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A87219	The impudence of the Romish whore: continued, and improved, in her shamelesse and barbarous brood of the Jrjsh rebells; calling themselves, His Majesties Catholike subjects. Discovered by a particular of certaine motives by them divulged, and falsly alledged to be the occasion of their late taking up armes: as also, by their oath of association, and by certain ridiculous and arrogant proposjtjons, which they have prepared, with a foolish hope, that they shall be condescended unto, by the King and Parliament of England. All which are here exemplified, with some briefe notes and observations upon them: by a Lover of his countrey. Published by Authority.	Lover of his country.	1644 (1644)	Wing I108; Thomason E44_13; ESTC R2551	12,599	16

also to be imputed onely to their deare friends at Court whom they might have yet spared in policie or good manners VIII All the Staple and rich Commodities of the Realme are turned to Monopolies and heavie impositions against Law laid on all Merchandizes This was done by one of those Prerogatives which they say is invaded by the Puritan Faction in England Therefore let them also blame onely their deare Friends for it and if they will be like themselves not complain against the Prerogative of monopolizing till they have perfectly in vassalled the King to the Papall Monarchie For Papists had the first Grants of most Monopolies in England and Ireland and sold them to the Protestants to lay the scandall on them IX The principall native Wares of the Land exported into Forraigne Countreys unwrought and unmanufactured thereby depriving the Kingdome of Manuall Trades and Occupations and driving the Natives to furnish themselves from head to foot with manufactures from abroad at very deere Rate This is not done by the Puritan Faction but is performed by vertue of that Prerogative which they pretend to be invaded by the said Puritans therefore me thinks they should not yet quarrell with it and it seems reasonable also that they should remember their brethren the native Irish were for the most part such a rascall idle people that if their Staple Commodities should not have been exported unwrought they would have rotted in their hands for it was long ere their sotrishnesse could by example or compulsion be brought to any honest labour or from their ill custome in husbandrie of drawing by the horse-tailes instead of harnesse X. All their heavy and insufferable pressures prosecuted and laboured by the Natives of this Kingdome with much suit expence and importunity both in Parliament here and in England before His Majesty to be redressed yet could never be brought to any happy conclusion or as much as hope of contentment but alwayes deluded with delayes What their successes have been in Parliament heretofore I know not nor what Motives they made but if they were like their ensuing Propositions they had as happy conclusions as they deserved If they were not unreasonable yet Parliaments were not to be blamed for they had not power to preserve their own Priviledges for many years together and the Favourers and Confederates of these Irish Rebels were the cause of it XI Common Iustice and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament to all the Natives of the Realme and ancient course of Parliamentary Proceedings wholly declined This is false and were it true it is but the same grievance which we have partly suffered by the Patrons of the fore-mentioned Rebels who we know will remember it and very zealously cut their throats as well as our in requitall thereof if God prevent not as soon as their aimes are accomplished XII His Majesties royall Power Honour Prerogative Estate Revenue and Right invaded upon by the Puritan Faction in England May we believe if the Divell should say the Lords Prayer and seeme zealous of advancing the Name Will Kingdome and Glory of God that he were in good earnest when we may confidently so do then may we be assured that the Irish Papists take up Armes for defence of the Kings Honour c. Their own malice to the Britans their covetousnesse and the honour and prerogative of the Pope were their prime inducements to rebellion and this and all the rest of their Motives to arme themselves against us were devised after the treacherous outrages by them committed Those whom they call the Puritan Faction in England have invaded none of the Kings just Prerogatives but it will appeare by the conditions of peace tendered by these Traitors in the following Propositions that they intend a greater invasion upon the royall Power Honour and Prerogative then hath been hitherto made by those whom they accuse XIII The Government of all his Realmes his Queene Children and Families usurped by the Parliament of England and especially by the House of Commons as likewise the nominating and disposing of his Privie Councell Iudges Clergy Officers Navies Forts and Castles arrogated by the said House of Commons leaving his Highnesse nothing but the bare name of a King The Parliament have taken upon them no more then by the Lawes and ancient Priviledges of the Kingdome appertains unto it For his Queene Children and Familie ought to be regulated by the Lawes whereof they are the supreme Judges and the disposure and ordering of all particulars mentioned in this Motive especially when the publike safety is in hazzard belong unto the Parliament though Rebels and Malignants pretend ignorantly or insolently to the contrary and thereby the King loseth no Honour as these and other of his disguised enemies would make ignorant people to believe but His Majesties dignity and safety is rather thereby secured from the mischiefs and indignities which these would bring upon him who will not leave him so much as they say the Parliament hath left him the name of a King and the benefit of living if he shall at last faile their concealed expectations XIV The many affronts and wrongs done by the said House to the Ambassadours of forraigne Princes Confederates of His Majestie residing in England and to their Chaplains and Servants against the condition of the League and the Law of Nations What Affronts these insolent Animals can justly say have been offered by the House of Commons according as they object no man shall ever heare for it is but a scandalous suggestion of that impudence which dares affirme any falshood and judgeth it meritorious to slander and lie for the Catholike Cause XV. The grosse injuries and scandals given by the said House of Commons to the Queenes Maiesty and her Chaplains and Servants in breach of the Articles made upon the Marriage These are the Champions intituled The Queenes Army and you must not think much if they lie and raile for Her who have listed themselves to fight under her Banner Yet take notice that this and many other of these Motives of taking up Armes had neither colour nor occasion of being the ground of their quarrell till after their said Armes were taken up and the whole Kingdome of Ireland made as it were a bloudy slaughter-house by these Butchers But perhaps they knew before hand what occasion their Jesuiticall Directors would compell the Queene to give this Parliament of being questioned and what impeachments would thereupon be drawne up and therefore they barbarously murdered their neighbouring Protestants beforehand therefore they surprized those harmlesse Brittans in their beds and houses before they dreamed of an enemy and therefore they tooke up Armes to be in readinesse and that instead of a legall purgation they might wash her from future imputations in the precious bloud of Innocents As for those Articles and Conditions of Her Marriage and the Priviledges thereby granted to her Popish Priests and Servants they were made without the consent of a

Parliament yea in despight of Parliament and contrary to the Lawes of God and the Kingdome therefore they ought rather to have been sooner broken then so long tolerated as they were XVI The many horrible murders Robberies Pillages Wasts Burnings and other execrable Cruelties perpetrated of late by the Protestants Army here by publike direction of the State of this Realme upon His Majesties good Subjects of the English Pale and other parts of the Land they not offending against the Laws or Peace of the Realm but meerly standing upon their own defence and this done them against His Majesties pleasure without his privity The impudence of every sonne of the Babilonish Whore is very monstrous but none like that of her Irish Bastards For after they had committed I will use their owne words so many horrid Murders Robberies Pillages Wasts Burnings and other execrable Cruelties upon the harmlesse Protestants living among them who neither gave occasion of offence nor suspected such cruelty till they felt the skenes in their throats they are neverthelesse not ashamed contrary to their own and our knowledge to affirme that these cruelties were put in execution upon them and by direction of the State of that Realme before they tooke up Armes or acted in the massacre of the Protestants which is the most impudent falshood that ever was averred by any child of the Devill For all the Brittish Isles rung with the horrour of their hellish cruelties before the Protestants whose brethren were murdered unawares had so much as a thought of any such offence as was pretended or of any such defensive preparatives as have beene since made Yea it is generally knowne that the remainder of the murdered Britans in Ireland tooke not up Armes to prevent their totall extirpation till that mischiefe was begun and proceeded in almost beyond prevention And that they then armed themselves against these Rebells with his Majesties privitie and good liking appeares with his detestation of their inhumanity by the Act of Parliament made against them and confirmed by his Majesty as also by his owne voluntarie Declarations often mentioning bleeding Ireland and remembring the Parliament not to be remisse in sending supplies against those Miscreants though since termed his loyall Subjects Therefore no tongue but Irish could have averred so apparent a falshood nor any but Popish Irish Traitors have dared to affirme that our preparations to avenge the blood of his murthered Subjects and our Brethren was without his Majesties privitie and against his pleasure unlesse they will confesse and prove his secret will to be contrary to that which was revealed XVII All the Natives in the English Plantations of this Realme were disarmed by Proclamation and the Protestant Plantators armed and tied by the Condition of their Plantations to have Armes and to keep certain numbers of Horse and Foot continually upon their Lands by which advantage many thousands of the Natives were expulsed out of their possessions and many hanged by Martiall Law without cause and against the Laws of this Kingdom and many of them other ways destroyed and made away by sinister means and practices That which is here affirmed is totally false for had the Natives been indeed unarmed and the Protestants armed as by law they ought to have been and as the trecherous condition of the Irish required the publique peace had been yet preserved at least such Butcheries had not been committed But the Britans were too secure and so farre from using the cruelties against the Irish or taking the advantages laid to their charge that they suppressed them not as they ought to have done much lesse hanged them as they deserved for which cause they have since cut their throats who saved them from the Gallowes XVIII Halfe this Realme was found to belong unto His Majesty as his ancient Demeasne and Inheritance upon old feigned titles of 300. yeares past by Iudges against Law their Evidence and Conscience who were corrupted to finde the said Titles upon promise of part of those lands so found for the King or other rewards or els drawne thereunto by threats of the Iudges of the Circuits or by heavy Fines Mulcts and Censures of Pillory Stigmatizing and other like cruell and unusuall punishments What was unjustly found for the King by the corruption of Judges and others let them answer for whom it concernes as also to the rest of this Article For we have seen and felt so much injustice in England that much of it may perhaps be true But me thinks Saint Patricks Beads-men should have considered that this imputation of injustice will more disparage their friends at Court then those whom they account their enemies for from them proceeded that injustice which was done The Preface to the Oath of Association taken by the Irish Rebels Whereas the Roman Catholikes of this Kingdome of Ireland have beene inforced to take up Armes for the necessary defence and preservation as well of their Religion plotted and resolved to be quite suppressed by the Puritan Faction as likewise of their Estates and Liberties and also for the defence and safeguard of His Majesties Royall Power Prerogatives and Right invaded upon which we will defend so farre forth onely as may serve our owne turnes And for that it is requisite there should be an unanimous consent and reall union betweene all the Catholikes of this Kingdome to maintain the premises and strengthen them against their adversaries It is thought fit by them that they and whosoever should adhere unto their party should for the better assurance of their fidelity and constancy of the publike Cause take the insuing Oath The Rebells Oath of Association I A. B. do promise vow and make Protestation before God and his Angels of my Allegiance to my Soveraigne Lord King Charles and to the Heires of his Body Kings and Queenes of England and that I will maintaine his and their just Prerogatives Honour Estate and Rights the Power and Priviledges of Parliament and all the ancient and fundamentall Lawes of England now of force within this Realm so farre forth as they are not contrary or against the Romane Catholike Religion this was well provided And do further promise vow and protest before God and his Angels that I as Confederate and Associate to the rest of the Confederate Catholikes of this Kingdome will by all lawfull meanes maintaine uphold and defend to my power the free exercise of the said Religion through this Kingdome as also the just liberties possessions and estates of this Kingdome who have or shall take this Oath and performe the Contents thereof with men money and other provision as it shal be reasonably required from time to time by the said Catholikes Confederates And moreover I will joyn with the same Confederates in any lawfull way that shal be agreed on by them to free this Kingdome and Nation from the oppressions and cruell Government of the now State and Officers of this Realm and from the designes or attempts