not thereof nor make thy shame thy glory Frailty gets pardon by Submissiveness But he that boasts shuts that out of his story He makes flat war with God and doth defie With his poor Clod of earth the spatious Sky Besides this homour of Healthing is the cause of double if not treble the expence of Wine that would not otherwise be wasted but as it is the destruction of Health and Wealth so is it in all persons sinful 1. The enticer or provoker sins Habakkuck 2.15 Wo be to him that giveth his Neighbour Drink that puttest thy Bottle to him and makest him drunken also that thou mayest look on their nakedness a shamefull Spuing shall be on all thy Glories But some think because they are strong to drink without discomposing themselves therefore they are innocent though they drink more than makes two others drunken c. no saith the Prophet Isaiah 5.22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink Wine and men of strength to mingle strong Drink there is a wo hangs over your heads as over your staggering spuing companions And if the Threatning of God will not restrain you though by the same Word you shall be judged at the last day where you shall receive the portion of the Drunkards which are excluded the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.10 Yet let the Light of natural Consciense manifested by civil Heathens in contempt of this besotting Vice be considered shall Christians not only practice but glory in Vice Heathens abhor and are ashamed of The Lacedemonians used to make their Slaves drunk in the sight of their Children to beget in them an abhorrency of the Vice as only becoming Slaves The Carthaginians esteemed the Name of a Drunkard hateful for which they were thrust out of all publick Offices with ignominy Alex. ab Alex. There being a drunken Cobler in Boneventum named Vatinius they in disdain called their great Glasses by his Name to caution persons of better quality from imitating so sordid a fellow Juvenal fol. 143. Saith Herbert If men of meaner sort Make Drunkenness but a sport Yet let no men of place Their State so much disgrace This is a Sense-stupifying and a Reason-depraving Vice yet its Votaries are most ready to reproach sober persons for Fanaticks when themselves turn our Taverns c. into so many Bedlams we have a Story in Burtons Melancholy of a crew of Fuddle-caps in a House in Agrigentums had drunk themselves so mad they conceited the House was a Ship tossing in the Sea and ready to sink whereupon they fell a throwing all the Housholdstuff out of the Windows to save themselves the Magistrates coming to quiet their disorder they worshipped them as Tritons or Sea-Gods Burt. Mel. p. 163. This Vice doth not only obstruct Trade and consume the Wealth of Nations to their great impoverishing but oft times is the cause of the utter ruine of great Kingdoms and mighty Monarchs c. For proof of which take these Instances When Benhadad the King of Assyria was drinking himself drunk with thirty two Kings his Allies then a few people came out of Samaria destroyed them first and then his mighty Army 1 Kings 20.16 So that Traytor Zimri watch'd his opportunity to destroy Baasha King of Israel when he was drinking himself drunk in the House of Arza his Steward 1 Kings 16.9 Young Belshazzar was surprized and slain with 1000 of his Lords and all his Concubines and his Kingdom seized by old Darius the Mead when they were all drunk at a Feast Dan. 5. Prophane Histories are full of the dreadful consequences of this brutish Vice Great Alexander after he had conquered the World was such a slave to this Lust it subjected him to all other Debaucheries wherein Solomons saying was verified Prov. 16.32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his Spirit than he that taketh a City Drunkenness metamorphosed him to such a Bedlam that he commanded to be killed his best beloved Clitus when drunk and when sober was so vex'd he was with difficulty restrained from killing himself when drunk set stately Persepolis on fire at the instigation of Lais his Harlot so Drunkenness and Whoredom joyned hands in that mad prank soon after with his beloved Epheston drunk themselves dead whilst young with 41 more of his Officers who drunk with him for a wager Justins History pag. 139. Millions of helps cannot support that Crown Which Sins assault Fate justly pulls it down That all the world shall know how greatest Kings Are thrall to change as well as weaker things No marvel thou great Monarch didst complain And weep there were no other Worlds to gain Thy griefs and thy complaints were not amiss H' has grief enough that finds no world but this Tir Owen the Rebel would drink his Body into such flame his Servants used to set him up to the chin in earth to cool him Camb. Eliz. Philip of Macedon Zeno Bonosus Phocius the Emperor Armintus King of Siracuse Cleonians King of Lacedemonia Sliolmus King of the Goths Touthio King of the Ilerions Marcus Antonius Vortiger King of the Britains c. came all to ill ends and their States ruined by their Drunkenness The Mahometans are such enemies to this besotting Vice they prohibit Wine A Souldier being brought drunk before the Grand Vizier he sentenc'd him to have boiling Lead poured into his mouth and ears Turks History fol. 1332. No wonder the temperate Turks should overrun so much of debauched Christendom for as this Vice is destructive to Cities and Countries in peace much more it is fatal to Armies in war As is before instanced Sardanapalus Baasha Belshazzer Alexander M. c. And that this hath been the experience of the Antients Histories abundantly testifie saith Juvenal Victory comes easily when the Foes are tipled lisping reeling men are easily overcome fol. 404. The warlike Athenians so detested Drunkenness they prohibited Wine to be tasted in their Camp Howels History of the World 395. Manlius was accused by the Senate for ushering Effeminacy and Luxury into Rome by the Lax Discipline in his Army the same Galuenus Howel 948. The old Assyrian Monarchy after 1400 years flourishing was lost by the Effeminacy and Debauchery of Sardanapalus on whose Tomb they writ this Epitaph Friend eat drink and play for all things else are not worth a â—ilip Howel fol. 14. Agron Prince of Ilyria drunk himself dead for joy of his Successes against the Atolians Howel p. 699. The Indignation Heathens have had against this Vice appears in the opprobrious Epethetes they have put upon the greatest Masters in the Art it was said of Bonosus the Emperor he was born not to live but to drink and when he was overcome by Probus and hang'd himself the people in scorn upbraided him saying Here hangs a Tankard not a Man Diotinus of Athens for his excessive Drinking was in scorn called Tundish young Cicero was term'd Tricongii for his drinking whole Cups It was
had they been permitted quietly to enjoy this small part they so rightfully possest they had gone no further But instead thereof Roderick King of Connaght then sole Monarch of Ireland raiseth the whole Kingdom to drive out Mac Morrough and his Welshmen upon which he appeals to Strongbow and renewes former contracts who hasts over with about 1200 fresh Men by them wars with the Waterfordians who were in Arms against him took the City and married the Kings Daughter with an assurance of the Reversion of the Kingdom and soon after disperses his Enemies then surrendred all his Conquests to the King who came over with a new Force to secure his Interest which so terrified the Irish that all their Kings and great Lords proffered to to be tributary and swore Allegiance and had they so continued they had felt no farther damages But no sooner was the Kings back turned but they are again up in Arms to disposess the English of what they had so justly atchieved who still subdued them and gained ground of them and obtained Grants of their new Conquests until all the Irish Kings and great Lords were vanquished and their Lands c. possest by the English Victors the Heirs of Ulster and Connaght married to the Kings Subjects whose successive Heirs in process of time were married unto the Royal Family and so their Lands and Honours came Hereditary in the Crown who of right disposed of them at pleasure Now had it not been the Interest as well as the Duty of the Irish to have submitted to their first Concessions Then Dermot Mac Morrough had sustained no wrong his right Heir had enjoyed his Dominion and the rest of the Irish great Lords had enjoyed their particular Rights none pretended to disturb them until constrained in their own defence So if we take a further view of their many Insurrections and perfidious Rebellions since they held their Honours and Lands from the Crown of England it will appear they were tempted to it by the weakness of the English Interest as in times of troubles in England by the Barons Wars and Struggles betwixt the two Roses c. When the Kings of England drew over part of their Army for Ireland some taking one side and some the other which did not only weaken Englands Strength in Ireland but divided what were left into powerful Factions betwixt the great English Lords of Ireland which became the cause of the ruine of that great Family of Desmond with several others of good Rank who though degenerated from their English Civilities yet after they turned Rebels against their Prince they fell wholly off to the Interest Manners and Customs of his and their own former Irish Enemy whereby Ireland was to be new conquered and replanted for the degenerate English were more stubborn Rebels and with more difficulty subdued than the rebellious Natives for although their Minds and Manners were degenerated they had so much English Blood left in their Veins as gave them English Courage and Resolution whereby Tho. Fitz Giralds and Desmonds Rebellions became harder work to subdue than any before them they also receiving great Incouragements and Aids from the Pope and King of Spain upon the account of Religion they became obdurate the same Indulgences that were granted to the Souldiers fighting against the Turk in the holy War being sent them whereby their Consciences were not only released from their Obligations of Allegeance to their Prince but strongly engaged on the behalf of holy Church to extirpate that mad and venemous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion as the Protestant Faith was then termed in a Pamphlet then publish'd intituled A Declaration of the Divines of Salamanca and Vallidolid dispersed through Ireland by O Sullivan a Spanish Priest which with divers other practices of the Irish to shake off the English Government is rehearsed and press'd by that pious Prelate Primate Usher the Glory of the Irish Protestant Church in his elegant Speech to an Assembly of all the States of Ireland April 1627. in which he defends my Assertion that it is the Interest of the Irish to aid and support the Prosperity of the English Interest amongst them and had they had Grace to have believed him some thousands of Irish Families now utterly ruined might have been in a prosperous state And after he had minded them of their traiterous tendering the Regency of Ireland to the French King and upon his refusal to the Spaniard which was by him accepted for although Henry the fourth of France was not Apostate enough to invade his Protestant Neighbours yet Charles the fifth of Spain and his Son Philip were Papist enough to admit the Popes Donation which the Irish obtained for them Title good enough not only to claim Ireland and invade it with several Armies of Italians and Spaniards who landed at Kinsale and Kerry to their cost but also to attempt England by their supposed invincible Armado in 88. but the invincible just God did not only deliver us from their power the Sword destroying his Land Souldiers in Ireland and the Sea swallowing up his Naval Force assayling England but also from that time blasted the Counsels and Successes of that aspiring Monarch that their Fame and Potency hath ever since dwindled away Portugal and the Low Countries soon after revolted and the stately Don who then talk'd and acted as proudly as Monsieur doth now was so far from beeing able to invade his Neighbours he hath been put to his shifts to secure his Hereditary Countries and as old as I am I hope to live to see it the case of Monsieur who though now stiled the most Christian King hath declared himself the most inveterate Enemy to the most Christian Faith and Profession in the Christian World and let but the Defender of the Faith turn his Subjects loose with his Commission in their pockets they would soon covince him of it and let him know that the English Blood that inspired their Ancestors at the Battel of Agincourt c. is boyling hot in their Veins and that Charles the Second may be as dreadful to France as ever was Henry the fifth c. when he pleaseth if our God hath not given us up for our impious provocations to be a prey and a spoil as he did Israel to the Assyrians a bitter and hasty Nation But to return to my Argument that it is the Interest of the Irish Papists to further the Protestant English Interest in Ireland I shall return to my reverend Author saith he They put me in mind of the Philosophers Observations that such who have a vehement respect to a few inferiour things are easily misled to overlook many great things so saith he they have so deep a sense of their present burthen of contributing small matters towards the support of the Kings Army to secure us from foreign Invasions that they overlook all those miserable Desolations that will come upon them by a long and heavy War which the having of an
VII Jesuitical Principles the cause of Irelands mischiefs and miseries therefore their interest to explode them above all the Papists in the World p. 258 A brief Narrative of all the Jesuits Treasons against their English Sovereigns from Hen. 8. to this time wherein is observ'd not only the miseries in Ireland but Englands and Scotlands troubles were promoted by them p. 259 to 264 Their Oath of Confederacy in their last Plot p. 265 The pernicious influence of that Plot though disappointed 266 267 His Majesties great tenderness and indulgence towards Dissenters for 20 years past p. 267 268 Dissenters respect to the Protestant Church of Ireland as now established how far p. 269 Dissenters the most dangerous Hereticks in Ireland to Papists p. 270 The great advantage Vnity in Loyalty would be both to Papists and Protestants in Ireland p. 271 An Alphabetical Table of the principle things in the first Part. A. ADventurers and other estated Absentees drain Ireland of Cash p. 84 85. Apparel extravagant ruines a Country pag. 20 21. Apparel of Silks destructive to Ireland Apparel spruce and costly in the meaner sort many ways inconvenient besides its Charge p. 27 28. Apparel spruce and rich contemned by many wise and potent Princes p. 30 31. Ale-topers their Charge to Ireland p. 55. B. Baronets when instituted and how to be qualiffed p. 16 17. Bastards their great Charge to Ireland p. 45 46. C. Court of Wards well regulated useful to Ireland and for what p. 12 13. D. Debaucheries their Charge to Ireland p. 37. Drunkenness the grand Wealth-consuming Debauchery p. 51. It s Trade ruining and Wealth-wasting influence p. 54 to 57. Drinking to excess is as sinful in them able to bear drink as others sooner distempered p. 60. Drunkards c. are the proper Fanaticks p. 61 62. Drunkenness disdained and grievously punished by Turks and Pagans p. 63. Drunkenness the ruine of States and Armies p. 64 to 69. E. England no pattern for Ireland in Expences and why p. 22. Effeminacy attends Debauchery p. 48 49. F. France gains by their fantastick Garbs and why p. 19. G. Gentry their bad Payment to Tradesmen ruines Trade p. 10 11. Gaming its pernicious Effects p. 42 43. H. Holiness-Ceremonial crowded Holiness-real out of the Church p. 70. Honour when disgrac'd p. 14 15 Healthing the great provoker of Drunkenness p. 58 59 Its sinful p. 60 I. Ireland not setled till when p. 2 3 4 Jesuits their under ground work p. 3 L. Laws Sumptuary p 23 24 Needful in Ireland p. 26 Laws Mercanture necessary to govern Trade p. 10 Laws Common too delatory for Trade ibid. Laws against Absentees p. 86 87 M. Merchants Honourable p. 8 9 Merchants few wealthy in Ireland and why p. 7 Merchants low esteem in Ireland lowers c. Trade p. 8 Manufacturies ruined by Silk worn in Ireland p. 20 Merchants Forreigners their damage to Ireland p. 81 82 N. Nobility when ignoble are the shame and ruine of a Country p. 12 13 14. O. Oaths prophane their provoking destructive nature p. 38 39. P. Perjury its sad Effects p. 41 42. Prophane Swearing the mother of false swearing p. 40. Perjury abhorred by Pagans first tolerated by Popes p. 41. Perjury will never be esteemed a mortal sin whilst prophane swearing is esteemed venial p. 42. Pagans their cruel Laws against Adultery p. 49 50. Prophaneness of Christendome whence p. 69. Prophanenists their Faith blasphemous and fanatical if any they have p. 74 75 76. R. Rome the Fountain of all Prophaneness and Debauchery of Christendom p. 72 73. Revenue farmed to Foreigners great loss to the Country p. 80. S. Swearing prophane its sad Effects p. 38 39. Superfluities not regulated ruines a Country p. 18 19. Strumpets to be prescribed their Apparel p. 29 30. Shipping foreign a great Charge to the Country p. 83. T. Trade its Impediments p. 1 to 11. Trade Ireland not capable of till when p. 4. V. Victuals their Plenty obstructs Trade and Manufacture p. 5 6. W. Whoring its Charge and Damage to Irelands Trade and Wealth p. 44. Destructive to Kingdoms and States pag. 48 49. Wine-bibbers their Charge to Ireland p. 5. ERRATA BY mistake of the Author and mislaying of some Papers occasioned by Business which took up his time delayed the Publication of this Book there are some Errors escaped the Press which is made good by reprinting such Leaves over again or where any were left out as between p. 95. and p 96. the several pages are denoted in the Contents by p A and p B c. calling the first p. A the second B c. which the Reader is desired to mark with his Pen. And for Miss-spellings or other Literal escapes I shall leave to his courtesie to correct and only note what harms the Sense which the Reader or rather Bookseller may soon correct with his Pen. PART I. Page 20. for families read females p. 17. for Couler r. Coller PART II. Pape 29. for confine read consigne p. 57. for Minister r. Ministry p. 190. line ult for Object r. An Answer p. 234. for 1612. r. 1600. ibid. for 812. r. 800. p. H. for momentary r. momentous p. 115. for Stilling fleet 106. r. Stillingfleet 206. Advertisement to the Binder At the end of ** in the Epistle Dedicatory there wants the Direction viz. Plebeius g g the Quarter sheet in G Part 1. is to be placed after f f in Part 2. E e the first leaf to be cancelled the last leaf of F f to be cancelled the last leaf of M m to be the first of E e N n fol. 195 196 and 199 200. to be cancelled O o fol. 213 214 217 218 221 222. to be cancelled the said leaves of N n and O o being reprinted THE INTEREST OF IRELAND In its TRADE and WEALTH Stated CHAP. I. The Reasons why Ireland being so long under the Government of England whose Policies in Trade are inferior to few Countreys should yet be so little improv'd in Trade and Wealth 1. FRom the Impediments or Obstructions Ireland hath met with and is subject unto not common to other Countreys The first and chief Impediment proceeds from the unsetledness of the Countrey as to its subjection to England's Government for though they have long prosest Allegiance to England's Crown yet they have paid but a grudging partial obedience to its Scepter And upon all occasions less or more general have been attempting to draw their necks out of England's Yoke as it s briefly but fully evidenced by Sir John Davis in his Intelligent Book dedicated to King James Intituled A Discovery of the true cause why Ireland was never intirely subdued to the Crown of England and he determines until the 9th of King James Ireland was never fully setled in subjection and obedience to the English Law and Government And if we take a view of the State of Ireland since then and allow the Reign of King James and part of King Charles the First to be
of Ely Swordes Kilmurry Valentia Maryborough Castleton Chaworth Sligoe Waterford Strangford Tuam Cashell Carlow Cullen Shannon Mazareene Dromoor Dungarvan Dungannon Kells Fitz Harding Clare Charlemont Powerscourt Blesinton Granard Lanesborough Ross Viscounts Costalo Mayo Merrion Fairfax Fitz Williams Gormanston Fermoy Rathcoole Barefore Brunker Galmoy Kingsland Mountgarret Dowth Evagh Kilmallock Ikerine Glanmaleyra Claine Downe Tracy Barons Kinsale Kerry Hoath Mountjoy Foliot Maynard Dundalk Digbey Lifford Herbert Loghlin Coleraine Leitrim Donamore Blaney Killard Kingston Colooney Santry Lowth Glawnally Altham Castlesteward Barons Athenry Cahir Baltimore Strabane Slane Trimleston Dunsany Dunboyn Upper Ossory Castleconnell Brittas Besides the Protestants have the advantage of our reverend Protestant Judges and the Kings learned Counsels to advise and countenance the Protestant Interest in Ireland in that highest Court A Catalogue of the Nobility of Ireland Anno 1571. recorded by Campion fol. 5. Earls GErrald Fitz Girald of Kildare His eldest Son Lord Baron of Ophaly Sir Thomas Butler of Ormond and Ossery His eldest Son Viscount Thurles Fitz Girald of Desmond His eldest Son Baron of Inshycoin Sir Richard Bourk of Clanrickard His eldest Son Baron of Donkeline Conegher Obrene of Thomond His eldest Son Baron of Ibrecane Mac carty More of Clarcar His eldest Son Baron of Valentia Viscounts Barrie Roche Preston of Gormanstown Eustace alias Power of Baltinglass Sir Richard Butler of Montgaret Deces Barons Lord Bermingham of Athenry John Bermingham Mac Morice alias Fitz Girald of Kery Lord Courcey Lord Fleming of Slane Plunketof Killyne Newgent of Delvin St. Laurance of Hoath Plonket of Doonesawney Barnwell of Trimleston Butler of Donboyne Phitz Patrick of Upper Ossery Clonagh Mac Gilpatrick Plonket of Louth O Neal of Dungannon Power of Curraghmore Mac Suretan Lord Deseret Obrene of Inshycoiin Mac Costilaghe Lord Nangle Mac William Burck Lord of Eighter Connaght A Catalogue of the Irish Nobility Anno 1641. as I find it in the Heralds Office by which may be observed something of the Seniority of their Dignities comparing it with that of 1681. But it is useful to inform the great alteration of the Constitution of the House of Peers since that time to the advantage of the English Interest Earls GEorge Fitz Girald of Kildare James Butler of Ormond and Ossery Henry O Bryan of Thomond Ulick de Bourk of Clanrickard James Tuchet of Castlehaven Richard Boyle of Cork Randall Mac Dannell of Antrym Richard Nugent of West Meath James Dillon of Roscommon Robert Bridgeway of Londonderry George Fielding of Desmond William Brabason of Meath David Barry of Barrymore Richard Vaugham of Carberry Luke Plunket of Fingall William Pope of Down Thomas Cromwell of Ardglass Viscounts Nicholas Preston of Gormanstown David Roth of Fermoy Richard Butler of Montgarret William Villars of Grandison Charles Wilmot of Athlone Henry Poore of Valentia Charles Moore of Drogheda Thomas Dillon of Castillo Nicholas Netervile of Louth Hugh Montgomery of the Ards James Hamleton of Claneboy Adam Loftus of Ely Sapcot Beumount of Swordes Hugh Magennis of Evagh Thomas Cromwell of Lecale Edward Chichester of Caricksargus Robert Needham of Kilmurry Dominick Scarsfeild of Kilmallock Thomas Somerset of Cashell Edward Conway of Kilultagh Miles Bourk of Mayo Thomas Roper of Baltinglass Nicholas Sanderson of Castleton Lewis Boyle of Kilmakey Goerge Chaworth of Ardmagh Thomas Savile of Savile John Scudamore of Sligo Robert Chalmundly of Kells Richard Lumley of Waterford Thomas Smith of Strangford Richard Wenman of Tuam John Taafe of Cerine William Mounton of Castlemaine Roger Jones of Ranelagh Charles Mac Carry of Muskry Richard Mulleneux of Maryburg Thomas Fairfax of Emeley Thomas Bourk of Clanmorris Pierce Butler of Ikerine Thomas Fitz Williams of Merryoung Terence Dempsey of Glanmaleyra Lord Barons Richard Bermingham of Athenry Girald Courcey of Kinsale Patrick Fitz Morris of Kerry Lixmew William Flemming of Slaine Nicholas St. Laurance of Hoath Patrick Plunket of Dunsawny Robert Barnwell of Trimleston John Power of Coroghmore Edward Butler of Dunboyne Barnabas Mac Gilpatrick of Upper Ossery Oliver Plunket of Louth Murrough O Bryan of Inchequin Edmond Bourke of Castleconnell Thomas Butler of Cahir Mountjoy Blunt of Mountjoy Charles Lambert of Cavan Theobald Bourke of Brittas Andrew Steward of Castlesteward James Belfoure of Glanawley Thomas Foliot of Ballishanon William Maynard of Wicklow Edward Georges of Dunalke Robert Digbey of Geashell William Harvey of Rosse William Fitz Williams of Lifford William Caufield of Charlemount Theodore Dockray of Culmore Girald Aungier of Longsord Henry Blancy of Monaghan Laurence Esmond of Limerick Dermond O Malune of Glan Malune and Curety Edward Herbert of Castleisland Cecil Calvert of Baltimore William Brereton of Loghlin Hugh Hare of Coleraine William Sherrard of Leitrim Roger Boyle of Broghill Conner Mac Guire of Iniskilline Francis Ansley of Mount Norris And as it is the Interest of the Crown and Realm of England to promote the prosperity of the English Interest in Ireland so it is equally the Interest of the Irish Papists themselves to aid and promote the same their contrary apprehensions have been their ruin for from thence have proceeded all their bloody Massacres and Rebellions and though it hath cost England vast quantities of Blood and Treasure to subdue them yet they paid the Reckoning at last to the utter ruin of most of the great Lords and Septs and just it should be so if the Right and Title of England to what it possest and endeavoured to keep in Ireland be impartially considered If we omit what all our Histories record of the ancient Soveraignty the Kings of Britain claimed and enjoyed in Ireland as that in the time of Gurguntius Anno Dom. 359. they were his Subjects and after that in the time of King Arthur Anno 519. above 600 years before Henry the second conquered it 1172. the King summoned all the Kings and Lords of Ireland to attend Gilmarrow their Monarch and with him perform their Homage at Carlisle which they all did accordingly And only consider the justness of the Cause of Strongbow and his Comrades in their first Adventure it was not only with the consent but at the desire of their own King they contracted with Dermot Mac Morrough King of Leinster a banish'd oppressed Prince to aid him in the recovery of his just Rights a quarrel not only approved to be just but charitable by all Casuists Pagans Turks Jews and Christians to relieve and assist the weak and oppressed against the strong Oppressor and what was the just Right of Mac Morrough to recover was in his power to dispose and lawful for his Aiders to receive it being their due by contract before they would adventure that Strongbow should have delivered Mac Morroughs only Daughter and Heir in Marriage and his Kingdom after her Fathers decease and that Fitz Steephen and Fitz Girald c. should have the Town of Wexford and two Cantreds of Land adjoyning which places were accordingly gained by their Sword and given them in possession by the legal Proprietor and
saith my Author the Emperor was scarce out of Rome Gates before his Holiness perjur'd himself Ursin 13. 2. The like after Clement the second and the Romans solemnly took Oath never to presume to meddle with the Election of a Roman Bishop without express Commission first obtained from the Emperor this honest Pope was presently poysoned and Gregory the seventh that mischievous monster saith my Author after he had poysoned six Popes decreed upon pain of Excommunication all that should deny he had not only power in Heaven to bind and loose but Jurisdiction on Earth to take away and give Empires Kingdoms c. to whom he pleased Urs p 24. which he exercised in the most insolent and vile manner over the Emperor Henry the fourth Ursin p. 28. Now if this be the case of Christian Princes that no hereditary Title no legal Election no publick Leagues or Covenants no humble Submission nor strength of Arms can secure them from Deposing nor their loyal Subjects from Massacres and Assassinations what miserable Servitude are they reduced unto They dare not practice the dictates of their own Reason in prosecuting the Interest of their States they dare not correct or punish their rebellious Subjects for the highest Insolences and Contumacy as in the case of Anselm and Thomas Becket they dare not indulge their most loyal Subjects in their dissent from the Papacy in the smallest point that toucheth their Supremacy nor protect them from the highest Exactions the Pope and his Clergy shall think fit to impose on them as in the case of Henry the fourth of France and our King John they are in the worst condition of Vice-Roys having no Standard or fixed Rule to govern by but the arbitrary contingent Will and Pleasure of the Pope which is as variable as the Weather vide Platina Now is it to be imagined that any Soveraign free Prince in the world not infatuated will chuse to dwell in this house of bondage except they who like Error better than Truth human Tradition better than divine Institution and scandalous Sins better than holy Life If any shall alledge the Protestants are full of Divisions and Confusions it is manifest Part 2. Chap. 2. that the Papists have far more Divisions and different Opinions amongst them in matters more momentous their Harmony is only in their Errors Superstitions and Immoralities vide Dr. Hornebeck p. 172. King James's Monitary Epistle And would any man in his wits turn Papist for the sake of so cursed an Union vide Platina on the Life of Stephen the sixth and Bishop Hall his Book call'd the Peace of Rome They were esteemed Rebels againgst God Sons of Belial that did but talk of chusing a Captain to return to Egypt to the house of Bondage it was for that Sin all their Carcasses fell in the Wilderness Numbers chap. 14. The Israelites had a Law that the Servant who so undervalued his Liberty in the year of Jubilee as to chuse bondage his Ear should be bored at the Door-posts and to continue a slave for ever but Popish slavery is worse than Israelitish bondage theirs was only corporeal but this is not only corporeal but spiritual we must believe against all dictates of common Reason nay against our Senses their corporeal presence legions of lying Miracles their Infallibility c. or be damned and burnt for Hereticks Subjects must either be Rebels at home or Hereticks at Rome if his Holiness see cause to quarrel with their lawful Princes Nay we must believe all their Blasphemy against God is Piety and all their Treason against Kings and Princes to be Loyalty or be perverse Hereticks 1. Their Blasphemy against God when they play the Devils for Gods sake by pretending Gods Commission and designing his Glory by all their inhuman barbarous Acts although they thereby violate all solemn Oaths and Leagues c. it is alledged to be for Gods Glory as in the bloody Parisian Massacre c. never did Prince make and break so many solemn Oaths Imprecations and Royal Grants to trepan his Subjects into the pit of destruction as Charles the ninth of France for Gods Glory That most barbarous of Murderers the Duke of Guise after by his Order the brave Admirals dead Body was thrown out of the Window into the street he kick'd and trampled on it crying out to his Fellow Blood-hounds this is he a blessed beginning let us now go on in the name of God in which name they before morning saith my Author sack'd and plundered 4000 Houses barbarously murderded above five hundred Lords and persons of Quality and ten thousand of inferiour rank no Age Sex nor Quality not the innocent sucking Infant nor decrepacy of old age found mercy until above 100000 innocent Souls were destroyed in France and this perpetrated in the name of God and for his Glory and so agreed unto by the Council of Trent with Spain and France c. in the Confederacy to extirpate all the Protestants in the world within their power stil'd the Holy League in pursuance of which not only France but Piedmont Bohemiah and Belgia c. tasted of the same bitter cup yet when the news of this inhumane barbarous Massacre came to Rome his Holiness and their Eminencies in their Pontificalibusses march'd in procession to their great Church and caused Te Deum to be sung and all expressions of Popish Devotions to be express'd as a Thanksgiving to the most merciful God for this most unmerciful barbarous work and a Jubilee proclaimed in honour of it It s only perfect Coppy we read of ever acted on the stage of the world was the Irish Massacre and that was done in the name of God and for his Glory vide the Popes Letters to O Neal October 18. 1642. and to the Clergy and Nobles of Ireland dated at Rome Febr. 1. 1642. and in the Popes Bull dated May 25. 1643. signed M. A. Miraldus In which after observing the holy Zeal of their pious Ancestors to root out Heresie and propagate the Catholick Faith proceeds to his Benediction In the name of the merciful God and the blessed Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul is granted a full and plenary Indulgence and absolute remission of all their Sins Trespasses Transgressions Crimes and Delinquences how heinous and atrocious soever I instance in these two Presidents as being in our sight and memories but if you please to read the Popes Bulls and Excommunications c. against any Prince or State they are all in the name and for the Glory of God And if their Piety and Vertue consist in these barbarous inhumane Treasons and Massacres what shall we think of their Vice and Wickedness 2. As their Blasphemy against God must be believed for Piety so their most horrid Treasons against Princes c. must be esteemed Loyalty in which multitudes of instances might be given out of the Histories of other Countries But we need not go far from home to find them for all their Rebellions