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A74937	The interest of England in the Irish transplantation, stated wherein is held forth (to all concerned in Irelands good settlement) the benefits the Irish transplantation will bring to each of them in particular, and to the Common-wealth in general, being chiefly intended as an answer to a scandalous, seditious pamphlet, entituled, The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed. Composed and published at the request of several persons in eminent place in Ireland, to the end all who desire it, might have a true account of the proceedings that have been there in the business of transplantation, both as to the rise, progress, and end thereof. By a faithfull servant of the Common-wealth, Richard Laurence.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1655 (1655)	Wing L678; Thomason E829_17; ESTC R179375	23,297	35

of what they had so boldly come by to the utmost from place to place Ireland having cost England more money and men to recover it than it is or ever is like to be worth to them many a time over and for England now at the close of all to heal up this wound slightly and to leave the Interest and People of England in Ireland at as eminent uncertainties as ever whereby the posterity of this present Generation if not themselves shall after a few years come to be at the mercy and disposition of this bloudy People again except a few inwalled Towns and Garisons if it may be by any lawfull and prudent means prevented I judg those who are wise and ingenuous of the Irish themselves would acknowledg it a weakness and great neglect in those in whose hand God hath placed the power much more all true hearted English men who are so much concerned therein And therefore it remains now to prove that the work of Transplantation at least so far as it is at present declared and intended i●… the most probable means to secure the present English Interest 〈◊〉 Ireland and obtain one there able to secure it self without such immediate dependence upon England as hitherto hath been for men and money to effect the same And for the better making out of this First consider wherein the advantage of the Irish above the English consisted at the first breaking out of the late horrid Rebellion whereby the many thousands of English People then inhabiting in that Countrey became so inconsiderable either as to the preservation of their own Lives and Estates or the publick Interest of England there which chiefly proceeded from their not being imbodied or from their not cohabiting together whereby they might have been in a capacity to imbody they being scattered up and down the whole Nation here and there a few families being thereby wholly subjected to the mercy of the Rabble Irish to the general destruction and ruine of them before the Enemy had either Army Arms or Ammunition more than Skeans and Staves whereas had those English that were then in Ireland been cohabiting together in one entire Plantation or in several Plantations so they had been but entire Colonies of themselves and Masters of the Countrey in which they lived the Irish would hardly have had confidence to have attempted a War much less a Massacre upon them for then before they could have made any considerable Attempt upon the English they must have been somewhat formidable themselves which they could hardly have attained unto without discovering their Plot and there by losing their Design but in case they could have effected the raising a formidable force before they had been discovered yet it would have been a difficult business for them to have fallen upon all the English Plantations at once or to have surprized any one of them more than one quarter upon which they first fell from whence the whole Plantation would receive the Alarm and either be in a capacity to draw together to make present resistance or otherwise at least to betake themselves with the chief of their substance to such strong Holds or Garisons as the Plantation did afford and there to put themselves into a posture to defend their Countrey and rescue their friends and substance from their Enemies And further upon the first Assault of the Irish upon any such English Plantation or any part thereof the whole English Plantations with the English Army in all parts would forthwith receive the Alarm and put themselves into a posture of defence which in that case they might have done without much hazard or difficulty to their persons though their substance in some parts might have been hazarded by their quiting their particular Habitations to draw together though not much if their Plantation had been so settled upon the Sea-coasts as that the Irish could fall but upon the out-quarter thereof they then probably might have preserved all their lives stock and portable goods by driving and bringing them within or under the shelter of their Garison or Rendezvous as for instance the Barony of Ards in the County of Down and Province of Vlster which being entirely planted by British People did preserve themselves by keeping Guards upon their Frontiers when all the Countrey besides was totally ruined and in all former Wars of Ireland the like security hath been enjoyed by the English pale in the County of Dublin and English Baronies in the County of Wexford by the same means Whereas by their promiscuous and scattered inhabiting among the Irish who were in all places far the greater number and in most a hundred to one they were even as Sheep prepared for the slaughter that the very Cripples and Beggars of several of the Countreys where they lived if they rose against them were able to destroy them for they were neither in a capacity to resist nor fly being in the midst of their Enemies and far from Friends some having a hundred some sixty some forty few less than ten miles to travel through their Enemies Countrey where every Bridg and Pass was beset with Rebells to destroy them that they were not onely without help but hope in most places having no other refuge but to fly to the chief of the Irish in their Countrey for succour who in several places set their Cow-boys and Foot-men to murder and torture them and would stand by and make sport of it themselves and others of the Irish Gentry that were more civil would send them away with pretended Convoys who usually murdered them by the way though some there were of the Irish Gentry whose kindness I hope either hath or will be rewarded both by God and man that did really use their endeavours and interest to preserve English lives by whose means some few did escape like Job's messengers to bring the news of the destruction of the rest of their neighbours And if this were the condition of the English in Ireland at the beginning of the Rebellion and the chief outward cause of their sad destruction their promiscuous scattered cohabitations among the Irish then surely it must be the main duty of the Authority of England at this day to contrive and use their utmost endeavours to prevent the like sad destruction for the future which will hardly be provided against without the removing this main cause before mentioned And therefore I would propose as essential to the security of the English interest and People in Ireland that the English inhabiting in that Nation should live together in distinct Plantations or Colonies separated from the Irish and so far as the natural advantage of the Countrey or their own ability will afford it to maintain frontier Garisons upon Lines or Passes for the security of every Plantation and to admit no more Irish Papists that they had not eminent grounds to believe were or would be faithfull to the English interest to live within them then what they might

of them can do besides a hazardous chargeable and troublesom voyage by Sea to which is added those difficulties that attend strangers in a strange Countrey more than what doth a people in their own native Land and yet I hope we have sufficient experience and some thousands of living witnesses that it is consistent with their being and well-being to and hath proved to many if not to most for their much better being though it is to be supposed that such English as dwell on the North-West side of the River of Thames though many miles distant from it would judg it a far less difficulty to remove their Habitation into Surrey or Kent than it is to remove from England to Ireland though the later is very possible and practicable as is before minded yet the former is as much as the Irish Transplantation extends unto Nay we might bring for an instance to prove the possibility of the work those many thousands of English Dutch and French that have transplanted themselves out of those Nations into the American Plantations and yet are all in being and well-being too through Gods mercy and therefore I argue it is no such impossible thing as the Discussor would seem to make it to transplant the Irish but it may be done with much consistency to their beings and well-beings if themselves be not accessary to the contrary Besides if to this be added those tender regards that have been as is before minded to the condition age and sex of such as are to be transplanted who have not been of a sudden hurried away without respect to their several conditions but the method and timing of their remove hath had a special eye to their good and preservation therein in order to which they have had a full years time to dispose of what they have in the places they remove from to their best advantage and withall thereby oportunity to provide Habitations and needfull accommodations at the places they are removed to and another whole Summer before them farther to provide for themselves which sufficiently evidences the persons in present power in Ireland not to have that cruel disposition in them towards the Irish as the Discussor maliciously labors to insinuate but much the contrary for there are many Reasons of State in order to publick safety and settlement that would have called for more severity in order to expedition in that work if compassion and tenderness towards the persons concerned therein had not prevailed against them so that not onely to the thing it self but as to the management and method of it the least of the former Causes instanced being attended with equal and most of them with much greater difficulties than this and therefore not impossible but as rationally and safely practicable as any of the former Cases So that I judg there hath been nothing offered by the Discussor against the work of Transplantation that bears any weight and doth not of it self fall to the ground by admitting those essential gross mistakes in him before mentioned but hath been fully answered either as to publibk good security of the English inhabitants and their interest or as to the possibility and practicableness of the thing without destruction and ruine to the persons concerned which are the principal Heads he insists upon onely as to that concerning Religion where he endeavoureth to hold forth that the not transplanting of the Irish would no ways hazard the perverting of the English and would be much in order to the converting of the Irish which the Transplantation saith he will wholly prevent as in pag. 1 2 3 4 5 6. But the stress of all that 's offered upon this account is laid upon those fore-mentioned great mistakes that like the bloud in the veins of the body that runs through the whole discourse viz. a universal and promiscuous Transplantation which being denied is a sufficient answer for I do not judg the Discussor can suppose that the continuing of the popish superstitious Souldier and Proprietor among and over the common people will be a ●…eans to make way for their conversion to the Protestant Religion more than to continue their Priests but is so evident it will ●…h rather tend to the contrary even shutting that door of hope but may otherwise be opened to that work that to spend time about arguing of it would not be to profit and besides require ●…re Lines than I am willing to swell this Paper into it being ●…ch larger already than I intended it FINIS

THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND IN THE IRISH Transplantation stated Wherein is held forth to all concerned in Irelands good settlement the benefits the Irish Transplantation will bring to each of them in particular and to the Common-wealth in geral being chiefly intended as an Answer to a scandalous seditious Pamphlet entituled The great Case of Transplantation in Ireland discussed Composed and published at the request of several persons in eminent place in Ireland to the end all who desire it might have a true Account of the Proceedings that have been there in the business of Transplantation both as to the rise progress and end thereof By a faithfull Servant of the Common-wealth Richard Laurence LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and are to be sold at the Sign of Sir John Oldcastle near Py-corner MCDLV THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND IN THE IRISH Transplantation TO avoid prolixity and diverting the judgment of the Reader by impertinencies from the consideration of so weighty a business I shall decline the way of an orderly Answer to the several Arguments and Objections of the Discussor as they stand in his Book by which I should have been necessitated to take notice of many impertinences as to this business in hand besides the many scrupulous expressions and scandalous reflections contained therein against Authority whose contrary demeanour and actions are so publickly and well known to many thousands of judicious sober persons both English and Irish in this Nation that my testimony would be as needless in order to their vindication as the Discussors scandalous clamors are like to be succesless in the stain of their reputation and therefore they seem more to convince the Reader of the Discussors malignity and weakness than of the rationality of the thing therein pleaded for wherefore I shall for brevities sake confine my self to a plain and true Account so far as my memory and understanding shall help me of this business of Transplantation in which I shall use this method and speak First of the original Authority of this business of Transplantation from whence it came Secondly the reasons and grounds upon which it was undertaken by the Parliament as they are declared in the Act of Settlement and Instructions for Transplantation Thirdly the proceedings that have been herein from time to time by the Authority of Ireland in observance of the said Act of Parliament and Instructions wherein is to be minded their prudence and tenderness therein contrary to those in jurious insinuations of severity and cruelty suggested by the Discussor against them Fourthly Is observed the great mistake the Discussor grounds his whole discourse upon the clearing of which of it self might be a sufficient Answer to the whole Book all the Arguments within it being raised therefrom Fifthly several of the most swaying Reasons and Arguments offered by the Discussor against the Work examined and answered with some Arguments presented to consideration in opposition thereto First the weakness and malice of the Discussor is much discovered by his endeavours to lay the blame of the work of Transplantation if it were blame worthy orginally or chiefly upon the persons in chief Authority in Ireland Whereas they were but ministerial and subordinate therein onely putting the Orders and Instructions of Parliament in execution when received so that had they or any subordinate to them there been as much dissatisfied in the work as the Discussor yet it remained upon them as a duty so far as it was possible in their power to see the thing done Then secondly for the Reasons which the Parliament grounds the work of Transplantation upon as they are hinted and provided for in the Act of Settlement pag. 13 17 22. and mentioned in the Instructions pag. 1 2. you may there observe they are not upon that hand the Discussor would fix them viz. to punish the Irish for Rebellion and Murther for the time past as he supposeth and spends his pains about from pag. 7 to the 15. but on the other hand to preserve the English and so to settle Ireland for the future that the English Interest and People might not be liable to the like inhumane usage and destruction for the time to come which we have reason to believe they judged they could not do without this work of Transplantation which being the result of a Parliament nay of several Parliaments one after another approving and confirming each others Acts therein and withall not a sudden Act admitting of a probability of surprize before they had well advised and weighed the thing it being under consideration above twelve Moneths and they being the supreme legislative power of these three Nations The consideration of all which might have been sufficient to have cautioned the Discussor though he be in his own conceit more able to judg of that work than they all to have been more modest in his language especially in a business of that nature that no particular persons could propose self-advantage thereby and withall of that weight that the settlement of a Nation depends upon it But the Discussor me thinks seems to imply an Objection against this in page 27 28. of his Book that though the business of Transplantation were the Result of the wisdom of a Parliament and though the Parliament might consist of wise considerate men that understood and weighed well what they did yet saith he to stop the wonder how such destructive Resolutions could pass or be let pass from the hands of Authority all this time consider First those that were in England must see and hear by theis eys and ears that were in Ireland who as he saith were strangers to that Land and could not at the first sight understand the compleat interest thereof Secondly the face of things is much different in Ireland and though then necessity might have made it fit to have transplanted yet now the unfitness makes it not necessary Thirdly though then in their wisdoms they gave out such Orders yet in their goodness they did not think fit to execute them even till this time as if they did wait a time to be gracious to the Irish Nation These things are proposed as a premonishment to stop wonders saith the Discussor But where doth this wonder lie Is it in that we had no wiser a Parliament that better understood what they did in matters of so great importance or that so wise a man as the Discussor should not be found out to take advice from It is my opinion If that Parliament which first contrived and agreed the business of Transplantation were now in being they would be able to convince the Discussor that the ignorance of the state and constitution of Ireland by better Arguments than I can use is rather the arise of his Book than the occasion of their Act. And if any rebellious consequence should be the effect of his or the like Papers in such a nick of Settlement I doubt not but God would enable that Authority yet in being to

have as visibly at their mercy and dispose when any new disturbance shall arise as the Irish had them at the breaking out of the last Rebellion and it is my judgement it would not be safe to admit in any English Plantation above the fifth part to be Irish Papists either in the capacity of Tenants or Servants unless in such cases where two Justices of the Peace with two godly Ministers of that Engglish Plantation should receive satisfaction of their being converted to the Protestant Religion and English Civil Manners and Customs For though the Lord hath been pleased so far to own the English Cause and Interest in the late War that they have been able to engage them with far less numbers that one hath put ten and ten one hundred to flight yet in the work of surprizings and unexpected assaults and inroads upon the English the Irish have been usually more expert and vigilant for the Irish are naturally a timorous suspicious watchfull People and on the other hand the English are a confident credulous careless People as our daily experience in Ireland teacheth us And therefore if their numbers should be near equal that advantage which they would have of their Irish Neighbours to correspond with them and fall into their assistance would much add to their encouragement to attempt mischief upon the English with or among whom they lived though they were far less numbers And if this be not admitted that it is essential in order to the safety of the English interest and people that their Plantation should consist of many more English than Irish as above then there is a necessity in order thereto that some of the Irish should be removed out of some parts of Ireland to make way for the English Plantations and if so then a Plantation must be admitted to be essential in order to the security of the English interest and People there So that now the Question must be confined to the extent and manner of this Transplantation Whether it should be total and universal or a partial Transplantation And if but a part What part or Which part And secondly as to the manner Whether all at one time or all to one place c. To the first I answer that so far as the Discussor or my self is able to judg who are but private men and not acquainted with the mysteries and secrets of State the business of a total and universal Transplantation is out of Question as was said before All publick Papers relating to Transplantation confining that work to Proprietors and men in Arms and therefore that I may not as the Discussor hath done his spend my pains in beating the air I shall onely speak to that part of this first Question which is at present in Question viz. What part that is and How many and what sort of persons are fit to be transplanted First as to the number that is required to remove or transplant I judg a less number than what is intended and appointed is not safe if so little for the Proprietors and interessed persons in Lands with all relating to them required to remove with them cannot be rationally judged near the twentieth part of the People of Ireland for the Lands of Ireland were most generally in the hands of the Noblemen and chief Gentry who are for the most part excepted persons for Life and Estate or under Banishment by the Act of Settlement the remaining part being very inconsiderable for number And for persons that have been in Arms though there be too many of them yet in Ireland yet much the greater part of them are transported into forreign Nations so that though it be hard to determine the number of these two sorts of persons yet any man that knows the state of Ireland must acknowledg they are probably so inconsiderable that they will not be missed or discerned as to their numbers in the Countreys from whence they remove farther than one friend may want another and for such of their friends Tenants and Servants not within the Rules who will voluntarily go with them the using force to stay the later would be much more hard than the removing the former so that as to the numbers doubtless if any at all it is not rational to think of less than these two sorts of persons will amount unto But secondly as to the persons themselves Why these two sorts of persons rather than others I answer first for the men in Arms I judg there is not much scruple that this one Reason if there were no more might serve That they have had their hands embrued in the bloud of the English in the late in humane Rebellion of Ireland where the barbarousness and inhumanities that were usually exercised in the Irish Army hath so much enured them to Treachery and Cruelties that they are much unfitted for living in any humane society much more with the English against whom they are so much exasperated And besides many of them have a very great interest in and influence on the People among whom they reside that next unto the Priest and Land-lord the Souldier is esteemed and therefore the same Reasons that may be given for the removing the Priest and the Land-lord will reach the Souldier besides their extraordinary fittedness above others to carry on and much more to execute any treacherous Design against the English they having not onely attained to much more hardness and boldness than the rest of the Natives through use and custom but are withall much more skilfull in the Tory War than the rest are being generally good Guides in the Bogs and Mountains and experienced where and when to take their advantages to do mischief Objection But will it not be more dangerous considering they are a People so able to do harm in a way of War to gather them all into one place Answer Unto such as are not acquainted with the way of the Irish War and wherein their strength lies it might seem so but as the Discussor acknowledgeth in pag. 25. the English Souldiers are more afraid of Tories then Armies and Woods and Boggs than Camps where it will be harder to finde them than to vanquish them and therefore there is nothing more desirable as to the peace of Ireland than to have all persons therein of rebellious Principles and active spirits either banished or otherwise confined to one or some few places that they may know where to provide against them and keep a watch over them which will not onely tend much to the peace of those parts from whence they are removed but also enable England to preserve their interest in Ireland upon much less charge for ten or twenty of these persons turning Tories in those parts where they are acquainted shall require as much force to attend them and preserve the Countrey from them as twenty times their number shall do when confined to a little Circuit that while we leave them in a capacity to be skulking

Irish Proprietors that plants with Irish shall upon the same Lands maintain four times the number of people to be at his beck that the other is able to do and yet be as rich a man at the years end as himself and if he keep Irish about him he is then daily at their mercy if the least disturbance or encouragement be given as was observed before But lastly it will not onely be an encouragement to particular persons and Plantations of English but through the blessing of the Lord in some process of time may make these three Provinces wholly British and thereby enable the English interest in Ireland to support it self which hath hitherto wholly depended upon England for all supplies to Englands great charge and damage and the hazards of bringing over English men bred up in England to indure the hardships of War in Ireland is very great their bodies at the first coming will not indure it hardly one of six lives Whereas to bring over English to plant is no such danger for they not being liable to the hardship of Wars but accomodating themselves with wholsom diet and warm clothes not one of twenty of them usually miscarries so that hereby in stead of having it a grave and place of destruction to English men as hithereto it might become a Nursery and breeder of English not onely to supply its own use to serve the interest of England elsewhere if occasion should be Nay we are not altogether without presidents of this work in Ireland the wisdom of our Ancestors may afford us some countenance therein in the former Wars and Conquest the English have gained in Ireland after which in order to secure their interest they had obtained they have left us some presidents of Transplantation as a thing they judged usefull in order thereto as witness the several Cities of Dublin Droghedah Waterford Cork Youghall Limerick Galway c. which have been entirely planted with English Colonies and the present Irish Inhabitants we found in them are generally of an ancient English extract though degenerated from the manners and interest of their Ancestors native Countrey and People But especially the English Pale were anciently inhabited and planted with English retaining much of the ancient language to this day besides the English Baronies in the County of W●xford both which continue in several things much different from the rest of the Irish people which inferior or smaller pieces of this work may point out to us it hath been before this judged needful and doubtless if they had then obtained the same oportunity and ability to Transplant Provinces as they had to Transplant Counties and Baronies they would have made their English pale of larger extent for compare their oportunity and power to ours doub●less their Transplantation far exceeded what is now intended Much more might be added upon this point to shew that the present persons pitched upon to be transplanted are the fittest and that their Transplantation doth answer many publick ends and is essential to the present and future good Settlement of Ireland and the security of the interest of England therein The last and great Objection the Discussor makes against this work is the impossibility of it which is a considerable Objection if the Gentleman had produced any reasons to prove it For Impossibilities by wise men ought not to be undertaken but making search for them I could find nothing offered to prove that more than what may be supposed to be implyed in pag. 25. wherein he seems to imply those two things First that the Irish may have a dramm of rebellious bloud left in them and will not go And secondly the power and strength of England in Ireland is but a Scare-Crow and a Hat upon a white stick onely fit to drive Geese c. and therefore not able to make them go If the first of these prove true it may imply a difficulty but not an impossibility for when there were many dramms of rebellious bloud in the veins of that People it pleased the Lord who is the Subduer of Rebells to enable the present Army in Ireland to be an instrument in his hands to let it out and bring them under the power of England as at this day And as to the second part the same instrument in the same hand depending upon the same God for strength hath no reason more than their own sinfulness and unworthiness to doubt but they may be as able to compell their obedience to this work so ess●ntially desirable in order to the future good and safety of Ireland as they have been hitherto to reduce them from their great strength and pride they found them in to the condition they are now brought unto and a little compassion as the Discussor would seem to allow in the hearts of the present persons in power in Ireland towards the Natives there I hope the sense of so sad a Judgment as a new Rebellion must necessarily bring upon that poor People if God should give them up to such a spirit of stupidity as to work their own destruction thereby would much more affect them than any sense of their own danger or the danger of the interest they serve by any thing they could do against it more than obstruct a present Settlement and as I do believe the Jesuits and Priests in the beginning of the late Rebellion did profess as much affection and compassion towards the People of Ireland when they instigated and stirred them up thereto as the Discussor doth or can do in his new incitements and encouragements to a second Rebellion so am I as well satisfied in the close of the business if they have a minde to put it upon trial they will have as much cause to bewail their unhappiness and misery therein and the later shall deserve as little thanks from them as the former in the issue Which one Answer shall serve to those two Objections Objection But it may be further objected which some of the Discussors Arguments seem to imply though there be a power in Ireland to compell their obedience yet there is no possibility in them to obtain a subsistence in their journey or when they come there to support themselves and families so that it is equal to them to hazard their destruction in disobedience seeing by obeying they can but perish Answer If this were the true state of this Case there were much in it but let us consider it Is this the first time that persons have removed from one part of a Nation to another to inhabit and is that so impossible a thing that it doth not consist with the being of such as so do I pray you consider what it is to remove from one Nation to another if that be so what will become of all the English that are expected from thence to plant Ireland who I hope will be far greater numbers than the transplanted Irish many of whom must march much farther by Land than most

doing thereof to give their Reasons for it but at present there is no such thing in preparation much less in practice The second mistake is his Arguments against a promiscuous Transplantation without respect to their merit or behaviours which as is before asserted is not so for there are several persons Irish Papists who upon that account of their merit as abovesaid and different affection from the rest manifested to the English in the late Rebellion are wholly exempted from Transplantation either as to their estates or persons nay as is before asserted not any of them that could produce testimony of their good will to the English interest or least good office done to an English person in extremity upon the account of an English-man but there is a mark of favour put upon him for it which being admitted the Discussors Maxime in Christian Religion in pag. 6 7. is no ways entrenched upon by the work of Transplantation but there is much ground to believe his shooting such poysoned Arrowes against Authority thus at the adventure was not so much to heal the Irish wounds as to wound and weaken the English Government and Interest there but innocency is the best Armour against such Darts The third Mistake the Discussor grounds his Discourse upon as in pag. 7. to the 15. is the Principle upon which the thing is done as if Transplantation were principally proposed as a Punishment for Murther or avenging the Bloud spilt in Ireland by the Rebellion in order to which he takes much pains to prove that after Justice is done upon capital Offenders and chief Ring-leaders in a Rebellion or Massacre that then the Body of the People or Commons as he calls them should partake of mercy c. This Position without further troubling our selves with his proofs may be admitted without any reflection upon the work of Transplantation or the Authority imposing or executing the same for the Parliament of England in the same Act of Settlement in which they make provision of a liberty to transplant doth there determine and appoint what the punishment of Murderers and chief Ring-leaders should be excepting of them therein from pardon both of Life and Estate c. And doth therein in pag. 2. declare To the end all the People of that Nation may know that it is not the intention of the Parliament to extirpate the whole Nation but that mercy and pardon both as to Life and Estate should be extended to all Husbandmen Ploughmen Laborers Artificers and others of the inferior sort in manner as is hereafter declared c. And in the Instructions for Transplanting before mentioned pag. 2. they say thus And to the end all persons in Ireland who have right to Articles or to any favor or mercy held forth by any the Qualifications in the Act of Parliament intituled An Act for the Settlement of Ireland may enjoy the benefit intended unto them and every of them respectively by the said Act It is thought fit and resolved That all and every the persons aforesaid shall before the first day of May 1654. remove and transplant themselves into Connaught c. Is there in all this one word tending to ground the Transplantation upon Principles in the extreme of Punishments or avenging of Bloud surely if a person in a work of this weight shall so grosly mistake in the very Essentials and Principles upon which his Discourse is founded there is little reason to expect soundness and truth in things more circumstantial and inferior But if I should proceed to take notice of all the rest of his mistakes absurdities and impertinencies as to the thing with those unjust and scandalous invectives against Authority in his Lines I should both have tyred my self in writing and you in reading thereof to little purpose But for the further clearing up the justice and rationality of this work admit it in some degree to be done upon the account of punishment which in a sense may be admitted for had they never offended they had never been liable thereto Therefore consider what punishment it was they did incurr by their offence which will be the better done First by considering the offence it self which was the most horrid causless Rebellion and bloudy Massacre that hath been heard of in these later Ages of the world and the Offenders not particular persons or parties of the Irish Nation for that had been another case but the whole Irish Nation it self consisting of Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commonalty are all engaged as one Nation in this Quarell to root out and wholly extirpate all English Protestants from amongst them who had for the most of them as legal and just right to their Estates and interest in Ireland as themselves many of them possessing nothing but what they had lawfully purchased and dearly paid for from the Irish and others of them possessing by right of Grant from the Crown of England time out of minde what they did enjoy and the Irish Nation enjoying equal privileges with the English if not much more as the Discussor confesseth pag. 20. the Lawyers were Irish the Jurors Irish most of the Judges Irish and the major part of the Parliament Irish and in all disputes between English and Irish the Irish were sure of the favour as he calls it so that they were under no provocation nor oppression under the English Government at that time when the bloudy Rebells in 1641. committed that inhumane Massacre upon a company of poor unarmed peaceable harmless people living quietly amongst them wherein neither Age nor Sex were spared but from the old man stooping for age to the Babe of a span long were their cruelties extended nay the Infants in the womb were not secure from their merciless butchery but even the women with childe were ript up Virgins deflowred and Wives ravished in the sight of their Parents and Husbands and then all destroyed together by the most inhuman cruelties that could be devised and not onely English people but English Cattle and Houses were destroyed for their being of an English kinde and all this as I said before without the least provocation yet this bloudy inhumane Act with all its agravations were espoused by this People as a National Quarel and a War waged thereupon and Councels constituted for the management thereof who were owned and submitted unto by the body of the People as their supreme legislative Authority in which rebellious practices and cruel War they persisted to the ruining of that flourishing Nation and making of it near a waste Wilderness thereby necessitating England in the time of its own Trouble to maintain an Army in Ireland to preserve a footing there and at last forced them to send over and maintain a potent Army greatly exhausting their Treasure and People to recover their Interest out of the hands of this bloudy Generation and bring the Offenders to condign punishment who had confidence notwithstanding what is before mentioned to dispute the surrender