honest, except the Bible. I have an abridgment of an English Chro nicle, which drowns the Duke of Clarence in a rundlet of Malmsey; the duke might as soon be drowned in a thimble; but, perhaps, it is a whole tun in the Chronicle, for my book is but a pitome. Hang names and words; Greek and Latin will not make an honest man; and a man may speak truth without true spelling.

I remember, when I dined with the Florida ambassador at Alderman Nowel's, where we had Florence wines, I told the alderman, that, when that ambassador got home to his country, he would send us more of that Florida wine. They all smiled, but what cared I? It were not two-pence to me, if Florida were in Italy, and Florence in the Indies; they should remember I was a brewer, not a vintner.

But I am posting thither, where there are no quibbles, though I fear (in the weak condition I am now) I myself have been forced upon many; for dying men talk idly, and he, that is sick and talks much, can hardly escape from quibbles and nonsense. And I hope you will pardon my baiting your patience so long with the bears: consider, it was the great action of my life, and the only thing, in the opinion of many, that would lie upon my conscience. I confess, I thought the lease of my life had not been expired; there is breath enough in the world, but I must have no more of it; for death, death, is the grand malignant, and a malignant fever is his lieutenant-general, and (which is worse) the new disease is his major-general; a disease which sweeps through all counties of England. And, though the weekly bills of mortality know not us who die in the country, yet it is my comfort I die here in my own house at Non-such. It was the king's house, and Queen Elisabeth loved this above all her houses; and some say, my wife looks like that queen, though the old Earl of Manchester was said to look like her. That queen might look like whom she pleased, for she by proclamation forbad any to draw her picture; but I would not have my wife like both her and him, and so make her a maphrodite. She hath brought me divers sons, and I leave them good estates; I hope I do, and would gladly leave a good name to keep them company. The very malignants say, my sons are civil persons; but, should I live a thousand years, they would not say so of me. I think it would not trouble them to see me renew acquaintance with my sling. But how many know ye, that, raised like me to power and command, have willingly returned to the place from whence they came?

They talk indeed of a Roman general, who came from the plough, Dick Tatort I think they call him, who, having beat the enemy, went home to the country, rich, and renowned for a very wise man. And they say, if that pitiful pilchard Massanellot, who had a hundred thou. sand at his pleasure, had left his command, he had not been rewarded with a musquet-bullet, but had been honoured with a statue of gold. It is true, the Queen of Sweden, though born a king's daughter, resigned her crown, and vows she never lived happy till now: but her successor loves kingdoms better than so, and will only have as many as he can get.

↑ Ignorantly for the highest title in the Roman repub. The fisherman and rebel in Naples.

Ignorantly, instead of Florence. lick, Dictator.

VOL VIII

He soon swallowed Poland, and as soon disgorged it; and is now in Denmark, holding two forts, with two hard names, which stand like our Gravesend and Tilbury: and, had he strength to take ours too, I think in my conscience, he would make us all Danes. He has many designs, but all my design is only to save my estate and my soul.

Indeed, heretofore I had some little plots, but they did not all take: I thought to make the same horses serve both for my coach and dray, but I found my dray-horses were too high shod, and I might as well have harnessed the bears. And yet I know what belongs to horses; for I was the first that brought horses into Paul's*, and those horses brought saddles; for a saddler hath set up another exchange there.

I was told Epsom water might do me good; but I durst not take it, having used the vicar so very severely, lest the parish-priest should unhallow the well; and, to say truth, from my youth I never used to drink water.

My youth minds me of the late earl of Pembroke; for, when he lay dying, as I do now, I went to visit him; and when they told him Colonel Pride was there, for then I was but colonel, 'Who! who,' said he, Pride? Oh, a precious youth!' but what had he to do with my youth? had I such strength and health as in my youth, I would not change with any lord in England. I now die a lord, and, had I lived as long as that earl, I might have been an earl as well as he. And I die the first of all the new lords; whereby you will see, whether our sons succeed us in the peerage.

I would have no barons war, though I fear a world of doubts will be raised about the other house. They will put it to the question, whether our house be within the act against new buildings; and, if within the act, whether as built upon a new foundation, or because it is a cottage? Then, after the foundation, have at the roof; whether it be tyled or thatched; I do not mean by Wat Tyler or Jack Straw, whether it be the upper house, or a garret, where old shoes, old casks, and such lumber is placed? Whether this high-court be a court of war, where none sit but officers? With a hundred such questions, too many for a dying man to remember. And truly, I myself have been much puzzled with the other house; for the commons is one house, and ours is the other; and ours is one house, and the commons is the other. And I would fain know how I should know one house from the other?

If I send my man to my brew-house, he will ask if I mean to London? No, say I, but to my other house; then goes he to Kingston: when he returns, I send him to my other house; then goes he to Lon. don and, when he comes back, I bid him not go to Kingston nor London, but to the other house; and then must he march to Edinburgh.

Thus a man must run through two nations before he can find this other house for this is the other, and that is the other, and all are the

Church, turned into a stable by Colonel Pride, &c.

other house; though sure our house of peers is such, as there cannot be such another house.

I hope it is no offence in me, to compare the house of lords to a brew-house; for I am of both houses: I know how men are at work in both, and what great heats are often in both, and how, in both, they all work for one man, yet every man for himself; with twenty more things, wherein the two housest agree.

The difference is, that we took the engagement against a house of lords, but not against a brew-house; but that was meant of the old house of peers, not the new; and a new house is worth two old ones; for the state hath a whole year's rent of a new housef, if it stand within ten miles of London.

But, alas! (my good friends) I am now going to the lower house || whither we all must go sooner or later; and the best and greatest lord of us all, had rather go to the other house, than to the other world; for no brew-house is there, but a great oven that will never be cold. Therefore take heed; for, as we brew, so must we bake.

ARTICLES OF HIGH-TREASON,

AND OTHER HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS,

AGAINST THE

DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH**.

IMPRIMIS, that the said duchess hath, and still doth cohabit and keep company with the king, having had foul, nauseous, and contagious distempers, which, once possessing her blood, can never admit of a perfect cure, to the manifest danger and hazard of the king's person, in whose preservation is bound up the weal and happiness of the Protestant religion, our lives, liberties, and properties, and those of our posterity for ever.

II. She hath laboured to alter and subvert the government of church and state, now established by law, and, in the room thereof, to introduce popery and tyranny in the three kingdoms, by her counsels from time to time.

III. She hath, by her persuasion, countenance, and other artifices and insinuations, reconciled several of her servants, and others, natural born subjects, to the communion of the see of Rome, in defiance of the statute which makes it capital, Jac. 3, 4.

By an or

Both a lord and a brewer. ti. e. The brew-house and the house of lords, dinance of parliament, to enable them to carry on the war. viz. The grave. Louise de Querovaille. This half sheet was published by the favourers of the Duke of York, to ruin her character with the people, because, as it is worded in the twentieth article, she endeavoured to foist herself and son upon the nation, to the detriment of the said duke, and strove to set him aside from the throne by the Bill of Exclusion. **1680.

IV. She advised, and still does nourish, foment, and maintain that fatal and destructive correspondency and alliance between England and France, being sent over and pensioned by the French king to the same end and purpose, and consequently hath rendered ineffectual those frequent addresses in parliament for a war with the French king; and, in order to the propagating these her malicious, detestable, and destructive designs against our religion and government, the several French ministers, who have resided here since the breach of the triple league (from whence weof these three kingdoms have, and still groan under) have, and do still resort to her apartment in his majesty's royal palace, where, having several conferences with his majesty, they have pried into his secret counsels, and, by the assistance of her, her agents, and French ministers, have fixed and continued the aforesaid accursed amity between England and France, against the grave and repeated advice of the whole nation in parliament.

V. That she hath endeavoured, to her power, to stifle and vilify the king's evidence, to create a disbelief in the king of the plot against his royal person, subversion of the Protestant religion and government, interceded for by traytors impeached by parliament, and other arch traytors, particularly father Ireland the Jesuit, arraigned, heard, fairly and legally condemned, and most justly executed.

VI. She has, from time to time, intermeddled and advised in mat ters of the highest moment and importance in government, as peace and war, several dissolutions and prorogations of parliament, matters depending, wherein the very life and soul of the government in church and state was concerned.

VII. That she advised a disgeneral peace, so destructive to Christendom, and particularly to these three kingdoms, it being in our power to have turned the scale.

VIII. That she placed and displaced great ministers in church, and state, as she judged might be most serviceable in promoting the French popish interest.

IX. That she not only took upon her to make chief ministers as aforesaid, but either received sums of money in hand, or pensions yearly out of their profits, salaries, and perquisites, which hath, in great measure, contributed to that general corruption in all places; and nothing being more unnatural, for when trust and places are bought, justice must be sold.

X. That she hath been an unspeakable charge and burthen, having had given her, for many years past, prodigious sums of money in other people's names, the better to disguise the matter, as well out of the publick treasury, as the privy-purse; and such is her ascendant over the king, that, in her own apartment, she prevailed with the king there to sign and scal warrants for grants of vast sums of money, and particu larly procured the king's warrant to the Earl of Danby, now impeached. and in the Tower, for one hundred thousand pounds, and this at one time, which ought to have been applied for the safety, honour, and reputation of this kingdom.

XI. That hardly any grant, office, or place was given, but through her, or her emissaries intercession, and money given to them.

XII. Those vast prodigious sums she hath, for the most part, was to be transported to a nation by religion, interest, and practice, an enemy to our religion and government, to the weakening and impoverishing of our nation, and the strengthening and inriching of our adversaries.

XIII. That she hath procured farms and undertakings of the several branches of the revenue, at lower rates than really worth, having been bribed for so doing.

XIV. That she hath protected several from justice, and particularly the Earl of Ranelagh, who had cheated, defrauded, and abused the king in his revenues of Ireland, supporting him against many representations from the government of Ireland, and many orders of the king and council here, full well knowing several articles were in the secret committee against the said earl, not only for cheating his majesty in Ireland, but for combining with the Earl of Danby in England to defraud the king, and particularly in the excise-farm, undertaken by the Dashwoods; and notwithstanding, such is her power, she still protects the said earl, not only from his accounts, but in his place of treasurer, which does reflect upon his majesty to keep such a person in place, in spight of all the orders in council, and his own convictions; and does wholly discourage a parliament ever to give a supply, when such are employed; and has procured several lords in favour of the said Earl of Ranelagh, as well to the present as former governors, to the dishonour of the king, and interruption of justice.

XV. That she got grants in Ireland, in other persons names, as well to crown-rents, as others, to the great disorder, distraction, and vexation of the subjects, who are liable to have their estates and titles questioned and disturbed by commissions of inquiry, and otherways, as officers for the king.

XVI. That she procured to herself a grant of the revenues, arising by the wine-licences, towards the defraying of her extravagant debts, most contrary to the express letter of the act of parliament, which provides most positively, that the revenues, arising therefrom, shall not be employed or granted to any private use whatsoever; yet such was her power with his majesty, and the Earl of Danby, late lord-treasurer, that she procured three able honest servants to his majesty, to be turned out of their commissions in the wine-licence office, because they would not lend her money upon the security of the said revenue, contrary to the act of parliament abovementioned; and such is her power with the Earl of Essex, and other commissioners of his majesty's treasury, that she hath procured Doctor Taylor, her servant, to be made a commissioner in the new commission of wine-licence office, in préjudice of those persons turned out by the Earl of Danby, as aforesaid, on purpose that he, the said Doctor Taylor, should govern that branch of the revenue (in spight and contempt of an act of parliament, appointing it to a publick end and government) for the duchess's use and behalf; neither can it be for any other end and purpose, for that the said Doctor Taylor, by reason of the many affairs he has to manage of the duchess, cannot attend the king's service.