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A63346	A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt His Grace James Duke of Ormond, and the Right Honor. Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy-Seal, before the King and Council and the said Earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester's to the said Earl, of the means to keep out popery, and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof, and to secure both the Church of England, and the Presbiterian party.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing T2408; ESTC R24643	20,676	35

pleased to appoint a Committee of your Privy-Council to look over the Lord Privy-Seal's Book and to call his Lordship and the Duke of Ormond before them and if upon Report from them it shall appear to your Majesty that the Earl of Anglesey has fallen into the Mistakes and Errors herein laid to his Charge That then Your Majesty would be pleased to Consider of the best and most Authentick means how Reparation may be made to all that are injured by the Earl of Anglesey's Book and Letter and to prevent the Credit his great Place supposed Knowledge especially in the Affairs of Ireland and his pretended Candor and Impartiality may give to his Writings in these and future times ORMOND A True Copy John Nicholas At the Court at Hampton-Court June 17. 1682. By the KING' 's Most Excellent Majesty AND The Lords of His Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council THE annexed Representation of his Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland c. being this day presented and read to His Majesty in Council His Majesty taking the contents thereof into His Royal Consideration as a matter of very great Importance was pleased to Declare That he would hear the matter thereof in Council And did order That a Copy of the said Representation be delivered to the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal And that his Lordship do attend His Majesty in Council on Fryday next at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon at White-Hall when His Majesty hath appointed to take that Business into further Consideration John Nicholas The Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal being by the said Order of His Majesty in Council of June 17. appointed to be at Council at white-Hall June 23. being not able to stand by reason of the Gout yet got out of his Bed and was carried thither where when the King came he spake to His Majesty as I am well inform'd to this effect SIR I Am in the first place to beg Your Majesties Pardon for my Obedience to Your Order for appearing here this day being in no condition of health to have left my Bed and altogether unfit for the presence of the King And indeed I expected that the Duke of Ormond would rather have Complained and Printed against the Earl of Castlehaven his Memoirs which Aspersed and Scandalised Your Royal Father's Government and represented the Protestants of Ireland as Rebells and the Confederate Irish Papists as Loyal Subjects then against me who had Vindicated His Majesties Government and his Protestant Faithful Subjects so Effectually in my Letter to the said Earl That his Lordship in an Epistle to the Reader which he after added to his Memoirs confessed himself and the Irish Confederates the Rebells And that all the Water in the Sea would not wash that Rebellion off that Nation This is the first quarrel I ever had with any man and Your Majesty sees how it is brought upon me and cannot but believe it very unwelcome to me from one who hath so many Years professed Friendship to me But that which troubles me in it is That it is pretended to be upon account of my failing in Duty to His Late Majesty and Your Self whereas if I can pretend to Merit in any thing it is for Exemplary and Considerable Faithfulness and Service to You both SIR That I may not trouble You with much Discourse I have reduced the Vindication of my Innocence to Writing which I present for my Answer to the Duke of Ormond ' s Accusation and to which I shall add no more but my desire That tho' the Duke of Ormond hath thought fit to Attaque me thus causelesly all the Contention hereafter between him and me may be who shall serve Your Majesty best and cost You least In the next place all the Papers Written and Printed that had passed between the Duke and the Lord Privy-Seal were read as they lay in order and both the Lords discoursed and bandied the matter fully which the King heard with great Patience The Duke of Ormond notwithstanding doing that right to the Lord Privy-Seal as to Acknowledge that none had been more Active and Instrumental in his Majesties Happy Restauration or carried it on with more Success in great Dangers and Difficulties than his Lordship In conclusion the Duke was Ordered to charge the Lord Privy-Seal by particulars in Writing that he might know what to Answer generals not being sufficient and so that business was left at that time Now follows the Lord Privy-Seal's Answer to the Duke of Ormonds Representation or Complaint against him To the King 's most Excellent Majesty The Earl of Anglesey Keeper of your Majesties Privy-Seal mistead by an ill President admitted most humbly represents THat having this Eighteenth day of June received in Bed where he had continued for above a Month last past very much afflicted with the Gout and deprived of the use of Hands and Leggs and by reason of Pains and Sicknesses getting little rest which he hath reason to believe was well known to the Duke of Ormond your Majesties Order in Council of the Seventeenth with a Copy of the Representation of the said Duke annexed and Command to attend your Majesty in Council on Fryday next at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon at White-Hall which he resolves by Gods Blessing to do if he shall be in a Capacity of Health and Strength to be carried thither without Peril of his Life which he doth not believe that the Duke himself thinks after a year and halfs concerning himself in this Controversie is to be adventured to gratifie a hasty proposal upon his changing his way of proceeding In the mean time That your Majesty may not be under the least prepossession by what the Duke hath represented with heat and sharpnels against the said Earl he doth humbly offer to Consideration That though the Duke appear before your Majesty as a Representer the said Earl cannot but look upon him as a Petitioner the Title by which all Subjects that complain Address to your Majesty and for want of which he hath observed many Suitors rejected with their Requests And therefore your Majesty is desired to be informed in the first place by a deduction of all that hath passed between the Duke and the Earl in this Affair which is as followeth The Book complained of was written about two years ago by meer Accident of the Earl of Castlehaven's sending his Printed Memoirs to the Earl then at Blethington in Oxfordshire where having read the same and conceiving the English and Protestants to be unjustly dealt with therein and the Irish foul Cause professedly justified though the most Execrable Rebellion that ever was in the World the Earl could not digest the same but upon a bare Old Memory without help of Writings or Notes immediately put pen to paper and the Eighth of July wrote a Letter to the said Earl of Castlehaven which he believes his Lordship hath yet to shew tho' when it appeared afterwards in print

and wait for my supplanting The only passage that I yet know of which your Majesty seems to take offence at being that in page the 32. of the Irish Committees being in at the Intrigue of the Popish faction at Court c. since it was suddenly and unexpectedly urg'd against me at Council not being one of the particulars I was ordered to Answer that day I could then only Answer what occurr'd to me on that surprise without so much as my reading the Clause viz. that first negatively by those words was not meant His late Majesty or his Council but the Popish faction then haunting the Court like Locusts against the Laws which prohibit their approach to it and as many as will be owned then Papists at Court and were capable of Intriguing I do not scruple to say I intended them and such there were of my Knowledge at that time who may be justly suspected to have laid the design of all the Calamities of this Kingdom and Ireland that ensued And as long as any such shall dare to come to Court and by their Faction spread Libells to the scandal of all legal proceedings and the exasperating your People dayly in affront of the wise provision the Laws of the Land have made against them neither your Majesty nor your Kingdoms can be safe but the seeds of sedition will grow up to Confusion And for your Majesties further satisfaction of my harmless intention in that expression now I have perused it at Leisure I find that in that Clause I assert nothing positively but when with disjunctive particles I had mentioned divers particulars which were in that Juncture the Jealousie and discourse of the times and even the boast of the Irish themselves I Conclude that I would not take upon me to determine any thing but that soon after the said Committees return for Ireland brake out that Execrable and unparrallel'd Rebellion of the Papists By this time your Majesty and the Council will I hope see cause to think that a Summons for me to produce Vouchers after they have given so terrible a Judgment against me comes too late and that if I were in a Condition to attend at the day appointed it would be no Contempt to decline making of further defence before the Lords who have prejudged me and Condemned me as Guilty before the hearing of the Cause be Concluded which I hope no other Court will do and was never that I know done by them till now in my Case nor do I hear that the Duke of Ormond is censured for the scandalous Pamphlet which he owned at Council to have published against me whereof I Complained I must therefore hope that what I have delivered in Council already will be better and more impartially considered without my giving your Majesty further trouble therein And as I have spent the best of my days in your Service without Reproach so I hope still to stand Justified to all the world what I Resolve whilst I live to be Your Majesties Most Obedient and Most Faithful devoted Subject and Servant Anglesey London Aug. 2d 1682. The said Letter was Read at Council Aug. 3d. but nothing appears entered to be done thereupon but the Earl of Castlehaven was called in several times and questioned about his Printed Memoirs answered by the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal which he acknowledged to be his and in Conclusion his Book was by His Majesty and Council Judged to be a scandalous Libel against the Government but no further proceeding was had against his Lordship But Aug the 9th 1682. the following Warrant of the King was brought by Sir Lionel Jenkins Secretary of State to the Lord Privy-Seal in the Evening being then at his Lordships House in Drury-lane Charles R. To our Right Trusty and Right well beloved Cousin and Councellor Arthur Earl of Anglesey Keeper of our Privy-Seal Our will and pleasure is that Immediatly upon sight hereof you deliver up our Privy-Seal appointed by our Letters Patents to remain during our pleasure in your Custody into the hands of our Right Trusty and well beloved Councellor Sir Lionel Jenkins Knight our Principal Secretary of State and for so doing this shall be your Warrant given at our Court at Windsor the 8th day of August 1682. in the 34 year of our Reign By His Majesties Command Conway What passed between the Lord Privy-Seal Mr. Secretary appears not further then what follows under the laid Secretaries hand and Seal but it 's said the Lord Privy-Seal with his duty to the King desired the Secretary which he promised to let His Majesty know that at the signification of His Majesties pleasure he delivered the Seal more joyfully than ever he Received it Anglesey house on Wednesday the 9th of Aug. 1682. In pursuance of His Majesties W●rrant bearing Date Yesterday being the 8th day of this present Moneth of Aug. which Warrant was in these words viz. CHARLES R. Our will and pleasure is that Immediatly upon sight hereof you deliver up our Privy-Seal appointed by our Letters Patents to Remain during our Pleasure in your Custody into the hands of our Right Trusty and well-beloved Coun ellor Sir Leoline Jenkins Knight our Principal Secretary of State and for so doing this shall be your Warrant given at our Court at Windsor the 8th day of August 1682. In the 34 year of our Reign To Our Right Trusty and Right well-beloved Cousin and Counceller Arthur Earl of Anglesey Keeper of our Privy-Seal By His Majesties Command CONWAY The Right honorable the said Earl of Anglesey delivered into my hands His Majesties Privy-Seal sealed up with his Lordships Seal at Armes being put into the Purse given by His Majesty for Carrying the said Privy-Seal which said Privy-Seal I Receiv'd at Eight a Clock in the Evening of the said ninth of August witness my hand and Seal L. Jenkins FINIS Now to shew that Dr. Morley the Learned Bishop of Winchester is of the same opinion with the Earl of Anglesey for the keeping out of Popery now it seems to be flowing in upon us it hath been thought fit to fill up this last sheet with the following Letter of the said Bishop written to the said Earl above ten years ago when the Papists Warmly set upon their Design to introduce Popery and many years before their Desperate Plot since Discovered for which so many have suffered by the hand of Justice was ripe for Execution Which Letter was Receiv'd by the said Earl from the said Bishop July the 9th 1672. by the hands of the Lord Cornbury now Earl of Clarendon My Lord Yours by my Lord of Cornbury I Receiv'd this Morning from his own hands and this is to Return you my humble thanks for the favorable opinion of me you are pleased to express in it which as to the Zeal I have for the Protestant Religion I hope I may without vanity own to be true but must acknowledge I want these abilities to defend it which you seem