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A53455	[An] answer to a scandalous letter lately printed and subscribed by Peter Welsh, procurator for the Sec. and Reg. popish priests of Ireland Intituled, A letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of Octob. 1660. to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom. By the right honourable the Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords Justices of the kingdom of Ireland, and L. President of the province of Munster, &c. Being a full discovery of the treachery of the Irish rebels since the beginning of the rebellion there, necessary to be considered by all adventureres and other persons estated in that kingdom.	Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.; Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688. Letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland.	1662 (1662)	Wing O474; ESTC R223780	34,220	48

judge the Protestants designed the deserting of the Kings service when they sent their Armie to the King by which onely they were capable of disserving him nay sent it in that very Juncture of time wherein they had as much cause to fear the ruine of themselves and Families from the often Violations of the Cessation by the Irish Papists after that Cessation was made as from their inhumanities before But yet when his Majesties Service required it though the answering thereof by transporting their Armies into England threatned more than a probable ruine to them at home from the Irish Papists who then delayed and indeed never after would send an Army to the King into England yet the Protestants did not so much as hesitate but chearfully exposed themselves to the danger to pay the duty and receive the honour of their obedience The same Infidelity and Treachery which Munster and the parts more remote first experienced the L. Lieutenant and the Protestants with him at Dublin at last tasted and his Grace was thereby compelled in the year 1647. with his Majesties permission if not Order to resign Dublin and all the adjoyning Garrisons in●o hands of the Parliament which is the second pretension for this slander On these occasions the English Protestants of Ireland not by Choyce but Necessity and a necessity onely created by the Irish Papists themselves not by the Protestants own private acts but the necessitated Acts of those that were set over them by his Majesties authority came into the Stream with the violence whereof they confess themselves afterwards hurried into such miscarriages as made their hearts ake yet they hope less criminal than those in the Irish Rebellion or to any degree of Apostacy which deserves the scandal that P. W. layes on them of wholly deserting the Royal Cause For 1. Notwithstanding the violent endeavours of both Papists and Anabaptists not many of the Protestants of Ireland have declined the Church of England in her greatest Tryals whose principles are not only most consonant to Truth but also most usefull and duti●ull to the Royal Cause and for that reason were opposed most by the two Extremes So that Old Protestants in the Anabaptists Dialect was the same with Royallist and by them the Protestants of Ireland were dealt with accordingly And 2. as the principles so the practises of the Protestants vindicate their loyalty 1. They submitted this Kingdom to his Majesty not as England and Scotland by the concurrence of the General and General Officers but without them nay against them 2. Though they saw the difficulty of that attempt and foresaw the hazard from Anabaptists who then in chief commanded the Army in Ireland if they succeeded not and from Irish Papist pretenders whose necessities had driven them to serve themselves by his Majesty in Flanders if they succeeded yet were they early if not the first and free without Articling in the duty of their Submissions And least P. W. who saye● many things that are not true should deny this which is so signally true I will cite the undenyable Testimony of his Sacred Majesty himself which follows in these words in the 2. page of his Majesties gracious Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland We acknowledge that our good Subjects of the Kingdom of Ireland have born a very good part in procuring this happiness that they were EARLY in their dutifull Addresses to Vs and made the same professions of a resolution to return to their Duty and Obedience to Vs during the time of Our being beyond the Seas which they have since so EMINENTLY made good and put in practise Here is not only a profession of duty but a making of it good and putting it in practise Here is not only an early owning of His Majesties Authority but an owning it when he was devested from the actual exercise of it and that too as to Ireland by the Irish Papists And this is also the first fruits of the Protestants having recovered the power of Ireland and that with no less hazard than loyalty 3. To make the Discrimination yet clearer The Irish Papists at first murther'd and fought against his Majesties good Subjects to take from him his Crown The Protestants of Ireland fought against his Enemies to restore him to it The Papists of Ireland we●e seemingly good Subjects but to become more dangerous Rebels But the Protestants of Ireland if seemingly Rebels were such but to become more useful Subjects The last action of the Irish Papists when they had the power was to expell His Majesties Authority with circumstances as wicked as the very sin but the first action of the English Protestants when they were in power was to restore His Majesties Authority with circumstances almost as dutifull as the Action it self Lastly Not to hold a candle longer to the Sun I will but instance one other experiment and against an experiment there is no arguing and the instance of this experiment is even in the very case now controverted and in which also my L. Duke of Ormond himself was the Judge In the year 1650. when ●● came in Question which were the worst the Irish Papists or the seduced Protestants He permitted all those worthy Protestants which till then had served under him to come off to the rest of the Protestants though then headed by Ireton himself esteeming them safer with that real Regicide so accompanied than with those pretended Antiregicides so principled Certainly he esteems those less ill to whom he sends his Friends than from whom he sends them If so wise and so faithfull a Servant to his Majesty as the L. Lieutenant is had had any hope that the Irish Papists would ever have return'd to their Loyalty doubtless he would never have sent away from them so many powerful helpers of it and friends unto it and if his Grace had not had more than hopes that the English Protestants would have return'd to their obedience as soon as they had got the power of doing it he would never have sent his friends unto them The Wisdom of his Grace's foresight has been happily justified in the Result For all the Protestants which then came off were eminently instrumental and concurring in the duty of accomplishing that blessed Event I dare as truly as confiden●ly say the most of the Protestants of Ireland only served under the Usur●ers but to bring the Irish Papists to those terms which without the force of English swords they would never have been brought unto The ancient and modern often breaches o● fa●th which the Irish Papists were guilty of made it too evident to many of the Protestants that nothing could bind them but steel and iron The truth of both these po●itions is clearly read in that issue which the providence of God has effected However the once seduced Protestants of Ireland are willing to take shame to themselves and give glory to God in con●essing their Guilt such though not by causing yet by complying with the

The sin of Apostacy seems worse in some respect than other sins and therefore on this sin Lot's Wife whom God had rescued from the destruction of Sodom though but for looking back to it is immediately turned into a pillar of Salt I heartily wish the Irish Apostates would remember Lot's Wife 2. Though God would not involve the righteous in the punishment of the Wicked but delivered just Lot yet he transplanted him into Zoar and condemned Sodom and Gom●rrae with an overthrow making them an Example to those that after should live ungodly Even so his Majesty hath taken care for the Innocent in his Gracious Declaration without justifying the Wicked and for the Innocent has provided a Zoar whether their Souls may escape and live 3. Since P. W. professeth his thoughts to be far from desiring to obstruct the securing the peace of the Countrey let him consider how adviseable it is to put a Sword into a Madmans hand or to capacitate such rebellious Spirits to hurt themselve● and others Since Limerick notwithstanding the hand of God and mixture of good deserved a severe punishment and since Gallway and Waterford are not less deserving ought not those Corporations and their Advocate rather to acknowledge his Majesties gracious indulgence and mercy in remitting the severity of the Laws than to exclaim thus insolently against his Royal proceedings as unjust unequal and such as cannot accord with a good Conscience The Guilt of English Protestants and Irish Papists compared Thirdly P. W. returns to his former Comparison between the Irish Papists and the English Protestants and in prosecution thereof urgeth 1. That the worst of the Irish Papists were never Regicides 2. That they fought against such men when England Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland deserted the Royal Cause As to the first That the Irish Papists are not Regicides let it be considered That the Doctrine of Regicide is common in the Romish Schools and the practise in their Courts 2. That to touch the Annointing is virtually to touch the Annointed Take away the Regalia and in effect you take away the King The Irish Papists were so guilty hereof that they not only usurped all the Royal peculiars but also set up a Government distinct from and opposite to his Majestie 's in a General Assembly yea therein they Enacted viz. That no Temporal Government or Jurisdiction should be assumed kept or executed in Ireland or in any Province or County thereof other than what should be approved or instituted by their General Assembly Had the Devil had leave to touch Job's person he would not have spared him when he touched all that was his 3. Did not the Irish Papists distrust disobey oppose and excommunicate the L. Lieutenant and absolutely disclaim his Majesties Authority in him did they not conspire to Murther Him or which is worse if worse can be to deliver him to the worst of Murtherers Surely those who dealt thus with such a Servant if the Son had been sent to them would not have scrupled his Murther that the Inheritance might wholly be theirs As to the 2. That when England Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland wholly deserted the Royal C●use the Irish Papists fought against the Regicides in defence of his Majesties right 1. It is no less calumnious than false to charge England Scotland the Protestants of Ireland to have wholly deserted the Royal Cause and it is amazing to consider how any Irish Papist I am loath to say Rebel dare thus by a Letter even to the Duke of Ormond and printed paper to the whole World impeach the Nations of England and Scotland and all the Protestants of Ireland to have wholly deserted the Royal Cause what may not Foreigners credit against us abroad if P. W. dare thus to charge us at home But a Narrative of the matter of Fact is the clearest expedient to refute this Slander wherein let England and Sootland answer for themselves if any Answer seem necessary to so palpable a falsehood and let the Protestants of Ireland excuse my zeal if I urge some clear instances though I pretermit many for their vindication Those which P. W. slanders with having deserted the royal Cause when the Irish Papists fought against the Regicides in defence of his Majesties Rights were even the very first in Ireland which proclaimed his Majesty my L. Lieutenant also at the head of them and that duty was performed by the Protestant army in the Province of Munster the same year in which by giving the Irish Papists some considerable defeats the said Papists were reduced to a real necessity of submitting to his Majesty which yet they but seemingly did But possibly P. W. was at that time so busie in preparing those Articles of Peace which were to fetter his Majesty that he had not leasure to hear how his Protestant Subjects freely proclaim'd him It is also undenyably true that a considerable Body of the Protestants of Ireland under the L. Lieutenant though mingled with the Irish Papists fought constantly against the Regicides nay after the said Irish Papists would have been Regicides themselves at least so far such as conspiring to murther his Majesty in effigie at Waterford c. did amount unto and never declin'd that Quarrell till by the infidelity of their Accusers they were not only disabled to prosecute it but as several of themselves have confest were reduc'd at last even for the preservation of their lives to keep as strict Guards against the Irish Papists as against Cromwell All which his Grace having found was but too true he withdrew himself at last out of the Kingdom and permitted those Protestants to withdraw themselves from the Irish Therefore let any unbyassed person judge whether the Irish Papists or all the Protestants were wholly the Deserters of the Royal Cause or which of them fought longest against the Regicides if the insolence and disloyalty of the Irish Papists were such even when Cromwell was at their gates what would it not have been without that Curb But I see though P. W. remembers wha● he should not ye● he can forget what he should remember In the years 1641. and 1642. the Protestants in Ireland not onely fought as his Majesties Subjects but by his Command and with his Commission against the Irish Rebels in the year 1643. a Cessation was concluded by his Majesties Authoritie and the Irish engaged by Articles both English and Irish by duty to transport their Armies to England for his Majesties service The English did it the Irish only made a show till the English were gone of doing of it and then plotted and attempted the destruction of the few English remaining in Munster whereby the Lord of Inchiquin who then commanded in that Province by the Kings Commission and the English with him were necessitated to stand on their own defence yet this is the first pretence which the Irish Papists make that the English Protestants deserted the Royal Cause Can even Malice it self

which is yet more observable was further pleased to assure Abraham that he was so far from intending to involve the just in the destruction of the wicked that i● in these great places design'd for so great vengeance he could find but even ten just men he would for their sake pardon all the rest that is not Sodom alone but the five Cities and the whole Pentapolitane region annexed My Lord our gracious King hath in ●mitation of this mercy of God pardon'd for some just mens sake all the Protestant Cities of his Dominions And will he not pardon the miserable remainders of one poor Catholick Town or two or three at most if perhaps there be so many that have any way offended I am sure what ever their offence hath been it hath been these many years past sufficiently punish●d and hath been even of the most criminal incomparably less than what may be charged on most of all his Majesties Protestant Cities And I am sure there have been in the very worst of them and in the most disobedient more than fifty the greatest number Abraham proposed for mercy to Sodom just men I say to his Majesty and your Excellence then which you take no further cognizance of justice in this particular And what besides may render them unfit objects of the general mercy if not perhaps their Religion Which nevertheless being so Chrstian and allowed by Articles can be no exception Yet if notwithstanding all this the few and miserable Survivours and Heirs of the dead in the general desolation must suffer again and under his royal justice I beseech you my Lord Let not the Tables of Sylla and Marius let not their general proscriptions or confiscations be renewed on this occasion or affixed in the Courts and Judicatures of the Brittish Monarchy Let not these bright dayes of universal joy be rendred to the Irish Catholicks alone dark sad and dismal Nor let these dayes be infamously memorable to posterity for a distinction so unequal Even the greatest and worst of Delinquents amongst the Catholicks of Ireland even of those very Corporations or Cities that have been most refractory were so far from being Regicides or any way inclined unto them and only such and but very few of such because only some of the most immediate actors have been hitherto thought fit to be excluded a share in this joy that they have fought against them even to despair and fought against them when England and Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland wholly deserted the Royal cause and fought against them as well in defence of his Majesties rights as under the title of his Subjects till at last by long seiges and multitudes overpowred and through Gods unsearchable Judgments and their desertion by friends abroad and home divisions they lost themselves and their Country Nevertheless my Lord ●●● be it from my thoughts to desire the obstruction of any lawfull and honest course may be justly taken to secure the peace of that Country from rational dangers if any such can be in our dayes from the Catholick Natives What I humbly beg is That if these Catholicks must be alwayes so unfortunate as to be thought unworthy His Majesties Graces and Favours to Protestants that fought against him when they fought for him or of such as he vouchsafes even Presbyters Anabaptists Quakers Fift-monarchy-men Independents the greatest Enemies to regal power in some Tenets wherein the Roman Catholicks are the surest friends his Majesty may be at least graciously pleased to let them have the benefit of his Concessions articled with them And what I beg my Lord is that his Majesty not so much regard the power of our Adversaries as the Justice of our cause My Lord their power is no greater at this time than His Majesty is pleased to continue or make it There is a huge difference betwixt their influence on the meaner Officers and common Souldiers now and that it was in the time of the long Parliament or in the dayes of Tyranny and Anarchy In a word it will signifie a meer nothing if once uncommissioned by His Majesty and the common Souldiers payed However my Lord their power cannot be so dangerous as their unjust demands of byassed interest and pretended zeal if complyed withall by His Majesty and by a breach so notorious and so great of our Articles For besides that such proceedings would in all probability estrange the hearts of the Irish Catholicks from his Majesty and by a consequence of reason how strange soever this may appear at first sight kindle and raise in all judicious Protestants who have ever fought in any of his Dominions either against himself or against his Father even in the very Demanders how much soever blinded at present by proper interest perpetual Jealousies and distrusts of thei● own safety notwithstanding any Declaration from Breda or Acts of Westminster pass'd in this present Parliament they would which is most of all to be feared as the worst of evils and may Providence divert it in obstructing the cause turn the heart of God from our good Prince and bring his Judgments on him My Lord never or scarce ever did publick breach of publick faith escape very publick and very dreadfull Judgments even in this World I mean Histories profane and sacred are full of sad examples of both kinds And for the peoples breach our Irish Nation these fourteen years past so wonderfully scourged beyond almost all example for their breach of their first Articles those of fourty six with you my Lord will be recorded in after ages as one of the saddest But for a Princes transgression of this nature and Judgments following even such as are infallibly known to have been for this only cause inflicted and by God's own immediate execution for the greatest part and the rest by his good will and pleasure that of the 21. of the 2. of Samuel is pertinent and formidable The very first of faithfull Kings elected by Gods immediate ordinance anointed by God's immediate commandment appointed by him Ruler of his peculiar people and Champion on Earth of his Church against Infidels even this beloved of God for a time this dear darling of Heaven for some years ●o ●oone● attempted against Articles on the poor Gibeonites and their four Cities but those most fearfull and exemplar Judgments recorded by Samuel were decreed against him and for this very fact alone against his posterity and against the whole Kingdom of Israel Neither could all the miseries of his own life after nor the ignominy of his own death and of the best of his children which followed very soon nor the Army of God perishing with him by the swords of Idolaters expiate this publick breach of publick Articles Not although they were his own Subjects with whom he broke and not Subjects only but slaves born and by covenant nor slaves alone but Amorites whose Towns and Lands and fortunes had been the free gift of God to the Children of Israel in

and prosecute as aforesaid their Claims The fifth Supplication is expressed in these words viz That several of the Petitioners are able to make appear their constant good affection and adherence to the Common-wealth for whom a competent time to be allowed to make out the same is humbly supplicated and that these and such of the Petitioners as have already done the same may have the benefit held forth unto them by the Act for settling of Ireland These expressions being verbatim in the said two petitions I shall only observe from thence what follows 1. The persons who presented these Requests to the RVMP did it not only for themselves but for the Papists of Ireland in whose behalf they own themselves to be Sollicitors 2. Those two Gentlemen their publick Agents were persons of too much knowledge and discretion to have done any thing especially of so high a nature as this for so great a body of people without sufficient power from themselves so to do 3. That these their Agents Addresses to the RVMP were by allowance and command from themselves needs not better to be proved than by the Irish Papists ever since continuing those their two Agents in publick employment for them even to this day 4. To that very RVMP by whose immediate Commission the horridest of Murthers was acted they scruple not to make their application and even by the stile of the supreme authority the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England c. and that twice If P. W. should say they were necessitated to petition and that their petition would not be received without it were so directed I answer No consequence of their suffering could be so great as the guilt of owning the RVMP by the twice before mentioned Titles The single Advocate of the Irish Papists viz. P. W. layes it as a guilt upon all the Protestants of Ireland that some of them fought under one of the Regicides to recover their own Estates and punish the guilt of the first Rebellion and their often violation of their Articles and yet their publick Agents in behalf of all the Papists of Ireland own all those Regicides to be that supreme Authority 5. But if the Consciences of the Irish Papists were hardened enough to run into a certain sin but in the expectancy of an uncertain advantage why yet in their printed petition did they use these guilty expressions viz. They did readily subject and put their CONSCIENCES Lives and Fortunes as in a secure Sanctuary under the protection of that Commonwealth Though if they would petition they may say there was a necessity to stile the RUMP the Supreme authority yet sure they cannot say there was a necessity in the body of the petition to insert such criminal words therefore since the Body of the Petition is more than consonant to the Title of it it is but reasonable to believe the Title they gave the RVMP was as voluntary as the expressions with which they treat them If they would but make his Sacred Majesty what in print they acknowledged the RVMP was to them viz. A secure Sanctuary to put their Consciences Lives and Fortunes in if what is past could not be remedied yet the mischiefs to come might perhaps be prevented 6. But as if the immediate before mentioned respects to the RVMP had not been sufficient they pay them others professing in these words viz. Their withered hopes and former confidences are afresh revived by the RVMPS return to the management of the Government under which their propensions to peace and quietness are so great that they willingly ACQVISECE in the TRANSPLANTATION Would they be but as joyfull for his Sacred Majesties restauration as they say they were for the RVMPS and had they been as willing to express their propensity to the peace and quietness of this Kingdom under his Majesties undoubted authority as under the RVMPS usurped power P. W. had been exempt from the Guilts of writing and printing his Letter and I from the trouble of answering it The Irish Papists are not only content to declare They willingly acquiesce in the Transplantation but to heighten the merit of that performance they add these words viz. Albeit it was not executed by any legal power yet had they stop'd there those their last words had been true and sure the RVMP would have had arrogancy enough to have assumed to themselves without an explanation from the petitioners that thereby was meant what their Agents positively say in the immediate next following words viz As not derived from your Honours Though the Irish Papists in their ingagements nay Oaths to others are not without their Equivocations and Mental reservations c. yet to the RVMP when they might have left themselves as to the last expression to a fair explanation they voluntarily cast it behind them in these clear words As not derived from your Honors Those which now pretend to such Loyalty to His Majesty voluntarily confess No execution was legal that was not derived from the RVMP is not this implicitely if not explicitely an owning in the Irish Papists the legality of the RUMPS power even in the bloody Murther of his Sacred Majesty that being derived from those the Irish Papists call Their Honours But it is no wonder that those to whom the Irish Papists did readily subject themselves and put their Consciences lives and fortunes as into a secure Sanctuary should have so much plainnesse kindness and obedience for them May we not too from thence inferr till they consider his Sacred Majesty as they profess'd they considered the RUMP his Majesty may not well expect from them that ready Subjection and propensity to peace which in their said Addresses they promised to those Usurpers 7. Observe all this is said and done since the peace of 1648. yea part of it and that the most criminal too but some few moneths before his Majesties blessed Restauration with what face could the Irish Papists by the same Agents plead for the Articles of peace before his Majesty as inviolable observers of them who but a few weeks before owned the RUMP for the Supreme Authority owned that they readily did subject and put their Consciences Lives and Fortunes as in a secure Sanctuary under their protection owned their withered hopes and former confidence was afresh reviv'd by the RUMP'S return to the management of the Government owned their propensions to peace and quietnesse under the RUMP to be so great that as one evidence thereof they willingly did acquiesce in the Transplantation with these superlative expressions Albeit it was not executed by any legal power as not being derived from their Honours The very Murtherers of his late Majesty of glorious memory are the elected Sanctuary of the Irish Papists not only for their Lives and Fortunes but even for their CONSCIENCES also That bloody power which made the Royal Line of England and all good Subjects of England Scotland and Ireland so long wither is by their return to Government

that though their Army is such as sufficed to subdue the Irish Rebels when universally confederated throughout the Kingdom and supplyed by Foreigners with Money Armes and Ammunition and strengthened with no lesse than the Popes Blessing and Nuntio yet their power consists not in Armes or Armies Fortifications or Men but in Loyalty and Obedience to his Sacred Majesties Commission and Authority and is consequently as P. W. sayes no greater than his Majesty is pleased to make it And since this is the true state of the Protestant both Principle and Interest As in truth it is even their Adversary being their Judge 't is likely therefore that P. W. declares they are his Adversaries for I believe his Friends are other guess men But doubtless those are fittest to be trusted with Power who are no stronger by it even by their Enemies acknowledgements than He which gives it is willing to make it than those who never had power but what they forc'd from his Majesty and who never employ'd that Power the whole stream of their own actions being their Judges but against that Sacred Majesty from whom they wrested it The Arguments following plead Justice and that Justice grounded on the Articles of 1648. and judged by the sad consequences threatned on the breach thereof whether we regard men or God Though concerning the Arrticles of 1648. enough hath been instanced already yet to leave P. W. without occasion of Cavil it will not be unfit to adde somewhat more here 1. The Contents of those Articles are in themselves unwarrantable except in Case of Necessitie which hath no Law 2. The Condition of those Articles whereon they were principally if not onely founded hath been often and intirely violated by the Irish Papists The Contents of those Articles are unwarrantable unless in Case of Necessity because they are contrary to an higher Obligation according to the Rule both of publick and private Justice 1. His Majesty at his Coronation binds himself to God to govern these Kingdoms according to their respective Laws and let P. W. himself consider how agreeable it is to Law or publick Justice that the Militia Treasury an Army of fifteen thousand Foot two thousand five hundred Horse of Irish Papists and even in effect the Legislative power it self should be in the hand● of twelve men to be chosen by Irish Papists or that there should be no alteration in England of what they in Ireland should think fit to transmit to his Majesty for the settlement of that Kingdom or even that the Irish Rebels should be pardoned without the consent of Parliament when his Majesty in Parliament the seventeenth year of his Reign adjudged such pardon before Conviction to be null and void hereby even when they treated with his Majesty concerning the Affairs of this Kingdom assuming the Legislative authority of it by repealing the Statute made the 10. of Henry the VII commonly called Poynings Law and the explanatory Law thereof in 3. 4. of Philip and Mary And though hitherto they chiefly pleaded before his Sacred Majesty in Council but for so much benefit of the Articles of peace in 1648. as would restore them to their forfeited Estates yet if they had prevailed therein upon the score of that plea it must in consequence have adjudged for them the benefit of all the other Articles as a Right For if any of those Articles are due to them by an Obligation of Justice all are then d●e to them by the same Obligation and since as appears by his Majesties Gracious Declaration in Council of the 30. of November 1660. that they have no right to any of their forfeited Estate● nor any title but what his Majesties mercy and bounty hath vouchsafed to diverse of them it thence follows That his Majesty in Council has adjudged They have no right to those Articles For as an adjudication of his Sacred Majesty of their Title to any one of the said Articles had entitled them to All so an adjudication of his Majesty in Council That they had not a right to that One they pleaded for has adjudg'd them to have no right to any 2. Was not his late Majesty of glorious memory before those Articles 1 preingaged to the Adventurers for many of the forfeited Lands in Ireland 2 in the strictest form of Ingagement even by an Ingagement in Parliament 3. on the account of strictest Justice even by way of sale 4 on the best account o● sale the end thereof being to reduce the Irish Rebels therefore might not these Arguments which P. W. urgeth in this instance against the breach of publick Faith be at least more applyable to this Engagement of his late Majesty to his now Majesties Declaration at Breda and his Gracious Declaration of the 30. of November 1660. which were all Acts of Choyce Premeditation and Freedom than to those Articles of 1648. which was an Act of Necessity and Rebellious force The Casuists and Schoolmen will easily resolve P. W. that the later and lesser Obligation ought to give place to the elder and greater But if P. W. object That if his Majesty were under an Obligation preceding and opposite to theirs why did he enter into an Obligation unto them To that I answer 1. That then it was not Res integr● for his Majesties Rebellious Subjects even some of the Adventurers themselves had super-induc'd a necessity upon his Majesty which as he could not foresee when he made his first Contract so by all the tyes of natural preservation he was bound to take away when they were brought upon him and it could not be a breach of Faith in the King to them who made it as things then stood impossible to perform it 2. Though Necessity be an unhappy plea yet when 't is a true it is an allowable one 3. That very Necessity which constrain'd his Majesty to those Articles had they been observed by those with whom they were made would have invited all honest Englishmen to have cheerfully waited till by the expected fruits and effects of that Peace his Majesty might have been enabled to have satisfied them nay they would rather have lost their money than his Majesty should have broken his Faith with them that had kept it with him and would have been so serviceable to him besides his Majesty might have been so soon reseated in his Throne that the debts of the Crown would have been so small and his Subjects ability and affections so great that he might and would easily have satisfied the Adventurers desires without forfeited Land in Ireland even by their own consent But the breach on the Irish Papists side has occasion'd so long and chargeable a War that their forfeitures together with the vast sums sent out of England into Ireland and raised in Ireland it self are scarce able to defray that expence which their own violation of Faith has engaged the Crown in so that it is but just that the Bear-skin as far as it will go should contribute to pay for the healing of those Wounds which the Bear it self had given His Sacred Majesty in the 3. page of his Declaration speaking upon these Articles uses these very words viz. When they who wickedly usurped the Authority in this Kingdom had erected that odious Court for the taking away the life of Our dear Father no body can wonder that we were desirous though upon DIFFICVLT CONDITIONS to get such an united power of Our own Subjects as might have been able with Gods blessing to have prevented that infamous and horrible Parricide In these clear and Royal expressions the World may see what was the only incentive to his Majesty for his granting of that Peace even no less than the preventing of the Murther of his blessed Father and the bloody consequences of it And therefore if That were the hopefull effect of those Concessions had they been observed on the Irish side may not we without too much straining inferr that the breach on their side contributed to if not acted that unparallel'd Crime To commit the Sin and not to prevent the Sin when men have the preventative power of it are very near ally'd if not the same Crimes I shall also here again observe that what P. W. calls Freely putting themselves and their power into my L. Lievtenants hands his Sacred Majesty justly marks with these observable expression● upon difficult Conditions may I not therefore from thence also well infer That P. W's Clients do nothing so freely as when they put difficult Conditions on his Majesty Though I have said and prov'd by undeniable evidences That the Irish Papists have violated and broken the Articles they extorted in 1648. yet becauss P. W's Tenents obliges