A Letter from Scotland written occasionally upon the speech made by a noble peer of this realm by a better Protestant than the author of it (though a servant to His R.H). Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of, 1633?-1685. 1681 Approx. 9 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-07 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A48078 Wing L1504_CANCELLED Wing R1931B ESTC R36334 ESTC R36334 15666550 ocm 15666550 104307 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. 2003-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-03 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-04 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-04 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-06 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A LETTER from Scotland : Written Occasionally upon the SPEECH made by a Noble Peer of this Realm . By a better Protestant than the Author of it , ( though a Servant to His R. H. ) I Have heard much of the sad state and condition we are in , and I am convinced of it , since I see such Reflections made with impunity upon the Kings Person and Government . I shall say little to the President of our Henry the IV , unbridled Violence , and mean Condescensions , are the unhappy necessities of an Usurper ; but a good and a lawful King is obliged to maintain His Own Prerogative , as well as the Rights of His Subjects . But is it possible , that the supposed Author of the Printed Speech , should already forget , how lately the King ( after a great Retrenchment of His Family ) did at once , and ( as it is said ) by his Lordships advice , change almost His whole Council ? and yet the People ( or those that still make use of their Names ) never were , nor will yet be satisfied . I will not put his Lordship in mind of the Court Ladies , since he doth not remember he spoke of them : But unless he make himself a Samuel , I do not know what authority he has to examine Saul , about the bleating of the Cattel ? I cannot believe his Lordship could have the heart , to sacrifice the fairest of them ; his Lordship may read in the same place , that Obedience is better than Sacrifice ; but if a Sacrifice must be made , It is not to the People , but to God and Iustice. I would fain understand what is meant by the People ? For now every man calls himself the People ▪ and when one man calls for one Thing , and another for Something , directly opposite , both cry out , that if This , or That be not done , the People is betray'd ; that is to say , they will endeavour to perswade them so . But the People in this Speech , hath a strange Dialect , such as I hope no Englishman understands ; Must , was never the language of a good Subject , nor Submission the part of a King ; ( We must , &c. and no new Converts , ) I am sorry , that with all our Zeal , we are so unkind to Proselytes , we had a greater value for them not long since ; for though L. B. was accused of the Plot , his Conversion secured him without a Pardon , though either his Lordship was deeply guilty , or the Kings Evidence grosly perjured . Till the Author discover who he means by Sempronia , I shall not tell him who I believe to be as bad as Catiline . But it is prodigious , that while we are frighted with Bug-bears of invisible Dispensations from the Pope , his Lordship with his Arbitrary Must , should dispence at once , with the Law of God , as to the Queen ; with the Law of Nations , as to Foreign Ministers ; with the Laws of Hospitality , as to Strangers , and all that part of the Oath of Allegiance , that concerns the Heir of the Crown , which is equally binding with the rest , to all whose suspected honesty cannot accept of such an Arbitrary Dispensation . His Lordship seems much concerned to hear of a Bargain between the King and the House of Commons ; and so am I , for things are too ripe for mischief , when Subjects are permitted to capitulate with their Soveraign . The Kings Subjects ( by His permission ) have made Capitulations with Foreign Princes ; but his Lordship would not have the King so far trusted , as that His own Subjects may Capitulate with him , because as his Lordship says , he has so often deceived ( that hard word ) the People . And I beg leave to use the same expression of His Majesties patience , which his Lordship uses of his little care of his Person , That no Story affords a parallel of him . The actings of the Duke are indeed admirable to all , but incomprehensible to such as have not the true Principles of Loyalty rooted in them . But his Lordship ( who in Cromwell's time was much better acquainted with what pass'd at London , then at Bruxels ) avers , That the Duke had an early aim at the Crown , before the Kings Restauration ; this is a high Charge , and ought to be better proved than by a bare assertion : Hath his Lordship any Letters to produce from His Royal Highness to Himself , or any other chief Minister of the Vsurpers ? or to what Crown could the Duke pretend , when they had robbed the King of His own ? The Duke can shew undeniable proofs of his Allegiance , even in those days ; For what could an exiled Prince do more , than leave the great Commands , and Pensions that he had abroad , and all the advantages that his Birth , his Courage and his Reputation promised him , to follow the Fortune , and the Wants of His Majesty ? But how will his Lordship make out , that after the Match with a Portugal Lady , ( for that is the only Title his Lordship allows the Queen ) the Duke and his Party made Proclamation to the World , that We were like to have no Children , and he must be the Certain Heir : where is the World ? and where is the Proclamation ? He says the Duke took his Seat in Parliament , as Prince of Wales ; but his Lordship knows , that the Seat on the Right Hand of the State , was , and is reserved for the Prince of Wales , the Duke took that on the Left Hand ; the Printed Pictures of the House of Peers , sitting upon the Tryal of the Earl of Strafford , shew , that this is no Innovation ; and His Royal Highness had the same Seat , when the King his Father called the Parliament at Oxford . He urges , that the Duke had his Guards about him , upon the same Floor with the King , and so the King was every Night in his Power : It was a timerous ambition that lost so many opportunities . But what an Impudence is this ? The Duke never had Guards ; they are the Kings , the King pays them , they wait in their turn upon the King , and have but the Name of the Duke , as the Foot-Regiments have of Colonel Russel , and my Lord Craven ; so the Duke was every Night in the Kings Power . Next he fires his greatest Guns , The Duke is plainly the Head of the Plot ; By whose evidence ? Long before the Duke was named , Mr. Oates declared to the Lords , that he had no more to accuse ; if he accuse him now , and Oates be divided against Oates , how can his Testimony stand good ? Bedloe said as much ; and here appears no Evidence , where the greatest would be little enough I say nothing of a Presbyterian Plot ; but ( with his Lordships leave ) what has been , may be . The Calling , the Proroguing , and the Dissolving of Parliaments , are so absolutely in the King , that they ought to be Riddles to a Subject . When the Duke was Commanded to leave the Kingdom , I appeal to all the World , how readily , how Submissively he obeyed ; and comparing his immediate Obedience , with the obstinate Refusal of others , who still stay in opposition to the Kings Command , let any Impartial man of Sense decide , which has shewed most Loyalty and Duty . His Lordship and his Party ( for he says , We ) expect every hour , that the Court should joyn with the Duke , against them ; But I find , the Court is as hard a Word , as the People , and as boldly , and as odly used ; If by that Word , he means the King , all his Lordships Rhetorick will scarce perswade us , that the King should Conspire with the Duke , against His own Crown , and His own Life ; If not , what can the Court do without the King , and against the Nation ? Besides , his Lordship has too many Friends among the Courtiers , to suspect them ; and the Duke has met with too much Ingratitude , to trust them . His Lordship avers as truly ▪ that the King has declared the Duke to be Dangerous ; as , That His Royal Highness is now raising men in Scotland , that whole Council , that whole Kingdom , will disprove Him ; And by the apparent falshood of his Assertion , let all men judge of the Truth of the rest . If the Arms , the Garrisons , &c. be in such hands as the King thinks safe , We are safe too ; But if not , it concerns His Mujesty to secure them , since his Lordship declares , the King is to be trusted with nothing , till he has Resigned himself Himself to his Lordship , and his Party , and is wholly theirs ; and yet then too , He must trust their good Nature , and Surrender upon Discretion ; They will allow Him no other Terms , no , not to be Himself , and have His Senses , unless they can fright Him out of them . I will yet charitably hope , that the pretended Author is abused ; It concerns him to vindicate himself , by wishing , as I do , That the true Author may have the same Fate , that his Speech had , by Order of the House of Peers . FINIS .