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B08822 A confutation of some pretended reasons for His Majesty's issuing a general pardon to the rebels of Ireland, that will submit: without exemption of the considerable and influencing men among them. In answer (as alledg'd) to the late declaration, fram'd by the English nobility, and gentry of Ireland. 1689 (1689) Wing C5811A; ESTC R174144 3,770 2

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Revolution either Forreign or Domestick to send when we are least aware of it Arms and Assistance to cut off the Protestants when not a Man of these great Rebels are disabled from Re-acting the former Tragedies Nay they are by so much in the better capacity than ever by how much they are Possessors of the Treasure and Riches of the Protestants He closeth this Paragraph like his Brothe Teague that swears if he had Noting he would give you Someting so this Blade has been emptying his Budget to prove that nothing will shorten the War but by pardoning all the Grandees and yet at last he tells you that you shall be satisfy'd with enough that will forfeit their Estates and never accept of the Indemnity he might then have saved his labour in his Learned Argument for the number excepted is but Seventy odd and they such Monsters that if any in Ireland should stand out we may suppose it to be them but I cannot grant him so much Carriage in any of his Countreymen as to refuse Pardon we know them to be so far from that that an Irish-man will twist a Gad to hang his Father so that he may have the favour of being hang'd last And now comes the Blade to that which we may justly call Libellous in offering that to the English Nobility and Gentry of Ireland which I fear he never had himself a Consideration and that is whether they can propose any thing that will encrease the charge and danger of England since the work is to be effected by English Lives and Purses and that they that prescribe these hazardous and chargeable methods do not lay their Fingers to the Work. This I say is a mischievous and false Insinuation and gives the Lye to the Grand Council of the Nation The Gentlemen of Ireland have always and still do propose that which may soonest and most scecurely establish that Kingdom in the Hands and Government of the English which they believe can never be effected without making Examples of some few tho not one of ten thousand They own their Preservation under God from the King and English of England but he asserts a falshood which we appeal to the Honourable House of Commons to justifie us against in affirming that we will not so much as lay our Finger to that Burthen we pull upon the Lives of the English in the reduction of Ireland The House of Commons received the Address of the Gentlemen of Ireland praying to be recommended to his Majesty for that Service and that not done in a general manner but the name of every individual person return'd his Majesty was pleas'd to employ all he could find room for since that twice before the King and Counsel they have offered their Service to go in the Head of the Army against the Irish Rebels many are gone Voluntiers and those that are left would according to their several Circumstances do the same had they conveniencies to carry them It is strange confidence that in the Face of the King and Parliament he should assume to print such a notorious untruth as that the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland will not lay their Finger to the War they engage England in I have thus briefly shewn the Folly and rashness of this Irish Minister of States pretended Reasons for a General Pardon to the Irish not excluding Seventy Persons as Victims for more Thousands of Protestants they have ruin'd I might say much more but that is done to my hand in a Letter call'd the Mantle thrown off or the Irishman dissected which bears date before these Reasons set forth by Teague who I presume was angry for taking off his Mantle and would cover himself with the Fig-Leaves of an unwarrantable and irrational Discourse London Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIX