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Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehaven's memoirs of his engagements and carriage in the wars of Ireland by which the government at that time, and the justice of the crown since, are vindicated from aspersions cast on both.
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Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?
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permitted Sir Luke Fitz Gerald Robert Harpool Esquire and others against whom they had more than ordinary proofs of their taking part with the first Conspirators peaceably to return to their habitations as they did James Warren and Friar Paul Oneil both examined at the Council Board and were not without reason suspected of the Rebels Party which Indulgence they soon improved to the defiance of the State which of 60 persons apprehended as justly suspected to be in the Plot caused onely one of Fermanagh to suffer death whom the Lord Mac-guire confessed to be privy to the Plot. Fourthly As to the keeping back of Petitions from the King by which his Lordship will have it That the whole Nation took up Arms for their defence he must be put in mind he taking pleasure to be minded of what is more in others knowledge than his that in the beginning of the Rebellion the Irish had never less reason to complain that their Grievances were not presented For the Commissioners of Parliament of Ireland * by whom the Rebellion was hatch'd who had attended his Majesty with a Collection of all Grievances were returned with such high and unexpected condescensions and those especially relating to the Roman Catholicks that it was but in August 1641. being the last Sessions thought that the next Sessions of Parliament would be principally to return his Majesty their acknowledgment that by taking off all Discriminations and Incapacities he had laid a most sure foundation of Unity and Peace amongst his Subjects Though there is a new Piece come forth entituled A short View of the late Troubles in England which would abuse the World as if the Committee from the Parliament of Ireland after nine months attendance were at his Majesties going for Scotland referred to the Parliament of England and afterwards constrained to return without any redress Besides the Lords Justices and Council did not conceal or debar any thing that ever came to them from the Confederates though warrantably they might have done it some things being so peremptory that it was not for them to admit of being the Presentative of his Majesty and others of that ill consequence to the injured Protestants as without a Comment could not with their trust be presented to his Majesty All or most of which Addresses however accompanied with undutiful and irreverend expressions or overtures were with the first opportunity presented to his Majesties view or knowledge About the 6. of November 1641. the Rebels of the County of Cavan sent their presumptuous Propositions to the Lords Justices and Council which with their Answer they forthwith certified to the L. Lieutenant the E. of Leicester to whom by his Majesties express Command the Dispatches relating to Ireland were to be directed About the tenth of the same Month the Longford Letter to the Lord Dillon of Costiloe full of pretended Grievances and unreasonable Demands as freedom of Religion a Repeal of all Laws made to the contrary and the like was presented to the State in behalf of the Rebels of Longford which having an answerable return his Lordship and the Lord Taaff went into England promoting that which afterwards centered in a Cessation About the midst of December 1641. Sir Thomas Carey and Dr. Cale a Sorbonist offered to the Council Board several Propositions from the Rebels presuming upon the straits that the State was brought to that their insolent Demands would not have been denied which they were but not without representing them to his Majesty The 23. of December 1641. seven Lords of the Pale who had declared by former Letters That they would stand on their Guard after that they had joined with the Northern Rebels in the Siege of Drogheda sent Letters to the Lords Justices to which though without prejudice to his Majesties Honour they could not answer yet they certified them to the Lord Lieutenant And about the 16. of March 1641. there was an Overture made to the Lords Justices by a Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven who by his Memoirs gives us occasion to reflect on these things in the name of the United Lords of the Pale signed by Gormanston Nettervile and Slane for a Cessation of Arms after that by his Majesties Forces transmitted out of England and 10000 compleat fresh men in Ulster besides the Scotch ten Regiments then in the Field the Irish were beaten from Drogheda by Sir Henry Tichborn and that his 〈◊〉 ies Army was full Master of the Field in all parts of the Pale To which the Lords Justices and Council thought not fit to hearken yet certified it to the Lord Lieutenant and did not as some maliciously suggest upon this Cause merely make his Lordship Prisoner Such another Paper from the Lord Mountgarret the 23. of March 1642. came to the Earl of Ormond Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army containing Grievances done in England as well as Ireland to shew to the Lords Justices which lay not in their power to redress which was also sent to the Lord Lieutenant to be shewn to his Majesty And in August the Confederates sent to the Lieutenant General a Petition directed to his Majesty which his Lordship presented to the Lords Justices who forthwith sent it to his Majesties Principal Secretary and thereupon a Commission was sent to the Marquess of Ormond to meet and hear what the Rebels could say or propound for themselves by Virtue of which his Majesties Commissioners received the Rebels Remonstrance at Trym March 17. 1642. A mere Rhapsody of scandalous Criminations upon the Government and a justification of their Rebellion since 1644. fully answered by a Person then at the Helm in a Book entituled The false and scandalous Remonstrance of the Inhumane and bloudy Rebels of Ireland worthy the Earl of Castlehaven's further Information This Remonstrance at length brought forth a Cessation in hope as David Routh titular Bishop of Ossory insinuated that it would at length prove the ruine of Heresie and the firmer establishment of the Catholick Faith and Interest And in truth whatsoever pretension there was for it it proved a snare to the English and no advantage to his Majesty After which their Agents were heard by his Majesty in Oxford who at their departure amongst many excellent admonitions worthy so intelligent a Prince were advised That if they made haste to assist to suppress the English Rebellion they might confidently believe he would never forget to whose Merit he owed his Preservation and Restauration and then it would be in his absolute power to vouchsafe such Graces to them as would not leave them disappointed of their just and full expectations Words sufficiently August By which it is apparent that nothing that ever the Rebels pretended should come to his Majesties Ears was obstructed by the Lords Justices or State Notwithstanding his Lordship is somewhat positive that the Rebels Petitions particularly those of the Pale were never sent to the King Wherein he assumes the Bleeding Iphigenia's Language That the
BRIEF REFLECTIONS ON THE Earl of CASTLEHAVEN'S MEMOIRS Of his ENGAGEMENTS and CARRIAGE In the WARS of IRELAND By which the Government at that time and the Justice of the Crown since are Vindicated from Aspersions cast on Both. Vero quid Verius LONDON Printed for George West 1682 TO THE KING SIR HAd it not been long observed that nothing is more resented by Great and Generous Princes than the least Affronts to their Ministers I should not have adventured to have addressed these Reflections on the Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs to your Sacred Majesty committed to the Press with an Introduction little expected But he having before invited You to what neither contains to his knowledge a Lie or Mistake I dare not but presume so far on Your Justice as to be confident that what bespeaks the Integrity of Your Ministers and supports the Honour of Your Crown severely reflected on by his Lordship shall never receive other than an acceptance how meanly soever it be cloathed by Your Majesties most dutiful and obedient Subject E. B. TO THE READER READER I Have so much Charity for the Earl of Castlehaven that if he had seriously read as well as amongst the Stationers in Saint Paul's Church-yard took into his hands the Histories of the Execrable Irish Rebellion begun the 23. of Octob. 1641. he would not afterwards have exposed his Memoirs all the Imputations which he lays on the State being in them clearly vindicated Yet since to draw from the World some Compassion he hath adventured his Memoirs abroad I am willing the World to whom his Lordship appeals should judge whether his Case was singular or being so premeditated not more notorious And this I thought sit to publish resolving never to desert the English Interest as often as it is invaded lest the confident Piece of Calumny fixed on the State might wander secure and unexamined there being at this day more who under a Disguise are willing to palliate rather than detect the Villany of that Age though if you discourse on this Subject they whisper Intrigues and if there be an opportunity offered they write they will verifie them to the World Another being set on the Tragical Conclusion of the Long Parliament to make that Junto detestable spends the viij Chapter of his Short View of the late Troubles in England wholly on the pretence the Irish had to their barbarous Insurrection wherein he re-assumes the Rebels Plea with greater Confidence than they give it in at Trym March 17. 1642. But yet considers not the Answers that have been written on that Rhapsodie of Fictions and Untruths thereby betraying the Innocence of the State and the Honour of the English However there is a Letter from a Person of Honour in the Country to the Earl of Castlehaven full of Candor as well as Reproof which hath incomparably well replied to the Earl's Memoirs and might well abate my edge in this Case But upon the encouragement of that Person of Honour rather to quicken than slacken my Intentions I could not well defer what hath been long writ the publishing my Reflections though with great disadvantage after so excellent a Pen they being meerly an Epitome of the Irish Scene In which I have not to my knowledge discovered the least Emotion against the Gallantry and Worth of that Noble Peer who hath raised this Contest his Extraction and Personal Courage being Remarkable But the Reasons for the Cause he pretends to are by what he would justifie himself in not sufferable ou il n'ya point de pechè il n'ya point de honte his not be-being convinced at first of the Crime made him conscious of no Guilt But I shall set the things in order before him and if Conviction arise not thence I shall blush at my mistake REFLECTIONS ON THE Earl of CASTLEHAVEN'S MEMOIRS CONCERNING The WARS of IRELAND AMongst some Books I lately received from my Stationer I had the Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs I little expected after 28 years to have seen any thing of his Lordship's Proceedings in Ireland in taking part with the Rebels before the Cessation 1643. considering his and his Ancestors obligations to the Crown of England Nor am I convinced why at this time it should come forth unless thereby it s hoped that some Reflections may be fixed on the Ministers then to extenuate the general Insurrection when as we know no Artifice is more usual than to clamour the People with Calumnies on the State whilest others alarm them to Rebellion I rather expected since he imbarqued in that business in behalf of which his late Majesties heart so often bled that the Act of Oblivion should have sealed up those Encounters especially since his Majesty had been prevailed with by the intercession of his Friends in Parliament to repair the Breaches Time and Misfortune had made upon so ancient and honourable a Family as his Lordships But since he hath published his Memoirs of his Engagements and Carriage in the Wars of Ireland as something in them new which if his Majesties time may permit him to read contain neither Lie nor Mistake I conceive him so ingenuous having admitted others to mind him of some Passages which possibly may be more in their knowledge than his Lordships He will not interpret it amiss to be informed of some concerns nearer the Truth It is not my intention to arraign what as a Person of Honour and good Conduct he managed in that War having his Lordships Test for what he affirms But that I may take his Memoirs as they stand he is pleased to write Sect. 1. p. 3. That it may seem a wonder how he came to engage with the Irish being a Peer of England and an English man both by Birth and Descent not speaking a word of their Language and having little in their Kingdom Whereas the Wonder easily unriddles it self his Lordship being a strong Asserter of the Romish Persuasion to advance which no Artifice or Attempt hath ever been condemned by the Father of it as Disloyal or Inhumane And as to his Lordships coming into Ireland not long before the Rebellion ' P. 5. I cannot so far shrive his Conscience as not to allow what he affirms That it was to settle his Affairs there as he had done in England ere he ventured further on the Trade of War to which his Genius led him Yet I find the Parliament to whom the King had left the Affairs of Ireland complain in an Order 29 of Jan. 1641. That immediately before and during the barbarous and bloudy Rebellion many having Estates in England went thither amongst whom his Lordship was one especially taken notice of in a Declaration of the Commons concerning the Rise of the Rebellion 25 of July 1643. having sate as a Peer in Parliament in England immediately before the Irish Rebellion at which time Mr. Porter Sir Basil Brook the Queens Treasurer Mr. Andrew Brown and others went over And though his Lordships bare