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NOTES:-A Series of Eight Anonymous and Confidential Letters addressed to James II. about the State of Ireland, 361-Inventory of Pope's Goods taken after his Death, 363 -New Fangled Expressions-Mermaids, 365-Names of the States, U.S A.-Manuel Chrysoloras in England-Kentish Scenery, 366-Gainsborough's Portrait of Chatterton-Spring Folk-lore-Turner's Houses-Herb Robert-Coaches first used in Scotland-Perambulations on Rogation Days, 367. QUERIES:-The Abolition of the House of Lords-Moise du Soul, 367-Posture at Table-A Yard of Beer-Donald Bane -"Belief in the Supernatural"-"Res subito gesta' Captains W. and R. Bokenham-"Terms of surrender of Skipton Castle," 368-Voltaire-"Landlord "-American Poets-"Devotionale Cartusia Efordiensis" — Water: Boughs-Anecdotes of Monkeys-Wesley and Moore-Lord Chief Justice Greene-Earldom of Seafield-The Diceys and Chap-books-Authors Wanted, 369. REPLIES:-"Harpings of Lena": W. J. Baitman, the Alford Poet, 370-Extinct Periodicals, 371-Sir Philip Francis's Marriage-Syncretism, 372-A Latin Bible-St. Luke xxiii. 15, 373-"Mighty" Tom of Oxford-Curious Shropshire Epitaph-Ellice, &c.-Stowey and Stow Ball-Curious Bookplate, 374-The Coomb off Church Bells-Child's "Discourse of Trade "Hypnerotomachia -The Pulteney Correspondence-Eustachius Vicecomes-" Bred and Born"-Are Toads Poisonous ? 375 - "Opiet" Religious Novels Christmas Cards, 376-Portaits of W. Irving-Yardleys of England "Alkermes "All upon the Merry Pin". "Deck" of Cards-"The Guy"-Elephants destroyed on becoming Dangerous, 377-Parchment Wills-J. KnibbBp. Gibson, 378-Dorset Traditions-The Hally wells-An old Seal-Gigantology-Authors Wanted, 379. think of a change in the civil governmt that may anyhow tend to a change in religion, the advice of al & every your protestant privy Councellours will ever run counter to your intentions. And it is thought this is it that retards the intended total discarding of the Whiggs in Ireland and putting the Catholics of that Country into civil & military employments, for the protestants there as being al of 'em or at least far the major part Cromwellians that dread the loss of their unjust acquisitions have many spies & Advocats in this Kingdm whither they have transmitted vast summs of money since your Matles access to the crown to purchase (as tis believed) friends at Court & now that my Lord Clarendons declaration has sett their hearts at rest & hindred them from compounding with the ancient proprietors upon whom they began before to obtrude impositions for less Ministers & great Men at Court to prevayle with your than half purchase, they intend by their influence upon Majestie to employ no man in that Country that has any relations or interest in it & to colour their suggestions tis probable they may alleage to your Male the danger & inconvenience of lodging any power in the hands of a nation that in Case of a Protestant successor might in defence of their darling Religion sett up for themselves & struggle with their Sovereign at the cost of their allegeance which suggestions wel weigh'd are but meer state-sophistry. For not to mention the severe persecutions in Q. Eliz: dayes who forced that poor Country to defend that wh they ever valu'd more than their lives & Estates the true & ancient religion of their forefathers Against her tyrannical usurpation that had no title to NOTES ON BOOKS:-Perry's "Greek and Roman Sculp-couradg'd her father in his profaneness & adultery. The the Crown but by maintaining that Heresie which enture"-Yonge's "Constitutional History of England"— Turner and Morshead's "Goethe's Faust," &c. Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. " A SERIES OF EIGHT ANONYMOUS AND CON- (Continued from p. 323.) The Copy of an other Letter to the King, about SIR,-Before I say any thing else to your Majestie, I wil presume to acquaint you with what I hear from many hands that the contents of penny post Letters sent you, are frequently talked of abroad as wel as the debates & resolutions of your privy Council which may prove of very il consequence, For a sincere friend to your Matle and interest that canot otherwise have access to you may in a peny-post letter give you those items concerning your interest, religion, and the legal ways of establishing both which shud not be imparted to any, if not to such whose secresie honesty & loyalty are unquestionable, for the counsels & resolutions of Princes wa once disclos'd are little better than a discoverd mine. Nay the revealing the Princes secretts is in the opinion of al sound politicians the greatest crime next to high treason Al I'l say to this is that I wil repeat to your Male one of Solomons proverbs Be at peace wth many never the less have but one councellour of a thousand, and as this advice was given by the wisest of Kings, no King ever reign'd in England that had more need to follow it than your Majestie. For tho Councellours be as necessarie to a King as the soule is to the body & wisdom be sayd to consist in the multitude of Counsell yet it is a hard case when the King aimes at one end and his Ministers at another, for while your Matie may severe & unequal usage extended by Ministers to the Natives of yt Country were in a great measure the occassion of their several Combinations and insurrections whereof I cud produce a hundred instances from impartial & violent protestant Authors wherewith is not proper to trouble your Male in a letter, but this I can aver that wt ever that Country might have don in defence of its religion in K Henr 8 & Q Eliz. reignes since your royal grand-fathers acces to the crown there has bin no rebellion in Ireland but that of 41. which al circumstances considerd was not as black as it was painted and for which no better apologie can be made than your Royal Father offers in his Eikon Basilike and his answer to the reasons of the votes of no address, for tis certen that whatever may be sayd of bloody Irish Massacres that ye Murther committed by the Scotch presbiterians at Island Magee on four score Irish families man woman & child in one night in the begining of the warrs and the Devilish practices of the Presbiterian Lds Justices Parsons & Burlace in forceing the estated natives to outlawyeries in order to get their Estates, and their encourageing parties of their armie to Kil al that came in their way without discriminating nocents from Innocents were the occasion of the generalitie of the Irish takeing armes in their own defence & of al the mischief and barbarity after comitted by the rabble on al sides; and the chief reason why the Irish broke their intire subjection to the Crown of England with due resignation and alacrity since King Jameses first coming to the crown is that that whole nation reckons it the greatest honour it can without vanity boast of to see itself providentially happy under the protection of Kings lineally descended from the Kings of Ireland as can be undeniably demonstrated, and I believe it in my Conscience if your Male had no right by Conquest to Ireland and that their King were to be pitchd upon by Election they would never choose any other than your Mate and your royal posterity, for if it lay in their powr they woud make you as absolut in Ireland as your heart cud wish, nay if there were a loyal parleament calld there that might outvote the Fanatics they would double your revenues to yourself and posteritie & make their love and loyalty known by contributing with open hearts & purses to your greatness. But al this notwithstanding I know som wil be apt to magnifie dangers where there is none at al and cloak it where it really is, a trick much usd in England of late For the Fanatics in Ireland as they are the dreggs of the people of England that had no Estates here & went in ye Usurpers time to make fortunes in that Country and the scum of the worst sort of presbiterians in Scotland that upon persecutions there & to relieve their poverty flocked into the North of Ireland so are they the most dangerous enemies Monarchy or Religion has in the 3 Kingdoms which your Matie had infallibly found to be true if god had not timely & miraculously defeated your Enemies for had Argile landed in the northern parts of Ireland he had got a better party in 8 dayes than he pickd up in Scotland from first to last. But it is with the Irish as with the Jesuits, let who wil be of rebellious principles & inclinations they must bear the brand; The Jesuits raysd the Scotch rebellion in 37. murderd your royal father, burnd the Citty, Kindled the several rebellions in Scotland since the restauration and woud have assasinated his late Majestie of ever blessed memory and yet al these fine feats were really don or intended by the Presbiterians who always lay their rebellious brats at other mens doors and yet the Irish that have not rebelld since 41 (if the french fleet that was to land at Carlingforde be not a rebellion) must be still branded with the ignominious names of a rebellious barbarous & bloodthirsty nation but Munmouths & Argiles rebellions that struck soe imediately at the very root of monarchy and the extirpation of your Majesties royal line are already forgot as if they had bin a dream by the same partie that cry out upon the Irish whereof the generality are hated and traduced for no other crimes than that of being your true and unalterable friends. And your Male has reason to pray, with the late Dutchess of York that they & the Catholicks of England and Scotland may not suffer for your being of their religion for if you do not make them considerable before God cals you from an earthly to a heavenly Crown they wil be inevitably crush'd to pieces with out a Miracle from heaven & truely if you advise with any Protestant Minister of State about doing the generality of that nation a Kindness they wil never advise you to it in as much as they look upon any considerable change in the Civil government of that Kingdom to be an infallible inlet of Popery into this. And our misfortune is that we are already as much hated & slander'd by the industry of y° fanatics in Ireland & here as if by our means Popery were already introduc'd into the 3 Kingdoms & your Malle may be wel assur'd that in Case you had not the least thought of replanting your religion even by lawfull and Evangelical means the number of your Enemies woud never be the less, for rebellion & the constant fore runners of it, feares & Jealousies run in the blood of your Fanatic Subjects and the race of the same men that persecuted your royal Father to the scaffold for being what he was not, an arbitrary Papist wil never in their hearts (be their cant what it will) be reconcil'd to a Popish (and as they mistake it) an Idolatrous Prince and their murmurings & heart burnings are soe universal already that the very church of England heretofore reputed the chief prop of Monarchie is of late grown little better than a Kirk of Scotland, For every sermon is an indirect & cunning invective against Poperie & consequently upon what they look upon to be its inseparable companion slavery and tho' the few sincere Church of England men ought in imitation of ombre players to joyn with the Romanists against the Fanatics as the stronger party and too many for them Both, yet they are so far from it that pursuant to Shaftsburys project they joyn against the Catholics as their comon enemie And your Irish subjects being the most numerous body of Catholics in your dominions and the most fit and willing (as the case stands now) to counterballance the powr of the Fanatics your Matie shud think of putting them without delay into a condition to stand by your Matie and your posterity upon occassion, that may want their assistance in this Kingdom that has bin so long & so furiously driveing at the erection of & Comon-wealth as of all other governments the most suitable to the humor of a wealthy headstrong people ever Jealous of their own hapines & of their Princes greatnes & whoever goes about to prepossess your Matie with ye imagenary inconvenience of a thorow alteration in Ireland little considers that the Catholic Mobile there that modestly speaking make six to one of the several sectaries in it are as extremely fond of their Kings interest and a Kingly government as the rabble of England has bin averse to Monarchy since the unhappy reformation that with the diversity of opinions open'd a gap for a continued series of broiles and confusion & that the best way of secureing a Conquest when tis once compleat by the tyes of alliances and mixtures of blood 'twixt the first Colonies sent into the conquer'd Countries and the Natives (as it is now with these formerly call'd the Meer Irish and the Old English) is to interest the conquer'd Nation in the Princes governmt so as without danger of changing better for wors none of 'em may think of sideing with any against him for when the con trary is practis'd it breeds bad blood & discontent & makes men uneasie & without the grace of Christian patience putts them upon unnatural and desperat designs, witnes Colon' Miles Reylies attempt in offering his service som 18 or 19 years ago to the French King upon a difference with England which was the effect of discontent, for the sayd Colonel went over from Owen ONeil to Ormond before the peace of 48 and serv'd him faythfully & tho upon the Kings restauration he had reason to expect being considerd as a loyal Cavalier be met with no other consideration than Ormonds saying, he was an honest man but that he was of an il Province as if there ought to be any distinction twixt the Kings subjects, but what may distinguish good Men of wt Province or Country so ever from bad, and tho I be an Irish Man that presume thus to convey my wel meaning thoughts to your Matie I must confess I canot be so indiscretely zealous for the good of religion (the propagation whereof is often marr'd by zeal without knowledge & prudence) as to allow of som mens Immoderation that woud have al protestants to a Man in that Country putt out of employments to make room for Catholics for if al the protestants there were as loyal as the Old & decrepid Ear? of Ardglass twere safe employing them, for that honest Cavalier in the heat of the popish plott entertain'd cherish'd reliev'd & kept out of Goal most of the poor R Catho Clergie in his side of the Country. S-I can with a good Conscience protest before god that what I here presume to offer to your Maties gracious consideration is rather an effect of my unfeigned zeal for your Majesties spiritual & temporal interest & the good of religion than of an affection byass'd for the good of my poor country whose case since the reformation has bin much your own since your becoming a Roman Cath. for your Mate & that poor Kingdom have bin equally asperad slander'd & persecuted for your unshaken constancy in your religion & your Matie may Judge from your own haveing bin traduc'd in a cruel manner on the account of your religion how much the worst actions that Catholic country was ever guilty of may be hitherto aggravated by the sworn Enemies of their pro 1 duced to you in his late Majestie's time in order to let you know your friends from your foes in that country.” In like manner the exiled king's Scotch correspondent writes : "All I intend is to give you a short view of your affairs in Scotland since the beginning of the Revolution, that your Majesty may know when you attempt the recovery of your just Rights whom you may relye on, for all those that have kept firme to y' dewtie after so long and severe a tryall you may safelie depend on.' in 1693, the Irish letters are dated from March, The Scotch report appears to have been written 1684, to February, 1686. It is almost needless to say that, while it is not improbable that the original draft of MR. FRAZER's first letter may have been penned in March, 1684, for the information of James, this prince was then Duke of York, as Charles II. did not die until February of the following year. It is, consequently, quite uncertain what the actual date of this letter was. Clearly these dates-March, 1684, and February, 1686, demand re-examination. fession that believe no Calumnies proportionable to the HIS DEATH. Among the interesting papers at Mapledurham A Catalogue of the Goods at Twickenham. The Room next ye Thames. Mr Wallsh in Ditto. a Glass and Black Table. five Brack Chaires. A Small carpet to ly by the bead Side. Mr Honee in a Gold Frame. a Lady's pictture in d°. a black table three black Chaires. The Garot Staire Case. The Model of Burlington House. Two large Pictures. In the Chince Room fronting the Thames. Chince Curtains Valent and Counterpane. 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