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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67438	The Irish colours folded, or, The Irish Roman-Catholick's reply to the (pretended) English Protestants answer to the letter desiring a just and mercifall regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland (which answer is entitled The Irish colours displayed), addressed (as that answer and letter have been) to His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of that kingdome.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W635; ESTC R17831	23,083	36

the Irish stock and Interest his imposing on and abusing of Spencer's View his next Paragraph after of Spanish Papists his displeasure at our stickling one for another desiring justice according to the fundamental laws of both Kingdomes and his Majesties gracious Promises and Concessions and yet his inconsequence in the 15. page of his Answer in stickling himself for all his own gang without exception of any and in a cause of manifest in justice even against all laws both divine and humane his something more his scribling his cogging and clawing and unfortunate proofs thereof your constant believers your passionate sticklers c. his imposture with charging me to have threatned your failing would lessen your dependencies his malicious application of my example of Joseph even against his own knowledg and the whole designe and expresse tenour of my Letter in the beginning prosecution and ending of it his grosse wilfull and affected ignorance or dissimulation rather of not knowing how the Irish came to be your brethren upon any other kindred his minding you of your Ancestors and your own unshaken loyalty to the Crown of England and of your constancy to the old Protestant Religion so impertinent to the end he drove at his own servile flatteries his unbelieved affections to or confidence in you his love to his mistresse the forced or feigned smiles he would attribute to you and the sullen aking jealousies of himself and his party those passages without being too much envied and some thing feared c. a testimony and a pawn of your Families Loyalty c. how much the English Nation might be estranged from you by your favour to the Irish c. suddenly either forgiven in heaven or forgotten upon earth his bold slander his Ravilliack and perhaps half a doozen Jesuites and perhaps half a dozen more with Cromwel and Ireton and his outward compliance c. his Birds Flyes and bare intentions his unreasonable difference twixt standing on Articles and Claiming his Majestie 's Grace held forth in the Act of Indemnity his not questioning but the same reasons which then induced His Majesty to grant it them and deny it us continue still and will doe so to both our Posterities his Long Parliament's and the following tyrannous Powers quarrel pursued against the Irish his not allowing these had fought so long that is since the peace made with your Grace for the King his having never heard and his saying that none can believe the overpowering them with multitudes and he must mean then if he speak to purpose when the last towns and places of Ireland were given up his quitting the field and running away and giving up the quarrel in the next paragraph 14. page of his book where in effect he not only acknowledges no answer given by him to my letter but in plain terms tels your Grace so much that for matter of our Articles in Forty eight which saith he the writer of that Letter presses to be observed that of Transplansplantation Corporations the disposall of the Irish lands c they are particulars he will not meddle with and yet these are all the particulars of that Letter he would seem otherwise or at least was concernd to Answer his reflection after this on that passage of mine which relates to the English Army in England as then composed and his confidence in them his other-shred or will couched threatnings his other truth which yet hath nothing more than untruth his evill Counsel immediately following his declining the parrallel and his flat refusing to answer at the weapon of holy Scripture although he brags it might be easily done or try the justice of our quarrel thereby which manifestly convinces him to have little of an English Protestant or indeed a Christian in him being he withall undertakes the patronage of such a cause or the defence of it in point of Piety and Justice which a little before that is in his 15. page he obliges himself unto Lastly the impertinency of his whole discourse if considered as an answer having not answered any one argument of all my Letter not even with satisfaction to the Reader any one of those very immaterial passages he singled out but above all the close and farr yet more dangerous design this Gentleman drives under that which is more overt in his paper to create new troubles to our Gracious King to involve his subjects in bloody confusions again and even to destroy his Sacred Majesty at last by ruining first and for ever those that have for so many years and doe yet suffer for him My Lord of all these and what ever else is regardable in his Answer I take a more particular and more exact notice in some papers I have by me then I can here because my other occasions will not yet serve me to finish them as I would nor yours I suppose your Grace to read them at this time However my Lord that reall and dutifull affection which penn'd my former Letter gives in the mean time this And withall craves your pardon if I minde you here those truly sage divine precepts which this little politick spirit of earth seem'd not to be versed in or at least either contemns or neglects For indeed my Lord he appears to me all along his writing of the number of those who see heaven and all the hopes of the other life as Mathematicians make us behold in a dark Chamber whatsoever passeth abroad through a little crany in such a manner that all things we see appear like shadows and landskips turned topsie-turvy Verily I take this Gentleman to be abused so by himself And that after he hath stopped up all the Windows and accesses to heavenly rayes he hath made a little hole for the Moon and all the blessings of the other life have seemed very slender to his distrustfull spirit and that he hath put on a resolution to make a fortune at what price soever and to build on earth like Cain after he hath almost renounced the hopes of heaven Behold the reason why with so little regret or shame he adventures to lay maximes before you that suppose to hold on a course in all affaires and Governments of the world which may be crafty captious worldly unjust yea cruel too and inhumane when it is for their interest and a course however which may be alwayes independent of divine laws if not for some popular apparence But my Lord the proofs you have constantly given of your chast apprehensions of a God and a Providence ruling the Universe of a strong vertue and a resolution firm unchangable therein both in your prosperous fortune as well now as heretofore and in that condition which hath been so long most adverse and hath tryed you like gold in the Furnace together with your two great successive Masters on earth whom you have served most faithfully in all changes and in obedience to that heavenly One whom all Servants and Masters too must revere

in it yet they could not in my opinion have otherwise prevented the clamor of all men of honor nay of all mankind against them Lastly He considers that this enmity which he calls implacable of the Irish to the English springs from the same root with that of all other subjected people to their Conquerors and gathers for proof thereof the mischief befaln the Roman Citizens in the lesser Asia on the French in Sicily and on the Danes in England and yet forbears to mind your Grace that the Normans were Conquerors as well as they and have to this day preserved their acquisitions in England as the English have done in Ireland since their first descent in that Kingdom by those means which have made the work lasting without breaking for conveniencies sake those limits which Mercy Justice and Honor puts to all humane actions Herein the carriage of your Grace's famous Ancestors will better instruct you then the Politicks of any interested person And your Grace having conformed your self to the rules prescribed by Mercy Justice and Honor what need the ballancing interests between English and Irish or boying up either of them The Country must at length give denomination to all that inhabit it and the posteriry of those that proclaim lowdly the English interest must within an age admit themselves to be called Irish as well as the Descendants from the first Colony of English planted in Ireland Doubtless your Grace's first care will be to secure his Majestie 's interest in that Kingdom and to provide that nothing remain which under the title of diversity of interests may prevent all mens affections from meeting in the center of his Majesties service And your next will be to convey to succeeding ages the blessings of that peace which his Majesty after so evil times and so many sufferings hath given his three Kingdoms And now your Grace will give me leave to consider that this man of separation in flat opposition to his Majesties paternal and prudent desire so frequently and so fully expressed in his Letters in his Proclamations in his Discourses both publique and private to have all seeds of animosities utterly extinguished imploys his talent wholly in making himself the Trumpet of mens animosities and least time should mitigate them he concludes them everlasting But your Grace hath more reverence for things recommended with that earnestness to his people by your great Master then to countenance what he prohibits or to favor those uncharitable requests that oppose his commands My Lord It shall suffice me instead of all vindication that I perswade my self your Grace believes that I am in my nature as averse from cogging or clawing as the Letter in it self is far from expressing any such humor in me But men that have an inclination to be bitter rather then fail of exercising their faculty will create themselves a subject And he that takes the Nations hope to be delivered by your Grace for a complement knows little of the interest you have in them and of the affection they bear you Now without contending in a case so little disputable whose you are I shall conjure your Grace not by his Majesties favor and the ways to preserve it not by the means to prefer your children and to encrease your fortune nor by those other politick considerations held forth by the Writer of that answer but by the mercy and honor of his Majesty by the nobleness of your own nature by the constancy of the Nation in their sufferings under your Graces command at home and their wandrings in waiting on his Majesties fortunes abroad by the memory of your Ancestors that have been such haters of oppression as petty Freeholders have held for many descents and still do enjoy some two some four Acres and others more or less in the midst of your demeasnes untouch'd by them or by you in so long a tract of time by these I conjure your Grace so to temper conveniency as it may not overthrow his Majestie 's promise and so to be friend the interest of the pretenders as the proprietors may receive the benefit of his Majesties mercy extended to them in Articles of Peace As to those contests that consist of recriminations I desire never to engage in them But this Writer must not therefore think he may be at liberty to fill the ears of his Reader with the vast sound of two hundred thousand and enlarge the horror of the action by suppressing the truth and adding Ciphers to enlarge the number And truely had this Writer forborn in so despicable and supercilious a manner to spurn at the Nation by saying That the Birds no not the Flies contributed less to his Majesties Restauration then the Roman Catholickes in Ireland I should not have put him in mind that the Duke of Albemarle found not a concurrence so general I mean in the Army for the people of England both Protestant and Catholick opened their hearts in prayers to God and their arms to receive him as he owes not the glorious success of his Actions more to the dexterity of his conduct then the strength of his party And as to that general concurrence in Ireland Ludlow and Sir Hardress Waller may tell him how difficult the work had been but that they were taken napping No man will say that an unarmed people disposed throughout the Goals of the Kingdom upon every rumor that was spread of any attempt to be made by his Majesty for recovery of his right could have contributed other then by their prayers to his Majesties Restauration And in truth it is some mark of Ingenuity in this Writer that he endeavors not to perswade us that the Irish did not so much as pray for the Restauration of his Majesty And no Church will deny that prayers are always good and sometimes effectual I do not repine at the Act of Indempnity granted by the King And certain I am that his Majesty whose bowels of mercy could begin at that end will in his own good time enlarge it to all his Subjects of Ireland And I hope that when it is better understood in what nature the Roman Catholicks depend upon the Pope there will be no cause to reproach them for their tenets in Religion although they modestly refuse to invest in his Majesty a power of administring the Sacraments which this zealous Gentleman by his dependence upon his Majesty in all Ecclesiastical matters acknowledges to be in him Although the Writer in his next Paragraph pursuing his ordinary method of railing wittyries speaks of a shew of adherence to the King which was the next covert they shrunk under for shelter yet I must confess it will be hard to perswade me that the best and most natural shelter for a Subject faln from his obedience is not the protection of his Soveraign and the remission of his crimes And I cannot but say that the world would be much deceived in that opinion they conceive of your wisdom if