Interest will you haue reconciled Enemies constantly in pay and seruice is this Loyalty or loue to the King to turne out true and faithfull men to the Crowne and confirme bloudy Traytours in theyr place How many be there that wonders as well abroad as at home his Maiestie takes noe notice of these proceedings certainly there can be noe great argument of loue to the King in forsaking his constant and faithfull subiects making new frindship with his approued enemies thy affection to Ortery others doe sound some misterious pollicie as men of weake capacitie cannot reach vnto howeuer there be those that say that the roote of all this proceeds from an vnsatiable desire of auri sacra fames and willingness to be reuenged on the poore catholicks of the Nation He then thanks Orrery in his letter for an oath hee sent him that General Preston made and sayes he never saw it before but found the fruits of it and of another perjurie soone after I need not in this place make mention of the ancient and noble familie of General Preston Viscount of Taro cadett to the most noble house of Gormanstowne the eldest and first house of vis counts in Irland a familie allwayes true and faithfull to the crowne and of great pietie and deserts that the said Generall ever show'd â—hemselfe a gallant and valiant man in all dangers is well knowne and though Ormond and Ortery both have been Commaunders of Armies the first under his Majeste and the other under Cromwel I can scarce beleeve either of them gained by or in any expidition as muâ— honour and applause as Preston had at the seege of lovain where beseged by the French in the year 1634. by a sallie made in the head of 300. of his owne regiment vpon S. Peters day early in the morning breaking vpon the French quarters routing and Killing all Opposed or Resisted him to the losse of 200 and eightie French souldiers returning victorius sound and safe without loosing a man was receiued with triumph and Ioy of all the people of Louain vvhich noble exploit of his is celebrated by the famousest writers of those dayes as Vernuleus and Puteaus There was in General preston another thing of greater prayse then all this true Vertu and pietie being a man that feared God and loathed to doe against his Commaundements soe that it is a calumnie to call him perjured but if Orrery and Ormond shall be admitted to judg honest upright people many will be by them censured as Noble preston is for perfidious and perjured men But pray why may not Preston and others say to this Oâ—mond Quis te Constituit Iudicem I will conclude with General Preston for whom I doe say that his life being sifted out from his childhood he will not be found to have done any base or vile action Heere Ormond is not resolved to stopp but passes on further and sayes to his new moulded Friend Orrery and in truth I found nothing but direct trecherie and disobedience from the Generalitie of that people it is true Quod ex abundantia cordis os loquitur in this place but I would have his grace know in a frindly manner I speak that there is nere a Butler a live nor have been in times past noe nor of the Geraldins nor Bourkes families renounced as any of the Butlers nor even of the old princly bloud of that Nation as your ô Brian ô Nealls ô Mourchoes ô Donells Macharties O Connors c. whose word or testimonie would be esteemed as to the blemishing of the generalitie of a nation to make them treacherus and perfidious Father walsh harken and take notice of this splendid attestation your great Mecaenas Ormond gives of the Catholick people of Irland that in tâ—uth hee found nothing but direct Treacherie and disobedience from the Generalitie of that people what man soe impudent would maintaine soe notorious a reproach and infamie cast upon a sound body of men a whole nation faithfull and loyall ever and all wayes to the King in this place good Father I discover that notwithstanding your intimacy with Ormond it doth not stopp him from giving you the lie who in severall places of your writings doe prove the Generality of the nation though you writt against some particulars to have been loyall and faithfull to the King now Ormond doth blemish the Generality of the nation with a stayne of of trechery what say you to this Hauing aspersed the Nation by the fore-mentioned spott hee turnes to the Bishops Pastors and Fathers of the people and tells his louing Orrery the people were gouerned by the worst Spirituall guids that euer lead a poor people to distruction and sayes further they doe it and it is fitt they should find the smart of it and that hee hath a designe to make the smart where it is most reason it should be Heere my Lord Duke vsurps a great presumption in saying the Bishops were dismall guides to the people he is far mistaken in his false Suppositions the Bishops were not they that misguided the people lead them a stray he is mistaken I say again Vox populi sayes it is he and he alone Ormond I meane that lead them blind fould deluded and trapan'd them to theyr destruction downefall and rvine Seazing vpon all they had Fortunes Libertie and Estates with the rest of his Complices and not the Bishops This good Duke seems to have a strange antipathie to these venerable Bishops for each where he affronts them an argument of an ignominious minde hee wil have noe peace with them Though his Grace a while after the Kings restauration was created Duke and Lord Steward of the Kings house and Lord Leutenant of Irland and one of his Majesties priuie Counsel in England and Earle of Brecknocke in wales created that hee might sitt in the Parlament of England to be short hee attained to that hight of favour with our good King as none in the three Kingsdoms did reach unto yet all this signified little or nothing to him till he had seen those catholick Bishops alliedy much afflicted trampled vnder his feet theyr sufferings could not appease his wrath theyr Innocencie could not satisfie his conscience nor theyr integritie rectifie his erronious Iudgement but must needs write to his beloved Orrery his new friend saying that these Bishops were the worst Spirituall guids that ever lead a poore people to destruction this is Ormonds testimonie to the King of the good Bishops he sayd they were Traytours and disaffected to his Majestie and Crowne and sayes the same still all this to kindle his Majesties indignation against them and by that way to see himselfe revenged of an Injurie hee imagined don him by those of the congregation of watersord and Iamestowne of which wee have sayd enough above Saint Paul himselfe diuine trumpet of the word of God though hee suffered cheerfully and innocently many reproaches contumelies and imprisonments for Gods cause
been still faithfull and loyall to the King and crowne this my lord neglected to have don but rather by his repentinous conjunction of friendship with those well approved and trustie ministers of Cromwel gave occasion to several wise men to suspect and thinke that Ormond did not much in heart averse Cromwel nor dislike of his proceedings and that which we doe wonder at is that all this while we could not see nor heare by mouth or pen any apologie from this good duke that may give the world satisfaction for his soe doeing In my opinion his Grace had good reason to be silent in this matter and to conceale from the eyes and eares of men the cunning motifs slights and arcana's that pusshed him on for to manifest his reasons were manifestare errores inexcusabiles suos Seeing then that heerin my lord duke is pleased to be silent J hope his Grace will give the looser leave to speake and discover to the world the reasons deduced his Grace from the right roade of vertue justice pietie and honnour deserting his trustie old friends to kint vnexpected new sudden friendship with his old enemies it is to well Knowne to our woe-full experience he made the worst use a christian noble man could have don of the power he had from his majestie in order to the catholick interest of Irland striving constantly and musing how to subvert and suppress equitie and justice to our destruction which have been the cheefest ground induced him to this association with the Cromwelians that at once and along with them he may plunder our houses fortunes and estates and soe really it fell out for of all men he had the fattest fayrest and greatest share The greatness of his person cannot terrifie me from apearing for my countrie and countrie-men nor from speaking clearly freely and plainy the truth if in case I shall speake or write any thinge ungroundedly I shall desire some of his learned sticklers take the paynes to answer for him and confute me if he can we know his lordship hath more Hierelings parasits and flaterers then true friends and I beleeve his Grace will find my saying to be true affore he dyes for it will be but the just judgment of god that he who deserted his honest and true friends should be deserted by all I could hartily wish in the meane time he had in him these true vertues that would both merit and deserve truefriends For compassing what I haue taken in hand the right doore and ingresse to my discourse must be a true and naked relation of Ormonds dealings and transactions with the Catholicks of Irland since the first vnfortunat day they Knew him this will make the reader Know what manner of man he was and is whether of vertue or vice love or hatred to the Catholicks of Irland all wch I wil endevour Succinctly with candid veritie soe save me God to performe crauing from my benevolous reader the patience off perusing all with attention and to Suspend his Iudgment till Fully instructed of all that past It is not my present intent to stand vpon iustifyng the reuolution and warr of that Kingdom begun the yeare 1641. to which they were forcibly compelled I haue understood that matter is performed ala reâ—dy and soundlie purpose by a skilfuller quil then myne my present scope is and will be to have the reader Know what Ormond did in that warr and afther the warr and soe I dout not but the reader will be able to passe a free and impartiall Iudgment vpon his Grace and me and next whether his desertinge of the catholicks and combining with the new men is or can be Iustifiable and excusable To this therefore effect the reader may understand that the now duke then Earle of Ormond at the beginning of this warr was leutenant General of the Kings forces under the lords justices Sr. william parsons and Sr. Iohn Burlace I passe by how he demeaned him selfe in that high post either shewing enimitie to the Catholicks or desiring the revolution should be suppressed some say he was for the suppressing off it let us suppose he did what became a man placed in that office he had and leave that soe CHAPTER III. Heere is shewen how Ormond was chosen lord lieutenant and his several cessations made with the confederat catholicks and vast summes of monys receaved to transport over souldiers for his majesties service This Sr. VVilliam parsons a could rigid and wise-man but an inveterat enemie to the catholicke religion and Catholicks at once with Sr. Adam Loftus Sr. Robert Merideth Sr. Iohn Temple and others of the councel became much addicted to the House of commons in England which house began at that time to contest and be at variance with the King and in good faith made noe other use of his Majesties power and Sword of Iustice in that Kingdom then to increase and kendle rather then quench the flame of that revolution which they caled a rebellion heere you are to observe that the said lords Iustices and aboue specified councellours though they were disloyal and perfidious to the King yet the false and pernicious relations thes knaves gave and divulged by proclamations of the Irish that the vniversalitie of the Catholicks of Irland got up into a new rebellioÌ„ whereas for one Catholick that was engaged in that revolution there were thousands in the natioÌ„ knew nothing off it even the nobilitie citties and gentrie of the nation were soe they were easily beleeved in that theyr false and Malicious aspersion soe that his Majestie did noe lesse call and esteeme us rebelles then the House of commons in England did these men's disaffection to the King and theyr Treacherie beyng at lenght discovered his Majestie recalled theyr commissions and appointed Ormond lord lieutenant of the Kingdom after his Excellencie was invested with this new commission and power the parlament of England more and more growing stroung in hostilitie against the King and declaring open warr to his Majestie which was plain rebellion not like the painted rebellion of Irland his Excellency who had at that timo trustie friends in the Councel of the confederat Catholicks treated with the assembly of said Catholicks and in their absence with the foresaid Councel for a Cessation of armes between his Partie and theirs to which the Catholicks did Freely and willingly consent and to that effect graunted and paied over to my lord Lieutenant thirty thousand and eight hundred pounds sterling for to transport over into England some of the Kings Forces to Supresse the rebellion in that Kingdom this free speedy and loyall contribution of soe vast a summe of monies in soe seasonable a time to furnish and pay the Kings souldier against the rebells of England was noe signe of rebellious hearts in the Catholicks As for what these forces ferried over did there whether they beat the rebells or were beaten is not my subject in hand I come to my lord of Ormond who for
of Mr. Thomas wading of waterford and that of Mr. Phillip Hore of Kilshalchan the seat of Kâ—lbarry neare waterford hee hath from the former adelicious place with the whole estate vpon a thousand pound a yeare and Kilshalchon within seven miles of Dublin a faire seat with the livings of eight hundred pound yearly these Gentlemens Children which were many in number by this munificencie are to shift for themselves in great misery the Lord knowes in whar condition they are in and this befalls them and severall others that Ceorge Lane should be gratifyed an unknowne man For writing for Ormond hee has had conferred vpon him other estates in all neare vpon foure thousand pound annuall rent this wee are informed brave rewards for a Secretary I dare confidently say stout and valiant Collonells Officers and Gentlemen of quality which firmly adhered to the King Fought stoutly for him and lost both life in the bed of honour and estates in his service have not nor any of theires in reeompence received the least provision reward or comfort in this I may say that George Lane his penn hath been more Fortunate and profitable to him then these noble Gentlemens swords have been unto them a sad incourragement and cold Satisfaction to worthy Royalists to see this little Lane and such like night-sprungmus heroms to have suckt the Fattness of the earth from farre better plants then themselves and perhaps the hands of as low men as themselves will be ready to pluck them up root and branch when the season shall serue to cleare the Land of such weeds by what meanes this will com to pass I am quite Ignorant but I think the Iustice of God will make way for it and take not only from Ceorge Lane and men of that ranck but even from Ormond and the greatest of them all the conferred estates of honest men for seldom the blessing of God doth accompany unjust plunderes and Robbers And it is the opinion of severall true harted subjects to his Majesty that things are not like to prosper with himselfe untill this be don But I heare sum body say Ormond hath don the King great service though hee hath not preserved the Monarchie of Brittaine as Cochles and Musius did that of Rome and that his affection to King and Country have been as great as theires to the Senat and common wealth of Rome occation being only wanting as For his affection to King and Crowne I beleeve hee had as much as another noble man but to his Country where hee hath his estate and lands hee had none at all If affection to the king can draw rewards and Remunerations there be thousands loved the King and the intrest of the Crowne of England as much as Ormond ever did and appeared undoubtedly in all occations against the Kings enemys nevertheless thousands of them never had an Aker of ground nor a Cottage to shelter themselves in in frosty weather in recompensation of such affection therfore I doe heire conclude that Ormond was happily Fortunate in his affections to the King and Crowne and others were not having obtained those Evtraordinary rewards from his Royall Majesty which in the insuing Chapter I doe resolve more amply to discover and speak of CHAPTER 15'th The Remunerations the Duke of Ormond had from the King after his Restauration These remunerations will bee found soe great that you must needs confess Ormond was not Loyall gratis neither doe I in any way doubt but there be som Bassa's of the great Turck and some of the chiefest of them would come and serve our King and serve him Loyally for soe incredible a recompence as Ormond had Let us now speak of the quantity and quality therof according the best notice wee have received Wee have said above his Annuall rents before the warre was but seven thousand pound starling his ancient estate being then incumbred with Annuitys and Leases which otherwise was worth forty thousand pound starling per Annum and at present it is vpon Eighty thousand now the first part of his new great revennues is the Kings grant of all those lands of his owne estate which were leased and morgaged the rest were grants of other mens Estates and other gifts of his Majesty for auoyding the trouble of searching after all his particulare gettings many there are without doubt unknowne to mee I will here put downe certaine Quaeres in number 29. Out of which hee that will may take notice of these Immense recompences given him Quaeres touching the Present Condition of his Majesties Kingdom of IRELAND 1. WHether it be not demonstrable by search made into the Records of his Majestys Auditor General of Ireland that had his Majestys Revenue of that Kingdome been well managed there had been money enough to answer the necessary Charge of that Kingdom 2. Whether vpon search made of his Majestyes Exchequer in England there doth not appear upwards of 200000 l. Sent out of England into Ireland since the Duke of Ormonds last Government there 3. Whether there doth not appear that there were twenty four subsidies amounting to 360000 l. Assessed by the late Parliament of Ireland 4. Whether there was not 50000 l. advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventurers Rents 5. Whether the aforesaid Summs thus extraordinarily raised do not amount to abve six hundred thousand pounds 6. Whether the aforesaid extraordinary Summs would not discharge near Four Years of his Majesties Establishment both in the Civil and Martial List Independently of the Revenue of that Kingdom 7. Though the aforesaid Summs Extraordinarily raised would have paid near Four Years Establishment yet whether the Martial and Civil Lists be not a Year and half in arrear 8. Whether his Majestyes Ordinary certain and Casual Revenue which if well managed might have fully paid his Majesties necessary Charge whether vpon the aforesaid Principles it is not demonstrable that the said revenue harh not discharged more then one year and a halfs Establishment in six years time 9. Whether it be not demonstrable then that there hath been more then Four years and a half Revenue embesled in six years time and whether the chief Governour be not more Faulty in this great miscarriag then the Earle of Anglesy Quaeres in Relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond 1. WHether by sales of Offices as Lord Steward and receits out of his Majesties Exchequer of England the Lord Duke of Ormond hath not raised upwards of 30000 l 2. Whether he did not receive by one Act of Parliament of Ireland as a gift 30000 l 3. Whether it doth not appear by the Records of his Majesties Tresurie in Ireland that his Grace did receive 12000 l. Before his being last Levtenant 4. Whether he did not receive 12000. l. Per Annum as Lord Levtenant which was a Moyetie more than any Lord Levtenant received and that Moyetie amounts in six years to 36000 l 5. Whether it doth not appear that his Grace hath released by the Act of Sentlement
Prince Neither wanted Ormond as some men did think his hidden reasons that moved him to neglect soe much and sleight the Royall Authority His Logickâ— made him discourse thus secretly with himselfe the King is prisoner to his Parliment and noe hopes left for his redemption hee is like to perish there the Queen alsoe and the young Prince they are exiled what can they doe They are not able to help themselves much less to procure any forraigne assistance for his Majesty the Parliment of England with Crumwell have drawne all England to theire owne side with Scotland and a great part of Irland as the large Province of Vâ—ster where the Scot insulted and that part of Munster where Insequin with his Army remained vnder obedience of the Parliment my best way then will be quoth Ormond to play my owne game the best and make good vse of the tymes I will therfore apeare exteriourly for his Majesty and yet oblige the Parliment in yielding vp to them the Castle of Dublin with the Kings sword and all the faire County of Dublin rather then keep it and take part with the Irish and this I will doe notwithstanding the Queen and Princes orders and commands to the contrary for I may well feare the Irish Catholicks and I though Ioyned with them will be at long running mastered by the Parliment who will be minâ—full of mee in due tyme for soe necessary and frindly an action And truly it fell out soe for though they shewed noe personal favour to Ormond they shewed great kindness to his Lady allowing her three thousand pound starling for her Ioynter as a bove said and Crumâ—â—â—lls Children weare not less frindly to her Children and all this kindness hath been done them by all liklyhood in recompensation of Ormonds giving vp the Cittie Castle and County of Dublin to the Parliment Projects of Policy are deep and secret and likly this act of Ormond was the Policy and Wisdom the Lord Digby meant when hee sayd to Mr. Wintergrant that the Lord of Ormond was wiser then to vnite with the Irish Catholicks But in the meane tyme what became of his Loyalty Of his great zeal to his Majestys interest Of his obedience to the Royall Commaunds and to the orders and instructions of the Queen and Prince Herein the King was sleighted the Queen and Prince put by who as they held the preserving of Dublin the Castle therof and County about it to be the Kings great intrest and beneficiall for his Majesty soe alsoe they did think the delivering vp of all to the Parliment would prove a very great loss and distructive to his Royall intrest for preventing of which loss and mischief orders commaunds instructions and all power were sent from Queen and Prince by Mr. Wintergrant to Ormond to perclose a peace with the Confederate Catholicks at what price soever If the neglect committed heerin by Ormond sleighting the Royall powers and Authority a cleare Argument of disobedience in him to both hath redounded to the vtter overthrow of the Catholicks and Kingdom and consequently of his Majestys intrest therin you my reader may Iudge or any other Impartiall Iudgment CHAPTER 17'th The accommodation sent by the confederat Catholicks to Ormond Lord Lieutenant for preserving of the Cittie and Castle of Dublin with the lands about it rejected by him and the reasons given by him for such rejection GEntle Reader heer before I give you the accommodation presented and offered by the Confederate Catholicks vnto Ormond I think it necessary to give you first the sound observation of an vnderstanding and discret Member made vpon the same accommodation of the said confederate Counsell of Catholicks which shall serve you as a guiding light to the clearer vnderstanding how the matter was carried on which vvas vvord to vvord as follovveth That the late Articles of pacification concluded vvith the Lord Marqnis of Ormond Anno 1646. Being rejected by the generall assembly vvith an vnanimous consent by reason the Lord Marquis of Ormond did not grant those conditions vnto vvhich hee vvas authorized by his Maiesty and for that the King vvas brought vnto a condition incapable at present to performe any thing that was granted and for that there was noe security in them for Religion or Nation and the insecurity not com knovvledg of the confederats vntill after the late pacification vvas published the late generall assembly in the begining of March last Imployed Mr. Giffery Barron som tyme before Imployed in France and Mr. Gerrald Fennell both persons of great trust vnto the said Marqnis vvith the inclosed heads or Overtures of an accommodation to continue vntill his Maiesty vvere in a free condition to grant honourable and safe conditions vnto the consederats and the said Marquis after receiving the said Overtures by vertue of a letter of Credence from the said Mr. Barron and Mr. Fennell returned ansvver to the assembly that hee vvould send his ansvvers by messengers of his owne first giving great hopes vnto those Imployed by the assembly that hee would never Ioyne with the Parliment The assembly expecting this answer for one and twenty days received it not to the hazard and very great charge of the Kingdom his Lordship in the interim treated with the Parliment Commissioners and the assembly fully possessed with a beliefe that his Lordship would never conclude with the Parliment a few days days before the adjournment sent Theobala Butler Major of Horss in the Catholick Army to his Lordship to know the cause which might retard or stay his Lordships answer soe long and soe much expected at whose coming thither the said Marquis having as it seemes concluded with the Parliment delivered hostages vnto theire Gommissioners Viz his sonne the Lord Richard Butler and the Lord Dyllon the Earle of Resâ—omon a considerable Peere and native of this Kingdom Collonell Arthur Chischester sonne and haire of the Lord Viscount Chischester and Sr. lames Ware Knight a person of consideration with him and of the Privie Counsell hier vpon the sayd Lord Marquis tould the said Major Buttler that hee would never propound any thing to the consederate Catholicks that was in theire power to deny him The Assembly receiving this answer soe much tending to the Kings disservice by which the hopes of an accommodation was frustrated they being solâ—mnly sworne to endeavour an accommodation with him which were consistent with Loyalty and Catholick Religion on the fourth currant adjourn'd it selfe vntill the 12'th of November next soone after Monsieur Tallone and Monsieur Munnery Residents to the King of France arrived heer and being with vs at the Counsell declared that most of theire bussiness hither was to solicit an accommodation tending Chiefly to the preservation of the Catholick Religion and wee did on all occations declare our willingness and rediness to effectuate the same and after severall Iourneys made by the said Monsieur Tallent to Dublin wee did condescend to enlarge the Cessation at first agreed vpon to the
was a sensible greefe to his Holynesse to see his Children of Irland a constant people in Catholick Religion soe sorly afflicted and cast downe and holy faith allmost extinguished and that there was noe way possible to releeve them the Prelate reply'd our wound is now indeed soe wide and feastered as is very hard to heal it but when it was fresh not soe wide and as yet curable our Nation found no Samaritan that would power oyle and wine into it One thing I shall say worthy to be written in Characters of gold that a Catholick Prince driven out of his owne Dominions was hee that offered fairest Ad rem Catholicorum in Hibernia restituendam Charles P. M. late Duke of Loraine a Caesar in fortitude and Resolution one of the greatest Captaines Europ had seen for som ages a Prince that by longe experience of crosses and Calamities made the world know Quod sciveriâ— fortia agere fortia pati To this Duke were sent from Irland Anno 1651. Stilo veteri a Bishop a Cheralier of high quality from the Clergy and from the then Visroy or Lord Deputy and the people a Viscâ—uâ—â— and two noble Cheâ—aliers all able men and fitt to manage soe Important a business as that was The Duke received them with all afability and after a deliberation and debate of som monthes they proceeded to an agreement very advantagious to Catholick Religion the king and Nation the sum of this capitulation was that his highness vndertook to warr vpon the Rebelling Parlament to pay the Army and to furnish Canon and all war-like Amunition vntill the Kingdom were recovered and those vndertook in behalfe of the Nation to reimbours his highness and to give him for Caution som townes his Highness medled not at all with the civill goverment of the Kingdom but only with the Militia and was ingag'd to restore the Cautionary townes his disboursments being payd The Duke advanced twenty thousand pistols in ready mony six thousand therof went over with his Envoy the Abbot of S. Catharin whoe tooke vp fourteen thousand more of the Marchants in Irland which some was payd them in Antwerp by the Dukes order His Highness sent over two little vessels with Amunition and Armes which arrived and two other little vessels were taken vpon the Coast of Britanie The whole came to som thirty thousand pistols and was not this a Princly and magâ—ificent liberality of a Duke then out of his owne Country But let noe man wonder at this it being naturall to the great Dukes of Loraine to fight Battles for holy Religion and the house of God in all extremities and what other can be expected from Princes descending from Godeâ—ry king of Hierusalem I should fill a vollume if I should speak at large of his warlike feats and vallour let the day and Battle of Norlingham alone speak wherin were slaine 18000. Swedes to his vallour and conduct was attributed a great share of this victory Vâ—o verbâ— in all encounters hee play'd a souldiers part as well as that of a Captaine Et licet fuerit maximus Imperio militars fuit tamen major exemplâ— fortitudinis This digression and mention of his high exploits and fortitude is a gratitude due from mee to his highness who hath been a patron and father to my Countrimen in theire exile and confident I am God will poure blessings aboundantlv vpon his gallant Childe Prince de Vaudemont and noe less on his Nephew present Duke Charles of Lorainâ— a Prince of great expectation and on the whole family a most glorious house that hath evermore defended and protected the Catholick Church To speak of the greatness antiquity and splendor of the house of Loraine is but to hold a candle to the sunne All Europ knowes the puissance and piety of the house of Guise a branch of Loraine which gave a Queen to Scoâ—tland Mary second wife to King Iames the fifthâ— mother to Queen Mary of Scotts put to death in England by Cruell Elizabeth great Grandmother To King Charles the second by her right hee is true Heire and King of the three Kingdoms There are other noble Fâ—â—ilies in France as D'â—â—ouf Maine Ioyes Harcour and many more golden streames flowing from theire fountaine the house of Guisâ— as that from Loraine those houses have alsoe given most Excellent Heroes and Captains all of them ever true to the holy Church and Loyall to theire Princes the most Christian Kings Soone after the a forsaid Capitulation was perfected our King arriving at Paris after the defeat and Roote of his army at Worcester the Duke demanded his Royall assent to the agreement hee had made with his Catholick subjects the King heervpon cald together his counsell Ormond was one of them for giving answer they Iudg'd it noe way expedient that the King should agree to what had past between the Duke and his subjects at Brusells Which seemed strange to all that heard it seeing noe Prince in Europ took part with our King but the Duke a lone It seems this Counsell all compos'd of Protestants would not have Irland recovered by a Catholick Prince they could by noe meanes agree with two Articles of the Capitulation the one that the Duke had been accepted by those contracted with him for Protector Royall of the Nation they were less troubled that Crumwell who had murthered one King and forced another the Present King out of his Dominions should take all then a most antient Catholick Duke and his Majestyes â—insman should bee stiled Royall Protector of the Catholicks of Irland whereas soon after Crumwell was over all Europ called Protector of the three Kingdoms The other displeasing Article was that his Highness engag'd himselfe to restore Catholick Religion in Irland in its splendor and soe Catholick was the Duke as hee chiefly took in hand our quarrell for making good this Article The Capitulation from which wee hoped for preservation being blasted in this Kindâ— his Majestey Employed two Envoyes to the Duke an English Protestant Lord and Sr. Henry de Visque his Majesties then Râ—â—ideâ—â— in Brussell with those the King returned the Duke thanks by a Kinde letter for his care of his intrest and desired him to treat with these new men who were curteously received by his Highness but at the second conference hee told them hee did not know what matter of Capitulation could pass between him and theire maister who had not at that tyme in his owne possession as much as one Citty wal'd-towne fort or Port in his three Kingdoms yet not withstanding if his Majesty would bee pleas'd to consent to the Articles hee had perfected with the aforesaid Catholick commissioners hee would perform all of his part which answer being not accepted by the Kings counsell the Duke by a handsom manifest soon after discharg'd his owne honour from all blame and Imputation touching the forementioned Capitulation and agreement Be pleased my civill reader to consider the deplorable and sadd condition of the Catholicks
but this Province of Connaght and the countie of Clare 2. That the People seeing noe visible armie for their deffence to oppose the enemie are come to despaire of recovering what is lost or deffending what wee â—hould and inâ—lining for the safty of their lives and estates to compound with the Parlament by which agreement the Kings authoritie will be infallibly cast off the Catholick faith soe wee feare with the time exstinguished and the Nation first enslaved will perhaps in the end be pluckt vp root and branchâ— 3. Yee shall protest before God Angels and men in the name and behalfe of the Congregation that the Prelars of this Kingdom have employed their earnest and â—est endeavour for removing the feares and jealousies of the people and that they have noe power to doe it finding the vniversal sense of the people to be that fate doth waite vpon these times 4. Yee shall present to his excellency how wee finding noe othâ—r human expedient remedie for the preservation of this Nation and his Majesties interest therinâ— then the speedy repiare of his Excellency to the Queen and Prince in France for preventing the destruction of all doe humbly pray he leave the Kings authoritie in the hands of trusty persons to his Majestie and faithfull to the nation and to such as the affection and confidence of the people will follow by which the rage and furie of the enemie may with Gods grace receave some interruption wee humbly offer this important matter of safty or destruction of the Nation and the Kings interest to his wisdom and consideration and yee shall asâ—â—â—â— his Excellency wee shall in the meane time doe what lyeth in our power to assist the persons intrusted by his Excellencie Yee are alsoe to pray his Excellencie will be pleased to give yee an answer within few dayes for that wee are not in a condition to continue long togither I aske if there be any thing in this letter message or instructions but what is humain civil and with great respect to his Excellencie In this nature the Bishops soe demeaned themselves even then when the greatest danger of distruction was over them yea when most of them were destroyed alredy and reduced to extreme pouerty through the loss of the kingdom in the short time of his government I further demand is there any thing in this that sauours of treason or disaffection to his Majestie or of opposing or destroying of the peace or of desire to put aside the kings authoritie and gouerment was there any thing in all these proceedings could offend this noble man or could any man draw out of this an occasion of carping or reprehending the Prelats certainly noe man excepting this father or some other Ormenian flatterer was it I pray you soe haighnous a crime to desire the lord Lutenant to take a viadge to the Queen and Prince for to seeke supplies to support the war ' and leaue the kings authoritie behind him in hope wee might doe some thing against the enemie in his absence by these intrusted by him in as much as he himselfe did nothing all that time but lost vs all wee had as likewise what was gained from the enemie in the begining of his owne Goverment great Generals have been displaced for want of success though valorous soever this have been don in the Roman and Atthenian commoÌ„wealths the most florishing in the world An ancient old woman came to Philip king of Macedo in presence of all his Grandes beseeching his Majestie to give eare to her complaints and doe her justice the king replyed he had noe leasure to attend her at which answer the bould poore woman said in presence of them all igitur né sis Rex what are you King for but to doe vs iustice if you will not heare me lay downe your crowne which you got to doe me iustice immediatly this great king stood vp gaue her audience did her iustice would it not I pray well become my lord of Ormond to listen to the iust and reasonable request of soe many Bishops spiritual fathers of the people while they humbly prayed him to take in hand a viadge certainly I am confident that the great Monarchs of Spaine and France would give care to what soe many Bishops would say and take it much to their serious consideration and I doubt not but our owne King would have don it though of a different religion It hath been said by some of his owne frinds that he himselfe desired to take such a viadge in hand but in as much as the Bishops desired him he went backe from his owne resolution what the reason is I know not if not to crose their deâ—ire CHAP VIII The true Iealousies of the Irish Catholicks at London that Ormond was to desert them wellset forth by F Wailsh in a letter to Ormond with certain observations made vpon the same letter NOw we come to the jealousies and feares of the Catholick nobilitie and Gentrie in London yeare â—660 well set forth in a letter from F. VVailsh vnto Ormond who not-withâ—standing all the rest did feare yet the F. did not nor as much as suspect of Ormonds disaffection and realtie to his countrie and catholick frinds wherefore Ormond may say to him what our saviour said to the centurian Math. c. 8. Non inveni tantam fideâ—â— in Israel Heere I give you the fathers letter A letter from Peeter Wailsh to the marquez now duke of Ormond and second time lord leutenant of Irland desiring a Iust and mercifull regard may he had of the Roman Catholicks of Irland written Octob 1660. SInce I had the honour of speaking last to your Excellencie I reflected by reason of several discourses had this week with persons of qualitie on the dayly increase of the feares and jealousies of my countriemen which is the reason that insteed of waiting vpon you this morning about priuat concernments as I intended I chose rather out of my vnalterable affection to your selfe to give first this paper and therin my thoughts and my desires relating to the publick that is to vour selfe to his Maiestie and his Kingdom of Irland My lord I thought fit to tell you that considering the general feare seized alreddy almost on all the Nobilitie and Gentry and others here of that nation and reflecting on the vast difference t' wixt my owne beleefe and thâ—irs it seemes vnto me I behould in vs all particularly who have relied for soe many yeares on your vertue some-what fulfilled not vnlike the misterious extinction of all the lights to one in the ceremonie of Tenebrae in holy weeke for my lord I observe in the generalitie of the Catholicks of Irland here even I say of those who have been sâ—e long your constant beleevers your passionat frinds a dimness and darkness seazing their iudgment even your fastest sticklers heretofore loosing at present their expectation of your future appearance for them and hopes of their delivery by you at
or Forty thousand to have been a Queens Dote in Marriage Elleoner Daughter to Knig Edward the second married to the Earle of Gelders after made Duke had but fiftien thousand pound portion Queen Isabell Dowager to said Edward the second and mother to Edward the third most Glorious of English Kings daughter and Heire to Phillip the Faire of France by whose title the Kings of England makes Clayme to the Kingdome of France had allowed her by her son but a thousnd pound Ioynter a yeare severall such passages wee may finde in the Cronicles of England and others yet the Duke of Ormond as is to be seen in the 12'th Quaerie of those in Relation to Ormond granted the profitt of a rent of one thousand five hundred pounds a yeare of the parke hee hath neare the Gates of Dublin to the Lord of Dongaâ—non and to Colonell Cooke a Kingly Liberality If Father walsh or any other will say that these Quaeries are Idle Frivolous needless and of noe regard I would aske of the same and know whether matters of Fact and Propositiones sensu notae as are the Estates and lands of other men and the Corporations now actually in Ormonds possession things that cannot be hidden From the Eyes of men are Idle needless and Frivolous dreames and Fables noe but Foule and unhandsom things against Iustice honour trust committed unto him and Goverment of that Kingdome of Ireland conferred by his Majesty vpon Ormond If his grace or any for him can answer the sayd Quaeries why is hee or they soe long mute and silent they strick home to the quick they render his integrity suspected they wound his Fame and honour certainly if there were any way to answer them and to prove them False Father Walsh had long before now spaken Loudly to the World If Ormonds integrity and vertues be Calumniated by these Quaeries I wonder there is nothing said in his vindication none appeares for him but what in a matter that cannot be defended it is but wisdom to be silent the whole Country knowes that Father walsh of all men is most concern'd to appeare for Ormond and vindicate his integrity the best hee can having in his severall writings described him for a vertuous upright Iust Iuditious and most rare states-man now is the tyme good Friar to prove this you see to what puzle hee is brought vnto by these Quaeries you see how guilty hee is on all sides stretch him now your hand if you can and bring him of clearly and unspottedly from all these blemishes that staynes his person soe deeply now is the tyme I say to prove him to the world what you gave in paper of him and make us all sensible that hee is deserving of those Epithites you are pleased to conferre vpon him in the little book called the. Irish colours Foulded you have put downe a Faire method and good documents I must confess for guiding of Ormond in the Charge of Lord Lieutenant of Irland where you bid him by all meanes to be ware of the man of sin Meaning Orrery who would have his Grace â—uoy up one interest wholy that is the stronger and more prevalent of Orrery and his complices and sinck vtterly the other interest that of the Catholicks against all devine and humaine Lawes many rediculous things of this nature hath this Fryar said about his Ormond and this was one but Ormond contrary to his desire and Counsell buoyed up Orrery's intrest and sunck the Intrest of the innocent party because it was the weakest For which hee had a notable share of the grants and estates hee now Enjoyeth I see good Father you are very unfortunate in your conceipts of Ormond who grants nothing of these things you demaunded I have a minde to produce in this place other lynes of this Fryar unto Ormond out of the same Foulded Colours My Lord Quoth hee I shall minde your Grace of what you know your selfe allready that you shall behould under your Goverment a very great number of simple poore Innocents and most afflicted Creaturs if any such be in the world and that you think that God hath Principally created you and hithertoe preserved you amidst soe many dangers and now at last inspired our gratious King to send you for them and therfore that your greatest care must be to open to them your breast with an amorous compassion extend to them the â—owells of your Charity streatch to them affectionatly your helpfull hands take theire requests lâ—nd care to theire cryes cause theire affaires to be speedily dispatched not drawing them along in delays which may devour them strengthen your Arme against those that oppressed them â—edeem the prey out of the lyons throate and the Harpi's talons By these expresions one would have thought Ormond to be aman like to doe great things but here wee have much smooke and noe fyre faire blossoms and noe Fruite excellent documents given and yet nothing done take the paynes Father to goe up and downe Ireland and heare afflicted Innocent people and make a list of those to whome Ormond in tyme of his Goverment Opened his hart with an amorous compassion to whome hee did extend the â—â—wells of his charity to whome hee did streatch out his helpfull hands those whom hee preserved out of the Lyons throat or the Harpies Talon You will com to short of your vaticinations and hopes nothing like this but rather hee was the Lyon prey'd on them and did noe Iustice to the Orphans as you desired Nâ—r â—ypâ— a way the teares of a forelorne widowâ— bee steeped not in oyle the yoakâ— of a people which lived on gale and wormwood and whoe sighel under unsupportable necessityes Hee hath don nothing in his Goverment for the ease of that people but along with Orrery and the rest pild and pul'd them of all truly good Father you seem to mee a man much inchanted and indeed to be in a state of blyndness â— to your understanding that Harpaste was in her corporall sight of whome Seneca Epist quinquagessima ad lucilium writes in this forme Harpastem uxoris meae fatuam scâ— hereditarium donum in domâ— meae remansisse haec fatua subitó desijt videre incredibilem tibi narro rem sed veram nescit esse se cacam subindè padagogam suam rogat ut migret ais domum renebrosam esse Harpastes you know the changling of my wife is a Hereditary legacy in my house this changling suddainly lost her sight I tell you an incredible thing but true shee doth not beleeve that shee is blinde now and then shee desires of her guide to remoue from thence shee says the house is darke and obsure I am much of opinion Father walsh that this is your condition in relation to what you say or write of Ormonds affaires and person and soe I take my leave in this place of both leaving you in your manyfold blindnesse in as much as you will not see and leaving your Ormond to the
Caine that whosoever found him should not kill him a trembling in his head as many hold Caine was allways frighted and soe distracted as to hold that trembing of his head for a signe given by God that hee should be killd You see by this how great is the feare and frightning of a guilty Conscience And can these men live without being frightned after killing soe many Innocent Abels by nakedness vermin famin and all kinde of miserys having taken from them all they had in the world There have been many opulent persons and of great quallity Tea and som of them Peeres and Lords of the Realme have bin lodg'd in small smooking Hutts and Cabins and as I may well say buried there and starued to death with theâ—re wives and Children Can the Cruell Robbers of these men live without the feare of Gods anger If they have not a trembling in the head as Caine had likely they will have a trembling in theire harts CHAPTER 20'th The Author speaks to Ormond a lone BVt my Lord that I may returne to your Grace whose house I have ever honoured and spend a few words with you alone Amongst Birds and Beasts you know full well som are Noble and som Ignoble Lyons begett Lyâ—ns and Eagels ingender Eagels your ancient house hath given of both Lyons and Eagels Your Noble progenitors nobly minded did worthy things and performed great matters the poorest neighbour liu'd safly neare them possessing quietly what was his owne they succoured the distressed and farre it was from them to oppress the weakest but have been a propp to such as could not stand by themselves and for such worthy doings the afection and blessing of those releeved by them and supported by them in theire right and Iust causes have followed your Ancestors But my Lord the world speakes otherwise of your Grace that being extolled to the title of Duke that your house had not before you digenerate from the true piety and greatness of your brave Ancestors for the natives ouer all the Kingdome complaine that your power is Imploy'd to the opression of all wherfore they all cry out can not the Duke of Ormonds greatness stand without our fall and Ruin Is it possible my Lord that the title of greatness is soe much inereased in you and that of vertue deminished My Lord the Lyons of your house I meane the noble Earles did praye openly and fairly but your game is of a new forme you are a Lyon of another nature then was one of the greatest Earles of your house by name black Thomas Grandfather to your Lady a person highly esteemad by Queen Elizabeth King Iames and the Counsells of England and Irland and of the people of both Kingdoms hee made noe purchases by distroying the natives of the Kingdom as yours are yet hee was both a happy and glorious Earle hospiciously noble and had many depending of his bounty and good nature who made noe small fortune by him * Nahum cap. 2. Nahum the Prophet if you will take the paynes to read him will tell you what kinde of Lyon you are Where is saith hee the habitation of Lyons and the pasture of Lyons whelps The Lyon hath caught saith hee sufficiently for his whelpes and hath killed for his Lyoness and hath filled his Denns with praye and his Couc'h with Ravening ô Ormond Ormond thou hast caught sufficiently for thy Whelps thou hast fill'd thy Denns with praye and thy Couch with Ravening thou hast made the noble house of Ormond an Infamous Denn and Couch of Rapine thy whelps are made fatt with Praye and booty made vpon thy neighbours My Lord there is a nother Propheâ— speakes to your Grace and to Orrery and the rest of the vsurpers in words able to make you tremble Woe to him said * Habacuc cap. 2. Habacuc that gathereth naughty Avarice to his house that his nest may be on high and thinketh hee is delivered out of the hand of Evill thou hast thought confusion to the house thou hast cutt in sunder many people and thy soule hath sinned because the stone out of the wale shall cry and the Tâ—mber that is between the Iuncturs of the buildings shall answer Wo to him that buildeth a Citty in blouds and prepareth a Citty in Iniquitys A dreadfull expression Have not you my Lord and the rest of your Complices cutt insunder many familys most of them Er this consumed with hunger and miserys are gon into the other world and for such of them that live as yet they are miserably perishing at home and abroad will not the blood of those be layd at your doore Youâ— ambition have built nestes in a high place from the reach of human hands but not from the hand of God who with the breath of his Indignation will cast them all downe in his good tyme yee have houses and magnificent palaces for your posterity in Blouds and the stone out of the wale shall cry out against you and the Timber between the Iunctures of your buildings shall answer Wo to them that builded Cittys in bloud prepar'd houses in Iniquitys God in a moment though at present yee glory and tryumph in your greatness and pleasures can fill your houses with dissolations mournings Ignominy death feare and trembling And perhaps will doe it when you least think of it When Sr. Ralph Fan was condemn'd to dye by the practices of the Duke of Northumberland and brought to the place of Exccution in protestation of his Innocency spook only these two words My blood shall be the Dukes bolster as longe as hee shall live My Lord you may have I feare many of these vneasy bolsters cast therfore an eye vpon the other world whilst God mercifully gives you tyme to doe it and take that care now for your selfe that noe other will once you are gon and perswadâ— your selfe that without this care all is lost and gon for all Eternity CHAPTER 21'th Ormond Seriously advised to think of longe Eternity MY Lord God did forbid the Hebrues to mingel honny in the oblations but commaunded theÌ„ to vse salt in every sacrifice * Levit. cap. 2. What sacrifice soever thou offerest thou shalt season it with salt neither shalt thou take a way the salt of the Covenant of the God from thy Sacrifice In every oblation thou shalt offer salt What mistery doth this signify to banish honny from the Sacrifice and make vse of salt Why salt in Sacrifice and not honny This is to tell vs that sweet things deceive vs and that flattererâ— betray vs but sharp things cure vs and mortify the body and minde when wee are to Sacrifice both to God and that wee are to heare patiently and willingly those that speak trueth without assentation and with the salt of sencerity * Isai cap. 3. God himselfe sayd My people they that the blessed the same deceive thee But a lass it is now in fashon that Princes and great men are deceived because