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
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
some yeares continued his capitulations and treatings with the Catholicks of Irland and did indeed wijre-drawe them to theyr great losse both to the dishartning of their souldiers consumption of their treasures and letting slip great advantages of service great matters we expected from Ormond and noe lesse did our Commissioners tell us that he was ready to condescend to our demaunds and graunt us good things but in the end litle or nothing was don not withstanding all this any thing that seemed to be with the Kings interest or for the Kings service did much relish with the Catholicks and soe desirous and forward we were to make peace with any party the King owned to be his owne as we omitted to pursue vigorously a good warr and at long running wee made noe good peace for libertie Religion Fortunes or honour of the Nation CHAP. IIII. Glanmorgans peace rendered voide by the Kings disavoving any authoritie given to that effect Twice we concluded peace by our Commissioners the one off which have been with the Earle of Glanmorgan and the other with Ormond and in fin wee had neither peace nor the assurance of a peace the said Earle of Glanmorgan shewed us under the privat signet a faire and large commission he had from the King authorizing him to conclude a peace with us and to graunt us such favourable concessions for religion as Ormond the Kings Lieutenant who also had a comission under the great seale could not Publickly graunt or be seen in this peace made with Glanmorgan became voyd and of noe force the King disavowing any power given to that effect vnto Glanmorgan you shall find the Kings disavowing of any such power in his booke commonly caled Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae pag the 29 in a message given as it is written in our court at Oxford the 29 lanu 1645. to the speaker of the house of Peeres pro tempore to be communicated to the two houses of Parliament at westminster and to the commissioners of the Parliament in Scotland His Majesties message of Ianuary 29. 1645. about Irland and his Majesties further Concessions and desire of a personal treaty Oxford C R His Majestie having receaved information from the lord Leutenant and Councel in Irland that the Earle of Glanmorgan hath without his or their orders or priuitie entered into a treaty with some Commissioners on the Roman Catholick partie there and alsoe drawne vp and agreed vnto certain articles with the said Commissioners highly derogatory to his Majesties honour and royal dignitie and most prejudicial vnto the protestant religion and church there in Irland wherevpon the said Earle of Glanmorgan is arrested vpon suspition of high treason and imprisoned by the said lord Leutenant and Councel at the instance and by the impeachment of the lord Digby who by reason of his place and former employment in these affaires doth best know how contrarie that proceeding of the said Earle hath been to his Majesties intentions and directions what great prejudice it might bring to his affaires if those proceedings of the Earle of Glanmorgan should â—e any way vnderstood to have been done by directions liking or approbation of his Majestie having in his former messages for a personal treaty offered to give contentment to his two Houses in the business of Irland hath now thought fitting the better to shew his clearer intentions and to give satisfaction to his two Houses of Parlament and the rest of his subjects in all his Kingdoms to send his declarations to his said houses containing the whole truth of the busines which is That the Earle of Glanmorgan having made offer vnto his Majestie to raise forces in the Kingdom of Irland and to conduct them into England for his Majesties service had a commission to that purpose and to that purpose only That he had noe commission at all to treat of any thing else without the privitie and direction of the lord Leutenant much lesse to Capitulat any thing concerning religion or any propertie belonging either to Church or Laity That it clearly appeares by the lord Leutenants procedings with the said Earle that he had noe notice at all of what the said Earle had treated and pretended to have capitulated with the Irish vntill by accident it came to his knowledge And his Majestie doth protest that vntill such time as he had advertisment that the person of the said Earle of Glanmorgan was arrested and restrained as is aboue said he neuer heard nor had any kind of notice that the said Earle had entred into any kind of treaty or capitulation with the Irish commissioners much lesse that he had concluded or signed these articles soe destructiue both to Church and State and soe repugnant to his Majesties publick professions and knowne resolution And for the further vindication of his Majesties honour and integritie heerin he doth declare that he is soe far from considering any thing contained in those papers or writings framed by the said Earle and those commissioners with whom he treated as he doth absolutly disavow him therein and hath giuen commandements to the lord Leutenant and the Councel there to proceed against the said Earle as one who either out of falseness presumption or folly had soe hazarded the blemishing of his Majesties reputation with his good subiects and soe impertinently framed those articles of his owne head without the consent privitie or directions of his Majestie or the lord Leutenant or any of his Majesties Councel there but true it is that for the necessarie preservation of his Majesties protestant subiects in Irland whose case was dayly represented vnto him to be soe desperat his Majestie have given commission to the lord Leutenant to treat and conclude such a peace there as might be for safty of that Crowne the preservation of the protestant religion and noe way derâ—gatery to his owne honour and publick professions You see plainly by this his Majesties disavowig letter of any power given to Glanmorgan as to the effect of peace to be concluded with the confederat Catholicks how Glanmorgans peace came to nothing and of noe validitie though much labour paines and monnies it cost to the confederat Catholicks and not without great discredit to the said Earle As for the peace made with Ormond yeare 1646. who had the Kings commission vnder the great seale it had noe better issue then the former as shal be made cleare out of the aboue specified divine his writings reasons arguments and woords as they are put downe And in as much as the Bishops and Cleargy their opposition to that peace hath drawne vpon them the implacable anger of Ormond pervsing what I shall write you shal be able to iudge the reasons given by the Prelats were valid and themselves honest in their intentions and vpright in their proceedings and that they haue done nothing but what pietie and the obligation of their pastoral care did require consequently yon will graunt that the dukes anger and rancour came by noe
and person then to see som very rich and others very poore equality among fellow subjects is a pretious pearle in a Common-wealth for Commonly wealth pufâ—s men up to such a height of pride as to contemne and dispise other beneath them and they soe dispised can not but beare enuy and hatred to those dispises them Omne pomum habet suvm vermem vermus autem diuitiarum superbia est every apple have its owne worme the worme of wealth is pride This age wee live in is mounted to the height of ambition and pride wee are all going or would faine goe beyond our reach pride in our eyes and pride in our thoughts pride and ambition in all our actions now a days forsooth to set forth an Ambassadour wee must have a whole legion of servants in theire retennue as if his embassy could beare noe force otherwise unless the wealth of a Common-wealth must be exhausted to support those Extravagancies Retennues and needless traynes wheras honest Cato the Consull agreater man then they for dignity contented himselfe with three servants * lib. 18. The Historian Iustinus giues us a rare Example of this After a peace had bine concluded between the Romans and King Pyrrhus Cineas was sent by him to the Romans for better confiâ—ming that agreement Ad pacem Confirmandam Cineas Romam cum ingentibus a pyrrho donis missus neminem cuius domus muneribus pateret invenit That is For better confirming a peace with the Romans Cineas being sent to Rome with great presents found noe house open to receive those guifts O rare contempt of gould and guifts in Rome that in soe vast a Citty noe house was found would receive gifts noe doore open to Cineas with his gold Alas there is noe such Citty now in rerum Natura It was Impossible such a Citty as Rome was then could be taken or betrayd Wee have in England a rare Example of integrity in Sir Thomas More Chancellor of that Kingdom A Lady presented him a cupp of gold a while after a sentence was given for her in a just cause Sir Thomas received the same and much commended the workmanship and value therof and then had it fill'd with spanish wine and drank to the Lady saying Madam you gave mee a cupp of gold but empty be hold I bestow on you a cupp of gold fill'd with good wine and soe dismis'd her O when shall England see againe such a Chancellor certainly Chancellor Hyde was not such a man CHAPTER 14'th The rewards given by the Common-wealth of Rome unto two noble Romans Horatius Cocles and Cajus Musius for theire rare services don to theire Country THe right order is to begin with the exployts of the two noble Romans and after to com unto the rewards and remunerations given them for theire stupendious service Titus Livius the fluentest of historians Libro Secundo Romanae Hustoriae setts forth these gallant men's services in this nature having Porsenae King of Etrurians beseiged Rome saith Livius non unquam alias ante talis terror Senatum invasit adeo ualida tum clufina erat magnumque Porsenae nomen nec hostes modo timebat sed suos met cives ne Romana plebs metu perculsa receptis in vrbem regibus vel cum servitute pacem acciperet Att noe tyme have such feare ceased the Senat soe strong a thing then Clusina was and the great name of Porsena which did not only feare the enemies but even theire owne Cittizens for apprehention the people of Rome strucken with feare of King 's againe received into the Citty and would accept of a peace with slavery Porsena made warre with the Romans to have prou'd Tarquin theire King admitted once againe whome the same people banished a way with all that race for the foul rape of chast Lucretie and other Tyrannies at this tyme there was a woodden bridg that crossed over the River Tyber supported by many pyles fastened in the ground through this Bridge Poâ—sena's men thought it easy to make theire way into the Citty Horatius Cocles a noble Roman a man worthy of perpetuall prayses had the keeping of this bridg when hee saw all his men fall back and retyre hee obtested and pray'd them by all that is or can be deare to the Gods Immortall and by the sacred liberty they were fighting for to stick to him and defend the Bridge otherwise that the Enemies would quickly master the Bridge and disperss themselves in the Capitall and hart of Rome insulting over the Circumscript Fathers killing and putting all to the sword men woemen and Children hee Further desired and would have them stay at least to cast and break downe the Bridge by all possible meanes and that hee himselfe in the meane tyme would put a stopp to the Enemies rushing in vpon them this would not doe they must away two only of the number remaining by him Duos tamen saith Livius cum eo pudor tenuit ambos claros genere factisque S. P. Lacrium ac T. Hermanium The rest at length by great entreaty Fell upon breaking the Bridge and while they were in that worke hee pray'd those two worthy men to goe back unto theire Fellows and hee alone stood looking vpon the Etrurians with flaming eyes daring them to com and try battail with him upbraiding them with the name of slaves to Tyrants that came to inuade the Roman liberty the Army stood amazed beholding this unspeakable wondeâ— to see one man daring a whole Army having made a loud cry they let fly theire darts at him the which this gallant Roman receiued undaunted with his shield drawing neare they endevoured to fling him downe from the Bridge but the Romans having brooken downe the Bridge by this tyme gave great outcryes of joy at this Horace being armed leapt into the river Saying Tiberine pater te Sancte precor haec arma et hunc militem propitio flumine accipias notwithstanding the store of darts they flung at him in the river hee gott a way safe Swimming over to his owne people who was very Ioyfully receiued The Historian concludes Rem ausus est plus famae habituram ad posteros quam fidei Hee attempted a thing that is to have more fame by posterity then Creâ—itt In the meane tyme Porsena notwithstanding that this attempt of the Bridge had noe success kept his close siege to the Citty in manner that they were in evident danger to be at long running overcome by his Army Heer Succeeded a noble action a gallant man Caius Mutius by name appeared to free the Citty from this Feare a resolute young Gentleman fervent in afection to his Country as Coâ—hles was Cajus Mutiâ— his designe was to kill Porsena the great enemy of Rome resolving in his minde this great enterprise hee came to the Senate and said Transire tiberim patres intrare si possim castra Hostium volo non proedâ— nec populationum invicem ultor majâ— si dij Iuvant in animo
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
Caine that whosoever found him should not kill him a trembling in his head as many hold Caine was allways frighted and soe distracted as to hold that trembing of his head for a signe given by God that hee should be killd You see by this how great is the feare and frightning of a guilty Conscience And can these men live without being frightned after killing soe many Innocent Abels by nakedness vermin famin and all kinde of miserys having taken from them all they had in the world There have been many opulent persons and of great quallity Tea and som of them Peeres and Lords of the Realme have bin lodg'd in small smooking Hutts and Cabins and as I may well say buried there and starued to death with theâ—re wives and Children Can the Cruell Robbers of these men live without the feare of Gods anger If they have not a trembling in the head as Caine had likely they will have a trembling in theire harts CHAPTER 20'th The Author speaks to Ormond a lone BVt my Lord that I may returne to your Grace whose house I have ever honoured and spend a few words with you alone Amongst Birds and Beasts you know full well som are Noble and som Ignoble Lyons begett Lyâ—ns and Eagels ingender Eagels your ancient house hath given of both Lyons and Eagels Your Noble progenitors nobly minded did worthy things and performed great matters the poorest neighbour liu'd safly neare them possessing quietly what was his owne they succoured the distressed and farre it was from them to oppress the weakest but have been a propp to such as could not stand by themselves and for such worthy doings the afection and blessing of those releeved by them and supported by them in theire right and Iust causes have followed your Ancestors But my Lord the world speakes otherwise of your Grace that being extolled to the title of Duke that your house had not before you digenerate from the true piety and greatness of your brave Ancestors for the natives ouer all the Kingdome complaine that your power is Imploy'd to the opression of all wherfore they all cry out can not the Duke of Ormonds greatness stand without our fall and Ruin Is it possible my Lord that the title of greatness is soe much inereased in you and that of vertue deminished My Lord the Lyons of your house I meane the noble Earles did praye openly and fairly but your game is of a new forme you are a Lyon of another nature then was one of the greatest Earles of your house by name black Thomas Grandfather to your Lady a person highly esteemad by Queen Elizabeth King Iames and the Counsells of England and Irland and of the people of both Kingdoms hee made noe purchases by distroying the natives of the Kingdom as yours are yet hee was both a happy and glorious Earle hospiciously noble and had many depending of his bounty and good nature who made noe small fortune by him * Nahum cap. 2. Nahum the Prophet if you will take the paynes to read him will tell you what kinde of Lyon you are Where is saith hee the habitation of Lyons and the pasture of Lyons whelps The Lyon hath caught saith hee sufficiently for his whelpes and hath killed for his Lyoness and hath filled his Denns with praye and his Couc'h with Ravening ô Ormond Ormond thou hast caught sufficiently for thy Whelps thou hast fill'd thy Denns with praye and thy Couch with Ravening thou hast made the noble house of Ormond an Infamous Denn and Couch of Rapine thy whelps are made fatt with Praye and booty made vpon thy neighbours My Lord there is a nother Propheâ— speakes to your Grace and to Orrery and the rest of the vsurpers in words able to make you tremble Woe to him said * Habacuc cap. 2. Habacuc that gathereth naughty Avarice to his house that his nest may be on high and thinketh hee is delivered out of the hand of Evill thou hast thought confusion to the house thou hast cutt in sunder many people and thy soule hath sinned because the stone out of the wale shall cry and the Tâ—mber that is between the Iuncturs of the buildings shall answer Wo to him that buildeth a Citty in blouds and prepareth a Citty in Iniquitys A dreadfull expression Have not you my Lord and the rest of your Complices cutt insunder many familys most of them Er this consumed with hunger and miserys are gon into the other world and for such of them that live as yet they are miserably perishing at home and abroad will not the blood of those be layd at your doore Youâ— ambition have built nestes in a high place from the reach of human hands but not from the hand of God who with the breath of his Indignation will cast them all downe in his good tyme yee have houses and magnificent palaces for your posterity in Blouds and the stone out of the wale shall cry out against you and the Timber between the Iunctures of your buildings shall answer Wo to them that builded Cittys in bloud prepar'd houses in Iniquitys God in a moment though at present yee glory and tryumph in your greatness and pleasures can fill your houses with dissolations mournings Ignominy death feare and trembling And perhaps will doe it when you least think of it When Sr. Ralph Fan was condemn'd to dye by the practices of the Duke of Northumberland and brought to the place of Exccution in protestation of his Innocency spook only these two words My blood shall be the Dukes bolster as longe as hee shall live My Lord you may have I feare many of these vneasy bolsters cast therfore an eye vpon the other world whilst God mercifully gives you tyme to doe it and take that care now for your selfe that noe other will once you are gon and perswadâ— your selfe that without this care all is lost and gon for all Eternity CHAPTER 21'th Ormond Seriously advised to think of longe Eternity MY Lord God did forbid the Hebrues to mingel honny in the oblations but commaunded theÌ„ to vse salt in every sacrifice * Levit. cap. 2. What sacrifice soever thou offerest thou shalt season it with salt neither shalt thou take a way the salt of the Covenant of the God from thy Sacrifice In every oblation thou shalt offer salt What mistery doth this signify to banish honny from the Sacrifice and make vse of salt Why salt in Sacrifice and not honny This is to tell vs that sweet things deceive vs and that flattererâ— betray vs but sharp things cure vs and mortify the body and minde when wee are to Sacrifice both to God and that wee are to heare patiently and willingly those that speak trueth without assentation and with the salt of sencerity * Isai cap. 3. God himselfe sayd My people they that the blessed the same deceive thee But a lass it is now in fashon that Princes and great men are deceived because