And that Royal Martyr having a deep sense of the daily Injustice done to that Nation by those who thirsted after Irish mens Estates more than the settlement of a Peace and Unity writes of that Rebellion in these words following And certainly 't is thought by many wise men that the preposterous Rigour and unreasonable Severity which some men carried before them in England was not the least Incontive that kindled and blew up into those horrid flames the sparks of discontent which wanted not predisposed Fewel for Rebellion in Ireland where despair being added to their former discontent and the fear of future extirpation to their wonted oppressions it was easie to provoke to an open Rebellion a People prone enough to break out to all exerbitant violence both by some Prinicples of their Religion and the natural desires of liberty both to exempt themselves from their present Restraints and to prevent those After rigours wherewith they saw themselves apparently threatned by the covetous Zeal and uncharitable Tury of some men who think it a great argument of the truth of their Religion to endure no other but their own In another place the same Royal Martyr says treating still of the same Rebellion That Men are more greedy to kill the Bear for his skin than for any harm be hath done The confiscation of Mens Estates being more beneficial than the charity of saving their Lives or reforming their Errors And thus this Wise and most Christian Prince considered the Tyrannical Usuage of the Irish under those hellish Fiends the Presbyterians who in those days governed Ireland and forced the Natives to Rebel of purpose to get their Estates as we afterwards saw by woful experience The Emperour Honorius was of the same Sentiment with our Royal. Martyr the said Honorius having discover'd the treasonable practices of Eucherlus against himself and his Empire told the said Eucherius as follows Three sorts of Traytors are to be considered said he by the Sovereign Prince viz. He that commits Treason out of Discontent or Injury done him is pardonable He that acts Treason out of madness is to be pitied And finally He that perpetrates Treason ex dominand libidine ought to feel the keenness of the Axe for said he Ense recidendum est immedicabile Vulnus Which last Sentence I wish His Majesty would put in execution against all those that thirst after Democracy for no other inducement or provocation but because they themselves would Rule all I would expose my Body to the flames of the most violent Fire like that gallant Roman Mucius Scaevola upon condition that His Majesty would make an Edict That all that served under the late Usurper or were Authors of the late Rebellion in Forty One might be banished out of the Three Kingdoms or stigmatized in the Forehead to distinguish them from the King's liege people then every honest man could sit under his own Vine and our King live in his Throne with Honour Tranquility Peace and Plenty hourly enjoying the Fruition of the hearts and affections of His Loyal Subjects until is pleased the Almighty to call Him to Himself and crown Him with immortal Glory Let the Whigs with all laudable Apology shroud their oblique Transactions and present Conspiracy against the King and Government and pretend to all the Loyalty and Innocency in nature none will believe them that has the least spark of reason for to my certain knowledge they have been a plotting these many years to plant a Commonwealth in England and Ireland c. And this is easily made manifest by their frequent Libelling against His Majesty by criminating Him of Incest with the Dutchess of P intimating that she was the Earl of st Alban's Daughter by the late Queen-mother of England Another Libel I saw reflecting upon the King 's Natural Children That His Majesty had Fifty five Royal Bastards Boys and Girls besides those that were in the Panniers That these in time would devour the Three Kingdoms unless they were all knocked in the Head That it was a deed of Charity to crush the old Serpent meaning the King lest He would fill the Land with His Lecherous Brood They have not spared His very Effigies or Statue that is set up in the Stocks Market to Libel against and the other Effigies of the old King set up at Charing-Cross and this Libel was called The Speech between the Two Horses Another of these Libels I saw where the Duke of Lauderdale perswades the King to Rule all by His own Great Will for it was a Mickle Shame for Majesty to be controuled by such prating Loons as were Members of the House of Commons Another of His Majesties Cabinet-Council in the said Libel desires the King to embrace the Mother-Church viz. Rome and destroy all the Hereticks in one Night as they were at Paris and then His Holy Father the Pope would Canonize Him a Saint for rooting out the Enemies of God and the Catholique Church For as the Pope gave Henry VIII the Title of Defensor Fidei so it was given to this King since His Restauration as the said Libel sets forth the Title of Restaurator Ecclesiae Catholicae habuit transmissum and illum Gladium Benedictum ad extirpandos expellendes Haereticos These are the very words of the Pamphlet Moreover That it was the worst thing that ever the Parliament did to settle the Militia upon His Majesty yet Charles could not live long because His whole mass of Blood was all corrupted in His Body as some of His own Physicians related to the Whigs That Nature was all consumed in Him only conserved for some interval of time by high Cordials But if He were once dead farewel then for ever Kings of England And unless the People could have their Ends by Parliament they would hire some of the King 's Physicians that would administer Him a Powder or some Poysonous Dose when He should fall into any Fit of Apoplexy of the same Nature with that which put a period to King James's days Being the Guards and Militia could not be taken from Him Other Pamphlets I have seen one whereof was so Satyrical and Malicious against Henry VII Owen Teusder his Grandfather and all the Welch that nothing could be more venomous The other was against King James and the Scotch Nation and what a great Vilification it was to the lofty hearts of English men to sloop to Welch and Scotch Beggars to reign over England c. These two last Pamphlets were the senecallest and odiousest that ever were penned by man insomuch that Nature it self would even blush to give the least auscultation to the perusal of any thing specified or included in them The person that caused the Sandals Crucifix and Beads several years ago to be fixed to Mr. Speaker's Chair in the House of Commons knew all the forementioned Pamphlets In this Epitome Reader you may see as in a transparent Glass the Phanatiques hearts by their exterior Deportments and Overt
falsest Lye that ever was spoke by any man For what he had in his own possession before the late Wars besides several Reversions that fell to him since by his Birth-right if he could have the benefit of them or any other of his Pretensions I will maintain is above 400 l. per annum at this instant If any questions the reality of this Assertion he may have an account by the Post from the Auditor-General's Office in Dublin where he shall see inrolled a Patent in Hughboy-Heyns of Leidigane his name and how he held his Lands of the Crown by Knights-Service This is no Ostentation or Vain-glory but what I am compelled to write by the Laws of Nature and common Justice to release my Family who can vie in Blood or Descent with any in Ireland though not in Estate or borrow'd Honour from the waspish tongues of those who studied with all amaritude to spatter me and my Ancestors for my Loyalty to my Prince Hetherington says in his scurrilous Pamphlet That the English Witnesses herded themselves with these tainted Irish Cattle I would have the Vagabond Beggar learn to distinguish betwixt his infamous Rascals which he picked out of all the Gaols in the North of Ireland and the ancient Irish Gentry who never were contaminated or reputed base until those Rake-kennels of Oliver's Fellow-Brewers Tinkers Coblers Sweep-Chimneys Carr-men and Jakes-men c. were all planted in Ireland These sordid and dunghil Mechanicks instructed and seminated amongst the Irish all Vice and Wickedness so that instead of the Virtue and good Nature that was in the ancient Natives these forementioned Ruscals have taught them Disobedience and all manner of Villany Sure I am the most profound and learned both in Gospel Law and History of the Noble English Nation and formerly no ill Sentiment of the ancient Irish when they celebrated their Encomiums to Posterity in their famous Writings witness my L. Cook in his 4th Institutes fol. 349. For-I have says he been informed by many of them that had Judicial places there and partly of mine own knowledge that there is no Nation in the Christian world that are greater lovers of Justice than they are which virtue must of necessity be accompanied with many others and besides they are descended of the ancient Britains and therefore the more endeared to us Likewise Cambden fol. 370. Patricii discipuli tantos progressus in re Christiana fecerunt ut subsequenti aetate Ribernia sanctorum Patria diceretur Scoticts in Hibernia Britannia Monachis nihil sanctius nihil eruditius fuerit in universam Europam sanctissimorum virorum examina miscrint Jocelinus Anglus in vita sancti Patricii fol. 191. Ita ut Hibernia speciali nomine insula sanctorum ubique terrdrum jure nominaretur paulo post it a ut exteras atque longinquas regiones illustrarent verbo ac religionis exemplo The extraordinary Merits and Loyalty of the Irish Nation was declared in open Parliament 27. July 1660. by our most Gracious Sovereign Charles II. touching the Act of Indempnity in these words I hope I need my nothing of Ireland and that they alone shall not be without the benefit of My Mercy they have shewed much Affection to Me abroad and you will have a care of my Honour and what I promised them And another time His Majesty is pleased to own their Loyalty in His Declaration in these words And in the first place We did and must always remember the great Affection a considerable party of that Nation expressed to Us during the time of Our being Beyond the Seas when with all Chearfuness and Obedience they received and submitted to Our Orders and betook themselves to that Service which We directed as most convenient and behooveful at that time to Us though attended with inconveniency enough to themselves Which demeanor of theirs cannot but be thought very worthy of Our Protection Justice and Favor Here I could quote the Authority of many other ancient Authors besides our present Sovereigns most Gracious and Royal words in extolling the Irish Nation but this taste shall suffice to let all rational men understand the good opinion the English had of the Irish in former Ages And that the defection of Virtue in some few Irish had its emanation from the English Whigs planted in Ireland since 1641 is most apparent and perspicuous by the said Authorities before cited Thus the Phanaticks condemn the Irish for their Loyalty for 't is a common saying with them That none will side with the King but a Rogue or a Papist Here you may see how they crucifie Virtue and countenance Vice they hold Loyalty a Crime and Treason worthy of Reward and Applause Such mungrel Rascals as Petherington have always scandalized the Irish Nation who understands neither Honour nor Learning or the Principles of a true Moralist that says Est act us fortitudinis more pro Patria 'T is the greatest Valor in the world to dye for the good of ones Countrey And although he breathed his first Air in Ireland he is like the Moths or Caterpillary that destroy that gives them their Being or like the Snake that would infect the Countrey-man and his whole house that saved his life a little before from perishing in the Snow There is no English Whig that maliciously reflects upon the transactions of the Irish if he will retrospect and ruminate seriously what intestine Wars and broils the Presbyterians created in these three Kingdoms and how their trayterous and murderous Actions of the Best of King and His Subjects renders them infamous and odious to God and man he can say but very little against the Irish I have seen a learned Treatise in Latine proving the necessity of that War raised by the Irish having begun it in their own defence to prevent the general ruine and destruction designed against the Kingdom and themselves by the beggarly Presbyterian Party that resolved to thrust them out of home and house for no other reason but because they were Papists Yet I will never vindicate any Subject that flies to Arms or to any manner of Hostile Commotion upon any specious pretences whatsoever without his Princes Commission or Power for according to St. Paul's Rule We must not commit evil that good may come thereof but we ought to submit in every thing to our Superiors and not be Judges of our own Cause The Irish Rebellion is more excusable than that of the English Whigs who had no colour to invade the Prerogatives of their Prince not Elective ad nutum populi but Successive by many Ages and that established by all the fundamental Laws of England And whosoever will but read that learned and pious Work Icon Basilikè of King Charles I. where he writes of the Rebellion of Ireland and seiriously balances the occasion of their raising in that Kingdom can never harbour such ill thoughts of the Irish as is spread abroad of them by their constant Enemies the Whigs
unparallel'd Oppression under the late Usurper's Trayterous Crew and worst of Rebels The Emperour Adrian though a Pagan and none of the best Princes took no notice of this kind of Vice in his Subjects when actually oppressed by his wicked Ministers of State whom he trusted to administer Justice to his people 'T is and old saying That Losers have leave to speak and if so no History either Sacred or Profane ever made mention of the like oppression as is done to the Irish Nation their Estates are given to those that actually fought against the King murdered His Royal Father King Charles I. and His Subjects In fine perpetrated all the Villany under Heaven Pardon me Reader for these Excursiions being touched to the quick to see my Native Countrey planted with Presbyterian Traytors whil'st the innocent Natives are famished with hunger and thirst being wholly shut out from all mercy by the Messias in which they hoped to be redeemed To return to our purpose Heyns has not been in Ireland since his Minority but once about eight years ago and then stayed not two months so that it was impossible he could in so short a time come to the knowledge of any design the Irish Papists had on foot against the King or Government his Business then into Ireland was about his own private Concerns as several persons of Honour can testifie if occasion requires Moreover Heyns declares before God and the world he never was bribed by David Fitz-Gerald as Hetherington alledges in his said Pamphlet much less managed by him or any man whatsoever to swear against any person living or dead neither does he imagine Fitz-Gerald or Hetherington capacitated to suggest to him such plenty of resined Reason for Heyns his natural Genius was better cultivated than to borrow from such blundred Fountains and better principled than to perjure himself through any man's persuasions Had Heyns no other reason to eschew Fitz-Gerald's company but how he brought his own chief Sir John Fitz-Gerald to trouble 't is a convincing argument to him he would never be true to a man altogether a stranger to him as Heyns was besides he can safely vouch That he has not been in Fitz-Gerald's company one quarter of an hour since Heyns has been reconciled to His Majesty And to speak the truth Heyns has so little a kindness for him that he never salutes him passing by and in this point he follows King James's Rule who was wont to say He never loved a Dog that bit his own Tail And notwithstanding all these lucid demonstrations Heyns must be managed by Fitz-Gerald because Hetherington ipse dixit But this with divers other acervations of Villany are falsly imputed to Heyns by the pestiferous Presbyterians that Bane of Mankind to alleviate their present nefarious Conspiracy against the King and Government An whereas Hetherington affirms in his lowsie Pamphlet That as soon as the Earl of Shaftsbury and Wilmore were sworn against c. the Evidence were rigged and had plenty of money in their Pockets Heyns to wash off that name of Prevarication charged upon him by that lying Varlet declares He never was cloathed upon the King's accompt in his whole life nor ever received any Bribes and his Watch and other things which he pawned when he was in the City he never was able to redeem them since he came from thence But Hetherington takes his norme from the insipid Whigs who have not spared with all acrimony to maculate and blast Heyns's Reputation since he has been instrumental to discover their treasonable Practices But the offers here a fair Proposal to all the Phanatiques living That if they can produce any man that is bona fide an honest man and of the Church of England without compulsion as by Law established which will depose upon Oath before the King and Council That the said Heyns was in all his life either Beyond Sea or in England before any Magistrate for any Capital or supposed Capital Matter or Crime onely for the Peace or before Mr. Secretary Jenkins the day he was apprehended by the Messengers or when he endeavour'd with other Prisoners to escape from the Kings-Bench he will recant whatever he said and acknowledge his testimony in publico foro to be invalid and of no efficacy 'T is true such a Rascal as John Lunn may swear any thing to boulster up the eclipsed Cause who offered at Oxford when Colledge was tryed to take the Sacrament that he met Heyns's four days after Colledge's Ignoramus at the Old-Baily in the Darby Ale-house near the Ditch-side in Fleet-street when twenty persons can testifie that Heyns was then and a great while after close confined in a Messenger's house by the Hay-market Moreover this Villain was made a lying perjured Rogue in open Court at Oxford by Mr. White the Messenger vide Colledge's Tryal fol. 45. So God infatuates pernicious men when they undergo wicked designs Another Bankrupt Villain of these Daemonish Whigs by name John Whaly whom Heyns since arrested said also at Oxford That Heyns offered to steal a Silver Tankard when he was a Prisoner in the Kings-Bench and was therefore sent by Mr. Lenthal then Marshal to the Common Side of the said Bench which is the falsest and infernallest Lye that ever was uttered by Man or Devil for most of the Officers of the Kings-Bench can justifie when occasion requires that Heyns was turned to the Common Side for offering to escape out of the said Bench. 'T is a Paradox that he should never be charged with such a Fact by the said Whaly or any other these six or seven years whereas Heyns never absconded himself but was publickly to the seen every day in the City and Suburbs where he practised But the Devil who ab origine gave life and birth to the Presbyterians still governs their hearts and actions and as he is the Father of all Mischief and Lyes they are by Regeneration his adopted Children in all Vice and Iniquity witness their Rebellions Murders Massacres stamping of the blessed Sacrament of our Saviour's Body under Foot Sacriledges Depredations in all parts of ⋆ Vide Dr. Hey … Histoâ—y of the Presbyterians Printed in 16â—0 Europe from the very commencement of them to this very day that it would fill a whole Volume to set down the Particulars of their horrid and bloody Proceedings insomuch that the Name of a Presbyterian is a shame and a scandal to Christian Religion Hetherington the Manager of the Popish Plot who durst tell so many Notorious Lyes before the King and Council As that he was a Justice of Peace about the age of sixteen years And like wise he told Mr. Atterbury the Messenger that he kept his Coach and six Horses besides his vast annual Revenues in Ireland when effectively he is and was always a Beggar though Mr. Atterbury out of meer Charity at that interim of time bought him Cloaths to his Back will not scruple to forge all Untruths to poyson
was not at all Chief-Justice nor no thoughts thereof Heyns answer'd that Point so well once before that he thought he put an end to the Whiggish Tautologies for when mention was made of my Lord Chief-Justice Pemberton in Colledge's Tryal at Oxford Heyns never named any particular month time or place in relation to Sir Francis Pemberton for if there had been any such Query demanded of him he could easily answer That Colledge spoke ill of my Lord Chief-Justice Pemberton divers times and especially in his own house before Mrs. Fitz-Harris and Mr. Ivy nay if need requires an eminent Citizen of London will be produced that can verifie that Colledge called Sir Francis Pemberton a thousand Rogues and that he hoped the next Parliament that sate would hang him up because he gave his opinion to the King that Fitz-Harris might be tryed out of Parliament And for Heyns being married to one Mrs. Mansfield as is alledged in the said Pamphlet 't is such Non-sense that none but a foolish simple Whig would publish such a ridiculous Story for the Gentlewoman her self denies she ever spoke any such thing If any be curious to know the truth of this false Alarum Mrs. Mansfield lodges at the Twisted Posts in James-street in Covent-garden who will certifie him of the truth of things But 't is no marvel the Phanatiques will six two Marriages upon Heyns at once when they impose two upon His Majesty viz. that He was married to the Duke of Monmouth's mother Horrid Indignation to His Sacred Majesty although he denied it upon the word of a Christian and a King Another idle Fable is set down in the said Pamphlet of Mr. Heyns how he counterfeited a Letter from one Mr. Oliver a Prisoner in the Fleet-Prison to one Mr. Harbottle of Lincoln whereby Mr. Oliver was cozen'd of the value of 200 l. Heyns answered this Whiggish Lye once before and had it printed in Mr. Thompson's Intelligence But I leave it to the judgment of any rational man how the said Oliver could be cheated of 200 l. having sworn himself out of Prison not to be worth 10 l. in all the World by the last Act of Parliament made three or four years ago for the Release of poor Prisoners for Debt Besides the Statute of Bankrupt was extended upon all his real and personal Estate many years before Heyns ever knew him and Mr. Adams that lives in Holborn a Barrister of Lincolns-Inn was one of the Commissioners for the said Statute of Bankrupt moreover Heyns calls God to witness he never knew Mr. Harbottle in all his life Some few things more I have to answer that are published in the said Pamphlet One is that it was beneath the Earl of Shaftsbury to speak to such a mean Rascal as Heyns is or words to that effect Of this Pamphleteer I would ask these two Questions What does he conceive by these word mean Rascal If he intimates Heyns baseness of Birth he can easily prove himself as well born by Father and Mother as the Noble Peer setting aside the King's Impression of Honour his Father is descended from the ancient Family of the Heyns of Connaught originally sprung from a younger Son of Miletinâ— that was Monarch of Ireland And in Henry the VIII's Reign his Ancestor by the Father side had power of Life and Death upon his own Estate and had Fifty Mannors that were his real Inheritance His Family was always Loyal to the Crown of England so that he will put his Life to issue if ever there was a Traytor of his own Line His Mother was descended of the Noble and Ancient Family of the Burks of Clanricarde that have been Peers of England and are still Peers of Ireland The Royal House of Lancaster married the onely Heiress and Daughter of the Earl of Vlster and Clanricarde whose name was Burke the Title of Vlster being given to the sole Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten and in her Right the Duke of York by the Lancaster Line is Hereditary Earl of the said Province In all Ages the said Family of the Burkes have shewed their Loyalty to the Kings of England and kept the Crown of Ireland upon Queen Elizabeth's head having with unspeakable Fortitude and true Valor defeated the confederate Irish and Spaniards in several pitched Battels when the Spaniards invaded Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's Reign If he means that Heyns was Basely Educated the Pamphleteer will be laughed at for no private Gentleman's Son could have better Documents instilled into him than he had in those liberal Sciences imbellishing a Gentleman Besides he lived always by his own honest industry and independant of any man which several Whigs in London can witness It was his Fathers Loyalty to his Prince that clouded his Birth and Breeding for had he sided with the late Usurper he might enjoy his own Inheritance to this day Let no man imagine that I publish these things of my Family out of Vain-glory but to let the world know I want nothing to make me a complete Gentleman but an Estate and that I am not such an abject person as the Whigs render me to the world Besides I think I do my Prince a great deal of Justice in clearing my Reputation from those Aspersions daily spoke of me by his Enemies And whereas 't is printed in the said Pamphlet that it was altogether groundless what Heyns deposed against the Earl of Shaftsbury relating to the Duke of Buckingham viz. That his Mother was not descended of the Plantagenets Heyns desires the Reader to consult the Heralds who are ready to prove that she was descended of a Sister or Daughter to Edw. IV. But the Pamphleteer may as well deny this point as that the Noble Peer never spoke to Heyns And I do really believe the Earl of S y would not involve his Native Countrey in a Civil War as 't is there mentioned out of any love he had for the Duke of Bucks but out of that odium he bears to the Duke of York and others he would make a New Association with the Infernal Fiends and offer all things that are dear to him in this Life as a libation to the Devil upon condition he might revenge himself upon the Yorkists And whereas the said Pamphlet denies that the Earl of Sh. spoke contumeliously of the King all men know that is not only usual with him to revile and speak ignominiously against the King privately but also publickly in open Parliament See the Speech of the Noble Peer where 't is said We want a Prince that we may Trust And in another paragraph of the same Speech he bids the King to change His Principles c. This uncivil Dialect is customary with Whigs in all Ages to Princes as any Historian can tell that has read the Life of Mary Queen of Scots Vide The History of the Rebellion in Scotland against the said Queen whom Knocks the Minister called often Whore and Jezabel and told her she