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A65409	An answer to the late King James's declaration to all his pretended subjects in the kingdom of England, dated at Dublin-castle, May 8, 1689 ordered by a vote of the Right Honourable the House of Commons, to be burnt by the common-hangman.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1298; ESTC R38525	17,178	40

Irish by leading them the way how to break off the English Yoak and make an inroad upon those Properties the Protestants had acquired at the expence of their Blood. As I intimated before it was ever the Maxim of English Policy to bridle in the unwearied Attempts of the Irish for regaining their Countrey by a good standing Army in that Kingdom consisting of Protestants But here we have another Testimony of King IAMES's Care of the Protestants in His turning out of all Places in the Army those of that Persuasion to make room for others of his own Religion It was the Policy of all Nations to keep the People they had conquer'd in as great ignorance of the Art of War as possible lest sometime or other they might shake off their Yoke by a vigorous Rebellion But King IAMES inclin'd to take other measures and be at the greatest pains to teach an ind●cible Nation the use of Arms that they might learn in due time to shake off the English Government As to the other part of the above-mentioned Assertion That he had advanced several of the Protestants in Ireland to Places both of the highest Honour and Trust about His Person as well as in His Army To pass a just judgment upon this Assertion we need only consider What sort of Persons are at present about King IAMES both in Civil and Military Capacities and we shall find it hard to meet with one single Person of the Protestant Persuasion in the number I could heartily wish that all King IAMES His Actions could as easily admit an excuse as this For the Authority assum'd upon Him by Monsieur d' Avaux and His other French Guardians puts it almost beyond His Power to employ English Roman Catholicks far less English Protestants At the Council-board we find none of the Protestants The Offices of Lord Lieutenant Chancellor Privy Seal Secretary of State Commissioners of the Treasury Lord Chief Iustice Sollicitor General Attorney General and all the Places of the Long Robe are enjoy'd by Roman Catholicks As to Military Capacities there is not one single Garisen Fort nor Castle within the whole Kingdom except London-derry and Iniskilling but are fill'd up with both Popish Governors Officers and Soldiers In the Army all the Field Officers are either French or Native Irish of the same Religion Yea the French's absoluteness both at the Council-board and the Army has of late given the greatest Jealousie and Discontent to some that have done King IAMES the best service In the end of this first Paragraph we are told That King IAMES by granting His Royal Protection to such whose minds were shaken by the Arts of His Rebellious Subjects has dispell'd their Apprehensions and effectually secur'd them against the Attempts even of their private Enemies And then adds His ears have been always open to their just Complaints And so far has His Royal Mercy been extented to those that were in Arms against Him that He has actually pardon'd several hundreds of them and most notorious Criminals are kept in an easie Confinement In reading this Period I find King IAMES would impose upon our Belief and Senses something as much contradictory to it self as Transubstantiation and the one as hard to be digested as the other The Church of Rome tells us magisterially That albeit our Seeing Feeling Smelling and Taste combine together to assure us that the Bread and Wine is really such yet we must not give credit to these fallible Senses of ours but take it upon trust from the Church That what our Senses tell us to be Bread and Wine is quite another thing and that there is nothing there left of any such Elements after once the Priest has mumbled over the three Words Thus King Iames having long accustomed himself to an Arbitrary Power over our Persons and Properties when King He cannot refrain from venturing an Essay of it upon our Reason and Senses even when he is laid aside For albeit our Senses are continually entertained with hundreds of Objects that bear in upon our Reason a certain Perswasion that the poor Protestants of Ireland are every day flying away from that Country at any rate to avoid the many Barbarities exercised upon them and that that Kingdom is become the Scene of Misery and Dissolution yet King Iames would have us wisely lay aside these mean helps of Sense and Reason and take it upon his bare Word that there is no such thing which I think very few will be inclinable to do If what is asserted upon this subject be true and consequently our Senses and Reason so strangely beguiled it necessarily behoves us to pass no milder Judgment upon those Noblemen Bishops Gentlemen and Persons of all ranks that have left their Country since King Iames's arrival there but that they are quite out of their Wits For what better Name can be given to Persons that have left their Country Estates and Employments to become here the greatest Objects of Charity when not only they might have been safe at home but secured against the attempts of their private Enemies In this Word private Enemies we are obliged to King Iames's Secretary whether out of Ignorance or Design I know not for a fairly insinuated distinction of the Protestants in Ireland their private and publick Enemies We know that all Roman Catholicks are tyed by the dictates of their Church to be Enemies to the Protestants and to extirpate them when it comes in their power And this as flowing from a publick interest of Religion may justly be termed a publick Enmity But the Natives of Ireland over and above that publick quarrel of Religion have a private one of Revenge for recovering from the Protestants their Lands acquired by the Sword and no age has passed since the Conquest of Ireland but what has afforded bloody proofs of the revengeful Spirit of that People upon this score If free quartering plundering robbing disarming seizing on Estates imprisoning murdering in cold Blood and the like be a securing these poor Protestants against their private Enemies they have no reason to complain of King Iames his Conduct But alas to be ruin'd and in the mean time to see the Authors of it boldly affirm that they do us all the Offices of Kindness is the hardest of fates I would fain know where are these hundreds that he has pardoned for those that flee every day from that unhappy Countrey cannot instance us a single one of them And for these that are kept in such easie confinements their condition of all Men is most deplorable seeing they lie at the Mercy of an Enemy that waits but for a favourable juncture to Sacrifice them to their Revenge What sort of securing the Protestants of Ireland meet with against their private Enemies and what is the ordinary effect of Protections given to these poor credulous People will appear by this one instance among thousands of others of a Protection given to a Farmer in the County of Antrim in these