and person then to see som very rich and others very poore equality among fellow subjects is a pretious pearle in a Common-wealth for Commonly wealth pufâ—s men up to such a height of pride as to contemne and dispise other beneath them and they soe dispised can not but beare enuy and hatred to those dispises them Omne pomum habet suvm vermem vermus autem diuitiarum superbia est every apple have its owne worme the worme of wealth is pride This age wee live in is mounted to the height of ambition and pride wee are all going or would faine goe beyond our reach pride in our eyes and pride in our thoughts pride and ambition in all our actions now a days forsooth to set forth an Ambassadour wee must have a whole legion of servants in theire retennue as if his embassy could beare noe force otherwise unless the wealth of a Common-wealth must be exhausted to support those Extravagancies Retennues and needless traynes wheras honest Cato the Consull agreater man then they for dignity contented himselfe with three servants * lib. 18. The Historian Iustinus giues us a rare Example of this After a peace had bine concluded between the Romans and King Pyrrhus Cineas was sent by him to the Romans for better confiâ—ming that agreement Ad pacem Confirmandam Cineas Romam cum ingentibus a pyrrho donis missus neminem cuius domus muneribus pateret invenit That is For better confirming a peace with the Romans Cineas being sent to Rome with great presents found noe house open to receive those guifts O rare contempt of gould and guifts in Rome that in soe vast a Citty noe house was found would receive gifts noe doore open to Cineas with his gold Alas there is noe such Citty now in rerum Natura It was Impossible such a Citty as Rome was then could be taken or betrayd Wee have in England a rare Example of integrity in Sir Thomas More Chancellor of that Kingdom A Lady presented him a cupp of gold a while after a sentence was given for her in a just cause Sir Thomas received the same and much commended the workmanship and value therof and then had it fill'd with spanish wine and drank to the Lady saying Madam you gave mee a cupp of gold but empty be hold I bestow on you a cupp of gold fill'd with good wine and soe dismis'd her O when shall England see againe such a Chancellor certainly Chancellor Hyde was not such a man CHAPTER 14'th The rewards given by the Common-wealth of Rome unto two noble Romans Horatius Cocles and Cajus Musius for theire rare services don to theire Country THe right order is to begin with the exployts of the two noble Romans and after to com unto the rewards and remunerations given them for theire stupendious service Titus Livius the fluentest of historians Libro Secundo Romanae Hustoriae setts forth these gallant men's services in this nature having Porsenae King of Etrurians beseiged Rome saith Livius non unquam alias ante talis terror Senatum invasit adeo ualida tum clufina erat magnumque Porsenae nomen nec hostes modo timebat sed suos met cives ne Romana plebs metu perculsa receptis in vrbem regibus vel cum servitute pacem acciperet Att noe tyme have such feare ceased the Senat soe strong a thing then Clusina was and the great name of Porsena which did not only feare the enemies but even theire owne Cittizens for apprehention the people of Rome strucken with feare of King 's againe received into the Citty and would accept of a peace with slavery Porsena made warre with the Romans to have prou'd Tarquin theire King admitted once againe whome the same people banished a way with all that race for the foul rape of chast Lucretie and other Tyrannies at this tyme there was a woodden bridg that crossed over the River Tyber supported by many pyles fastened in the ground through this Bridge Poâ—sena's men thought it easy to make theire way into the Citty Horatius Cocles a noble Roman a man worthy of perpetuall prayses had the keeping of this bridg when hee saw all his men fall back and retyre hee obtested and pray'd them by all that is or can be deare to the Gods Immortall and by the sacred liberty they were fighting for to stick to him and defend the Bridge otherwise that the Enemies would quickly master the Bridge and disperss themselves in the Capitall and hart of Rome insulting over the Circumscript Fathers killing and putting all to the sword men woemen and Children hee Further desired and would have them stay at least to cast and break downe the Bridge by all possible meanes and that hee himselfe in the meane tyme would put a stopp to the Enemies rushing in vpon them this would not doe they must away two only of the number remaining by him Duos tamen saith Livius cum eo pudor tenuit ambos claros genere factisque S. P. Lacrium ac T. Hermanium The rest at length by great entreaty Fell upon breaking the Bridge and while they were in that worke hee pray'd those two worthy men to goe back unto theire Fellows and hee alone stood looking vpon the Etrurians with flaming eyes daring them to com and try battail with him upbraiding them with the name of slaves to Tyrants that came to inuade the Roman liberty the Army stood amazed beholding this unspeakable wondeâ— to see one man daring a whole Army having made a loud cry they let fly theire darts at him the which this gallant Roman receiued undaunted with his shield drawing neare they endevoured to fling him downe from the Bridge but the Romans having brooken downe the Bridge by this tyme gave great outcryes of joy at this Horace being armed leapt into the river Saying Tiberine pater te Sancte precor haec arma et hunc militem propitio flumine accipias notwithstanding the store of darts they flung at him in the river hee gott a way safe Swimming over to his owne people who was very Ioyfully receiued The Historian concludes Rem ausus est plus famae habituram ad posteros quam fidei Hee attempted a thing that is to have more fame by posterity then Creâ—itt In the meane tyme Porsena notwithstanding that this attempt of the Bridge had noe success kept his close siege to the Citty in manner that they were in evident danger to be at long running overcome by his Army Heer Succeeded a noble action a gallant man Caius Mutius by name appeared to free the Citty from this Feare a resolute young Gentleman fervent in afection to his Country as Coâ—hles was Cajus Mutiâ— his designe was to kill Porsena the great enemy of Rome resolving in his minde this great enterprise hee came to the Senate and said Transire tiberim patres intrare si possim castra Hostium volo non proedâ— nec populationum invicem ultor majâ— si dij Iuvant in animo
60000 l due to honest men and good Subjects vpon his Estate before the Rebellion 6. Whether his Grace hath not received 30000 l. out of Soldiers and Adventurers Lands which he invaded and entered vpon without any Title as appears by the Records of the Court of Claymes in Ireland which hath decreed the Lands from him 7. Whether by the Act of Explanation he hath not got the Citty of Kilkenny and six other Corporat Townes together with their Lands and Liberties valved by himselfe and his friends of the Councell but at 60000l though they are well worth 120000 l 8. Whether he did not obtain by a special warrant from his Majestie 72000 l. out of the Soldiers and Adventurers half year Revenue 9 Whether there is not confirmed to him 50000 l. More by the Explanatory Act for waving a grant which he got by the Act of Settlement 10. Whether he had not got as many Gentlemens Estates vpon the pretence of a grant of enjoying all Lands that he could prove by witnesses to have payed him any Chiefrey as is worth at least 150000 l. and whether also he hath not obtained that for the said Lands no quitt Rent be paid to the King which grant at 3d. An Acre per annum amounts to 26000 l 11. Whether he hath not abitrarily layd vpon the Inhabitants of the City of Dublin 8000 l. Per Annum amounting for these six years past of his Government to 48000 l 12. Whether he hath not against the Fvndamental Laws and Magna Charta inclosed divers parcells of Land belonging to the kings good subjects without their consent to the value of 1500 l. per Annum at the very gates of Dublin to the great prejudice of that City and the Country the profit of which Land and Park he hath bestowed vpon the Lord of Dungannon and Colonel Cook 13. Whether it be credible that his Grace is zealous for the English and Protestant Interest seeing it is not possible for the Soldiers and Adventurers to be reprized according to his Majesties gracious Declaration when his Grace hath swallowed up in gifts and grants the best part of the Stock of Reprizalls and hath made or permitted such Embeslements of his Majesties revenue and applyed the Royal authority wholly to gain vast advantages to himself and whether by preferring his own private gains and grants before the Publique good and the Iust right of the Adventurers and Soldiers he hath not unsettled the Kingdom of Ireland and unsatisfied the two main interests of Protestants the Soldiers and Adventurers to such a degree that it is to be feared it will be a continual charge to England to keep to the rules of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation so destroyed and desperate a people and whether all this expence trouble and danger for preserving the Duke of Ormond and his Family that is as much Irish as any can be in other mens Inheritances and Rights be the interest of England or agreable to the Maxims of sound Policy or of Christian piety 14. Whether such of his Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland as have escaped the Duke of Ormonds Proviso have not Iust grounds to fear that if the same Duke of Ormond should continue in his Gouvernment and press as now he doth the Paymeut of 100000 l. they will not be in a condition to live or to pay his Majesties quit Rents and the necessary charges of the Kingdom 15. Whether after the Prohibition of transporting Cattle and so much oppression by the Lord Lieutenant and his Creatures it be possible For his Majesties empoverished subjects of Ireland to pay the 300000 l. assessed by the Explanatory Act whereof the First 100000 l. is for his Grace 16. Whether his Grace had not a great regard For his Majesties service when he lately pressed the King and Councel to call a Parliament in Ireland For imposing new Taxes vpon that miserable people and For confirming all his own new acquisitions whereby the Soldiers Advenrurers and Nominees are defrauded of his Majesties intended Favours and the English interest utterly destroyed 17 Whether the Duke of Ormonds gifts and grandis amount not unto 630000 l. and whether this Summe would not have satisfied all the English Interest of Ireland and have settled the Protestants and well meriting Natives Natives of that Kingdome in peace whereas now his Majesty and all Christendom is troubled with their Clamours against the breach of Publique Faith and all this stirr destruction of the people and discredit of the Government to humour one particular man whose merit is not so extraordinary â—s his management hath been vnsuccesful 18. Whether not only some of the Nobility of Ireland but very many of the Nobi lity Knights and Gentry of England have not lost greater revenues and richer moveables for being Cavaliers then the Duke of Ormond whose Estate was much incumbered and his rents before the rebellion exceeding not 7000 l. per Annum and during the Warr got more by his Government of Ireland and giving up Dublin then he could it he were in possession of his Estate 19. Whether such as endeavoured to conceale these miscarriages and miseries of the Kingdom of Ireland From his Majesties and the Parliaments knowledg and yet strive to have the Duke of Ormonds distructive Government continue deserve not to be questioned by the Parlament as betrayers of the Publique good and of the Lawes and Liberties of England 20. Whether it be fit that the Government of Ireland should continue so long in one person as it hath in the Duke of Ormond though he were not an Irish man and all his relations were not Papists and very great Enemies of the English and Protestant interest What man can apprehend or read these incredible gettings and recompenses given Ormond without amaizment By the nine first Quaeries you see his grace is as yet countable for many thousands of thousands of the two hundred thousnd pound sent out of England into Ireland since his last goverment there and of the three hundred and sixty thousand pounds assessed by the Parlament of Ireland and fifty thousand pound advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventerours Rents and that notwithstanding those vast Summs the Marshall and Civil listes were a yeare and halfe in arrears Let his Majesty call him to question or Forgive him both is in his Royall breast to doe in the 20. Quaeries in relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond himselfe you will finde that hee received in all as in gifts and grants that amounted to six hundred and sixty thousand pound starling if this wonderfull and strange masse of treasures be not a sufficient Recompence and reward Let the reader Iudge For this amounts according to Marchants rating a Tunn of gould to sixty three tunns of gould one Tunn of gould only makes a great noyse and surely is a vast summ of monys What then shall wee say of sixty three Tunns Wee finde in the Cronicles of England that thirty thousand markes
those about them will not speak a trueth that theire Masters will not willingly heare It is a great question with mee if any one of your numerous family or of all those that depend vpon you and gaine much by you or of all those that seem to be your frinds will say to your Grace the language and words of the Prophet Isai * Isai cap. 3. Our Lord shall com to Iudgment with the Antients of his people and his Princes for you have destroyed the vynyard and the spoyle of the poore is in your house Why doe you consume my people and gryn'd the faces of the poore saith our Lord the God of Hostes I doe not think any of them hath spooken to your Grace in this kinde though they know well the spoyle of the poore is in your house and that you and many more powerfull men have Grynded the faces of the poore and destroy'd and consum'd them wherfore you and they have reason to feare that God will soon com to Iudgment with you vnless you will tymly prevent it Wise men should chase away from them flatterers as wee doe swallowes for making nests of dung in our dwellings My Lord flatter not your selfe with the great contentments of this world you Enjoy vast revenues great pomp Copious Retenue the veneration and low bowing of the people vnto you Gorgious atyre magnificent feastings all your Iolitys and pleasures they will all pass a way like smook and that soon for they say you being to be old those that tells your Grace these things can make you happy doe but delude you and you can carry away of all noe more then a winding sheet it were therfore wisely don to forsake tymly those things that will forsake and vndoe vs. And I think truly it would be a great blessing to a person of your greatness and Imployments that God would stricke you with som great affliction and Cross for it is not easy for those to be wise and holy whoe see nothing round about them but prosperity delights the aplause of men and all sort of pleasures and sensualitys and that noe man tells them they are in danger Alexander the great in the height of his Glory and victorys suffered men to call him the sonne of Iupiter it was not Enough for his ambition to be the sonne of Phillip of Massedon a wise and great King but wounded with an Arrow in the siege of a Citty hee said to his courtiers and flatterers round about him * Senec. Epist 45. Ecce omnes jurant me esse â—lium Ioâ—s sed vulnus hoc me esse hoâ—â—num clamat Behold all sweare I am the sonne of Iupiter but this wound proclaimes mee to be a man Vexation makes vs know Gods greatness and our owne weakness When the people of Israel murmoured seditiously against Moyses and Aaron for want of water God commaunded them both to take the Rodd and stricke a Rock therwith and it should give them water All the tyme Moyses held the Rodd lifted over the Rock and did not stricke there came noe water but the Rock being twice strucken with the Rod water flow'd out aboundantly and the people and theire Cattle did drinck plentifully The hart of a man is a hâ—rd Rock and will yield noe water of compunction vntill strucken by the hand of God but when man is smartingly afflicted in his fortunes or health then hee can weep and know God and himselfe it were therfore wholsome and good for your Lordship to receive a great vexation cross and contradiction in this world and soe I confess it should be to mee that have nothing of contentations and worldly pleasures as you have Remember my good Lord in what a trembling was Ezeshiat when the Prophet said to him * Isat cap. 38. Take order with thy house for thou shalt dye and thou shlt not live Then Ezâ—thiâ—â— though a holy King in feare cry'd out Quiâ— est hic qui fic humiliat suâ—limes reges terre God hath allready given your grace a sensible and gratious a-larum when those desperate Ruffians set vpon you by night and wounded you haling and abusing you most Ignominiously God in his mercy brought you of from those bloudy men and would not permitt you to be murthered by them but gave you tyme to doe pennance and dispose your selfe well for the houre of death you can never thank his devine goodness enough for this deliverance make good vse my Lord of this great mercy in duly preparing your selfe for the next world Wee goe to bedd sound and well and yet wee are not certaine to live till the morning following many were found dead in theire bedd that parted the night before merrily and sound from theire frinds it may bee your case my Lord as well as theires and mine alsoe and to what Eternity wee shall com God alone knowes ô Eternity ô Eternity how little art thou in the harts of men ô fyre burning for all Eternity how little art thou feared My Lord I present to your Grace a short but horrible Meditation of Eternity as this If the damned soules could be perswaded that after a hunderd thousand millions of yeares theire torments should have an end that very perswation alone would be a great comfort to them for then theire suffrings albeit very longe at lenght would com to an end but otherwise they â—re perswaded and assured the revolutioâ— of theire paines and flames shall never have an end this makes them dispaire and blaspheme the goodness of God if this wee beleeve not where is our faith And if wee beleeve it where is our Iudgment and hart What madness is it to neglect soe Important a matter as the Eternall Salvation of our soule without this a thousand worlds are worth nothing this is the great matter of state on which wee ought to bestow day and night all care and deliberation what rest can wee take by night or by day when this wee sleight Harken as yet my Lord with this I make an end to the fearfull words afflicted Iobâ— spake to those came to visit him * Iob. 21. Why then quoth this holy man Doe the Impious live Are they advanced and strengt hened with riches theire seed continueth before them a multitud of kinsmen and Nephews in theire sight theire houses be secure and peaceable and the Rod of God is not vpon them But did Iob make an end hier noe but a little after hee says Where is the house of the Prince and where are the Tabernacles of the Impious Ask any of the way-faring men and you shall vnderstand that hee knoweth the selfsame things because the wicked man is kept vnto the day of perdition and hee shall be ledd to the day of fury My Lord I say ponder well in your minde these dreadfull speeches of holy and patient Iob and prepare your selfe in tyme I conjoure you against this day of Fury and perdition O Great and grarious God Grant to mee and
this Noble-man grant I begg by the pretious Bloud and Sacred wounds of thy deare Sonne Iesus that wee may in Humility in Teares and true Contrition of hart returne to the whose greatness and goodness wee have soe often and grivously offended our great misery falls prostrate at the feet of thy great mercy Grant to vs I beseech thee going out of this miserable and wicked world a Happy and Holy houre and that when the Vaile of the Temple shall be lifted vp wee may see you face to face for all Eternity Amen FINIS The contents of this little book And. First those of the Preface which Containes 19. pag. FIRST THe Author banished for Religion and Loyalty pag. 1. The Land possessed by Philistime and the Arck Captive Catholicks beaten with Scourges with scorpions pag. 2. An Irish Bishops answer to Cardinall Secretary pag. 3. Charles Duke of Loraine hee that offered fairest Ad rem Catholicorum in Hybernia restituendam His highness advanced thirty thousand pistols in the Irish quarrell pag. 5. Greatness of the house of Guise pag. 6. Our Kings Counsell at Paris would not have Irland recovered by a Catholick Prince p. 7. The Dukes answer to our Kings new Commissioners pag. 8. Bloody barbarous Lawes of Crumwelians against Catholicks pag. 9. A horrible ingagemeÌ„t of Crumwelians against the familie of Stuarts pag. 10 When Crumwell took in citties and townes Ormond shewed nothing of fortitude or counsell Ormond the forwardest of the Kings Counceâ— in Paris in doeing mischief to Catholicks pag. 11. His Frindship to Catholicks like a Kinde of Drâ—gges hott in the mouth cold in operation With Clarindon all was vendible and with Ormond all was lawfull that was not vnprofitable pag. 12. A wise fable of the Fox and great bramble pag. 13. Ormond a bramble allways scratching Catholicks Ormond a hard harted man and vnplacable enemie to Catholicks pag. 16. A high figg-tree bearing leaves of vanity and noe fruicte sucking the sapp of the earth and starving all the plants round a bout him pag. 17. Little books in defence of Catholicks and the Nation as a Narative of Clarindons settlement and sale of Irland the bleeding Iphigenia c. pag. 18. Clarindon and Ormond two monsters of Avarice and Cruelty pag. 19. Great Cyrus his Judgment what man â— King should bee An excellent oath taken by the Kings of the Mexicans The Contents of the worke it selfe as followeth I. CHAP. LOnge silence Catholicks had with Ormond a great prejudice to the Nation pag. 22. The Bishops of Irland Clergie men Canes muti non valentes Latrare pag. 25. Ormond poysoned the hart of the people the King with Ill Counsell pag. 30. II. CHAP. A search of Ormonds motives for deserting Catholicks and adhering to Crumwelians pag. 31. III. CHAP. The Catholicks vpon making a sessatioÌ„ with Ormond gave thirty thousand and eight hundred pound starling an argument of harty Loyalty pag. 41. IV. CHAP. Clamorgans peace made voyd with the Kings declaration the Catholicks therby deluded pag. 42. 44. 45. 46. 47. V. CHAP. The rejection of the peace of 1646 with Ormond fully Iustifyed pag. 49. The same was voyd for want of Authority of Ormonds part at the tyme of contracting How the Committie of treaty for the peace demeaned themselves pag 56. Committie of treaty in a Laberinth pag. 59. VI CHAP. Opinions of two famons Laeyers vpon Clamorgans peace and that of Ormond pag. 61. Result of the Waterfords congregation vpon the peace of 1646. pag. 68. A Letter of the Congregation to the late Suprem Counsell pag. 73. Ormonds Suddaine departure from Kiâ—kenniâ— pag. 76. Ormond vncivilly called all the Bishops Clergie a stinking Crew pag. 79. VII CHAP. Calumnies and aspertions cast by Father Peter walsh vpon the congregation of Iamesstone pag. 80. Rattes by an instinct of nature forsake veslells that are to be drown'd pag. 84. Those Ormond trusted in Limmerick proved knaves and those that stuck to the Clergie proved true to the King Ierton that murther'd the Kings Father murthered alsoe the Kings frinds in that Cittie and Spared those of Ormonds faction pag. 87. Those betray'd that Cittie were of Ormonds faction pag. 89. The Letter of Congregation of Iames-stone to Ormond pag. 91. VIII CHAP. Peter walsh his letter to Ormond pag. 97. The words of the Earle Clancarty dying to Ormond pag. 102. IX CHAP. Ormonds wrongfull invations of Catholick estates pag. 104. The King can for Iustice but not for conuenience take a way the life and estate of a subject pag. 107 Lawes are made that Iustice may be don to men and Princes are oblig'd to administer Iustice according to law pag. 108. A Rebellion once pardoned cannot be punished A Grant made by the King of another mans estate against the law of nature and of the land is voyd Clarindon sold the Irish nation and Ormond betrayd them in trust pag. 112. The Fryars dreame that Ormond hath been a Ioseph and Saviour to the Catholicks hee was in deed the ruin and looser of his bâ—etheren Country and all the people pag. 113. Ioseph sedd the Egyptians in the tyme of famine Ormond staru'd thousands of the Irish. pag. 114. Mercy was Iosephs Chiefest vertue Ormonds sinn to forgive noe man pag. 115. X. CHAP. Ormonds infamous Letter to Orâ—ery pag. 116. XI CHAP. A paraphras vpon that letter pag. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. Cynias good Counsell to Pirbus of Epire p. 130 XII CHAP. Ormonds good fortune in exile himselfe being gratious with the King and his Lady at the same tyme respected by Crumwell pag. 139. His Lady 's good prayers to the King against widowes and Orphans to have Harry Crumwells son favoured pag. 140. XIII CHAP. The moderation and sobriety of ancient Heroes very commendable pag. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. Noe house in Rome would receive gold from Cyneas Perâ—us Ambassador pag. 147. XIV CHAP. Sir Thomas Moores in tegrity pag. 148. What rewards had Horatius Chocles and Cajus Mutius from the Senat for preserving and saving the Cittie and people of Rome P. 156. What reward had George Lane a low man for his service pag. 158. XV. CHAP. What reward had Ormond for his atending on the King in tyme of his exile pag. 161. The queries pag. 162. And the queries pag. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. Ormond received in gifts grants above six hundred sixty thousand pound sterling 171 The Frayer gave Ormond good Documents and hee kept none of them pag. 175. Peter Walsh as blinde in his vnderstanding as Harpastes in her bodily sight pag. 176. XVI CHAP. A Relation of particular Injuries Ormond hath don the Catholicks of Irland pag. 177. Hee Let fall the venimous Apple of discord a mong them before that they were Coâ— vnum anima vna pag. 178. Ormonds frinds in the Goverment and Counsel of the confederate Catholicks p. 181 182. The Kings Letter to Ormond from Oxford to make peace with the Catholicks p. 184 185. Hee yielded vp the Castle of Dubblin sword and all notwithstanding the Queen Princes orders to him to the contrary by Mr. Wintergrant pag. 186. Said Wintersgrants message to Ormond from Queen Prince and his instructions publick and private pag. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. Relation of Wintergrants negotiation p. 192. 193. 194. 195. The Kings letter to Ormond pag. 196. Ormonds words to Wintergrant to what Rebels hee would deliver the Castle of Dubblin if necessity should force him to give it vp pag. 200. Consequently Ormonds discourse with himselfe resolving to give vp the Castle of Dubblin to the Parlament and not to the Catholicks XVII CHAP. The accomodation sent by the confederate Catholicks to Ormond rejected by him and the reasons given for such rejection XVIII CHAP. How and by whome were the Catholicks of Irland excluded from the benefitt of generall pardon Substance of the vast bill of settlement A short ponderation vpon the branches of that bill XIX CHAP. Who vsed most artifice and persidie against the Catholicks of Irland Clarindon sold them a way for Gold Ortery his Companions payd the gold and Ormond in trust deceived them XX. CHAP. The Author speaks to Ormond alone and tells him the house of Ormond bred magnanimous Lyons what Kinde of Lyon hee is himselfe and how hee hath made the house of Ormond an infamous denn and Couch of Rapine Hee tells him further the speech of sir Ralph Fan dying by the practices of the Duke of Northumberland XXI CHAP. The Author seriously advises Ormond to think of longe Eternitie and especially desires him to consider well two passages of the Prophet Isae in the third thirty eight Chapter And a sentence of Iob in the 21. Chapter and concludes this little book with a harty prayer for the Duke himselfe FINIS
THE VNKINDE DESERTOR OF LOYALL MEN AND TRUE FRINDS Jn the land of the holy hee hath don wicked things and hee shall not see the glory of our Lord. Isai cap. 26. vers 10. Superiorum permissu AnÌ„o 1676. CENSURA SAnctis eremi incolis strenuisque Christi athletis non immeritò annumerandus venit venerabilis ille solitarius fidelis Christâ— famulus Dominus S. E. qui ab hinc anniâ— vt fertur viginti tribus spreto hominum Commercio ad Medirerranei maris littus à Narbâ—nensi â—ivitate non procul dissitum seder Vir hic sanè si animum exscriptis spectes Candidus lustus apparet si doctrinam â—ruditissimus si facundiam ornatissimus quem insuper Corporis pudicitia animae Castitas morum Comitas quod caput est veritatis amor quae Sacrorum hominum partes effe debent ab adolescentia nisi fama mendax sit eximiè decorarunt sed has hominum invidia sprevit virtutes eumque opimo quo gaudebat in patria sacerdorio spoliavit Quid fecit vir optimus in exilium relegatus velut alter Arsenius pulsante ad cordis aurem voce Angelicâ Fuge late tace Continuò acquiescens oraculo Fugit latuit tacuit Damnatisque Babylonis plateis faciem ad Sanctam Ierusalem aeternam quaesiturus pacem convertit Enixius quaerebat Dominum quem diligebat animus in crepidine maris invenit nec dimisit ratus venenata quibus in hoc mundo omnes configimur invidiae spicula neminem nisi eo protegente declinare valere Fidam igitur stationem nactus ab omni prorsus hominum consuetudine tutam vt cum solo liberatore liberius colloqueretur diu multumque conticuit Tandem tamen aliquandò divina dispensante voluntate ruptis importuni nobis silentij repagulis vox ejus altius intonuit nostrasque ad aures à solitudinis antro allapsa non inutile eum semper otio torpuisse indicat aureum enim hunc libellum cui Titulus The Vnkind desertor of loyall men and true Frinds mole licet exiguum tamen ipsa reâ—magnis voluminibus comparandum à silentiarij ore patriae tam faedè proditae miseratio vel potius ipsa extorsit veritas Iliadem vt aiunt seu heu malorum nostrorum in nuce habes Gentem Hibernicam Catholice semper Religionis non citrà miraculum tenacissimam veteris nobilitatis insignem sceleratè modò profligatam funditusque nefariorum hominum dolo furore gladio eversam commemorat plangendamque docet Iacobum Butlerum Ormondiae Ducem ipsumque longa claraque Catholicorum majorum serie in ipso licet Hiberniae regno conspicuè oriundum malorum omnium fontem acâ—originem probat Tantorumque criminum reum invictis peragit documentis cum enim Hiberniam prorex aliquando gubernasset eique ut prese ferebat ipsa reverà exigebat patriae charitas consulturus crederetur ita omnes suis circumsepsit infatuavitque praestigiis incautos ut omnes perdiderit patriaeque statum omnino subverterit Hanc illius tam insignem numquamque expiandam perfidiam auctor execrandosque dolos barbarico indignos animo detegit palamque orbi facit quid vero indignius quid scelerarius quam Hibernos quà religione in Deum quà in regem fide inconcussos turpiter deserere ac Cromwelli Trium nationum praedatoris satellitibus sicariis ad haerere Hoc inauditum scelus molitus est Ormonius idque nescio quo inveterato in nationem suam paternamque fidem odio correptus ac velut oestro percitus huc accessit opum dignitatumque sitis inexplebilis atque effrene desiderium Auctoris scriptis fama mihi tantummodo noti mentem amo animi candorem amplector virtutes veneror acrem nitidumque stylum satis laudare nequeo par sibi in omnibus judicium admiror ardentemque in patriam gentemque suam amorem vehementer suspicio Quamobrem praeclarum hoc opus numeris omnibus â—bsolutum erudito certè dignum auctore publica luce dignissimum judico Idque vel maximè cum nihil omninò complecti videatur quod orthodoxae fidei Canonicis Sanctionibus aut morum honestati adversetur Quin imo Apostolicae Sedis decus atque honorem ubicumqueâ—se ingerit occasio egregriè tueatur Quod testatum facio veritatis promulgandae gratis ductus amore cum exactè nec non vigili curâ— omniâ— perlegerim aequaque lance trutinaverim Signatum Parisiis 12. Februarij 1676. A. I. S. T. Professor THE PREFACE BAnished for Religion and Loyalty to my Prince in the yeare 1652. by Cromwelians then bearing sway wee were som fifteen of vs ship'tin one bottom landing in Britaine in France I tooke my way to this Province not farre from Narbon where I had frinds having liu'd there before And heer I have been about 24. yeares very solitary seeing rarly any of my Countrimen Thus farre from Labans house and noys I finde great tranquility and case of minde in Magdalens silent contemplation When I have been forced a way the Land was possessed by Philistym they had the Arck captive and vnder them my country was turned to a Babylon of sinn vyce Nothing was to be seen in the Streets of this Cittie but oppression of the Iust jniquity rage and fury against Roman piety the Altars falne downe and the Priestes bitterly persecuted some of them consuming a way in prisons som cast into exile and others chased in wods and mountains like wyld beasts all of them charged with two great crymes To be Catholick Priestes and Loyall to theire king All the Catholicks true to God and Prince transplanted into a corner of the Kingdom And this calamity they suffered with the rest that Royall authority was layd a sid and a Dagon sett vp The tyranny of the vsurping Parlament and reverenced This was the face then of that inchanted Iland and they say things are noe way amended as to Catholick natives since the kings going homeâ— that change having noe ways bettered theire fortunes but that theire calamities and miseries soe it is written from many hand 's are dayly increased soe as men beaten with Scourges in Crumwells tyme cry out they are now beaten with Scorpions Often have I lamented all a lone for my deare Countrys desolation and found my greefe inconsolable because I saw noe end of their sufferings Somtym it came to my minde that if a sincere relation of our hard servitude and extremities were given to Catholick Princes with humble prayers this would doe vs good but a gaine when I called to minde that this had been don allready and that able and noble personages had said these things in significant language and that they had in all Courts but cold and delaying answers I dispair'd of all releefe that way One of our Bishops having been in Rome Anno 1652. Ad visitanda limina Apostolica had conferrence with the then Cardinal Secretary after Alexander Septimus his Eminency said to the Bishop it
and for their surer conduct and better vnderstanding of all made vse of the advise and counsell of the two eminentest and famous lawyers of the land who made certaine sound observations vpon that peace and concessions of Glanmorgan the substance of those observations is digested into four Articles 1. That the Committie of treaty waved the the benefit of Glanmorgan's concessions by not onely not insisting vpon them but not soe much as proposing them during the treaty with my lord Leutenant which was contrarie to the trust and charge laid vpon them by the Kingdom 2. A publick faith given by the Kingdom to the lord Nuntio and Cleargy to make Glanmorgan's concessions and all conditions for Churches and Religion as publick as valid and of as much force as that of the temporal was not performed 3. That the king did disavow Glanmormorgan's concessions soe as they became vtterly therby void for which reasons the Cleargy were to provide for themselves by other wayes 4. Vpon the perclosing of those observations the said lawyers hath this ensueing language If the case of reference to further concessions granted in the agreement of said 30. Articles can not extend to what the lord Leutenant publickly disauoued and as wee vnderstand on the very perfection of said 30. Arucles he before witnesses expressed to witt that the said clause of further concessions in his peace was not meant by him to extend to Glanmorgan's concessions shall then the securitie of Religion and Churches in all the Kingdom depend on a matter that hath soe many doubts in it Besides if those 30. Articles concluded with Ormond had any matter of moment in them for Religion before perfection of them the King reuoked the lord Leutenant's commission and by this all goes to ground for without authoritie he could not perfect articles This revocation is in print and expressed in a letter from his Majestie to the Marquez of Ormond the 11. 1646. as followeth C. R. RIght trusty c. having long with much grief looked vpon the sad condition our Kingdom of Irland hath been in these divers yeares through the wicked and desperat rebellion there and the bloudy effects have insued there-vpon For the setling where-of wee would have wholy applyed our selves if the difference betwixt vs and our subjects heere had not diverted and withdrawen vs and not having beene able by force for that respect to reduce them wee were necessitated for the present safâ—y of our protestant subjects there to give you power and authoritie to treat with them vpon such pious honorable and safe grounds as that our kingdom did then reqiure but for many reasons to long for a letter wee thimke fit to require you to proceed noe further in treaty with the rebells nor to ingage vs vpon any condition with them after sight hereof And having formerly found such reall proofs of your ready obedience to our commands wee doubt not of your care in this wherein our service and the good of our protestant subjects in Irland is soe much concerned from Newcastle Iune the 11. 1646. This letter was receaved by Ormed before perfecting of the 30. Articles where fore said articles can be of noe force what remedy then can be had â— what healp to make the 30. Articles valid they said Digby brought some thing in Cypher to incourrage the Lord Leutenant and what then shall wee rely upon a cypher and gett noe better securitie for our Religion and Churches for our liues fortunes and estates then the relying upon a cypher this were in good earnest to make a peace in Cypher Heere I haue given you the sence of the two famous lawyers upon the 30. articles one of those for his abilities was well known to the learnedest juges of England and Irland was a Counsellor to Ormonds familie and one that knew as much of the ground and cause of our quarrel and of all that passed in the Assembly Councel and several commities as any who somever in the Kingdom By what is said you see Ormonds commission was reuoked before perfecting the said peace of 30. Articles which shall be more expressly made cleare hereafter and did not his Excellencie knowing this play fooly with the confederat catholicks what then did he intend by intruding this peace vpon us what other but to cheat and deceave us by getting from us vpon consideratâ—â—n of such a peace as in effect he did all our forts citties townes armes armies and nauy vnder his owne command and by dissoluing our association and gouvemement was not this a handsom tricke and plott for vndoeing vs taking away all our defense for noe other consideration then that of those plaistred articles perfected without any commission that could and lightly would be disavoued in Parlament by his Majestie as concluded without his authoritie and consequently wee should gaine noe grace nor pardon by them After the Bishops and other ordinaries and diuins had well considered these things and more particularly the result of the two renowned lawyers who were especial leading-men in the common-wealth after long debate and learned arguments great diligence search and paines they found it evident that Religion estates lives liberties and saftie of the Catholicks lay open to danger notwithstanding the 30. articles agreed vpon with Ormond by the commitie of treaty who discharging not the trust laid vpon them by failing to pursue the instructions giuen them as aboue was said and finding all the citties townes forts Garrisons armie ships magazins and the strenght of the Catholicks to be rendred vp to the lord Leutenant as some of them already was and the supreame Councel had by that time â—eded their authoritie and submitted to the said peace which had been as was said proclaimed and published solemnly by the Kings-at-armes in Dublin and Kilkennie and that the lord Leutenant come from Dublin gallantly attended by many hundreds of prime Gentlemen was then at Kelkenny and began to gouverne acccording the articles of the peace the Bishops I say and Cleargy naked and without any garde other then the protection of God and affection of good Catholicks after invoking the name of the most high came to a final result which was the insueing decree which they put foorth and caused to be published to the Catholicks over the Kingdom Per congregationem Ecclesiasticam vtriusque cleri hibernici in Spiritu Sancto congregatam Waterfordiae coram Illustrissimo D Archiespiscopo FIRMANO Nuntio Apostolico extraordinario in Iberniam SVper quastione inter nos orta per multos dies exagitata an perjuri declarandi essent qui pacem contentam triginta articulis ad nos â— supremo Concilio transmissis acceptarent successiuè an tanquam perjuri forent excommunicandi auditis prius singulorum sententijs rationibus lectisque aliquorum sacrae theologiae doctorum scriptis decretum est vnanimi consensu singulorum votis nemine contradicente quod omnes singuli confaederati Catholici qui simili paâ—i
adhaerebunt vel ejus fautoribus consentient aut alio modo illam amplectentur perjuri absolutè habendi sint ea praecipuè de causa quod in ijs articulis nulla facta est mentio Catholicae Religionis ejusque securitatis nec vlla habita ratio conseruanis priuilegiorum Patriae sicuti juramento legitur promissum sed potius omnia referantur ad arbitrium Serenissimi Regis a quo in presenti rerum statu nihil certi potest haberi interim subijciantur exercitus arma munimenta ipsumque supremum Concilium confederatorum Catholicorum authoritati dominio Concilij status suae Majestatis officialium protestantium a quibus vt securi fieremus Iuramentum illud suscepimus Ex quibus ex pluribus alijs causis sola nostra conscientia moti solumque Deum prae oculis habentes vt notum sit vniversis singulis tum Ibernis tum exteris tali pace nos non dedisse nec daturos consensum nisi pro Religione Rege patria juxta nostrum juramentum securae conditiones apponantur vt Greges nostri confaederatique omnes Catholici qui in generalibus comitijs aliquando in hoc Spirituali negotio velut ad Ecclesiasticum judicem vnice spectante sententiam nostram rogauerunt certo sciant quod a nobis determinatum fuerit vt in eum sensum tanquam pij sideles Catholici pastoribus suis obedientes concurrant Hoc decretum scribi vbique locorum anglicâ vel etiam Ibernicâ lingua publicari jussâ—mus manibus ac sigillis nostris firmauimus Alteram verò quaestionem de Excommunicatione ad proximas sessiones reseruamus Datum Waterfodiae die 12 Aug anno 1646. Ioannes Baptista Archiespiscopus FIRMANVS Nuntius Apostolicus Fr. Thomas Archiepiscopus Dublin Hiberniae Primas Thomas Archiepiscopus Casseliensis Fr. Boetius Episcopus Elphin Ioannes Episcopus Loanensis Franciscus Episcopus Aladensis Nicolaus Episcopus Fernensis Fr. Patricius Episcop VVaterford Lismor Ioannes Clonsertensis Episcopusâ— Fr. Edmundus Episcopus Lacklin Richardus Adfertensis Accadem Episcop Edmundus Episcop Limericensis Emerus Episcop Clocheren Fr. Iacobus Abbas Benchorensis Fr. Patricius Abbas B. M. Dublin Fr. Laurentius Abbas de surio Fr. Iacobus Abbas de S. Cruce Fr. Iacobus Tobin Abbas de Kilcoole Robertus vicarius Apostol Rossen Donaldus Vicarius Funiborensis Fr. Gregor Prior Prouinc Ord Praedicat Fr. Diomsius Prior Prouinc Erim S. Aug. Edmundus ô Theige Procur Illustriss D. Armach VValterus Vicar Apost Tuamens Guilelmus Vicar Apost Imolacen Iacobus Vicar Generael Kildar Cornelius Vicar General Ardensis Oliverius Vicar general Meden Dominicus Vicar General Corcagien Simon Vicar General Cluanensis Edmundus Vicar General Clowensis Cornelius Vicar general Cluan Robertus Superior Societ Iesu Fr. Antonius Procurator Provinc FF Minorum Fr. Barnabas Commiss Gener Capuci These are the names of such as sate in the Ecclesiastical congregation of both the Irish cleargy secular and regular in true spirit of the holy Ghost conuened at VVaterford before the most Illustrious and most Reuerend Archbishop Firmanus Nuntio Apostolical in Irland The decree is thus Englished As to the question betwixt vs moued and for many dayes discussed whether such as would accept of that peace contained in the 30. articles remitted vnto vs from the supreme Councel are to be declared perjurious and consequently whether as perjurious they are to be excommunicated wee having first given eare to each ones opinion and sentiment in this matter as alsoe having read the writings of some doctors of Diuinitie it is decreed and by each ones vote in particular none contradicting that all and euery one of the confederat Catholicks that will adhere to such a peace or consent to the furtherers therof or in any other manner or way will embrace the same shall be absolutly as perjurions esteemed cheefly in as much as there is noe mention made in them 30 articles nor prouision for the Catholick Religion or safty therof nor any respect had for the preservation of the Kingdom 's priuiledges as were promised in the oath of association but to the contrary all remitted and referred to the Kings will and pleasure from whome as the case stands at present with his Majestie noe certainty of things can be had or expected yeâ— in the meane time all the armes armies fortifications even the very supreme Councel of the confederat Catholicks are and is to be subjected to the authoritie and â—ule of his Majesties Councel of State and protestant officers from whom that wee may be safe and secure wee have taken that oath Out of which and several other reasons wee moved therunto by our only conscience having God before our eyes would have it known to all and to each person and persons as well of the Irish natiues as to forrain nations that wee gave noe consent nor will any to such a peace if they will not grant vs further surer and safer conditions for our Religion our King and Countrie according to our oath of association and to the end our flocks all the confederat Catholicks who in their general assemblies required our sentence in this spiritual matter appertaining to vs onely as Ecclesiastical Iudges may know for certain what is by vs determined herein and as godly and faithfull Catholicks obeyng their Pastors may concurre with vs wee have ordered this decree to be written and published each where both in the English and Irish toung Given vnder our hands and sealed with our proper seales The other question of Excommunication wee reserve to next sessions Given at Waterford the 21. of August 1646. This Decree was the principal worke of the Congregation after which they writ to the Citties and townes in the Catholick quarters to the Generals of the Armies and some other principal officers and to seueral other noble men warning them of the danger and insecuritie of said peace adhorting all to concurre and joyne with them in rejecting the same peace and at the same time they writ the ensueing letter to the lord president and members of the late supreme Councel residing at Kelkennie Right honorable after a serious debate with Mr. Plunket and Mr. Darcy desiring and hoping for a good vnderstanding between vs whereby the vnion and true peace of the Kingdom may be preserved wee conceaued and drew vp the inclosed declaration and propositions containing our truâ— sense of the late peace and our iust demands for a sufficient prouision and securitie for the Catholick Religion churches liues liberties and estates of the confederat Catholicks of thisâ— Kingdom praying wee may with all conuenien speed receaue your answers which if not timely returned wee shall find our selues obliged in conscience to let our declaration and propositions be made publick with our best wishes wee rest your Honnour 's louing frinds Waterford 24. August 1646. by command of the lord Renuccini Archbishop and Prince of Fermo Apostolical Nuncio and of the Ecclesiastical Congregation of both the secular and Regular Clergy of Irland
Prince Neither wanted Ormond as some men did think his hidden reasons that moved him to neglect soe much and sleight the Royall Authority His Logickâ— made him discourse thus secretly with himselfe the King is prisoner to his Parliment and noe hopes left for his redemption hee is like to perish there the Queen alsoe and the young Prince they are exiled what can they doe They are not able to help themselves much less to procure any forraigne assistance for his Majesty the Parliment of England with Crumwell have drawne all England to theire owne side with Scotland and a great part of Irland as the large Province of Vâ—ster where the Scot insulted and that part of Munster where Insequin with his Army remained vnder obedience of the Parliment my best way then will be quoth Ormond to play my owne game the best and make good vse of the tymes I will therfore apeare exteriourly for his Majesty and yet oblige the Parliment in yielding vp to them the Castle of Dublin with the Kings sword and all the faire County of Dublin rather then keep it and take part with the Irish and this I will doe notwithstanding the Queen and Princes orders and commands to the contrary for I may well feare the Irish Catholicks and I though Ioyned with them will be at long running mastered by the Parliment who will be minâ—full of mee in due tyme for soe necessary and frindly an action And truly it fell out soe for though they shewed noe personal favour to Ormond they shewed great kindness to his Lady allowing her three thousand pound starling for her Ioynter as a bove said and Crumâ—â—â—lls Children weare not less frindly to her Children and all this kindness hath been done them by all liklyhood in recompensation of Ormonds giving vp the Cittie Castle and County of Dublin to the Parliment Projects of Policy are deep and secret and likly this act of Ormond was the Policy and Wisdom the Lord Digby meant when hee sayd to Mr. Wintergrant that the Lord of Ormond was wiser then to vnite with the Irish Catholicks But in the meane tyme what became of his Loyalty Of his great zeal to his Majestys interest Of his obedience to the Royall Commaunds and to the orders and instructions of the Queen and Prince Herein the King was sleighted the Queen and Prince put by who as they held the preserving of Dublin the Castle therof and County about it to be the Kings great intrest and beneficiall for his Majesty soe alsoe they did think the delivering vp of all to the Parliment would prove a very great loss and distructive to his Royall intrest for preventing of which loss and mischief orders commaunds instructions and all power were sent from Queen and Prince by Mr. Wintergrant to Ormond to perclose a peace with the Confederate Catholicks at what price soever If the neglect committed heerin by Ormond sleighting the Royall powers and Authority a cleare Argument of disobedience in him to both hath redounded to the vtter overthrow of the Catholicks and Kingdom and consequently of his Majestys intrest therin you my reader may Iudge or any other Impartiall Iudgment CHAPTER 17'th The accommodation sent by the confederat Catholicks to Ormond Lord Lieutenant for preserving of the Cittie and Castle of Dublin with the lands about it rejected by him and the reasons given by him for such rejection GEntle Reader heer before I give you the accommodation presented and offered by the Confederate Catholicks vnto Ormond I think it necessary to give you first the sound observation of an vnderstanding and discret Member made vpon the same accommodation of the said confederate Counsell of Catholicks which shall serve you as a guiding light to the clearer vnderstanding how the matter was carried on which vvas vvord to vvord as follovveth That the late Articles of pacification concluded vvith the Lord Marqnis of Ormond Anno 1646. Being rejected by the generall assembly vvith an vnanimous consent by reason the Lord Marquis of Ormond did not grant those conditions vnto vvhich hee vvas authorized by his Maiesty and for that the King vvas brought vnto a condition incapable at present to performe any thing that was granted and for that there was noe security in them for Religion or Nation and the insecurity not com knovvledg of the confederats vntill after the late pacification vvas published the late generall assembly in the begining of March last Imployed Mr. Giffery Barron som tyme before Imployed in France and Mr. Gerrald Fennell both persons of great trust vnto the said Marqnis vvith the inclosed heads or Overtures of an accommodation to continue vntill his Maiesty vvere in a free condition to grant honourable and safe conditions vnto the consederats and the said Marquis after receiving the said Overtures by vertue of a letter of Credence from the said Mr. Barron and Mr. Fennell returned ansvver to the assembly that hee vvould send his ansvvers by messengers of his owne first giving great hopes vnto those Imployed by the assembly that hee would never Ioyne with the Parliment The assembly expecting this answer for one and twenty days received it not to the hazard and very great charge of the Kingdom his Lordship in the interim treated with the Parliment Commissioners and the assembly fully possessed with a beliefe that his Lordship would never conclude with the Parliment a few days days before the adjournment sent Theobala Butler Major of Horss in the Catholick Army to his Lordship to know the cause which might retard or stay his Lordships answer soe long and soe much expected at whose coming thither the said Marquis having as it seemes concluded with the Parliment delivered hostages vnto theire Gommissioners Viz his sonne the Lord Richard Butler and the Lord Dyllon the Earle of Resâ—omon a considerable Peere and native of this Kingdom Collonell Arthur Chischester sonne and haire of the Lord Viscount Chischester and Sr. lames Ware Knight a person of consideration with him and of the Privie Counsell hier vpon the sayd Lord Marquis tould the said Major Buttler that hee would never propound any thing to the consederate Catholicks that was in theire power to deny him The Assembly receiving this answer soe much tending to the Kings disservice by which the hopes of an accommodation was frustrated they being solâ—mnly sworne to endeavour an accommodation with him which were consistent with Loyalty and Catholick Religion on the fourth currant adjourn'd it selfe vntill the 12'th of November next soone after Monsieur Tallone and Monsieur Munnery Residents to the King of France arrived heer and being with vs at the Counsell declared that most of theire bussiness hither was to solicit an accommodation tending Chiefly to the preservation of the Catholick Religion and wee did on all occations declare our willingness and rediness to effectuate the same and after severall Iourneys made by the said Monsieur Tallent to Dublin wee did condescend to enlarge the Cessation at first agreed vpon to the