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
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
shall acquaint the Lord Lieutenant that wee and the Prince doe authoriz and apoint him to fill vp all the said blanks in such manner and to such purpose and with such contents as hee shall think most proper for the service of our dearest Lord the King in his Irish affaires and you shall assure him the said Lord Lieutenant that as wee and the Prince repose this trust and confidence in him that hee shall make vse of them as hee shall think fitt for the advancement of the peace in Ireland soe will both of vs at all tymes auow and Iustify those Instruments soe to be filled vp by him as our owne acts and as don by our owne particular directions and commaund you shall more particularly acquaint the Lord Lieutenant from vs and the Prince that if in the treaty of peace or in the conclusion therof hee desires to be assisted with any further Authority grounded vpon any letters sent to him from the King or otherwise in our power then wee desire him the said Lord Lieutenant to fill vp the blanks signed by vs or the Prince with such authority from vs or from vs and the Prince or from the Prince only in such manner as hee shall finde most proper and conducing to such a peace You shall likwise particularly acquaint him the Lord Lieutenant that if hee shall finde it proper for the advancement of the peace there that your selfe or your selfe with any others now in Ireland should in our name and authorised by vs repaire to the assembly Generall now held at Kilkennie or the supreme Counsel of the Irish or to any other body or persons with the overtures of a treaty or any particular in order to concerning or conducing to the same our desire is and wee hierby authorise him the said Lord Lieutenant accordingly that hee should fill vp one or more of the said blancks signed by vs in the nature of a commission letter or instructions with such authority from vs and in such manner as hee shall think fitt and that hee would accordingly insert the name of such person or persons as hee shall think fitt to be Ioyned with you in this Imployment from vs. These particulares you are to communicate to none but the Lord Digby and Lord Clanrikard vnless the Lord Luetenant shall think fitt to give you other orders concerning the same Then followeth the Princes approbation of all the instructions of both sortes with his commaund to put them in execution in these words Charles Prince VVEe have perused and doe fully approve of your instructions bearing date herwith and Signed by our Royal Mother and doe appoint and authorize you soe far as you shall finde vs named therin to put the same in execution Charles Prince VVEe have perused and doe fully approve of your private instructions bearing date herewith signed by our Royall Mother and hierby appoint and authorise you soe farre as you shall finde vs named therin to put the same in execution With these instructions and many letters not only to my Lord Lieutenant Lord Clanrikard and Lord Digby but alsoe from the Queen to the Nuncio and Cleargie to O Nelle and Preston with all the considerable persons then a mongst the Irish I parted from Paris a bout the 16. of march 1647. in Companic of my Lord Crafford c. From Nantes I landed at Waterford the 6'th or 7'th of Aprill and yet soe vnluckely as the assembly at Kilkennie had brooke vp that night at ten of the Clock which they would not have done had they first heard of my landing for soe Mr. Barron whoe hath been an Agent hier in France for the confederat Irish and to whome I sent a post soe soon as I was in waterford writt back to mee indeed I was very unfortunat for the Assembly had both power and meanes to doe or undoe what they had don in ordre to a treaty which the supreme Counsell limited within bounds by the Assembly afterwards had not Being comâ—to Kilkennie I was by Mr. Barron brought to the Counsell to whome after they had caused mee to sitt in a Chaire not farre from my Lord of Antrim theire President nor would they heare mee till I had don soe I delivered the cause of my coming thither which was the Queen and Prince his desire of peace in that Kingdom and for the Queen shee was not only moved unto it for the Kings intrest but alsoe by a zeal to the Catholick Religion and good of the People The day I came to Dublin I was that night brought to my Lord of Ormond to whome I delivered such letters as were for him and then said that hee was sure those letters expressed civilitys from the Queen and Prince much better then I could and that therfore I had nothing more now to say untill I had such instructions disiphered as I had which were many and would take vp som good tyme and by which his Lordship would finde the confidence her Majesty and the Prince had in him which was soe great as noe reports could shake though wee had weekly newes of his treaty with the Parlament for delivery of those places under his commaund to which his Lordship replyed that confidence shall never deceive them and that hee who had ventured himselfe his wife and all his Children in the Kings service would make noe sample of venturing or casting away one scruple when there shall be cause this hee spook because one of his sons was then hostage with the Parlament yet if there be necessity hee should give up those places under his commaund hee would rather give them to the English Rebells then to the Irish Rebells of which opinion hee thought every good Englishman was to this I replyed nothing Ormond having seen and perused these premises and now spooken of instructions I demaund in this place what his grace can aleage for himselfe that can excuse his backwardness in satisfying the resonable and Iust demaunds of the confederat Catholicks Hee cannot say hee wanted power and authority for concluding a peace with them seeing hee might insert in the papers of 14. blancks what conditions what Articles hee pleased for himselfe the Queen and Prince being resolued To owne and Iustify the same as theire Royall act and deed Further hee had from his Majâ—sty a great latitude of power to compass such a peace as the Queen and Prince then desired notwitstanding the rejection of the peace of 46. as is to be seen by the Kings Letter to Ormond Februarij 27'th 1647. in these words page 258. of Reliquiae Carolinae ORMOND THe Impossibility of preserving my Protestant subjects in Irland by a continuation of warr having moved mee to give you the powers and directions which I have formerly done for the concluding of a peace there and the same growing dayly much more Evident that alone were reason Enough for mee to enlarge your powes and to make my commands in the point more positive but besides these
THE VNKINDE DESERTOR OF LOYALL MEN AND TRUE FRINDS Jn the land of the holy hee hath don wicked things and hee shall not see the glory of our Lord. Isai cap. 26. vers 10. Superiorum permissu AnÌ„o 1676. CENSURA SAnctis eremi incolis strenuisque Christi athletis non immeritò annumerandus venit venerabilis ille solitarius fidelis Christâ— famulus Dominus S. E. qui ab hinc anniâ— vt fertur viginti tribus spreto hominum Commercio ad Medirerranei maris littus à Narbâ—nensi â—ivitate non procul dissitum seder Vir hic sanè si animum exscriptis spectes Candidus lustus apparet si doctrinam â—ruditissimus si facundiam ornatissimus quem insuper Corporis pudicitia animae Castitas morum Comitas quod caput est veritatis amor quae Sacrorum hominum partes effe debent ab adolescentia nisi fama mendax sit eximiè decorarunt sed has hominum invidia sprevit virtutes eumque opimo quo gaudebat in patria sacerdorio spoliavit Quid fecit vir optimus in exilium relegatus velut alter Arsenius pulsante ad cordis aurem voce Angelicâ Fuge late tace Continuò acquiescens oraculo Fugit latuit tacuit Damnatisque Babylonis plateis faciem ad Sanctam Ierusalem aeternam quaesiturus pacem convertit Enixius quaerebat Dominum quem diligebat animus in crepidine maris invenit nec dimisit ratus venenata quibus in hoc mundo omnes configimur invidiae spicula neminem nisi eo protegente declinare valere Fidam igitur stationem nactus ab omni prorsus hominum consuetudine tutam vt cum solo liberatore liberius colloqueretur diu multumque conticuit Tandem tamen aliquandò divina dispensante voluntate ruptis importuni nobis silentij repagulis vox ejus altius intonuit nostrasque ad aures à solitudinis antro allapsa non inutile eum semper otio torpuisse indicat aureum enim hunc libellum cui Titulus The Vnkind desertor of loyall men and true Frinds mole licet exiguum tamen ipsa reâ—magnis voluminibus comparandum à silentiarij ore patriae tam faedè proditae miseratio vel potius ipsa extorsit veritas Iliadem vt aiunt seu heu malorum nostrorum in nuce habes Gentem Hibernicam Catholice semper Religionis non citrà miraculum tenacissimam veteris nobilitatis insignem sceleratè modò profligatam funditusque nefariorum hominum dolo furore gladio eversam commemorat plangendamque docet Iacobum Butlerum Ormondiae Ducem ipsumque longa claraque Catholicorum majorum serie in ipso licet Hiberniae regno conspicuè oriundum malorum omnium fontem acâ—originem probat Tantorumque criminum reum invictis peragit documentis cum enim Hiberniam prorex aliquando gubernasset eique ut prese ferebat ipsa reverà exigebat patriae charitas consulturus crederetur ita omnes suis circumsepsit infatuavitque praestigiis incautos ut omnes perdiderit patriaeque statum omnino subverterit Hanc illius tam insignem numquamque expiandam perfidiam auctor execrandosque dolos barbarico indignos animo detegit palamque orbi facit quid vero indignius quid scelerarius quam Hibernos quà religione in Deum quà in regem fide inconcussos turpiter deserere ac Cromwelli Trium nationum praedatoris satellitibus sicariis ad haerere Hoc inauditum scelus molitus est Ormonius idque nescio quo inveterato in nationem suam paternamque fidem odio correptus ac velut oestro percitus huc accessit opum dignitatumque sitis inexplebilis atque effrene desiderium Auctoris scriptis fama mihi tantummodo noti mentem amo animi candorem amplector virtutes veneror acrem nitidumque stylum satis laudare nequeo par sibi in omnibus judicium admiror ardentemque in patriam gentemque suam amorem vehementer suspicio Quamobrem praeclarum hoc opus numeris omnibus â—bsolutum erudito certè dignum auctore publica luce dignissimum judico Idque vel maximè cum nihil omninò complecti videatur quod orthodoxae fidei Canonicis Sanctionibus aut morum honestati adversetur Quin imo Apostolicae Sedis decus atque honorem ubicumqueâ—se ingerit occasio egregriè tueatur Quod testatum facio veritatis promulgandae gratis ductus amore cum exactè nec non vigili curâ— omniâ— perlegerim aequaque lance trutinaverim Signatum Parisiis 12. Februarij 1676. A. I. S. T. Professor THE PREFACE BAnished for Religion and Loyalty to my Prince in the yeare 1652. by Cromwelians then bearing sway wee were som fifteen of vs ship'tin one bottom landing in Britaine in France I tooke my way to this Province not farre from Narbon where I had frinds having liu'd there before And heer I have been about 24. yeares very solitary seeing rarly any of my Countrimen Thus farre from Labans house and noys I finde great tranquility and case of minde in Magdalens silent contemplation When I have been forced a way the Land was possessed by Philistym they had the Arck captive and vnder them my country was turned to a Babylon of sinn vyce Nothing was to be seen in the Streets of this Cittie but oppression of the Iust jniquity rage and fury against Roman piety the Altars falne downe and the Priestes bitterly persecuted some of them consuming a way in prisons som cast into exile and others chased in wods and mountains like wyld beasts all of them charged with two great crymes To be Catholick Priestes and Loyall to theire king All the Catholicks true to God and Prince transplanted into a corner of the Kingdom And this calamity they suffered with the rest that Royall authority was layd a sid and a Dagon sett vp The tyranny of the vsurping Parlament and reverenced This was the face then of that inchanted Iland and they say things are noe way amended as to Catholick natives since the kings going homeâ— that change having noe ways bettered theire fortunes but that theire calamities and miseries soe it is written from many hand 's are dayly increased soe as men beaten with Scourges in Crumwells tyme cry out they are now beaten with Scorpions Often have I lamented all a lone for my deare Countrys desolation and found my greefe inconsolable because I saw noe end of their sufferings Somtym it came to my minde that if a sincere relation of our hard servitude and extremities were given to Catholick Princes with humble prayers this would doe vs good but a gaine when I called to minde that this had been don allready and that able and noble personages had said these things in significant language and that they had in all Courts but cold and delaying answers I dispair'd of all releefe that way One of our Bishops having been in Rome Anno 1652. Ad visitanda limina Apostolica had conferrence with the then Cardinal Secretary after Alexander Septimus his Eminency said to the Bishop it
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
exspect from you in due time for my light in the triangle cannot be exstinguished But my lord may not innocent benjamen alone nor frindly Ruben onely but even Symeon and Levi and their complices against you heretofore have cause to blesse God for you here after may they all find in effect that you have the bowells of Ioseph to forgive and compassion at them and his power to deliver them and his faith to beleeve that God permitted their evil against you even in forâ—ing you twice away from them of purpose to preserve you for their good and that you might returne even this second time their great deliverer Propâ—tious heaven and your owne good Genius my lord sâ—cond my wisâ—es and may your faith-full beleever see with his owne eyes the full accomplishment that â— may employ all his dayes after and all his labours in consecratnig to posterity your name with this Flogium of Ioseph the saviour of his brethren and of his country and of all the People and these are the harty wishes of my lord your Excâ—llencies most humble and most devoted servant P. VV. Here is a glorious perciose of that famous letter good God what a faire flourish wee have here of magnificent woords and even nothing but woords vowes and dreaming wishes that will take effect at once with the Velleities of the damned soules of hell first he infinuats the great wisedom of Ormond in the house and counsells of the king and would make vs beleeve he will appeare like an other Ioseph and by the best of advises preserve the best of Princes our gratious king and all his people of soe many different nations of the Brittish monarchy soe as the very Brittish crowne is againe like to suffer an other fatal knock iâ— Ormond's divine counsells and adviles doe not prevent it what man can read these Magnalia without gearing at this fryar's folly he then say's may the catholicks of Irland in particular owe you a great diliverance as I can not but confidently exspect from you in good time for my light in the triangle can not be exstinguished Certainly the man have been in a pleasant humour and some jouiall exstasie when he wroâ—e these things but I see the spirit of prophesie forsooke this friar long agoe and nothing I am sory for it fell out according his proguostication for Ormond did quite deceave him in his hopes and astrean predictions and his false light in the triangle if ever it was in the triangle is shamefully put out for the people of Irland in stead of this hopefull deliverance owe to Ormond their downfall and vtter destruction He then speaks of beloved Benjamen of frindly Ruben as likewise of Symeon and Levi and their complices against Ioseph giving therby to vnderstand that the Catholicks sould Ormond as Ioseph'â— brethren sould him to the Egyptians which is as great a lye as could be framed by a diabolick mind wheras Ormond if he did not sell the nation as Clarendo the Chanchelour did he hath at leastwise betrayed them in trust pray good F name the marchand to whome wee sould your Ormond tell the price wee had for selling him name the country he was transported vnto Now he comes to the bowells of Ioseph in Ormond O the mercifull bowells of Ormond in compassionating his countrymen It is true he had great power to doe vs good but turned that power to destruction carryed away by a spirit of rancor and revenge whereas you say wee forced Ormond away out of the country it is a shamfull lye but he himselfe withdrew in as much as he could doe noe good to the countrie as above said next you tell us he will become the great deliverer of his countrie O the great deliverer Ormond of his countrie and countriemen of the Catholicks of Irland noble Ormond that brought them out of chaines and bondage that defended them faith-fully against Orery Montrath and the rest of that rabelment of rebells when they had a contest before king and counsel that consoled them in their extremities delivered them from hunger and famin that represented to the king their loyalty and affection and made good to them the Articles of 48. O wonderfull deliverer of the nation Ormond the lying friar perclosed his letter with this great elogium and prayer That Ormond may prove a Ioseph and saviour of his brethren and of his Countrie and of all the people Change your stile idle and vaine friar writ truth once in your life and tell â—he world that thy Ormond hath not been a Ioseph nor saviour but the ruine looser and destroyer of his brethren and countrie and of all the people You may as wel prove crueltie to be mercy Hehogahalus was a Cato â—ticensis or a Phoâ—ion of Athens and that Messalina wife to Claâ—dius was a vestal nun as that Ormond was a Ioseph to the Irish Let who please compare Ormond with Ioseph and then judge this friar apostatizing from all pietie and his order a lyar in calling Ormond a Ioseph Ioseph in Putiphar's house was faithfull to his maister contenent and vertuous Ioseph in prilon was patient obedient to Gods will and beloved of all Ioseph in the court and governement of Egypt was wise just humble and in noe way proud or arrogant if Ormond hath those vertues let those that know him tell vs. Ioseph was of soe great wisedom and providence as he prevented seaven yeares famin by gathering corne in time of plenty and selling it in time of scarsity and hunger to the people thereby preserving them all from starving wherefore Pharo called Ioseph the saviour of the world surely the friar cannot stile Ormond saviour of Irland or of the Irish in this sense he preserved none of them from famin but starved thousands of them by taking away their lands estates and bread this his crvel tyrannie and oppression of the poore makes them strick the gates of heaven with grones and â—ighes and cryes they all say aloud O Ormond cruel man thou hast taken away the pleadge of thy brethren without cause and thâ— naked thou hasâ— spoiled of cloathes widdowes thou haâ—â— sent away â—mpâ—ie and the armes of pupills thou hast broken in peeces Iob. â— 22. Those are flatering friar the workes of mercy Ormond thy Ioseph have done the Catholicks of Irland this is the tenderness of his mercifull bowells towards them those are the effects of his great affection and care of them and all this being soe speake fa VVailsh truth and shame the divel what hath thy Ormond to doe with Ioseph thy Ormond I say a man of whome it is generally spoken and beleeved could never forgiven any thing that looked like an offence or injurie done him wheras mercy was the greatest vertue in Ioseph and his remitting and forgiving the injuries done him by his brethren who sold him over to the Egyptians CHAPTER X. Evident proofes of Ormonds deserting the Catholicks cheefly drawen out of his owne letter to Orery FRom the
see this is an euill familiar those exalted to the height of greatness and favour in the Princès eye have noe Counsellours that will speak freely the ttuth as worthy Cineas did to Pyrrhus few are neere Kings and Princes can say that which Seneâ—a requires to be said by Iust upright men Loquimur quod Sentimus et Sentimus quod Loquimur this is a thing wanting in Court Homo qut dicat veritatem which Seneca excellently expressed to his frind Lucilius thus Monstraho tibi cuius rei inopia laborant magna fastigia quod â—mnia possidentibus desit unum Scilicet qui verum dicit They live not in Courts and the houses of Kings that will severly speake and sincerely the trueth what man can without teares behold soe many great personages even Christians in this age that live and doe farre wickeder things then Gentils or pagans have don or does which had more respect and regard to theire Idols in whome they apprehended some dietie then those to the true and liuing God CHAPTER 12. If Ormonds attendance and service vpon the King in his baniishment met with sufficient recompence and reward THis querie you may take to be somthing extravagant such another as if one had doubted whether it be day even when the sun shines and is scorching of the earth putting men into such heat and sweat as they must of all necessity put of theire Cloathes however this querie is quickly resolved by calculating the yearly rents Ormond had before the warre and conferring the same with this his present estate in doeing of this the work is don and your question resolved what rent say you had hee Immediatly before the warre 7000. pound sterling noe more in as much as that vast estate of his was engaged to men in long Leases Morgaged and incumbred with Annuitys what then is his present rent and estate neare vpon eighty thousand pound starling annuall rent and I doubt whether any subject in Europe have the like estate som say hee hath more but how coms it that a man that came home naked and bare after soe many yeares toe and froe in the World as severall other noble men in poverty and need came soe suddainely by such vast acquisitions This is quickly answered all was made over to him by the kings grant as for Example Six Corporations which his Ancestours never had all the estates of his house leased soe that the leasors are constrained to begg hee had alsoe conferred vpon him the estates and lands of many honest faithfull subjects all this and more bestowed vpon him by his Majestyes free grant now see you whether his service and attendance vpon his Majesty be plentifully requited or noe My Sentiment of Ormonds acquisitions I delivered in the case of Sir Robert Lynch as above now whether the King hath duly and legally bestowed other mens estates vpon his Grace is left to every mans thought to think what hee will however I am of this opinion that all being well considered by his Majesty and this portentous liberality to that noble man well examined his Majesty will finde but little content or joy therin nay to the contrary his Royall hart will be in an ocean of unquietness seeing soe many deserving families numberless widdowes Innocents and orphans deprived of theire propper right forced both at home and abroad to unspeakable wants consumed by hunger vermin and miseries and all this to raise up the greatness of one man's familie that was great enough of it selfe If the Law of God or nature will allow of soe many thousand Innocents to perish and be destroyd by depriving them of theire rights and livelyhood is a maxim that toucheth much his Royall wisdome for it is written that God will have a care of the widdowes and fatherless and in due tyme will chaâ—â—ife aâ—d oppress the oppressors of those thousands of Innocents are sacrificed in this our age to increase the estate of one man can Iustice suffer this can the mercifull breast of a mercifull King endure to see soe many specktacles of woes and miseries without reliefe will not God at long running looke downe vpon these vnlawfull proceedings certainly hee will and to the confusion of the possessors But Let us grant the parents of those Innocent creatures ran into a Rebellion as Ormond Clarindon and others falsly suggested to the King have the little babes not borne at that tyme been rebells What have they don against the Crowne Must they all perish and suffer for theire Parents crimes crimes only Imputed to them but never proved God himselfe sayes Filius non portabit iniquitatem patriâ— The childe shall not beare the iniquity of his Father but Ormond says the contrary let them suffer and perish for the errours of theire Parents soe that I may be thereby both great and wealthy Iustitia Iusti sayes the Holy Ghost super eum et impietas iâ—â—pij super eum The Iustice of the Iust fall vpon him and the Impiety of the Impious vpon him the quite contrary is in this case for the Iust have not found Iustice nor mercy the Innocent children of the supposed rebells are punished as Impious left naked and to noe mercy Saint Ierome his saying is not regarded in this place Nâ—t virtutes nec vitia parentam liberis Imputentur Let not the virtues or vices of the parents be Imposed to the Children there is a God above all when hee comes to examine those open injustices Clarindon Ormond and others and the rest instruments of the ruine of soe many thousand honest families will not appeare all will be made more cleare to theire confusion but wee must leave the Innocent to God who though hee is pleased to Chastise them with the Rod of his anger out of his secret and Iust Iudgments the which wee must adore yet the cruelty of those afflicters who plunged as in an ocean of Calamities will not escape his seveare sentence and Iustice What a ridiculus conceipt is it of some of Ormonds flatterers who tell the World Ormond waited on the King out of meer affection and therby lost his estate and fortunes at home truly noe man hath bine wiser if it be wisdome to deuest and robb honest men of theire estates then Ormond in his aâ—quisitions which as the World sees are great but the Malediction of God doth follow things unjustly aquired and likely the bread hee now eates dipped in the teares of widowes and blood of the Innocent doth not taste sweetly I could not heare of any had the fortune that Ormond had in the time of the Kings exile hee was still neare the King knew all his Arcana had the comfort and honour to suffer with his King a sufficient recompence for all his attendance and at the same tyme his Lady a wise woeman was honoured and comforted by Crumwell and her Ghildren much carressed by his Children soe Gratious was this Lady in Crumwells tyme and in his eyes that shee obtained three
considerations being now manifest that the English rebells have as farre as in them lyes given the command of Irland to the Scotts that theire ayme is at a totall subversion of Religion and real power and that nothing less will content them or purchase peace Heer I think my selfe bound in conscience not to let slip the meanes of settling that Kingdom if it may be fully vnder my obedience nor to loose that assistance which I may hope from my Irish subjects for such scrupels as in a less pressing condition might reasonably be struck at by mee for theire satisfaction I doe therfore command you to conclude a peace with the Irish whatever it cost soe that my Protstant subjects there may be secured and my regal authority preserved but for all this you are to make for mee the best hargain you can and not discover your enlargment of power till you needs must and though I leave the management of this great matter and necessary worke intirely vnto you yet I cannot but tell you that if the suspension of Poynings act for such bills as shall be agreed vpon between you there and the present taking away the penal lawes against Papists by a law will doe it I shall not think it a hard bargine soe that freely and vigorously they engage themselves in my assistance against my rebells of England and Scotland for vvhich noe conditions can be to hard not being against conscience or honour Can there be any thing clearer then these expressions can there be a larger commission given or more streighter commaund layd on Ormond for compassing speedily a peace with the Irish Catholicks then what is repeated heer can Ormond pretend hee wanted power to conclude a peace or the King a willingness to have it don his Majestyes intentions desires and solicitations to that effect are vrged in these words what ever it cost soe my protestant subjects may be secure and Royal authority there is nothing soe certaine securing Catholicks Religion then that wee desired and vnanimously minded to â—â—â—ure the Kings intrest and prerogative and to help him to our power and not to molest or trouble any of his protestant subjects if not provoked by themselues thervnto take notice in this place of his royall assent to a Suspension of Poynings act for such bills as should be agreed vpon betwixt Ormond and us and the takeing away the penal Lawes against us neither did hee think it a hard bargin soe wee freely and vigorously engaged our selves in his Royall service against his Rebells of England and Scotland and says noe conditions can be to hard soe this be don and that in performing it nothing is against conscience and honour heer you may observe the distinction his Majesty makes at that tyme betwixt his Catholick subjects of Irland and those his Protestant Rebells of England and Scotland his Majesty whose intrest it was and the only Iudge of that fact to aprove or disaprove us as such gave each according his desert calling us his Irish subjects and those of England and Scotland his Rebels yet Ormond in his conference with Mr. Wintergrâ—nt calls us otherwise euen Rebels as those of England and Scotland were adding thervnto that if there were necessity to give vp those places vnder his commaund vnto any of the three Nations hee would rather make them over to his English rebels then to his Majestys faithfull Irish subjects of which opinion hee thought every good Englishman was to which expression Mr. Wintergrant a Roman Catholick and a person who had a better opinion of theire conscience then Ormond replyed nothing By the prefated expressions of Ormond you see how hee declared himselfe for an Englishman and being the Kings Lieutenant in that Kingdome hee showed himselfe only exteriourly for the King but interiourly a right Parlamentier as by his severall open disobediences and distructive delays to the King Queen and Princes orders and instructions as to the hastning of the Irish peace is manifested such a one in effect I must confess his darling Orrery would have him to be by all attributes of Religion breeding person speech dispossitions by his Lady and children and predecessors though Irish and well skild in the Irish speech and of 480. yeares and more standing in that Country would to God Orrery had gotten his wish in this and that his Ormond had been of two sydes an Englishman and that our Country and Countrymen had never knowne Ormond Orrery or Orrerys father were it soe things had gon far better with vs and with the Country you see how this Statsman makes noe difference between the confederate Catholicks and the Rebells of Scotland and England whoe got vp in actuall Armes against the King who bought and sould him had him close Prisoner at the same tyme these words were spoken by Ormond can Ormond produce such an oath of association made and agreed vpon by the Parlimentary party to maintaine the Kings prorogatives rights person and Royall interest as wee have made and set forth vnto the world vpon all occations and in all places even in the lowest ebb of his Majestys affaires wee spoke with veneration and respect of his sacred person when they in pulpits streets banks and theaters in theire privat meetings and Counsels disdainfully violated his sacred person and persued him even in theire news books as you may see in the Heu and Cry of Mercurius Britantcus ridiculously set forth in this forme If any man can bring tale or tyding of a wilfull King which hath wilfully gon a stray from his Parliment with a guilty conscience bloody hands a hart full of broaken vowes and protestations if these marks be not sufficient there is another in the mouth for bid him speak and you will soon know him then give notice to Britanicus and you shall be well payd for your paines god saue the Parliment These and such like scurrilous disrespects to his Royaell person would be theire quotidian pastime yet our good Ormond was pleased to list vs in the ranke and cathalogue of those rediculous prophaine Rebells His Vnâ—e and his Brother-inlaw the two prefated Viscounts and the rest of his affected frinds would hardly believe had an Angel affirmd it that Ormond would harbour soe hard a thought of the confederate Catholicks whome hee knew full well in his â—art to be good faithfull and Zealous subjects Now notwithstanding all these instructions and the Kings letters before mentioned with all the instances Mr. Win ergrant could make which were done with a great deal of care and Iudgment notwithstanding the accomodation which I shall insert heere sent by the confederate Catholicks to Ormond notwithstanding all this I say hee yielded vp to the Kings enemys the Castle of Dublin the Sword and all in which and by which action hee discovered his hatred to the confederate Catholicks his affection to the Parliment his disrespect and manifest disobedience to the Kings orders and commaunds and to those of the Queen and
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
17'th of Aprill which was performed And after condescended that incase good and particulare hopes were demonstrated vnto vs wee would out of zeal to our liege Lord the King and in our great expectation of the interposition by them promised of the Crowne of France embrace a Cessation for six monthes soe that in the interval the Lord Marquis would accept noe Parliment forces into any of the Garrisons vnder his commâ—und and give good assurance for his performance therein where vpon Monsieur Tallone repaired to Dublin and brought vnto vs his Lordships absolute denyall of Cessation for more then three weekes vnto which wee could not condescend in regard wee had Iust and pregnant causes of feares that the said Lord Marquis did but seek that short Cessation in expectation of forces from the Parliment wherof wee had well grounded intelligence from London and otherwise and his Lordship having during the treaty with vs received men from the Parliment into Dublin and other his Garrisons and wee having vnderstood that his Lordships reason for not granting a Cessation for the six monthes propounded was that therby all hopes of his agreement with the Parliment had bin taken away and that then of necessity hee must throw himselfe on our party before hee could fairly fall of from the Parliment which whether hee can doe or noe the delivery of the hostages and theire quality and the forces by him allready received and the dayly expectation hee hath of more and the late propositions by him sent to the Parliment which if assented vnto by the Parliment hee declared himselfe to stick vnto them being considered it may be easily Iudged wherin the Impediment to an accommodation lyeth Adding to the premises for the more Cleare vnderstanding of our real desires to entertaine an accommodation wit the Lord Marquis of Ormond for preserving and continuing the places vnder his Majestys obedience which his Lordship holdeth that since our propositions sent him to put his Lordship in minde of an accommodation hee did neither by message or otherwise authorise any to treat further with vs ther vpon but vtterly sleighted that treaty by which wee had noe encourragment given vs to listen to a cessation which in it selfe was noe way profitable to the affaires of the Confederate Catholicks for the reasons afforesaid other then in order to the hopes wee might have of an accommodation the Coppy of which propossitions is hierwith sent Besides the motives afforesaid wee have it by assured and certaine intelligence that the Lord Marquis of Ormond hath alredy concluded with the Parliment and hath vpon confidence of prevailing for a short Cessation with vs assured them that hee would hould what hee enjoyeth vntill the month of May expecting then the Parliment of England theire Supplys Overtures for an accommodation delivered by Doctor Gerrald Fennell and Geffrie Brron Esquires from the Generall assembly of the confederat Catholicks to the Lord Marquess of Ormond in March 1647. 1. THat each party should continue theire respective goverment independent of ech other within such quarters as by the accommodation shall be agreed on vntill a peace 2. That both should joyne in a warre both by sea and land against the Enemys of his Majesty and this Nation and that neither party shall make Peace Cessation or other Agreement or ntertaine any Commerce or Trafick with the said Enemys without the consent of each other vntill a peace 3. That Dublin and other Garrisons your Lordships quarters may be secured against the said Enemie 4. That the Confederat Catholicks within the quarters that by this accomodation shall be agreed vpon to be left to your Lordship shall be secured of the free Enjoying of theire Religion Lives Estates and libertys 5. The like for all other Catholicks in the said quarters 6. That your Lordship shall permitt none to live within your quarters but such as shall sweare to the performance and accomodation 7. That your Lordship shall enjoy the profitts of your Estates in the quarters of the Confederate Catholicks paying such contributions out of it as the said Confederats shall doe out of theires 8. That the Confederats will contribut to the maintenance of your Lordships Charge by reason of your place in a Competent way Could there be any accommodation thought on more profitable to the King more considerable to the Queen and Prince his expectation and more advantagious to Ormond himselfe who therby had the rents of a great part of his Estate of that I meane that laid within the Catholick quarters then this Let any indifferrent conscientious man tell mee if any thing could be more Loyall or laying forth our great affection to our King in the distressed state hee then was in then this Here you have Ormonds answer to said accommodation sent by Mr. Wintergrant vnto the supreme Counsell the 10'th of may 1647. The answers were as followeth THe two first propositions are such as apeare fitter to be treated in a League offensive and defensive between neighbouring Princes then between his Majestys governour of a Kingdom and his subjects of the same declined from theire obedience with whome it is inconsistent with his Majestys Lieutenant to Ioyne otherwise then by theire returne to theire obedience and submission to his Majestys Authority 2. To the third When they are thus returned to theire obedience and have submitted to his Majestys Authority it will then be seasonable to consider of securing the Garrisons 3. The fiue other propositions are such as may be fitt to be considered in case of a sessation which when they shall propose vnto vs wee shall take it into consideration and give such answers thervnto as shall be reasonable You see the nature and condition of this answer Ormond would not com to any accommodation with the Confederate Catholicks because they were as hee saith declined from theire obedience vntill they had returned againe to theire former obedience and submission to his Majestys Authority yet the very same tyme the same Ormond treated publickly of a peace with the Parliment party a peace is of a higher nature then an accommodation open and knowne Rebels to the King and who had his Majesty at the very same tyme theire close prisoner and not only treated with those Rebels but even yielded vp to them the Cittie of Dublin the Castle sword and all appertaining thervnto Ormond gave to the confederate Catholicks and theire propositions of an accommodation the answer hee should have given to the Parliment party hee should have said to theire commissioners with whome hee then treated that it was not consistent with his Majestys Lieutenant to treat with them vntill they had set his Majesty at full liberty laid downe Armes restored to the King his Townes Forts and Navy acknowledging theire obedience and sworne aleageance vnto him This hee did not but perclosed a peace with them as above was said If this his acting when hee could have preserved the Kings Cittie and intrest from his enemys by
an accommodation with the Confederate Catholicks as the King had commaunded and the Queen and Prince ordered by theire express instructions sent to him by Mr. Wintergrant can bâ— excus'd from treason let any indifferent man Iudge Soe much I thought fitt to mention of Mr. Wintergrant his Imployment of the Queen and Princes orders and instructions for concluding a peace with the Irish Catholicks and of the Kings express commaunds to Ormond to the same purpose of the dilligence of Monsieur la Monnerie and Monsieur Tallone to that effect in the mame of the French King theire Master as alsoe of the Articles of the aforesaid accomodation most advantagious to the Kings intrest offered by his subjects the Confederate Catholicks Put all these together my gentle reader and then Iudge if Ormond hath not shewed himselfe transacting with the Parliment disobedient to the Kings Commaunds and to those of the Queen and Prince an Enemie to the Catholicks of Irland and a frind to the vsurping Parliment I now pass to a great and Irreparable Injury don to the whole Nation by his Grace a graceless action the excluding of all the Catholicks of Irland from the benefitt of the generall pardon and indemnity granted to all his other subjects of what Religion soever CHAPTER 18'th How and by whome were the Catholicks of Irland excluded from the benefitt of generall pardon CErtaine it is that the King intended the pardon and act of Indemnity as well for the Catholicks of Irland as for those of England and thee rest of his subjects which is made cleare and evident by his Majestys speech in favour of the Irish Catholicks in the house of Peeres Iuly the 27'th 1660. I hope said the King I need not put you in minde of Irland and that they alone shall not be without the benefitt of my merey they have showne much affection to mee a broad and you will have a care of my honour and what I have promised to them Could the Kings intention of the benefitt of pardon and his mercy to the Irish Catholicks be spooken in more cleare and noble expressions But this Ormond to his Eternall infamy be it said hath cruelly opposed in propounding a wicked and cunning prouizo in the house of Peeres which theire Lordships thought would have satisfy'd vs and soe have past it by by this perfidious fraud of Ormond wee have been exempted from the benefitt of the Indemnity This is the grace Ormond Peter Walsh his saviour of the Irish Nation hath don vs for which the Mallediction of God will likely fall vpon him and his posterity After being excluded from the generall pardon Ormond Clarindon Orrery Cloathworthy and the rest of that holy Synagog put theire heads together for drawing vp a Bill of Settlement of the Kingdoms of Irland soe powerfull they weare in Cheating his Majesty as hee gave them his ordinance for conceiving said Bill of Settlement and theire owne Secretary had the penning of it By the artifice of those great men and force of that Bill wee have lost for ever our Lands Estates and the liberty of free borne subjects This Bill is of an Immens Bulck fraght with faire Language and barbarous contents and proceedings They call it the Kings most gratious Declaration for the settlement of Irland This monstrous Bulck with all the substance therin hath bine reduced into few heads by a learned Laeyer as followeth The substance and sens of the vast bill of settlement 1. BY the late act of Parliment made for the settlement of Irland all that might pretend to be free from the guilt of the late Commotion are concluded from being heard and theire estates disposed for the most part to such of the English as served the Vsurper Crumwell against his late and now Majesty 2. Those who submitted to the peace concluded by his late Majestys Authority in the yevre 1648. are by the said act debarred from the benefitt of the articles concluded in and by the same peace and the publick faith then given denyed them as hath bine already decree'd 3. Innocents are secluded from being restored to theire houses in Corporations a few excepted whoe were restored to theire houses by his Majestyes Letters 4. Catholicks are not suffered to have theire freedom in Corporations or liberty of traficke 5. The Lords ad other Catholicks whoe had presentations of benefices are secluded from the benefit of theire said Privileges except they becom Protestants 6 All the Nobility and gentry that submitted to said Peace of 48. and put themselves to vast charges and expences in raising troopes and Regiments of Horss and foote to serve his Majesty against the Vsurper have lost theire Estates and theire Lands settled vpon those who made the Vsurpers quarell theire owne and fought vnder him against the King and his Catholick subjects of Irland and not only that but are alsoe excluded from all Imployments in the Kings service or Common wealth except they renounce theire Faith By these meanes they are brought to great distress want of Creditt Livelyhood and reliefe Nil nisi vota supersunt A short Ponderation vpon these Branches 1. NEver was pronounced from the begining of Christianity to this day a more vnjust and wicked sentence against Christians then have been by this act which beares the name of the Kings most gratious Declaration for the settlement of Irland 2. What can there be more cruell mor vnjust more Impious then to hinder one to answer for himselfe and prove himselfe Innocent what more against the law of nature What can there be more iniquous and vnworthy of kingly piety then to conferre the loyall subjects Estates vpon open knowne Rebells What more sacred then publick Faith What more infamous then the violation of the same For which in all tymes dreadfull punishments have befalne the Violatours 3. Can there be any thing more Barbarous and against Iustice then to turne an Innocent out of his owne house and right Inheritance 4. The Christians in Constantinople and other the Dominions of the Turck are dealt with farre better and with more moderation then the Catholicks of Irland whome those Statsmen have excluded from all Commerte which the very Turcks doe grant vnto theire Christians 5. Men must renounce theire Religion the Basis of salvation or loose theire Advousins a cruell Impious Tye vpon Catholick patrons but each of them will answer Non Emam tanti panitere 6 Heer you see Rebellion rewarded and Loyalty punished a preposterous and monstrous kinde of Iustice Behold O bountifull God this theire portentous and Impious iniquity Now I see afflicted Countrimen you may ramble vp and downe the world and loudly raise your voyce and say Spectaculum facti sumus mundo Angelis hominibus Wee are made a spectacle to the world to Angels and to men Could there be more formal Iniquity then to devest Innocent true subjects of theire estates and liberty and conferre the same vpon those fought against the King and Crowne was
this Noble-man grant I begg by the pretious Bloud and Sacred wounds of thy deare Sonne Iesus that wee may in Humility in Teares and true Contrition of hart returne to the whose greatness and goodness wee have soe often and grivously offended our great misery falls prostrate at the feet of thy great mercy Grant to vs I beseech thee going out of this miserable and wicked world a Happy and Holy houre and that when the Vaile of the Temple shall be lifted vp wee may see you face to face for all Eternity Amen FINIS The contents of this little book And. First those of the Preface which Containes 19. pag. FIRST THe Author banished for Religion and Loyalty pag. 1. The Land possessed by Philistime and the Arck Captive Catholicks beaten with Scourges with scorpions pag. 2. An Irish Bishops answer to Cardinall Secretary pag. 3. Charles Duke of Loraine hee that offered fairest Ad rem Catholicorum in Hybernia restituendam His highness advanced thirty thousand pistols in the Irish quarrell pag. 5. Greatness of the house of Guise pag. 6. Our Kings Counsell at Paris would not have Irland recovered by a Catholick Prince p. 7. The Dukes answer to our Kings new Commissioners pag. 8. Bloody barbarous Lawes of Crumwelians against Catholicks pag. 9. A horrible ingagemeÌ„t of Crumwelians against the familie of Stuarts pag. 10 When Crumwell took in citties and townes Ormond shewed nothing of fortitude or counsell Ormond the forwardest of the Kings Counceâ— in Paris in doeing mischief to Catholicks pag. 11. His Frindship to Catholicks like a Kinde of Drâ—gges hott in the mouth cold in operation With Clarindon all was vendible and with Ormond all was lawfull that was not vnprofitable pag. 12. A wise fable of the Fox and great bramble pag. 13. Ormond a bramble allways scratching Catholicks Ormond a hard harted man and vnplacable enemie to Catholicks pag. 16. A high figg-tree bearing leaves of vanity and noe fruicte sucking the sapp of the earth and starving all the plants round a bout him pag. 17. Little books in defence of Catholicks and the Nation as a Narative of Clarindons settlement and sale of Irland the bleeding Iphigenia c. pag. 18. Clarindon and Ormond two monsters of Avarice and Cruelty pag. 19. Great Cyrus his Judgment what man â— King should bee An excellent oath taken by the Kings of the Mexicans The Contents of the worke it selfe as followeth I. CHAP. LOnge silence Catholicks had with Ormond a great prejudice to the Nation pag. 22. The Bishops of Irland Clergie men Canes muti non valentes Latrare pag. 25. Ormond poysoned the hart of the people the King with Ill Counsell pag. 30. II. CHAP. A search of Ormonds motives for deserting Catholicks and adhering to Crumwelians pag. 31. III. CHAP. The Catholicks vpon making a sessatioÌ„ with Ormond gave thirty thousand and eight hundred pound starling an argument of harty Loyalty pag. 41. IV. CHAP. Clamorgans peace made voyd with the Kings declaration the Catholicks therby deluded pag. 42. 44. 45. 46. 47. V. CHAP. The rejection of the peace of 1646 with Ormond fully Iustifyed pag. 49. The same was voyd for want of Authority of Ormonds part at the tyme of contracting How the Committie of treaty for the peace demeaned themselves pag 56. Committie of treaty in a Laberinth pag. 59. VI CHAP. Opinions of two famons Laeyers vpon Clamorgans peace and that of Ormond pag. 61. Result of the Waterfords congregation vpon the peace of 1646. pag. 68. A Letter of the Congregation to the late Suprem Counsell pag. 73. Ormonds Suddaine departure from Kiâ—kenniâ— pag. 76. Ormond vncivilly called all the Bishops Clergie a stinking Crew pag. 79. VII CHAP. Calumnies and aspertions cast by Father Peter walsh vpon the congregation of Iamesstone pag. 80. Rattes by an instinct of nature forsake veslells that are to be drown'd pag. 84. Those Ormond trusted in Limmerick proved knaves and those that stuck to the Clergie proved true to the King Ierton that murther'd the Kings Father murthered alsoe the Kings frinds in that Cittie and Spared those of Ormonds faction pag. 87. Those betray'd that Cittie were of Ormonds faction pag. 89. The Letter of Congregation of Iames-stone to Ormond pag. 91. VIII CHAP. Peter walsh his letter to Ormond pag. 97. The words of the Earle Clancarty dying to Ormond pag. 102. IX CHAP. Ormonds wrongfull invations of Catholick estates pag. 104. The King can for Iustice but not for conuenience take a way the life and estate of a subject pag. 107 Lawes are made that Iustice may be don to men and Princes are oblig'd to administer Iustice according to law pag. 108. A Rebellion once pardoned cannot be punished A Grant made by the King of another mans estate against the law of nature and of the land is voyd Clarindon sold the Irish nation and Ormond betrayd them in trust pag. 112. The Fryars dreame that Ormond hath been a Ioseph and Saviour to the Catholicks hee was in deed the ruin and looser of his bâ—etheren Country and all the people pag. 113. Ioseph sedd the Egyptians in the tyme of famine Ormond staru'd thousands of the Irish. pag. 114. Mercy was Iosephs Chiefest vertue Ormonds sinn to forgive noe man pag. 115. X. CHAP. Ormonds infamous Letter to Orâ—ery pag. 116. XI CHAP. A paraphras vpon that letter pag. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. Cynias good Counsell to Pirbus of Epire p. 130 XII CHAP. Ormonds good fortune in exile himselfe being gratious with the King and his Lady at the same tyme respected by Crumwell pag. 139. His Lady 's good prayers to the King against widowes and Orphans to have Harry Crumwells son favoured pag. 140. XIII CHAP. The moderation and sobriety of ancient Heroes very commendable pag. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. Noe house in Rome would receive gold from Cyneas Perâ—us Ambassador pag. 147. XIV CHAP. Sir Thomas Moores in tegrity pag. 148. What rewards had Horatius Chocles and Cajus Mutius from the Senat for preserving and saving the Cittie and people of Rome P. 156. What reward had George Lane a low man for his service pag. 158. XV. CHAP. What reward had Ormond for his atending on the King in tyme of his exile pag. 161. The queries pag. 162. And the queries pag. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. Ormond received in gifts grants above six hundred sixty thousand pound sterling 171 The Frayer gave Ormond good Documents and hee kept none of them pag. 175. Peter Walsh as blinde in his vnderstanding as Harpastes in her bodily sight pag. 176. XVI CHAP. A Relation of particular Injuries Ormond hath don the Catholicks of Irland pag. 177. Hee Let fall the venimous Apple of discord a mong them before that they were Coâ— vnum anima vna pag. 178. Ormonds frinds in the Goverment and Counsel of the confederate Catholicks p. 181 182. The Kings Letter to Ormond from Oxford to make peace with the Catholicks p. 184 185. Hee yielded vp the Castle of Dubblin sword and all notwithstanding the Queen Princes orders to him to the contrary by Mr. Wintergrant pag. 186. Said Wintersgrants message to Ormond from Queen Prince and his instructions publick and private pag. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. Relation of Wintergrants negotiation p. 192. 193. 194. 195. The Kings letter to Ormond pag. 196. Ormonds words to Wintergrant to what Rebels hee would deliver the Castle of Dubblin if necessity should force him to give it vp pag. 200. Consequently Ormonds discourse with himselfe resolving to give vp the Castle of Dubblin to the Parlament and not to the Catholicks XVII CHAP. The accomodation sent by the confederate Catholicks to Ormond rejected by him and the reasons given for such rejection XVIII CHAP. How and by whome were the Catholicks of Irland excluded from the benefitt of generall pardon Substance of the vast bill of settlement A short ponderation vpon the branches of that bill XIX CHAP. Who vsed most artifice and persidie against the Catholicks of Irland Clarindon sold them a way for Gold Ortery his Companions payd the gold and Ormond in trust deceived them XX. CHAP. The Author speaks to Ormond alone and tells him the house of Ormond bred magnanimous Lyons what Kinde of Lyon hee is himselfe and how hee hath made the house of Ormond an infamous denn and Couch of Rapine Hee tells him further the speech of sir Ralph Fan dying by the practices of the Duke of Northumberland XXI CHAP. The Author seriously advises Ormond to think of longe Eternitie and especially desires him to consider well two passages of the Prophet Isae in the third thirty eight Chapter And a sentence of Iob in the 21. Chapter and concludes this little book with a harty prayer for the Duke himselfe FINIS