Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	bishop_n	earl_n	thomas_n	11,722	5	8.0543	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 London Printed for Thomas Fox at the Angel and Star in Westminster-Hall 1682. TO THE READER THat there hath been a Controversie between the Duke of Ormond and the Earl of Anglsey the immediate consequence of which hath been the removal of the Earl from a Place of great Honor and Trust under his Majesty for which he was in every respect extraordinarily well qualified perhaps no man questions And many may be likely to say that the more fatal such quarrels amongst great Personages are to either side the more instructive they commonly prove to the rest of Mankind who are thereby let into a Prospect of those things which were thought too sacred for the view of the profane Vulgar As every inferior Soldier may learn Skill Address by seeing two Generals engage in the sight of their Armies so certainly this Paper Battel between these Great ones may be of use to all sorts of men that have the lest Grain of that commendable Ambition to propound to themselves the greatest Examples Wherefore I conceive no man of which side soever Fortune or Choice hath placed him can blame me for procuring and exposing to publick view authentick transcripts of what hath passed in this Affair The bare curiosity to know how such men write were almost enough to tempt any one to peruse these papers but then when they relate to the History of unmovable Affairs of which eitherof the parties may say Quorum pars magna fui And when they were so great men in themselves their Parts in the History so great that they may be compared to Caesar writing the Commentaries of his own Enterprises I should think him very dull that need be courted to be a Reader But these Papers carry in them what I hope vvill further recommend and endear them to the greater part of this Nation most of them being in defence of the poor English Protestants in Ireland to some of vvhich the Earl of Anglesey hath most generously asserted the glory of their Martyrdom and to others the unblemished honor of preventing the utter ruin extirpation of the rest The Earl of Castlehaven who had been too too fortunate an Head to the RomanCatholick Rebels in Ireland had not only in Print justified his own engagement with that bloody Party butwould make that chiefly a Defensive War w ch was certainly the effect of an universal conspiracy amongst the Papists there Nor is it to be doubted but there were Encouragers in England This engaged the Earl of Anglesey amidst his many avocations to ward off the second blow against them who had suffered almost beyond all Example before and his interposition extracted from the Earl of Castlehaven a Confession that he himself acted as a Rebel and that all the Water in the Sea cannot wash that Rebellion off that Nation which was begun most bloodily on the English in that Kingdom in a time of a setled Peace without the least occasion given I must confess there are several passages in the Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Duke of Ormond seems concerned to vindicate his own actions How far the Charge or the Defence is made good it is not for me to judge nor shall I in the least enter into the merits of it I am sure the Earl of Anglesey made a most noble Declaration fit to be written in Letters of Gold Truth says he being the greatest and best Friend I had rather one or several Persons and Families should lie under the consequence of its impartiality than that the English Nation and Protestant Religion should suffer by a timorous unworthy concealing or with-holding any part of it This being the said Earlsavowed Principle methinks he ought to be importunedby a publick Address that what he hath meditated and hath been preparing from Records and authentick unquestionable Relations and Transactions of that bloody Tragedy and matchless defection from the Crown and very Nation of English men may soon see the light To the KING' 's Most Excellent Majesty The Duke of Ormond Your Majesties Lieutenant of Ireland and Steward of Your Majesties Houshold most humbly represents THat the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal in the Year 1681. caused a Book to be Printed whereof he hath acknowledged himself to be the Author intituled A Letter from a Person of Honour in the Country written to the Earl of Castlehaven being Observations and Reflections upon his Lordships Memoirs concerning the Wars of Ireland That in the said Book there are divers passages and expressions which are not only untrue but reflecting in a high degree upon His Late Majesties Government and particularly in Relation to the Rebellion and War in Ireland and to the several Cessations and Peaces made by His and Your Majesties Authority and Command That in the said Book the Lord Privy-Seal hath Malitiously endeavour'd to Calumniate and Asperse the Duke of Ormond by calling in question his Faithfulness and Loyalty to His Late Majesty the Sincerity of his Profession in point of Religion and insinuating that the Cessations and Peaces destructive as he says to the English and Protestants were advised and procured by him the said Duke out of his Affection to the Irish Popish Rebells because he was Allyed to many of them in Blood and by Marriages That the Lord Privy-Seal in the course of above Twenty Years free and friendly Acquaintance and Correspondence with the Duke of Ormond never thought fit to give him any intimation of his Lordships Intention to write a History of the Wars of Ireland and other transactions there wherein both the Duke and his Lordship tho' of opposite Parties had a great part but chose rather to seek for information from the Earl of Castlehaven and to publish his Observations on the Earl of Castlehaven ' s Memoirs in a Conjuncture when his Reflections in his Book and his Letter of the Seventh of December 1681. to the Duke of Ormond might not only do most mischief to him but to the Government The Duke of Ormond humbly conceives that at least while the Lord Privy-Seal and he have the honor to be of your Majesties Privy Council and in the stations they are it will not be fit for him to publish such an Answer to the Lord Privy-Seal's Book and Letter as might otherwise be necessary in Vindication of Truth His Late Majesties Justice and Honor and his own Integrity It is therefore most humbly proposed That Your Majesty would be

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