broke their Forces at Drommore in the North of Ireland and reduced all but Derry and Eneskillen Then they prayed again for K. J. That God would strengthen him to vanquish and overcome all his Enemies August following Schomberg went over with an English Army Then as far as his Quarters reacht they returned to pray the same Prayer for K. William the rest of the Protestants still praying for Victory to K. J. and for the P. of W. and yet now they tell us That all that while they all meant the same thing four times in one Year Praying forward and backward point blanck contradictory to one another And one would believe that they never thought of it or considered whether it was a Fault or not For as if there had been no such thing they tell K. W. in their Address to him No. 26. Appendix We do not doubt say they but God will hear the Prayers of His Church and Crown your Majesties Arms with Success c. And so they go on most Loyally to make him a Present of their Prayers and assure his Majesty That with the most hearty Importunity they would pray for him This I suppose was put in that he might not think they would pray for him as they did for K. J. that is Hypocritically and against their own Heart to that Degree that the Bishop of Meath in his Speech at the head and in the name of the Dublin Clergy No. 8. Append. takes pains to clear himself and them to K. W. from having been so much as Trimmers towards K. J. while he was there among them that is they were his inveterate Enemies This was about a Week after this Bishop offered his Service to K. J. to attend upon him to the Boyne and their Praying for him all that time was only matter of Form to please him It was at once both innocent and necessary to keep to the Bishop's Words and fit to be observed to a Power that was able to Crush us far worse than it did Who would stick out for a little praying God knew their Heart that they did not mean a Word of what they said even while they received the Sacrament where they pray'd for K. J. at the very Altar as they do now for K. W. and in the Collect after the Ten Commandments they did acknowlege before God That K. J. was His Minister and had His Authority and prayed for His Grace faithfully to serve honour and humbly obey King James in God and for God according to his Blessed Word and Ordinance and yet at that time they thought him not God's Minister nor to have His Authority were not resolved nor thought it their Duty to serve or obey him nay not so much as to Trimm on his side They thought him not their lawful King but that K. W. was their King and had God's Authority and that they were obliged to obey K. W. in God and for God according to God's Blessed Word and Ordinance whom yet in their Address to K. J. they call an unnatural Usurper Was there ever such broad hardened Affronting God to his Face What did these Divines or others think when they received the Sacrament with such a Lye in their Mouths It makes ones Hair stand on end O God look not upon this forgive the Iniquity of our holy things Will this Method persuade Men to have Regard to your Prayers or your Principles But nothing of all this touches upon our Author he is still very confident p. 238. That they were not guilty of any servile or mean Compliances or as the Bishop of Meath words it of no Compliances but such as were at once both innocent and necessary What will our Adversaries say to this Excuse Was it both innocent and necessary in them to abhor and detest K. W. whom they thought their only true and lawful King as an unnatural Usurper and all those as Rebels and Traytors who took his part and to plight their Faith and promise their Allegiance as they do in the abovesaid Address of Parliament with one Voice Tongue and Heart to K. J. whom they thought to be no longer their King but to have Abdicated And yet they did thus endeavour to persuade him into an intire Confidence and Dependance upon their Loyalty to him making him a Tender of their Lives and Fortunes against the said Usurper the P. of O. and his Adherents and all other Rebels and Traytors whatsoever If these were not servile or mean Compliances I desire the Author to tell us what can be so Most solemn and Parliamentary Lying upon Record in the Face of the World and to all Posterities Perjury Dissimulation and Treachery to the last Degree persuading that Prince to trust them whom they at the same time were resolved to destroy And that no humane Eye should discover them they carried on their Hypocrisie even to pray solemnly to God every day in their Churches for Victory to K. J. when now they all tell us that in their hearts they wisht it to K. W. If to deceive Men was neither servile nor mean was it both innocent and necessary thus to mock God Was there not may Papists say just Grounds for what this Author tells of K. J. c. 3. s 20. n. 4. p. 222. That he gave Advice to the Earl of Salisbury's Brothers to beware of the Company of Protestants but above all says this Author he forbad them conversing with the Bishops and Clergymen for said he they are all false to me and will pervert you to Disloyalty and Treason This the Author calls loading the Protestants with the most odious Calumnies and Misrepresentations But suppose K. J. or any of his Friends should ask this Author whether one Word of it was false Will he say that they were true to K. J. or did pray sincerely for him what they daily repeated in their Common Prayers And consequently that they gave no manner of Ground but were perfectly innocent of the Charge with which this Author says the Papists loaded them viz That they had no Religion at all that they only pretended to it but were Atheists and Traytors in their Hearts It is true indeed they treated K. J. with all imaginable Demonstrations of Loyalty and Affection but how sincere themselves will tell you now wherever he came the Bishops and Clergy were the first to make their Court. He Landed on Tuesday the 12th of March 1689 at Kinsale next Morning the Vicar Mr. Thoms went to the Fort to kiss His Majesty's Hand being introduc'd by the Lord Bishop of Chester as he tells in his Journal and says he on Thursday the 14th of March we came to Cork and lodg'd at the Bishop's Palace and I brought the Bishop and the Clergy to the King who receiv'd them very kindly Friday the 15th I went with the Bishop of Cork to the King 's Levee and tarried at Court till I saw the Rebels of Bandon at His Feet and the Minister in an Elegant Speech begging their
James which I have inserted n. 23. Appendix and it was punctually observed till the day that Schomberg landed there with the English Army in August 1689. Then Schomberg issued Proclamations of Protection and Encouragement to the Irish who should return to their Habitations and follow their Labour which many accepted and great part of the Country was thereby planted some in as full manner as before the Revolution But notwithstanding the Protestant Army fell upon them and soon wasted the whole Country And when the Irish â—eld out their Protections they tore them and bid them wipe their with them and none were punished for this Breach of Protection For when I have asked some of their Officers the Reason of thâ—â— all the Answer they gave 〈◊〉 was That where they had not Pay they could not 〈◊〉 their Army under Discipline I 〈◊〉 noâ— diâ—â—â—â—re the Vâ—â—day of this Answer but the Matter of 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—le And if any should lay all this upon â—â—ng â—â—â—liam and say it was with his Approbation it would be construed a malicious and ill-grounded Accusation The Massacre of the Laird of Glencoe with others of his Clan Or suppose some lewd Jacobite for there is no Stop in Wickedness should charge upon King William the Dewitting of the Mac-Donalds of Glencoe after they had submitted to his Government and lived under his Protection only because the Blood-hound-Officers who commanded that inhuman Massacre in cold Blood pretended the King's Commission and are not punished for it As you will see by the Copy of the Orders and the Account of that Massacre from a good hand but in short only in a Letter to a Friend which I have inserted No. 19 and must serve till a Relation more at full shall be published Now who could have the ill Nature to believe King William capable of granting such an Order to cut Mens Throats at dead of the Night in their Beds who had submitted to his Government come under his Protection and sworn to him What though the Murderers are not punished there is a good time coming to see these Ruffains of Officers who could give or obey such Orders duly animadverted Who under pretence of Royal Authority Butcher'd in one night viz. the 12th of February last or 13th at Five in the Morning Eight and thirty Persons and had done so to all the rest of that Sept to the Number of several Hundreds had not a violent Storm which happened that night retarded the March of another Party of Four hundred who were ordered to fall in at the other end of the Glen by which Providence so many of them made their Escape And though some of these were killed with Protections from King William's Officers in their Pockets as you will see in the Account above-mentioned and all of them living under his Protection yet I am confident this Author will not say that it were just or reasonable to charge this Breach of Protections upon King William's Account As unjust is it which this Author in this same place viz. c. 3. s 13. n. 4. p. 172. charges upon King James in relation to the Protestants in the County of Down Who as he avers had not only their Goods taken from them but likewise their Wives and Daughters were Ravished by the Soldiers And yet says he these Protestants proceeded no further than to complain of it to the Chief Officers and to demand Redress from them The Answer they had was That these Robbers and Ravishers had no Authority from the King for what they did and therefore they advised the Complainants to fall on them and oppose them if they made any further Attempts on the Country The poor People were satisfied with the Answer and were resolved to do as they were directed and accordingly fell upon the next Party of Soldiers they found Plundering and committing Outrages on the Country-people and killed some of them This instead of being approved as they were made to believe it would be was counted a Rebellion and immediately Major-General Bohan was sent among them with a Party who Massacred about five or six Hundred Men of them in cold Blood for several days together Many of those who were killed were Poor Old Impotent People Many were killed at their Work and while they were busie about their own Affairs and suspected no such matter King James was so far from resenting the Barbarous Usage of these poor People that he railed on this occasion against Protestants in general representing them as False and Perfidious For said he many were killed with my Protections in their Pockets Not considering the Reflection was on his own Party against whom his Protection as appeared by his own Confession was no Security These are the Authors own words And I must beg the Readers patience to examine this Story to the bottom that he may see this Authors Art and his Integrity And I will set down nothing but what the Protestants in that Country know to be true and will if occasion be depose This then is the Story in brief After the Defeat of the Protestant Associat Forces at Drummore the 14th of March 1688. Lieutenant-General Hamilton willing to protect the Protestants as well as others who would live quietly and having granted his Protection to Belfast and other places as before is told and keeping his Soldiers under strict Discipline yet found the Country molested with Irish Rapperees or Half-pike men as they called them whom when his repeated Orders and Proclamations could not reclaim and Soldiers were not in all places at hand to defend the Country from them and the Country were afraid to fall upon them without Order left it might be construed a Taking Arms against the King the Lieutenant-General for the greater Security of the Country gave Orders to the Country to seize any such Rapperees who had no Commission and to commit them to the next Goal and if they made Resistance to kill them And this the Author mistakes I know not if wilfully for a Liberty to fall upon the Soldiers of the King's Army As if the General would not take the Punishment of these into his own hands but leave it to the Discretion of the Country People who he knew hated both him and his Soldiers to knock his Soldiers on the head if they pleased to say that they wronged them This Author n. 25. of his Appendix sets down such an Order as this given by the Marquis d'Albâ—ville Principal Secretary of State to King James January 2. 1689. directed to the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer where among other Instructions this is the seventh viz. That you order all Men to fall upon Publick Robbers who have no regard of their Duty towards GOD their King or Country destitute of all sense of Humanity and consider them but as Wild Beasts who live upon Prey and Rapine How justly our Author insers from such Oâ—dâ—rs as these a Liberty to the Common People to fall upon the Army or any
the Protestants in Ireland Did the French King use them no Worse than K. James did these Protestants Our Author says as above that K. James used worse Methods towards the Protestants of Ireland than the King of France did with the Hugonots If so Mounsieur Claud has mightily Misinform'd us in his Account of the Persecution of the Hugonots in France And since our Author will have this Comparison because he could not think of another would Render K. James so Odious I have a Curiosity to know his Opinion as to the Cause of these Hugonots viz. Whether their King 's breaking the Edict of Nants and using them as he did was Sufficient to absolve them from their Allegiance and to set up a King of their own Religion where-ever they could find him I doubt not but this Author will Answer in the Affirmative and that it was nothing but want of Power kept them from Abdicating that King who they thought had Abdicated the Government of them by his ill usage of them And this will be a better Plea for the French King to Rid himself of these sort of People than any I have yet heard offered for him But in this Comparison 'twixt King James and the French King our Author makes King James the more wicked Man of the Two using worse Method with his Protestants as you have heard And in his Character of the French King he gives him the Advantage over King James with an Innuendo-reflection upon King James in this same place p. 14. He reports the French King to be a Merciful Man in his own Nature and certainly says he a mighty Zealot for his Honour As if King James were not so indeed he was far from it as this Author represents him You see to what a Height this Authors Zeal has carried him when he will give so fair a Character even of the French King that he may thereby blacken K. J. the more And upon this Head I hope no Man will take it ill at least to do Right to K. James Would any Body desire him to be worse than the French King Therefore give me leave to say and in this I believe I shall have the Major part on my side That if the Hugonots in France had Invited a Forreign Hugonot Prince to enter France with an Army had joyn'd with him and Proclaim'd him for their King and Forc'd K. Lewis to Fly out of France and afterward recovering part of his own he should reduce the Hugonots in Brettaigne for example and they when they were come again under the Power of their Old Master should shew all the Signs of Disloyalty and Disaffection to him Deserting him every day to their new Hugonot King and giving an Account to him of the same disposition in them that could not make their Escape from K. Lewis and K. L. to know all this and that those that staid gave all the Intelligence they could to his Enemies and did all the Mischief they could to him their Natural King under whose Protection they then Liv'd And those of them that were able in Brettaigne to hold out in open Arms against him keeping two Towns in the same Province he had Reduc'd where they Fortify'd themselves and Declared for their Hugonot King and to Rescue those Hugonots that were under King Lewis I say if this had been the Case 'twixt K. Lewis and the Hugonots I believe I shall have the Major part of England of my Opinion That King Lewis would have dealt otherwise with them than King James did with the Protestants in Ireland And perhaps had any King in Christendom but K. James had them in his Power as he had for a whole Summer he would not have left them in a Capacity to have Driven him out of the Kingdom as they did And he was Morally assured they would do so when it was in his Power to have prevented them But rather than Destroy them he put it in their Power to Destroy him which they did without the least sense of all his Goodness to them which they Disdain'd to own but pursued him as a Tyrant Secretary Gorge Assures us in his Large Letter that the Irish Protestants were more Active against King James and were more dreaded by the Irish than any other of K. William's Army If K. James were as great a stranger to us as Caesar or Pompey and the Scene were plac'd as far off as those Times yet who would not have a Zeal to Vindicate the Truth who would not be mov'd to see a King who suffered himself to be visibly Ruin'd by his unprovocable Clemency to Obstinate Rebels represented by them for so doing as the Bloodiest Tyrant in the World To see this Authors Book Transport Men so far without examining as that the Principal Secretary of State should License a Pamphlet call'd The Pretences of the French Invasion Examined which 〈◊〉 14. lays the stress of our Objections against King James upon his Cruelty to the Loyal Irish Protestants while he was among them in Ireland His King James's Carriage in Ireland says the Pamphlet to the Loyal Protestants writ this viz. His implacable hatred to the Protestants in Capital Letters and it must be suppos'd they have Drunk deep of Lethe who can forget all this Thus positively does the Pamphleteer averr upon the Credit of our Author And therefore it is Incumbent upon our Author to produce some Catalogue of these Protestants in Ireland who remain'd Loyal to King James while he was there except those few who were in his Army whom our Author or our Phamphleteer cannot mean because they reckon these among the number of the Persecutors and by some thought worse of than the Papists for Assisting the Papists against the Protestants we desire a List of these Loyal Protestants in Ireland who suffered any thing from King James while he was there Can this Author find so many as their were Righteous Men in Sodom But this is much more certain that King James's Mercy to the Disloyal Protestants in Ireland put them in a Capacity to help to Drive him out of the Kingdom for his pains Does this Author really believe That King Lewis would have used them as kindly as King James did while he knew they were Plotting and would Joyn against him I Appeal to this Author Whether he would have thought himself so Secure in King Lewis's hands if he had been betraying his Councils and giving Intelligence to his Enemies as he was under these Circumstances in King James's Power But our Author never fails to make a round Character That King James should not be so Good a Man as King Lewis is not so great a Matter But now our Author's hand is in you shall see him carry King James's Character to be full as Inhumane as that of the Great Turk himself You have it â—nd of c. 3. § 20. n. 7. p. 224. The Vsage we met with being says the Author full as Inhumane as any thing they the
he has not put it in his Appendix Therefore I have annexed it to this No. 15. I will give you a farther Proof of K. James's Zeal to preserve the Acts of Settlement It is well known that the Address of the Lord Chief Justice Keating in behalf of the Purchasers under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation and the Lord Bishop of Meath's Speech set down at large in this Author's Appendix were subsequent to several Conferences K. J. had with several of the Members of the House of Commons and with a Committee of that House in Presence of the Lord Chief Justice Nugent Lord Chief Baron Rice Judge Daily and Attorney-General Neagle and others of the Privy Council where K J. plainly laid before them the Unreasonableness of their Proceedings That it was not proper to enter upon so great a matter as the destroying the said Acts in time of War when all Parties could not be heard and some of the Roman Catholick Judges declared not only to the King but to the said Committee and to several of both Houses of Parliament and of the Privy Council That it was unjust to break the Acts and destroy Purchasers Widows Orphans Merchants and all Traders on pretence to relieve Widows and Orphans And one of the Roman Catholick Judges did reduce this into Writing and shewed it to the Lord Chief Justice Keating who had a Copy of it as appears under his hand and that the Lord Bishop of Meath had the Perusal of it and as I am credibly informed had a Copy of it All which was before the said Address and Speech and though shotter is as full for the Preservation of the Settlement as the said Address and Speech And it appears plainly by what Duke Powis said from the King to the Earl of Granard c. that K. J. did encourage the Protestant Lords of Parliament to oppose the Repeal of the Acts of Sertlement and therefore their appearing in this matter ought by no means to be made an Objection against K. J. but in truth is an Argument of the pains he took to oppose the Repeal and it would be a Scandal to doubt but that these Protestant Lords meant it at that time sincerely for King James's Service which is farther demonstrable from the Loyal zeal which carried the Lord Bishop of Meath so far as to desire leave from K. J. to attend upon his Majesty to the Boyne to assist him against his Enemies But Achish excused David with Commendations of his Fidelity 1 Sam. 29. His Lordship was likewise one of the Lords Spiritual mentioned in the Address of the Parliament of Ireland to K. J. on the 10th of May 89. which was Printed with K. James's Speech and is here annexed No. 1. In this Address they abhor the unnatural Usurpation of the Prince of Orange and the Treason of those who joyned with him in England and Ireland and profess to K. J. with Tongue and Heart That they will ever assert his Rights to his Crown with their Lives and Fortunes against the said Usurper and his Adherents and all other Rebels and Traytors whatsoever These are the Words of the Address as you may see in the Appendix Now whether the Trotestant Bishops for no other sat in that Parliament did enter their Protestation against this Address which was made in their Names or whether they did not give their Votes to it themselves know best If they say that they durst not shew their dissent to it for fear of the Irish who would have called it Treason in them I will not argue now how just an Argument Fear is to justifie publick Lying Pâ—rjury and Treachery But if Fear had so great an impression upon themselves how could they at the same time have so little consideration for K. James's Circumstances as to lay such a load upon him for passing the Acts of Attainder and repeal of the Acts of Settlement when they saw him struggle with all his might against it and that the Irish had so little compassion for him not to name Loyalty that they threatned to lay down their Arms and leave him to his Enemies if he did not then immediately pass these Acts and yet they knew that it was highly prejudicial to his Service and consequently if they had thought aright to their own Interest But they were violent found the King was in their Power and made their Advantage of it to the best of their Understandings It is a Melancholy Story if true which Sir Theobald Butler Solicitor General to K. J. in Ireland tells of the D. of Tyrconnel's sending him to K. J. with a Letter about passing some Lands for the said Duke he imploying Sir Theob in his Business gave him the Letter open to read which Sir Theob says he found worded in terms so Insolent and Imposing as would be unbecoming for one Gentleman to offer to another Sir Theob says he could not but represent to the Duke the strange surprise he was in at his treating the King at such a rate and desired to be excused from being the Messenger to give such a Letter into the King's Hands The Duke smiled upon him and told him he knew how to deal with the King at that time that he must have his Business done and for Theobald's scruple he sealed the Letter and told him now the King cannot suppose you know the Contents only carry it to him as from me Sir Theob did so and says he observed the King narrowly as he read it and that His Majesty did shew great Commotion that he changed Colours and Sighed often yet ordered Tyrconnel's Request or Demand rather to be granted Thus says Sir Theobald Many particulars of the like Insolence of these Irish to K. James might be shewn but I would not detain the Reader what I have said is abundantly sufficient to shew how far it was from his own Inclinations either to suffer or do such things as were thus violently put upon him by the Irish in his Extremity Yet nothing of all this it seems has weighed any thing with these Irish Protestants at least with this Author to have any milder Thoughts of K. J. or to confess to the World what they very well know viz. That King James opposed the Passing of the Act of Attainder and Repeal of the Acts of Settlement all that he could and made use of the Protestants who now accuse him to help him in it And this Truth is so apparent that it forces it self sometimes out of their Mouths who endeavour to conceal it This Author c 3. s 9. n. 12 p. 150. says That K. J. made use of them the Protestant Bishops to moderate by way of Counterpoise the madness of his own Party and yet at another time all the madness of that Party must be charged upon the King And K. J. as this Author in the Heads of his Discourse c 3. s 12. n. 20. division 2. undertakes to prove would not hear the Protestants at the Bar
Pardon which he granted them And the Bishop of Cork constantly attended at the King 's Levee while His Majesty stay'd there Friday the 22d of March K. J. came to Kilkenny where the Bishop and Clergy were introduc'd by the Bishop of Chester to kiss His Majesty's Hand who received them very graciously Sunday the 24th the King came to Dublin Monday the 25th 1689 Primate Boyle Arch-bishop of Ardmagh advised the Bishop of Chester to accept of the Bishoprick of Cloghor then void which was owning K. J. to have had at that time full right to confer it and consequently to be Rightful King But that was fully and absolutely owned in ample form on Wednesday the 27th of March 1689 by the Bishop of Meath and Proctor of the University in the Name and at the Head of the Body of the Clergy and University The Bishop printed his Speech and is inserted No. 8 Append. But the Proctor thô commanded by the King to print his Speech modestly declined it he was more cautious and considered that it was framed only for that Juncture and is very well satisfied that we have it not now to print with the Bishop's Tuesday the 2d of April 1689 K. J. told the Bishop of Chester that complaint was made to him that the Clergy of Dublin did not readily pray for the Prince of VVales Upon which Notice the Dublin-Clergy met and consulted and thô they did not believe the reality of the Prince of VVales yet they resolved the King should not have that Pretence against them they would trust themselves in the Hand of God rather than Man presume Deliberately to act the Hypocrite with God and pray against their Consciences rather than displease the King But enough of this before There is another thing Not one of these complying Irish Protestants but will freely acknowledge That if K. VV. or any other King should turn Papist and do all that K. J. has done they wou'd and ought to serve him as they did K. J. They cannot otherwise justifie their Carriage towards K. J. The consideration of this made the Parliament in England abolish that Declaration viz. That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King c. But this by some neglect is left still upon the Irish Protestant Clergy under the Penalty of forfeiting their Livings And as many as have come into any Livings since this Revolution have read the said Declaration publickly in time of Divine Service and are to continue so to do and declare that they will do it till some Parliament take it away This will be called as gross a mocking of God as their former praying for K. J. that is whether they believe or do not belive that Declaration If they believe it they condemn themselves in taking Arms against K. J. If they do not belive it they make it visible to all the World That there is no Tye or Obligation Civil or Sacred can touch their Consciences when they so Solemnly while they are Officiating in the Divine Service and offering up to God the Prayers of their Flocks dare at that very time and with the same Breath declare before God and the People that they do believe it when they do not belive it and the People know that they do not believe it For they make no Secret of it will tell every one that asks them nay they stay not to be asked they Preach against it and Dispute against it and Instruct their Congregations against it and would call any one a Jacobite and a Papist who durst own it and hunt him to the next Goal And yet to save their Livings they continue still to subscribe this hated Declaration before their Ordinaries and take Certificates under their Hands and Seals that they have done it as they are obliged by the Act and publickly and openly Read the same upon the Lord's Day in their Parish Churches where they Officiate in the presence of the Congregation there Assembled in the time of Divine Service c. They Read it in the Desk and Preach against it in the Pulpit and when they come out of Church rail at the Parliament that Imposed it and say That it was soon after the Restauration Anno 1660. when People were Drunk with Loyalty after being wearied with the direful Effects of Rebellion under all its specious Pretences and thought they could never run far enough from it till they run to the quite contrary Extreme and advanc'd Prerogative to the utmost And they Wonder and Curse the hard Fate that this Declaration was not taken out of the way in Ireland as well as in England and wish it were done But in the mean time they will lose nothing by it they can swallow and it will swallow them if they do not Repent God grant them Grace to do it And that the Shame of this their Sin may Convent and not Harden them But this Charge is general Our Author is only involved in it with many others Let us return to what is more Particular as to himself which I think I am obliged to give you an Account of only so far as relates to the present Business because it ought to weigh with you in the Credit you are to give of what he says where he brings no other Reason than his own Averring This Author was formerly a zealous Man for Passive Obedience even in the beginning 〈◊〉 this Revolution Know then that according to certain Information I have had that no Man was or could be a higher Assertor of Passive Obedience than this Author has been all his life even at the begining of this Revolution that he told a Person of Honor from whose Mouth I have it That if the P. of O. came over for the Crown or should accept of it he pray'd God might blast all his Designs That there was no way to preserve the Honor of our Religion but by adhering unalterably to our Loyalty That it would be a glorious Sight to see a Cart full of Clergy-men going to the Stake for Passive Obedience as the Primitive Christians did That it would prove the Support and Glory of our Religion but that a Rebellion would ruine and disgrace it He said if it were no more than that Declaration which he had Subscribed of It s not being lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King c. he would dye a Hundred Deaths rather than do it At a Meeting of the Clergy of Dublin in the begining of this Revolution in 88. to consider what Measures they were to take he declared That their taking Arms in the North of Ireland at that time was Rank Rebellion if there could be any Rebellion particularly Derry shutting their Gates against the King's Forces sent thither And when one there present did affirm That the Subjects might take Arms in Defence of their Laws c. This Author did violently oppose it even in relation to Derry and urged that
demean and behave themselves civilly and respectfully in their respective Quarters and to assist and not obstruct the Civil Magistrates in the execution of theirr espective Trusts especially the Officers concern'd in and about His Majesty's Revenue 9. He forbids all Officers and Soldiers to quarter themselves on any of His Majesty's Subjects without having a Billet or Ticket under the hand of the Constable or other Civil Officer of the Place 10. He strictly forbids Pressing any Countrey-man's Horse on any pretence whatsoever without having His Majesty his Captain General his Lord Lieutenant or Deputy-Lieutenant's License for his so doing and then allows them to Press the said Horse but one days Journey and to see that the Horse be returned as well as when received and particularly forbids the Pressing any Horse belonging to any Plough 11. His Majesty in the same Proclamation enjoyns severe penalties on all forestallers or obstructers of Provision going to either Camp or Market Lastly The respective penalties enjoin'd in the said Proclamation are severely and impartially executed on the respective Offenders My Family tells me that the week before they left Dublin there were two private Soldiers executed before a Protestant Baker's door for stealing two Loaves not worth a Shilling And a fortnight before a Lieutenant and Ensign were publickly executed at a place where on pretence of the King's Service they Press'd a Horse going with Provisions to Dublin Market two others were condemned and expected daily to be executed for the like offence These severe examples confirming the penalties of these publick Declarations contribute so much to the quiet of the Countrey that were it not for the Countrey Raparees and Tories theirs 't is thought would be much quieter than ours Some of our Foreigners are very uneasie to us had not the prudence of a discreet Major prevented it last Sunday was seven night had been a bloody day between some of the Danish Foot and Coll. Langston's Regiment of Horse The truth is too many of the English as well as Danes and French are highly oppressive to the poor Countrey whereas our Enemy have reduc'd themselves to that order that they exercise violence on none but the Proprieties of such as they know to be absent or as they prase it in Rebellion against them whose Stock Goods and Estates are seized and set by the Civil Government and the proceed applied for and towards the charge of the War And for their better direction in their seizures it 's reported and believed that they have Copies of the particulars of the Protestants losses given in to the Committee of the late House of Commons at Westminster The Enemies great work is to secure Dublin this Summer they fearing an Attack before they could get Forrage for their Horse and willing to hasten that supply they long since ordered all the Deer in the Parks of the Phoenix and Raffernham to be destroyed and Cattel to be removed from Dublin to get the more earlier Grass for their Horse of which by many Letters to Major Wildman I gave that early notice that I fear we may pay too dear for the delay they have seized all the Arms and serviceable Horses they can find within their reach the Irish having their Religion and National Principle supported on the pretence of Law and the Presence of the King and all so openly own'd by France makes them more united and unanimously resolved than in any of their former Wars Their Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Liberty of Conscience gives them too great help of Protestant hands we have not a known Papist with us they have hundreds of deluded Protestants with them I am credibly told that they have a small Boat which they send weekly to Wales to fupply them with News from England they spare for no charge to get Spies and Intelligence from our Quarters they report they have daily Deserters and could have more did they not presume they may be more serviceable to them by continuing with us They openly declare that our Army consists most of their Deserters and that it was success made them leave them and that the same motive will bring them back again They told the number and the time of the Danes landing and foretell that we shall soon repent their coming among us they report that laying aside the Protestant hands of this Countrey and the other fore-mentioned Principles were Arrows taken out of their Quivers they tell us that our King cannot be here till June and that they shall be ready a month sooner to receive him They report his Army to be Thirty Thousand with vast stores of Arms and Ammunition and Provision the London-derry and Eneskillen Forces with the recruits of this Countrey are more dreadful to them than all our Foreign Forces They are resolved on a defensive War and in case they have their promised supplies they seem not to doubt but to keep Dublin this Summer their great difficulty is what to do with the great number of Protestants among them they have many Proposals under consideration but as yet they come to no resolution The King is much averse to all Severity yet clearly sees he can make no impression of Loyalty on them The Enemy as my Wife and Family which have got leave lately to come to me from Dublin tell me report with more confidence than I hope truth that we have many Monks in our Army many Sandwitches in our Fleet and many Shafâ—sburys in our Council and that they laid those variety of Engines both in England Scotland and Ireland that they seem not to doubt but that they shall have as many Invitations for their return to England in 1690. as they had in 1660. and that this Summer they shall be able to get Eighty Thousand Men into the Field and find Money for their constant Pay Being so united as they are and carrying on the War with so great concurrence of their Church and having France for an additional support I do no ways wonder but that they may have as many Men but how to procure them constant Pay was somewhat my trouble to know By their Establishment I find besides Accoutrements and Hospital that the Pay of a Foot Soldier is but 4 d. a Trooper as much over as a Dragoon is short of 12 d. per diem so that Seventy Thousand Foot will amount to 456000 l per annum and Ten Thousand Horse at 12 d. per diem amounts to above 182000 l. making in the whole 638000 l. and if one fourth more is added for General Officers Train of Artillary Contingencies c. the whole amounts to 797000 l. How this sum may be raised out of only three Provinces of this Countrey seems to be the great doubt By comparing several Accounts I have received from Spies I find the heads of their Revenue to be as followeth 1. I find the late Parliament of Ireland granted their King a subsidy of 20000 l. per mensem charged on Stock and Lands
Kingdom that we hold it reasonable to think of Mercy and to have Compassion upon those whom we judge to have been seduced Wherefore we do hereby declare we shall take into our Royal protection all poor Labourers common Soldiers Countrey Farmers Plowmen and Cottiers whatsoever As also all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen and Artificers who either remained at home or having fled from their dwelling shall by the first day of August next repair to their usual places of Aboad surrendring up what Arms they have to such Justices of the Peace as are or shall be appointed by us not only to receive the same but also to Register the appearance of such of the said persons as shall come and submit unto our Authority For our Royal intention is and we do hereby declare That we will not only pardon all those poor seduced people as to their Lives and Liberties who shall come in by the time aforesaid for all Violences they have done or committed by the command of their Leaders during the War But we do also promise to secure them in their Goods their Stocks of Cattel and all their Chattels personal whatsoever willing and requiring them to come in and where they were Tenants there to preserve the Harvest of Grass and Corn for the supply of the Winter But forasmuch as many of them had a legal Right to the Tenancy of several Lands some holden from Protestants and some held from Popish Proprietors who have been concerned in the Rebellion against us Our will and pleasure is That all those Tenants who held from our good Protestant Subjects do pay their Rents to their respective Landlords and that the Tenants of all those who have been concerned in the present Rebellion against us do keep their Rent in their hands untill they have notice from the Commissioners of our Revenue unto whom they are to account for the same And as we do hereby strictly forbid all Violence Rapine and molestation to any who shall thus come in and remain Obedient to us so for those of this or any other Rank or Quality who are already in our Quarters and within our Power and Obedient to us We do hereby charge and require that they be not disquieted in any sort without our particular command For the desperate Leaders of the present Rebellion who have violated those Laws by which this Kingdom is united and inseparably annexed to the Imperial Crown of England who have called in the French who have Authorised all Violences and Depredations against the Protestants and who rejected the Gracious Pardon we offered them in our Proclamation of the twenty second of February 1688. As we are now by God's great favour in condition to make them sensible of their Errors so are we resolved to leave them to the event of War unless by great and manifest Demonstrations we shall be convinced they deserve our Mercy which we shall never refuse to those who are truly Penitent Given at our Royal Camp at Finglas near Dublin the seventh of July 1690. In the second year of our Reign A PROCLAMATION by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties William R. ALthough it be notoriously known that the Papists of this Kingdom of all ranks and degrees were lately furnished with Fire-Arms Swords Bagonets Skeins Pikes Half-Pikes Scythes and other Arms offensive and defensive as also with great quantities of Gun powder And although we did by our Royal Declaration of the seventh Instant extend and hold forth our Mercy and Compassion to all Citizens Townsmen Tradesmen Artificers poor Labourers coommon Soldiers Countrey Farmers Plow-men and Cottiers and assured them not only of Pardon as to their Lives and Liberties for all violences done by them by the command of their Leaders during the War but also security in their Goods Stocks of Cattle and Chattels personal and that those of any other Rank or Quality within our Quarters and obedient to Us should not be disquieted in any sort without our particular Command And nothing more was expected on their Parts but either to continue in or return to their respective Dwellings and to give up their Arms and follow their several Trades and Callings But although several Persons have laid hold on our said Declaration and are received into our royal Protection yet few of them have hitherto brought in their Arms and most of those brought in are broken and unserviceable which we cannot but look upon as a very high Contempt and done out of a wicked Design on any opportunity to join with our Enemies and Rebels To the end therefore that all Persons may be left without Excuse and by obedience to our Commands may prevent the fatal Consequences of their Neglect and Contempt We do hereby strictly charge and require all Person and Persons of the Popish Religion within this our Kingdom of Ireland who are or reside within our Quarters or any part of our said Kingdom reduced to our Obedience that they and every of them do within ten days after publick Proclamation hereof in the City or Shire-town of that County wherein they respectively dwell or reside surrender and deliver all the Fire-arms Swords Bagonets Skeins Half-pikes and other arms offensive or defensive as also all the Gun-powder which they lately had in their own Custody or in the Custody of any other for their Use to the next Mayor chief Magistrate Sheriff or Justice of the Peace in the City Town or County wherein they respectively dwell or inhabit who are hereby required to register the same and to return a perfect List of such Arms and Ammunition as they shall receive by virtue hereof to us or the chief Governour or Governours of our said Kingdom of Ireland for the time being as also to lodge the said Arms and Ammunition in our nearest safe Garison to the place where they shall be received And we do hereby farther declare that if the aforesaid persons of the popish Religion do not by the time aforesaid deliver their Arms Gunpowder and Ammunition as aforesaid but shall neglect or refuse so to doe we shall look upon all such persons as Contemners of our royal Authority and as persons designing the Disturbance of our Government of this Kingdom and as Traitors and Rebels and will accordingly abandon them to the Discretion of our Soldiers or they shall be committed to Gaol without Bail or Mainprise And we do hereby strictly charge and command all the Protestants of this Kingdom that they do not keep or conceal any Arms or Ammunition belonging to any Papists but that they be forthwith delivered to the Magistrates and Officers aforesaid hereby appointed to receive the same as they will answer the contrary at their peril And we also hereby charge and require all Mayors chief Magistrates of Towns Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace and all the Officers of our Army and Militia to search seize upon and secure all sorts of Arms and Ammunition belonging unto or in the Possession of any Papist in this