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A42182) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32592) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1865:7) The royal favourite clear'd with an admonition to the Roman Catholicks, and an address to his Royal Highness, James, Duke of York, &c. By a barrister of the Inner-Temple. Garbrand, John, b. 1646 or 7. [10], 22, [4] p. printed for James Vade, at the Cock and Sugar-Loaf, near St. Dunstan's-Church, in Fleet-Street, London : 1682. The epistle dedicatory signed: J.G. [i.e. John Garbrand]. "An address to his Royal Highness James, Duke of York, &c." has caption title on E2. Final leaf bears advertisement. Reproduction of the original in the Trinity College Library, Dublin. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. 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England and Wales. -- Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) -- Early works to 1800. 2007-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-01 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-02 Celeste Ng Sampled and proofread 2007-02 Celeste Ng Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE Royal Favourite CLEAR'D : WITH AN ADMONITION TO THE Roman Catholicks . AND AN ADDRESS TO HIS Royal Highness , JAMES , Duke of York . &c. By a Barrister of the Inner-Temple . London , Printed for James Vade , at the Cock and Sugar-Loaf , near St. Dunstan's - Church , in Fleet-Street , 1682. An Epistle Dedicatory . TO THE Right Honourable Sir John Moore , Lord Mayor of London . May it please Your Lordship , I Hope it will not create Your Wonder , that an unknown Hand should Dedicate these few Sheets to Your Lordship's Patronage ; whil'st your Own Loyalty is eminently expressed in the daily Service of Your King and Country . And , as Your Lordship's Place is Great , so is Your Care and Prudence : A remarkable Instance of which we lately had , when the Picture of His Royal Highness , the Duke of York , was rudely defaced by the Assassination of a Wicked Person , wherein Your Lordship's Endeavours did so readily appear , and Your Zeal to have the Barbarous Act discovered ; that there seemed nothing wanting in Your Lordship , to satisfie the King , and Kingdom of Your utter Abhorrence of so foul a Deed. Therefore , to Your Lordship I bring this little Treatise , that You may , with Your Acceptance , vindicate the Reputation , as well as Person , of This most Illustrious Prince , in whom all things center , that are Good. And if I have wrong'd His Royal Highness , or Your Lordship , by rudely expressing my honest Meaning herein declared ; I shall need no other Satyr , than a Self-reflection , or Punishment , then what I shall be ready to inflict upon my Self . But whatever happens to me for my own Unworthiness , my greatest Happiness will be to have Truth appear , tho through a Cloud ; and Slander punish'd , tho Justice Triumph in the Overthrow of my Imperfections . I am , My Lord , Your Lordship 's most Humble Servant , J. G. TO THE READER . I Should Appologize for my self , for Writing against so many Men , and for encountring so many Loads of Paper with a few single Sheets , were I convinced they had any Authority for what they say , or write ; who have Nicknamed His Royal Highness , the Duke of York , TRAYTOR , or PAPIST : But since I have no other Cause to believe the Discourse , than the fickle , and unthinking Humour of those who have followed the Dictates of a discontented Party ; and would , at the same time , have misnamed the Government , had it not been wary of their Proceedings and , on the suddain , arraigned their Actions ; I know no reason , why I should not speak my Opinion , as well as such Whirlygig-State-Projectors ; especially , since the sence of what I here Write , is signified to us by such Authorities , that we have no need to question the Truth of them . Therefore , Judicious Reader , I shall recommend this little Treatise to your serious Consideration , and I hope it may prove good Physick this Spring Time , to our Sir Politick-Would-be's , who ever rejoyce when the Government is at a default , though the Blot be for their Advantage : And then if any Wicked States-man will but Hound them on , O what a noise will they make ! though not half so well well coupled , as an indifferent Pack of Beagles ; and 't is their eager pursuit , generally , that makes them loose their Credit . But this is not sufficient : I may be ask't , What I have to do to concern my self with the Duke's Religion , or Loyalty ? To the Candid Reader , I hope , this will be a full Answer : Ever since I was Eleven Years Old , I have lived under this Government , as it is now Established ; and my Heart has hitherto Blessed the King , and I have wished Him Success in all His undertakings ; and I have had good Cause to do so , since His Majesties Laws are a Delight , and need not be grievous to any of His Subjects : On this bottom I justify my self , in Writing upon this Subject concerning the Duke , who , by all Loyal Men , is lookt upon to be a good Subject , a Dutiful Brother to the King , and One that seeks the Interest of the Nation : Whereas those who say the contrary , and give him the Name of PAPIST , and TRAYTOR , do generally shew themselves to be of Disloyal Principles , and such as the Nation have little reason to credit . And from hence I infer , That those who are obedient to His Majesty , will love the Duke of York ; because the Duke's Principles are ( as all good Subjects ought to be ) to Serve God , and Honour the King : And therefore , his being slander'd with the Name of PAPIST , TRAYTOR , Enemy to the KING , and Kingdom , or any other Name , that the giddy heads of these idle People can imagine , can make no other impression in the Hearts of wise Men , than to raise a just indignation against their Malice , and a Heart endeavour to prevent the danger that may ensu● from such ungodly Proceedings ; which ought to be the endeavour of every good Christian , and every Loyal Subject . THE Royal Favourite CLEAR'D . THere was a Time ( in the Year 1680. ) when this Illustrious Prince , James Duke of York , seem'd to the morose , and ruder sort of People , to lie under a Cloud ; And the Factious , at that Time , seem'd to Eclipse His Glory : And then to assert His Royal Highness to be a good Subject to His Majesty , and that there were no reasonable Arguments ever brought to prove him a Papist , was all one to them , as to have affirmed , That the Pope was Infallible , or that the Real Presence was in the Elements of Bread and Wine after Consecration , and as little it would have been believed . Yet some there were , even in that Time , ( whereof one was my intimate Acquaintance ) that had the Courage , and the Honesty , to justify the Dukes Loyalty , and to beat back all the Arguments then used to prove Him a Roman Catholick . I shall therefore take his method , and introduce my Discourse with those Reasonable Arguments that make most to my purpose , and cannot without impudence be deny'd . For , What can be more Demonstrably plain to prove the Duke a Protestant , than the Words of the Act of Parliament , 25 Car. 2. To throw Popish Recusants out of all Offices , and Places of Trust , and to Displace them from the Household , Service or Imployment of His Majesty , or of His Royal Highness , the Duke of York . Is here not the King , and His Brother , wisely considered by this Act ? does it not fence them about , and guard them from Jesuitical approaches , that might slyly insinuate themselves into Courts and Imployments , without a Test ? Now , since God and Nature has provided so well for Us , as to give Us so wise a King , and so Illustrious a Prince ; Both springing from the Loyns of that Most Glorious Martyr , Charles the First , our Late King , who dyed for the Protestant Religion : Can we exercise our jealousies over again , and dodge with the Government with pitiful scruples , and Wrestings of such generous expressions , and Confidence the then Parliament had of the Duke , at the Time of making that Act ? Against so plain an Exception of His Person , the direct words of which can never allow him to be in the penalty of that Law ; though , at that Time , the Duke might see occasion to lay down several of His great Offices , which might make some sort of Men conjecture it was done for that end and purpose ; As if it were not sufficient to belie one Prince to His Grave , but we must endeavour a Second time to do so in his Issue ; And as if the malice of one Age were not enough to make a Nation miserable , but that it must be Intailed upon their Posterity , to render it utterly destroy'd in the next . Were it not that the Eyes of the greatest part of the Nation are opened by these , and the like Observations , t were probable , we might once more suffer under the like Circumstances : But , thanks be to God , who has put it in the Heart of our King , to guide us in the ways of Peace , and to bear with the Infirmities of those who have been grievously infected with Anti-Monarchick , and Destructive Principles . And , What can the Parliament mean , when they made an Act in the Thirtieth Year of Car. 2d . To disable every Person from Sitting in the House of Parliament , that would not take the Test ? To make a Proviso , That it should not extend to the Duke of York ; were it not that they valeued him as a Person of that Honour , and Generosity that they could do no less than distinguish him from the rest of His Majesties Subjects , especially since He is so neerly Related to the Crown , has so well deserved of the King , and has been so often thankt for His good Services by themselves : This is so plain , and the Character of a Papist fixt upon the Duke so malicious , that it needs no Vindication , were it not to undeceive a Generation of Men whose Fathers having suck'd in the Poyson of Rebellion in the Last Age , have made it their utmost endeavour , to introduce it in this . Can any thing give us more Assurance of His Royal Highness , than the Words of the best of Kings , who in a Speech to His Parliament on the 6th . of March , in the 31 Year of His Reign , told Them , He had Commanded His Brother to absent Himself from Him , because He would not leave the most malicious Men room to say , He had not removed all Causes , which could be pretended to influence Him towards Popish Councels . Is here not a Reflection on the King himself by the most malicious , which the King is pleased to take ▪ Notice of ? And , when He Commands His Brothers Absence , is it not to stop the mouths of the malicious ? And , their spiteful calling of the Duke , PAPIST , Or His inclining the King towards Popish Councels , call'd by His Majesty , any thing else than a Pretence ? what then shall be said to such malicious pretenders , if even Their own Request granted , though never so unreasonable , will not give them satisfaction ? it behoves therefore His Majesty's good Subjects , to be more unanimous , and Hearty to one another , that so it may break the Hearts of all Malicious Pretenders , who , under the mask of Liberty , Property , and Religion , endeavour the Destruction , and Ruine of the King , and Kingdome : who can hence forward be so blind , and sottish , to credit a correspondence between the Pope , and the Duke of York , for the bringing in of the Roman Catholick Religion , as has been pretended ? And , who can , for the time to come , imagine Letters and Intreagues of that nature , when the utmost of the Design that has hitherto appeared , supposing those Letters to be the Duke's , can reach no farther than a Civil Behaviour , which is due to the Turk , Mogul , or King of Morocco ? We are obliged to Trade in those Countrys ; yet we cannot , with safety and security , without a Correspondence : And , who are so proper to transact such Affairs , as the prime Ministers of State ? From what has been said , 't is Monstrous to raise a Belief of the Duke's Recusancy , from the King's Speech , which clearly explains its self ; or from the afore-recited Acts of Parliament , which many would interpret to the prejudice of His Royal Highness , though the Nemine Contradicente of the House of Commons , on Sunday April 1679. does even then credit its own Report , with no other Reasons than what may seem to the Judicious Reader , to be here fully Answer'd : And it must the rather be thought so , when the Triple Vote of the House of Commons was afterwards incountred with the Opinion of the House of Lords , who rejected the Bill against the Duke , because They were not so satisfied . Now having deliver'd to you the Glorious condition of a Happy Favourite , seated on the Right Hand of Majesty , as well by His own Merit , as His Princes choice ; who was Honoured and esteemed by good Men , and was a Terrour only to the Bad : Let Us trace Him from White-Hall , driven by the Impetuosity of his Enemies , from the Presence of the King , and luster of a Court , into a solitary Banishment : Let us observe Him leaving our shoare , and rendring himself to the unconstant Ocean , which is not yet so unsettled , as the Land from which He parted : And , though many Waves lifted up their Voices against Him : yet , by the greater number , let us consider Him ( though among Enemies ) Wafted into a Safe Harbour : For , being a Noble Foe , He could Fear no danger in His Misfortunes , when in His Triumphs He could not insult over His Adversaries amongst Forreigners , His Cardinal Vertues ( so much slighted by Us ) made Him more Honoured , than He was Here , with the Addition of His Guards , and Dignities : There , amongst the most zealous Papist , He was lookt upon as an injured Protestant Prince , bearing the Figure of His Father's goodness and constancy : There , He propagated Our Protestant Doctrine , whilst Here He was falsely surmised to endeavour its Destruction : Whilst He was There , with those who would have been glad of any Opportunity to affront our Nation , He manifested so much Duty and Loyalty , so much Love and Respect for His King and Country ; That He made faithful Friends and Ally's , of Those that might otherwise have been our Mortal Enemies , and would have trampled upon our Religion , and made Their will Their Law : So that the malice of a Banishment intended by his Adversaries , could not prevent the Charactar of a Peace-maker , a worthy Patriot , a grand Polititian , a Friend ( as well as Brother ) to the King , a Joseph , a Preserver of those that dispitefully used Him , and Trayterously sought his Ruine . Thus are the false Achitophels mistaken , and , against their Wills , are saved from the danger they would avoid by Him , whom They intended to destroy . But now , it is Time to consider of His Return : Our Vigilant King sitting at the Helm ; and carefully watching every Motion of the Government , found it necessary so prudent a States-man should not always lie under Hatches : He no sooner spake , than all who Loved the King had Their Eyes upon the shoare , and Their Dayly Prayers for the Duke were , That the Seas and Winds might render His Voyage pleasant and delightful ; and that each gentle Gale might direct Him into the Harbour of our Hearts and Armes , that we might deliver Him safe into the Embraces of his King and Brother . Behold Him come , His Sailes fill'd with Honour and Renown ; Though surly Nereus , dreading His own Overthrow , had laid an Ambush behind a Mountainous Wave , to encounter Him : But He was not to be overcome in those Seas , on which He had Victoriously rode High Admiral : To Him , Neptune must Bow , though armed with His Trident , and mounted on the Leviathan . And one would guess , 't was in pursuance of this League Marine , that he so lately sent in his High and Mighty Flouds to invade the Low Countrys , lest himself should be again controuled by that dreadful Power he never could withstand . Therefore in vain do you strive , you handful of discontented Common-wealths-men , in vain do you set yourselves against this Hero , you shall be forced to contribute to his Greatness , whom all the World admires , even your Meritorious sufferings shall add to his Glory . And now ( Kind Reader ) take one view more , and then farewel : Behold the King like Solomon , in the mid'st of the Multitude of his Councellors , consulting the safety of himself , and of his Kingdoms , dispencing his gentle Influences every where , and like a Deity , warming the coldest corners of the Land : And then cast your Eyes on a Rebellious , and stiff-necked Nation , such as Israel was of Old , wanton with ease and plenty , froward and discontented ; Who would never serve their God , but only as they pleased , nor obey their Prince in any of his just Commands . And after this prospect Review our Hero , whose Vertues are a Task for the whole World to imitate . And see him in Obedience to his Kings Commands , making an easy Progress into the Hearts of these untameable People ; though the way that leads to their Hearts , as well to as their Country , is naturally Subject to many difficulties : See him Settling , Confirming , and giving a Lustre to that Religion that here we would exclude him from , together with his Birth-right , and make him wander for a God , as well as for a Country . Behold him incouraging the Kings Loyal and good Subjects , and reducing the unsettled minds of a discontented Party into their due Obedience . Thus , our High Commissioner has God and the King , Religion , and Loyalty to justify his proceedings ; whilst those who Damn him , with their pretended God with Us , are like to suffer Heavens Vengeance for their Presumption , if God gives them not the Grace of Repentance . Now , from these and several other Reasons that may be given , I hope there is none that will be so foolish , or obstinately wicked , as to persist in the Opinion of the Duke's separating himself from the Interest of the King , and Kingdom , after so many instances to evince the contrary : But if any sort of Men can be so Crazy , or Mad , to continue in so palpable an error ; the World must conclude them busy bodies , and Medlers in what they have nothing to do ; Common-wealths-men , Trayterous Associators , and such as would disturb the present Government , and for a livelyhood would wish our Waters as much disturbed , or more then the Hollanders were , by their late Inundation : And whilst these Incendiaries remain , Faction cannot be thought strange , or Rebellion quite out of Fashion . Especially , when His Royal Highness , King's only Brother , shall be Assassinated in Effigie , for want of a fitter opportunity to exercise their Malice upon His Person : T is against the Duke they lay their Seige , against the Duke they ingage a Party : But the Government is not so unwary , as not to provide against their dangerous approaches , knowing their Squint-Eyed Revenge carries with it a Malicious intent against the Person of His Sacred Majesty . But to conclude , were I to give my Opinion what remedy might best serve to Cure this Kings-Evil , it should be to be Touch'd , were it not so Universal that it would prove the greater evil of the two , in bringing a Consumption upon the Kings Exchequer , which none can so well remedy , as a Loyal , Grateful Parliament , by making a bountiful return to their most Gracious King and Governor : I shall say no more , who am but a Wellwisher to the King , and Kingdom : Only , may Heaven preserve His Majesty , and this Government , as now Establish'd ; And may His Majesty have a long and happy Reign ; And when He has finished His Days , may his Memory be renowned to future Ages , as His Clemency and Goodness has been manifested to Us , and the rest of the World , in This. AN ADMONITION TO THE Roman Catholicks . I Am sensible , whatever you hold of the Infallibility of the Pope , that you , who are of that Perswasion are not Infallible ; otherways , you would not have insinuated an Opinion of the Duke of Yorks being a Papist amongst the King's Leige People , and at last , suffer your selves to be mistaken ; Notwithstanding , at that time , you had drawn so great a Party of the King's Subjects into your confederacy . It was a Malevolent Conjunction , and had an ill Aspect on the Government ; and render'd it unstable , and tottering , even in the Opinion of those who guided the great Affairs of State under His Majesty . It was therefore your very good Luck to lay hold on the Horns of the Altar , to seek the Mercy of the King , whom you have highly offended ; such Mercy , and such Goodness , you could never expect in any other Age : The Justice of the Kingdome cry'd alowd for Vengeance against your Plots , and Designs against the Life of the King , His Royal Brother , and Friends : Yet , you see , those very Lives which were Trayterously intended to be taken away , are now interposing between you and Danger : and the Second Person in the Kingdom , is here Mediating with the King of England , to remember Mercy in Justice , and to spare those who have no reason to expect any Favour , since They have so highly offended : Therefore May it now happen to you , as when our Saviour gave that Kind Admonition to His Criminal : Go , Sin no more , lest a worse thing happen to you . For in vain you perswade the Ignorant and simple People , that our Princes are Papists , and our Ministry and Gentry Popishly Affected : When their Pious Resolutions , as well as Interest , are never to return again to the slavery of the Papal-See , upon any Opportunity whatsoever . Therefore let me advise you as a Friend , joyn not with those Dissenters , which your selves have made ; Assist not in their Meetings ; fill not their Congregations , neither Reconcile them to Rome , nor draw them from their Allegiance ; but suffer them rather , with your selves , to be converted to the Communion of the Church of England , and to the Government of the King , Renouncing all Forreign Powers , and Jurisdictions , which may alianate your Affections and Obligations to our present Government , as by Law Establish'd , either in Church , or State. This is the Way , walk in it ; and those who bold out to the end , shall be Happy . AN ADDRESS TO HIS Royal Highness JAMES , Duke of York , &c. WElcome , Great Prince , thrice wel-come to a Land , Where even your Foes stretch out your Command ; And make You fitter to assist the Crown , Whilst , at their charge , You purchase in Renown : This they perceived , and spitefully seem'd good , Tho' now their wicked Plots are understood : 'T is they , who sought to undermine the Throne , Who call'd you Traytor , and would prove you one In Hell they laid their Scene , and their Consult Was a Packt Juncto ; Treason , their Result . But You run Counter to their deep Designs , And Ferret them about with Counter-mines . No Poysonous Vapours from the Shades below , Nor sullen Treasons from vile Men can s●●w : No State Disease , or Forreign evils sell , But You exhale , or wisely can expel . Your strickt Example is a Vertuous spell , To better Good , and make the Bad do well . Thus , whilst to Duty You do shew the way , In different Orbes we constantly obey : Making Great Charles sit safely in his Wain , And Rule the World with a soft gentle Reign O Happy King ! O Happy we ! that can Trust in a Prince , Rest in so just a Man ! FINIS . Some Books lately Printed for , and are to be Sold by James Vade , at the Cock and Sugar Loaf , near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street , 1682. THe Nations Interest , in Relation to the pretentions of His Royal Highness James Duke of York , Discoursed at large in a Letter to a Friend . The Grand Inquest ; or a full and perfect Answer to several Reasons , by which it is pretended His Royal Highness , the Duke of York , may be proved to be a Roman Catholick . The 〈◊〉 and Method of His Majesties Happy Restauraration said open to Publick view , by John Price , D. D. one of the Late Duke of Albemarl's Chaplains , and privy to all the Secret Passages , and Particularities of that Glorious Revolution . A 〈◊〉 Memento both to King and People , upon this Critical Juncture of Affairs . These Books following are Printing for James Vade , and will speedily be Published . THe History of the Western Empires Decay , since Charles the Great , concerning the Regalia , now in Dispute between the King of France , and the Pope : Written in French by Father Lewis Maimbourgh , and Translated into English by an Eminent Gentleman . The Life of King Almansor ; Or , The Compleat Model of a Good Prince . Written by the Virtuous Capt. Ali Abencufian , Viceroy and Governour of the Provinces of Dacque in Arabia . First Written in Spanish , and Translated into French by Monsieur Dobeilh ; and Turn'd into English by A. P. Gent.