TO THE KINGS Moft Excellent MAJESTY. May it pleafe your Majefty, A5 it bath pleafed the Eternal to make Your Majefty the Illufl of Saving thefe Three Kingdoms, now under Your happy Go¬ vernment, from an Inundation of Popery and Slavery ready to break down the 'Banks of their Ancient Laws and Liberties: So is it the Duty of every particular T erf on ,to the utmofl of his Abilities, to at Your Royal Feet, thofe Lights and DifcoVeries,he may have gained by long Experience and ObjerVation'yto the end Your Majefty may the better be Enabled, by the General Survey of the State of Affairs, in any of Your ffingdoms,and a fair Tro- fpefl of their paft ill Government, to apply thofe which Your Majefty in Your Great Wtfdom and Rrudence, fall deem moft conducing to the of their future Happinefs: Since it is yet a- mong the mojl deeply Learned, by which means a Potent Monarch gains the mofl durable by Ere¬ cting a TSlew Fa brick of Dominion, or by (Reforming the Errors of an Ancient Confticution. Yheje Papers therefore, may it pleafe Your Majefty, falling into my Hands, and being by my [elf Imparted to forhe Perfons of Eminent Degree, and better accpiain- A i ted ThcEpiftle Dedicatory. ted "frith the Affairs of Ireland, encouraged to be' lieve, That it would be no Unkindnefs done to the Author, to Proflrate them "frith all Humility to tour Majeftys Royal Confideration j That fo tour Majefty might lejs Trouble under ft and the pref Condition of that Jour Kingdom, in reference to the 'Partial of the Lands and 'Pojfesjions in that Kingdom ; "frhereby doth mamfefi' ly appear, what Intereft prevail'din the (if fo it may be called) of the Subdued Irifh for all the - cresthey committed, and all the 'Blood they fpilt in the late Rebellion, as if the Irifh had (Rebelled to be the only Gainers, andtheP.t\g\(hbad expended Jo Trea- fure, and the Lives of fo many to be the only Loofers in the Biflributions of their Conquefts * The ViBors not being permitted to enjoy what they had )uflly won by the Sword, while the Irifh "frere reftored to "frhat they had as truly forfeited by their Cruel Difloyalty , by which partial Piece of Juftiee, the Vi&ors were indeed fubdued, and the Conquered were in the Conclujion Victo¬ rious. All which being fully made out in the following , I thought it my Duty, most humbly to add this Offe* ring of my (incere Integrity to ferVe Tour Majefty,to the better Asfiftance and - Information of Pet Ions more able though of none more ready and zealous to approve himfelf by all the (triBeJl Performances of Loyalty Alle¬ giance, Your Majeflies moft humble, obedient and faithful Subjeft and Servant. J.C C I ) This L ETTF.R, and the Calculations annexed wereTraf- mitted from Dublin, to the late King JAMES the Second in the Tear 1688. Some few Weeks before His Highnefs the PRINCE of ORANGE EN G LAND. Miy it plcafe Tour Majejly, THE true intent of Your Majefty'smoft humble Orator, by this and his former Addrefs, being to give Truth a releafe from the common reftraints of fear, flattery or fa¬ vour, that fo Your Majefty having a true reprefentation of Perfons and things here, may be the better enabled and encouraged to apply fuitable and feafbnable Remedies, to the mod defperate Maladies of this late happy, but now mod miferable, Country. Your Majefty cannot but know, that mod Princes, have by advantageous Experience, found publick truths made known by private when fupprefied by publick Perfons, yet that the Mattets herein contained might contraft no pre¬ judice, by the obfcure Inftrument that conveys it. As in his former Letter, he humbly referred the Particu¬ lars to a Perfon of greater Circumftances of Credit with Your Majefty, then can be found in this Country. And as to the Calculations hereunto annexed, Your Maj fty will find their Credit moft fupported on your own Records, and where thofe are defective,that fupply is made by thofe probable Conje&ures, which are as well as the Records in themfelves evident, thofe Conje&ures being either ground¬ ed on that common principle of Commutative Juftice, or fubje&ed to the Menfurations of the , and tude, of Coeleftial bodies, made by , which are demonftrable, may, and muft be more, but cannot be left, then thofe Computations makes them. I know that the lofs of Five Millions and Five Hundreds and Fifty Thoufands, mentioned in the Foot of the annext Eftimate, as loft by a lefs then two Years, Irifh Government, foems to be a prodigious, and an incredible lofs 5 But r 2) But that Sum not appearing to be a Third of the whole value of the Kingdom, and it being manifeft, that at leaft one fourth of the Houfes in this City of Dublin are now waft, and that Houfe-rent here and elfewhereare fallen at leaft one Third of their former Annual value, and that Lands in the Country are generally fallen more then one Fourth, and the Inheritance now refufed at Eight Years Purchafe,which would not before have been fold for near double that value. Some here and thofe none of the meaneft Criticks in Calculations, drawing Inferences from the afocefaid pre- mifes, do conclude that this Kingdom is funk more than a moyety of its intrinfic value, within the laid time. Efpecially when they add to the aforefaid confiderations, the great Impair of the Britifh Trade. The Traders now left, being not worth a Moyety of tho/e we have loft, and thefe feeming rather prepared for flight then ftay. While by the open packing of Irijh Juries , corrupting of Evidence, and Partiality of Irifh Judges, they fee it in the Natives Power to take what Britifh Life or Effate they pleafe, and to make the moft Innocent Perfon fuffer as the greateft Malefaftor $ and all the while not feemingly break any Law by fo doing. It is well known that up¬ wards of Fifty Tndiftments were found by lrifh Evidence a- gainft the Britifh who were moft Celebrated for Loyalty in this Kingdom } who though they were afterwards all ac¬ quitted as being Innocent, had yet in all probability fuf- fjred as Traytors, had not the unexpected coming of the Earl of Clarendon to the Government, and his appointing P rot eft ant Sheriffs broke thofe Snares. Your Maj;fty fo well knowing the Validity of Oaths} as to the Proof of Crimes and Titles by the Englifh Laws, will eafily believe what fatal Execution a people let loofe may do on a people bound by thofe Cords} Efpecially where Perjury h, by forqp held no Sin, by moft a venial Sin, and by others a duty. How often do we now fee for¬ ged Deeds, formerly moft juftly. condemn'd, revived} how often do we fee and that to the great Scandal of juftice and CO veiw'd, if the gaps lately made, to let in an inundation of Arbitrary Power, on the Britijh Propriety is not repaired, and thofe who made them feverely punifhed 3 and Jaftly, if no better fecurity, then Irijh Judges, Sheriffs and Juries can be found to preferve the Britijh Proprieties, Ichabod may well be the Chara&er, a Foreigner the Matter, and defohtion the portion, of this unhappy Country, when it becomes a habitation for wild Beafts, or worfe Creatures, under only the (hape and refemblance of human Features. Your Ma jetties Improvement of thefe and better helps may fo open your Eais, that in the words of the Pfalmiff The Jorrowful flghing of the Prifoner may come up before you 3 and then I no ways doubt, but in the further words of the fame Pfalmtff, according to the greatnefs of your Power and Good nefs of your Nature, you will preferve thofe who feem appointed to dye, that they may yet live to pray for your Ma jetties long Lif e,e^r. as doth, m\y itpleafe your Majefty, your Majefties moft humble, dutiful and obedient Subjeft and Servant. An Efiimate Containing, The Latitude> Longitude and Survey of the whole Kingdom of Ireland. 2. What Part or how many Acres thereof are profitable, and how many unprofitable. 3. The Annual value, with the value of the Inheritance of both in 1641. before the Late IriJI) Rebellion began,with what it was reduced unto in the Years 1653. when the laid Rebellion was declared at an end. How the raid Irijh Propriety was fetled, and difpofed in the laid Year, 1653. How difpofed in 1662. and 1663. by the Atfs of Setle- went, and Explanation, and by the CommiJJioners for Exe¬ cuting the faid Ads. How it (lands on the date of this Eftimate, viz. in the Year 1688. The (6) Firft, Unto fuch of Irift) Rowan Catholicky, who proved their conftant good affe&ion to the Britijh Interejl, were reftored about one Hundred Thoufand Acres. Secondly, There was fet a fide to fatisfie the Officers, and Souldiers who ferved in the Irifl) War before dnno. 1649. being the Year Oliver Crowrvel came over into Ireland in the Counties of Wtckloup, Longford, Letryw , Donnegal, and within the Mileline of Sea and Shannon, about four Hundred Thoufand Acres. Thirdly, There was diftributed to the adventurers who advanced Monies on the Atis of the Seventeenth and Eigh¬ teenth ol King Charles the Firft, to carry on the War of Ireland, about eight Hundred Thoufand Acres. Fourthly, There was fet forth to the Officers and Soul¬ diers, who ferved from 1649. until the Year 1653. being the declared end of the faid War, about two Millions of Acres, Fifthly, There was fet forth to feveral Grants, about one Hundred Thoufand Acres. Sixthly, To the Rowan Catholickj according to their feveral proofs of their qualifications by the Commiflioners at Lougbreaghtfurfaznt to thedecrees of the Commifiioners at /4thloane, about feven Hundred Thoufand Acres in the Province of Conaugh, and County of Clare. Seventhly, There was fet afide for the fupport of the Government, the forfeited Houfes in the walled Towns, and about Eight Hundred Thoufand Acres in the Counties of Dublin, Louth, Cor h Cat hor lough and Kildare ; the moft of which were fet in Leafes of Thirty one Years, to Britijh Froteftants. Memorandum. That the aforefaid Britijh or Prof eft ant Proprieties were Anno. 1653. reftored ^o the refpe&ive for¬ mer Proprietors. And thus ftood the Proprieties of Lands in the Kingdom of Ireland, until Anno 1660. The reftauration of the Late King. Memorandum. ( 8.) Provif&ei in both the;" faid Aart End; all which will more fully appear by itihe following Diagram, * \ • The Value in 1641, before the R.et>eUion began. Total j4nmial value at The whole King-"1, 4 Shi Hi tigs a'11' Ac'fel twelve ye&rS put- dom contains le- j comes to one-mil-I chale comes to ven millidns four [ lion four hundred j,fe veil teen millions huhdte.d thotffand an eighty thdu-j feven hundred and profitable Acres, j Pand poundsSter-1 fixtv thou find of which the j ling j pounds'Sforling. Irifh Proprie-?Acres one mft-punto twelve mil- ty then wasMion of pounds/-lions Sterling, five millions of j Seeding comes o i L ■ '»V . ' : ' > ." . " id I Aa> . • • • ) " ; r I.. t . . I nil )rii : hoc bjilaorfnoamav ^ c 10 ) So that the difference betwixt 1^41. and 1653. in this Propriety was five millions and forty thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling. Memorandum, That befidcs the aforefaid Irijh Propriety in Lands, there appears by your Majefty's Records in the Juditory Office that there were as many Houfes in Wal¬ led Towns,befides Tythes and Reworks belonging to the Irijl), which did yield in Anno 1653, about fivethoufand pounds Sterling per annum, which at eight years purchafe was then worth forty thoufand pounds Sterling. Memorandum, That the Protejlant Propriety , within the Walled Towns, is not included in the above Calculations, neither the Tythes or Glebe belonging to two thoufand four hundred Parifh Churches 5 there being about that Number of Parifiies in this Kingdom. The next general Head is the particular Lofs and Gain of both Britifl) and IriJfj by the faid Rebellion. Memorandum, That by the aforefaid Article, it appears, that the Britijh have got, and the Irifh have loft by the faid Rebellion, about two millions of Acres, which by the aforefaid Valuations in the Year 1653. appear to be worth two millions of nine pences per annum., which is feventy five thoufand pounds Sterling and at eight years purchafe for the Inheritance, is fix hundred thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling. I his was the Common value when the Britijh entred on the faid forfeited Lands, and to this is to be added the aforefaid forty thoufand pounds for their Intereft in Walled Towns and Retfories. Thi fix hundred and forty thoufand pounds is the whole of the Britiflo Gain, and Irijh L ofs by the faid Rebellion. • Memorandum, That the Irijh lofs of Houfes,Goods Stocks, &c. being occafioned by their own Rebellion are not in¬ cluded in this calculation. The next thing confiderable is the Irijt.) gain, and the Britijh lofs, which appear by thefe following Particu¬ lars. I. By hfre c *3 > loft, and the lrijh have got by their Rebellion, Thirteen Millions (even hundred and eighty thoufand Pounds, to which being added the five Millions forty thoufand pounds damage done the Britifb Propriety , as appears by the fore- mentioned Diagram, in reducing the values of the Inheritance of the faid Lands in 1653. frorn what h was worth in 1641, makes the neat damage of the Proteftant Propriety by the faid Rebellion to be eighteen millions eight hundred and twenty thoufand Pounds Sterling. The next General head is the Particular charge of the faid Rebellion to the King and the Britijh or Protejlant In- tcrefi of this Kingdom. 1. By an adjufted Account now of Record here in Dub¬ lin it appears, that from the 2 %th,of October 1641, to the Year 1649 , there wasdueonly to the Commiffioned Offi¬ cers , about eighteen hundred thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling. 2. There could not be lefs than double that Sum due to the JVon Commijjioned Officers and private Soldiers within the (aid time, which amounts to three millions fix hundred thot;(and pounds. 3. There was received by the faid Officers and Soldiers in N oneyyQuarters and Provifions within the faid time, one fourth of the whole, which was defaulted out of the Officers Debenters, and amounted to one million three hundred and forty thoufand pounds. So that from 1641 to 1649, the Charge of the faid War appears to be at lead: fix millions feven hundred and forty thoufand pounds *, and what fince, to the Period of the War in 1653. appears by thefe following Particulars. 1. By an adjufted Account,there appears due to the Offi¬ cers and Souldiers,who (erved within the faid time, about twelve hundred thoufand pounds, which was fatisfyed in Lands. 2. The faid Officers and Soldiers were paid two Parts more in Money,which was two millions four hundred thou¬ fand poundst C 3, There c 14) 3. There was one fourth dedufted out of both Officers and Soldiers Debenters on the account of quarters and pro- vifion , which amounts to, as aforefaid, twelve hundred thoufand pounds. 4. By an adjufted account it appears , that the EngUJh Adventurers advanced in the Years 1641 and 1642 about four hundred thoufand pounds, which Money being ad¬ vanced and paid in the aforefaid Years of 1641 and 1642 and no fatisfa&ion made until the Year 1655 and 1656, the Intereft muft be more than the Principle, which amounts at lead: to eight hundred thoufand pounds. 5* There was near ten thoufand Scots, who ferved moft part of the War, in the Province of Z)lfter,under the com? mandof General Lejley 3 but their Arrears being never fta- ted, adjufted nor paid, cannot be fo Particularly afcer- tained, but cannot be lefs then one Million of Pounds. Memorandum , That there was many Independent Troops in ZJlJler and Munjier whole accompts were never adjufted, fathfied or paid. Memorandum, That in this Calculation is alio omitted the moft Chriftian and Charitable releif given and lent by the States of Holland, who in one Ship fent thirty thoufand Pounds in provifions in the beginning of the Rebellion, which came fo Seafonable that hundreds of Briti>fh Families were thereby preferved from ftarving and perifhing, nor is there mentioned the charge of Ships, Arms or Ammunition during the War. Memorandum,That there is not any mention made ofthe great Colkftion of Charity for the releif ofthe defpoyled Proteftants ofthe Country. The aforefaid Particulars fince the Year 1649. amounted to fix millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds s before 1649. appears to be fix millions feven hundred and forty thoufand Pounds. Both Sums containing the whole of the aforefaid charge amount to thirteen millions three hundred and forty thou¬ fand Pounds. The ( 16) it appearing that the Britijh loft, and the during their Rebellion got. 1. As much Corn and Hay from the Britijh as was at leaft worth as aforefaid two hundred and forty thoufand Pounds, which Sum alone is more then one third of their whole loft. 2. The Britijh ftock of Horfes,Sheep, Cattle,<&*c. appears as aforefaid to be worth two millions eight hundred thorn fand Pounds, which appears to be more then four times the aforefaid loft. 3. The Britijh Houfes, Goods and Improvements which the Irijh got, and the Britijh loft, appears to be five millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds, which is more then nine times the aforefaid lofs. 4. The Rents which the Irijh received from the Britijh Propriety during their Rebellion, amounting to five millions eight hundred and forty thoufand Pounds as aforefaid is more then nine times the aforefaid lofs. The Britijh lofs in their Improvements on the reftored Lands by the Court of Claims in 1662. and 1663. amounts to fixteen hundred and fixty thoufand pounds as aforefaid, which alone is near Treble of the whole of the Irijh lofs. Memorandum^ That the aforefaid five Sums which the Irijh got from the Brttfjh, dedu&ing the Tenth as afore¬ faid, is fifteen millions and thirty thoufand pounds: fo that it is plainly demonftrated, That the Irijh got from the Britijh more then 7 hirty times what they loft by their Rebellion. Memorandum, That to the aforefaid Britijhlof, there is yet to be added the damage done their Propriety, from the value it was worth in the Year 1641, to what it was redu¬ ced to in the Year 1653, which appears to be five millions two hundred and eighty thoufand pounds, which makes the whole lofs and damage done the Britijh by that Rebel¬ lion to amount unto above twenty millions of Pounds Sterling 5 which Sum appears to be loft out of lefs than a Third C 17 ) Third of the whole Propriety of this Kingdom; and is, 1. More than double the value of the whole Propriety of their Lands in the Year 1641 , and more than twenty times the value it was reduced to in the Year, 1653. 2. It appears, as aforefaid, to be more than the whole Propriety, that all the Lands in this Kingdom, was worth in the Year 1641. 3. The ProtejlanPsLofs and Damage,as aforefaid,appears to be near double the charge of the aforefaid War. 4. It appearing before the death of Charles the Second, That Lands in this Kingdom, were raifed to equal value in 1641, it isdemonftrable, That the Britifh Induftry had rai¬ fed this Kingdom, inthirty years time, notwithftanding all their difcouragements, to upwards of fifteen millions of pounds Sterling. The late King Charles in favour to the Irijh, releafing by the Explanatory AS the clear Right, which the Crown had, to the whole Province of Connaug/>*,Counties of Clare,Lyme- r/V^and Upper ary 5 His Majefty thereby parted with ten times more than the Iriflj forfeited. VI. By Provifoes in the Aft of Settlement and Explanation, and by Pendens and other Donatives given the Irifh, as ap¬ pears by the Treafurv Accounts of both Kingdoms, there appears much more given to them, than was forfeited or loft by them. VII. Thelaft Parliament in this Kingdom, giving his Ma¬ jefty twenty eight Subfidies, and three hundred thoufand poundsin Money, gave more in value, than all the forfei¬ tures by that Rebellion, they fetling a revenue of upwards of two hundred thoufand pounds per annum, on the Crown, with a Nemine ContraMcente, by that gave more then ten times the value of the fiid forfeitures. VIII. The Charge of the faid Rebellion, appearing to be thirteen millions three hundred and forty thoufand pounds, it is evident, that the aforefaid Irtfh Io(s, will not pay a fourteenth part of the (aid Charges. IX' Admit ( 30 ) tell as fatal, or more fatal Judgments, than that which laft befel this Kingdom, which next to the Abomination of Defoliation, which befel the Jews^ was the heavieft and fharpeft, that ever befel lb fmall a fpot of the World,fince the World began,which were it defcribed,as it ought,could not be believed, but by fuch as faw it, were Aftors in it, or fuffered by it, which with Gods biefiing on Your Ma- jefty's Councels,may be yet eafier prevented then hereafter cured, which is the proper end of this Eftimate, and gives Foundation for the Britijh following Expoftulation with their King and their Irijh Neighbours. , Dread Sir, WHat have we done, to merit the feverity of your higheft difpleafure? Nay, what have we not done, which might intitle us to your higheft Favour 5 were we, or our Anceftors ever falle ? or were our Irifb Adveifaries, or theirs ever true to the Crown of England} The Irif/j have frequently made us, and our Anceftors, Beggars, but never yet made either Rebels. Were not our Eftates feized, our Houfes burnt, our Goods and Stock plundered, our Chargeable and Laborious Improvements fpoiled, our Perfons ftripped, and inhumanly Murthered in the Year 16415 only for our Loydty to our God, and our King ? And when by an Article made in the Ceffation, every Individual Perfon was left to choole his Party, did not we, as Univerfally and Unanimoufly declare our folves of your Fathers Party 5 as the Irifa declared themfelves to be of the Rebels Party ? We, and our Anceftors have been conftantly made the But, but its evident, that the Crown of England, and the Soveraignty of this Country, have been the Mark of the Natives AVrath. Though your Fa¬ ther left us, and that by a Law, to be fupported by the Parliament c 2i y Parliament of England,and they really were kind to us,in the day of our extremity, yet our Loyalty to him fo fubjed by the Parliament 5 and eafily forefoeing, thofe methods, prefaging worfe to enfue, though the Parliaments Forces were Triumphant in the three D King- t Coolie; fh01"1^ J°Yn Wlth him, or adhere to him. Which forced v^om\;5 his Gr^reto leave the Kingdom incognito, and fo he left w4 v?e|jj, ns the fecond time to (hift for our (elves 5 and we con- , \q J ceiving it more for your Brothers Service, to leave them, vmetotir then longer to joyn with them, we ferving again under Irijh Com^il ollr Comtrywcns Banners, in left then two years time, with •Hem, tmtih ollr h-lp> t^ie whols Kingdom was. fubdued. But that Army •w, being headed by a Junfto Parliament, and they, and their iiowin/^' Confidents, put into all places of Trufl and Power in the akraVr other two Kingdoms, as well as in this, yet fo defirous, tlit'iiV' wcre to ^erve your Brother, and arrive at a lafting t ^ fettlement^ and fo well known, were our delires and In- .r),0 r ,j.s tendons to our Brethren, and they fo confident of our Af- >von fi? that a few of us, without the help of an Irijh hand } ; (j'J On the x^th of December 1659. Supprized, and Seized the conncue n ftrong Caftle of Dublin, and in lefs then fourteen Days got ^ V the Power of the whole Kingdom into our Hands, and as !Y ,. ^ icon as we had fetlcd it, tendred the Government to his : t!p late Majefty with the offer of a well regulated and difci- ,e plined Army to Affift his Reftauration to his other King- nCoijr«; doms, and had the Honour of being the firft of the three inning into! Kingdoms,who declared for his Reftauration.Was not his /eiveretkc: Majefty fo highly pleafed with the Sence of this our feafbn*- Patty that he able Loyalty, That he made our Tender, and his Gracious ics charg'J| acceptance, to be made a perpetual Record in his High oie Cao£ p Court of Chancery in this Kingdom 5 and without any know- Jergy op® ledg, petition or capitulation of ours, of his own free Will, Succefi)vvhilt gave us his Royal Affurance of being continued in our Em? mdbeingdi| ploys? / d when by previous or legal Grants, that Grace thertbeftf was made unprafticable, in that cafe, theloofing Party was riages 01 i to be reprized in value, worth and purchafe, as in, and by, ynjlifo&tk the faid Record, relation being thereunto had, it may, and fflotliingkft will,more fully appear. itoqtki 'meeting of they fed / all that D 2 And ibouli C 24 ) And was not moft: of usfoon after choft Members of Parliament in this Kingdom ? and did we not then, and there, with all imaginable ctrcumftances of duty and af- fe&ion, without any confideration of our own ftraits, or Exigencies, give his Majefty twenty eight fubfidies, and the Inheritance of a Revenue of more then two hundred thouland pounds per annum ? And fo paflionately defirous were we, of living like good Neighbours, good Subje&s, and good Chriftians, with the Irifb, that we as readily con¬ tented, to pay his Majefties one full Years profit of our Eftates, which we afterwards made up three hundred thoofand pounds in Money, which was then more than one third of all the Current Coyn in this Kingdom, and this barely to fupply and enable his Majefty to exercife his greater Bounty, to fuch of the Irifb, as he knew moft deferving 5 yet was this thought too little by the Irifb A- gents, though we had loft much of our Eftates and im¬ provements very feverly by the Proceedings of the Court of Claims, and the faid Agents promifingus an abfolute confir¬ mation, in what we had left, without expefting more from us, we readily contented to retrench one third, of what we then had, the aforefaid Particulars, being moft of them matters of Record, fome matters of Fa ft, and all demonftratively true, let all the Annals and Records of this, or former Ages be examined, and tee if thence can be extracted, a Loyalty exceeding this of ours. But Oh ! let it not be told in Gath nor Publifned in the Streets of AskAon, the returns we have had for all thefe our aforefaid fervices, let them fink in perpetual oblivion, and never be remembred by Pofterity, that we who gave fuch Evidences of our Loyalty to our Exiled Prince, were not thought fit to be employ'd after his return, that we who fo faithfully terved him in War and Mitery, (hould be thrown out of his fervice in times of Peace and Profperity, our Employs being not only taken from us, without any of that promifed cornpenfation made us, but that which C *5 ) Yon well know that Cat aline like, trie EviJs you have done cannot Ipe fafe, but by attempting greater 5 and we sis well know, that the (Reedier is your "haft, the feoff¬ or you will be at your Journeys end. You ttluft be¬ lieve as yenr Church believes, and do as your Pnefts will have you do 5 and we well know, what they would have done with £xcomnwnicated Heretics. You ennnot be true to your own Principles, and continue true to us, we do not expeft Grapes from Thorns, nor Ftggs from Ihijlles'-i fuch as is the Tree, fuch will be the Fruit 5 your National Principles are bad, but your Eccleftaftics worfe$ theft are the two Bellows that blow up the Flame of ycur wrath to the height, that nothing but our Blood, can be our expiation. Should we give you up our Lands, ftock and Improvements, fhould we voluntary yeild our ftlves to be your (laves, nay fhould we turn Papifts, that would not fave us, nor fatisfieyou, our Originalguilt is our Dn- pardortabk fin ^ we afb Britijh, and true to the Briti/h In t ere ft, which can be expiated with nothing lefs than'our' Blood } are not loop's of you yet alive, who drank not many Years fince, too deep of that Cup,and are you thirfty ftill? were not Hecatombs of our flaughtered Brethren then Vi&ims to your mercileis rage, and are you enraged ftill ? was the Harveft fo pleafant then,that now you have power, you are fo Induftrious to fbw the fame Seeds again ? have youfofoon forgot, that when we wanted hands to re¬ venge, that Innocent Blood, which you fo Barba-roufly fpilt then, ard were utterly unable to prevent you of [pilling more, did not God himftlf arift, and plead our caufe, when our Swords could not reach you ? did not his Arm find you out ? did he not then fend a Peftilence, and a Famin amongft you, what the one left, did not the other take, and what both left, did not the Sword devour? and were not thefe, as inexorable to your cries, as you had been before to ours? did not theft deal, as feverely with you, as you had done before with us? did not theft depopulate as many Villages, Parifhes and Towns,in your Proprieties ( V ) Proprieties as you had before in ours ? be that thus Miracnloufly helped us, and as juftly punifhed you, in that Rebellion, why think you may he not do the like for us in your next, which you now ieem to be preparing for? we know his Almighty Arm is not fhortned, your Exul¬ tation , your Te & your Church-merriment for the Exaltation of Rowan, CatbdUdG^ may like the Mufick or rather bowlings at Moloebs Sacrifices, drown the prefent cries of the oppreffed, and ftop the Ears of Men, but will it, think you, as eafily ftop the Ears, or withhold the hand of God ? As we find your malic* no ways abated, fo we wifh and advife you to fie very cautious, how you force it upon anotherTryal, whether his Arm be any Way (harmed > When many of you had drunk deep of otir Blood, to fatiate your rage, were not many of the fame Perfons,fhortly after in the time of Famin as greedy of our Flelh, to fat i die your hunger 3 and did you Cambat\ike eat fever al, and were you not at'laft by the fame- J-ti-ft God referved to be yet more chaftized, by the ffiafpeft and fevereft of E»glrfo hands 3 you made it your fport to deft ray us, they made it their work to deftroy you ? they with as much cafe conquered yon , as you before had Murthered us 3 their great endeavour was to keep off our hands from being your Afliftance, and then feared no harm which could come to them fingly from yours. When your Supream Councel were confuking how to deftroy Crowwel, you know the advice given by the Lord Vfeount Clmmaker^ which was to joyn with him, giving this, as his reafbn, that he never knew his Country Men joyn with any Party, but they (freight deftroyed them, you may make your felves as infamous to Pofterity, as he who deftroy#d Diana\Tewpte^you may deftroy again much of the Country, but cannot long keep it. What C 28 ) What if like Ifaac we are now bound as a ready Sa¬ crifice to your rage, was it yowr courage that did thus bind us ? or our Submiffion to the will of God and his Vice-gerent, and as God wrought a Miraculous delivery for him, fo we doubt not but in his time, which is the beft time, he will work the like for us? What if by the Mifreprefentation of a great Courtier, or greater Favorite with his Prince, than with his God, we are now as the Jews, once were to Han/an, given up to his hands, to be deftroy'd ? have we not a Queen Hejier in our view, who is more able to fave, then he to deftroy us? what if we, who have been as terribly formidable to the Irifh, as Santpfon was to the Phi lijl tans, having now our ftrength taken from us, are become as contemptible as he, without his Locks, yet on the return of our ftrength, we difpair not foon to pull down that Irijh Fabric, which you have now fet up to make us your flaves . fiift experiment which the Crown of England ever made of Ireland} thiiving under an J hoped, it may be the laft, and its our only with, that it may not now prove to be to dearly bought, its manifcfl: by the experience of former Ages, that the lived well and fafe, under the Britifb Government, and 'tis as manifeft, that the Britifh cannot live fo under yours. But you alfo further plead, that you are Innocent, and mod injurioufly barr'd of any benefit by that plea, and that by the exprefs words of the Explanatory Ad. 1. You cannot but acknowledge, that in the times of ufurpation, you had time without limitation, to prove your Innocence. 2. Such of you, as did appear fo were all reftored. 2, When conftant good affedion was thought too nar¬ row, the qualifications for Innocency, fo opened that door, that you got the whole Province of and County of Clare from the then Power. 4.On the Late Kings reftauration in 1660.the clamour of Innocency was again revived; and though the Guilt of the Irijh was then fully proved,and the juft forfeiture of your Lives and Fortunes affirm'd, as appears by the Preface of the AU of Settlement aforementioned,yet a Years time more was allow'd for Tryal of your Innocence. 5. On palling the Explanation Bill in the Houfe oiCom¬ mons in Ireland, it was made appear, that your Agents had inferted that Bar, or claufe againft Innocency, in the A& of Explanation, on purpofe to reproach the then ex¬ pected Settlement. 6. The Cornmiffioners for Executing the of Settle¬ ment being prevailed with by your Agents, to put the proof of your guilt upon us, and they feverally refuting and undervaluing the Evidence of the Souldiery, both before and fince 1649. as Parties, by reafon of the latisfadion confirmed to them by the Ads, and rejeding the as ParticipetCriminis , and the Irijh having deftroyed all the Old Britijb within their reach,there waslittle polfibility to \ to m t. ^ . ... c 3* ) t° prove the Guiltof the mod: many who were prelcribed by publick Proclamation, and large Sums of¬ fered to any to bring in their heads, were by tbefe rc- ltraints, made Innocent $ the Mar quefs of Antrem the only furviving General which the Rebels had in Vlfter was o- penly declared Innocent 5 and the then Duk§ of Ormond being fo declared the fame day, was heard to fay, that that Judgment was certainly erroneous 5 for that they head¬ ing two differing Parties, and Fighting with each other, on Authorities, could not poffibly be both Innocent, the LordsTaaff, Prefton, Mufskerry and Caftle-havtn being the only furviving Generals, in the other Provinces of that Kingdom, were lb far from efteeming themfelves Obnoxi¬ ous, for what they did in that Rebellion , that they not JrfOCl^r o a re^aurat'°n to their former Proprieties by the Aas of Settlements, but had large Donatives of for5 feited Lands, confirmed to them by that Law 5 and three or them the Addition of new Honours conferred on them, to make them the more fignally meritorious, and were railed to that Elevation of confident Merit, that they and others, moft Aftive in that Rebellion , petitioned the Government here, to have their arrears Stated, for the good Services they did his Majefty in that Rebellion. So that by the aforefaid reftraints given by the Commiflioners, and by the powerful intereft of the aforefaid Generals and their Clergy, few or none were made Nocents, but fuch as wanted either Friends or Money, to make them Innocent. But when the guilty Claimant found that it was eafier buy¬ ing an inconfiderable part of his Eftate from the Souldier or Adventurer, then to run the Rifque of the whole by the expenfive methods of that Court, they would ufually pur- chafe that fmall proportion, and limit their Claims to the purchafed part,and to that no oppofition being given they were declared Innocent ofcourfe, and being thus declared, they would foon after get their whole Eftate by duecourfe of Law, though this cheat is exprefly mentioned in the Aft of Explanation, yet there may the Reader find the decrees E 2 under C 32 ) under the Name or Title of decrees, de good by that Law,as illegal as were their whole col lu five decrees, pafled afcer the 2:1. of July i 66%the well knowing that was the time limited by Law for their Adjudication, and the Britijh preparing little or no oppofition againft the worftof the Claimants, Innocents were made as faft as their Claims were read, and the work was lb Sweet and Plealant to the Commiffioners, that they continued mak- ing Innocents until the 22 d,of following, fifty one days after the time by Law limited was expired, and in thefe fifty one days made more Innocents then they had done be¬ fore,and that the benefitfdefer ves a worfer name) might be equally divided, the Commillioners agreed that each Com- midioner in his turn prepare his Lift of Claimants for that Days work, only the laft day viz. 2 2d. of , there was upwards of fevcnty Claims pofted up to be heard, and their Clerk having not time to read half the Claims, and he making that day as many Innocents as the Court, was reported to (hare half the benefit of that Days work. Yet as IL LEG A L Corrupt and as thefe Decrees Were, they muft, and that by a Britijh Parliament be confirmed,and one third of what Was left the Britijh re- trencht,or not one Foot could beconfirmM to the by that Law, as appears to any that reads but that Aft of Ex¬ planation. THESE WERE FINE INNOCENTSl Thefe and their Nocentsare like to make fair Sheriffs, Judges and Juries of fach Eftates as are fecured, or left the Bri¬ tijh by that Law. And as the Irijf} had thefe Encouragments in times of Peace, fo on enquiry, it will be found, that they had as many or more in times of War, which fas appears) was begun not only with the higheft Approbation and En- couragment of their own Clergy, but had the United Concurrence, Benediaions and Mafies of moft of the Ro- mijh Clergy ifl Europe, for their good Succefs. Urban the VIII. (33) VIII. the then Pope, thought it not enough, to fend his Nuntio, to be President of their Councels, and to Aft as General over their Armies, but with him, fent his Bull, bearing date the i yth of May, 1642. fix Months after the beginning of the faid Rebellion, when above one hundred thoufand innocent Britifi) had been inhumanly Butchered by the 7r//7yind they at that inftant Murthering more, as faft as they could, yet in the faid Bull, his Holinefs was pleafed to call thefe perfidious, horrid Irifij Murtherers, Faithful Chrifti- ans, Godly Warriors, their Rebellion a Godly undertaking to relieve their Country and their poor MaJJacred and Mur- thered Britifh Proteftants, Heretickj and workers of Iniquity, and by the faid Bull, gives further Encouragment to the faid Irifh, to confefs to any fecular or regular Prieft ap¬ proved by the Ordinary of the place, who on hearing their laid Confeffions, was Impowrd to give them abfolutions from all their Sins, how great, or hainous fo ever they were. In Imitation of this Holy Example, given by his Holinefs himfelf, it is notorioufly known, that no Pennance was more ufually impofed by their Biggoted Clergy, on the meft vileft Offenders, then the Murthering of Innocent Proteftants, under the name of Heretickj, and that before they would give abfolution, they would frequently ad¬ vance Monies and promife their faying feveral Mafles for their good Succefs. And to conclude, at the Writing hereof, there is fuch Intelligence here obtained, which gives more then a pro¬ bable afluraace, the fame Spirit is now at work, and fome of the faid Clergy have actually Employ d profligate Vil¬ lains, to Murther fuch Proteflants, as are in profpedt, un¬ der God, moft likely to preferve the Reformed Religion in this part of the World. Are ( 34 ) Are thefe the Do&rines or Praftifes of Cbriftians, or are they not rather the Doftrines of the Devil, who was a Mur- therer from the beginning ? Well might the Heathen Cry, Sit Anima mea cum Philofophit5 and as well may the hrifti- an lay, Noftrum non eh Evangeli ant hi font Anti-chrijU potiuj qnkmChrifti Pontifices & Sacerdotes. A .x \jcfo X r" t " •' - )1 ' "i $ r. m A L I S T of the Nobility of Ireland, in id88. Proteftants. Papifts. Duke of Marquefe of Orn/ond. Antrim. Earls. Earls. Ktldare. Clanrickard. Thomond. Cafilehaven. Cork JFiy? Meath. Defmond. Fingall. Barrymore. Cajilemayne. Meath. Car ling ford. Gffory. Tyronne. liojjcommon. Tyrconnel. Londonderry. Donnegal. Arran. Conaway. Carberry. j4rdglafs. Rannalagh. Cavan. \ Jnchiquin. Clancarty. Orrery. Mountrath. Drogheda. Waterford. Mount-alex* ander. Down. Longford. Proteftants. Vifcounts. Grandifon. fVilmot. Loflus. Swords. Kilnwrry. Cafileton. Lhamworth. Sligo. Waterford. Strangford. Tuant. Carelow. Cullcn. Shannon. Dromoore. Mazarine. Kells. Dnngannon. Fitzharding. Clare. Charlemonnt. Powers. Blejfing Town. Rofs. Lifsburne. Papifts. Rathcoole. Bareford. Bronkart. 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