accidents as might happen in full peace and when the course of Justice is free But your Lordship saith that on this partly and partly on other occasions that preceded and some too that followed but you enumerate none the whole Nation finding themselves concerned took Arms for their own defence and partlcularly the Lords of the Pale did so who yet at the same time desired the Justices to send their Petition to the King which was refused This being the chief ground by which your Lordship would justifie the most formed and dangerous Conspiracy and Rebellion that ever was in that Kingdom since the Crown of Englands first Title thereunto which your Lordship being a Peer of England should have distinguished from a just and a lawful War but do not I must observe to your Lordship that its an ill way to acquaint the King with their pretended Grievances La main a lespe they should have done that if they had any before their treacherous and bloody Massacres and open Rebellion but indeed they had none to offer but what was the just return of their own black Actions for your Lordship knows as I have said before that by Committees of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland whereof most were Papists they had just before their Rebellion returned loaden with such Graces and Condescentions of Favour from the Crown as had been sufficient meeting with the least ingenuity gratitude and humanity to have made wavering Persons good Subjects but the Lord Macguires and others Confessions manifested that they had laid their Design of Treason too deep to retreat easily when they had once struck the stroak till finding their error not from remorse but from sense of danger imminent which must inevitably follow unless they could subdue England too At the first they made a loud cry of Grievances and at length bid fair as they had made Ireland a field of Blood and Desolation to disturb England also Concerning the further discouragement the Rebels received by Sir John Reads treatment and what that was and upon what grounds though I have all the passages thereof by me and will by no means allow of Racking any Man as being contrary to the Law of England yet I must observe that it was a very jealous time after so many thousands slaughtered barbarously in cold blood the Rebellion increasing every day too great a curiosity arising to know the bottom of the design that remedies proportionable might be applied and Sir John Read being one of the Kings Servants and a designing Papist being there so unseasonably without being able to give a good account of himself or business and going away Agent for the Rebels in Arms without leave of the State might make them exceed the strict bounds of Law in his Examination Your Lordship in the next place taking notice that you had tryed this and other ways to acquaint the King with your Grievances which I have shewed before were none and all failing an open War broke forth generally throughout the Kingdom this being a meer colour and pretence your Lordship unfortunately puts the effect before the pretended cause for by what you had said before and what the truth of the cause is the horrid Rebellion for it never merited the name of a War was universal before they so much as alleadged any Grievance Your next Memoire is of your entertaining my Lord of Ormond at Dinner after the Battle of Kilrush which you were a Spectator of and that some who came with him turned it another way publishing through the Army that it was a Feast for my Lord Mountgarret and the Rebels which through the English Quarters past for currant Here your Lordship by your own shewing intimates that though you were a Spectator from your own House of a Battle wherein the Crown lay at stake and had formerly discovered you had force enough to recover your Cat el taken away by the Rebels and apprehend some of their Leaders which you call Rogues yet though a Peer of both Kingdoms you would be no Actor though the Kings General was at your Gate doubting it seems the event of Battle but the success rendring my Lord of Ormond Victorious you set before him that Dinner which you had not strength to keep from him And indeed it was generally then held by the English that if the Rebels had gained the day your Lordship would more frankly have bid the Lord Mountgarret their General and a Butler also welcome to that Dinner than you did my Lord of Ormond and this is what passeth rant in this particular to this day which you believe was much the cause of that villainous proceeding as you call it fore-mentioned whereas it seems you were so far from being ill dealt with in the least that my Lord of Ormond your Guest though he might have justified his carrying you Prisoner with him to Dublin who would not assist him in Fight as your Tenure required left you as some think by a blameable omission Master of your own House and without the least damage done you though much happened after to the Kingdom by your liberty of which you were for some time restrained in the Sheriffs hands and after ordered to be removed to the Castle of Dublin which you say startled you and it brought to your thoughts the proceedings against the Earl of Strafford c. whereupon you made an escape probably in the manner related But here your Lordship not distinguishing times and I not having Papers by me am so doubtful of an intermixture of Affairs to your advantage that I must reserve the unfolding thereof to another tfme when I shall be able exactly to shew you the times of your Lordships appearing and joyning with the Rebels and of the proceeding against the Earl of Strafford and how they preceded on the other I shall only for the present observe how that great personage though more innocent than your Lordship could pretend to never sled his Tryal well knowing that would have fixed more guilt upon him in construction of Law than could be proved against him and judged it more honourable to hazard the losing of his Head than his Innocency Your Lordships Wisdom took a contrary course and concluding that Innocency was a scurvy plea in an angry time as in deed it is in any times where it is so thin laid that gross guilt appears under it you find it safer to arraign the state than to abide a Tryal and accordingly taxing them for passion and partiality and to be of the Parliaments perswasion when your Lordship would have had them and the whole Kingdom of yours and by what means time hath manifested you resolved to attempt an escape and save your self in the Irish Quarters which your Lordship did to the Mountains of Wicklow where being come you cared little for the Justices Is it possible if your Lordship had thought your self innocent that you would seek safety or count your self safe among the most enormously
not but the Trumpet was quickly dispatched with some slight Answer which coming to your knowledge you repaired to Kilkenny whither the Council was returned and on information finding what you had heard to be true you sent for Sir Bobert Talbot Sir Richard Barnwall Collonel Walter Bagnal and such others as were in the Town well affected and leading Men of the Assembly though not of the Council Now being in your Lodging you acquainted them with what you had understood and that if they would stick to you you would endeavour to give it a turn You all agreed on the way which was to go to the Council then sitting to take notice of the Kings offer and their return and to mind them that the consideration and resolutions concerning Peace and War the general Assembly referved to themselves only and therefore to require that they would send immediately a Trumpet of their own with a Letter to the Marquess of Ormond giving him to understand they had issued a Summons for a general Assembly in order to acknowledge the Kings gracious Favour in naming him his Commissioner to hear your Aggrievances and redress them This you put in execution and gained your point without much resistance The Marquess of Ormond being thus brought into a Treaty the Confederate Commissioners met at Seginstowne near the Nasse as his Excellency had appointed in order to a Cessation of Arms. At which time all Parties laboured to get into possession of what they could Collonel Monk after made Duke of Albermarle march'd into the County of Wicklow to take in the Harvest and possess some Castles Your Lordship being then commanded by the Council to go against him and having Rendevouz'd your Troops consisting of about 3000 Horse and Foot at Ballynekill in the County of Catherlagh notice was brought you that Collonel Monk was marched away in all haste to the assistance of the Lord Moor then facing Owen Roe Oneal near Portlester You finding your self now to have nothing to do thought it worth the while to endeavour taking in Dullerstown Tully Lacagh and all other Castles in the County of Kildare between the Rivers of the Barrow and Liffe which you did leaving Garrisons in them This done you repast past the Barrow at Monaster-Evan marched into Leix and took three or four small places But as you were going on had Advice from the Commissioners at Seginstowne that they had on the 15th of September 1643 concluded a Cessation of Arms with the Marquess of Ormond to which you submited As your Lordship did also to the two Peaces of 1646 1648 both sutable and of the same strain and though both were of advantage only to the Irish and highly dishonourable to the Crown of England and destructive to the English and Protestants yet both were broken and set at naught by the Irish themselves a just Judgment of God against them whose hands were full of Blood and there being no hopes that such untempered Morter could cement them and the Posterity left alive of murdered Parents Brothers Sisters and other Relations or that ever the English could live out of danger and free of Massacres for the future without exemplary punishment of the Murderers and Rebels and bringing them by forfeitures and otherwise to an absolute subjection to the Laws and keeping them in that state as it is now hoped they are and will be by the watchful Eye of Government I shall now as briefly as I can take the liberty to give your Lordship impartial Remarks upon what your Lordship hath written in justification of the Rebels or tending to caluminate his Majesties Government or English and Pretestant Subjects reserving a fuller account thereof to a fitter occasion In the first place Seeing your Lordships Memoires dedicated to the King I cannot but take notice how dangerous a thing it is and of how bad consequence it may prove especially in this case and juncture to misinform his Majesty not that I do suspect or tax your Lordship of design to abuse the King for I do charitably believe as your Lordship affirms upon your word that they do not contain a lie or mistake to your knowledge yet I must positively aver and it is my part to make it good that the Relation wants the most material and pregnant Truths in the principal part thereof and of most consequence to the Publick as I doubt not your Lordship will believe and confess upon such glances as I shall make upon particulars as I go over them But before I proceed it will import the giving clear light to an affair which contrary interests have so much endeavoured to perplex to observe the state that unhappy Kingdom of Ireland was in at the Eruption of that satal Rebellion A Parliament sitting the year before in Ireland both Houses taking notice of some Grievances growing upon them and the want of some good New Laws for advancing the Prosperity and good Government of that Kingdom did send chosen Agents or Commissioners both Lords and Commons of most esteem amongst them to attend his Majesty in England for redress of such Grievances and procuring such new Grants and Graces as they were directed to move for from a Gracious King His Majesty received them favourably and with good dispatch they returned for Ireland fully satisfied and loaden with all the Graces and Bounties good Subjects could hope to receive upon such an Address to their Prince and what needed Confirmation in Parliament was to be done when the Parliament should meet at the day to which it was Prorogued The People of Ireland were never better pleased then with the gracious Returns his Majesty had made by their Commissioners That Kingdom never enjoyed a more prosound and more like to be lasting Peace and Prosperity Commerce and Trade both at home and abroad never flourished more barbarous Customs were never more entirely subdued and abrogated there never was more Unity Friendship and good Agreement amongst all sorts and degrees except in the standing root of miscnief the difference in Religions then at this time nor more mutual Confidence I can say being that time there the Sheep and the Goats lived quietly together and there was that intire trust in one another as to all Matters Civil and Temporal that I remember very well the Summer before the Rebellion The Titular Bishop of Fernes coming his Visitation into the County of Wexford where I then dwelt at the request of a Popish Priest I lent most of my Silver Plate to entertain the said Bishop with and had it honestly restored In this serene and happy state was that Kingdom every one sitting under his own Vine and Fig-tree in peace and in the abundance of all things when whether surfeiting of Quiet and Plenty or by the just Judgment of God upon a sinful and superstitious Nation or that the said Committees having staid in England till they saw symptoms of a misunderstanding between his Majesty and his two Houses af Parliament in England and
being most of them Papists conceived they had fallen into a fit juncture to set up their darling Idolatry and restore the pretended Jurisdiction of their Idolized Forraign Power of the Pope of Rome or being in at the Intrigues of the Popish Faction all Court and receiving incouragement by what they observed and was infused into them they had here laid the Foundation of the Massacre and Rebellion whereof Ireland was to be the Scene or upon what other grounds I shall not here take upon me determine but I well remember that he 23d of October after their Return broke out upon a formed Combination and Conspiracy wherein almost all the said Popish Committees were leading Men and principal Actors such a horrid and bloody Massacre and Rebellion as is not to be parallell'd in History neither Man Woman nor Infants in the Womb or at the Breast being spared but the generality of that Nation turning barbarous and wild Irish again after so many hundred years Subjection to the Crown of England and Endeavours of their Reformation and Civilizing to so vast an expence of Blood and Treasure as is hardly to be believed But my Lord I may now but touch at things Comme en passant that I may keep within the bounds of a Letter but when what I have meditated and am preparing from Records and authentick unquestionble Relations and Transactions of that bloody Tragedy and matchless Defection from the Crown and very Nation of English Men shall see the light your Lordship will be informed of what it seems hath not yet come to your knowledge and what must make your Lordship blush at your so fatal mistake to have ever been so far as you confess your self in so ill Company and to have partaken in the least in so foul a Guilt Having made this necessary Excursion and Caution I proceed in your Lordships own Method Going first with your Lordship to the Lords Justices acquainting them of your willingness to serve the King against the Rebels to which no doubt by advice of his Majesties Privy Council in that Kingdom they gave a very prudent Answer That your Religion was an obstacle and how could they well say less when it was apparent that it was a Popish Conspiracy and those of that profession universally ingaged in the Defection in so much that though the State there would have distinguished them into Allegiance and for that end more out of desire to win them than any confidence they had in them but to leave them without excuse put Arms and Ammuuition into the hands of the Lord Viscount Gormanston and other Popish Lords and Gentlemen of best Quality and Estates in the English Pale and who by their tenures had formerly and were obliged to assist the Crown in times of danger and they almost all of them went with his Majesties Arms in Aid of the Rebells and they who did best did but restore the Kings Arms and joyned themselves and all the power they could make to the Insurrection forgetting the Grants and bountiful Gifts of Lands their Ancestors had received from the Crown for former and on condition of future Service in which Rank your Lordship placeth your noble Ancestors and I heartily wish you had continued that station Your Lordships next motion was to the Lords Justices for a Pass to go for England which though they could not consent to they gave your Lordship good Advice and which for a time you followed viz. to go home to your House being but 20 miles from Dublin and under the protection or reach of the State as there should be occasion and as your Lordship found afterwards Concerning your Lordships entertaining my Lord of Antrim and the Dutchess of Buckingham at Madinstowne whither they soon followed whither by consent with your Lordship is not said and your delight in their company I have nothing to say but that it was an ill time for Feasting and Jollity when stript and almost starved English came flying by your Gate every day from the Rebels Cruelty And I find that both the Marquess of Antrim and the Dutchess were after that deeply ingaged in the Rebellion and her Grace living and dying in the Irish Quarters chose to be buried at Waterford And though your Lordship had power enough when the Irish came and drove away a great part of your Stock to recover it by a party sent out with your Brother who brought with him two or three of the chiefest Conductors of that Rabble yet you do not so much as pretend that you delivered up any of them to Justice as you ought But you say that this inraged the Irish so much as you conceived your Brother was not safe there where yet you thought fit to continue but sending him to Dublin to attend the Justices Orders and assure them of your readiness to return on a Call they sending a Convoy which they promised to do as occasion required yet your Lordship hearing that you were indicted of high Treason the most publick way of accusing though your Brothers Letter calls it Clandestine you went to Dublin it seems you could go when you pleased without a Convoy but did not it seems think fit to appear and oppose the Indictment but being committed by the Lords Justices and Council the Justification whereof is not the work of this Letter but will have its proper time and place your Lordship after addressing your Case by your Brother to the King and Parliament in England without success whither your Brother being refused a Pass by the Justices was gotten It seems your Lordship meditated your escape into the Irish Quarters and relate the manner how you compassed the same which few will believe your Lordship would have done or held it the way to save your self but that you knew you had deserved it of them and that they had no cause to hurt you as appeared after by their making you General of their Horse and your Lordship chusing the Oath of Association before that of Allegiance Your Lordships having now shifted sides betake your self roundly to a justification of the Rebels cause I must follow you your own way though it be not so methodical as I could wish and is with great confusion of times and affairs which the thred of History will reduce to order when time serves It is true that Parties were sent out by the Justices according to his Majesties Direction to kill and destroy the Rebels throughout all the parts of the Kingdom and if the Officers and Souldiers did not take care enough in your Lordships Opinion to distinguish between the Rebels and the Subjects but killed in many places promiscuously whereof your Lordship gives no instances or of particular complaints to have been made of any such thing I wou'd fain know what distinction could be made of those that were found in Arms or Action against the Kings Authority for there will appear to have been no prosecution of others nor any others killed unless by such
bloody and guilty men that ever were under the Sun and fly the Kings Justice with reflection and scorn upon the State that was pursuing them for their Crimes and to avoid the inward stings of Guilt or Apprehensions of Punishment run head-long into open and a vowed Guilt among those who were under Gods Vengeance and the Kings I leave this to your Lordships more serious second thoughts Being out of the danger of Justice though your Lordship cared little for the Justices as how could your Lordship when you were associated with those who had bid defiance to God and the King yet your Lordship quickly saw a proof how civil and merciful they had been to you hitherto when they upon your escape shewed you they had power enough to pursue you and pillage and burn your House in your Mountain view and use your Family as Enemies which they might have done before but their constant course was to endeavour the re-gaining those who had faltered in their Allegiance and not to increase the number which was too heavy upon them already Your Lordship at length arrived to the beloved place designed the City of Kilkenny Head Quarters of the Confederate Rebels where you found many of your acquaintance preparing for their natural defence seeing no distinction made or safety but in Arms. Your Lordships heart was now at rest among your Friends and Relations to whom indeed after committing all the wickedness their hand of violence could reach to being defeated in several Battels by his Majesties Forces and driven into their Holds defence became natural their Crimes having left them no hopes but in Arms and who could expect no distinction to be made where they were universally involved in the same black guilt For this end your Lordship saith they had chosen a Council formed an Oath of Association made Four Generals of the Four Provinces caused a Seal to be made raised Monys constituted a General Assembly c. all ensigns of the more than Regal Power they had usurped To this Council your Lordship was sent for and being well prepared by those inclinations which made you forsake the Kings Government and the Laws you quickly closed with them upon the grounds before expressed and upon consideration of their model of Government and very reasonable as your Lordship judged it Oath of Association which your Lordship prints at large and their desiring your conjunction with thanks returned your Lordship engaged your self to run a Fortune with them upon very ill principles if anger and revenge inclined you to it as much as any other consideration which you intimate though you say you cannot resolve It s strange how the Earl of Castlehaven and Lord Audley in England could close so cordially with the Irish who had shed so much innocent English Blood in full peace and think himself justified by such an account of his ingagement as this unless he had been resolved in the justice of their cause from the beginning however he carried it with seeming fairness to the Lords Justices till he got out of their reach But ingaged your Lordship was and being thus Confederate and having taken the Oath of Association becoming one of their Council and General of the Horse under Preston and giving the most specious account you can of your proceedings in that quality Truth being the greatest and best friend I had rather one or several Persons and Families should lie under the Consequences of its impartiality than that the English Nation and Protestant Religion should suffer by a timorous unworthy concealing or withholding any part of it And since your Lordship to palliate or justifie your own Actions and the Confederate Irish Cause endeavours to render the generality of the English Protestants Criminal your Lordship must not think it much that I one of English Race and for Religion of the Church of England should be a little plain in their Justification and Defence and for that end remove the mask your Lordship hath put upon the face of Affairs by continuing my Remarques upon your Lordships Memoires And first to the constitution of a Council it was made up of Members uncapable of that trust by Law In the Oath of Association and Propositions grounded thereon there is not a word but breaths high Treason except the first thirteen lines which set up the Kings Name and Authority only in pagentry and mockery to be crucified and contradicted by all that follows and yet this Oath your Lordship held very reasonable as the case then stood that is when you and your Confederates were incouraged or heightned with a Power able as you fancied to make good what you had sworn And suitable to this ungodly trayterous Oath where all the subsequent proceedings of the Confederates their Councils at home and their Actions abroad their Cessations and pretended Peaces which I shall take notice of more particularly in their respective series of time The general Assembly met the 24th of October 1642 your Lordship saith it differ'd nothing from a Parliament but that the Lords and Commons sate together and not in two Houses Was this so inconsiderable a difference in the Opinion of a Peer of England as well as Ireland or fit for one of so noble Extraction to be submitted to against Honour Law and right Reason But the truth is and I speak it for the honour of the Nobility of Ireland the Rebels had not debauched enough of them either for interest or number to bear the Countenance of a House of Peers or to be of any considerable figure among that People who having cast off Majesty could not be warmed by the beams thereof which I count the Nobility but they resolved of course into common persons again and had but single Votes among the Croud instead of those Honourable Priviledges and Negative Voice which their Ancestors had acquired as the just reward of their faithfulness to the Crown in former times and in all Defections and Rebellions since the subjection of that Nation to England And this your Lordship ingeniously confesseth and saith we see it was a force-put upon you and you hoped in time the storm being passed to return to your old Government under the King Here you own the being fallen from it but could your Lordship imagine or any others believe this Cob-web pretence possible were you not all ingaged by the bond of an Oath to the contrary and to preserve your new upstart treasonable Model and Constitution and that the storm should never cease till you had by Arms attained a confirmation of all that you had done for which by the said Oath you renounced the receiving any Pardon or Protection but by your own Sword But that Assembly differed also from a Parliament in this That it was called by a packt party of bloody Papists in Rebellion and Confederacy and had neither Legal nor Regal Authority But to conciliate credit and belief you add That there were many learned in the Law amongst you whom
A LETTER From a Person of HONOUR in the COUNTREY Written to the EARL of CASTLEHAVEN BEING Observations and Reflections Upon his Lordships MEMOIRES Concerning the WARS of IRELAND LONDON Printed for Nath. Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey 1681. A LETTER Written to the EARL of CASTLEHAVEN My Lord Castlehaven HAving Received your Lordships of the 24th Current with your printed Memoires which you are pleased in some sort to Intitle me to and I will not conceal from your Lordship that I am not yet ashamed now I have read them though I cannot approve all in them that I was the first incentive to your Writing them which was upon this occasion having sat along with your Lordship in Parliament and observing for the most part such a consent between your Lordship and me in proceedings there upon the most abstracted Principles of Honour and Allegiance I could not but account of your Lordship as a true Englishman and a Loyal Subject whatsoever blemish your engagement under the confederate Rebels of Ireland had before fixed on you and having heard you so often pathetically declare your self fully to mine and most honest Mens Minds against the dangers of the growing greatness of the French and the too fast Declension of the Spaniard between which great Powers of the World the Crown of England was so happy and wise in former times as to hold and guide the Ballance and finding by your frequent and as I could not but conceive Cordial Expressions against the Pope of Rome's Usurping Authority in these Dominions over and against his Majesty and Kingdoms to such a degree that you spared not like a right Ancient Peer of this Realm often to say That if the Pope himself should Attack any of his Majesties Dominions you would be one of the first to labour his Destruction I was deservedly much delighted in your Lordships Converse which having been often honoured with both by your Letters when in Foreign parts and your favourable Society here at home I was instrumental as your Lordship well knows to prevail with the Parliament to set a mark of great Honour on your Lordship by a special recommendation and intercession to his Majesty for a regard to and reparation of the Breaches time and misfortune had made upon so Ancient and Honourable a Family And looking upon your Lordship as a Peer of most noble Principles and free of the worst part of Bigotry I could not but lament your leaving the Parliament and still wish your return During our said Converse being ingaged in the History of Ireland to which I was the more inclined by an interest therein for several Generations my Great Grandfather Sir John Perrot having been Deputy thereof governing the same with great Wisdom and Success my Grandfather Annesley having been Commander at Sea in Queen Elizabeths time and one of the Undertakers for Land in Munster after the Earl of Desmond's Rebellion my Father the Lord Baron of Mountnorris and Viscount of Valentia of whom I have very often heard your Lordship speak with great Honour and as your worthy Friend having faithfully served King James and King Charles the First near Forty years in that Kingdom in Offices and Imployments of high Trust and I my self being a Native of the City of Dublin a diligent Observer of the Troubles there wherein I had some share and having both Honours and Lands descended to me in that Realm and knowing that your Lordship had heretofore a great part in the Action there and taking notice that no Memorials I had yet seen did give a full account of your Lordship whom as my own Friend and my Fathers Friend I was willing to do right to in History as far as I could ever highly esteeming the Bravery of your Actions and Wisdom of your Conduct as far as I had Cognizance thereof though I bemoaned the unhappy circumstances of your engaging under a Power usurping over your own Prince and incroaching Royal Power which I find you cannot digest either the Pope or Duke of Lorraine should have done I discoursed with your Lordship many of the most important Designs Actions and Traverses of Fortune in Ireland since the fatal 23 of October 1641 and finding by your full Relations with a perfect memory thereof that you were able to give help to History therein I moved your Lordship to which you friendly consented that at leasure hours you would reduce to writing what you could remember with as exact reference to Time and Order as you could recollect of Passages and Exploits there and that I might by your favour be possessed thereof And I wish things had rested there little expecting a formal Relation in print and much less so introduced before I had the perusal of it for I must now acquaint your Lordship that I did not after what I have above related save now and then to your self inquire after your Memoires promised me till by a Letter of the 16th of this moneth from a hand I respect I had notice he had seen them and my Censure thereon was desired they seeming to him after 28 years silence to cast a Calumny on the Government then and as he suspects with no good intention though he refers that to my Opinion knowing as he is pleased to say none to appeal to but me Your Lordship sees now how you are ingaged for want of commanding my Service before the Printers and I am confident the heat of a Battle would be less formidable to you then the Paper warre you must expect to be assaulted with wherein if I be necessitated to have the least hand your Lordship may be assured it shall be en Gentilhome en amy and chiefly with an aim to convince your Lordship of that which hath obscured the Glory of your Adventures and Exploits or Undertakings in that unfortunate Kingdom and therefore I forbear giving any Opinion to my Friend till I have vented my thoughts to your Lordship which I shall now take the liberty to do Upon serious perusal of your Book I find your Lordships Story of two parts The First till the Cessation of Arms concluded by the Rebels Commissioners at Seginstowne with the Marquess of Ormond Sept. 15 1643 all which time your Lordship was wholly of the Rebels Party and under their Pay and Command which I wish your Lordship had not thought fit for the Press though there were some Acts of Souldierly bravery in it The Second Part From that time till your Lordship finding the ill state of Affairs in Ireland was dispatched by the then Lord Deputy Clanrickord to set out the same to the King in France from whence though your Lordship procured a Letter from his Majesty to the Lord Deputy and sent the same by a safe Messenger yet you returned not again but ingaged in the Service of the Prince of Conde My Lord I am loath now to make my Remarques upon this Second Part because your Lordships acting therein at times under the Confederate