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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40454	A narrative of the settlement and sale of Ireland whereby the just English adventurer is much prejudiced, the antient proprietor destroyed, and publick faith violated : to the great discredit of the English church, and government, (if not re-called and made void) as being against the principles of Christianity, and true Protestancy / written in a letter by a gentleman in the country to a noble-man at court.; Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's settlement and sale of Ireland	French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing F2180; ESTC R6963	22,216	32

Princes who favoured his Interest when the King was in France they quitted the Spanish service and when he came to Flanders they abandoned the French service and flocked in great numbers about his Royal Person having made up in short time a handsome body of an Army which rendred his Majesty considerable to his Friends abroad and dreadful to his Enemies at home These are verities that none dare impugn seeing the King himself is most graciously pleased to own them in his Declaration And in the first place we did and must always remember the great affection a considerable part of that Nation expressed to Vs during the time of our being beyond the Seas when with all cheerfulness and obedience they received and submitted to our Orders and betook themselves to that service which we directed as most convenient and behooveful at that time to us though attended with inconveniency enough to themselves which demeanour of theirs cannot but be thought very worthy of our Protection Justice and Favour My Lord Is it not a sad case that the Irish Nation who sacrificed their Lives their Estates and Fortunes and all the Interest they had in their Country for the Kings service who followed his Majesty abroad and stuck to him in his Banishment when he was abandoned almost by all the rest of his Subjects in the three Kingdoms should now be in a far worse condition than they were reduced unto during the Usurpers Reign For then their Estates were kept from them by violence and the un-resistable power of Cromwel's Army but now they seem to be legally adjudged against them by two Acts of Parliament They were then in hopes that God would one day Re-establish his Sacred Majesty in a peaceable and entire Possession of his Crown and Kingdoms and consequently restore to them their ancient Patrimonies which they lost upon the account of his Interest But now they behold his Majesty seated in the Glorious Throne of his Ancestors and themselves out of all hopes of ever enjoying their Estates which are conferred on their and his Majesties Enemies by a final sentence pronounced against them and which surpasseth all the misery that can be Imagined they are eternally condemned by a Messias in whom they hoped for redemption and for whose sake they sacrificed their lives lost their Fortunes quitted their Countrey and forsook all that was dear to them in this World And this done by the corruption and covetousness of two or three persons whereof one was the first Minister The extraordinary merit of this Nation in his Majesties service was fresh in his Majesties memory when he spake after this man-to the House of Peers on the 27 July 1660. Touching the Act of Indempnity I hope I need say nothing of Ireland and that they alone shall not be without the benefit of my Mercy They have shewed much affection to me abroad and you will have a care of my honour and what I have poomised to them My Lord to pass by Honour and Gratitude which some States-men little value how shall we excuse the Injustice of these proceedings Suppose the Peace concluded in the year 1648. was invalid and that his Majesty received no service abroad from any of the Irish Nation can he in justice condemn 7000 Innocents before they are heard inoffensive Persons who never offended his Royal Father nor himself Let us suppose farther that an Innocent person could not be found in all Ireland that every individual of that Nation were an obstinate Rebel from the beginning and that none of them ever deserved the least favour from his Majesty in point of Conscience Honour or Gratitude can our prime Minister and his adherents say that so many thousand Widows and Orphans though never so criminal are not fit objects of his Majesties Compassion and Clemency That Kings are the Anointed of the Lord and his Lieutenants on Earth is an infallible truth received among Christians and as they derive their power immediately from God so they ought to imitate him in their Actions But of all the Divine Attributes his Mercy as it is above all the rest of his Works Misericordia ejus supra omnia opera ejus so is it that alone which Princes are most concerned to follow It is by this Heavenly Virtue that good Kings have been always distinguished from Tyrants and that they appeared to their Subjects as the very Images of Divinity I do not think that the English Crown was ever worn by a Prince more Benign and Merciful than Charles the Second I am confident there is no King now living on Earth who hath given a larger Testimony of his natural propensity and inclination that way How great then must be the Guilt of those Ministers of State that cunningly obstructed the effects of the Bounty and Clemency of so good and gracious a Prince towards an Innocent people and perhaps not the least deserving of his Subjects Their gettings by the Bills of Settlement spoils their plea and pretence for the promotion of protestancy It will seem a paradox to posterity that the Irish Nation which in all Insurrections hath been pardoned and preserved by the Royal Bounty of Kings meerly English should now be condemned to an eternal extirpation by a King of old Irish extraction lineally descended from Fergusius a Prince of the Royal blood of Ireland who of all the Kings that ever Regned in England was most obliged to the Irish Nation and that during the Reign of Charles the Second the most merciful Prince that ever wore a Crown so many thousand Innocents should be exempted from a hearing and others from a General pardon which by a Mercy wholly extraordinary doth extend to some of the very Regicides These are verities not to be doubted of in our dayes which after Ages will hardly admit seeing the like was never before Recorded in Annals or mentioned in any History For since the Creation of Adam to this day and perhaps our posterity to the Worlds end may be as far to seek we cannot produce another example of the like measure extended to a Christian people under the Goverment of a most Christian Prince The most bloody Tyrants of former Ages even those Monsters of Nature who seemed to be born for no other end than the desolation of Mankind did never extirpate their old Friends to make room for their reconciled Enemies So that it must be a very difficult matter to perswade those who are not Eye-witnesses of the Fact that the Royal Authority of our Gracious King which here in England maintains the Peer in his Splendor and Dignity the Commoner in his Birth-right and Liberty which protects the Weak from the oppression of the mighty secures the Nobility from the Insolence of the people and by which Equal and Impartial Justice is indifferently distributed to all the Inhabitants of this Great and Flourishing Realm should be at the same time made use of in his Kingdom of Ireland to condemn Innocents before they are heard