2. The Enemy finding us possess'd of one Province since the passing the Act and finding much of the other three Provinces made waste by their Order and that by the frequent returns of their Brass and Pewter Money a great inland Trade is increased they have by publick Proclamation ordered 20000 l. more to be assess'd on the Trading part of the Nation according to their respective Trades both which are presum'd cannot yield less than 30000 l. per mensem de claro which is per annum 360000 l. 3. They have bought on the King's Account all the Wool at 6s per Stone Tallow at 15 l. per Tun Beef Tallow Hides c. which they intend to send for France to buy Arms and Ammunition c. which they esteem may be worth at least 200000 l. the Wool License at 4 d. per Stone to transport it only for England was usually worth to the chief Governors 4 or 5000 l. per annum 4. It is reported they have agreed with persons who are obliged to Coin them this year 150000 l. Brass and Pewter Money 5. The Rent of Church Lands and Absentees Estates besides their Goods and Stocks are estimated at least to be 150000 l. per annum the truth of this will appear by the aforesaid Books given in to the Committee of Parliament 6. The King 's standing Revenue of Rents Hearths Custom-Excise and casual Revenue cannot be less than a 150000 l. more Memorandum That all the aforesaid particulars amount to 860000 l. out of which deduced the 797000 l. there will remain 73000 l. besides what helps may be given him by France c. and the addition that may be made by their Coining Brass and Pewter Money above the aforesaid contract which Brass and Pewter Coin being not fit to be kept quickens returns and encreaseth their Trade By all which it appears that the Enemy cannot want currant Coin to support the War But had we Ships of War lying by in their Harbour to prevent their Exportations and were Dublin sesured their Trade and Revenue would soon be lessened But if they are suffered to Export their vast quantity of Goods they have now stored up in their Ports it may not only give a farther encrease to their Revenue but occasion a longer continuance of the War especially having made the establishment of their Army so low and the currant value of their Brass Coin so high Their Brass and Pewter Coin is of equal weight with our Silver Coin which being usually bought for 12 d. per pound is of equal value with our Silver which is 3 l. per pound and their establishment being a moity short of ours 't is demonstrable that six Penny worth of their Brass or Pewter Money shall pay double as many Soldiers as 3 l. of our Silver Coin What advantage this Money gives their Trade what case in the pay of the Army and supplying them with Provision is very demonstrable yet 't is as strange as true that notwithstanding they are better Paid better Disciplin'd than our Army yet hitherto we may set up an Ebenezar and say that God hath hitherto sought for us and that by the seeming worse Discipline worse Mounted and worse of our whole Army I mean by our Eneskillen and London-dery Forces whose Moral and Religious Principles you know are little better but generally worse than theirs they having constantly beat their most choice and detached Parties with a confused and disordered Rabble when they were not half the number of their Enemies and have struck them with that terror that 't is believed notwithstanding their great Number and Provision for their support the Enemy intends this Summer only a defensive War and to fight only by Detachments But that which to me seems most strange yet is true that notwithstanding all the Violence Oppression and Wrong done by these and other of our Army on the Impoverished Oppressed and Plunder'd Protestant Inhabitants of this Province and the little encouragement and great discouragement they have had from us yet you know what I esteem as a great presage of future good they continue and remain as firm and faithful to us as the Irish Papists against us How frequently do we hear them tell us that though we continue to injure them rob and destroy them yet they must trust in us and be true and faithful to us We have just now Intelligence of the arrival of the French Succours and vast stores of Arms and Provisions Oh Sir Where 's our Fleet Did they want early notice of their approach What Lethargy attends them and what Judgment us that the Irish have had as secure passage from Dublin to France Scotland and England as if we had not one Man of War to hinder them or secure us If the French Fleet carry off as vast quantities of our Native Goods as they have brought in their Foreign Succors Ichabod may be wrote on our future proceedings it being believed by some and confidently reported by others lately come from Dublin that they were apprehending the chief Protestants in and about that City to transport and make them Prisoners and Slaves of France Let me know the receipt of this Voluminous Letter and the use you make of it You may pardon the tediousness of this Letter which if an offence is not like to be hastily repeated Your True Friend And Faithful Servant Rob. Gorge Numb 3. Mr. Osborne's Letter to my Lord Massereen Loghbrickland March 9. 1688. My Lord ON the 6th Instant I was introduced by my Lord Granard into my Lord Deputy's Presence in the Castle of Dublin I have his Pass to come and go through and back from Vlster and though I have not his Excellency's direct Commission yet I will assure you I am at least permitted by the Lord Deputy to acquaint the Chief and others of those of the Vlster Association with his Discourse to me which was to the effect following to wit First That his Excellency doth not delight in the Blood and Devastation of the said Province but however highly resents their taking and continuing in Arms the affronts done by them to his Majesty's Government thereby and by some Indignities done to the late Proclamation of Clemency Issued and Dated Secondly Notwithstanding whereof is willing to receive the said Province into Protection provided they immediately deliver up to his Army for his Majesty's use their Arms and serviceable Horses and provided they deliver up to his Excellency these three Persons viz. if they remain in the Kingdom and may be had Thirdly And for farther manifestation of his design to prevent Blood is willing to grant safe Conduct even to the said three Persons or any other of their Party to and from his Excellency and to and from Leiutenant General Hamilton Commander of part of his Army hereafter mentioned if they intend any peaceable and reasonable Treaty But withall will not upon the said account or any other stop the march of the said part of his Army
People were allarm'd with the Report of it which was designedly spread abroad And what Reason can this Author give why King James should not disown it since there was no such Thing And that his Principle of trusting entirely to the English and letting them know so much should oblige him to disown an Alliance which he had Rejected meerly out of his Confidence in them This Bishop Maloony says And that This fair Politick as he calls it hindered him King James from making up a Catholick Army that would stick to him instead of a Protestant one that betray'd him hindered him also from having any Succor from France offered him There is none here but knows that Succor was offer'd him from France against the Prince of Orange and that he Rejected it Now who would ever Guess that the abovesaid French League could be prov'd from hence From these Words of Bishop Maloony's Letter which speak the direct contrary Yet this is all our Author's Proof and he boasts in it and crys out This is the very Source and Fountain of all the present Calamities of Europe but more particularly of ours Is not this Magnificent This is a Hardiness of no common Hero To bring without a Blush the strongest Objection against him as an Argument for him What better Proof could have been brought to shew there was no such League than the Confession of a Popish Bishop one of their Managers in a Letter from Paris to his Correspondent another Popish Bishop who was Secretary of State in Ireland and which neither of them Design'd should ever be seen by Protestants Would they dissemble and not speak their Thoughts freely to one another Would they tell one another that King James had Rejected the French Alliance if it were not so Yet these very Words of this Bishop our Author brings to prove that there was such an Alliance If you say there is still a Jealcusy of these Things Our Author has barr'd that from being any Pretence against the plain and certain Duty of Obedience to Lawful Governors Yet these our Author names among the Pretences for throwing off our Lawful Governors as well in this Book as in his said Thanksgiving Sermon which I shall have more occasion to mention hereafter I only name this to shew you his way of Arguing and withal to tell you that they are such Things of which he at that Distance from Affairs and his Correspondence consider'd could have no other Account than from the common News Letters and Observators and such small Intelligencers And yet he would put this upon us who live nearer the Helm and know the value of these Coffee-house Papers as such infallible Proofs that it is not in our Power not to see and be convinc'd of their Truth But this is no new Matter It is the constant and never-failing Method in all Rebellions and Commotions of State They all say their Grievances are apparent and undoubted And generally the greater the Calumny the Asseverations are the more positive to make it be believ'd Matchiavil prescribes fortiter Calumniare Bespatter confidently Throw much Dirt some will stick Of King Ch. 1. and Archbishop Laud's being Papists c. How many in England were made believe that Charles the First and Bishop Laud were Papists How many believe it still I refer this Author to a Pamphlet printed this Year called A Letter from Major General Ludlow to Sir E. S. comparing the Tyranny of the first Four years of King Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the Four years Reign of the late Abdicated King And there he will find King Charles made much the greater Tyrant of the two the greater Invader of our Laws and Liberties our Properties our Lives and that the Case is full as plain and apparent as that against King James And he has printed two or three Vindications of it since There are many very many in England of that Opinion and so positive in it that they think all Men mad or obstinately prejudic'd who offer to deny it or in our Author's Words they think that the Consciences of Mankind cannot but see it and be convinc'd of the Truth of it Yet there are many who will not confess it but think King Charles to have been a good Man and a Martyr and that he stood up more for the Laws and Liberty of the Subject than his illegal Murtherers or Deposers who offended more against the Law and much more apparently by their Rebelling against him than he did if all they charg'd him with had been true Our Author himself was once of this Opinion Dathan and Abiram their Charge against Moses Never any Charge against a Government was averr'd to be more apparent and undeniable than that of Dathan and Abiram against Moses Num. 16.13 14 where he was accus'd of Arbitrary Government and Breach of Promise It was as plain as the Nose on ones Face as we use to say as any Thing we see with our Eyes that he might as well perswade them to disbelieve their Eye-sight as not think him Guilty Is it a small Thing that thou hast brought us up out of a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey to kill us in the Wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us Moreover thou hast not brought us into a Land flowing with Milk and Honey or given us Inheritance of Fields and Vineyards wilt thou put cut the Eyes of these Men And besides this positive Assurance which they had they likewise as our Author had the Faculty of improving a Breach of Promise or an Arbitrary Design into a Design against their very Lives Because he disappointed them as they were very sure in their Inheritance in their Fields and Vineyards and had a mind to make himself more Arbitrary altogether a Prince over them therefore they charg'd him with a Design to kill them in the Wilderness Now if People could be so impos'd upon by the Cunning of designing Men as to believe the falsest and most notorious Untruths against the best Governor as ever was in the World what Government can subsist upon our Author's Principles which give a Latitude to every Man to try his hand upon the soft part of the People And if he can perswade them into an ill Opinion of their Governors and cry it is certain and notorious absolves them ipso facto from all Obedience to their Governors from their Oaths and all tyes of Humane or Divine Law and so frees their Conscience which is the chief hold Government has upon Men. And what Evils that can be suffered from Government can be of such destructive Consequence to the People as these loose Principles which unsettles them every Minute and puts it in the Power of every Boutefeu to set the Nation in a Flame at his Pleasure The Author's Distinction of Evil. N. 3. of his Introduction was design'd to obviate this its Title in the Heads of Discourse is in these Words The Arguments of
as deeply imprinted in that Country as of their unbridl'd Violence Plunder Burning and Destruction of Protestants and Friends as well as Enemies This War has taught those People Wickedness they never knew before in comparison they never knew what Wickedness was before Now let us compute how Religion is serv'd by all this The Spirit of Atheism is let loose and has overspread all the Land It is the Common-place of all our Men of Wit to run down and ridicule the Holy Scriptures and all Reveal'd Religion and this Publickly in Coffee-houses every where without any Restraint or Shame So far from that that they Laugh at and Despise all those who pretend to believe the Revelations in the Bible or that God ever spoke to any Man or gave them any Law by Moses or any body else other than by giving Men Wisdom to invent good Laws as Solon Licurgus or the like And no other Account do they make of Moses or the Prophets or of Christ I am sorry to say it that I am a Witness to the truth of this if it needed any Witness for it is notorious and universal but more within these Four years and more Publickly own'd than since we knew the World In short we have lost Christianity both as to Faith and Practise This is the Advantage Religion has gain'd by our Wars But all is no matter so we beat down Popery And yet Popery was never more Tolerated in Ireland than since the Conclusion of our War against Popery even by the Articles and Agreements of the War And how freely it is Tolerated in England we all know Nay it is taken ill if any call this a Religious War Are we not Confederate with the most Bigot Popish Princes in Christendom But we will keep Popery out of England for the time to come If it be by letting in Atheism or Socinianism it were better keep the old Popery still This is the Method to reconcile Men to Popery when they see you advance in its place Principles more Antichristian than it self and introduce them by all the Wicked and Prophane Practises in the World To my knowledge several have turn'd Papists and more are in danger from the Scandal of this Revolution the Lewdness of the Army and base Apostacy of the Clergy as they call it have turn'd their hearts against us they think we have no Religion It may seem a Paradox but it is true That there have been more Converts to Popery in England these last Four years than in the Four years before Indeed all that King James was a doing did prove to the Ruin of Popery in England And if he had been suffer'd to go on he had turn'd all English hearts for ever against it So far were we from the Danger of Popory in his Reign But now Men's Rage at Popery is abated by seeing the very wicked Artifices have been used against it I wish our Methods to keep it out do not bring it in It is a Rule that seldom fails but never almost in Religion That Civil War and Rebellion prove in the end to be the Destruction and Undoing of those good Things which are made the Pretences and for the Preservation of which Men are perswaded to Rebel That is commonly the end of Reformations made by the Sword especially of Subjects against their Sovereign And it is for such a Reformation as this that our Author can give up the half of the Nation to the Slaughter And all the Care he takes is An Age or two will repair the Loss of Subjects Murther will be a small Sin upon this Account It was counted a Tyrannical Expression in the Prince of Conde when one told him That he expos'd his Men too much in the Storm of a Town he replied There are as many Bastards gotten in Paris last Night as I shall loose Men to Day But this was modest by many Degrees to the fierce Sentence of this Author He had not time in his Fury to consider the Reason God gives Gen. 9.6 why shedding of Man's Blood is so Grievous a Sin in his Sight that he will require it from the Beasts of the Field much more from his Guilty Brother This Author makes nothing of destroying the Image of God What is the Matter Another Age will get more Images This was spoke like a Divine But good Sir there is something else which if you would give me leave I would presume to mind you of in your own Profession which is The care of Souls Sir in this Slaughter you make of Bodies there will some Souls be lost And an Age or two will not Repair that I am sorry this did not come into your Consideration For in this Revolution which you suppose and in which you are content to Sacrifice half the Nation you reckon about the Number it cost in your Country as themselves compute it In this Quarrel Sir you cannot suppose both Parties to be in the Right There must be Rebels on one side or other And you used to tell us That Rebellion was a damning Sin And is it nothing in your Account to send half the Souls of the Nation to Hell Are these the Bowels of a Spiritual Guide Good God! Whether are we come Here is no face of Christianity This is propagating Religion with the Sword beyond the Principles of Mahomet But will an Age or two cure the Infection of universal Debauchery and Prophaneness which this Civil War has spread over the Face of Ireland and in proportion of Scotland and England where the Armies have come Does this Author find it so easy a Task to remove all Lewdness and Prophanity where it has once taken root Or to hinder it to Descend to the next Generation And it is not only this War but it has been observ'd of War in all Ages that it destroys Men's Principles takes them off all Foundations of Sobriety and instills a Dissoluteness of Life and an Insensibility and Difregard of Religion and of all Rules of Justice 'twixt Man and Man most of any Thing in the World And of all Wars such universal Corruption of Manners is most fruitful in a Civil War and sticks longest to our Posterities leaves Seeds of Animosities till one Revolution begets another and entails Blood and Destruction Hatred Treachery Rebellion and all Wickedness from Generation to Generation And no Evils these can Cure are so Intolerable as these This made some of our Forefathers of so much a contrary Opinion to this Author as to make it a Proverb That the worst Peace is more Eligible than the best War However from the Consideration above said of all Pretences Religion is the most Ridiculous for a Civil War because a Civil War is more destructive to Religion than any Thing it can Remedy There is another Thing this Author has forgot while he had his Eyes upon nothing but new Bodies of Men being rais'd up next Age and so all the Evils of this to be done away God has
threatned to visit the Sins of the Fathers upon the Children to the third and fourth Generation His Blood be on us and our Children Matth. 27.25 lyes heavy upon the Jews to this Day And Sir that Ocean of Blood spilt in one of your Revolutions must lye at some door or other And an Age or two will not do away the Guilt of this I am afraid the Blood of Charles the Martyr and all shed in that Rebellion against him lyes still upon these Nations They cannot Repent while they maintain the same Principles which rais'd that Rebellion They are come to that that they are not afraid nor asham'd publickly in Print and in Coffee-houses to justifie that Civil War as our Author would call it against King Charles the First In this Years Almanacks sold about the Streets Partridge's Almanack for the Year 1692. the 30th of January is left out with Good-friday Ashwednesday and other Superstitious Days And instead of these he puts into his Chronology some of the black Aspersions cast upon King Charles the First as the Murther of King James the First and what he thinks were the Arbitrary Proceedings of his Reign and setting up of Popery And he reckons as Festivals the Successes of the Parliament Army against the King as the Battle at Naseby Fatal says he to the Tories and Papists so he styles the Loyal Party He tells you of that King 's deserting his Parliament which is as good as Abdication of his dispensing Judges c. and Bishop Laud being Beheaded for Treason against the Nation That was the style of Treason in these days and best lik'd still set up even by this Author who give Army Treasury and all from the King to the Nation as before is told These are small Signs of Repentance And therefore we have but small hopes that this Age is yet free'd from the Blood spilt the two or three last Ages In which there is yet a farther Consideration and that is That Children may not only suffer Temporal Punishments for the Sins of their Fathers But that Men may really make other Mens Sins their own by Approving and Incouraging them Nay but by consenting to them as St. Paul reckon'd himself Guilty of the Murther of St. Stephen because he only held their Clothes who stoned him Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him or that thou bear not Sin for him as our Margent reads it Lev. 19.17 This is every Man's Duty But especially of the Clergy who are appointed by God Watch-men for this very purpose And if God will require at their hands the Blood of all the Souls that Perish through their Negligence or Cowardise in not warning them against their Sin as we are expresly told Ezek. 33. What will become of those Clergy-men What will their Judgment be who lead their Flocks by their Example to Sin Who justifie and maintain their Sin And imploy their Wit and their Learning to find out Distinctions and Salvoes to keep their Flocks from Returning and Repenting Who defend or palliate the Wickedness of former Ages to give Countenance to the Crying Sins of this That as our Saviour told the Jews Matt. 23.35 36. all the Blood shed in all former Ages from Abel may come upon this Generation Surely those Clergy who plead for the Murthers and Rebellions of former Times make themselves more Guilty of that Blood than many of the Ignorant hands that shed it And thus we may not only bring upon our selves the Blood which we incourage other Men to spill in our own Time and what has been spilt in former Ages by our defending it But we involve our selves more expresly in the Guilt of the Blood that shall be spilt to the end of the World by the Influence of our Actions or Writings Because to incourage and contribute towards the committing of a Sin is in some sort being the Author of it at least it is being Guilty of it in a nearer degree than only approving of it when it is done These Considerations I earnestly recommend to this Author's second Thoughts that he may have a view of the vast Sin he has run himself into if his new Principles do not hold The Blood that is has been or shall be spilt upon this Quarrel to the end of the World Some conjecture That the Reason of Dives being so importunate for the Salvation of his Brethren was not out of Charity to their Souls which is not suppos'd to be in damn'd Spirits but because his Sufferings increas'd in Hell to the same proportion that his Example upon Earth incourag'd others to Sin whereby we may suppose his Brethren to have been chiefly Infected The Application I make is the Danger of transmitting any thing to Posterity in Writing which may in the least favour any Sin especially that of Blood which crys till it be avenged And the greater credit our Author's Book has with some for of People its infection will be the greater and he have the more to Answer for Therefore he ought to be very sure that his Reasons are good upon which he Pawns the Salvation of his own Soul and of so many Millions With this Preparation I hope he will look again with an impartial Eye upon these Reasons he has produc'd and consider whether they will bear such a Weight as he has laid upon them He says p. 3. n. 3. If we look into History we shall find the best the happiest and most prosperous People most jealous of their Liberty and while they continue firm in their Resolution of maintaining it against the Enchroachments of their Governors even with the hazard of their Lives they have continued Great and Happy This is but saying instead of proving and it is absolutely denied You have seen the Opinion of a Roman and a Greek Plutarch and Lucan upon the Case and many more are to be produc'd to shew that Rome and other Countries were never so miserable as in their Contests for Liberty against their Governors Among all of whom there is not a more pregnant and sad Example than that of England Nor will the Fate of Holland be an Exception from this Rule Reckon first their many years Civil War and innumerable Slaughters which their own Histories relate were occasion'd by their Contests for Liberty against the Crown of Spain to which they were then Subjects And they have liv'd since in almost continual War with all their Neighbors They have been in daily danger of being swallow'd up as by the Sea so by France sometimes and sometimes by Spain and have been kept up chiefly as a ballance 'twixt contending Princes It was but in Queen Elizabeth's Reign that they stil'd themselves the poor distressed States and it is but a very few Years since we saw France in possession of most of their Towns and had been of all the rest if King Charles II. had not interpos'd and taken that critical Minute to rescue his Nephew the P.
to destroy one main part of his Subjects in favour of another whom he loves better and of submitting only to tolerable Evils c. which you have heard already 1. The Jews in Egypt The first Instance I give is that of the Jews in Egypt they were about the same time under Egypt that Ireland has been under England that is 'twixt four and five hundred years but with this difference that the English came into Ireland by Conquest whereas Israel was invited into Egypt by their King and it was but a due return of Gratitude from him for Joseph had miraculously saved Egypt from the common Destruction which befell the Nations about and made it the Granery of the World and the richest Nation upon the Earth at that time The Jews were a different People from the Egyptians as the Irish from the English of different Manners Religion Interest They did not live mixed with the Egyptians nor under their Laws as the Irish do with the English but had the Land of Goshen assigned them peculiar to themselves They lived more like an Independent People than the Irish yet they suffered the greatest Oppression from their King that ever was in the World His Design to ruin them was apparent destroying their very Children and they had given no manner of Cause or Provocation on their side They durst not offer Sacrifices to the Lord without apparent danger of being ston'd to death so that they were oppressed most Tyrannically in their Religion as well as their Persons which were condemned to the Brick-kills They were able to have delivered themselves Exod. 12.37 being an Army of Six hundred thousand Men besides Children and a great mix'd Multitude And though God himself sent Moses to deliver them from that Servitude yet it is the peculiar Observation of the whole Convocation of the Church of England and they say it is not to be omitted but that we take notice of it That God would not suffer Moses to carry the Jews out of Egypt till Pharaoh their King gave them leave to depart Afterwards also when the Jews being brought into subjection to the Kings of Babylon did 2. In Babylon by the Instigation of false Prophets Rebel against them they were in that respect condemn'd by the Prophet Jeremy and in all their Captivity which shortly after followed they lived by the Direction of the said Prophet in great subjection and obedience they prayed not only for their Kings and their Children that they might live long and prosper but likewise for the State of their Government the good Success whereof they were bound to seek and regard as well as any other of the Kings most dutiful Subjects and thus they lived in Babylon and other Places of that Dominion till the King gave them leave to depart notwithstanding in the mean time they endured many Calamities and were destitute for many Years of the Publick Worship and Service of God which was ty'd to the Temple and might not elsewhere be practised or attempted Thus Bishop Overal's Convocation-Book c. 28. p. 58. These Jews were finally Destroy'd their Temple Burn'd 3. Under the Romans and City Razed by the Romans and those that escaped of them dispers'd over the face of the Earth in Slavery and Servitude like a cursed Generation and all this fell upon them the same Convocation Book teaches us c. 33. p. 77. not only for their obstinacy against Christ and Crucifying of him but that the immediate and apparent Cause of it was their obstinate Rebellion against the Emperors of Rome their then Lawful Governors This History of the Jews from their Servitude in Egypt to their Destruction by the Romans will in every Circumstance more than over-ballance the parallel of the Irish Nation under the English You see how God blessed the Jews protected and delivered them when they submitted to their Lawful Princes who designed attempted and almost effected their Destruction and Extirpation And on the other hand with what Fury poured out he visited their Rebellion against their Lawful Governors though for the Preservation of their Religion Liberty Property and their very Lives 4. Under Ahasuerus Who does not know the utter Extirpation and Massacre of the Jewish Nation not only design'd but expresly ordered by Ahasuerus And that the Jews would not take Arms in their own Defence till they had the King's Letters and Commission wherein the King granted the Jews to gather themselves together and to stand for their Life Eith 8.11 And the Glorious Effect of this for the Advantage of the Jews every one has read 5. The Gibeonites I might instance here too the Case of the Gibeonites whom Saul sought to destroy after their being 400 Years under the Government of the Jews or Incorporated into one People with them as the Irish are with the English in Ireland And their Case was exactly what the Author puts viz. of a King 's designing to destroy one People under his Government in favour of another whom he loves better for the Text tells us 1 Sam. 21.22 That Saul sought to slay the Gibeonites in his zeal to the Children of Israel and Judah and that he consumed them and devised against them Ver. 5. that they should be destroyed from remaining in any of the Coasts of Israel 6. Our Saviur Christ But to come down to Christianity Christ came with a Commission to form a Society called after his own Name distinct and Independent from all other Societies and Governments in the World Of different Religion Manners and Interest Living under different Rules and Governors Primitive Christians Assoon as they appeared all Kings and Governors fell upon them to root them off from the face of the Earth and Persecuted them with all the Violence and Rage that Hell could suggest and Slaughtered them in Multitudes in most Barbarous and Savage manner Now what were these Christians to do to preserve themselves Were they to take Arms against their Governors who thus apparently sought their Ruin in favour of other of their Subjects whom they loved better No They were totally barr'd from that and if any so so much as sought to save his Life by such means he should not only lose it here but his Soul hereafter Damnation was preached to those who Resisted their Lawful Governors Did they judge with our Author that their Persecuting Kings had Abdicated the Government of those whom they design'd to destroy No they were taught to own them as God's Representatives Rom. 13.1 5. 1 Pet. 2.18 20 23. his Deputies and Ministers and as such to obey them with all Reverence not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake and that not only to the Good and Gentle but even those who Persecuted them for Well-doing And they were to take it patiently without Reviling or Threatning And this was not for want of Power to do otherwise it is in any Man's Power to Revile and Threaten but for Conscience sake
Power which God hath put in our Sovereign's hands This Doctrine we justly glory in and if any that had their Educations in our Church have turned Renegadoes from this they prove no less Enemies to the Church her self than to the Civil Authority So that this Apostacy leaves no Blame on our Church If you think the Titles of Renegado and Apostate to be too plain Dealing I cannot help it they are the Doctors own Words and no dout proceeded from a godly Zâ—al and Indignation against such base Deserters of these Principles of Loialty which are taught by the Church of England in her Homilies Canons Articles and Authentick Records As did likewise that pious Ejaculation of our Author c. 2. s 7. n. 2. p. 29. That he is a very dishonest man that dissembles or alters his Opinion without any other visible motive besides Gain or Preferment And that their living so long in the profession of the Protestant Religion he is speaking of Converts to Popery and you may apply it to the Converts from Passive Obedience to the Doctrine of Resistance and Common-wealth Principles if they did not believe it was to all honest men an Argument of so great Hypocrisie that the person guilty of it one would think should not have been trusted by any that valued either Truth or Honesty but if this Declaration viz of their new Opinion was only feigned as I am apt to believe it was in many then their Conversion was on Effect of Covetousness or Ambition and an Act of Hypocrisie to be ababhorred by all good men However to persuade the World that they were real they were very mischievous to Protestants in general to those whose Principles they had forsaken especeally to those that had been kind to them whil'st in an inferiour condition And it was observable of these Converts That they immediately on their Reconcilement made themselves signal by some eminently wicked Act. Thus our Author And he says p. 31. The truth is they were people that made no distinction between Right and Wrong but as they served their Interest It would perhaps be thought malicious if I should retort every word of this upon our Author in relation to his present Conversion from his former Principles of Loyalty and Passive Obedience And if his present Principles be not true he has hansel'd his Conversion by an Act much more eminently wicked beyond all Comparison by the writing of this Book than what he observes of Converts to Popery in Ireland What Proportion is ' there twixt tossing a Butcher in a Blanket which he tells p. 29. or two or three small Murders in the heat of Blood and breaking a Cryer's head which is set out p. 30 as the first Fruits of these Papists Conversion what Proportion do these bear to a Bishop's deliberate giving up of half the Nation at a time to the Slaughter and Hallowing it in all past and to all suture Generations This I have enlarged upon already Again if his Matters of Fact be false or but in the least aggravated or misrepresented how eminently wicked will this first remarkable Act of our Author's Conversion appear when he takes God to Witness and protests before him p. 239 that he has neither aggravated nor misrepresented But before I take leave of this Author with the rest of his Brethren the Dublin Clergy who remained there and complemented as it proved K. J. with full assurance of their adhering unalterably to their Church of England Loyalty who durst doubt it even with Relation to K. J. after he was declared Abdicate and a new King even K. W. himself set upon the Throne and claiming the Allegiance of his Subjects in Dublin and the rest of Ireland even then did the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Meath at the Head and in the Name of their Dublin Clergy with some others as many as could get thither out of the Country again affirm their Allegiance to K. J. in most express Terms and all the Rhetorick he could invent to perswade K. James into an entire Confidence of their adhering to him as their Rightful King and that it was pursuant to the Principles of the Church of England so to do Which Speech we had here printed two Years agoe together with another of the same Bishop to K. W. when he came to Ireland in the Name of the same Clergy and I have annexed them to this with the Answers of both Kings No. 8. Appendix Now before we part with these Gentlemen I would earnestly desire them to answer me with the same Sincerity with which they addressed to one or both of these Kings Whether it King James had suceeded at the Boyne and been then re-established in England they would have put that Comment upon their Speech to him which they did afterwards in their Speech to K. W And whether if any Man should have charged them for meaning it with that Reserve they would not have called it a base Calumny and sworn to the contrary if K J. had required it at least if an Act of Parliament had been made to have Deprived them if they did not I ask again Whether they would have confest as now they do that they did not mean sincerely in what they Prayed for K. James viz. That God would give him strength to vanquish and overcome all his Enemies Nay farther Whether they would not have boasted of their Loyalty and sincere Intentions towards King James and reproached those of Disaffection to Him who had forsaken Him and of quitting the true Principles of the Church of England and that they were ready to suffer not only much more than they did but even Death it self without Threatning or Reviling much less Resisting the Lord 's Anointed according to the Command of Scripture the Practice of Christ and his Apostles and the Primitive Christians and the express Doctrine of our Homilies c. All these good Words we should have had from themâ— no doubt these only had been the Men of Principles Firmness Courage nay even of Christianity But they are detected God would not suffer such masked Hypocrisie to deceive the World It is told Luke 2.35 as one of the Effects of Christ's coming into the World That the Thoughts of many hearts should be revealed The Behaviour of the Clergy in taking the Oaths This has been remarkably fulfilled in this Revolution but especially in the Clergy There never was so sudden and so shameful a Turn of Men professing Religion and the manner of doing it so impolitick as to make it evident they took the Oaths with at least a doubting and scrupalous Conscience the Sentence of which they may read Rom. 14.23 for they did not take them freely but haggled and kept off some to the last day roaring against them all the while and then coming about all at once with new coyn'd Distinctions and Declarations point blank contrary to the declared Sense of the Imposers They differed among themselves every one had a
has an Inuendo of a higher Nature than this It imports no less than that the Protestants of Ireland conquering the Irish there gives them a Title to Ireland independent on the Crown of England He places the Scene indeed in another Reign but the Application is too obvious to be mistaken I suppose none will deny but K. C. 2. at his Restauration in the year 1660. to the Crown of England had thereby a good Title to Ireland But this Author plainly insinuates as if the English Rebels who Conquer'd Ireland as he calls it under Oliver had thereby gained a Right to it for themselves and therefore makes it not a Duty but a meer Act of Generosity in them to call home K. C. 2. and says That they bestow'd Ireland upon him c. These are his words viz. The Conquerers viz. Oliver's Army joined in bringing home K. C. 2. and generously gave up themselves together with the Kingdom of Ireland without Articles or Conditions into his hands Where observe They had a Right to have kept him out and not to have admitted him without such Articles and Conditions as they thought fit And our Author does not seem to approve of their receiving him without such Articles as he does not the King 's restoring the Conquered under certain Qualifications to a part of the forfeited Lands Kings are in a good condition when all their Actions are thus to be Arraign'd by every one who can take the Boldness to call them to an Accouâ—â— and Publish their Censure of Majesty to the World The same Language is now in many of their mouths as to the present Reduction of Ireland and they grudge the Articles of Limerick and Galloway c. not considering that there is no Government but by the necessity of their Affairs may be forced sometimes to take Measures which may alarm some sort of People and if for this People have liberty to attack the Government in every Coffee-house and Cabal what Peace can be lasting tho' they should do it by such discreet Inuendo's as this Author Kings now indeed are upon their good Behaviour as this Author of late loyally expressed it on the Thirtieth of January in Christ-Church Dublin applying it to that Day to shew the glorious Change of his Principles But for a Noble stroke both for speaking at Random for Inuendo's and for weight of Argument see C. 3. S. 12. n. 21. p. 165. It is thus stil'd in the Heads of Discourse Protestants lost more in Ireland than all that favour K. J 's Cause in England are worth In the Section it self he adds Scotland too This is a Discovery the Parliament would thank him for at least Mr. Fuller I dare not ask this Author by what means he came to know more than King and Parliament or any in England pretend to to find out all the Jacobites in England and Scotland and the value of their Estates Well it must pass by Inuendo and that cannot be disprov'd But he inuendo's in the Jacobites Thoughts too as well as their Estates And I suppose says he it would put them the Jacobites out of conceit with Him K. J. or any other King there he handsomly brings in K. W. and shews the Opinion as he believes of the Williamites at least you may conclude it is his own that should take away but one half of their Estates from them There the Government has the stint of his Obedience But has not this Author's Intelligence brought him the News yet of the Deprivation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops and Clergy with a greater Number in Scotland who have lost the whole of their Estates and it is believed would lay down their Lives too for what they think to be their Duty to their King And there are many Lay-Jacobites as resolute even as they Did this Author never hear that Mr. Ashton suffered Death and would not own this to be a Fault And that the Bishops of Chichester and Worcester asserted it upon their Death-beds and that they would have gone to the Stake rather than have forsaken their Passive Obedience or taken the present Oaths How is it possible that a Man so well read as the Author in the Primitive Persecutions should think losing but half ones Estate so mighty a Matter in asserting the Principles of our Religion But these things we can better hear than where he would impose upon us such Incredible Stories as would not pass at a Country Wake Incredible Matters of Fact Such is that c. 2. s 8. n. 4. p. 33. where he gives us such an Idea of the Wild Irish as he that said he had seen some of them so tame that they would eat Meat out of his hand He says that it seemed an unreasonable Hardship to those of them who were Landlords That they should be called to an account for killing or robbing their Tenants or ravishing their Daughters I confess this so startled me from an Author of his Gravity and living in that Country that it put me upon the Curiosity of enquiring of some Gentlemen of that Country who told me it was just as true as their having Hair upon their Teeth That there were ill Men among them and Murthers and Rapes have been committed as in other places but that they were so savage and ignorant at this time of day as not to expect to be called to an account for such horrible Crimes is an Assertion that astonishes every body that hears of it If he means that in the time of this War such Crimes went unpunished others have the same to say Witness Dr. Gorge's Letter But the Author 's Topick in this place is not of the time of the War but of the manner of these People before so that it is an egregious Imposition upon our English Understandings to think to pass this upon us It is almost as strange as this what he tells c. 3. s 11. n. 8. p. 138. That Colonel Luttrel Governor of Dublin condemned Mr. Piercy a Merchant to be hanged for saying very calmly That he was not willing to part with his Goods if he could help it And as strange that Mr. Piercy should escape because the Governour could not find any of the Provoes If you can hardly believe that Mr. Piercy should be condemned for speaking such innocent words and that very calmly you will be no Proselyte to this Author who as confidently and with as little Voucher that is none at all tells in the same place That Mr. Bell a Protestant Merchant was confined to close Prison and no body allowed to speak to him for I would have the Reader guess the Crime less if it could be than that of Mr. Piercy It was without any Crime so much as alledged against him says our Author We say It is easie to find a Stick to beat a Dog Were the Protestants so Loyal to K. J. or the Irish so dull that they could make no pretence of a Fault when
pains to Reckon over the Mens Names and there were Deserters from the Royal William two hundred ninety one and from the St. Andrew three hundred forty nine men both make six hundred and forty Now our Authors Logick would infer First What Numbers may we suppose have Deserted and how many would Desert if they had opportunity out of the whole Fleet Secondly That these men are not paid are very ill used or otherwise Disaffected to the Government Thirdly That K. W. did this on purpose for the abovesaid Reason c. What Stop can there be to Malice and Invention This Author has not produced so plausible Reasons even as these for K. J.'s Design to Destroy the English Fleet yet he Avers it positively and Builds upon it But after all Does our Author know very well how K. J. left the Fleet or how he minded the Trade of the Nation we live here where we have reason to know better than this Author in Ireland And we know that among all K. J.'s Faults this was never reckoned one No King of England ever minded the Affairs of the Fleet and the Encouragement of Trade so much as King James witness the noble Store-Houses he built at Chattam and other Ports such as England never saw the like Nor were the Magazines and Stores ever better provided than when K. James left them for which I refer you and this Author to the Worthy Mr. Pepy's Secretary to the Admiralty his Momoires touching the Royal Navy printed here in the Year 1690. Of which I have put a short Abstract in the Appendix n. 11. for their benefit who have not his book As likewise Sir Peter Petts Speech and the Seamens Address to King J. By all which it will appear how perfectly groundless this Accusation of our Authors is against King James I remember it was stuffed into some News Letters about that time for a certain Reason and our Author sends it over to us now as a great Discovery He sayes some body told him so but he tells not who they were But he has eased his Spleen and Discovered his poor Intelligence That his Reader may duely Weigh and Consider upon what solid and sure Grounds he sets down all his Matters of Fact and Consequently what Regard is to be paid to them This Author had shewn himself a better Politician and Historian if he had Turn'd this Charge against King James as I have heard several and in good earnest urge it as a thing of the most dangerous Consequence to the Liberties of England and was with some men not the least Objection against King James's Reign viz. That he was so good a Husband of his money that he was able to spare such vast summs to the Navy and many other Works for the publick yet not Impose or Demand any Supply from his Subjects who grew Rich in Trade beyond the Example of former Reigns And they saw it visibly proceed from his great Care and Application to Maritine Affairs beyond any of his Predecessors This say these Politicians would have made him over popular and put him out of the power of Parliaments for he would have wanted no money and by shewing his people that his Greatness made them Live without Taxes which their many years Experience had told them alwayes did attend the Return of Parliaments It would have been a Dangerous Temptation to them to have wisht him Absolute while it kept them Rich and Free from Taxes And had not Popery been in the case he might have bid fairer for Arbitrariness in this method than by that this Author has found out of letting the English Fleet decay on purpose that he might become a Vassal to France Since I wrote this I met in the Third Edition of this Authors Book c. 3. § 6. n. 1. p. 93 a Nota Bene in the Margent in these words viz. N. B. The Author living in another Kingdom and not knowing how much had been expended on the English Navy towards the end of King James's Reign was led into this Inference by hearing that the then Prince of Orange found no Opposition at Sea when he came for England But the preceding Discourses of King James and his Friends in Ireland are exactly Related and might purposely be Design'd to encourage the Irish Nation into the Facility of Invading England nothing being at that time more universally talk'd of or resolved by them Thus the N. B. And let us Mark it well It is a Recantation of what he had said of K. James's letting the English Fleet Decay c. By this he would induce his Reader to Believe That this was the only Erratum of his whole Book and that he was ready to own it as soon as Convinc'd Whereby he settles a good Opinion of his own Integrity and Ingenuity And at the same time Confirms the Truth of all the other Matters of Fact in his Book because it is to be suppos'd That if he could have found any other Mistakes in his Book he would have Rectified them as well as this Which if it be true we must have more N. B.'s in his next Edition after his seeing this Answer or otherwise he must Confute the Matters of Fact I have set down upon which I do promise to Confess and Amend my Errors as freely as I expect the like from him He gives for his Excuse his Living in another Kingdom This Good Sir will invalidat not only Great Part and the most Beauish of your Book but of your Famous Thanksgiving Sermon before-mentioned where you play your Politicks upon the most private Intrigues of most of the States and Princes in Europe and tell which Prince is to be Wheedled which Frighted which brought under Pupillage what Queen to be made Burren what Country to be Bomb'd what Bought what Sold and what Drown'd And you were farther from all these than from England and these Designs were harder to be known than the publick Condition of our own Fleet which any one may know that pleases the Lists of them being commonly Printed In the next place Since as you now Confess you did not know the State of the Navy when K. James left it How come you to be so positive in it in your Book Must not we believe by this instance That you are capable of Asserting very positively what you know very little of But this being a Falshood so notoriously known in England you thought by Confessing that to Lull them Asleep to inquire no farther into what was done in Ireland Your very Confession argues your Guilt and shews it came not from a clear Conversion of your Conscience For you do it by halves and unwillingly You are loath to Allow K. James any Credit or as little as you can in his Care of the Navy First You do not call it his Act only you say that you knew not Of the Money had been expended on the English Navy towards the end of K. James's Reign This might have been
for the publick use those Supplies that were so freely afforded you in Parliament and without such strict Clauses of appropriating them to particular uses as were in the last Reign and with joy to look on the glorious Super-structure that your Reign hath hereby built on that great Foundation of the happiness of any Kingdom namely an entire mutual Confidence between Prince and People There is another thing occurs to my Observation namely That since your Parliament your Majesty hath allowed for the yearly Charge of the Navy about 400000 l. which is much more than was allowed for that use in his late Majesty's Reign These are great things Sir and your Seamen cannot but be sensible of the Honour and Happiness you have taken care of for them and how by your rebuilding your Capital Ships you have prepared floating Pallaces for them to inhabit and serve you in Sir The Hearts of your Seamen having in them so great a constant stock of the natural heat of Loyalty it is not to be wondered at that this Noble Lord could by his Breath so easily occasion that flame of Zeal for your Majesty's Service that has appeared in their Address his Lordship having likewise acquainted them with the tender regard your Majesty had to their wellfare and preservation and to their being eased from all Grievances To conclude Sir The things that I have before referred to are such as must naturally make great impressions not only on your Seamen but on all English Patriots and incline your Subjects of all Religionary Persuasions when they shall consider how Indulgent and Provident a Father of their Countrey God hath set over them to think of those words That he hath not dealt so with every Nation And when they shall consider those great Effects of your Royal Care for the securing the Being of the Kingdom and England's being a Kingdom for ever to apply to your Self and to England the great Landatory Expression addrest to King Solomon namely Because God loved Israel for ever therefore made he you King His Majesty was then Graciously pleased to say Gentlemen I Thank you for your Address and I doubt not but when I shall think fit to call a Parliament you will make it your business to choose such good Men as shall correspond with the effect of your Address I assure you I never questioned the Loyalty of my Seamen I have my Self been an Eye Witness of both your Courage and your Loyalty when I was your Admiral And Gentlemen I am your Admiral still and my Seamen may depend upon it that they shall always be well provided for and duly paid and be carefully protected and encouraged by me as much as the Seamen ever were by any of My Predecessors Though some of My Neighbours give out and would have it believed that I have not the Hearts of My Seamen yet I have found the contrary for when I have occasion to fit out any Ships I do not find that I am in the least want of Men and whenever my Affairs may require the fitting out My whole Fleet I do not in the least doubt but that I shall find My Seamen ready to serve Me. Numb 11. An Abstract of Mr. Pepy's Memoirs of the Royal Navy IN April 1679 the Ships of War actually in Pay were 76. whereof one First Rate three Second Rates P. 6. fifteen Third Rates thirty Fourth Rates twelve Fifth Rates seven Sixth Rates eight Fire-Ships Thirty Capital Ships more were then in building P. 8. whereof eleven then Launch'd In May 1679. the Admiralty was put into the Hands of Commissioners which Commission expired in May 1684. P. 10. when the Navy was found to be in a most lamentable condition as is demonstrated p. 16. Little was or could be done in the remainder of that year in the latter end of which King Charles the Second died P. 22. upon whose death King James applied himself to the redress of the Navy P. 30. and deputed 400000 l. a year to that purpose choosing new Commissioners to manage the whole P. 116. Forbidding the Commanders of his Ships to carry Passengers or transport Bullion to the neglect of his service and impairing his Ships and for that reason giving them an allowance extraordinary for their Tables P. 120. In October 1688. The Fleet at Sea consisted of twelve Third Rates P. 132. twenty eight Fourth Rates two Fifth Rates five Sixth Rates and twenty Fire-Ships all the other Ships of War except three being either actually repaired or under repair Eight Months Sea-stores were left with them in Magazine for every Ship repaired P. 139. with the like in Materials and money for the whole remainder Stores left for the Ships at Sea to the value of 280000 l. in Hemp P. 142. Pitch Tar Rosin Canvas Oyl and Wood 100000 l. more When the King took the care of the Navy into His Own Hands P. 157. the gross of the Ships were out of repair and the best of them ready to sink in the Harbour The Conclusion P. 214. That it was a strenuous Conjunction of Integrity Knowledge and Experience Vigour of Application and Assiduity Strictness and Discipline and Method and that Conjunction alone that within half the time and less than half the Charge that it cost the Crown in the exposing the Navy had at the very Instant of its unfortunate Lord's withdrawing himself from it raised the Navy of England from its lowest State of Impotence to the most advanc'd step towards a lasting and solid Prosperity that all circumstances considered this Nation had ever seen it at Novemb. 13. 1691. Numb 12. A LIST of SHIPS That have been Lost or Damaged since the Year 1688. Rate Ships Names Tuns Captains Time when Place where Manner how lost taken 2 Coronation 1427 Charles Skelton 3 Sept. 1691 Ramhead Overset 2 Victory 1029 27 Feb. 90 Woolwich Cast on Survey not fit to be repair'd 3 Ann 1039 John Tyrell 6 July 90 3 Miles W. of Rye Burnt in Fight 3 Bredah 1018 Matth. Tennant 12 Oct. 90 Cork Blown up 3 Dreadnought 735 Rob. Wilmott 16 Oct. 90 6 Leag SSW N. Forlds Foundred 3 Henrietta 763 John Nevill 25 Dec. 89 Plymouth Cast away 3 Harwich 993 Hen. Robinson 4 Sept. 91 Plymouth Cast away 3 Exeter 1070 George Meese 12 Sept. 91 Plymouth Blown up 3 Pendâ—nnes 1036 Geo. Churchill 28 Oct. 89 Kentesknock Cast away 4 Centurion 531 Bar. Beaumont 25 Dec. 89 Plymouth Cast away 4 St. David 638 John Greydon 11 Nov. 89 Portsmouth Sunk weighed and made a Hulk 4 Portsmouth 466 George St. Lo 9 Aug. 89 at Sea Taken by the French 4 Mary Rose 556 John Bounty 12 July 91 at Sea Taken by the French 4 Sedgmore 663 David Lloyd 3 Jan. 88 S. Marg. Bayn Cast away 5 Constant Warwick 379 James Moody 12 July 91 at Sea Taken by the French 5 Dartmouth 265 Edw. Pottinger 8 Nov. 90 Isle of Mull Cast away 5 Heldenburgh
of his Majesty's Letters thereunto annexed in favor of the Right Honorable Jennico Ld. Viscount Gormanstowne and James Ld. Viscount Ikerin concerning the Reversion of the Outlawries against their Ancestors and having advised with the rest of his Majesty's Counsel at Law in this Kingdom we humbly offer to your Excellency's Consideration That some time after his late Majesty's happy Restauration we find several Applications were made for the allowing of Writs of Error to be issued in order to the Reversion of Outlawries in High Treason and Attainders upon Account of the late Rebellion which being referred to his Majesty 's then Judges in this Kingdom there were several Debates then had before them whether such Outlawries could be reversed by reason of the Statute made in the 27th Year of Queen Elizabeth in this Kingdom for the Attainder of James Eustace late Viscount Baltinglass and others therein mentioned who had been lawfully and by due course of Law outlawed and attained of Treason and the Statute confirms those Outlawries and Attainders which were past any Error Insufficiency or other Defect in form or Matter in them to the contrary notwithstanding and farther enacts for the time to come that every offender thereafter being lawfully convict of Treason by Verdict or Process of Outlawry according to the due course of the Common Laws or Statutes of this Realm should forfeit all his Lands of any Estate of Inheritance and that every such Attainder according to the course of the common Laws and Statutes of this Realm should be of the same force as if it had been by Act of Parliament and by reason also that since the making of that Statute they did not find that any Outlawry or Attainder for Treason in this Kingdom had been reversed by Writ of Error especially after the death of the Party outlawed and his Lands granted from the Crown to others Whereupon the said Judges having then heard Counsel on both sides did not come to any Resolution or was any thing farther done upon those Applications We do therefore offer to your Excellencies Consideration that many of his Majesty's Subjects in England and in this Kingdom have at this time in their Possession the Lands of divers old Proprietors who in the Year 1641. and after were outlawed for Treason which Lands have been granted to them by Letters Patents upon the late Settlement of this Kingdom some of whose Titles may be weakened or prejudiced as we humbly conceive by the Reversal of such Outlawries and some parts of these two Lords Estates are now as appears by the Petition of Captain Daniel Gahan Sir William Petty and Samuel Green Esq which your Excellency hath referred unto us in their possessions who hold the same by Letters Patents from his Majesty and have thereupon humbly Petitioned your Excellency to take their Case into your Excellency's Consideration That as to such Lands as these two Lords or the Heirs of such other persons who have been so outlawed are in possession of or have been restored unto by virtue of the late Acts of Settlement they are not as we conceive disabled or any ways hindred by such Outlawries from enjoying the same Neither do we conceive that there would be any Inconvenience in restoring these two noble Lords who do well deserve his Majesty's Grace and Favour to their Blood and Honours with a Proviso that they should not thereby be entituled to any Lands out of their Possession which have been granted by Letters Patents to others as might be done by Act of Parliament but upon the reversal of any Outlawries by Writs of Error there can be no restriction in the Judgment which must by Law be general that they shall be restored to whatsoever they lost by reason of such Outlawries But whether upon the whole Matter your Excellency will think fit to issue such Warrants forthwith in order to the reversal of the said Outlawries as by his Majesty's said Letters are directed on behalf the said Lords Viscounts Gormanstowne and Ikerin or will forbear the same till his Majesty's Pleasure herein shall be farther known is humbly submitted to your Excellency's Consideration June 29. 1686. William Domvile Jo. Temple The Extract of my Ld. Clarendon's Letter to the E. of Sunderland July 6. 1686. of so much as relates to the Matter of the Outlawries My Lord AS soon as I had the King's Letters permitting the Lords Gormanstowne and Ikerin to reverse the Outlawries of their Ancestors I acquainted my Lord Chancellour and Mr. Attorney therewith But the Noise of this matter was come before the Letter for some time before Caveats were entered against the granting any such Writs of Reversal by three Persons who by virtue of the Acts of Settlement are in Possession of some Lands the ancient propriety of those Lords I referred the Matter to Mr. Attourney and Mr. Sollicitour for I could doe no less requiring them to call to their Assistence the rest of the King 's learned Counsel several of whom are Roman Catholicks and to report their opinions to me which they have done and I herewith transmit their Report to your Lordship which I beseech you to lay before his Majesty it is a thing of very great Consequence and deserves the most serious Consideration Numb 21. King James his Speech to the Lord Mayor c. upon his quitting of Dublin soon after the Action at the Boyne the 2d of July 1690. Gentlemen I Find all things at present run against Me. In England I had an Army consisting of Men stout and brave enough which would have fought but they proved false and deserted me Here I had an Army that was loyal enough but that they wanted true Courage to stand by me at the critical Minute Gentlemen I am now a second time necessitated to provide for my own Safety and seeing I am now no longer able to to protect you and the rest of my good Subjects the Inhabitants of this City I advise you all to make the best terms you can for your selves and likewise for my menial Servants in regard that I shall now have no occasion to keep such a Court as I have done I desire you all to be kind to the Protestant Inhabitants and not to injure them or this City for though I at present quit it yet I do not quit my Interest in it Numb 22. To the King 's most Excellent Majesty the humble Address of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City and Liberty of Dublin in behalf of themselves and others the Protestant Freemen and Inhabitants thereof THus long great Sir our unparallel'd late Deliverance wrought by the hand of God the first Mover the principal Author of all our Good hath hitherto most justly employed all the Faculties of our Souls in the profound Contemplation of his mysterious and unbounded Providence receiving from us the slender Reward but necessary Sacrifice of our hearty Praise and Thanks but now to you great Sir the next recollected Thought with