AN ANSWER TO A BOOK Intituled The State of the PROTESTANTS IN IRELAND Under the Late King JAMES's Government In which Their Carriage towards him is Justified and the Absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be Free'd from his Government and of Submitting to their present Majesties is Demonstrated London Printed in the Year 1692. TO THE READER READER I Did not intend to have troubled you with any Preface But this is occasioned by a Pamphlet lately published called An Answer to GREAT BRITAIN's JUST COMPLAINT wherein pag. 54. there is this Character of the Book I have Answered which he calls Dr. King's whom I have not nam'd but now may from the Authority of this Author A Book says he writ with that known Truth and Firmness of Reason that every Page of it is a Demonstration which hath been often threatned with an Answer but the long silence of the Party shews Guilt and Despair For the long silence I must tell the Reader That this Answer was prepared upon the first coming out of Dr. King's Book and therefore the Quotations of the Page are according to the first Edition of it in Quarto in the later Editions the Doctor has found cause to make some Amendment which I have taken notice of That this Answer has not before this time appeared in Print has been occasioned by the severe Watch that is kept over all the Presses which has made many interruptions and long delays considering which it is more to be wonder'd at that it has now got through the Briars than that it has stuck so long This must excuse a Difference you will find in the Paper in some Sheets and other Eye-sores of the Impression being done at different Times and Places For these I shall be less concern'd if you will pardon one which was occasioned by the Importunity and Fears of some of the Printers that is to call People by their usual though not proper Names like the Woman of Samaria's de Facto Husband Joh. iv 16. or as Oliver was called a Protector and Absalom a King This Answer to Britain's Complaint recites some of the grossest Mistakes of Dr. King's Book and from his Credit delivers them for most undoubted Truths As pag. 54. That the Repeal of the Acts of Settlement was carried on by King James 's own Sollicitation and that he did struggle with his Bishops and Judges to carry it and after he was duly informed of the Cruelty and Injustice of it that he still pressed it and at last got it passed The notorious Falshood of which I have shewn from undeniable and good Protestant Vouchers and more are to be had if either of these Authors have the hardiness not to submit upon that Point Pamphlet pag. 55. Every where Protestant Churches were taken from them by Force and given to Popish Priests by the Order or Connivance of the late King Which is so far from Truth that Dr. King himself gives Instances to the contrary and tells c. 3. s 18 n. 11. how King James did struggle against the Popish Clergy in behalf of the Protestants and turn'd out the Mayor of Wexford for not obeying His Majesty's Orders in Restoring the Protestants Church there which the Popish Clergy had usurp'd and that He appear'd most zealous to have the Church Restored and exprest himself with more passion than was usual upon that occasion And Dr. King cannot name one Protestant Church in Ireland that was taken from them either by King James's Order or Connivance His Majesty was so very careful in this Point that even at Dublin where he kept his Court neither the Cathedral nor any Parish-Church in the whole City was taken from the Protestants The King only took Christ-Church for his own use which was always reputed as the King's Chappelâ— And Dr. King himself and others then preached Passive Obedience in their own Pulpits in Dublin to that degree as to give offence to some of their Protestant Hearers who thought they stretched it even to Flattery Pamphlet This was done in those parts of Ireland where the Protestants were very peaceable under King James That is where they were so under his Power that they durst not stir for none else then in that Kingdom were quiet and even those who lived under King James's Protection were giving Intelligence against him and betraying him all they could which Dr. King does not only confess but justifies it and was himself one of the Chief which I have sufficiently shewn and I suppose he will not deny but reckons it now as his Merit Pamphlet Those Protestants who scaid in Ireland were oppressed c. But it is evident that they preserved their Effects Houses and Improvements better than those who left the Kingdom and now live Richer and have more to shew which they preserved by King James's Clemency than their Neighbours brought with them from the Countries whither they fled from his Protection Pamphlet Upon Complaint no Protestant could have Redress I have shewn many who had And I believe Dr. King cannot shew one who had not as far as was in the King's Power to grant it And that much more than they deserved at his Hands by their own Confession at this Day and many of them do complain that their Grievances have not been so well Redressed since And if King James can be represented by these Men as a Tyrant and a Bloody Persecutor while he Courted them and sought by all winning Ways to gain them which was certainly the Case while he was among them in Ireland it may bring Men into suspence to believe what is told of the French Hungarian or of any other Persecution But I will not Anticipate what you will find in the following Leaves to which I refer you Only I think it necessary to acquaint you That Pag. 8. of this Answer upon the Head of One Prince interposing between another Prince and his Subjects when he uses them Cruelly I refer to a Book which I thought would have been Published as soon as this and therefore said little to that Point But now that I see no Hopes of its coming out give me leave to enlarge a little and tell Dr. King what advantage the Jacobites make of this Doctrine They say it would justifie King Lewis or any other King to interpose between them and King William For they pretend that they are much more Cruelly used by King William than even Dr. King himself says the Protestants were by King James In England they tell us That their Clergy are Deprived that they are imprisoned without Law for no other fault than Reading the Liturgy of the Church of England in their Houses They complain of Double Taxes Excessive Fines and Bail and Illegal Imprisonments That in Ireland besides the Deprivation of the Clergy all Men and Women who refuse the New Oaths incur a Premunire That in Scotland they are Fined Imprisoned Massacred as Glen-coe c. and put to the Torture against the very Claim of Right
shewn For being by a particular Clause in that Act enabled by themselves or whom they should appoint to try and purge out all insufficient negligent scandalous and erroneous Ministers they erected Tribunals in every Presbytery as arbitrary but more senseless than the Inquisition and did but one good Act to purge out those Episcopal Presbyters who complied with their Schism and Usurpation for which they could never want a pretence because Ordination or Collation from Prelates was always made one Article in their Visitations and thought erroneous enough to spew any out of their Churches But as to these Deprived Clergy I must here take notice of a distinction much used in England to mollifie Lay-Deprivations viz. That the Bishops and Clergy Deprived by Act of Parliament lose not their Character only are barr'd by the Secular Power to exercise it in such Districts But Act 35. of Sess 2. of the first Parliament of William and Mary in Scotland those Ministers who did not Pray for King William and Queen Mary and were therefore Depriv'd were afterwards prohibited to preach or exercise any part of the Ministerial Function either in Churches or elsewhere upon any pretext whatsoever And in the 38th Act of the same Session they do as much confound our State-distinction of de Facto and de Jure which they say is cunningly of late spread abroad to weaken and invalidate the Allegiance sworn to their Majesties And therefore they order a Certificate to be subscrib'd by all who take the Oath declaring K. W. and Q. M. to be King and Queen as well de Jure as de Facto And they say That in all these things they have dealt more frankly and plainly if not more honestly and sincerely than we have done in England They think it more fair and open Dealing plainly to Foresault the King for Male-administration than to Abdicate him for flying to save his Life And when he is gone that he should not take the Right to the Crown along with him and leave K. W. nothing but a de Facto Possession which they think a Betraying K. W. to the last Degree and making him no better than an Usurper They think it the same thing to debar Clergy-men from the Exercise of the Ministerial Function as to leave them no Place to exercise it in And as Charitable to allow nothing to the Depriv'd as to name something for them and put it into Hands where they are sure never to come by it But I know not so well how they 'll solve that Contradiction which seems to be betwixt their Claim of Right 11 Ap. 89. and their Confession of Faith Ratified and Established Act 5. of 2 Sess 1 Parl. William and Mary Read over in their Presence and inserted Verbatim in the Body of the Act. The Claim of Right begins in these Words Whereas King James being a profest Papist did assume the Regal Power c. And the first of their Claims is in these Words That by the Law of this Kingdom no Papist can be King or Queen of this Realm And yet in the abovesaid Confession of Faith Chap. 23. It is Decreed and Established as the true Christian Doctrine in these Words viz. Infidelity or Difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal Authority nor free the People from their due Obedience to him But I must not exceed the bounds of a Preface For if I should only Name all the Hardships and Oppressions the illegal and arbitrary Proceedings of which the Jacobites complain of in Scotland say they are ready to make good by undeniable Vouchers I should swell this beyond the Bulk of Dr. King's Book and that the Truths of the Proceedings in Scotland would if possible out-number the Falstoods he relates of Ireland But for a fuller Account of these Scots Affairs I refer you to a small Tract called A Letter to a Friend giving an Account of all the Treatises that have been Publish'd with Relation to the present Persecution against the Church of Scotland Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh Among these as to the State Affairs be pleased to consult that Tract called The late Proceedings and Votes of the Parliament of Scotland contained in an Address delivered to the King And for the Affairs of the Church An Account of the present Persecution of the Church of Scotland in several Letters The Case of the present Afflicted Clergy of Scotland The Historical Relation of the late General Assembly held at Edinburgh And the Presbyterian Inquisition And there you will find such Cruelties used towards the Loyal and Episcopal Party in Scotland as were unheard of in Ireland and by Dr. King's Principles would justifie any Foreign Prince to interpâ—se on their behalf And if it be true which he lays down as the Foundation upon which he builds all that he says in his Book viz. That if a King design to destroy one main Part of his People in favour if anâ—ther whom he loves better he does Abdicate the Government of those whom he designs to destroy contrary to Justice and the Laws If this be true the Episcopal Party in Scotland think it would free them from all Obligation to K. William's Government But how far it is Applicable to the Protestants in Ireland to justifie their Carriage towards King James will be seen in what follows Suppose say they it were true which Dr. King asserts as it is most false That K. James while he was in Ireland did endeavour totally to overthrow the Church Established by Law there and set up that which was most agreeable to the Inclinations of the major Number of the People in that Kingdom who are Roman Catholicks The Jacobites ask if this were so Whether it be not fully vindicated in the 4th Instruction of those which King William sent to his Commissioner in Scotland dated at Copt-Hall 31. May 89. in these Words You are to pass an Act Establishing that Church Government which is most agreeable to the Inclinations of the People By which Rule they say That it was as just to set uâ— Popery in Ireland as Presbytery in Scotland And that the Law was not more against the one in Ireland than against the other in Scotland That the Parliament in Ireland was liable to less Exception than that in Scotlandâ— The one called in the usual Form by Writs from their Natural King to whom they had Sworn the other by Circular Letters from a Foreign Prince to whom they ow'd no Obedience who could not nor did pretend any other Authority over them or Right to the Crown besides The Inclinations of the People Which therefore they say in return for their Kindness he has made the Standard for Church Government as well as the Government of the State That it is only alleged that King James intended to do in Ireland what he did not do when it was in his Power and what King William actually did in Scotland viz. To overturn the Church then by Law Established
put the Sword in the hands of those of his own Religion and to make them the Ballance of the Nation which was natural enough for him to wish yet I do not Justify it But that ever he design'd to Massacre or Extirpate the Protestants I confess I cannot believe And his Carriage in Ireland by all the Accounts I could have of it nay take it altogether even as this Author tells it is a Demonstration to the contrary But I am too long upon this Subject Let us return to our Author's Quotation And here I must tell him That though Faulkner is against having such Cases put as abovesaid yet it is not that an Answer cannot be given for he gives it out of Bishop Bilson in the very same Place which our Author Quotes but he takes care to conceal the Words which if he had set down it would have appeared very ridiculous to have said as he does that Bishop Bilson seems to allow the Doctrine of Resistance The Bishop's Words are these as quoted by Faulkner first finding fault with such Cases being put That they are able says he to set Grave and Good Men at their wits end But then he adds yet we stand not on that and positively determines in these words which I had occasion partly to Quote before If the Laws of the Land where they converse do not permit them to save their Lives when they are assaulted with unjust force against Law or if they take Arms as you do to depose Princes we will never excuse them from Rebellion Thus Bilson And the very first words of the Chapter which our Authour quotes of Faulkner viz. Book 2. c. 5. puts the Case as directly against our Authors Position as if he had read our Author's Book and wrote on purpose to confute it There have been some says he who grant the unlawfulness of taking Arms against a Soveraign Prince to be a General Rule for ordinary Circumstances but yet they pretend there are some Great and Extraordinary Cases in which it must admit of Exceptions And the proposal of these Cases as they are by them managed is like the Pharisaical Corban an Engine and Method to make void the Duties of the Fifth Commandment And then he goes on and undertakes in this Chap. the defence of that Assertion of Barckley who proposeth the Question Nulli nè Casus c. May there no Cases fall out in which the People by their Authority may take Arms against their King And his Answer is Certainly none so long as he is King or unless ipso jure Rex esse desinat This is the same he Quoted Dr. Hammond for before viz. that the Person who was King may be Resisted when he does voluntarily Relinquish his Power and becomes a private Person for then indeed ipso jure he of Right ceases to be a King But may be our Author will say that ipso jure and ipso facto â—e ceases to be a King whenever he Designs to destroy a part of his People I will not repeat what I have said before in Answer to this as to tell what part of the Peoplâ— is mâ—aâ—t That this is an Eternal pretence for all Restless Spirits c. But it brings into my mind an Answer a Scots Presbyterian Minister whose Principles as to Government our Author has but licked up gave to the Objection in the 23 Chapter of their Confession of Faith upon the Head of the Civil Magistrate viz. That Infidelity or Difference in Religion does not take away a King 's Right to his Crown nor absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance to him The Minister replied That is true for if a King turn Infidel he does ipso facto cease to be a King So that our Author was not the Original of this pretty Distinction Faulkner in the same place shews our Author's Doctrine to be borrow'd from Mariana Bellermine and other Jesuitical Doctors Jesuit and Puritan are convertible Terms in the Point of Loyalty only that the Jesuit is the Elder Brother and determins against them N. 3. That the Agreement of the Whole body of the People or the Chief and Greater part thereof can give no sufficient Authority to such an Enterprise viz. of taking Arms against the King And with respect to this Kingdom he quotes our Laws which declare it Unlawful for the two Houses of Parliament though Jointly to take Arms against the King Faulkner goes on and proves as directly against our Author in this same Chapter which our Author quotes on his side as Words can be fram'd But there are none so blind as they that will not see These are all the Quotations he brings to support his new Hypothesis and how far they serve to his purpose I leave it to the Reader and from the whole I shall only mind our Author of the Instances I have already given him viz. The Condition of the Jews in Egypt in Babylon under Ahasuerus and the Romans The Gibeonites under Saul and the Primitive Christians in their several Persecutions more especially in the last Decennial Persecution And then apply this to the Rule he has given us viz. That Non-Resistance does reach only Tolerable Evils and where the Mischief is not Universal I wouâ—d be glad likewise to have his Opinion of the Carriagâ— of the Protestants towards Queen Mary The Protestants undeâ— Qu. Mary He will not say but â—â—â—ir Circumstaâ—ces were much more Dâ—plorable than under King James even at the worst that he does represent him There Numbers were fewer and she as much bigotted as King James married to the King of Spain overturn'd our Religion by Law and set up Fire and Fagot broke her Promise to the Protestants who set her upon the Throne in opposition to Queen Jane a Protestant There was but one Branch of the Royal Family that were near the Crown a Protestant that was the Princess Elizabeth and she was declared Illegitimate by Act of Parliament and to secure the Business was sent to the Tower in order to have her Head cut off And after her the Royal Line run out of Sight among the Papists so that the Protestants had a very lamentable Prospect Yet they bore it with an admirable Patience till God with his own hand wrought their Deliverance taking away Queen Mary without their Guilt or Rebellion and placing that condemned Princess upon her Sisters Throne to establish the Protestant Religion in a Legal manner And these Protestant Martyrs even at the Stake declared it Unlawful to take Arms against Queen Mary in defence of their Religion but exorted their Fellow Protestants to Patience and Resignation to the Good Will of God But by no means to Rebel for that was Damnation They did not Plead that their Evil was Intolerable when they were going into the Fire or that it was Universal reaching to their whole Religion in the Kingdom These were Excuses they were too dull to find out to save their Lives and their Religion But let us
no not for one hour and if it shall appear in such Treaty that they took up Arms meerly for Self-preservation then he will Pardon even the said three Persons also but is hopeless that any such thing can be made appear seeing that many of them have already accepted and received Commissions from the Prince of Orange and display his Colours in the field as his Excellency is credibly informed Fourthly If these terms be not immediately agreed to he will with a part of his Army fight them which part he intends shall be at Newry on Monday the 11th of this Instant which will from thence march to Belfast and from thence to Colrain and London-derry as his Excellency intends and that the Countrey Irish not of the Army Men Women and Boys now all Armed with Half-Pikes and Bionets in the Counties of Cavan Monaghan Tyrone London-derry c. will upon the approach of the said part of the Army and resistance thereto made immediately enter upon a Massacre of the British in the said Counties which force and violence of the Rabble his Excellency saith he cannot restrain and fears that it may be greater than in 1641. These are the heads of what I can offer to you from his Excellency's own Mouth but I intend to be at Hills-Borrough to night and there to stay for this night where if you think fit I shall freely discourse with you all the particulars whereof I hope you will give immediate notice to all chiefly concerned in your County and Neighbourhood for gaining of time I have sent this Express that your Lordship may give advertisement by Express to all such as your Lorpship thinks convenient I shall add no farther till I have the honour to see your Lordship Your Lordship 's Obedient Servant Allex. Osborne Numb 4. By the Lords Justices of Ireland a PROCLAMATION Sydney Tho. Coningsby WHereas the Rebels in Conaught and Munster notwithstanding his Majesty's gracious Declaration of Mercy towards them and the many Victories and Successes their Majesties Forces have obtained against them do nevertheless continue obstinate in their Rebellious courses being encouraged thereunto by the Intelligence and Assistance they daily receive from those parts in this Kingdom under their Majesties Obedience and in order thereunto great numbers of them daily flock over into the Quarters of their Majesties Forces and are there received sheltered and entertained by several disaffected People who pretending Submission to their Majesties Authority and receiving Support and Protection under it do nevertheless privately and perfidiously give their utmost Assistance to their Majesties Enemies For the prevention therefore of the like mischiefs for the future We do hereby strictly charge and command all their Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom That on any pretence whatsoever they do not presume to shelter harbour or entertain any of their Majesties Enemies or Rebels or any other Irish Papist whatsoever but such as they know to be under their Majesties Obedience under the penalty of being prosecuted as Rebels and Traitors and of suffering the utmost Severities of the Law And We do also strictly charge and command all their Majesties good Subjects that they do not hold any manner of Correspondence whatsoever with any of their Majesties Enemies or Rebels upon pain of High Treason and as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Peril Given at their Majesties Castle of Dublin the 26th day of September 1690. in the second year of their Majesties Reign John Davis By the Lords Justices of Ireland a PROCLAMATION Sydney Tho. Coningsby WHereas the Wives Children and Families of several persons in this Kingdom who have been killed in actual Rebellion against their Majesties or are now adhering to the Enemies in their Quarters or are fled from the usual places of their Abode continue in that part of this Kingdom which is obedient to their Majesties Government and as we are certainly informed give constant Intelligence to and hold Correspondence with their Majesties said Enemies These are strictly to Will and Command the Wives Children and Servants of all such Persons forthwith to withdraw themselves out of all Places under their Majesties Obedience upon Pain to be proceeded against as Spies and Enemies and all High Sheriffs with the Assistance of the Justices of Peace and Officers of their Majesties Militia are hereby commanded to make immediate Search for such Persons in their several Counties and to apprehend their Persons and to conduct them to the next adjacent County to the River Shannon where they are to give notice to the Sheriff of such next County of the Time and Place where they will be at which Time and Place they are to deliver such Persons as aforesaid by Indenture to the said next Sheriff who is forthwith to receive and in like manner to convey them to the Sheriff of the next County towards the said River and so from Sheriff to Sheriff untill they are removed from all Places under their Majesties Obedience And We hereby command all Mayors Sheriffs Justices of the Peace and other Magistrates whatsoever that they see this our Proclamation executed with Care Speed and Diligence desiring all their Majesties military Officers to be assisting therein And farther we require the said Mayors Sheriffs and other Officers as aforesaid that they take care that such of the said Persons as are not able to provide for themselves be furnished with necessary Provision for their maintenance as they pass through the several Counties and that they receive no Injury but be permitted to carry with them so much of their Goods and Chattels as shall be necessary for their Subsistence in their Journey Given at their Majesties Castle of Dublin the 26th day of September 1690. in the second year of their Majesties reign John Davis By the Lords Justices of Ireland a PROCLAMATION Sydney Tho. Coningsby VVHereas we are daily informed of the constant Correspondence Commerce and Intercourse that is between the Rebels and several Papists pretending to live under their Majesties Protection whose Habitations are adjoining to the Rebels whereby they receive not only Assistance but constant Intelligence of all matters transacted within that part of this Kingdom under their Majesties Obedience For remedy whereof We think fit hereby to Order that no Papist whatsoever shall from or after the Fourteenth day of October next ensuing inhabit or dwell within ten miles of any of their Majesties Frontier Garisons nor within ten miles of the River Shanon but that all such Papists shall forthwith with their Families remove to some other parts of this Kingdom under their Majesties Obedience great part thereof being now waste And We hereby command all Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Mayors and all other Civil Officers whatsoever and We desire all Officers and others of their Majesties Army to be aiding and assisting to convey all such Papists with their Families Goods and Stock to such other place within their Majesties Obedience as they shall think fit to remove unto and We
Kingdom that we hold it reasonable to think of Mercy and to have Compassion upon those whom we judge to have been seduced Wherefore we do hereby declare we shall take into our Royal protection all poor Labourers common Soldiers Countrey Farmers Plowmen and Cottiers whatsoever As also all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen and Artificers who either remained at home or having fled from their dwelling shall by the first day of August next repair to their usual places of Aboad surrendring up what Arms they have to such Justices of the Peace as are or shall be appointed by us not only to receive the same but also to Register the appearance of such of the said persons as shall come and submit unto our Authority For our Royal intention is and we do hereby declare That we will not only pardon all those poor seduced people as to their Lives and Liberties who shall come in by the time aforesaid for all Violences they have done or committed by the command of their Leaders during the War But we do also promise to secure them in their Goods their Stocks of Cattel and all their Chattels personal whatsoever willing and requiring them to come in and where they were Tenants there to preserve the Harvest of Grass and Corn for the supply of the Winter But forasmuch as many of them had a legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lands some holden from Protestants and some held from Popish Proprietors who have been concerned in the Rebellion against us Our will and pleasure is That all those Tenants who held from our good Protestant Subjects do pay their Rents to their respective Landlords and that the Tenants of all those who have been concerned in the present Rebellion against us do keep their Rent in their hands untill they have notice from the Commissioners of our Revenue unto whom they are to account for the same And as we do hereby strictly forbid all Violence Rapine and molestation to any who shall thus come in and remain Obedient to us so for those of this or any other Rank or Quality who are already in our Quarters and within our Power and Obedient to us We do hereby charge and require that they be not disquieted in any sort without our particular command For the desperate Leaders of the present Rebellion who have violated those Laws by which this Kingdom is united and inseparably annexed to the Imperial Crown of England who have called in the French who have Authorised all Violences and Depredations against the Protestants and who rejected the Gracious Pardon we offered them in our Proclamation of the twenty second of February 1688. As we are now by God's great favour in condition to make them sensible of their Errors so are we resolved to leave them to the event of War unless by great and manifest Demonstrations we shall be convinced they deserve our Mercy which we shall never refuse to those who are truly Penitent Given at our Royal Camp at Finglas near Dublin the seventh of July 1690. In the second year of our Reign A PROCLAMATION by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties William R. ALthough it be notoriously known that the Papists of this Kingdom of all ranks and degrees were lately furnished with Fire-Arms Swords Bagonets Skeins Pikes Half-Pikes Scythes and other Arms offensive and defensive as also with great quantities of Gun powder And although we did by our Royal Declaration of the seventh Instant extend and hold forth our Mercy and Compassion to all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen Artificers poor Labourers coommon Soldiers Countrey Farmers Plow-men and Cottiers and assured them not only of Pardon as to their Lives and Liberties for all violences done by them by the command of their Leaders during the War but also security in their Goods Stocks of Cattle and Chattels personal and that those of any other Rank or Quality within our Quarters and obedient to Us should not be disquieted in any sort without our particular Command And nothing more was expected on their Parts but either to continue in or return to their respective Dwellings and to give up their Arms and follow their several Trades and Callings But although several Persons have laid hold on our said Declaration and are received into our royal Protection yet few of them have hitherto brought in their Arms and most of those brought in are broken and unserviceable which we cannot but look upon as a very high Contempt and done out of a wicked Design on any opportunity to join with our Enemies and Rebels To the end therefore that all Persons may be left without Excuse and by obedience to our Commands may prevent the fatal Consequences of their Neglect and Contempt We do hereby strictly charge and require all Person and Persons of the Popish Religion within this our Kingdom of Ireland who are or reside within our Quarters or any part of our said Kingdom reduced to our Obedience that they and every of them do within ten days after publick Proclamation hereof in the City or Shire-town of that County wherein they respectively dwell or reside surrender and deliver all the Fire-arms Swords Bagonets Skeins Half-pikes and other arms offensive or defensive as also all the Gun-powder which they lately had in their own Custody or in the Custody of any other for their Use to the next Mayor chief Magistrate Sheriff or Justice of the Peace in the City Town or County wherein they respectively dwell or inhabit who are hereby required to register the same and to return a perfect List of such Arms and Ammunition as they shall receive by virtue hereof to us or the chief Governour or Governours of our said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being as also to lodge the said Arms and Ammunition in our nearest safe Garison to the place where they shall be received And we do hereby farther declare that if the aforesaid persons of the popish Religion do not by the time aforesaid deliver their Arms Gunpowder and Ammunition as aforesaid but shall neglect or refuse so to doe we shall look upon all such persons as Contemners of our royal Authority and as persons designing the Disturbance of our Government of this Kingdom and as Traitors and Rebels and will accordingly abandon them to the Discretion of our Soldiers or they shall be committed to Gaol without Bail or Mainprise And we do hereby strictly charge and command all the Protestants of this Kingdom that they do not keep or conceal any Arms or Ammunition belonging to any Papists but that they be forthwith delivered to the Magistrates and Officers aforesaid hereby appointed to receive the same as they will answer the contrary at their peril And we also hereby charge and require all Mayors chief Magistrates of Towns Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace and all the Officers of our Army and Militia to search seize upon and secure all sorts of Arms and Ammunition belonging unto or in the Possession of any Papist in this