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A65409	An answer to the late King James's declaration to all his pretended subjects in the kingdom of England, dated at Dublin-castle, May 8, 1689 ordered by a vote of the Right Honourable the House of Commons, to be burnt by the common-hangman.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1298; ESTC R38525	17,178	40

false light which led Him to imploy none about Him with any intimacy of confidence but those of His own Persuasion prov'd an Ignis fatuus that cheated Him into Paths never trod by any of His Predecessors but to their destruction If He had been so happy as to have continued in His most Secret Councels a great many Persons of the Reform'd Religion whom He kept at a distance though to amuse the Nation He allowed them the empty Names of Privy Councellors He had not brought three Kingdoms to the brink of Ruine nor upon Himself so hard a fate Yet I must acknowledge some part of the obligation we have to these Gentlemen that of late had the sole conduct of King IAMES His Affairs For in giving Him such Counsels as His greatest Enemies could have wish'd Him they prov'd the occasion of our being at this day happy under the Auspicious Reign of Their Majesties being Princes of the same Religion and Interests with Their People And we may justly say as Themistocles of old We had undoubtedly perish'd if we had not perish'd How little is King Iames oblig'd to His Secretary that penn'd this Declaration since he so foolishly rakes up the Remembrance of those things that made Him and His Government odious to the World by the names of Calumnies and Stories which it was so much his Master's Interest to bury in silence Good God! Were the late palpable and baresac'd Incroachments upon the Fundamental Laws of the Nation but Calumnies Were the open Violations of Solemn Oaths Promises and Ingagements but Stories Does King IAMES or His French and Irish Councellors imagine that we have so soon forgot His Promises made in Council not many hours after His Brother's Death and his conspicuous Breaches of them not many months thereafter Can we allow our selves to forget that all the Trusts both in Court Bench and the Army were fill'd up with these very Men whom Reiterated Laws had rendred incapable of them Was a Person 's sitting at the Council-board whose very being found in England was death by the Law but a mere Calumny Can a few months be able to obliterate the Memory of that Affair of Magdalen Colledge one of the most open Invasions of Property that could be Have we lost the Remembrance of that Illegal Ecclesiastical Court and the Tyrannick Judgments past therein Have we not seen a Reverend Prelate suspended from his Function merely because he would not do what he could not that is for not condemning a man unheard Have not we seen Seven of the Spiritual Peers of England sent Prisoners to the Tower and brought as Criminals to the Bar for barely representing the Reasons why they could not obey an Arbitrary Command contrary to their Conscience Both England and our Neighbouring Nation have too many Reasons to remember the Late King Iames's assuming to himself an Arbitrary and Despotick Power not only to dispence with Laws and the firmest Constitutions but to act diametrically opposite to them Can King Iames's Oratory persuade us That the continuing to Levy the Customs and additional Excise which had been only granted during the Late King Charles's Life before the Parliament could meet to renew this Grant was but a Calumny Was the strange Essay of Mahometan Government acted at Taunton and Lyme and the no less strange Proceedings of that Bloody Chief Justice in his Western Circuit justly term'd his Campaign for it was an open Hostility to all Law for which and the like Services he had the reward of the Great Seal were they all but Stories We have too good Reason not to forget the many Violences committed by the Soldiers of a standing Army in most Parts of England and Scotland which are the most severe and insupportable Invasions of Property These and such like with a great many more were the things that render'd King Iames's Government justly Odious to the Brittish World and made these three Kingdoms groan after Liberty If so grave and Tragick a Subject could allow it I could be almost tempted to laugh at that Expression in the Declaration of his Enemies not daring to attempt the proving these Charges to the World which is all one as if a Man in the severest fit of the Gout should be desir'd to prove that he is so when the Sense of the Pain proves too sad a remembrancer of his Distemper And indeed this part of King Iames's Declaration merits no other answer than that of the Philosopher to him who deni'd motion When making a step up and down the Room he vouchsafed him no other Refutation of his Ridiculous Assertion than these two words hicne Motus In fine It will be equally impossible to persuade the World that these Actions that render'd King Iames's Government Odious to the World were but Calumnies and Stories as to persuade a Man upon the Rack that he feels no pain How unluckily have the Penners of this Declaration stumbled upon that Expression of his Enemies not caring what Slavery they reduce the Kingdoms to Quis tulerit Gracchos That King Iames had in a great measure enslav'd these Nations and was upon the Ripening his designs in Conjunction with Lewis the 4th to teach us a French kind of Subjection has appear'd in legible Characters by the whole Scheme of his Actings But since his present Majesties Accession to the Throne there is not the least footstep of Slavery left us we are blest with a King that takes the Advice of his Parliament and owns no distinct Interest from that of his People a Prince who to deliver us from Popery and Slavery has ventur'd his All and who by his Conduct at home and his Allies abroad is capable to render us happy if our own Divisions and Folly do not precipitate us into an inevitable and unpitied Ruin. In the next place King Iames tells us That since his Arrival in Ireland the Defence of his Protestant Subjects as he calls them their Religion Priviledges and Properties is especially his Care with the Recovery of his own Rights And to this end he has preferr'd such of them of whose Loyalty and Affection he is satisfied to places both of the highest Honour and Trust about his Peson as well as in his Army The reading of those Lines puts me in mind of the Parallel so exactly observ'd betwixt the French King and King Iames in all their Conduct and particularly in both their way of asserting the calm Methods us'd by them towards their Protestant Subjects When that Common Enemy of the Christian Part of Europe as the present Pope was pleased to call him had out-done all the Nero's and Iulian's of old in the art of Persecution and had render'd himself abominated to the World by the Cruelties committed by his Dragoon Missioners upon those very People that had done him the best Offices and preserved the Crown upon his Head in his Minority yet at the very same time Lewis the 14th and his Ministers have had the Impudence to affirm

That no other Methods were us'd to convert these poor Victims but those of fair Persuasion and Calmness Just so King Iames that he may follow as near his Copy as possible having since his Arrival in Ireland abandoned the Protestants of that Country to the merciless Rage of an Enemy irreconcilable from both a Principle of Religion and Civil Interest who within his View have laid desolate whole Counties and acted Barbarities proper only to themselves and their French Confederates and by which they have forc'd away a great many Thousands from their Country at the point of Starving having sav'd nothing of their Fortunes from so universal a Calamity Yet notwithstanding all this appears in the Face of the Sun King Iames that he may not come short of his Patron boldly affirms That the Religion Priviledges and Properties of his Protestant Subjects as he names them are his chiefest Care over and above What a gross Contradiction is it to common Sense and Reason that a Prince bigotted to the Romish Religion and enslav'd to Jesuitick Councils should make that Religion which in his Opinion is an execrable Heresy become his equal Care with what he calls the Recovery of his Right Sure I am in this Expression he has mightily overacted his part and nothing but a belief capable to receive Transubstantiation can be persuaded of the fair meaning of it If the Proposition could possibly admit of a favourable Construction then it must necessarily follow That King Iames is of another Communion than that of Rome which were a great injury done him to suppose seeing he has given us such convincing Proofs to the contrary For every Roman Catholick is obliged to look upon the Protestants as Hereticks and their Religion as Heresy and we have once every year the imaginary Successor of Saint Peter formally Cursing us in Person and from his plenary Power declaring us to be fallen from all our Civil Rights If King Iames had said The Protestants are his Care meaning the Conversion of them to his Religion by the calm methods of a Dragoon Mission he would have found no great difficulty to have been believ'd But to affirm that That pestilent Northern Heresie the Protestant Religion was his care is indeed a stretch beyond the ordinary pitch of Jesuitick Equivocation it self We have had occasion enough to be acquainted with the Charity of the Church of Rome towards those of our Religion It has been both fervent and burning And lest we should forget what has been done in former Ages France and Savoy have of late set before us new instances of the Charity of that Church No doubt King Iames's sincerity in this assertion is the same with that of all his Promises And albeit when he was upon the Throne we were told in some of his Proclamations That we were bound to obey without reserve it 's hardship upon hardship to be oblig'd now when he is justly Abdicated to believe without reserve But that we may the easier be persuaded of King Iames's care of the Protestants of Ireland and their Properties let us take a short glance of the great favours he has bestowed on them since his Arrival there One would think that a Man's Estate his House Furniture his Arms Money Chattels and the like were included under the word Property King Iames his care has been so transcendently great of this sort of Property that there are at this day in England and the Neighbouring Nations Noblemen Gentlemen Clergy Merchants and Tradesmen whose Estates seiz'd upon by King Iames's Order amounts to more than Four Millions of Pounds Sterling If any doubt the Truth of this I refer them to the List and Account taken of the Irish Protestants by the Commissioners appointed by the King for that effect Neither is there at present one single Protestant within that Kingdom that can rationally assure himself of one moments possession of what the Barbarous Irish has left them yet undestroyed Who knows not That upon-weighty Reasons the Wisdom of the Kings of England thought it very dangerous to trust the Natives of Ireland with Arms knowing from many funest Experiences they were a People impatient of the English Yoake and ready to accept all occasions to throw it off But King Iames treads quite another Path instead of dis-arming these his darling Wild Irish they are the only People he can trust as knowing their surious Zeal to His Religion and their Hereditary hatred to the English Nation renders them fit Instruments to execute the Designs concerted betwixt Him and his Intimate Allie the French King And which to capacitate them the better to effectuate he has wisely dis-armed before-hand the whole Protestants of that Kingdom and prepared them ready Victims for their Bloody Enemies when ever it shall be time to give the Blow I confess it requires the greatest stock of patience to hear one boldly affirm his Care of my Life and at the same time to see him give me up bound and defenceless into the Hands of my cruel and mortal Enemies There is another transcendent Instance of King IAMES's Care of the Protestants in Ireland their Religion and Property which merits to be engraven in Corinthian Brass to Posterity All that are in the least acquainted with the Laws and Affairs of that Kingdom know That the Act of Settlement is the great Security of the Protestants their Religion and Properties and the Fundamental Right they have to their Estates conquer'd from the Rebellious Irish at the expence of their Blood and Treasure By this Act the lasting Landmarks are sixt among the Protestants themselves and between them and the Natives This is indeed the Magna Charta of the Protestants of Ireland and the true Basis of their Liberties and Properties upon the taking away of which the Superstructure must tumble to the ground Now King IAMES's Care of the Protestants is of so high a nature that in His first Speech to His Mock-Parliament consisting all of Papists except about Five or Six May 7. he assures them He would consent to the enacting such Laws as might relieve them of the Act of Settlement And May 10. we find it moved in the House That nothing could be more advantageous to the King and Countrey than to destroy the horrid barbarous Act of Settlement and whosoever shall alledg the contrary shall be deem'd an Enemy to both Thereafter we find it mov'd by one of the Worthy Members of that Parliament That the Act of Settlement should be publickly burnt by the Common Hangman Behold the transcendent Care of King IAMES for the Priviledges and Properties of the Protestants of Ireland His accustomed Zeal obliges him at the first meeting of His Packt-up Popish Parliament to put them in mind of the best methods to Repeal the Great Security of the Protestants Estates His impatience to have this done could not stay till it had been propos'd by any of the Members themselves He must needs demonstrate his tenderness to his belov'd