in great feare and left behind him his stately buildings places of pleasure great Riches and the veneration of many that adored this man like an Idoll the glory of the man is gon away like smooke and his name rotten and hated in England and flying into France walked over some Provinces of that Kingdome in trembling like another Cain before any Settlement of himselfe Iustum O Domine est Iudicium tuum And wee are poore soules as yet living as wee can and hopeing for Gods mercy I am here to advertise my Reader of an abominable ingagment agree'd upon in the tyme of usurpation against the Royall Family the contents will teach you how good frinds they were to the King that conceived this ingagement P. W. hath this oath page 74. of his reply to Orery's answer and aptly tearms it one of the oathes taken by the Saints themselves the fautors of Crumwells Tyranny and the wellwishers of his Kings-ship Which ruuneth thus I. A. B. doe hereby declare that I renounce the pretended title of Charles Stuart and the whole line of late King Iames and of every other person pretending to the Goverment of the Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territorys therunto belonging and that Iwill by the grace and assistance of the Allmighty be true and faithfull to this Common Wealth against any King single Person and House of Peers and Every of them and here unto I subscribe my name Can any oath be more horrid or can any written wickedness ascend higher and consequently can any mercy be greater then the pardon his Majesty hath granted to the men that hartily took this oath This Ingagment was forced upon the Irish Catholicks in soe high a Nature that those who would not take it were debarred not only from the benefitt of law but alsoe expos'd to an inevitable danger of death the Soldiers of Crumwells Army being commanded by publick Proclamation to kill any man they met on the high-way who carryed not a Certificate about him of having taken that ingagment Commaunds which were Cruelly executed on silly Pesants who out of Ignorance or want of care having left theire ticketts at home were Barbarously Murthered by the mercyless Souldiers Make now a serious reflextion upon said ingagment out of the same Author It is very remarkable saith hee that they who devised this ingagment who hartily subscribed and forced others to take it shall not be questioned or held Criminall and that those who neuer saw it before it was administrated to them who abbor'd it in theire harts and were forc't to signe it to avoyd a blooddy and violent death shall be declared nocents and an irecoverable Sentence of Loosing theire estates given against them and theire estates soe forfeted to be confirm'd on those very persons who compell'd the proprietors to that forfeitur Obstupescite Caeli super hoc portae ejus desolamini vehementer I defy all the Annalls and the Histories of Tartars Turcks Scithians or of what People soever to produce soe horrible an injustice as this or a more wicked and Barbarous pranck of knavery then those our Enemys have contrived King Charles our Soveraigne your Royall Authority in England maintains the Peer in his splendor and Dignity the Commoner in his birth right and liberty you protect the weak from the oppression of the mighty secure the Nobility from the insolence of the people and by this Equall and impartiall Iustice is indifferrently distributed to all the inhabitants of that great and flourishing Realme And at the same tyme use is made of the same Royall Authority in your Kingdom of Ireland to condemne innocents before they are heard to destroy soe many hundred Widdow's and Orphans to confirme soe many unlawfull usurped possessions to violate the publick faith to punish vertue to countenance vice to hold loyalty a Crime and treason worthy of reward These are verities not to be doubted of in our days wee feel them by sore tryall but after-ages will hardly admitt them and it must be avery difficult matter to perswade those now that have not been eye-wittnesses that the fact ever happened Now things being carryed in this nature let your Majesty seriously consider of whome shall God take account of our Distruction of those wicked states-men who abused your Authority or of your Royall Person for not bringing those men after our humble and publick prayres and petitions to your Majesty for redress to the test and tryall of Iustice for having opprest us Consider great King the prayer of King David to God O God give the Iudgment to the King And the Iustice to the Sonne of the King Why soe King David To Iudge saith David thy people in Iustice and thy poore in Iudgment The Royall Prophet here gives the reason wherfore the power of Iudging and Sword of Justice is given to a King to witt that hee Judge the people in Justice and the Poor in Iudgment Which was not done soe complains the Widdow's and Orphans in Ireland perishing in poverty and famin and the world abroad is in amazement that this was not done Wonders they say were done after his Majestys restauration Rebells made honest men and honest men made Rebells by the Kings Royall pleasure and all this brought about by the cunning and wickedness of certaine Statsmen wherby the King was cheated and betrayd the innocent People ruin'd and impious Statsmen enricht and magnify'd soe that thee Poore Catholcck People have nothing left them but to cry to thee O Lord. Tibi deretictus est pauper Orphano tu eris adjutor Contere Brachium peccatoris maligni To thee is the poor left to the Orphan thou wilt bee a helper Break the arme of the sinner and malignant Our Eyes and harts O God are turn'd upon thee seing men have abandon'd us O Lord when will the day come of our Happiness when shall wee with thankfullness say to all the world Our Lord hath heard the desire of the Poore and Iudged for the People and the humble Kings are more oblig'd to commiserat the calamity's of the afflicted rhen privat men because they are the Fathers of the People Iob a holy Prince in the land of Hus some hold hee was an absolute King did this Heare him speak King Charls I was an eye to the blinde and a foot to the lame I was the Father of the Poore I brake the Iawes of the wicked man and out of his teeth I took away the prey This is it the poore Catholicks most need to have done for them that the Royall hand will break the jawes of wicked men and take the prey out of theire teeth Iob says further The eare hearing counted mee blessed for that I had delivered the poore man crying out and the people that had noe helpe The blessing sf him that was ready to perrish came upon mee and I comforted the hart of the Widdow There are thousands of these wedows and
such things can not be otherways preserued Soe S. Thomas Now if such defense is lawfull for privat men how much more for a Common wealth or Nation Bonum enim commune excellentius universalius ac subendé Divinius est Bannez For that a Common good is more exellent more universal and somtymes more Devine then a private good And if it be lawfull to wage warre upon such inferiour motives as is the preservation or recovery of temporall goods honour and the like how much more lawfull is it to manage warre upon that supreme motive of defending and preseruing the Catholick faith without which there is noe Salvation This was the Iudgment the pious and valiant Machabees made of the warre they undertook and nobly persued for theire Religion and Laws which they preferd before theire wives and Children and all temporall things most deare unto them The Machabees being exhorted with the words of Iudas exceeding good c. they resolued to fight and to encounter manfully because the holy Citty and the Temple were in-danger For there was less care for theire wives and Children and alsoe for theire Bretheren and Kindsmen but the greatest and principall feare was for the Holiness of the Temple How farre a defensive warre may extend the Schoolmen tell us and say that by accident it may be somtyms lawfull for the Common wealth to doe and offer all such damages and Evill as may be done and offered in a just offensive warre Aliqnando saith Bannez contingere potest ut liceat illis inferre hostibus omnia illa mala que possunt in bello justo aggresivo It may happen somtymes to bee lawfull for those ingaded in a defensive warr to doe all Evills and Damages which can be offered or don in a just offensive warr Which happeneth when the agressors are publick Enemys and when there is noe recourse to the Prince and that those defending themselves can noe otherwise avoyd the violence offered by the Assailants This was truly the case of the confederate Catholicks as will clearly appeare to such as will be pleasd to examin it Moreover the case then stood soe with his Majesty that hee was not able to redress the injuries don us nor did our Enemys then obay his commaunds I mean a little after the warr begunn but the Parlament that fell from the King For the better and clearer understanding the nature of a defenfive warr those therin ingaged hould not themselves passively but actively soe doe the words repell or beat back signify if the end it be lawfull then are the necessary means to compasse that end alsoe lawfull if the defence of on 's selfe be lawfull then is the killing of the invader without which the life of the invaded cannot be preserued Lawfull soe as to kill is involued in the act of defence and the lawfullness of the one inferrs the lawfullness of the other Si vis saith the civill Law fiat personae tunc licitum est se defendâ—re defendendo percutere imo etiam occidere si aliter non potest quis evadere manus ejus If violence is don to a person it is then lawfnll for him to defend himselfe and defending himselfe to strick and alsoe to kill if hee cannot otherwise escape the hands of his Enemys Thus stood the case with the Irish Catholicks that they must have kill'd or have beene killed Yea soe great is the Iustice of a defensive warr that devines teach it is lawfull for the Sonne to defend himselfe against his Father the wife against her husband the servant against his Master the subjest against his Superiour and the vassall against his Prince or King Soe Azor Nempe Licitum esse Filio contra Patrem uxori contra Maritum subdito contra Superiorem vassallo contra Principem sive Regem se desendere If it be lawfull for the Subject or vassall in a just cause to defend himselfe against the Prince it must be lawfull to defend himselfe against his fellow subject Here I meet with an objection in which our adversarys put great force The Irish Catholicks say they were the first aggressors The objection is easily answered as thus It is a Common Doctrin of the Devines that it is lawfull to prevent an Evill that can not be otherways avoyded then by preventing it E. G. I see you take your pistoll in your hand cocking it to shoote at mee in that case it is lawfull for mee to discharge my pistoll and kill you otherwise I should be kill'd by you will any law punish mee for killing you soe would the Law of God or nature have mee stay my hand untill I am kill'd by you Tannerus a good Devine teacheth soe Licitum est etiam praevinire injustum aggressorem si alia via commodae defensiones non supetat is jam aliqualiter est in culpae sive in proposito aggressionis injustae versetur It is lawfull to prevent an uniust invader if there is noe other way of defence and that astually the invavader is in fault or in a purpose of an uniust invation Becanus doth declare examining this question an aliquando liceat invasorem praevenire illum occidere antequam nos actu invadat hee answers Licere in his casibus primo si accedat ad invadendum nec evadere possum nisi illum preveniam Secuudo si nondum accedat tamen instructus sit ad invadendum nec possum effugere nisi priveniam Whether somtyms it is lawfull for us to prevent the invader and kill him afore he actually invad's us hee answers that it is in these cases first if hee coms to invade mee and that I cannot escape but by preventing secondly if hee does not as yet invade mee but is ready and prepared for that invation and that I cannot avoyd him but by preventing in this case if I kill him I doe it me defendendo and consequently though I struck first I am the defender and hee the aggressor Sotus Navar Corduba Covar and many houlds this Doctrin and Navar gives this example of a Married man who has a dagger under his pillow to kill his wife withall which shee discovering and knowing may prevent by killing her husband if there is noe other remedy the reason is though actually hee has not done the execution however hee is in a radiness to perform it for which end hee kept her soe boulted up and inuironed as shee cannot otherwise escape This was truly the case of the confederate Catholicks at the beginning of the warr they were boulted up in an Iland as that woeman in the Chamber there was noe doore open for them then by preventing the Presbiterians blooddy designe if this they had not done there had beene an end of them all Richard Bealings Esquire to Vrbanus 8s from the body of the Irish Catholicks and the Lord Bishop of Fernes and Sir Nicholas Pluncket sent to Innocentius X. did not tell those Popes
they came from a body of Rebells but from a people Catholick the King of England's Subjects and for such they were respected and vissited by the greatest Princes and Cardinalls in the Citty and foure of the gravest Cardinaells were deputed by Pope Innocentius to heare the two last as Caponi Spada Carassa and Pansirolli Cardinall Secretari and the afforsaid Bishop and noble Gentlemen were esteemed over all the Citty for good Catholicks good Subjects and able men and with other instructions received commaunds from theire Holliness to the people of Ireland to continue constant in the Catholick Religion and Loyalty to theire King Thus much I thought fitt to say by way of digression for Iustifying our warr that it was noe Rebellion and that this Argument of Orery the King call'd the warr of the Irish Catholicks a Rebellion ergo it is a Rebellion doth not hould It is true it is a received maxim that the King can wrong noe man The reason is because the King is the Fountain of Iustice and must be supposed not to have a will to wrong or offend any of his people But there is noe maxim that the King may not be informed by Evill men or Counsells to the Distruction of his People which hath been often done by statesmen and Counsellors who seek after theire owne interest more then the preservation of the people which is and ought to be the Kings principal care in this kinde the Lord Iustices in Ireland Persons and Burlase with a malignant part of the Kings Counsellors in the yeare 1641. informed his Majesty that the Catholicks of Ireland without discrimination had entred into a Rebellion when only some discontented men began a Revolution in the North and those as was generally spoken men of small estates and broken fortunes the Lords and Gentlemen of the other three Provinces and all the Catholick townes and Corporations having not taken arms untill forced thereunto for the necessary defence of theire estates and Religion as aboue hath been said I doe not heere accuse or excuse the first rysing in the North but I confidently affirme the nobles and Catholick Gentlemen in the other three Provinces and some of those in the North to that did not joyn with the first Rysing in that Province and all the Catholick Townes and Corporations lived in soe happy a state and soe opulent and rich that they would neuer abett a Revolution for gaining other mens estates it is alsoe well knowne that all those have bin still faithfull to the Crowne and theire Fathers before them as was well try'd in the warrs of Desmon Tyron and other smaller Revolutions Thus it happend that his Majesty grounded his opinion upon the information of foresaid Parsons Bnrlays and a mallignant part of the Counsell corrupt men who after fell from the King and adhered to the Kings Enemys the Rebellious Parlament Those represented the body of the Irish Catholick Rebells and the King deceived and deluded by this information call'd us Rebells and our just warr a Rebellion and to this day wee were not heard to speak for our selves and being unheard ought to be reputed innocent It is to be obserued that the first flame of the rising in the Noth had beene soon quenched had Parsons and those of the Councell given a Commission to the Marquis Of Ormond now Duke to raise five thousand men as hee demanded for that effect with him had gon alonge the Catholick Nobility and Gentlemen and soe they had made a speedy work of it But the plott of those Crooked Ministers of state was to involue all the Catholicks in the Bussiness and there by to finde a Cullor of confiscating theire estates Orery stays not here but puffed up with his great Fortune and a gall in Pupe tells the world in a supersilious manner That the birds of the ayre noe nor the flyes contributed less to his Majestys restauration then the Roman Catholicks in Ireland Orery this is to much this great contempt of the Catholicks coms from a great pride in you and what you say is very false for the harty prayres of the Catholicks though with steel they could contribute nothing being then unarmed and closed up in prisons by you and your Companions have more contributed to the Kings restauration then birds and fly's that want reason could Are wee bound to suffer this and other great contumiles from a man soe lowly discended as to tell us the whole Nation is a beast our Country a Pest-house and our Religion somthing that pinns us upon the Popes sleeve Shall wee indure all this from a man that hath bin esteemed one of Crumwells spyes to be a spy is an infamous office Orery if you are an Englishman as you would have your selfe to be and likwise the Duke of Ormond it is true the Duke was born in England and of an English Lady som say had hee bin born in Ireland hee had been kinder to the Nation and favoured them more then hee did upon the last settlement but his Forefathers have all of them beene borne in Ireland about four hundred and sixty years and the house had the Creation of Earle in King Edward the third's tyme anno Domini 1332. Orery you cannot say soe much for your selfe in the ranck of Nobility but be what you will English or Irish I will tell you what an English Gentlemen writes of you I have my selfe seen the man disguised under the name of William Allen in a most excellent piece stiled killing is noe Murther speaking therin of the quality's of a tyrant applying all to Crumwell of the fift quality hee speaks thus In all places they have theire spyes and delators that is they haue Fleetwoods theire Broughalls theire S. Iohns besides innumerable small spyes to appeare discontented and not to side with them that under that guise they may gett trust and make discoverys Orery in Crumwells tyme was Lord Broughalls This noble man hath used still against us his sword and penn but the latter hath made the deeper wound if men creditt his writings cannot hee live contented with a good patrimony his Father provided for him and agreat lump of Catholicks lands the King conferr'd upon him at once with the place of Lord President of the faire and goodly Province of Munster a dignity his Fathers Child did little think to obtaine and a reward his perfidy against the Crowne did not meritt cannot all these great Honours Estates and Riches satisfy the man unless hee see 's innocent Maerdochaeus hang'd on a high gibbet The goodness of God wee hope will not allow what hee desires the exterpation of a Nation Noble mindes ordinarily esteem the place where they or theire parents have gain'd agreat Fortune and Settlement Orery's Father it is well knowne from a lowstate came to one of the greatest Estates in the three Kingdoms hee was neither Sword-man nor Gown-man nor favoritt in Court and yet purchased a prodigious estate came to the Dignity of an Earl High