to the Lords Justices by the same Lord Dillon as also by their frame of their new Common-Wealth found in Sir John Dungans house not far from Dublin and sent up thither out of Connaught to be communicated to those of Leinster the sum of which and other such like is summ'd up and may be seen to have that purport in the Irish Rebellion written by Sir John Temple f. 80 81 82. § Indeed if the Irish Papists had been so Loyal and Faithful as they now boast themselves to have been Nay had they had the least spark of gratitude for that King who had disobliged so many by obliging them so much they would never in his distresses have capitulated so severely and on the Swords point with him nor have held him to such hard tearms as they did in all their Treatises which they used only as Stratagems to Trapan not to serve His Majesty For in the Year 1643. when a Cessation was concluded with them by the Kings Authority and both English and Irish Engaged by Articles to Transport their Armies to England for His Majesties Service the English did it the Irish only pretended they would do it when the English were gone and then according to one of their old Maxims Nulla fides servanda cum Haereticis they plotted and attempted the ruine of the small Remnant of English left behind in Munster where the Lord Inchiquin commanding by the Kings Commission and the English with him were necessitated to stand on their own defence against the Popish Army Orery 25. Though in the Year 1645. the Earl of Glamorgan gave as Adventageous tearms as they could ask and condescended to such hard and dishonourable propositions on the Kings part as the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond in Justice and Honour neither could nor would condescend unto and though the Commissions of the confederate Catholicks solemnly engaged the publick Faith for the performance of them one Article whereof was 23. b. That they should send 10000. to serve His Majesty c. yet did they not in due time perform their plighted Troath herein which was a great disservice to His Majesty In which slender performance of theirs they could have no other end than thereby to render the Rebells in England more irreconcilable to His Majesty that so that War might be kept up that they might the better gain by Fishing in those troubled Waters so that they well hoped to give Law to both It was the constant observation of the Protestant Army there that the lower and more unfortunate the King was in his successes in England the higher were the demands of the Irish for the Truth is how Loyal and dutiful soever their pretences were towards the King yet their design was to set up for the Pope and the establishing the Romish Religion and erecting its Spiritual Monarchy at least if not a Temporal with it The Arch-Bishop of Iuum was a principal Agent in the Irish Wars and of the Supreme Council of Kilkenny He attended the Army about this time to visit his Diocess and to put in Execution an Order for the Arrears of his Bishoprick granted to him from the Council at Kilkenny which Order together with the Popes Bull and several other Letters of Correspondence between him and his Agents from Rome Paris and several parts of Ireland were found about him whereby it did appear that the Pope would not at the first engage himself in sending of a Nuntio for Ireland till the Irish Agents had fully satisfied him that the Establishment of the Catholick Religion was a thing feaseable and attainable in that Kingdom in which being satisfied he was content to sollicite their cause with Florence and Venice c. and also to delegate Farmano his Nuntio to attend the Kingdom who after some delays in France was at last posted from thence by express Order from the Pope and he arrived at the River of Kilmore in a Friggot of 21 Guns in October with 26 Italians of his Retinue Secretary Belinges and divers Regular and Secular Priests and also with great Supplies for the service of the King no doubt as 2000 Muskets 4000 Bandaliers 2000 Swords 500 Petronells and 20000 l. of Powder all which arrived at Brooke-Haven the same Month together with 5 or 6 Deskes or Small Truncks of Spanish Gold how far all those Popish Auxiliaries conduced to the Kings service and the Protestant Interest I leave to all Contemporaries to judg As in the year 1645. so in that Year 1646. after a peace concluded with them they treacherously attempted to cut off the Lord Lievtenant and his Army with him who marched out of Dublin on security and confidence of that peace 24. b. The same year the Council and Congregation of the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland obliged their General Preston by a solemn Oath to exercise all Arts of Hostility against the Lord Marquess of Ormond the Kings Vice-gerent and his Party and to help and advise with Council and assist in that service the Lord General and Vlster employed in the same Expedition In the Year 1647. from Kilkenny 18. January the General Assembly of the Confederate Catholicks of Ireland employed Commissioners to Rome France and Spain to invite a Forrein power into Ireland To Rome they sent their Titular Bishop of Ferns and Nicholas Plunket Esq Knighted there by the Pope for his good service therein to declare that they raised Arms for the freedom of the Catholick Religion which are their own words in the Third Article of those their Instructions Orerey This is consonant to the Oath framed the same Year with some Addition to what had formerly been taken by the said General Assembly and pressed on all sorts of people under pain of high Treason which Oath enjoyns the maintenance of these ensuing Propositions 1. That the Roman Catholicks both Clergy and Laiety in their several Capacities have the free and publick exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion and Function throughout the Kingdom in as full lustre and splendour as it was in the Reign of Hen. VII or any other Catholick King his Predecessors Kings of England and Lords of Ireland either in Ireland or in England 2. That the Secular Clergy of Ireland viz. Primates Arch-Bishops Bishops Ordinaries Deans Deans and Chapters Arch-Deacons Prebendaries and other Dignitaries all other Pastours of the Secular Clergy their respective Successors shall have and enjoy all and all manner of Jurisdictions Priviledges and Immunities in full and ample manner as the Roman Catholick Secular Clergy had or enjoyed the same within this Realm at any time during the Reign of the late King Hen. VII sometimes King of England and Lord of Ireland any Law Declaration of Law Statute Power or Authority whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding 3. That all Laws and Statutes made since the 20th Year of Hen. VIII whereby any restraint penalty or other restriction whatsoever is or may be laid upon any of the Roman Catholicks either of the
and clamorous they will be Such is their Nature that it must devour or trample down all before it or else it will never rest satisfied Such is the unsatiableness of this Scarlet Lady so often drunk with the Blood of the Saints that no Blood could yet satisfie but that she still cries Give Give In all Histories from Generation to Generation they that run may read prodigious Examples of Exorbitant Papal Claims and pride over Kings Emperours Princes and Free States even against right reason and to the Indignation of all Mankind and these justified by their Popes Councils Decretals Canons and Divines of the first Magnitude ascribing to the Pope power of deposing Kings if Hereticks and they are all so when his Holiness pleaseth so to tearm them by as good Logick as the Foxes Ears are Horns if the Lyon please to call them so And if yet there be any Papists that in Word or Writings do disown such Doctrins as the Seculars did in Queen Eliz. days of whom notwithstanding it is observed That they never discovered any traiterous design until it was first discovered by others and that in several Treasons though many of the Seminary Priests were active and forward yet they are as little to be confided in as those that own and justifie them for that by so doing they contradict and disclaim the very Faith they own and profess and unto which they are sworn thereby forsaking their Popes Councils Canons Divines and Decretals nay their Doctrins of Supremacy of believing as the Church i. e. as the Pope believes of Infallibility and Probability of Equivocation of no Faith to be kept with Hereticks c. all Doctrins of the Church of Rome which alone are in their esteem of power sufficient to warrant and justifie their blind obedience and to null all the security that can possibly be given between Prince People whether Oaths or Laws Civil or Ecclesiastical nay Divine And if we may prognosticate of practises to come by practises past let the said Experience of former Ages and of all Countries and of ours in particular rise up in Judgment against them that they never have been never will be Loyal Subjects to our Protestant Princes the Reasons are strong for that they are ever incited to such evil Machinations and practises by the strong impulse and impetuous zeal of their own Doctrins and Superstitions and all proceeding from causes pecular unto Romish Religion and Principles which they have not in the least as yet changed nor disclaimed nor yet their Interest § Besides if the Papists of England have merited any thing from the King and his Father in these late troubles it is no thanks to their Religion and therefore no reason they should be gratified in their Religion for had it proceeded from the undoubted principles of their Religion it would have held as well in Ireland as in England nay it would have held as well in Queen Elizabeths and King James his time as in the time of King Charles Father and Son a Postscript to an Answer to a Jesuited Gent. and also in a sparing Discourse It being confessed by themselves that none of them have in all the times of persecution dyed expresly for Religion but all for Treason b Answer to a Letter to a Jesuited Gent. f. 45. And that Irish Papists would have been as little Loyal to Queen Mary as unto Queen Eliz. But the continual Plots against the Life and Crown of that Queen and that horrid Gun-powder Plot against King James and all his Race and Nobles and the late Rebellion in Ireland against King Charles do demonstrate the contrary and their Religion where that and the Pope are concerned teaching the contrary but they thought not their Religion in that case concerned if they had then it would have appeared whether their Loyalty would have born up against it or no more than it hath done in former times Therefore if any such Merits have been they have been only personal and so may be and no doubt so have been and will be requited with personal favours but in no case with such as may tend to the advantage of the Popish and consequently to the disadvantage of the Protestant Religion Power and Interest of our Princes But let us a little examin what in truth have been the Merits of the Papists in the late Wars To say the Papists were the Formal Causes of the late War upon what hath been before written were happily not quite besides the Cushion However the former matter and grounds administers good Reasons to believe and affirm that they were great occasions both of the rise growth and continuance of our late Wars Some and those not a few of the wisest and most sober Cavaliers thought that the Papists did look upon the War as their great Interest and Hahvest either by opening unto them occasions to pretend something in favour of their party in case the King prevailed or otherwise by fomenting of the War between Protestant and Protestant they should have gained an Interest through their divisioos when they had weakened one another and that by fishing in troubled Waters they should gain some advantage by the confusions which as the Law stood in a setled State of Affairs they could not expect § However if the Papists did not design those divisions and the breaking in pieces of the Antient Government of this Kingdom and that wherein they hoped to find their Interest it is certain they were great occasions thereof for what on the one hand with their Negotiations before the War by Seignior Con and other the Popes Agents and the State tampering with the Pope and King of Spain about the INfanta not yet out of the Minds and Memories of his Subjects and their boldness upon the favour they might happily expect from the Kings Mother and the Clemency which they found from his Father no way desirous to have the Sanguinary Laws Executed upon them and what by the Rebellion of those of that Religion in Ireland they created so great Jealousies in the minds of the Protestant party in England that it rather weakened the Royal party than fortified it and made the Adverse party so numerous and so successful as a long time it was And it may be truly said there was never a Papist in the Kings Army but it lost him the Hearts of many Protestants and as it cannot be supposed that they brought a Blessing on the Kings Armies so it is certain they brought a very ill reputation upon them and where one fought against the Kings party upon a serious Examination of the State of the Quarrel Hundreds took the other party because they saw so many Papists on his side and possibly things had never grown to that height as to have broken out into a War had it not been for the Jealousies which were partly given and partly taken from the Insolent Carriage of that party both in England and Ireland And yet for
lamentable they printed the particular names of all the persons which by their own Catalogue did not exceed 60. to the Year 1583. whereof not above 30 Priests nor above 5 Receivers and Harbourers and for Religion not any one Executed whereof not any one at all till about the 12th Year of Her Reign And J. W. their own Martirologist for Her whole Reign which was above 44 Years doth not reckon above 180. whereas in the short Reign of Queen Mary which was little above 5 Years there were by Imprisonment Torments Famine and Fire almost 400 destroyed besides such as were secretly murdered in Prisons and of that number above 20 that had been Arch-Bishops Bishops and Principal Prelates or Officers in the Church lamentably destroyed and of Women above 60 and of Children above 40 and amongst the Women some great with Child and one out of whose Body the Child by Fire being expelled alive was yet most barbarously thrown into the Fire again and burned Examples Cruel beyond the Cruelty of Heathens § It is further observable that they which suffered in Queen Maries days though they dyed constant unto and professing the Protestant Religion yet were there no traiterous Machinations nor Assassinatious laid to their charge nor did they ever at their deaths deny their lawful Queen or maintain any of Her open and Forrein Enemies or procure any Rebellion or Civil Wars nor did Sow any Sedition in secret Corners nor withdrew any of her Subjects from their obedience as the Papists being sworn Votaries to the Pope did continually do against Queen Elizabeth countenancing and avowing the Popes Excommunications Bulls and other publick Writings denouncing the Queen not to be Queen charging and upon pain of Excommunication commanding all Her Subjects to depart from their Duties and natural Allegiances encouraging also and authorizing all persons of all degrees in both Kingdoms to Rebel and upon this Antichristian Warrant contrary to all the Laws of God and Man and nothing at all agreeable to a pastoral Officer they sought by all ways and means to justifie and to put in Execution that traiterous Warrant of the Popes Bull. And yet of these kind of Offenders as many of them as after their Condemnations on second and better thoughts were contented to renounce their former traiterous Assertions so many were spared from Execution such was Her Majesties Clemency and unwillingness to have any Blood spilt without very urgent just and necessary cause proceeding from themselves I must make this further observation Merits of Papists by their own Confession That in the days of Queen Eliz though the Jesuits and Secular Priests fell strangely foul one upon the other with black Pens and Mouths with Language scarce to be match at Pitchbatch or Billingsgate yet the Seculars commended highly the Queens clemency and justified her proceedings against the traiterous Jesuits Avowing That they themselves knowing what they did know how under pretence of Religion the life of Her Majesty and subversion of the Kingdom was aimed at if they had beeen of Her Highness Council they would have given their consent for the making of very strict and rigorous Laws to the better suppressing and preventing of such Jesuitical and wicked designments Important Considerations c. f. 57. They did also complain even to the Pope and Cardinals That the Jesuits were the Fire-brands of all Seditions That by right or wrong they did seek simply and absolutely the Monarchy of all England That they were the causes of all the discords in England That Fa. Holt did not only intend but would indeed give wreteched England in Conquest to himself and his Favourites and many other Complaints there were of this nature Extracted out of the Memorials and other Letters dated at Rome 8. Novemb 1597. Relation of the faction at Wisbich 74 Though I say the Seculars were so violent against the Jesuits and such stout Assertors of the Queens moderate dealing with the Papists yet were some of them found guilty of like traiterous practises so little are any of them to be trusted for that though they have Mel in ore yet have they Fel in Corde Call to mind the great and serious Protestations that Watson the Priest made in his Quodlibetical Questions That albeit he differed in Religion from that which was professed in the Church of England yet if either Pope or Spaniard should seek by hostile means to invads his Countrey he would willingly spend his substance nay his dearest Blood against any such as should attempt it Yet he himself with Clark his fellow Seminary were the first that I read of that came to the Gallows for violating it which considered together with what they confessed upon their apprehension viz. That the Jesuits continually negotiated with Spain preparing for a Forrein Aid leavied great Sums of Money bought Horses Powder Shot Artillery c. and conveyed them secretly to their friends wishing not to stir but to be quiet till they heard from them c. These things I say considered do argue that Secular Priests and Jesuits and those that favoured them were all Traytors in Heart though their malice one towards the other made them discover and rayl and libel each other both at home and abroad which Queen Eliz. wisely considering would not confide in them notwithstanding all their books and promises but by her Proclamations banished both one and the other For in truth both Seculars and Jesuits were in this like Sampsons Foxes though they differed in many other things very bitterly yet in this they joyned their Tayles their main Ends to be Fire-brands to kindle dissention and withdraw her Subjects from her obedience and to reconcile them to Rome So as Joab kissed Abuer whilst he stab'd him and as Judas kissed our Saviour whilst he betrayed him to the Pharises So these men pretended Loyalty by their Tongues and Pens and yet acted traiterously by their Plots and Contrivances What could they print more than they did viz. We are fully perswaded in our Consciences and by Experience That if the Catholicks had never sought by indrect means to have vexed Her Majesty with their designs against her Crown If the Pope and the King of Spain had never plotted with the Duke of Norfolk who was to have been the head of a Rebellion if the Rebels in the NOrth had never been heard of if the Bull of Pius Quintus had never been known if the Rebellion had never been justified If neither Stukeley nor the Pope had attempted any thing against Ireland If Gregory the 13th had not renewed the said Bull and Excommunication If the Jesuits had never come into England If the Pope and King of Spain had not practised with the Duke of Guise for his attempt against her Mafesty If Parsons and the rest of the Jesuits with other our Countrey-men beyond the Seas had never been Agents in those traiterous and bloody designs of Throckmorton Parry Cullen York Williams Squire and others If they had not by their
of Scots Certainly not which is demonstrable by their Actings and Endeavours to hinder King James from the English Crown And it is plain that it was not Bastardy but Heresie i. e. for being Protestant that made their malice so implacable and this is apparent by the Bull of Pope Pius V. Dated 25. Febr. 1570. in which there is not the least mention of Bastardy No No Illegitimacy is not so monstrous a Gudgeon but that it will easily be swallowed at Rome Gregory XIII had a Bastard James Buon Compagna and to him he gave Ireland and impowred Stewkely with Men Arms and Money to Conquer it for him And England he gave to Don John the Emperors Bastard both admirable Catholicks without all peradventure and gave him leave to Conquer it for himself Christs brave Vicard give that which was none of his own or had any thing to do withall But that perverse Queen had no occasion to part with either on such ridiculous Nods And his Successor Sixtus Quintus took no Notice at all of King James proceeded against her with all his Italian Scarcrows curst her afresh and publisht a Croysade against her and gave all her Dominions to Philip II. King of Spain but forgot to give his Benedictions of Craft and Cunning to get them and so they still remain vested in the hands of the right owners and long may they so do even till time shall be no more Now if Romish zeal for Qu. M. of Scots had had its Rise and Original from her more rightful Title to the Crown of England then it would have continued unto King James also but their Actings being Diametrically opposite and contrary it was visible to all the World that it was Popery not the Title that they contended so furiously for And it was the common voice amongst the Jesuits of those days That if King James would turn Catholick they would follow him but if not they would all die against him Watson Quodlib p. 150. The mtual love and amity that was between Queen Elizabeth and King James his immovable constancy in Religion the strict Laws made against Jesuits and such kind of Men the Execution of Graham of Feutre the forwardest of all those that affected the Spanish party the granting of Supreme Authority in matters Ecclesiastical to the King by the States and the assotiations against the Papists did so quash all hope of restoring Popery in England and Scotland that some of them in England which most of all favoured his Mothers Title began to project how to substitute some English Papists in the Kingdom of England when they could not agree upon a fit man of their own Number they cast their Eyes upon the Earl of Essex who never approved the putting of Men to death in the cause of Religion seigniug a Title from Thomas of Woodstock King Edward the Third's Son from whom be derived his Pedigree Indeed rather for any Body then for King James who they foresaw would be Malleus Hereticorum such was their faithfulness to him as also witness the designs of Gordon Creighton Abercromy Jesuits and others plotting the ruine of King James of Scotland And also the Two Breues sent by Clement the 8th to exclude King James from the Inheritance of the Crown of England unless he would take an Oath to promote the Roman Catholick Interest But the Fugitives favoured the Infanta of Spain although they feared lest the Queen and the States would by Act of Parliament prevent it by offering an Oath to every one and they held it sufficient if they could set the King of Scots and the Earl of Essex at Enmity To which purpose a Book was Dedicated to Essex under the Counterfeit name of Doleman but wrote by Par2ons Cardinal Allen and Sir Francis Inglefeild as was believed In this Book despising the right of Birth they project that the Antient Laws of the Land concerning Hereditary Succession to the Crown of England are to be altered that new Laws are to be brought in concerning Election That no man but a Roman Catholick 14. b. of Blood soever they be is to be admitted King And was not this another piece of meritorious service to King James like the rest no doubt of those that went before and of those that will follow They traduced most of the Kings of England as wrong possessors and all in England of she Blond Royal as either Illegitimate or uncapable of the Crown The most certain right of King James to the Crown of England they most unjustly sought to overthrow and did by forged Devices most falsely Entitle thereunto the Infanta Isabella of Spain because she was a Roman Catholick Yea they proceeded with that violence herein that they compelled the English in the Spanish Seminaries it they themselves are to be credited to subscribe to the forged title of the Infanta therein set down and exacted an Oath of the Students in the Seminaries to maintain the same brave Blade They rested not in their Pens and Tongues but prosecuted the same by Actions For Thomas Winter as he himself confessed and Jesmund a Jesuit being come into Spain from Garnet and others of them privily plotted to cast off Queen Eliz. and exclude James King of Scots from his most just Title to the Crown of England Yet not long after when King James was proclaimed this Impudent Parsons excused by Letters to a Friend of his as proceeding not from a mind to do King James wrong but out of an earnest desire to draw him to the Romish Religion and he hoped he should be excused for that these Injuries did not prejudice the King because forsooth they failed of success As in the Year 1592. Patrick Cullens Treason who was incited by Sir William Stanley Hugh Owen Jaques Frances a base Laundress Son who said That unless Mrs. Elizabeth be suddenly taken away the State of England is and will be so settled that all the Devils in Hell will not be able to prevail with it or shake it Hitherto a true Prophet I hope will be so still And Holt the Jesuit vvho resolved to kill the Queen vvas accompanied vvith a Book called Philo-pater written for the abetting and warranting of such a Devilish Act in general by Creswel the legicr Jesuit in spain so was Tesmunds Treason accompanied with Two bulls or Breues from Pope Clement the 8th when the Queen was full of days and infirm one to the Clergy the other to the Laiety unto H. Garnet superior to the Jesuits in England which as they were sent privily so were they kept very closely and Communicated unto very few The tenor and purport of them was that they should admit no Man how near soever in Blood for King after the Queens death unless he would not only tollerate the Roman Catholick Religion but also promote the same with his whole might and undertake by Oath according to the manner of his Ancestors to perform the same which in true understanding was directly to exclude King
Clergy and Laiety for such their free Exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion within this Kingdom and of their several Functions Jurisdictions and Priviledges may be repealed renewed and declared void in the next Parliament by one or more Acts of Parliament to be past therein 4. That the Primates Arch-Bishops c. of the Roman Catholick Secular Clergy and their respective Successors shall have hold and enjoy all the Churches and Church-Livings in as large and ample manner as the late Protestant Clergy respectively enjoyed the same on the first day of October 1641. together with all Profits Emoluments Perquisits Liberties 25 b. and other Rights to their respective Sees and Churches belonging as well in all places now in the possession of the confederate Catholicks also in all other places that shall be recovered by the said confederate Catholicks from the adverse party within this Kingdom saving to the Roman Catholick Laiety their respective rights to the Laws of the Land § But to return to the said Instructions it is Recorded in another part of the said Third Article that they intend to insist on such Concessions in matters of Religion and for the security thereof as his Holiness shall approve of and be satisfied with And in the Ninth Article they were instructed to make application to his Holiness for his being Protector of Ireland wherein they were before the Phanaticks in England and by special instance to endeavour his acceptance there c. Nay their Commissioners then sent to France and Spain were required in case of the Popes refusal of being their Protector to offer it to either of those Kings nay to any Popish Prince from whom to use their own words they might have most considerable aids Orerey Faithful and Meritorious Servants still if they may be their own Judges though they desired and designed the Pope nay any King or Prince rather than the King of England ratified to be their Liege Lord for so many successions of Princes together Neither was it in those Treaties only that they shewed themselves such Loyal and Faithful Subjects but in that other also Anno 1648. wherein they forced and compelled the King to yield unto such unreasonable condiscentions that nothing but pure necessity could ever have extorted from him or his Lieutenant And did they Acquiesce in those Articles or were they ata ll more Loyal and Faithful to the King than before not at all for they having got by the 18th Article a Papal-like preclusion of all offences to be committed or done after their date they then thnking themselves sufficiently authorised and pardoned for all or any new Crimes by a pardon of much more force than of one from their Holy Father the Pope they were not long e're they began to vilifie and disobey the Kings Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in pursuit wereof they sent to the Lord Lieutenant in April 1650. desiring him to leave the Kingdom and to commit the Government thereof to one that they should choose and might confide in and this without so much as acquainting his present Majesty with it And in very deed they had good reason so to do or else how was it possible for them to compass their main design viz. The Atchieving of the Government into their own hands and power that so they might have a Native King of their own and extirpate the English Root and Branch Though herein they were disappointed by the Piety Honour Courage and Integrity of the Lord Lieutenant yet did they not forbear to impeach and affront the Kings Authority in him for in August following by their publick Declaration they did therein manifest to the people that they were no longer obliged to obey the Orders or Commands of the Marquess of Ormond whereby they did evidently break these Articles and declare their power paramount to His Majesties Orerey 5 6 7. And this they pursued yet farther not without some scorn for in the next Month they caused their Clergy to Excommunicate not only the Lord Lieutenant but all that should feed or adhere to him a great Bug-bear I must confess but it being solemnised Glave Errante it scared not his Grace nor any of his Adherents from their duty and so it mist of their desired end however this shewed their good will to have preserved His Majesties Regal Authority by bereiving his Lieutenant of it All Meritorious and our best Friends still The Rump that Infamous Rump Infamous as for many other abominations so most superlatively for their High-Court of Injustice was much more beholding to them than the King was for they made Petitions and Supplications unto them as unto the Supreme Authority of the Nation Entitling them the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England wherein they did readily subject and put their Consciences Lives and Fortunes as in a secure Sanctuary under the Protection thereof they are their own words And herein vaunted That several of them were able to make appear their constant good affection and adherence to the Rump their own words still and prayed a competent time to be allowed them for making out the same Vide the Petitions of Sir Ra. Talbot Baronet and Garret Moore Esq who were not herein private but publick persons and so owned in the Title of their Petitions being for the behalf of others for whom they were Sollicitors Agitators or Trustees or Trustees call them what you will and were so continued for the Irish Papists until of late days which is more than ever they would do to King Charles I. or King Charles II. for they treated with their Majesties upon the Swords point upon as great tearms of defiance as if they had treated with the Turk and not with their Liege Lord Vide Orerey fo 14 15. Of which sit liber Judex the Articles of the Treaties They went yet further congratulating with them by acknowledging That their withered hopes and former confidences were a fresh revived by the Rumps return to the management of the Government under which their propensions to peace and quietness were so great that they willingly acquiesced in their transplanation albeit it was not executed by any Legal power as not being derived from their Honours What could they submit more than they did Consciences Lives Fortunes Nay their Transplantation they accepted chearfully nay Petitioned for it would they yet but acquiesce in that their Transplantation only as they bragg'd unto the Rump that they did to them it would be some manner of Expiation for their Crimes past and encouragement to His Majesty more securely to confide in them for the time to come and be a means to remove many Fears and Jealousies and would make way for future Graces But they are yet so far from doing any thing of this Nature that they contend Tooth and Nayl both by Pen and Interest for the performance of those Extorted and Inglorious Articles made 1646. Articles that nothing but pure necessity could ever have compelled His Majesty to have yielded unto