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A85446	The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed; or Certain considerations, wherein the many great inconveniences in the transplanting the natives of Ireland generally out of the three provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Munster, into the province of Connaught, are shewn. / Humbly tendered to every individual member of Parliament by a well wisher to the good of the common-wealth of England.	Gookin, Vincent, 1616?-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1273; Thomason E234_6; ESTC R6361	17,246	34

have been before and invention to project on all hands upon what surer grounds an action of such moment may be founded yet if the Parlament shall be pleased but so much to respect the good meaning of what is here written as by their clemency passing by all the infirmities thereof to let the residue fall under the cognizance of any persons deputed thereto There are likewise Expedients ready to be humbly tendred if they may be accepted which offer at least at the assoyling all these difficulties and disturbances and the putting that whole Land by Gods blessing into a quiet and flourishing estate but it was judged more convenient to exempt them from the publication of this Paper that the Parlament might neither seem to have their Wisdomes forestall'd if they shall advise on other Expedients nor their Counsels revealed if any thing offered there should happen to find favour in their eyes There are some things wherein the Reader is to be premonish'd to stop his wonder how such destructive Resolutions could pass or be let pass from the hand of Authority all this time For which consider 1. Those that were in England must see and hear with their eyes and ears that were in Ireland and according to Informations given from them were necessitated to square their directions to them Now it is no wonder if those that were but Strangers to that Land should not at first sight understand the compleat interest thereof and so though their wils were zealous to that which was good in the general yet their understandings not fully inform'd so soon might cause them to deviate in some particular 2. When these Resolutions were at first taken to transplant the Irish universally the face of things much differed in Ireland from what it appears now and that might be conveniently propounded nay done in one time which will not so well suit with the series of Affairs at another then Necessity might have made it fit to have transplanted now the unfitness makes it not necessary So that both the one and the other might have been just and unjust as they were accommodated to several times and conditions It is impossible for men to foresee all things Events failing from what was preconceiv'd may make Counsels vary from what was precontriv'd 3. Though those that sate at the Helm saw it necessary in their Wisdomes to give out such Orders in those times yet in their Goodness we see they did not think fit to execute them even till this time as if they did wait a time to be gratious to the Irish Nation and would expect all opportunities that might enable them therein and any new accidents intervening that would conspire thereto And now God having put the same into their hands at present it is the earnest suit of many and ought to be the desire and prayer of all moderate and sober Christians that he would put into their hearts to embrace and use it That Mercy may be remembred in the midst of Justice by those who themselves desire not Justice without Mercy and that thoughts may be had of what indulgence is due to the frailty of a man as well as what severity to the obstinacy of a Rebel it being an Heroickness not to insult upon an humbled Enemy and Wisdome not to make him desperate The conversion of that Nation will be a more pious work than their eradication it was that was pretended fasted prayed preach'd for so often sure it was intended God hath complicated our good with this mercy as if he would not let Men be too cruel to those poor blind Natives without being so to themselves and would reward their compassionate thoughts towards them with the many good effects that will thereby accrew The unsetling of a Nation is an easy work the setling is not it has cost much Blood and Treasure there and now Prudence and Mercy may accomplish the work the opportunity for it will not last alwaies 't is now the Physicians late assistance despairs where his early help might have been prosperous The Souldiers there exhausted with indefatigable labours hope now for their rest The old English having lain so long under Taxes wait for their Jubile The Adventurers expect some Crop at length from what they have long since so plentifully sown The State may challenge a Revenue from what she has so amply expended on It had been better Ireland had been thrown into the Sea before the first engagement on it if it will never turn to account but still to expence but the time is come when the Venture will defray the expence of the Voyage if all be not shipwrack'd in the Harbours mouth all there contrive quietness pray for peace This Transplantation is the main Remora that puts to a stand The Seed-time was the Harvest would come on The Spring will hasten after so sharp a Winter And how glorious a Victory will that be when both the Bodies and Minds of a Nation are overcome the first by power the second by love How will the Souls of the Irish blush hereafter that they should have been once cruel against those whom they find still so mercifull towards them when Love shall hold a stricter rein upon them than fear and make them wash away that Blood they have drawn from others by Tears drawn from themselves How shall they bless God for their Unprosperousness and rejoyce in those Infelicities whereby they are made happy And the English that are in that Land bid past cares and fears and present wants adieu and leave those Hives they have been almost starved in like industrious Bees to repair their old Stocks with new Honey How at ease will the State be from those cares that like Vultures have continually preyed upon their hearts in the behalf of that Land And what a pleasing sight will it be to England instead of meagre naked Anatomies which she received driven from Ireland in the beginning of a War to empty her self of her young Swarms thither in the beginning of a Peace If Antiquity deceive us not that Land was once called the Island of Saints and if Novelty deceive us not again it may find as strange a change to good as it had a fall to ill God has made in the nature of Instruments the good or ill of thousands beneath to hang upon the breath of a few that are above O what a guard had there need to be on their lips whose words dispence death what prayers to God! what uprightness towards Man If any Errours be committed those on the right are easyest cancell'd It is better to save one innocent than destroy many guilty persons but to make guilty persons become innocent by saving how excellent will that be How much more comfort will the heart receive hereafter to hear the once poor erring Irish live good Protestants honest Subjects than to have heard they dyed blinded Papists bloody Rebels And there can come no glory from that ruine which may be avoyded The most contemptible things carry Engins of death along with them a Gnat a Hair a Rasin-stone can destroy but great glorious universal agents like the Sun are the Parents of life A storm or accident may throw down a house but art and industry are required to build it and this way treads a destructive path as hath been shewn and therefore should be no longer trodden in God grant they whom this concerns most may be as sensible of it as some are whom it concerns less that they may mind this Affair according to the greatness of its consequent which slights all mediocrity and will be transcendently good or evil and as Comets may reflect obliquely upon vulgar men but more eminently signifie for great Personages so these effects may be showred among the Common People but will be poured upon the head of the Commonwealth But I had forgot that I had said before that Transplanting is an impossible work and therefore it is enough to pray and may hope to prevail among wise men that they would be pleased to leave undone that which they are not able to do which I take to be a reasonable and modest request FINIS

the English Fleet where therefore they may receive Arms from any Forein Prince with most security modelize themselves into Arms and be furnish'd irresistably for a new war by means of these advantages the English in the last Rebellion first lost Connaught and last regained it Fourthly they exceedingly mistake who imagine that the passage out of Connaught into the other three Provinces is difficult or may be easily defended against the Irish if they should thus be armed and fitted for a new war Whereas it is evidently for the securitie of the English and English interesse to divide the Irish one from the other especially the Commonaltie from the Cheifs and both from the advantages of receiving probable assistants from Foreiners Objection But notwithstanding many of these inducements to joyn with the English yet many of the Irish have of late turned Tories by means of this cohabitation Answer The mistake is great in attributing that effect to this cause The reall causes of those later Tories are such as these First the Common-wealth's necessitie for money to maintain the Army of Ireland brought the protected people under a tax so insupportable that the generalitie of them were forced to a monethly diminution of their principall substance which by degrees brought laborious husbandmen to so sad a state of povertie that they were necessitated to this hard choice of starving or turning Tories Secondly Lawes were imposed on the protected to discover and resist Enemies upon pain of death although they neither had nor were allowed Armes or means to inable them to it or defend themselvs nor could the Law-givers protect them either in their estates or lives from that Enemie to whose malice and fury the observance of those Lawes made them liable so that both the contempt of and obedience to them exposed these poor people to be punished with death either by the English or Irish Thirdly the violence and oppression by some of the Souldiers inflicted on them is incredible and by the injured people's just fear to complain many horrible facts of this nature go daily unpunished Fourthly the narrowness and streightness of the Parliaments concessions of mercy to that Nation in the first and fourth article of the act of settlement which doth not declare one in 500. pardonable either for life or estate and when men see a line of destruction measuring out their portion nature teaches them to perserve their lives as long and sell them as dear as they can by resisting to the uttermost the power of that state whose declared resolves exempt them from all mercy Object But if this toleration of Irish cohabiting be allowed the Adventurers and Souldiers it is feared will acquiesce in them rather than expose themselves to the expence and difficultie of transporting and planting with English Answ. All the Irish and all their stock is not proportionate to the fifth part even of the three provinces and therefore cannot satisfie the proprietors ends of planting their land though being advantagiously dispersed and disposed of they may be instrumentall by their labours and industry to make preparation for and to facilitate the settlement of such others as the planters must necessarily bring thither for the full improvement of his Land Thus we see no necessity of this transplanting in regard of the three great ends alledged Religion Profit Safety but rather so great a necessity of them that there 's no reason at all for it But there is one thing more which wise men will consider and that is the impossibility of this transplanting Among the five things Impossiblilities are one head that are excluded deliberation There are Laws made and Orders gone out for their going Universally into Connaught by March next But suppose they should have a dram of Rebellious blood still in them or be fullen and not go It is not impossible but this may be so nay it is certain it will be so for they were by Orders to remove long since and yet an inconsiderable part onely obeyed the generality choosing to run all hazards obstinately than condescend They say they can but find want and ruine at the worst if they stay and why should they travel so far for that which will come home to them can it be imagin'd that a whole Nation will drive like Geese at the wagging of a hat upon a stick but there 's an Army to compell them I this is the way to have an Army nay to have two Armies one more then we would of the Enemies and then perhaps to have one less then we would again never a one of our friends Surely more English Souldiers have perisht by the Countrey then the Sword of the Irish They are more afraid of Tories then Armies and Woods and Boggs then Campswhere It will be harder to find them then vanquish them And when will this wild war be finished Ireland Planted Inhabitants unburthened Souldiers setled at this rate who will be able to stir abroad for fear to live at home for want And when a dangerous experiment has been tryed it may be Quiet will be sought at a dearer rate then it might be found now It 's a sad thing to fight against men till they are reduced to us then to fight against them because they will not part from us And that this is certainly the true state of the controversie and not any dregs of Rebellion in them unpurg'd yet will by this evidently appear that those whom Fear or Want has made lately to swell the number of the Tories so much to shew their disposition to quietness did at their first going out and do still continue to offer securitie for their peacable demeanors in the English quarters if they may be accepted and to take the first opportunity to go beyond sea for Souldiers And if this will not be granted who knows what desperation may make them willing to do and us unwillingly to suffer Although to discover so many monstrous and evident dangers and losses necessarily impending upon the generall removall of the Irish out of the three Provinces into Connaught and not against small single but such severall great Interess viz the continuing the Irish Papists or making them turn Atheists the knitting again like Worms their divided septs and amities which are now cut in sunder the entailing barbarousness upon them by such a consociation for ever the giving them power to rebell again by crouding them all together and will by the great injury they conceive they have in this action against which they have 't is strange as great a resentment as against loss of estate yea even death it self The aspersing the English Nation with Cruelty ungratefulness and in some sort unfaithfulness The destruction of the States Revenue the standing Army the disbanded Souldiery former English Inhabitants present Adventurers and future Planters Though it were enough to represent barely a Hydra so pregnant with mischievous heads to have it cut off and new resolutions to succeed those which