of Mr. Thomas wading of waterford and that of Mr. Phillip Hore of Kilshalchan the seat of Kâ—lbarry neare waterford hee hath from the former adelicious place with the whole estate vpon a thousand pound a yeare and Kilshalchon within seven miles of Dublin a faire seat with the livings of eight hundred pound yearly these Gentlemens Children which were many in number by this munificencie are to shift for themselves in great misery the Lord knowes in whar condition they are in and this befalls them and severall others that Ceorge Lane should be gratifyed an unknowne man For writing for Ormond hee has had conferred vpon him other estates in all neare vpon foure thousand pound annuall rent this wee are informed brave rewards for a Secretary I dare confidently say stout and valiant Collonells Officers and Gentlemen of quality which firmly adhered to the King Fought stoutly for him and lost both life in the bed of honour and estates in his service have not nor any of theires in reeompence received the least provision reward or comfort in this I may say that George Lane his penn hath been more Fortunate and profitable to him then these noble Gentlemens swords have been unto them a sad incourragement and cold Satisfaction to worthy Royalists to see this little Lane and such like night-sprungmus heroms to have suckt the Fattness of the earth from farre better plants then themselves and perhaps the hands of as low men as themselves will be ready to pluck them up root and branch when the season shall serue to cleare the Land of such weeds by what meanes this will com to pass I am quite Ignorant but I think the Iustice of God will make way for it and take not only from Ceorge Lane and men of that ranck but even from Ormond and the greatest of them all the conferred estates of honest men for seldom the blessing of God doth accompany unjust plunderes and Robbers And it is the opinion of severall true harted subjects to his Majesty that things are not like to prosper with himselfe untill this be don But I heare sum body say Ormond hath don the King great service though hee hath not preserved the Monarchie of Brittaine as Cochles and Musius did that of Rome and that his affection to King and Country have been as great as theires to the Senat and common wealth of Rome occation being only wanting as For his affection to King and Crowne I beleeve hee had as much as another noble man but to his Country where hee hath his estate and lands hee had none at all If affection to the king can draw rewards and Remunerations there be thousands loved the King and the intrest of the Crowne of England as much as Ormond ever did and appeared undoubtedly in all occations against the Kings enemys nevertheless thousands of them never had an Aker of ground nor a Cottage to shelter themselves in in frosty weather in recompensation of such affection therfore I doe heire conclude that Ormond was happily Fortunate in his affections to the King and Crowne and others were not having obtained those Evtraordinary rewards from his Royall Majesty which in the insuing Chapter I doe resolve more amply to discover and speak of CHAPTER 15'th The Remunerations the Duke of Ormond had from the King after his Restauration These remunerations will bee found soe great that you must needs confess Ormond was not Loyall gratis neither doe I in any way doubt but there be som Bassa's of the great Turck and some of the chiefest of them would come and serve our King and serve him Loyally for soe incredible a recompence as Ormond had Let us now speak of the quantity and quality therof according the best notice wee have received Wee have said above his Annuall rents before the warre was but seven thousand pound starling his ancient estate being then incumbred with Annuitys and Leases which otherwise was worth forty thousand pound starling per Annum and at present it is vpon Eighty thousand now the first part of his new great revennues is the Kings grant of all those lands of his owne estate which were leased and morgaged the rest were grants of other mens Estates and other gifts of his Majesty for auoyding the trouble of searching after all his particulare gettings many there are without doubt unknowne to mee I will here put downe certaine Quaeres in number 29. Out of which hee that will may take notice of these Immense recompences given him Quaeres touching the Present Condition of his Majesties Kingdom of IRELAND 1. WHether it be not demonstrable by search made into the Records of his Majestys Auditor General of Ireland that had his Majestys Revenue of that Kingdome been well managed there had been money enough to answer the necessary Charge of that Kingdom 2. Whether vpon search made of his Majestyes Exchequer in England there doth not appear upwards of 200000 l. Sent out of England into Ireland since the Duke of Ormonds last Government there 3. Whether there doth not appear that there were twenty four subsidies amounting to 360000 l. Assessed by the late Parliament of Ireland 4. Whether there was not 50000 l. advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventurers Rents 5. Whether the aforesaid Summs thus extraordinarily raised do not amount to abve six hundred thousand pounds 6. Whether the aforesaid extraordinary Summs would not discharge near Four Years of his Majesties Establishment both in the Civil and Martial List Independently of the Revenue of that Kingdom 7. Though the aforesaid Summs Extraordinarily raised would have paid near Four Years Establishment yet whether the Martial and Civil Lists be not a Year and half in arrear 8. Whether his Majestyes Ordinary certain and Casual Revenue which if well managed might have fully paid his Majesties necessary Charge whether vpon the aforesaid Principles it is not demonstrable that the said revenue harh not discharged more then one year and a halfs Establishment in six years time 9. Whether it be not demonstrable then that there hath been more then Four years and a half Revenue embesled in six years time and whether the chief Governour be not more Faulty in this great miscarriag then the Earle of Anglesy Quaeres in Relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond 1. WHether by sales of Offices as Lord Steward and receits out of his Majesties Exchequer of England the Lord Duke of Ormond hath not raised upwards of 30000 l 2. Whether he did not receive by one Act of Parliament of Ireland as a gift 30000 l 3. Whether it doth not appear by the Records of his Majesties Tresurie in Ireland that his Grace did receive 12000 l. Before his being last Levtenant 4. Whether he did not receive 12000. l. Per Annum as Lord Levtenant which was a Moyetie more than any Lord Levtenant received and that Moyetie amounts in six years to 36000 l 5. Whether it doth not appear that his Grace hath released by the Act of Sentlement
Interest will you haue reconciled Enemies constantly in pay and seruice is this Loyalty or loue to the King to turne out true and faithfull men to the Crowne and confirme bloudy Traytours in theyr place How many be there that wonders as well abroad as at home his Maiestie takes noe notice of these proceedings certainly there can be noe great argument of loue to the King in forsaking his constant and faithfull subiects making new frindship with his approued enemies thy affection to Ortery others doe sound some misterious pollicie as men of weake capacitie cannot reach vnto howeuer there be those that say that the roote of all this proceeds from an vnsatiable desire of auri sacra fames and willingness to be reuenged on the poore catholicks of the Nation He then thanks Orrery in his letter for an oath hee sent him that General Preston made and sayes he never saw it before but found the fruits of it and of another perjurie soone after I need not in this place make mention of the ancient and noble familie of General Preston Viscount of Taro cadett to the most noble house of Gormanstowne the eldest and first house of vis counts in Irland a familie allwayes true and faithfull to the crowne and of great pietie and deserts that the said Generall ever show'd â—hemselfe a gallant and valiant man in all dangers is well knowne and though Ormond and Ortery both have been Commaunders of Armies the first under his Majeste and the other under Cromwel I can scarce beleeve either of them gained by or in any expidition as muâ— honour and applause as Preston had at the seege of lovain where beseged by the French in the year 1634. by a sallie made in the head of 300. of his owne regiment vpon S. Peters day early in the morning breaking vpon the French quarters routing and Killing all Opposed or Resisted him to the losse of 200 and eightie French souldiers returning victorius sound and safe without loosing a man was receiued with triumph and Ioy of all the people of Louain vvhich noble exploit of his is celebrated by the famousest writers of those dayes as Vernuleus and Puteaus There was in General preston another thing of greater prayse then all this true Vertu and pietie being a man that feared God and loathed to doe against his Commaundements soe that it is a calumnie to call him perjured but if Orrery and Ormond shall be admitted to judg honest upright people many will be by them censured as Noble preston is for perfidious and perjured men But pray why may not Preston and others say to this Oâ—mond Quis te Constituit Iudicem I will conclude with General Preston for whom I doe say that his life being sifted out from his childhood he will not be found to have done any base or vile action Heere Ormond is not resolved to stopp but passes on further and sayes to his new moulded Friend Orrery and in truth I found nothing but direct trecherie and disobedience from the Generalitie of that people it is true Quod ex abundantia cordis os loquitur in this place but I would have his grace know in a frindly manner I speak that there is nere a Butler a live nor have been in times past noe nor of the Geraldins nor Bourkes families renounced as any of the Butlers nor even of the old princly bloud of that Nation as your ô Brian ô Nealls ô Mourchoes ô Donells Macharties O Connors c. whose word or testimonie would be esteemed as to the blemishing of the generalitie of a nation to make them treacherus and perfidious Father walsh harken and take notice of this splendid attestation your great Mecaenas Ormond gives of the Catholick people of Irland that in tâ—uth hee found nothing but direct Treacherie and disobedience from the Generalitie of that people what man soe impudent would maintaine soe notorious a reproach and infamie cast upon a sound body of men a whole nation faithfull and loyall ever and all wayes to the King in this place good Father I discover that notwithstanding your intimacy with Ormond it doth not stopp him from giving you the lie who in severall places of your writings doe prove the Generality of the nation though you writt against some particulars to have been loyall and faithfull to the King now Ormond doth blemish the Generality of the nation with a stayne of of trechery what say you to this Hauing aspersed the Nation by the fore-mentioned spott hee turnes to the Bishops Pastors and Fathers of the people and tells his louing Orrery the people were gouerned by the worst Spirituall guids that euer lead a poor people to distruction and sayes further they doe it and it is fitt they should find the smart of it and that hee hath a designe to make the smart where it is most reason it should be Heere my Lord Duke vsurps a great presumption in saying the Bishops were dismall guides to the people he is far mistaken in his false Suppositions the Bishops were not they that misguided the people lead them a stray he is mistaken I say again Vox populi sayes it is he and he alone Ormond I meane that lead them blind fould deluded and trapan'd them to theyr destruction downefall and rvine Seazing vpon all they had Fortunes Libertie and Estates with the rest of his Complices and not the Bishops This good Duke seems to have a strange antipathie to these venerable Bishops for each where he affronts them an argument of an ignominious minde hee wil have noe peace with them Though his Grace a while after the Kings restauration was created Duke and Lord Steward of the Kings house and Lord Leutenant of Irland and one of his Majesties priuie Counsel in England and Earle of Brecknocke in wales created that hee might sitt in the Parlament of England to be short hee attained to that hight of favour with our good King as none in the three Kingsdoms did reach unto yet all this signified little or nothing to him till he had seen those catholick Bishops alliedy much afflicted trampled vnder his feet theyr sufferings could not appease his wrath theyr Innocencie could not satisfie his conscience nor theyr integritie rectifie his erronious Iudgement but must needs write to his beloved Orrery his new friend saying that these Bishops were the worst Spirituall guids that ever lead a poore people to destruction this is Ormonds testimonie to the King of the good Bishops he sayd they were Traytours and disaffected to his Majestie and Crowne and sayes the same still all this to kindle his Majesties indignation against them and by that way to see himselfe revenged of an Injurie hee imagined don him by those of the congregation of watersord and Iamestowne of which wee have sayd enough above Saint Paul himselfe diuine trumpet of the word of God though hee suffered cheerfully and innocently many reproaches contumelies and imprisonments for Gods cause
60000 l due to honest men and good Subjects vpon his Estate before the Rebellion 6. Whether his Grace hath not received 30000 l. out of Soldiers and Adventurers Lands which he invaded and entered vpon without any Title as appears by the Records of the Court of Claymes in Ireland which hath decreed the Lands from him 7. Whether by the Act of Explanation he hath not got the Citty of Kilkenny and six other Corporat Townes together with their Lands and Liberties valved by himselfe and his friends of the Councell but at 60000l though they are well worth 120000 l 8. Whether he did not obtain by a special warrant from his Majestie 72000 l. out of the Soldiers and Adventurers half year Revenue 9 Whether there is not confirmed to him 50000 l. More by the Explanatory Act for waving a grant which he got by the Act of Settlement 10. Whether he had not got as many Gentlemens Estates vpon the pretence of a grant of enjoying all Lands that he could prove by witnesses to have payed him any Chiefrey as is worth at least 150000 l. and whether also he hath not obtained that for the said Lands no quitt Rent be paid to the King which grant at 3d. An Acre per annum amounts to 26000 l 11. Whether he hath not abitrarily layd vpon the Inhabitants of the City of Dublin 8000 l. Per Annum amounting for these six years past of his Government to 48000 l 12. Whether he hath not against the Fvndamental Laws and Magna Charta inclosed divers parcells of Land belonging to the kings good subjects without their consent to the value of 1500 l. per Annum at the very gates of Dublin to the great prejudice of that City and the Country the profit of which Land and Park he hath bestowed vpon the Lord of Dungannon and Colonel Cook 13. Whether it be credible that his Grace is zealous for the English and Protestant Interest seeing it is not possible for the Soldiers and Adventurers to be reprized according to his Majesties gracious Declaration when his Grace hath swallowed up in gifts and grants the best part of the Stock of Reprizalls and hath made or permitted such Embeslements of his Majesties revenue and applyed the Royal authority wholly to gain vast advantages to himself and whether by preferring his own private gains and grants before the Publique good and the Iust right of the Adventurers and Soldiers he hath not unsettled the Kingdom of Ireland and unsatisfied the two main interests of Protestants the Soldiers and Adventurers to such a degree that it is to be feared it will be a continual charge to England to keep to the rules of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation so destroyed and desperate a people and whether all this expence trouble and danger for preserving the Duke of Ormond and his Family that is as much Irish as any can be in other mens Inheritances and Rights be the interest of England or agreable to the Maxims of sound Policy or of Christian piety 14. Whether such of his Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland as have escaped the Duke of Ormonds Proviso have not Iust grounds to fear that if the same Duke of Ormond should continue in his Gouvernment and press as now he doth the Paymeut of 100000 l. they will not be in a condition to live or to pay his Majesties quit Rents and the necessary charges of the Kingdom 15. Whether after the Prohibition of transporting Cattle and so much oppression by the Lord Lieutenant and his Creatures it be possible For his Majesties empoverished subjects of Ireland to pay the 300000 l. assessed by the Explanatory Act whereof the First 100000 l. is for his Grace 16. Whether his Grace had not a great regard For his Majesties service when he lately pressed the King and Councel to call a Parliament in Ireland For imposing new Taxes vpon that miserable people and For confirming all his own new acquisitions whereby the Soldiers Advenrurers and Nominees are defrauded of his Majesties intended Favours and the English interest utterly destroyed 17 Whether the Duke of Ormonds gifts and grandis amount not unto 630000 l. and whether this Summe would not have satisfied all the English Interest of Ireland and have settled the Protestants and well meriting Natives Natives of that Kingdome in peace whereas now his Majesty and all Christendom is troubled with their Clamours against the breach of Publique Faith and all this stirr destruction of the people and discredit of the Government to humour one particular man whose merit is not so extraordinary â—s his management hath been vnsuccesful 18. Whether not only some of the Nobility of Ireland but very many of the Nobi lity Knights and Gentry of England have not lost greater revenues and richer moveables for being Cavaliers then the Duke of Ormond whose Estate was much incumbered and his rents before the rebellion exceeding not 7000 l. per Annum and during the Warr got more by his Government of Ireland and giving up Dublin then he could it he were in possession of his Estate 19. Whether such as endeavoured to conceale these miscarriages and miseries of the Kingdom of Ireland From his Majesties and the Parliaments knowledg and yet strive to have the Duke of Ormonds distructive Government continue deserve not to be questioned by the Parlament as betrayers of the Publique good and of the Lawes and Liberties of England 20. Whether it be fit that the Government of Ireland should continue so long in one person as it hath in the Duke of Ormond though he were not an Irish man and all his relations were not Papists and very great Enemies of the English and Protestant interest What man can apprehend or read these incredible gettings and recompenses given Ormond without amaizment By the nine first Quaeries you see his grace is as yet countable for many thousands of thousands of the two hundred thousnd pound sent out of England into Ireland since his last goverment there and of the three hundred and sixty thousand pounds assessed by the Parlament of Ireland and fifty thousand pound advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventerours Rents and that notwithstanding those vast Summs the Marshall and Civil listes were a yeare and halfe in arrears Let his Majesty call him to question or Forgive him both is in his Royall breast to doe in the 20. Quaeries in relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond himselfe you will finde that hee received in all as in gifts and grants that amounted to six hundred and sixty thousand pound starling if this wonderfull and strange masse of treasures be not a sufficient Recompence and reward Let the reader Iudge For this amounts according to Marchants rating a Tunn of gould to sixty three tunns of gould one Tunn of gould only makes a great noyse and surely is a vast summ of monys What then shall wee say of sixty three Tunns Wee finde in the Cronicles of England that thirty thousand markes
or Forty thousand to have been a Queens Dote in Marriage Elleoner Daughter to Knig Edward the second married to the Earle of Gelders after made Duke had but fiftien thousand pound portion Queen Isabell Dowager to said Edward the second and mother to Edward the third most Glorious of English Kings daughter and Heire to Phillip the Faire of France by whose title the Kings of England makes Clayme to the Kingdome of France had allowed her by her son but a thousnd pound Ioynter a yeare severall such passages wee may finde in the Cronicles of England and others yet the Duke of Ormond as is to be seen in the 12'th Quaerie of those in Relation to Ormond granted the profitt of a rent of one thousand five hundred pounds a yeare of the parke hee hath neare the Gates of Dublin to the Lord of Dongaâ—non and to Colonell Cooke a Kingly Liberality If Father walsh or any other will say that these Quaeries are Idle Frivolous needless and of noe regard I would aske of the same and know whether matters of Fact and Propositiones sensu notae as are the Estates and lands of other men and the Corporations now actually in Ormonds possession things that cannot be hidden From the Eyes of men are Idle needless and Frivolous dreames and Fables noe but Foule and unhandsom things against Iustice honour trust committed unto him and Goverment of that Kingdome of Ireland conferred by his Majesty vpon Ormond If his grace or any for him can answer the sayd Quaeries why is hee or they soe long mute and silent they strick home to the quick they render his integrity suspected they wound his Fame and honour certainly if there were any way to answer them and to prove them False Father Walsh had long before now spaken Loudly to the World If Ormonds integrity and vertues be Calumniated by these Quaeries I wonder there is nothing said in his vindication none appeares for him but what in a matter that cannot be defended it is but wisdom to be silent the whole Country knowes that Father walsh of all men is most concern'd to appeare for Ormond and vindicate his integrity the best hee can having in his severall writings described him for a vertuous upright Iust Iuditious and most rare states-man now is the tyme good Friar to prove this you see to what puzle hee is brought vnto by these Quaeries you see how guilty hee is on all sides stretch him now your hand if you can and bring him of clearly and unspottedly from all these blemishes that staynes his person soe deeply now is the tyme I say to prove him to the world what you gave in paper of him and make us all sensible that hee is deserving of those Epithites you are pleased to conferre vpon him in the little book called the. Irish colours Foulded you have put downe a Faire method and good documents I must confess for guiding of Ormond in the Charge of Lord Lieutenant of Irland where you bid him by all meanes to be ware of the man of sin Meaning Orrery who would have his Grace â—uoy up one interest wholy that is the stronger and more prevalent of Orrery and his complices and sinck vtterly the other interest that of the Catholicks against all devine and humaine Lawes many rediculous things of this nature hath this Fryar said about his Ormond and this was one but Ormond contrary to his desire and Counsell buoyed up Orrery's intrest and sunck the Intrest of the innocent party because it was the weakest For which hee had a notable share of the grants and estates hee now Enjoyeth I see good Father you are very unfortunate in your conceipts of Ormond who grants nothing of these things you demaunded I have a minde to produce in this place other lynes of this Fryar unto Ormond out of the same Foulded Colours My Lord Quoth hee I shall minde your Grace of what you know your selfe allready that you shall behould under your Goverment a very great number of simple poore Innocents and most afflicted Creaturs if any such be in the world and that you think that God hath Principally created you and hithertoe preserved you amidst soe many dangers and now at last inspired our gratious King to send you for them and therfore that your greatest care must be to open to them your breast with an amorous compassion extend to them the â—owells of your Charity streatch to them affectionatly your helpfull hands take theire requests lâ—nd care to theire cryes cause theire affaires to be speedily dispatched not drawing them along in delays which may devour them strengthen your Arme against those that oppressed them â—edeem the prey out of the lyons throate and the Harpi's talons By these expresions one would have thought Ormond to be aman like to doe great things but here wee have much smooke and noe fyre faire blossoms and noe Fruite excellent documents given and yet nothing done take the paynes Father to goe up and downe Ireland and heare afflicted Innocent people and make a list of those to whome Ormond in tyme of his Goverment Opened his hart with an amorous compassion to whome hee did extend the â—â—wells of his charity to whome hee did streatch out his helpfull hands those whom hee preserved out of the Lyons throat or the Harpies Talon You will com to short of your vaticinations and hopes nothing like this but rather hee was the Lyon prey'd on them and did noe Iustice to the Orphans as you desired Nâ—r â—ypâ— a way the teares of a forelorne widowâ— bee steeped not in oyle the yoakâ— of a people which lived on gale and wormwood and whoe sighel under unsupportable necessityes Hee hath don nothing in his Goverment for the ease of that people but along with Orrery and the rest pild and pul'd them of all truly good Father you seem to mee a man much inchanted and indeed to be in a state of blyndness â— to your understanding that Harpaste was in her corporall sight of whome Seneca Epist quinquagessima ad lucilium writes in this forme Harpastem uxoris meae fatuam scâ— hereditarium donum in domâ— meae remansisse haec fatua subitó desijt videre incredibilem tibi narro rem sed veram nescit esse se cacam subindè padagogam suam rogat ut migret ais domum renebrosam esse Harpastes you know the changling of my wife is a Hereditary legacy in my house this changling suddainly lost her sight I tell you an incredible thing but true shee doth not beleeve that shee is blinde now and then shee desires of her guide to remoue from thence shee says the house is darke and obsure I am much of opinion Father walsh that this is your condition in relation to what you say or write of Ormonds affaires and person and soe I take my leave in this place of both leaving you in your manyfold blindnesse in as much as you will not see and leaving your Ormond to the