AN ANSWER To a late Treasonable Pamphlet ', ENTITLED, Treason in Grain, etc. For which Pamphlet Edward Fitz-Harris lies Condemned.  
SIR,  
I Received yours, wherein you desire to know my Sentiments about that Horrible Infamous Libel composed by Fitz-Harris. The thing itself contains nothing but a mass of Traitorous Expressions, Horrid Invectives and Lying Detractions to blast His Sacred Majesty; insomuch that the repetition of those Villainies within it are enough to infect the ears of any true Loyal hearted Subject; And should I handle that Treasonous Paper according to its desert, my Letter would have much exceeded the limits I design: But I suppose you may easily guests at the Rogn●ry of the Piece, by the persons concerned in it. Can any man, without Horror and Amazement, see His Majesty calumniated at that rate? Was there ever King more merciful and just than ours? Was ever Prince more injured than ours? His Royal Father inhumanely Murdered, and Himself (after infinite hazards of His Sacred Person) Exiled from His Kingdoms: Did ever Prince show greater Clemency at his. Return than he did? With what Candour and Integrity did he pardon His greatest Enemies and known Opposers, even to the depriving Justice of her due Tribute, and hazard of his future Tranquillity? With what invincible Patience has he born those unworthy detractions which have of late been thrown upon him? Can he not, with Samuel, say, Whose Ox or A●● have I taken; or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, & c? And ought not the People to answer His Sacred Majesty, as the Jews did the Prophet, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, nor taken aught from us? Nor has he, on all occasions, demonstrated less Zeal and Fervour for the Protestant Religion, than he has Charity and Love for His Subjects▪ With what invincible Fortitude and Piety has he rescued her from Foreign and Domestic Opposers? And the Preservation of the Protestant Church in its merited Lustre, (which was so fatal to his Royal Father) has in a great measure contributed to all those Disturbances and Inquietudes he has received since his happy▪ Restauration, and has proved the sharpest Thorn in His Majesty's Crown; And, would he let the Protestant Church stoop to the Non-Conformists bent, he might not only avoid those unseasonable Clamours which so frequently disturb him, but have Money, Applause, and indeed what not? Thus you may see, that never any Prince could more justly apply to himself this saying of the Prophet David; The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up, O Lord.  
This Libel is in itself so infamous, that all Parties disown it; The Papists say, This Brat was engendered by the Presbyterians; these lay it to the Papists door. In fine, to satisfy your desires, I shall, in few words, tell you the Harlot which is Mother to this Hellish Monster▪ The Libeler gins with the thanks for the Character of a Popish Successor; which he pursues with a Distrust of the present Possessor; presently after vilifying the King, for endeavouring to introduce Popery; persuading the People to Rebel, rather than suffer it: From thence he goes back to King James, bringing it lineally to our King, falsely to create a belief in the People, that he is Popishly affected, and for the most part employed none but such in Places of Honour and Trust; and then he upbraids him with Correspondence with Rome, blaming His Majesty for putting Sh. and E. etc. (those truly Protestant Lords) out of his Council; then rails at his Prince for discountenancing the Discoverers of the PLOT: From thence his burning zeal carries him to prefer a Mahometan Successor before a Popish, aspersing. His Majesty for not tolerating Non-Conformists; from whence he falls to railing against Church Papists, Betraying Bishops, Tantivy Abhorrers; and Popish Scribblers, because they endeavour to confirm the Duke's Title: Then after a world of Damnable and Abominable lying Invectives against His Sacred Majesty and his Government, (which are unfit to be named, much less to be written by any Christian) he ends his Libel with this Diabolical Expression to all the English, to Rebel against his Sovereign.  
Thus, Sir, by this Epitome of the whole, you may easily conjecture to which of the two Parties that Infernal Product belongs: For, Can there be any thing in Nature more absurd and extravagant, more contrary to sense and reason, than to imagine that Papists (so zealous in promoting their Religion, so eager in gaining of Proselytes, and so fervent in enlarging the Pale of the Church, even to the loss of Lives and Fortunes) should so highly resent His Majesty's entertaining Popish Servants, so strenuously oppose a Popish Successor, and so vilify all that favours them, as this unparallelled Pamphlet does?  
Thus I have given you an unpolished Description of this Infamous Libel, which, if it does not answer your expectation, I hope you will be so kind, as to impute it to my want of time; for, had I more leisure, you should have received it in a more compact method, and fewer words.  
Sir, I am, Your Servant to command, A. C.   

London: Printed by. N. T. next the Cross-Keys in Fetter-lane. 1681.