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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74937	The interest of England in the Irish transplantation, stated wherein is held forth (to all concerned in Irelands good settlement) the benefits the Irish transplantation will bring to each of them in particular, and to the Common-wealth in general, being chiefly intended as an answer to a scandalous, seditious pamphlet, entituled, The great case of transplantation in Ireland discussed. Composed and published at the request of several persons in eminent place in Ireland, to the end all who desire it, might have a true account of the proceedings that have been there in the business of transplantation, both as to the rise, progress, and end thereof. By a faithfull servant of the Common-wealth, Richard Laurence.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1655 (1655)	Wing L678; Thomason E829_17; ESTC R179375	23,297	35

THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND IN THE IRISH Transplantation stated Wherein is held forth to all concerned in Irelands good settlement the benefits the Irish Transplantation will bring to each of them in particular and to the Common-wealth in geral being chiefly intended as an Answer to a scandalous seditious Pamphlet entituled The great Case of Transplantation in Ireland discussed Composed and published at the request of several persons in eminent place in Ireland to the end all who desire it might have a true Account of the Proceedings that have been there in the business of Transplantation both as to the rise progress and end thereof By a faithfull Servant of the Common-wealth Richard Laurence LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and are to be sold at the Sign of Sir John Oldcastle near Py-corner MCDLV THE INTEREST OF ENGLAND IN THE IRISH Transplantation TO avoid prolixity and diverting the judgment of the Reader by impertinencies from the consideration of so weighty a business I shall decline the way of an orderly Answer to the several Arguments and Objections of the Discussor as they stand in his Book by which I should have been necessitated to take notice of many impertinences as to this business in hand besides the many scrupulous expressions and scandalous reflections contained therein against Authority whose contrary demeanour and actions are so publickly and well known to many thousands of judicious sober persons both English and Irish in this Nation that my testimony would be as needless in order to their vindication as the Discussors scandalous clamors are like to be succesless in the stain of their reputation and therefore they seem more to convince the Reader of the Discussors malignity and weakness than of the rationality of the thing therein pleaded for wherefore I shall for brevities sake confine my self to a plain and true Account so far as my memory and understanding shall help me of this business of Transplantation in which I shall use this method and speak First of the original Authority of this business of Transplantation from whence it came Secondly the reasons and grounds upon which it was undertaken by the Parliament as they are declared in the Act of Settlement and Instructions for Transplantation Thirdly the proceedings that have been herein from time to time by the Authority of Ireland in observance of the said Act of Parliament and Instructions wherein is to be minded their prudence and tenderness therein contrary to those in jurious insinuations of severity and cruelty suggested by the Discussor against them Fourthly Is observed the great mistake the Discussor grounds his whole discourse upon the clearing of which of it self might be a sufficient Answer to the whole Book all the Arguments within it being raised therefrom Fifthly several of the most swaying Reasons and Arguments offered by the Discussor against the Work examined and answered with some Arguments presented to consideration in opposition thereto First the weakness and malice of the Discussor is much discovered by his endeavours to lay the blame of the work of Transplantation if it were blame worthy orginally or chiefly upon the persons in chief Authority in Ireland Whereas they were but ministerial and subordinate therein onely putting the Orders and Instructions of Parliament in execution when received so that had they or any subordinate to them there been as much dissatisfied in the work as the Discussor yet it remained upon them as a duty so far as it was possible in their power to see the thing done Then secondly for the Reasons which the Parliament grounds the work of Transplantation upon as they are hinted and provided for in the Act of Settlement pag. 13 17 22. and mentioned in the Instructions pag. 1 2. you may there observe they are not upon that hand the Discussor would fix them viz. to punish the Irish for Rebellion and Murther for the time past as he supposeth and spends his pains about from pag. 7 to the 15. but on the other hand to preserve the English and so to settle Ireland for the future that the English Interest and People might not be liable to the like inhumane usage and destruction for the time to come which we have reason to believe they judged they could not do without this work of Transplantation which being the result of a Parliament nay of several Parliaments one after another approving and confirming each others Acts therein and withall not a sudden Act admitting of a probability of surprize before they had well advised and weighed the thing it being under consideration above twelve Moneths and they being the supreme legislative power of these three Nations The consideration of all which might have been sufficient to have cautioned the Discussor though he be in his own conceit more able to judg of that work than they all to have been more modest in his language especially in a business of that nature that no particular persons could propose self-advantage thereby and withall of that weight that the settlement of a Nation depends upon it But the Discussor me thinks seems to imply an Objection against this in page 27 28. of his Book that though the business of Transplantation were the Result of the wisdom of a Parliament and though the Parliament might consist of wise considerate men that understood and weighed well what they did yet saith he to stop the wonder how such destructive Resolutions could pass or be let pass from the hands of Authority all this time consider First those that were in England must see and hear by theis eys and ears that were in Ireland who as he saith were strangers to that Land and could not at the first sight understand the compleat interest thereof Secondly the face of things is much different in Ireland and though then necessity might have made it fit to have transplanted yet now the unfitness makes it not necessary Thirdly though then in their wisdoms they gave out such Orders yet in their goodness they did not think fit to execute them even till this time as if they did wait a time to be gracious to the Irish Nation These things are proposed as a premonishment to stop wonders saith the Discussor But where doth this wonder lie Is it in that we had no wiser a Parliament that better understood what they did in matters of so great importance or that so wise a man as the Discussor should not be found out to take advice from It is my opinion If that Parliament which first contrived and agreed the business of Transplantation were now in being they would be able to convince the Discussor that the ignorance of the state and constitution of Ireland by better Arguments than I can use is rather the arise of his Book than the occasion of their Act. And if any rebellious consequence should be the effect of his or the like Papers in such a nick of Settlement I doubt not but God would enable that Authority yet in being to