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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53437	A letter from His Grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in answer to the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal, his observations & reflections upon the Earl of Castlehaven's Memoires concerning the rebellion of Ireland. And concerning which, the complaint of the Duke of Ormond in council now depends against the Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy-Seal. Printed from the original, with an answer to it, by the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesey.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1682 (1682)	Wing O448A; ESTC R201997	1,992	6

A LETTER From His GRACE JAMES DUKE OF ORMOND Lord Lieutenant of IRELAND In Answer to the Right Honourable ARTHUR EARL OF ANGLESEY Lord Privy-Seal HIS OBSERVATIONS REFLECTIONS Upon the EARL of Castlehaven's Memoires Concerning the REBELLION of IRELAND And Concerning which the Complaint of the Duke of Ormond in Council now depends against the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal Printed from the Original with an Answer to it by the Right Honourable the Earl of Anglesey LONDON Printed in the Year 1682. And are to be sold by R. Baldwin in the Old-Baily A LETTER From His GRACE JAMES DUKE OF ORMOND c. My Lord IT is now I think more than a year since I first saw a little Book written by way of Letter called Observations and Reflections on my Lord of Castle-Haven's Memoires Wherein though there are some things that might lead the Reader to believe that your Lordship was the Author yet there were many more I thought impossible should come from you for it affirms many Matters of Fact positively which are easily and authentically to be disproved and from those Matters of Fact grosly mistaken it deduces Consequences raises Inferences and scatters Glances injurious to the memory of the Dead and the Honours of some Living among those that by the Blessing of God are yet living I find my self worst Treated Twenty years after the Kings Restauration and Forty after the beginning of the Irish Rebellion as if it had been all that while reserved for me and for such Times as these we are fallen into when Calumny though the Matter of it be never so groundless and improbable meets with Credulity and when Liberty is taken to Asperse Men and Represent them to the World under the monstrous and odious figures of Papists or Popishty affected not because they are so thought by those that employ the Representers but because they are known to be too good Protestants and too Loyal Subjects to joyn in the Destruction of the Crown and Church Besides the Treatise came forth and must have been written when I had but newly received Repeated Assurances of the continuance of your Friendship to me wherein as in one of your Letters you are pleased to say you had never made a false step for these Reasons I was not willing to believe that Book to be of your Lordships Composing and hoped some of the Suborned Libellers of the Age had endeavoured to Imitate your Lordship and not you them but I was in a while after first by my Son Arran and afterward by the Bearer Sir Robert Reading assured your Lordship had owned to them that the Piece was yours but profest the Publication to be without your Order and that you did not intend to do or think that you had done me any injury or prejudice If your Lordship really thought so the Publication might have been owned as well as what was Published But then let the World Judge whether Pen Ink and Paper are not dangerous Tools in your Hands When I was thus assured your Lordship was the Author it cost me some thoughts how to vindicate Truth my Master the late King my self my Actions and Family all Reflected on an traduced by that Pamphlet I found my self ingaged in the Service of our present King and that in a Time of difficulty and danger and in such Times for the most part it has been my lot to be Employed in Publick Affairs and though I had not been so taken up yet I well knew that Writing upon such Occasions is no more my Talent than it is my Delight And to say truth my indisposition to the exercise might help to perswade me that the Book though honoured with your Lordships Name would after it had performed its Office in Coffee-Houses and served your Lordships Design in that Conjuncture expire as writings of that nature and force usually do And herein I rested without troubling my self or any body else with Animadversions upon your Lordships mistakes which are so many an so obvious that I wonder how you could fall into them I will add to this that I have been in expectation that by this time your Compleat History would have come forth wherein if I may judge by the Pattern I have just cause to suspect that neither the Subject or my self will be more justly deal with than in that occasional Essay and I would have been glad to have seen all my Work before me in case I should think fit to make a Work of it The delay of your Publishing that History and the consideration of your Lordships Age and mine are the occasions of this Letter whereby I inform you that as no man now alive is better able than I am to give an account of the Principal Transactions during the Rebellion in Ireland so no man is possessed of more Authentick Commissions Instruments and Papers all which or Transcripts of them you might have Commanded before you set forth our Reflections But possibly to have stayed for them might have lost you a seasonable opportunity of Publishing your abhorrence of the Irish Rebellion and your Zeal against Popery What your Lordship might then have had you may yet have because I had rather help to prevent than detect Errours but then I must first know to what particular part of your History you desire Information and how you deliver those parts to the World and to Posterity If after this Offer your Lordship shall proceed to the Conclusion and Publication of your History and not accept of it I must before hand Appeal from you as from an Incompetent Judge of my Actions and a partially engaged and an unfaithful Historian My Lord Your Lordships most Humble servant ORMOND Dublin 12. Nov. 1681.