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An Apology for the failures charg'd on the Reverend Mr. George Walker's printed account of the late siege of Derry in a letter to the undertaker of a more accurate narrative of that siege.
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Wing A3549; ESTC R24184
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the Mother-Church and the Bishoprick too by the Bishop's Abdication Yet upon your Canonical Obedience tell me could you do less in Mr. Walker's Circumstances than cover this pernicious Counsel of your Diocesan which created Nature can't expiate and assure your Sovereign God intimates to the World the Church of England defends and maintains their Majesty's Interest and the Protestant Religion and improve your Rhetorick to perswade their Majesties the Dissenters are at best unserviceable to either Interest I hope Sir by this time you are satisfied of Mr. Walker's Innocency in his Publishing the above Account You Presbyterians distinguish between the Action and the Anomy or Irregularity of it which latter you say in the Original makes the sin You will also grant that the bare Instrument is often blameless when the principal efficient is very culpable I plead for no more on behalf of this worthy Gentleman and so conclude his Apology though I heartily wish he had not given me the trouble am perswaded himself does he had not given the occasion to any to believe very applicable to him stepping out of the Bishops Coach that Passage of the Satyrist †Juv. Sat. 10. lin 278 ad lin 282. respecting Consul Marius if the comparison be not too mean for the Collonel's Merit quod illo cive tulisset Natura in terris quid Roma beatius unquam Si animam exhalasset opimam Cum de Teutonico vellet descendere curru I intended my hand being in to bestow a cast of my Office upon these Gentlemen whose alone Commands could qualifie Mr. Walker to plead Not Guilty to your Charge and to have assign'd the leading Reasons of their exerting their Authority over him in this juncture But being doubtful of their Gratitude I shall leave to themselves that Province mean while will furnish you with some Queries I 'd have you lodge with 'em to which their Answers whether Categorical or Equivocal will discover these Reasons and peradventure what lies somewhat deeper Qu. 1. Whether these Gentlemen I mean the Westminster Ecclesiastic Club or if you please Committee for the Church of Ireland were not sollicitously apprehensive of the too great Figure the Northern Scots made for many years past Being unquestionably the greatest Body of Protestants in Europe intirely united in Principle Interest Alliance and mutual Accord who upon an Estimate made of their Number three years since were found to amount to Eighty Thousand Fighting Men ‖ Pray see for this the ingegeniously Penn'd Letter to the truly Honourable Sir Arthur Royden about that time and upon a more exact since to about a 1000000. Whether they were not sufficient to have preserved intire the Province of Vlster and by their assistance to the English in all other parts either to have sav'd the whole Kingdom from being lost or before this time to have retriev'd it without putting our King or Kingdom of England to any other charge than Arms Ammunition one Chief Commander little or no Treasure had Arms been sent 'em any time before March last Whether the matchless Prowess and Services of those sew Inniskillin-Men with those in the Garrison of Derry do not determine this Quere in the Affirmative Qu. 2. Whether suppose Presbytery and Prelacy plac'd on a level share equally in the Favour of King and Parliament with the Church-revenues and Dignities every individual being left to his proper choice all which Conditions I humbly conceive pre-requisit to the right stating the Question in that great Northern Body the Tyth fall to the Church of England's share I know who would venture a Pole e're they yielded that if the danger of incurring the Guilt of Sacrilege did not deter ' em Qu. 3. Whether these Gentlemen don't in judgment determin the second Query in the Negative Since one of their Club a Gentleman of great Sense as intelligent in Irish Affairs as any upon the report of so many thousands dying in Derry by Famine spoke plainly among some of his Gown what others would perhaps for State-reasons have minc'd viz. T was no matter how many of them dy'd for they were but a pack of Scots Presbyterians And I 'm perswaded had Mr. Wr. when he brought the Colonel to London left the Parson at Donnoh-moor a pack of Presbyterians they had been still But pray deal gently with the young Man Mr. for his Father's sake who as I have heard was the most Scotiz'd Presbyterian Minister of the English Nation Qu. 4. What Counsels what Instruments may be justly charged with the unattoneable Guilt of retarding the Conveyance of those Arms and Ammunition till the Season was lost which might have sav'd or speedily reduc'd Ireland Not our most gracious Sovereign whose Royal Propension repeated Royal Commands for the speedy and effectual relieving the Protestants there His Majesties Royal Concern for the Delays of the Conveyance of these Succours his Subjects of the first Figure attest and the Rebels dreaded the event of Not the Dissenters nor moderate Conformists both whose accurat accounts of the condition of Ireland were last Spring frequently confronted by Letters from Eutopia till the doleful event discover'd the truth of the former and Fiction of the latter Not the City of London whose forwardness to spare no Treasure or if need were Hands in that Service whose unparallel'd Hospitality and incredible Charge in maintaining distressed Protestants from Ireland as well all England over as in the City of London all of you that retain any Sparks of Honour and Gratitude admire and Celebrate Qu. 5. Whether those unaccounted but not unaccountable baffles giv'n to the reliefs sent to Derry first by Colonel Coningham c. and afterwards by do not issue from the same Spring with the Delays mentioned in the next preceding Query Whether the Romance of Kilmore Boom will attone for the loss of those Thousands of Souls near a Myriad by this time of immortal Memory that perished in Derry for want of those Succours Royal Bounty so amply provided Royal Care order'd the speedy and seasonable conveyance of But of this enchanted Boom at more leisure Qu. 6. Whether some Men are not satisfy'd I don't say endeavour Ireland be entirely lost tho themselves have large Stakes there to lose and remain unreduc'd for some years rather than Dissenters be employ'd in retrieving it share in the Rewards of that Service make some Figure in their Country be rendred capable of their Prince's Favour of Honours and Offices in common with their Fellow-Subjects proportionably to their Merit I 'le exclude from this Category and with their own approbation all the moderate Sons of the Church of England both Clergy and Laity yet am sure some such Men there be These Gentlemen can peradventure discover ' em Qu. 7. Whether if all Protestant Subjects were equally forward with the Dissenters for the Service of the King Kingdoms and Protestant Religion the late King James's Arrival in Ireland had not been effectually prevented And besides either the saving or
retrieving of Ireland the Rebellion in Scotland had not been either prevented or crush'd in the Egg as well as the execrable Plot in Edinburg whose Origin says some is the same with that Kings Declaration lately Printed in London and dispersed in England and no body doubts lies nearer Westminster than Edinburgh Whether if Dissenters had been entrusted with the Conduct or employed in the Service of the Fleet they had not at least guarded the Brittish Seas against the French Pyrates if not have given a good account of the French Fleet Qu. 8. Whether if his Majesty were vested with as unlimited Empire over the Hearts Estates and Services of all other Protestants in his Dominions as of all the Dissenting Protestants at home and all Protestants abroad without exception it would not render him the most August most Potent and incomparably the most happy Monarch on Earth As by natural Right Personal Merit Divine Disposal he is already of all the Christian Orb Whether all Papists and all other Persons disaffected to their Majesties Sacred Persons Government and Protestant Religion had not before this been remov'd from Kingdom Camp and his Majesties Service unless they gave sufficient Security of their peaceable and Loyal Behaviour Whether one Disloyal Dissenter or disaffected to the Government can be produc'd in their Majesty's Dominions in this Reign Whether General Schomberg on the Head of 50000 or if need were a 100000 Men might not by this time make the Walls of Paris quake If not in their Majesty's Name take peaceable possession of the Louvre and display in the heart of Paris the English imperial Banner Whether his Majesty would need any aid from any of his Allies to Suppress any Rebellion in his Dominions or at all employ any Forreign Forces except in extending his Empire beyond the Alps c or in both Indies Qu. 9. What these Gentlemen will advance towards Printing the C. History of Ireland in the two last Reigns almost ready for the Press We 'll give 'em City-Security to do 'em in it as much right as Mr. W's Narrative has done the Presbyterians wrong We 'll tell nothing but the Truth though not the whole Truth it being impossible to represent to the Life all the good Services some being very secret of some of the Bishops especially the three Archbishops now living whether to the Catholick Cause in their zealous Espousal and advance of the York-Interest and thereby of the Irish Catholicks Or to the Church in their conferring of Livings and Ecclesiastic Dignities on the Inferiour Clergy whose Qualifications and Conversations the Historian accounts for in proportion to their Talent of railing genteelly at the Phanaticks In their affronting yea silencing some of their own Clergy for Preaching boldly the Doctrin of the Church of England against the Papists In the Bishops turning Informers to the Government against the Dissenters exposing them to the Odium of the Government contempt of Mankind In their Persecuting Fining Confining Impoverishing them cum multis aliis The unreasonableness of the Printer drives the Historian to this involuntary Address to these Gentlemen For he says he wont take for Printing this being a large Folio ten times the Sum he paid for Mr. Wr's Copy unless the two Irish Archbishops now in Westminster will promise Verbo Sacerdotis to take off nine parts of the Impression for Ireland the tenth being more than he hopes to have vent for in England The Archbishop of Dublin he says is a poor Spiritual Prince has receiv'd of our publick Fund of Charity to distress'd Protestants from Ireland not above a 1000 l. that he can hear of has in England not above 10000 l. in Bank design'd for a Purchase therefore expects his Brother Archbishop should be bound with him 10. Lastly Quaeritur Sir of your self whether by this time you do not foresee consequence enough in any imaginable Answer may be given to these Questions for concluding it necessary in these Gentlemen to have improv'd as they did their Empire over Mr. Wr. in this juncture though they might foresee the event somewhat prejudicial to him pernicious to your Party I must also inform you some of these Gentlemen are no less study'd in Politicks than in Divinity the former being their constant if not sole business ever after Consecration the latter only subserves the former which seldom happens but when in a Sermon the Quintessence of two or three years profound premeditation the Government is to be gravely reminded of the Churches infinit Service to the State above all possibility of a full reward or to prescribe to the Government some new method of hampering the Fanaticks whom the Churches neither Grace nor Wisdom could ever reclaim who are never thankful for any of the Churches Blessings neither for Oxford-Oaths Five-mile-Acts twenty pounds Fine per Month Mouth-padlocks Meal-tub-Plots Irish Witnesses nor all the Devices of Old Nick himself to reduce 'em to Canonical Obedience You must further know these Gentlemen bear a very Sympathizing Sense of the Odium the Clergy of England especially some of the Bishops have incurred from all Protestants abroad and some of their own Communion at home for their Ingratitude to mention nothing higher if higher may be to our most gracious Sovereign after having but a little before magnify'd him to the Stars though still below his Merit as the only Saviour of their Lives under God as well as Protector of their Estates and Dignities Now the incomparable Sagacity of these Gentlemen discover'd an opportunity and they had the Grace to improve it the like having been never presented before perhaps never may again of not only wiping off all this Reproach but also of acquiring a greater Glory and why not Reward too to the Church of England than perhaps any modest English-man will challenge to the whole Nation and all this by the Service you know of whom but attributed to one of their undignify'd Clergy Pray observe the Modesty of the Dedication God Fights their Majesty's Battels but by the hand of the Church Defends and maintains their Majesty's Interest and the Protestant Religion I don't wonder this Mystery should not easily enter your Presbyterian Skull since it requires equally with Transubstantiation a Head Abdicated of Reason and Five Senses my own Pate though of somewhat a more Catholick make than yours has a deadly hard tug on 't For though I can to magnifie the Service of our Church allow you Vlster Scots and English Dissenters should pass for Powder-monkies of the Churches Army except the Inniskilling men whose hopes must not yet be quite forlorn and that half of the Earl of Angus's Regiment in Scotland should pass for Cowards it being Canonico-Prelatically impossible tho Schismatico-Presbyterially certain so despicable a handful of the deepest-dy'd-Kirk-Whiggs should utterly defeat without hopes of ever again rallying our Churches Host consisting very few excepted of the Churches best Sons and Champions in Scotland which the Sequel demonstrates for the Whigs there did not so much boast of the Victory as the Tories here bewail'd the Discomfiture Yet can I by no means yield the renowned General Schomberg should not make a Thumb at least and the Dutch Germans and Swisses he Commands who were never seen to turn their Backs on any Enemy but after Victory should not make one Finger more of that invincible hand that defends and maintains the King's Interest and the Protestant Religion It wants Confirmation That the Fingers of the Dutch in the Face of their Enemy are employed only in turning up their Mustacho's to teach Teague a more decent way of taking Snush or in concerting the Antiquity of Min-Heir and Mounsieur while the Hand of the Church is preparing Mandates with a Present of Leaden Padderines to be sent Post by the French and Irish to Saint Patrick in Purgatory However I doubt not these Gentlemen's fatal necessity or pious Zeal for recovering the so-lately-decay'd Stock of the Churches Credit will excuse if not hallow their pious Fraud in thus managing Mr. Walker to most of the true Sons of the Church and therefore I pray it may to you and so much the sooner because this with the preceeding Apology for Mr. Wr. removes all Letts to your Printing your design'd Narrative except a License which the Archbishop above-named upon your presenting him with these Queries will infallibly procure Thus far that Gentleman's Letter and with it an assurance that I ambition the Character of SIR Your Faithful Servant FINIS