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A61340	The state of Ireland, with a vindication of the Act of Settlement and commissioners proceedings, &c. also, reflections on the late Coventry-letter writ by an eminent councellor of that kingdom, wherein the said author endeavours to prove, that it was not for murther, nor rebellion, but religion that the Irish estates were sequestred by the forementioned act / by a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1688 (1688)	Wing S5301; ESTC R22558	20,095	100

had this besides the Kings meer Favour to offer for themselves That they had been very Early in appearing for His Return That they had without Conditions delivered the Kingdom into His Hands That some of them had adventured their Money others their Lives to obtain the Possession which they so readily without any Capitulation submitted to His Will The Adventurers also by Four Acts of Parliament made in England 17 Car. I. yet in Force had a Just Right to a considerable Satisfaction upon these Laws They had Advanced at least 300000 l. yet have in their Possession but a small part of what was intended them for had the Acts of the English Parliament been pursued and they not obliged to a Retrenchment of a Third Part of their Debt to the Payment of a Years Value to the chargable passing of Courts of Claimes and Letters Patents to none of which they were subject by these Laws their satisfaction had been four times as great as now it is It hath been Objected by some That part of the Money Adventured was mis-imploy'd by those in Arms against the King in England To which may be truly Answered That vast Sums of Money much more than 300000 l. Adventured had been sent out of England towards the stopping of the Rebellion even before the Cessation and that the Adventurers could not call the then Parliament of England to Account how they then disposed of their Moneys the King having left the Mannagement of the War of Ireland to Them by the Act of the 17 Car. I. 'T is further apparent That the earnest endeavours of King Charles the First to suppress the Rebellion was that which gave most Encouragement to persons who adventured their Money from this That after his leaving the Parliament nothing considerable could be Levied upon this Pretence though much more favourable Conditions were offered Others except against the Adventurers satisfaction as not set out pursuant to the English Acts to which may be returned That none Suffered by that but themselves for by these Acts they were to have had Boggs Woods and Barren Mountains cast into the Measurement The Quit-Rent to have been paid to the King was not to have been near so much as now it is They were to have had more Acres by a Third part than now they enjoy every Adventurer upon drawing his Lott should without Claim Letters Patents Payment of a Years Value or any other Charges have been Seized by virtue of an Act of Parliament of his Proportion which if it consisted of 1000 Acres or more it might have been erected by him into a Manner with extraordinary Priviledges They had a Just Right and there was no other way to come by it Certainly there was as much reason to con●irm This as any Judicial Proceedings in the Vsurpers Government And the King and Parliament in the Act of Oblivion that Passed in 1660 are of this Opinion for there they declare That that Act shall not enure to restore to any Person except the Marquess of Ormond and the Prote●tants of Ireland c. any Estate in Ireland disposed of by both or either House of Parliament or any Convention c. or any Person deriving Authority from them There are others of the British that have had satisfaction by these Laws The Military Officers that had faithfully Served the King in that Kingdom before the 5th of June 1649 the Persons against whose Loyalty there could be no Objection many of them left their Wives and Families in a Miserable Condition that they might go into England to the Assistance of King Charles the First where several of them lost their Lives in His Service and the rest upon all occasions appeared for the Royal Interest and never received any Satisfaction in Lands or Money until King Charles the Second of his own Justice and Bounty gave it them by the Act of Settlement These Men were sifted with the greatest Care and all excluded that had Betray'd any Towns in Munster or done any Service to the Usurper Having now shewn that there was a Rebellion in Ireland by which much Land was Forfeited which was disposed at the Kings Pleasure and that the Persons that were in Possession of the Forfeited Lands at the Restauration of King Charles the Second had fair pretences to have grants of the Kings Tythe In the next place I should Prove that the Acts of Settlement by which part of these Forfeited Lands were passed to Adventurers Souldiers and others of the English Nation are for so much as concerns these new Interests agreeable to the rules of Justice But first It will be necessary to Answer an Objection they Stated Suppose Say the Advocates for the Forfeiting Irish there were such a Rebellion as is Pretended Yet thes Confederate Catholicks in the Year 1643 made a Cessation with King Charles the First which in 1646 was turned into a Peace and that followed by another Peace in 1648 Concluded the 17 of January by the Duke of Ormond by which Article the 18th the King Promiseth that an Act of Oblivion should Pass in the next Irish Parliament to extend to all Persons Before In or since the 14th of October 1641. By this Article they say the King being obliged to Pardon them the Rebellion could not justly dispose of their Lands as Forefeited To this take this following Answer 'T is Apparent that the Articles of the Cessation were not kept by they Confederates they never Paying the 30800 l. nor sending the Succors they were to give his Majesty according to Agreement The Peace in 1646 was so far from being comply'd with that these Confederate Catholicks soon call'd a General Assembly that disowned it Imprisoning their own Commissioners that made it and sent an Army under Owen Roe o Neile and Preston to Attempt Dublin for clearing of which Particular I shall refer to the Memoires of James Earl of Castle haven Sect. 6th and this further cannot but be taken Notice of That that noble Earl acknowledges himself the only Person of the Confederates that never left the Duke of Ormond in those Adventures and gave him his Advice for giving up Dublin c. to the English Parliament Induced by this Consideration that if the Nuncio and his Party should have Ireland it might remain seperate from England for ever That many of the Confederate Roman Catholicks broke the Articles of Peace made in 1648 will appear by a Declaration of the Confederate Irish Army dated from James Town the 12th of August 1650 Printed in the Year 1674 in a Book Intituled The History of the Loyal Formulary c. written by Mr. Peter Walsh by which they absolutely disown the Kings Authority and Excommunicate all that adhere to it which wrought so with those of their Religion that many of them cannot be pretended to have continued stanch But the Objectors will still say There have been some Persons and some Corporations that never broke those Articles and with what Justice can they be denyed