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A63346	A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt His Grace James Duke of Ormond, and the Right Honor. Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy-Seal, before the King and Council and the said Earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester's to the said Earl, of the means to keep out popery, and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof, and to secure both the Church of England, and the Presbiterian party.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing T2408; ESTC R24643	20,676	35

almost worn out his Strength and Life without Conviction of any failure or transgression which surely the said Duke would never do after he had privately quarrell'd the Earl and exposed him the worst he could in Print and this Affair having taking a circuit of almost two years unless he conceived he had met with some extraordinary juncture to bear down the Earl nor trouble your Majesty and Council when so great Affairs are before them with such private concerns and complaints after so long a run and using other ways unsuccessfully to Vindicate himself from what was never intended as a Charge against him I conclude Praying as I have heartily endeavored for the Glory and Prosperity of your Majesties Government to be equal to the greatest of your Royal Predecessors wishing your Majesty many such Subjects as I have been and am whom the Duke of Ormond seems so Earnest to rid your Majesty of or leave under a black Character and misrepresentation in your Service which he shall never be able to compass ANGLESEY At the Court at White-Hall this 13th day of July 1682. By the King 's Most Excellent Majesty AND The Lords of His Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council UPon Reading this day at the Board a Paper delivered in by his Grace the Duke of Ormond His Majesty in Council was pleased to Order That a Copy of the said Paper be sent to the Right Honorable the Earl of Anglesey Lord Keeper of the privy-Privy-Seal which is accordingly hereunto annexed who is to return an Answer thereunto to His Majesty in Council upon Thursday the 20th instant at Hampton Court at Nine in the Morning Phil. Loyd I. THE Cessations and Peaces Dishonorable to the Crown of England Pag. 27. II. Of Advantage only to the Irish. ibid. III. Destructive to the English Protestants ibid. IV. That therefore the Lords Justices and Council were from the beginning averse to them Pag. 60. V. That for the same reasons the chief and most of the English Nobility in Ireland and the generality of the English Scotch and Irish Protestants of all Qualities and Degrees sooner or later opposed both the Cessations and Peaces Pag. 65. VI. That amongst them were found the Earls of Kildare Thomond c. Ibid. VII And that the two first Peaces were against Law and several Acts of Parliament in both Kingdoms Pag. 64. The Council not sitting the 20th of July tho' the Lord Privy-Seal who received the 13th the particular Charges of the Duke of Ormond against him then delivered in Answer'd them the 14th yet gave not in his Answer till the next Council held at Hampton-Court the 27th of July which was as followeth July the 14th 1682. The Answer of Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal to the Paper deliver'd by the Duke of Ormond at Council July 13. 1682. as a Charge of particulars against him SAving still the benefit of his former Answer deliver'd in the 23d of June and what was then done at Council the said Earl further saith That 't is to be consider'd that all the said particulars were passages in a private Letter to a Friend not designed for publick view That the Earl of Castlehaven to whom it was written being convinced thereby as appears by a Second Epistle to the Reader added to his Memoirs wherein he saith that his acting as a Confederate Catholick was in plain English as a Rebel That he doth not excuse the Rebellion for all the Water of the Sea cannot wash it off that Nation it having been begun most bloodily on the English in that Kingdom in a time of setled Peace without the least occasion given A Noble and Remarkable Confession of one who had been long of the Supreme Council of the Confederate Irish. And which makes it the more wonderful that the Duke of Ormond should be so severe a Censor on a Letter which had so good an effect on him it was written to In the next place the said Earl saith That since the Duke of Ormond thought it fit to concern himself in a Letter not written to him he should have been so impartial as to have taken Notice of this Passage therein Pag. 61. Your Lordship having been privy to all the Cabals and Secret Councils against the English and Protestants will I hope if you find any thing written by me questionable or doubtful in your Opinion favour me with your severest Reflections thereupon for as I design nothing but exact Truth wherever it light so if by any inadvertancy or want of full information I should Err or come short in the least your Lordship shall find me ready to retract or supply but never to persist in it whereby it appears that the Earl of Anglesey had no Intention to Injure any man as he is not Conscious he hath These things premised the said Earl gives this short Answer or rather Justification to the said particular Charges First to that Marked No. 1. 2. 3. which are all but one Clause in the letter Page 27 viz. that the Cessations and Peaces were of advantage only to the Irish and highly dishonorable to the Crown of England and destructive to the English and Protestants Answer The said Earl passing by the Irish and Papists being the Chief promoters of them the English and Protestants sent Agents to Oxford purposely to oppose and divert the Influence thereof and to hinder agreements with the Irish which they fore-saw would be destructive to the English and Protestants the whole passages of the proceedings herein were published in 1644. in a Book Intituled the False and Scandalous Remonstrance of the Inhumane and Bloody Rebells of Ireland together with an Answer thereunto on the behalf of the Protestants of Ireland the perusal whereof will fully Justify the Earl in what he hath written besides the Two Houses of Parliament their Declarations and Reasons against both Cessations and Peaces But to put it past dispute the Earl Refers to His Majesties Declaration and the Act for the Settlement of Ireland in which the Duke of Ormond himself had a great hand and gave the Royal Assent pa. 10. c. By which his Majesty that now is in full Parliament Declares that his Royal Father had been forced to the Cessation and Peace which he had made with the Irish and that he was thereby Compelled to give them a full pardon in the same Act His Majesty also declares that he himself was necessitated to make the second Peace with the Irish upon difficult Conditions If all this do not prove the Cessations and Peaces dishonorable to the Crown of England of advantage only to the Irish and destructive to the English and Protestants I submit to Judgment And why else were the Peaces upon hearing all Parties laid aside and the Irish their Estates divided among the English 2d Charge That therefore the Lords Justices and Council were from the beginning averse to them page 60. Answer To prove that the Justices and Council were from the beginning averse to the