Thirdly From Orders about Garrisoning Mansion-Houses Sending the Protestant Owners to the Goal who must never have expected either their Houses or Lives if King James had prevailed ibid. Estates of Absentees disposed of and promised to Papists p. 162 20. Objection That King James did not know the Consequence of Repealing the Acts of Settlement ibid. Answer First King James understood them better than any and held ten thousand pounds a year by them when Duke of York ibid. Secondly King James would not hear the Protestants plead at the Bar against the Repeal p. 163 Thirdly Bishop of Meath in a Speech in the House set forth the ill Consequences at large ibid. Fourthly The Protestants opposed it from Point to Point ibid. Fifthly Protestants were resolved to use their utmost that the ill intents of their Adversaries might appear the more p. 164 Sixthly Lord chief Justice Keating's Paper given to King James in behalf of Purchasers rejected ibid. 21. Protestants lost more in Ireland than all that favour King James's Cause in England are worth p. 165 Sect. 13. Eighthly The danger into which King James brought the lives of his Protestant Subjects in Ireland ibid. 1. At King James's Coming no General Pardon though it had been his Interest in respect of England ibid. 2. Is not chargeable with particular Murders further than by arming such Men as would be guilty of them p. 166 3. The Governments Design upon our Lives ibid. First by feigned Plots and Protecting the Perjured Witnesses Instance in Spikes Case The Dumb Friar p. 167 Secondly By wresting Facts to Treason Nugent declar'd Protestants having Arms to be so p. 168 Thirdly By violating Articles Mr. Brown of Cork Town of Bandon Earl of Inchiquin Captain Boyle Sir Thomas Southwell and his Party Lord Mountjoy's Soldiers Fort of Culmore King James's approach to Derry Captain Dixy Kenaght Castle p. 169 170 Fourthly By violating Protections p. 171 Protestants of Down p. 171 Protestants brought before Derry by General Rosen Bishop of Meath applyed to King James about it King James excused Rosen p. 173 174 Captain Barton of Carrick Mac Cross p. 175 Fifthly By private Orders and Proclamations with the penalty of Death Several Instances p. 178 Sixthly By the Act of Attainder Abstract of it Archbishops 2 Duke 1 Temporal Lords 63 Ladies 22 Bishops 7 Knights 85 Clergymen 83 Esquires and Gentlemen 2182 2445 p. 179 180 Not equalled by the Proscription at Rome Great part Attainted on Common Fame p. 182 Observations on the Act ibid. 1. Leaves no room for the King to Pardon ibid. 2. The Act concealed Out of the Power of an English Parliament to Repeal it by the Act for cutting off Ireland from England p. 183 3. The hast in drawing it up ibid. 4. Many left out particularly the Collegians and how ibid. 5. Applications in behalf of Protestants made their Case worse p. 184 6. Allowing of time to prove Innocency a meer Collusion ibid. 1. None knew what time was given ibid. 2. None knew what they would call Innocency Instance Desmineer and Ginnery ibid. 3. The Embargo on this side would not let them know on the other side 4. The Embargo on the other side would not let them come hither 5. To have come would have been an unwise Venture p. 177 4. Objection That few Protestants lost their Lives p. 178 Answer 1. When it is known how many have perished they will not appear few ibid. 2. The Irish Papists would not venture at much Murthering till they were past an after Reckoning they feared such Cruelty would be revenged on Roman Catholicks in England ibid. 3. Protestants were cautious not to provoke them and were true to one another p. 179 4. We dont know what would have been done with Attainted Persons ibid. 5. Protestants if Obnoxious absconded or escaped ibid. 6. The Support of King James's Army depended on the Protestants p. 179 Scotch Officers that came here wondered to find how Protestants were used having heard so much the contrary at home p. 180 The same given out in England Pity but those who believed and forwarded it had been sent hither ibid. The Irish doing what they did in their Circumstances what would they have done if left to their swing ibid. Sect. 14. Ninthly The method King James took to destroy our Religion p. 181 1. The Attempts against our Lives and Fortunes no sudden thing but the result of a long Design for which Tirconnel had 20000 l. per annum ibid. 2. King James pretended Liberty of Conscience but not to be expected from a Roman Catholick ibid. 3. The Laws and Coronation Oath secured our Religion The Clergy had merited from King James by opposing the Exclusion and disobliged their People p. 182 4. At his coming to the Crown the Roman Catholicks declared that his Promises to the Church were not intended for Ireland p. 183 Sect. 15. First By taking away our Schools and Universities p. 184 1. Lord Tirconnell put the Schools contrary to Law into the hands of Papists ibid. 2. And would have put in Popish Fellows into the College ibid. 3. Stopt the College Pension of 388 l. per annum from Easter 1688. turned out the Fellows and Students seized on the Library and Furniture p 193 4. Forbid three of them on pain of Death not to meet together p. 194 5. King James did not fill up vacant Bishopricks and Livings in his Gift ibid. 6. And allowed nothing for supplying the Cures p. 195 7. All the Bishops and Livings in the Kingdom would soon have come into the Kings hands p. 196 8. This not the effect of our Constitution the same in Popish Countries Thirty five Bishopricks void in France in 1688. King James's Ungratefulness to the Protestant Clergy ibid. Sect. 16. Secondly By taking away the Maintenance of the Clergy p. 197 1. Book-Mony denyed by the Papists from King James's coming to the Crown ibid. 2. Priests put in for Tythes Hardly recovered by Protestants p. 198 3. An Act of their Parliament applied Papists Tythes to the Priests ibid. 4. And Protestants Tythes too when the Priests had the Benefices ibid. 5. The Priests forc'd into Possession of Glebes where there were any p. 199 6. Protestant Clergy little better for the Tythes left to them Protestants had little Tythings left Priests by Dragoons seized what there was never wanted Pretences ibid. 7. House-Mony in Corporations taken away by their Parliament Pleaded against before the House of Lords but in vain p. 200 8. The same took away Ulster Table of Tythes p. 201 9. Duties payable to the King out of Livings were exacted wholly from the Protestant Incumbents though they had nothing left to them of their Livings their Persons seized and sent to Goal ibid. Collonel Moore Clerk of the First Fruits imprisoned because he would not be severe against them p. 202 Sect. 17. Thirdly By taking away the Jurisdiction of the Protestant Church ibid. 1. The Churches Right by Prescription to Jurisdiction ibid. 2. Act
for Three Months from the First of January a thing impossible without allowing them to Steal and Plunder It was this struck so much terror into Protestants and made them so jealous and apprehensive of Danger that they fled into England in great numbers especially when they found that the New Raised Men as they surmised began to make havock of all things It was this gave Credit to a Letter dated December the Third 1688 sent to the Lord Mount Alexander whether true or counterfeit I cannot determine intimating a design to Destroy the Protestants on Sunday the Ninth of the same Month which Letter was spread over the whole Kingdom The People of Derry had beside this several Letters and Intimations of Mischief designed against them and against the Protestants of Ireland And though that directed to the Lord Mount Alexander may not seem of great weight yet whoever considers the circumstances of the Protestants of Ireland at that time will acknowledge that it was not to be despised In the Year 1641 the Seizing of Dublin by the Lord Mac Guire was prevented by as improbable a discovery as this Letter while the Protestants in the rest of the Kingdom were Massacred through the incredulity of some who could not be perswaded to give ear to such intimations of the Design as were brought before them In England the Gun-powder Treason was revealed and the destruction of the Three Kingdoms prevented by a Letter as insignificant as that directed to the Lord Mount Alexander About the very time intimated in the Letter for the Massacre a new raised Regiment belonging to the Earl of Antrim appeared before the Town without the King's Livery without any Officers of Note or the least warning given by the Earl of their coming lastly without any Arms besides Skeans Clubs and such other Weapons as Kearnes and Tories used 6. The People of the Town were frightened at the Sight and refused them entrance into the City this was the First rub or provocation the Lord Deputy met with it was a meer accident and proceeded from his own Ignorance or Negligence who had left that Garrison the only one of any considerable strength in Ulster where most Protestants lived without one Soldier to Guard it and then sent such a pack of Ruffians to take Possession of it many of whose Captains and Officers were well known to the Citizens having lain long in their Jails for Thefts and Robberies When therefore such a Body of Men came to demand entrance at the very time that they expected a Massacre what could they imagin but that these Men came to execute it and who could blame them for shutting their Gates They were well assured that these were Men fit for such an Execution and that they were ready on command to do it and perhaps would not stay for an Order The Lord Deputy bethought himself too late of his Error but could never retrieve it though by means of the Lord Mountjoy he did all in it that was possible having brought the City to accept of a Pardon and receive a Garrison of Soldiers but then it was such a Garrison as they were able to Master and no more by the Articles were to be admitted into it before the ensuing March. 7. We ought to remember the reason of Building Londonderry and 't is plain from its Charter granted by King James the First that it was Founded to be a Shelter and Refuge for Protestants against the Insurrections and Massacres of the Natives who were known always to design and be ready to execute their malice on their Conquerors To keep them therefore in awe and secure the Plantation was the Design of Building the City it was upon this condition and by these Covenants the Proprietors of the City held their Estates and the Inhabitants had been false to the very design and end of their Foundation if they had given up the City with the keeping of which they were intrusted into the Hands of those very men against whom by the Charter it was designed to be a Security and Bulwark At this rate the Lord Deputy might give away any mans Estate and have bestowed it on his greatest Enemy and that with much less injury to the Publick The People therefore of Londonderry had good reason to refuse to deliver their City to the Kearnes and Tories of Ulster though inlisted under the Earl of Antrim by a Commission from a pretended Lord Deputy these were excluded by their very Charter and by the design of Building the Place from possessing it much less had they reason to deliver it to a parcel of men of whose Commission they knew nothing and whose Errand they had reason to believe was to cut their Throats 8. 'T is to be considered that Londonderry was under a further provocation to lay hold on the first opportunity to do themselves Justice and that was the wicked and illegal Invasion made on their Charter Liberties Priviledges and Estates by a most unjust and oppressive Sentence given by an unqualified Lord Chief Baron on a Quo Warranto for which there was not the least pretence in the World as may appear to any one that will be at the pains to view the Proceedings in Court By this Sentence grounded on a foolish nicety objected to the Plea the whole English Interest and Plantations in that County were ruined and the whole Designs of them destroyed and perverted and therefore it was not to be wondered if they took the first opportunity to save themselves from imminent Destruction They concluded that a Government who on a nicety could take away their Charter their Priviledges their Estates and subvert the design of Building their City might as easily and unavoidably find another nicety to take away what remained together with their Lives and therefore they cannot be much blamed if they had been under no other Temptation but this that they were willing to withdraw themselves from a Government whom they durst not trust and which took all advantages against them to destroy them 9. The shutting up of Derry against the Earl of Antrim's Regiment was all that was done by any Protestant in Ireland in opposition to the Government till King James deserted England except what was done at Enniskillin where the People were under the same circumstances with those of Derry having about the same time refused to quarter two Companies sent to them by the Lord Deputy They were not so much as summoned by him nor did they enter into any Act of Hostility or Association or offend any till assaulted being content to stand on their Guard against such as they knew to be Mortal Enemies to the English Interest to subdue whom they were planted in that wild and fast Country But as soon as the News of King James's deserting the Government came into Ireland all Protestants look'd on themselves as obliged to take care of their own Preservation and finding that continual Robberies and Plunderings were committed by such
the assistance of so wise a Council will disperse I must needs say both from my own Observation and the Information I have had from my Lords the Judges who often visit the whole Kingdom that there is a great readiness and willingness in all People to serve and obey the King I must here a little enlarge to your Excellency because I reckon my self bound to give the King an account of his Subjects and I would not willingly say any thing when I am at such a distance which I have not mentioned here The English in this Country have been aspersed with the Character of being generally Fanaticks which is a great Injury to them I must do them the justice to say that they are of the Church of England as appears by their Actions as well as Professions The Churches here are as much frequented and the Discipline of the Church as well observed as in England it self which is to be attributed to the Piety and Labour of my Lords the Bishops We of the Church of England can brag that when Rebellion overspread the three Kingdoms not one Orthodox Member of our Church was engaged against the Crown And in our late Disorders we can boast we were Opposers of the Bills of Exclusion and the Sense his Majesty has been graciously pleas'd to express of our Loyalty will never be forgotten by us I had the happiness to be born a Member of the Church of England and I hope God will give me the Grace to die one One thing the English of this Country have to glory in That of all his Majesty's Subjects they made the earliest Advances towards his Majesty's Restoration when the three Kingdoms were governed by Usurpers And after all the Endeavours of his Loyal Subjects in England seemed to be disappointed and there appeared no Hopes by the total defeating of Sir G. Booth the English then in this Kingdom offered to submit to his Majesty's Authority I do not say this my Lord to detract from his Majesty's R. C. Loyal Subjects many of whom I my self knew serv'd and suffered with him abroad but I speak it in justice to the others who did their Duty There is but one thing more I shall trouble your Excellency with I am sorry that I cannot say that I leave a full Treasure but I can say that I leave no Debts The Revenue is in good Order which must be owned to be due to the unwearied Industry and Diligence of the Commissioners The Army is intirely paid to Christmass day last and I have advanced a Month's Subsistence-money for January The Civil and Pensionary Lists are likewise cleared to Christmass I doubt not but your Excellency's Care will carry all things on in the same Method God Almighty bless the King and grant him long Life and I beseech God to prosper this excellent Country I received this Sword in Peace and I thank God by the King's Command I deliver it in Peace to your Excellency and I heartily wish you Joy of the Honour the King has done you A General Abstract of the Gross Produce of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland in the three first Years of the Management beginning at Christmass 1682. ending Christmass 1685.  1683 1684 1685. Customs Inwards Impt. Excise 85844 17 2â…œ 91424 8 8â— â— 91117 13 65 â— Customs Outwards 32092 11 4½ 33425 15 2 29428 8 11½ Seizures and Fines 965 2 3½ 615 1 5â— â— 460 11 5¼ Prizage 1452 1693 1882 Inland Excise 68344 1 3â…œ 77580 3 7¼ 79169 4 4¾ Ale Licenses 8283 14 11â— 4 9538 4 46 8 99â—5 14 11â— â— Wine c. Licenses 2736 12 3114 10 2â— 2 3467 11 3¾ Quit Crown and Custodiam Rents 68699 9 7â…œ 68385 8 0¼ 68922 4 5â— 2 Hearth-Money 31041 31646 32953 12 00 Casual Revenue 820 3 3 1745 16 2 1564 16 11¼ Totals l. 300297 11 11â— 4 319168 7 9 318961 18 0â— 8 Arrears of each of the above-Years remaining uncollected at Christmass 1685. 7659 1 6â…œ 9799 9 8½ 34971 9 3â…ž Net Cash paid into the Treasury in the three Years above-mention'd over and besides the Charges of Management and Sallaries to the Officers of the Revenue in the said time 712972 17 2â…œ Cash remaining in the Collectors Hands at Christmass 1685 ready to be paid in 55655 10 3½ The Solvent Part of the above-mention'd Arrears which was actually levied and paid into the Treasury before Christmass 1688. 30000 00 00 Total Cash l. 798628 07 5â…ž Which at a Medium for three Years amounts for each Year to the Sum of 266209 00 00 Sheriffs for the Year 1687. Febr. 16. 1686. Counties Sheriffs Ardmagh Marcus Clarke Antrim Cormuck O. Neil Cavan Lucas Reily Clare John Mac. Nemara of Cratelagâ— Corke Nicholas Brown of Bantrey Catherlogh Sir Lawrence Esmond Dublin Thomas Warren Downe Valentine Russell Donnegall Charles Hamilton Fermanagh Cohonnagh Mac-Gwire Galway John Keâ—â— Esq Kildare John Wogan King's County Hewar Oxburgh Kilkenny John Grace Esq Kerry Donogh Mac-Gellicuddy Leitrim Alexander Mac-Donnel Lowth Patrick Bellew Limerick Edward Rice of Ballynitty Longford James Nugent Esq Meath Walter Nangle Esq Monoghan Sir John Flemming Mayo Dominick Browne Queen's County Edmond Morris Esq Roscomon John Dillon Esq Sligoe Henry Crafton of Longford Tyrone Terence Donelly Wexford Patrick Colclough Westmeath Thomas Nugent Wicklow Francis Meara Waterford John Nugent Londonderry Elected by the Charter Cipperary Appointed by the Duke of Ormond John Plunkett Lessee of Christ. Lord Baron of Dunsany Plantiff Philip Tuite and John Rawlins Defendants Sir Edward Tyrrell's Affidavit about packing of Juries WHereas there issued two several Venire Faciases at the Plantiff's Suit returnable to his Majesty's Court of Exchequer directed to Edward Tyrrell Esq then High Sheriff of the County of Meath the first Year of his now Majesty's Reign Now Sir Edward Tyrrell Baronet came this day before me and made Oath That one Mr. Plunket Brother to the said Lord of Dunsany came to Longwood to this Deponent's House and desired this Deponent to stand the Lord Dunsany's Friend and to give him a Jury that would do him Right and withal said this Deponent should have after the said Lord of Dunsany should be restored to the Possession of his Estate the sum of three or four hundred Pounds To which this Deponent answered He would do him Justice The said Mr. Plunket desired this Deponent to meet him at Mr. Nugent his Counsel's House where he would further discourse the Matter This Deponent did accordingly meet the said Thomas Plunket where several Proposals and Overtures were made all to no purpose This Deponent further deposeth That in some short time after the said Lord of Dunsany came to this Deponent's said House and after some Discourse he the said Dunsany desired this Deponent to befriend him against those that wronged him and kept him out of his Estate Whereupon this Deponent told the said Lord of Dunsany what offer his Brother made him The said Lord of Dunsany replying said His Brothers
Fran. ô Cahan Donegal Conel ô Donnel Manus ô Donnel  Tyrlagh Oge ô Boyle  Daniel ô Donnel Downe Lord Iveagh Shilling Magennis  Arthur Magennis Antrim Earl of Antrim Shane ô Neil Sheriff  Col. Thady ô Hara Fermanagh Lord of Eniskillen Cuconaght Mac Gwyre A List of the Principal Officers employed in the Revenue 24 Jun. 1690. Dublin Port Chief Commissioners and Officers established by Patent Commissioners of the Revenue SIR Patrick Trant Knight Francis Plowden Esquires John Trinder Esquires Prot. Richard Collins Esquires Prot. Sir William Ellis Knight Charles Playdel Secretary Nicholas Fitz-Gerald Solicitor Prot. James Bonnel Accomptant General Collectors and Officers appointed by the Commissioners Viz. Doctor James Fitz Gerald Collector Prot. Nathaniel Evans Clerk to the Commissioners Prot. William Alcock Examiner of the Port-Accounts and Warrants and Casheer Prot. Sinolphus Bellasis Clerk of the Coast. Prot. John Kent Land Surveyor and Comptroller of the Store Prot. Edward Prescott Land-Surveyor Land-Waiters Prot. John Robinson Prot. Dennis Boyle Prot. Francis Isaackson Henry Fitz Gerald. Prot. Bartholomew Wybrantz Store Keeper Robert Longfield Chief Clerk of the Quit and Crown-Rents Surveyors of Ringsend William Briscoe Phelim Dempsy Francis Creagh Surveyor at Dunlary Dublin Excise Viz. Prot. Francis Babe Collector Prot. Bernard Waight Surveyor General of Excise _____ Carol Examiner of Excise Accounts Surveyors of Excise Prot. Benjamin Powning Examiner of Diaries Prot. Henry Davis Prot. Jacob Walton Philip Clayton Ports and Districts Athlone Christopher Nicholson Collector Peter Duffe Survveyor Baltimore Dominick Nagle Collector Clonmel Terence Magrath Collector Edward Morris Surveyor Cork Port Sir James Cotter Collector Edward Trant Surveyor Florence Mac Carty Surveyor at Cove Cork Excise Francis Garvan Collector James Griffith Surveyor Dingle Ambrose Moore Collector Drogheda Bernard Byrne Collector Walter Babe Surveyor of Excise Morris Morierty Survey at New-key Dungarvan Thomas Mead Collector Ennis John Mac Nemara Collector James Dalton Surveyor Foxford Valentine Kirwan Collector Nicholas Toppin Prot. Surveyor Galway Port Arthur Nagle Collector Galway Excise James Brown Fitz Jeffrey Collector Kilkenny Caesar Colclough Collector Samuel Pigeon Prot Surveyor Kinsale Dominick Rice Collector Dominick Murrogh Surveyor Limerick John Rice Collector Nicholas Skiddy Surveyor Loughrea Stephen Dean Collector Maryburrow Garret Trant Collector William Bourne Surveyor Moyallow John Longfield Collector Richard Aylward Surveyor Naas Edmond Fitzgerald Collector Robert Dowdal Surveyor Rosse James Butler Collector Mark Whitty Surveyor of Excise Sligoe Owen Dermot Collector Trim Richard Barnwal Collector Hugh Mac Donogh Surveyors Richard Barton Waterford Councellor Butler Collector James Heas Surveyor Wexford Anthony Talbot Collector Wicklow Barnaby Hacket Collector Youghal Patrick Fitzgerald Collector David Fitzgerald Surveyor A List of the Names of the New Burgesses of Strabane and Londonderry Viz. STRABANE Commonly call'd Soveraign JOhn ô Neile Shane Mac Con Backagh ô Neile Burgesses Gordon ô Neile Son of Sir Phelim ô Neile the Great Rebel who was Hang'd Drawn and Quarter'd He burnt Strabane in 1641. John ô Neile Shane Mac Neile Rammar Ô Neile William Roe Hamilton Constantine ô Neile James Cunningham Robert Adams Cloud Hamilton Brian ô Neil Mac Brian Mac Cormuc Mac Rory Grana ô Neil John Browne Robert Gamble Patrick Bellew James Mac Gee Art ô Neile Art Mac ô Neile Ramar ô Neile John Donnelly Shane fadda ô Donnelly James Mac Enally John Mac Rory Shane groom Mac Philip Mac Rory Burnt in the Hand Terence Donnelly Turlogh ô Donnelly Henry ô Neile Henry Mac Phelmy Duff Mac Art Mac Rory ô Neile His Father hang'd Roger Mac Cony Rory Mac Brian Mac Con modura Mac Conway His Father hang'd Dominick Mac Hugh Dominick Mac Rory Ballagh Mac Hugh Charles ô Cahan Cormuck Mac Manus Keiogh ô Cahan Charles ô Conway Cormuck Mac Owen oge Mac Owen Modera Mac Conway LONDONDERRY COrmuck ô Neile Mayor Sheriffs Horace Kennedy and Edward Brooks Aldermen Cohanagh Mac Gwire Gordon ô Neile Constantine ô Neile Constance ô Neile Manus ô Donnel Peter Manby Peter Dobbin Antho. Dobbin John Campsie Daniel ô Dogherty William Hamilton Roger ô Cahan Daniel ô Donnel Nicho. â—urside Alexander Lacky Constance ô Dogherty Daniel ô Sheile Roger ô Dogherty Brian ô Neile and John Buchanan Daniel ô Sheile Chamberlain Burgesses Francis ô Cahan Robert Butler Cornelius Callaghan Thomas Moncriefe Hugh ô Hogan John Mackenny John Campsie Henry Campsie James Lenox John ô Hogan William Stanly James Connor Hugh Eady John Donnogh Alexander Gourdon John Crookshanks Phel Mac Shaghlin John ô Linshane Art ô Hogan Charles ô Sheile Johnlius ô Mullan John Sheridan James Sheridan Constance ô Rorke Dom. Boy Mac Loghlin John Nugent William ô Boy John ô Boy William ô Sullivan Dionysius Mac Loghlin Manus ô Cahan Hugh Mac Loghlin Hugh More ô Dogherty Ulick ô Hogurty Henry Ash Tho. Broome Pet. Mac Peake Hen. Dogherty Robert Shenan Cornelius Magreth Art ô Hogan N o. 9. Privy Councellers appointed by Letters from King James Dated the 28th of February 1684 and such as are Sworn since by particular Letters for the Time being LOrd Primate Lord Chancellor Lord Archbishop Dublin Lord High Treasurer Secretary of State Chancellor of the Exchequer Master of the Ordnance Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Lieut. General of the Army Colonel of the Regiment of Guards James Duke of Ormond not sworn Henry Earl of Thomond Cary Earl of Roscomon ... Earl of Ardglass Henry Earl of Drogheda Hugh Earl of Mount-Alexander Richard Earl of Ranelagh not sworn Francis Earl of Longford Maurice Viscount Fitzharding Murrogh Viscount Blesinton Robert Fitzgerald Esq not sworn Sir Charles Fielding not sworn Sir Richard Reynel not sworn Sir Thomas Newcomen Sir Robert Hamilton Esquires not sworn Adam Loftus Lemuel Kingdon Sworn afterwards by particular Letters Sir Paul Rycaut Thomas Heitley Esq Earl of Tyrconnel Earl of Lymerick Lord Viscount Ikerin Lord Viscount Galmoy Esquires Thomas Nugent Dennis Daly Stephen Rice Rich. Hamilton Sir William Wentworth Earl of Ballymore Nicholas Purcel Esq Earl of Clanrickard Earl of Antrim Justin Mac Carty Esq Lord Viscount Gormanst own Lord Viscount Rosse Earl of Tyrone Lord Viscount Netterville Lord Lowth Sir William Talbot Esquires Anth. Hamilton Thomas Sheridan Symon Luttrel Fitzgerald Villers Esq Colonel Garret Moore Lord Bellew Charles White Esq Col. Cormusk ô Neil Francis Plowden Esq Privy Consellors Sworn before King James after his coming to Ireland DUke of Powis Duke of Berwick Earl of Abercorne Lord Thomas Howard Earl of Melfort Lord Chief Justice Herbert Lord Dover Colonel William P Colonel Dorrington Marquis D'Albeville Lord Kilmallock Colonel Sarsfield Lord Merryon Earl of Carlingford Earl of Clanrickard Lord Kenmare Lord Clare N o 10 The Civil List of Officers and the Times of their Entring on their Offices CHANCERY SIR Alexander Fitton Knight Created Lord Fitton and Baron of Gosworth in the County of Lymrick Lord High Chancellor of Ireland 23 April 1689. Sir William Talbot Baronet made
Master of the Rolls Dennis Fitzgerald his Deputy Masters Dr. Alexius Stafford Popish Dean of Christ-church 2d May. Ignatius Berford Esq Dr. of the Laws 6th May. Dr. Matthew Kennedy 10 May. Dr. Michael Plunket a Romish-Priest 23 July Thomas Arthur Soldier Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper This is in Trust for Robert Arthur's Wife Niece to Lord Tyrconnel 1st Aug. William Dorrington Register James Nagle Cursitor and Ingrosser of all Original Writs Henry Temple Esq and Owen Coyle who was Indicted and Outlawed of Forgery Examinators Six Clerks John Newel John Maynard .... Power Thady Meagher John Herny and Geoghegan Baskervile Polewheel Pursuivant KINGS BENCH Thomas Lord Nugent Baron of Riverston L. Chief Justice 2d Justice Vacant not being worth Fees of passing Patent Sir Brian O Neil Baronet Third Justic. 6th July 1689. Randal Mac Donnel Esq Clerk of the Crown and Prothonorary Francis Nugent Deputy Prothonotary Brian Kerny Deputy Clerk of the Crown COMMON PLEAS John Keating Esq Lord Chief Justice 2. Justice Dennis Daly Esq 3. Justice Peter Martin Esq 23 Jan. 1689. Edmond Fitzgerald Esq Chief and only Prothonotary Richard Fenner his Deputy 16 Jan. 1689. Robert Barnwel Esq Custos Brevium and Chirographer James Nagle Clerk of the Outlawries EXCHEQUER Buno Talbot Esq Chancellor Treasurer Vacant Sir Stephen Rice Lord Chief Baron Sir John Barnwel Knight Second Baron Sir Henry Lynch Baronet Puny Baron 1st Aug. 1689. Oliver Grace Esq Chief Remembrancer Second Remembrancer not disposed of formerly an Office of great Perquisites but now not worth Fees of passing Patent 8 Aug. Walter Lord Dungan Clerk of the Common Pleas. Murtagh Griffin his Deputy Philip Dwyer his Sub-Deputy 6 Jul. 89. Richard Talbot of Malahide Esq Auditor General 23 Jul. 89. Chr. Malone Sergeant Dillon's Clerk Surveyor General This in Trust for Lady Tyrconnel and her Daughter married to Col Dillon 3 Oct. 1689. James Nagle Clerk of the Estreats and Summonister 24 October Richard Morgan Pursuivant 28 Nov. 89. Francis Stafford Esq Clerk of the Pipe 20 Dec. 89. Charles White Esq Clerk of the First Fruits and 20th Parts Marcus Baggot First Sergeant at Arms. 7 Jan. 1689. Thomas Haughton Second Sergeant at Arms. 16th Jan. Brian Mac Dermot Esq Clerk of the Pels and Tallies and Clerk of the Treasury 13 Feb. 89. Patrick Kennedy Gent. Comptroller of the Pipe 18 Feb. 89. Thady Meagher Clerk of the Errors This is on the Statute for Writs of Error from the King's-Bench to the Exchequer Chamber 27 February John Barry Gent. Chief Chamberlain Simon Carrick Second Chamberlain 6 March Oliver Grace Esq Transcriptor and Forein Opposer Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 9th July 89. Duke Tyrconnel Henry Lord Dover Lord Riverston Chief Justice Sir Stephen Rice Lord Chief Baron Buno Talbot Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Adam Colclough Secretary 27 August Hugh Reilly Esq Clerk of the Privy Council Commissioners of the Mint in Dublin 26 Aug. 1689. John Trinder William Talbot Thomas Goddars Esq William Bromfield Francis Rice Edward Fox and Walter Plunket Gent. 31 Jan. 1689. Grant to Alderman James Malone and Rich. Malone of the Office of Printer General Commissioners of the Revenue Sir Patrick Trant Sir William Ellis John Trinder Richard Collins Fr. Plowden Esq Sir Theobald Butler Charles Playdel Secretary Receivers General Sir Henry Bond Lewis Doe Esq Nicholas Fitzgerald Solicitor Robert Longfield Clerk of the Quit-Rents and of Forfeited Estates c. N o 11. 2d June 1690. An Account of the General and Field Officers of King James's Army out of the Muster Rolls DUKE of Tyrconnel Captain-General Lieutenants-General Duke of Berwick Richard Hamilton Count Lozune General of the French Monsieur Leary alias Geraldine Lieut. General Dom. Sheldon Lieut. General of the Horse Major-Generals Patrick Sarsfield Monsieur Boisteau Antho. Hamilton Wahup Brigadeers Tho. Maxwell John Hamilton Will. Dorrington Solomon Slater Muster-master-General Robert Fitz-Gerald Comptroller of the Musters Sir Rich. Nagle Secretary at War Receivers General Sir Henry Bond Louis Doe Sir Michael Creagh Pay-master-General Felix O Neile Advocate-General Dr. Archbold Physician to the State Patrick Archbold Chirurgeon-General HORSE Duke of Tyrconnel Collonel Dom. Sheldon Lieut. Coll. Fra. Meara Major Lord Galmoy Coll. Laur. Dempsy 1st Lieu. Coll. Char. Carrole 2d Lieu. Coll. Robert Arthur Major Patrick Sarsfield Coll. Lord Kinsale Lieut. Coll. Roger Magilligan Major Hugh Sutherland Coll. Edm. Pendergast 1st L. Coll. Talbot Lassells 2d L. Coll. Will. Cox Major Lord Abercorne Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Henry Luttrell Coll. Sir James Moclare Lieu. Coll. Major John Parker Coll. Tho. Gifford Lieu. Coll. John Metham Major Nicholas Pursel Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major DRAGOONS Lord Dimgan Coll. Lieut. Coll. Major Sir Neile O Neile Coll. Lieut. Coll. Major Lord Clare Coll. John Mac Nemara 1st L. Coll. James Philips 2d L. Coll. Francis Browne Major Symon Luttrell Coll Lieut. Coll. Edmund Moclare Major Robert Clifford Coll. Alex. Mackenzie Lieut. Coll. Major Fran. Carroll Coll. Tarens Carroll 1st L. Coll. Fran. Boismoroll 2d L. Coll. Major Tho. Maxwell Coll. Daniel Magennis Lieu. Coll. Callaghane Major FOOT Will. Dorrington Collonel of the Guards Will. Mansel Barker Lieu. Coll. Tho. Arthur Major John Hamilton Coll. James Nugent Lieu. Coll. Majors John Talbot 1st James Gibbons 2d Lord Fitz-James Coll. Edw. Nugent 1st Lieu. Coll. Porter 2d Lieu. Coll. Dodsby Major Earl of Clancarty Coll. John Skelton Lieu. Coll. Philip Rycaut Major Earl of Clanrickard Coll. Edmund Madden Lieu. Coll. Major Earl of Antrim Coll. Mark Talbot Lieu. Coll. James Woogan Major Earl of Tyrone Coll. Tho. Nugent Lieu. Coll. Richard Nagle Major Richard Nugent Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Gormanstowne Coll. Richard Eustace Lieu. Coll. Major Henry Dillon Coll. Walter Bourk Lieu. Coll. John Morgan Major Lord Galway Coll. John Power Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Bellew Coll. Nich. Fitz-gerald 1st L. Coll. Le Sir Doge 2d L. Coll. John Dowdale Major Lord Kinmare Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Slane Coll. Maurice Connell Lieu. Coll. Major Cormuck O Neile Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Charles Cavenagh Coll. James Lacy Lieu. Coll. Gros. Pordevarande Major Tho. Butler Coll. D' Busby Lieut. Coll. Major Lord Kilmallock Coll. John Power Lieu. Coll. John Chapell Major Sir Maur. Eustace Coll. John Woogan Lieu. Coll. Major Sir John Fitz-gerald Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Lord Lowth Coll. Lieu. Coll. Major Earl of Westmeath Coll. Mich. Delahoyde Lieu. Coll. Gowen Talbot Major Major-General Boisteau Coll. Monsieur Beaupre Lieu. Coll. Hurly Major Lord Bofine Coll. Will. Connock Lieu. Coll. John Bodkin Major Oliver O Gara Coll. Tady Connor Lieu. Coll. Major John Grace Coll. Robert Grace Lieu. Coll. Cha. Moore Major Edward Butler Coll. John Innis Lieu. Coll. Garret Geoghegan Major Art Mac Mahon Coll. Philip Reyley Lieu. Coll. Hâ—gh Magennis Major Charles Moore Coll. Ulick Bourk Lieu. Coll. ....... Major Dudley Bagnall Coll. James Power Lieu. Coll. .... Corbet Major Gordon O Neile Coll. Conn O Neile Lieu. Coll. Henry O Neile Major Nicholas Brown Coll. George Traps Lieu. Coll. Dermot Mac Auliffe
the Lord Deputy and Roman Catholick Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom who are universally concerned in the present Army and in that which is to be raised will upon the first signification of his Majesty's Pleasure to that purpose unanimously Disband retire to their several Dwellings and apply themselves to advance the Quiet and Wealth of the Kingdom Nor can I ever doubt his Majesty's Condescention and Care for the Preservation of this His Kingdom and preventing the Effusion of Christian Blood For most assuredly if War should happen here which God of his Infinite Mercy prevent His Majesty would be the only great Sufferer in the Loss of so many Subjects Lives wherein consists the Wealth and Strength of the greatest Monarchs There are very many now at London who know the State and Condition of this Kingdom much better than I pretend to what I now write I design not as a Secret but if you think it worth Consideration I leave it to you to Communicate it to such as you shall think fit And if there be any thing in it worthy their Thoughts I must declare that there is nothing within the reach of my Industry that I will not endeavour in the method of my Profession for the maintenance of Religion and Property as established by the Laws of this Kingdom and should die with the greatest satisfaction and reckon it a Nobler Posterity than any Man can pride himself in if I could be in the least Instrumental in the setling Peace and Quiet without more hazard or Loss to this my Native Country which I make no doubt the Almighty will in his good Time effect by his own Means and Instruments more deserving of so great a Blessing from him than I am If this find any Room with your self other thinking Men or such who have great Stakes here let me know your Thoughts with what convenient speed you can it being a matter in which a moment is not to be lost and the first Step to be made there since it cannot be expected that the Lord Deputy will do any thing in a matter of so great Moment without His Majesty's Directions N o 15. Proposals humbly offered to the Earl of Tyrconnell Lord Deputy by the Bishop of Meath about the intended Search for Arms. WHEREAS Your Excellency hath ordered by Your Declaration That a Search shall be made in every House in Dublin for Arms and Ammunition and that in Case any shall be found upon Search that the Persons with whom they are found shall be left to the Mercy of the Soldiers This Penalty is thought unreasonable on these following Accounts First Because it is not determin'd by the Declaration who shall be the Searchers for if the matter be manag'd as hitherto it hath been that every one who pretends to be a Soldier must have liberty to search and in such Numbers and as often as they please no House can be safe for that some have been already searched by Six Companies after one another and that in the same Day And if any of these should pretend to find a Pistol or Bagonet or Horn of Powder though he brought it out of his Pocket with a design to draw an inconvenience on the House yet by the Declaration the House and all that is in it must be left to the Mercy of the Soldiers and by this means the Innocent may suffer as well as the Guilty Secondly That if the Soldiers be permitted to search there will be so much Damage by it to this City that an Age cannot Repair it For by this means every Place that is capable of concealing Arms must be left to their Discretion the Boards will be rip'd up partition Walls broken down Wainscot taken down Cellars digg'd up the Foundations of Houses endanger'd Barrels of Beer open'd Provocations offer'd and received the Safety of the People in apparent hazard many things taken away without hopes of Restitution the Looms of Tradesmen and the Instruments of Artificers destroyed and his Majesty's Interest dis-served after all by the Soldiers endeavouring rather to serve their own Ends than his Majesty's true Interest Thirdly In many Houses there are several Families Lodgers and Servants of several Sorts and if any of these either out of Malice or Folly or good Will to their Masters conceal any Arms though never so inconsiderable all the rest though Innocent must suffer for it which is against Equity and Justice that requires every Man to suffer only for his own Fault and not for the Fault of others Fourthly Many have had Lodgers in their Houses for several Years whose Truncks and Papers are still there and possibly Arms may be in them which the House-keeper knows nothing of It is therefore Unreasonable That either the Owners of such Goods being absent or the Masters of the House that know nothing of it should suffer for what they cannot help By this means Papers may miscarry and the Estates of Men be ruin'd and undone Fifthly Many Landlords Owners of Houses are either gone for England or absent elsewhere about their lawful Occasions and their Servants may either not know where their Arms are or foolishly endeavour to conceal them and so expose their innocent Masters to Ruine Sixthly The leaving Persons to the Mercy of the Soldiers is a Punishment so unknown to our Laws and so strange to these Kingdoms that the Execution of it will be agreat prejudice to his Majesty's Affairs and alienate the Hearts of his Subjects more from him and do him whose Presence they expect more mischief than the Arms can do him good It is an ill President and may in time destroy the whole Kingdom and subvert the Law It is therefore humbly proposed That in case your Excellency be not satisfied with the Returns already made and to be made but you will still go on with the Search that your Excellency would graciously condescend to these following Expedients for the better Ease and Quiet of his Majesty's Subjects First That whereas each Parish is divided into its several Wards that your Excellency would order the Search to be made by the Deputy Alderman of each Ward with the Assistance of One or more Military Officers as your Excellency shall think fit and not by the Soldiers for by this means what Arms are found will be secured for his Majesty's Use and the Subject freed from the fears of Plunder and Ruine The Search intended is so provided for to be by an Alderman and an Officer Secondly That no Man be responsible for more than his own Goods nor the Punishment inflicted on any but the Guilty His Excellency consents to this Thirdly That regard be had to the Goods and Papers of all Persons that be absent and who by reason of their Absence before the Declaration was published cannot be presumed to be Violaters of it His Excellency consents to this Fourthly That a Declaration be published to this purpose for informing the People of your Excellency's Intentions which will contribute
not hold for the Reasons aforesaid Thirdly There is no such thing as Restitution of Temporal Estates in England for they were wiser there than to lose their Estates though they would be free to consent or advise that others may so it is very free for the King to make any Settlement of any Spiritual or Temporal Estates there as he shall think fit notwithstanding any Settlement he makes in Ireland Now remains I think one Objection to solve which may give some Obstruction to this intended Settlement which is that of the Gown-men or others who made Purchases of some New Interests bona fide Must they lose 〈◊〉 Purchase and Money To which I answer That although it may be reply'd Caveat emptor especially to the Gown-men who knew best of all that horrid Act of Settlement or so called was most unjust and could by no true Law hold yet because they are Persons useful for the Common-wealth and acted bona fide seeing the Estate out of the Ancient Proprietors Hands by so many Publick Acts as it was not like ever to come to him again there ought an Expedient to be found for the like that they be not losers and that either they or the Ancient Proprietors may be recompensed one way or other rather than it should be an Obstacle to the common Good And so I have done with this matter which I leave and recommend to God and you This is all the advice I can now give upon this matter and the Observations I make by my Conversation and Acquaintance with the People this year past and I am sure I am not deceived in my Opinion of them in relatition to 78 nor in the reasons they will make use of to perswade you to neglect your own Interest to save theirs and I am no less certain 27 is all inclined that way So you are to look to your selves and whilst Sun shines to make your Hay Nune tempus acceptabile Nunc dies Salutis Dum ergo tempus habemus operemur bonum maxime ad domesticos fidei 92 if authoriz'd will make all this Court go in your way by shewing them it is their Interest of which he has laid some Foundations already There remains another Observation which is That a Benedictine English Monk called Price is gone thither with the King who pretends to play that we call here premier aâ—mosnier in England they call it Clerk of the Closet to the King which Father Peters had there And here it is always a Bishop Now the Bishop of Orleans whose Office is to assist the King at Mass and all other Ecclesiastical Functions as Chief when the Lord High Almoner is not present gives the orders and spiritual directions cum privilegio exceptionis in the King's Palace and Liberties of it Why should we in our Country have any in that place but one of our selves Let them take place in England and so why would not you have this place for your self there or get it for M. B. and exercise the Functions in his absence rather than a Stranger should have it before our face and laugh at us Now to other business you are to know your business in Rome is concluded upon and past all difficulties only remains the Expedition of the Bulls which you may ever move as you please The Expences whereof by Dr. Sleyn's great care and Sollicitation with the help of Cardinal Howard and means of Monsieur Casone Favorite to his Holiness are reduced to a hundred Roman Crowns though it cost Dr. Fuller for worse 170. notwithstanding all the Favours and Sollicitations which were many he could employ Dr. Sleyn this Seignior Cousin should be thanked by a Civil Letter to which I wrote one of which I here send you a Draught you No. 19. A List of all the Men of Note that came with King James out of France or that followed him after so far as could be Collected THe Duke of Berwick Mr. Fitz-James Grand Prior. Duke Powis Count D' Avaux Ambassador from France Earl of Dover Lord Henry Howard Lord Thomas Howard Lord Drummond Marquess D' Estrades Earl Melfort Lord Seaforth Bishop of Chester who died here and is buried in Christ Church Gourdon Bishop of Galway Hamilton Dean of Glasgow Sir Edward Herbert Sir John Sparrow Collonel Porter Mr. Pedle Monsieur Pontee Engineer Captain Stafford Captain Trevanyon Sea Capt. Sir Roger Strickland ditto Captain Arundel ditto Collonel Sarsfield Coll. Anthony Hamilton Coll. John Hamilton Coll. Symon Lutterel Coll. Henry Lutterel Coll. Ramsey killed at Derry Lord Abercorne Coll. Dorrington Major Thomas Arthur Lord Dungan Capt. Mac Donnel Sea Capt. Sir William Jennings Coll. Sotherland Sir Hen. Bond Receiver Gen. Mr. Collins Com. of the Reven Coll Clifford Coll. Parker Marshal de Rosene Lieutenant General Mamve killed at Derry Lieu. Gen. Pusignan kill'd there also Major General Leary Lord Trendraught Lord Buchan Major John Gourdon Lieutenant Coll. John Skelton Major John Ennis Major William Douglas Lieut. Coll. Hungate Major William Connock Sir Charles Carney Lieut. Coll. Alex. Mackenzy Major James Fountaine Major Teig Regan Lieut. Coll. Edward Scott Major Robert Frayne Major Symon O Hogherne Lieut. Coll. Bynns Coll. James Purcel Lieut. Coll. George Traps Major Robert Ingram Major Edmond Pendergast Major John Gifford Lord Hunsdon Coll. Lieutenant Collonel Francis Leonard Coll. Alexander Cannon went for Scotland Major Edmond Bourk Major James Dempsy Major Frederick Cunningham Coll. Robert Fielding Major Richard Hillersden Major Boepry Monsieur Boisâ—ean made Governour of Cork His Brother St. Martin Commissary of the Artillery killed at Cromp-Castle Sir Edward Vaudrey Sir Charles Murray Sir Robert Parker Chaplains viz. FAther Nich. Dunbar Father Dan. Mac Ayliffe Anthony Mac Gwyre Nicholas Trapps John Madden Austin Mathews Laurence Moore Father Edmond Reyly John de Gravell John Hologhan Father Richard Peirce Patr. Aghy Darby Daley Thady Croley Danniel Mac Carthy Chirurgeons viz. JOhn Brunton Thady Regan Jo. Baptista Monlebeck Charles Stapleton John James Aremore John Cassel Edmond Tully Nicholas Reynard Captains WIlliam Charters William Oliphant Robert Charters Peter Blare Thomas Brown Francis Creighton James Buchan Alexander Gourdon George Lattin Sir Alphonso Moiclo John Baptista du Moll John Mollins John Wynnel John Fortescue Robert London George Roberts Thomas Scott James Fitz Symons William Gibbons William Delaval Mau. Flynn Richard Scott Connor O Toghil Anthony Ryan Rupert Napier Terence O Brian Edmund Kendelan Henry Crofton Richard Anthony Edmund Nugent John Plunkett John Dungan Rowland Smyth Gowen Talbot Simon Barnwell John Broder John Cavenagh Edmund Stack Walter Hastings Edward Widdrington Samuel Arnold Robert Welsh David Rock Charles Booth Jornoe Robert Fielding Francis Gyles John Barnardy Anthony Power John Chaple Rowland Watson Thomas Arundel Robert Hacket Sir William Wallis Richard Burton Cornelius Mac Mahon Talbot Lassels Richard Bucker Charles Fox Anthony Vane Strickland Tyrwhit John Manback Francis Cullange John Lumendato Fran. Lappanse Bernardo Buskett Jos. Pamnett Captain Millio George Coney Chevalier Devalory Sir Samuel
beating and injuring Protestants ibid. 12. In disarming them p. 67 13. The Dispensing Power of more mischief still than ill Administration First Only to be allowed in Cases of Necessity ibid. 14. Secondly In such Cases the People have as much right to it as the King Instance in the Sheriff of Warwickshire from Dr. Sanderson p. 68 15. Thirdly The wickedness either in King or People in pretending Necessity where there is none p. 69 16. King James's employing Popish Officers was such a Dispensation ibid. 17. And no Necessity for it unless such as was Criminal p. 70 18. King James dispensed with all when it was against Protestants p. 71 Sect. 4. Thirdly King James's dealing with Civil Offices and the Privy Council p. 72 1. Several outed notwithstanding Patents ibid. 2. Act of Parliament for voyding Patents Irish hereby made Keepâ—rs of Records which before they had corrupted when they could get to them p. 73 3. Revenue Officers changed for Roman Catholicks though to the Prejudice of the Revenue p. 74 4. Sheriffs and Justices of Peace from the Scum of the People ibid. 5. Privy-Councellors all in effect Papists p. 76 Sect. 5. Fourthly King James's dealing with Corporations p. 77 1. The Peoples security in these Kingdoms is the choice of Representatives in Parliament To preserve this Papists excluded from Corporations in Ireland Protestants had made great Concessions to the King by their New Rules for Corporations The King not satisfied with this but would have all p. 77 78 2. Rice and Nagle's managing of Quo Warranto's a horrid Abuse of the Kings Prerogative and the Law p. 78 79 3. Other methods of destroying Charters p. 80 4. Particular Corporations in Dublin how ordered ibid. 5. Voyding Charters led to voyding Parents for Estates ibid. 6. Corporations by the New Charters made absolute Slaves to the Kings Will. First by Consequence no free Parliament could be Returned Secondly Protestants could not serve in the Corporations p. 80 81 7. Protestants hereby driven from the Kingdom ibid. Sect. 6. Fifthly King James's Destruction of the Trade p. 82 1. Trade to be destroyed that the King might have his Will of his Subjects Poor People willing to serve for little in an Army as in France ibid. 2. In order to ruin the Protestants who were the chief Traders Driven hereby out of the Kingdom p. 83 3. This ruined a great many that depended on them ibid. 4. The Irish in employ who had the ready Mony gave it only to Papist Tradesmen p. 84 5. Exactions of the Revenue-Officers great discouragement to Merchants and Traders p. 85 6. Protestant Shoopkeepers quitted for fear of being forced to Trust ibid. 7. Transportation of Wooll connived at by Lord Tirconnell to ruin our woollen Trade p. 86 8. Roman Catholick principal Traders ruined also by King James by the Act of Repeal p. 87 Sect. 7. Sixthly King James's Destruction of our Liberty p. 88 1. No general Pardon at King James's Accession to the Crown Protestants hereby questioned for things in the Popish Plot on false Evidences ibid. 2. Protestants sworn into Plots and seditious Words Instance 1. In County Meath 2. In County Tipperary p. 88 89 3. New Magistrates in Corporations plagued Protestants p. 90 4. New Levies and Rapparee's imprisoned those that resisted their Robberies Instance in Mr. Brice of Wicklow Maxwel and Levis Queens County Sir Laurence Parsons p. 91 5. General imprisonment of Protestants from Midsummer 1689. to Christmas No Habeas Corpus's allowed Protestants of Drogheda barbarously used at the Siege and of the County of Cork by imprisonments p. 92 93 6. Hard Usage of Protestants in Prisons Powder placed to blow them up Leak's Evidence against the Prisoners in Dublin defeated by an Accident p. 93 7. K. James aware of all the ill Treatment of Protestants informed at large by the Bishop of Limrick All Protestants confined by his Proclamation to their Parishes p. 94 8. Arts to conceal this in England Intollerable staying in Ireland Necessary to close in with King William p. 95 Sect. 8. Seventhly King James's destruction of our Estates 1. By disarming the Protestants by Lord Tirconnell p. 97 1. Government dissolved that does not preserve Property ibid. 2. The Irish very low at the Prince of Oranges's Invasion Would easily have been brought to submit Protestants able to have mastered them Lord Mountjoy opposed seizing Tirconnell p. 97 98 3. Protestants resolved not to be the Aggressors were inclined to submit to King James till they found his destructive designs Monsieur d' Avaux complained of the Measures put on King James by Tirconnell p. 98 99 4. Tirconnell's Arts and Lyes to gain time pretending to be ready to submit to King William till he form'd his new Levies Lord Chief Justice Keatings Letters and Observations on it p. 99 5. New Levies necessary to be subsisted on Plunder This gave credit to the Letter to Lord Mount Alexander Decemb. 6. 1688. p. 101 6. And made Derry shut its Gates against the Earl of Antrims Regiment p. 102 7. Obliged to do thus by their Foundation p. 103 8. Provoked to it by the unjust taking away their Charter p. 104 9. This made also the Enniskiliners refuse two Companies sent by Lord Tirconnell and the Northern Gentlemen to enter into an Association for their own defence ibid. 10. Lord Tirconnell hastened to run them into blood before King James's coming p. 106 11. Justification of their declaring for their present Majesties ibid. 12. Their defence of themselves of great benefit to the Protestant Cause and almost miraculous p. 107 13. Lord Tirconnell's Lyes and Wheedles to Lord Mountjoy to send him to France p. 109 14. Lord Mountjoy's Reasons to accept it Articles granted to him by Tirconnell for the Protestants not kept p. 110 15. Lord Tirconnell proceeds to disarm the Protestants Manner of doing it and taking away their Horses A perfect Dragooning p. 111 16. Proclamation issued after it had been done by verbal Orders p. 113 17. The Arms for the most part embezled by the Soldiers who took them This had like to have occasioned a worse Dragooning prevented by the Bishop of Meath p. 113 114 18. The manner of taking up and embezling Horses p. 114 19. Miserable condition of the Protestants being disarmed amongst their Irish Enemies Protestants had the highest Legal Property in their Arms. The Government by taking them away must design their ruin p. 115 20. No Reason for disarming us but to make us a Prey p. 116 21. It was necessary in King James's Circumstances but the Necessity occasioned by his own fault ibid. Sect. 9. Secondly Lord Tirconnell's Attempts on the Protestants Personal Fortunes p. 117 1. Which he destroyed by encouraging Popish Tenants against their Protestant Landlords and swearing them into Plots Gentlemen forced to live for some time before the Turn on their Stocks p. 117 118 2. Forced into England with little ready Mony Many burnt out of their Houses in the Country Many robbed and some murthered
Body in their Employments had not substance enough to answer the Charges of a Suit much less the Damages expected by way of Reparation 2. After the Earl of Tyrconnel had named his Sheriffs of this stamp for the year 1687 it will hardly be found that any Protestant recovered any Debt by Execution The main Reason of this was the Poverty of Sheriffs which made Men unwilling to trust the Execution of a Bond for twenty pounds into their Hands they not being responsible even for such á small Summ as too many found to their cost The Mayors and other Magistrates in their new modelled Corporations were generally of the same sort In Dublin they could not pick up Men enough that had the face to appear as Burgesses and some of those that they named had not Mony to buy themselves Gowns I think their number was never complete It was yet worse in the Country Corporations in many places they were not able to pay the Attorney General 's Fees which stopped their new Charters till the calling a Parliament necessitated him to pass them gratis As to the inferior Officers of the Army such as Captains Lieutenants and Ensigns some hundreds of them had been Cow-herds Horse-boys or Footmen and perhaps these were none of their worst Men for by reason of their Education amongst Protestants they had seen and understood more than those who had lived wild on the Mountains 3. 'T is observable that the Men of clear Estates who followed his late Majesty from England through France as they were but very few so they had but little interest with him of which Duke Powis was one Instance and Lord Dover another Duke Powis made the Protestants believe and perhaps he was sincere in it that he was much against the Proceedings of the pretended Parliament and used his Interest with the King to put a stop to them but was not able to do it Lord Dover was actually dismissed from all his Employments and ready to leave the Kingdom some time before the Alteration happened by the Victory at the Boyn Now King James's Aversion to employ or trust Men of Estates and Fortunes and the reason of his Fondness of such Creatures as had no Being but what he gave them was obvious enough to us that felt it and they themselves did not deny it nay boasted of it as a great instance of his Wisdom He knew these could never thrive but by making him absolute that they would never demur at any Command or enquire for any other Law than his Will that they were out of all fear of being questioned afterwards or of having their Estates forfeited or Families beggared all which are great Restraints on Men of Estates and Honor. 4. And surely there cannot be a fuller Demonstration of a Prince's Design to lay aside the Laws and to rule by force without controul than his putting out Men of Substance and employing Men of broken and desperate Fortunes in places of Trust and Honor who having nothing else to depend upon but the Prince's pleasure must be absolute Slaves to it and yield a blind Obedience to all that is given them in Commission This is the Misery of a People when Servants rule over them And this was the Reason King James employed rather such than any others And it was impossible the Grand Segnior should have fitted himself better with Instruments for promoting an arbitrary Government than he did SECT VI. II. The Insufficiencies of the Persons employed by King James was of mischievous Consequence to the Kingdom 1. THE Poverty and Meanness of the Men was not their worst Fault It is possible that a poor Man may be both honest and able for the greatest Trust. But the Officers employed by King James were such that tho they had been very honest and willing to do Justice they yet must have done much Mischief by their Unskilfulness and Insufficiency for the Offices with which he intrusted them It was both King James's Misfortune and his Subjects that he employed very few of sober Sense and Experience about him whether it was that he could not get Men of Sense to go through with him in all things that he would have had done or whether it proceeded from the Servility observable in dull People whereby they flatter and gain on Princes Or lastly from a Humor incident to great Men which makes them unwilling to have Servants able to pry into their Designs But however it was it was remarkable in King James that dull heavy Men kept his Favor longer and more steadily than Men of Sense and Parts and he generallly chose out the most unfit and most uncapable for Preferments It is plain that even in England he designed the Army should be supplyed with Irish and this Project went farther than the Army he was filling the Burroughs and Corporations with them also and no Body knew where the humour would have stopped Now if there had been nothing else their being kept out of all Employments and Trusts by the Laws for many years past must have incapacitated them and all Roman Catholicks for managing the Affairs of the Kingdom to advantage they neither had fit Education nor had they applyed their minds to the Management of such Affairs they were absolute Strangers to every thing that concerned the publick and then no wonder that they went aukwardly and untowardly about Business How was it conceivable that they should escape signal and mischievous Errors in the Discharge of Offices to which they had never been bred up and of which they never thought till they were put to manage them And yet this they were constrained to do without the Aid or Assistance of any to help them and that under the most difficult Circumstances for the former Officers looked on their Offices as their Freeholds and conceived a great Resentment against such as had turned them out of them against Law and Justice and therefore left them as inâ—â—icate and their Successors as little Information as they could who according to the Nature of ignorant Men were too proud to ask assistance from the others if those had been willing to afford them instruction 2. It is not imaginable how many Inconveniences happened on this Account nothing was done by any Rule or Method the Subjects were every day oppressed and the Officers made themselves ridiculous by their Blunders and Mistakes every Body was petitioning by reason of these Grievances and no Body knew how to redress them None of the new Officers understood his own Business or how to distinguish his Province from another Man's The knavish part of Offices in putting Tricks on People and getting Money were all the Study of the new employed Gentlemen The real and substantial parts of the Offices for which they were instituted and designed were little known and less minded nor could it be expected to be otherwise Could any imagine for Example that Chancellor Fitton that had lain in prison many years and not appeared in any
of Money to compound the Matter This Trick was very common and at last no Protestant tho he had ever so good Evidence against a Papist durst prosecute him for he was sure to be acquitted and then the Prosecutor was liable to the Revenge of an Action of the Case and the Damages that a Popish Jury pleased to give against him 12. There is an Act of Parliament 10 Henrici 7. cap. 12. That forbids keeping Guns or Ordnance without License from the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy The Design of it was to prevent the Irish from fortifying themselves in their little Castles whereby at that time they created the Government great Trouble and raised daily Rebellions But the Lord Chief Justice Nugent interpreted this to the disarming of all Protestants and because there chanced to be a Sword and Case of Pistols found September 6 1689 in some outward by place in Christs Church Dublin one Wolf the Subverger was committed to Newgate indicted and found guilty and had good luck to escape with his Life the Chief Justice declaring it was Treason tho Wolf was only indicted for a Misdemeanour 13. But had the Laws been in never so good Hands it could not have secured us from Destruction when the King who designed that Destruction against us pretended to be above all Laws and made no Scruple to dispense with them every Law in these Kingdoms is really a Compact between the King and People wherein by mutual consent they agree on a Rule by which he is to govern and according to which they oblige themselves to pay him Obedience But there is no general Rule but in some Cases it may prove inconvenient it is therefore agreed by all that in Cases of sudden and unforeseen Necessity there is no Law but may be dispensed with but then first it is observable that this Necessity must be so visible and apparent that all reasonable Men may see and be satisfied that it is not pretended and where the Necessity has been thus real no Man can shew that either the People or Parliament ever quarrelled with a King for using a dispensing Power 14. Secondly It must be observed that this Power of Dispensing in Cases of Necessity is mutual and belongs to the People as well as the King it being as lawful for a Subject in Cases of Necessity to dispense with his Obedience to a Law nay with his Allegiance to his King as for a King to dispense with the Execution of a Law or the exacting Obedience and this mutual power of dispensing with the Laws which are publick Compacts in Cases of Necessity is tacitly understood in them as well as in all other Covenants Doctor Sanderson proves this Power of Dispensing to belong to the People as well as to the Prince in his tenth Praelection N. 21. and he gives an Example in N. 22. The Case is thus The Conspirators after the Gunpowder Treason was discovered fled into Warwickshire and made an Insurrection the Sheriff raises the Posse Comitatus against them they fled from thence into Worcestershire where by the Law the Sheriffs of Warwick could not follow them but the Sheriff dispensed with the Law Judging saith he as he ought to have done That if he would perform right the Office of a good Subject the Observation of the Law in that Case of Necessity was very unseasonable and he ought to obey the Supreme Law which is the Safety of his Country The Sheriff did accordingly and was highly commended by King James the First for it There might be many Examples of this kind given in which the People are allowed to dispense even with their Allegiance in case of Necessity It is against the Allegiance of a Subject to own the Power of an Usurper to bear Arms to judge of Life and Death or administer Justice between Man and Man by his Commission and yet Dr. Sanderson determines it to be the Duty of a good Man to do all these if required by an Usurper Praelect 5. N. 19. and accordingly we find Judge Hales acted under the worst of Usurpers Oliver Cromwell and executed the Office of a Judge as may be seen in his Life 15. Thirdly 'T is the most wicked as well as hazardous thing that a King or People can do to pretend a necessity for dispensing with those publick Compacts when the pretence is not real for the publick Faith is hereby violated the party unconsulted is abused a just reason of Distrust raised between the King and People and they of the two that assume to themselves this power of dispensing upon a pretended not real necessity in Cases of great Moment to the Kingdom are in a fair way to lay a real necessity on the other party to dispense with their part of the Compact that is to say if the King will pretend a Necessity where there is none for his not governing by Laws in Cases that concern the common safety of the Kingdom he gives a shrewd Temptation and a justifiable Colour to his People to dispense with their Submission and Allegiance to him And it is full as good a Reason for a Peoples taking Arms to defend themselves against illegal Violence to alledge that they were necessitated to do so to prevent the Ruin and Destruction of them and their Posterity as it is for a King to alledge that he uses illegal Officers and Force to preserve himself and his Kingdoms And if the Allegation be real I do not see why it should not justifie the one as well as the other tho the one be against the Oath of Allegiance and the other against the Coronation Oath Cases of extreme Necessity being tacitly excepted in both Kings therefore that take on themselves to dispense with Laws without the consent either tacit or express of their People give an ill Precedent against themselves and must blame themselves if their People taught by them return it upon them 16. 'T is plain the Officers employed by King James in Ireland both Civil and Military were unqualified and uncapable by Law of those Employments If Lord Tirconnell for instance claimed Subjection of us by the Laws I do not see why he should expect the People to be better Observers of the Laws than he was Suppose that it was against the Law for them to resist him it was likewise against the Laws that he should command them if he dispensed in one Case they only dispensed in the other and in this Case it was as lawful for the one to dispense as the other I suppose the only Reason in a settled Government why one Man can claim our Submission and not another is because the known Laws give the one and not another the power of commanding but the Laws as well as the Interest of this Kingdom said positively that the Earl of Tirconnell and Men of his Character and Religion should not have any Office Civil or Military and therefore those Protestants that stood on their Defence against him
did not look on themselves to have resisted any persons legally commissioned by the King nor was there any need of a Judge or Judgment in the Case the Question being no other than Whether the Law required that our Governors and Army should not be Papists And whether the Earl of Tirconnell and those he employed were Papists Both which were notorious and confessed by all without the Determination of a Court or Judges 17. As to the point of Necessity 't is as plain there was no Necessity on King James to employ these persons whom the Law had disabled to serve him Protestants were numerous enough and willing enough to serve him in every thing that was for the Interest of the Kingdom but he not only refused to entertain them but turned out such as he found employed without the least Crime or Accusation and put in their places persons not only unqualified by Law for the Employments into which he put them but also unfit and uncapable to discharge them which sufficiently shewed that it was Choice not Necessity made him employ them But he foresaw that such persons as the Laws designed for Employments would not assist to destroy the Laws Liberties and Religion of the Kingdom and therefore he exchanged them for those new Servants whose Interest it was to join with him in his ill Designs and whose Service was their Crime who deserved the most severe punishments not only for accepting these Employments against the Laws but likewise using them to the Subversion of all Law and Justice If therefore there was any necessity on King James to employ such Servants it was a criminal Necessity and intirely of his own making and if he imagined that such a Necessity would excuse him from his Coronation Oath of governing according to the Laws and justifie his dispensing with all the Laws made for the Security of his Subjects why should he not allow the same Liberty to his Subjects and think that an inevitable Necessity of avoiding Ruin should be a sufficient Reason for them to dispense with their Obedience to him notwithstanding their Oaths of Allegiance especially where the Necessity is not pretended or created by themselves as his was but apparent and forced on them by him According therefore to his own Rules he cannot blame them for refusing to obey him where no Law required their Obedience or for resisting him in those unlawful Methods they saw him engaged in to their manifest Destruction But King James was resolved to venture all and as many of his Favourites expressed it would not be a Slave to the Laws and therefore endeavoured to be their Master In England he granted without any apparent Necessity nay against not only the Interest and Safety of the Kingdom but even to his own prejudice several Dispensations but these passed in some colour or form of Law and many of them at least passed the Offices and Seals but in Ireland they did not trouble themselves with these Formalities A verbal Command from the King was a sufficient Dispensation to all Laws made in favour of a Protestant the Officers acted and the Courts judged as if there had been no such Laws in being Here the Dispensations went much higher than in England even to dispensing with the Laws against robbing and taking away property for if King James had a mind to any thing he sent an Officer with a File of Musquetiers and fetched it away without considering the Owners and to shew us that his Commands were not merely pretended by these Officers which I confess often happened when they did such illegal things the King himself to shew I say that it was his determinate Resolution to act us did sometimes send Orders under his Hand to take away many things of great value without offering any Retribution or Satisfaction to the Owners Many Instauces of this kind may be given I shall only mention one because it made some noise A Grant in nature of a Lease with a reserv'd Rent to the Crown was made by King Charles the Second to some of his Courtiers as a Gratuity for considerable Services whereby the sole Liberty to coin Copper-Money in the Kingdom of Ireland for one and twenty years was given to them This Grant was purschased at a dear rate from the Grantees by Sir John Knox late Lord Mayor of Dublin and was renewed not without great Trouble and Charges to him by King James after his Accession to the Crown When he came into Ireland he found this Grant in the Hands of Collonel Roger Moor to whom it came by way of Legacy from the Purchaser King James designing to set up a Brass Mint sent for this Grant and had it strictly canvast to see if any Flaw could be found in it none could be found nor would the Collonel be persuaded to give it up The King therefore commanded it to be laid aside and his own Mint to be proceeded on without regard to it But having occasion for the coining Tools and Engines belonging to this without consulting the Owner or enquiring whether he was willing to part with them he sent and seised on them violently forcing open the Doors and taking away to a considerable Value Collonel Moore petitioned for Redress or at least some Consideration for his Loss but his Petition was rejected without being heard Such proceedings were common and shews us plainly what a weak Barrier Laws are against a person who designs absolute Power and who believes according to our late Act of Recognition That the Decision in all Cases of a misused Authority by a Lawful Hereditary King must be left to the sole Judgment of God SECT IV. III. King James's Progress to destroy his Protestant Subjects by his disposing of Civil Offices and ordering the Privy Council 1. I Have already taken notice how King James disposed the Military Offices in such a Method as must unavoidably ruin the Protestant Interest in Ireland it was not altogether so easie to out Men of their Civil Employment as of their Military 1. Because many had Patents for Life or Good Behaviour And 2. Because some of the Offices themselves were so difficult to be managed that it was not easie to find Roman Catholicks capable of discharging them yet it appeared necessary in order to ruin the Protestants that they should be turned out of them and therefore King James and his Ministers resolved to do it as fast as they could As soon as they could find a Papist that would or durst undertake them they put him in and they plainly declared that no Protestant after a little while should have any Office of Trust or Profit left in his Hands Some Offices they disposed of without more ado by new Patents and put the Patentee in Possession without taking notice that there was another Patent in being leaving the former Proprietor to bring his Action at Law if he pleased Thus they served Sir Charles Meredith for his Chancellorship of the Exchequer and thus they
served Sir John Topham and Sir John Coghill for their Masterships of the Chancery And the Inferior Bodies of Cities learned this Trick from them and by it outed their Protestant Recorders even before their new Charters Some Officers that claimed a Title to their Offices by Law were not allowed a Legal Tryal but the Chancellor called them before him and on a private Hearing turned them out Thus he served Mr. Charles Baldwin one of the Examinators of the Chancery 2. But to proceed by Retail seemed tedious and therefore to make short Work and rid their Hands of Protestant Civil Officers at once as they had done of the Military They made an Act in their pretended Parliament to void all Patents for Offices during Life or Good Behaviour though granted by King James himself and though the Protestants had laid out their Fortunes to purchase them by King James's own Consent and Permission as many had done Now let the World judg what a step the disposal of these Offices was to the Destruction of Protestants when some of them were of such Consequence that an unfaithful Officer in them might undo many by destroying their Evidences for their Estates in what condition must Protestants be when the Records by which they held their Estates were put into the Hands of those who were their Adversaries in the claim and had nothing to bar them but these Records of which they were now made Keepers who had often before shocked the Protestant Titles by setting up counterfeit Deeds nay and corrupting the Records themselves even whilst Protestants had the keeping of them of which the Records in the Common Pleas Office are yet an unanswerable Evidence counterfeit Judgments being entred there to the sum of some one thousand pound by the Treachery of corrupting Papists I have for the satisfaction of the Reader set down in the Appendix the Names of the most considerable Officers belonging to the Courts that the Change may be more visible 3. The next sort of Officers were such as were concerned in the Revenue these were many of them during Pleasure The Revenue had for five or six years last past been managed by Commissioners to very great advantage They had gotten under them a set of very sharp and severe Officers many of which having been formerly concerned in Trade themselves knew all the Arts of cheating the King in his Duties and were able to discover them and he who was most acute and made greatest Advantage for the King was sure to keep his Place and to be advanced It was hard to find a set of Commissioners and Officers that could serve the King in his Revenue at the Rate these Persons did and therefore they were forced to be slow in changing them yet they did it by degrees and with such Circumstances as plainly discovered that they were resolved as soon as was possible to employ Roman Catholicks only To do them Justice they generally owned it and when any of them had a Friend to prefer to an Office in the Revenue his Argument to remove the Protestant Possessor usually was This Man must be removed and why not now As the Popish Bishop of Elphin wrote to Sir Patrick Trant from Gallway in order to remove a Protestant Gauger employed there In most places they turned out the Protestant Collectors and Officers and put in their Popish Friends though much to the Kings Loss as it often proved and as they themselves knew it would be and did not scruple to own it Their new Collectors either being so ignorant as not to make the best of their Places or so very Corrupt that they run away with the Mony when Collected as it happened at Clonmell or so abused their Trust that they were obliged to change no less than five or six at a time King James himself declaring publickly that they deserved to be hanged That there remained any Protestants employed in the Revenue was plainly from their not having time enough to train up others in their room and not from their intentions to continue Protestants in it to whom they envied even the hated Office of being Publicans 4. The third sort of Officers in the Kingdom are such as have Trust or Honour annexed to them but little Profit of this sort I reckon Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace It was no easie matter to find Roman Catholicks to put into these Offices and it was a most provoking sight to Protestants to see with what kind of Men they supplyed them they were forced to rake into the very Scum and Sink of the People to find a few to set on the Bench as I shewed before Men without Freehold without Sense and without Honesty were made Sherifs and yet they were forced to continue most of them two years not being able to find in some Counties any Roman Catholick that could pretend to be capable of such an Employment Thus in the County of Tyrone Turlogh ô Donelly served two years as Sheriff who had not one foot of Freehold and for his Honesty you may guess at it by this Story which is notoriously true His Son had stolen some Bullocks from his Neighbour Mr. Hamilton of Callidon and brought them to his Father the Sheriffs House some of them were killed and eaten in the House The Owner pursued and found the remainder which were restored and to Compound the Matter a Bond of sixteen pound was entred into by the Sheriff for such as were eaten and if I remember right a Warrant of Attorney for Judgment When he came to Dublin to pass his Accompts as Sheriff he was sued for the Mony but to avoid the Suit he listed himself a Foot Soldier in the Lord Maguires Company and pretended he was Enlisted in the Company two or three days before the Arrest which my Lord likewise vouched though really he was not Enlisted till after the Arrest or Execution Upon which the Attorney that took out the Action or Execution I do not remember which and the Person to whom he owed Mony were brought into great trouble and forced to abscond for violating the Privilege of the Army and obliged for Peace sake to depart from their Claim We had many such Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace and to demonstrate that they designed to out Protestants of all Power there was not one Protestant Sheriff in all Ireland for the year 1687 as may be seen in the Catalogue which I I have given of their Names in the Appendix except Charles Hamilton of Cavan who was put in by mistake as was supposed insteed of John Hamilton of Killeneur who is a Roman Catholick Nay it was designed that not one Protestant should sit on the Bench as Justice of Peace and the Design in a great measure effected not indeed by revoking their Commissions but by making it impossible for them to Act. It was now almost a necessary qualification to preserve a Man in his Place to change or dissemble his Religion and some
not done but because it would have prevented the ruin of the Protestants as well as it now preserv'd the Papists It is manifest what the Government designed when by a few Robberies committed on Papists it was alarm'd and issued out Commissions to hang the Robbers yet could not be prevailed with to take notice of the many Thousand Robberies committed on the Protestants For the Proof of this see Albavill's Instructions to the forementioned Commissioners in the Appendix SECT XI The Methods by which Kings James compleated the ruin of the Protestants Personal Fortunes 1. THE Protestants by the Deputies taking away their Horses and the Army their Cattle were put out of a possibility of Living in the Country or of making any thing of their Farms by Plowing or Grazing and had saved nothing but their Houshold-Stuff and Mony only some of them when they saw the Irish taking away their Cattle slaughtered part of them Barrelled them up and sent them to Dublin and other Towns they preserved likewise their Hides and Tallow of the Year 1688 not having any vent for them and the Merchants upon the same account were stored with such Commodities as used to be sent Yearly into England or Foreign Parts and many of these went out of the Kingdom for their own Safety and left their Goods in the Hands of their Servants or Friends Their going away though they had License for it and those Licenses not expired was made a pretence to Seize their Goods and in March 1688 the Officers of the Army throughout the Kingdom without any Law or Legal Authority by order from the Lord Deputy Seized all Goods Houses Lands c. belonging to any who were out of the Kingdom there was no other reason given for this but that it was the Deputies Pleasure it should be so in May the Commissioners of the Revenue took it out of the Soldiers Hands and that they might be the better able to go through with it endeavoured to procure from their pretended Parliament an Act to confirm all they had done till that time and further to empower them to examin Witnesses upon Oath concerning concealed Goods of Absentees The Bill as it was drawn by the Commons added a power to oblige every body to discover upon Oath what they concealed belonging to their absent Friends and to Commit whom they pleased without Bail or Mainprize during pleasure not excepting the Peers of the Realm which made the House of Lords correct these Clauses and several others in the Bill upon the Motion and earnest Struggling of the Bishop of Meath though the Commissioners did in a great Measure put the Act in Execution as the Commons intended it for where-ever they expected any good of Absentees to be they sent and seized all that was in the place and then refused to restore any thing to the Owners but upon Oath that it was their own proper Goods the rest they supposed to belong to some Absentee and made it lawful Prize all such being by the Act vested in the King though the Owners who were absent without any Fault of their own should have come back and claimed by which Act all Protestants that had fled for their Refuge into England or any other place or were gone upon their lawful Occasions to the number of many Thousands were absolutely divested of all their Personal Fortunes and cut off from all Claim to their Goods and Chattels whatever The Condition of those who staid behind was very little better so many Contrivances were set on foot to ruin them and take away the little Goods that were yet left them that they were as effectually destroy'd as their Neighbours that went for England they knew that besides Goods the Protestants had some ready Money and Plate their chief aim was to come by them and several ways were thought of to effect it sometimes they were for setting up a Mint and for forcing every Body to bring in on Oath to be coined whatever Plate was in their Possession sometimes they were for searching Houses and seizing all they found but these Methods were looked on as too Violent and not likely to succeed if they should put them in Practice they therefore defer'd these for the present and appli'd themselves to the following Courses by which they got from us a great part of our Mony Plate and Goods and if our Deliverance had not been speedy would â—â—fallibly have got the rest 1. They would pretend for a Summ of Mony to procure License for a Ship to go off and when they had gotten the Mony and the People had Ship'd themselves and their Effects they then ordered the Ship to be unloaded again and seized all the Mony and Plate they found which had been privately conveyed on Shipboard tho' not forfeited by any Law 2. They would take off the Embargo which was generally laid on Ships and pretend that they would suffer the Merchants to Trade and as soon as they had got the Custom-houses full of Goods and receiv'd vast Rates for Custom besides Bribes to the Officers that attended the Ships they would put on the Embargo again stop the Goods and not return one Farthing 3. They promised Licenses for England to all who would pay for them and when they had gotten vast Summs from the Crowd that press'd to get away they would then stop the Ships and make their Licenses useless There was nothing to be done without a Bribe at what Rate may be imagined from this that an ordinary Tide-waiter one White at Rings-End was accounted to have gotten in Bribes for conniving at Peoples going off at least 1000 l. in a few Months 4. All Protestants that lived in the Country were forced to take out Protections these were sold at great Rates and it was not sufficient to buy them once they were often voided either by new Orders or the Change of Governors and then they were obliged to take them out a new some had Protections not only for their Goods but likewise for some Arms and Horses and renewed them five or six times paying a good Rate for them every time and yet at last they lost all their Horses Arms and Goods as well as their Neighbors who had no Protections 5. Where they learnt any Man had Mony they seiz'd him on some Pretence or other and if they found the Mony it was sufficient Evidence of his Guilt they sent him to Goal and converted the Mony to their own use at the worst they knew it was only restoring it in Brass Thus they serv'd Mr. Heuston in Bridg-street and Mr. Gabriel King in the County of Roscommon who could never get any satisfaction for his Silver and Plate thus taken from him and the case was the same with many others 6. In several places the Governors went into Mens Houses and Shops and seiz'd whâ—â— they found without the Formality of a Pretence and took it away Cork was used at this rate their Governor Mounsieur Boiselot
not failing in any Punctilio of his Country Dragooning and he is supposed to have sent off for Frame to the value of 30000 l. in Mony Leather and other Commodities the Spoils of the Protestants in that Rich Town 7. The Parliament granted the King a Tax of 20000 l. per Month for thirteen Months which the Kingdom could hardly have paid if it had been in its most Flourishing Condition but they knew it would fall most heavy on the Protestants who must be forced to pay it out of their ready Mony having lost their Stocks generally by Plundering and deprived of their Rents and Incomes 2. Because the Protestants in and about Dublin had saved some Hides Tallow Wooll c. King James by pretence of his Prerogative Royal laid a Tax of 20000 l. per. Month for three Months on Chattels because the 20000 l. per Month granted by the Parliament was only on Lands This way of levying Mony did startle every Body the pretended Parliament was then in being and was adjourned till January 12. 1689. which happened to be about the very time when the King and his Council were upon this Project Some in the Council oppos'd it and pleaded the no necessity of using extraordinary ways of levying Mony when the King might have it in the ordinary way and further that it would give advantage to his Enemies and be an Argument of his affecting an Arbitrary Power but he was very angry with those that oppos'd it and told them That they had made him believe it was a Branch of his Prerogative to Levy Mony and If he could not do it he could do nothing Chancellor Fitton appear'd Zealously for it and 't was carried that the Mony should be raised but it being a new thing they were at a loss how to go about it at last they issued out a Proclamation dated February 4. 1689. wherein 't is ordered and declared That a Contribution of 20000 l. per Month for the space of three Months ending the last day of January last past shall be forthwith applotted laid in and levied upon the Personal Estates of all Sorts And the Applotment is order'd to be made by Commissioners to be nam'd by the King Who were to proceed according to Instructions forthwith to be published by him Albaville the Secretary of State thought it sufficient to send Letters signed only by himself in which he named and instructed the Commissioners but the Persons so named for Dublin judged this Authority insufficient and demur'd on the Execution till they had their Nomination and Instructions according to the Proclamation from the King himself under the Great Seal The King was heartily angry at them for this Demur and was hardly prevailed on to Issue a Commission under the Seal in the usual Forms as judging his Secretaries Letter a sufficient Warrant But at last the Commission was issued in which the Commissioners were named and impower'd to nominate Sub-Commissioners for every Barony in their respective Counties to make the Applotment of which Sub-Commissioners the High-Constable was to be one The Commissioners of Dublin and other Cities were not yet satisfied for their Counties had neither Baronies nor High-Constables and therefore the Commission could not be duly executed in them they therefore applied a new to the Lords of the Treasury for a more ample Commission which put the Lords and Attorney-General in as great a Passion as the King was in before and all the answer return'd to the Commissioners was That they should go about their Business without such frivolous Scruples or they should take a course with them The Commissioners being thus appointed were most of them Papists and the few Protestants that were named declin'd acting as much as they durst by which means the Papists had the applotting intirely in their own Hands and never fail'd to lay the greatest Burden on their Protestant Neighbours who in effect paid all Taxes that King James ever receiv'd in Ireland 3. The Papists raised a Militia and inasmuch as Protestants were not qualified to serve in it by the Proclamation which did not allow them to bear Arms they were assess'd at a certain Rate for the Maintenance of the Militia and sent to Prison if they refused to pay it The Tax was as great as either of the former amounting in the small Parish of St. Wâ—rburghs Dublin in which not above one half of the Protestant-dwellers were left to 900 l. per Annum 4. They pretended to make some small Ditches at the several Avenues of the Town and for these likewise the Protestants must pay and they tax'd them at what Rate they pleased Distraining or committing them to Goal if they refused to pay what was exacted or wanted Mony Before they form'd this Militia business into a Tax the Officers of the Militia went about Weekly for several Weeks and demanded and took what they pleased from every House with great Rigor committing those who disputed their Demands which was for the time it lasted a Heavy Burthen and a Prodigious Tax 5. Towards the middle of Winter 1689. their Forces were dispersed into their Winter-Quarters very few being left in Dublin it was most convenient to have such as remain'd in it quarter'd together at least it was judged unsafe to have them dispersed in Protestant Houses therefore they seiz'd on wast Houses and filled them with the Soldiers the rest they quarter'd in the Colledge Nevertheless that the Protestants might not escape Free they obliged them to send in Beds to the Soldiers but instead of Beds they took a Composition in Mony the Rate was from 24 s. to 5 l. for every House This fell intirely on the Protestants the Papists being conniv'd at and the Conditions were not generally made good to them after they paid for within two or three Months some had Soldiers quartered on them again tho while it lasted it must be confess'd it was a great Convenience and Ease to be rid of such Guests at any rate 6. All these Contrivances to get Mony from Protestants did indeed Impoverish them but by their Industry and Charity to one another they made a shift to subsist and to keep something in reserve but the Contrivance of making Brass Mony pass instead of Silver and at an equal Value with it was an utter and unavoidable Ruin to them It is true the Coining of Mony is a Prerogative of the Crown and the reason of its being so is to prevent its being adulterated the King's Honor and Interest being the Engagement and Security for the Coin that bears his Impression But sure the meaning was not that he should give a Value to what has no Value in it self otherwise the Cautiousness of our Forefathers was ridiculous who would not allow the King by his Prerogative to raise Mony either by Loan or Subsidy from the Subject since if it be allowed that he may set what value he pleases upon Brass he may have what he thinks fit from the Kingdom without
and Corn belong'd to Protestants by these and other such Contrivances from the year 1686. till King James's Power was put to an end by the Victory at the Boyn hardly any Protestant enjoy'd any Tythes in the Country all which was represented to the Government but to no purpose 7. In Corporate Towns and Cities there was a peculiar Provision made for Ministers by Act of Parliament in King Charles the Second's time by which Act the Houses in those Places were to be valued by Commissioners at a moderate value and the Lord Lieutenant or chief Governour for the time being did assign a certain Proportion for the Ministers maintenance not greater than the Twentieth part of the yearly value return'd by the Commissioners That therefore the City Protestant Clergy might not be in a better condition than those in the Country an Act was past in their pretended Parliament to take away this altogether the Clergy of Dublin desir'd to be heard concerning this Act at the Bar of the House of Lords before it past and their Council were admitted to speak to it who shew'd the unreasonableness and unjustice of it so evidently and insisted so boldly on King James's Promise to the Protestant Clergy at his first arrival in this Kingdom when he gave them the greatest assurances of maintaining them in their Rights and Priviledges and further bid them if aggriev'd in any thing to make their Complaints immediately to him and engaged to see them redrest that he seemed to be satisfied and the House of Lords with him yet the design to ruin them was so fixt that without offering any thing by way of Answer to the Reasons urged against it the Act past and thereby left the Clergy of the Cities and Corporate Towns without any pretence to a maintenance except they could get it from the voluntary Contributions of their People nay so malicious were they against the Protestant Clergy that they cut off the Arrears due to them as well as the growing Rent having left no means to recover them as appear'd upon Tryal at the Council-board afterward when some of the Clergy petitioned for relief therein 8. Upon the Plantation of Ulster 1625. there was a Table of Tythes agreed on by the King and Council and the Planters to whom the Grants were made by the King obliged to pay Tythes according to that Table the pretended Parliament took away this Table also for no other Reason that we could learn but because most of the Inhabitants of Ulster were Protestants and consequently the Protestant Clergy would pretend to them 9. The Livings of Ireland were valued by Commissions in Henry the Eight and Queen Elizabeths time and paid First Fruits and Twentieth Parts according to that valuation other Livings were held in Farm from the Crown and paid yearly a considerable reserved Rent commonly call'd Crown Rents others appertain'd to the Lord Lieutenant and other Officers of State and paid a certain rate of Corn for their use commonly call'd Port Corn. Now all these Payments were exacted from the Protestant Clergy notwithstanding the greatest part of their Tythes were taken from them The remaining part where any remained was seiz'd in many Places by the Commissioners of the Revenue and a Custodiam granted of it for the King's use for the payment of the Duties which accru'd out of the whole and not one Farthing allow'd for the Incumbent or the Curate nay in some Places they seiz'd the Incumbents Person and laid him in Jail till he paid these Duties though at the same time they had seiz'd his Livings and found that they were not sufficient to answer what they exacted and because the Clerk of the First Fruits Leiutenant Colonel Roger Moore being a Protestant himself would not be severe with the Clergy and seize their Livings and Persons to force them to pay what he knew they were not in a capacity to do they found pretence to seize his Person and sent him with Three Files of Musquetiers Prisoner to the Castle of Dublin where he and two Gentlemen more lay in a cold nasty Garret for some Months By these Contrivances the few Benefices yet in the hands of the Protestants instead of a support became a burthen to them and they were forced to cast themselves for a maintenance on the kindness of their People who were themselves undone and beggar'd SECT XVII 3. King James took away the Jurisdiction of the Church from Protestants 1. IT is impossible any society should subsist without a power of rewarding and punishing its Members now Christ left no other power to his Church but what is purely Spiritual nor can the Governours of the Church any other way punish their Refractory Subjects but by refusing them the Benefits of their society the Administration of the Word and Sacraments and the other Spiritual Offices annexed by Christ to the Ministerial Function But Kings and Estates have become Nursing Fathers to the Church and lent their Temporal power to second her Spiritual Censures The Jurisdiction therefore of the Clergy so far as it has any Temporal effect on the Bodies or Estates of Men is intirely derived from the Favour of States and Princes and acknowledged to be so in the Oath of Supremacy However this is now become a right of the Clergy by ancient Laws through all Christendom and to take it away after so long continuance must needs be a great blow to Religion and of worse Consequence than if the Church had never possessed it yet this was actually done by King James to the Protestant Clergy and is a plain sign that he intended to destroy their Religion when he depriv'd them of their support 2. For first he past an Act of Parliament whereby he exempted all that dissented from our Chruch from the Jurisdiction thereof and a Man needed no more to free him from all punishment for his Misdemeanors though only cognizable and punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts than to profess himself a Dissenter or that it was against his Conscience to submit to the Jurisdiction of our Church nay at the first the Act was so drawn and past the House of Commons that no Protestant Bishop could pretend to any Jurisdiction even over his own Clergy but that and several other passages in the Commons Bills were so little pleasing to some who understood the King's Interest that Sir Edward Herbert was employed by King James to amend the Act for the House of Lords which he did in the form it is now in nothing of the Commons Bill being left in it but the word Whereas tho after all it effectually destroyed the Jurisdiction of the Church 3. But second in most places there was no Protestant Bishop left and consequently the Popish Bishop was to succeed to the Jurisdiction they being by another Act invested in Bishopricks as soon as they could procure King Jame's Certificate under his privy Signet that they were Archbishops or Bishops all incapacities by reason of their religion by any Statute
your Revenue to boot And tho no King can well avoid being impos'd on by his Servants I believe it in my Conscience that the present Managers of your Revenues in Ireland think it no Sin to rob a Popish King of his Due Hence it is that there is an universal Agreement and Combination betwixt the ..... Merchants ..... we will by way of Retaliation take care that no Catholick be admitted into the Civil This Combination makes your Letters for Civil Places the Reversion of Outlawries and for Catholicks being admitted free of Corporations so little regarded in Ireland by those that past for Tories here c. yet publickly espouse the whiggish Quarrel the other side the Water I beseech you Sir consider that however your Kingly Prudence may prevail with You to dissemble Your Resentments of the Non-compliance and Disobedience of Your stiff-neck'd English Protestant Subjects You ought to exert Your Regal Authority in Ireland a Kingdom more peculiarly Your own where ..... month before or at least not outlive Your Majesty a month for if that poor Nation be not made considerable during Your Reign his Lordship must not hope for the Favour my Lord Stafford had of being legally Murdered by a formal Trial but may well expect all Formality laid aside to be sacrificed to the unbridled Fury of the lawless Rabble and dissected into little Morsels as the De-Wits were in Holland And truly the Fanaticks threaten no less and it were to be wished they cried out upon more of Your Ministers than they do at present for You may take it for granted they will never speak well of Your real Friends ..... other will endeavour to marr and the Work will go on like that of Babel confusedly for want of good Intelligence among the Workmen Sir You are under God the great Architect that will with the Blessing of Jesus live to see the glorious Structure fully finish'd In order to which 't is requisite You lose no time in making Ireland intirely Your own that England and Scotland may follow You are gone too far if You do not go farther not to advance is to lose Ground Delays are dangerous and all the World allow Expedition and Resolution to ..... if this were once compassed France could no more hope upon a falling out with England to take advantage of the diversity of our Sects and what may spring thence Domestick Jars and Divisions Sir Notwithstanding the Doubts and Fears of Trimming Courtiers and some Cow-hearted Catholicks You may live long enough to undertake and crown this great Work with the Grace and Assistance of the same Almighty God that defeated the Rebels in the West and made them instrumental in settling You in Your Throne and that permitted this Country to be lately sprinkled with the Blood of Martyrs which must infallibly contribute to the Conversion of Souls in this Kingdom for the Blood of Martyrs is and ever was the fruitful Seed of the Church The Seed is sown in many parts of England and the Harvest will without doubt be great and plentiful but the Workmen too too few if You do not provide your self with Catholick Privy-Counsellors Ministers Judges Officers Civil and Military and Servants As to the Choice of which I will mind Your Majesty of the Advice given Moses by Jethro his Father-in-Law in the following words Provide out of all the People able Men such as fear God Men of Truth hating Covetousness When Your Counsellors and Ministers are thus qualified and not till then You may hope to do what becomes a James the Second And to furnish Your self with able Men You must follow Your Royal Father's Advice to the Prince of Wales that is With an equal Eye and impartial Hand distribute Favours and Rewards to all Men as You find them for their real Goodness both in Ability and Fidelity worthy and capable of them Such as fear God as the truly Wisest will advise You to the best Measure for promoting God's Glory Men of Truth will like Tyrconnel serve You faithfully without trimming tho with never so apparent Hazard to their Fortunes and Lives And Men hating Covetousness will not betray Your Interest be corrupted nor sell Places to such Undermanagers of Your Revenue as buying them for a Spill in gross will be sure to retail them at Your Cost a Practice much in use here and in Ireland at present where few or no Places can be had without Bribes by which means You are cheated in both Kingdoms of an Hundred thousand Pounds a Year in the opinion of understanding honest and indifferent Judges for no Man will give a Shilling surreptitiously for an Office but with a design to cheat You of Twenty To prevent which there is no Remedy but that of employing smart Men of known Integrity to be chosen without Favour or Affection that will be content with their respective Salleries and imploy their utmost Industry to improve not imbezel Your Revenues the Ornaments of Peace and Sinews of War SIR These Kingdoms are of Opinion Popery will break in upon them and it were a pity to disappoint them and when You take effectual Measures Your trimming Courtiers will unmask and come over nay half the Kingdom will be converted of it self What I have here presumed to write is the effect of my unfeigned Zeal for the Good of Religion and Your Majesties Interest which I hope will induce You to pardon a plain-dealing and loving Subject that daily beseeches God to bless Your Majesty and these Kingdoms with a long and prosperous Reign and with numerous long-liv'd Male Issues and to inspire You with wholsom Thoughts that may direct You to the performance of such Heroick Actions as may gain You immortal Fame in this World and eternal Glory in the next Lord Clarendon's Speech in Council on his leaving the Government of Ireland My Lords IT has been sometimes used to make Speeches upon these Occasions but I know my insufficiency for that Task and therefore shall trouble your Lordships with very few words In the first place my Lords I give your Lordships many thanks for the Civilities I have received from every one of you and for the great Assistance I have had from you in the discharge of my Duty here I know your Lordships can witness for me that I never desir'd your concurrence in any thing that was not for the King's Service I do again beg your Lordships to accept of my Thanks with this assurance that I shall give the King an account when I have the honour to kiss his Hand of your Lordships great readiness and diligence to advance his Service My Lord Deputy I shall not long detain your Lordship The King hath placed your Excellency in a very great Station has committed to your Care the Government of a great and flourishing Kingdom of a Dutiful Loyal and Obedient People It is extreamly to be lamented that there are such Feuds and Animosities among them which I hope your Excellency's Prudence with
said Deponent went to him in a Disguise to Newgate and took him into a private Place and made large Promises to him if he would discover any of the Robberies and be an Instrument of bringing in the Rogues who infested the Roads about the Town and robbed almost every Night To effect this he spoke Irish and wore the â—arb of a considerable Irish Officer and call'd himself Mac-Carty The first time he could do but little good with him but he bid him come to him the next day and after he had seen a Friend he would do something Accordingly he went to him the next Morning and renewing and enlarging his Promises to him after some time he told him if he would make my Lord Chief Justice Nugent his Friend and perswade him to remit his Punishment which was to be burnt in the Hand and stand his Friend in other things he would do more Service than any Man in Ireland was able to do He thereupon ventur'd upon large Promises to him and used all the Rhetorick he could to bring him to an ingenuous and full Confession Whereupon he told the Deponent that he knew all the Robberies that were committed the three Years last past in the Counties of Dublin Meath Kildare Longford and Louth That he would engage to clear all those Counties of Rogues that he knew all those that rob'd in the Roads about Dublin that there were four several Companies of them that the great Company were at that time robbing about Kilkenny and that they would be at Dublin within a Week for they were withdrawn thither only to be out of the way here in the Term time that there were 26 of them in all besides Souldiers whom he said he durst not discover but all the rest he said he would engage to take in Ale-houses where he would appoint them to meet him if my Lord Chief Justice would allow him Men to assist him This he told the Deponent he would do and shewed him what Methods he would use and he said he would willingly be hang'd if he did not succeed Besides he knew he said where Rogues might be found in Dublin who were proclaimed and had Money offered for their Heads He knew likewise where two Men were who murdered a Broguemaker at Kilâ—ock a little before but was loth to hang one of them he said because he thought he then lived honestly in his own House He knew likewise he said a House that was to be robb'd at Stephens-green by some Acquaintance of his within a Week and told the Deponent what Method they design'd to use in robbing it He knew likewise who robb'd a House at Killmainham that very Week whilst be was in Prison He knew where a Silver-hilted Sword was which was taken from a Gentleman a little before and could go directly to abundance of Goods taken by Robbery He knew where several pieces of the Gold which was taken from Mr. Starling the Minister in the County of Longford then lay and said that he himself had changed one of the Pieces since his Committal All this he said he would prove and would give his Head if he miscarried in any Particular And when the Deponent told him that perhaps he only pretended those things that he might have an opportunity to escape he thereupon said that they might to prevent that set Guards over him and besides he would procure my Lord Gormanstowne and several Gentlemen to be bound for him The Deponent having received this Encouragement from the Prisoner whose Name was Patrick Launan he went to my Lord Chief Justice Nugent told him what he had suffer'd himself and what the Country suffer'd daily and gave him an account of his conferring with the Prisoner and shewed him in writing the above-named Particulars which he wrote from his Mouth in Prison which my Lord presently was pleased to call Extraordinary great Service and said that the Government ought to take notice of it My Lord was likewise pleased to promise the Deponent he would pardon the Fellow and make the best use he could of him to bring in the Rogues Afterwards my Lord sent for him and had him private two hours and when the Deponent afterwards waited upon him my Lord told him he had found out an extraordinary useful Man and that he was well satisfied all he said was true and he believed he could do more service than the Account he gave the Deponent and withal my Lord shewed the Deponent a List of the Rogues he had from Launan the Prisoner But either my Lord did not read the List fairly to the Deponent or Launan made some omission for the Deponent remembers there was one Naugle or one or two Nugents in his List which my Lord omitted in reading After the Deponent had managed the Fellow thus far he asked him concerning particular Robberies and he gave him a very satisfactory Answer to all He asked whether he heard of a Gownman that was assaulted between Dublin and Glassneven he thereupon turned his Head aside and blush'd and said that he knew of it but could not be perswaded to discover the Men What he said upon this Head made the Deponent suspect that my Lord Chief Justice had discovered him to the Prisoner for he found not that freeness of discourse with him after he had been with my Lord that he had before Neither after all his Pains could he do any good with my Lord but he deposes that after he was importunate with him three or four times to bring in the Rogues yet nothing was done and the Prisoner was afterwards sent away to Trim Goal which this Deponent verily believes was to avoid his importunity He believes my Lord thought those Rogues might be afterwards serviceable and therefore had no mind to bring them to Justice Jurat coram me 27 Septembris 1690. Dud. Loftus Account of Mr. Thomas Corker's House Burnt by the Irish the 5th of May 1689. AS One of the Thousand Instances that may be given of the Natural Antipathy the Irish have to the English and Protestants in general let the Obligations of Neighbourhood Conversation and other endearments be never so great Mr Thomas Corker's Usage by them is remarkable He liv'd at Donoghmore within a Mile of Navan in the County of Meath and observing about All Saints 1688 that the English and Protestants began to remove and fly he freely ask'd the Irish Gentlemen in his Neighbourhood What Advice they would give him as to his Remove having a great Family Who Answer'd O dear Sir do not stir for if the World were on Fire you have no reason to fear For you have been so obliging to us your Neighbours and to all sorts that none will harm you but rather protect you Yet immediately they fell upon his Stock without doors and took part of it away He then removed with his Family to Dublin leaving his Haggard and most of his Houshold Goods behind him and sometimes or about once a Month went down to
were Masters of Nor was it a difficult Matter for them so to do the Consternation being so great and so suddain that even the Officers of the Port either out of Commiseration to the departing Crowd of Women and Children or being amaz'd at the suddainness of the Fright neglected to do their Duty whereby this City and the Adjacent Parts are almost drained dry as to Cash and Plate which is manifest from Guineas being sold at 12 d. per piece over and above the usual Rate On the other Hand the Roman Catholicks were very many of them under equal Fears and indeed all of them except the Army who by their Calling are exempt from or at least from owning it pretend equal Dread from the Protestants who as they alledg'd far exceeded them in the Northern Parts and were extraordinarily well Arm'd and Hors'd but their greatest Apprehensions arise from a constant and uncontradicted Assurance which Private Letters by every Pacquet brought hither that the Duke of Ormond with a considerable Army and many experienc'd Officers was to Land forthwith in Munster And in this Condition now stands this poor Kingdom the Contending Parties being equally afraid or at least pretending to be so of each other which cannot but beget great Anxiety and Sorrow in the Mind of every good Man who hath the least Concern for his King or his Country In the interim the Lord Deputy intrusted by his Majesty with the Government of this Kingdom and keeping it entire in its Obedience to all his Commands doth daily grant Commissions to raise and procure Arms and Ammunition for great Numbers of Men In doing whereof considering the great Trust reposed in him no Man of Honour or moral Honesty can truly blame him But at the same time he takes all Opportunities both Private and Publick to declare That whenever his Majesty shall signifie his Royal Will and Pleasure for disbanding the Army that now is or hereafter shall be raised upon the Commissions now issuing or shall give direction for any other Alteration in the Government he will without one Day 's hesitation himself and those of his Relations and other Dependents in the Army whom you know to be very Numerous give an exact Obedience And if any should be so Fool-hardy as to scruple or make the least delay of doing so they shall in a few Days be taught and compelled to do their Duty I must likewise tell you That in this Conjuncture of Affairs the Thieves and Robbers are not only become more Numerous but likewise much more Insolent and instead of small Thefts do now drive away by Force whole Herds and sometimes when overtaken deny to restore the Prey This in many Places and especially in the North-west is done by the Cottiers and Idlers in the Country but father'd generally on the Army of which I have now an Instance before me from Ballenglass All this I know you have had repeated to you from divers Hands however I thought my self obliged in the Station which I hold to give you this summary Account of our present Condition which God knows is very bad and in all humane probability if we take not up more Charity than as yet we have for each other will receive sharp Corrosives and bitter Potions to bring us even to the hopes of living though in great Penury and Want Nor can we expect in Case that any Resistance shall be made by the Roman Catholicks here that we shall see any End thereof until the Buildings Plantations and other Improvements of Thirty Years Expence and Industry be utterly wasted and the Kingdom brought to the last degree of Poverty and Confusion and from the most improved and improving Spot of Ground in Europe as you saw it Six Years since become a meer Acheldama and upon the matter totally desart For Armies when once raised must be maintained by the Publick or will maintain themselves Nor can Military Discipline be expected where the Soldier hath not his Wages and whether that can be had out of the publick Treasury here I referr to you who have weighed the Revenue of the Kingdom when at the best even to a Drachm But after all this I am confident and assured That the Government of England will and must at length take place here against all Opposition whatsoever It hath cost England too much Blood and Treasure to be parted with but if it should come to a Contest of that kind the Victors I fear will have little to bragg of and will find in the Conclusion nothing but Ruins and Rubbish not to be repaired in another Age. Nor will the People thereafter reckon of any Security or Stability in this Kingdom so as to apply themselves to the repair of them but expecting such periodical Earthquakes here will provide themselves of Retreats in England and Scotland as many have of late and daily do Your Patience is I fear by this at an End when you begin to enquire with your self To what purpose it is that I have given you all this Trouble I must confess your Enquiry is not without Reason but however to you whose Friendship I have always found and valued my self much on it I do without difficulty declare what hath induced me hereunto The wonderful Alterations which a Month's Time hath produced in England in regard to the Protestant Religion and the Universality of it the little Blood that hath been spilt in so great a Change the few Acts of Hostility and little disquiet which has as yet appear'd has almost perswaded me That this Unfortunate Kingdom may by the Interposition of moderate Men be restored to the same Estate of Religion and Property that it rejoyced in Seven Years since with an addition of further Security for the preservation of both if more be requisite considering the many Acts of Parliament still in Force in this Kingdom It cannot be imagined Sir but there are very many who having either lost their Estates upon the Forfeitures of 1641. or by their Profuseness and Prodigality spent what they were restored to would willingly see the Kingdom once more in Confusion and Blood designing by Licentiousness and Rapine to supply their Extravagancies There want not on the other Hand some who conceive That the Court of Claims has contrary to the Settlement taken from them their Possessions without Reprisals and very many who being put by their Employments and Commands wish for a Time to expostulate with those who are possessed of them But all these in my humble Opinion ought to give way to the publick Quiet and Settlement of a whole Nation ready to fall into Ruine I am verily perswaded That with a little good Management the generality of the Roman Catholicks and indeed of the whole Kingdom would be very glad to be put into the same Condition in all respects as they were Six Years since and desire no more than an Assurance it should not be made worse And if there be Faith to be found in Man
Successors to give them relief in a Case of so great moment and general concern as this is As for the general Reprizal mentioned to be made them out of the Rebels Estate which must not be conceived to give any colour to this manner of proceeding and ought to be equal to the Estate which the Proprietors shall be outed of that will be very uncertain for it must be known who the Rebels are and what their Lands amount to since it may be probably concluded that there are many of your Subjects now in England no way concerned in the Rebellion and would have ere this attended your Majesty here if they had not been hindred from coming by duress and Imbargo and many other legal and justifiable excuses too long for this present Paper and withal that where any of them are seised of any new Estates so much must be restored to the old Proprietors and what is also subject to their Settlements and other Incumbrances After all this it is in the power of your Majesty to prevent the total ruine of so many of your Subjects as have been Purchasers and Improvers in this Kingdom by prescribing more moderate ways than depriving them of the whole of what they have legally and industriously acquired and that Committees of both Houses may hear and enquire whether any medium may be found out betwixt the Extreams for the accommodating as near as may be the Purchaser and the old Proprietor so that if there because of Complaint it may not arise from a total disappointment of either Party This is a little of what may be said on this occasion but the hast of those who drew on this Bill will allow no further time at present It is proposed that his Majesty will hear Council on this occasion No. 23. The Lord Bishop of Meath's Speech in Parliament June the 4th 1689. Spoken on the Bill of Repeal of the Act of Settlement My Lords YOur Lordships have now under yoâ—â— Consideration a Bill of great Weight and Importance for the future Prosperity or Ruine of the King and Kingdom depends upon it A Bill that unsettles a former Foundation upon which this Kingdom 's Peace and Flourishing was superstructed and Designs to erect another in its stead the Success whereof is dubious and uncertain I shall therefore humbly crave your Leave to represent my Thoughts candidly and impartially upon it And that so much the rather because I am here summoned by the Kings Writ to give his Majesty my best Advice for his own Service and the good of the Nation My Lords In every Law two things are to be consider'd First that it be just and doth no Man wrong Secondly and that it be pro bono publico And I am humbly of Opinion that this Bill is faulty in both these Respects and therefore ought not to pass this House It is unjust to turn men out of their Possessions and Estates without any Fault or Demerit To deprive Widows of their Jointures and Children of their Portions when they have done nothing to forfeit them But the Injustice will rise much higher if we consider it with a respect to Purchasers who have laid out all their Substance upon Estates deriv'd under the Acts that are now design'd to be Repeal'd What have they done to make them Delinquents except it be the laying out their Money on the Publick Faith of the Nation declared in two Acts of Parliament and on the Publick Faith of his Majesties Royal Brother expressed in his Letters Patents Their Case is yet harder If we consider the great Improvements they have made upon their Purchases which by this Bill they are like to lose without any Reprizal for them And if it be reasonable to restore the Old Proprietors to their Estates 't is enough for them to enjoy them in the same plight and condition that they left them But I see no Reason why they should have them in a better Condition or enjoy the Benefit of other mens Labours and Expences to the utter ruine of them and their Families Here Mercy should take place as well as Justice for the Purchasers are the Objects of them both Two things I am sensible may be reply'd to this and I am willing to consider them both First That if it be unjust to turn them out It is as unjust not to restore the Old Proprietor who hath been so long kept out of his Estate Secondly That there is no injury done to the present Possessor because he is to be repriz'd for his Losses As to the first of these I shall not at present meddle with the Reasons why they lost their Estates nor touch upon the Grounds and Occasions of their forfeiting their Interests in them being sensible that neither the time nor the place will admit a Discourse of this nature I shall therefore take it for granted that they were unjustly put out that it is just and reasonable that they should be restored but then it must be granted that it is unjust to turn out the present Purchaser and Possessor What then is to be done in this Case where the Justice or the Injury is alike on both sides If we restore the Old Proprietor we injure the present Possessor if we do do not we injure the Old Proprietor My Lords It is my humble Opinion which I submit to your Lordships better Judgments that we are to consider in this Case who hath most Justice on his side and incline the Ballance that way If it lies on the Old Proprietors side let him have it If not let the present Possessor enjoy it Now it appears to me that the Purchaser hath more Justice on his side than the Old Proprietor For he has both Law and Equity on his side he hath the Law on his side by two Acts of Parliament and the Kings Letters Patents and he hath the Equity by his Purchase Money whereas the Proprietor hath the Law against him and nothing but Equity to pretend to And I hope your Lordships will never think it reasonable to relieve a bare Equitable Right against a Purchaser that hath both Law and Equity If you do I am confident it is the first President of this kind As for the Reprizals I hear the Name of them in the Bill but I find nothing agreeable to the nature of them There are certain Conditions agreed on all hands to make up the Nature of a Reprizal None of which are like to be observed or kept here I shall name some of them and leave it to your Lordships Consideration how far they are like to be performed with the present Purchasers It is necessary to a Reprizal that it be as good at least if not in some respects better than the thing I am to part with That I my self be Judge whether it be better or worse That I keep what I have till I am reprized If my Neighbour comes to me and tells me that he hath a mind to my Horse