c. at Court the charge of new Honours and Offices p. 88 The charge of Educating the Sons of Noble Persons c. in Foreign Vniversities and Inns of Court p. 87 The whole Charge of Ireland in the several Branches computed to nine hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred sixty five pounds four shillings per annum And amounts to for the period of 15 years to thirteen millions five hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and sixty pounds thirteen shillings and ten pence THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART CHAP. I. OF Banks and Corporation-Trade the several kinds of Banks p. 1 2. Land or dry Banks most suitable for Ireland p. 3. Ireland's great damage by Insolvent Bankers p. 4. The Method of this dry Bank p. 5. Holland and Venice c. raised themselves by Banks and Company Trade p. 6. The Constitution of the Dutch East-India Company p. 7. The benefit of the Bankers by their joint Stock in Trade p. 8. The Royal Countenance necessary to secure the Credit of the Bank p. 9. The benefit of this Bank-Credit to a Countrey in General p. 10. It will lower Interest ibid. Lower Exchange p. 11. Propagate Manufactures p. 11. Banks will inable Trades-men with small Stocks to manage great Trades p. 12. Secure the Peace as well as increase the Wealth of Ireland p. 12. Banks c. will rescue our Trade out of the hands of Foreigners p. 13. Banks c. will increase our Shipping and promote the Fishing Trade ibid. Bank Security more safe more ready and less troublesome than any other Specialty p. 14. Banks a great conveniency 1. To Gentlemen possessing Estates in several parts of the Kingdom securely to return their rent c. p. 15. A great encouragement to young Merchants with small Stocks ibid. To Clothiers Tanners Chandlers c. where Markets fail p. 16. To persons surprised by Judgments before they can raise Money ibid. A great conveniency to the Nobility and Gentry ibid. To the poor and needy p. 17 The Hans-Towns of Germany raised their Trade by Banks ibid. The great Trade of the Guild of the Hance in the Stillyards in London erected and managed by Banks p. 18 England Ireland's best example which was as low in Trade as Ireland is now till improved by Banks ibid. The Kings and Parliaments of England have encouraged and augmented their Trade by countenancing the old and erecting new Corporations of Trade p. 19 No Expedient but this one can promote the Trade of Ireland p. 20 Corporation-Trade opposed in England by whom and with what success p. 21 22 By Company-Trade the English and Dutch c. have diverted the Trade of Venice c. and sell Persian and Indian Commodities where they used to buy p. 22 25 The Indies unknown until Company-Trade discovered them p. 23 England and Holland obtain'd their great Trade and their true Religion together by sheltering persecuted Christians ibid. Spanish c. Inquisitions a persecution drove away their Trade ibid. When the Dutch and English sent their first Fleets to the East-Indies p. 24 27 Corporation-Trade hath enrich'd all places of its residence p. 25 26 When England prohibited the Transportation of Wools and Importing foreign Cloath p. 25 The Original and great Wealth of the East-India Company at London p. 27 His present Majesty hath Confirmed the Companies He Founded and Erected the Affrican c. Honoured it with Royal and Noble Members and Dignities p. 28 The inconveniency of a confused Trade in the hands of particular Merchants to themselves and the Countrey p. 29 30 The Authors Experience of it in Tallow and Wools c. p. 31 32 Why though England c. divides their Trade into several Companies Ireland should have but one p. 33 Why the ancient Guild of the Hance after above 300 years flourishing was dispriviledg'd p. 33 34. The Solvency of Bank-Security p. 35 36 37. The method of managing the Bank p. 37 38 To place the Authority of the Bank c. by Act of State on the Statute Staple until a Parliament meet p. 39 46 The only Expedient to prevent the Transportation of our Wools p. 39 40 41 42 The Original of the Guild of the Hance very ancient p. 43 The great benefit the Kings of England made of the Staple and how it was mov'd from place to place and striven for by all places p. 44 45 CHAP. II. The Interest of England to promote the Prosperity of the English Interest of Ireland 1 ARgued from the different Constitution of Ireland now to what it was before the last Rebellion p. 1. The English the greatest Proprietors of Land and chiefly inhabiting Cities and Wall-Towns p. 48 The last Act of Settlement differs from all former Royal Grants in several considerable particulars to the advantage of the English Interest p. 50 Ireland under the sole Government of English Magistrates p. 51 England can in nothing so much promote the prosperity of the English Interest of Ireland as by countenancing its Trade p. 51 Englands only way to secure its self against Foreign Invasions and ruine of its Trade is to promote the Potency of the English Interest in Ireland p. 52 Englands neglect herein was the cause of the late Massacre and Rebellion p. 53 The neglect hereof hath cost England more Money c. than Ireland is worth ibid. Lord Deputy Sidney of the same opinion p. 54 Neglecting Trade and Manufacturie the cause of the degenerating of the English and why p. 55 Multitudes of Irish Papists are now English Protestants p. 55 56 58 Mr. Spencers and Heilins opinion of the best way to promote the Protestant Religion in Ireland p. 56 57 Ireland now so constituted it cannot fail of an English Protestant Parliament p. 58 The names and numbers of the Corporations of Ireland sending Members to Parliament p. 59 to 63 A Catalogue of the present Peers of Ireland summon'd to Parliaments in two Columns by which may be observ'd the Protestant Peers far exceed the Papists in number and interest p. 63 to 67 A Catalogue of the Nobility of Ireland anno 1571. And another 1641. by which may be observ'd the antiquity and precedency of the present Noble Families of Ireland p. 70 to 73 It is the interest of the Irish Papists to promote the Potency of the English Interest of Ireland p. 73 Though the subduing of the many Rebellions hath cost England dear yet the Irish at last paid the reckonings p. 73 Englands ancient claim to the Sovereignty of Ireland and the Legality and Justness of their Title by Conquest p. 73 to 75 The weakness of the English Interest of Ireland the cause of the many Rebellions since they deriv'd their States and Honours from the Crown of England p. 75 The degenerate English more dangerous Rebels than the Native Irish p. d6 The Popes Instigation and Encouragement to Desmond and Thomas Fitz-Geralâ— to rebell and to root out the Protestanâ— Religion as a mad and venomous Dâ—ctrine and hellish Opinion p. 76
vast Trade Spain had ingrossed both in the East and West Indies and in Africa they might yet have enjoyed had not cruel de Alva by his inhumane severities forced the Dutch to cast off the Spanish iron Yoke and defend their Liberties whereby as Sir William Temple observes by the great multitudes of people crowded together in a narrow compass of Land they were necessitated to improve their Industry at Sea and after the Spaniards and Fortugals who were then the Subjects of Spain had entirely enjoyed the enriching Trade of the East Indies c. as before for almost one hundred years viz. from Anno 1498. until 1595. the Dutch sent a Fleet from Amsterdam and then in 1600. the English sent four Ships viz. the Assention the Dragon the Hector and Susan under the Command of Captain Lancaster since which by the prudent Government of that Company hath equalized the Portuguies and Dutch having erected Plantations and Factories at Ormus c. in Persia at Agria Cambasan Suraâ— c. in the Moguls Country at Man Salupan Armagon Pecana Siam on the Coast of Chormandel the Isles of Sumatra Bantam c. that now they furnish Italy and Turkie with all those Indian Commodities which about fifty years ago they bought there to the ruine of the Trade of Syria and Egypt c. who have now only an Inland Trade by Caravans from Aleppo Damasco and Mecha c. And out of the Ashes of their Barbary Company ruined by the Civil Wars of Fez arose the Levant or Turkie the most flourishing and beneficial Company now in England incorporated by King James I do but hint these things here to evidence the undoubted advantage of Company Trade insisting largely upon them in my Treatise of Traffique in the Chapter of Discoveries of new Trades And that this way of Corporation-Trade has not only greatly enlarged Trade but enriched the places of its Residence we have manifold instances the ancient Company of Merchant-Adventurers now called the Hamborough Company erected by Edward the first in 1296. was courted by the Duke of Brabant to make their Residence at Antwerpe where they first settled the English Staple and had granted to them great Priviledges and made the City flourish in Trade which being observed by that inspectious Prince Edward the third he to bring the Trade to his own Ports prohibited the Transportation of Wools and granted great encouragement to Dutch Weavers to set up their Craft in England and soon after prohibited all foreign Cloth from being transported into the Realm confirmed by Edward the Fourth who settled their Priviledges by Charter in the year 1406. which hath been confirmed and enlarged by all his Successors Queen Elizabeth for the better vending their Cloths when their Quantity exceeded home Markets gave them power under the Great Seal to treat with foreign Princes and States for places to settle the Residence of their Factors and Stores upon which all the Princes and States in Flanders Holland and Germany strove who should enjoy them and wheresoever they removed they drew a vast Trade after them their present Residence is at Dortrech for the Netherlands and Hamborough for Germany where the chief Court of their Fellowship now resides they transport all sorts of Cloths dressed and dyed Lead Tin Oyl Stockens Hats Spanish Fruits and Wines and make their returns in Linnings Rhenish Wines Mather Hops Sope Wire Copper Brass Iron Steel Quick-silver Gunpowder Flax Hemp Allom Wax c. This Company hath power by their Charter yearly to elect a Governour Deputy Governour and Assistants and to settle their Residents Courts in any parts beyond Sea and several places in England as London York Hull Newcastle c. with power of making Acts and Ordinances so as they are not repugnant to the Law of England for the better Government of their Trade likewise power to hear and decide Causes to implead sine and punish Offendors This grew to be the most flourishing Company for Trade in the world until Philip and Mary erected the Muscovy Company which soon wrested a great part of their Trade from them which were at first called the Corporation for Discovery of new Trades a Design that would well sute with the present state of Ireland whose great Priviledges were confirmed and enlarged as before by Queen Elizabeth much after the method of the other and their Trade much the same and after this studious Princess for the Improvement of the Trade and Wealth of her Country added to these she found the three other Companies beforementioned viz. the Levant or Turkie Company which made the first Discovery of that vast Trade since driven in the Signorie of Venice and the Dominions of the Grand Seignior and thereby oserved the vast Trade betwixt Aleppo and other Levant Ports with the East Indies managed by Land carriage which encouraged them to enquire into a more cheap and gainful way to obtain East India Commodities at first Hand And that produc'd that most famous Country-inriching Company called the East India Company who obtain'd a Charter for great Priviledges from the Queen and hath managed their Trade by a joint Stock reported to be 600000 l. whereby they have built and maintained a gallnt Fleet of stately Ships for War as well as Burthen imployed multitudes of people in their Plantations Ships and Factories to the great Honour and Wealth of their Country And after this in the 21. year of the Reign of that most famous Queen that is in the year 1579. did she incorporate the Eastland Company and endow them with great Priviledges and Immunities to trade in Denmark Sweden Poland Prusia and Pomerland from the River Odera Eastward And it is worth observing how small beginnings in Trade beget great increase Trade like that Grain of Mustard-seed our Saviour speaks of being cast into the ground grows up to a great tree that the Fowls of the air may lodge in the Branches of it and it is also observable if foreign Traffique did live yet it never flourished in this part of the world until it was managed by united Stocks and Policies as in the forementioned instances in our own Country besides what is of the same kind amongst all our Neighbours flourishing in Trade And as in these many examples from past times evidence that they esteemed this way of Traffique the only way to increase Trade so is their Wisdom approv'd and confirm'd by the prudent in this age His Majesty that now is hath set to his Seal that Corporation-trade is the strength of foreign Traffique by his not only confirming what his Royal Predecessors before did but also by his adding the African and Canary Companies the first not only endowed with priviledge that sounds like Princely Prerogatives as power of Peace and War raising Forts building and equipping Ships of War c. to appoint Governors to constitute Laws c. and dignified with the title of the Royal Company and well they may when His Royal Highness hath bore
Health increaseth and that this is Irelands present case is manifest for if it be considered that before the last Rebellion the Irish Interest was potent 1. The Irish were far the greater number of Proprietors of Land possessing ten Acres for one whereas now of the Ten millions eight hundred sixty eight thousand nine hundred forty nine Acres returned by the last Survey of Ireland the Irish Papists are possest but of Two millions forty one thousand one hundred and eight Acres which is but a small matter above the fifth part of the whole and as the Proprietors of Lands so is it in their Plantations for where there was one English Planter before the last Rebellion 1641. it is judged there is three now and in several of the principal Counties next adjacent to England as Wicklow and VVexford where there was ten Irish Papists to one English Protestant the odds now lies on the other hand 2. Before 1641. their Interest in the Lands and Popularity of the Inhabitants necessitated the Government to admit them to all County-Offices as High Sheriffs Justices c. wherby they had opportunity to encourage the Irish and discountenance the English but now not one Irish Sheriff or Justice in the Kingdom 3. Before the Rebellion the chief Inhabitants of all principal Cities and strong Towns were Irish Papists who bore all Offices and managed the chief Trade of those places all which places are now planted or at least governed by English Protestants 4. Before the Rebellion those Freeholders and Proprietors of Lands there were in Ireland were not the Kings Tenants but derived their Titles from the Irish Noblemen and Gentlemen which contracted an immediate dependence upon them and kept an awing influence over them for though the Kings of England were owned as Lords of Ireland yet the Lords of Ireland ruled as Kings and were so stiled by the Kings of England as is observed by Sir John Davis out of several Records saith he They governed their people by their Brehon Law they made their Magistrates and Officers they pardoned and punished all Malefactors they made War and Peace one with another without controlment and this to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth pag. 13 14. So Hovendon p. 312. and were not entirely subjected to the English Laws until the 9th of King James but had that learned Observer lived until the 12th of Charles the Second he would have admitted Ireland was never entirely subjected to the Crown of England nor the Lands of Ireland never properly called the Kings Land until the Act of Settlement then past as Sir Audley Mervin then Speaker to the House of Commons in his Speech to the Duke of Ormonde called that Act Irelands Magna Charta it exceeding all former Grants of the Kings of England and former Submissions of the body of the People of Ireland in these particulars 1. As a free Act of Grace when His Majesty was under no politick Obligation but what meer Grace and Bounty mov'd him to which never any Grant before was for though they were still stiled Acts of Grace yet Reason of State interposed for them which will be easily granted if the State of England and Ireland be compared at the time of those former Royal Confessions when the Irish still treated with their Swords in their hands or at least hid where they knew how to find them if they were not answered in their expectation as in the History of Desmonds and Tyrones c. Rebellion is manifest 2. Former Grants did only dispose of some Countrys or Lordships to some few persons who depended upon the Crown and all others upon them but this of the whole Land that was not before disposed of whereby there is more Tenants to the Crown settled by this Act above forty for one than by any former Grants 3. Not only the Lands of Ireland but all the Cities and strong walled Towns are secured in hands true to the Crown of England by this Act that never were before 4. By this Act there is a Revenue secured to the King sufficient to maintain a compleat Army to preserve the Peace which never was before Therefore I argue the state of the Interest not only of the Crown but of the Kingdom of Ireland is altered as to the Freehold Interest above double nay treble to what it ever was before the English being in possession by that Act of four millions five hundred sixty thousand thirty seven Acres and the Irish but in two millions three hundred twenty three thousand eight hundred and nine so that if the majority of Proprietors may give the denominations to a Country which usually it doth Ireland is become West England Besides this the governing party universally professeth and only incourageth the English publick Worship it is governed by English Laws enacted by English Parliaments and administred by English Judges guarded by an English Army and governed by English Ministers of State to that degree it never was before and all this administred by the absolute Commission from the King of England and must it yet be kept under and esteemed of as an Irish Interest and Country when the very Nature and civil Constitution of Ireland is altered and proportionably ought the Wealth and Prosperity of it to be promoted by England for these Reasons 1. It is the Interest both of the Crown and People of England to enable the English Interest of Ireland not only to support its self in peace but to defend its self in war which nothing but promoting its Trade and Wealth will do especially the Wealth of its Cities and walled Towns for the increasing its Wealth in the Fields doth rather increase its danger by enouraging the needy Natives the rather to rise when they observe how easily they can possess themselves of so great a Booty but the Wealth of the Cities and strong Towns which is the trading Stock of the Nation is secure and ready to be imployed in the defence of their King and Countries Interest when in danger besides they are the only security and refuge to the distressed English when banished from their Country Habitations and these places of strength cannot subsist without Trade and Manufacture but by more chargeable Garisons than the Revenue of Ireland will bear And what Ireland cannot do in order to its safety England must supply to prevent its own danger for if ever an Enemy surprize and possess Ireland especially the French England must maintain a greater standing Force to secure themselves than would have preserved Ireland if imployed in its Defence it is not a groundless proverb He that would England win must with Ireland first begin and if the French who hath already the opposite Coast and Harbours from Dunkirk to Brest ever obtain Ireland they will then surround three parts of four of England and a great part of Scotland so near that in a few hours they may invade what part they please which would necessitate England to be at the charge of
party in expectation matters might go better with them upon the Settlement than they feared the chief Contrivances of the people of each Faction being how to wipe themselves clean with each others foul Clouts by alledging something to extetenuate their own and aggravate others Offences 2. The great Confusion the Duke found that Kingdom in at his landing all Interests being unsettled and Minds unsatisfied both which were necessary to be composed and determined before the Improvement of the Kingdom by Trade could be thought on for till men knew their Interest in the Country as to their real Estates they had little reason to be much concerned in improving their personal Uncertain Titles to Lands are always attended with certain omissions of Improvements for men are not willing to build Houses for others to dwell in nor to improve Lands for others to possess Which was then more notoriously the state of the Inhabitants of Ireland in general than usually befalls a Country which will appear if you do but weigh the many distinct and contrary Interests producing several violent opposite Factions and Parties that Ireland was under at the Dukes access to the Government And for your Information or Satisfaction herein take this brief view of the state from the year 1660. to the year 1662. the Duke arrived 1. The Irish themselves notwithstanding the body of them could not be unsensible of their Guiâ—â— in the bloody massacring of so many hundreds oâ— thousands of English in cold blood yet they alledge their Displeasure was not against the King nor against the Kings good Subjects but for theiâ— own preservation against the fury of the Puritâ—â—â— party then so much favoured by the Parliament of England and therefore they hoped the worst construction would not be put upon their Actions but that the edge of that sharp Law of Decimo Septimo against their Estates passed by the King under some sort of necessity to satisfie the discontented people of England might be blunted A second sort of them that pleaded they were not concerned in the bloody Massacre and first Rising for they tendred their Service to the Crown till they observ'd the Commotion to be so general and themselves so far suspected they were not trusted that they had only choice which party they would be ruined by and therefore fell in with the rest of their Country men hoping by their Interest in their Councils to prevent further Extremities and to keep them in a capacity of accepting reasonable terms of Submission to the Government of England A third sort pleaded they accepted of the Cessation 1643. and closed in with the Peace in the years 1646 1648. and from that time were faithful to the Crown and bore Arms in the defence of its Interest against the Usurpers and many of them after they could do the King no further Service in Ireland served under the Banner of his Friends beyond Sea without the least defect until the time his of Majesties happy Restoration and from thence they concluded they had made amends for all their former faults There were a fourth sort who though least in number yet most deserving that pleaded Innocency as without any defect in the whole Transaction and they expected not only their own Estates but Reparation for past Sufferings And as these several Interests and Factions of the Irish thus divided them into parties so was it with the English Protestants 1. The unspotted Royalists that both in the English and Irish War never served under other but the Kings Banner they expected to be both first and best provided for who had a special provision made for them though not what they expected by the Act of Settlement under the denomination of the Forty nine Men. 2. Such who had served the King faithfully in his Wars in England and Ireland until the Kings Government was removed and then accepted of Imployments under the Usurpers in Ireland and these were generally known by the denomination of the Old Protestant party 3. They which seemed to be the most considerable both for Number and Interest being possest of the chief Imployments both Military and Civil at the Kings Restoration was the new Interest of Adventurers and Souldiers the first claiming Propriety by the Act of Decimo septimo and the other by their Service against the Irish in which they alledged they had done the King good Service though by his Enemies Commissions and they being suspicious the Lands of Ireland would not hold out to satisfie the Expectations of all those Interests it begat Factions both between the Adventurer and Souldier and between each party among themselves Those Adventurers that had payed their Subscriptions in due time pleaded Priviledge before those who failed in that point then the original Subscribers found themselves aggrieved the douâ—â—â—ng Ordinance men should invade their first Security so amongst the Souldiers those then in Arms pleaded in consideration of their good Services in the Kings Restoration they deserved to have the Kings Favours in the the Act of Settlement limited to such as were mustered in the next Muster after the Kings Interest was avowed but the others alledged they never intended to bring in the King until they had run themselves into such confusions in their Counsels and Convulsions in their State they knew not what to do which gave a fair opportunity to those Royallists amongst them in that shuffle of the Cards to turn up the Kings Interest Trumps Now these many different Interests rendred the work of Irelands Settlement both tedious and difficult that required both a skilful and tender Hand to compose for these contrary Interests produced contrary Humours which until the â—â—ke of Ormond landed work'd to that height 〈◊〉 opposition that every Eye was filled with envy and every Brow with indignation one against the other that if they met on the Road or passed by eâ—â—h other in the Street contempt and prejudice to a strange degree might be read in their deportment yet all the Factions unless that termed Fanatick bore up with a competent confidence but the generality of that party seemed to be much dejected every day more and more withering in their hopes in so much that many of them were preparing for voluntary Exile some to Plantations in America others into Holland or such parts of England as they supposed obscurity might give them most quiet and safety and in order thereunto sold considerable Interests in this Kingdom at very low rates some giving one moyety some loss to Favourites at Court to secure the Remain to themselves But soon after understanding that the Act of Settlement was neer perfected and that His Majesty was gratiously inclined to make no considerable distincton of Interests therein nor exception of persons included in his gratious Act of Indemnity â—â—d that the Duke of Ormonde who of all men had been most disobliged by the late Powers they feared would have been their greatest Enemy was the most concerned to secure their Interest
evidence the authentickness of this opinion by the practice of our Princes since the Conquest p. 122 to 156 A Copy of the present Establishment of Ireland p. 156 to p. 162 A Table for reducing Plantation-Acres into English c. p. 162 163 The establishment of the Subsidies of Ireland p. 164 to 172 CHAP. VI. On Coins IN answer to this Question whether it be advisable to enhance the Value or debase the Alloy of the currant Money of Ireland p. 137 to 188 The Contents of the Supplement p. 181 SECT I. THe Objection answered If the Government of Ireland by its own Members be of so great advantage to the Trade and Wealth of Ireland why was it no more advanc'd under the Lords Justices and Duke of Ormond in their nine years Government p. 181 to 190 Sect. 2. Answering the Objection p. 93 What those Popish Principles are that make them so desperately dangerous to humane Society 1. Not the Religion of their Church relating to Worship but the Policies of their State respecting Government p. 193 194 Their Principles inconsistent with humane Society abstracted p. 195 196 to 199 Their Principles of Treason and Rebellion c. collected p. 200 to 203 The Comment or Gloss made on their inhumane rebellious Principles by their own Authors p. 204 to 207 Since all these wicked Principles have attended the Popes pretended Infallibility and Supremacie from whence did they proceed Answered 1. Negatively not from Christ nor his Apostles nor from the ancient Fathers nor Councels p. 208 209 2. Positively from Vsurpation Treachery and Rebellion p. 210 SECT II. Shewing the Original of their bloody Principles p. 211 The Jesuits first adopted them who are charactered by the locusts prophecied of to ascend out of the Bottomless-pit Rev. 9 p. 211 212 No other Votaries or Orders of Friars c. answers the description p. 213 The design of their Institution by the Pope was to manage his Treasons c. against Princes p. 214 SECT III. Shews that no Authority but the Pope and his Illegal Council of Trent ever confirm'd their Institution p. 214 The Illegality of the Council of Trent proved p. 215 216 217 Rome is no Mother-Church nor Mistress of other Churches and why p. 218 Rome only hath the Primacy in Apostacie ibid. The testimony of Rome's vile Apostacie from her own Learned and Applauded Authors p. 219 220 221 The bloody work Rome's Apostacy and the Pope's Rebellion against Emperors c. made in Italy p. 222 They enjoyed not the Supremacie until they had so vexed and wearied the Emperors that to stay the stream of blood they kept running in Christendom they permitted them to do what they pleased p. 222 All Papists in Ireland not jesuited Papists p. 222 223 Not only their principles but their persons and Order exploded and banisht bymost Popish Princes and States p. 223 224 SECT IV. Of the natural consequences of their inhumane principles p. 225 They abrogate all Laws of Humanity and Divinity p. 225 226 The iniquity of their principles aggravated by fathering their villanies on innocent persons p. 227 The Popes advantage above all Tyrants in the World to Massacre and Assassinate by his Emissaries in all parts to perform his pleasure p. 228 Instances of their detestable stabbing and poysoning of Princes c. ibid. They have made Temples and Sanctuaries their Slaughter-houses in time of Worship ibid. They have poysoned their Disciples by the Sacramental Wine p. 229 What vitious men many of their infallible Popes have been ibid. Like Popes like Preists like Priests like People p. 230 SECT V. Shews their Tyrannical practice since they usurpt the Supremacy p. 231 Instances of Emperors and Princes Excommunicated Deposed and Destroyed by them p. 232 233 Their imperious insultings over mighty Princes submitting to their censurre p. 234 The reason why so many High born Potent Princes have so sordidly subjected themselves to their Tyranny is from Gods judgment upon them p. 235 Princes no sooner become Slaves to the Pope but turn Tyrants over their own Subjects ibid. After his Holiness became his Mightiness he contented not himself to insult over some Christian Princes by the aid of others but brought them all to lay their profane necks under his holy feet by his own power p. 235 236 The Popes cruel project by the Jesuits to have incenst the Turk against the Patriarch of Constantinople and thereby to have destroyed all the Asian Christians that would not own his Supremacy p. 236 237 The saying of Rodulph the Emperor as to the danger of Princes imposing on their Subjects consciences p. 237 Shutting the mouth of Gods Ministers hath usually lifted up the hands of Gods judgments p. 238 The Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies ibid. Of all the Countries in the World England with its Territories hath been the mark the Jesuits have levelled their fiery darts at for 100 years past p. 239 SECT VI. Of the inconsistency of their principles with the just Power and Rights of Temporal Princes p. 140 The most Sovereign Prince under the Popes Jurisdiction more Slaves than any Conquered or Tributary Prince is to the Great Turk instances p. 240 No hereditary Title though of the most ancient Royal Dissent can secure them p. 241 No legal Election c. can do it p. 242 No strength of Arms nor strong Holds can preserve them against their Assassinations p. 243 No Oaths Articles of Peace nor publick Leagues can do it p. 243 244 No Sovereign Prince in the World that either is free or knows how to be so from the Popes Supremacy if not infatuated but would choose it p. 245 Popish Harmonie is only in their Errors Superstitions and Immoralities ibid. Popish Slavery not only Corporal but Spiritual we must believe against reason and sense or be damn'd Hereticks p. 246 Christians must either he Rebels at home or Hereticks at Rome if the Pope and their Prince fall out ibid. We must believe their Blasphemie is Pietie and their Rebellion Loyaltie or be perverse Hereticks instances p. 246 247 The bloody Massacres of Paris and Ireland were perpetrated in Gods name and for Gods Glory and Service p. 246 247 Their most horrid Treasons and Rebellions must be esteemed Loyaltie and for the service of the Prince they rebel against p. 248 to 252 It would be better both for the Papists and Protestants if moral loyal Papists would distinguish themselves from Jesuited Papists p. 352 Vnity in Loyaltie on Civil Interests much more easie and safe than in Religious p. 252 253 The Scripture as positive against Subjects Rebellion on the account of Religion as any one Wickedness there condemn'd p. 254 The Wars betwixt the Protestants of France Germany Belgia c. against their Princes was not primarily for Religion but what p. 255 The difference betwixt Papists and Protestants in their claims of liberty of Conscience p. 255 No vengeance of God upon Popish Persecutors will restrain them instances p. 256 257 SECT
Essentials in Worship agreed and maintain'd by Conforming and Nonconforming Protestants p. G. F. Fishing how to increase p. 13 Friars their several Orders whence and why instituted p. 212 213 Fundamentals agreed to by Dissenters with the Church p. G. G. Governors of Ireland unacquainted with the Country not capable of well managing its Affairs and why p. 102 to 107 This hath been the opinion and practice of our Kings from its first Conquest of which instances p. 108 109 In what cases excepted p. 110 111 I. Ireland's English Interest potent above what it was before the last Rebellion p. 47 48 Irelands Interest in being Govern'd by its own Members p. 47 to 96 Irish Papists their interest in the potency of the English Interest in Ireland p. 73 to 94 Ignorance in the Scripture the cause of Papists Rebellion p. 91 92 Judges and Juries of Ireland much more ingaged to suppress Sedition and Rebellion in Ireland than those of England can be and why p. 105 106 Jesuits their inhumane bloody principles from their own Authors p. 195 to 203 Papists reflections and glosses on them p. 204 to 207 Jesuits their Original and Characte p. 211 to 214 Jesuits by what Authority their Order Instituted p. 214 Jesuits banished and their Tenents exploded by whom p. 222 to 225 Jesuits the natural consequence of their Principles p. 225 They abrogate the Laws of Humanity Morality and Divinity p. 226 Their dexterity in fathering their Brats on innocent persons p. 227 Jesuits their suitable practices to their bloody Principles p. 231 to 240 Jesuits imployed by the Pope to destroy the Greek Church p. 236 Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies p. 238 L. Lands of Ireland most possest by English Proprietors p. 48 Loyalty evidenc'd in many of the Irish Papists p. 89 to 203 Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany more differ than English Protestants yet esteem each other Protestants and unite against Popery p. H. Laws against single life useful in Ireland and why p. A. B. C. M. Massacre of Ireland how inhumane and barbarous p. 81 to 87 Militia of Ireland is its great Security p. 98 Militia neglected the cause of the easie massacring the naked Protestants 1641 p. 81 Manufacturies of Ireland by whom incouraged and erected how ruined p. 188 to 191 Mystical Babylon who in the opinion of Papists p. 220 N. Nobility or Peers of Ireland most English Protestants p. 63 to 67 Nobility their Catalogue 1571 and 1641 p. 67 to p. 73 Non-residents enjoying Salleries a great loss to Ireland p. 99 O. The Original of most Noble and Worshipful English Families of Ireland were from Offices p. 96 Ormond Duke the longest Regency over Ireland under the greatest difficulties and why p. 112 113 Ormond the great confusion he found Ireland in at his access to the Government 1662. and how soon composed p. 182 to 188 P. Parliaments of Ireland altered in their Constitution from an Irish to an English Interest p. 58 to 63 A good Plea for Irish Papists against their Jesuited Priests that shall again instigate them to rebel p. 88 Planting of Ireland discouraged by restraint of Trade and being liable to be tried for capital Offences by Judges and Juries in England to whom they are unknown c. p. 106 Poysonings and Stabbings the Popes arguments to convince gainsayers instances p. 228 229 Principles of the Jesuits inconsistent with the just power and right of Princes p. 240 R. Religion Protestant condemned as a venomous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion by the Papists p. 76 Religion Protestant why no more received by Irish Papists p. 90 91 Rebellion and bloodiness of Popery above all other Religions in the World whence p. 193 194 Rome can be no Mother-Church nor Superior to others why p. 218 Rome hath only the primacy of Apostacy from the principles of the Primitive Church p. 218 to 222 Rome c. always promoted and encouraged the rebellions of Ireland p. 76 to 85 Romes struggles with the Greek Church for Supremacy reduced them to Turkish Slavery p. 237 S. Statute Staple its original use and method p. 43 to 47 Souldiers who are best for Field-Armies p. 98 99 to 120 The Statutes of the 10 th of Hen. 7. and 23d of Hen. 8. no bar to persons born in Ireland from being Lord Lieutenant c. p. 100 101. Souldiers 1000 bred in Ireland worth 2000 bred in England for Irish Service and why p. 118 Subsidies of Ireland their establishment p. 164 to 173 Supremacy from the Pope from whence p. 208 209 Supremacy a Tallent so well improved by the Pope that he deserves it p. 234 Schism Criminal when p. D. E. T. Trade of England ingrost by the Guild of the Hance p. 18 Trade in Companies countenanc'd by the Kings and Parliaments of England since Edward the Third p. 20 Trade to the East-Indies when first obtained p. 24 Treasure the vast summ Ireland hath cost England above what it was ever worth p. 53 Table reducing Plantation Acres into English p. 162 1â—â— Trade why no more improv'd under the Government of the Justices and Duke of Ormond p 181 Tyrants are those Princes over their own Subjects who are Slaves to the Pope p. 235 Turkish Slavery of the Greek-Church the Product of the Popes Supremacy p. 2 7 Trent Council illegal c. p. 217 U. Usher Bishop his opinion declared it was the Interest of Irish Papists to support and strengthen the Interest of the Crown of England in Ireland p. 77 to 81 Usher Bishop Prophecies of the Irish Rebellion 40 years before it was and 〈◊〉 great trouble to the Protestants by thâ— Papists yet to come p. 80 81 Vengeance of God dreadful on the Irish foâ— their bloody Massacre 1641 p. 86 87 Vnity though boasted of by Papists yet arâ— they much more divided than Protestants p. H. I. Vnion of Papists chiefly in Errors and Immoralities Vnion in Religion how far necessary amongst Protestants to promote the Prosperity and secure the Peace of Ireland p. C. D. W. Weaving Broad cloath when first set up in England p. 25 Wools first prohibited their transportation p. 25 Wools may easily be prevented transporting expedients proposed p. 39 to 43 Wools transporting the ruine of our Clothing Trade p. 39 Wall'd-Towns to be increased and well planted to secure the safety of English Protestants in Ireland p. A. Women drunk with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17. who in the Papists opinion p. 219 221 Y. Guild of the Hance its Antiquity and great Trade p. 43 Their dissolution and why p. 34 Z. Zeal preposterous like Hell hot without light that makes different Opinions different Religions saith B p. Bramhall p. E. Zeal Popish and Jesuitical that esteems all Separation Criminal Schism ibid. Books lately Printed A Judgment of the Comet which became first generally visible to us in Dublin Decemb the 13th 1680. By a person of Quality Foxes and Firebrands or a Specimen of the Danger and Harmony of Popery and
had they been permitted quietly to enjoy this small part they so rightfully possest they had gone no further But instead thereof Roderick King of Connaght then sole Monarch of Ireland raiseth the whole Kingdom to drive out Mac Morrough and his Welshmen upon which he appeals to Strongbow and renewes former contracts who hasts over with about 1200 fresh Men by them wars with the Waterfordians who were in Arms against him took the City and married the Kings Daughter with an assurance of the Reversion of the Kingdom and soon after disperses his Enemies then surrendred all his Conquests to the King who came over with a new Force to secure his Interest which so terrified the Irish that all their Kings and great Lords proffered to to be tributary and swore Allegiance and had they so continued they had felt no farther damages But no sooner was the Kings back turned but they are again up in Arms to disposess the English of what they had so justly atchieved who still subdued them and gained ground of them and obtained Grants of their new Conquests until all the Irish Kings and great Lords were vanquished and their Lands c. possest by the English Victors the Heirs of Ulster and Connaght married to the Kings Subjects whose successive Heirs in process of time were married unto the Royal Family and so their Lands and Honours came Hereditary in the Crown who of right disposed of them at pleasure Now had it not been the Interest as well as the Duty of the Irish to have submitted to their first Concessions Then Dermot Mac Morrough had sustained no wrong his right Heir had enjoyed his Dominion and the rest of the Irish great Lords had enjoyed their particular Rights none pretended to disturb them until constrained in their own defence So if we take a further view of their many Insurrections and perfidious Rebellions since they held their Honours and Lands from the Crown of England it will appear they were tempted to it by the weakness of the English Interest as in times of troubles in England by the Barons Wars and Struggles betwixt the two Roses c. When the Kings of England drew over part of their Army for Ireland some taking one side and some the other which did not only weaken Englands Strength in Ireland but divided what were left into powerful Factions betwixt the great English Lords of Ireland which became the cause of the ruine of that great Family of Desmond with several others of good Rank who though degenerated from their English Civilities yet after they turned Rebels against their Prince they fell wholly off to the Interest Manners and Customs of his and their own former Irish Enemy whereby Ireland was to be new conquered and replanted for the degenerate English were more stubborn Rebels and with more difficulty subdued than the rebellious Natives for although their Minds and Manners were degenerated they had so much English Blood left in their Veins as gave them English Courage and Resolution whereby Tho. Fitz Giralds and Desmonds Rebellions became harder work to subdue than any before them they also receiving great Incouragements and Aids from the Pope and King of Spain upon the account of Religion they became obdurate the same Indulgences that were granted to the Souldiers fighting against the Turk in the holy War being sent them whereby their Consciences were not only released from their Obligations of Allegeance to their Prince but strongly engaged on the behalf of holy Church to extirpate that mad and venemous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion as the Protestant Faith was then termed in a Pamphlet then publish'd intituled A Declaration of the Divines of Salamanca and Vallidolid dispersed through Ireland by O Sullivan a Spanish Priest which with divers other practices of the Irish to shake off the English Government is rehearsed and press'd by that pious Prelate Primate Usher the Glory of the Irish Protestant Church in his elegant Speech to an Assembly of all the States of Ireland April 1627. in which he defends my Assertion that it is the Interest of the Irish to aid and support the Prosperity of the English Interest amongst them and had they had Grace to have believed him some thousands of Irish Families now utterly ruined might have been in a prosperous state And after he had minded them of their traiterous tendering the Regency of Ireland to the French King and upon his refusal to the Spaniard which was by him accepted for although Henry the fourth of France was not Apostate enough to invade his Protestant Neighbours yet Charles the fifth of Spain and his Son Philip were Papist enough to admit the Popes Donation which the Irish obtained for them Title good enough not only to claim Ireland and invade it with several Armies of Italians and Spaniards who landed at Kinsale and Kerry to their cost but also to attempt England by their supposed invincible Armado in 88. but the invincible just God did not only deliver us from their power the Sword destroying his Land Souldiers in Ireland and the Sea swallowing up his Naval Force assayling England but also from that time blasted the Counsels and Successes of that aspiring Monarch that their Fame and Potency hath ever since dwindled away Portugal and the Low Countries soon after revolted and the stately Don who then talk'd and acted as proudly as Monsieur doth now was so far from beeing able to invade his Neighbours he hath been put to his shifts to secure his Hereditary Countries and as old as I am I hope to live to see it the case of Monsieur who though now stiled the most Christian King hath declared himself the most inveterate Enemy to the most Christian Faith and Profession in the Christian World and let but the Defender of the Faith turn his Subjects loose with his Commission in their pockets they would soon covince him of it and let him know that the English Blood that inspired their Ancestors at the Battel of Agincourt c. is boyling hot in their Veins and that Charles the Second may be as dreadful to France as ever was Henry the fifth c. when he pleaseth if our God hath not given us up for our impious provocations to be a prey and a spoil as he did Israel to the Assyrians a bitter and hasty Nation But to return to my Argument that it is the Interest of the Irish Papists to further the Protestant English Interest in Ireland I shall return to my reverend Author saith he They put me in mind of the Philosophers Observations that such who have a vehement respect to a few inferiour things are easily misled to overlook many great things so saith he they have so deep a sense of their present burthen of contributing small matters towards the support of the Kings Army to secure us from foreign Invasions that they overlook all those miserable Desolations that will come upon them by a long and heavy War which the having of an
the naked English were massacred therefore it is the Interest of this Kingdom it should be penal in the Officers of the Army to inlist and muster any of the settled Inhabitants capable of serving in the Militia for thereby the Country is weakned in its Military strength and the King disappointed of a marching Army whereas were all persons thus qualified disbanded and the Officers prohibited listing such without special License from the General you would soon have the Foot Companies filled with young brisk Lads who would throng out of England for Entertainment which would more tend to increase and strengthen the English Interest in Ireland than any other Expedient that can be proposed As it is the Interest of Ireland to give incouragement to English Protestants to come and enjoy Military Imployments and Preferments among them so is it the same for Civil and Ecclesiastical Imployments provided still they settle and abide with us But that which is the Grievance of this Kingdom is that either Military or Civil Imployments should be enjoyed by Nonresidents or otherwise persons who only come over to enjoy the Profit of their Office and so soon as they have received what Benefit it affords to return for England and carry their Gains with them of which sort Ireland has most suffered by English Chief Governours and English Farmers and Commissioners of the Revenue and their Attendants and Dependants coming and returning with them the Damage sustained by this Kingdom in the period of 15 years thereby is computed in the Chapter of Irelands involuntary Charge and Expence And that which I shall further endeavour to demonstrate is that it is not only its damage in respect of the Charge Ireland sustains but many other ways inconvenient and prejudicial 1. For the chief Governour though there might be some reason of State in times past why they should not only be of English Blood but English by Birth and Interest yet the case is altered now and the Act of Parliament in the 10th of Hen. 7th that none but such as were born in the Realm of England should be Constables of the Castles of Dublin Trim Athlone Leistipe Carlingford Wicklow c. had no respect to the civil politick Government but the Execution of penal Laws upon Offenders those Castles being made use of as Prisons to secure dangerous persons in which is declared in the body of the Statute viz. Which Castles have been negligently kept and such as have been committed to the Constables or Keepers of them for Treason Felony c. suffered to escape wilfully to the great prejudice of our Soveraign Lord and of all the said Land therefore be it ordained and enacted c. so that other Act 23d of Hen. 8th to regulate the Election of the chief Governour by the Council on the death of the Lord Lieutenant c. until the Kings pleasure was known did not respect preferring English by Birth before English by Blood but to secure the Sword from unfit Hands who by their powerful Interest might awe their own Election and be mischievous before the King could declare his pleasure as appears by the said Act * Irish Stat. fol. 214 215. as followeth The said Counsellours have full Power and Authority by vertue of this Act to elect and chuse one such person as shall be an Englishman and born within the Realm of England being no spiritual person to be Iustice and Governor of this Realm of Ireland during the Kings Highness Pleasure if there shall be at that time any such person within this Realm c. if not then to elect and chuse two persons of the said Council of English Blood and Sirname being no spiritual person c. which I cite to refute that vulgar Error that the Lord Lieutenant c. must be born in England because otherwise he is not capable of governing in the Castle of Dublin whereas the Office of Constable is a distinct inferior thing from the Governor of the Castle but whatever reason of State former times might have the case is otherwise now for as it is shewn in the Chapter of Englands Interest in Irelands Prosperity the state of the English Interest in Ireland is changed from a weak infirm state that needed Physick to a strong healthful state that only requires Food the Propriety of Lands the Plantation of Cities and strong Towns inhabited and governed by English the Countries so planted with English as all our High Sheriffs Justices of the Peace c. all English and the English Laws are duely and equally in all parts executed by English Judges and Officers c. 〈◊〉 â—jâ—rity of both Houses of Parliament Engl◠〈…〉 was never the case of Ireland â—â—fore that 〈◊〉 â—ow needs nothing but diligent 〈…〉 câ—â—roborate and improve its advantag◠〈◊〉 which none but such who are acquainted with 〈…〉 and Constitution and thoroughly 〈…〉 prosperity are capable of 〈…〉 1. Being unâ—â—quâ—iâ—â—â—â— with intelligent persons of the several Parties they 〈◊〉 understand the various and different â—â—â—nouâ— and Interests of the people indeed if the Inhabitants were all Irish Papists or all English Protestants or were these two grand parties of entire Interest among themselves their work were more easie but as they have each their grand Interest and bond of Friendship the Papists the Interest of their Church by whose aid and countenance they expect their Succour and the Protestants the Interest of their Prince by whose Authority and Favour they enjoy all they possess yet they have each amongst themselves their different and peculiar Interests both Religigious and Civil as I shall after shew And a Chief Governour unacquainted with persons and things will find it difficult work to carry himself to the equal satisfaction of all parties with Security to the Government and Incouragement of Trade c. 2. The short continuance sometimes two sometimes three years rarely four we had three in less than eight years viz. from the Lord Roberts entring September 18th 1669. to the Earl of Essex's surrender August 24th 1677. so that by that time they understand their Work they are called from it saith Borlacy The vicisitude of Governours hath been observed by some to be exceeding prejudicial to the publick private Respects often introducing notable things in the State according to their Interests who governed not the publicks diversi Imperatoribus mores diversa fuêre studia sometimes to the degenerating of the old English into the Irish customs through their negligence and indulgence other times to the alienating the Irish by their severity from the benefit of a well tempered and orderly Government both equally destructive to the Prince And yet too long a Residence in so eminent a Place may over-heat a great Spirit if not bounded with excellent Principles Whence the Romans those great Masters of Government rarely admitted their Vicegerents to brood on a Province that their Continuance there might not increase Self-interest The longest time any continued in this Government how
such a dread of the like Miseries that might be perpetrated in England by them moved the Parliament to desire of the King the Ordering the Militia on pretence for the better security of the Nation against Papists and speedier Suppression of the Irish Rebellion upon which Head arose that woful Breach on which that unnatural War with all its dismal consequences succeeded from that time began the rude Tumults of London Apprentices c. and all other misbehaviour as you may read in Scobels Collections of that years Transactions And on that occasion succeeded that Petition and large Remonstrance from the Parliament presented to the King December 14. 1641. which laid the foundation of all our succeeding Miseries so that all Englands Scotlands and Irelands Troubles since Henry the eighth shak'd off the Papal Yoke have arose either from the Papists Struggles to recover their tyrannical Dominion over these Kingdoms or the Divisions they have made amongst Protestants by their wily sleights And what their Plots have been against the Life of Charles the second and the Peace of England of late we are wearied with reading the Discoveries and Evidences in Print I shall only insert their Oath of Secresie which will serve for an Epitome of the whole Plot at least the Design of it and indeed it is the truest Explanation of all their former Oaths of Confederacy extant In this the Monks Hood is thrown by of defending and maintaining His Majesties just Rights c. They here clearly renounce and disown any Allegiance and do swear to help his Holiness's Agents c. to extirpate and root out and destroy the said pretended King of England c. The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron February 2. 1676. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the blessed Mary ever Virgin the blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the blessed St. John Baptist the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to you my Ghostly Father do declare and in my heart believe the Pope Christs Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christs Churh here on Earth and that by vertue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be killed Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this Doctrine and his Holinesses Rights against all Usurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the holy Roman Catholick Religion I do renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his inferour Officers and Magistrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrine to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrine and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the holy See of Rome and the Religion there professed I further do promise and declare that I will keep secret and private and not divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by you my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be active and not desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Punishments shall make me discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do swear by the blessed Trinity and by the blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable and do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to witness my real intention to keep this Oath In testimony whereof I do receive this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist By this Oath it is evident Popelings are no Changelings Hildebrands Principles commencing an Dom. 606. are here repeated in their full strength above a thousand years after and why these treasonable Plots and Principles were not since the time of this Oath effectually perpetrated is so notoriously manifest in the multitudes of Prints published on that occasion it evidenceth it was not for want of good will on their parts And although God hath gratiously and wonderfully preserved the precious Life of the King and in him the Lives of us all that value our Religion Yet have these Incendiaries not lost their labour but have accomplished that which is next to cutting all our Throats viz. the fomenting a Misunderstanding and Jealousie betwixt the most indulgent and compassionate Prince and his faithful and loyal Subjects A doleful consideration it is to all serious loyal Hearts to observe a Prince so lately received with all expressible passions of Joy not only by those that expected Gain and Advancement but by others that knew they should suffer Loss as to their private Fortunes yet were so weary of their past and then present Confusion and so well satisfied in the Kings Gratious Declarations and Intentions they could and did say as Mephibosheth to David For as much as our Lord the King is come again in peace let Zibah take all let Royalists but not Papists take our Crown and Bishops Lands our Regiments and Troops c. our Hearts shall joyn with our Hands to lift the King into his Throne which we defie all other Hands to do without us so England c. may be once more settled And with what mutual content both King and People have enjoyed each other till the very day this last Hell-hatch'd Plot broke out is notorious to all Europe as well as Great Britain and Ireland till then we heard of no Court nor Country Parties no Whiggs nor Tories c. but in Irelands Boggs c. no Petitioners Abhorrers or Addressers but what the King was pleased with no executing penal Laws on Dissenters but on the contrary Subjects entirely and universally endeared to a Prince in his own nature compounded of of Tenderness and Sympathy pleading with Parliaments against penal Statutes and proposing to their Consideration that some Provision might be made to enable him to dispence with such Protestants who through misguided Conscience could not conform to the Ceremonies Discipline c. of the Church vid. Speeches Octob. 26. 1662. and again Mar. 6. 1678. His Majesty did not only press the House but also commanded the Lord Chancellor to commend to their consideration not only what might tend to preserve the Protestant Religion in general but for an