short memory if wee should forgett how you by a way of rallery said of 54. Catholick Gentlemen Nominees that were to be restored and made account they should be soe to theire chief houses and 2000. Akers of ground that it was intended by the act they should be only Nominees Nomine restorable but not re You have play'd the Prophett Orery though you spake in a leering way for as yet none of them have been restored as wee are informed nor likely shall yett at that tyme you abused the Kings goodness and credulity assuring his Majesty there was a sufficient stock of reprisalls to satisfy all After taking some paines in reading over the hott papering contention between the Earl of Orery and Father Peter Welsh Frier Minor Lector of Divinity I found Orery's answer to P. W. his letter to the then Marquis now Duke of Ormond to be an Eloquent Pollished Elaborated piece but full of Cavills artifice fallacies untruths and sophistry all his study and paynes tend to render the Catholicks of Ireland odious and infamous and theire peace of 1648. voyd Rem non bonam facis Orere ultra vires tuas est negotium hee showes in his writings a bitter soule and a great pride and presumption I owe not soe much to his degree as to spare telling him truth nor want I confidence to defend truth and my Country against a person of higher quality then hee is Neuer came in my way an Author that writes of a whole Nation and theire Religion less Christianly less nobly and less truly and for his paynes hee is worthy of the praise S. Angustin gives to such aman as this Ingenium in malo venenum in auro Upon a Bull of Vrbanus 8. to the confederate Catholicks of Ireland Anno 1643. he makes a mocking malicious coment This Bull imports noe more then an exhortation to the Catholicks to free themselves from the oppressions and grivous Injuries theire fellow subjects the Protestants did them who had designed to pull them up roote and bransh as was evidently made appeare hee alsoe praised the Catholicks for indevouring to defend themselves and theire Religion and gave them Indulgences in soe just and good a quarrell his Holliness speaks not a word in all against the King nor obedience due to the King Richard Belings esquire Agent to that Pope from the confederate Catholicks hath atested that his Holliness commaunded him to tell his Children the Catholick Confederats that hee would have them in defending themselves and Religion to continue constantly obedient to theire King and after his Holliness sent an excellent and pious letter to the suprem Councell of the confederate Catholicks of which I shall speak more hierafter Will not the world rather believe his Holliness owne Letters and the Messenger wee sent him in declaring his sence in the aforsaid Bull then Orery the Popes enemy What I pray is contained in that Bull that an honest man can reprehend would Orery have the Pope be soe madd as to forbid his Children to defend themselves and Religion against him and his Companions Good God how this man doth abuse this Popes pious and good meaning expressed in foresaid Bull which Orery tells the world was a Cherishing of the Catholicks in Rebellion as if our taking up armes for our necessary defence of lives and Religion against the Protestants our fellow subjects could haue been a rebellion as hee would faine perswade his reader and that the Popes aforsaid Bull was a Cherishing of the Catholicks in a Rebellion to which purpose hee speaks thus If the Popes power over the Irish be soe great theire obedience to the King must be little as if the Religion of the Catholicks had an inconsistency with theire duty and obedience to the King which is most false The Popes power over the people is in spiritualibus the Kings power in temporalibus and those powers doe wel agree as is evidently knowne over all the world in the power of Catholick Princes over theire subjects and in the Popes power over the same people those powers and Juridictions in Catholick tymes in England did not Clash nor doe they now in theire nature the Catholick people paying theire duty to both it is true the Luminare Majus the Pope Catholicks venerate more then Luminare minus the King because Luminare Majus hath the greater light and influence yet they doe not therfore omitt to pay due veneration to the King Orery brings noe proofe or sound argument to prove what hee assumed that the Pope's Bull was sent for Cherishing a Rebellion but his owne authority which with us hath little creditt and will soe with any that shall know his ways and dealings I pray Orery to make this reflection whether there have ever been in the world more execrable and blooddy Rebells then himselfe and Companions who had noe dependence upon the Pope but quite contemned his authority and his person hated Hee will not I hope say the Pope Cheris'd theire Rebellion The man hath much strained his brains in impugning the mentioned Bull and as if hee had done a great bussiness says thus of the Irish Catholicks If they succeed heaven and Ireland is theirs if they succeed not heaven is theirs Orery by the quarrell wee intended to hold what of Ireland was ours against invaders who can blame us for this and fighting for Religion wee had a good claime to heaven and though wee succeeded not in fighting our claime to heaven is still good by our faith and good works this claime all our Enemys with the Protestant Parlaments of England and Ireland are not able to take from us Orery and all of his band and Combination hath dealt with us as the Divill did with Iob the Divill touch't all that was Job's except his life Orery and his people have touched all that was ours except our soules which wee hope in his Devine mercy God will preserve for his owne Worship and glory soe as wee have still title to say heaven is ours but hee and his cannot say for themselves heaven is ours untill they shall change theire Religion into a true faith doe good worcks and restore what they haue uniustly taken from us I will here sett downe a few of Orerys propossitions let the reader after perusing them Iudge of them In his auswere to P. W. his Letter to the Marquis of Ormond hee calls the Irish Nation a beast the Country a very pest-house and the Religion of the Catholicks somthing that pinns them upon the sleeve of the Pope Was ever such a diffinition given of Religion S. Paul defines faith thus Est fides sperendarum substantia rerum argumentum non apparentium The Apostle speaks nothing here of pinning or of the Popes sleeve Orery this kind of scoffing rallery in holy things is ignoble and better becoming Comedians then Counsellors Wee owe the Pope and his sacred Dignity due obedience which wee will with Gods blessing Religiously pay all our lives fremant
in great feare and left behind him his stately buildings places of pleasure great Riches and the veneration of many that adored this man like an Idoll the glory of the man is gon away like smooke and his name rotten and hated in England and flying into France walked over some Provinces of that Kingdome in trembling like another Cain before any Settlement of himselfe Iustum O Domine est Iudicium tuum And wee are poore soules as yet living as wee can and hopeing for Gods mercy I am here to advertise my Reader of an abominable ingagment agree'd upon in the tyme of usurpation against the Royall Family the contents will teach you how good frinds they were to the King that conceived this ingagement P. W. hath this oath page 74. of his reply to Orery's answer and aptly tearms it one of the oathes taken by the Saints themselves the fautors of Crumwells Tyranny and the wellwishers of his Kings-ship Which ruuneth thus I. A. B. doe hereby declare that I renounce the pretended title of Charles Stuart and the whole line of late King Iames and of every other person pretending to the Goverment of the Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territorys therunto belonging and that Iwill by the grace and assistance of the Allmighty be true and faithfull to this Common Wealth against any King single Person and House of Peers and Every of them and here unto I subscribe my name Can any oath be more horrid or can any written wickedness ascend higher and consequently can any mercy be greater then the pardon his Majesty hath granted to the men that hartily took this oath This Ingagment was forced upon the Irish Catholicks in soe high a Nature that those who would not take it were debarred not only from the benefitt of law but alsoe expos'd to an inevitable danger of death the Soldiers of Crumwells Army being commanded by publick Proclamation to kill any man they met on the high-way who carryed not a Certificate about him of having taken that ingagment Commaunds which were Cruelly executed on silly Pesants who out of Ignorance or want of care having left theire ticketts at home were Barbarously Murthered by the mercyless Souldiers Make now a serious reflextion upon said ingagment out of the same Author It is very remarkable saith hee that they who devised this ingagment who hartily subscribed and forced others to take it shall not be questioned or held Criminall and that those who neuer saw it before it was administrated to them who abbor'd it in theire harts and were forc't to signe it to avoyd a blooddy and violent death shall be declared nocents and an irecoverable Sentence of Loosing theire estates given against them and theire estates soe forfeted to be confirm'd on those very persons who compell'd the proprietors to that forfeitur Obstupescite Caeli super hoc portae ejus desolamini vehementer I defy all the Annalls and the Histories of Tartars Turcks Scithians or of what People soever to produce soe horrible an injustice as this or a more wicked and Barbarous pranck of knavery then those our Enemys have contrived King Charles our Soveraigne your Royall Authority in England maintains the Peer in his splendor and Dignity the Commoner in his birth right and liberty you protect the weak from the oppression of the mighty secure the Nobility from the insolence of the people and by this Equall and impartiall Iustice is indifferrently distributed to all the inhabitants of that great and flourishing Realme And at the same tyme use is made of the same Royall Authority in your Kingdom of Ireland to condemne innocents before they are heard to destroy soe many hundred Widdow's and Orphans to confirme soe many unlawfull usurped possessions to violate the publick faith to punish vertue to countenance vice to hold loyalty a Crime and treason worthy of reward These are verities not to be doubted of in our days wee feel them by sore tryall but after-ages will hardly admitt them and it must be avery difficult matter to perswade those now that have not been eye-wittnesses that the fact ever happened Now things being carryed in this nature let your Majesty seriously consider of whome shall God take account of our Distruction of those wicked states-men who abused your Authority or of your Royall Person for not bringing those men after our humble and publick prayres and petitions to your Majesty for redress to the test and tryall of Iustice for having opprest us Consider great King the prayer of King David to God O God give the Iudgment to the King And the Iustice to the Sonne of the King Why soe King David To Iudge saith David thy people in Iustice and thy poore in Iudgment The Royall Prophet here gives the reason wherfore the power of Iudging and Sword of Justice is given to a King to witt that hee Judge the people in Justice and the Poor in Iudgment Which was not done soe complains the Widdow's and Orphans in Ireland perishing in poverty and famin and the world abroad is in amazement that this was not done Wonders they say were done after his Majestys restauration Rebells made honest men and honest men made Rebells by the Kings Royall pleasure and all this brought about by the cunning and wickedness of certaine Statsmen wherby the King was cheated and betrayd the innocent People ruin'd and impious Statsmen enricht and magnify'd soe that thee Poore Catholcck People have nothing left them but to cry to thee O Lord. Tibi deretictus est pauper Orphano tu eris adjutor Contere Brachium peccatoris maligni To thee is the poor left to the Orphan thou wilt bee a helper Break the arme of the sinner and malignant Our Eyes and harts O God are turn'd upon thee seing men have abandon'd us O Lord when will the day come of our Happiness when shall wee with thankfullness say to all the world Our Lord hath heard the desire of the Poore and Iudged for the People and the humble Kings are more oblig'd to commiserat the calamity's of the afflicted rhen privat men because they are the Fathers of the People Iob a holy Prince in the land of Hus some hold hee was an absolute King did this Heare him speak King Charls I was an eye to the blinde and a foot to the lame I was the Father of the Poore I brake the Iawes of the wicked man and out of his teeth I took away the prey This is it the poore Catholicks most need to have done for them that the Royall hand will break the jawes of wicked men and take the prey out of theire teeth Iob says further The eare hearing counted mee blessed for that I had delivered the poore man crying out and the people that had noe helpe The blessing sf him that was ready to perrish came upon mee and I comforted the hart of the Widdow There are thousands of these wedows and
Farre it is God knowes from my minde to add affliction to his afflictions sufficiat Diei malitia sua nec unquam fuit mea consuetudo lacerato animo discere vitia amicorum talem zelum ut cum S. Augustino Loquar semper fensui magis impetum punientis quam caritatem corrigentis The same Saint tells mee how to handle Sall. Dilige saith hee dic quod voles But what shall I doe to a man that hath stained his soule with the spott of herisy with what waters shall I wash him for wyping away the staine with those of Siloe quae fluunt cum scilentio or those of Rasin quae transeunt cum tumultu The last seem the more naturall for purifying him though my inclination is more for the soft running waters of Siloe Had Sall's sinn beene noe more then a slipp of Ignorance or frailty wee could have covered him with a Mantle of Charity but the abominable abjuration of faith being a sinn of a high nature and full of Impiety against God against Christ and his unspotted spouse against Charity and the Holy Ghost I can not be silent but must openly rebuke his wickedness and maintaine truth against him before all the world can I see aman deare to mee vaunting and soe desperatly defying the Hostes of the living God and say nothing that cannot be Silence here were a great sinne being the true tyme of taking up Davids Sling and stone and throwing at this Gyant dominering and vaporing against the camp of Israell I am not to powre oyle upon the head of such a sinner flattery will not cure him I must then in charity chide him and Exprobrat his deserting the Catholick faith and if hee is wise and penitent hee will say with repenting David The Just shall rebuke mee in mercy and shall reprehend mee but let not the oyle of a sinner fatte my head After lamenting Sall's woefull perversion I begin to think of my deare Contry's affliction and with feare and amazement to inquire the ground and cause of persecution there and in Enland Nothing was less feared I am confident by the Catholicks of both Kingdoms then a tempest of this nature to come upon them lying safe as they conceived under the wings of soe great and mercyfull a Monarck as Charles the second a King of pardons How then say men came this about how could soe clement a King be induced to afflict soe loyall a people as the Catholicks of England and Ireland I see noe Mistery in this business all is cleare theire affliction and cause therof is well knowne over all Europ and is as I may say even the same with that of innocent Daniell whose Loyall fidelity to Syrus King of Babylon was soe cleare as his malignant Enemys said expressly of him wee shall not finde against this Daniell any occasion unless perhaps in the Law of his God the Crime then against Daniell and all the Jews was theire Religion upon this ground the Counsellers and great men of the Kingdome gott the King to sett forth an Edict against the Jewes for professing theire Religion and by this means Daniell was cast into the lake of the Lyons by a King that lou'd him The King lou'd Daniell but hee feared the great men who pressed the Law to be executed against Daniell and this feare more strong in the King then love made poore Daniell Companion to the Lyons Your Religion noble Contry-men your Religion is the sole Cryme for which you suffer Blessed for ever be the name of God for this your Religion hath stirred up this tempest which ought not to terrifye you over much seeing the Apostles our first Captains and Leaders in this holy cause those darlings of God endured hard things for Religion Prisons whippings contumilies and all sorts of vexations were to them delights and consolations they after being scurged went from the sight of the Councell rejoycing because they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus Doe not therfore feare all that men can doe against you while with tears and patience you march under the purple Standart of Crucify'd Jesus for in the end the day and victory will be yours feare not the power of men in this glorious tryall there be more with you then against you Legions of Angells though you see them not those heavenly hostes are pitching theire tents round about you Hee that Led the Children of Israell out of Egypt in wonders through the redd Sea neuer wants power to deliver you waite for his good tyme for hee will come A Table of sage Counsells that hung by the bed of Ptolomeus Arsacides King of Egypt by him Religiously obserued all the tyme of his raigne was delivered by a Priest of the Idols to the wise Emperour Marcus Aurelius whoe dying gave it to his sonn with this short speech My sonn leaving you Emperour of many Kingdoms I presume you will with that great power be feared of all and if you wil faithfully Keep the Godly Counsells in this Table you shall be infalibly beloved of all The Table of Counsells 1. I Neuer deny'd said the vertuous King Ptolomeus justice to a poore man for being poore nor pardoned a rich man for being rich 2. I neuer loved a rich wicked man nor hated a poore just man 3. I neuer granted favours to men for affection nor distroy'd men to satisfy my passion 4. I neuer deny'd Justice to any demanding Iustice nor mercy to the afflicted and miserable 5. I neuer passed by Evill without punishing it nor good withovt rewarding it 6. I neuer did Evill to any man out of Malice nor villany for avarice 7. I was neuer without feare in prosperity nor without courage in adversity 8. My dore was neuer open to a flatterer nor my eare to a murmuring detractor 9. I indeavoured still to make my selfe beloved of the good and feared of the Evill 10. I ever favoured the poore that were able to doe little for themselves and I was evermore favoured by the Gods that were able to doe much for all Those rare Counsells should be exposed in the houses of Kings and all puplick places to the view of men to be knowne of all in theire respective dignitys and callings and it would be a pious and noble action if our gratious souveraigne would be pleased to consider seriously with himselfe how farre these just and Laudable Counsells haue been regarded during the tyme of his raigne especially in conferring of estates and lands from one part of his subjects to another part of them contrary to all due course of Law and without hearing of the partys oppressed which hath been procured to be done by the undue information and perswation of certaine of his Councellers and Ministers of State and chiefly of the Chancellor the Earl of Clarindon If his Majesty shall doe this grace and justice to his Catholick subjects of Ireland thousands of Widow's and Orphans will be eased and relieved who
now sitt downe in great poverty Lamenting extreamly their Lands Houses and all they had wrongfully taken from them and this day possessed and injoy'd by those invaders God bindes all Kings and Iudges by this commandement Thou shalt not doe that which is uniust nor Iudg uniustly Consider not the person of a poore man neither honour thou the countenance of him that is mighty Judg justly to thy Neighbour God alsoe forbids to give away one subjects bread to another reason vertue and the lawes of God Nature and Nations are the rules that ought to guid all Princes and Magistrats in the goverment of the people under them Did not God himselfe complaine of Evell Iudges in this Kinde How is the faithfull Cittie full of Iudgment becom an harlott Iustice hath dwelled in it but now man-killers The Princes are unfaithfull Companions of thieves al love guifts follow rewards They Iudge not for the pupil and the widowes cause goeth not in to them And againe our Lord saith They are made grosse and fatt and haue tranegressed my words most wickedly The cause of the widow they have not Iudged the cause of the pupil they have not directed and the Iudgment of the Poore they have not Iudged Shall I not vissite upon these things saith our Lord or upon such a Nation shall not my soule take revenge Certainly it is against Gods just Iudgment to omitt such things and crimes unpunished There are thousands of distressed Catholick Pupils and wedowes his Majesty cannot chuse but know it that have not gott Iustice whose cause and complaint had noe Entrance into his Courtes they cry'd out for Iustice and were not heard they Cry'd for mercy and found it not and such as live of those oppressed soules are still crying to heaven and the King for remedy Poore desolate and dejected they are waiting at the doore of the Kings pallace and noe regard is had of theire tears prayres and petitions Wee are indeed becom the reproach of all Nations round about us by the craft and iniquity of States men that have poysoned the Fountaine of Iustice It is said of some of those that theire vices have farre exceeded theire vertues and that in all theire proccedings against our Nation there was found in them noe truth noe integrity noe Religion noe shame but an insatiable covetousness and a flameing ambition of making themselves great and powerfull and are not such men say you able to poysen the Fountaine of Iustice and mercy toe in a Kingdome This sore oppression and our necessitys every day growing greater forceth us to implore Iustice and mercy and to minde the King of what the Apostle saith to a King Non enim sine causa gladium portat If the Law of God will alow of soe many thousands of innocents to be destroy'd is a maxim that toucheth much his Royall Wisdome and to be distroy'd and sacrificed to augment the estates of men that were great and rich enough before can Iustice suffer this can the mercifull brest of a Clement King endure to see soe many sad spectacles of woes and miserys without all relief will not God at long running look downe and examin these cruell proceedings It hath been a principall care and study of some statesmen neare the King to oppress and overthrow the Catholicks of Ireland and at the same tyme to perswade his Majesty that wee ought to be destroy'd by Iustice and Law Theire Malice they have evidenced in theire language and viperous writings Of this stuff you have enough in the Earle of Orerys answer to Peter Welsh his letter to the then Marquis now Duke of Ormond desiring ajust and mercifull regard of the Reman Catholicks of Ireland what could be more rationall then such a demaund yet Orery must quarrell with the contents of said letter and beleh out poyson against the whole Nation and theire Religion To this answer P. W. replyed and solidly confuted Orery lett the indifferent Reader after deliberation Iudge of which side truth sollid reason and learning is in the writings of both It vexed Orery above all measure that P. W. advanced these two propositions 1. That the worst of the Irish Papists were no Regicids 2. That the Irish Papists fought against such men when England Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland deserted the Royall cause To the first Orery makes this pittifull answer That the Irish Papists are no Regicids let it be considered that the Doctrin of Regicids is common in Romish Schools and the practice in theire courts This is a false Calamny tell us Orery in what Romish University or School is this Doctrin Common in what Catholick Court is this practice you can not tell us and therfore you are convinced of Calumniating Catholick Schools and Courts which is no creditt for you In the meane tyme wee demaund Orery in what School was the Doctrin had by which Crumwell and the rabble of blooddy Rebells murthered the good King Charles the first in the School of Geneve or Rome Speak freely your minde and tell us on what side were you when the King was murthered of Crumwells party or the Kings of Crumwells party you were then and had you been then in London likely this is the opinion of many you had been a high man in that blooddy jury and after that Kings death noe man desired more as was generally spoken of you to King Crumwell and unKing our present soveraigne then you To P. W. his second proposition you answer thus That to touch the annoynting is virtually to touch the annoynted take away the regalia and in effect you take away the King Orery all this is true but what Illation make you of this who I pray are those that touched the annoyntings and the annoynted the Catholicks of Ireland or Cromwells party whose faithfull Ianniser you haue been The annoyntings you haue touch'd formally all the Regalia the Kings Cittys Townes Forts Militia and for addition to your treason you made open warre against the Crowne and King it was Crumwell and you all touched then the annoynted virtually and here you stayd not but touch'd the annoynted formally when you put him to death by an unheard and most blooddy solemnity and as it were by Iustice or course of law an asacinate that hath contaminated the glory of the English Nation though the best and most of the Peers and good people of England abhorr'd it Your answer to this second proposition you conclude thus Had the Devill had leave to touch Jobs person hee would not haue spar'd him when hee touch'd all that was his You say right Orery but what say you to this that you and your Companions after touching all that was the Kings have touched his sacred person and Barbarously kill'd him See and recken among your selves what Kinde of Divells you were then and if you haue not gon a stepp farther against your owne King then the Divell did against Job Orery you might take us for men of
frendeant rumpantur invidia Oreri mille impij nugatores and this obedience did neuer take away obedience due to our King nor ever will Who but a beast would call a noble and ancient Nation a beaest sum will tell him he kicks against the whole Nation because hee is a beast highly pampered and fed with honours lands and Riches Did ever any call the faire Country of Ireland a Pest-house but this man why came soe many poore indigint men out of England this age into this Pesthouse to make theire fortunes why came his Father thither likely hee hath herd in what state and plight his Father then was hee found himselfe very well for many yeares in this Pest-house In his answer to P. W. hee speaks these Godly words Let it not seem strange or hard at least to P. W. and his Country-men if a continued Series of Covenant-breaches rapines Murthers Massacres Crueltys perfidies treasons and Rebellions exercised against the Crowne and Protestant Religion raise jealousies in the harts of all Iudicious Protestants Is not this a pious gloss of a Geneua Presbiterian upon a wicked theme doth not hee show the spleen and rancor of a cankered hart in this high tone and storme of Language against a whole Catholick Nation Orery it is a great Callumnie that the body of the confederat Catholicks exercised Rapins Murthers and those other abominations or acted any thing against King and Crowne To the contrary in theire oath of association you will finde an express branch of defending the Crowne King and Royall Family Wee are not accountable for what Murthers some of the common people at the first rising in the North committed against poore Protestants with the taking away of theire cattel and goods which wee pittied with all our harts the body of the Catholicks were not as yet com into the quarrell but awhile after were forced to take Arms to avoyd theire owne Destruction which could not be otherwise avoyded and since taking Arms they have done all a long what the lawes of a just warr allow'd But when you have your selfe commaunded a part of the Parlaments Rebellious Army have you contained your common soldiers from Murthering and Robbing the innocent common people wee found the contrary by experience Orery Pagina 28. of his answer to P. W. plays the Hypocrite with a great show of holiness However saith hee the once seduced Protestants of Ireland are willing to take shame to themselves and give glory to God in confessing their guilt such though not by causing yet by complying wtth the late usurpation though to a good end that they redily acknowledg they owe theire lives and estates to his Majesty's grace and Indulgence This is humble and dutifull language and such as should be spoken to a King but all is spoken to a King coming home with tryumph and entring into Ierusalem with Osanna in excelsis Benedictus qui venit in Nomine Domine But to this Kings Father a King and the Fountaine of Iustice as well as the Royall Sonne sorely afflicted what were the Salutations and cry's of Orerys Companions Tolle tolle Crucifige some men have witt to change theire dialect of speaking according to the change of tymes and fortune Orery is said to be one of these I pray you heare the scurrill impudency of this people in tyme of theire Rebellion sending in a derisory manner Huae and cry after his Majesty when they could not light on his Royall person If any man can bring any tale or tydings of a wilfull King who had gon a stray these foure years from his Parlament with a guilty Conscience bloody hands a hart full of brooken vowes and protestations if these marcks be not sufficient there is another in the Mouth for bid him speak and you will soone know him then give notice to Britanicus and you shall be well payd for your paines God saue the Parlament Who may not doubt but these kinde of men are those crept in unawarrs who as the Apostle Jude tells us despise dominion and speak evill of dignities did not the same Apostle foretell that there should be such mockers in the last tyme whoe should walke after theire owne ungodly Lustes I hope Orery will not say the great Rebells the Irish Catholicks such hee would haue them be did ever revile afflicted Majesty in such a scoffing way truly they did not but at all tymes and upon all occations in theire Pulpitts theire congregrations and publick assemblyes they spake of the King with all veneration and Compassion Now his Majesty coming home in prosperity those mockers of his Father are all becom purify'd Musaellmans and speake nothing but Magnalia of the King For all this there are thousands of good true Protestants Royallists in England that still feare those new penitents for abusing Royall Autority or at least faigne themselves soe to be would be glad to heare once more that millitary word as you were and if this shall com about the King will not have soe dutifull language from them That Orery says hee and other Protestants complyed with the usurpation to a good end is a strange expression hee needs explaine himselfe They invaded all the regalia that is they took away the Kings Navy Forts Townes Militia and in the end they Murther'd the King himselfe Does Orery call this a good end of complying with the usurpation The truth is Orery and his Companions in Ireland came home when they could noe longer stand of the King may thank Generall Muncks ingenious stratagem for theire coming in theire intention and ways were well knowne Now the Kings worke being don by Munck with all wished success soe as those in Ireland had noe power to hinder it then Orery and the rest thought fitt to cry out let the King live and as hee and his trusty comrades syding with the usurpation had goverment and places of trust and profitt they then all danced to Crumwells pype soe now they court the King returning home and show themselves great penitents taking shame to themselves of theire guilt and giving Glory to God Is not this a great glory to God to confess a rebellion they could noe more deny then wee can deny its day when the Sonne is shining and scorching the earth That which much troubles Orery is that the Irish Catholicks doe not acknowledg themselves guilty of a rebellion with him and give glory to God that way but they being not guilty of such rebellion and treason against the Crowne answer with S. Augustine Praestat magis innocentem esse quam poenitentem Orery ingag'd as aboue was said in a horrid rebellion if hee could make the Catholicks confess themselves to have been Rebells if this hee could compass hee would indeed triumph and say in a leering way behold the Irish Catholicks Confess they have been rebells as well as wee but wee have obtain'd pardon which was denyed them and have gott theire estates and lands to boot let
they came from a body of Rebells but from a people Catholick the King of England's Subjects and for such they were respected and vissited by the greatest Princes and Cardinalls in the Citty and foure of the gravest Cardinaells were deputed by Pope Innocentius to heare the two last as Caponi Spada Carassa and Pansirolli Cardinall Secretari and the afforsaid Bishop and noble Gentlemen were esteemed over all the Citty for good Catholicks good Subjects and able men and with other instructions received commaunds from theire Holliness to the people of Ireland to continue constant in the Catholick Religion and Loyalty to theire King Thus much I thought fitt to say by way of digression for Iustifying our warr that it was noe Rebellion and that this Argument of Orery the King call'd the warr of the Irish Catholicks a Rebellion ergo it is a Rebellion doth not hould It is true it is a received maxim that the King can wrong noe man The reason is because the King is the Fountain of Iustice and must be supposed not to have a will to wrong or offend any of his people But there is noe maxim that the King may not be informed by Evill men or Counsells to the Distruction of his People which hath been often done by statesmen and Counsellors who seek after theire owne interest more then the preservation of the people which is and ought to be the Kings principal care in this kinde the Lord Iustices in Ireland Persons and Burlase with a malignant part of the Kings Counsellors in the yeare 1641. informed his Majesty that the Catholicks of Ireland without discrimination had entred into a Rebellion when only some discontented men began a Revolution in the North and those as was generally spoken men of small estates and broken fortunes the Lords and Gentlemen of the other three Provinces and all the Catholick townes and Corporations having not taken arms untill forced thereunto for the necessary defence of theire estates and Religion as aboue hath been said I doe not heere accuse or excuse the first rysing in the North but I confidently affirme the nobles and Catholick Gentlemen in the other three Provinces and some of those in the North to that did not joyn with the first Rysing in that Province and all the Catholick Townes and Corporations lived in soe happy a state and soe opulent and rich that they would neuer abett a Revolution for gaining other mens estates it is alsoe well knowne that all those have bin still faithfull to the Crowne and theire Fathers before them as was well try'd in the warrs of Desmon Tyron and other smaller Revolutions Thus it happend that his Majesty grounded his opinion upon the information of foresaid Parsons Bnrlays and a mallignant part of the Counsell corrupt men who after fell from the King and adhered to the Kings Enemys the Rebellious Parlament Those represented the body of the Irish Catholick Rebells and the King deceived and deluded by this information call'd us Rebells and our just warr a Rebellion and to this day wee were not heard to speak for our selves and being unheard ought to be reputed innocent It is to be obserued that the first flame of the rising in the Noth had beene soon quenched had Parsons and those of the Councell given a Commission to the Marquis Of Ormond now Duke to raise five thousand men as hee demanded for that effect with him had gon alonge the Catholick Nobility and Gentlemen and soe they had made a speedy work of it But the plott of those Crooked Ministers of state was to involue all the Catholicks in the Bussiness and there by to finde a Cullor of confiscating theire estates Orery stays not here but puffed up with his great Fortune and a gall in Pupe tells the world in a supersilious manner That the birds of the ayre noe nor the flyes contributed less to his Majestys restauration then the Roman Catholicks in Ireland Orery this is to much this great contempt of the Catholicks coms from a great pride in you and what you say is very false for the harty prayres of the Catholicks though with steel they could contribute nothing being then unarmed and closed up in prisons by you and your Companions have more contributed to the Kings restauration then birds and fly's that want reason could Are wee bound to suffer this and other great contumiles from a man soe lowly discended as to tell us the whole Nation is a beast our Country a Pest-house and our Religion somthing that pinns us upon the Popes sleeve Shall wee indure all this from a man that hath bin esteemed one of Crumwells spyes to be a spy is an infamous office Orery if you are an Englishman as you would have your selfe to be and likwise the Duke of Ormond it is true the Duke was born in England and of an English Lady som say had hee bin born in Ireland hee had been kinder to the Nation and favoured them more then hee did upon the last settlement but his Forefathers have all of them beene borne in Ireland about four hundred and sixty years and the house had the Creation of Earle in King Edward the third's tyme anno Domini 1332. Orery you cannot say soe much for your selfe in the ranck of Nobility but be what you will English or Irish I will tell you what an English Gentlemen writes of you I have my selfe seen the man disguised under the name of William Allen in a most excellent piece stiled killing is noe Murther speaking therin of the quality's of a tyrant applying all to Crumwell of the fift quality hee speaks thus In all places they have theire spyes and delators that is they haue Fleetwoods theire Broughalls theire S. Iohns besides innumerable small spyes to appeare discontented and not to side with them that under that guise they may gett trust and make discoverys Orery in Crumwells tyme was Lord Broughalls This noble man hath used still against us his sword and penn but the latter hath made the deeper wound if men creditt his writings cannot hee live contented with a good patrimony his Father provided for him and agreat lump of Catholicks lands the King conferr'd upon him at once with the place of Lord President of the faire and goodly Province of Munster a dignity his Fathers Child did little think to obtaine and a reward his perfidy against the Crowne did not meritt cannot all these great Honours Estates and Riches satisfy the man unless hee see 's innocent Maerdochaeus hang'd on a high gibbet The goodness of God wee hope will not allow what hee desires the exterpation of a Nation Noble mindes ordinarily esteem the place where they or theire parents have gain'd agreat Fortune and Settlement Orery's Father it is well knowne from a lowstate came to one of the greatest Estates in the three Kingdoms hee was neither Sword-man nor Gown-man nor favoritt in Court and yet purchased a prodigious estate came to the Dignity of an Earl High
such things can not be otherways preserued Soe S. Thomas Now if such defense is lawfull for privat men how much more for a Common wealth or Nation Bonum enim commune excellentius universalius ac subendé Divinius est Bannez For that a Common good is more exellent more universal and somtymes more Devine then a private good And if it be lawfull to wage warre upon such inferiour motives as is the preservation or recovery of temporall goods honour and the like how much more lawfull is it to manage warre upon that supreme motive of defending and preseruing the Catholick faith without which there is noe Salvation This was the Iudgment the pious and valiant Machabees made of the warre they undertook and nobly persued for theire Religion and Laws which they preferd before theire wives and Children and all temporall things most deare unto them The Machabees being exhorted with the words of Iudas exceeding good c. they resolued to fight and to encounter manfully because the holy Citty and the Temple were in-danger For there was less care for theire wives and Children and alsoe for theire Bretheren and Kindsmen but the greatest and principall feare was for the Holiness of the Temple How farre a defensive warre may extend the Schoolmen tell us and say that by accident it may be somtyms lawfull for the Common wealth to doe and offer all such damages and Evill as may be done and offered in a just offensive warre Aliqnando saith Bannez contingere potest ut liceat illis inferre hostibus omnia illa mala que possunt in bello justo aggresivo It may happen somtymes to bee lawfull for those ingaded in a defensive warr to doe all Evills and Damages which can be offered or don in a just offensive warr Which happeneth when the agressors are publick Enemys and when there is noe recourse to the Prince and that those defending themselves can noe otherwise avoyd the violence offered by the Assailants This was truly the case of the confederate Catholicks as will clearly appeare to such as will be pleasd to examin it Moreover the case then stood soe with his Majesty that hee was not able to redress the injuries don us nor did our Enemys then obay his commaunds I mean a little after the warr begunn but the Parlament that fell from the King For the better and clearer understanding the nature of a defenfive warr those therin ingaged hould not themselves passively but actively soe doe the words repell or beat back signify if the end it be lawfull then are the necessary means to compasse that end alsoe lawfull if the defence of on 's selfe be lawfull then is the killing of the invader without which the life of the invaded cannot be preserued Lawfull soe as to kill is involued in the act of defence and the lawfullness of the one inferrs the lawfullness of the other Si vis saith the civill Law fiat personae tunc licitum est se defendâ—re defendendo percutere imo etiam occidere si aliter non potest quis evadere manus ejus If violence is don to a person it is then lawfnll for him to defend himselfe and defending himselfe to strick and alsoe to kill if hee cannot otherwise escape the hands of his Enemys Thus stood the case with the Irish Catholicks that they must have kill'd or have beene killed Yea soe great is the Iustice of a defensive warr that devines teach it is lawfull for the Sonne to defend himselfe against his Father the wife against her husband the servant against his Master the subjest against his Superiour and the vassall against his Prince or King Soe Azor Nempe Licitum esse Filio contra Patrem uxori contra Maritum subdito contra Superiorem vassallo contra Principem sive Regem se desendere If it be lawfull for the Subject or vassall in a just cause to defend himselfe against the Prince it must be lawfull to defend himselfe against his fellow subject Here I meet with an objection in which our adversarys put great force The Irish Catholicks say they were the first aggressors The objection is easily answered as thus It is a Common Doctrin of the Devines that it is lawfull to prevent an Evill that can not be otherways avoyded then by preventing it E. G. I see you take your pistoll in your hand cocking it to shoote at mee in that case it is lawfull for mee to discharge my pistoll and kill you otherwise I should be kill'd by you will any law punish mee for killing you soe would the Law of God or nature have mee stay my hand untill I am kill'd by you Tannerus a good Devine teacheth soe Licitum est etiam praevinire injustum aggressorem si alia via commodae defensiones non supetat is jam aliqualiter est in culpae sive in proposito aggressionis injustae versetur It is lawfull to prevent an uniust invader if there is noe other way of defence and that astually the invavader is in fault or in a purpose of an uniust invation Becanus doth declare examining this question an aliquando liceat invasorem praevenire illum occidere antequam nos actu invadat hee answers Licere in his casibus primo si accedat ad invadendum nec evadere possum nisi illum preveniam Secuudo si nondum accedat tamen instructus sit ad invadendum nec possum effugere nisi priveniam Whether somtyms it is lawfull for us to prevent the invader and kill him afore he actually invad's us hee answers that it is in these cases first if hee coms to invade mee and that I cannot escape but by preventing secondly if hee does not as yet invade mee but is ready and prepared for that invation and that I cannot avoyd him but by preventing in this case if I kill him I doe it me defendendo and consequently though I struck first I am the defender and hee the aggressor Sotus Navar Corduba Covar and many houlds this Doctrin and Navar gives this example of a Married man who has a dagger under his pillow to kill his wife withall which shee discovering and knowing may prevent by killing her husband if there is noe other remedy the reason is though actually hee has not done the execution however hee is in a radiness to perform it for which end hee kept her soe boulted up and inuironed as shee cannot otherwise escape This was truly the case of the confederate Catholicks at the beginning of the warr they were boulted up in an Iland as that woeman in the Chamber there was noe doore open for them then by preventing the Presbiterians blooddy designe if this they had not done there had beene an end of them all Richard Bealings Esquire to Vrbanus 8s from the body of the Irish Catholicks and the Lord Bishop of Fernes and Sir Nicholas Pluncket sent to Innocentius X. did not tell those Popes