hereby declare that as soon as the War shall be ended they may again return to their former Habitations And as We shall take care that all such Papists that shall in compliance with this our Proclamation remove shall be civilly treated as other their Majesties Subjects and have the Countenance and Protection of the Government whilst they behave themselves as becometh So We hereby declare that all such Papists that from and after the fourteenth day of October next shall presume to dwell or shall at any time afterwards be found within ten miles of any of their Majesties Frontier Garisons as aforesaid or within ten miles of the River Shannon that they and every of them shall be looked upon as Spies and persons corresponding with their Majesties Enemies And shall be prosecuted accordingly Given at their Majesties Castle of Dublin 26th of September 1690. in the second year of their Majesties Reign John Davis Numb 5. By the Lord Deputy and Council A PROCLAMATION Tyrconnel FOrasmuch as several persons in the Province of Vlster and Town of Sligo in this His Majesty's Kingdom have entered into several Associations containing no less offence than High Treason and thereupon formed themselves into several Parties dividing and Marshalling themselves into several Regiments Troops and Companies marching well Armed up and down the Countrey to the great terror of the King's Leige People in manifest breach of the Law and of the Peace of this Realm And having resolved within Our selves to prevent the effusion of blood as long as it was possible by using all peaceable means to reduce the said Malefactors to their Obedience have of late issued out a Proclamation setting forth the said disorders requiring all the said Parties to disperse and repair to their several Habitations and Callings assuring every of them of His Majesty's Pardon and Protection And whereas We see the said Offenders instead of complying with our said Proclamation still do persist in their wickedness by continuing in actual Rebellion breaking of Prisons and discharging of Prisoners secured by due course of Law for Robberies Fellonies and other hainous Crimes by seizing upon His Majesty's Arms and Ammunion imprisoning several of His Majesty's Army disarming and dismounting them killing and murdering several of His Majesty's Subjects pillaging and plundering the Countrey and daily committing several other acts of Hostility and finding no other way to suppress the said Rebellion We the Lord Deputy have caused a Party of His Majesty's Army under the Command of Lieutenant General Rich. Hamilton to march into the Province of Vlster to reduce the Rebels there by force of Arms the consequence whereof cannot but be very fatal to that Country and the Inhabitants thereof and will inevitably occasion the total Ruine and Destruction of that part of His Majesty's Kingdom The consideration whereof hath given Us great disquiet and trouble of mind that a Countrey well planted and inhabited should now by the insolency and traiterous wickedness of its own Inhabitants be brought to ruine and desolation which we are still willing to prevent if any spark of Grace be yet remaining in the Hearts of those Conspirators hereby declaring notwithstanding the many affronts by them put upon His Majesty's Government notwithstanding the several Acts of Hostility by them hitherto Committed that if they will now submit and become dutiful Subjects His Majesty's Mercy shall be extended to them excepting the persons hereafter excepted and in order thereunto We the Lord Deputy and Council do strictly charge and command all such persons in Arms in Vlster or the Town of Sligo forthwith to lay down their Arms and that the principal persons among them now in the North do forthwith repair to Leiutenant General Richard Hamilton and deliver up to him their Arms and serviceable Horses and to give him Hostages as an assurance of their future Loyalty and Obedience to His Majesty and that all their adherents do deliver up their Arms and serviceable Horses to such person or persons as he the said Lieutenant General Richard Hamilton shall appoint to receive them And We do also farther charge and command all the principal persons of other Commotions and Insurrections in Sligo to repair forthwith either to Us the Lord Deputy or to Collonel Mac Donnald at the Boyle and deliver up their Arms and serviceable Horses and to give Hostages as security for their future peaceable deportment and their adherents to lay down their Arms to be delivered up together with their serviceable Horses to the said Collonel Mac Donnald We the Lord Deputy hereby giving safe conduct to such of them as will submit according to this Our Proclamation And we do hereby farther declare That such of the said persons as shall give obedience to these our Commands except the persons hereafter excepted shall have His Majesty's Protection and Pardon for all past offences relating to the said Commotions and Insurrections but in case they shall be so unhappy as to persist in their wicked designs and treasonable practices We the Lord Deputy do hereby command all His Majesty's Forces to fall upon them wherever they meet them and to treat them as Rebels and Traitors to His Majesty yet to the end the innocent may not suffer for the Crimes of the nocent and that the committals of inhumane acts may be prevented We do hereby strictly charge and command His Majesty's Army now upon their march to the North and all other his Majesty's Forces that they or either of them do not presume to use any violence to Women Children aged or decrepid Men Labourers Plow-men Tillers of the ground or to any other who in these Commotions demean themselves inoffensively without joining with the Rebels or aiding or assisting them in their traiterous actings and behaviours But in regard Hugh Earl of Mount-Alexander John Lord Vicount of Mazareen Robert Lord Baron of Kingstone Clothworthy Schevington Esq Son to the Lord Vicount Mazareen Sir Robert Colvill Sir Arthur Rawden Sir John Magil John Hawkins Robert Sanderson and Francis Hamilton Son to Sir Charles Hamilton have been the principal actors in the said Rebellion and the persons who advised and fomented the same and inveigled others to be involved therein We think fit to except them out of this Proclamation as persons not deserving his Majesty's mercy or favour Given at the Council-Chamber of Dublin March 7. 1688. A. Fytton C. Granard Limrick Bellew Will. Talbot Tho. Neucomen Rich. Hamilton Fran. Plouden Numb 6. The Declaration of William and Mary King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland To all the People of this our Kingdom of Ireland whom it may concern William R. AS it hath pleased Almighty God to bless our Arms in this Kingdom with a late Victory over our Enemies at the Boyn and with the possession of our Capital City of Dublin and with a general dispersion of all that did oppose us We are now in so happy a prospect of our Affairs and of extinguishing the Rebellion of this
Castle Yet when he reduced that Castle which he did the same Night he not only gave Quarters for their Lives but would not suffer his Men to take any Plunder There Major Colaghan shot one of his Men for putting his Hand to a Protestant after Order given that they should neither be Killed nor Plundered Nay farther The Major-General was so careful lest the Souldiers so exasperated should do prejudice to the Protestants in the Town that though the Foot had Marched sixteen Miles that Day and fought in the Evening without any time to refresh themselves and many of them actually Fainting with the Toyl yet he would not suffer them to come into the Town but drew them up upon an adjacent Hill where he kept them all Night and early next Morning Marched them back to New Town a Town belonging to Sir Robert Colvil into which he would not suffer them to enter for the same fear of their doing any prejudice to the Protestants who wholly inhabit that Town He only took a Guard of Horse and some Officers with himself into the Town to refresh themselves where not one Protestant was hurt or toucht There he dismist all the Prisoners he had taken at the Fight of Killileagh requiring no other Conditions of them but an OATH not to bear ARMS again in Opposition to King James which we know how well they kept the first Opportunity they had to break it And tho' these Prisoners as well as those that were killed had then King James's Protections in their Pocket of which King James did very justly Complain though this Author Wonders at it yet the General did not require them to take out New Protections but said the Old should be as Effectual to them as before their Insurrection and they were made good to them to the Day that Schomberg Landed The General here sent home the Foot to their Quarters and went himself with some Horse to Port a Ferry in the Ardes where he took one Thomas Hunter Prisoner And having settled that Part of the Country returned As the Irish Forces Marched over Belfast Bridge going to their Quarters their Officers stopped them and searched to see if any of them had taken any Plunder in that Expedition And what they found caused it to be delivered to Mr. Pottinger then Sovereign of the Town to be put up in the Town-House in order to be restored to the Owners as they should be known which was accordingly done And the Officers would not permit the Souldiers to make the least halt in the Town for fear of Disorders but Marched them straight thro' to their Quarters at Carrickfergus In which they were so strict that Major Colaghan broake a Souldiers Head for taking a Glass of Ale at a Door as he Marched by Only the Regiment Quartered at Antrim staid at Belfast that Night not being able to march so faâ—â— but committed not the least Disorder Had the Protestant Officers of King William's Army been as careful of their Fellow Protestants in that Country Ireland had not been that Wilderness and Desolation which we see it this Day It is just and commendable to give our Enemies their due and not to conceal or lessen what they do worthily because they are our Enemies Many of the Irish Officers were kind to the Protestants not only in making good their Protections to them but even where they had not Protections and were perfectly at their Mercy I could give many Instances which I have heard from the Mouths of Protestant Gentlemen and Ladies who remained in Ireland while King James was there of the great Civility of several of the Irish Officers to them When the general Rout was given to the Protestants in the North of Ireland at Drommore upon the first Descent of King James's Army on the 14th of March 1688. and all were flying to the Sea as fast as they could several Protestants sell into the Enemies hand at Donaghadee a Sea-Port in the County of Down where they sought Opportunity of Shipping to have fled out of the Kingdom Among these was Mrs. Hawkins Wife to John Hawkins Esq of Raffer-Island in the County of Down one of the most zealous and active of any in the North for the Association in which Cause he was a Colonel and had his Commission from the Prince of Orange as all the rest had before he was made a King He was among the first Associators and made himself Secretary to the Association carried on at Moyrah by the Lord Blayney Sir Arthur Rawden c. All the Declarations of this Association were Signed Per Order John Hawkins This was before the Establishment of the Council of Five or more General Association in the County of Down the Seventh of January 1688. who sent an Address to the Prince of Orange dated at Hilsborough the 19th of January 1688. which his Highness answered by his Letter from St. James's dated the Tenth of February 1688. and sent by Captain Leighton with his Commissions to them for Colonels Captains and Subalterns But this is a Digression It is only to shew you that no man was more obnoxious to the Irish and to the Government than this Mr. Hawkins in so much that he was one of the Ten excepted from Pardon in the Proclamation before-mentioned of the Seventh of March 1688. This Gentleman's Lady being taken among many others making her Escape at Donoghadee instead of being Plundered was civilly treated and suffered to go off to Sea not only her self but with all her Goods Furniture c. and when she offered her Coach as a Present to Major Colaghon he refused it and did not take the Worth of a Penny from her I could give you many more Instances which I have heard But we must not make too great Digressions I am afraid of being tedious Let us Return to our Author 's bloody Massacre of the Protestants in the County of Down by Major-General Buchan which was the Subject from whence we have been carried thus far It was one of this Author 's unfortunate days that he light upon Major-General Buchan to make the Masacrer in cold Blood c. For all that know that Gentleman know him to be a Soldier and incapable of any such Brutality It is so far from it that the common Voice of all the Irish Protestants does proclaim how much they owe to Lieutenant-General Hamilton to this Major-General Buchan and to Major-General Maxwell for their great Care and even Generosity to the Protestants in Ulster though what they did even that of Major-General Maxwel's preserving Belfast and all the Country when Schomberg Landed was as themselves own by King James's express Order But he must have no share of the Thanks even by those Protestants who extol his Officers for nothing but duly executing his Orders The Irish were as much offended on the other hand against these Three Scots Generals for their Partiality as they called it to their own Countrymen tho' in Rebellion because they
And therefore to be Lov'd by the People and kept Great and Inviolable as their Greatest Security and Glory The Author's Conclusion Protestation of his Sincerity It is now time to come to a Conclusion If I have not tyred you I am sure I have my self I will therefore Close this Discourse with a small Reflection upon this Authors Conclusion p. 239. Wherein he protests before God That he has not Aggravated or Mis-represented the Proceedings against us out of Favour or Affection to a Party c. By this he would seem as equal to the Irish as to the English to the Papist as to the Protestant For which I must Refer you to what has been already said But if this had been his Principle why would he lay such Loads upon a Popish King for choosing to trust Papists in his Army and even to prefer them to the Protestants Is it not the same reason as for a Protestant Prince to desire a Protestant Army And if in such a Case you could not sind persons so Qualify'd as you desire would you not take the best you could get and give them time and opportunities farther to Accomplish themselves This Author knows very well this was King James's Case with the Irish That there was not a Gentleman among them but was employ'd My Lord Chief Justice Keating in his Letter to Sir John Temple 29. Decemb. 88. sayes The Roman Catholick Nobâ—â—â—â—y and Gentry of the Kingdom are Vniversally concerned in the present Army and in that which is to be rais'd p. 351. of this Authors Book But he King James was forc'd to take in the Scum likewise to make up an Army Yet this Author makes it one of the Heads of his Discourse p. 25. The insufficiency of the persons Employ'd by King James And Improves that to an Argumnnt for his Abdication I am very sensible of the many ill Steps were made in K. James's Government and above all of the Mischievous Consequence of the Lord Tyrconnel's Administration which the most of any one thing brought on the Misfortunes of his Master But when by what means soever things were brought to that pass that K. James was deserted by England and the Protestants in Ireland no Man in his Senses can blame him for making use of the Irish nor my Lord Tyrconnel for Arming Inlisting Arraying them c. In doing whereof considering the great Trust reposed in him no man of Honour or Moral Honesty can truly blame him Says my Lord Chief Justice Keating as inserted by this Author p. 349. And this Author knows very well that Lord Chief Justice Keating was a firm Protestant and a Man of Sense And this Author does Confess p. 101. n. 5. That these new made 〈◊〉 were set on Foot partly on the first Noise of the P. of Orange's descent and partly in the beginning of Decem. 88. Now at this time to hinder K. James to raise an Army of Irish to assist him is the Argument our Author had undertaken and for which he blackens K. James to the utmost He says p. 166. That without any Necessity at all he K. James threw himself upon these People he Encourag'd them he Armed them gave Commissions even to those that had been Torys c. Some such perhaps he might Employ I have known a High-way-Man an Officer in the Army in K. Charles II. time and no Notice taken of it but it was because he could get no better as is said above But to say he had no Necessity at all to raise these Men cannot have common Sence in it unless this Author thinks that at that time the Protestants of Ireland would have Fought for K. James against the P. of Orange and so that he had no need of the Irish If that be our Authors meaning I hope he will Explain himself And likewise whether he does not a little Aggravate the Case which he protest before GOD he does not when he assures us p. 15. That K. James did Prosecute the same if not worse Methods towards the Protestants in Ireland than the K. of France did with the Hugonots in his Dominions Why Was there any Dragooning in Ireland such as we have heard of in France Yes Our Author tells us C. 3. § 8. n. 15. p. 112. This was perfect Dragooning to the Protestants Terrible Dragooning Pray what was this It must raise a Dismal Apprehension in the Reader some Exquisit Torture Protestant Bridles or some-thing like Amboina Parturiunt Montes The whole matter was Disarming the Protestants in Dublin 24. Feb. 88. But what Occasion was there for this Disarming What Reason had the Government to be Apprehensive of these Protestants All the Protestants Generally in Vlster Connoght and Munster in all Ireland except Dublin and other Parts of Linster whom the. Lord Deputy kept in Awe with what Forces he had were then actually in Armes in Opposition to the Government and had enter'd into Associations to carry on their War But may be these Protestants in Dublin were more Loyal than the other Protestants of Ireland What Reason had the Lord Deputy to Suppose that But this Author tells us in the same Section p. 97. That they had a Plot to Seize my Lord Deputy himself and the Castle of Dublin with the Stores Ammunition c. But when was this It was says the Author when the News came that K. James had sent Commissioners to Treat with the P. of Orange This was very early And what if the â—râ—nce had Aâ—cepâ—â—d of a Treaty How did they know but the King and Prince might have Agreed But they were resolv'd to Anticipate all this And not to wait even the Princes Commands They were for Supererogation and to shew Zeal Extraordinary But after all if their Numbers were not Considerable in Proportion to the Kings Army or if they were not well Arm'd the Government might have over look'd their Rashness and let them alone In Answer to this our Author tells in the same Place That they K. Jame's Army were but a Handful to the Protestants there being Men and Arms Enough in Dublin alone to have dealt with them And p. 111. That they the Protestants had Arms enough to make the Papists Afraid and to beat them too if they had had a little Assistance and Encouragement of Authority to Attempt it And they knew how to Supply the want of Authority another way Now let any one Judge in the point of Reason Is there a Man in his Senses that had to do with these People in the Circumstances they and the rest of the Protestants of Ireland stood but would have Disarm'd them if he could And for our Author to Equal this to the French Dragooning is betraying of his Cause It is rendring the whole Suspected To Aggravate things beyond the Truth does not make them more but nothing at all What Notion does this give us of the French Persecution Had that King as much to say against the Hugonots as K. James had against
How the Empire was to be Divided betwixt the Turk and the German Princes and the Dauphin to be King of the Romans Savoy was to be brought under Pupillage the Princes of Italy to be Frighted Bought or Wheedled Genoa to be Bomb'd England Bought and Holland Drown'd alass Poor Holland The Queen of Spain designedly made Barren and the Prince of Wales a Cheat. There 's a Plot for you And p. 10. he asks K. James What business had he with an Army But leaving his Politicks let us come with him a little to the Argument He has Established it before That Jealousies and Fears are not to pass for Arguments against the certain and plain Duty of Obedience to Lawful Governors But that what is brought against them ought to be so Plain and Evident that the Consciences of Mankind cannot but see and be convinc'd of its Truth And yet he brings here against K. James such Trash as Grub-street would be asham'd to own and if the Sermon were not so common I should be afraid to Quote least it should be thought an Imposition upon this Author But he has set his Name to it and Dedicated it to the Lords Justices of Ireland before whom he Preach'd it Of all the Instances above-nam'd we are more immediately concern'd in that of the Prince of Wales Pr. of Wales against whom he gives no other proof but p. 5 of his Sermon where he says We are satisfied i.e. of his being a Cheat. If these Gentlemen for whom and in whose Name this Author here speaks had been so Good or this Author for them to have told us what Evidence they had to satisfie themselves in a Point so Important as this Now when all the sensible Men of England are fully satisfied to the contrary viz. That the Prince of Wales was truly born of the Queen When it is no longer made a doubt of nor endur'd to be mention'd at Court or Parliament The but Questioning of it is a stob at the heart of this Prince says the History of the Desert p. 107. you need not ask which Prince it is who does not love to hear of it And who they are who press it to be heard and examin'd For which I refer you to n. 16. Append. It is likewise well known that this was but the tail of an old Plot to say the same of any Son the Duke of York should ever have of which n. 17. Appendix contains a Proof sufficient And shews the indefatigable Pains of that Phanatick Republican Hogan Mogan Party to render the Bill of Exclusion effectually servicable to the End for which it was intended This was thought to have been handsomly cover'd when Zuylestein was sent over to congratulate the Birth of the P. of Wales Nay he was publickly Prayed for as P. of Wales in her Royal Highness Chappel at the Hague where Dr. Burnet himself did often Officiate To say that they did not believe him to be P. of Wales at that time is to accuse them of such Atheistical Hypocrisy making a mock of God in his solemn Worship as would render them an abhorring to all Flesh To avoid this terrible Charge you will be forced to acknowledge That their Highnesses and Dr. Burnet too did not then believe the Reports of the Queens False-Belly for they were spread abroad long before And what Evidence they have got since besides these same Reports is what the Nation wants to know but are not like to be satisfied Nihil Dicit is confessing of Judgment Yet our Author says that he and the Irish Protestants of his Party are all satisfied for those I suppose he means by the We all are satisfied of the Imposture of the P. of Wales And by his Principles here laid down their Proofs must exceed Jealousies and Fears and be so plain and evident as the Consciences of Mankind cannot but see and be convinced of their Truth And then why should not he Produce them If he says as I suppose he must that he once thought it was Evident So it was for some time thought by the Generality of the People of England that the 3500 Irish who were disbanded by K. James before he went away were about to Massacre all England and had actually begun the Work and the whole Nation was terribly allarm'd There is nothing so Ridiculous may not be put upon some People as Plain and Evident in some Junctures Earl of Essex That the Earl of Essex was assassinated went down greedily with some sort of People for a while though People of sense did not then believe it nor his Lady as she declared to many noble Relations of his Lordship and her own But now the Trick is all come out and how that whole matter was managed Mr. Hook then Chaplain to the Duke of Monmouth and who came over with him from Holland wrote a Narrative of it at Amsterdam as himself declared for a Preparatory to their Undertaking Another was wrote by Col. Danvers and another at Amsterdam and was taken in Col. Danvers's House in London And they bragg'd how much Service it did in the West and stirr'd up the People against K. James and to join with the Duke of Monmouth A Committee of Lords was appointed since this Revolution to Rake into that matter again but after long Sitting and Examinations could make nothing of it and were forced to let it fall I suppose now for ever Sir Richard Haddock at present first Commissioner of the Navy declared before the said Committee That he saw the Earl of Essex lying in his Blood and having considered the narrowness of the Place where he lay and all other Circumstances he could not have been so Murther'd by any but himself Braddon's Tryal it self is enough to Detect it to any unprejudiced Reader But that this Author may not be accus'd for proving of nothing that he says he has undertaken to make out the Grand League before told in the aforesaid Sermon from a Letter of Bishop Maloony's to Bishop Tyrrel which our Author has printed in the Appendix of his Book There Page 363. Bishop Maloony is inveighing against K. James's Politicks in trusting too much to the English and seeking to please them while he rejected the assistance which the French King offered him If the King of France says that Bishop had not been too Generous and too Christian a Prince were it not a sufficient Motive for him to Reject the King in his Disgrace that upon those rotten Principles Rejected his Alliance This is that Alliance with France says our Author in his abovesaid Sermon p. 5. which Maloony the Popish Bishop of Killa loo in a Letter of his to Bishop Tyrrel is so very angry that some Trimmers as he calleth them oblig'd King James to disown These Trimmers were the abovesaid rotten Principles as that Bishop calls them of trusting to the English And these oblig'd King James to disown such an Alliance with France which he Rejected and yet found that his
were Eye-witnesses That long before K. J. left England the Protestants in the North of Ireland were generally all in Arms appointed themselves Officers Inlisted Men Arm'd and Array'd them they Regimented themselves and had frequent Rendevouzes they appear'd in the Field with Drums beating and Colours flying they chose Governors of Counties and appointed Councils and Committees to carry on their Business they Disarmed the Irish and such of the Protestants as they suspected not to be Cordial to their Cause I need not mind you that all this was not only without any Authority from the King but that it was not so much as pretended on the contrary iâ— appears by what they did after and boast of here as their Merit that all this was intended at least by many of them in direct Opposition to the King You cannot imagine that they could in a moment march out Horse and Foot in good Order and all Officer'd as they did at Eneskillen against those two Companies that were sent to quarter there It is therefore certain that sometime before this they had Marshall'd themselves Inlisted their Men chosen their Officers c. which was Treason by the Law tho they had not entred upon Action and I believe no Man in the World but our Author will deny this to be in Opposition to the Government What Government would not think it so Therefore the shutting up of Derry Gates against the E of Antrim's Regiment and Eneskillen refusing to quarter two Companies sent to them by the Lord Deputy was not all that was done by any Protestant in Ireland in opposition to the Government till K. J. deserted England as our Author words it Their former Preparations in order to that Resistance they then made was as much Treason in the eye of the Law tho not so great Treason as the Resistance it self But when did they begin to make these Preparations We are told in one of the Accounts Printed by the Irish Protestants intituled A faithful History of the Northern Affairs of Ireland from the late K. James ' s Accession to the Crown to the Siege of London-Derry by a Person who bore a great share in thâ—se Transactions We are told in this Account p. 7. That they began to Arm and to engage themselves in Associations about Sept. 88. before those written Associations which were afterwards published In the Prosecution of which Affair the Lord B. in the Counties of Armagh and Monaghan and Sir A. R. in Down and Antrim appeared most forward This was when the report grew hot of the P. of O's design'd Expedition into England they then as that Author says p. 6. did presume too far upon the Opinion of their own strength and finding the Affairs of England run successfully on the Protestants side rashly fancy'd themselves able enough to attempt their Deliverance I am the rather inclin'd to believe him not only because he says that himself bore a great share in those Transactions but I find him so far from being a Friend to K. James or writing on his side that he dips his Pen in Gall against him and represents him even with Virulence and he writes on purpose to vindicate their Proceedings in the North of which himself he says bore a great share and therefore not likely to speak with any Design to Prejudice their Cause and he tells us quite contrary to our present Author That the Protestants in the North of Ireland began very early two Months before the P. of O. Landed here and were from that time gathering strength Arming Marshalling and Training their Men to the Discipline of War and the use of their Arms in which I am told they were very diligent till at length they were able to make that first opposition which our Author speaks of at Derry and Eneskillen This was before the P. of O. came into England and I find a little after viz. about the end of Novemb. 88. When the happy tydings of the P. of O. Landing had reached our Ears in Ireland says Mr. J. Boyse in his Vindication of Mr. Osborn in reference to the Affairs of the North of Ireland p. 11. Mr. Osborn was entrusted by his Brethren the Nonconformist Ministers and other Gentlemen of Note and Interest in the Province of Ulster to get some Gentleman or other sent over from Dublin to the Prince with these following Instructions sign'd by those two whose names are subscribed in the name of the rest 1. That in our Name you congratulate the arrival of the P. of O. into England and his success hitherto in so glorious an undertaking to deliver these Nations from Popery and Slavery 2. That you Represent the Dangers and Fears of the Protestants in Ireland and particularly in the Province of Ulster and humbly beseech him to take some speedy and effectual care for their Preservation and Relief 3. That you Represent our readiness to serve him and his Interest in Prosecution of so glorious a Design as far as we have access Subscribed ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ALEXANDER OSBORNE Accordingly on Dec the 8th they sent over a Gentleman now in Town says the Book who in pursuance of these Instructions delivered in a memorial enlarging on these heads for they begg'd no particular favour for a Party to the then P. of O. the Originals of both which Papers are in my hands says Mr. Boyse whose Words these are Now I must inform you that the Nonconformists are much the most numerous Party of the Protestants in Ulster which is that is called the North of Ireland some Parishes have not ten not six that come to Church While the Presbyterian Meetings are crowded with thousands covering all the Fields this is ordinary in the County of Antrim especially which is the most populous of Scots of any in Ulster who are generally Presbyterians in that Country in other of the Northern Counties the Episcopal Protestants bear a greater Proportion some more some less But upon the whole as I have it from those that live upon the Place they are not One to Fifty nor so much but they would speak within Compass From hence we may conclude That the abovesaid Address to the P. of O. may be said to be the Address of the Protestants of Ulster especially considering that none of the others did Discent from it I suppose many Joyn'd in it for the Contest then was who should be most forward in shewing their Affection to the Cause and who could first meet his Highness thought they had most title to his favour And this our Author knows was before King James deserted England and I suppose he will not have the hardiness to say That this was nothing done in opposition to the Government I will give one Instance more We have heard and this Author could not but know of the great Alarm of an intended Massacre of the Protestants in Ireland upon the Ninth day of Decemb. 1688. The whole of this arose from a Letter said to be found in Cumber-street
inevitably occasion the total Ruin and Destruction of the North. This is his Charge and in his own Words In Answer to which I will not take Advantage of his misquoting this Proclamation which we may suppose for that Reason he forgot to Print among the very many Papers of far less Consequence which fill up his Appendix But we have it Printed in one of the late Irish Protestant Pamphlets called An Apology for the Protestants of Ireland c. and I have annexed it to this that you may see it the Author calls the excepted Persons Twelve whereas in the Proclamation there are but Ten. I lay no great stress upon that difference of Number it will not inhaunce the matter much But it shâ—ws that the Author has not been so exact in his Vouchers as he ought Of which or something worse it is a much greater Proof that in reciting the Causes which that Proclamation names for the Descent of that Army he does not keep to the Words of the Proclamation which instances Particulars this Author could not deny as Breaking of Prisons Discharging of Prisoners Seizing upon his Majesties Arms and Ammunition Imprisoning several of his Majesties Army Disarming and Dismounting them c. But the Author wisely avoids naming any of these least he should be oblig'd to disprove them only says in general as you have heard That the Proclamation charges them with Rebellion Killing Plundering c. Which he manfully denies every Word of it Therefore let us fairly Examine what I have before Quoted our of him And that we may fix his loose and artificial way of Dealing in Generals sliding unperceivably from one Matter to another and huddliug many Things together to distract the Reader I will reduce his Charge to these Heads First That before the Descent of the Army with whom came the Proclamation dated the 7th of March 1688. the Lord Deputy did not so much as summon the Associators in Ulster Secondly I will Examine who those great Robbers were in the North who Plundered the Protestants there And thirdly We will see whether the Northern Associators gave no other Provocation to the Government than to defend themselves against these Robbers For the First We are furnished with a Confutation of him from the very Proclamation he Quotes viz. That of the 7th of March 1688. which mentions a former Proclamation requiring the Associators to disperse and promising them Pardon There was one of this Nature I know not if there were any more dated the 25th of January 1688. which was sign'd by several Protestants of the Council as the Earl of Granard Lord Chief Justice Keting c. Besides this Mr. Osborn was sent down to the North by my Lord Deputy before the March of the Army to use all Perswasions to them to lay down their Arms to tell them the very Day the Army would March and he kept it That though Ten were excepted in the Proclamation yet he would insist but upon Three and if it should appear that they took up Arms meerly for Self-preservation then he would Pardon even the said three Persons also That he demanded no more of them than to deliver up their Arms and serviceable Horses as you may see in Mr Osborn's Letter to the Lord Mazereene of the 9th of March 1688. which I have taken out of the abovesaid Apology for the Protestants in Ireland and affixed to this n. 3. Add to this the offers which my Lord Deputy sent to the Gentlemen in the North by Sir Robert Colvill viz. That if his Country-men would continue Quiet in their respective Habitations they should be only Charg'd with the Incumbrance of two Regiments This is told in the Faithful History p. 10. and this was long before the March of that Army to the North. I have heard of several other Messages and even Arts that my Lord Tyrconnel used to Quiet the Disturbances in the North of which he was at the beginning very Apprehensive and used his utmost Endeavours to appease them as all the Accounts the Irish Protestants have Printed here do with one Consent declare And I have heard some of them say That they dreaded nothing so much as that Tyrconnel durst not send an Army against them and that the Irish would submit without any Opposition and so they would get no Forfeitures so much they overvalued and their Enemies feared the strength of the North though both lived to see themselves mistaken Let this suffice as to the first Point viz. That my Lord Tyrconnel did not forget to summon the North before he sent down the Army against them in March 1688. If repeated Proclamations and Messages may be called Summons As to the second of the great Robbers in the North. We do not speak now of the common Robberies of High-way-men That has always been and will be in all Countries more or less but of such Armed Bands of Robbers as forc'd the whole North to Arm and Regiment themselves and enter into Associations and Confederacies and a formal War to defend themselves against these Robbers who he says were Men intrusted by the Lord Deputy with Arms and Employments so not common Robbers And by the Account of all that came from the North this was so far from being true that the Irish there were in mortal Fear of the Protestants and commonly durst not sleep in their Houses but lay abroad in the Fields least they should fall upon them No Irish were suffered to live in the Country who did not take out Protections from such of the Protestant Gentry as were allowed by the Associators to grant such Protections Nor durst they Travel from their own Houses without Passes The Protestants made them contribute equally at least with themselves in all their new Levies and forced them to work upon their new Fortifications at their Pleasure which they did without grudging and any thing to please those who were absolutely their Masters and in whose hands they reckoned their Lives to lye every moment and many Insults and Threatnings they bore from the Commonality of the Protestants who made full use of their finding themselves at Liberty from all Government and to domineere over those who were intirely at their mercy The Faithful History p. 9. says Amidst those Convulsions Robberies in other Parts the North only remained undisturbed Our Author himself in what I have already quoted says plainly That the Protestants kept the whole Country within their Associations from being Pillaged Where then were these great Robberies he speaks of He may say In other Parts of Ireland But that is not our present subject but only the Condition of the North. And the Author places the Scene there when he says That they the Gentlemen in the North did not attempt any thing upon these Armed Robbers except in their own defence when Invaded and Assaulted by them nor killed any but whom they found actually Robbing So that all this must be in the North where many Witnesses attest and the
was a Roman-Catholick and her Husband a Colonel in Carrickfergus which they were going to Besiege Mr. Dunkin thinking he might have some Interest among them at least for his Character endeavoured to perswade them from such a brutal Action but they looked upon him as an Enemy because he was in the King's Service and they not only Robb'd him and besides what was his own took from him a Silver Bowl belonging to the Colonel but stript him and his Man and one Arthur Dobbing a Gentleman attending upon the Lady and would have broke into the House to have Robb'd her if not worse had not Mr. White violently interpos'd and had that Credit with them to preserve the Lady who was half dead with fear and could hardly be led into her Coach But Mr. White went with her himself till he brought her near Shanes-Castle the House of the Lady Marchioness of Antrim to whom Mrs. O Neil fled for Protection and where she had a great fit of Sickness occasioned by these Frights The Associators having let her thus Escape thought fit to Plunder her House which they did effectually leaving nothing they could find belonging to the Colonel or to her Was this Lady was Mr. Dunkin were the Servants of the Colonel's House or his Stock Goods and Furniture actually Assaulting and Robbing these Associators Had they read the Comminations of that Day in the Service of the Church they might have found what Thanks they deserv'd at God's hands and what Blessings these Nations were to expect for what Things they were a doing that Day The Anniversary of which Day was Celebrated with the Sacrifice of Glenco in Scotland 13 Febr. 1692. But to Return to our History The Associators did proceed and resolved to Besiege Carrickfergus of which you have a pleasant Account in the Faithful History p. 27. to 31. They first ordered such Provisions us were design'd for that Place to be intercepted and amongst others Colonel Edmunston by command from the Grand Council of the Association seiz'd on a Boat laden with Provision at Broad Island which was intended for my Lord Antrim's private Family They do not pretend they sound this Boat a Robbing or that it Invaded or Assaulted them In short they actually Besieged Carrickfergus about the 20 Febr. 1688 it is true they did not take it The Misfortunes of that Siege I leave to the Chronicle But it is not to be doubted they had prevail'd if they had had either Cannon Mortar or Scaling Ladder for the Men upon command Marcht up and Fired their Musquets against the Walls and after they were Saluted by the Cannon from the Castle they went back again The truth is They thought to have Surprised it but it would not do Therefore on the 21st February 1688. they consulted how to come off with Honor and enter'd into Articles not to Surrender the Town but to Raise the Siege And these Articles were made to consist with the Reputation of the Confederate Generals of the Association One was That Colonel Cormock O Neil should Disband his Regiment which was not in his Power to do Another That the Earl of Antrim should be Permitted to take such and such Provisions into Carrickfergus and Permitted to send such Letters to Dublin as he should shew to the Earl of Mount-Alexander and other of the Confederate Nobility and Gentry This was Great It was taking something more upon them than meerly to Defend themselves from Robbers when actually Assaulted by them which our Author says was all they did But it not being likely that these Articles should be kept therefore as a Salvo for the future Breach of them it was put in the eighth Article That these Articles should continue in force whilst no more Popish Forces were Sent into or Raised in the Province of Ulster The Confederate Associators would not be stinted from Raising what Forces they pleas'd But they would Limit the King that he should Raise no more This was not very likely to hold And therefore these Articles were not long liv'd But they serv'd to grace the Retreat of the Confederate Army from before Carrickfergus The same unfortunate Stars prevented their several Designs upon the Garisons of Newry and Charlimont So that though they often attempted nothing succeeded with them except my Lord Blaynie's surprising a Troop of Dragoons at Ardmagh whom they disarm'd took their Horses from them and made the Officers Prisoners Did they find these Men actually Robbing whom they surprised in their Beds or cureless in their Guard-house They were not so lucky in their Design upon Sir Thomas Newcomen's Regiment at Lisburn though several of the Officers of the Regiment were upon the Plot as Captain Leighton Captain Brimingham Lieutenant Barnes Lieutenant Tubman c. And though as the Faithful History tells you pag. 12. Gaptain Leighton engaged to disarm the whole Garison with the Assistance only of as many Men as might serve to bring off their Arms and that Sir Arthur R. was advanced with 500 Men within five Miles of the Town to make good the Attempt yet it miscarry'd the Plot was discovered and Sir Thomas marched away his Regiment only those Officers who had ingaged to betray the Guard and deliver the Arms thought fit to stay behind and run the Fate of the Association Take notice here that this was one of the two Regiments which by my Lord Tyrconnel's Ingagement were to be the Quota of the North to free them from all fear or a possibility of their being either Assassinated or Plundered by the Army among them who by this means were so few as to be perfectly in the Power of the Country and Sir Thomas who commanded one of them was a Protestant The other Regiment was my Lord Antrim's and both these as the Faithful History tells p. 11. hapâ—ed at this time to be Garison'd in Lisburn Belfast Carickfergus and other adjacent Places When upon a solemn Debate by a Committee of such as had Subscribed the Association it was concluded that both these Regiments should be disarm'd and the Castle of Carrickfergus secured in which were Arms for two Regiments more Upon the strength of this Attempt they purposed to have opposed Tyrconnel upon equal Terms and by putting a Garison into the Newry they hoped to have stop'd that Pass and thereby to have secur'd the two Counties of Downe and Antrim for the Protestant Interest These are the Words of the History And let our Author judge if this was only Acting upon the Defensive never Attempting any thing but in their own Defence when Invaded and Assaulted by Robbers Which he asserts as a notorious Truth At a Place called Killough in the County of Downe The Associators seized some Barrels of Gun-powder which the Lord Deputy was sending to Londonderry Long before this Sir Gerard Irwin a Protestant whose Estate lies near Eneskillen carrying Arms by order of the Government to some of the King's Forces in the North was set upon in the County of Cavan
next under God chiefly to the Clemency of K. J. who restrained all he could the Insolence and Outrage of their Enemies of which I can give you some remarkable Instances and good Vouchers I appeal to the E. of Granard whether Duke Powis did not give him Thanks from K. J. for the Opposition he made in the House of Lords to the passing the Act of Attainder He encouraged the Protestant Lords â—o spâ—â—â— against it 〈◊〉 Paâ—liaâ—â—â— and the Act for Repeal of the Acts of Settlement and desired that he and the other Protestant Lords should use their Endeavours to obstruct them To which the Lord Granard answered That they were too few to effect that but if the King would not have them pass his way was to engage some of the Roman Catholick Lords to stop them To which the Duke replied with an Oath That the King durst not let them know that he had a mind to have them stopt And yet this Author c. 2. s 5. n. 3. p. 23. would have us believe That the Duke used his Interest with the King to put a stop to them but was not able to do it I farther appeal to that noble Lord the E. of Granard whether the same day that the News of the driving the Protestants before the Walls of Derry come to Dublin as his Lordship was going to the Parliament House he did not meet K. J. who asked him where he was going His Lordship answered to enter his Protestation against the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement Upon which K. J. told him That he was fallen into the hands of a People who ramm'd that and many other things down his Throat His Lordship took that occasion to tell his Majesty of the driving before Derry The King told him that he was grieved for it That he had sent immediate Orders to discharge it and that none but a barbarous Moscovite so he stiled General Rosen who commanded that driving who thereby it seems was bred or born in Moscovy could have thought of so cruel a Contrivance Let me add to this Testimony of my Lord Granard's what I had from the Mouth of a Scots Clergyman who being in King James's Army the 26th of June 1690. the Thursday before the Boyne asked Major-General Maxwell a Roman Catholick how K. J. came to pass the Act of Attainder and the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement being at that time so visibly against his Interest The General replied Sir if you did but know the Circumstances the King is under and the Hardships these Men the Irish put upon him you would bemoan him with Tears instead of blaming him But what would you have him to do All his other Subjects have deserted him this is the only Body of Men he has to appear for him he is in their hands and he must please them Yet this Author affirms confidently c. 3. s 12. n. 20. p. 163. That K. J. of his own accord was the first who motioned the Repealing of the Acts of Settlement in his Speech at the opening of the Parliament in Dublin But the Author has not annexed that Speech in his long Appendix where many other Papers of greater Bulk less Consequence and much harder to be procured are inserted at large But no doubt he had a Reason for it therefore I have annexed it to this No. 1. and there you will see not a Word of what this Author avers but rather the contrary viz. That the King did not desire a Repeal of the Acts of Settlement but only a Relief to such as had been injured by those Acts which may happen in the justest Acts in the World especially of the Settlement of a whole Nation after such a Rebellion and terrible Revolution as that of 41. And K. J. there desires no farther for them than may be consistent with Reason Justice and the publick Good of his People All the Words of his Speech which relate to the Acts of Settlement are these I shall also most readily consent to the making such good and wholsom Laws as may be for the general Good of the Nation the Improvement of Trade and the Relieving such as have been injured by the late Acts of Settlement as far forth as may be consistent with Reason Justice and the Publick Good of my People These are his Words and if our Author had set them down he would have thought it a hard Task to have found fault with them I never heard any Protestant say but that there were many hard Cases and even unjust in the Acts of Settlement But they excuse it by saying that it is impossible to be otherwise in so general and great a Settlement where so many thousands are concerned and that it is better to bear with that than to unsettle a Nation which may have worse Consequences and fall into the like Mistakes again and again And this seems to be King James's Sense of that Matter all along But will any say that such as shall appear to be injured ought not to be redressed if a way can be found agreeable to Reason Justice and Publick Good This would be to plead expresly against Reason and Justice and likewise against the Publick Good I am told that King James's meaning was to have a Sum of Money raised for such as had been injur'd by the Acts of Settlement but by no means to encroach upon the Acts And what Fault could our Author have found with this unless he thinks that Justice ought not to be done to the Irish or not to be executed against Protestants which may be the Reason why in all his Railings at the cruel Act of Attainder he has forgot to give one Reason why Rebels should not be attainted or why these Irish Protestants should not have been so dealt with supposing them to be Rebels as K. J. and that Parliament did certainly suppose But was it not very cruel to attaint so many To this they will reply was it not as cruel and more criminal that so many should be Rebels But this is said only for Arguments sake for it is most certain that K. J. did not propose nor was inclined either to this Act of Attainder or to the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement as this Author slanderously reports of him but with exceeding ill luck as to his Vouchers of which he gives another Instance c. 3. s 12. n. 2. p. 145. where he says it is certain Chief Justice Nugent and Baron Rice succeeded in their Design when they came over to England in Spring 88. to concert the methods of Repealing the Acts of Settlement Whereas all here upon the place know that K. J. did then positively refuse to consent to it which my Lord Sunderland does witness in his Letter of the 23 of March 89. and says that the King was resolved not to think of that year and perhaps never And yet this Author confidently quotes that very Letter in this same place as a Voucher on his side but
of K. James II. when he came among them sacrificing his Interest to the carrying on of their own Designs did justly deserve that Judgment which fell upon them in the Issue of that War We have done with their Loyalty at least their Mouths are stopt against the Defection of so many of the Church of England Of the Roman Catholicks of England And I think the Roman Catholicks of England too are not to insult For though the Oaths be not come to them and therefore we cannot say certainly whether they will Swear or not yet there lies this against them viz. in their publick Chapels here in London they pray for K. W. and Q. M. which some of their Communion told me I hear that all the Protestant Non-Jurors say There is the same Argument against praying as swearing And of all their number none did allow himself to pray but Dr. Sherlock alone who as he tells in the Preface to his Recantation stood single among the Non-swearing Clergy upon this account and you see he did not stay with them But the same Principle that led him to pray brought him to swear too rather than stick out Therefore let not these Roman Catholicks be high-minded because others have fallen but rather fear lest having gone already Dr. Sherlock's length of Praying they may come to Swear like him if they should be pinch'd as he was Nay I have heard several of them argue for the Lawfulness of it only they would keep from it as long as they could I say not that this does conclude upon others who do not so but it may make them more modest in rejoycing over our Fall Non-Jurors of the Church of England Upon the whole I must say That there are none have cleverly stuck to the Principles they profess'd but the Non-jurors of the Church of England For as they profess'd them all along in the same sense they have stuck to them now and have given that demonstration of their being in earnest that they are content to lose all rather than deviate from them And this is one Discovery among the rest that this Revolution has made It has discovered the inflexible Loyalty of these Men whom neither personal Injuries nor Attempts upon their Religion Liberty or Property can move from that Duty to the King which they think a Principle of their Religion and this is a high Vindication of their Religion and a Recommendation of it But now we are upon the Discovery let us not forget to do Justice to all We cannot forget the Rise and Source of our Disease whence all these Evils we now feel and foresee have come upon us and that is our wicked Presbyterian Rebellion against K. C. 1. which banished his Children into Popish Countries God thereby fulfilling a just Judgment upon these Unchristian Rebels Presbyterian Loyalâ—y permitting his Son to suck in the Principles of Roman Catholick Religion of which these Hypocrites against their own Consciences accus'd his Father and on that pretence instigated his deluded Subjects to Rebell against him Therefore it is plainly the Presbyterians we have to thank for K. J's being a Roman Catholick and all the ill Consequences which depend upon it God often in his All-wise Providence suffers Rebellion to bring on those same Evils for prevention of which we chose to Rebell as the Jews crucified Christ lest the Romans should come Joh. 11.48 and his Death brought the Romans who did take away their Place and Nation This had been an Application more befitting a Divine and to have warn'd us of those Sins which have provok'd God to send his Judgments amongst us rather than to bite the Stone not minding the Hand that threw it to lay all upon K. J. if it had been true But to tell down-right Untruths of him or to misrepresent the Truth to appear other than really it is which is likewise Lying and perhaps the more wicked of the two being harder to be discovered and so more apt to impose upon unwary and unthinking People This is direct Diabolical the Office and the Denomination of the Adversary and false Accuser Popish Principles which are embraced It had been a more proper and serviceable Undertaking of this Author to justifie himself and others of his complection from this Imputation and several other things formerly rail'd at against Popery as the Deposing Doctrine Dispensing with Oaths Jesuitical Equivocations and Mental Reservations Not keeping Faith with Hereticks c. where we own we must have kept the same Promises made to another and all this or any other Falsity or Immorality to be allow'd for the Good of the Church If to preserve the Protestant Religion will excuse us to dispense with God's Commands as much as we say the Papists have done to preserve their Church we must expect that the Protestant Religion will grow as hateful to all good Men as the Church of Rome is to the most Bigotted against it or the Jewish Doctrine of Corban which dispenses with the fifth Commandment upon the same Pretences viz. for the Good of the Church to enrich the Treasury of the Temple or the Phanatick Confession of Faith That Dominion is founded in Grace But all these have the Advantage of our Church of England Clergy The Jews had the Tradition of their Elders to plead and the Church of Rome have their Great Council of Lateran for the Deposing Doctrine the Council of Constance for Violating Faith to Hereticks c. and they have their Traditions too for the Benefit of the Church and the Presbyterian has his Solemn League and Covenant But the Church of England Clergy are destitute of all these Helps There is nothing of these but the direct contrary in all her Articles Homilies Canons Rubricks or any Constitutions of her Church The Church of England Vindicated And the Metropolitan of all England with a Quorum of Bishops and several hundreds of the Inferiour Clergy have adhered to the Doctrine of their Church and suffered themselves to be Deprived rather than act or teach contrary to it Therefore this cannot be called a Defection of the Church of England but only of particular Persons who have done it in opposition to their Superiors in the Church as well as in the State and let them answer for it but let the Reputation of the Church be preserved It has already received both a Testimony and a Vindication from the Mouth of K. J. himself who as some present have told when an Irish Lord at Dublin attending upon His Majesty at Supper began to reproach the Church of England for her Apostacy from her former Principles of Loyalty c. The King reply'd They are the Church of England who have kept to the Principles of the Church of England The Lord made Answer But Sir how few are they in comparison with the rest The King said They are more than Christ had to begin Christianity with And all Rightful Kings of England have this
Security from the Members of the Church of England more than from either Popish or Presbyterian Dissenters That when either of these two last-nam'd take Arms against the King for the Propagation of their Religion they act pursuant both to the Principles and Practice of their Churches but no true Church-of-England man can take Arms against the King in Defence of his Religion Liberty Property or any pretence whatsoever without at the same time renouncing the Principles of his Church or in Dr. Burnet's words turning Renegado and Apostate from it and from the constant Practices of its true Professors to this present Age. And though God has sifted Her and discovered Her unsound Members most of whom were Phanaticks grafted contrary to Nature yet we may perceive by the Remnant He has left that it will end in rendring her more Pure and Glorious after she has past the Refiner's Fire These Considerations have taken me a little out of the Road if it be out of the Road of the present Business I will return to the Author We have seen his Sincerity in the Original Matter of Fact and Mother of all the rest viz. Who were the Aggressors in the late miserable Revolution of Ireland for they were answerable for all that followed Matter◠of Fact set down by this Author at random But there are many other Particulars besides those to which I have spoken wherein the Author shews great variety of prevarication And tho he pretends to so great exactness which any one would believe by his Method yet it is visible that he set down things at random meerly for want of pains to examin them C. 3. S. 12. at the end p. 165. he pretends to compute what the Estates of all the Jacobites in England and Scotland are worth But this may pass more innocently than where it reflects upon any particular Persons Reputation in these Cases it is not only uncharitable but unjust to say any thing at a venture If we know not the thing to be true we are to err on the charitable side and not mention what may reflect upon another but if we do we must be sure to set down our Vouchers so as to leave no umbrage to suspect the Truth This our Author I am afraid has not so punctually observed through all this Book particularly in the Characters which he takes upon him to give of so many persons C. 3. S. 3. he accuses the Judges particularly the Lord Chief Justice Nugent ibid. n 5. p. 61. of down-right Bribery That he went sharer in Causes before him and not only appeared for them on the Bench but also secretly encouraged and fomented them I have heard others say who are no Admirers of that Judge That they are confident this is a rank Slander and Calumny and that no such thing can be proved against him However an Accusation of so heinous a Nature ought not to have been exhibited especially in Print without some Proofs along with it This Nugent says the Author was pitch'd on by K. J. to judge whether the Outlawries against his Father and his Fellow Rebels should be reversed Now I am assur'd That his Father viz. the Earl of Westmeath was not Outlawed which if so this is such another careless Mistake as this Author makes ibid. n. 3. pag. 60. where he calls Felix O Neil a Master of Chancery in King James's time Son of Turlogh O Neil the great Rebel in 41 and Massacrer of the Protestants That Turlogh O Neil was Brother to the Famous Sir Phelom O Neil and was not Father to this Felix O Neil I have been told by Men of Ireland That this Felix O Neil's Father's Name was Phelom and that he was so far from being a bloody Masacrer in 41. that he was civil to the Protestants in those times particularly to 〈…〉 Guilliam Father to Meredith Guilliam now a Major in K. W's Army whom he obliged by his civil Usage of him when he was Prisoner with the Irish and the same Guilliam's Relations do still acknowlege it But as to the Reversing of these Outlawries this Author has not done right to K. J. For upon the Representation made to his Majesty by the Earl of Clarendon then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of the ill Consequences of the Reversal of these Outlawries particularly the Jealousie it gave of encroaching upon the Acts of Settlement which you will see more at large in King James's Letter of the Third of May 86. to the Earl of Clarendon and his Lordships proceedings thereupon which are hereunto annexed No. 20 His Majesty did not press that matter any farther and so there was a stop put to these Reversals during the Government of my Lord Clarendon in Ireland and for any thing I can hear afterwards till this Revolution So that this seems rather an Imposition upon the K. as there were many by my Lord Tyrconnel and those of his Party than a thing that sprung immediately from the King 's own Breast or that he pitcht upon Judge Nugent on purpose to carry it on violently as this Author sets it out in his Guesses at Random and would have it pass for some mighty Matter To this Class will justly belong what I have before mentioned of this Author 's bold and positive Politicks upon foreign Princes and States and likewise of the P. of W. Fr. League c. which he had from the same Intelligence and avers with the same Assurance By Innendoes wherein his groundless and unjust Reflection upon the E. of Clarendon He has likewise an Art of making many things pass by Innendo's whose Falshood would have appeared if they had been plainly related For Example c. 3 s 12. p. 144. telling of the assurances sent over by King James to Ireland by the Earl of Clarendon Lord Lieutenant and Sir Charles Porter Lord Chancellor he says These Declarations gained belief from the credulous Protestants especially that made by Sir Charles who behaving himself with Courage and Integrity in his Office went a great way to persuade them which being the Ground of their being persuaded by him more especially than by my Lord Clarendon plainly insinuates as if my Lord Clarendon had not behaved himself with Courage and Integrity in his Office there This Author is the first Irish Protestant I have heard give my Lord Clarendon an ill word as to his Government in Ireland On the contrary they all speak exceeding things of him particularly of his Zeal and Pains for Supporting the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom which gain'd their hearts to as great a degree if not more than most Chief Governours had ever been there they never parted with any Chief Governour with so much regret and as I have been told none courted him more when he was there than this Author who was admitted one of his Excellency's Chaplains but now thinks fit that should be forgotten at least kept for a more seasonable Juncture But C 2. 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Numbers of them they could Master I 〈◊〉 the Judgment of the Reader And yet I have heard many Irish Protestants who live in the County of Down and near it say That they have not heard of any Rapes upon the Protestant Women there as this Author speaks even by the Rapparees for that Country being thick planted with Protestants the Rapparees durst not be too bold Which you will easily believe when you find what Opposition they were able to give even to the King's Army But to go on with the Story There was one Henry Hunter a Servant to Sir George Atchison in the County of Ardmagh in the North of Ireland who was made a Captain by the Associators Their Forces being beaten and dispersed at Drommore the 14th of March 1688. this Hunter was taken Prisoner near Antrim from whence he made his Escape about the middle of April following and came into the Barony of Ardes in the County of Down where they had all taken Protections from King James and lived Peaceably there being but one Company quartered in that whole Barony which is almost wholly Scots Protestants viz. Captain Con Mac-Gennis his Company Hunter coming thither got a great Rabble of these poor People to follow him and about the 15th of April 1689. they had a Scuffle with this Company of Captain Mac-Gennis and what other Irish came to their Assistance at Kinnin-Burne two Miles from New-Town Hunter's Rabble routed them stript and wounded many I know not if any kill'd but he drove them out of that Barony This occasioned Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Talbot to march from Carrickfergus with about an hundred Musqueteers the 15th of April to Belfast and the 16th to Newtown But finding the Matter over and some say fearing the Scots who were in great Numbers and rolling about he returned the 17th to Carrickfergus This Commotion gave great Disturbance to the Countrey People leaving their Ploughs and flying to Arms the Wiser sort dreading the Consequence of this wild Uproar after they had taken Protection from the King Sir Robert Maxwell then living in the Castle of Killileagh in the said County of Down and near the Barony of Ardes where this Insurrection began sent one John Stuart an Apothecary in the Town of Down with a Letter to Captain Patrick Savage a Captain in the Regiment of the Lord Iveagh to invite him to bring his Company to quarter in the Town of Killileagh for their Security from the Rabble in this Confusion Accordingly Captain Savage came and finding these People increase after Hunter and fearing he might be surprized quartering with his Men in the open Town he desired Sir Robert to permit him to keep his Guard in the Gate-house or Stables of the Castle Sir Robert was not willing but took two days to consider of it and in these two days he sent one Gawen Irwin twice to Hunter to bring him thither who accordingly came with his Rabble seized Captain Savage and his Lieurenant in their Quarters fell upon the Guard killed three Men and wounded six or seven Captain Savage complained that Sir Robert had betray'd him and Mr. Clulo Episcopal Minister of the place did resent the Barbarity of the Action and apprehending some further mischief to Captain Savage took him to his own House where though a Prisoner he had greater Accommodation and Safety The Lord Iveagh wrote to Sir Robert Maxwell to send him his Captain and Lieutenant whom he kept Prisoners This Letter Hunter took upon him and Sir Robert permitted him to answer and the Answer was That he would fight his Lordship and accordingly marched out against my Lord with what part of his Lordship's Regiment he had near Killileagh and other Countrey-people of the Irish who joined him The Lord Iveagh retired but endeavoured to make a Stand at Ceyle-bridge near the Town of Down Hunter forced his Passage and drove my Lord and his Men over the Strand of Dun-Drum into the upper and Mountainous parts of the County for which his Lordship's Regiment was broke by King James Hunter entred Down Triumphant and used those Pretetestants who would not joyn with him as ill as the Irish committed great Disorders and Irregularities in that Countrey and Governed Arbitrarily during his short Reign For now the Insurrection was come to that Head that it was fit for the Government to take notice of it Major-General Buchan whom this Author calls Bohan was commanded against Hunter he took with him Detachements out of the Duke of Tyrconnel's Regiment of Foot the Earl of Antrim's Regiment of Foot Colonel Cormock O Neil's Regiment of Foot and a Troop of Horse of the Lord Galmâ—y's Regiment and Colonel Cormock O Neil's Troop of Dragoons which he had with his Regiment of Foot and Captain Fitz Gerald's Troop of Dragoons These Forces were then at Carrickfergus Antrim and Lisburn The Major-General marched with the Horse and Dragoons and left the Foot to follow with what Dispatch they could who marched in one day viz. the 30th of April 1689. from Lisburn to Killileagh which is sixteen long Irish Miles they joyned the General about Five at Night who being then within two Miles of the Enemy marched directly upon them Being come within sight of them he sent a Trumpet to them desiring their Leader or some of the Chief of them to speak with him not doubting but upon the gracious Offers he was impowered by His Majesty to make to them he would have been able to bring back these deluded People to their Duty without shedding of Blood on either side But they fired upon the Trumpeter and refused all Parley so they engaged Hunter was beaten and fled and his Party dispersed I cannot learn the exact Number of Hunter's Army or of the Slain Some say he had three or four Thousand Men. Others not above four Hundred which may be reconciled some computing the whole Rabble which followed him others only those that charged in form against Buchan but not those upon the Hills and at greater distance Some who pretend to have viewed the Field and helped to bury the Dead say there were but sixty One of Hunter's Men killed and others say a great many more However that makes nothing to our present Dispute How many were killed in Battle is not the Question But our Author says That Major-General Buchan Massacred five or six Hundred in cold Blood for several Days together The contrary of which appears from these two Matters of Fact known to all the Country First That the Major-General was very Merciful even on the Day of Battle Secondly That he marched off his Men early next Morning and so did not stay to Massacre for several Days together As to the First He stopped Execution as soon as the Enemy were broke and out of Danger of Rallying And tho' several Shot were made against him out of the Castle of Killileagh as he was in pursuit of the Enemy part of Colonel Mark Talbot's Wigg was shot off by a Bullet from the
Princely Affection expressed to all your loving Subjects in your Majesty's gracious Speech at the opening of this Session which we most humbly beseech your Majesty may be forthwith printed and published And we farther crave leave humbly to represent to your Majesty our Abhorrence and Detestation of the late Treasons and Defections of many of Your Majesty's Subjects in this and Your other Kingdoms and the unnatural Usurpation of the Prince of Orange against the Laws of God and Man professing with our Voice Tongue and Heart That we will ever be ready to assert and vindicate Your Majesty's Rights to Your Imperial Crown with our Lives and Fortunes against the said Vsurper and his Adherents and all other Rebels and Traitors whatsoever Ordered the 10th of May 1689. by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled that this Address be printed B. Polewheele Dep. Cl. Parl. Numb 2. Dr. Gorge Secretary to General Schomberg in Ireland his Letter dated April or May 1690. to Collonel James Hamilton in London to be communicated to the Lady Viscountess Ranelagh the Lord Massereen and others Honoured Sir THe Fire saith the Royal Prophet kindled in my Breast and I spake with my Tongue Perhaps some Sparks of that Fire so enflamed my Zeal to the publick Good of this Countrey that I have not onely spoke with my Tongue but wrote with my Pen those Truths which I know have redounded more to my particular Prejudice than to the publick Service He that follows Truth too near saith a wise man may lose his Teeth and a wiser than he tells us that he who professeth some Truths may thereby lose his Life yet in the same Period tells us that he shall be no loser thereby the Satisfaction and Contentment which constantly attends Integrity being much sweeter than the Advantage of Temporal Security Liberavi Animam meam and if this make me vile I am content to be more vile I know God hath put Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent and I as well know that it is as vain for Man's Prudence to attempt to unite what God hath divided as it is sinfull to divide what he hath united I speak not a little to my satisfaction what you know to be true That our Adversaries who are more God's than ours want neither Power nor Malice to crush us such is the Goodness of God that they dare not own their Hatred but are content not only to make me fall from my present Station soft and easie but are willing to make my Remove an Advantage to me little thinking that taking me off from being Secretary to the General and making me Secretary of State necessitates one of my Principles to be the more prejudicial to theirs You know that notwithstanding all their publick and private Opposition They are come up to many of our Principles and we still continue our Distance to theirs which for the better memory I shall enumerate in the following Method the better to obtain your Belief in other particulars which I shall here subjoin You know that I ever asserted that those Principles and Practices which God blessed with Success in the former Irish War were most like to have the same success in this which I told you were as followeth 1. Though the Irish Papists had then as appears by the excellent Preface to the Act of Settlement made that Rebellion the most horrid and universal as ever befell this Kingdom and that nothing but the final Extirpation of the British Persons Laws Religion and Government was designed and endeavoured by that War Yet the then English Government thought not fit to tread in their Steps but still declined making the War either National or Religious and did declare and as you know made their Declaration good at the end of the War That those of the Irish Papists as could prove their constant good Affection to the English Interest as many then did were as secure in their Properties as any of the British Nation or Religion and by this means so divided their Interest that Sir Ch. Coote's Northern Army was most of it composed of Irish Papists who fought faithfully and successfully against their Countreymen and many yet living know faithfully the White Knight of Kerry and others as Eminent as he served General Cromwell 2. By publick Proclamation in those times they protected Papists and well as Protestants who would live peaceably under their Government from any violence to be done them by the Soldiers two private Soldiers being publickly executed in the face of the whole Army for stealing two Hens from an Irish-man not worth six pence for violating the Proclamation the first day General Cromwell made his advance from Dublin towards Droghedagh 3. They forbid under the like penalty of death without mercy any contempt or violation of the Lord General 's publick Orders and Proclamations 4. They prohibited all free quartering on the Countrey or any Soldiers quartering without Billets from the Constable and would not suffer any Soldier to quarter himself 5. They likewise under severe penalties forbid private Soldiers stragling from their Colours without Passes and ordered both Civil and Military Magistrates to apprehend such straglers to send them to their Colours then to be punished according to their respective merits 6. They gave great Encouragement to Papists as well as Protestants who would give Hostages for their fidelity and joyn with them 7. They severely punished all open Debauchery and Impiety and would frequently affirm that good Conduct was more usually bless'd with success than courage of Armies 8. Though they protected as aforesaid Papists as well as Protestants from the Soldiers violence yet they left both to be Fin'd Imprison'd or Sequester'd by the Civil Magistrates according to their respective merits 9. Both Officers and Soldiers were required to be aiding and assisting to put in execution all Orders or Directions of the Civil Magistrate especially such as referred to the well management of the publick Revenue 10. They laboured all they could to lessen the Charge of England and to encrease the publick Revenue of Ireland 11. On assurance of punctual performance they contented themselves with four days pay in a week and placed the other three days to be paid out of forfeited Lands Lastly By this Abatement of their Pay and leaving Rebels Goods Stock and Lands and the publick Revenue to be improved by the Civil Magistrate and making the Soldiers duly pay for their quarters they soon raised in this Kingdom a Revenue which bore a moity of the charge of the War I might enumerate many other particulars which having been the subject matter of my Discourse with your self and some late Letters I have wrote to Major Wildman I intentionally decline You know how often and how early we pressed the necessity of restoring a Civil Government in this Province and how often and openly we declared that the ruine of the Countrey must be the prejudice and endanger
for the publick use those Supplies that were so freely afforded you in Parliament and without such strict Clauses of appropriating them to particular uses as were in the last Reign and with joy to look on the glorious Super-structure that your Reign hath hereby built on that great Foundation of the happiness of any Kingdom namely an entire mutual Confidence between Prince and People There is another thing occurs to my Observation namely That since your Parliament your Majesty hath allowed for the yearly Charge of the Navy about 400000 l. which is much more than was allowed for that use in his late Majesty's Reign These are great things Sir and your Seamen cannot but be sensible of the Honour and Happiness you have taken care of for them and how by your rebuilding your Capital Ships you have prepared floating Pallaces for them to inhabit and serve you in Sir The Hearts of your Seamen having in them so great a constant stock of the natural heat of Loyalty it is not to be wondered at that this Noble Lord could by his Breath so easily occasion that flame of Zeal for your Majesty's Service that has appeared in their Address his Lordship having likewise acquainted them with the tender regard your Majesty had to their wellfare and preservation and to their being eased from all Grievances To conclude Sir The things that I have before referred to are such as must naturally make great impressions not only on your Seamen but on all English Patriots and incline your Subjects of all Religionary Persuasions when they shall consider how Indulgent and Provident a Father of their Countrey God hath set over them to think of those words That he hath not dealt so with every Nation And when they shall consider those great Effects of your Royal Care for the securing the Being of the Kingdom and England's being a Kingdom for ever to apply to your Self and to England the great Landatory Expression addrest to King Solomon namely Because God loved Israel for ever therefore made he you King His Majesty was then Graciously pleased to say Gentlemen I Thank you for your Address and I doubt not but when I shall think fit to call a Parliament you will make it your business to choose such good Men as shall correspond with the effect of your Address I assure you I never questioned the Loyalty of my Seamen I have my Self been an Eye Witness of both your Courage and your Loyalty when I was your Admiral And Gentlemen I am your Admiral still and my Seamen may depend upon it that they shall always be well provided for and duly paid and be carefully protected and encouraged by me as much as the Seamen ever were by any of My Predecessors Though some of My Neighbours give out and would have it believed that I have not the Hearts of My Seamen yet I have found the contrary for when I have occasion to fit out any Ships I do not find that I am in the least want of Men and whenever my Affairs may require the fitting out My whole Fleet I do not in the least doubt but that I shall find My Seamen ready to serve Me. Numb 11. An Abstract of Mr. Pepy's Memoirs of the Royal Navy IN April 1679 the Ships of War actually in Pay were 76. whereof one First Rate three Second Rates P. 6. fifteen Third Rates thirty Fourth Rates twelve Fifth Rates seven Sixth Rates eight Fire-Ships Thirty Capital Ships more were then in building P. 8. whereof eleven then Launch'd In May 1679. the Admiralty was put into the Hands of Commissioners which Commission expired in May 1684. P. 10. when the Navy was found to be in a most lamentable condition as is demonstrated p. 16. Little was or could be done in the remainder of that year in the latter end of which King Charles the Second died P. 22. upon whose death King James applied himself to the redress of the Navy P. 30. and deputed 400000 l. a year to that purpose choosing new Commissioners to manage the whole P. 116. Forbidding the Commanders of his Ships to carry Passengers or transport Bullion to the neglect of his service and impairing his Ships and for that reason giving them an allowance extraordinary for their Tables P. 120. In October 1688. The Fleet at Sea consisted of twelve Third Rates P. 132. twenty eight Fourth Rates two Fifth Rates five Sixth Rates and twenty Fire-Ships all the other Ships of War except three being either actually repaired or under repair Eight Months Sea-stores were left with them in Magazine for every Ship repaired P. 139. with the like in Materials and money for the whole remainder Stores left for the Ships at Sea to the value of 280000 l. in Hemp P. 142. Pitch Tar Rosin Canvas Oyl and Wood 100000 l. more When the King took the care of the Navy into His Own Hands P. 157. the gross of the Ships were out of repair and the best of them ready to sink in the Harbour The Conclusion P. 214. That it was a strenuous Conjunction of Integrity Knowledge and Experience Vigour of Application and Assiduity Strictness and Discipline and Method and that Conjunction alone that within half the time and less than half the Charge that it cost the Crown in the exposing the Navy had at the very Instant of its unfortunate Lord's withdrawing himself from it raised the Navy of England from its lowest State of Impotence to the most advanc'd step towards a lasting and solid Prosperity that all circumstances considered this Nation had ever seen it at Novemb. 13. 1691. Numb 12. A LIST of SHIPS That have been Lost or Damaged since the Year 1688. Rate Ships Names Tuns Captains Time when Place where Manner how lost taken 2 Coronation 1427 Charles Skelton 3 Sept. 1691 Ramhead Overset 2 Victory 1029 27 Feb. 90 Woolwich Cast on Survey not fit to be repair'd 3 Ann 1039 John Tyrell 6 July 90 3 Miles W. of Rye Burnt in Fight 3 Bredah 1018 Matth. Tennant 12 Oct. 90 Cork Blown up 3 Dreadnought 735 Rob. Wilmott 16 Oct. 90 6 Leag SSW N. Forlds Foundred 3 Henrietta 763 John Nevill 25 Dec. 89 Plymouth Cast away 3 Harwich 993 Hen. Robinson 4 Sept. 91 Plymouth Cast away 3 Exeter 1070 George Meese 12 Sept. 91 Plymouth Blown up 3 Pendâ—nnes 1036 Geo. Churchill 28 Oct. 89 Kentesknock Cast away 4 Centurion 531 Bar. Beaumont 25 Dec. 89 Plymouth Cast away 4 St. David 638 John Greydon 11 Nov. 89 Portsmouth Sunk weighed and made a Hulk 4 Portsmouth 466 George St. Lo 9 Aug. 89 at Sea Taken by the French 4 Mary Rose 556 John Bounty 12 July 91 at Sea Taken by the French 4 Sedgmore 663 David Lloyd 3 Jan. 88 S. Marg. Bayn Cast away 5 Constant Warwick 379 James Moody 12 July 91 at Sea Taken by the French 5 Dartmouth 265 Edw. Pottinger 8 Nov. 90 Isle of Mull Cast away 5 Heldenburgh
of his Majesty's Letters thereunto annexed in favor of the Right Honorable Jennico Ld. Viscount Gormanstowne and James Ld. Viscount Ikerin concerning the Reversion of the Outlawries against their Ancestors and having advised with the rest of his Majesty's Counsel at Law in this Kingdom we humbly offer to your Excellency's Consideration That some time after his late Majesty's happy Restauration we find several Applications were made for the allowing of Writs of Error to be issued in order to the Reversion of Outlawries in High Treason and Attainders upon Account of the late Rebellion which being referred to his Majesty 's then Judges in this Kingdom there were several Debates then had before them whether such Outlawries could be reversed by reason of the Statute made in the 27th Year of Queen Elizabeth in this Kingdom for the Attainder of James Eustace late Viscount Baltinglass and others therein mentioned who had been lawfully and by due course of Law outlawed and attained of Treason and the Statute confirms those Outlawries and Attainders which were past any Error Insufficiency or other Defect in form or Matter in them to the contrary notwithstanding and farther enacts for the time to come that every offender thereafter being lawfully convict of Treason by Verdict or Process of Outlawry according to the due course of the Common Laws or Statutes of this Realm should forfeit all his Lands of any Estate of Inheritance and that every such Attainder according to the course of the common Laws and Statutes of this Realm should be of the same force as if it had been by Act of Parliament and by reason also that since the making of that Statute they did not find that any Outlawry or Attainder for Treason in this Kingdom had been reversed by Writ of Error especially after the death of the Party outlawed and his Lands granted from the Crown to others Whereupon the said Judges having then heard Counsel on both sides did not come to any Resolution or was any thing farther done upon those Applications We do therefore offer to your Excellencies Consideration that many of his Majesty's Subjects in England and in this Kingdom have at this time in their Possession the Lands of divers old Proprietors who in the Year 1641. and after were outlawed for Treason which Lands have been granted to them by Letters Patents upon the late Settlement of this Kingdom some of whose Titles may be weakened or prejudiced as we humbly conceive by the Reversal of such Outlawries and some parts of these two Lords Estates are now as appears by the Petition of Captain Daniel Gahan Sir William Petty and Samuel Green Esq which your Excellency hath referred unto us in their possessions who hold the same by Letters Patents from his Majesty and have thereupon humbly Petitioned your Excellency to take their Case into your Excellency's Consideration That as to such Lands as these two Lords or the Heirs of such other persons who have been so outlawed are in possession of or have been restored unto by virtue of the late Acts of Settlement they are not as we conceive disabled or any ways hindred by such Outlawries from enjoying the same Neither do we conceive that there would be any Inconvenience in restoring these two noble Lords who do well deserve his Majesty's Grace and Favour to their Blood and Honours with a Proviso that they should not thereby be entituled to any Lands out of their Possession which have been granted by Letters Patents to others as might be done by Act of Parliament but upon the reversal of any Outlawries by Writs of Error there can be no restriction in the Judgment which must by Law be general that they shall be restored to whatsoever they lost by reason of such Outlawries But whether upon the whole Matter your Excellency will think fit to issue such Warrants forthwith in order to the reversal of the said Outlawries as by his Majesty's said Letters are directed on behalf the said Lords Viscounts Gormanstowne and Ikerin or will forbear the same till his Majesty's Pleasure herein shall be farther known is humbly submitted to your Excellency's Consideration June 29. 1686. William Domvile Jo. Temple The Extract of my Ld. Clarendon's Letter to the E. of Sunderland July 6. 1686. of so much as relates to the Matter of the Outlawries My Lord AS soon as I had the King's Letters permitting the Lords Gormanstowne and Ikerin to reverse the Outlawries of their Ancestors I acquainted my Lord Chancellour and Mr. Attorney therewith But the Noise of this matter was come before the Letter for some time before Caveats were entered against the granting any such Writs of Reversal by three Persons who by virtue of the Acts of Settlement are in Possession of some Lands the ancient propriety of those Lords I referred the Matter to Mr. Attourney and Mr. Sollicitour for I could doe no less requiring them to call to their Assistence the rest of the King 's learned Counsel several of whom are Roman Catholicks and to report their opinions to me which they have done and I herewith transmit their Report to your Lordship which I beseech you to lay before his Majesty it is a thing of very great Consequence and deserves the most serious Consideration Numb 21. King James his Speech to the Lord Mayor c. upon his quitting of Dublin soon after the Action at the Boyne the 2d of July 1690. Gentlemen I Find all things at present run against Me. In England I had an Army consisting of Men stout and brave enough which would have fought but they proved false and deserted me Here I had an Army that was loyal enough but that they wanted true Courage to stand by me at the critical Minute Gentlemen I am now a second time necessitated to provide for my own Safety and seeing I am now no longer able to to protect you and the rest of my good Subjects the Inhabitants of this City I advise you all to make the best terms you can for your selves and likewise for my menial Servants in regard that I shall now have no occasion to keep such a Court as I have done I desire you all to be kind to the Protestant Inhabitants and not to injure them or this City for though I at present quit it yet I do not quit my Interest in it Numb 22. To the King 's most Excellent Majesty the humble Address of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of the City and Liberty of Dublin in behalf of themselves and others the Protestant Freemen and Inhabitants thereof THus long great Sir our unparallel'd late Deliverance wrought by the hand of God the first Mover the principal Author of all our Good hath hitherto most justly employed all the Faculties of our Souls in the profound Contemplation of his mysterious and unbounded Providence receiving from us the slender Reward but necessary Sacrifice of our hearty Praise and Thanks but now to you great Sir the next recollected Thought with
equal Justice does belong To you therefore dread Sir the Second Cause our Faith's Defender the wonderful Restorer of our captiv'd Liberties in greatest Humility but with unlimited Zeal and joyfull Hearts full of sincere Affection we yield our utmost and unfeigned Thanks the onely thing valuable which our Enemies left us wherewithal to Sacrifice and of which their Malice could not rob us We cannot but with Horrour stand amazed when we recount our never to be forgotten Sufferings our frequent causeless Imprisonments the Plundering our Goods the Confiscation of our Estates the innumerable Oppressions the illegal Exactions the tyrannous Hatred of our Persons and in a word the unchristian behaviour in all the Actions of our Enemies infinitely surpassing an Egyptian Servitude when Baal's Priests contented not themselves with their Idolatry alone to pâ—o4â—igate our Altars but in prosecution of their profane and ungodly Malice contrived the leading us captive to our Churches and each Ancestor's Tomb became our respective Couches then it proved literally true that our Liberties were offered a Romish Sacrifice on our own Altars Thus far Almighty God permitted them Then it was that our Enemies grew ripe for divine Vengeance then it was that you mighty Sir stept in and by your own victorious Arm to the hazard of your Royal Person rescued us from the hands of our Enemies then and not till then did Arbitrary Power Popery and Slavery terms almost convertâ—ble receive their period Wherefore to you dread Sir our only King our Lives Liberties Goods and Estates we humbly offer and at your Royal Feet great Sir we come prepared ready to lay them down for the defence of your Majesties Royal Person for the suppression of Popery for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion and the support of your Majesty's undoubted Right to these your Kingdoms and Dominions In testimony whereof we have caused the common Seal of the said City to be hereunto affixed this Ninth day of July in the Second Year of your Majesty's Reign Numb 23. His Majesty's Protection to the Inhabitants of Belfast June 3. 1689. James R. WHereas several Merchants and other our Subjects late Inhabitants of our Town of Belfast have quitted their respective Homes either by the Instigation of Persons ill affected to us or out of fear and taking up of Arms or seduced by sly and false Insinuations from the Duty and natural Allegiance they owe Us by means whereof they are very much impoverished in their Fortunes and they and their whole Families reduced to great Wants in strange places to the Depopulation of our said Town and lessening of Trade and Commerce therein Now forasmuch as we have received Information that the said Persons are by woful Experience convinced that they have been thus misled and frighted from their Duty by Persons for the most part desperate in their Fortunes or disaffected unto Us and our Government and that they do heartily repent of their having been so imposed upon and do resolve to return again to their Habitations Trade and Commerce so as they may receive our Assurance of Pardon for the time past and Protection for the time to come And We being willing and resolved to reclaim our Subjects by Mercy and to shew that We rather delight to forgive than punish do hereby promise to give a full general and free Pardon and Indemnity for the Crime of High Treason to all such Person or Persons as have for the space of twelve Months last past inhabited Our said Town of Belfast and shall within the space of forty days return to their Dwellings and Habitations there as also full Pardon and Indemnity of all Pains and Forfeitures which the said parties or any of them might have incurred or be subject or liable to upon account of having committed the said Crime of High Treason and that the said persons and every of them may peaceably and quietly enjoy their Estates Houses Stocks Goods Chattels Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Town of Belfalst or elsewhere they upon their arrival severally taking the usual Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to Us before the Sovereign or other chief Magistrate for the time being of our said Town of Belfast And of this Our Will and Pleasure thus signified in behalf of Our said Subjects late Inhabitants of Belfast We hereby will and require all our Officers both Civil and Military to take notice and that they presume not to imprison indict or molest any person or persons either in their Persons or Goods who upon this our Indulgence can claim the benefit of this our free Grace and Favour Given at our Court at Dublin Castle the third day of June 1689. and in the Fifth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command Melfort Memorandum That the Oath of Fidelity mentioned in this Protection was not exacted as it is told in this Narrative but the Protestants were received into Protection without any Oath at all required from them Numb 24. The Lord Melfort's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast July 9. 1689. Dublin Castle July 9. 1689. Sir IN Answer to yours of the 3d Instant I can onely tell you that the necessary Orders are given for the Subsistence of the Garison in that place without being a Burthen to the People That for such of the Inhabitants as have been deluded or frightned to quit their Dwellings in that Town and fly into Scotland where there appears any moral impossibility of complying with the King 's gratious Intentions to them without any Act of their own and that they have not taken part with any in Rebellion against his Majesty the King will not stint his Mercy to any narrow time his Inclination leading him rather to reclaim his People by indulgent than severe or rigid Courses I have ordered the Names of such as were Inhabitants there and entituled to the Benefit of the King's Promise of Pardon to be brought me in order to be struck out of the List of Persons to be attainted I am Sir Your humble Servant Melfort For his Majesty's special Service to Thomas Pottinger Esq Sovereign of Belfast at Belfast Numb 25. Coll. Hill's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast May 1689. Sir I Did not intend that Business of the Sheriff should have been carried so far for it will draw all the O Neals upon my back and yours and if he should be sent for it may be a trouble to some to go up against him and will breed ill Blood in his Friends And since Coll. Maxwell hath so well redressed Matters already it will be needless and no other order is needfull more than a Letter to him owning his Care in this matter and desiring the continuance thereof but by all means if you can stop his being sent for otherwise it may meet you and me one time or other to our Prejudice by him or his Friends Here are six Companies of Coll. Cormuck O Neal 's Regiment quartered here and a Troop of Dragoons in Malone
and the Fall but they are kept to strickt Discipline You will I doubt not take care to make you and me easie in this matter of the Sheriff Shew no body this Letter but you may the other I am Your affectionate Servant J. H. For Mr. Thomas Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast at his Lodging at the Boot near St. Mary Abby in Dublin Numb 26. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty the humble Address of the Clergy of the Church of Ireland now in Ulster June 1690. Great Sir We your Majesties loyal Subjects out of the deepest Sense of the Blessing of this day with most joyful Hearts congratulate your Majesty's safe Landing in this Kingdom And as we must always praise God for the Wonders he hath already wrought by your Majesty's Hand so we cannot but admire and applaud your remarkable Zeal for the Protestant Religion and the Peace of these Kingdoms We owe all imaginable Thanks to God and Acknowledgment to your Majesty for the Calm and Safety we have enjoyed by the Success of your Arms under the happy and wise management of his Grace the Duke of Schonberg And we do not doubt but God will hear the Prayers of his Church and crown your Majesties Arms with such Success and Victory that these happy beginnings of our Joy may terminate in a full Establishment of our Religion and our Peace and with lasting Honors to your Majesty May Heaven bless and preserve your Majesty in such Glorious Undertakings give Strength and Prosperity to such generous Designs that all your Enemies may flee before you that your Subjects may rejoice in your easie Victory and that all the World may admire and honour you Give us leave great Sir after the most humble and gratefull manner to offer our selves to your Majesty and to give all assurance of a steady Loyalty and Duty to your Majesty of our Resolution to promote and advance your Service and Interest to the utmost of our Power and that we will always with the most hearty Importunity pray that Heaven may protect your Royal Person from all Dangers that we may long enjoy the Blessings of your Government and Victories And that after a long and peacefull Reign here God may change your Lawrels into a Crown of Glory FINIS THE INDEX Page 2. THE Division of this Answer into the Principles and Matters of Fact of the Author First for his Principles They are hard to be Collected because they are not clearly asserted nor set down in any Method His Principles are the old Exploded Common wealth and Rebellious Principles which he indeavours to conceal Page 4. He derives the Ecclesiastical Authority from the People Page 5. His Interpretation of that Law which declares it not to be Lawful upon any pretence to take Arms against the King c. Page 7. The several Schemes of Government which are set up Page 8. The Case of one Prince Interposing betwixt another Prince and his Subjects Page 9. This Author's Defence of his Principles from Reason Page 10. I. Reason of a King designing to destroy his whole People Ibid. II. A part of his People Page 11. III. Invading their Property Page 12. IV. To disarm them Page 13. The Author's Rule for Abdication considered Page 14. V. Of Dissolving Oaths of Allegiance Page 16. VI. The Question Who shall be judge Page 19. Apply'd to Parliaments and States Page 20. Compared with Kings Page 20. Of Jealousies and Fears Page 21. Instances in the French League Page 22. Prince of Wales Page 24. Earl of Essex Page 26. King Charles I. Bishop Laud. Page 27. Moses Page 28. Of Evils not Tolerable Page 28. Of Evils not Universal Page 30. A Passage our Author quotes out of Faulkner and misapplies Page 31. The Evils of Tyranny compar'd Page 31. The Evils of Civil War compar'd Page 33. Our Authors Remedy for Tyranny to kill half the Nation Page 36. Religion the worst pretence for Rebellion Page 45. VII A King designing to destroy our Religion Page 48. Some Instances of our Author's manner of Argumentation Page 50. This Author's defence of his Principles from Authority From Scriptures Page 52. Disproved from Scripture 1. The Jews in Egypt Page 53. 2. In Babylon 3. Under the Romans Page 54. 4. Under Ahasuerus 5. The Gibeonites 6. Our Saviour Christ Primitive Christians Page 55. From Jovian Page 58. From Homilies Page 63. From Grotius Page 65. From Hammond Page 66. From Hicks Page 68. From Faulkner Page 71. The Protestants under Q. Mary Page 72. Matters of Fact of our Author The principal Matter of Fact Page 73. Viz. Who were the Aggressors in the Revolution in Ireland 1688. shewn in many notorious and undeniable Instances Page 95. Of Lord Tyrconnel's haste to run the Nation into Blood Ibid. The Protestants in Ireland worse treated by K. W's Army than by K. J's Page 99. Character of K. J. from This Author Page 99. Character of K. J. from Lord Danby Ibid. 99. K. J. opposed the Act of Attainder and the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement Ibid. He encouraged the Protestant Lords to speak against them in Parliament Page 105. This Author Guilty of Treason against K. J. while under his Protection and Favour Page 108. The gross Hypocrisie of the Irish Protestant Clergy in praying for K. J. and the P. of W. Page 113. This Author formerly a zealous Man for Passive Obedience even in the beginning of this Revolution Page 117. Dr. Tillotson's Extent of Loyalty in his Sermon 2 Apr. 80. before K. Charles II. Page 118. And 5 Nov. 78. before the House of Commons Page 123. The behavour of the Clergy in taking the Oaths Ibid. Of the Deprived Clergy Page 124. Roman Catholick Loyalty Particularly of the Irish Page 126. Of the Roman Catholicks of England Page 127. Non-Jurors of the Church of England Ibid. Presbyterian Loyalty Page 128. Popish Principles which are embraced Page 129. Church of England vindicated Page 130. Matters of Fact set down by this Author at Random Page 132. By Inuendo's wherein his groundless and unjust Reflection upon the E. of Clarendon Page 134. Incredible Matters of Fact wherein is told the Story of Mr. Bell. Page 139. Contradictory Matters of Fact Especially with Relation to King James whom he does not treat with common Decency giving him the Lye c. Page 141. The Case of Mr. Brown and Sir Thomas Southwell Page 145. Of K. J. keeping his Protections Page 152. The Massacre of the Laird of Glen-coe with others of his Clan Page 153. An abominable Misrepresentation of this Author in relation to the Protestants in the County of Down Page 161. The breach of Articles charged upon K. J. upon the Surrender of the Fort of Culmore refuted Retorted in the Notorious Breach of the Articles upon the Surrender of Carick fergus and of Drogheda Page 162. Of Cork and Limerick and the cruel Usage of the Prisoners Page 166. Of K. J's letting the English Fleet decay with the Author's Recantation considered Page 173. The Insincerity of this Author in Quoting K. J's Answer to the Petition of some Lords for a Parliament 17 Novemb. 88. Page 175. And in some Quotations out of Grotius Page 176. He confesses that the Irish Papists were not the Aggressors in the late Revolution and gives Reasons why they were not so Page 178. This Author wounds the present Government in the Person of King James and the Papists Page 186. He renders the King's Prerogative hateful to the People and inclines them to a Common-wealth Page 187. The Authors Conclusion and Protestation of his Sincerity Page 189. In representing King James to be worse than the French King Page 194. Or the Great Turk and according to the Dublin Address than Pharaoh or the Devil APPENDIX Numb 1. King James's Speech to both Houses of Parliament in Ireland 10 May 1689. with their Address to his Majesty Numb 2. Dr. Gorge Secretary to General Schomberg in Ireland his long Letter Apr. or May 90. relating to the Affairs then in Ireland Numb 3. Mr. Osborn's Letter to Lard Massareen 9. Mar. 88. Numb 4. Three Proclamations in Ireland 26 Sept. 90. Numb 5. Proclamation 7 March 88. of the Lord Deputy of Ireland and Council Numb 6. King VVilliam's Declaration in Ireland 7th of July 90 and Proclamation 31 July 90. Numb 7. Resolution of the Judges of Ireland to the Queries of the Grand-Jury of Dublin 21 Novemb. 90. Numb 8. Two Speeches of the Lord Bishop of Meath one to King James the other to King VVilliam Numb 9. The Sea-mens Address to King James Numb 10. Sir Peter Pett's Speech to King James Numb 11. A short Abstract of Mr. Pepy's Account of the Navy Numb 12. A List of the Ships that have been lost or damaged since the Year 1688. to the 13th of Nov. 1691. Numb 13. The Oath of Allegiance given by the Irish Officers to the Protestants in Cork Limerick and some of their Garrisons when K. J. drew out the Souldiers from these Garrisons into the Field Numb 14. Dr Tillotson's Letter to the Lord Russel Numb 15. Earl of Sunderland's Letter 23 March 89. Numb 16. Reasons tendered to the Parliament Octob. 90. to examine into the Birth of the Prince of Wales with Mr. Ashton's Paper Numb 17. Some Passages taken out of two Observators of August 1682. Numb 18. A Commission from the Prince of Orange Numb 19. A short Account of the Bloody Massacre of the Laird of Glencce and others of his Clan in Scotland the 13th of Feb. 1692. Numb 20. K. James's Letter 3 May 86. for Reversing two Outlawries with the Earl of Clarendon's Proceedings thereupon Numb 21. King James's Speech to the Lord Mayor c. upon his quitting of Dublin soon after the Action at the Boyne July 2. 1690. Numb 22 The Address of the Lord Mayor c. of Dublin to K W. 9 July 1690 Numb 23. K. J's Protection to the inhabitants of Belfast 3 June 1689. Numb 24. Lord Melfort's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast 9 July 1689. Numb 25. Colonel Hill's Letter to Mr. Pottinger Sovereign of Belfast May 1689. Numb 26. The Address of the Protestant Clergy of Ulster to King William when he landed in Ireland June 1690. The End of the INDEX