THE Disloyal Forty & Forty One, AND The Loyal Eighty, Presented to Public View In a PROSPECT & SCHEME; Showing The Difference of the years Forty, and Forty one, from the year Eighty.  
Drawn up, and Published to Answer the Clamours of the Malicious, and to Inform the Ignorant.  
IT hath been all the Clamour of late, Forty one, Forty one, is now coming to be acted over again, we are running in the very same Steps, in the same Path, and Road, to undo the Nation, and to ruin Kingly Government, as our Predecessors did in Forty, and Forty one. We run the same Courses, we take the same Measures, latet Anguis in Herbâ; beware of the Presbyterian Serpent, who lurks in the Affairs of Eighty, being of the very same Complexion, Form and Shape, as that of Forty and Forty one. These are the daily and weekly Cries of several Pamphleteers, to amuse the Loyal Subjects of His Majesty, who dread and abhor the Evil and Fatal Consequences of Transactions begun abòut those times, or not long before; and no doubt but that they are also whispered into the ears of His Sacred Majesty, with no little advantage, of raising Fears and Jealousies in his Royal Breast. And truly no man can blame His Majesty, for being fearful of such an Evil, under which his Royal Father lost his Life, and by which himself for so long a time, was debarred of his Crown, and so severely suffered. But who are these who thus continually alarm the Breast of their Prince, and daily endeavour to conjure up many sad and troublesome Thoughts, many jealous and distrustful Cogitations, and several suspicions, doubts and scruples, concerning the Faith, Loyalty, and Allegiance of His Majesty's Subjects? I will suppose them (as well as those who trumpet the same into the ears of the People, to beget in them also the same passions) to be two sorts of men: Either they are such as are really Papists, and by this way, designingly do endeavour the Ruin both of the King and his People, and the Subversion of the Protestant Religion, and the bringing in and setting up the Popish Religion; or else they are such who really lying under mistakes, do speak according to their Consciences, being true Protestants. Lovers of their King, and there established Religion, and thorough the prospect of what has passed by reason of the evil and detestable Contrivances of some wicked and Rebellious men, have such an Aversion to all Dissenters, that they have not only contracted an hatred against them, but they are grown highly jealous of all things that come from them, and thorough this very abhorrency of the former evil Consequences, are almost ready, not only to disbelieve the Plots of the Jesuits, and the Papists, by to think them to be cunning Contrivances of the old Presbyterians, to bring again both the King and the Nation into new Snares and Troubles, according to the old Precedent of Forty and Forty One. As the former may be said to endeavour our Ruin out of Malice and Design, so these may be said to do it out of blind Zeal. It were happy for the Nation, if the great heats and souls of Scribbling Pamphleteers were laid aside, and that both parties would seriously weigh things in the Balance of Equity and Judgement; for whilst passion and heat bears sway on either side, we cannot judge rightly of things; for our fears and jealousies on both sides increase upon every Occasion, and Suspicion is apt to pervert the most innocent intentions: So that whilst these troublesome passions, stand as a vail between King and People, the one dares not trust or confide in the other, and both are apt to lose that mutual Obligation or Knot of Unity (that makes happy a Kingdom and) which ought to be inseparably between them.  
I shall not go about to make known the many Pressures and Grievances, the people of England have suffered in these late years, nor the several miscarriages of the Councillors and Instruments belonging to the State, which have in great measure been publicly attested and noted by the late Parliament, in their Votes and Addresses to His Majesty. Nor will this sheet give way to show the very many Causes of just Complaint, the people may have for all those fears and jealousies, they seem to lie under, and with which they are upbraided, as if they had no real Cause, but were afraid of their own shadows; but certainly if we believe that there hath been a detestable Plot, to take away the Life of His Majesty, and to subvert the Protestant Religion, and to bring in Popery, the mention of that horrid Conspiracy, for which so many have suffered, might be enough to justify the fears of the People of England, who dread nothing more, than the Change of their Religion, on which both their Lives and Property depend.  
I beseech you consider how rashly these men judge the face of Affairs, after the fancied Image of Forty One: and cry out with so much heat on all that offer to 〈◊〉 or appear in the behalf of the People, or stand up for their Properties and Privileges, or that complain of Grievances and miscarriages. What Age can you note, that evil and corrupt Members got not into the sway of the State? What times so pure, that have begot no Grievances and Miscarriages? What Prince read you of so Godlike, as not sometimes to give the Reins to his Passions; even David a man after God's own heart, and Solomon the wisest of Princes, by many foul slips showed that frailty is not altogether eloinged from Royalty. If then in Forty One Grievances were complained against, Miscarriages noted, evil Councillors impeached, Petitions promoted; and if now the same causes happening, the people run so far the same King's Highway for Redress, must therefore the fatal Consequences of Forty One be needs the Effect of Prayers and Petitions, of humble Supplications, and of regular and justificable Means by Parliament? and must therefore all that appear with Petitions and Complain against Popery, and such as would endeavour to bring in Arbitrary Government, be branded for Designers, Factious, Seditious, and Rebellious, as those of Forty one?  
But alas! 'twas not Forty One which ruined the Kingdom, and pulled down Monarchy, 'twas the after spawn, that got life through War and Blood; for most of those persons, that at first were active against evil Councillours, and for the Redress of the people's Grievances, when they saw things carried to extremity, and beyond the Intention of their Loyalty, either left them of themselves, or were secluded by those Traitors, that run to the Achme of Treason, not to be named; and which all true Englishmen hope may never be acted on the English Stage, to contract Gild and Odium on the Nation.  
I dare say, amongst those now branded by these sort of men for factious, and runners of the Race of Forty One, to obtain the Goal of Rebellion, there are many thousands who really, and from their hearts love the King, and would venture their Lives and Fortunes in his Service: And indeed, what prospect of safety can the Nation have, after the Life of his Majesty? whom God long preserve.  
But that we may the better compair this Bugbear Forty, and Forty One, with our Eighty, I have drawn a brief Scheme, of the similitude and disparity of either, in the matters of Affairs, then and now; and so let the World judge, and all sober men judge, how like they are one to another, that all this mighty Cry is made.  
Forty, Forty One. Eighty, Similitude. The Disparity. Popery complained against, no Plot appearing. Popery feared, and complained against. The Growth of Popery being notorious, and a most horrid Popish Plot appearing. The Scots raise an Army and invade England: are dissolved by a Treaty at Rippon, owned by the English, and called Brethren. A few Rebel Scots up in Arms. Defeated, routed, and some hanged as Rebels, and disowned by the English. A Parliament called, and a Bill granted for its continuance. A Parliament called. Soon dissolved. Earl of Strafford impeached by the Parliament, and condemned by the Bill of Attainder, for services done his King, and suffered on Tower-Hill, being a Protestant. A Lord Stafford impeached by the Parliament, and suffered on Tower-Hill. Had a fair Trial by his Peers, and condemned justly for an horrid Conspiracy, against his King's Life, being a Papist. The City present a Petition against Church Ceremonies, and the Government by Bishops. The City Petition. For the safety of the Church of England from Popery, and for the sitting of Parliament. Objections against the Bishops sitting in Parliament. Objections against the Bishops voting in Parliament. Only in cases of Life and Death. Petitions for the Redress of Grievances, with the Insurrection of the Apprentices and Tumults. Petitions for Redress of Grievances. By a few peaceably, and humbly presented. The Irish bloody Massacre and Rebellion projected and effected. An Irish bloody Massacre and Rebellion projected. Discovered and Prevented. Several Tumults and Insolences offered to the Lords, for slighting the Bill against the Bishops.  No Tumults upon the Lords slighting the Bill against a Popish Successor. Endeavours for the abolishing Episcopacy.  Endeavours to establish Episcopacy, and to secure it against Popery. The King forced by Tumults and Insolences to leave the City—  The King desired and entreated to stay, and not to go to Oxford. An Earl of Monmouth impeached by the Commons. A Duke of Monmouth. Beloved by the Commons. Fears and Jealousies fomented by the Jesuits and Papists. Fears and Jealousies fomented by the Papists and Jesuits. Fomented also by the Latitudinarian Masqueraders.  
By these few heads, as they occurred to memory, you may see how like and unlike the Portraitures of the Monster Forty one, and the Loyal Eighty, are one to the other, and it may be concluded, because men than eat, drunk, slept, and talked, and because they now also do the same, that these are the very same men, and are taking the same Courses they did in Forty One; as these men endeavour to make the World believe, the Presbyterians are new minting their old Coin of 41. But we trust, that the Mercy of God, the Wisdom of his Majesty, and the Loyalty of the People, will be security enough against those dreadful Consequences, so much threatened to scare both King and People, as if they had a desire to set them together by the Ears; Which God in Heaven avert, and let all good People say AMEN.   

London, Printed for T. B. 1680.