ABSTRACT
WHY She is not willing, that at this time that there should be any Impeachments, for the Kingdom is so Guilty you may know were to begin, but you wont know were to end: I would have you Consider that the Queen had Power to make Peace or War, and how dare any one call Her Authority into Question, for if Princes can’t have the Power for to have their Subjects to do, what they know they may do, who can be sase, they will make Crown’d Heads worfer than Gally-Slaves: If the Commons had not been very discreet we might have been hairri’dinto Confusion; for destroying Angels is ready to execute Juice upon this sinful Nation that is continually provoking God to Anger; the Devil, the Pope and Antichrist is so busy, and makes so many on their side, thinking to overthrow the Kingdom, that the Governours ought to implore God for Wisdom, that they may prevent it: I have ever been a Woman of great sincerity, and lov’d the Peace of the Kingdom always, and I was never Popish nor Wiggish, but was always for Kingly Authority, and the establish’d Worship, and I do Wonder how any one can think that I am turned a Whig, for God Almighty established me in his Worship when I was very Young, and not any body taught Me to Read, but God Almighty taught nay Heart, and my Heart taught me my Book; and I can give a large account of my Faith, as any one in the three Kingdoms; was it not a great Thing of me to go to KingCharles the Second to tell him of his Faults, and the same Power can make me to rectifie a Kingdom, and I have stood in Opposition, when the Devil would have deflroy’d the Kingdom; for the last War was the Devils War, and he thought then to have deftroy’d Us, but God Almighty permited it to humblè Us; but the Devil and his Angels hates dissapointments, which made him to roar against Doctor Sacheveral, and now his Spite and Malice is so great, that he would destroy them that made the Peace, thinking by that, that we might be Instrumenral to destroy our selves by the Confusion that we may make; and I humbly Intreat your Lordships, for to beg of God, for to give you Wisdom, that you may outwit the Devil, for Christ dy’d to make you. more than Conquerours over the Devil and all his Works: I was very unwilling that King James should give his Supremacy to the Pope, and I told him that I had a great Faith, and that I wanted Exercise, and I desired him that I might go to the Pope, if his Majesty would be pleas‘d to give me leave, and I told his Majesty that if he would not be Angry, I could go without his leave, but he was in a Passion, and Charg‘d me that I should not go, for if I did, he would send an Express and fetch me back again; and 1 did hear some Gentlemen that stood by, say who would think the King should mind this Woman, let her go, and the Devil go with her, for the will never return back again; but after the King was gone, they said you must not expect to find so much favour in the Popes Court as you do in this; and I said, surely I shall find a great deal more, for you tell me that he is Christs Vice-gerent, for he will be like a Fountain where all the Springs of Vertue flow from in Humility and Condecension, but you make your Pope as if he was a Devil, that if I went near him that he would devour me, but my Lord Grandison being there, I told him that I would fain send the Pope a Letter, but I could not tell who to send it by, and he told me that his Cousin was a going an Embassadour to the Pope, (which was my Lord Castlemain) and if I did go to him in his name, and if he promised upon his Honour that he would deliver it, that I might beleive him, and I did so, and when I brought it he said that the Pope did not understand English, and with much ado I got it translated into Latin, and I shew’d it to Dean Stillingfleet, and he told me that he never read any thing better translated; but for that in English I shew’d it the King, and he did go in, and it was read, and the King teemed very well pleas‘d with it, and he was sent for 3 times for to go to Dinner, and after Dinner when he went out a Walking, he said my Lords I will tell you News, Mrs. Jame, is a going to Convert the Pope, which made them all Laugh, but the Raman Catholicks which heard it, was highly displeased; in Monmouth Rebellion I would a gone to have made Peace, but the King would not let me.
