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A96165 Weighty queries relating to the past, present, and future state of Ireland calculated for the present and future benefit of that unhappy kingdom. And tendred to the serious consideration of all who are willing to be inform'd how it became unhappy, and how it may yet be made happy again to posterity. 1691 (1691) Wing W1258A; ESTC R230818 5,616 4

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Weighty Queries Relating to the PAST PRESENT and FUTURE State of Ireland Calculated for the Present and Future BENEFIT of that Unhappy KINGDOM And Tendred to the Serious Consideration of all who are willing to be Inform'd How it became Unhappy and how it may yet be made Happy again to Posterity WHETHER the Majority of the Irish were ever true or the Majority of the British ever false to the Crown of England Whether the most Considerable of the said Majority of the Irish are not at present better Subjects to King Lewis than either to King William or the late King James which is made evident in that so many of them chose rather to be Slaves in France than Free-born Subjects in Ireland and lost their Estates and left their Relations with their Native Countrey and much of their rich Plunder they got from the British rather than live under King William's Government Whether one of a hundred of the British of Ireland was an Enemy to the Government of King William and Queen Mary or one of ten thousand of the Irish a Friend to it Whether the Degenerate Irish of English Extraction be not more Jesuited Frenchified and more inveterate against the British than the Ancient Irish and needs not a much more Circumspect Eye of the Government over them Whether in all Ages there hath not been observed a greater aptitude in the British to turn Irish than in the Irish to become British Whether the Successors of the degenerate Posterity of many British Families whose Ancestors got Estates for their fidelity to the Crown of England have not as deservedly lost them in the two last Rebellions Whether any one of the Irish restored either by Provisoes in the Act of Settlement and Explanation or decreed innocent in the Court of Claims They or their Posterity were not now again in Rebellion And whether any one Instance can be given that any Irish-man ever exprest any sorrow for what he did in this Rebellion and whether they are not ready to do the like had they again the like Occasion Whether all the Irish real and personal Estates can satisfy for the Robbery Plunder and Devastation made by them upon the British in this last Rebellion Whether the Reduction of the said Rebellion hath not cost more than a hundred thousand British Lives and more than two hundred thousand Irish Whether more than one half of the Kingdom is not at present laid waste by the said Rebellion Whether those Governors who most effectually encouraged the British Interest and discouraged the Irish were not always celebrated as the best Governors of Ireland and best Servants to the Crown of England Whether the Irish having in all Ages been so rebellious to the British Crown and so destructive to the British Subjects ought to be intrusted with Places of Trust or Power and whether the disabling them from those Imploys can or ought to be interpreted by any Foreign Roman-Catholick a Persecution upon account of Religion Whether the Irish have not in all Ages grown rich and prosperous under the English Government and whether there is any possibility that the British can be so under theirs Whether it is not demonstrable that the Nocent Irish have been Millions of Pounds Gainers and the Innocent British as much more Losers by their two last Rebellions Whether what the Irish usually lose by pusillanimity in the Field they have not as constantly recovered by Flattery at Court Whether ever they kept faith in any Articles made with the English either in this or their former Rebellion Whether the Articles made with Sir Thomas Southwell and his Party were not as solemnly made to indemnify those British as the Articles made by the Lord General Ginkle was to indemnify Galway and Lymerick Irish Whether notwithstanding the said Articles the said Sir Thomas Southwell and his Party were not imprisoned tryed sentenced and condemned as Traytors and when they produced the said Articles were told that Articles of War could not invalidate the Laws of the Land VVhether the said Lord General Ginkle did not to his immortal Renown frequently and publickly declare to the Irish both at Galway and Lymerick That he was a Stranger to the Constitution of their Countrey and that they must expect no Articles to be made good that was contrary to the Law and not in his power to grant VVhether the Laws of VVar can extend to vacate Acts of Parliament or are not to be limited to Life and Personal Estate in the Place and not to Real or Personal Estates elsewhere VVhether the Articles of Peace made in the Year 1648. at Kilkenny by the Duke of Ormond were not as solemn and more binding than the Galway and Lymerick Articles yet the said Articles of 1648. were not only accounted of no value by the Parliament of England as to the Irish's Real and Personal Estates but were also utterly rejected and disallowed by the Parliament of Ireland and made a Bar of Innocency to any claiming by them as appears by the Act of Settlement VVhether the Galway and Lymerick Irish capitulating with the said Lord General Ginkle to have the said Articles confirmed by King and Parliament is not a Tacit Consent That they knew the said Articles could not answer their end without the Concurrence of the King and Parliament VVhether all Persons who acted in aided assisted and abetted the two last Rebellions of Ireland were not attainted from the 1st of March 1640. by Act past decimo septimo Caroli Primi for endeavouring to introduce Papal Authority into the Kingdom of Ireland Whether it is not evident as well by the Orders of the Supreme Council in their former Rebellion as by the Acts of their pretended Parliament in this that nothing short of the Sovereignty of that Kingdom and the Extirpation of the British will be ever satisfactory to that Party Whether the vacating of Poyning's Law and abrogating all Writs of Error and all Appeals into England doth not sufficiently evidence That the Absolute Soveraignty of that Kingdom is the Mark whatever has been the Butt they aimed as in all their Rebellions Whether their pretended Act of Reversal and Attainder does not as evidently prove the Extirpation of the British to be the chief Design of that Party Whether the said Act of Attainder doth not on the beginning of August 1688. forfeit their Lives and Estates and corrupt the Blood of about Three Thousand of the chief British Inhabitants of that Kingdom and wanting other matter Whether their pretended Crime was not the Aiding and Assisting the Prince of Orange's Invasion into England when His Majesty that now is whom God for ever Bless and Preserve made not his Descent into England till the 5th of November following and managed that Heroick Design with that Privacy that the Irish themselves well knew that not one of the Attainted British did know it or could then contribute any Assistance to it Whether a parallel Law to this Attainder for the