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The vnkinde desertor of loyall men and true frinds [sic]
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French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.
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any time evermore some through ignorance of states affaires and intrigues obstructing as yet others through inconsideration of these wayes to you knowne much wiser though slower then folly and rashness could chalke out and some out of prejudice or an euil will which blinds them and makes them abuse the timorousness and credulity of all they can to lessen your esteeme and your dependence all they are able My lord these thoughts which more and more trâ—oubled me dayly because I have dayly new occasions â—o reflect on them and therefore would noe longer but give them your Excellency even in this method and writing that they may take the deeper impression as evry much concerning you since your one welfare and the kings and peoples in my jugment very much depend on a good esteeme of soe great a minister as your great deserts have made you But with all my lord I will give your Excellency my most earnest and most harty desire that you delay noe longer then shall be necessary to cleare these clouds of darkness and cleare them in this present conjuncture by an effectuall demonstration of the justice and favour you intend the Catholicks in your Articles of 48. when they soe freely put themselves and their power into your hands Father VVailsh your letter is well penn'd expressing exâ—â—llently the general feare that seazed vpon all the Catholicks of our nation in London a truer expression could not be I observe you say in the generality of Irland here even I say of those who have beene soe long as well yoâ—r constant beleevers as your stedfast frinds â— dimness c. And for the better persuading him to shew his vertue and affection to his Catholick frinds you tell him his owne webfare the kings c. did much depend on a great esteeme of soe great a minister as his great deserts have made him Nothing can be said in reason to moue a gallant man more then what you have said In the end of your letter you presse him closely to doe the Catholicks justice by vertue of the Articles of 48. saying when they put themselves and their power into your hands soe freely Certainly good fa had Ormond loved you and the Catholicks of Irland those you name his fastest frinds and sticklers as much as you and they loved him would he have giveÌ„ a good answer to your rational lines but you tell nothing of his answer if good or bad if it were good I am sure you would have published it amongst the rest of his great vertues soe as your silence in this argues noe good answer all your prayers good fa to Ormond are in vaine you have cast your seed in a barren land Hoc est supra Petram and your prayers withered and shrank Had Ormond been a worthy man and lover of his country he had dispersed those clouds of darkness as you desired him taking away those feares of his true frinds by appearing for the nation as behoved a just man and as he was bound by vertue of the articles of 48. himselfe being the kings commissioner vpon concluding that peace These are the affections and dutyes required at his hands by the Catholicks Doth his greatness thinke you give him a Privilege that the Catholicks should love him and he hate them that men nobly borne and many other worthy persons should for soe many years rely vpon him putting great trust in him and he in the end should betray them in the greatest concernment they had in the world if he hath in this done like a true Chriâ—â—iaâ— or gallant nobleman head of soe aâ—cient a family judge you and all others You speakâ— after of Ceremonies and Tenebrae all wee had from Ormond were but Tenebrae and Darkness nor did your glorious light in the Triangle ever shine propitious to the Catholicks his trusty frinds and sticklers have too long relyed vpon a reed of Egijpt a reed without stay or vertue such as your Ormond was and is Such in London of our Nation as you say that feared he would prove as he shâ—wed himselfe I see were wiser then you that trusted soe much in him and could not be persuaded he would play booty in the end and abandon the Catholiâ—ks thâ—ir feare was grounded in good reason and your confidence in him was vaine and you remaine still deceaved in that your confidence oh would to God the Catholicks had feared him in good time if soe Ormond had never come to the power of annoying them or to loose them but Serò sapiunt phrijges he deceaved the person most trusted in him and did beleeve as you doe that he would prove the deliverer of his country I meane the Earle of Clancarty then lord viscont Musgry his brother in law who seemed sore vexed in his dying bed for having placed trust in Ormond an errour destructive to his Nation and could his Excellency then was the time not to dissemble the heauyest feare that pâ—ssessed his soule goeing vnto an other world was for confiding soe much in him who deceaved them all and lost his poore country and countrymen It is plain truth and F. VVailsh you know it to be soe the great opinion very many of the assembly had of the sound jugement of my lord Clancarty speaking nothing of his high descent an fortune made many of the nobles and gentry follow him and in the end they all found themselves deluded You know well that young Musgry Clanâ—arty his heire who was Collonell in France a stout and valiant person one of the hopefullest men of his Nation who was killed in the first war at sea against the Hollanders could never indure his vncle Ormond after seeing his finistrous wayes his cunning artices and his deserting the Catholicks soe fouly You have indeed F earnestly prayed Ormond and conjured him to appeare for the Nation and to obtaine for them the benefit of the Articles of the peace of 48. which he himselfe was bound in honnor and conscience to doe and you constantly exspected their delivery by him and when shall that be thinke you even then when the Iews shall see their Messias long waited for Honest friar Ormond hath deceaved you and tooke a course to increase and secure his owne fortunes he collogued with your countrymen and in the end stuck to that side that preyed and robbed them of their estates and amongst all he had the greatest share as is well knowne to all yet not a woord of this in your writings of the high elogies you give of his wisedom vertue and most pretious qualities that can adorne a states-man CHAPT IX In this Chapter is clearly set downe Ormonds wrongfull in vasion and possession of several IIrish Catholick gentlemens estates well expressed in the case of Sr. Robert Lyunch Knight and Barronet ORmond hath invaded against conscience justice and honour the estates of hundreds of poore innocent Catholicks I beseech you what title or right had his Grace to the estate of Sr. Robert
thousand pound or more for her Ioynter per Annum who more inward with the King then Ormond who more respected by Crumwell then the Lady of Ormond and shee well requited Crumwels kindness to his relations cheefly to his sonne Harry vpon the Kings restauration who obtained vpon her knees from the King as wee have been informed that Harry Crumwell might enjoy the estate given him in Ireland by his Father in the tyme of his Protectourship among other lands hee had that of Mr Sedgrave of killeglan a good and ancient familie which estate hee sold to one Sir Patrick Moledy knight who possesseth it to this day and the relict of said Sedraâ—es Mistris Iane Nâ—ttingam a good and vertuous Lady lives very poorly and in a sad condition with her Children without Ioynter or relief and soe my Lady Dutches of Ormonds solicitations for Harry Crumwell weare for the Childe of him that murthered the Kings Father and against a poor widow and her babes a wedow whose Father and Kindred were ever faithfull to the Crowne and were not these think you Godly and misterious prayers and intercessions CHAPTER 13'th How the frugality and laudable husbandry of the ancient Renowned Heroes did content it selfe and have bine satisfyed with small rewards given them for theire rate services by the common wealth GReat reason that deserving men should be looked vpon and requited according the service don to theire country or Prince this custome hath been exercised in the best and most flourishing common wealths of Rome Athens Carthage and Lacedemonia who reflecting vpon the deserts of theire people and services don the common wealth at home and a broad did by statutes expresse eternize theire names and families vnto Posterity as alsoe by gifts and rewards And these soe collated munificencies were by distinct names called as some by the name of Adorea martiall praise another was called Corona aurea a gold Croâ—ne Navaâ—â— a sea fight Crowne soe Castrensis aâ—d Obsiâ—ionaâ—â— a field and siege Crowne c. now and then they gave your Hostas Deauratas gilded speres and some times they gave certaine Akers of ground and measures of Corne more or less as they deserved and such measures were called Heminae which in phisicall measure is not three gallons heere it is to be noted how great Heroes and Champions anciently were recompenced for theire extraordinary services don to the common-wealth with small presents and well contented were they with the same soe great have been theire frugal husbandry and parcemonie in all theire life that hardly wee can give Creditt to what historians write of theire wonderfull moderation in theire publick expences of Pompes feastings and showes Great men were sober in those ages Titus Liuius tells us Quintus Cinâ—inatus was carried from the plough to the dignity of a dictator which warre being ended hee returned chearfully to the plough againe hee relates alsoe how the Ambassadors of the Samnites found Curius Dentatus another Dictaror making ready and cleansing of rootes for his supper and even at that tyme hee says there were noe more in all the Roman Armies of waiting men such as wee call calones but two Marâ—us Anthontus not hee that fatall man to Cicero and to the Common-wealth but another Chosen Consull of a great Armie design'd in to spaigne had but eight servants soe Carbo in the same dignity placed as wee read had but seven what shall I say of Cato the senior who in the same Imployment power and commission for Spaigne had but three however this Cato named the censor though contented wisely with such a small retennue was Captaine Generall in theire Armie a famous oratour and a prudent counselour reputed by the Common wealth in the Common-wealth and by all Rome for his sober life was called a good father to his children a good husband to his wife a frugall houskeeper and a man a great praise in those days well skill'd in the plough Epaminondas a famous Captaine Protectour and flower of the Thebans who fought soe many battaills valiantly nevertheless it is written hee had but one sute of Cloathes which when required reparation hee was forced to keep house till mended and brought unto him This Epaminondâ— I speak of dyed soe poore as not soe much in his house could be had as to pay his funeralls which was performed by the Common-Wealth What need I speak in this place of Phocion Socrates and Iphaltes Miracles of nature and wisest of Athens This Phocion who fought 26. battaills victorious allways and triumphant over his enimies yet a greater dispiser of riches honours and titles as histories doe testify refused one hundred talents sent unto him by Alexander the great as a Present demaunding of those brought the Present what was Alexanders meaning in sending to him alone and only that Present they replyed for as much as hee takes you to be the only man of honour and merit amongst the Athenians to this hee answered briefly why then let Alexander leave mee soe during my life which is a thing I cannot be if I receive and accept of his talents of gould vpon the same Phocion alexander offered to bestow severall Citties but hee answered the Messenger goe returne and tell thy Master Alexander that I took him to bee of soe noble a spiritt as hee would doe nothing that might render himselfe and mee in famous which is like to follow if I accept of his gift for hee will be estemed a bryber and I taken for a corrupt man and traitour to my Country in this place I could make mention of Cato Iunior Glory of Rome a man did hate to flatter any body this Cato brauely opposed Pompeius the great in som things and denyed him is Daughter in Mariage saying I will not give my Daughter in hostage to Pompeius for feare that hee himselfe by that action should be against the Common-wealth yet after Iulius Caesar became Tyrant this Cato rancked himselfe on Pompeius his side soe much was this Cato adicted to poverty and all sort of hard suffrings that it is written of him and of Phocion that they went a great part of the yeare bare foot and bare headed These prophane examples of those Heroick Champions I have brought heer expressly to the great confusion of our Christian dissolut great personages that they may see how these rare vertues shined and were Imbraced by Pagans which they abhor to exercise or have seen in themselves Frugality Humility honest and diseret poverty zeal to theire Country contempt of wealth and honours moderation in theire pomps showes and feastings These are the vertues and the weapons with which those ancient Heroes kept theire common-wealth in peace and Concord Glory Wealth and Prosperity with these I say they have eternised theire fame to future ages not with Pride Ambition Extortion Emulation Deceits vaine Assentations Gluttonies and the like vices familiare to Christian personages Certainly there is nothing procures in a Common Wealth sooner Envy Discord betwixt person