84 The L 1,1~ E of the Part III § 179. There happened a greatrebuke to the Nobility and Gentry of Dublin ha Ireland, which }s related in theirGazette in thefe words. [ Dubl. Dec. 27. 0° ye " fterdayhappened herea very unfortunate Accident : Mott of the Nobility and " Gentrybeing at. aPlay, at a publick Playhoufe, the upper Galleries on afud- " denfell all down, beating down the fecond, which together with all thePeo- " pie thatwere in them, fell into the Pit and lower Boxes :. His . Excellency, " the Lord.* Lieutenant,with his Lady, happened to 15e there, . butthanks be to " God efcaped the Dangerwithout any harm, part of the Boxwhere they were " remaining firm, and fo refitting the Fallfrom above ; only his twoSons were " found quite buried under the Timber. The younger had received but little t` hurt, but the eldelt was taken up deadto all appearance, but having prefent- " ly been let Blood, dre. recovered. There were many dangeroufly hurt; and " feven or eight killed outright.] Sofar the Gazette. About feventeenor eighteen died then,and oftheir Wounds. The fir ft Letters that came to London of it, filled the City with thereport, that it was a.Play in fcorn of Godlinefs, and that I was the Perfon afted by the Scorner, as a Puritan, and that he that reprefented me was fet in the Stocks, when the fall was, andhis Leg broke. But the Play was Ben. 'ohnfon's Bartholo- mew-Fair, with a fenfe added for the times, in the which the Puritan is called a Banbury Man, and I cannot -learn that I was named, nor medled with more than others of My Condition, unlefs by the Aaor's drefs they made any filch. refle&ing Intimations. § 176. The Lord Lucas, and the Earl of Clare made two vehemently cutting Speeches before the King (who now, came frequently to the Lord's Hoare.) The firft declaring the frultration of their hopes, and the addition of much, more to their fufferings, Calamities, and dangers finte the King came in, and aggravated the ftupendious expence of Moneys; and the of the Commons ii a Bill then fent up for giving no lefs than three Millions (fail he) at once, and provoking the Lords to flop their Excefi'es : The other was againft the Ring's fitting fo ordinarily in theLord's Houfe, and that without his Robes, e'rc. There were Copies of the LordLucas's Speech given out, which encreafed the offence; and at la4 it was burned by the Hangman, and ere long he died. 5 177. The MAMen, called the Rebels, petitioned the King by the hands of Colonel Richard Talbot , a Papift, Servant ee the Duke of York) for a rehear- ingagainft the former Judgments that haddeprived many of themof their lands that fo they might be reftored to them, and theEngVJh difpolfeffed, which of- fended the Houfe of Commons as well as the Englifh Nation, and cau£ed fomt Votes, whichfignified their Offence , and the King at prefent raft afide their Petition. § 178. Lamentable Complaintscame fromthe Proteltants of France for the feve- rïties more and more ufed againft them ; their Churches pulled down, andaf- ter Montaban, their other Univerfity of Lanmors decreed to be prohibited. 179. In the latter end of this Year, the Bilhops and their Agents gave out their great fearsof Popery, and greatly lamented that the Dutchefsof York was turned Papift, and thereupon gave out that they greatly delred that fome of the Presbyterians (asthey called even the Epifcopal Nonconformids)might by fome abatementof the New Oaths and Subfcriptionshave better invitation to conform in other things : Bilhop Morley, Bilhop Ward, and. Bilhop Dolbin fpake ordinari- ly their delires of it ; but after long talk there is nothing done, which Inaketh Menvarioufly interpret their Pretenfions, which time at left will more certainly expound. Some think that they are real in their delires, and that the hindrance is from the Court : And others fay, they would never have been the grand caufes of our prefent Cafe, if it had been ágainft their Wills, and that if they are yet truly willing of any healing, they will thew it by more than their difmurfes, (as a Man would do when the City was on Fire that had a mind- to quench it ) and that all this is but that the Odiummay be diverted from them- felves, whilethat which they take on them to fear, is accoRlilbed. But I hope yetthey are not fo bad as this Cenfutedoth fuppofe. But it's Rrangethat thofe fame Men that fo tally led the Parliament to what is done (when they had given
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