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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67036	A vindication of the true account of the siege of Derry in Ireland by Mr. George Walker, &c. ; published by authority.	Walker, George, 1645?-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing W354; ESTC R1939	13,846	32

Writing that Story that he had much ado to forbear shewing it was some Entertainment to him to feel the Alteration and so many Comical Passages occurr'd to him that he had since time to laugh at that if they had not been very Vulgar he had disobliged his Reader to a greater degree in that particular but Mr. Walker thought himself amongst his Friends and so has us'd a little freedom but since he has been mistaken he will take care to make his next Discourse more Stoical and Austere But Mr. Walker does wonder how they come to expect all this management from a man they had represented with so different a Character But Persons that take such liberty sometimes forget themselves For that Mr. Walker was very inconsiderable alas He did nothing Mr. Baker was the Man and such like stuff has been as common as unkind Discourses of these Men. Mr. Walker has not been wanting in doing Mr. Baker right his Skill and Conduct was of that advantage to the preserving of that place that he cannot do him too much honor but Mr. Walker's value for him is sufficiently testified by his care of his Widow and Children yet if Mr. Walker may put them in mind of it the Letter writ from Derry to the King subscribed by the Officers in Colonel Baker's life time Mr. Walker's name being the first shews him to be a Man of some Consequence and Authority and if it had pleased God Mr. Baker had lived other things would have been said for Mr. Walker that it is not proper for himself to enlarge upon The next Grievance is That Mr. Walker has concerned himself more than he needs with Colonel Lundy and Colonel Cunningham But Mr. Walker is of another opinion and thinks it was a peice of justice he owed himself and Profession to explain the necessity he was under to take that Government upon him for he well knows it did ingage him in some Actions that without such a necessity he could not justifie being obliged by his Coat to be a Man of Peace And some ancient Canons are so severe upon Clergy-mens taking Arms that they have been pronounced irregular upon doing it but at the same time Clergy-men are allowed to be capable of the privileges of Mankind and of all Creatures in the World they all may defend themselves and there may such necessity lye upon them that it is their duty to do it we do not want Examples of the best sort to make this out and if they failed there is so much Reason to back that practice that he is a Felo de se that neglects it The old Canonists indeed do look upon it as a great absurdity for Clergy-men to meddle with Arms or to ingage themselves in War and Gratian is a little more particular and states the case of a Clergy-Man in a Siege and under those Circumstances that he cannot well avoid annoying his Enemy The Judaical Notions that Christians retained in those days made them look on such a one as polluted and therefore he has some Penance injoyned him or sometimes only recommended to him though some proceed to that severity upon this very Foundation that such a person must forbear exercising his Function for some time And all this is done to distinguish that Sacred Office from other Professions and to discourage those that are set apart and Dedicated to the more pure service of the Altar from concerning themselves in any other imploys and therefore you find those Laws not only forbiding Clergy-men to turn Soldiers but also forbiding them to turn Merchants or Lawyers c. and all this with the greatest reason for God has a property in such Persons as he has also in Places and Times set apart for his Worship and they ought not to be put to any other use But Grotius brings the matter to a short issue and after allowing all this speaks of this very Law that obliges a Clergy man to that degree Quae tamen lex ut omnes ejus generis summae necessitatis exceptione intelligendae that in cases of the greatest necessity it is not binding and that that and all Laws of that kind are to be understood with exceptions in cases of great necessity for in such cases he remains the same Man still and is discharged of all manner of guilt or impurity Now Mr. Walker thinks his Case has all the Authority that the greatest necessity in the World can give to any Action the lives of thousands besides his own were at stake his Religion that is dearer than them all and the English and Scotch equally dear to him next door to an utter Extirpation out of that Kingdom not to speak of the danger of others how can any imagin there should be an Obligation upon any Man that can exempt or excuse his unconcernedness in such a Case Mr. Walker confesses such Performances would have better become persons whose Profession it was to do them and he would never envied them the Imploy but since the trouble came to his share and God Almighty has blesssed him with success in his Undertaking he hopes they will be the more willing to excuse him and to make it easie to them that it might not be too great a favour to him he thought fit to shew the occasion of his first taking the Government of that Town or rather to shew the necessity that threw it upon him which he is sorry he cannot justifie without reproaching others Another thing that Mr. Walker is upbraided with is that his Account is very imperfect and for that matter he will not dispute with them for it is impossible it could be otherwise or that the little time and convenience he had to be exact in such a thing could prevent it he is the more willing to allow this because two very extraordinary things occur to him which at the writing of that Book he had forgot and being so considerable in demonstrating that Providence that attended the defence of that Town and that was so remarkable in our Deliverance he begs leave to insert them in this Paper In the Account of the Siege you may find that people every day going out of Derry the Enemy by that means had constant intelligence and we had reason to be under great apprehension and concern more especially for our Ammunition we considered how to preserve that and having a great quantity in Mr. Camsy's Cellar we removed it to another place the very next day after we removed it a Bomb broke into the Cellar and if our Powder had been there we had certainly been destroyed Another thing of as great moment was omitted and that was a Bomb from the Enemy broke into a Cellar near Bulchers Gate some had the Curiosity to examin what mischief it had done and there they saw seven Men lying dead that had been working at a Mine unknown to us that if it had not been for so miraculous a Countermine might have gone on in their Work and