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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41180	Letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages which have been published in a late libell intituled, The third part of no Protestant-plot and which do relate to the kingdom of Ireland.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1682 (1682)	Wing F748; ESTC R24027	17,386	27

into this Kingdom about the year 1666. for propagating such the Doctrine of it which no Loyal Protestant cou'd be against was pleased to send his instructions to my Lord Duke of Ormonde His then Lord Lieutenant for his suffering of Peter Walsh to meet with some Titular Bishops at that time here to perswade them by his Arguments and to gain others of the Papists by their Examples to subscribe unto that Remonstrance which meeting His Grace accordingly Permitted but onely and so strictly to that end proposed as He was both vigilant in seeing that those Bishops did not make use of it to any other purpose and careful in providing that they shou'd not take up too much time even in the doing of that business and therefore very early perceiving that they cou'd not come to such an Agreement as might produce the effects which were expected He Ordered them not only to disperse but to quit the Kingdom insomuch that afterwards when His Grace was call'd from the Government there were not above three Popish Bishops remaining two whereof were Bedrid and the third absconded althô when His Grace returned again to the Government in immediate Succession to my Lord of Essex he found no less then thirteen of them to be here and them he has caused to be driven out also and this sufficiently confutes the LIBELLERS allegation of His Graces conniving at the Popish Hierarchy being introduced which in English is Governance since He did thus expel the Governors in whom it resided Thirdly That when the PLOT was to have been executed in ENGLAND anno 1678. there were no fewer than fifteen Sheriffs in IRELAND who were either professed and avowed PAPISTS or such as bred and educated their Children in Religion The Notorious untruth whereof appeares by Original Roll of the SHERIFFS of that Year whose Names are placed in the Margin * Co. Dub Ja. Springham 〈◊〉 Co. Lowth Ja Smallwood E●● Kings Co John Leyster Esq Co Wexford John Tench Seni●●● Co Kilkenny John Kealy Esq ●●ing within the time Hen 〈◊〉 was made Sheriff the 23 〈◊〉 April 1678 Co Meath Nath. Poole Esq Queens Co William Gilbert E●● Co Wicklow Christopher Usher 〈◊〉 Co Kildare Edward Baggot Es● Co. Westme●th Edward Terill E●● Co Catherlagh George Beech 〈◊〉 Co Longford Geo Conyngham E●● Co Co●k Richard Hull Esq Co Limerick John Oddell Esq Co Kerry william Ryves Esq Co Waterford Tho Christmas Es● Co Clare Thomas Hickman Esq Co Tipperary Tho Osborne Esq Co Gailaway Char. Holcraft Esq Co Leytrim Henry Crofton Esq Co Sligo Roger Smith Esq Co Mayo Sr. George Bingham Bar. Co Roscommon Ed. Gardiner Esq Co Donegall Geo. Vanghan Esq Co Tyrone John Moderale Esq Co Fermanagh Ferdinando Davis Co Antrim Edw Harrison Esq Co Armagh Godfry Walker Esq Co Monaghan Rich Johnson Esq Co Down Hugh Eccle● Esq Co Cavan John Coyn Esq Co City of Londonderry James Morison and Char. Newtowne to abide all scrutiny if there shou'd be Occasion not one of them there mentioned being so principl'd or suspected to be so quallified especially by my Lord Lieutenant who cannot be supposed to know every Mans person much less to look into his heart who happens to be placed in that Office and therefore If one or two differently quallified should chance to have escaped Him through want of knowledge or Information and throughout a whole Kingdom His Grace might very well be excused in such a Case as it falling out that there was not one in this He is to be extremly Justified And whereas he affirms That the Papists have promiscuously before with His Majesties Protestant Subjects been advanced to several places of power and trust If he means publick places of power and trust as he must if he means any thing he says upon a strict inquiry made it cannot be found that any PAPISTS have had advancements of that kind since His Majesties Restauration save only such of them as were made Justices of the Peace by the Lord BERKLEY's Orders in the time of his Government and Colonel Richard Talbott made Captain of a Troop of Horse by Commission from the Earl of ESSEX when He was Chief Governour so as the present Government which this reflection most Darts at appears to be the least intitled to it ●ourthly That though a Proclamation was Published in Ire●●●d for searching the houses of all Roman Catholiques for Arms 〈◊〉 when the SHERIFF of the County of GALWAY went in ●●rsuance thereof to search the Earl of CLANRICKARDS ●●use where as be was informed all the Papists in that County ●●d lodged their Arms the said Earl produced a Warrant from 〈◊〉 Lord LIEUTENANT the Duke of ORMONDE that his ●ouse should not be searched Which Article althô it be placed in ●●age the 27th of the LIBELL yet for order sake is ranked and ●aken notice of here with the others of page the 17th in the Libell because it is of the same nature and of the like truth with them For my Lord Duke of ORMONDE was so far from granting a Warrant to that Earl to hinder his house from being searched for Arms that he never so much as gave him a Licence to keep any but contrarywise where the Earl of ESSEX in his Government had given the said Earl his Licence to keep a quantity of Armes they were since by my Lord Duke of ORMOND's Orders taken from him and delivered into the publick stores Lastly he alleadges That yet while all this forbearance and tenderness have been expressed to the PAPISTS the DISSENTERS have fallen under the misfortune of having an express Law made against them and divers of them have been prosecuted to Fine and Imprisonment upon it Wherein the LIBELLER shews his Ignorance as well as his Malice for although the Statute of 2d Eliz. for the Vniformity of Common-Prayer in this Kingdom which is without doubt against the PAPISTS and who are frequently prosecuted upon it should by construction be extended unto the DISSENTERS as I never heard it to be so Adjudged in the Case of any of them so far are they from having been Prosecuted notwithstanding their openly numerous and frequent Meetings yet was there never any Particular express Law made against them either before or as the LIBELLER wou'd have it believed since the KINGS Restauration And as that too moderate Act of 2d Elizab. be all that is in Force against the PAPISTS or that can be supposed to be against the DISSENTERS so it is to be wished that for the quiet of the Kingdom more and severer Laws were made against both And this brings me to the latter part of my Assertion that as most of the LIBELLERS instances of the Lenity shewn the PAPISTS and of the severity extended to the DISSENTERS in this Kingdom since the KINGS restauration are invented which I hope I have fully proved to you so that none of them can be reasonably charged upon the present Government which I think I shall be able very easily and briefly to