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A41914 Great news from Ireland being motives of encouragement for the officers and souldiers who shall serve in the present war of Ireland. 1689 (1689) Wing G1723; ESTC R228916 6,369 4

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Great news from IRELAND Being Motives of Encouragement for the Officers and Souldiers who shall Serve in the Present War of Ireland Licens'd April 9th 1689. James Fraser Drawn from the Heads following I. THE General Inability and Incapacity of the Irish to Manage Employs of Trust and Power II. The Necessity of a standing Army and Garrisons in that Kingdom in times of Peace III. The Ecclesiastical Civil and Millitary Employs that must be in the hands of Protestants IV. The Number and Vallew of the said Employs V. The Advantages may be made by Officers and Souldiers in that Service over and above what those had in the last War. VI. The Cheapness of Land and Provisions and Improvements to be made in that Kingdom All which demonstrates the Irish War to be the most advantageous promising Service in Europe 1. HE that Reads the Ancient and Modern Histories of that Kingdom will there find the Irreconcileable Hatred the Irish have and ever had to the Brittish and will also find that as oft as they have had Power they have Exerted that Power as much as in them lay to the destruction of the Brittish Persons and Plantations 2. That when the Religion of the Crown and People of England was the same with that of the Native Irish yet their Hatred was the same then as now as appears by Giraldus Cambrensis by Spencer by Paccata Hibernia and in divers Acts of Parliaments before the Reign of King Henry the Eighth 3. More Sevear Laws were made against the Irish in those times then since the Reformation as may be seen in the said Statutes 4. Both before the Reformation of Religion and since it appears that whatever was the perswasion of the Crown of England in matters of Religion they still found it their Interest to Lessen and Discourage the Irish Interest and to Enlarge and Encourage the Brittish Interest in that Kingdom 5. King Henry the Eighth his Son King Edward the Sixth his two Daughters Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth though of different Interests in matters of Church and State still persued that End as by the Laws made in those times is Evident 6. Queen Mary who was a profest Papist and Persecuted Protestants in England persued the same End and Encouraged Protestants in that Kingdom as by the Statutes then made may appear 7. Those Governours who have most effectually persued those Ends have been ever Celebrated as the best Governours of that Kingdom and the best Servants to the Crown of England 8. The Crown of England and the respective Governours of that Kingdom knowing it Natural for a Conquered People to hate their Conquerours and as well knowing that the Numbers of the Irish were much Superiour to the Brittish They First Made several Laws to put the Chief Places of Trust and Power in that Kingdom into Brittish Hands as the Laws themselves Testifie and Secondly But finding this too weak a Ballance they then Settled and Established a standing Brittish Army for the Brittish further Security 9. Since the Reformation of Religion the Romish Clergy have Improved that Innate Hatred of the Irish to the Brittish to a higher Elevation than before as was too Evident in their last Rebellion in 1641 of which the Acts of Settlement and Acts of Attainder in the Reigns of Charles the First and Charles the Second are Records to future Ages The said Clergy having assumed to themselves an Absolute Sovereignty over the Consciences Lives and Estates of the Natives of their Communion have most Zealously Imposed and Infused such Principles as are most suitable and conducing to their own Ends and to the Ignorance and Barbarity of the deluded Natives As 1. That Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion 2. That there is but one Church and that is the Roman Catholick Church 3. That the said Church like Noah's Ark those only are saved that are in it and all lost that are without it 4. That they must believe as the Church believes 5. That the Priests are this Church 6. That the Priests have the Keys of Heaven Hell and Purgatory and they shut and open them as they please 7. That the Priest's Absolution is God's Absolution 8. That Obedience to the Church viz. the Priests is better then Sacrifice to God. 9. That Disobedience is worse then the Sin of Witchcraft and was the Sin of Corah Dathan and Abiram 10. That the Protestants are all Excomunicated Hereticks 11. That they are all Secluded Heaven 12. That Dominion and Propriety are founded in Grace and that Protestants having not Grace have no Right to Either 13. That Protestants are all Workers of Iniquity and ought to be destroy'd and that it is no more Sin to Kill a Heretick viz. a Protestant then to Kill a Mischievous Dog. 14. That an Oath taken on a Protestant Bible is no more obliging than if taken on Æsop's Fables 15. That Private Christians are not to Dispute Matters of Religion but are to receive that Knowledg from their Priests 16. That the Priests and not the People are accountable to God for the Peoples Mistakes in matters of Religion 17. That the Priests Pronouncing the Words of Consecration make a piece of Bread to be a God. And lastly That Private Christians ought not to have read or keep a Bible These and many other as Dangerous and Destructive Principles appears not only to be held and believed by these Ignorant and Barbarous People but are proved and that by a Reverend and no less Learned a Prelate then the present Bishop of Lincolne to be the Doctrines and Practices of the Papists and Cannons of their Church and are very suitable to Urbanus Octavus his Bull for Consecrating the Horrid and Bloody Rebellion in 1641. As is the Fountain such must be the Streams As is the Tree such must be the Fruit. A Learned Subtle and United Clergy Imposing and Improving these and the like Principles into an Illerate Immoral Loose and Barbarous People Byassed with Prejudice and Mallice against the Persons Professions and Laws of the Crown of England as they must needs advance the Irish Papists as aforesaid to the highest Elevation of Biggotry so it must needs render them unable and uncapable to receive any Places of Trust and Power from a Protestant Prince or to Exercise it over a Protestant People From whence it Naturally follows 1. That all Places of Trust and Power in the Kingdom of Ireland must be put into the hands of Protestants and 2. That the Numbers of these Biggotted Irish Papists being so disproportionable and their Hatred against the Brittish Protestants so Irreconcileable it further appears as aforesaid that the Brittish cannot be safe in Ireland without a good standing Protestant Army for their constant Security 3. That this Army put into the hands of Sober Vertuous Discreet and Experienced Officers will not only be a Security to the Protestants there but a Seminary to the Crown of England whence as occasion offers may be drawn good Officers and Souldiers
4. That in the Kingdom of Ireland are many fixed and Established Garrisons which the Government usually granted for Life with considerable Revenues Fees and other Perquisits over and above the Establishment of their Pay. 5. That the Officers of the Army have usually had the Addition of Civil Employs which are many times more Beneficial then their Military Offices and given them to make their Persons and Employs the more Considerable in their respective Stations which said Employs upon Enquiry will be found to be many in Number as well as Considerable in point of Profit and may be Reduceable to these following Heads 1. Officers or Dependants on the Chief Governour and State. 2. Officers or Dependants on the Courts of Judicature 3. Officers or Dependants on the Army 4. Officers or Dependants on the King's Revenue 5. Officers or Dependants on the Church 6. Officers or Dependants on the respective Counties Cities Towns Corporate and Burroughs 1. As to the Officers and Dependants on the Chief Governour and State in Ireland they are in a great measure the same with those of the King and State in England and at a moderate Calculation cannot be less than two hundred 2. Tke Officers and Dependants on the Courts of Judicature are also much the same with those of England and are more than four hundred 3. The Officers and Dependants on the standing Army Garrisons Train of Artillery and Stores are not less than five hundred 4. The Officers and Dependants on the Kings certain and casual Revenue including the P●rrogative Admiralty and Post Office are best computed from the Annual Charge of the Crown which is to them more than forty thousand pounds per Annum and are not less in number than 400 Employs 5. As to the Officers and Dependants on the Church it is well known that the whole Kingdom is divided into 22 Diocesses each Diocess hath his Bishoprick the 4 Provinces have each of them an Arch-Bishop with about 2508 Parishes with their respective Dignitaries which though inferiour in number to those in England yet what they have is near equal in value and settled by Law as in England and cannot have less than Employs for 3000 Persons who must be all Protestants 6. The number of the respective Counties Cities Towns Corporate and Burroughs Employs are best known by the Survey of the whole Kingdom which is near equal to England Wales excepted and consists of 32 Counties beside the Counties of the respective Cities each County having several Towns Corporate and all Judicial and Ministerial Employments with several distinct Revenues of Houses Lands Fees and other Perquisites to support the Dignities of their respective Communities and their Officers which being the highest and only places of Trust and Power in the said respective Counties Cities Towns Corporate and Burroughs of the Kingdom must be presumed to have a suitable Support and cannot be in Number less then Eight Hundred So that the whole Number of the said Employs in Church and State appears to be more then 5300 Places of Reputation Trust Power and plentiful Support viz. to the Church 3000 and to the State 2300 which must be all put into the hands of Protestants though the Irish Papists should be so wise as to submit on the 10th of April 1689 to the Terms held forth in the King and Queens Declaration to all their Loving Subjects in that Kingdom bearing Date at White-hall the 22d of February 1688. But in case of their Refusal there will be a much greater Encouragement to the Protestant Officers and Souldiers who are or shall be Engaged in the War as appears by the following particulars 1. The Irish Papists having had the favour of the two last Kings by Donations and Restaurations are much Richer now then in the Year 1641. 2. The greatest part of their Lands having been Improved by the Brittish and when so Improved taken from them and given the Irish were lately of much greater Vallew then in 1641 3. The said Irish are now in possession as of their own Right of near Four Millions of Acres of the best Land and best Improved in that Kingdom 4. The said Lands with the Improvements cannot be of less Vallew then 8 Millions of Pounds 5. The Forces agreed on by the House of Commons the 19th of March 1688. to be forthwith Raised being put into Sober and Experienced Officers Hands and that Army well Paid and Governed may with God's Blessing in all probability in Twelve Months time Reduce and Recover that Kingdom 6. The whole Charge of that Army in Twelve Months cannot amount unto half a Million of Pounds which is ●ot a 16th of what will be got by the said Conquest which is less then the Protestants have already lost and the Irish Papists got by plundering Houses and Stock off of Lands besides the fall of Rents and Devastation of Plantations 7. The Kings Majesty whose Word is as Sacred as his Office hath by the Declaration aforementioned assured to all such Officers and Souldiers as shall be Aiding and Assisting in the Reducing the said Kingdom that all Lands and Estates that by Law shall by that Rebellion be forfeited to Him shall be distributed and disposed unto the said Army So that the Souldiery having good Pay a Prospect of these Lands and an Assurance of the aforesaid Civil Employs let a Scrutiny be make into all the Military Services in Christendom and see it thence can be Extracted one Instance of Parallel or equal Encouragement to this War of Reducing Ireland It is too sadly known that the Brittish received all Imaginable Discouragement and the Irish all Imaginable Favour since the Year 1660 the respective Chief Governours publick Instructions being to favour the English but their private and more effectual Instructions was still to favour the Irish yet not withstanding those Varieties of Discouragements it is well known that such hath been the Sobriety and Industry even of many of the private Souldiers both of Horse and Foot in the late General Cromwells Army that they were before the present Popish Government under Tyrconnell possessed of Considerable Estates real personal and also in Considerable Publick Employs in that Kingdom and that which is yet more Remarkable and as equally True is That when some of the late Governours in Complyance with their private Instructions put several English out and Irish into Places of Trust and Power they found the said Irish so unable and uncapable to manage them that they were forced against their Wills as well as their private Instructions to return them into the Brittish or English hands from whence they took them Such of the Irish as were Sober Industrious and Men of Estates were much better satisfied that those Imploys were return'd into English hands then to have had them continued in the Irish And that which is more Remarkable is That our present Gracious Soveraign King William Acting his own Principles by making a Law for Ease of Tender Consciences and an 〈◊〉