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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40457	The vnkinde desertor of loyall men and true frinds [sic]	French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.	1676 (1676)	Wing F2183; ESTC R18403	96,064	260

Fruition of these vast recompences or as rather I shonld say Robberys of poore orphans and widowes which will have noe good end soe much be said of his recompences received and rewards in rhe next Chapter I shall give a distinct and the briefest accompt I can of the manifest Iniurys hee hath don to his Country and Countrimen CHHPTER 16'th A Relation of some particular Iniuries the Duke of Ormond hath don his Countrymen His subuerting our vnion with Vlyssean practizes NOt withstanding all the trust and confidence the generality of that people placed in Ormond both great and small yet little affection did hee show to his country or Countrymen the first Injury and stratagemme have bine to worke a diuition amongst them hee was the man let fall the venemous apple of discord in the middle of that vnited body theire vnion the basis of all prosperity continuing noe power noe enemy was able to prevaile against them this union was our onlyest bulwark and would prove if not subuerted Formidable to our Enemys at home and a broad that Commonwealth doth prosper whose Cittizens are of one accord Concordia res paerua crescunt discordia res magnae dilabuntur Ormond his chief Imagnation hath bin to take away this vnion the life of our confederacie what people common-wealth or nation more knitt in mutuall Charity at the first beginning of the warre then wee The Bishops Clergie Noblemen Gentry townes and Cittys and the common people looked all one way all possessed with the same flame of Religious zeal to preserve and recover our libertys Country and religion all were Cor unum et anima vna whilst Paersons and Burlace did gouerne in Dubblin and soe had wee still continued if Ormond had not been chosen Lord Lieutenant by whose influence vpon the people all was lost subuerted and supplanted If you demaund how could Ormond destroy this vnion and would his relations even and dearest frinds which tooke the oath of association becom perjurous and perfidious for Ormonds sake Would they Forsake the sacred confederacy and the best quarel in the world for his respect I doe not meane to say thes affected him most were perfidious and perjourous to the country yea I hould his relations and friends to have been good catholicks how then say you could Ormond debauch them from theyr union and confederacie his Excellencie you must understand had a great number of his relations among us and many more persons of good qualitie that had nothing to doe with him held him for a man of great integritie and affection to his countrie and tooke him for a man of vertu Iustice and sound Iudgement a man that had power to doe us good and a good willingness thereunto and hoped that he would represent unto the king our oppressions and burdens under cruel statesmen that destroyed and enslaued the subjects by their sleights and cunning artifices and in fine that he would prove the deliverer of this conceipt which proved bu adreame conferred all mens affection vpon him receaving and embracing all the reasons and such sentiments as hee pleased to infuse unto them and ordered all theyr course in all wisdom as they thought by his ways and dictamen by this meanes were undermined our union and our quarel destroyed Ormonds persuasions prevailing in court and countrie his reasons were esteemed the best and wisest his friends and Faction crys Ormond is a wise man he loves our interest understands our cause rightly this publick confidence well knowne hath been no smale meanes for him to deceave his Friends and they deceaved the Generalitie possessing them with such and such imaginations till at last we grew in good earnest could in our proceedings dissentions sprung up and our union the life and strengh of our countrie dissolved and broaken desolation and destruction run over all places we then began to disagree in our consultations and debates about the publick ●alousies inuaded our assemblies difference rose between such and such Families between Noble men Gentrie and even amoung the Bishops and cleargy some speaking high of the brittish interest others of the interest of religion and countrie in the conclusion we came to be regn●m in se divisun in the meane time Ormond who had acted his part soidly said to his counsel and complices Divisum est cor Catholicorum jam interibunt my worke is don they are broaken they are at variance one with an other they sprosper noe more That you may more plainly see the influence this great man had over the confederat Catholicks in the supreme counsel who gouverned all consisting of 12. You may know he had usually six of that number for his trusty friends the first was Richard Lord Viscount Mongret at the beginning of the warr and for a great whyle President of the counsel this Lord was Brother to Ormonds grandmother the second was donogh Lord Viscount Musgue after Earle of Clancartie who married Ormonds eldest sister Mr. Richard Bealings Secretarie to the counsel and a member thereof maried to ●said Viscount Mountgarets Daughter Mr. Grat fenel Doctor physick intimat do mistick counselour to Ormond for som yeeres Mr. Patricke Darcy a Famous lawy●r counsell in law to the house Ormond Mr. Gessery Browne a sound and good lawyer and Sr. Lucas Dillon knight an able personage both much addicted to Ormonds Wayes esteeming them the best as for the Lord of Mountgaret he was a plain simple man but the other five were substantiall Peeces as the land could afford Ormond was theire delight and Ioy and though they had witt sufficient to understand his ways and ponder his euill designes this they have not don but rather gaue him full scope to worke what hee pleas'd out of the fore-spooken confidence placed in him by this meanes these wise-men were deceiued deluded and inueagled away and wee with them our repentance is to late and without remedy and wee finde our error Fatall and irrecoverable and wee have lived to see Ormond close with our deadly enemys and himselfe the greatest enemy of them all Sed sero Sapiunt phriges This Lethean cupp ministred by Ormond unto us the confederates stupifyed our wil soe much as wee could neither understand nor perceive one another wee became much like to the confusion of Babell when one sought for stone the other gave him sand when sand hee brought him stones But the first stepp to our confusion was treaties of cessations by those conferrences hee deceived our people who went still vpon the opinion of his affection hee spunn us out with new devices and delays and in the Intrim wee omitted the opertunity of doeing service wayting dayly for apeace for Ormond had brought us to that fools paradice as we neglected our owne preservation great matters hee promised to our committie of treaty a good peace the which when wee had was worth nothing as formerly said where I advertised you how the Committie of treaty failed to performe the instructions given them and