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A26384	An address given in to the late King James, by the titular Archbishop of Dublin from the General meeting of the Romish bishops and clergy of Ireland, held in May last, by that Kings order : wherein several things relating to the popish designs upon these three kingdoms are discovered : the original whereof was found in the late King James closet, in the Castle of Dublin, at his leaving that city and the copy whereof was found in the titular Archbishop's : lodgings : now published with reflection on each paragraph.	Russell, Patrick, 1629-1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing A542; ESTC R216298	14,129	36

put His Holiness in mind of the sad and unhappy Consequences that have arisen to the Catholick Church by the unnecessary and ill-tim'd mistakes entertain'd by the late Pope Innocent 11. of the most Serene King his Master What dismal effects they have produc'd all Europe feels at this day with regret The most Serene King his Master has done all in him lies to deserve the name of the Eldest Son of the Church And by breaking into pieces that Hydra of Heresie which had in his own Kingdom for above an Age trampled upon all that was Sacred he might have justly expected better Returns of his Zeal for the Catholick Religion than he did meet with from the then Head of the Church It was not only in his own Kingdom that his most Serene Master did use his utmost Power and Interest to root out Heresie and to establish the true Ancient Catholick and Apostolick Religion but his Aims and Influence went farther and unless the late Pope Innocent 11. had wilfully obstructed his Designs by an untimous and needless Breach betwixt him and the Crown of France the state of Christendom and of the Catholick Church had been far better than it is at this day All this his Excellency does not represent to his Holiness out of any design to cast Dust on the Ashes of his Predecessor for as the most Christian King his Master suffered as much as ever Prince in his Circumstances and Quality did from the late Pope and that without doing any action unbecoming a true Eldest Son of the Church towards the common Father and Head thereof so he resolves for ever to banish from himself and bury in oblivion the remembrance of these things Here the French Ambassadour does very fairly confess as a great Honour to his Master That it was not in his own Kingdom only that he us'd his Interest to root out Heresie but that his Aims and Influence went further and if the late Pope's breach with him had not hindered The state of the Catholick Church had been far better than it is now at this day What can be more plain than this And where could the French Designs and Influence to root out Heresie be more effectual and more probable to lie than in England at that time under the Reign of a Prince as zealous a Romanist as himself and in the nearest conjunction with him in all ties of Friendship and Alliance The rest of the Memorial contains a great many other particulars relating to the Pretensions of the French King and Disputes between him and the late Court of Rome And therefore it 's needless here to mention them Only in the end He has this other Article relating to the Affairs of England which runs thus His Excellency humbly intreats his Holiness to consider in his Fatherly Care and Zeal the horrid and inexpressible prejudice the Catholick Church has received by the fatal disappointment all her Sons have met with in the misfortune of his Britannick Majesty And that just at the very instant of time we were to expect all good and great things for the Catholick Church from that King's Zeal and Affections to it So that unless speedy course be taken for that King's Re-establishment not only all the joint Designs for the suppression of Heresie will fall to the ground but the Catholicks of those Kingdoms will be in the saddest condition possible And the Holy Church depriv'd of those great Kingdoms c. Here is as fair a Confession as ever was made of a disappointment the Romish Church met with in the late King's Misfortune and how great things that Party expected from King James his Zeal for the Romish Church and in fine of joint Designs for the suppression of Heresie And after this I would fain know who can doubt of our Intended Ruine and that of our Religion if the late happy Revolution had not fallen out FINIS BOOKS Printed for Richard Baldwin A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War Being a Journal of their Travels from Dinan in Britany to Thoulon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Situation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospitals and the number of men that died under their Cruelty With the Names of many of them and the Places of their Deaths and Burials With an Account of the great Charity and Sufferings of the Poor Protestants of France And other material Things that hapned upon the way Faithfully and Impartially Performed by Richard Strutton being an Eye-witness and Fellow-sufferer The secret History of the Dutchess of Portsmouth Giving an Account of the Intreagues of the Court during her Ministry And of the Death of K. C. II. The Memoirs of Monsieur Deagant containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. 〈◊〉 the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Rioblieu To which is added A Particular Relation of the Archbishoprick of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Roman-Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which hapned the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original The Cabinet Open'd or The Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon with the French King Translated from the French Copy The Character of a Trimmer His Opinion of I. The Laws and Government II Protestant Religion III. The Papists IV. Foreign Affairs By the Honourable Sir W. Coventry The Third Edition carefully Corrected and cleared from the Errors of the First Impression An Impartial Relation of the Illegal Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon in the Year of our Lord 1687. Containing only Matters of Fact as they occurred The Second Edition To which is added the most Remarkable Passages omitted in the former Collected by a Fellow of the said Colledge

He had when in Ireland a powerful Prince possest of these two other Kingdoms and of a part of Ireland it self who was ready to beat him out of the rest at the Head of a brave well-disciplin'd Army while King James had no reason to hope any great things from His made up of Cowardly Ill-disciplin'd and as ill-pay'd Irishes King James's Circumstances were far better two years ago being Master of Three Kingdoms and of a brave and numerous Army and no body to oppose him So that if his Will was the same as to the Re-establishment of the Romish Religion as no body doubts but it was Then his Power was much greater two years ago when in England than two or three months ago when in Ireland at the time of presenting him this Memorial Thus that Unfortunate Misguided Prince was in all his Conduct wise too late though to the great happiness of these Three Kingdoms as the Event has prov'd MEMORIAL We must confess that such an Intire Establishment of the Roman-Catholick Clergy in England would perhaps prove very difficult and provoke the Indignation of the Protestants in a high measure because it is contrary to the Persuasion generally held by the People there who though never so different amongst themselves in their Tenets yet agree together in bearing so implacable an aversion to the Roman-Catholick Religion and Clergy that it is not to be expected they would ever concur in their Parliaments thereunto But the Case is quite otherways in this Your Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland for the People here being generally Roman-Catholicks incomparably exceeding in number all Sectaries and Protestants covet nothing more than to have their own Roman-Catholick Clergy Re-established amongst them in those Churches and Livings that the Piety and Devotion of their Ancestors time out of mind conferr'd upon them for the Service and Honour of God and for their decent Subsistence and restor'd to the full Exercise of their Spiritual Iurisdiction and enjoyment of their Privileges REFLECTIONS We find the Romish Clergy do here usher in the difficulty of Re-establishing the Romish Religion in England with a perhaps And they will not allow it to be impossible but only that it would prove difficult I make no doubt but if things were at this day in England upon the same foot they were in two years ago we should have heard of no difficulty in this matter It was then in their opinion the easiest thing of a thousand to Re-establish the Roman-Catholick Religion in England And by all their Actions and words they express so much I will not determine how far it was possible to bring England in the last Reign to comply with and embrace Popery But this I may safely say That the Debaucheries with which the Nation was poison'd in King Charles's Reign had laid them open to any Change in Religion We all know Atheism is the fairest Introduction to Popery And he that 's an Atheist to day may easily be a Papist to morrow especially if his Interest concur in the Change We saw how much Popery gain'd every day and how many men and that of the first Rank Interest and the Smiles of a Court prevail'd with to change their Religion they were brought up in for a new one they had never taken the pains to examine further than as to the favourableness of it with the King Moreover in France we had the example of a vast many Thousand Protestants who had not the Courage nor Constancy to resist the Methods taken by the Romish Emissaries to bring them back to the Communion of Rome And the French Protestants were at least as Zealous in their Religion as we in ours and seem'd to be willing to venture as much for it as we So that I cannot either confute or consent to this last part of the Memorial but must conclude with this That we have reason to bless God and pay our Thanks and Acknowledgment to the Glorious Instrument he made use of by whom we are put out of fear of having our Constancy in the Protestant Religion tried at the rate we had reason to expect not long ago And thus I take leave of the Memorial of the Romish Clergy and leave them to the disappointments they have met with both in that Kingdom and elsewhere of all the hopes they have been so long a rearing up to themselves and which now are vanisht into smoke upon the appearing of our Victorious King in the Island where they were to begin their thorough Work POSTSCRIPT WE live in an Age wherein some people have the Impudence to deny things of themselves as clear as the Sun in its Mid-day Light Go and enquire of the Roman-Catholicks in France and other Popish Countries they will make no bones to confess freely That two years ago they had the greatest Grounds possible to have hop'd for the Establishment of the Catholick Religion and the utter Extirpation of what they call Heresie through the Three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland But at the same time go and enquire the opinion of some among our selves at home that call themselves Protestants in this point they will confidently tell you There was never any such Change designed These people must either be strangely stupid or must from some one reason or other find themselves oblig'd to dissemble a thing that cannot that will not be hid The Memorial I have before given a particular Copy of is a proof of such a Design as to change Religion in Ireland and such a proof as there can be no clearer given for any thing in the world But I have thought fit in this Postscript to give another evidence as clear as the former but an Evidence that proves not only a design to overturn the Protestant Religion in Ireland alone but likewise in the other Two Kingdoms of this Island And that is A Memorial given in by Monsieur the Duke of Chaulnes Ambassador Extraordinary for the French King to this present Pope very soon after his coming to the Papacy The Memorial it self is to be found in several of their Papers now printed at Rome and other places of Italy on the occasion of the present Transactions betwixt the Court of France and that of Rome and the Copy whence I take it is the Italian Mercury of Venice Numb 1012. The Memorial is there mentioned at full length and refers to a great many other Heads than what I need here to mention I shall only copy from the Original those parts of it that concern the Affairs of King James or of the French King as his Ally and Confederate The Memorial is thus The Memorial and Representation made to our most Holy Father the Pope by His Excellency Charles de Albert Duke of Chaulnes and Peer of France Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from His most Christian Majesty to His Holiness in Name and Behalf of His most Serene Majesty His Master HIS Excellency does most unwillingly and with the most inward Grief

AN ADDRESS Given in to the Late King Iames BY THE TITULAR ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN FROM The General Meeting of the Romish Bishops and Clergy of Ireland held in May last by that King's Order Wherein several Things relating to the Popish Designs upon these Three Kingdoms are discovered The Original whereof was found in the late King James's Closet in the Castle of Dublin at his leaving that City And the Copy whereof was found in the Titular Archbishop's Lodgings Now Publish'd with Reflections on each Paragraph LONDON Printed for 〈◊〉 Baldwin in the Old Baily 1690. THE MEMORIAL GIVEN IN To the Late King JAMES BY THE Titular Archbishop of Dublin c. THAT the late King James was induc'd by the Emissaries of Rome to trample upon the Laws and Liberties of the Subjects of these Three Kingdoms there is no body who enjoys the use of their Reason can deny But tho we felt every day new Invasions made upon our Religion by the same Party of men under the Covert of the Royal Power and Prerogative as they call'd it yet there are to this very day a certain incredulous sort of men who have the folly to tell us That King James had never the least Design to alter the Religion of these Kingdoms or to introduce Popery Among a Thousand Instances to prove that King James's great Design was the utter extirpation of the Protestant Religion and the Restitution as the Papists call it of the Catholick one There has of late one come to light which sets the Affair in a Meridian light beyond all possibility of doubting which Instance and the occasion of its coming to be known is as follows The Late King upon his arrival in Ireland from France did make as considerable Steps to overturn the Protestant Religion and Interest in that Kingdom as the short time he was there and the Decorum he was to carry towards the few Protestants who adher'd to him could possibly admit of A great many Laws made for the safety of the English Protestants and for keeping out the Irish from the possessions they had by so many Rebellions justly forfaulted were rescinded And which was next to giving the final Blow to the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom King James in his Irish pretended Parliament had formally removed the Fundamental Charter by which the Protestants possest their Estates I mean the Act of Parliament of Ireland called The Act of Settlement So it seem'd there wanted scarce any more to be done to restore Popery and Papists for good and all in Ireland But all this was not able to satisfie the fiery Zealots of the Church of Rome whom nothing could please but a thorough work as they named it The Irish Popish Bishops meet together in the Titular Archbishop of Dublin 's Lodgings and with them The Provincials of all the Religious Orders And having unanimously agreed to the following Address or Memorial to be presented to the late King then in Dublin they present it to him in a full Body That King James received this Address very kindly was visible in his manner of treating the Persons that presented it He told them They had never any reason to doubt of his Zeal for the Catholick Religion and of his willingness to sacrifice all that was dear to him upon that account And that he would within a few days acquaint my Lord Archbishop of Dublin with his Resolutions and Answer to their Address What Answer King James returned we have not yet been able to learn But the Memorial it self was found in that King's Closet after his leaving Dublin and another Copy of the same in the Archbishop's Lodgings The Memorial it self deserves to be here inserted word by word as it is in the Original found in King James's Closet And it may not be impertinent to make some short Reflections on each Paragraph as they lye in order The Memorial runs thus SIR AS we are very sensible of Your Majesties Great Zeal to Establish the Roman Catholick Religion in this Your Kingdom of Ireland and own our selves extremely thankful and beholding to Your Majesty for Your Gracious Declaration to us upon that Subject So pursuant to Your Majesties Directions and Encouragement we herein most humbly offer the means that to us seem most efficacious for the due Accomplishing thereof REFLECTIONS Here is a fair acknowledgment of a Design to establish the Roman-Catholick Religion in Ireland which they expresly say King James had declared to them and had previous thereto given them Directions and Incouragement about it One would think The Titular Archbishop of Dublin and the rest of the Gang needed few Directions to go about so meritorious a Work as the Establishment of the Catholick Religion But it seems King James his Zeal has outgone even theirs in this point He has not only given them Directions about it but incourag'd them in it And we know the word Incouragement is a very entensive one as including not only promises to assist but means and power to bring about And we have no reason to doubt but King James though he thought not himself oblig'd to keep his word so often given to English Hereticks yet He would not fail to merit Heaven by keeping firm with those People He imagin'd had power to lock Heaven against him in case of a failure And here by the by I think it but just His Confessor should absolve him from the obligation of his Promise to the Titular Archbishop of Dublin and the rest of them since the entire Ruine of his Affairs in Ireland has put him out of capacity to keep his word to them MEMORIAL Imprimis The usual and right Method for to compass any End or Design is first of all to remove the Chief Obstacles that offer thereunto Wherefore inasmuch as the Penal Laws particularly the Statute of Vniformity and other like were originally devised and enacted to abolish the Roman-Catholick Religion and still continue to be the main hindrance of its advancement We humbly conceive that to re-establish the same Roman-Catholick Religion in this Kingdom as Your Majesty graciously intends it is in all Conscience and Iustice an Act of indispensible necessity to repeal those aforesaid Penal Laws so throughly repugnant to the Honour and true Worship of God and to the Salvation of Souls REFLECTIONS What a Barrier the Penal Laws are against Popery here the Papists themselves do witness And what an Eye-sore they are to them they fairly enough insinuate by their earnestness with King James in this Paragraph to have them Repeal'd Here it is we have reason to admire and praise the wise and happy Conduct of the Church of England in the late Reign who would not be impos'd upon to take off these Laws which the Papists as well as they knew to be a firm barrier against Popery and a sure fence for securing the Protestant Religion Whatever other glosses were put upon them by some of that time This does sufficiently free that Church from