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they were all where Charles Stuart is, all who declare ["By their cavilling at Spanish Wars and so on:" his Highness looks animated!] that they are of that spirit. I do, with all my heart;-and I would help them with a boat to carry them over, who are of that mind! Yea, and if you shall think it a duty to drive them over by arms, I will help in that also!

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You are engaged with such an Enemy; a foreign enemy, who hath such allies among ourselves:- this last said hath a little vehemency in it [His Highness repents him of blazing up into unseemly heat]: but it is well worth your consideration.

Though I seem to be, all this while, upon the justice of the business, yet my desire is to let you see the dangers and grand crisis' this Nation stands in thereby.' All the honest interests; yea all interests of the Protestants, in Germany, Denmark, Helvetia and the Cantons, and all the interests in Christendom, are the same as yours. If you succeed, if you succeed well and act well, and be convinced what is God's Interest, and prosecute it, you will find that you act for a very great many who are God's own. Therefore I say that your danger is from the Common Enemy abroad; who is the head of the Papal Interest, the head of the Antichristian Interest, who is so described in Scripture, so forespoken of, and so fully, under that characteral name ‘ of Antichrist' given him by the Apostle in the Epistle to the Thessalonians, and likewise so expressed in the Revelations; which are sure and plain things! Except you will deny the truth of the Scriptures, you must needs see that that State is so described in Scripture to

be Papal and Antichristian. [Who would not go to war with it!] I say, with this Enemy, and upon this account, you have the quarrel,—with the Spaniard.

And truly he hath an interest in your bowels;1 he hath so. The Papists in England, -they have been accounted, ever since I was born, Spaniolised. There is not a man among us can hold up his face against that. [The justifying of the Spanish War is a great point with his Highness!] They never regarded France; they never regarded any other Papist State where a 'hostile' Interest was, but Spain only.' Spain was their patron. Their patron all along, in England, in Ireland and Scotland: no man can doubt of it. Therefore I must needs say, this 'Spanish' Interest is also, in regard to your home-affairs, a great source of your danger. It is, and it evidently is; and will be more so, upon that account that I told you of: He hath espoused Charles Stuart! With whom he is fully in agreement; for whom he hath raised Seven or Eight Thousand men, and has them now quartered at Bruges; to which number Don John of Austria has promised that, as soon as the campaign is ended, which it is conceived will be in about five or six weeks, he shall have Four or Five Thousand added. And the Duke of Neuburg, who is a Popish Prince, hath promised good assistance according to his power; and other Popish States the like. In this condition you are with that State of Spain :' and in this condition through unavoidable necessity; because your enemy was naturally an enemy, and is providentially too become so. [Always, by the law of his being,

'Old phrase for the interior of your own country.'

as Antichristian to Christian, a VIRTUAL enemy; and now Providence, with beneficent wisdom, has developed him into an ACTUAL one. "That was his Highness's fundamental reason for rushing at him in the West Indies? Because he was Antichrist?" ask some Moderns. -Why yes, it might help, my red-tape Friends! I know well, if I could fall in with Antichrist anywhere, with Supreme Quack and Damnability anywhere, I should be right happy to have a stroke at him if there seemed any chance!]

And now farther, as there is a complication of these Interests abroad, so there is a complication of them here. Can we think that Papists and Cavaliers shake not hands in England? It is unworthy, Unchristian, Un-Englishlike,'' say you.' Yes; but it doth serve to let you see, and for that end I tell it you that you may see, your danger, and the source thereof. Nay it is not only thus, in this condition of hostility, that we stand towards Spain; and towards all the Interest which would make void and frustrate everything that has been doing for you; namely, towards the Popish Interest, Papists and Cavaliers; but it is also--[His Highness finds this sentence will not do, and so tries it another way]— That is to say, your danger is so great, if you will be sensible of it, by reason of Persons who pretend other things! [Coming now to the great Miscellany of Anabaptists, Republicans, Levellers; your Allens, Sexbys, Overtons.]Pretend, I say;' yea who, though perhaps they do not all suit in their hearts with the said 'Popish' Interest-[Sentence left ruinous; sense gradually be

To combine with Papists, even for Royalists to do so.

comes visible]—Yet every man knows, and must know, that discontented parties are among us somewhere! They must expect backing and support somewhere. They must end in the Interest of the Cavalier at the long-run. That must be their support!-I could have reckoned this in another 'head' [Half soliloquising, his Highness; giving us a glimpse into the strange seething, simmering inner-man of him]-But I give you an account of things as they arise to me. Because I desire to clear them to you! Not discoursively, in the oratoric way; but to let you see the matter of fact,—to let you see how the state of your affairs stands. [Well, your Highness; that certainly is the grand object of speaking to us. To shew ME what THOU scest, what is in THEE: why else should one human being dare to wag his tongue to another? It is frightful otherwise. One almost loves this incondite half-articulation of his Highness, in comparison.]

Certain it is, there was, not long since, an endeavour to make an Insurrection in England. [Penruddock at Salisbury; we heard of Wagstaff and him!] It was going on for some time before it broke out. It was so before the last Parliament sat. 6 Nay,' it was so not only from the time of the undertaking of this Government; but the spirit and principle of it did work in the Long-Parliament time.' From that time to this hath there been nothing but enterprising and designing against you. And this is no strange or new thing to tell you: Because it is true and certain that the Papists, the Priests and Jesuits have a great influence upon the Cavalier Party; they and the Cavaliers prevail upon the

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discontented spirits of the Nation,-who are not all so apt to see where the dangers lie, nor to what the management of affairs tends. Those 'Papists and Cavaliers' do foment all things that tend to disservice; to propagate discontentments upon the minds of men. And if we would instance, in particulars, those that have manifested this, we could tell you how Priests and Jesuits have insinuated themselves into men's society; pretending the same things that they pretended;-whose ends, 'these Jesuits' ends,' have, out of doubt, been what I have told you. [Dark spectres of Jesuits; knitting up Charles Stuart, the Spaniard, and all manner of Levellers and discontented persons, into one Antichristian mass, to overwhelm us therewith!]

We had that Insurrection. It was intended first to the assassination of my person ;- which I would not remember as anything at all considerable, to myself or to you [Very well, your Highness!]: for they would have had to cut throats beyond human calculation before they could have been able to effect their design. But you know it very well, this of the assassination;'-it is no fable. Persons were arraigned for it before the Parliament sat; and tried, and upon proof condemned [Gerard and Vowel; we remember them!]-for their designs to cut the throat of myself, and three or four more; whom they had singled out as being, a little beyond ordinary, industrious to preserve the peace of the Nation. And did think to make a very good issue in that way,' to the accomplishment of their designs! I say, this was made good upon the Trial. Before the Parliament sat, all the time the Parliament sat, they were about it.

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