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malccr of a Plianatick Plot, and a Bloody Design to perswade 

 Folks to a Poacoable Eobollion, lie oonics Homo witli a Flea in 

 his Ear, niucli about as wise as lie Avent. ... Of these, 



whether Mayors, Country Justices, F s, or Exeter Aldermen ; 



I say, as the Text in another case, " What means the hleating of 

 such kind of Cattd, and the Eeply will hold, they are reserved 

 for a sacrifice — A wise man ought to Sacrifice them all to his 

 Peace, that is, not concern himself at any thing they say or do ; 

 hut looking on them as a sort of despicable, or as they say in 

 that Country 3Iaz^d Men, pass on to the Great Work before hmi, 

 without disturbing himself about them." 



Hero I ought properly to conclude this article, but as I 

 happened to light upon a couple of entries in the " Eeviews," 

 which, though not very pointed, are truly local (having appeared 

 July 28th, 1705), I will here reproduce them ; my excuse being 

 this, they were thought worthy of publication by De Foe. 



" To tell us of the Danger of the Church of England, from a 

 Protestant Queen ; a Queen ever Professing, ever Practising, 

 ever Piously Adhering to the Church of England's Principles, 

 has so much contradiction in it, is so Eude and Absurd, that it 

 really exposes our own Party to the Eidicule and Contempt of 

 the meanest People in the Nation. And I'll tell you a short 

 Story, just happening upon the Spot on the occasion of Talking 

 of this very Head. "Writing this in the House of a Friend, 

 whether {sic) High Church Malice, had obliged the Author to 

 Enter into some doba-te about the Government and the like, there 

 happened to be, another Fool heside your humlle servant, I mean an 

 Idiot, who hearing the Discourse, ask'd presently If the Queen 

 was Turned Papist ? WJnj so, Jack, says his Master ? Because 

 that Ugly Booh (?) says he, tells you she is Weaned from the Church ; 

 No, Jack, says his Master, the Queen is a good Churclnooynan ; Why 

 then, says Jack, that man mud be a Fool to think the Queen should 

 pull down her Church ; for then she must Tumble Boion with it.^'> 

 Not so bad for an idiot ! 



Some County Antiquary might possibly be able to identify the 



