The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwell to the Revolution / By an Englilh-Man [sic].

Date:
1721
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The best preservative against the plague. With a short account of the state of this nation from the conclusion of the grand rebellion of Oliver Cromwell to the Revolution / By an Englilh-Man [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rough, and 9 or 10 others, to return into England, by the 22<i of July- Fide Hifto. Guid. Page 177. About this Time the Earl of Sunderland, the bet¬ ter to infinuate liimfelf into the King’s Bofom, turns Roman Catholiclc ; which being told ( by fome ignorant of the grand Secret between him, and the Prince of Orange') to his Highnefs, He, without .Surprize, mer¬ rily replyed, let him turn any Thing, rather than turn out.: However, he continued in his Poll, and was well efteem’d of by King James, as the moft faithful of his Subje&s •, and now Nothing of Moment paffed without his Infpe&ion, and Approbation; whilft on a fudden the Popular Fury began to rouze it felf, which appear’d firft in Fears, and Jealoufies, andin- linuated the Notion of Popery’s coming in, through¬ out the whole Nation, which was vaftly improved by feveral fublequent railages. . . . No Man can imagine but the King was mightily pleas’d with his new Convert, which his Quality, and great Abilities rendered the more confiderable: His Eagernels to promote the Church of Rome, deluded the King into a great Opinion of his Zeal and Sin¬ cerity, and being himfelf Zealous in his Religion, He thought his new Convert fo too; and upon this Sup- pofition allowed him the Liberty of ordering every Thing as he pteafed. Father Petre a furious bigotted Frith is introduced into the privy Council (tho’ as 1 am well affured againft'the Inclination and. Opini¬ on of that moft injured Lady the Queen, who in Tears on her Knees beg’d the King to refufe him, with too juft Reafon forefeeing the evil Confequences:) He is no fooner got into Power, but he exerts it to the Ru¬ in of his Mafter; Mafs-Houfes are opened in many • Places, and by the Advice and Management of thefe Jehu Drivers,' the King is put upon fuch dangerous Attempts, as could not but in the End be fatal to him. To add to thefe the Arrival of Count Dada, in the Quality of Nuncio from the Pope, encrealed the Jea- loufy, and alarm’d the Minds of moft Men afrefh; in ftiort, Nothing was left un?ttempted by this treache¬ rous