offence given by the Bishops but through his owne heightie mind which in all matters and in all occasions must rule and domineere or will have peace nor quietness with any man this matter comprehending many parts arguments and circumstances I shal be forced to bestow more time about it It fell out soe that the confederat Catholicks appointed certain persons of qualitie as Commissioners of treaty they appointed others for preparing instructions for those that were to treat whom they named commissioners of instructions to treat and conclude a peace with Ormond then lord Leutenant this was done in the yeare 1644. the names of those appointed were Richard lord viscount of Mongaret Donogh lord viscount of Musgrie Sr. Robert Talbot Barronet Dermot ô Brien Patrick Darcy Geffery Brouwne and Iohn Dillon Esquires After a long debate vpon neare two yeares a peace was at lenght concluded between them and his Excellency the lord Leutenant consisting of thirty articles which articles after being perfected duely and maturely examined by vnderstanding and learned men were suspected vnsafe for the Chatholicks this is the subject the mentioned divine handled and soundly Proved and vpon the same occasion learnedly justified the rejection of that peace out of the arguments and decrees of the Ecclesiastical congregation CHAP V. The rejection of the peace of 1646 made by the Bishops and Cleargy at Waterford maintained and justified which peace was alsoe voyd for being perfected without authoritie of Ormond ' s part THis author sayes the Bishops and Cleargy allarmed at the publication of the said peace in Dublin and Kilkenme and obedience the Citizens and other natives gave therunto they saw the Gouverment was devolved the supreme Councell of the Nation dissolved and the forces and armies and all to be put into the hands of said Ormond lord Leutenant the peace as above was said being not secure for the cheefest concernements of the Catholicks convened and came togither at VVaterford a noble and Catholick Cittie the sixt of August 1466. the zeale of Gods house and of theyr flocks soe requiring to consider seriously the contents of the Articles of said peace and ackordingly to determine as pietie and the saftye of Religion and thir flocks would require at their hands The method said the Author the Eishops and Cleargy observed in rejecting said Peace and the order of their consultations was grave and yet free giving every divine licence to argue discourse and deliver his opinion as to the question proposed the Chancelour of the congregation taking in the meane time his notes in writing of every mans sense and sentence of the question ventilated and after a full debate repeting viva voce the substance of the arguments they voted with much tranquilitie a result or conclusion and indeed soe much was said to every of these articles that came vnder debate as nothing was left vnsaid that could be pertinent A love Principium was the begining of this Congregation they publickly sacrificed and prayed with flamming Charitie and profound humilitie demanding from God light and wisedom in this most important affaire that soe touched holy Religion and his divine worship that he would be pleased to give a blessing to their worke there and for the better guiding their Consciences they seriously perused First the oath of association the rule of warr and peace with the confederat Catholicks which could not be contravened by any without perfidiousness and impietie 2. The model of Gouvernement 3. Several remonst rances printed in France the yeare 1642. Fourthly our grevances presented at Tryme March the 17. 1642. Fifthly the several acts and protestations made by the Kingdom in open assembly at Kilkennie in the mounths Iuliâ— and August 1645. for the liberties and splendour of Religion and for the Churches Sixtly the 17. propositions exhibited to his Maiestie yeare 1644. Seaventhly the further addition and propositions after propounded to the lord Marques of Ormond All these things 〈◊〉 examened with great deliberation and attention being the rules laid downe by the whole Kingdom for regulating the committie of treaty as alsoe the committie of instructions for the said treaty and all others to whom any charge was intrusted They began with the important propositions the committie of treaty for the peace were to present vnto the Lord Marquez of Ormond Leutenant Generael of Irland sor and in behalfe of the confederat Catholicks of Irland for concluding a peace those propositions were the cheefe rules they were bound to observe in that treaty 1. One proposition was â—that the Roman Catholicks both Cleargy and Laity haue and enjoy the free and publick exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion through out that Kingdom as it was in the raigne of Henry the 7. or any other Catholick King his ptedecessours Kings of England and Lords of Irland had either in England or Irland 2. That the secular roman Cleargy of irland viz Primats Arch-bishops Bishops Ordinaries Deans and Chapters Archideakens and other dignitaries Persons Vicars and all other Pastors of the secular Cleargy and their respective successours shall have and enjoy all and every of them all manner of jurisdictions priviledges and immunites in as full and ample manner as the Roman Catholick Cleargy had or enjoyed within this Realme at any time during the raigne of the late King Henry the 7. of England and Lord of Irland any declaration of law laws statute power or any authoritie to the contrarie not with standing 3. That all laws and statutes made since the time of King Henry the 8. whereby any restreinght penaltie mulct or incapacitie or other restriction what-soever is or may be laid vpon any of the Roman Catholicks either of the Cleargy or laity for such the said exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion within this Kingdom and of their several functions jurisdictions and Priviledges may be repealed revoked and declared voyd in the next Parlament by one or more acts of parlament to be passed therin 4. That the Primats Bishops Archbishops Ordinaries Deans and Chapters Archdeakens Chancelours Treasurers Chanters prevosts Guardians of Collegial Churches Prebendaries and other dignitaries Persons Vicars and other Pastors of the Roman Catholick Cleargy and their respective â—uccessours shall have hould and enjoy all the Churches and Church liuings â—as large and ample manner as the late Potestant Cleargy respectively enjoyed the same in the first day of Septem 1641 togither with all their rights profits emoluments perquisits liberties to their respective Seas and Churches belonging as well in all places now in the possession of the confederat Catholicks as alsoe all other places that shall be recovered by the confederat Catholicks from the adverse partie within this Kingdom saving to the Roman Catholick Laity and their respective rights ackording to the lawes of the land The Roman Catholick Regular Cleargy of the Kingdom were to have and hould the Bodyes sites and precincts of their Abbeys Monasteries and churches c. These foure propositions were sworne by the Confederat Catholicks
Lynch knight whom I doe instance for a thousandmore not for any acquaintance with him what right I say had he to this knight's estate vpon what accompt did he invade the islands of Aaron this gentleman's inheritance and had his son Richard created earle of that place and estate it is manifestly known that Domimum perfectum plenum of said estate was in Sr. Robert Lynch and his heires and yet my lord tooke those lands from him quo titulo quo iure is the question deffend F. VVailsh if you can in this place your great patron ipsa synderesis tould Ormond that he was doeing wrong and robbery the lands appertaning to Sr Robert that judicium naturale quo as S. Basil speakes ab iniquis bona facile discernere postumus clearly convinced Ormond that he was doeing a robbery that law of nature quod tibi non vis fieri alteri ne feceris that light of which holy David speakes signatum est super nos lumen vultus tui domine all those sacred lawes cryed out the depriving of Sr. Robert Lynch of his estate was factum contra legem dei aternam all those lights of God and nature condemnes this fact soe that finis operis finis operantis objecctum circumstantiae omma qua agebat Ormonius erant contralegem Dei what then can he say or plead for himselfe or you for him he cannot alleage that he acquired that Dominium by any pact stipulation donation permutation or prescription what then will men say in this case noe other then that Ormonds invading that gentlemans lands was apertum latrâ—cinâ—um Likely you may tell me the King made a grant to Ormond of the said knights estate you know well that in lege naturae noe human power can diâ—pense and it is certaine that the law of nature doth bind all kind of men and that none can pretend exemption from the force of that law the impression therof being a light made in every mans haert soe that this law binds as well the prince as the lowest man legi naturae saith lactantius net praerogari fas est nec derogare ex hoc aliquid licet neque tota abrogari potest nec vero aut per senatum aut per populum hac lege liberari possumus shall I say more probable it is that God himself cannot dispense in the law of nature take S. Thomas his authority for it quia id sapientiae divinae omnino repugnat proendeque fieri non potest 1. 2. quaest 100. ar 8. ratio est saith the saint quia lex naturalis nihil aliud est vt docet S. Aug quam ipsius aternae legis incommut abilis rattonis ipsius divinae sapientiae in mentibus hominum facta transcriptio Now it is evidently cleare a man's life liberty fame lands estates and fortunes are his owne by the law of nature and that by force of the same law quisuis potest se defendendo sua vine vi repelsere and soe could Sr. Robert against Ormond invading his estate had he beene able to doe soe But you will say the landsand estates of subjects forfeited to the king for treason rebellion and other like crimes by way of attaindeur may be disposed of by the king I grant that but this authority for taking away from such men their lands and estates the prince hath from the law of nature which doth not protect any privat man to doe against the publick good wherefore the commonwealth can take away the life of a man and his estate though both are his by the law of nature when he transgresses against the prince or publick good to whom by pact or law of nature he should oboy this the prince can doe for justice sake but not for convenience or at his will and pleasure for the bonds prescribed to the jurisdiction of a prince are justice law and reason and not to doe his owne pleasure Now I would know from you what crime hath Sr. Robert committed was he convinced of any crime against the king before any bench of justice what hath he don who charged him the law of England a good law sayes noe man can be condemned but by course of law that is the subjects birth-right and to that effect are lawes made that justice may be don to all men princes are obliged in conscience to administer justice ackording the law I demand againe what hath Sr. Robert Lynch don you will say he was ingaged in the â—rish rebellion for soe you still call that just war which you could never as yet prove nor never shall but grant it hath been a rebellion Sr. Robert Lynch as all the confederat catholicks had an act of oblivion from the king in the peace of 48. ergo your rebellion was pardonned ergo Sr. Robert Lynch cannot loose his estate for that nor hath he since that time entred into a new rebellion or committed any act of â—reason Ormond cannot say he broake the Articles of peace of 48. for he still observed them and adhered to the gouverment and to Ormond and had nothinh to doe with the congregation of Iamestowne whose acts were by Ormond esteemed or reputed treasonable â— tell me then what right had Ormond to that noble gentlemans estate you see the King's grant if any he gave being against the law of nature and the law of the land is voyd and cannot excuse Ormond's conscâ—ience and if the king by a wrong information had granted one mans estate to an other that other cannot prescribe quia numquam erat in bona fide and consequently in conscience he is bound to restore the said estate because he houlds it malafide and the prince himselfe rightly informed is obliged in conscience to have the estate restored to the right owner But now let uâ— returne to the other part of the F letter wherin he vseth a christian freedom of minding the king and Ormond how dangerous a thing is the violation of publick faith and how such transgressors have beene severly punished in all ages but above all he brings downe a formidable example of publick faith broken with the Gabionites and how King David fir appeasing the great famin and the anger of God come vpon the people delivered to said Gabionits seaven children and nephews of Saul who crucifyed them alive vpon a montaine to expiat this publick horrid sin even in the face of sun Lib. 2. Reg. c. 21. he ends his letter to Ormond thus My lord conclude here but with my harty wilâ—es that in the house and at the Counsells of our great king your Excellency may both appeere and prove your selfe hereafter what you are in part already an other Ioseph that by the best advises you may preserve the best of Princes and all his people of soe many different nâ—tions of the british monarchy may it be soe my lord and may the catholicks of Irland in particular owne you a great deliverance as I can not but confidently
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
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
some yeares continued his capitulations and treatings with the Catholicks of Irland and did indeed wijre-drawe them to theyr great losse both to the dishartning of their souldiers consumption of their treasures and letting slip great advantages of service great matters we expected from Ormond and noe lesse did our Commissioners tell us that he was ready to condescend to our demaunds and graunt us good things but in the end litle or nothing was don not withstanding all this any thing that seemed to be with the Kings interest or for the Kings service did much relish with the Catholicks and soe desirous and forward we were to make peace with any party the King owned to be his owne as we omitted to pursue vigorously a good warr and at long running wee made noe good peace for libertie Religion Fortunes or honour of the Nation CHAP. IIII. Glanmorgans peace rendered voide by the Kings disavoving any authoritie given to that effect Twice we concluded peace by our Commissioners the one off which have been with the Earle of Glanmorgan and the other with Ormond and in fin wee had neither peace nor the assurance of a peace the said Earle of Glanmorgan shewed us under the privat signet a faire and large commission he had from the King authorizing him to conclude a peace with us and to graunt us such favourable concessions for religion as Ormond the Kings Lieutenant who also had a comission under the great seale could not Publickly graunt or be seen in this peace made with Glanmorgan became voyd and of noe force the King disavowing any power given to that effect vnto Glanmorgan you shall find the Kings disavowing of any such power in his booke commonly caled Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae pag the 29 in a message given as it is written in our court at Oxford the 29 lanu 1645. to the speaker of the house of Peeres pro tempore to be communicated to the two houses of Parliament at westminster and to the commissioners of the Parliament in Scotland His Majesties message of Ianuary 29. 1645. about Irland and his Majesties further Concessions and desire of a personal treaty Oxford C R His Majestie having receaved information from the lord Leutenant and Councel in Irland that the Earle of Glanmorgan hath without his or their orders or priuitie entered into a treaty with some Commissioners on the Roman Catholick partie there and alsoe drawne vp and agreed vnto certain articles with the said Commissioners highly derogatory to his Majesties honour and royal dignitie and most prejudicial vnto the protestant religion and church there in Irland wherevpon the said Earle of Glanmorgan is arrested vpon suspition of high treason and imprisoned by the said lord Leutenant and Councel at the instance and by the impeachment of the lord Digby who by reason of his place and former employment in these affaires doth best know how contrarie that proceeding of the said Earle hath been to his Majesties intentions and directions what great prejudice it might bring to his affaires if those proceedings of the Earle of Glanmorgan should â—e any way vnderstood to have been done by directions liking or approbation of his Majestie having in his former messages for a personal treaty offered to give contentment to his two Houses in the business of Irland hath now thought fitting the better to shew his clearer intentions and to give satisfaction to his two Houses of Parlament and the rest of his subjects in all his Kingdoms to send his declarations to his said houses containing the whole truth of the busines which is That the Earle of Glanmorgan having made offer vnto his Majestie to raise forces in the Kingdom of Irland and to conduct them into England for his Majesties service had a commission to that purpose and to that purpose only That he had noe commission at all to treat of any thing else without the privitie and direction of the lord Leutenant much lesse to Capitulat any thing concerning religion or any propertie belonging either to Church or Laity That it clearly appeares by the lord Leutenants procedings with the said Earle that he had noe notice at all of what the said Earle had treated and pretended to have capitulated with the Irish vntill by accident it came to his knowledge And his Majestie doth protest that vntill such time as he had advertisment that the person of the said Earle of Glanmorgan was arrested and restrained as is aboue said he neuer heard nor had any kind of notice that the said Earle had entred into any kind of treaty or capitulation with the Irish commissioners much lesse that he had concluded or signed these articles soe destructiue both to Church and State and soe repugnant to his Majesties publick professions and knowne resolution And for the further vindication of his Majesties honour and integritie heerin he doth declare that he is soe far from considering any thing contained in those papers or writings framed by the said Earle and those commissioners with whom he treated as he doth absolutly disavow him therein and hath giuen commandements to the lord Leutenant and the Councel there to proceed against the said Earle as one who either out of falseness presumption or folly had soe hazarded the blemishing of his Majesties reputation with his good subiects and soe impertinently framed those articles of his owne head without the consent privitie or directions of his Majestie or the lord Leutenant or any of his Majesties Councel there but true it is that for the necessarie preservation of his Majesties protestant subiects in Irland whose case was dayly represented vnto him to be soe desperat his Majestie have given commission to the lord Leutenant to treat and conclude such a peace there as might be for safty of that Crowne the preservation of the protestant religion and noe way derâ—gatery to his owne honour and publick professions You see plainly by this his Majesties disavowig letter of any power given to Glanmorgan as to the effect of peace to be concluded with the confederat Catholicks how Glanmorgans peace came to nothing and of noe validitie though much labour paines and monnies it cost to the confederat Catholicks and not without great discredit to the said Earle As for the peace made with Ormond yeare 1646. who had the Kings commission vnder the great seale it had noe better issue then the former as shal be made cleare out of the aboue specified divine his writings reasons arguments and woords as they are put downe And in as much as the Bishops and Cleargy their opposition to that peace hath drawne vpon them the implacable anger of Ormond pervsing what I shall write you shal be able to iudge the reasons given by the Prelats were valid and themselves honest in their intentions and vpright in their proceedings and that they haue done nothing but what pietie and the obligation of their pastoral care did require consequently yon will graunt that the dukes anger and rancour came by noe
any time evermore some through ignorance of states affaires and intrigues obstructing as yet others through inconsideration of these wayes to you knowne much wiser though slower then folly and rashness could chalke out and some out of prejudice or an euil will which blinds them and makes them abuse the timorousness and credulity of all they can to lessen your esteeme and your dependence all they are able My lord these thoughts which more and more trâ—oubled me dayly because I have dayly new occasions â—o reflect on them and therefore would noe longer but give them your Excellency even in this method and writing that they may take the deeper impression as evry much concerning you since your one welfare and the kings and peoples in my jugment very much depend on a good esteeme of soe great a minister as your great deserts have made you But with all my lord I will give your Excellency my most earnest and most harty desire that you delay noe longer then shall be necessary to cleare these clouds of darkness and cleare them in this present conjuncture by an effectuall demonstration of the justice and favour you intend the Catholicks in your Articles of 48. when they soe freely put themselves and their power into your hands Father VVailsh your letter is well penn'd expressing exâ—â—llently the general feare that seazed vpon all the Catholicks of our nation in London a truer expression could not be I observe you say in the generality of Irland here even I say of those who have beene soe long as well yoâ—r constant beleevers as your stedfast frinds â— dimness c. And for the better persuading him to shew his vertue and affection to his Catholick frinds you tell him his owne webfare the kings c. did much depend on a great esteeme of soe great a minister as his great deserts have made him Nothing can be said in reason to moue a gallant man more then what you have said In the end of your letter you presse him closely to doe the Catholicks justice by vertue of the Articles of 48. saying when they put themselves and their power into your hands soe freely Certainly good fa had Ormond loved you and the Catholicks of Irland those you name his fastest frinds and sticklers as much as you and they loved him would he have giveÌ„ a good answer to your rational lines but you tell nothing of his answer if good or bad if it were good I am sure you would have published it amongst the rest of his great vertues soe as your silence in this argues noe good answer all your prayers good fa to Ormond are in vaine you have cast your seed in a barren land Hoc est supra Petram and your prayers withered and shrank Had Ormond been a worthy man and lover of his country he had dispersed those clouds of darkness as you desired him taking away those feares of his true frinds by appearing for the nation as behoved a just man and as he was bound by vertue of the articles of 48. himselfe being the kings commissioner vpon concluding that peace These are the affections and dutyes required at his hands by the Catholicks Doth his greatness thinke you give him a Privilege that the Catholicks should love him and he hate them that men nobly borne and many other worthy persons should for soe many years rely vpon him putting great trust in him and he in the end should betray them in the greatest concernment they had in the world if he hath in this done like a true Chriâ—â—iaâ— or gallant nobleman head of soe aâ—cient a family judge you and all others You speakâ— after of Ceremonies and Tenebrae all wee had from Ormond were but Tenebrae and Darkness nor did your glorious light in the Triangle ever shine propitious to the Catholicks his trusty frinds and sticklers have too long relyed vpon a reed of Egijpt a reed without stay or vertue such as your Ormond was and is Such in London of our Nation as you say that feared he would prove as he shâ—wed himselfe I see were wiser then you that trusted soe much in him and could not be persuaded he would play booty in the end and abandon the Catholiâ—ks thâ—ir feare was grounded in good reason and your confidence in him was vaine and you remaine still deceaved in that your confidence oh would to God the Catholicks had feared him in good time if soe Ormond had never come to the power of annoying them or to loose them but Serò sapiunt phrijges he deceaved the person most trusted in him and did beleeve as you doe that he would prove the deliverer of his country I meane the Earle of Clancarty then lord viscont Musgry his brother in law who seemed sore vexed in his dying bed for having placed trust in Ormond an errour destructive to his Nation and could his Excellency then was the time not to dissemble the heauyest feare that pâ—ssessed his soule goeing vnto an other world was for confiding soe much in him who deceaved them all and lost his poore country and countrymen It is plain truth and F. VVailsh you know it to be soe the great opinion very many of the assembly had of the sound jugement of my lord Clancarty speaking nothing of his high descent an fortune made many of the nobles and gentry follow him and in the end they all found themselves deluded You know well that young Musgry Clanâ—arty his heire who was Collonell in France a stout and valiant person one of the hopefullest men of his Nation who was killed in the first war at sea against the Hollanders could never indure his vncle Ormond after seeing his finistrous wayes his cunning artices and his deserting the Catholicks soe fouly You have indeed F earnestly prayed Ormond and conjured him to appeare for the Nation and to obtaine for them the benefit of the Articles of the peace of 48. which he himselfe was bound in honnor and conscience to doe and you constantly exspected their delivery by him and when shall that be thinke you even then when the Iews shall see their Messias long waited for Honest friar Ormond hath deceaved you and tooke a course to increase and secure his owne fortunes he collogued with your countrymen and in the end stuck to that side that preyed and robbed them of their estates and amongst all he had the greatest share as is well knowne to all yet not a woord of this in your writings of the high elogies you give of his wisedom vertue and most pretious qualities that can adorne a states-man CHAPT IX In this Chapter is clearly set downe Ormonds wrongfull in vasion and possession of several IIrish Catholick gentlemens estates well expressed in the case of Sr. Robert Lyunch Knight and Barronet ORmond hath invaded against conscience justice and honour the estates of hundreds of poore innocent Catholicks I beseech you what title or right had his Grace to the estate of Sr. Robert
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
Fruition of these vast recompences or as rather I shonld say Robberys of poore orphans and widowes which will have noe good end soe much be said of his recompences received and rewards in rhe next Chapter I shall give a distinct and the briefest accompt I can of the manifest Iniurys hee hath don to his Country and Countrimen CHHPTER 16'th A Relation of some particular Iniuries the Duke of Ormond hath don his Countrymen His subuerting our vnion with Vlyssean practizes NOt withstanding all the trust and confidence the generality of that people placed in Ormond both great and small yet little affection did hee show to his country or Countrymen the first Injury and stratagemme have bine to worke a diuition amongst them hee was the man let fall the venemous apple of discord in the middle of that vnited body theire vnion the basis of all prosperity continuing noe power noe enemy was able to prevaile against them this union was our onlyest bulwark and would prove if not subuerted Formidable to our Enemys at home and a broad that Commonwealth doth prosper whose Cittizens are of one accord Concordia res paerua crescunt discordia res magnae dilabuntur Ormond his chief Imagnation hath bin to take away this vnion the life of our confederacie what people common-wealth or nation more knitt in mutuall Charity at the first beginning of the warre then wee The Bishops Clergie Noblemen Gentry townes and Cittys and the common people looked all one way all possessed with the same flame of Religious zeal to preserve and recover our libertys Country and religion all were Cor unum et anima vna whilst Paersons and Burlace did gouerne in Dubblin and soe had wee still continued if Ormond had not been chosen Lord Lieutenant by whose influence vpon the people all was lost subuerted and supplanted If you demaund how could Ormond destroy this vnion and would his relations even and dearest frinds which tooke the oath of association becom perjurous and perfidious for Ormonds sake Would they Forsake the sacred confederacy and the best quarel in the world for his respect I doe not meane to say thes affected him most were perfidious and perjourous to the country yea I hould his relations and friends to have been good catholicks how then say you could Ormond debauch them from theyr union and confederacie his Excellencie you must understand had a great number of his relations among us and many more persons of good qualitie that had nothing to doe with him held him for a man of great integritie and affection to his countrie and tooke him for a man of vertu Iustice and sound Iudgement a man that had power to doe us good and a good willingness thereunto and hoped that he would represent unto the king our oppressions and burdens under cruel statesmen that destroyed and enslaued the subjects by their sleights and cunning artifices and in fine that he would prove the deliverer of this conceipt which proved bu adreame conferred all mens affection vpon him receaving and embracing all the reasons and such sentiments as hee pleased to infuse unto them and ordered all theyr course in all wisdom as they thought by his ways and dictamen by this meanes were undermined our union and our quarel destroyed Ormonds persuasions prevailing in court and countrie his reasons were esteemed the best and wisest his friends and Faction crys Ormond is a wise man he loves our interest understands our cause rightly this publick confidence well knowne hath been no smale meanes for him to deceave his Friends and they deceaved the Generalitie possessing them with such and such imaginations till at last we grew in good earnest could in our proceedings dissentions sprung up and our union the life and strengh of our countrie dissolved and broaken desolation and destruction run over all places we then began to disagree in our consultations and debates about the publick â—alousies inuaded our assemblies difference rose between such and such Families between Noble men Gentrie and even amoung the Bishops and cleargy some speaking high of the brittish interest others of the interest of religion and countrie in the conclusion we came to be regnâ—m in se divisun in the meane time Ormond who had acted his part soidly said to his counsel and complices Divisum est cor Catholicorum jam interibunt my worke is don they are broaken they are at variance one with an other they sprosper noe more That you may more plainly see the influence this great man had over the confederat Catholicks in the supreme counsel who gouverned all consisting of 12. You may know he had usually six of that number for his trusty friends the first was Richard Lord Viscount Mongret at the beginning of the warr and for a great whyle President of the counsel this Lord was Brother to Ormonds grandmother the second was donogh Lord Viscount Musgue after Earle of Clancartie who married Ormonds eldest sister Mr. Richard Bealings Secretarie to the counsel and a member thereof maried to â—said Viscount Mountgarets Daughter Mr. Grat fenel Doctor physick intimat do mistick counselour to Ormond for som yeeres Mr. Patricke Darcy a Famous lawyâ—r counsell in law to the house Ormond Mr. Gessery Browne a sound and good lawyer and Sr. Lucas Dillon knight an able personage both much addicted to Ormonds Wayes esteeming them the best as for the Lord of Mountgaret he was a plain simple man but the other five were substantiall Peeces as the land could afford Ormond was theire delight and Ioy and though they had witt sufficient to understand his ways and ponder his euill designes this they have not don but rather gaue him full scope to worke what hee pleas'd out of the fore-spooken confidence placed in him by this meanes these wise-men were deceiued deluded and inueagled away and wee with them our repentance is to late and without remedy and wee finde our error Fatall and irrecoverable and wee have lived to see Ormond close with our deadly enemys and himselfe the greatest enemy of them all Sed sero Sapiunt phriges This Lethean cupp ministred by Ormond unto us the confederates stupifyed our wil soe much as wee could neither understand nor perceive one another wee became much like to the confusion of Babell when one sought for stone the other gave him sand when sand hee brought him stones But the first stepp to our confusion was treaties of cessations by those conferrences hee deceived our people who went still vpon the opinion of his affection hee spunn us out with new devices and delays and in the Intrim wee omitted the opertunity of doeing service wayting dayly for apeace for Ormond had brought us to that fools paradice as we neglected our owne preservation great matters hee promised to our committie of treaty a good peace the which when wee had was worth nothing as formerly said where I advertised you how the Committie of treaty failed to performe the instructions given them and