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
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
never for having held my peace notwithstanding all thes great encomis of Silence celebrated by soe many wise Sages in all tymes neverthelesse a long and vnseasonable Silence is and may be as blameable as the other is recommendable To be Silent and hould my peace when an open injurie is don to my Religion countrie and Parents is neither wisdom pietie nor vertue to be commended this is and hath been as I perceave the long Silence the Catholicks of Irland had with the Lord Duke of Ormond giving him both time and leasure to worke theyr ruine and downfall without preventing the fame in a just forme and seasonable time by theyr instant adresses to the king councel or any else We have kept a longer Silence to our great detriment then Pythagoras his schollars have don theyr Silence was limited to five yeares only before theyr publick Tentamens in schoole for the performance of which Magister dixit was sufficient to them but we poore soules have been silent neer now vpon thirteen yeares suffering with all patience the open wrongs and manifest Detriments this Noble-man have don vs soe that vnder the notion of a friend we discovered him at long-running to be our open enemie The same Ormond's speech soone after the kings happie restauration to Orrery Monthrath Clothworthy Mervin such others of that fortunat tribe have been in this nature Omnes bestia agri venite ad devorandum nempè Iberniam Vniversae bestiae saltâ—s All yee beasts of the sield come to devoure he means Irland All yee beasts of the forrest What were we doing Where have we been Or what became of our senses at that time when Ormond convoked thos men to devoure vs We were all of vs in a deepe Silence much like men in a fatal lethargie soe as the words of the same prophet may be properly said of us Speculatores ejus id est Iberniae â—oeri omnes nesâ—ierunt Vnirersi canes muti non valentes latrare videntes vana dormientes amantes somnia her watch-men all blind haue been ignorant dumb doggs not able to bark seeynge vain things sleeping and loving dreams truly wee were all much like bewitched people dotinge upon a man that loued us not and like men dreaming vain dreà ms our Bishops and churchmen lett these venerable persons giue me leave to speake my sentiment our Bishops I say and Cleargymen were but canes muti non valentes latrare J did not see nor heare of any in that numerous congregation a monghst whom there haue been several learned and wise men that haue written any thinge to this purpose in characterizing as they should haue don this great man and his craftie designes to the publick ruine exceptinge one of the divines that then attended upon the Ecclesiastical congregation of whom mention was made in our preface who composed a substantial and solid peece replenished with uncontroulable reasons justifijng the just rejection of that peace made and agreed in the kingdom's behalfe by certain Commissioners with Ormond in the yeare 1646. this rejection of that peace Ormond takes for petra scandali and as a dishonour forsooth to his pérson soe that from that day to this houre he hath been and is still an open enemie to the Bishops of Irland and Cleargy this divine that I speake off did in a sober and modest stile plainly set foorth what Ormond did intend and said nothinge in all that peece but what was just and reasonable as now more clearly we seé this worke came to my hands and haue perused it with much attention out of wch I haue collected partly some light for my furtherance in this present tractat and now behould the Bishops at that time exiled in this Kingdom to whose Iudgment he submitted that worke would not haue this wel studied peece to seê either presse or light in soe much that those elucubrations and labours were set a side and rendred uselesse and fruitlesse to the Nation I doubt not but the prelats intended wel though otherwise fell out for they were still in a charitable hope and expectation that Ormond in time would Relent and doe the nation good but they and millions besides theyr Lordships haue been mistaken in Ormond whose indignation more and more daylie increasing not satisfied in the extremities of our woes and calamities seems rather to rejoyce in the continuation of our afflictions and annihilation of our persons then to giue any signe of relentment or hopes of any good a glorie without honnour Never did any Magician charme with spels or philtérs any sort of men more then this Ormond did that harmelesse people by what art or fascination is to me unknowne In Londen soe wounderfull was the veneration my Countre-men had to this great man's person and soe great was theyr zeale to please and loath in the least to displease him as even when some begun to apprehend feares and jelousies of his sinistrous proceedings perceaving things not to goe as they expected yet not with standing they scarce durst mutter theyr to well grounded feares and fuspitions each long time every man was sicut mutus non aperiens os suum in the cause of Religion and countrie though they haue seen evidently his daylie heapinge of injuries upon the nation nay some were soe starck blind and slumbred upon this fatal Duke as even after he possessed wroungfully theyr estates and fortunes they were construing all to the best and supposing some deep mâ—sterie of pietie in the man and yet could giue noe reason for such theyr vain conjectures and hopes some in theyr priuat discourses as if they were deluded by fiends and specters wid imagin some future good Ormond would doe the nation this epidemical dimnis and stupiditie attached the judgment and braines soe firmly of many that several of them could not be persuaded but Ormond would as yet giue them a day of rejoycement and happiness I haue been much amazed and noe lesse perplexst after seeyng and hearing some of theyr silly and simple éxpressions pronunced in theyr privat confabulations in London and letter 's from that cittie to thes parts much to this effect Ormond said one will never betray us he 'il never shrinke from us he is our owne his intentions are good an other said Ormond is to Noble to doe soe base an act it is not his Kinde to doe unworthie things his father and Mother quoth the third man were constant true Catholicks that is indeed true was not I beseech yow his grand-father said the fourth man walter earle of Ormond for his devotion stiled walter of the beads and rosarie will the child of soe good soe godly and vertuous progenitours deceave the confidence wee his countremen doe place in him noe it cannot be happie are we that he is soe great with his Majestie for though he seems at present some what could towards us and to shake hands with Orrery and the rest of the Cromwelian faction yet his hart howeuer is with us
to conclude noe peace without insisting on them but cleare sighted men that trusted not in Ormond as those men did found those articles to be a plaistered bussiness as a boue said If Ormond had power from the King to grant better Articles then the thirty Articles will not your understanding be convinced that hee playd fouly with the confederate Catholicks and that his intention was not frindly nor honest and that his only designe hath bine to deceive us his Majesty in a letter to Ormond december the fiftienth 1644. Oxford hath these words Ormond I am sorry to finde from Colonell Barry the sad condition of your particular fortune for which I cannot find soe good and speedy remedie as the peace of Irland it being likewise to redresse most necessary affaiâ—es heere wherefore I command you to dispatch it out of hand for the doeing of which I hope my publick dispatch will give you sufficient instructions and power c. Some what lower downe he hath thes Words and to show this is more then words I doe hierby promise them and command you to see it don that the penal statutes against Roman Catholicks shall not be put in execution c. and concluds the letter thus soe recommending to your care the speedy dispatch of the peace of Irland and my necessary supplie from thence as I wrot you in my last privat letter I rest Of an other letter to the Marques of Ormond Feb 1644. Oxford are these words And now again I can not but mention vnto you the necessitie of hastning of the Irish peace for which I. hope you are allredy sufficiently furnished from me of materialls but in case peace cannot be had vpon those tearmes you must not by any meanes fall to a new rupture with them but continue the cessation according to â—â— postscript in a letter by lack Barrys a coppie of which dispatch I. Heere with send you Soâ— I rest POSTCRIPT IN case vpon particular mens fancies the Irish peace should not be procured vpon powers I have alredy given you I have thought good to give you this further order which I hope will prove needlesse to seeke to renew the cessation for a yeare for which you shall promise the Irish if you can have it noe cheaper to joyne with them against the Scot and Insiquin c. Those Letters are to be seen in the Kings book stiled Reliquiae scarae Carolinae By thes lines you see how clearly his Majestie insisted vpon a peace with the Irish and fayled not to that effect to send Ormond materials sufficient to satisfie the Irish catholicks having heard theyr complaints and theyr reasonable articls for they demanded no other then the libertie of theyr religion benefit of theyr estates and priviledges yet Ormond in his peace of 30. Articles granted not thes things nor was it in his thought to joyne with us against the Scot and Insiquin the Kings professed enemies who owned for theyr master the vsurping power and parlement of England and there were reports grounded vpon very good presumptions that he sent some of his forces to asist the Scots in the North against us * 3 ' Injury wee come now to a third and maine agrivance and injurie done the confederat Catholicks which was the yealding up of Dublin castel sword and all to the Parliament not withstanding that the Queen and Prince sent from Paris a gentleman expresly instructed to his excellencie to prevent the giving up of these places to the Kings enemies and rather to close up a peace with the Catholicks the only way then appearing for setling the Kings affaires this action hath been one of the vglyest things Ormond ever did to render therfore my reader fully capable of this perfidious proceeding I shall be forced to enlarge my selfe therevpon this will be made cleare out of a discource of the Iorney that the Agent sent from the Queen and Prince Mr. Wintergrant a Catholick Gentleman made himselfe who came to Ormond with his letters and instructions before he had given up the castell of Dublin the cittie was rendered before to the parliament the cheefest part of the discource runs thus his Majestie beeing a prisoner at homby and all negotiation for his deliverance and restablishment rendered frvitless it was thought fitt by the Queen and Prince of wales with theyr counsel that some body should be sent to Irland with letters and instrustions to my Lord of Ormond for settling of a peace in that Kingdome for that purposse said Mr. Wintergrant was chosen and accordingly receaved certain instructions sent by the Queen all these instructions tended to the settlement of peace between the confederat Catholicks and the Kings partie as appeareth by the express words of the second instruction you shall informe the said Lord Lieutenant how sensible we and the Prince are of the present troubles of the Kingdom as well in consideration of the Kings affayres in generall as Particularly out of the apprehension of the great and imminent danger that may thereby happen to those which yet remain under the obedience of him the said Lord Lieutenant and how desirous we and the Prince are to contribut all that is in our power to reconsile the things in question between the said Lord Lieutenant and the consederat Catholicks of Irland whereby all of them may bee firmly Vnited under the authoritie of our dearest Lord the King and thereby inabled to defend themselves against the common enemie and seasonably assist the King in his other dominions he also brought letters to the Lord Nunâ—io and Romain cleargy and to severall noble men and to certaine corporations and citties to be first shewed to Ormond and as he pleased to be delivered or not deliverod all was left to Otrmonds breast and this Mr. Wintergrant was to pursue all his instructions in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant shall thinke fitt and in all other things you shall saith the instruction governe your selfe according to the advice and orders of the said Lord Lieutenant In the sixst instruction are these words If he the said Lord Lieutenant shall direct you to repaâ—re to the Lord Nuncio Assembly Cleargy or supreme counsel of the Irish nation or to the Generall assembly now met at Kilkennie you shall vpon all occations when your discretion shall think fitt publish a vow and declare the great inclination which we and the Prince have to contribut effectually all that shall be proper for us and him to the speedy concluding a happy peace in Irland These were one sort of instructions I receiued saith Mr. Wintergrant which were not to be kept soe privat but that they were in some cases comunicable but these that follow not soe Privat instructions YOu shall deliver to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland fourtien blanks now given to your possession by vs and the Prince two wherof were Ioyntly signed by vs and the Prince six other signed by vs alone and the other six by the Prince alone You