9. If England should ever want a King, who would think it worth while
to accept of it.
10. What specifick difference can be produc'd between a Knave, a
Coward, and a Traytor.
Abundance of these Mysteries are Hieroglyphically describ'd in this
ample Collection, and without doubt our great Collection of Annals,
and Historical Observations, particularly the Learned Mr. Walker,
would make great Improvements there.
But to come nearer home, There, to my great Amasement, I found
several new Tracts out of our own Language, which I could hardly have
imagin'd it possible should have reacht so far.
As first, sundry Transactions of our Royal Society about Winds, and a
valuable Desertation of Dr. B.....'s about Wind in the Brain.
A Discourse of Poisons, by the Learned Dr. M..... with Lunar Notes
upon it, wherein it appears that Dr. C....d had more Poison in his
Tongue, than all the Adders the Moon have in their Teeth.
Nec Non, or Lawyers Latin turn'd into Lunar Burlesque. The
Hyerogliphick was the Queens Mony tost in a Blanket, Dedicated to the
Attorney General, and five false Latin Councellors.
Mandamus, as it was Acted at Abb...ton Assizes, by Mr. So....r
General, where the Qu..n had her own So...r against her for a bad
Cause, and never a Counsel for her in a good one.
Lunar Reflections, being a List of about 2000 ridiculous Errors in
History, palpable Falsities, and scandalous Omissions in Mr.
Collier's Geographical Dictionary; with a subsequent Enquiry by way
of Appendix, into which are his own, and which he has ignorantly
deduc'd from ancient Authors.
Assassination and Killing of Kings, prov'd to be a Church of England
Doctrin; humbly Dedicated to the Prince of Wales, by Mr. Collier and
Mr. Snat; wherein their Absolving Sir John Friend and Sir William
Parkins without Repentance, and while they both own'd and justify'd
the Fact, is Vindicated and Defended.
Les Bagatelles, or Brom..ys Travels into Italy, a choice Book, and by
great Accident preserv'd from the malitious Design of the Author, who
diligently Bought up the whole Impression, for fear they should be
seen, as a thing of which this ungrateful Age was not worthy.
Killing no Murther, being an Account of the severe Justice design'd
to be inflicted on the barbarous Murtherers of the honest Constable
at Bow, but unhappily prevented by my Lord N.....m being turn'd out
of his Office.
De modo Belli, or an Account of the best Method of making Conquests
and Invasion a la Mode de Port St. Mary, 3 Volumes in 80. Dedicated
to Sir Hen. Bell...s.
King Charles the first prov'd a T...t. By Edward Earl of Clarendon, 3
Vol. in Fol. Dedicated to the University of Oxford.
The Bawdy Poets, or new and accurate Editions of Catullus,
Propertius, and Tibullus, being the Maiden-head of the new Printing
Press at Cambridge, Dedicated by the Editor Mr. Ann...y to the
University, and in consideration of which, and some Disorders near
Casterton, the University thought him fit to represent them in
P......t.
Alms no Charity, or the Skeleton of Sir Humphry Mackworth's Bill for
relief of the Poor: Being an excellent new Contrivance to find
Employment for all the Poor in the Nation, viz. By setting them at
Work, to make all the rest of the People as Poor as themselves.
Synodicum Superlativum, being sixteen large Volumes of the vigorous
Proceedings of the English Convocation, digested into Years, one
Volume to every Year. -- Wherein are several large Lists of the
Heretical, Atheistical, Deistical and other pernitious Errors which
have been Condemn'd in that Venerable Assembly, the various Services
done, and weighty Matters dispatcht, for the Honour of the English
Church, for sixteen Years last past, with their formal Proceedings
against Asgil, Coward, Toland and others, for reviving old Antiquated
Errors in Doctrine, and Publishing them to the World as their own.
New Worlds in Trade, being a vast Collection out of the Journals of
the Proceedings of the Right Honourable the Commissioners of Trade,
with several Eminent Improvements in general Negoce, vast Schemes of
Business, and new Discoveries of Settlements and Correspondences in
Forreign Parts, for the Honour and Advantage of the English
Merchants, being 12 Volumes in Fol. and very scarce and valluable
Books.
Legal Rebellion, or an Argument proving that all sorts of
Insurrections of Subjects against their Princes, are lawful, and to
be supported whenever they suit with our Occasions, made good from
the Practice of France with the Hungarians, the English with the
Camisars, the Swede with the Poles, the Emperor with the Subjects of
Naples, and all the Princes of the World as they find occasion, a
large Volume in Folio, with a Poem upon the Sacred Right of Kingly
Power.
Ignis Fatuus or the Occasional Bill in Minature, a Farce, as it was
acted by his Excellency the Lord Gr...il's Servants in Carolina.
Running away the shortest way to Victory, being a large Dissertation,
shewing to save the Queens Ships, is the best way to beat the French.
The Tookites, a Poem upon the 134.
A new Tract upon Trade, being a Demonstration that to be always
putting the People upon customary Mourning, and wearing Black upon
every State Occasion, is an excellent Encouragement to Trade, and a
means to employ the Poor.
City Gratitude, being a Poem on the Statue erected by the Court of
Aldermen at the upper end of Cheapside, to the Immortal Memory of
King William.
There were many more Tracts to be found in this place; but these may
suffice for a Specimen, and to excite all Men that would encrease
their Understandings in humane Mysteries, to take a Voyage to this
enlightned Country. Where their Memories, thinking Faculties and
Penetration, will no question be so Tackt and Consolidated, that when
they return, they all Write Memoirs of the Place, and communicate to
their Country the Advantages they have reapt by their Voyage,
according to the laudable Example of their
Most humble Servant,
The Man in the Moon.