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Brief reflections on the Earl of Castlehaven's memoirs of his engagements and carriage in the wars of Ireland by which the government at that time, and the justice of the crown since, are vindicated from aspersions cast on both.
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Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?
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Christian more than a Mind conciled to Truth and Union But how those ends should meet in the Peace he designed was very unlikely considering his Majesties Concessions to the Adventurers the inestimable loss the English Protestants had suffered and the Enquiry there ought to have been for the innocent Bloud poured forth like Water in Ireland the least of which never came under consideration In as much as it is notably observed by the Person of Honour P. 58. That the Irish did the English more hurt and advantaged themselves more by the Cessation and two first Peaces than ever they did or could do by open Force after the first Massacre nothing writes Colonel Jones in his Letter to the Marquess of Ormond March 31. 1649. being to the English Interest in that Kingdom more pernicious and apparently destructive However after near three years deliberation his Majesty was forced to the Peace 1646. in assurance of a vigorous Assistance as before he had been forced to the Cessation And this not as one will have it who to wipe off the Force his Majesty was put to will have the Expression to be meant of those that erected that odious Court for taking away the life of the Excellent King Charles the First and not of the Confederates whereas the Cessation 1643. and Peace 1646. to which his Majesty says his Father was forced was some years before that odious Court was ever thought on or erected Upon the breach of which Peace the Earl of Castlehaven observes P. 80. That Story mentions not any one thing that had so fatal a consequence The Articles of which being notoriously violated it is no matter whether through the Nuncio's standing for Glamorgans Peace treacherously obtained and disallowed of by the King or the Confederates private dissentions both proceeding from animosities to the State But certain it is That all the Rebels Proceedings and their Demands however condescended to were insolent Treason Besides the Lord Lieutenant was infamously used forced out of the Kingdom the Parliament then sitting at Dublin Registring it to Posterity That the Irish were an insolent and upon all advantages a perfidious and bloudy Enemy None accompanying his Excellency to Dublin in his hazardous Retreat thithes when he and the Protestant Army were designed to be cut off by Owen O Neil but the Earl of Castlehaven P. 75. who upon the Rebels blocking up of Dublin advised the Lord Lieutenant P. 78. rather to deliver it to the Parliament than the Rebels for that when the King should have England he would have Ireland with it which otherwise with the Nuncio and his Party might remain separate A right Conclusion and that if it were his advice determined for the best Sure it is the Marquess of Ormond chose to capitulate with Jones and others imployed by the two Houses of Parliament to deliver up Dublin into their hands and other places for that he could no longer hold them rather than to suffer them to be taken by an Army instigated by a Foreigner to the danger of the whole Kingdom and the destruction of those he had so long protected Afterwards I find his Lordship for some time retired in the interim the Lord Inchiquin the Lord Taaff and other considerable Persons united Upon which the Marquess of Ormond at the request of the Confederates to the Queen and Prince was wrought upon to reassume his Lieutenantship with whom the E. of Castlehav returned The Lord Lieutenant entered upon this Imployment when the King was in his greatest trouble solemnly then concluding with all imaginable satisfaction to the Confederates though highly dishonourable to the Crown of England and destructive to the Protestants the Peace of 1648. as before he had done the Peace of 1646. upon the frequent commands he had not to let slip the means of setling that Kingdom fully under his Majesties obedience which none could blame the King to make upon difficult Conditions That he might get such a United Power of his own Subjects as might have been able with Gods blessing to have prevented that infamous and horrid Parricide which ensued Though generous souls would rather have adventured all Interests than to have enhaunced their price on his Majesties necessities But to come to the Peace which the Confederates as his Lordship writes P. 81. confirmed and sealed with the bloud of more than 20000 of their best men who lost their lives to maintain it refusing in the mean while all Offers of Peace and that even to the very last from the Parliament It would take up more time than can be dispensed with at present to answer all that is here alledged I cannot say but as many as his Lordship affirms may be lost of the Irish but that they fell in maintainance of this Peace he must give me leave to doubt In as much as Owen O Neil the Earl of Antrim and all the Northern Rebels refused to submit thereunto Whose assistance to the other Party he cannot forget and on what grounds they became Mercenary to Sir Charles Coot no more than that no Towns that the Confederates had but Kilkenny would receive a Garrison P. 42. And I am confident it is not out of his memory what the Clergy did at Jamestown August 12. 1650. two days after that they had sent the Bishop of Dromore and Doctor Kelly to persuade the Lord Lieutenant to leave the Kingdom claiming thereby a Power Paramount to his Majesties Authority seconding their Excommunication with daily affronts searching for him at Galway as for a Criminal person their Clergy denying to revoke their Excommunication or to give assurance to him or the Commissioners of Trust for not attempting the like for the future The Commissioners too of Trust on whom much was reposed being not all of like integrity The over balance of the Government being clearly in the Irish hands Others whom some cried were Ormonists being upon the matter Cyphers as eminently appeared in the Conference at Kilkenny and yet 20000 lost their lives to maintain the Peace of 1648. This Noble Earls Memoirs furnish us with Actions of a notable and active General such as engaged his Souldiers in Judgment as well as Duty P. 136. so as it may be expected with the Persian General that he knew every Souldier by his name and therefore might the more particularly affirm that 20000 fell in maintainance of the Peace of 1648. Yet who shall consider the Premises and those who afterwards submitted will believe some unites are wanting to complete his Arithmetick It may be he hath forgot that Captain Stafford a Roman Catholick yielded up the Castle of Wexford unto Cromwel and entered himself into his Service by which there ensued a notable effusion of bloud And I see it is out of his mind how a Party of the Confederates contracted with Ireton to give an Inlet for his Army into Limerick by securing a Port for that purpose when at the same time Hugh O Neil their
permitted Sir Luke Fitz Gerald Robert Harpool Esquire and others against whom they had more than ordinary proofs of their taking part with the first Conspirators peaceably to return to their habitations as they did James Warren and Friar Paul Oneil both examined at the Council Board and were not without reason suspected of the Rebels Party which Indulgence they soon improved to the defiance of the State which of 60 persons apprehended as justly suspected to be in the Plot caused onely one of Fermanagh to suffer death whom the Lord Mac-guire confessed to be privy to the Plot. Fourthly As to the keeping back of Petitions from the King by which his Lordship will have it That the whole Nation took up Arms for their defence he must be put in mind he taking pleasure to be minded of what is more in others knowledge than his that in the beginning of the Rebellion the Irish had never less reason to complain that their Grievances were not presented For the Commissioners of Parliament of Ireland * by whom the Rebellion was hatch'd who had attended his Majesty with a Collection of all Grievances were returned with such high and unexpected condescensions and those especially relating to the Roman Catholicks that it was but in August 1641. being the last Sessions thought that the next Sessions of Parliament would be principally to return his Majesty their acknowledgment that by taking off all Discriminations and Incapacities he had laid a most sure foundation of Unity and Peace amongst his Subjects Though there is a new Piece come forth entituled A short View of the late Troubles in England which would abuse the World as if the Committee from the Parliament of Ireland after nine months attendance were at his Majesties going for Scotland referred to the Parliament of England and afterwards constrained to return without any redress Besides the Lords Justices and Council did not conceal or debar any thing that ever came to them from the Confederates though warrantably they might have done it some things being so peremptory that it was not for them to admit of being the Presentative of his Majesty and others of that ill consequence to the injured Protestants as without a Comment could not with their trust be presented to his Majesty All or most of which Addresses however accompanied with undutiful and irreverend expressions or overtures were with the first opportunity presented to his Majesties view or knowledge About the 6. of November 1641. the Rebels of the County of Cavan sent their presumptuous Propositions to the Lords Justices and Council which with their Answer they forthwith certified to the L. Lieutenant the E. of Leicester to whom by his Majesties express Command the Dispatches relating to Ireland were to be directed About the tenth of the same Month the Longford Letter to the Lord Dillon of Costiloe full of pretended Grievances and unreasonable Demands as freedom of Religion a Repeal of all Laws made to the contrary and the like was presented to the State in behalf of the Rebels of Longford which having an answerable return his Lordship and the Lord Taaff went into England promoting that which afterwards centered in a Cessation About the midst of December 1641. Sir Thomas Carey and Dr. Cale a Sorbonist offered to the Council Board several Propositions from the Rebels presuming upon the straits that the State was brought to that their insolent Demands would not have been denied which they were but not without representing them to his Majesty The 23. of December 1641. seven Lords of the Pale who had declared by former Letters That they would stand on their Guard after that they had joined with the Northern Rebels in the Siege of Drogheda sent Letters to the Lords Justices to which though without prejudice to his Majesties Honour they could not answer yet they certified them to the Lord Lieutenant And about the 16. of March 1641. there was an Overture made to the Lords Justices by a Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven who by his Memoirs gives us occasion to reflect on these things in the name of the United Lords of the Pale signed by Gormanston Nettervile and Slane for a Cessation of Arms after that by his Majesties Forces transmitted out of England and 10000 compleat fresh men in Ulster besides the Scotch ten Regiments then in the Field the Irish were beaten from Drogheda by Sir Henry Tichborn and that his 〈◊〉 ies Army was full Master of the Field in all parts of the Pale To which the Lords Justices and Council thought not fit to hearken yet certified it to the Lord Lieutenant and did not as some maliciously suggest upon this Cause merely make his Lordship Prisoner Such another Paper from the Lord Mountgarret the 23. of March 1642. came to the Earl of Ormond Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army containing Grievances done in England as well as Ireland to shew to the Lords Justices which lay not in their power to redress which was also sent to the Lord Lieutenant to be shewn to his Majesty And in August the Confederates sent to the Lieutenant General a Petition directed to his Majesty which his Lordship presented to the Lords Justices who forthwith sent it to his Majesties Principal Secretary and thereupon a Commission was sent to the Marquess of Ormond to meet and hear what the Rebels could say or propound for themselves by Virtue of which his Majesties Commissioners received the Rebels Remonstrance at Trym March 17. 1642. A mere Rhapsody of scandalous Criminations upon the Government and a justification of their Rebellion since 1644. fully answered by a Person then at the Helm in a Book entituled The false and scandalous Remonstrance of the Inhumane and bloudy Rebels of Ireland worthy the Earl of Castlehaven's further Information This Remonstrance at length brought forth a Cessation in hope as David Routh titular Bishop of Ossory insinuated that it would at length prove the ruine of Heresie and the firmer establishment of the Catholick Faith and Interest And in truth whatsoever pretension there was for it it proved a snare to the English and no advantage to his Majesty After which their Agents were heard by his Majesty in Oxford who at their departure amongst many excellent admonitions worthy so intelligent a Prince were advised That if they made haste to assist to suppress the English Rebellion they might confidently believe he would never forget to whose Merit he owed his Preservation and Restauration and then it would be in his absolute power to vouchsafe such Graces to them as would not leave them disappointed of their just and full expectations Words sufficiently August By which it is apparent that nothing that ever the Rebels pretended should come to his Majesties Ears was obstructed by the Lords Justices or State Notwithstanding his Lordship is somewhat positive that the Rebels Petitions particularly those of the Pale were never sent to the King Wherein he assumes the Bleeding Iphigenia's Language That the