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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56031	The proposals for Irish forfeitures consider'd with regard to law and good conscience.		1690 (1690)	Wing P3727A; ESTC R205887	6,200	4

THE PROPOSALS FOR IRISH Forfeitures CONSIDER'D With Regard to LAW and GOOD CONSCIENCE THE Forfeitures of Ireland being now propos'd as a Security to raise a Million of Money on towards tste Charge of the War 't will be necessary to enquire more near into the Value of the said Forfeitures rather than depend altogether upon a Notional Calculation made by the Proposer who contents himself in framing his Project with Numbers of Imaginary Acres without any regard to the nature of a Forfeiture or the Laws establish'd for that a disappointment in a matter of this kind may prove of Ill Consequence to the Publick which he and his Party don't so much seem to consider as their own particular Gain and the Destruction of Innocents Widows and Orphans who have suffer'd but too much already The Proposer brings the People of Ireland under Two Heads that is to say English and Irish the Possessions of the latter he would have entirely Forfeited and brings every Estated Roman Catholick of that Kingdom under that denomination and thence wou'd he insinuate them to be different from the English in Temper and Interest nay that they have an innate prejudice and hatred to them Thus by false and malicious Suggestions wou'd he carry on a design to strip and ruin a Body of English People because of a different perswasion from himself for that the Estated Men of Ireland to a very few are descended of Ancient English Families who at the expence of their Blood first Conquer'd that Kingdom brought it under the Subjection of the Crown of England and continued it so ever since The English who plant in America may with as much reason be call'd Indians and for that alone have their Fortunes and Estates taken from them It is therefore hop'd that the Wise and Just Senate the Parliament of England will consider their Countreymen tho' in a distinct Kingdom under their present unfortunate Circumstances without any prepossessions of prejudice and take their Case justly as ' t is King James having gone for Ireland on the Late Revolution some of the Catholick there were concern'd in his Army and some not of those concern'd in the Army some submitted to the present Government on Articles others chose to follow him these are intituled to no favour from that Power to which they refus'd to submit and of consequence their Estates justly to be Forfeited But as to the Article-Men publick Faith ought to stand good besides he was their only known Master and to whom as their King they had promised Faith and Sworn Allegiance Then let any impartial Man make the case his own and seriously examine if at the expence of his Conscience he wou'd refuse performing the Duty of a Subject to his Soveraign when requir'd to it Must it not then necessarily follow that they acted but the part of Subjects or at least the Proposer must maintain that the tyes of Faith and Allegiance are of no force and may be broke with their present Majesties in case of a Forreign Invasion which is a Doctrine no good Subject will allow of These People have now submitted on a solemn Capitulation and are become Subjects is it not therefore reasonable they should have the benefit of the same and be receiv'd into the protection of the Laws when as by the implacable malice of the Proposers Party one third of those compriz'd in the said Capitulation are not admitted to enjoy their Estates and Fortunes as 't was stipulated As to them who were not concern'd in King James's Army some for order decency and security in the Commonweal had and took Civil Employments to prevent the mischief a multitude or populace is capable of these he wou'd have Forfeiting Persons too Others were no way concern'd more than in Tilling their Ground and following their lawful Occupations yet can they not escape this Proposer's heavy stroke but that they must likewise Forfeit In fine so 't was order'd That all the Roman Catholicks of the Kingdom that had any Estate of Freehold or Lease to the number of Four Thousand stand now Outlaw'd of High Treason save some few who thro' their Majesties Grace and Favour have procur'd Orders to Reverse the same 'T is out of these Persons Estates without regard to Law either Humade or Divine that this Projector wou'd extract his Fund for the Million of Money And to that end computes a Million of Acres to be Forfeited making his clip'd allowance for the Article-Men which with the help of Forfeited or so suppos'd Tythes Fairs Markets Woods c. if valued at 2 s. the Acre per Annum makes up 100000 l. and that at Ten Years Purchase brings in a Million This Calculation granted tho' false in this as in other instances viz. for that Litterees by the Act of Settlement as such were restor'd to no Acres yet there is no allowance made for such of these Lands as are fallen in so great a tract of time to Protestant Heirs sold or Leas'd to Protestants for Chieferees or some small Rents besides the heavy Incumbrances due to the Protestant Creditors of which there are but very few Catholicks Estates free will never be ballanced by Forfeited Incumbrances as he suggests Then he destroys all Remainders and Settlements by supposing the Parties interested all guilty of Rebellion and probably many of them Protestants and Infants The Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland have brought these Forfeitures to a greater certainty than an airy Calculation can be suppos'd to do those of them in this Kingdom at present can give an estmate of what they amount to and out of this two thirds of the Article-Men not yet restor'd are to be satisfied so that 't is plain this expedient tho' 't were practicable by Law answers not with any certainty the end propos'd However the Proposer and his Adherents makes sure of what 〈◊〉 aim at first to secure all these Lands in Fee-farm to themselves at an easie Rent 〈◊〉 to exterminate a People who they have but too much injur'd and leave the Million as a Consequence to happen or not happen If these Gentlemen did but offer to their Majesties a Million of Money for the present Exigency of Affairs out of the 4560037 Acres they now poffess and which they got at small or no Rates with the large Purchases made by them these Thirty odd Years past and that may justly be computed at much above a Million more 't wou'd be some proof that this Project of theirs was meant for the Publick Good but to be thus Generous at other Mens Expence and that with so great a regard to themselves shews but too plain the Design to be set on foot for their own particular Interests It is evident that a Covetous Man is not to be satisfied for these very Persons whose Fathers and many of themselves were Born to little or no Estates are now possess'd of six parts in seven of a Fertile Rich Kingdom and yet are not contented but wou'd