A ●ETTER FROM W. B. in the CITY, To his Friend at ●ARWICK.  
〈◊〉 Friend.  
●UT of sight out of mind, does without doubt oft prove true, but you may believe 〈◊〉 is not so with me, notwithstanding my so long silence and your frequent Provocations. In Troth the various shapes our public Affairs have put on, the general Confirmation, that had in a manner seized all truly Loyal hearts, and impudent actings 〈…〉 Gentlemen of Forty One, had so non-plussed, and staggered my apprehensions and that I resolved myself into my old Mum, till Providence should afford me a more cer … comfortable Subject to accommodate my Friends; And now my hand is in 〈…〉 acquit yourself as well as you can. Your Letters have been read by many an 〈…〉 who say indeed, that you Writ wittily and ingeniously, and that you are an 〈…〉 Loyal Subject, and a true Churchman, but I hear of no great noble or 〈…〉 you or your Town have done for either God or the King, as Bristol 〈…〉 Places. Now is the time or never. We have Writers enough, who have sufficiently done and foiled our Adversaries, in so much that divers of the Godly, or rather Un … have long since cursed the Pampleteers and other Writers, and were willing to cross the 〈…〉 that incomparable and unwearied Asserter of true Loyalty, the Observator especially, and 〈…〉 would leave galling them and laying open their old and new intended Villainies; the 〈…〉 ●hich has gratified them in laying down first, as you may find in his Paper of the 24 of 〈…〉 his Reasons and Resolutions upon it, to which I refer you. But what will Writing or 〈…〉 or even Preaching do, if the Magistrate bear the Sword in vain? nay, what can the 〈…〉 … e do, if all true and loyal Subjects, I mean the established Church of England Protestant's, 〈…〉 earnest, and actively forward to assist him in the execution of the Laws against all se … Conventicles and unlawful Assemblies whatsoever. 'Tis plain, that Indulgence has en … … and made them impudent, and nothing but severity will calm and make them subject. 〈…〉 I may now say, that the Boot is on the right Leg, and will (if we are not wanting to our 〈…〉 and ourselves) there continue, though the Devils labour hard to pluck it off again. 〈…〉 which they have taken divers Methods and Measures, as by lies and lying Wonders, 〈…〉 Enemy's whereby they ever carried on and supported their Infernal Cause, by a new 〈…〉 for taking and interpretation of all Legal Oaths, squared to these Saints Consciences, Po … 〈…〉 fitted for our Republican Hogsheads, the pretty Intrigue with our Rennegado, who came with the Morocco Ambassador; Salamanca picklocks for the black Box, being th●●● invention of a Masquerading Jesuit spawned of Anabaptist Parents; Evidences kept in 〈◊〉 help at a dead lift, Ignoramus Juries, who make all Laws truckle to their omnipotent Co … ces, Midsummer-Moon Frolicks in choosing of Sheriffs; and lastly, by frighting the chief Ma … and other Officers from doing their Duties, with Actions and Suits of Law, and broaching … nies against them. I might add many more, but these may suffice at present, only let me leave to remind you of my prophetic Spirit in my Letter to you upon the first discovery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Popish Plot, when I told you, that I feared another would arise out of the Ashes of that 〈◊〉 which is now as plainly visible as the Nose in an honest man's Face. The good old 〈◊〉 men may call it a Shame plot, and swear in an Ignoramus Way, That there is no Presby … or Republican one; So, they may drink Healths to the pious Memory of Steven Colle● 〈◊〉 condemned Traitor, and say they are the King's best and most loyal Subjects; Nay, they endeavour for a Bill of Exclusion as soon as they have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and think they are not perjured, They may do evil, that good come thereby, and say, S … … berty have all their Saints; They may cry out of Arbitrary Government, and set up an … ring Committee; They, when it serves their turn, may maintain, that the Servant is ab●●● 〈◊〉 Master, that the Sheriffs are above the Lord Mayor, and that the Mobile or Rabble are all. That Vox Populi (by which must be understood our Republican Saints, as heretofore (〈…〉 Army) is Vox Dei, And that the Kings of England are elective, and but Servants to the 〈◊〉 which was the common Doctrine before the taking off the Head of that blessed Martyr 〈◊〉 the first. But no more of this Subject, till I see what returns you make and issue of 〈◊〉 depending upon the Quo Warranto, or our new Sheriffs give bond and sworn. However I conclude, it may not be amiss to acquaint you that the old Fox and P— S are pa … that some of the Patriots of the whigs and Troublers of Israel are gone beyond Sea, 〈◊〉 aside, as Bethel, Starkey, Wilmore, Aaron Smith, and Langly Curtise. William Pen with som● 〈…〉 Gang are gone to Pensilvania, and many others to Carolina, as Harbingers to their mighty A good riddance say I, and the more the merrier, that we may have the better Cheer, puts me in mind to tell you, that merry Tom the Teaser is dead before he could take 〈◊〉 with his Comrogues. In a Word I am  
Sir, Yours W. ●. September 1.   

Printed at the Importunity of some Loyal Gentlemen for I. ● in Little-Brittain. 1683.