Thursday till Sunday without
victualls or drink, having his hands every Night Chain'd behind
him, and being all this time locked to a staple which was driven
into the Floor, with a chain not above a yard long, that in this
great extremity, was forc'd to drink his own water; and that the
Jaylor beat his wife, because she brought victuals, and prayed
that he might have it, and threw Milk on the ground, and bid her
be gone, and not look at him._ Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli
continentur (inter alia) hæc falsa ficta et scandalosa verba
sequentia scilicet _My arraignment, which (in confidence of my own
innocence) I continually prest for. Not but that I knew the danger,
as to this Life, of encountering the Devil in the worst of his
Instruments, which are PERJURERS INCOURAGED to that degree as that
profligated Wretch_ quendam Thomam Dangerfield testem productum ex
parte domini regis contra prædictam Elizabetham Cellier pro alta
proditione innuendo _was, and has been since his being exposed
to the World in his true colours both at mine, and at another's
Tryal_. Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli continentur hæc falsa
ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia scilicet _Nor have I since
received anything towards my losses, or the least civility from any
of them. Whilst Dangerfield_ (prædictam Thomam Dangerfield iterum
innuendo) (_when made a Prisoner for apparent Recorded Rogueries_,)
_was visited by and from Persons of Considerable Quality, with
great Sums of Gold and Silver, to encourage him in the new
Villanies he had undertaken, not against Me alone, but Persons in
whose Safety all good Men (as well Protestants as others) in the
three kingdoms are concerned._ Et in altera parte ejusdem libelli
vocati _A Postscript to the impartial reader_ continente hæc falsa
ficta et scandalosa verba sequentia scilicet _And whensoever his
Majesty pleases to make it as safe and honourable to speak truth
as it is apparent it hath been gainful and meritorious to do the
contrary, there will not want witnesses to testify the truth of
more than I have written and persons that are above being made the
hangman's hounds for weekly pensions, or any other considerations
whatsoever_. In malum et perniciosissimum exemplum omnium aliorum
in tali casu delinquentium contra pacem dicti domini regis coronam
et dignitatem suas. By a Treasury warrant, dated May 16th, 1687,
Mrs. Cellier was discharged from the judgment which had been
pronounced against her.[213]

253.

The two first books of Philostratus, concerning the life of Apollonius Tyaneus; written originally in Greek, and now published in English: together with philological notes upon each chapter; by Charles Blount. London. 1680. Folio.

According to Dr. Adam Clarke, "this piece was published with the
design to invalidate the testimony of the evangelists concerning
the miracles of our Blessed Lord." A few copies only were dispersed
before the work was suppressed. Two copies exist in the British
Museum Library.

254.

A Popish damnable Plot against our Religion and Liberties, fairly laid open and discovered in the Breviats of Threescore and Four Letters and Papers of Intelligence past betwixt the Pope, Duke of York, Cardinal Norfolk, Cardinal Cibo, Cardinal Barbarina, Nuncio and Internuncio for the Pope in Italy, France, and Flanders, and the Lord Arundel, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Coune. And also the said Mr. Coleman, Albany, Sr. German, Lybourn, Sheldon, Throgmorton, and several others. As they were drawn up by the Secret Committee of the House of Commons, for the satisfaction of the House of Lords in the Bill against the Duke of York and expected Tryals of the Lords. Now published for the vindication of the House of Commons upon the said Bill, and for satisfaction of all the faithful subjects of His Majestie's Kingdom, with several animadversions and remarks made upon the said letters. London. 1680.

This was a pamphlet containing reflections upon Sir Edward Dering,
a member of the House of Commons; and on November 15, 1680, upon
a debate in that House, it was resolved that "all the reflective
parts upon Sir Edward Dering were false, scandalous and libellous."
Mr. Yarrington, who was summoned to the bar of the House with
others, respecting the printing and publishing of this book, stated
that all the animadversions contained therein were penned by Dr.
Tonge, and that he received the abstract of the several letters
therein mentioned, from a Scrivener in Essex Court, in the Temple.
It was thereupon resolved that Dr. Tonge should have notice to
attend the House the next day, and that Mr. Yarrington and the
others concerned in the publication of the pamphlet, should be
committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms for their breach
of privilege; but they were all in a few days discharged from
custody, after receiving the censure of the House.[214] A copy of
this pamphlet is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in
folio, and contains 31 pages.

255.

A Dialogue betwixt the Devil and the Ignoramus Doctor.

A set of verses printed and published by Nathaniel Thomson, a
printer, living in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West. For this
publication he was prosecuted. The following is a copy of the
indictment:--

Londonia. Juratores pro domino rege super sacramentum suum
præsentant quod Nathaniel Thomson nuper de parochia Sancti Dunstani
in Occidente in Warda de Farringdon exti Londoniam prædictam
Typographus decimo die Octobris anno regni domini nostri Caroli
Secundi Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ regis Fidei
Defensoris &c. tricesimo tertio illicite nequiter et malitiose
machinans et intendens quietum statum et communem pacem et
tranquillitatem ligeorum et subditorum dicti domini regis infra
civitatem Londoniæ et alibi infra hoc regnum Angliæ inquietare
et perturbare, et diversas differentias inter ligeos et subditos
prædictos excitare movere et procurare, necnon quendam Titum
Oates clericum unum divulgatorum anglice _discoverers_ et testium
proditoriæ conspirationis papistarum dictum dominum regem nunc
ad murdrandum et veram protestantem religionem infra hoc regnum
Angliæ stabilitatam et professam ad destruendam in maximum odium
contemptum infamiam et scandalum cum omnibus ligeis et subditis
dicti domini regis nunc eundem Titum Oates adtunc cognoscentibus
et tunc imposterum cognoscendis inducere, ac diversas lites et
differentias inter præfatum Titum Oates ac omnes prædictos ligeos
et subditos dicti domini regis eidem Tito Oates tunc cognitos
et cognoscendos excitare movere et procurare, necnon bona nomen
famam testimonium et reputationem ejusdem Titi Oates pejorare et
auferre postea scilicet dicto decimo die Octobris anno supradicto
apud Londoniam videlicet in parochiam et warda prædictis ad
nefandissimas et malitiosas machinationes et intentiones suas
prædictas celerius efficienda et exequenda quoddam falsum
scandalosum et odiosum libellum de et concernentem præfato Tito
Oates et ad defamationem opprobium et scandalum ejusdem Titi Oates
intitulatum _A Dialogue betwixt the Devil and the Ignoramus Doctor_
illicite nequiter et malitiose devisatum compositum et scriptum per
quosdam homines quorum nomina juratoribus prædictis adhuc ignota
sunt ipse prædictus Nathaniel Thomson adtunc et ibidem illicite
nequiter libellose et malitiose impressit et publicavit et imprimi
et publicari causavit tenor cujusdem libelli sequitur scilicet:--

_A Dialogue betwixt the Devil and the Ignoramus [Salamanca][215]
Doctor._

_Devil._

_Behold from the Infernal Lake I'm come,
To fright thy Soul to its Eternal Doom:
To tell thee, Villain, that thy Reign's expir'd,
And now be sure thou shalt no longer hir'd
Be by Me, nor any of the Damn'd,
To drench in Innocent Blood this mournful Land.
Hence then begone, and do no more pursue
Villanies Hell could ne'er act, but by you:
Now Heaven stops my Power and I thy Hand,
And now I tell thee, Doctor, Thou art damn'd._

_Doctor._

_O Spectre! spare awhile my dreadful Doom!
Go back and tell the Damn'd, I come, I come;
Only let me compleat the Ills I've begun,
Then Heaven farewel, and unto You I come._

_Devil._

_The Blood o' th' Innocent aloud does cry,
Revenge, Revenge, on cursed Dr. Ti----
No more o' th' Innocent shall bleed, nor die._

_Doctor._

_Well, the time's come, the fatal day's at hand,
That I for ever, ever must be damn'd:
O curs'd Revenge! what Mischiefs have I done?
Abjur'd the Father, and blasphem'd the Son.
The Sacred Spirit of Truth at once have I
Banish'd; and that my vengeance I might buy,
I've caus'd the best of Innocents to dye.
See where their Ghosts appear in purple ray'd,
Victims, by Perjury above betray'd:
See how they shake their Heads, and bleed afresh;
Their wounds gape wide in their new murder'd flesh;
And these most frightful Visions come, 'cause I
Th' bloody villanous Murderer stand by.
'Tis true that I the cruel Murderer am,
And thousands more by Perjury to trepan.
I solemnly did vow, and often swear,
And none t' escape, from the Peasant to the Peer;
Nay Sacred Prelates, Princes, Queens, and Kings,
Should have made up my Bloody Offerings.
Ten thousand more of Innocents had dy'd,
'Cause I King, Queen, and Duke had Sacrificed:
Cities and Towns I'd Fir'd, if not withstood,
And quench'd the flames with Innocent Blood.
Let me but live in this world three years more,
This Island then shall swim in Christian gore;
I'le subvert Governments, and murder Kings,
Sow discord among friends: I'll do such things
Shall make the World believe there is not that
Villanous thing I have not power to act;
I'le make the World believe (let me but stay)
That Light is Darkness, and that Night is Day;
That I the Saviour of the Nation am,
And that CHRIST was of no avail to man;
Then I the Sacred Gospels will destroy,
Swear they'r but fictious Stories, and a Lye,
Perswade them that the Bible's but a Farce,
No more to be esteemed than is my A----
So I'le improve the Art of Perjury,
That none who are not skill'd in Villany
Shall live; thus will I fit this Isle for Hell,
And then adieu the World, and Heaven farewel.
Thus I a Learned Doctor will commence,
And by the People be ador'd for Nonsence,
And with Sedition I their Souls will influence._

_Devil._

_Peace thou prophane wretch, hold, villain, hold,
For now with Heaven and Earth thou art too bold,
And I must tell thee, another Winter old
Thou shall not be, thy life and soul are sold:
When flat on th' Altar Thou thyself didst lay,
Remember that thou gav'st thy Soul away
To me; and swor'st for ever thou'dst be mine,
Might'st thou but compass thy Hellish Design,
To imbrue thy Hands in Innocent Blood,
And murder all who had the face of good:
Devils and Hell thou hast in this outdone,
By thy damn'd Perjury ith' face oth' Sun.
Hence then begone to Hell, away, away,
For in this place thou shalt no longer stay.

[Spoken by an old Acquaintance.]

Why how now Doctor, vanish'd fled and gone,
What none but Monsieur Devil and You alone?
Are all you Papists come to this damn'd end,
Thus to be hamper'd and ridden by a Fiend?
Unpitied ly; blaspheme and groan thy last,
Belch forth thy unhallow'd Soul, and blast
Hell itself, with thy unsanctified Breath,
And groveling ith' shades of Eternal Death,
I leave thee. Ha, ha, ha, ha, poor Doctor,
Good Night little good Mr. Devil's Doctor._

In contemptum dicti domini regis nunc, legumque suarum, ad magnum
opprobium scandalum defamationem et infamiam præfati Titi Oates,
in magnam perturbationem pacis dicti domini regis et populi sui
inquietudinem, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum consimili casu
delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et
dignitatem suas &c.[216]

The result of the prosecution does not appear.

I have not been able to meet with a copy of the original verses,
which, no doubt, would be printed in the form of a broadside; but
they are reprinted in a little book entitled "A Collection of 86
Loyal Poems, all of them written upon the two late plots, viz., The
Horrid Salamanca Plot in 1678, and the present fanatical conspiracy
in 1683." Collected by N[athaniel] T[hompson.] 1685.

256.

The true Domestic Intelligence, or News both from City and Country. No. 83, From Friday, April 16, to Tuesday, April 20, 1680.

Ditto----No. 84, From Tuesday, April 20, to Friday, April 23, 1680.

These periodicals, copies of which are preserved in the British
Museum Library, were printed and published by Nathaniel Thompson
and William Badcock, and a prosecution was thereupon instituted
against them. They were tried and found guilty, and a fine of
£3 6s. 8d. set on each of them. The following is a copy of the
information:--

Memorandum quod Creswell Levinz miles attornatus domini regis
nunc generalis qui pro eodem domino rege in hac parte sequitur
in propria persona sua venit hic in curiam dicti domini regis
coram ipso rege apud Westmonasterium, die Mercurii proximo post
quindenam Paschæ isto eodem termino, et pro eodem domino rege
dat curiam hic intelligi et informari, quod Nathaniel Thompson
de parochia Sancti Dunstani in occidente Londoniæ Printer, et
Willielmus Badcocke de parochia Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides
Londoniæ Wiredrawer, machinantes et malitiose intendentes agitare
et procurare seditionem, litem, et discordiam inter diversos
fideles subditos dicti domini regis nunc infra hoc regnum Angliæ,
et præcipue inter gubernatores, inhabitantes, et parochianos
parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides Londoniæ, et gubernationem,
necnon gubernatores ejusdem parochiæ in contemptum, scandalum
et infamiam cum prædictis parochianis prædictæ parochiæ Sanctæ
Bridgettæ alias Brides inducere et inferre, decimo sexto die
Aprilis, anno regni dicti domini regis nunc tricesimo secundo,
apud parochiam Sancti Dunstani in occidente in warda de Farringdon
extra Londoniam, quoddam odiosum, scandalosum, et diffamatorium
libellum, intitulatum The _True Domestic Intelligence or News both
from City and Country_ causaverunt, et uter eorum causavit imprimi,
publicari, et dispergi in, per, et trans totam civitatem Londoniæ,
et diversos alios comitatus et locos infra hoc regnum Angliæ, in
quoquidem libello (inter alia) continetur quædam falsa, ficta,
seditiosa, et scandalosa materia prout sequitur in hiis Anglicanis
verbis, videlicet, _Several persons, Parishioners of St. Bride's,
London, are going about in that Parish to get Subscriptions for
destroying the Antient Annual Elective Vestry in that Parish, and
to set up instead thereof a Rump Vestry for life; wherefore all the
said Parishioners that are Rumpishly affected, may first consider
the Act of Parliament, and his Majesties late Proclamation about
tumultuous and factious Petitions for alteration of established
Lawes and Customs, which will direct in this case. And note, the
different effect of the said Vestries is this, That if any person
of the Annual Elective Vestry do unlawfully, or against the good
of the Parish, he may be turned out at the next Election, but the
Rump Vestry are above that Interruption_. Et postea iidem Nathaniel
et Willielmus ulterius machinantes et malitiose intendentes
defamare et scandalizare prædictos gubernatores prædictæ parochiæ
Sanctæ Bridgettæ alias Brides et gubernationem ejusdem parochiæ
et seminare litem et discordiam inter prædictos gubernatores
et parochianos ejusdem parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ et eosdem in
contemptum et ignominiam inferre et ducere postea scilicet
vicesimo die Aprilis, anno regni dicti domini regis tricesimo
secundo supradicto, apud parochiam Sancti Dunstani in occidente
prædictam, in warda de Farringdon extra Londoniam prædicta, quoddam
alium libellum scandalosum diffamatorium intitulatum _The True
Domestic Intelligence or News both from City and Country_ similiter
causaverunt, et quilibet eorum causavit imprimi, publicari, et
dispergi, in, per, et trans totam civitatem Londoniæ, et diversos
alios comitatus et locos infra hoc regnum Angliæ, in quoquidem
libello ultimo mencionato (inter alia) continetur hæc alia falsa,
ficta, seditiosa, et scandalosa materia, prout sequitur in hiis
aliis Anglicanis verbis et figuris sequentibus videlicet _The
great point now depending in St Bride's Parish, London, To advise
how some persons may spend and waste the parish money and goods
at pleasure, and how to secure the Officers from giving an honest
account, and how some may lord it, and keep the rest of the
parishioners in awe and incline them to give treats to be equally
and lawfully dealt with. The opinion is summ'd up in short thus,
That the crafty guilty ones should wheedle in the simple ones,
about the eighth part of the Parishioners that do pay to the poor,
and name themselves the majority, and subscribe their names for
getting 15 or 20 persons composed into a Rump Vestry for life; And
if 3 or 4 dissenting persons from the Church joyn with the rest
7 or 800, call them all such; and it will operate effectually,
as 'tis conceived, or else be sure at the choice of Vestrymen
to wheedle, wrangle, evade, shuffle, and hector the people, if
possible, into a belief, that they are not themselves, and that a
Negative Vote is senseless, and was never used in a free choice,
but that 10 hands in the affirmative shall carry it against 2 or
300 that would be of the negative, else at the last shift allow
onely the majority to be guess'd at without the distinction by Pole
or Negative Vote with Hands. Note the Authority of St. Bride's
Annual Elective Vestry is chiefly this, to honestly and prudently
manage the Parish Moneys, Goods, Lands, and Tenements, and prevent
the mis-applying, imbezeling, or wasting any of the same. Now,
whether the antient Annual Elective Vestry, or an innovated
select Rump Vestry for life, are the fittest for that purpose, it
is referred to any indifferent honest man to judge._ In magnum
scandalum et contemptum dicti domini regis, et magnum nocumentum
ignominiam, litem, et discordiam prædictorum gubernatorum ac
parochianorum, et inhabitantium parochiæ Sanctæ Bridgettæ, alias
Bride's, prædictæ, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu
delinquentium, et contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc, coronam et
dignitatem suas.[217]

257.

Directions to a Painter. 1680.

On February 20th, 1680, a Warrant was issued by His Majesty in
Council, to the Stationers' Company, for the seizing of this
"scandalous and dangerous pamphlet," which was accordingly done,
and about 1,200 copies were found, and burnt, by His Majesty's
Order, at Whitehall-gate.

258.

The Observator in Question and Answer, No. 27, Saturday, June 25, 1681.

This Periodical, a copy of which is preserved in the British
Museum Library, was printed and published by Joan Broome, and a
prosecution was therefore instituted against her. The indictment is
as follows:--

Londonia, Juratores pro domino rege super sacramentum suum
præsentant quod Johanna Broome, nuper de parochia Sancti Gregorii
in warda de Castlebaynard Londoniæ prædicta vidua, Deum præ oculis
suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolica mota et seducta, et
falso, et malitiose machinans et intendens pacem et communem
tranquillitatem hujus regni Angliæ perturbare, ac diversas
dissensiones et differentias inter diversos ligeos et subditos
dicti domini regis Religionis Protestantis suscitare et movere
et proditorie conspirationes Papistarum contra dictum dominum
regem nunc supprimere, necnon machinans et contrivans discordiam
inter dictum dominum regem et ligeos et subditos suos infra hoc
regnum Angliæ suscitare et movere, et dictum dominum regem in
displicentiam et suspicionem erga Communes hujus regni Angliæ nuper
in Parliamento assemblatos excitare, vicesimo quinto die Junii
anno regni domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ,
Franciæ, et Hiberniæ regis, Fidei Defensoris &c. In tricesimo
tertio et diversis aliis diebus et vicibus tunc antea vi et armis,
&c., apud Londoniam videlicet in parochia et warda prædictis falso,
nequiter, libellose, et malitiose impressit et publicavit, et
imprimi et publicari causavit quendam fictum falsum et scandalosum
libellum de et concernentem præfatos ligeos et subditos, necnon
Communes hujus regni Angliæ nuper in Parliamento assemblatos,
intitulatum _The Observator in Question and Answer_ devisatum
scriptum et compositum per quosdam homines juratoribus prædictis
adhuc ignotos, in quoquidem libello continentur hæc ficta, falsa,
libellosa, et scandalosa verba sequentia: _Q. Why should not we
Encounter those addresses now with Petitions? A. I'le dictate a
petition to ye, If you'le write it; but do it faithfully, then and
without Interruption; (and upon my Soul) I'le speak the sense of
the Party as near as I can. Q. I'le be Just to ye: And now begin
when you will, I'm ready for you. A. Your Majestse's most humble
and obedient Subjects, having suffer'd many Disappointments,
by reason both of Short and of Long Parliaments, and the late
executing of the Law, against Dissenters: The Pretences of Tyranny
and Popery being grown Stale; the Popish Plot drawn almost to the
Dregs, and the Eyes of the People so far open'd, that they begin to
see their Friends from their Enemies; to the Disheartening of All
True Protestants, and the Encouraging of the sons of the Church,
We your Majestie's Dissenting Subjects, being thereby brought
unto so low a state, That without a timely Relief, we the Godly
People of the Land must Inevitably perish; May it please your
Majesty to grant the Right of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments,
Entring into Associations, Leagues and Covenants; The Power of the
Militia; War and Peace; Life and Death; The Authority of Enacting,
suspending, and Repealing Laws, to be in your Liege People, the
Commons of England, And these things being granted, (whereof your
Petitioners stand in Great need) If your Majesty wants either Men,
or Moneys for the support of your Royall Dignity and Government,
your Majesty shall see what we your Loyall Petitioners will do for
you. Q. What a Rogue are you to make me write such a Petition? A.
And what a Fool were you to expect others? for all the Rest is Cant
and Gibbrish, But this is English._ Ad magnam disturbationem pacis
dicti domini regis, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum in consimili
casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam
et dignitatem suas &c.[218]

The result of the prosecution does not appear.

259.

The Impartial Protestant Mercury, April 28, 1681.

For publishing this periodical a prosecution was instituted against
Henry Carr. The information is as follows:--

Memorandum quod Samuel Astry armiger coronator et attornatus domini
regis in curia ipsius regis coram ipso rege qui pro eodem domino
rege in hac parte sequitur in propria persona sua venit hic in
curia dicti domini regis coram ipso rege apud Westmonasterium die
Sabbati proximo post Crastinum Animarum isto eodem termino, et
pro eodem domino rege dat curiæ hic intelligi et informari quod
Henricus Carr de parochia Sancti Sepulchri Londoniæ generosus
existens perniciosa persona et machinans et malitiose intendens
discordiam et scandalum inter dominum regem et populum suum et
magnates hujus regni Angliæ incitare et movere vicesimo octavo
die Aprilis anno regni domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia
Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ regis, Fidei Defensoris,
&c., tricesimo tertio apud Londoniam quoddam falsum scandalosum
et malitiosum libellum intitulatum _The Impartiall Protestant
Mercury_. In quoquidem libello inter alia continetur prout
sequitur. _Hicks's Hall, Aprill the twenty seventh. Our Sessions
for Middlesex began some days since, which 'tis said gave occasion
to an old drudge at speechmaking most elegantly to exercise his
talents; wherein (not to baulk the Common theme) the Dissenters
and Whiggs were thrasht to atoms, and some were so unjust as to
interpret it an insinuation that their Fines and Forfeitures must
make up the extraordinary charges of the Government; but since
'tis notorious that the Papists have generally the better_ [word
illegible], _and are (at least) as obnoxious as other dissenters,
others think the party (being an undoubted protestant as far as
the law requires) intended that the laws should be briskly put in
execution against them, though possibly he might mistake innocent
and most useful sheep for Swine that root up the Government_
publicavit, et publicari causavit, ad incitandum et movendum
discordiam et scandalum inter dominum regem et populum suum, et
magnates hujus regni Angliæ manifesta: in malum et perniciosum
exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem
dicti domini regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[219]

The result of this prosecution does not appear.

260.

English Liberties, or the Freeborn Subject's inheritance. 1682.

This was published by Henry Carr, for which a prosecution
was instituted against him. The following is a copy of the
information:--

Memorandum quod Samuel Astry Armiger, coronator et attornatus
domini regis, in curia ipsius regis coram ipso Rege, qui pro eodem
domino rege in hac parte sequitur in propria persona sua venit hic
in Curia dicti domini regis coram ipso rege apud Westmonasterium,
die Martis proximo post crastinum Sancti Martini isto eodem termino
et pro eodem domino rege dat Curiæ hic intelligi et informari quod
Henricus Care nuper de parochia Sancti Sepulchri London generosus,
machinans et malitiose intendens agitare et procurare discordiam
et scandalum inter dominum regem et populum suum, et magnates
hujus regni Angliæ incitare, et movere, et gubernationem ejusdem
domini regis, et administrationem justitiæ in eodem regno stabilitæ
scandalizare, et in odium et contemptum ducere, decimo septimo
die Octobris anno regni domini nostri Caroli Secundi, Dei gratia
Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, regis Fidei Defensoris, &c.
tricesimo quarto, vi et armis, &c., apud parochiam prædictam infra
Civitatem Londoniæ prædictam quoddam falsum, scandalosum, odiosum,
et malitiosum libellum, intitulatem _English liberties or the
Freeborne Subjectes Inheritance._ In quoquidam libello inter alia
continetur prout sequitur. _Some directions concerning the choice
of members to serve in Parliament, And the Quallifications that
render a Gentleman fit or unfitt, worthy or undeserving of your
voices for so great a trust. 1. Avoid all such as hold any office
of considerable value during pleasure they beeing subject to be
overawed._ Et in alio loco ejusdem falsi et scandalosi libelli
continetur prout sequitur. _2. Suspect all those (especially if
they are men of ill repute) who in their profession are near
relations have dependency upon the Court._ Et in alio loco ejusdem
falsi et scandalosi libelli continetur prout sequitur in hæc
verba. _3. Meddle not with such as have been or are like to prove
pensioners or receive salaries for secret services_ publicavit,
et publicari causavit, prout per prædictum falsum scandalosum
et malitiosum libellum inter alia plenius liquet et apparet. In
magnum scandalum et contemptum dicti domini regis, et authoritatis
suæ deprivationem, necnon in contemptum legum et gubernationem
hujus regni Angliæ, et administrationis justitiæ in eodem regno
stabilitæ, in malum et pernitiosum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali
casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam
et dignitatem suas &c.[220]

The result of the prosecution does not appear.