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A40452
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[The bleeding Iphigenia or An excellent preface of a work unfinished, published by the authors frind, [sic] with the reasons of publishing it.]
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French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.
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1675
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Wing F2177; ESTC R215791
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they came from a body of Rebells but from a people Catholick the King of England's Subjects and for such they were respected and vissited by the greatest Princes and Cardinalls in the Citty and foure of the gravest Cardinaells were deputed by Pope Innocentius to heare the two last as Caponi Spada Carassa and Pansirolli Cardinall Secretari and the afforsaid Bishop and noble Gentlemen were esteemed over all the Citty for good Catholicks good Subjects and able men and with other instructions received commaunds from theire Holliness to the people of Ireland to continue constant in the Catholick Religion and Loyalty to theire King Thus much I thought fitt to say by way of digression for Iustifying our warr that it was noe Rebellion and that this Argument of Orery the King call'd the warr of the Irish Catholicks a Rebellion ergo it is a Rebellion doth not hould It is true it is a received maxim that the King can wrong noe man The reason is because the King is the Fountain of Iustice and must be supposed not to have a will to wrong or offend any of his people But there is noe maxim that the King may not be informed by Evill men or Counsells to the Distruction of his People which hath been often done by statesmen and Counsellors who seek after theire owne interest more then the preservation of the people which is and ought to be the Kings principal care in this kinde the Lord Iustices in Ireland Persons and Burlase with a malignant part of the Kings Counsellors in the yeare 1641. informed his Majesty that the Catholicks of Ireland without discrimination had entred into a Rebellion when only some discontented men began a Revolution in the North and those as was generally spoken men of small estates and broken fortunes the Lords and Gentlemen of the other three Provinces and all the Catholick townes and Corporations having not taken arms untill forced thereunto for the necessary defence of theire estates and Religion as aboue hath been said I doe not heere accuse or excuse the first rysing in the North but I confidently affirme the nobles and Catholick Gentlemen in the other three Provinces and some of those in the North to that did not joyn with the first Rysing in that Province and all the Catholick Townes and Corporations lived in soe happy a state and soe opulent and rich that they would neuer abett a Revolution for gaining other mens estates it is alsoe well knowne that all those have bin still faithfull to the Crowne and theire Fathers before them as was well try'd in the warrs of Desmon Tyron and other smaller Revolutions Thus it happend that his Majesty grounded his opinion upon the information of foresaid Parsons Bnrlays and a mallignant part of the Counsell corrupt men who after fell from the King and adhered to the Kings Enemys the Rebellious Parlament Those represented the body of the Irish Catholick Rebells and the King deceived and deluded by this information call'd us Rebells and our just warr a Rebellion and to this day wee were not heard to speak for our selves and being unheard ought to be reputed innocent It is to be obserued that the first flame of the rising in the Noth had beene soon quenched had Parsons and those of the Councell given a Commission to the Marquis Of Ormond now Duke to raise five thousand men as hee demanded for that effect with him had gon alonge the Catholick Nobility and Gentlemen and soe they had made a speedy work of it But the plott of those Crooked Ministers of state was to involue all the Catholicks in the Bussiness and there by to finde a Cullor of confiscating theire estates Orery stays not here but puffed up with his great Fortune and a gall in Pupe tells the world in a supersilious manner That the birds of the ayre noe nor the flyes contributed less to his Majestys restauration then the Roman Catholicks in Ireland Orery this is to much this great contempt of the Catholicks coms from a great pride in you and what you say is very false for the harty prayres of the Catholicks though with steel they could contribute nothing being then unarmed and closed up in prisons by you and your Companions have more contributed to the Kings restauration then birds and fly's that want reason could Are wee bound to suffer this and other great contumiles from a man soe lowly discended as to tell us the whole Nation is a beast our Country a Pest-house and our Religion somthing that pinns us upon the Popes sleeve Shall wee indure all this from a man that hath bin esteemed one of Crumwells spyes to be a spy is an infamous office Orery if you are an Englishman as you would have your selfe to be and likwise the Duke of Ormond it is true the Duke was born in England and of an English Lady som say had hee bin born in Ireland hee had been kinder to the Nation and favoured them more then hee did upon the last settlement but his Forefathers have all of them beene borne in Ireland about four hundred and sixty years and the house had the Creation of Earle in King Edward the third's tyme anno Domini 1332. Orery you cannot say soe much for your selfe in the ranck of Nobility but be what you will English or Irish I will tell you what an English Gentlemen writes of you I have my selfe seen the man disguised under the name of William Allen in a most excellent piece stiled killing is noe Murther speaking therin of the quality's of a tyrant applying all to Crumwell of the fift quality hee speaks thus In all places they have theire spyes and delators that is they haue Fleetwoods theire Broughalls theire S. Iohns besides innumerable small spyes to appeare discontented and not to side with them that under that guise they may gett trust and make discoverys Orery in Crumwells tyme was Lord Broughalls This noble man hath used still against us his sword and penn but the latter hath made the deeper wound if men creditt his writings cannot hee live contented with a good patrimony his Father provided for him and agreat lump of Catholicks lands the King conferr'd upon him at once with the place of Lord President of the faire and goodly Province of Munster a dignity his Fathers Child did little think to obtaine and a reward his perfidy against the Crowne did not meritt cannot all these great Honours Estates and Riches satisfy the man unless hee see 's innocent Maerdochaeus hang'd on a high gibbet The goodness of God wee hope will not allow what hee desires the exterpation of a Nation Noble mindes ordinarily esteem the place where they or theire parents have gain'd agreat Fortune and Settlement Orery's Father it is well knowne from a lowstate came to one of the greatest Estates in the three Kingdoms hee was neither Sword-man nor Gown-man nor favoritt in Court and yet purchased a prodigious estate came to the Dignity of an Earl High