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1 Civil Correction of a Sawcy Impudent Pamphlet, Lately Published, Entitled: A Brief Account of the Designs Which the Papists Have Had against the Earl of Shaftsbury, &c. 1681

handle is hein.trials/sawcypu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L A J A Civil CORRECTION OF A Sawcy Impudent P A M P H L E T, Lately Publifhed, Entituled, A Brief Account of the Defigns which the Papifis have had againft the Earl of Shaftsbury HAving very often heard of Popith Defigns a- gainjf the Earl of Sh. but never being able to get any true account of 'em in particular, it is not so be imagined how extreamly pleafed I was the other day to meet with a merry Famphlet, en. situled, A brief Account of the Defigns which the Papifis have had againft the Earl of Shafsbury, oc. cationed by his Commitment, July 2. 1681. Yery good, shougbt I; tow the Mountain bring. forth, or never: So wilbkat ever eyes, and Legs acreff, very gravely to reading jal I. The firf# thing I meat withal, is ind eed a very folidPoition ; Had Sir F. W. hiifelf laboured and (trained for a Period, 0' my Confcience he could not havefqueez'd out a duller. Says the worthy Pampblteer, Though the Apprehending of the Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury hath filled the Town and Countrey with talk and noife, yet it nei- thrr frightens nor difcourageth any true Proteflant, or good Englijh-man. WtV faid old Tautology: That's as plain as the Nofe in ones Face: Chear up my Coun- try -men ; for difcouragement being the efedf of fear, and fear the immediate caufe of difcouragement, there it nothing fo evident,as that a man may be frightened,and not dijcuaraged,or diftouraged and not frightened : that it to fay, a man may be frightened, and not frightened neither. So much for Rhetorick But prithee Sweet- heart, fince thou wilt befcribling, write Truth, though thou caujl not aferd us Senfe. For the Apprehending that Right HouUrable Earl does frighten mol true Pro- telants, and good Englifi-men i For, if that Right Honourable Earl has been all along fo vigorous an Afer- tor of the Proteriant Religion, she Rights and Liber- ties ofthe Subjeft, the Laws of the Kingdom, and the Authority and Prerogative of the Crown, Can it do lefs tha, firike aftonifhment into the heart and mind of every bone mut, tofind him accufed of no left Crimes than Hg.-Trcafon at laft ? lhe Confiring to feize upon and fecure the King's Perfon by violence; the fabverting the Government, and reijing Men and Arms to that &c. purpofe? I believe it frightens molg men, and that mof men are fomething apt to apprehend, that he may not be altogetherfo good a Prote(iat and Patriot as he would hove us believe he was: If he be. we have reafon to be afraid for bit Innocency, if he be not, we have reafon to be afraid that the be9 part of the Kingdom has long been miferably deceiv'd and mifled, and to dread the Ruine into which he was feducing us. Therefore good Mr. Pamphleteer be plea'd to recoil a your felf, and do not forejiall the uftice of the Laws, tbt muft acquit or condemn him; and It t me moreover inform your worjhip abfone thing, that if you are not frightened as my Lord of Shaftsbury's being apprehended for a Traj tor, lam fure you ought to be ajhamed ofyour Pamphlet. AsforExample: Tom are pleafedtoobferve, That the Perjuries oj Needy and Saborned Viiains may bring troubles upon ianoceacy. Good Friend of mine be tender how you treat the King's &itne~fes: For if want be once arg'd as an Argument again# the Validity of a feffime- my, for ought I know there is not one Jefuit has been hang'd theje three years, but may be as little a fraytor as the E. of S. But for a fhrewd Argument let you alone, Plc war, rant you, (viz.) If he werm traiteroully inclined (you fay) yet he is wifer than to communicate Defigns of that Nature to fuch bae and mercenary Rafcals as are faid to have witneffEd againil him, or to enter into a Coufpiracy, not only with beggarly Fellows, but with Irilh-een and Papilsr. One part of this Ile grant you ; He has not entred into this Confpiracy with beggarly Fellows, Irith-men and Papif Is only , for (if rumour may be belieV'd) there are a great many Rich Knaves in the Pack; Though (to return an Argument of your own uponyou, and tickle you in the true Prote- flant place,) who fo fit to be employed in Defigns of that nature, as deferate beggarly Fellows and Villains ? Now, if his Lerdhip's Widom'would not thiuknri(h- men, (and Papifjs efpecially) Rogues enough to under- take the dethroning of the King, and fukverting of the Governmpe*-

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