the Confederates were expelled out of Ireland must be denied their Rights even when a peace is concluded Nay possibly those Peers might not be considered as estated Lords whose Estates the said Confederates had possest themselves of so that by the Acts of the Rebellion they were to lose their Lands and by the Desires of the Rebels to lose their Votes And perhaps if Protestant Peers which the Rebellion had forc'd into England would have returned into Ireland to vote in this intended Parliament they might had this Instruction took place been denied to vote in Person as well as by Proxy on account that they were not estated persons by reason their Lands were then in the possession of the Rebels who had taken good care that the Peace should not oblige nor be accepted by the confederate Catholicks till all the Articles of it were established secured by Parliament The Confederates rest not here but to make all things surer the 44th Instruction is set down in these words viz. That such as shall be recommended by the supreme Council of the Confederate Catholicks shall be by his Majesty called by Writ to sit in the Vpper House In the 23d Instruction before mentioned they attempt to hinder the constitution of the House of Peers to be as by Law and Custom it ought to be and in this 44th Instruction they attempt to constitute it as it ought not to be In the foregoing Instruction they endeavor to stop the true Fountain of Honour and in this Instruction they would make themselves to be the Fountain of Honour Nor does this Instruction run with the introductive words of the former viz. You are to be Suitors or humble Suitors to his Majesty but positively set down as if what they demanded were rather a Right then a Favour neither do they limit their recommendation of such as are to be called to sit in the Upper House to such onely as were his Majesties Subjects or his Rebels but indefinitely viz. all that shall be recommended by the Supreme Council of the confederate Catholicks so that the forming of the House of Peers the great and inseparable Right and Prerogative of the Crown they not onely desire to WREST from the King but also they desire to VEST IT IN THEMSELVES Nor do they stop there but by this Instruction had it been granted they would have had the power to have constituted the House of Lords OF FORRAIGNERS and doubtless amongst those his HOLINESS's NUNTIO then amongst them would scarcely have been forgotten Thus far the Catholick Confederacie had well provided for the composition of the House of Commons and the House of Peers as far as concern'd the Temporal Lords Now I shall let the Reader see that their care was no less in providing that the House of Peers should be as well constituted for the Spiritual Lords which they manifest in their 25th Instruction which follows in these very words viz. You are to be Suitors to his Majesty that the Writs of summons be issued to the ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS WITHIN OVR QVARTERS and they to have PLACE AND VOTE in Parliament This is a Request INDEED here is not onely a taking away of the Right of the Protestant Archbishops and Bishops but a giving of it to the Papists Nay would not this have been if granted an owning that the POPE by his Consecration had the Right to send Peers into the House of Lords if not to create them But since they were sworn by their Confederacy to have the free and publick exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion and Function throughout this Kingdom in its full lustre and splendor as it was in the Reign of King Henry the seventh or any other Catholick King his Predecessor Kings of England and Lords of Ireland 't is no wonder they take the surest Ways to reach that End But yet the wisdom of the Kings of England and their experience of the Irish Papists has been such that had all these Instructions been granted to them yet they could not have reach'd their Design which the said Papists well knew and therefore to throw down ALL Impediments in their 21th Instruction which follows in these very words they further desire viz. You are to be Suitors to his Majesty That upon the first sitting of the next Parliament That an Act may be transmitted for the suspension of POYNINGS HIS ACT intituled An Act that no Parliament shall be holden in this Land until the Acts be certified into England and all other Acts inlarging or explaining the same And that it be afterwards left to the consideration of the Parliament whether the same shall be ALL TOGETHER REPEALED or continued In these Instructions the Confederates show a Catholick Care of the Roman Catholick Cause They were not contented to attempt by force and open Rebellion to wrest this Kingdom from the Crown of England but having failed thereof in that way they endeavour to effect it in this first they will have a PAPIST chief Governour and that to use their own words the Commissioners must not onely INSIST UPON but must IN NO SORT RECEDE FROM Then they must have a Parliament and that not onely to be constituted against the Kings undoubted prerogative the known and ancient Laws of the Land and Priviledges and Rights of both Houses but also must be compos'd according to the desires and inventions of the Irish Papists and because by Poynings's Act no Bill or Bills could be transmitted into England till first they had past the chief Governour or Governours and privy Council of this Kingdom and then were certified to his Majesty and privy Council in England by the said chief Governor or Governors and privy Council to be good and expedient for this Kingdom and then were not to pass in Parliament here but as approved of by his Majesty and Council in England and remitted hither under the Great Seal of England whereby the Crown of England was wisely secured that nothing should be enacted here to the prejudice of it The said Irish Papists desire that in their said next Parliament Poynings's Act might be suspended and all other Acts enlarging and explaining the same and then that it may be left to the consideration of the Parliament SO CONSTITUTED whether the same shall be ALTOGETHER REPEALED or continued that is to say That the LAMB be put into the Claws of the WOLF and then leave it to the consideration of the Wolf whether or no he would devour him If it should be said That the fore-mentioned Instructions were onely the Confederates desires to his Majesty I onely desire to know whether they made those desires with an intention to have them denyed or granted If the first it was ridiculous if the last it was rebellious But by all this it undeniably appears If the providence of God and His Sacred Majesties Wisdom and Care had not disappointed the boundless designes of the said Irish Papists not onely the Protestant Religion and the Professors of
upon Articles of War and others who are to have a certain proportion of their estates by the Act for the settling of Ireland held forth in the year 1652. Wherein to use their own words They humbly show That the Petitioners upon confidence of enjoying the benefit of several Declarations and Articles of War held forth unto them by Authority of this Parliament c. did readily subject and put their Consciences Lives and Fortunes as in a secure Sanctuary under the protection of this Commonwealth having ever since walked peaceably and in due conformity to the Government without the least defection therein That since the Interruption given to the sitting of this Parliament in the year 1653. No Christian Nation can parallel the sufferings of the Petitioners c. which render the Petitioners as fit Objects of your Honors piety justice and compassion as any who may challenge your protection Notwithstanding the Petitioners withered hopes and former confidence being afresh revived by your Honors return to the management of the present Government and their propensions so great to peace and quietness that rather than ravel into the settlement They do willingly acquiesce in the Transplantation albeit it was not executed by any legal power as not being derived from your Honors Soon after in the same Petition follow these words They do apprehend that contrary to your Honors pious intentions manifested in the said Act for settling of Ireland they may be postponed or neglected unless provided for in the Act of settlement now to be established And therefore the Petitioners humbly pray c. This Petition was delivered by the said two Agents for the Irish Papists at the door of the House of Commons in England and entered by the Clerk of the Rump The other Petition was in writing and subscribed Robert Talbot Garret Moor the Title of it is To the Supreme Authority the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England c. Supplications humbly tendered by Sir Robert Talbot Bar. and Garret Moor Esq for and on the behalf of themselves and the distressed Roman Catholicks of Ireland in order to be therein relieved by the Act of Settlement now to be passed Their second Supplication in this Petition is set down in these words viz. That the estates assigned unto the Petitioners in the Province of Connaught and County of Clare be confirm'd unto them The third Supplication in the said Petition is in these words viz. That the Decrees obtained by any of the Petitioners pursuant to the Articles and Qualifications be put in a way of satisfaction and for the time past put in equal condition with others who have had the benefit of their Decrees The fourth Supplication of this Petition is expressed in these words viz. That there having been no time limited by this Parliament for the Petitioners to enter and prosecute the claims according to their respective Qualifications and the interruption given to the sitting thereof soon after the Act of Settlement having hinderd many from doing the same and that others through absence poverty and the short sitting of the Court for the adjudication of Claims appointed since the said Interruption could not do it That a farther time be allowed unto such to enter and prosecute as aforesaid their Claims The fifth Supplication is expressed in these words viz. That several of the Petitioners are able to make appear their constant good affection and adherence to the Common-wealth for whom a competent time to be allowed to make out the same is humbly supplicated and that these and such of the Petitioners as have already done the same may have the benefit held forth unto them by the Act for settling of Ireland These expressions being verbatim in the said two Petitions I shall onely observe from thence what follows 1. The persons who presented these Requests to the RVMP did it not onely for themselves but for the Papists of Ireland in whose behalf they own themselves to be Sollicitors 2. Those two Gentlemen their publick Agents were persons of too much knowledg and discretion to have done any thing especially of so high a nature as this for so great a body of people without sufficient power from themselves so to do 3. That these their Agents Addresses to the RVMP were by allowance and command from themselves needs not better to be proved than by the Irish Papists ever since continuing those their two Agents in publick employment for them even to this day 4. To that very RVMP by whose immediate Commission the horridest of Murthers was acted they scruple not to make their application and even by the stile of the Supreme Authority the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England c. and that twice If P. W. should say they were necessitated to petition and that their petition would not be received without it were so directed I answer No consequence of their suffering could be so great as the guilt of owning the RVMP by the twice before mentioned Titles The single Advocate of the Irish Papists viz. P. W. lays it as a guilt upon all the Protestants of Ireland that some of them fought under one of the Regicides to recover their own Estates and punish the guilt of the first Rebellion and their often violation of their Articles and yet their publick Agents in behalf of all the Papists of Ireland own all those Regicides to be that Supreme Authority 5. But if the Consciences of the Irish Papists were hardened enough to run into a certain sin but in the expectancy of an uncertain advantage why yet in their printed Petition did they use these guilty expressions viz. They did readily subject and put their CONSCIENCES Lives and Fortunes as in a secure Sanctuary under the protection of that Commonwealth Though if they would petition they may say there was a necessity to stile the RUMP the Supreme Authority yet sure they cannot say there was a necessity in the body of the Petition to insert such criminal words therefore since the Body of the Petition is more than consonant to the Title of it it is but reasonable to believe the Title they gave the RVMP was as voluntary as the expressions with which they treat them If they would but make his Sacred Majesty what in print they acknowledged the RVMP was to them viz. A secure Sanctuary to put their Consciences Lives and Fortunes in if what is past could not be remedied yet the mischiefs to come might perhaps be prevented 6. But as if the immediate before mentioned respects to the RVMP had not been sufficient they pay them others professing in these words viz. Their withered hopes and former confidences are a fresh revived by the RVMPS return to the management of the Government under which their propensions to peace and quietness are so great that they willingly ACQVIESCE in the TRANSPLANTATION Would they be but as joyful for his Sacred Majesties restauration as they say they were for the RVMPS and had they been as willing
given the said Agents for getting the Lord Deputy or other chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom to be A ROMAN CATHOLICK In this the Reader may evidently find though when the Irish Papists make Addresses to the Lord of Ormond they are so discreet as to name Him for the person before whom the Parliament shall be holden yet when they may write what he is not to see they absolutely leave Him out and desire that the Parliament may be holden before a chief Governour that is a Roman Catholick with this addition viz. AND IN NO SORT TO RECEDE FROM THIS INSTRUCTION The second Particular which the said Congregation of the Clergy desire may be added to the Instructions to be given to their Agents then designed to be sent to the Queen and Prince then in France and which they are to INSIST UPON and IN NO SORT to recede from is express'd in these very words viz. 2 d. Instruction That the particular Articles or Concessions to be obtained for Religion may be published together with the Temporal Articles and that until both be published together THE PEACE MAY NOT OBLIGE NOR BE ACCEPTED BY THE CONFEDERATE ROMAN CATHOLICKS And that the QUEEN NOR PRINCE come not to this Kingdom till the Peace be published as aforesaid and accepted by the Nation By this it undoubtedly appears that no peace would be accepted of by the Irish Papists but such a one as even by the Royal Assent was to give them the whole Kingdom in Fact and Power if not in name Nor was the QUEEN and PRINCE his now Majesty so much as to come into Ireland till Ireland was in effect given away to the Crown Although this Paper intituled The sense of the Congregation of the Clergy have many Particulars as full of Disloyalty and Rebellion as those I have already mentioned yet I shall set down no more but the seventh Paragraph which they desire may be past into an Instruction which follows in these words viz. That if a PROTECTOR must be chosen for the Nation it may be his HOLINESS And that the Nation may not by choosing Spain or France for Protector be necessitated to make the other of them not chosen their Enemy abroad and thereby rend the Kingdom at home into division This in my opinion evinceth that as bad as the Papist Clergy in Ireland were yet the Original design of choosing a PROTECTOR was the Act of the LAY PAPISTS but indeed when a forraign Protector was resolved upon the Popish Clergy as became true Sons of the Romish Church were singly for the Popes having the Protectorship and fortifie that their desire with a very material and politick consideration if not threatning viz. That unless it were so it might rend the Kingdom into Divisions But I desire the Reader woul observe that rending of the Kingdom would not have proceeded from the casting off of his Majesties Authority but from the PAPAL FRENCH AND SPANISH FACTIONS who would have contended for the Soveraignty of this Kingdom But not so much as the least word mentioned that the Kingdom would have been rent by the resistance of any party in his Majesties behalf Though three forraign Powers would have found Friends to have countenanced their respective designes yet his Majesties lawful Right could not find any numerous Assertors of it Having thus done with the Paper intituled The sense of the Congregation I shall now proceed to acquaint the Reader with the residue of those Instructions which will let him plainly see how they projected that Parliament should be constituted which was to establish and secure the Articles of Peace insisted on One of which I have already particularized and now shall proceed to the rest The 24th Instruction is set down in these words viz. You are to be Suitors to his Majesty that all Indictments Out-Lawries Attainders and other Acts made published or done in the Courts of Dublin or elsewhere in this Kingdom or the Kingdom of England in prejudice of the said Catholicks or any of them since the seventh day of August 1641. shall be before he sitting of the Parliament here taken off the file and vacated and so declared by his Majesties publick Proclamation This is a good preparation for composing a fit Parliament for the ends of the Confederate Catholicks Before they did any thing for the King they press the King would by a Proclamation vacat the legal proceedings of the Court of Justice They desire to be put in a capacity to act new crimes by a forgiveness of the old The 11th Instruction runs in these words viz. You are to be humble Suitors to his Majesty That such as are already employed or appoynted or that shall now be appoynted to execute the Office of Sheriff by our party in the several Counties of the Kingdom shall stand and the said Offices to be conferred upon them by Letters Patents Though the Sheriffs of Ireland are pricked by the chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom yet they will themselves name those Sheriffs that thereby they might be in a condition to be sure the respective Knights of the Shires for their intended Parliament should be Roman Catholick Confederacie-Men The close of the 26 Instruction is in these words You are to procure that no new Corporations shall send Burgesses to Parliament without the allowance of Parliament first had The 13th Instruction runs in these words viz. You are desire that such Corporations as anciently sent Burgesses to the Parliament be now admitted notwithstanding that by the power of some late Governours they were of later days debar'd of this priviledge By these three Instructions the Reader may see how well they would have constituted the House of Commons for the Catholick Confederacie first Sheriffs who are to be Judges of the Elections of the Knights of the Shires they would nominate and have his Majesty commissionate by Letters Patents Secondly some old Burroughs who had scarce an Inhabitant in them and who therefore for several preceding Parliaments had no Writs sent unto them to make Elections they desire now may send Burgesses to their intended Parliament And Burroughs who are by the Kings Charter to send Burgesses to Parliament and who are numerously planted with Protestants were to send none to serve for them in Parliament Thus far the Confederates had well provided for themselves in the constitution of the House of Commons now I shall let the Reader see that their care was no less in the constitution of the House of Lords For the 23 Instruction is in these words viz. That no Lord not estated in this Kingdom or estated in this Kingdom and not resident here shall have vote in the said Parliament of this Realm by PROXY or OTHERWISE The King is the Fountain of Honour but here the Confederate Catholicks will stop the Stream of it as they think sit voting by Proxy which is the undoubted Right of the Peers they will not admit and those Peers who by the Rebellion of
that Title under which he might act that power so that it is not the Confederate Catholicks fault if a PROTECTOR were not in Ireland before the Sectaries had set up one in England Nay their Commissioners then sent to France and Spain were required in case of the Popes refusal of being their Protector to offer it to either of those Kings nay to any Popish Prince from whom to use their own words they might have most considerable aids In effect they are willing any one should govern them but he who onely had the Right to do it But yet as becomes obedient sons of the Church of Rome the Pope has the advantage of the preemption It appears the Irish Papists hang as their Faith in God so their Loyalty to their Prince on the Popes sleeve and certainly it is not probable that those should defend his Majesties Right over whom 1 a forreign Prince 2 such a forreign Prince as considers His Majesty as an Heretick and consequently an enemy hath full power and 3 That power on the strongest account even that of Conscience and Religion In the year 1648 another Peace was concluded with the Irish Papists but after that they disowned disobeyed opposed conspired to murther excommunicated and banished his Majesties Viceroy as appears by the former instances In sum when the power of Ireland was in the hands of the Irish Papists they design'd and endeavour'd to betray it to Forreigners But when in the hands of the Protestants of Ireland they absolutely and without antecedent conditions submitted it and themselves to his Sacred Majesty As to their fighting against the Regicides I answer 1. Vitious extremes are not onely opposite to virtue but also one to the other Papists and Sectaries oppose each other and both the Protestants 2. The Spaniard and the Dutch fought against the Regicides yet neither of them in the day of Tryal proved themselves friends to his Majesties Rights 3. 'T is the Cause not the Suffering onely which makes the Martyr 't is not the fighting but the ground and end of the fighting which proves which is the good Subject and of that let even P. W. judg by the former Instances The last Argument pretends to commutative Justice and is usher'd in by a comparison and preoccupation The former thrice pressed way of comparison is yet propounded here again but with less injustice here than before the comparison before was between Papists and Protestants here between Papists and Presbyterians Anabaptists Quakers Fifth Monarchy men Independents To which I shall onely say Whatever tenents opposit to Regal power may be found among any Sectaries are if not learn'd from I am sure taught by the Romish Schools Papists and Sectaries like Sampsons Foxes are tyed by their tails though their heads be divided their way may seem contrary but they all tend to the same end the ruine of the Corn-field As P. W. ushers in his Arguments on one side with a comparison so on the other with a preoccupation relating to the power of those which he calls Adversaries and declareth it to be no greater than his Majesty is pleased to make it To the truth of this Declaration the Protestants of Ireland freely consent professing to the world that though their Army is such as sufficed to subdue the Irish Rebels when universally confederated throughout the Kingdom and supplied by Forreigners with Money Arms and Ammunition and strengthen'd with no less than the Popes blessing and Nuntio yet their power consists not in Arms or Armies Fortifications or Men but in loyalty and obedience to his Sacred Majesties Commission and Authority and is consequently as P. W. says no greater than his Majesty is pleased to make it And since this is the true State of the Protestant both principle and interest As in truth it is even their Adversary being their Judg 't is likely therefore that P. W. declares they are his Adversaries for I believe his Friends are other guess men But doubtless those are fittest to be trusted with power who are no stronger by it even by their enemies acknowledgments than He which gives it is willing to make it than those who never had power but what they forc'd from his Majesty and who never employ'd that power the whole stream of their own actions being their Judges but against that Sacred Majesty from whom they wrested it The Arguments following plead Iustice and that Iustice grounded on the Articles of 1648. and judged by the sad consequences threatned on the breach thereof whether we regard men or God Though concerning the Articles of 1648 enough hath been instanced already yet to leave P. W. without occasion of Cavil it will not be unfit to add somewhat more here 1. The Contents of those Articles are in themselves unwarrantable except in case of Necessity which hath no Law 2. The Condition of those Articles whereon they were principally if not onely founded hath been often and intirely violated by the Irish Papists The Contents of those Articles are unwarrantable unless in case of necessity because they are contrary to an higher obligation according to the Rule both of publick and private justice 1. His Majesty at his Coronation binds himself to God to govern these Kingdoms according to their respective Laws and let P. W. himself consider how agreable it is to Law or publick Justice that the Militia Treasury an Army of fifteen thousand Foot two thousand five hundred Horse of Irish Papists and even in effect the Legislative power it self should be in the hands of twelve men to be chosen by Irish Papists or that there should be no alteration in England of what they in Ireland should think fit to transmit to his Majesty for the settlement of that Kingdom or even that the Irish Rebels should be pardoned without the consent of Parliament when his Majesty in Parliament the seventeenth year of his Reign adjudged such pardon before conviction to be null and void hereby even when they treated with his Majesty concerning the affairs of this Kingdom assuming the Legislative authority of it by repealing the Statute made the 10. of Henry the VII commonly called Poynings Law and the explanatory Law thereof in 3. and 4. of Philip and Mary And though hitherto they chiefly pleaded before his Sacred Majesty in Council but for so much benefit of the Articles of peace in 1648 as would restore them to their forfeited Estates yet if they had prevailed therein upon the score of that plea it must in consequence have adjudged for them the benefit of all the other Articles as a right For if any of those Articles are due to them by an obligation of Iustice all are then due to them by the same obligation and since as appears by his Majesties Gracious Declaration in Council of the 30 of November 1660. that they have no right to any of their forfeited estates nor any title but what his Majesties mercy and bounty hath vouchsafed safed to diverse of them it
it in Ireland had been LOST but also this Kingdom had been LOST to the Crown of England for the said Irish Papists were to have held what they then rebelliously possest till their Articles of Peace had been establish'd and secured by Parliament and if they could have had a Parliament such as they designed all the Kingdom would in effect have been theirs by Authority of Parliament so that either way they had secured themselves as much as their CONFEDERATED WISDOMS could project But since the most essential parts of the Articles of Peace were to be finally obliging but as they were to be confirm'd by Act of Parliament in the next Parliament which should be assembled after the perfecting the said Articles let P. W. remember this present Parliament is the first that has been call'd together in Ireland since the conclusion of the Peace and let him see in the GREAT BILL OF SETTLEMENT how far the Parliament thinks fit to put their sanction to those Articles If P. W. should say This is not such a Parliament as his Countrymen intended at and before the making of those Articles I shall joyn with him in his saying thereof and shall onely add That GOD AND HIS SACRED MAJESTY be praised it is not such a Parliament I must desire the Readers excuse for these digressionâ— which I thought necessary that he might the better know even out of the Originals of the Papers of the Irish Papists what kinde of Parliament that was by which they had designed to establish and secure the Articles of their Peace as also what that Association and Vnion of the Confederate Roman Catholicks is which their Grand Committee swore to continue and to return unto upon the concluding of the Peace in 1648. in case they themselves judged the Articles thereof at any time unobserved unto them I wish the said Irish Papists think not themselves TO THIS DAY bound by it nay I wish they do not think it INDISSOLVEABLE This horrid Oath of the Grand Committee before-mentioned is now so undeniable though it was then manag'd in the dark and carried on with all possible secreeie that it was by all their Titular Bishops in their published Excommunications against the Lord Lieutenant interpreted and insisted on as a most CONSCIENTIOVS engagement to invite all their Nation to a disobedience of his Majesties Authority whereby they have not onely argued themselves guilty of the greatest unworthiness and treachery men could possibly be faulty in they have not onely forfeited all that Grace and Favour which could be intended them by that Peace and invalidated all the Articles of it but they have likewise continu'd to themselves the guilt of their Rebellion and Confederacie to this present DAY and lie obnoxious to the utmost penalty of the Law for the same unless his Majesties Mercy be greater then their Crimes and consequently P. W's causeless curses and threatnings are not to be feared Those Threatnings respect MEN The Irish Papists The Judicious Protestants Those Threatnings respect GOD. First P. W. tells us that the hearts of the Irish Papists would by such proceedings be estranged from his Majesty The sense whereof is that the Irish will follow the King for nought but the LOAVES nay it had been happy for Ireland if the very Loaves themselves would have prevented their hearts from being estranged but 't is morally impossible while such a National and Religional distinction continues The experience of the last Rebellion if no other proof thereof had been evinceth the estrangedness of the Irish Papists to be such that the Interest in them of the greatest Nobleman in Ireland when for the Crown is not so considerable as a popish priests against it Wherefore the estrangedness P. W. mentions must still be expected but with this difference That the BEAST if pamper'd will Kick if kept low OBEY Secondly P. W. fore-tells that the Iudicious Protestants will on such proceedings be perpeturlly jealous notwithstanding any Declaration from Breda or Acts from Westminster Though P. W. may be a true Seer of the estranged hearts of the Irish papists yet I dare charge him to be a false Prophet concerning judicious protestants for though they duly value his Majesties Declarations and Acts of Grace as signal Expresses of his Goodness yet their confidence rests on the inward principle in his Majesties Brest whereto without such Expresses or Articling or capitulating for such as the Irish papists did they freely submitted and are more confirm'd by their late experience to continue in that duty But if in P. W's judgement the ungrounded apprehension of any violation or breach of promise may estrange the hearts of the Irish papists from his Majesty whom they are bound in conscience to love honour and obey notwithstanding miscarriages in Government and if the like apprehensions may cause jealousies in judicious protestants notwithstanding Declarations and Acts of Parliament let it not seem strange or hard at least to P. W. and his Countrymen if a continued Series of Covenant-Breaches Rapines Murthers Massacres Crueltys Perfidies Treasons and Rebellions exercised by the Irish papists against the Crown and protestant Religion raise jealousies in the hearts of all judicious Protestants Or if his Majesty be pleas'd on these accompts in his great Iustice Wisdom and Goodnsss to restrain them from further ruining others first and then themselves The Crown hath often lost by Credulity what it hath got by Valour it hath lost by pretence of Peace what it had gain'd in open War The Kings interest in France was thus lost the GOD of peace prevent the like in Ireland The consequence threatned in respect of God are dreadful judgements such as P. W. confesseth to have bin wonderfully inflicted on the Irish Nation for their breach of the peace in 1646. and such as were inflicted on Sauls house for his breach with the Gibeonites I see the best Wits have not always the best Memories else P. W. would have remembred the breach made by his Nation in 1641. and since 1648. as well as in 1646. for those doubtless were as criminal as this but possibly he thinks it was more sin for his Country-men to violate what they oblig'd themselves to as a FREE STATE then what they were oblig'd to do as SUBJECTS and therefore thinks their sins in 1646. were greater then in 1641. But if all were pardoned by the peace made in 1648. why does he remember the Judgements for the breaches in 1646 if he thinks all were not why does he not remember the breaches made in 1641. and at least attribute some of those Judgements to that breach But I had almost forgot what perhaps P. W. may plead in answer to my Objection and that is no less then the POPE's BULL of indulgence and pardon published in Latin in Ireland and thus carefully for so much of it as follows translated into English URBANUS OCTAVUS Ad futuram rei memoriam Having taken into our serious consideration the great Zeal of the