quiet the Distempers which then began to spread But the Lords Justices whose Design was not to be carried on with Mercy and Indulgence to prevent submissions Imprisoned and Indicted by a Jury which did not consist of Free-holders those so submitting and put the said Mr. Barnewall of the age of sixty six years to the torture of the Rack This notwithstanding the Noblemen and Gentry inhabiting the Country next to Dublin applyed themselves humbly by their Letter to the Lords Justices Which when the Earl of Castle-haven a Nobleman of English Birth who freely before that time had access to Dublin came to present he was made Prisoner Wherefore when the Nation observed That their Advice in Parliament was not only thought unnecessary but themselves involved in a general distrust That neither the Parliaments nor the Marquess of Ormonds offer to suppress the Rebellion would be accepted That the enforced complying of the Nobility and Gentry of the Pale with a powerful Army which was Master of their Lives and Fortunes was imputed to them as a malicious aversion from the English Government That the blood of innocent Husbandmen was drawn and the heads of men were grown an acceptable spectacle in Dublin That the publick Faith was broken and mens Houses particularly enabled to claim benefit by it pillaged and burnt That all wayes were obstructed by which they might implore his Majesties mercy and represent their Conditions That the favourable Intentions of the Parliament of England and his Majesties Gracious Pardon which was meant should extend to all save such as were guilty of blood was so limited by them as no Estated man could receive benefit by it That those who notwithstanding their restrictions cast themselves freely upon his Majesties mercy were Imprisoned Indicted and some of them Rackt That the Earl of Castle-haven might have found it a Capital Crime to mediate in their behalf if he had not made his escape after twenty weeks Imprisonment That the King 's sworn Servant was Rackt and his Ministers whose duty it was to have been zealous of the honour of their Master endeavoured to asperse it and to render him and his Royal Consort odious to his People by striving to extort from a tortured man some testimony by which they might be accused of raising and somenting that Rebellion When these and many other Arguments of this kind which lest we should be too prolix we omit had convinced the Catholicks of Ireland that the Lords Justices and that part of the Council which adhered to them became unfaithful to his Majesty and had designed the ruine of that Nation and the extirpation of their Religion That Law which moves the hand by interposing it self to bear off a stroak aimed at the head convened an Assembly of these who were exposed to those so eminent dangers in which they modelled a Goverment in order to their natural defence obliging themselves by such an Oath to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors as well shewed their affection to the Crown and their unalterable resolutions to maintain his Majesties Rights and to follow his fortune Between these divided Governments there have been Battels fought Cities and Forts besieged and much Christian blood spilt which will one day lye at some mens doors And who these are the Eternal Wisdom best knows and the Reader is left free to determine 10. All which and all whatsoever else I Print I am very well content may fall or stand as that is true which P. W. averrs in this passage of the Duke of Ormond's Country-men Pag. 3. if indeed he averrs the Supposition at all or the Irish to be such that is of the same Country with his Grace whether they be really so or no And I no less desire that all our Person of Quality writes on this subject may stand or fall as that Proof he brings in his Parenthesis to ground his own wish for me is true or false For his Grace sayes he is neither his he should have more properly said their Countryman by Birth Religion or any other Pag. 3. relation to which that name is applyable Certainly the name of Roman was appliable to Constantine the Great even then when first he was Christian that is of a different Religion from the State Senate People and Army of Rome though he was born at York in Great Britain To Theodosius and Seneca though born in Spain As likewise to so many thousands more where-ever begotten or born or of what Religion soever who enjoyed the Rights Privileges and Title of Roman Citizens Nor can he deny the name of an Englishman to that Prince was of purpose brought in his Mothers belly to Carnarvan to appease the warlike humour of the Welshmen by giving them a Prince of their own Country Extraction and the Communion of Blood and Laws and Titles of Honour and the Freedom of Citizens gave these the name of Roman though they ceased not therefore to be Britains Spaniards Welsh c. by their birthright And shall not the Duke of Ormonds Blood extracted from the Loins of the most Noble Irish Catholick Families during the succession of so many Ages these four or five hundred years his Predecessours born there his great Demains and Estate there his Titles of Honour and those of his fore-Fathers too of Baron Viscount Earl and lastly his own of Marquess and Duke all there shall not so many other Barons Viscounts and Earls descended from the House of Ormond all Buttlers and Irish and Catholicks too so many Baronets and Knights so vast a number of Squires and other Gentlemen all of that Nation and Communion besides all the almost numberless number of his Allyes in all the four Provinces of Ireland of all the most antient and most illustrious Families of that Kingdom and Religion Shall not I say all these Considerations besides the Community of the same Laws Rights and Privileges not to regard that of Education or Language entitle the Duke of Ormond to the name of Irish or their â—ountryman or to any Relation to which that name is appliable Doubtless the Topick à majori ad minus will conclude here our Person of Quality in the affirmative notwithstanding all his Logick And his own Claim besides to Ireland or England or both will conclude him And all Historians that distinguish the People of Ireland into antient Irish and antient English evict this Confession from him being these do never the more cease to be Irish Finally The Opinion of the World and Custom of England in particular reputing and calling those Irish who have in many regards less right to the name than the Duke of Ormond hath force this acknowlegdement from any Contradictor albeit England with much reason challenge him as English withall by his more antient Extraction from and his own Birth among them and by so many other Titles which makes their Claim very just while they bereave not others of their own as none doth that I know but my two
did shrink and would have been guided in their retreat at any rate Therefore the Army ran away 66. I was astonish'd to find that this Gentleman because I writ that when England Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland wholly deserted the Royal Cause the Irish Pag. 33. Catholicks fought against the Regicides in defence of his Majesties Rights should break out into so immoderate passion against me And asking of some Friends whence they conceived this should proceed I was told by one of them better versed in the propriety of English words than I am that the words to desert in English are alwayes taken in a bad sense and among Souldiers signifie commonly not only a desisting from action but a joyning with the Enemy which I protest was not nor in truth could be my meaning I say in relation to those Protestant Royalists that having past unblemish'd through all tryals and being over-pow'red and seeing no way under Heaven left them to maintain the most just Cause which they endeavoured through all extremities to assert deseruerunt causam gave it over and laid down Armes And this and no other being the sense I intended that assertion should carry I believe this Gentleman himself will say the Irish Catholicks were the last in the three Dominions that laid down Armes and gave over to fight for the Royal Cause And it may be that he himself is a witness beyond all exception in the case since perhaps he might have assisted to take in Limerick and Galway after which sieges there was no further exercises of that kind given to Cromwell and his Associates any where in favour of his Majesties interests And this truth this Irish Papist dares speak in the sight of Heaven how bitter soever Pag. 33. this Person of Quality is pleased to be against him both in his expressions and silence And yet further can tell both him and others that since he is loath to call me Rebel as he sayes I am no less him though if the arguments to prove me a Rebel and those may be alleged for his having been such were put in equal ballance his side would perhaps Pag. 33. overweigh not only a thousand but even ten thousand to one 67. Now setting apart as I always do the Protestant Royalists of England and Scotland and those of Ireland who know and will aver that they were dismiss'd where the Irish Catholicks prosecuted the War against the Regicides under the Lord Lieutenant and the Marquess of Clanrickard Lord Deputy of Ireland I will proceed to give the Reader a more faithfull Narrative of the actions of those times As for the Irish Papists their being Regicides themselves at least so far as conspiring to murther his Majesty in effigie at Pag. 34. Waterford c. These are but flourishes that may amuse the ignorant but will not satisfie the judicious Reader 68. King Charles the First of happy memory having been forced during the late troubles in the year 43. to make a Cessation of Armes with his Irish Subjects the Covenanting Party of the Scots in Ulstor and some of the English both in Ulster and Connaght that adhered to them paying no Obedience to his Majesties Authority by which it was concluded continued their Acts of Hostility and found employment both for the Armes of the Irish Catholicks in them parts and those whom the Lord Lieutenant authorized to joyn to suppress them while the Party in Munster for some time submitted to his Majesties Commands in accepting the Cessation and in that space of time sent over Forces to his assistance following therein the Lord Lieutenants directions and examples who shipp'd from Dublin upon that occasion the greatest part of his Army under his command in Leinster 69. It is certain that both English and Irish were engaged by duty to transport their Armes into England for his Majesties assistance but to say that the Irish were engaged by Pag. 35. Articles to do the same is a meer fiction and the more notable that at this time the clamour the Kings Enemies in England had raised against Popery and his Majesties countenancing of it was so great as particular persons of that profession could scarce find admittance to serve in his Majesties Army At length those English Protestants in Munster in the Month of June 1644. upon pretence of Plots and Machinations against them by the Irish Catholicks Pag. 35. whereof to this day no proof was produced nor in that time any colour alleged without informing the chief Governour of the Kingdom or giving him the least intimation of their resolutions deserted the Royal Cause and thence after untill the year 48. fought under the banner of his Majesties Enemies and were enlisted in their pay 70. I cannot blame this Gentleman that he seeks good company for those whom he meant to patronize and would Pag. 36 34 35. rank them with those under the Lord Lieutenants immediate Command in Dublin who near upon four years after having seen two Armies of the Confederates under the Command of the Nuncio near the City fearing a second attempt having had their quarters entirely destroyed obeyed his Majesties command in giving up Dublin and the rest of the Garrisons to the Parliament To make the parity reach home the party in Munster should have attended the commands of a lawful power and although they have obeyed necessity and laid down their Armes yet it had been their duty as Subjects and Souldiers to have behaved themselves as did the generous Officers at Dublin who neither sued for nor accepted employment under the Enemy And I may well say that this their defection was fatal to his Majesties interest in Ireland for had they kept themselves in a condition to joyn with the rest of the English Protestants in the Peace which was concluded in the year 46. the confusion which was introduced by the breach of it had been prevented and Owen ô Neill had wanted strength to countenance that rupture 71. In the Year 48. the Lord of Inchiquin having been advertized out of France of the resolution taken again to engage the Lord Lieutenant in the service of Ireland and the supreme Council of the Confederates having received the same advertizement both readily condescended to a Cessation of Armes in order to the Peace which was to follow And the Lord of Inchiquin who with wonderful dexterity managed that affair maugre the opposition of some of the Officers prevail'd with the Army under his Command to declare for the King And it cannot be denied that they proved very useful in the Cause as well in the prosecution Pag. 34. as after in assisting to take in Drogheda Dundalk and other Garrisons kept by the Enemy after the conclusion of the Peace But the defeat at Rathmynes and the landing of Cromwell made them think of bettering their fortunes by siding with the more successful Party And their Fellows having already betrayed the Garrisons intrusted to them to Cromwell
to his late Majesty and his lawfull Successor whom God of his mercy contâ—nâ—e long and happiâ—y aâ—d gâ—oriously sitting on his Fathers Throne and his Posterity to the Worlds end I confess that Peace was rejected and most perfidiously scandalously and fatally too rejected but I will ever say nevertheless it was rejected by a disobedient Army by some in that ungodly Clergy men and a few other contrivers of mischief who by their numbers proceedings hypocrisie force craft c. and by their breach of their own Oath of Association and by their faithfulness to their own acknowledged supreme Governours of the Confederacy the Council and general Assembly and by making themselves by such arts the prevailing party amongst the Irish Catholicks at that very nick of time when the Peace of 46. was proclamed in Dublin Kilkenny not only may be said to have had in many things a perfect resemblance unto the Janizaries of England and their Adherents there in the Parliament and Council and amongst the Clergy and Laity in general but even to have had the same proportion to the Confederate Catholicks in general which those English Mamalukes and their partakers had to the loyal Protestants and mournful at that time Nation of England To demonstrate which I shall give more evident proofs if it shall and when it shall be necessary as now it is not in answer to this Gentleman 's present Design or Book than he shall be able to give satisfactory answers And shall at this time content my self with telling the Reader that if the then Donogh Lord Viscount of Muskry now Earl of Clancarthy Edmond Lord Viscount Montgarrett Walter Bagnell Esquire Sir Robert Talbott Baronet Thomas Tyrell Esquire Richard Beallings Esquire Gerott Fennel Esquire Sir Lucas Dillon Knight Jeoffry Brown Esquire Sir Pierce Crosby Knight Sir Richard Blake and other Members of the supreme Council and Commissioners who concluded that Peace and published it at Kilkenny and in pursuance thereof received there the Lord Lieutenant with all due respects and demonstrations of hearty joy and loyalty their imprisonments soon after both there at Wexford and other places and their other sufferings then by and under their lately before fellow-Confederates and the power or authority by which they were so imprisoned and under which they so much suffered the illegal violent forcible usurpation of it even I say against the Laws of the Confederacy and Oath of Association and without any consent or even advice or requisition but plainly against the known will and inclinations of the generality of the Confederates when the Lord Nuncio and two or three more by the countenance and terrour of armed Legions beeking them made a new supreme Council and himself President of it and joyned Council and Congregation together and immediately after hurried on two Armies in an evil hour to besiege the Lord Lieutenant at Dublin and harass'd the Country in their march und being disappointed by the justice of God towards them and favour of Heaven to the Loyal Party and to the generalâ—â—y even of the Confederatss returned in great displeasure and rage and through despair convoked an Assembly which otherwise he was never like to do but of such men where they could possibly as were known to be most averse from all thoughts of Peace and being sate overawed them and took away all freedom from them however they were composed and even forced them by threats of Excommunications and power of that Army near the Town whereof they were sure for such designes to reject the Peace even after the Commissioners who concluded it were cleared upon too manifest evidence to have proceeded according to their instructions to a tittle and by a full Authority given them by the precedent General and free Assembly of the Nation I say that if all these proceedings be considered and particularly the force that lay then upon all the Provinces and Quarters and People that should otherwise have freedom of Election to Assemblies and Suffrages in them and that would in case of such due freedom unquestionably vote for a perfect submission to that Peace the resemblance and proportion above given will appear manifestly to all indifferent men that have but even a very ordinary knowledge of the Irish Nation and affairs since 41. and of the difference of interests among that People these 500. years past since the first English Conquest under Henry 2. and consequently it will appear that our Person of Quality will find himself obliged either to maintain a truth in this very false assertion which yet I believe he will not dare The Protestants and Nation of England were guilty of the sacrilegious breach with Charles the 1. which through so many wiles brought him at last to the Scaffold Or to confess that the Irish Catholicks or Nation of Ireland cannot be said to be guilty even of that one persidious breach of the Articles of 46. much less guilty of having often if not always broke the Conditions either of that or any other And yet I alwayes grant him what I know to be true and am right sorry to know that even some thousands have been guilty of that horrible breach in 46. Nay grant moreover all my Conscience or knowledge or which is the same thing to me all that the truth it self will permit me to grant him that some few Persons of Quality and some Regiments and some Towns too of the Irish Catholicks have often if not alwayes broke the Conditions either of the first or last Peace or of both but withall say that some Persons of Quality and some Regiments of England and Scotland both and some Towns too broke their Allegiance and Faith and often too if not alwayes in a farr more pernicious and horrible nature with his late and present Majesty And that my Answerer will not therefore charge their Crimes on the Protestants or Nation of England or on the universality generality or greater part of them which yet such an indefinite expression had he used it must do 135. But however this be or any thing else I have said in relation to that Peace of 46 it can neither make nor marr his Objections or my Answers on the subject of the last Peace or that of 48. which is that only where on our contest is and must be Neither can any thing said here be drawn to a consequence that I would recall or decline what I have confessed in my Letter of the Judgements of God most justly pursuing the Irish Nation in general for the breach of publick Faith so notorious and scandalous in that of 46. albeit the Nation in general be not guilty of it We know the very Army of God hath been defeated for the Judges Chap. 7. V 4. aâ—d 5. sin even of one man alone as we find in the case of Achan at Ai and whole Nations and great Kingdoms and flourishing Empires most exemplarly punished and by conquest and slavery and subjection to a forein power
positive assertion That the Irish Papists did signâ—lly declare their contempâ— of him disobedience to him and opposition against him Pag. 9. will certainly have a curiosity to enquire That in the general Assembly which concluded the Peace of 48. a select number of the Irish Nobility and Gentry were by the common Vote of the Nation appointed to be their Representatives in relation principally to those things that concerned the Peace That those Representatives were authorized by his Grace to exercise this trust That they by themselves or a Committee of them did attend upon his Person in the Camp and in the several places where he did reside to execute his Commands in order to that trust That those Representatives were not only dissatisfied with such the proceedings of the Clergy met at James-town but express'd their resentments of them in their Letter of the 24th of October 1650. to his Excellency in these words We know that by those Censures of the Bishops met at Jameâ—-â—own his Majesties Authority was invaded and an unwarranted Government set up contrary to the Laws of the Kingdom and we are assured that no Subject could be justly warranted by that Excâ—mmunication to deny Obedience to his Majesties Authority in your Excellency So as what I have alleg'd being found true by so unquestionable testimony certainly the Reader will have reason to wonder that this Gentleman of Quality would impose that upon them for a general silence and sâ—bmission of the body of the Irish Papâ—sts which was a disclaimer and opposition of the Nation in general if his own Maxim Pag. 11. may take place Fol. 13. That in all Societies the publick act of free Representatives virtually and interpretativâ—ly includes all who declaratively oppose it not Pag. 13. 29. Now let us consider with what Arguments he fortifies this ignorant or voluntary mistake The Declaration sayes he runs in the name of the Catholicks of Ireland Pag. 10 11. Which ought not to be any convincing evidence of their general consent in an Age when publick use was made of the Kings name to engage his Subjects to fight against his Person For an argument ex post facto â—e askes Why did not the genâ—rality punish the transgressours This indeed had been a very compendious way to assist the Gentleman and to assure Pag. 11. us that the Irish Catholicks had broken the Articles For how could they punish the transgressours without revâ—â—ing their Confederacy and reassuming that Authority which they newly abdicated And his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant in whom that power was invested by his Majesties Commission was himself content to sacrifice the bitter affronts he had received to the advancement of his Majesties service which he knew would suffer in that conjuncture by distraction and dis-union Thus we see the great Battery this Gentleman rais'd and the Excursions and sharp closes he makes fallen to the ground like some magnificent Palace of Cards which some Child takes the pains to build that is destroyed with the first puff of wind 30. By this time I hope the Reader is acquainted with this Gentlemans dexterity in commenting to the advantage of his own conceptions without regard to the sense of the Text or the intention of the Writer 31. I said that many thousand Protestants in the three Kingdoms Pag. 11 have been farr more hainously Criminal both against his Majesty and his Father of ever blessed memory and have contributed or intended as little for bringing home his Majesty as the most wickedly principled of the Roman Catholick Confederates of Ireland and yet that all these Protestants are not only pardoned except a few of the most immediate Regicides but equall'd in all Capacities with his Majesties most faithfull and approved Subjects The fallacy which this Gentleman makes use of to render this Comparison horridly odious lyes in the name Protestant which he would have should extend no farther than those who have adher'd to the Liturgie of the Pag. 12. Church of England But because I find that the long and short Parliaments that Cromwell and his brief Successors that the Rump the restor'd Members and the Counsell of Safety in all their publick Transactions both at home and abroad involve under that name all those that oppose the Catholick Roman Church I give the name the same latitude Otherwise I should have been most unjust to the Royal Party that upheld the Tenets of the Church of England in the exercise though clandestinely and of the Rites of it and conserved the Principles of that Loyalty which seemed to be a stranger in Israel And if this Gentleman following the Method of those that write solidly had look'd narrowly into my words and oppugned the most favourable interpretation that might be given them he would have acknowledged that my intention was to set those Protestants apart as the words themselves do demonstrate and then have argued against me For when I say that all the Protestants were not only pardoned except a very few of the most immediate Regicides but equall'd in all Capacities to the most faithfull and approved Subjects and since those that pass under the title 〈◊〉 faithfull and approved Subjects can in no construâ—◠〈◊〉 taken for other than the Royalists why Pag. 12. would â—e conâ—â—â—e my intentions to those Protestants whom I meane to exclude and free those that were evinently the object of my discourse It is true that P. W. cannot prove any of these many thousands thus wickedly principled to be a Protestant and it is as true that this Gentleman cannot deny but they pass'd under that notion and that even the Saints â—t Edgehiâ—l and Worcester gave themselves that name and were esteemed to be such in common acceptation 32. The Parliament of England hath gloriously vindicated the English Nation from the Crime of that execrable Parrâ—cide with which it was aspers'd and that which was omitted by the new Inhabitants of the Corporations in Ireland hath in testimony of their joy for the same been solemnly performed by all the Cities and most of the Towns in England Cromwell hath in a thousand opprobrious forms been executed in Effigie and his name rendred as odious as the prime part he acted in that horrid Tragedy could make it Yet no man will say but many thousands did partake of the guilt not as immediate Regicides but as those that assisted supported and countenanced the Actors in it And what vizard soever this Gentleman puts on the Crimes of the Irish unless he proves them to have concurr'd to this he will I hope allow me this guilt is not to be parallel'd 33. The Parliament in Scotland hath in a noble manner done right to that Nation and freed them from that base imputation of having â—old their King Yet it will not be denyed that many thousands of them were Criminal upon that accompt not as the immediate Merchants but as the Assisters Supporters and Countenancers of them And this is a
guilt for which this Gentleman will not find a Parallel among the Irish as he will not for those horrid Oaths to maintain a new erected Government written in the blood of our late Soveraign of ever happy memory and to debaâ— our new King and his Posterity from any access to the Crown so solemnly and so frequently sworn by many anâ— many thousands in the three Dominions 34. Must it be said then that P. W's eye is evill or does â—e Pag. 12. â—epine at any grace conferr'd upon others because he pretends a share in the Kings Mercy and as an inducement thereunto alleges that his Majesty has already conferr'd it on those who were more faulty 35. I believe this Gentleman is as ignorant of the Popish Tenet of Merit as he is sollicitoâ—s to invent slaws in the Pag. 13. proceedings of the Irish and then to comment upon them Our Saviour engages himself by promise to bring us to his Kingdom if we perform the will of his Father and he gives us way to claim it by vertue of that Promise as our own right although it be himself that gives us vellâ— agere 36. Here I must intreat the Reader that in all passages where he finds mention of the English Protestants he do remember with what fallacy my Adversary would circumvent him and elude my intentions under the notion of that name And in confidence that he will not forget how I disclaim in having spoken or intending to speak hereafter any thing of the English Protestant Royalists but with honour applause of their resolute Loyalty I proceed to those which this Gentleman calls rational Inducements for his Majesty in the degrees Pag. 13. of his Grace to discriminate between the Irish Papists and English Protestants 1. I am most certainâ— that those who could best represent the hearty affections of the English Nation would never The Person of Quality's Inducemenâ—s for his Majesty to discriminate retorted consent to cast off his Majesties Authority and that as soon as the People in general that for a long time stood amazed and were astonished at these strange things which they saw acted had recovered their Senses and were free from the Fright which seized on them they brought home his Majesty For let me speak it to their honour that although many were instrumental and the Duke of Albemarle eminently in performing that duty yet it was the People of England in general that did the work The Banks of Power that were rais'd against the Sea of their affections began to shrink And as is said of Bees it was known they were prepared to fight by their unusual humming King Charles began to be spoken of with reverence in the Market-place They drank his Health in Taverns No reproach from the Magistrate no fear of the Laws of the Times could silence the Multitude King Charles was prayed for in some Churches and his Picture was sought for by all men When this was observ'd that which must have been done was done in the most convenient manner What is alleg'd Pag. 13. against the Irish in the Comparison is already abundantly refelled where we demonstrate that the Representatives of that Nation opposed the proceedings of the Clergy at Jame-stown And therefore this Gentleman might well have spar'd the rest of that Paragraph with that quaint expression of their banishing and their Excomâ—unicating his Majesty Pag. 13. in effigie in his Vice-Roy 37. 2ly If those English Protestants submitted absolutely and freely to his Majesty they cannot deny that they deferr'd Pag. 13. so doing too long and did but their duty when they submitted And if to obtain a promise from the King by Articles be so hainous a Crime in the Irish Catholicks what share must they have that forc'd that compell'd that necessitated his Majesty to do so Who were the Contrivers the Fomenters and Maintainers of the late troubles spoken of in the Kings Dcelaration Who were those that erected that odious Court for taking away the life of his dear Father Let those English Protestants claim his Majesties Grace Pag. 13. because sayes he they submitted to his Majesty freely and absolutely And let this Gentleman be contented the Irish Catholicks claim the Grace of his Majesties promise in the Articles of Peace untill he brings more pregnant arguments to perswade the Reader that the foundation of them is dissolv'd on Pag. 14. all parts Those Articles are printed and such as will read them may find that they merit not the Character they receive from this Gentleman as if by them the King had transferr'd all the Regalia both Ecclesiastical and Temporal which is an Hyperbole of the first Magnitude Yet if a nice judgement should find any thing less moderate in those concessions who are most to be blam'd either those that necessitated the King to grant them or those that accepted them And sure I am it sufficiently appears out of his Majesties own words in his fore-mentioned Declaration for the settlement of Ireland that the force compulsion and necessity was put on him by those that erected that odious Court for taking away his Fathers life 38. â— ly The Irish repine not that those English have been remitted their Forfeitures and are in possession of their Estates nor do they oppose the satisfaction set forth Pag. 14. by the Act of Parliament for the Adventurer according to the intention of it 39. 4ly If the over powring of a People that fought by the Kings Commission against the Men the Purse and the Fleet of England strengthned with the revolted Party that betrayed Cork and the rest of his Majesties Towns and Forts in Munster and assisted by Owen ô Neill and his Army shall be call'd a Conquest those English Protestants can only be said to have been Conquerours in their turn For the English Catholicks more than four hundred years before had planted the English Interest in all the parts of it under a much more lawful Authority than that under which those English Protestants prevail'd And this Person of Quality in Ireland having made use of those Arguments which the Man in the dark in England gave in against me concerning the incompatibility of these two Parties living together and P. W. having disproved that Position by a long discourse in his former Reply he will not trouble the Reader with Repetitions This only I will add that it is Pag. 14. more probable those English Protestants that once held Anti-Monarchical Principles should again assume them than that the Irish Catholicks who at all times express'd an aversion from them should embrace them And since both Parties sought at several times by his Majesties Commission it is more probable that the Irish Papists who fought longest in the dayes of His adversity and against all extremities for his Interest at home and stuck to him in his Banishment abroad should have more hearty affection for his Person and Royal Authority than those Protestants
that issue out of the Kings Courts No man is a perfect Statesman that hath not seen forein Countries and known forein Affâ—irs therefore all men are perfect States-men that have seen forein Countries and known forein Affairs No man goes to Heaven but he that is baptized therefore all men goe to Heaven that are baptized The Man in the dark in England was pleased to entertain me with much bitterness and this Gentleman of Quality in Ireland gives me this Logick to boot 51. If all this do not satisfie this Person of Quality's very scrupulous Conscience against these Petitions he is briefly answer'd That the Transplanted Persons and generality of Irish Catholicks openly disown those Petitions or any Commission from themselves impowering in that particular those Gentlemen albeit without any question they being employed to petition against the Oath of Abjuration and other Oppressions of their Countrymen not to establish that of Transplantation their endeavours even in this particular as matters were then proceeded from their desires to serve them Neither doth the continuance of these two Gentlemen since that time in their publik employment for the Irish Catholicks prove what this Person of Quality labours in the 22th Page of his Book or that all they did or do is by allowance or command from their Countrymen It is well known the Irish Catholicks never gave them any such general power much less a particular allowance or command for this which indeed few or none of them either knew heard or thought of untill some few did of late by reading this Gentleman's Book 52. As for other arguments made use of to answer my assertion concerning the Transplanted persons they signifie nothing Our Person of Quality has not yet proved the foundation of those Articles and consequently the Articles themselves Pag. 16. are thrown down by the Irish Papists Nor hath he told us yet what those many other Countries and Ages are that have formerly on less grounds used traâ—splantation and been justified therein as just and equal by Lawyers and Casuists Pag. 16. And no more has he told us what these Lawyers and Casuists are and whether according to the Law of God they could on less grounds justifie the like Transplantation 53. What this Person of Quality further sayes or indeed objects in the first place that my Concluâ—â—on on this Pag. 16. subject without any proof with the same facility as it is said may be gainsaid is answered That my Letter in general being written to the Duke of Ormond who concluded and well remembred the Conditions of the Peace and the observance of it with much affection by some hundreds at least if not thousands of the Transplanted persons my assertion in particular that such could not be deprived of the benefit of the Articles or their Transplantation continued upon accompt of Crimes after 48. needed no proof to him or indeed to any other that knew the affairs of Ireland 54. Concerning Corpoâ—ations my request discriminates the Innocent from the Nocent Although that in a time Pag. 28. when his Majesty out of the abundance of his goodness makes it his glory to out-goe all his Predecessours in a profusion The Person of Quality's Answer to P. W 's Determination in the Case of Corporate places considered of Mercy I seek a share for them likewise in the general dole And then I descend to those persons that have been Innocent in the most guilty of them For those I claim as of justice his Mâ—jesties Grace and the benefit of the Articles as I do for the generality of those other Corporate places which offended not against the Peace of 48. And I am still of opinion if I may be again permitted to speak out of my element that no reason of State could exclude them even although there were no matter of Conscience in the Case For if the Kingdom be to be enriched with traffick and that encreasing of the publick wealth be a principal point of State-policy it is evident that most of the Corporations of Ireland are grown despicably poor by excluding the Natives from free commerce and traffique and that the little life which is yet preserv'd in negotiation is maintained by the trade they drive a Factors to those that live in those Corporations Other arguments I omit at this present being ready nevertheless to give them when it shall be thought necessary with answers to all objections which this person shall or can make even on this subject 55. Had I stood up to justifie Limerick Waterford or Galway in their affronts done to his Majesties Lieutenant of Ireland I could not be upbraided with a more severe expostulation than this is What falshood will P. W. be afraid to suggest Pag. 30. to strangers and what wickedness will he be afraid to patronize at home when he shall dare thus to assert to the Lord Lieutenant himself and publish it in print to the world that no reason of State can accord with the dictates of a good Conscience to exclude these Corporations But when I avow them Criminal and beg mercy for them not by extenuating their guilt but by alleging the examples of his Majesties unbounded goodness why will this Writer vent his malice to the Nation by rayling at me in terms unworthy a Person of Quality Nay wherefore doth he charge me with asserting or publishing that which I never did with that which the clear text or discourse on this subject in my Letter convinces manifestly I did not And that you Reader may be Judge between me and this Person of Quality without any further trouble to your self than to read here a few Lines I give the whole Paragraph well nigh wherein I treated of this matter But withall my Lord I will give your Excellence my most earnest and humble desires that you delay no longer than shall be necessary to clear these clouds of darkness and clear them in this present conjuncture by an effectual demonstration of that justice and favour you intended the Catholicks of Ireland in your Articles of 48. when they so freely put themselves and their power into your hands I am not ignorant that some have after transgressed in a high nature But you know my Lord there are many thousands of Protestants in the three Kingdoms who have been far more hainously criminal both against his Majesty and against his Father of blessed memory and who have contributed or intended as little for bringing home his Majesty as the most wickedly principled of the Roman Confederates of Ireland And we all know my Lord that all the Protestants are not only pardoned except a very few of the most immediate Regicides but equall'd in all capacities with his Majâ—sties most faithfull and most approved Subjects Yet if these unfortunate Catholick transgressors must be alone in this general Jubilee of the three Nations held unworthy to rejoyce at â—he Kings restoration if they alone besides their most grievous and unparallel'd sufferings
all by open Proclamation and really so intended for all extorts from his fellow Subjects such a bargain And that he must be a very bad Christian and a very bad Subject and of very little honesty or reason that would perswade the lawfull Prince to confirm such bargains when he can otherwise choose and when such bargains were there any such relate unto a case as ours at present is where so many thousands where a whole Nation of his good Subjects must be lost for ever by a general Transplantation of them all enacted by law or continued otherwise and upon such grounds and even to gratifie such people as both invented and executed it 5. That as well others that received such inconsiderable assignments of land in Connaght and others too that got nothing at all and yet were transplanted thither allege all for themselves that manifest violence force necessity put upon them as well by turning them out of their own houses and lands and fleecing them of all their goods monies and stocks and so reducing them to a starving condition by hunger and cold as by the Proclamation which I have before given treating of this very same subject in another part of this book for transplanting and which is more for suing out Decrees in the Courts of Athlone and both at their highest peril and by the rigorous execution of that Proclamation the long imprisonment of some and the exile of others and the death of Hedrington in the Market-place at Dublin for not obeying it as the Paper on his breast when he was executed expressing the Cause of his death did manifest and by the general rule so well known they had to force the obedience of all the Irish to that Proclamation Turning them to the Barbados or putting them to death expressed in plain English at Killkenny by Colonel Axtel in the case of Mrs. Martha Harpoll 6. That how-ever this be all the transplanted Irish to a man at least the generality of them and hereof I am very certain deny any kind of exchange or bargain made by them for such lands in lieu of their own proper Estates or any release given or evidences delivered or disclaim made or writings drawn or promise engaged to quit from thenceforth or at any time after their own former titles to those Estates whence they had been so forcibly removed And likewise deny that they could if they would prejudice or bind those of their children who had by ancient or late agreements before the Wars those very Estates entayled upon them 7. Finally that if there be any law in England or Ireland that in the letter may seem to confirm bargains of such a nature as binding were there I say any bargains at all of what nature soever relating to the generality of the transplanted Irish or to the right of transplanting them or if there be any law which in the Letter seems to intitle his Majesty to a right of continuing or enacting a Transplantation so illegally invented first and so tyrannically executed after P. W. thinks all good men and good Lawyers in the world will be notwithstanding of opinion that the sense and equity of such municipal laws if there be any such must be otherwise and the laws of God far otherwise and the laws of Nations too 177. Yet if our Person of Quality can prove that any one or more of all these poor transplanted Irish have without any such constraint force necessity put upon or violence used towards him or them or without any rational fear of running the hazard of the penalties threatned by the said Proclamation and by the rules for observing it gone into Connaght or sued for Decrees accepted other Lands or otherwise given up hs own former Estate and quitted all his rights to it for ever and if our Person of Quality would be so modest as to desire the Transplantation of such only to be continued or enacted by law provided such be not transplanted into any other Loyal Subjects Lands or into the Estates of those Connaght Irish who have themselves the just plea of Articles or Innocence as well as others and if our Person of Quality would be yet further so modest in that other of Reservation as to desire only the reserving of such Lands of the Irish to the King 's free dispose as before indifferent Judges shall be proved in open Court upon a legal trial to have traytorously or perfidiously broke the Articles of 48. by any rebellious or contumacious disobedience to his Majesties Lieutenant the Duke of Ormond or to the Lord Marquess of Clanrickard for a time after Deputy P. W. promises in case of such modesty or such moderation at any time hereafter to be used by our Person of Quality to joyn with him not in wish onely or desire but in prayer also to God that herein the practise of Joseph may be his Grace'â— the Duke of Ormond's pattern reserving the fifth part only to his Majesties free dispose of Lands forfeitable and removing the persons transplantable if any be such into as good Land as their own was and removing them even to the good Cities in all the borders of Ireland yet with a proviso if he please that the true English interest and even the true English Religion be evermore secured And whether our Person of Quality do so reform or no his own desires or his own wishes or intentions as to that of the practise of Joseph to be the Duke's pattern herein yet P. W. shall ever and from the very bottom of his soul devoutly pray the blessings of Joseph may be the Duke's portion even by the God of his Father who shall help him and the Almighty who shall bless Gen. 49. V. 25 and 26. him with blessings of Heaven above and blessings of the deep that lyeth under and the blessings of the breasts and of the womb That all these blessings be on the head of this Joseph and on the Crown of the head of him that was separate from those which call themselves his brethren and who was made such Gen. 45. V. 7 and 8. or separated by God himself to preserve them a posterity on earth and to save their lives by a great deliverance And so Reader concluding here my animadversions upon this Person of Qualitie's Comments it remains that I leave both to thy Judgment whatever party thou art of and that withall you determine freely of the truth or falsity of his grand charge against my letter in the first page of his book where he says that in effect he hath found it whatever the words of it are extremely undutiful to his Sacred Majesty very Pag. 1. disrespectful to the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and most scandalous not only to the Protestants of Ireland but also to those of the same Religion in his Sacred Majecties other Kingdomes And further that with the same freedome you determine whether I cannot groundedly answer his following and
the Law when upon just cause they do desire it And it is further my Lord that I plead yet more particularly for a People who are sufficiently known to have preserved and our of their natural affection to the true English Interest and self-preservation by that Interest and out of a Conscience too of their obligation by all the Laws of God and Man to be loyal Sbjects to his most sacred Majesty who only is the supreme and most proper Judge of that Interest to have so preserved the Kingdom of Ireland in the late Wars from being alienated from the Crown of England and from his Majesty to a powerful Foreiner and whose Ancestors in Tirones Rebellion against Queen Elizabeth and in so many preceding Revolutions during the fatal Divisions of Lancaster and York under Henry the 6. and in the Barons Wars in King John's Reign as likewise in all other occasions which have been but too frequent since the first Conquest by Henry the Second are famous in Chronicles for having mantain'd and commonly at their own private charges and their own private hazard alone the very same true English Interest in that Nation But if notwithstanding two such weighty considerations besides those many other given your Grace not in this Work only but also in my two former Addresses the Catholicks of Ireland must be eternally miserable and if it be so decreed that these poor People must be utterly destroyed and at this time too and by the very impression of King Charles's the no less Just than Merciful's Royal Hand and Seal and by the very concurrence of the Duke of Ormond and as well by occasion of their most loyal endeavours or of having fought constantly for so many years while any fighting was in any of the three Kingdoms for his Majesty as upon account of those other which they have long since reâ—entantly acknowledg'd to have been illegal in the beginning or prosecution of the Irish War by any of them untill his Majesty had by Articles of Peace graciously own'd them all for dutiful Subjects Or if it be so decreed that the poor Catholick Party of Ireland must be the Scape-Goat of Leviticus devoted to all the Vengeance Levit. 16. both of Heaven and Earth and that upon the unlucky head of this caytiff beast and even by the imposition of Aarons's hands at the door of the Tabernacle before and in the name of the whole Congregation of God's chosen People of the British Empire all their own sins and all their own transgressions must be laid and all the maledictions and imprecations of punishment which their own iniquities or those of any of them at any time deserved to bring upon themselves if I say this devoted sin-offering must be loaden so and with so much ceremony sent away and by a man of opportunity led along to the Wilderness to a Land not inhabited and if all this appear just and fit in your eyes to be accomplish'd in his Majesties Catholick Subjects of Ireland may the good pleasure of God and will of the King be done And may the rest of his People of so many different Nations Religions and Interests enjoy all the blessings of a prosperous Peace under the shadow of his Wings and protection of his Laws and Armes Which my Lord and that your Grace may however determine of this great Affair by those Rules of heavenly Knowledge which cannot err and which God alone can sufficiently instruct you with shall be the continual Prayer of My Lord Your Graces most humble most obsequious and most faithful Servant THE PUBLISHER's BRIEF Advertisement To the READER HAving read above two years and a half since a Book first Printed in Dublin without the Author's Name otherwise expressed than by that of a Person of Quality and the same Piece after of another Edition at London with the Frontispiece or Title-Page twice changed but into farr worse every time with that Person of Quality's Titles prefixed and the Gentleman's Name likewise 'gainst whose Letter he writ and by perusal of it having sadly considered the eternal Infamy this Person of Quality would have left to after Ages affixed to the memory of the Catholick Confederates and People of Ireland who profess the Roman Faith and no less the general destruction of all those poor unfortunate Confederates and People designed by him if his advice prevail I could not after some months more had pass'd but admire the supine carelessness of all my Countrymen at home that none of them would undertake the pains of replying to him and speak in Print those known clear Truths both against his manifest falsities and manifold fallacies which I have so often heard by word of mouth from very knowing and sincere Gentlemen of that Country who were privy to all the Transactions there since 41. Which was the reason together with that resentment every good Patriot should have I writ to my Friends in Ireland and such as were likelyest to know whether any one had thought of a Reply or whether they all did give the Person of Quality's Answer for un-answerable At last after much enquiry and pains taken in this Business and some Charges too it pleased God I should receive a Manuscript Copy of this you have here And though I know not the Author but by report nor understand the reason why he would not do his Country right in appeasing this strom which had been raised to so great a height by occasion partly of his own former Writings in behalf of his distressed Countrymen albeit that could be no just occasion either for this Person of Quality or the Man in the Dark in England who writ formerly against him The Irish Colours displayed and whom P. W. did soon after and ever since put to silence by his former Reply entitled The Irish Colours solded nor even for any other to write against P. W's Countrymen or himself yet I found my self obliged to do both the Author and his Country the kindness to publish to the World in Print and with all sincerity without any corruption or the least alteration that very Manuscript as it came to my hands boping the Author will take this my kindness in good part for I am sure my Country will since it doth all Irish Catholicks that right than which scarce ought any thing be more desirable to men that regard their honour and reputation Bâ—sides the Demonstrations are so clear in point of Conscience Equity Honour and even Interest of His Majesty and the English Nation which P. W. gives all along in this Piece where occasion requires it against our Person of Quality's inhumane Counsells given throughout his Answer to the Duke of Ormond and even to His Majesty that Providence I hope will make some use of this Reply by some means or other to let His Grace the Duke of Ormond and by His Grace our most gracious King see through this cruel Design of our Person of Quality's advice for destroying the Irish
Wight had he given any as he did not to the then Parliament might and ought to be rescinded But withall I affirm that Princes are not by any other obvious necessity imposed upon them by disobedient or disloyal Subjects excused from performing agreements howsoever otherwise forced compelled or necessitated they be provided the Covenants be not against the Laws of God and Nature For this being denyed what should the Plea of Magna Charta or Charta de Foresta avail the Barons that forced both from King John What so many pacifications throughout the World So many Acts of Indempnity Modern or Antient Forein or Domestick which Princes would not at least in the Latitude they were in have assented to had not the Rebellious Contumacy of their Subjects forced compelled and necessitated them 24. It were in truth to be wished that the corrupt Nature of Man did at no time fly out to Crimes so fatal and so destructive as Rebellion which neither the menaces of having the Nation and their Religion extirpated nor the Petition See the Author 's mâ—re ample Account from Page 64. to the Page 104. where he demonstrates the unlawfulness to take Aâ—ms againâ—t the Magâ—stâ—â—te in any case imiginable Grotius de Jure Bell. Pac. c 19. n. 6. Quid dicemus de Subditorum â—ellis adversus Reges aliasque summas Potestates His etiamsi causam per se non in justam hâ—beant jus tamen per viâ— agâ—ndi dâ—â—sse ostendimus alibi l. 1. c. 4 Pâ—test interdum tanta esse aut causae injustitia aut resistendi improbites ut puniri gravi er possit Tamen si quasi cum dese toribus aut rebellibus actum sit poeâ—a pâ—omisso opponi non potest secundúm ea quae modo dixâ—mus Nam servis fidâ—m seâ—vandâ—m Veâ—erum pietas existimavit cred to Lâ—ced emâ—nios iram divinam expertos quod Tâ—narenses servos contra pactâ— occiâ—â—ssent Aeâ— 6 7 E Diodoruâ— Sâ—culus l. 11. Notat fidem servis datam in faâ—o Palicorum nunquam à quoquam Domino fuisse violâ—tem Metus autem illaâ—i exceptio hic poterit elidi interposito jurejurando sicut Marcus Pamponâ—us Tribuâ—us plebis jurejurando obstrictas servavit quod L Maâ—â—â—câ—actus prom serat to that effect with some thousand of hands to it nor the Lords Justices favouring the party that oppos'd the King nor any other kind of argument could justifie in the Irish But being Rebellion is a mischief that in all ages extended it self to all the parts of the Earth to prevent perpetual slaughter and the entire desolation of Mankind agreements were admitted 'twixt Kings and their Rebellious Subjects and allowed to be binding by the Law of Nations Whereof our Person of Quality may read the most Learned Hugo Grotius one of the reformed Church in his Work de jure Belli Pacis And thus I hope I have demonstrated that That which his Majesty calls forced compelled and necessitated may stand with that which P. W. calls freely putting themselves into his Graces hands 25. And suppose I had not but on the contrary had granted the Gentleman all the advantages his own heart could desire from my allowing a truth in that his charge or allowing it in the whole Latitude of his meaning that I had even granted the force had been such on his Majesty and put on him by the Irish Confederates only that he had had no internal no moral freedom left at least freedom from those more violent kinds of coaction and therefore no obligation on him to perform the Articles which must be the final scope as it was the great argument at first of some of this Person of Qualities Partners at London against that Peace of his repeating so many times and in so many passages of his book that circumstance of compelled forced and necessitated will I say all this granted prove those Articles were such as forced from his Majesty all the Regalia both Ecclesiastical and Pag. 7. Temporal which this Gentleman says Not to give for answer that certainly this is both a bold Assertion which the printed Articles will convince of untruth and a very unworthy Calumny with which the Duke of Ormond is aspers'd who farr from betraying his Master to that degree or in any wise indeed express'd abundantly his prudent care of his Majestyes Honour and Interests in all his Transactions I will only demand of this Gentleman whether the Guisian League in France forc'd from Henry the Third all the Regalia both Ecclesiastical and Temperal Or the Hugonots from Henry â—e Grand Or the Barons of England in Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta from King John and his Successors all the said Royalties If not as he must grant they did not let him acknowledge the falsity of his Assertion since it is apparent that the Articles of the Irish come short of these Agreements in lessening or imposing on the Prerogative Royal and that the French Kings and English Monarchs after notwithstanding a most Religious observance of the Articles of these Pacifications have been very absolute and never thought to have been deprived of either Ecclesiastical or Temporal Regalia 26. What this Gentleman alleges next wants but truth to make it a convincing Argument For if we should â—â—low that the Irish Catholicks by contempt disobedience and opposition broke those Articles what benefit could they claim by them But nothing can clear this so satisfactorily as a faithful relation of what pass'd at that time upon that occasion 27. The Prelates and others of the Clergy that met at James-town by their Letters of the 20th of August and not in April as is alleged deputed the Bishop of Dromore Pag. 9. and Doctor Charles Kâ—lly to bring a Message from them to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant the substance of which Message was reduced to writing by his Lordships command and subsigned by those that brought it and was in effect under pretence of procuring aid from his Majesty for his distressed Subjects to invite him to depart the Kingdom and to leave the Kings Authority in the hands of some Person or Persons faithful to his Majesty and trusty to the Nation c. In the neck of this and without taking notice of the Answer the Lord Lieutenant sent them that fatal Declaration Pag. 9 10. and Excommunication issued in which besides those set forth by this Gentleman there are many strange Expressions which if they could be proved to have proceeded from the Irish Catholicks or their free Representatives whose publick acts Pag. 13. sayes this Gentleman in all societies virtually and interpretatively include all who declaratively oppose not they might be justly charged with contempt disobedience and opposition to the King's Authority But I shall appeal to the Duke of Ormond whom without doubt my Adversary will allow to be Judge without all exception in this case who can inform those that being pre-possessed with this Gentleman of Quality's so
so principled tâ—at for a short time and in the beginning of a War in a plentiful Country served his Father of ever blessed memory and after deserted him and still fought in favour of those that would exclude our sacred Soveraign and his Posterity from all right to the Crown But is it not strange men should conceive that an Act of Indempnity did warrant them to upbraid others for Crimes for which themselves were guilty in a higher nature He should consider that although the wounds be heal'd the scarrs remain which should at least silence his Invectives when the Party he pleads for is not so generous as to say with Dido Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco Virgil. 40. 5ly It is true that Rebellions of particular men have Pag. 14. been freqâ—ent in Ireland and it is as true that the Catholick Natives have been very instrumental not only in suppressing them but in repelling forein Invasion Now with what justice that can be imputed to a Nation as a mark of Infamy which is the Crime of a few is a thing which the men of England where there have been heretofore many such defections will be curious to enquire 41. Here again this Gentleman mentions the year 1641. but I shall again deferr giving him any answer upon that subject untill I come to that place where he discourses more amply of the beginning of the Rebellion 42. 6ly Whensoever this Gentleman discourses of the Principles of Catholick Religion he shews or makes himself Pag. 15. ignorant of them and he so confounds the Papal and Royal Authority in this Paragraph as if we knew not which are the Keâ—es and which is the Sword We give the Pope no Supremacy but in Spiritual affairs and this Supremacy is of that nature as it cannot dis-engage our Consciences from the Loyalty we owe to our Soveraign And although our Remonstrance Declaration and Protestation upon this subject printed not long since hath left no room for such Cavills yet we despair to stop the moâ—ths of those that would eâ—â—ablish this â—alumny for a truth For some men are so strangely bent against Catholicks as they would entertain the Multitude in this Errour and are much afflicted it should be known that Catholicks profess and are directed by Loyal Principles 43. Now aâ— to the Transplantation to Connaght and Clare Pag. 16. laying asiâ—e the bitterness of the language in that Paragraph and even tyr'd with following this Gentleman in the way of his Methodical and Collegial discourse I will only say that all the Arguments with which he enforces P. W 's Conclusion maintained or which is the same thing the Person of Quality's Arguments for continuing the Tâ—ansplantation rendered insignificant it cannot perswade the Reader that men do that willingly which if they omit to do they must starve or hang or be sold as slaves for willingness to do a thing implyes it to be done not however freely but without such extreme violence Instances of these have been so frequent and so often alleg'd that this Gentleman is compell'd to change the Battery and to say That although the force of the late horrid Usurpers constrain'd them to goe thither Pag. 18. in person yet no force lay upon them to sue out Decrees and obtain Possessions of Lands there in lieâ— of their former forfeiâ—ed Estates in the other Provinces 44. It might perhaps be thought a full and satisfactory Answer to this Objection that men in whose power it is to redeem their Wives and Children by suing out Decrees there being no mean but that under Heaven for their relief might be judged Murtherers of them if they omitted so to do But besides starving if hanging be a sufficient excuse in this case take the proof of this from the Law of the Times the Proclamation of Cromwell and his Council Printed at Dublin by William Bladen in the Year 1654. by their Order in pursuance of an Act of Parliament entituled An Act for the settlement of Ireland by which it is declar'd that they do transplant themselves before the first day of March next ensuing into the Province of Connaght and County of Clare accordiâ—g to former Declarations and address themselves to those that are there impow'red for that purpose to take out their respective assigâ—ments for Lands and proceed to build and settle themselves there and make provision for their Families and this upon the highest penalty 45. I now demand of our Person of Quality whether this Proclamation in Ireland and at that time it was pâ—blâ—shed should not rationally produce as really it did that kind of fear in the miserable Irish which is called mâ—â— us cadens in virum constantem Whether tâ—ere was any such in England to force the Cavalâ—eâ—s to a Composition Whether bargains forced by such fear or ex metu cadente in virum constantem are not void in Law or at least to be rescinded And if our Person of Quality must answer the first and last of these Queries in the affirmative and the second in the negative as without any question he must then must it follow that although the Cavaliers in England are not relieved from their own Act of Composition the Innocent Irish and others that articled and had not after forfeited those Articles might in justice desire and petition to be relieved And it must further follow that his Majesties words alleged by this Gentleman out of his Majesties foresaid Declaration of the 30th of November did not suppose because his Majesty was not sufficiently informed of the highest penalties to be inflicted on those would not address themselves to take out their respective assignments of Lands in Connaght according to that Proclamation I have related nor consequently that kind of force which must have rendred those acts of the Irish to be not their own but the Forcer's I mean as to a conclusion of the enforced from seeking any redress from the equity of the Laws and from the justice of the Prince restored to perfect liberty and informed throughly of the case And therefore it must be likewise consequent that P. W. cannot in reason be taxed with insolency for having spoken his judgement hereof in his Letter Pag. 17. or having said therein That the Transplantation cannot be continued on accompt of Crimes since 48. nor stand with the Articles or with the Equity of the Laws much less with the Justice of a Prince whom God hath restored to redeem the oppressed from the yoak of Tyranny to lead Captivity captive and give gifts to men P. W. writ that Letter before his Majesties Declaration was concluded The Letter having been delivered to the Duke about the end of October 1660. a whole month before the date of the Declaration And I am sure it would not then at least have seemed insolent to say The Transplantation of such of the Irish as are either Innocents or Articlers and such Articlers too as never since the date
service 77. And now this Gentleman must give me leave to say that Experiments against which there is no arguing must be Pag. 39. of some other nature than this he delivers us And that the Text being such as we find it the Comments he makes upon it are of the same Edition save that where he extends the acknowledgement of his Majesties Mercy to his Protestant Subjects he must allow me to say that it cannot be more Pag. 40. hearty and more submiss in them than in the Irish Catholicks 78. I am now come to that place to which upon former frequent repetitions of the same thing I transferr'd the Pag. 41. Reader and that is the Year 1641. And because I find that this Gentleman of Quality and the Man of the dark in England do conferr notes I shall only here repeat what answer I gave the other upon part of the same subject Your Grace knows with what horrour the Irish Nation looks upon those massacres and murthers in the North in the beginning Iâ—ish Colours Fâ—lded Pag. of the Rebellion committed by the rascal multitude upon their innocent unarmed and unprovided Neighbours but the number of two hundred thousand although this Writer comes short one hundred thousand in his accompt of what the Convention-Commissioners gave up to his Majesty in their Answer to the Irish Agents is so exorbitantly vast that a stranger who finds the dimensions of Ireland in the Map and understands this certain truâ—h that there were then in Ireland one hundred Natives for every Person these men would pass under the notion of an Englishman will readily conclude that thâ— whole Island is but one City so throng'd with Inhabitants as men cannot walk in the streets unjustled 79. I will not extenuate the sufferings of the English in their personal Estate which indeed is very great Nay I Pag. 41. hope to be able to say That it was more than the fee-simple of all the Lands which his Majesties mercy will allow to have been forfeited in Ireland is worth But that this Gentleman should impute to the Irish Catholicks that they did pretend his Majesties Authority for raising the Rebellion is Pag. 41. to lay that to their charge which was the sole and individual act of Sir Phelim ô Neill who shewing the People the broad-seal of an old Patent he had lying by him published that to be the Warrant from his Majesty for what he acted And I hope that unfortunate Gentleman himself hath made some satisfaction to the Divine Justice for so hainous a sin by his free acknowledging it at the time of his Execution and by his penitent tears and freqâ—ent and publick cryes that God would be merciful to him for so foul a Crime 80. Yet as there have been some of our late King's Ministers in Ireland that in favour of his Enemies have endeavoured industriously by the examâ—nation of Witnesses even upon the Rack to cause this Imposture to pass for Truth So this Gentleman out of the abundance of his kindness to the Irish Catholicks dictates the fiction and makes all of them partake of that which Sir Phelim ô Neill did wholly ascribe to himself 81. When this Gentleman cites these words of King Charles the First of ever happy memory Albeit We do extremely Pag. 4â— detest the odious Rebellion which the Recusants of Ireland have without ground or colour raised against Us Our Crown and Dignity he might have rememâ—red those that immediately follow viz. Which words â—e do in all humility conceive to have proceeded from the mâ—s-represeâ—tations of our Adversaries and therefore do protest we have been most maliciously traduced to your Majesty And nothing can be more evident than that Sir William Parsons and Sir John Burlace then Lords Justices and such of the Council who from the beginning favoured those that opposed his Majesty in England gave them this Character being glad to make the King Author of so indefinite a Charge as themselves had retracted before For having issued forth a Proclamation the very day they discovered the Conspiracy and published that it was intended by some evil-affected Irish they having found mens general resentment of those so general words soon after by a second Proclamation printed and published declared That they only intended by the word Irish Papists such of the meer Irish in the Province of Ulster as had plotted contrived and been Actors in that Treason and others who adher'd to them and that they did not any way intend or mean thereby any of the old English of the Pale or any other parts of the Kingdom We may joyn this to this Gentleman 's former Experiment and say with much truth that mis-informations were the least of those Ministers crimes As for those killing inferences which he drives from such springs and builds on such foundations I leave them to the Reader to be considered 82. I must not hope to dis-intangle even that particular Fallacy which this Gentleman makes use of almost in every Page of attributing what is the Crime of Particular men to the whole Nation untill he gives over to write upon this subject 83. Here we have him in the Year 46. making the Attempt of Owen ô Neill to surprize the Lord Lieutenant and Pag. 42 Pag. 43. his Party in their return to Dublin the general Act of the Nation and laying to their charge that the Council and Congregation obliged General Preston to exercise all acts of hostility against the Lord Lieutenant by name Although this be the first time that ever I heard of such an Oath yet I will easily believe that the Nuncio and those that went to besiege his Excellency at Dublin would not scruple at the exacting of such an Oath But wherefore doth not this Gentleman deal so ingenuously with the Reader as to let him know that those who gave Order to prosecute the Lord Lieutenant were those only that gave Orders to prosecute all Confederate Irish Catholicks who stood in Armes against them and had before seized on their very Persons who by the general Assembly of the Confederate Catholiques were established Governours over themselves and made them Prisoners in the City of Kilkeny Will any man say that the English Nation is answerable for the actings of Cromwell or the Rump It is much pitty that the Gentleman who has so good a faculty in commenting sharply hath noâ— chosen better Texts 84. We are now come to the Year 1647. in which year this Gentleman sayes that the general Assembly of the Confederate Catholiques of Ireland employed Commissioners Pag. 44 to Rome France and Spain to invite a forein Power to Ireland It were to be wish'd this Person of Quality did not imagine Truth to be such a Rock as he dares not approach but by several windings The plain relation of that Affair is here given the Reader by a Person of Quality entrusted with that Negotiation 85. The Power of those who were in Armes
inferences upon weak grounds For taking both the Texts together which this Gentleman to make the Comment the fuller hath divided and reflecting upon the evill times and the necessity to which the Catholicks were reduced and how nothing was to be acted but by the advice of those that were employed into France to his Majesty and the Queen his Mother it was no wonder supposing the Pope would be munificent towards the maintenance of that War which besides the interests of Catholick Religion had for scope the re-inthroning of the King that his Holiness should be admitted to receive reasonable satisfaction by the Articles and to oblige the Pope to descend to such Conditions as might be granted in matters of Religion that they were to represent to his Holiness the lowness of their own condition the power and strength of their Enemies and to solicit for considerable aides whereby to maintain a War And not only that but to ascertain and secure the same Pag. 46. 92. This and no other being the sense of those Instructions cited by this Gentleman himself And that their imploring of aid and protection tending to no other end Is it not strange he could conclude with saying Still the Pag. 47. Pope is their King Does it appear by this That the Irish Papists hang as their Faith in God so their Loyalty to the Prince on the Popes sleeve Yet after his accustomed manner Pag. 47. he comments thus upon that Text and would liken the protection they sought to the power of the Protector Pag. 47. in England which beyond Royal was Tyrannical although some men by elaborated speeches strove to make it Legitimate by conferring Kingship on Cromwell 93. We are now come to the Year 1648. and here again we find this Gentleman forgets not to allege with the same truth he had before that the Irish Papists disowned the Peace Pag. 47. then made disobeyed opposed conspired to murther excommunicated and banished his Majesties Vice-Roy But should I repeat my Answers as often as he reiterates his Charge my Reply would grow to a Volume And therefore I referr the Reader to what is formerly said as I do to what belongs to his summary Conclusion 94. It is true that in some points of Faith the Catholicks oppose both the Protestants and Sectaries but the Catholick Pag. 48. and Protestant Royalist agree in point of Loyalty The fighting against the Regicides or Sectaries And to prove this by an Experiment more convincing than that which this Gentleman formerly gave us these two Parties joyned for two or three years under the same Command in the same Army to fight against those this Gentleman's Protestants which can be no other than Sectaries And if not the fighting but the ground and end of the fighting Pag. 48. proves which is the good Subject This reaches home to those that to palliate their evill intentions feigned themselves Protestant Royalists And when Cromwell went into Ireland deserting his Majesties service presented him with the fruits of their treachery the City of Cork and the rest of those strong holds in Munster whilst the true Protestant Royalist and the Irish Catholick stuck to their Principles And not content to abstain from the Rebells in Ireland many of them adhered to his Majesty in his banishment and followed his fortune abroad Now how could Sampson himself tye their tails together that scarce ever met but as Enemies is a riddle to me Pag. 49. 95. The reason why I said that the power of this Gentleman 's Protestants in Ireland was no greater than his Majesty was pleased to make it was grounded on the reports which were daily brought to London of the Phanaticks menaces Pag. 49. not to give way to the execution of any of the Kings Orders by which any of the Natives was to be restored And knowing that there wanted no hands among the Protestant Royalists and the Irish Catholicks sufficient to bring them to reason I slighted their threats and their power to second them by saying that it is no greater as in truth it is not than his Majesty is pleased to make it As for the Elogium that follows if the Gentleman holds himself to my intention he must allow that it wholly concerns the Phanaticks 96. This Gentleman sayes after his manner That the Contents of those Articles are in themselves unwarrantable except Pag. 50. in case of necessity which hath no Law His Majesty Concerning the Pleâ— of Justice grounded on the Articles sayes he having condescended by them that the Militia Treasury and Army of fifteen thousand Foot two thousand five hundred Horse of Irish Papists and even in effect the Legistative power should be in the hands of twelve men to be chosen by Irish Papists and that there should be no alteration in England of what they in Ireland should thiâ—k sit to transmit to his Majesty and that the Rebells should be pardoned without consent of Parliament when his Maâ—esty in Parliament adjudged such pardons before conviction to be ruâ—l and void and that they assumed the Legislative power by repealing Poynings Act all which sayes he is against Law and the Oath the King takes at his Coronation 97. What a task would the answering of all these Heads this Gentleman vents at a breath prove to me if these Articles of Peace were not so common as to be in the hands of very many This Gentleman will give me leave to ask him whether he himself believes the King broke his Coronation Oath or Pag. 51. gave away his Militia because he granted that this so considerable an Army should be kept on foot under the conduct of his Lieutenant of Ireland for maintenance of his interests in so great streights as his Majesty was reduced to at a time when his enemies had thrice that number in the Field against him Did the King break his Oath or give away his right in the Treasury because he gave power to his Lieutenant with the advice of certain select Persons of the Natives to levy money for the maintenance of this Army and for other charges incident to the Government Or do those select persons assume the legislative power of the Kingdom because it is inserted in those Articles that both Houses of Parliament may consider what they shall think convenient touching the repeal or suspension of the Statute commonly called Poynings Act And cannot his Majesty pardon his Subjects of Ireland although he give his Royal Assent to an Act past in the Parliament of England by which such pardon before conviction is declared null and void 98. He adds That although the Irish Catholicks chiefly Pag. 51. pleaded for restitution of their Estates by vertue of those Articles yet if they had prevailed therein upon the score of that plea it must in consequence have adjudged for them the benefit of all the other Articles as a Right But this Gentleman foresees not that he is to
murthers and be they as numerous too as he will have them committed by a very few of the rude rabble amongst the Irish are not only not unparalleld in Histories of former ages and Pag. 93. other Countries and by very many instances but not even in the History of our own days or that of England since the prodigious murther committed on the Scaffold at Whitehall by those that shaked hands all along with this Gentleman's Clyents And that all those Irish murthers even quintessenced into one have been unquestionably not so little hainous comparatively as parallel'd but even as overparallel'd by that only one yea had the Actors in it committed no more as yet they are known to have ten thousand before and after And I must affirm that although it be confessedly true that no zeal in Religion can apologize for the sins either Personal or National of my Countrymen as neither if not rather much less for those yet more hideous and more abominable crimes of some of this Person of Quality's Brethren yet both he and I too if Christians if rational men cannot but affirm also That a Godly repentance with all due circumstances of it according to the Religion and Faith of God taught us in the Word of God may for the time to come hinder the effects of Gods Justice on my Countrymen even those very effects which this Person of Quality wisheth from his very Soul I am sure that no Pag. 93. godliness may hinder and which he no less positively denounces than if he had the mercy of God in his power and the knowledge of Gods decrees or of all future contingencies reveal'd to him But he is neither a Prophet nor the Son of a Prophet if I may guess And what ever he be 't is like he hath neither the Mercy nor the Justice and power of God at his devotion more nor the knowledge of Gods eternal or temporary pleasure concerning my Countrymen more certainly revealed to him than the Prophet Jonas had all of them together in relation to the Ninivites And therefore notwithstanding this Gentleman's prediction here of or against the Irish be so positive so absolute an assertion of the effects of Gods Justice to fall upon them hereafter viz. in his conception and according to his affection the loss of all their Lands for ever and the transplanting of them all from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end thereof as presently you shall see in his Conclusion yet he must grant me that this prediction of his can be no more infallible than that of Jonas Adhuc quadraginta dies Ninive Jon. 3 Ch. V. 4. subvertetur yet forty dayes and Ninive shall be overthrown And we know this prediction of Jonas the very Prophet of God yea preached by the very command of God himself was notwithstanding falsified and Ninive saved then from V. 7 8 9 10. any such or other Judgement threatned by the Prophet because the Ninivites humbled themselves truly before God and with faith and hope cryed unto him for mercy And I believe my Countrymen may imitate them and hope they will As for his occasional assertion That to do evil that good Pag. 93. may come of it may be the Doctrine of Rome no Romanist I am certain will ever allow Nor can he charge any of all their Communion with that wicked Maxim in any kind of sense that may not be returned on himself again with very much disadvantage to his party For if he say for example that some Papist writers teach that Subjects may rebel against the Soveraign power to the end that Religion may be restored or preserved and therefore teach to doe evil that good may come of it Rebellion questionless being a very great evil in it self and true Religion as great a good I would fain know whether his own Religious Clients have not in a thousand Pamphlets and ten thousand Pulpits and for 20. years compleat maintained that un-catholick wicked sinful Position against the Laws of God Nâ—tâ—ral and Positive and against the Laws of Man Civil and Ecclesiastical And whether they have not all that while taught all of them and practiced too a most impious Rebellion partly to introduce the very worst Religion in the World and partly to have none at all Nay whether they have not taught and practiced also that infernal Doctrine of meer design first to ruine Monarchy and then Prelacy and after these Magistracy and Ministery both in general could they drive on their design and so devour the Tythes and then pull down the Steeple-houses for so the Saints did name all Churches and in a word set Hell wide open upon the face of the Earth and make themselves the sole Masters of it yea absolute Lords of all the good things in it of all other mens fortunes and lives too and at their own pleasure wash their hands in the blood of the wicked as they term all honest men because not of their cabal And if this Doctrine and this Practice be not incomparably worse than that which though wickedly teacheth by word or example to do evill that good may come of it nay if it lead not by the hand to do many great evills that many other yet farr greater yea all imaginable evills in the world may follow I understand nothing at all by this word evill But if such Diabolical Maxims and Practices flow naturally from the Doctrine of Geneva Rome needs not blush hereafter not even for the most unchristian Maxims charg'd hitherto though falsely upon her And since by the fruit the tree is best known what will our Person of Quality think of his own tree that bears abundance continually of so evill so deadly poysonous fruit Or will not he think of it as our Saviour did foretelling in general what would become of all such Omnis arbor quae non facit fructum bonum excidetur Mat. 7. in ignem mittetur Math. 7. Nay will not he think that if by our Saviours prediction or judgement Every tree that bears not good fruit shall be cut down and thrown into the fire those that bear so evill even the most evill fruit conceiveable are by the jâ—stice of God reserved for such a fire as ever shall burn and never consume throughly but alwayes reserve them for new punishment unless they timely change their Nature and receive Siens of Grace inoculated on the old wicked stock 171. Albeit I have no cause to quarrel at the first part of this Gentleman's Conclusion of his Book or of his concluding Wish That his Grace the Duke of Ormond may be as another Pag. 93. Joseph to his Brethren being it is and was my own Wish in the perclose of that Letter so diligently commented upon by this Person of Quality and so just and so good a Wish too as by his confession drew the hearts of the Protestants of Ireland to close with desiring that his Grace may