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A48109 A letter in answer to a friend, upon notice of a book entituled, A short view of the late troubles in England wherein in the VIIIth chapter the occasion of the execrable Irish rebellion XLI is egregiously mistaken. 1681 (1681) Wing L1555; ESTC R3008 5,323 4

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A LETTER IN ANSWER TO A FRIEND Upon Notice of a Book Entituled A Short View of the Late Troubles in England Wherein in the VIII th Chapter the Occasion of the Execrable Irish Rebellion XLI is egregiously mistaken SIR AS soon as I received Yours of the 26 th Instant I immediately enquired for The short View of the Late Troubles in England which I found at our Stationers I fell presently on the Eighth Chapter which as you have observ'd ought to be Corrected the Author endeavouring to make the Grand Conspirators in the Long Parliament 41. a Great Occasion of the Irish Insurrection though not of their Counsell and Contrivance I have nothing to plead for those Conspirators the Event of their Counsels being Shame and Confusion But there are those alive writes an Illustrious Person that know how far at first their Souls abhorr'd what afterwards neither Policy or Power could restrain When as his Majesty from Breda observes Through Mistakes and Misunderstandings Many Inconveniencies were produc'd which were not intended However we are told That the Parliament is not to be excus'd from giving great Occasion of Rebellion besides Suspicion of a Design Though the Earl of Castlehaven in his Epistle to his Memoires which ought however to be reflected on is so just as to confess That the Irish Rebellion brake forth in a time of settled Peace without the least Occasion given which comes now to be consider'd The Method the Author takes I am sorry to find being That he makes the Conspiracies and Plots that were charg'd on those of the Irish Profession in England to be meer Forgery whence the Irish took a suspition lest they too should be debarr'd of a Religion derived from their Ancestors 1300 Years What was suspected of the English Romanists I shall not here insist on it being Notorious that the late Plot so uneasie to the King so desperate to the State hath been like the Dragon in the Apocalyps long watching to devour the Protestants though great Subtilty hath been us'd both in the Chair and Pulpit to decry what hath been foretold thereof As if all the Complaints against Popery these Fifty or Sixty years had been as Properties only to colour the neglect of more weighty Business and affront the Government till the Event had almost justified the Augurism But as for the Irish I must say if to prevent an Evil as a great Father of the Jesuits will have it One may assume Arms ruin States invade their Neighbours and that meerly on a Suspition I know not who may be secure otherwise none ever enjoy'd with greater Freedom not a Connivance only of their Religion but a thorough Practice of it at that day till their Presumption look'd Authority in the Face Having Archbishops and Bishops for all their Sees most of whom the Pope had ●ade not long before and in all likelihood for this Occasion They had ab●● 〈◊〉 hundred ●hown Convents of several Orders in that Kingdom and their Prie●s in all parts of it freely exercising their Function So as in reference to their Religion they had no reason to expect a Storm much less That That and their Nation should be extirpated Which from a Rumor rais'd at an Assize as 't is feign'd from Sr. William Parsons and Sr. Adam Loftus That an Army of 10000 Scots was to arrive in Ireland to force the Catholicks to change their Religion and that Ireland could never do well without a Rebellion to the End the Remnant of the Natives might be extirpated hath begot some Credit though on so improbable grounds that 't is not like that men of such Estates in Ireland who had been so signally Instrumental to the settlement of that Kingdom in Peace and had such a Numerous Progeny should ever hope for a Disturbance there where the Result must be their certain Ruin No! This Rumor was hatch'd as the Rebellion First to raise Tumults and then by unjustifiable and improbable Pretences to ground their assuming Arms thereon It must be confess'd the Irish were ever zealous asserters of their Religion it may be as we are told 1300 years but That was not as the Learned and Incomparable Archbishop Vsher affirms what is now own'd the Ancient Religion of the Irish However before the Rebellion broke forth was there ever any thing declared against the Connivance which had been used in that Kingdom ever since the Reformation of which we have spoke something before No! Nothing but their inbred hatred to the English tended to make it a National Quarrel from whence if many prov'd to be eradicated their own Guilt begat the Event And as for the Irish Committee's being constrain'd after his Majesties going for Scotland the 10th August 41. to return without any Redress It 's such a Mistake as there was nothing which this Committee requested which was not fully granted His Majesty as to the Favour this Committee had with the Parliament expressy declaring Also That those of the Parliament of Ireland by whom that Rebellion was hatch'd were by the Members of the Parliament of England countenanc'd in their Complaints and Prosecutions Yea the Lord Keeper in his Speeches in the Banquetting House the 21th of April 40. acquaints the Commons as an Argument to trust the King if they would supply his late Necessities That the Irish had all that they did desire granted and had it with Advantage So as the Irish how confident soever the View of the Late Troubles in England will have it can never be said to be exasperated That under Colour of suppressing them as Rebels from which all the Water of the Sea cannot wash them they might b●●●tterly destroy'd or eradicated Indeed I cannot say but when the Rebells were in Arms the least Proceedings against them how just soever might be Incentives sufficient to blow up the Sparks in others which wanted not predispos'd Fuel for Rebellion But that which the Parliament did then should encourage the Rebels is a Suggestion so improbable that those who read the Order of the Lords and Commons in Parliament in England concerning Ireland reprinted at Dublin the 12th of Nov. wooing the Rebels to Submission allowing Rewards to such as should do service to the State and the States frequent offers to the same purpose must conclude the Parliament neither gave Occasion of nor had a Design in the Irish Rebellion It 's wished that those who cover that Rebellion with these Fig-Leaves work not in the same Loom I cannot say but the Scots were willing to have had larger footing in Ireland than they then had Yet I do not find by any Attempt they made That they ever endanger'd the Shouldering of the Natives out Nay So far was the Care of the State remarkable before the Rebellion lest the Scots menacing England should offer any Violence on the North of Ireland as the State Anno 39. sent an Army down thither purposely to awe the Scots under a Command that very prudently manag'd that Affair And Anno