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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

with Honour the care our English Ancestors had for such as should come after them for the Securing this Kingdom They had observed that not only the meer Irish but the Antient Colonies had no kindness for the New English but the frequent Acts of Resumption passed in their Parliaments had avoided new Grants made to English-men for considerable Services For this and other Causes that Act was procured with great Wisdom by Sir Edward Poynings then Lord Deputy the 10. Hen. 7. by which it is Enacted That no Bills can be offered to a Parliament in Ireland before they have been approved by the King in England This Law tho after attempted by the Natives continues unrepealed and is our present Security who are confident the King is too Just ever to send a Bill into that Kingdom to take from many Thousands of His British Subjects that which they now enjoy by Law The Gentleman seems to be very hard upon the Memory of the late King when he displayeth his Rhetorick to shew how contrary to Zeal Piety and Justice it would be for His present Majesty to confirm the Acts of Settlement reflecting thereby upon King Charles the Second that Acted contrary to Zeal Piety and Justice when he made those Laws Questionless our present Soveraign will upon all Occasions vindicate the Honour of his Brother and I hope He will think no way so proper in this particular as by Protecting that Settlement which His Brother Establish'd The Gentleman hath it seems an expedient to help all Matters and yet he thinks fit to offer some in short which I fear too are the best of his Intentions altho' of a strange Nature He would have His Majesty Condemn Laws as Defective before any Person hath been heard in their Defence and after his Judges upon all occasions have judged them sufficient He would have the Clause concluding the Claims of those not yet adjudged Innocent Rectified whereby I presume he means Revoked by which the Persons concern'd in the Lands formerly Forfeited must near Fifty Years after the Rebellion be put to prove the Offences of particular Persons several of whose Descendants act at present in considerable Civil and Military Imployments and some of them now endeavouring to take off the Outlawries of their Ancestors These are things so Unreasonable that certainly they will never be hearkened unto where they expect they should At last He doubts not but Matters may be adjusted at the next Sitting of Parliament but what Parliament he means I cannot guess if he means an Irish Parliament freely and fairly Elected he knows That more than four Parts of five of it must consist of Persons that will not break the Settlement If he means such a Parliament as the Irish designed when they made the Articles in 1648. I am satisfied few of the British must expect to continue in the Possession of any thing they now Enjoy unless His Majesty be graciously pleased to Interpose Certainly he does not think of the English-Parliament his Country-men against all Reason and Presidents not admitting That Laws made in England bind that Kingdom But if he would have the English-Parliament Reconcile all Differences between us I fee no reason why the British should not Acquiesce if it have His Majesties Approbation I am come now to the Pamphlet called The Narrative of the Sale and Settlement of Ireland but am resolv'd to take no further notice of it than to reflect on some few Matters of Fact by which the Truth of the whole Paper and what sort of Adversaries we have to deal with may appear The Author makes an enumeration of the several Counties of Ireland and tell us Pag. 4. That in the Year 1653. Ten Counties were allotted to the Adventurers Twelve conferr'd on Cromwell ' s Soldiers Three given to Transplanted Irish and Seven reserved to the Common-wealth The first mistake and that a wilful one too is that he affirms That the Counties were thus disposed whereas it was only the Land Forfeited by the Rebellion in those Counties Church-Lands Protestant Lands Constant Good Affectionate Mens Lands were not disposed and the Interests of those were so considerable That not a fourth Part of the Province of Vlster was Forfeited His next Error which sure proceeds from Ignorance is That Ten Counties were given to Adventurers whereas it is notoriously known they had but the Moiety of the Forfeited Land in Ten Counties of which near the half of that hath been since taken from them Pag. 5. He says Five Hundred Gentlemen that Served the King in Flanders are named in the Declaration Let him reckon again and he will find but Two Hundred Twenty Two this is well stretcht yet the modestest mistake in his Paper Pag. 6. He affirms That taking off the Engagement which he says the Irish were forced to do on pain of Death by Cromwell ' s Army was made a Qualification of Innocency that none that had taken it could be declared Innocent And by this Qualification he leaves his Reader to judge of the rest aggravating the Matter with much Rhetorick Certainly this is a Falshood so apparent so easily discovered that no Man that valued his Credit would alledge it 'T is as Wilful as 't is Malitious Had he reckoned the Qualifications in the Act of Settlement right they are as he says but not any thing of the Engagement or any thing like it amongst them I believed the occasion of this was he had told the World That the Qualifications were so Severe and Rigid that some thought it Morally impossible to find an Innocent and yet when he came to consider them he could pick out but One to Cavil at and that put him upon this Notorious Invention Pag. 7. Few of the Irish Peers were admitted to Sit in the House of Lords under pretence of former Indictments Many of the Irish Peers Sate none were excluded upon pretence of Indictments unless they were also attainted of High-Treason Pag. 7. The Act of Settlement alloweth only Twelve Months time to the Tryal of Innocents The Act passed at a Cessation which begun the 17th of April 1662. The time for the Tryal of Innocents was to be the first of August 1662. By this it appeareth there was not near a Years time for their Tryal so that this mistake in this place seemeth to be to the disadvantage of his Friends But he had a further fetch he resolved not to own the kindness that the then Parliament of Ireland shewed those that pretended to Innocency giving them after the time for their Tryal by this Act was expired a year further by another Act being all they desired Pag. 8. The Commissioners began their first Sitting the first of February This Man hath so perfectly fallen out with Truth that it is impossible ever to reconcile them The Commissioners began the Tryal of Innocents the 30th of January 1662. They heard Twenty Seven considerable Claims before the first of February and might have heard many more had the