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A67438	The Irish colours folded, or, The Irish Roman-Catholick's reply to the (pretended) English Protestants answer to the letter desiring a just and mercifall regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland (which answer is entitled The Irish colours displayed), addressed (as that answer and letter have been) to His Grace the Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of that kingdome.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W635; ESTC R17831	23,083	36

two moneths of the Rebellion And that although the Streets were covered with Roman Carcasses and the Kennels ran Blood yet a few years buried those Animosities and both Factions lived after as peaceably as became Citizens that paid Obedience to one and the same Emperor We read that the Hugonets of France who under Francis the Second conspired against the Government and then and in the Reign of several Kings after were as bitterly bent against the Roman Catholicks as the Ancient Gawls were against Cesar and where they had power left to posterity strange Monuments of their Rage and Cruelty Yet those so divided Affections are so now composed as both contend who shall best serve their Prince and the different Perswasion in Religion is so far from lessening the French Kings trust in men of Merit that Marshal Turein very deservingly commands in Chief the Military Power of France John of Leyden for the short time of his reign had a numerous party that laid about them as barbarously and as inhumanely as men could do Yet many of them were Inhabitants of that City in Germany where Peace was so successfully treated between the Empire and Sweden and between Spain and Holland So quiet was that place and people then grown that had been once so miserably distracted Even the Catalonians who not many years since transferred the Dominion over them to a Foreign Prince That murdered their Vice-Roy that imbrued their hands in the blood of the Spanish Council and all the Spaniards that came in their way and perpetrated such villanies as we cannot reach to express by calling them Barbarous and Inhumane Yet His Catholick Majesty hath satisfied His Justice with the punishment of the Principal Incendiaries in tha● Revolt having brought the people back to a due sense of their Obedience the Spaniards and they fit down as amicably and with as general confidence the one in the other as they did at any time before The Irish go further and out of desire to have the Grounds of future Animosities utterly removed by the exemplar Chastisement of the most Criminal they have often moved that no man on either side may be exempt from satisfying the Law for any foul Murder Now Your Grace who is better able to call to minde Thousands of Examples evidencing the little reason men have to despair of the perfect settlement of the most discomposed States and of the firm Union of different Affections will doubtless conceive that to say The Contention between the two parties in Ireland will never have an end is an Assertion full of diffidence in Gods providence and full of ignorance of what hath succeeded in this and in former ages upon the like occasion But that Your Grace may observe that the Grounds whereupon this Gentleman establisheth his Prediction are as vain and frivolous as the Prediction it self is temerarious and imprudent I shall without search into the Aspect of the Planets or that of sullying of the Moon or influencing as he speaks that climat descend to the particulars of what he considers in the Case And first he unluckily lays that for a Foundation which either must restrain all Princes from making new acquisitions or if they pursue his Politick Precepts must turn the Territories they have acquired by any pretence of Conquest into a desolate Wilderness there being no other mean in this new doctrine to secure what they have once gained by the just title of lawful Arms. Had the Romans who for Six hundred years could not enlarge their Territory beyond the Bounds of Italy made this their Principle they must have spent more time in peopling then in conquering that the Seat of their Empire Your Grace knows that the Irish for a long time after the first Colony of Englishmen was planted in Ireland were not onely stiled but were actually enemies to those that strove to prevail over them And certainly that is so Natural a Passion as Beasts partake with man in it For if the Invaded and the Invader should concur as to the end of the work what needed Contention Yet Your Grace's famous Ancestors that acted a principal part in spreading the Dominion of the Crown of England over those Irish Enemies were if our Histories deceive us not powerfully and faithfully assisted by those whom they had not long before subdued And the self-fame men that sharply contended against them were instrumental in acquiring them fame and extending the Bounds of the English Government His two next considerations concern the first English Colony and their Descendents until the Reign of Henry the Eight Who without all doubt were better versed in the knowledge of those after-drops that commonly follow the storm of Force and Invasion then not to expect and prepare themselves for those effects that for some time do attend the resentment of an over-mastered people But it is strange that a man who would establish a new and an unusual method of Policy did not consider that when a Nation is once generally compelled to submit to the commands of the prevailing Invader all after Commotions do rather fix then unsettle the Government But methinks I hear him say That this last Rebellion was no after-drop but an universal deluge And this assertion is thus far true That the Laws having defined it Rebellion to raise Arms against an Authority established by the King this cannot be denied to have been a Rebellion the extent whereof although it were not universal yet it spread it self into the far greater part of the Kingdom But all unbyassed men distinguish between the first Conspirators that were a handful of Hare-brain'd fellows of broken fortunes and desperate resolutions who upon the first noise of the extirpation of their Nation and their Religion threatned to be executed by the Ministry of a Scotish Army took up Arms and made the Crime of Rebellion more horrid by the foul actions with which the rude multitude did asperse it and the Noblemen and Gentry with the rest of the Roman Catholicks who being sat in Parliament at Dublin had application made to them by those Rebels to mediate for redress of their Grievances and offered to continue their sitting in order to their repressing of them but were prorogued as some do not spare to say of Design to encrease the Confusion Which I am sure was the success of that prorogation And I have heard a shrewd Argument aledged to prove that such was the intention of the Lords Justices and those of the then Council who favored the party opposing the King in England The truth where of none knows better then Your Grace who made offer at the Council Board to raise Ten thousand men With which power being assisted by the Lords Justices You undertook to quell those Northern Rebels and to settle the Peace of the Kingdom But this being not accepted and there appearing daily greater symptoms of the aversion to the ways of our late King of ever blessed memory the Confederate Catholicks then

took upon them for their natural defence as they alledged a Government in opposition to the Lords Justices Whose Authority over them having not then been revoked by His Majesty they could not have declined nor have set up any other of their own without His Majesties Commission nor have entred into such Confederacy without being guilty of Rebellion But for this and crimes of this nature Your Grace hath conveyed unto them His Majesties Mercy in Articles of Peace Whereof because they demand the benefit they are exposed to the odium of every person that detains any part of their Estates by what title soever Could Your Grace but remove this incompatibility between mens possessions there would a word and a hope as suddenly fal from this Gentleman that the Contention between the two parties in Ireland might have an end to morrow And now in my turn the Gentleman will give me leave to consider That the old English the Posterity of that English Colony first planted in Ireland are more concerned in his reflections then those in whose favor he writes For if the greatness of Estates that have been or may hereafter be conferred must in his opinion foment irreconciliable animosities there can no hope be left that they and the ancient Irish can ever agree since it is evident those English have been masters of the far greater part of their Country What discovery the Articles of Forty eight make of their resolution in cold blood to unravel the settlement of ages past I cannot conceive Nothing appears to me in them which trenches upon His Majesties Prerogative nor the right which a Subject may claim to his Inheritance The Roman Catholicks do not by those Articles ingross the places of profit honor and trust to themselves nor impose the exercise of their Religion upon any man of a different perswasion When this Gentleman considered the dissimilitude of Customs Manners Habit and Language between the English and the Irish I expected he would have laid before Your Grace who are to direct the Government of Ireland the ways how to invite or inforce the ruder sort to conform themselves in all those particulars to the rules of civility of the English But Your Grace will of your self finde better ways and more for His Majesties advantage then by dispeopling the Kingdom or beggering the people to communicate this happiness unto them Which might have been introduced long since if some former Governors had not made it their studies rather to plant their Estates then cultivate their mindes As for the reflection which he makes upon the manner of celebrating of Funerals with howlings which indeed is barbarous although many in Poland and other places in the continent do still continue that savage custom I hope your Grace without sending the Natives to the Barbadoes or forcing them to such indigence as may compell them to cry for Almes will not onely supress the Ditty if any such be used but ever abrogate the Tune And for the consideration which he raises from the common conversation of the vulgar and their brawlings the Petty Constables and the Stocks in every Parish without extirpating the Nation for his assertion That the contention between the two parties in Ireland will never cease always tends to that will ease your Grace from any great affright of a disturbance in the Government by reason of the terms of malice suspition and contempt yea in case they did upbraid each other with as much acrimony as if they were bred under the discipline of the Oyster-wives at Billingsgate What he next adds seems to have more weight in it and I confess it will be worthy your Grace's care not only to bring the common Irish to civility which of it self will rectifie any supine ignorance they may be guilty of in order to their incapableness of distinguishing what concerns the Spiritual what the Temporal Jurisdiction but to give encouragement to the Roman Catholique Clergy of Ireland to infuse into the people a true sense of the Catholique Doctrine contained in their humble Remonstrance Acknowledgement Protestation and Petition Printed at London the third of February 1661. But this Gentleman must give me leave to say that your Grace who knows aswell as any man living the temper and inclination of that people cannot be of that opinion that the most vulgar among them is perswaded That the Kingdom of Ireland lawfully belongs to the King of Spain Nay how little influence the King of Spain or the Pope had upon them when the Peace was concluded your Grace best knows who hath found by experience that notwithstanding the Nuntio's Excommunication the most considerable parts of the Nation made way for his Majestie 's Government over the Kingdom and received your Grace who was entrusted with his Majesties authority and notwithstanding that senceless excommunication fulminated by the Prelates at James Town continued firm in their adherence to the Peace which by your Grace was convey'd unto them from his Majesty and in their obedience to his Majestie 's authority which upon your leaving the Kingdom your Grace did transfer to the Marquess of Clanrickard That which the writer of that answer considers next and endeavors to advance for the end he aims at which is the extirpation of the Nation is the most uncharitable the most unnatural and the most ignoble argument that could fall from the Pen of any man that professed a regard of Conscience or Honor And questionless did proceed from some person that having himself for his conveniency and the good of his interest sacrificed his duty to his King when God was pleased in some small measure to over-ballance the rights of the Crown with the power of his prevailing enemies wonders why all men should not be so wise as to relinquish for the same ends all Patriotship and sence of their declining Country But he little knows how unfit a person he hath chosen to be entertained with so unworthy a suggestion For if your Grace in the Case of the Earl of Strafford barely upon the score of friendship is said to have been pleased to answer a person of quality who laid before you the great hazard you run in speaking so freely of that great man's merit and justifying his innocence at a time when the Parliament of England was so highly incensed against him That if his head were upon the block you would profess him your friend can this writer hope that your Grace who so early in your youth cherish't a particular friendship with so much courage and gallantry will not think it a base and abject part in the few of the Nobility and Gentry now in the City of London to content themselves with saving their own stake and leave stickling in the patronage and defence of their common Country But however they may be lessened in the Gentlemans value for performing this which is an indispensable duty they owe to their Country and to those that justly may claim benefit of the peace

THE Irish Colours FOLDED OR THE Irish Roman-Catholick's Reply To the pretended English Protestants Answer To the Letter desiring a just and mercifull regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland Which Answer is entitled The Irish Colours Displayed Addressed As that Answer and Letter have been To his Grace The Lord Duke of ORMOND Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of that KINGDOME Vince in bono malum London Printed in the Year 1662. My Lord IT could hardly be imagin'd that the Letter which I presented to your Grace and which I published of late should have rais'd so great a storm against me for no other reason then that I beg'd your Grace's favor in behalf of my distressed Country and implored the performance of publick Faith shewing the mischiefs that have followed the breach of it This is done in the dark by an impudent assertor of strange positions But whoever he be certainly his passion and immoderation speaks him ignorant of the condition of the present Times of the actions of former Ages and above all to be a meer stranger to the heroick disposition of CHARLES the Second and utterly to forget that if it were in your Grace 's nature to entrench for conveniencies sake in the least measure upon the honor of your Master or to have formed your self even by connivance to a dexterous compliance with those different parties that made it their design to ruine Monarchy you would indeed as to the quiet and security of your person the temporary improvement of your int'rest have floated calmly on the top of every bilow raised by the tempest of those evil Times But in so doing your Grace would have left such a Monument to your posterity as you had not received from your Ancestors and such as although the fate of the times had excused it in others was unpardonable in the House of Ormond In truth I think there is somwhat more in the Letter that tends to move pitty and to implore Justice which I conceive to be the scope of it then the Reader will think well pay'd with that brass penny in the heap of rubbish But there are slights in all Arts. And this of the Answerers puts me in mind how the Lord Chancellor Bolton was wont to tell that a witty Lawyer coming before him and finding himself prest with a throng of Arguments whereof many were unanswerable he selected the slightest alledging that those only were of moment but as to the rest he would not give his Lordship the trouble of dwelling upon the refutation of such impertinencies But it being not my intent to perplex so weighty a matter by descending after a Logical manner to the particular defects in the Answer I shall endeavor to keep my self as near as I can within those Limits which the Answerers passion and immoderation have made him walk in and to shew how amongst all his considerations he minds those things least on which he should have bestowed the most solid reflections He that discourses of setling a Kingdom under the Government of its natural Prince in peace and security should first consider that a King is Father of his people and that they are a portion of mankind whereof no one is exempt from Rebellion against Heaven that the bowels of this King 's paternal love in imitation of God whose Vicegerent he is have compassion for the frailties of his Subjects and mercy for their greatest crimes The eldest on might repine at the favor done his prodigal brother but his father made him a feast Which shows that the affection of Princes to their Subjects in general moves in another Orb then ours to one another Our Interest may make us snarll but our King is our Common Father The want of duly weighing this principle and the impossibility in a Prince to divest himself of this genuin and natural property of being a Father hath afforded the Answerer liberty to advance some positions that without any just offence I may say do not speak him either a charitable Person or a prudent States-man The Answerer gives your Grace an accompt of a word or a fear which just then fell from him and in truth the word bears in it self very evident marks that it was precipitat but how the fear could express it self in that language I know not However your Grace will conceive it a sad and severe position that this contention between the two parties in Ireland will never have an end And it is no wonder your Grace should startle at it if you did not consider that the same God who makes the much opposite qualities of the Elements agree for the conservation of the mixt who deprest our King to raise him higher and led him by the hand of his Providence to the Throne of his Ancestors without other supports then a sense of their duty in his Subjects hath still a power left him to put an end to the contentions of the two parties in Ireland and that not by the ways of his omnipotent will or miraculous actings but by his ordinary concurrence by secondary Causes For if His Majestie 's clemency could make up so huge a breach as lay open before him by the Murder of His Father ought we not to hope that he may be imitated by his Subjects in laying aside that everlasting contention to which the Answerer would condemn them Shall no length of time be allowed to set limits to the vengeance this Answerer would have them to expect the one of the other The Brittains the Danes the Saxons and the Normans are now so incorporated in England as the memory of all distinction is lost amongst them Yet much blood hath been drawn in their Contests and the Actions of particular Men of each of those Nations have been such as they may be justly stiled Barbarous and Inhumane Your Grace knowes with what horrour the Irish Nation looks upon those Massacres and Murders in the North committed in the beginning of the Rebellion by the Raskal multitude upon their innocent unwarned and unprovided Neighbors but the number of Two hundred thousand although this Writer comes short One hundred thousand in his accompt of what the Convention-Commissioners gave up to His Majesty in their Answer to the Irish Agents is so exorbitantly vast that a stranger who findes the dimensions of Ireland in the Map and understands this certain truth That there were then in Ireland One hundred Natives for each person these men would pass under the notion of an English man will readily conclude That the whole Ireland is but one City so thronged with Inhabitants as men cannot walk in the Streets unjustled There is no man who hath a greater detestation for those foul crimes then I have And yet after exact enquiry I dare averre there have been more Patritians and Knights of Rome murdered in the Conflicts and Proscriptions between Scilla and Marius within the Walls of the City then perished by those infamous Massacres throughout Ireland In the first