the third poysoned his Mother Sister and Neece vid. Ursin p. 220. so Stephen the Prince of Transilvania by poyson Luc. Hist pag. 614. Innocent the fourth attempted to poyson the Emperor Conrade Ursin p. 221. King John poysoned by a Monk of Swinsted nay when other projects have failed rather than miss effecting their malice their very Temples which are Sanctuaries against others have been used as Slaughter-houses of these Ecclesiastical Butchers two Princes of the House of Medicees assaulted at Mass the one kill'd the other wounded by the Order of Sixtus the fourth circa ann 1480. When Henr. the fourth besieged Hildebrand in the Bastile his Holiness suborned Traitors to convey great Stones on the Rafters of the Church over that place where the Emperor sat to let them fall on his head whilst at his Devotions but were discovered by the fall of one of them before the time Ursin p. 32. But most horrid was their poysoning the Emperor Henry the seventh at Bonavent although one of their own Disciples in their Chalice at the Sacrament vide Grimstones State of the Empire fol. 603. its like from thence the Mass became a Sacrifice so that the consequences of these inhumane Principles depending on the Popes Infallibility for Sanction must be desperately dangerous to humane Society considering what kind of bruites the Popes themselves have been as they are described by Platina c. on their Lives but Ursinus hath epitomised their Catholique Vertues pag. 198. to 243. and reduc'd them into their respective Classes 24 in number to be deliberately read in less than one hour how many of them were Atheists Arrians Conjurers Blasphemers Tyrants Traytors Parracides Adulterers Sodomites incestuous persons Drunkards monsters of men c. And how like Priest like People they are at Rome hear some of their own Poets Characters Of their Secular Priests Mantuan Hateful to God polluted with vile Lusts Alas in vain they manage sacred Trusts Heaven they provoke not please for such to pray There is no need nor help at all can they Put in new Ministers and cast them out From Temples this so sacrilegious Rout. Nor let a longer stay profess They make a trade of Wickedness Then of their Regulars And those men too who seize that lofty Name Religious persons bragging that they came From holy Fathers under fleece of Sheep Vile wretches Souls of Wolves within them keep Thus Vertues visage is abus'd To cloak the Baseness by them us'd Pasquil Flee Rome that wouldst be holy come not neer Thou mayst be any thing but godly there I 've seen thee Rome adieu ne'r more will see Till Bawd or Whore or worse I mean to be SECT V. Shews what hath been the Practice of this Principle of Supremacy since usurped by the infallible Prince of Priests TO begin with the Apostle of this Profession Hildebrand I gave you a taste of his infallible Canons but observe his suitable Practice 1. Against his liege Lord the Emperor Hen. the fourth a warlike brave Prince that had fought 60 Battels with success and yet this bold insolent Prelate excommunicates him deprives him of all Regal Authority absolves his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance c. on which some of the discontented Princes especially the Duke of Saxony rebel whereby he was compelled to prevent the shedding of Christian Blood to humble himself to this man of Pride so low as to wait with his Empress and Son clad in Canvass barefooted three days in cold frosty weather at his Holiness's Gates before he obtain'd Absolution yet soon after without any now provocation we read of but the Jealousie of this infallible Tyrant that the Emperors great Stomack would not disgest this intolerable Indignity renewes his Excommunication and instigates Rodulph Duke of Swavia his Brother in Law to invade him who after many bloody Bickerings was routed and slain After that stir'd up the Saxons to create Harman Prince of Luxemburgh Emperor after he was slain seduceth Egbert Marquess of Saxony to take upon him the Empire after he was slain the Emperor called a Council at Brixia which deposed and banished this insolent bloody Pope for Heresies Sacriledge Factions a Defender of Perjury Scandal a Believer of Dreams and Divinations a notorious Necromancer possessed with an unclean Spirit an Apostate from the true Faith Thus far infallible Hildebrand who dyed in exile Paget fol. 250 c. But this Elijah bequeathed his Mantle to his Successor Pascall the second who revives Hildebrands Curse against the old Emperor and prevaileth with his own Son Henry to rebel against his most puissant Father and to usurp the Imperial Crown but some Achitophel told this young Absalom old David had been a man of war from his youth and therefore his infallible spiritual Father advised him to decline Force and try Treachery in English though a Treaty in Italian against his carnal Father so a Diet was summoned at Mentz where the old Emperor depending upon the publick Faith for safety was treacherously seized and cast into Prison where he soon ended his miserable days Which unnatural Rebellion against so famous a Father was highly magnified by Cardinal Baronius saith my Author What Turk or Savage would be the Oeconomist of such unnatural Treachery But after this deposing of Kings became common as Boeslaus King of Poland by Childerick the third the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa by Zechary the first Innocent the third excommunicated the Emperor Philip and then deposed him and set up Otho the fourth and plunged them in bloody Wars then excommunicated Otho and absolved his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance circa ann 1200. Again Frederick the second first excommunicated then absolved him upon his promise to assist in the holy War where while he was in person bravely fighting and had taken Jerusalem Nazareth and Joppa c. from the Saracens the Pope raiseth an Army invades his Territories enters Naples wrested divers places from him giving out he was dead but Letters coming of his great success in Asia so much vexed his Holiness he trod them under his Feet and deludes his Son Henry to conspire against him which caused the shedding much Christian Blood but at his return he subdued his Enemies committed his Son to prison in Apulia where he shortly after dyed circa anno 1220 1244. Clement the sixth to keep up the Trade excommunicated Ludovicus of Bavaria and commanded the German Princes to elect Charles the fourth 1346. Julius the second excommunicated Lewis the twelfth and deposed John King of Navarr and gave his Crown to the King of Spain 1536. Gregory the tenth excommunicated our Henry the eighth Pius the fifth Queen Elizabeth If you read the Histories of those times especially Ursinus printed ann Dom. 1600. who hath epitomised them into a small Volume to be read in a few hours from Charles the Great anno Dom. 800. to Rodulph the second 1612. a period of 812 years who though briefly yet fully relates the treacherous and bloody
Avarice Gain But the cheap Swearer through his open sluce Le ts his Soul run for nought as little fearing Were I an Epicure I could bate Swearing Fair spoken Mendax on the least occasion Swears by his Faith and by his own Salvation Is rash-brain Mendax well advised then To pawn his Faith in God for Faith with men Sure small 's thy Wit or Credit to be drawn For wares so poor to leave so great a pawn But this Iniquity of prophane Swearing is the preparitory cause of false Swearing which is an immediate obstruction to Trade and Wealth 1. It discourageth all but especially Foreigners to trade amongst us who will hazard their stocks or persons in a Country or amongst a people where a false Oath may deprive them of their Estates or Lives c. dissolve the best Bargain and frustrate the hopefullest prospect of Gain unforeseen unremediable 2. It creates a Jealousie amongst the Tarsiquers and betwixt Neighbour and Neighbour that notwithstanding their greatest care in Contracts of all sorts a false Oath shall depâ—ive them of their Interest of all they possess 3. Perjury increaseth the number of idle loose people who find it easier to get their living by the sweat of their Consciences than the sweat of their Brows how greatly hath this Vice been abhorred by Pagans the Egyptians and Scythians punished it with Death Plutarch c. And how dreadfully punished by God vide Clerks Mirror fol. 423. to 432. We read of none but Rome Papal that could dispence with Perjury as Eugenius with Albert the Emperor and Uladislaus King of Hungary to break Faith with the Turks so Rodulph Duke of Swavia to break his Faith with the Emperor Henry the 4th but of later times nothing more frequent with the Pope c. than to absolve whole Kingdoms from their Oaths of Allegiance c. to their Princes and then hath owned their Perjury as meritorious vid. History of the Council of Trent whereby this unhappy Kingdom is in a desperate case who are in the midst of a potent people that know they may not only innocently but meritoriously break their Faith with all Hereticks as they esteem all Protestants Now this is observable that Perjuries are no where frequent where prophane Oaths are not common for when the later through custom hath stupified the Conscience that the prophaning and blaspheming the sacred Name of God becomes a pass-time it wears off that natural aw and dread of God by familiarising the Name of God vainly makes it easie to invoke his Name falsely the Solemnity of a Court will not deter them from Perjury to their Neighbours harm when the dread of Gods great Tribunal will not aw them from wronging their own Souls Therefore whilst prophane Swearing passeth for a venial Perjury will never be esteemed a mortal sin and until the Laws be more strictly executed against the first the second will not be reformed And I estimate the damage this Nation sustains by this impious Vice to amount at least to 20000 l. per annum sustained by particular persons and the general discouragement it puts upon Traffique and Commerce The second Wealth consuming Debauchery is Gaming FIrst high Gaming among the Gentry though whilst the Inhabitants of Ireland lose to each other it weakens not only transfers the Wealth of the Country from one to another but when with Foreigners that transport their Winnings it is so much loss to the Commonwealth and I hear of few that grow rich by Play as our Proverb is What is got over the Devils Back is consumed on his Belly and many and those of no mean Rank are known to others as well as my self to be reduc'd to great straights by Gaming which several prudent Princes c. Observing have strictly prohibited Alphonsus Son to Fedinando King of Spain made a Decree that none of his Nobles nor Officers should presume to play for Mony at Cards or Dice or suffer any such Gaming in their Houses on pain of forfeiting one Months Salary and being expulsed the Court for six weeks Chilon being sent from Lacedemonia to Corinth to treat of a League and observing their Rulers used Dice-play returned without opening his Commission saying He would not stain the Glory of the Spartans with so great an Ignominy as to joyn in Society with Dice-players But I shall close what I have to say to this sort of Gamesters with Herbert Game is a civil Gunpowder in peace Blowing up Houses with their whole Increase But this Vice bears hardest on the Common-wealth by the consumption of Time and Mony by our peasantly and mechanick Gamesters who spend much of their time in Winter at Cards and Dice and Shovel-board c. and in Summer in petty Bowling-Alleys and Nine-pins c. which are the common Recreations of multitudes not only of Journeymen and Apprentices but the meaner sort of Masters of most Handycrafts we will compute this sort of Gamesters to 10000 persons who besides the ruining of their poor families and thereby filling the Country with Beggars consume at least one day in a week in this sort of Recreation which compute at 12 pence a week one with another for loss of Time there being more above than under that rate and 12 pence spent in Mony obstructs of the Wealth of this Kingdom 52000 l. per annum which the Vigilancy of our Justices and Watchfulness of our Constables might prevent by executing the good Laws of the Land against them The third sort of Wealth-wasting Debaucharies is Whoring Which amongst the Wealthy if they can stifle the mutterings of Conscience as to slight these dreadful threatnings on the Committers of this sin I will be a swift Witness saith God against the Adulterers c. Malach. 3.5 so the Apostle Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Hebr. 13.4 so Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Adulterers nor Effeminate c. shall inherit the Kingdom of God I say if these and multitudes of the like Texts be esteemed Apochrypha by these sort of Transgressors then let them assemble themselves by Troops in Harlots houses and as fed Horses every one neigh after his Neighbours Wife but withal consider the next words shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this is Jerem. 5.7,8,9 But if the Wealthy of them would confine themselves to our Country-Strumpets and pay well where they debauch and maintain their Bastard-brood without Charge to the Parishes the Wealth of the Country would not so much suffer But so far are they from that there are some particular Parishes in this City that have forty some fifty desolate Children upon their Charge which might be much remedied by the Vigilancy of the Magistrates in executing the Statutes against Idlers on young Women living out of Service and becoming Tapsters to paltry Ale-houses or otherwise taking a Room in some by-corner and gaining Credit for a Barrel or two of Beer they there drive
tyrannical Practices of the Popes towards the Emperors Princes and States of Christendom from time to time and then consider the bloody Wars Desolations of Countries c. these Acts produc'd you will confess his Holiness hath been no slothful Servant in improving this talent of Supremacy c. to the utmost and thereby deserv'd his Dignity and Power to tread upon the necks of Princes as of the Emperor Frederick Barborosa on his submission at Venice and be attended on as before by the Emperor Henry the fourth three Winter nights and days barefoot and to whip Henry the second till the Blood ran down by the Monks of Canterbury after he had walk'd barefoot fo far upon the stones as his Feet wept tears of Blood upon the pavement though he had openly purged himself of the Crime of Beckets Death before and to have his Stirrup held and his Horse led by the most potent Emperors and Kings present in Rome whenever he mounted and whensoever he washes his Hands to have Emperors or Kings to serve him with water and to attend at Table till the first Course be served and to prostrate themselves at his Feet whensoever they approached his sacred Presence vide Ceremonia Ecclesiae Romanae But that so many high born Heroick Princes should so basely crouch to the usurped Power of such insolent imperious Peasants as many of those Popes have been is prodigious and only to be ascribed to that divine Judgment threatned on them that the ten Horns shall have one mind and shall give their Power and Strength unto the Beast Revel 17.13 but our comfort is the same ten Horns shall hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eat her Flesh and burn her with fire because God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will and to agree and give their Kingdoms to the Beast until the Word of God shall be fulfilled v. 17. But this may be observed as soon as they became Slaves to the Pope they became Tyrants over their own Subjects the Emperor Charles the fifth though otherwise a brave Prince and Philip his Son King of Spain who murder'd his own Son vide Ursinus p. 190. Francis the first the Duke of Savoy and most of the Italian Princes who by their barbarous Inquisitions Persecutions and bloody Wars have made all Christendom swim in Blood since they were Vassals to his Holiness But these things were but the beginning of Christendoms sorrows for the Pope to insult sometimes over one Prince and other times over another and not bring all their prophane necks under his holy Feet at once were inferior to his infallible Grandeur his Holiness by this time was become his Mightiness and resolved to let the whole Christian world know his terribleness to his rebellious Subjects the Kings of the Earth and dischargeth his thundering Canons and sends out his roaring Bulls against all Princes and States that would permit a person to live in their Dominions that should open his mouth against or peep into his Mystery of Iniquity But the most unchristian and treacherous design the Jesuits were imployed in by his Holiness was anno 1627 c. to incense the Grand Seignior against the Patriarch of Constantinople accusing him for publishing Books against the Alcaron which is a capital crime there that might have tended to the ruine of all the Eastern Christians under the Turks Power but God threw them into the pit they had digged also they charg'd him to counterfeit the Grand Seigniors Seal and to stamp false Mony and hold a correspondency with the Cossacks in order to joyn with them in their intended Rebellion c. You may read the Story at large in Turks Hist pag. 1489. to 1492. where is recorded Cardinal Bendins Instructions to Rossi the Jesuit in the fourth Article the Patriarchs Errors are declared as followeth We are advised that he denies the Vocation of Saints the Worship and Veneration of Images the Reliques of the Saints the real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and Traditions and sends Youths to the German and English Academies to be educated If these Errors are not sufficient to move the Roman Conclave to incense the Turks to destroy millions of innocent Christians that maintain them Let all good Catholicks judge the Ignatian tribe thought to have merited Heaven by this holy project as the Master-piece of their good Works but it proved a Halter c. as bad as the Turk is he exploded the Treachery and Cruelty of the Pope But considering how Nicholas the fifth their Predecessor had not only permitted but assisted Mahomet the Great to run down the pious Greek Emperor Constantius the eighth because he disowned his Supremacy whereby Constantinople was taken and sack'd and all the Eastern Churches since miserably enslaved vide Turks Hist fol 340. This project against their miserable Lives was but to perfect their first against their pleasant Liberties Turkish Slavery being too moderate a punishment for the Heresie of Antisupremacy c. The only way to prosper against the Turks is to destroy the Christians as a Jesuit told the Emperor Charles the fifth in an Oration at Auspurg Till you make your Horse to swim in the Blood of the Lutherans never expect any good Fortune against the Turks Luc. Hist p. 186. Saith Father Steward We must burn and cut the throats of these Hereticks if ever we prosper But Rodulph the Emperor who by their clandestine machinations saith my Author they prevailed with to sign an Edict to silence the Protestant Ministers was convinced of this Error when news soon after was brought to him the Turks had taken Alba-regalis As a man astonished said he I did expect some Judgment would befall me after I began to usurp Gods Government over mens Consciences vide Bohemian Persecution ch 40. Shutting the mouths of Gods Ministers hath usually opened the mouths of Gods Judgments they that will not hear the voice of Gods Word shall feel the smart of his Rod sooner or later vidâ— Hist of Boh. Persecution ch 48 49 50. Luc. Hist p. 324. never yet did Prince dance after the Jesuits pipe but the Comedy ended in a Tragedy as the Emperor Charles the fifth after him his Son Philip c. So Francis the first Henry the third and Henry 4th of France c. vid. Serris Hist of their Reigns But as if the circuit of the old world had been too narrow a stage for them to act their Tragidies on no sooner doth Spain discover and invade America but thither go the Jesuits by whose instigation and assistance have been destroyed twenty millions of poor innocent people vid. Romes Triumphs p. 126. and Luc. Hist p. 256. Dr. Whites Way to the true Church p. 49. Gages New Survey of the West Indies c. And that the rising as well as setting Sun might blush to behold their world-confounding projects they have been as busie in the East Indies but saith my Author in the Kingdom of Japonia the
THE INTEREST OF IRELAND IN ITS TRADE and WEALTH STATED In TWO PARTS First Part observes and discovers the Causes of Irelands not more increasing in Trade and Wealth from the first Conquest till now Second Part proposeth Expedients to remedy all its Mercanture Maladies and other Wealth-wasting Enormities by which it is kept poor and low Both mix'd with some Observations on the Politicks of Government relating to the Incouragement of Trade and Increase of Wealth WITH Some Reflections on Principles of Religion as it relates to the Premisses By Richard Lawrence Esq Dublin Printed by Jos Ray for Jos Howes and are to be sold by Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row near Amen-Corner London 1682. TO THE Most Hopeful BRANCH OF HONOR JAMES EARL of OSSORY c. My Lord IT is not for Protection this little Treatise presumes to present it self to your view let its own Innocency and honest Design be its Guard its Errand is only to represent the most natural Causes of the Poverty of your Country by discovering not only the grand Robbers of its Treasure but the lesser Theeves that creep in at every window and pilfer every House and pick every Pocket whereby not only the noble and wealthy but the mean and poor are daily made poorer and it chuseth to make its Address to your Lordship as the chief Concernee of a Subject in its Prosperity as being Heir to the highest Honor and most noble Patrimony in this I le and from thence will probably be in the best Capacity after a few more years have ripened your pregnant Parts to do it good or hurt and amongst the other Heroick Vertues you derive from your most noble Ancestors it is wish'd and hop'd this may be intail'd that you are a true Lover of your Country that it may be said of you in after ages as of Mordecai the noble Jew He was next to the King great amongst his people accepted of the multitude seeking the Wealth of his Country your Predecessors have sav'd you a labour as to the raising your own House one Stone more would make that top-heavy all you have left to do is to keep that in repair and to finish the Structures they have begun for the Wealth and Prosperity of your Country for as they have been called to the highest Imploys by their Prince so have they not disdained to stoop to the meanest Service for the Improvement of the Trade c. of their Country the many chargeable Attempts made by them for the erecting and incouraging Manufactures c. Chappellizod Clonmell Carrick and about twelve places more where Attempts have been made by their Example and Countenance will tell the next age of their unparallel'd Incouragements to improve the Manufactures and Trade of Ireland and this little Book will inform them why they succeeded no better I am not unsensible the scornful useless Wits of this Age will insinuate to your Lordship Mercantile and Mechanick Studies are below your Dignity but let me reply they have but depraved Fancies that tell you so ask your most noble Grandfather why he hath admitted such free access and spent so much time in conference with men of Mechanick and Mercantile Rank and Breeding he will tell you it was that he might understand the Interest and Intrigue of Trade to promote it as the only means to improve the Wealth of his Country and both divine and prophane History informs us most of the useful and beneficial Arts wherewith the world flourisheth were the Inventions of famous men It is recorded to the praise of Tuball Caan a Prince in his time that he was the first Instructer of every Artificer to work in Brass and Iron c. and of holy Noah the last King of the old World that God instructed him to be his chief Ship-Carpenter Genes 6.14 Bezaleele and Aboliab were Princes of their Tribes whom God filled with wisdom understanding and knowledge in all manner of Workmanship to devise cunning works to work in Gold and Silver and in Brass in cutting of Stones and carving of Timber Exod. 31.45 So Solomon Israels most glorious King was the Inventer of all those curious Works he made to adorn both Gods House and his own and the Contriver of his Ships to manage his Traffique with Ophir for Gold whereby he became the wealthiest Prince in the world and so great a veneration had the antient Heathens for profitable and useful Arts they attributed the Invention of them to their Gods so that most acute Wit and compleatest States-man of his age Sir Henry Wotton in his Character of the Grand Duke of Tuskany dedicated to King James to the rest of his Qualifications as that he was a wise and wary Prince solidly not formally so c. saith He was a great Cherisher of manual Arts whereby he drew to him from all parts the most exquisite Artificers gave them settled Pensions and placed them in several compartments of his Palace where he would come often to see them work for his own delight being in truth the greatest Oeconomist of his age and as he had much of the Prince so did he not disdain to have something of the Merchant and our brave Prince Rupert hath increas'd not lessen'd his Fame in the Field of Mars by sullying his Hands and smutting his Face in the Forge of Vulcan That Glory of his Country for Wit and Learning the Lord Bacon did not spend his time in Philosophical Theory but in the practical part of manual Arts as the Incorporation and refining of Mettals and Minerals c. vide his Phisiologica from pag. 91. to pag. 146. And in his Speech to the Parliament saith he I hope my Lords my midnight Studies to make our Countries flourish and out-vie European Neighbourt in mysterial and beneficial Arts have not so ungratefully affected your Intellects that you will delay or oppose this Affair since your honorable Posterities may be enriched thereby p. 132. The despising the Study of Mechanick Arts is only the product of Romantick Fancies who more esteem the Composer of Plays than the Inventers of Works though they are no more useful in a Commonwealth than Fidlers in a Country Parish to incite to Idleness and Debauchery Titus Livius tells you they were first designed to appease the angry Gods in a time of great Mortality and well they became the Worship of such beastly Deities whose Worship consisting in Antick Gestures and Garbs with Mimick motions directed with Musick mixt with abominable Immoralities especially their Bacchanalies c. But saith he The Actors were not base Comedians or Professors of the infamous Players Craft who are grown to this Foolery and excessive Sumptuousmess as can hardly be defrayed by the most wealthy Kingdoms but by the Noble Youth of the City Livius Supplement pag. 205 206. Vertuous Heathens are the Reproach of vicious Christians who retain a greater veneration for Moral than they for Divine Precepts if Christians would retain half
Essentials in Worship agreed and maintain'd by Conforming and Nonconforming Protestants p. G. F. Fishing how to increase p. 13 Friars their several Orders whence and why instituted p. 212 213 Fundamentals agreed to by Dissenters with the Church p. G. G. Governors of Ireland unacquainted with the Country not capable of well managing its Affairs and why p. 102 to 107 This hath been the opinion and practice of our Kings from its first Conquest of which instances p. 108 109 In what cases excepted p. 110 111 I. Ireland's English Interest potent above what it was before the last Rebellion p. 47 48 Irelands Interest in being Govern'd by its own Members p. 47 to 96 Irish Papists their interest in the potency of the English Interest in Ireland p. 73 to 94 Ignorance in the Scripture the cause of Papists Rebellion p. 91 92 Judges and Juries of Ireland much more ingaged to suppress Sedition and Rebellion in Ireland than those of England can be and why p. 105 106 Jesuits their inhumane bloody principles from their own Authors p. 195 to 203 Papists reflections and glosses on them p. 204 to 207 Jesuits their Original and Characte p. 211 to 214 Jesuits by what Authority their Order Instituted p. 214 Jesuits banished and their Tenents exploded by whom p. 222 to 225 Jesuits the natural consequence of their Principles p. 225 They abrogate the Laws of Humanity Morality and Divinity p. 226 Their dexterity in fathering their Brats on innocent persons p. 227 Jesuits their suitable practices to their bloody Principles p. 231 to 240 Jesuits imployed by the Pope to destroy the Greek Church p. 236 Jesuits bloody work in the West and East-Indies p. 238 L. Lands of Ireland most possest by English Proprietors p. 48 Loyalty evidenc'd in many of the Irish Papists p. 89 to 203 Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany more differ than English Protestants yet esteem each other Protestants and unite against Popery p. H. Laws against single life useful in Ireland and why p. A. B. C. M. Massacre of Ireland how inhumane and barbarous p. 81 to 87 Militia of Ireland is its great Security p. 98 Militia neglected the cause of the easie massacring the naked Protestants 1641 p. 81 Manufacturies of Ireland by whom incouraged and erected how ruined p. 188 to 191 Mystical Babylon who in the opinion of Papists p. 220 N. Nobility or Peers of Ireland most English Protestants p. 63 to 67 Nobility their Catalogue 1571 and 1641 p. 67 to p. 73 Non-residents enjoying Salleries a great loss to Ireland p. 99 O. The Original of most Noble and Worshipful English Families of Ireland were from Offices p. 96 Ormond Duke the longest Regency over Ireland under the greatest difficulties and why p. 112 113 Ormond the great confusion he found Ireland in at his access to the Government 1662. and how soon composed p. 182 to 188 P. Parliaments of Ireland altered in their Constitution from an Irish to an English Interest p. 58 to 63 A good Plea for Irish Papists against their Jesuited Priests that shall again instigate them to rebel p. 88 Planting of Ireland discouraged by restraint of Trade and being liable to be tried for capital Offences by Judges and Juries in England to whom they are unknown c. p. 106 Poysonings and Stabbings the Popes arguments to convince gainsayers instances p. 228 229 Principles of the Jesuits inconsistent with the just power and right of Princes p. 240 R. Religion Protestant condemned as a venomous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion by the Papists p. 76 Religion Protestant why no more received by Irish Papists p. 90 91 Rebellion and bloodiness of Popery above all other Religions in the World whence p. 193 194 Rome can be no Mother-Church nor Superior to others why p. 218 Rome hath only the primacy of Apostacy from the principles of the Primitive Church p. 218 to 222 Rome c. always promoted and encouraged the rebellions of Ireland p. 76 to 85 Romes struggles with the Greek Church for Supremacy reduced them to Turkish Slavery p. 237 S. Statute Staple its original use and method p. 43 to 47 Souldiers who are best for Field-Armies p. 98 99 to 120 The Statutes of the 10 th of Hen. 7. and 23d of Hen. 8. no bar to persons born in Ireland from being Lord Lieutenant c. p. 100 101. Souldiers 1000 bred in Ireland worth 2000 bred in England for Irish Service and why p. 118 Subsidies of Ireland their establishment p. 164 to 173 Supremacy from the Pope from whence p. 208 209 Supremacy a Tallent so well improved by the Pope that he deserves it p. 234 Schism Criminal when p. D. E. T. Trade of England ingrost by the Guild of the Hance p. 18 Trade in Companies countenanc'd by the Kings and Parliaments of England since Edward the Third p. 20 Trade to the East-Indies when first obtained p. 24 Treasure the vast summ Ireland hath cost England above what it was ever worth p. 53 Table reducing Plantation Acres into English p. 162 1â—â— Trade why no more improv'd under the Government of the Justices and Duke of Ormond p 181 Tyrants are those Princes over their own Subjects who are Slaves to the Pope p. 235 Turkish Slavery of the Greek-Church the Product of the Popes Supremacy p. 2 7 Trent Council illegal c. p. 217 U. Usher Bishop his opinion declared it was the Interest of Irish Papists to support and strengthen the Interest of the Crown of England in Ireland p. 77 to 81 Usher Bishop Prophecies of the Irish Rebellion 40 years before it was and 〈◊〉 great trouble to the Protestants by thâ— Papists yet to come p. 80 81 Vengeance of God dreadful on the Irish foâ— their bloody Massacre 1641 p. 86 87 Vnity though boasted of by Papists yet arâ— they much more divided than Protestants p. H. I. Vnion of Papists chiefly in Errors and Immoralities Vnion in Religion how far necessary amongst Protestants to promote the Prosperity and secure the Peace of Ireland p. C. D. W. Weaving Broad cloath when first set up in England p. 25 Wools first prohibited their transportation p. 25 Wools may easily be prevented transporting expedients proposed p. 39 to 43 Wools transporting the ruine of our Clothing Trade p. 39 Wall'd-Towns to be increased and well planted to secure the safety of English Protestants in Ireland p. A. Women drunk with the blood of the Saints Rev. 17. who in the Papists opinion p. 219 221 Y. Guild of the Hance its Antiquity and great Trade p. 43 Their dissolution and why p. 34 Z. Zeal preposterous like Hell hot without light that makes different Opinions different Religions saith B p. Bramhall p. E. Zeal Popish and Jesuitical that esteems all Separation Criminal Schism ibid. Books lately Printed A Judgment of the Comet which became first generally visible to us in Dublin Decemb the 13th 1680. By a person of Quality Foxes and Firebrands or a Specimen of the Danger and Harmony of Popery and
vast Trade Spain had ingrossed both in the East and West Indies and in Africa they might yet have enjoyed had not cruel de Alva by his inhumane severities forced the Dutch to cast off the Spanish iron Yoke and defend their Liberties whereby as Sir William Temple observes by the great multitudes of people crowded together in a narrow compass of Land they were necessitated to improve their Industry at Sea and after the Spaniards and Fortugals who were then the Subjects of Spain had entirely enjoyed the enriching Trade of the East Indies c. as before for almost one hundred years viz. from Anno 1498. until 1595. the Dutch sent a Fleet from Amsterdam and then in 1600. the English sent four Ships viz. the Assention the Dragon the Hector and Susan under the Command of Captain Lancaster since which by the prudent Government of that Company hath equalized the Portuguies and Dutch having erected Plantations and Factories at Ormus c. in Persia at Agria Cambasan Suraâ— c. in the Moguls Country at Man Salupan Armagon Pecana Siam on the Coast of Chormandel the Isles of Sumatra Bantam c. that now they furnish Italy and Turkie with all those Indian Commodities which about fifty years ago they bought there to the ruine of the Trade of Syria and Egypt c. who have now only an Inland Trade by Caravans from Aleppo Damasco and Mecha c. And out of the Ashes of their Barbary Company ruined by the Civil Wars of Fez arose the Levant or Turkie the most flourishing and beneficial Company now in England incorporated by King James I do but hint these things here to evidence the undoubted advantage of Company Trade insisting largely upon them in my Treatise of Traffique in the Chapter of Discoveries of new Trades And that this way of Corporation-Trade has not only greatly enlarged Trade but enriched the places of its Residence we have manifold instances the ancient Company of Merchant-Adventurers now called the Hamborough Company erected by Edward the first in 1296. was courted by the Duke of Brabant to make their Residence at Antwerpe where they first settled the English Staple and had granted to them great Priviledges and made the City flourish in Trade which being observed by that inspectious Prince Edward the third he to bring the Trade to his own Ports prohibited the Transportation of Wools and granted great encouragement to Dutch Weavers to set up their Craft in England and soon after prohibited all foreign Cloth from being transported into the Realm confirmed by Edward the Fourth who settled their Priviledges by Charter in the year 1406. which hath been confirmed and enlarged by all his Successors Queen Elizabeth for the better vending their Cloths when their Quantity exceeded home Markets gave them power under the Great Seal to treat with foreign Princes and States for places to settle the Residence of their Factors and Stores upon which all the Princes and States in Flanders Holland and Germany strove who should enjoy them and wheresoever they removed they drew a vast Trade after them their present Residence is at Dortrech for the Netherlands and Hamborough for Germany where the chief Court of their Fellowship now resides they transport all sorts of Cloths dressed and dyed Lead Tin Oyl Stockens Hats Spanish Fruits and Wines and make their returns in Linnings Rhenish Wines Mather Hops Sope Wire Copper Brass Iron Steel Quick-silver Gunpowder Flax Hemp Allom Wax c. This Company hath power by their Charter yearly to elect a Governour Deputy Governour and Assistants and to settle their Residents Courts in any parts beyond Sea and several places in England as London York Hull Newcastle c. with power of making Acts and Ordinances so as they are not repugnant to the Law of England for the better Government of their Trade likewise power to hear and decide Causes to implead sine and punish Offendors This grew to be the most flourishing Company for Trade in the world until Philip and Mary erected the Muscovy Company which soon wrested a great part of their Trade from them which were at first called the Corporation for Discovery of new Trades a Design that would well sute with the present state of Ireland whose great Priviledges were confirmed and enlarged as before by Queen Elizabeth much after the method of the other and their Trade much the same and after this studious Princess for the Improvement of the Trade and Wealth of her Country added to these she found the three other Companies beforementioned viz. the Levant or Turkie Company which made the first Discovery of that vast Trade since driven in the Signorie of Venice and the Dominions of the Grand Seignior and thereby oserved the vast Trade betwixt Aleppo and other Levant Ports with the East Indies managed by Land carriage which encouraged them to enquire into a more cheap and gainful way to obtain East India Commodities at first Hand And that produc'd that most famous Country-inriching Company called the East India Company who obtain'd a Charter for great Priviledges from the Queen and hath managed their Trade by a joint Stock reported to be 600000 l. whereby they have built and maintained a gallnt Fleet of stately Ships for War as well as Burthen imployed multitudes of people in their Plantations Ships and Factories to the great Honour and Wealth of their Country And after this in the 21. year of the Reign of that most famous Queen that is in the year 1579. did she incorporate the Eastland Company and endow them with great Priviledges and Immunities to trade in Denmark Sweden Poland Prusia and Pomerland from the River Odera Eastward And it is worth observing how small beginnings in Trade beget great increase Trade like that Grain of Mustard-seed our Saviour speaks of being cast into the ground grows up to a great tree that the Fowls of the air may lodge in the Branches of it and it is also observable if foreign Traffique did live yet it never flourished in this part of the world until it was managed by united Stocks and Policies as in the forementioned instances in our own Country besides what is of the same kind amongst all our Neighbours flourishing in Trade And as in these many examples from past times evidence that they esteemed this way of Traffique the only way to increase Trade so is their Wisdom approv'd and confirm'd by the prudent in this age His Majesty that now is hath set to his Seal that Corporation-trade is the strength of foreign Traffique by his not only confirming what his Royal Predecessors before did but also by his adding the African and Canary Companies the first not only endowed with priviledge that sounds like Princely Prerogatives as power of Peace and War raising Forts building and equipping Ships of War c. to appoint Governors to constitute Laws c. and dignified with the title of the Royal Company and well they may when His Royal Highness hath bore