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.

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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 house‡, 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 **.

I'

MPRIMIS, 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.

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Both a lord and a brewer. † i. e. The brew-house and the house of lords. viz. The grave. dinance of parliament, to enable them to carry on the war. 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.

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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 Chris→ tendom, 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 seal 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 represen tations 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 em. ployed 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 prejudice 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.

XVII. That she hath, and doth relieve and countenance in her family and lodgings in Whitehall, several servants, whom she knows to be papists, and ill affected to the Protestant religion and government, giving them frequent and private access to his majesty, to the hazard and danger of his majesty's person, and in contempt of a late act of par. liament, whereby all papists whatsoever (except Father Huddleston, seven women servants, and some foreign servants to her majesty) were prohibited to come within the limits of his majesty's palace or court; notwithstanding which act of parliament, she hath, and still doth not only relieve in her lodgings, as aforesaid, several servants of the popish persuasion, but she hath lately taken into her service a French papist, whom she formerly preferred to his majesty, as a confectioner, and who was entered of his majesty's service upon the aforesaid act; which said confectioner doth daily prepare sweet-meats and other banquetings, in triumph over the late fresh act of parliament, for his majesty at her lodg ings, so that his majesty may be in an eminent danger from the aforesaid French papist, who has such opportunity to poison his sacred majesty, by mixing poison in the sweet-meats, whom God long preserve. XVIII. That, the day before his majesty fell sick at Windsor, she persuaded her majesty, being then in her lodgings, to eat a mess of broth, prepared by some of her papist servants; whereupon his majesty fell immediately sick, it being the opinion of some able physicians, that his majesty's diseases where much augmented, if not wholly created, by the aforesaid broth.

XIX. That, during his majesty's sickness, she introduced several unknown persons, by a back-door, to his majesty's bed-chamber, who, in all likelihood, were Romish priests, French physicians, agents or ministers of the French king's; all which persons could have no honest or lawful business with his majesty, at that time especially, being privately introduced, and his majesty's proper servants, belonging to his bed-chamber, being all sent out, except such as were popishly affected, her creatures consequently, and her footmen ordered to wait in the antichamber, as is judged, to prevent any body's hearing or seeing them, as if they had been of his majesty's bed-chamber.

XX. That she has, by her creatures and friends, given out, and, whispered abroad, that she was married to his majesty, and that her son, the Duke of Richmond, is his majesty's legitimate son, and consequently Prince of Wales, his health being frequently drunk by her, and her creatures, in her night debauches and merry-meetings, to the great dishonour and reflexion of his majesty, and the manifest peril and danger of these kingdoms, who may hereafter, by such false and scandalous stories, and wicked practices, be embroiled in distractions, if not in blood and civil wars, to the utter ruin of his majesty's subjects, and subversion of the Protestant religion; it being manifest, she, being a papist herself, will breed her son in the same religion, however she may pretend to the contrary+.

XXI. That, she having that high and dishonourable absolute dominion and power over the king's heart, she has opportunity to draw from

him the secrets of his government, opportunity by herself, or other engines of her's, to poison, or otherwise to destroy the king; opportunity, at least, to promote a French papist interest, so that it is not only impossible the Protestant religion should live, but it is not possible the king can have a due sense of the danger he was, or may be in, from the Romish conspiracy, which has, is, or may be against his royal person and government.

XXII. That she has had the highest honours and rewards conferred on her, and her's, to the high dishonour of God, the encouragement of wickedness and vice (which by such examples is overspread the nation, and for which God's anger is kindled and inflamed against us) suppressing and discouraging of virtue, whose rewards those high titles and honours ought to be, and this to the eternal reproach of his majesty's reign and government.

A DISCOURSE TOUCHING TANGIER.

In a Letter to a Person of Quality.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

THE INTEREST OF TANGIER.

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BY ANOTHER HAND.

London: Printed in the year 1680. Quarto, containing forty-eight pages.

HONOURED SIR,

REMEMBER at our parting I made you a promise to gratify your curiosity, the best I could, with an abstract of my judgment and observations touching his majesty's city and port of Tangier; and had obeyed you long since, had not my head been rather oppressed than employed, by the unexpected difficulties of my toilsome charge; which, to this day, render me so little master of my resolutions, that the few minutes I borrow, like broken slumbers, scarce afford me leave to reflect seriously on any other subject. Be pleased therefore to take this short account only, as an earnest of what you may farther expect, when with more freedom of thought I shall be enabled to send you a present of the same kind, better worth your acceptance.

Tangier, according to remotest accounts, I find to have been a colony of the Romans; which conquering people did from thence lead their armies, by which they subdued all that part of Africa. They called a great province by that name; and thought it so well worth their labour, that they planted, peopled, and built it to the magnitude of the greatest cities; as we find by the fragments of their structures, where-ever we have occasion to break ground in the fields; and by the noble aquæducts, some whereof to this day supply the town with water, said to be the best