60000 l due to honest men and good Subjects vpon his Estate before the Rebellion 6. Whether his Grace hath not received 30000 l. out of Soldiers and Adventurers Lands which he invaded and entered vpon without any Title as appears by the Records of the Court of Claymes in Ireland which hath decreed the Lands from him 7. Whether by the Act of Explanation he hath not got the Citty of Kilkenny and six other Corporat Townes together with their Lands and Liberties valved by himselfe and his friends of the Councell but at 60000l though they are well worth 120000 l 8. Whether he did not obtain by a special warrant from his Majestie 72000 l. out of the Soldiers and Adventurers half year Revenue 9 Whether there is not confirmed to him 50000 l. More by the Explanatory Act for waving a grant which he got by the Act of Settlement 10. Whether he had not got as many Gentlemens Estates vpon the pretence of a grant of enjoying all Lands that he could prove by witnesses to have payed him any Chiefrey as is worth at least 150000 l. and whether also he hath not obtained that for the said Lands no quitt Rent be paid to the King which grant at 3d. An Acre per annum amounts to 26000 l 11. Whether he hath not abitrarily layd vpon the Inhabitants of the City of Dublin 8000 l. Per Annum amounting for these six years past of his Government to 48000 l 12. Whether he hath not against the Fvndamental Laws and Magna Charta inclosed divers parcells of Land belonging to the kings good subjects without their consent to the value of 1500 l. per Annum at the very gates of Dublin to the great prejudice of that City and the Country the profit of which Land and Park he hath bestowed vpon the Lord of Dungannon and Colonel Cook 13. Whether it be credible that his Grace is zealous for the English and Protestant Interest seeing it is not possible for the Soldiers and Adventurers to be reprized according to his Majesties gracious Declaration when his Grace hath swallowed up in gifts and grants the best part of the Stock of Reprizalls and hath made or permitted such Embeslements of his Majesties revenue and applyed the Royal authority wholly to gain vast advantages to himself and whether by preferring his own private gains and grants before the Publique good and the Iust right of the Adventurers and Soldiers he hath not unsettled the Kingdom of Ireland and unsatisfied the two main interests of Protestants the Soldiers and Adventurers to such a degree that it is to be feared it will be a continual charge to England to keep to the rules of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation so destroyed and desperate a people and whether all this expence trouble and danger for preserving the Duke of Ormond and his Family that is as much Irish as any can be in other mens Inheritances and Rights be the interest of England or agreable to the Maxims of sound Policy or of Christian piety 14. Whether such of his Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland as have escaped the Duke of Ormonds Proviso have not Iust grounds to fear that if the same Duke of Ormond should continue in his Gouvernment and press as now he doth the Paymeut of 100000 l. they will not be in a condition to live or to pay his Majesties quit Rents and the necessary charges of the Kingdom 15. Whether after the Prohibition of transporting Cattle and so much oppression by the Lord Lieutenant and his Creatures it be possible For his Majesties empoverished subjects of Ireland to pay the 300000 l. assessed by the Explanatory Act whereof the First 100000 l. is for his Grace 16. Whether his Grace had not a great regard For his Majesties service when he lately pressed the King and Councel to call a Parliament in Ireland For imposing new Taxes vpon that miserable people and For confirming all his own new acquisitions whereby the Soldiers Advenrurers and Nominees are defrauded of his Majesties intended Favours and the English interest utterly destroyed 17 Whether the Duke of Ormonds gifts and grandis amount not unto 630000 l. and whether this Summe would not have satisfied all the English Interest of Ireland and have settled the Protestants and well meriting Natives Natives of that Kingdome in peace whereas now his Majesty and all Christendom is troubled with their Clamours against the breach of Publique Faith and all this stirr destruction of the people and discredit of the Government to humour one particular man whose merit is not so extraordinary â—s his management hath been vnsuccesful 18. Whether not only some of the Nobility of Ireland but very many of the Nobi lity Knights and Gentry of England have not lost greater revenues and richer moveables for being Cavaliers then the Duke of Ormond whose Estate was much incumbered and his rents before the rebellion exceeding not 7000 l. per Annum and during the Warr got more by his Government of Ireland and giving up Dublin then he could it he were in possession of his Estate 19. Whether such as endeavoured to conceale these miscarriages and miseries of the Kingdom of Ireland From his Majesties and the Parliaments knowledg and yet strive to have the Duke of Ormonds distructive Government continue deserve not to be questioned by the Parlament as betrayers of the Publique good and of the Lawes and Liberties of England 20. Whether it be fit that the Government of Ireland should continue so long in one person as it hath in the Duke of Ormond though he were not an Irish man and all his relations were not Papists and very great Enemies of the English and Protestant interest What man can apprehend or read these incredible gettings and recompenses given Ormond without amaizment By the nine first Quaeries you see his grace is as yet countable for many thousands of thousands of the two hundred thousnd pound sent out of England into Ireland since his last goverment there and of the three hundred and sixty thousand pounds assessed by the Parlament of Ireland and fifty thousand pound advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventerours Rents and that notwithstanding those vast Summs the Marshall and Civil listes were a yeare and halfe in arrears Let his Majesty call him to question or Forgive him both is in his Royall breast to doe in the 20. Quaeries in relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond himselfe you will finde that hee received in all as in gifts and grants that amounted to six hundred and sixty thousand pound starling if this wonderfull and strange masse of treasures be not a sufficient Recompence and reward Let the reader Iudge For this amounts according to Marchants rating a Tunn of gould to sixty three tunns of gould one Tunn of gould only makes a great noyse and surely is a vast summ of monys What then shall wee say of sixty three Tunns Wee finde in the Cronicles of England that thirty thousand markes
Lynch knight whom I doe instance for a thousandmore not for any acquaintance with him what right I say had he to this knight's estate vpon what accompt did he invade the islands of Aaron this gentleman's inheritance and had his son Richard created earle of that place and estate it is manifestly known that Domimum perfectum plenum of said estate was in Sr. Robert Lynch and his heires and yet my lord tooke those lands from him quo titulo quo iure is the question deffend F. VVailsh if you can in this place your great patron ipsa synderesis tould Ormond that he was doeing wrong and robbery the lands appertaning to Sr Robert that judicium naturale quo as S. Basil speakes ab iniquis bona facile discernere postumus clearly convinced Ormond that he was doeing a robbery that law of nature quod tibi non vis fieri alteri ne feceris that light of which holy David speakes signatum est super nos lumen vultus tui domine all those sacred lawes cryed out the depriving of Sr. Robert Lynch of his estate was factum contra legem dei aternam all those lights of God and nature condemnes this fact soe that finis operis finis operantis objecctum circumstantiae omma qua agebat Ormonius erant contralegem Dei what then can he say or plead for himselfe or you for him he cannot alleage that he acquired that Dominium by any pact stipulation donation permutation or prescription what then will men say in this case noe other then that Ormonds invading that gentlemans lands was apertum latrâ—cinâ—um Likely you may tell me the King made a grant to Ormond of the said knights estate you know well that in lege naturae noe human power can diâ—pense and it is certaine that the law of nature doth bind all kind of men and that none can pretend exemption from the force of that law the impression therof being a light made in every mans haert soe that this law binds as well the prince as the lowest man legi naturae saith lactantius net praerogari fas est nec derogare ex hoc aliquid licet neque tota abrogari potest nec vero aut per senatum aut per populum hac lege liberari possumus shall I say more probable it is that God himself cannot dispense in the law of nature take S. Thomas his authority for it quia id sapientiae divinae omnino repugnat proendeque fieri non potest 1. 2. quaest 100. ar 8. ratio est saith the saint quia lex naturalis nihil aliud est vt docet S. Aug quam ipsius aternae legis incommut abilis rattonis ipsius divinae sapientiae in mentibus hominum facta transcriptio Now it is evidently cleare a man's life liberty fame lands estates and fortunes are his owne by the law of nature and that by force of the same law quisuis potest se defendendo sua vine vi repelsere and soe could Sr. Robert against Ormond invading his estate had he beene able to doe soe But you will say the landsand estates of subjects forfeited to the king for treason rebellion and other like crimes by way of attaindeur may be disposed of by the king I grant that but this authority for taking away from such men their lands and estates the prince hath from the law of nature which doth not protect any privat man to doe against the publick good wherefore the commonwealth can take away the life of a man and his estate though both are his by the law of nature when he transgresses against the prince or publick good to whom by pact or law of nature he should oboy this the prince can doe for justice sake but not for convenience or at his will and pleasure for the bonds prescribed to the jurisdiction of a prince are justice law and reason and not to doe his owne pleasure Now I would know from you what crime hath Sr. Robert committed was he convinced of any crime against the king before any bench of justice what hath he don who charged him the law of England a good law sayes noe man can be condemned but by course of law that is the subjects birth-right and to that effect are lawes made that justice may be don to all men princes are obliged in conscience to administer justice ackording the law I demand againe what hath Sr. Robert Lynch don you will say he was ingaged in the â—rish rebellion for soe you still call that just war which you could never as yet prove nor never shall but grant it hath been a rebellion Sr. Robert Lynch as all the confederat catholicks had an act of oblivion from the king in the peace of 48. ergo your rebellion was pardonned ergo Sr. Robert Lynch cannot loose his estate for that nor hath he since that time entred into a new rebellion or committed any act of â—reason Ormond cannot say he broake the Articles of peace of 48. for he still observed them and adhered to the gouverment and to Ormond and had nothinh to doe with the congregation of Iamestowne whose acts were by Ormond esteemed or reputed treasonable â— tell me then what right had Ormond to that noble gentlemans estate you see the King's grant if any he gave being against the law of nature and the law of the land is voyd and cannot excuse Ormond's conscâ—ience and if the king by a wrong information had granted one mans estate to an other that other cannot prescribe quia numquam erat in bona fide and consequently in conscience he is bound to restore the said estate because he houlds it malafide and the prince himselfe rightly informed is obliged in conscience to have the estate restored to the right owner But now let uâ— returne to the other part of the F letter wherin he vseth a christian freedom of minding the king and Ormond how dangerous a thing is the violation of publick faith and how such transgressors have beene severly punished in all ages but above all he brings downe a formidable example of publick faith broken with the Gabionites and how King David fir appeasing the great famin and the anger of God come vpon the people delivered to said Gabionits seaven children and nephews of Saul who crucifyed them alive vpon a montaine to expiat this publick horrid sin even in the face of sun Lib. 2. Reg. c. 21. he ends his letter to Ormond thus My lord conclude here but with my harty wilâ—es that in the house and at the Counsells of our great king your Excellency may both appeere and prove your selfe hereafter what you are in part already an other Ioseph that by the best advises you may preserve the best of Princes and all his people of soe many different nâ—tions of the british monarchy may it be soe my lord and may the catholicks of Irland in particular owne you a great deliverance as I can not but confidently
see this is an euill familiar those exalted to the height of greatness and favour in the Princès eye have noe Counsellours that will speak freely the ttuth as worthy Cineas did to Pyrrhus few are neere Kings and Princes can say that which Seneâ—a requires to be said by Iust upright men Loquimur quod Sentimus et Sentimus quod Loquimur this is a thing wanting in Court Homo qut dicat veritatem which Seneca excellently expressed to his frind Lucilius thus Monstraho tibi cuius rei inopia laborant magna fastigia quod â—mnia possidentibus desit unum Scilicet qui verum dicit They live not in Courts and the houses of Kings that will severly speake and sincerely the trueth what man can without teares behold soe many great personages even Christians in this age that live and doe farre wickeder things then Gentils or pagans have don or does which had more respect and regard to theire Idols in whome they apprehended some dietie then those to the true and liuing God CHAPTER 12. If Ormonds attendance and service vpon the King in his baniishment met with sufficient recompence and reward THis querie you may take to be somthing extravagant such another as if one had doubted whether it be day even when the sun shines and is scorching of the earth putting men into such heat and sweat as they must of all necessity put of theire Cloathes however this querie is quickly resolved by calculating the yearly rents Ormond had before the warre and conferring the same with this his present estate in doeing of this the work is don and your question resolved what rent say you had hee Immediatly before the warre 7000. pound sterling noe more in as much as that vast estate of his was engaged to men in long Leases Morgaged and incumbred with Annuitys what then is his present rent and estate neare vpon eighty thousand pound starling annuall rent and I doubt whether any subject in Europe have the like estate som say hee hath more but how coms it that a man that came home naked and bare after soe many yeares toe and froe in the World as severall other noble men in poverty and need came soe suddainely by such vast acquisitions This is quickly answered all was made over to him by the kings grant as for Example Six Corporations which his Ancestours never had all the estates of his house leased soe that the leasors are constrained to begg hee had alsoe conferred vpon him the estates and lands of many honest faithfull subjects all this and more bestowed vpon him by his Majestyes free grant now see you whether his service and attendance vpon his Majesty be plentifully requited or noe My Sentiment of Ormonds acquisitions I delivered in the case of Sir Robert Lynch as above now whether the King hath duly and legally bestowed other mens estates vpon his Grace is left to every mans thought to think what hee will however I am of this opinion that all being well considered by his Majesty and this portentous liberality to that noble man well examined his Majesty will finde but little content or joy therin nay to the contrary his Royall hart will be in an ocean of unquietness seeing soe many deserving families numberless widdowes Innocents and orphans deprived of theire propper right forced both at home and abroad to unspeakable wants consumed by hunger vermin and miseries and all this to raise up the greatness of one man's familie that was great enough of it selfe If the Law of God or nature will allow of soe many thousand Innocents to perish and be destroyd by depriving them of theire rights and livelyhood is a maxim that toucheth much his Royall wisdome for it is written that God will have a care of the widdowes and fatherless and in due tyme will chaâ—â—ife aâ—d oppress the oppressors of those thousands of Innocents are sacrificed in this our age to increase the estate of one man can Iustice suffer this can the mercifull breast of a mercifull King endure to see soe many specktacles of woes and miseries without reliefe will not God at long running looke downe vpon these vnlawfull proceedings certainly hee will and to the confusion of the possessors But Let us grant the parents of those Innocent creatures ran into a Rebellion as Ormond Clarindon and others falsly suggested to the King have the little babes not borne at that tyme been rebells What have they don against the Crowne Must they all perish and suffer for theire Parents crimes crimes only Imputed to them but never proved God himselfe sayes Filius non portabit iniquitatem patriâ— The childe shall not beare the iniquity of his Father but Ormond says the contrary let them suffer and perish for the errours of theire Parents soe that I may be thereby both great and wealthy Iustitia Iusti sayes the Holy Ghost super eum et impietas iâ—â—pij super eum The Iustice of the Iust fall vpon him and the Impiety of the Impious vpon him the quite contrary is in this case for the Iust have not found Iustice nor mercy the Innocent children of the supposed rebells are punished as Impious left naked and to noe mercy Saint Ierome his saying is not regarded in this place Nâ—t virtutes nec vitia parentam liberis Imputentur Let not the virtues or vices of the parents be Imposed to the Children there is a God above all when hee comes to examine those open injustices Clarindon Ormond and others and the rest instruments of the ruine of soe many thousand honest families will not appeare all will be made more cleare to theire confusion but wee must leave the Innocent to God who though hee is pleased to Chastise them with the Rod of his anger out of his secret and Iust Iudgments the which wee must adore yet the cruelty of those afflicters who plunged as in an ocean of Calamities will not escape his seveare sentence and Iustice What a ridiculus conceipt is it of some of Ormonds flatterers who tell the World Ormond waited on the King out of meer affection and therby lost his estate and fortunes at home truly noe man hath bine wiser if it be wisdome to deuest and robb honest men of theire estates then Ormond in his aâ—quisitions which as the World sees are great but the Malediction of God doth follow things unjustly aquired and likely the bread hee now eates dipped in the teares of widowes and blood of the Innocent doth not taste sweetly I could not heare of any had the fortune that Ormond had in the time of the Kings exile hee was still neare the King knew all his Arcana had the comfort and honour to suffer with his King a sufficient recompence for all his attendance and at the same tyme his Lady a wise woeman was honoured and comforted by Crumwell and her Ghildren much carressed by his Children soe Gratious was this Lady in Crumwells tyme and in his eyes that shee obtained three
of Mr. Thomas wading of waterford and that of Mr. Phillip Hore of Kilshalchan the seat of Kâ—lbarry neare waterford hee hath from the former adelicious place with the whole estate vpon a thousand pound a yeare and Kilshalchon within seven miles of Dublin a faire seat with the livings of eight hundred pound yearly these Gentlemens Children which were many in number by this munificencie are to shift for themselves in great misery the Lord knowes in whar condition they are in and this befalls them and severall others that Ceorge Lane should be gratifyed an unknowne man For writing for Ormond hee has had conferred vpon him other estates in all neare vpon foure thousand pound annuall rent this wee are informed brave rewards for a Secretary I dare confidently say stout and valiant Collonells Officers and Gentlemen of quality which firmly adhered to the King Fought stoutly for him and lost both life in the bed of honour and estates in his service have not nor any of theires in reeompence received the least provision reward or comfort in this I may say that George Lane his penn hath been more Fortunate and profitable to him then these noble Gentlemens swords have been unto them a sad incourragement and cold Satisfaction to worthy Royalists to see this little Lane and such like night-sprungmus heroms to have suckt the Fattness of the earth from farre better plants then themselves and perhaps the hands of as low men as themselves will be ready to pluck them up root and branch when the season shall serue to cleare the Land of such weeds by what meanes this will com to pass I am quite Ignorant but I think the Iustice of God will make way for it and take not only from Ceorge Lane and men of that ranck but even from Ormond and the greatest of them all the conferred estates of honest men for seldom the blessing of God doth accompany unjust plunderes and Robbers And it is the opinion of severall true harted subjects to his Majesty that things are not like to prosper with himselfe untill this be don But I heare sum body say Ormond hath don the King great service though hee hath not preserved the Monarchie of Brittaine as Cochles and Musius did that of Rome and that his affection to King and Country have been as great as theires to the Senat and common wealth of Rome occation being only wanting as For his affection to King and Crowne I beleeve hee had as much as another noble man but to his Country where hee hath his estate and lands hee had none at all If affection to the king can draw rewards and Remunerations there be thousands loved the King and the intrest of the Crowne of England as much as Ormond ever did and appeared undoubtedly in all occations against the Kings enemys nevertheless thousands of them never had an Aker of ground nor a Cottage to shelter themselves in in frosty weather in recompensation of such affection therfore I doe heire conclude that Ormond was happily Fortunate in his affections to the King and Crowne and others were not having obtained those Evtraordinary rewards from his Royall Majesty which in the insuing Chapter I doe resolve more amply to discover and speak of CHAPTER 15'th The Remunerations the Duke of Ormond had from the King after his Restauration These remunerations will bee found soe great that you must needs confess Ormond was not Loyall gratis neither doe I in any way doubt but there be som Bassa's of the great Turck and some of the chiefest of them would come and serve our King and serve him Loyally for soe incredible a recompence as Ormond had Let us now speak of the quantity and quality therof according the best notice wee have received Wee have said above his Annuall rents before the warre was but seven thousand pound starling his ancient estate being then incumbred with Annuitys and Leases which otherwise was worth forty thousand pound starling per Annum and at present it is vpon Eighty thousand now the first part of his new great revennues is the Kings grant of all those lands of his owne estate which were leased and morgaged the rest were grants of other mens Estates and other gifts of his Majesty for auoyding the trouble of searching after all his particulare gettings many there are without doubt unknowne to mee I will here put downe certaine Quaeres in number 29. Out of which hee that will may take notice of these Immense recompences given him Quaeres touching the Present Condition of his Majesties Kingdom of IRELAND 1. WHether it be not demonstrable by search made into the Records of his Majestys Auditor General of Ireland that had his Majestys Revenue of that Kingdome been well managed there had been money enough to answer the necessary Charge of that Kingdom 2. Whether vpon search made of his Majestyes Exchequer in England there doth not appear upwards of 200000 l. Sent out of England into Ireland since the Duke of Ormonds last Government there 3. Whether there doth not appear that there were twenty four subsidies amounting to 360000 l. Assessed by the late Parliament of Ireland 4. Whether there was not 50000 l. advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventurers Rents 5. Whether the aforesaid Summs thus extraordinarily raised do not amount to abve six hundred thousand pounds 6. Whether the aforesaid extraordinary Summs would not discharge near Four Years of his Majesties Establishment both in the Civil and Martial List Independently of the Revenue of that Kingdom 7. Though the aforesaid Summs Extraordinarily raised would have paid near Four Years Establishment yet whether the Martial and Civil Lists be not a Year and half in arrear 8. Whether his Majestyes Ordinary certain and Casual Revenue which if well managed might have fully paid his Majesties necessary Charge whether vpon the aforesaid Principles it is not demonstrable that the said revenue harh not discharged more then one year and a halfs Establishment in six years time 9. Whether it be not demonstrable then that there hath been more then Four years and a half Revenue embesled in six years time and whether the chief Governour be not more Faulty in this great miscarriag then the Earle of Anglesy Quaeres in Relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond 1. WHether by sales of Offices as Lord Steward and receits out of his Majesties Exchequer of England the Lord Duke of Ormond hath not raised upwards of 30000 l 2. Whether he did not receive by one Act of Parliament of Ireland as a gift 30000 l 3. Whether it doth not appear by the Records of his Majesties Tresurie in Ireland that his Grace did receive 12000 l. Before his being last Levtenant 4. Whether he did not receive 12000. l. Per Annum as Lord Levtenant which was a Moyetie more than any Lord Levtenant received and that Moyetie amounts in six years to 36000 l 5. Whether it doth not appear that his Grace hath released by the Act of Sentlement
this Noble-man grant I begg by the pretious Bloud and Sacred wounds of thy deare Sonne Iesus that wee may in Humility in Teares and true Contrition of hart returne to the whose greatness and goodness wee have soe often and grivously offended our great misery falls prostrate at the feet of thy great mercy Grant to vs I beseech thee going out of this miserable and wicked world a Happy and Holy houre and that when the Vaile of the Temple shall be lifted vp wee may see you face to face for all Eternity Amen FINIS The contents of this little book And. First those of the Preface which Containes 19. pag. FIRST THe Author banished for Religion and Loyalty pag. 1. The Land possessed by Philistime and the Arck Captive Catholicks beaten with Scourges with scorpions pag. 2. An Irish Bishops answer to Cardinall Secretary pag. 3. Charles Duke of Loraine hee that offered fairest Ad rem Catholicorum in Hybernia restituendam His highness advanced thirty thousand pistols in the Irish quarrell pag. 5. Greatness of the house of Guise pag. 6. Our Kings Counsell at Paris would not have Irland recovered by a Catholick Prince p. 7. The Dukes answer to our Kings new Commissioners pag. 8. Bloody barbarous Lawes of Crumwelians against Catholicks pag. 9. A horrible ingagemeÌ„t of Crumwelians against the familie of Stuarts pag. 10 When Crumwell took in citties and townes Ormond shewed nothing of fortitude or counsell Ormond the forwardest of the Kings Counceâ— in Paris in doeing mischief to Catholicks pag. 11. His Frindship to Catholicks like a Kinde of Drâ—gges hott in the mouth cold in operation With Clarindon all was vendible and with Ormond all was lawfull that was not vnprofitable pag. 12. A wise fable of the Fox and great bramble pag. 13. Ormond a bramble allways scratching Catholicks Ormond a hard harted man and vnplacable enemie to Catholicks pag. 16. A high figg-tree bearing leaves of vanity and noe fruicte sucking the sapp of the earth and starving all the plants round a bout him pag. 17. Little books in defence of Catholicks and the Nation as a Narative of Clarindons settlement and sale of Irland the bleeding Iphigenia c. pag. 18. Clarindon and Ormond two monsters of Avarice and Cruelty pag. 19. Great Cyrus his Judgment what man â— King should bee An excellent oath taken by the Kings of the Mexicans The Contents of the worke it selfe as followeth I. CHAP. LOnge silence Catholicks had with Ormond a great prejudice to the Nation pag. 22. The Bishops of Irland Clergie men Canes muti non valentes Latrare pag. 25. Ormond poysoned the hart of the people the King with Ill Counsell pag. 30. II. CHAP. A search of Ormonds motives for deserting Catholicks and adhering to Crumwelians pag. 31. III. CHAP. The Catholicks vpon making a sessatioÌ„ with Ormond gave thirty thousand and eight hundred pound starling an argument of harty Loyalty pag. 41. IV. CHAP. Clamorgans peace made voyd with the Kings declaration the Catholicks therby deluded pag. 42. 44. 45. 46. 47. V. CHAP. The rejection of the peace of 1646 with Ormond fully Iustifyed pag. 49. The same was voyd for want of Authority of Ormonds part at the tyme of contracting How the Committie of treaty for the peace demeaned themselves pag 56. Committie of treaty in a Laberinth pag. 59. VI CHAP. Opinions of two famons Laeyers vpon Clamorgans peace and that of Ormond pag. 61. Result of the Waterfords congregation vpon the peace of 1646. pag. 68. A Letter of the Congregation to the late Suprem Counsell pag. 73. Ormonds Suddaine departure from Kiâ—kenniâ— pag. 76. Ormond vncivilly called all the Bishops Clergie a stinking Crew pag. 79. VII CHAP. Calumnies and aspertions cast by Father Peter walsh vpon the congregation of Iamesstone pag. 80. Rattes by an instinct of nature forsake veslells that are to be drown'd pag. 84. Those Ormond trusted in Limmerick proved knaves and those that stuck to the Clergie proved true to the King Ierton that murther'd the Kings Father murthered alsoe the Kings frinds in that Cittie and Spared those of Ormonds faction pag. 87. Those betray'd that Cittie were of Ormonds faction pag. 89. The Letter of Congregation of Iames-stone to Ormond pag. 91. VIII CHAP. Peter walsh his letter to Ormond pag. 97. The words of the Earle Clancarty dying to Ormond pag. 102. IX CHAP. Ormonds wrongfull invations of Catholick estates pag. 104. The King can for Iustice but not for conuenience take a way the life and estate of a subject pag. 107 Lawes are made that Iustice may be don to men and Princes are oblig'd to administer Iustice according to law pag. 108. A Rebellion once pardoned cannot be punished A Grant made by the King of another mans estate against the law of nature and of the land is voyd Clarindon sold the Irish nation and Ormond betrayd them in trust pag. 112. The Fryars dreame that Ormond hath been a Ioseph and Saviour to the Catholicks hee was in deed the ruin and looser of his bâ—etheren Country and all the people pag. 113. Ioseph sedd the Egyptians in the tyme of famine Ormond staru'd thousands of the Irish. pag. 114. Mercy was Iosephs Chiefest vertue Ormonds sinn to forgive noe man pag. 115. X. CHAP. Ormonds infamous Letter to Orâ—ery pag. 116. XI CHAP. A paraphras vpon that letter pag. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. Cynias good Counsell to Pirbus of Epire p. 130 XII CHAP. Ormonds good fortune in exile himselfe being gratious with the King and his Lady at the same tyme respected by Crumwell pag. 139. His Lady 's good prayers to the King against widowes and Orphans to have Harry Crumwells son favoured pag. 140. XIII CHAP. The moderation and sobriety of ancient Heroes very commendable pag. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. Noe house in Rome would receive gold from Cyneas Perâ—us Ambassador pag. 147. XIV CHAP. Sir Thomas Moores in tegrity pag. 148. What rewards had Horatius Chocles and Cajus Mutius from the Senat for preserving and saving the Cittie and people of Rome P. 156. What reward had George Lane a low man for his service pag. 158. XV. CHAP. What reward had Ormond for his atending on the King in tyme of his exile pag. 161. The queries pag. 162. And the queries pag. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. Ormond received in gifts grants above six hundred sixty thousand pound sterling 171 The Frayer gave Ormond good Documents and hee kept none of them pag. 175. Peter Walsh as blinde in his vnderstanding as Harpastes in her bodily sight pag. 176. XVI CHAP. A Relation of particular Injuries Ormond hath don the Catholicks of Irland pag. 177. Hee Let fall the venimous Apple of discord a mong them before that they were Coâ— vnum anima vna pag. 178. Ormonds frinds in the Goverment and Counsel of the confederate Catholicks p. 181 182. The Kings Letter to Ormond from Oxford to make peace with the Catholicks p. 184 185. Hee yielded vp the Castle of Dubblin sword and all notwithstanding the Queen Princes orders to him to the contrary by Mr. Wintergrant pag. 186. Said Wintersgrants message to Ormond from Queen Prince and his instructions publick and private pag. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. Relation of Wintergrants negotiation p. 192. 193. 194. 195. The Kings letter to Ormond pag. 196. Ormonds words to Wintergrant to what Rebels hee would deliver the Castle of Dubblin if necessity should force him to give it vp pag. 200. Consequently Ormonds discourse with himselfe resolving to give vp the Castle of Dubblin to the Parlament and not to the Catholicks XVII CHAP. The accomodation sent by the confederate Catholicks to Ormond rejected by him and the reasons given for such rejection XVIII CHAP. How and by whome were the Catholicks of Irland excluded from the benefitt of generall pardon Substance of the vast bill of settlement A short ponderation vpon the branches of that bill XIX CHAP. Who vsed most artifice and persidie against the Catholicks of Irland Clarindon sold them a way for Gold Ortery his Companions payd the gold and Ormond in trust deceived them XX. CHAP. The Author speaks to Ormond alone and tells him the house of Ormond bred magnanimous Lyons what Kinde of Lyon hee is himselfe and how hee hath made the house of Ormond an infamous denn and Couch of Rapine Hee tells him further the speech of sir Ralph Fan dying by the practices of the Duke of Northumberland XXI CHAP. The Author seriously advises Ormond to think of longe Eternitie and especially desires him to consider well two passages of the Prophet Isae in the third thirty eight Chapter And a sentence of Iob in the 21. Chapter and concludes this little book with a harty prayer for the Duke himselfe FINIS
and for us he may for a time favour theyr wayes but to stick for good and all to such men rebellious enimie◠to the King and to him selfe is a thing I can not beleeue for yow must know that Ormond is a wise man a great politician you shall see in time how handsomly he will wind himselfe out of theyr clawes These and such like idle Sermocinations was theyr discourse but alack thes wise men did but flatter them selves and the time with such frivolous thoughts and conjectures grounding the fundation of theyr future prosperitie in Ormond's affection to the nation and his special care of theyr preservation which was in good earnest but to raise theyr building upon a fundation of sands or as Jmay say to build castels in the ayre but serò sapiunt Phryges the web is dispelled that couered ouer our eyes we can tandem see something and much like thos that rested long under the Iuniper tree whose shadow is both noxious and grivous to nature when they a wake feele a violent head-ach soe we hauing slept and slumbred long without due care to our owne preservation under the noxious shadow of Ormond's apparent affections at last experected and hauing opned our eyes we find our head heart and whole body in a far worse distemper then they that laid under the Iuniper tree our feauer is mounted to a hectical height partly by our owne carelessness and cheefly by the improper administration of our physitian Ormond who instead of salutiferous potions deluded us with poyson This Noble man haue poysoned as I may say the heart of us all I mean of his Majestie with toxical councels and fallacious informations against us soe as this poyson possessing the vitals we are faintinge and must of need perish if the antidot cordials of his Majestie 's goodness in whom next to god as thé fontaine of mercy and justice we place all trust and hope will not affoord us life and comfort which antidot cordials haue been hitherto as is evidently Knowne unjustly detained from us by the suggestions of Ormond and Clarindon CHAPTER II. A diligent Search off the motifs and reasons induced Ormond to forsake since the kings restauration the Catholicks of Irland and to stick to the Cromwelians WE are now to search out the motifs induced Ormond to à bandon the Catholicks and cause moved him to this suddain separation whether by ill chance the catholicks plotted against his life person libertie or fortunes or whether they with-drew first from him or haue given any occasion or offence sufficient to compel him to such à repentinous mutation or whether it was the king's interest for the better settlement of that kingdom under the crowne made him fasten hands with them new men and forsake the old stead-fast friends There is noe man will beleeue that soe noble à person soe compleat à states-man soe much esteemed in court and cittie for gallantrie and honour à man soe much cried up for his integritie and good nature to be the paramount of thousand as all his frinds in the beginning of his power gaue out of him then when he begun to haue dealing with the confederat catholicks there is not a man I say would beleeue that à person of such unparalelled parts would deflect foe nastilie in that nature from them without some efficatious ground and reason This unexpected catastrophe as it suggested matter of admiration to all sort of people soe it hath struken even dumb his neerest relations and thes his friends that most dearely respected him in soe much as they durst not speake one woord in deffence of this his instabilitie I am confident his grace wanted not such persons his close sticklers men skil'd both in the english and lattin letters wch formerly with heat and zeale were in a readiness to maintaine by hooke or crooke with apparent and seeming ratiocinations his sinistrous doeyngs faults and faylings now in this matter they dare not appeare to justifie his running a way from the camp of israel to the phylistin's field from the association and amitie of honourable and honestly true men the kings good subjects and his owne steadfast frinds to à cromwelian faction that heald out soe long in bloudy rebellion against the crowne and royal family even father VVaylsh himselfe who beyound all mortals Sacrifices himselfe to Ormond and who have written soe much of that Noble mans constancie vertues and supereminent talents sits now mute and silent he sayes nothing gives not a word in vindication of his great patron's defection from his friends alliances and countriemen I perceave the fathers mind and the cause of his silence in this matter he knowes it is hard for him invita Minerva pessima existente causâ to lay hand to his pen. His Grac◠the duke himselfe is sensible there are several inducing and obliginge reasons for continuing his affection if he had been soe pleased and association with the catholicks of Irland as may be the antiquitie greatness and Catholick pietie of his familie and renowned Ancestours for soe many hundred yeares in that Kingdom of Irland his vast patrimonie the Noble houses of two Viscounts three Barrons and great number of rich and worthie families of Knights and Esquires descended lineally from his pedigree that his Noble brother Mr. Richard Buttler his vertuous sisters gallant Ladies were borne in that land and have theyr estates and beeing therin add to this the alliance of several other peers of the land to his familie all which are undeniable and strong inducements powerfull to move and bind such a person or any other to love the Catholicks of Irland and closely fasten unto them in all theyr just concernments and undertakings In this place I would faine Know what had Orrery Monthrath and the rest of that crue to doe with the house of Ormond did there by good lucke intervene at any time tuixt theyr families and his any concatenation of marriages any relation of consanguinitie any firme connection of unstained friendship not that euer I could heare off but all to the contrarie well Knowne they were his deadly enemies and stared with an envious eye vpon his Lustre and Splendour who like unto a procerous Cedar they percēaved did overtopp them selves His Grace I suppose will not say he deserted the Catholicks whose loyaltie to the crowne of England have been sufficiently Knowne even to the very rebells themselues to joyne in friendship with these freash men but stale rebells for better advancing and securi◠his Majesties interest certainly a man of my lord's Iudgement as I am confident wid blush to pretend any such excuse or to say soe my lord of right should a gon with more moderation in foe waightie a matter and nicely ponder before pacting friendship with them whether or noe they that have been for soe many yeares fyrie and sworne enemies to the King and crowne would at long triall prove worthie of his amitie or of any other man 's else that had
and sake yet hee would not have his same to be taken away or stain'd Bonum est enim saith the Apostle mihi magis mori quam ut Gloriam meam Quis evacuet Saint Ierome in Imitation of Saint Paul sayes Ad Silentiam Apostolici et Exempli et Praecepti est ut Habeamus rationem non conscientiae tantum sed etiam famae Finally Saint Augustin Sermone tertio de vita Clericorum hath these words tenete quod dixi atque distinguite duae res sunt Conscientia et famae Conscientia Necessaria est tibi fama Proximo tuo qui fidens Conscientiae suae negligit famam suam credulis est The Bishops being innocent are to follow Saint Paules Example to defend theire fame against Ormond and a greater man then hee and theire Innocency Piety and knowne integrity will throughly defend then My opinion is that Ormonds vnquietness coms from the hight of his spirit for that the appetite of ambitious men is commonly soe inordinate theire will sâ—e vnbridled that they canÌ„ot indure to see themselves thwarted in the least or crossed soe thâ—t though they possess never soe much contentment in all things yet if in the least they finde themselves opposed all the rest seems noysome unto them an Example of which wee have in Holy Scripture in the book of Hester of Aman. who abounding in wealth and honour Pleasures and glories seeing that Mardochaus the poore Iew let him pass without doing him any reverence which Mardochans did out of feare of offending God knowing well Aman was a deadly enemie to God and to the Iewes was soe vexed therwith that hee assembled his wife Children and frinds having told them of all his Glories and Familiarity with the King Assuerus and how hee alone was inuited a long with the King to Queen Hesters banquet hee said and for all I have this pompe magnificence and Glorie I think I have nothing as long as I see Mardochaeus sitting before the Kings doore and performing mee noe reverence Even soe Ormond having all Glory and prosperity yett thinkâ— hee hath nothing while the Catholick Bishops that offended him not doe not prostrate themselves at his feet and submitt to his blindly trausported Iudgment Then Zares Amans wife and his frinds answered him saying commâ—und a beame to be raised of sixty cubits high and speak to the King on the morning that Mardochaeus may be hanged theron and soe thou shall goe Ioyfull and merily to the feast but all went quite to the contrary and to Amans expectation and to the expectation of all his frinds the Gibbet raiâ—ed by Aaman for Mardochaeus was turned to Aamons owne destruction That hee as I said before for his great ambition accompanied with a revenging minde can have but little ease or rest The Prophet says Impius quasi mare servens quod quiescere non potest The wicked man is like a * Isa cap 57. swelling Sea which cannot rest there can be noe greater executioners or torments to the minde of man then ambition enuy and anger this made Horace say Invidia sicult non invenere tyranni tormentum majus The tyrants of Cicilie never found agreater torment then enuy Seneca tells us the ambitious man receiveth not soe much contentement by seeing many behinde him as discontent by seeing any before him there are many great men in this age sick of this disease such as cannot know when they are well and though great they be will striue still to be greater soe that they can at noe tyme be at ease or at quietness much like that Italian who being well must needs take phisick and dyed therof upon whose sepulchre this Epitaphe was engraved I was well and would be better I tooke phisick and came to the phereter Plutharch expresseth naturally this unquietness of ambitious mindes in Pyrrhus King of Epirot who having greatly enlarged his Dominions with the conquest of the great Kingdom of Macedonia began alsoe to designe with himselfe the conquest of Italy and having Communicated his deliberation with his great counselour Cineas hee demaunded his advice whertoe Cineas answered that hee greatly desired to know what hee meant t doe when hee had conquered Italy Sir quoth Pyrrhus the Kingdom of Cisilie is then neere at hand and deserveth to be had in consideration as well for the fertility as for the riches and power of the Iland well quoth Cineas and when you have gotten Cicily what will you then doe Quoth Pyrrhus Africk is not farre of where there are divers goodly Kingdoms which partly by the fame of my former eonquests and partly by the valour of my souldiers may easily be subdued I grant it quoth Cineas but when all Asrick is yours what mean you then to doe when Pyrrhus saw that hee vrged him still with that question then quoth Pyrrhus thou and I will be merry and make good cheere wherunto Cineas replyed if this shall be the end of your adventures and labours what hindereth you from doeing the same now will not your Kingdoms of Epyras and Macedonia suffice you to be merry and make good cheere and if you had Italy Cicily Africk and all the World could you and I be merrier then wee are or make better cheere then wee doe will you therfore venter your Kingdoms Person Life Honour and all you have to purchase that which you have already Thus said wise Cineas to Pyrrhus reprehending his Immoderate ambition who knew not when hee was well neither yet what hee would have seeing hee desired noe more then that which hee had alleready which in the end cost him deare for following his owne ambition and unbridled appetite to amplify his Dominions as hee gott much soe hee lost much being able to conserve nothing any tyme and at length having entred the towne of Agros by force hee was killed with a brick batt throwne downe by a woeman from the top of a house heere you see the wretched end of Pyrrâ—us his ambition Had Ormond such a Counsellour by him as Cineas was heard unto him hee had lickly been happier then hee is at present such a Counsellour I mean as would say unto him intrepidly when hee tooke the course of stripping honest Gentlemen of theire estates my Lord I would desire to know what you resolve to doe when you have by hooke and Crooke ingrossed the lands and inheritances of Innocent persons poore widowes and Orphans unto your selfe when you have obtained all is the thing you ayme at only to make good cheare and be merry if this be your designe you need not trouble your selfe soe much nor expose your conscience to danger nor your honour to such an Ignominious shame and infamy which shall endure to all ages in taking away that which is not your owne farre better content your selfe as you are and feast upon that great patrimony your Predecessors left cannot that estate which maintained them honourably without damaging any other maintaine and content you but I
thousand pound or more for her Ioynter per Annum who more inward with the King then Ormond who more respected by Crumwell then the Lady of Ormond and shee well requited Crumwels kindness to his relations cheefly to his sonne Harry vpon the Kings restauration who obtained vpon her knees from the King as wee have been informed that Harry Crumwell might enjoy the estate given him in Ireland by his Father in the tyme of his Protectourship among other lands hee had that of Mr Sedgrave of killeglan a good and ancient familie which estate hee sold to one Sir Patrick Moledy knight who possesseth it to this day and the relict of said Sedraâ—es Mistris Iane Nâ—ttingam a good and vertuous Lady lives very poorly and in a sad condition with her Children without Ioynter or relief and soe my Lady Dutches of Ormonds solicitations for Harry Crumwell weare for the Childe of him that murthered the Kings Father and against a poor widow and her babes a wedow whose Father and Kindred were ever faithfull to the Crowne and were not these think you Godly and misterious prayers and intercessions CHAPTER 13'th How the frugality and laudable husbandry of the ancient Renowned Heroes did content it selfe and have bine satisfyed with small rewards given them for theire rate services by the common wealth GReat reason that deserving men should be looked vpon and requited according the service don to theire country or Prince this custome hath been exercised in the best and most flourishing common wealths of Rome Athens Carthage and Lacedemonia who reflecting vpon the deserts of theire people and services don the common wealth at home and a broad did by statutes expresse eternize theire names and families vnto Posterity as alsoe by gifts and rewards And these soe collated munificencies were by distinct names called as some by the name of Adorea martiall praise another was called Corona aurea a gold Croâ—ne Navaâ—â— a sea fight Crowne soe Castrensis aâ—d Obsiâ—ionaâ—â— a field and siege Crowne c. now and then they gave your Hostas Deauratas gilded speres and some times they gave certaine Akers of ground and measures of Corne more or less as they deserved and such measures were called Heminae which in phisicall measure is not three gallons heere it is to be noted how great Heroes and Champions anciently were recompenced for theire extraordinary services don to the common-wealth with small presents and well contented were they with the same soe great have been theire frugal husbandry and parcemonie in all theire life that hardly wee can give Creditt to what historians write of theire wonderfull moderation in theire publick expences of Pompes feastings and showes Great men were sober in those ages Titus Liuius tells us Quintus Cinâ—inatus was carried from the plough to the dignity of a dictator which warre being ended hee returned chearfully to the plough againe hee relates alsoe how the Ambassadors of the Samnites found Curius Dentatus another Dictaror making ready and cleansing of rootes for his supper and even at that tyme hee says there were noe more in all the Roman Armies of waiting men such as wee call calones but two Marâ—us Anthontus not hee that fatall man to Cicero and to the Common-wealth but another Chosen Consull of a great Armie design'd in to spaigne had but eight servants soe Carbo in the same dignity placed as wee read had but seven what shall I say of Cato the senior who in the same Imployment power and commission for Spaigne had but three however this Cato named the censor though contented wisely with such a small retennue was Captaine Generall in theire Armie a famous oratour and a prudent counselour reputed by the Common wealth in the Common-wealth and by all Rome for his sober life was called a good father to his children a good husband to his wife a frugall houskeeper and a man a great praise in those days well skill'd in the plough Epaminondas a famous Captaine Protectour and flower of the Thebans who fought soe many battaills valiantly nevertheless it is written hee had but one sute of Cloathes which when required reparation hee was forced to keep house till mended and brought unto him This Epaminondâ— I speak of dyed soe poore as not soe much in his house could be had as to pay his funeralls which was performed by the Common-Wealth What need I speak in this place of Phocion Socrates and Iphaltes Miracles of nature and wisest of Athens This Phocion who fought 26. battaills victorious allways and triumphant over his enimies yet a greater dispiser of riches honours and titles as histories doe testify refused one hundred talents sent unto him by Alexander the great as a Present demaunding of those brought the Present what was Alexanders meaning in sending to him alone and only that Present they replyed for as much as hee takes you to be the only man of honour and merit amongst the Athenians to this hee answered briefly why then let Alexander leave mee soe during my life which is a thing I cannot be if I receive and accept of his talents of gould vpon the same Phocion alexander offered to bestow severall Citties but hee answered the Messenger goe returne and tell thy Master Alexander that I took him to bee of soe noble a spiritt as hee would doe nothing that might render himselfe and mee in famous which is like to follow if I accept of his gift for hee will be estemed a bryber and I taken for a corrupt man and traitour to my Country in this place I could make mention of Cato Iunior Glory of Rome a man did hate to flatter any body this Cato brauely opposed Pompeius the great in som things and denyed him is Daughter in Mariage saying I will not give my Daughter in hostage to Pompeius for feare that hee himselfe by that action should be against the Common-wealth yet after Iulius Caesar became Tyrant this Cato rancked himselfe on Pompeius his side soe much was this Cato adicted to poverty and all sort of hard suffrings that it is written of him and of Phocion that they went a great part of the yeare bare foot and bare headed These prophane examples of those Heroick Champions I have brought heer expressly to the great confusion of our Christian dissolut great personages that they may see how these rare vertues shined and were Imbraced by Pagans which they abhor to exercise or have seen in themselves Frugality Humility honest and diseret poverty zeal to theire Country contempt of wealth and honours moderation in theire pomps showes and feastings These are the vertues and the weapons with which those ancient Heroes kept theire common-wealth in peace and Concord Glory Wealth and Prosperity with these I say they have eternised theire fame to future ages not with Pride Ambition Extortion Emulation Deceits vaine Assentations Gluttonies and the like vices familiare to Christian personages Certainly there is nothing procures in a Common Wealth sooner Envy Discord betwixt person
or Forty thousand to have been a Queens Dote in Marriage Elleoner Daughter to Knig Edward the second married to the Earle of Gelders after made Duke had but fiftien thousand pound portion Queen Isabell Dowager to said Edward the second and mother to Edward the third most Glorious of English Kings daughter and Heire to Phillip the Faire of France by whose title the Kings of England makes Clayme to the Kingdome of France had allowed her by her son but a thousnd pound Ioynter a yeare severall such passages wee may finde in the Cronicles of England and others yet the Duke of Ormond as is to be seen in the 12'th Quaerie of those in Relation to Ormond granted the profitt of a rent of one thousand five hundred pounds a yeare of the parke hee hath neare the Gates of Dublin to the Lord of Dongaâ—non and to Colonell Cooke a Kingly Liberality If Father walsh or any other will say that these Quaeries are Idle Frivolous needless and of noe regard I would aske of the same and know whether matters of Fact and Propositiones sensu notae as are the Estates and lands of other men and the Corporations now actually in Ormonds possession things that cannot be hidden From the Eyes of men are Idle needless and Frivolous dreames and Fables noe but Foule and unhandsom things against Iustice honour trust committed unto him and Goverment of that Kingdome of Ireland conferred by his Majesty vpon Ormond If his grace or any for him can answer the sayd Quaeries why is hee or they soe long mute and silent they strick home to the quick they render his integrity suspected they wound his Fame and honour certainly if there were any way to answer them and to prove them False Father Walsh had long before now spaken Loudly to the World If Ormonds integrity and vertues be Calumniated by these Quaeries I wonder there is nothing said in his vindication none appeares for him but what in a matter that cannot be defended it is but wisdom to be silent the whole Country knowes that Father walsh of all men is most concern'd to appeare for Ormond and vindicate his integrity the best hee can having in his severall writings described him for a vertuous upright Iust Iuditious and most rare states-man now is the tyme good Friar to prove this you see to what puzle hee is brought vnto by these Quaeries you see how guilty hee is on all sides stretch him now your hand if you can and bring him of clearly and unspottedly from all these blemishes that staynes his person soe deeply now is the tyme I say to prove him to the world what you gave in paper of him and make us all sensible that hee is deserving of those Epithites you are pleased to conferre vpon him in the little book called the. Irish colours Foulded you have put downe a Faire method and good documents I must confess for guiding of Ormond in the Charge of Lord Lieutenant of Irland where you bid him by all meanes to be ware of the man of sin Meaning Orrery who would have his Grace â—uoy up one interest wholy that is the stronger and more prevalent of Orrery and his complices and sinck vtterly the other interest that of the Catholicks against all devine and humaine Lawes many rediculous things of this nature hath this Fryar said about his Ormond and this was one but Ormond contrary to his desire and Counsell buoyed up Orrery's intrest and sunck the Intrest of the innocent party because it was the weakest For which hee had a notable share of the grants and estates hee now Enjoyeth I see good Father you are very unfortunate in your conceipts of Ormond who grants nothing of these things you demaunded I have a minde to produce in this place other lynes of this Fryar unto Ormond out of the same Foulded Colours My Lord Quoth hee I shall minde your Grace of what you know your selfe allready that you shall behould under your Goverment a very great number of simple poore Innocents and most afflicted Creaturs if any such be in the world and that you think that God hath Principally created you and hithertoe preserved you amidst soe many dangers and now at last inspired our gratious King to send you for them and therfore that your greatest care must be to open to them your breast with an amorous compassion extend to them the â—owells of your Charity streatch to them affectionatly your helpfull hands take theire requests lâ—nd care to theire cryes cause theire affaires to be speedily dispatched not drawing them along in delays which may devour them strengthen your Arme against those that oppressed them â—edeem the prey out of the lyons throate and the Harpi's talons By these expresions one would have thought Ormond to be aman like to doe great things but here wee have much smooke and noe fyre faire blossoms and noe Fruite excellent documents given and yet nothing done take the paynes Father to goe up and downe Ireland and heare afflicted Innocent people and make a list of those to whome Ormond in tyme of his Goverment Opened his hart with an amorous compassion to whome hee did extend the â—â—wells of his charity to whome hee did streatch out his helpfull hands those whom hee preserved out of the Lyons throat or the Harpies Talon You will com to short of your vaticinations and hopes nothing like this but rather hee was the Lyon prey'd on them and did noe Iustice to the Orphans as you desired Nâ—r â—ypâ— a way the teares of a forelorne widowâ— bee steeped not in oyle the yoakâ— of a people which lived on gale and wormwood and whoe sighel under unsupportable necessityes Hee hath don nothing in his Goverment for the ease of that people but along with Orrery and the rest pild and pul'd them of all truly good Father you seem to mee a man much inchanted and indeed to be in a state of blyndness â— to your understanding that Harpaste was in her corporall sight of whome Seneca Epist quinquagessima ad lucilium writes in this forme Harpastem uxoris meae fatuam scâ— hereditarium donum in domâ— meae remansisse haec fatua subitó desijt videre incredibilem tibi narro rem sed veram nescit esse se cacam subindè padagogam suam rogat ut migret ais domum renebrosam esse Harpastes you know the changling of my wife is a Hereditary legacy in my house this changling suddainly lost her sight I tell you an incredible thing but true shee doth not beleeve that shee is blinde now and then shee desires of her guide to remoue from thence shee says the house is darke and obsure I am much of opinion Father walsh that this is your condition in relation to what you say or write of Ormonds affaires and person and soe I take my leave in this place of both leaving you in your manyfold blindnesse in as much as you will not see and leaving your Ormond to the
an accommodation with the Confederate Catholicks as the King had commaunded and the Queen and Prince ordered by theire express instructions sent to him by Mr. Wintergrant can bâ— excus'd from treason let any indifferent man Iudge Soe much I thought fitt to mention of Mr. Wintergrant his Imployment of the Queen and Princes orders and instructions for concluding a peace with the Irish Catholicks and of the Kings express commaunds to Ormond to the same purpose of the dilligence of Monsieur la Monnerie and Monsieur Tallone to that effect in the mame of the French King theire Master as alsoe of the Articles of the aforesaid accomodation most advantagious to the Kings intrest offered by his subjects the Confederate Catholicks Put all these together my gentle reader and then Iudge if Ormond hath not shewed himselfe transacting with the Parliment disobedient to the Kings Commaunds and to those of the Queen and Prince an Enemie to the Catholicks of Irland and a frind to the vsurping Parliment I now pass to a great and Irreparable Injury don to the whole Nation by his Grace a graceless action the excluding of all the Catholicks of Irland from the benefitt of the generall pardon and indemnity granted to all his other subjects of what Religion soever CHAPTER 18'th How and by whome were the Catholicks of Irland excluded from the benefitt of generall pardon CErtaine it is that the King intended the pardon and act of Indemnity as well for the Catholicks of Irland as for those of England and thee rest of his subjects which is made cleare and evident by his Majestys speech in favour of the Irish Catholicks in the house of Peeres Iuly the 27'th 1660. I hope said the King I need not put you in minde of Irland and that they alone shall not be without the benefitt of my merey they have showne much affection to mee a broad and you will have a care of my honour and what I have promised to them Could the Kings intention of the benefitt of pardon and his mercy to the Irish Catholicks be spooken in more cleare and noble expressions But this Ormond to his Eternall infamy be it said hath cruelly opposed in propounding a wicked and cunning prouizo in the house of Peeres which theire Lordships thought would have satisfy'd vs and soe have past it by by this perfidious fraud of Ormond wee have been exempted from the benefitt of the Indemnity This is the grace Ormond Peter Walsh his saviour of the Irish Nation hath don vs for which the Mallediction of God will likely fall vpon him and his posterity After being excluded from the generall pardon Ormond Clarindon Orrery Cloathworthy and the rest of that holy Synagog put theire heads together for drawing vp a Bill of Settlement of the Kingdoms of Irland soe powerfull they weare in Cheating his Majesty as hee gave them his ordinance for conceiving said Bill of Settlement and theire owne Secretary had the penning of it By the artifice of those great men and force of that Bill wee have lost for ever our Lands Estates and the liberty of free borne subjects This Bill is of an Immens Bulck fraght with faire Language and barbarous contents and proceedings They call it the Kings most gratious Declaration for the settlement of Irland This monstrous Bulck with all the substance therin hath bine reduced into few heads by a learned Laeyer as followeth The substance and sens of the vast bill of settlement 1. BY the late act of Parliment made for the settlement of Irland all that might pretend to be free from the guilt of the late Commotion are concluded from being heard and theire estates disposed for the most part to such of the English as served the Vsurper Crumwell against his late and now Majesty 2. Those who submitted to the peace concluded by his late Majestys Authority in the yevre 1648. are by the said act debarred from the benefitt of the articles concluded in and by the same peace and the publick faith then given denyed them as hath bine already decree'd 3. Innocents are secluded from being restored to theire houses in Corporations a few excepted whoe were restored to theire houses by his Majestyes Letters 4. Catholicks are not suffered to have theire freedom in Corporations or liberty of traficke 5. The Lords ad other Catholicks whoe had presentations of benefices are secluded from the benefit of theire said Privileges except they becom Protestants 6 All the Nobility and gentry that submitted to said Peace of 48. and put themselves to vast charges and expences in raising troopes and Regiments of Horss and foote to serve his Majesty against the Vsurper have lost theire Estates and theire Lands settled vpon those who made the Vsurpers quarell theire owne and fought vnder him against the King and his Catholick subjects of Irland and not only that but are alsoe excluded from all Imployments in the Kings service or Common wealth except they renounce theire Faith By these meanes they are brought to great distress want of Creditt Livelyhood and reliefe Nil nisi vota supersunt A short Ponderation vpon these Branches 1. NEver was pronounced from the begining of Christianity to this day a more vnjust and wicked sentence against Christians then have been by this act which beares the name of the Kings most gratious Declaration for the settlement of Irland 2. What can there be more cruell mor vnjust more Impious then to hinder one to answer for himselfe and prove himselfe Innocent what more against the law of nature What can there be more iniquous and vnworthy of kingly piety then to conferre the loyall subjects Estates vpon open knowne Rebells What more sacred then publick Faith What more infamous then the violation of the same For which in all tymes dreadfull punishments have befalne the Violatours 3. Can there be any thing more Barbarous and against Iustice then to turne an Innocent out of his owne house and right Inheritance 4. The Christians in Constantinople and other the Dominions of the Turck are dealt with farre better and with more moderation then the Catholicks of Irland whome those Statsmen have excluded from all Commerte which the very Turcks doe grant vnto theire Christians 5. Men must renounce theire Religion the Basis of salvation or loose theire Advousins a cruell Impious Tye vpon Catholick patrons but each of them will answer Non Emam tanti panitere 6 Heer you see Rebellion rewarded and Loyalty punished a preposterous and monstrous kinde of Iustice Behold O bountifull God this theire portentous and Impious iniquity Now I see afflicted Countrimen you may ramble vp and downe the world and loudly raise your voyce and say Spectaculum facti sumus mundo Angelis hominibus Wee are made a spectacle to the world to Angels and to men Could there be more formal Iniquity then to devest Innocent true subjects of theire estates and liberty and conferre the same vpon those fought against the King and Crowne was