but this Province of Connaght and the countie of Clare 2. That the People seeing noe visible armie for their deffence to oppose the enemie are come to despaire of recovering what is lost or deffending what wee â—hould and inâ—lining for the safty of their lives and estates to compound with the Parlament by which agreement the Kings authoritie will be infallibly cast off the Catholick faith soe wee feare with the time exstinguished and the Nation first enslaved will perhaps in the end be pluckt vp root and branchâ— 3. Yee shall protest before God Angels and men in the name and behalfe of the Congregation that the Prelars of this Kingdom have employed their earnest and â—est endeavour for removing the feares and jealousies of the people and that they have noe power to doe it finding the vniversal sense of the people to be that fate doth waite vpon these times 4. Yee shall present to his excellency how wee finding noe othâ—r human expedient remedie for the preservation of this Nation and his Majesties interest therinâ— then the speedy repiare of his Excellency to the Queen and Prince in France for preventing the destruction of all doe humbly pray he leave the Kings authoritie in the hands of trusty persons to his Majestie and faithfull to the nation and to such as the affection and confidence of the people will follow by which the rage and furie of the enemie may with Gods grace receave some interruption wee humbly offer this important matter of safty or destruction of the Nation and the Kings interest to his wisdom and consideration and yee shall asâ—â—â—â— his Excellency wee shall in the meane time doe what lyeth in our power to assist the persons intrusted by his Excellencie Yee are alsoe to pray his Excellencie will be pleased to give yee an answer within few dayes for that wee are not in a condition to continue long togither I aske if there be any thing in this letter message or instructions but what is humain civil and with great respect to his Excellencie In this nature the Bishops soe demeaned themselves even then when the greatest danger of distruction was over them yea when most of them were destroyed alredy and reduced to extreme pouerty through the loss of the kingdom in the short time of his government I further demand is there any thing in this that sauours of treason or disaffection to his Majestie or of opposing or destroying of the peace or of desire to put aside the kings authoritie and gouerment was there any thing in all these proceedings could offend this noble man or could any man draw out of this an occasion of carping or reprehending the Prelats certainly noe man excepting this father or some other Ormenian flatterer was it I pray you soe haighnous a crime to desire the lord Lutenant to take a viadge to the Queen and Prince for to seeke supplies to support the war ' and leaue the kings authoritie behind him in hope wee might doe some thing against the enemie in his absence by these intrusted by him in as much as he himselfe did nothing all that time but lost vs all wee had as likewise what was gained from the enemie in the begining of his owne Goverment great Generals have been displaced for want of success though valorous soever this have been don in the Roman and Atthenian commoÌ„wealths the most florishing in the world An ancient old woman came to Philip king of Macedo in presence of all his Grandes beseeching his Majestie to give eare to her complaints and doe her justice the king replyed he had noe leasure to attend her at which answer the bould poore woman said in presence of them all igitur né sis Rex what are you King for but to doe vs iustice if you will not heare me lay downe your crowne which you got to doe me iustice immediatly this great king stood vp gaue her audience did her iustice would it not I pray well become my lord of Ormond to listen to the iust and reasonable request of soe many Bishops spiritual fathers of the people while they humbly prayed him to take in hand a viadge certainly I am confident that the great Monarchs of Spaine and France would give care to what soe many Bishops would say and take it much to their serious consideration and I doubt not but our owne King would have don it though of a different religion It hath been said by some of his owne frinds that he himselfe desired to take such a viadge in hand but in as much as the Bishops desired him he went backe from his owne resolution what the reason is I know not if not to crose their deâ—ire CHAP VIII The true Iealousies of the Irish Catholicks at London that Ormond was to desert them wellset forth by F Wailsh in a letter to Ormond with certain observations made vpon the same letter NOw we come to the jealousies and feares of the Catholick nobilitie and Gentrie in London yeare â—660 well set forth in a letter from F. VVailsh vnto Ormond who not-withâ—standing all the rest did feare yet the F. did not nor as much as suspect of Ormonds disaffection and realtie to his countrie and catholick frinds wherefore Ormond may say to him what our saviour said to the centurian Math. c. 8. Non inveni tantam fideâ—â— in Israel Heere I give you the fathers letter A letter from Peeter Wailsh to the marquez now duke of Ormond and second time lord leutenant of Irland desiring a Iust and mercifull regard may he had of the Roman Catholicks of Irland written Octob 1660. SInce I had the honour of speaking last to your Excellencie I reflected by reason of several discourses had this week with persons of qualitie on the dayly increase of the feares and jealousies of my countriemen which is the reason that insteed of waiting vpon you this morning about priuat concernments as I intended I chose rather out of my vnalterable affection to your selfe to give first this paper and therin my thoughts and my desires relating to the publick that is to vour selfe to his Maiestie and his Kingdom of Irland My lord I thought fit to tell you that considering the general feare seized alreddy almost on all the Nobilitie and Gentry and others here of that nation and reflecting on the vast difference t' wixt my owne beleefe and thâ—irs it seemes vnto me I behould in vs all particularly who have relied for soe many yeares on your vertue some-what fulfilled not vnlike the misterious extinction of all the lights to one in the ceremonie of Tenebrae in holy weeke for my lord I observe in the generalitie of the Catholicks of Irland here even I say of those who have been sâ—e long your constant beleevers your passionat frinds a dimness and darkness seazing their iudgment even your fastest sticklers heretofore loosing at present their expectation of your future appearance for them and hopes of their delivery by you at
est Facinus Fathers conscript my resolution is to pass over Tiber and soe rush into the enemies Camp not to plunder or to doe any devastation For if the Gods will but help mee I have a greater matter in my minde Of these expressions the Senatours approved much hee departed and soon came into theire Campe having a knife or dagger under his coat to kill Porsena and having aproached the place the King was it fell out that it was a pay-dey with the Souldiers drawing neare hee killed Commissioner or Secretary neare the King thinking him to be the King and soe gott a way making place for himselfe with his sworde brandishing before him till at last overlaid by the multitude hee was taken and brought before the King being questioned who hee was and from whence hee came hee answered more like unto a man to be feared then a man in feare saying to the King Romanus sum ciuis C. Musium vocant host is hostem occidere volui nec ad mortem minus animi est quam fuit ad caedem et facere et pati fortia Romanum est A Cittizen of Rome I am by name C. musius I thought as an enemy to Kill an enemy neither is my hart backwarder to dye then it hath bine forward to kill you to doe and suffer strong things is the part of a Roman At which undaunted Expressions the King amaized and troubled commaunded to inuiron him round about with fyre but the Couragious young man putting his right hand in the fyre and there holding it as not feeling the fyre said generously En tibi ut Sentias quam vile corpus sit ijs qui magnam Gloriam vident Behold that you may know how vile is the body to those who sees great glory The King astonished at the hand burning without any regard of payne leap't out of his chaire and commaunded the young man to be removed from the Altar and then said to him these Kingly words Tu verâ— abi in te majuâ— quam in me hostilia ausus juberem macta virtuâ—e esse si pro mea patria ista virtâ— staret nunc jure belli liberum te intactum inviolatumque dimitto tum Musius quasi romunerans meritum quandoquidem inquit est apud to virtuti â—onos ut beneficio tuleris a me quod minis nequisti Trecenti conjuravimâ—â— principei Iuventutis Romane ut in te hac via grassaremur mea prima sors fuit cateri ut cuique ceciderit primo quo ad te opportunum fortuna dederit suo quisque tempore aderunt Be you gon more Cruel to your selfe then to mee I would wish you to be of good courrage if that vertue had been for my Country by the Law of warre I now dismiss you untouched unviolated to whome Mutius said as if to recompence the favour don in as much as you regard vallour and vertue you gett that from mee by the benefitt you doe which you could not by threats 300. Of the Chiefest youths of Rome wee have conspired to invde you in this nature It fell out I should be the first the rest each one in his owne turne as it will fall out will performe theire duty Mutius being sent to the Romans after this was called Scavola for the burnings and wounds of his right hand Porssena seeing his life was saved by chance that time and that there were as yet 200. and ninty nine more of the Primest of Roman youth designed to the same expedition of his owne accord hee offered the Romans apeace and vpon honourable conditions one of them being that which they desired aboue all that hee would have noe more to doe with with Tarquin or his people Aliâ— said the King Hinc sen bello opus est seu quiete exilio querant locum nequiâ— mean vobiscum pacem destineat dictis facta meliora adjecit Could there be more or nobler services don for a mans Country then these Horatius Cochles and C. Mutius attempted it is not easy to be desided which of these two shewed greatest vallour and affection to Rome Cochles hee alone fought a whole Army and freed the Senate the people from Massacres and Rome from being taken Mutius terrifyed King Porssenae contemned the force of fyre and removed the siege by his strange example of fortitude vpon most honourable conditions for the Romans Oh two Glorious Champions of Romeâ— O Immortall Heroes O Patriots flaming with charity and affection when shall wee finde in this age such unspeakable services Now as to the rewards given them What rewards think you had Horace and Scavola given them as to Horace as Livius says Grata erga tantam virtutem Civitas fuit statua in comitijs posita The Citty was kinde and gratfull towards such meritts and vertues there was by order an image errected in the Senate house for him I must confess that was honourably don but what more What other recompence and remuneration have they given Agri quantum vno die Circumaravit datum As much ground as hee could in one day plough What have they lotted for Mutius Patres sayd Livius Caio Mutio virtutis Causa trans tiberem agrum done dederê to Mutiâ—â— the Senate for his rare vertue hath given beyond the River Tiber a platt of ground as a gift Qui postea Mutia prata appellata which afterwards was called by the name of the Mutian Green Heere you may see the recompence given to these incomporable men was but a few akers of ground with which theire Sobriety remained satisfyed having don all they did out of meer affection to theire Country not for selfe end or hope of remuneration Having spooken of the rewards given by Rome to Horatius Cochles and to Mutius for unparalled services let us consider with stupefaction the rewards and recompences the Duke of Ormond had for his services and attending vpon the King in time of his exile I dare say in the first place there is none of the adorers of Ormonds vertues not one will presume to say that the greatest of all his services hee did the King came or could com neare those of the foresaid Romans yet if wee compare both theire remunerations together theires will appeare like a graine of sand compared with Mons Olympus as for the lands given him hundred thousand of Akers is the meanest gift of all but what doe I speake of Ormond Lord of a most ancient family of Earles of above 300. Yeares The first Earle of that family Iohn Butler by name was created in the Raigne of Edward the third anno 1328. When George Lane his recompences are mounted to an vnreasonable measure a man inferiour to thousands both for his birth and service to the King Ormonds secretary now Sir George Lane this Lane by the Kings grant of other mens estates enjoys many thousand Akers of ground farre more then Cochles or Muttâ—â— the deliverers of Rome had this new knight had conferred vpon him the estates of two worshipfull esquires that
or Forty thousand to have been a Queens Dote in Marriage Elleoner Daughter to Knig Edward the second married to the Earle of Gelders after made Duke had but fiftien thousand pound portion Queen Isabell Dowager to said Edward the second and mother to Edward the third most Glorious of English Kings daughter and Heire to Phillip the Faire of France by whose title the Kings of England makes Clayme to the Kingdome of France had allowed her by her son but a thousnd pound Ioynter a yeare severall such passages wee may finde in the Cronicles of England and others yet the Duke of Ormond as is to be seen in the 12'th Quaerie of those in Relation to Ormond granted the profitt of a rent of one thousand five hundred pounds a yeare of the parke hee hath neare the Gates of Dublin to the Lord of Dongaâ—non and to Colonell Cooke a Kingly Liberality If Father walsh or any other will say that these Quaeries are Idle Frivolous needless and of noe regard I would aske of the same and know whether matters of Fact and Propositiones sensu notae as are the Estates and lands of other men and the Corporations now actually in Ormonds possession things that cannot be hidden From the Eyes of men are Idle needless and Frivolous dreames and Fables noe but Foule and unhandsom things against Iustice honour trust committed unto him and Goverment of that Kingdome of Ireland conferred by his Majesty vpon Ormond If his grace or any for him can answer the sayd Quaeries why is hee or they soe long mute and silent they strick home to the quick they render his integrity suspected they wound his Fame and honour certainly if there were any way to answer them and to prove them False Father Walsh had long before now spaken Loudly to the World If Ormonds integrity and vertues be Calumniated by these Quaeries I wonder there is nothing said in his vindication none appeares for him but what in a matter that cannot be defended it is but wisdom to be silent the whole Country knowes that Father walsh of all men is most concern'd to appeare for Ormond and vindicate his integrity the best hee can having in his severall writings described him for a vertuous upright Iust Iuditious and most rare states-man now is the tyme good Friar to prove this you see to what puzle hee is brought vnto by these Quaeries you see how guilty hee is on all sides stretch him now your hand if you can and bring him of clearly and unspottedly from all these blemishes that staynes his person soe deeply now is the tyme I say to prove him to the world what you gave in paper of him and make us all sensible that hee is deserving of those Epithites you are pleased to conferre vpon him in the little book called the. Irish colours Foulded you have put downe a Faire method and good documents I must confess for guiding of Ormond in the Charge of Lord Lieutenant of Irland where you bid him by all meanes to be ware of the man of sin Meaning Orrery who would have his Grace â—uoy up one interest wholy that is the stronger and more prevalent of Orrery and his complices and sinck vtterly the other interest that of the Catholicks against all devine and humaine Lawes many rediculous things of this nature hath this Fryar said about his Ormond and this was one but Ormond contrary to his desire and Counsell buoyed up Orrery's intrest and sunck the Intrest of the innocent party because it was the weakest For which hee had a notable share of the grants and estates hee now Enjoyeth I see good Father you are very unfortunate in your conceipts of Ormond who grants nothing of these things you demaunded I have a minde to produce in this place other lynes of this Fryar unto Ormond out of the same Foulded Colours My Lord Quoth hee I shall minde your Grace of what you know your selfe allready that you shall behould under your Goverment a very great number of simple poore Innocents and most afflicted Creaturs if any such be in the world and that you think that God hath Principally created you and hithertoe preserved you amidst soe many dangers and now at last inspired our gratious King to send you for them and therfore that your greatest care must be to open to them your breast with an amorous compassion extend to them the â—owells of your Charity streatch to them affectionatly your helpfull hands take theire requests lâ—nd care to theire cryes cause theire affaires to be speedily dispatched not drawing them along in delays which may devour them strengthen your Arme against those that oppressed them â—edeem the prey out of the lyons throate and the Harpi's talons By these expresions one would have thought Ormond to be aman like to doe great things but here wee have much smooke and noe fyre faire blossoms and noe Fruite excellent documents given and yet nothing done take the paynes Father to goe up and downe Ireland and heare afflicted Innocent people and make a list of those to whome Ormond in tyme of his Goverment Opened his hart with an amorous compassion to whome hee did extend the â—â—wells of his charity to whome hee did streatch out his helpfull hands those whom hee preserved out of the Lyons throat or the Harpies Talon You will com to short of your vaticinations and hopes nothing like this but rather hee was the Lyon prey'd on them and did noe Iustice to the Orphans as you desired Nâ—r â—ypâ— a way the teares of a forelorne widowâ— bee steeped not in oyle the yoakâ— of a people which lived on gale and wormwood and whoe sighel under unsupportable necessityes Hee hath don nothing in his Goverment for the ease of that people but along with Orrery and the rest pild and pul'd them of all truly good Father you seem to mee a man much inchanted and indeed to be in a state of blyndness â— to your understanding that Harpaste was in her corporall sight of whome Seneca Epist quinquagessima ad lucilium writes in this forme Harpastem uxoris meae fatuam scâ— hereditarium donum in domâ— meae remansisse haec fatua subitó desijt videre incredibilem tibi narro rem sed veram nescit esse se cacam subindè padagogam suam rogat ut migret ais domum renebrosam esse Harpastes you know the changling of my wife is a Hereditary legacy in my house this changling suddainly lost her sight I tell you an incredible thing but true shee doth not beleeve that shee is blinde now and then shee desires of her guide to remoue from thence shee says the house is darke and obsure I am much of opinion Father walsh that this is your condition in relation to what you say or write of Ormonds affaires and person and soe I take my leave in this place of both leaving you in your manyfold blindnesse in as much as you will not see and leaving your Ormond to the
of Irland at that tyme. Theire spirituall fathers the Bishops and theire Lower Pastâ—rs and the Religious men assisting them in the vyn-yard were many of them sent into exile in one yeare fourten Bishops the Noblemen and all the Catholick gentry haled violently out of theire owne houses and lands and shutt vp in a corner of a Province naked and disarmed either to be all murthered in one day there was a consultation of officers to that purpose but they agree'd not God would not have soe many Innocents Massacred at one tyme or to perish in many dayes in famin miseries and servitude as many of them ended afterwards The lawes prescrib'd to them were cruell and Barbarous if-any of them went to a sea-port or to any other Province without express order and licence it was lawfull to kill them whersoever they were found to keep a Musquett sword or any other weapon or powder in a Catholicks house was present death to receive or harbor a priest was alsoe death and there was a nother thing as yet more bloody They framed an ingagement to be taken by all sorts of men vpon oath to obey the Parlament and renounce the King and the family of the Stuarts for ever and all tooke a ticket of having taken that ingagement and poor men that had not theire tickets about them were killd vpon the high way by the souldiers for not having it these were the execrable Lawes the Catholicks then liu'd vnder The Lord of Ormond had governed the Catholicks as the Kings Lord Lieutenant about those tymes but when Crumwell came over and like a lightning passed through the Land taking in Provinces wall'd Townes and Cittys hee never appear'd never fought the Enemy nor releeved any place beseeged truly wee found nothing in him of Counsell or fortitude and when all was lost but two Townes and one Province which were soon after taken hee past into France and left the Catholicks to the butchery The counsell by this meanes destroy'd the contract And were not these Counsellors well affected to Catholicks that vpon a serious deliberation would not have the Catholicks preserved and protected by a Catholick Prince but left to the mercy of Crumwell a bloody tyrant The forwardest of all in doeing this Mischief was Ormond this was the Kindness to vs of that man ever fatall to Catholicks An Italian gave to a great person whose qualitys hee knew well this Character Inimicus gravissimus amicus levissimus Which may be well apply'd to Ormond in relation to Catholicks his anger to them was still inplacable and his Kindness sleight and vncertaine his frindship was a Court frindship much like those druggs of Apothicaries that are hott in the mouth and cold in operation what good and faire words did this Nobleman give to the Catholicks of Irland when hee came from the Queen and Prince in the yeare 1648. To conclude a peace with them the words in his mouth then were hott and comfortable but when they came to operation they were indeed but rotten druggs After this feat hee had don in Paris the casting a way the Duke of Loraâ—â—s Protection hee was with the King in the low countrys and there hee dilsembled and tampered with the good plaine Irish and gave them good words and frindly promises of doing them great good if God restor'd the King the King was restored and Ormond turn'd his sailes and playd another game and stuck close to Clarindon that studied our Ruin hee then made a stepp further and closed in great Kindness with Orery the Crumwelians the Catholicks claiming theire owne landes and estates produced good Evidences Iustice and theire Innocency but those were of little value with Ormond and Clarindon Orrery with his band of Crumwelians show'd gold and pretioâ—s gifts and those proved strong Evidences Ormond then fell of clearly from vs and injured vs without all seare and commonly where there is noe feare of revenge ill given men have noe conscience or feare of offending others with Clarindon all things were vendible and with Ormond all was lawfull that was not vnprofitable I present you with a wise fable and I think to my purpose * Aesop says Aesop says Heâ—â—â—hâ— inquit vulpes rubo confâ—gi ad te tanquam ad aâ—xiliatorem sed tu pejus me tractâ—sti heus tu inquit rubus errasti quae me apprehendere voluistâ— qui omnes apprehendere soleo A lass said the fox to the great bramble I come flying to the as to a shelter and frind but thou hast handled mee worss then I was before but the bramble said a lass poor fox thou art a stray in taking gripe of mee for thou knowest I scrarch all that Handels mee My courteous reader that Ormond hath allways been a great bramble cruelly scratching and tormenting the Catholicks of Irland this little booke I put in your hand will show evidently I have spent some houres of Leasure God was pleas'd to afford mee about this little worke wherin I set downe sincerly the malice craft luglings and slights of those that have contriu'd our ruine noe man will appeare vpon the stage soe often and frequently as Ormond in acting his part in our Tragedy this is the best account I can give to my Countrimen of my longe silence in my solitude I know my owne weakness and the flowness of my tallent but I had tyme at will for helping this the sncile coms to the topp of the hill in her due tyme as well as the Eagle and with tyme and straw as they vse to speake men ripen medlers and soe doe men theire affaires with leasure and meanes and who will doe a thing well must have patience to tarry till it may be well don I had patience and leasure enough and at length I have brought my designe to an end whether it be well don or noe I leave to the judgment of the impartiall reader I gave notice of what was don to a Doctor of devinity a person of Emminent Learning and to other frinds in Paris they vrg'd mee with stronge lynes to print all was don without delay I alsoe writt to a venerable Prelate then living in Flanders whose judgment I much esteemed and the inviolable Amity between vs of a bove 45. yeares hee quite beyond my expectation disswaded the printing and gave reasons that seemed sound hee would not blame those pressed mee to the printing nor judge ill of theire intentions but was of opinion they had not rightly considered the more substantiall circumstances of the matter and sayd deare frind my advice in this point is Festina Lente hee suggested that regard should be had of Ormonas noble Catholick Ancestors and specially of his Grand-father Walter Earle of Ormond and of his owne pious parents and of his Brother Mr. Richard Butler a Chavaliere of great devotion and yet valliant in the face of his Enemy and of his sisters all of them vertuous Catholick Ladys hee knew them all and was well knowne
never for having held my peace notwithstanding all thes great encomis of Silence celebrated by soe many wise Sages in all tymes neverthelesse a long and vnseasonable Silence is and may be as blameable as the other is recommendable To be Silent and hould my peace when an open injurie is don to my Religion countrie and Parents is neither wisdom pietie nor vertue to be commended this is and hath been as I perceave the long Silence the Catholicks of Irland had with the Lord Duke of Ormond giving him both time and leasure to worke theyr ruine and downfall without preventing the fame in a just forme and seasonable time by theyr instant adresses to the king councel or any else We have kept a longer Silence to our great detriment then Pythagoras his schollars have don theyr Silence was limited to five yeares only before theyr publick Tentamens in schoole for the performance of which Magister dixit was sufficient to them but we poore soules have been silent neer now vpon thirteen yeares suffering with all patience the open wrongs and manifest Detriments this Noble-man have don vs soe that vnder the notion of a friend we discovered him at long-running to be our open enemie The same Ormond's speech soone after the kings happie restauration to Orrery Monthrath Clothworthy Mervin such others of that fortunat tribe have been in this nature Omnes bestia agri venite ad devorandum nempè Iberniam Vniversae bestiae saltâ—s All yee beasts of the sield come to devoure he means Irland All yee beasts of the forrest What were we doing Where have we been Or what became of our senses at that time when Ormond convoked thos men to devoure vs We were all of vs in a deepe Silence much like men in a fatal lethargie soe as the words of the same prophet may be properly said of us Speculatores ejus id est Iberniae â—oeri omnes nesâ—ierunt Vnirersi canes muti non valentes latrare videntes vana dormientes amantes somnia her watch-men all blind haue been ignorant dumb doggs not able to bark seeynge vain things sleeping and loving dreams truly wee were all much like bewitched people dotinge upon a man that loued us not and like men dreaming vain dreà ms our Bishops and churchmen lett these venerable persons giue me leave to speake my sentiment our Bishops I say and Cleargymen were but canes muti non valentes latrare J did not see nor heare of any in that numerous congregation a monghst whom there haue been several learned and wise men that haue written any thinge to this purpose in characterizing as they should haue don this great man and his craftie designes to the publick ruine exceptinge one of the divines that then attended upon the Ecclesiastical congregation of whom mention was made in our preface who composed a substantial and solid peece replenished with uncontroulable reasons justifijng the just rejection of that peace made and agreed in the kingdom's behalfe by certain Commissioners with Ormond in the yeare 1646. this rejection of that peace Ormond takes for petra scandali and as a dishonour forsooth to his pérson soe that from that day to this houre he hath been and is still an open enemie to the Bishops of Irland and Cleargy this divine that I speake off did in a sober and modest stile plainly set foorth what Ormond did intend and said nothinge in all that peece but what was just and reasonable as now more clearly we seé this worke came to my hands and haue perused it with much attention out of wch I haue collected partly some light for my furtherance in this present tractat and now behould the Bishops at that time exiled in this Kingdom to whose Iudgment he submitted that worke would not haue this wel studied peece to seê either presse or light in soe much that those elucubrations and labours were set a side and rendred uselesse and fruitlesse to the Nation I doubt not but the prelats intended wel though otherwise fell out for they were still in a charitable hope and expectation that Ormond in time would Relent and doe the nation good but they and millions besides theyr Lordships haue been mistaken in Ormond whose indignation more and more daylie increasing not satisfied in the extremities of our woes and calamities seems rather to rejoyce in the continuation of our afflictions and annihilation of our persons then to giue any signe of relentment or hopes of any good a glorie without honnour Never did any Magician charme with spels or philtérs any sort of men more then this Ormond did that harmelesse people by what art or fascination is to me unknowne In Londen soe wounderfull was the veneration my Countre-men had to this great man's person and soe great was theyr zeale to please and loath in the least to displease him as even when some begun to apprehend feares and jelousies of his sinistrous proceedings perceaving things not to goe as they expected yet not with standing they scarce durst mutter theyr to well grounded feares and fuspitions each long time every man was sicut mutus non aperiens os suum in the cause of Religion and countrie though they haue seen evidently his daylie heapinge of injuries upon the nation nay some were soe starck blind and slumbred upon this fatal Duke as even after he possessed wroungfully theyr estates and fortunes they were construing all to the best and supposing some deep mâ—sterie of pietie in the man and yet could giue noe reason for such theyr vain conjectures and hopes some in theyr priuat discourses as if they were deluded by fiends and specters wid imagin some future good Ormond would doe the nation this epidemical dimnis and stupiditie attached the judgment and braines soe firmly of many that several of them could not be persuaded but Ormond would as yet giue them a day of rejoycement and happiness I haue been much amazed and noe lesse perplexst after seeyng and hearing some of theyr silly and simple éxpressions pronunced in theyr privat confabulations in London and letter 's from that cittie to thes parts much to this effect Ormond said one will never betray us he 'il never shrinke from us he is our owne his intentions are good an other said Ormond is to Noble to doe soe base an act it is not his Kinde to doe unworthie things his father and Mother quoth the third man were constant true Catholicks that is indeed true was not I beseech yow his grand-father said the fourth man walter earle of Ormond for his devotion stiled walter of the beads and rosarie will the child of soe good soe godly and vertuous progenitours deceave the confidence wee his countremen doe place in him noe it cannot be happie are we that he is soe great with his Majestie for though he seems at present some what could towards us and to shake hands with Orrery and the rest of the Cromwelian faction yet his hart howeuer is with us
and for us he may for a time favour theyr wayes but to stick for good and all to such men rebellious enimie◠to the King and to him selfe is a thing I can not beleeue for yow must know that Ormond is a wise man a great politician you shall see in time how handsomly he will wind himselfe out of theyr clawes These and such like idle Sermocinations was theyr discourse but alack thes wise men did but flatter them selves and the time with such frivolous thoughts and conjectures grounding the fundation of theyr future prosperitie in Ormond's affection to the nation and his special care of theyr preservation which was in good earnest but to raise theyr building upon a fundation of sands or as Jmay say to build castels in the ayre but serò sapiunt Phryges the web is dispelled that couered ouer our eyes we can tandem see something and much like thos that rested long under the Iuniper tree whose shadow is both noxious and grivous to nature when they a wake feele a violent head-ach soe we hauing slept and slumbred long without due care to our owne preservation under the noxious shadow of Ormond's apparent affections at last experected and hauing opned our eyes we find our head heart and whole body in a far worse distemper then they that laid under the Iuniper tree our feauer is mounted to a hectical height partly by our owne carelessness and cheefly by the improper administration of our physitian Ormond who instead of salutiferous potions deluded us with poyson This Noble man haue poysoned as I may say the heart of us all I mean of his Majestie with toxical councels and fallacious informations against us soe as this poyson possessing the vitals we are faintinge and must of need perish if the antidot cordials of his Majestie 's goodness in whom next to god as thé fontaine of mercy and justice we place all trust and hope will not affoord us life and comfort which antidot cordials haue been hitherto as is evidently Knowne unjustly detained from us by the suggestions of Ormond and Clarindon CHAPTER II. A diligent Search off the motifs and reasons induced Ormond to forsake since the kings restauration the Catholicks of Irland and to stick to the Cromwelians WE are now to search out the motifs induced Ormond to à bandon the Catholicks and cause moved him to this suddain separation whether by ill chance the catholicks plotted against his life person libertie or fortunes or whether they with-drew first from him or haue given any occasion or offence sufficient to compel him to such à repentinous mutation or whether it was the king's interest for the better settlement of that kingdom under the crowne made him fasten hands with them new men and forsake the old stead-fast friends There is noe man will beleeue that soe noble à person soe compleat à states-man soe much esteemed in court and cittie for gallantrie and honour à man soe much cried up for his integritie and good nature to be the paramount of thousand as all his frinds in the beginning of his power gaue out of him then when he begun to haue dealing with the confederat catholicks there is not a man I say would beleeue that à person of such unparalelled parts would deflect foe nastilie in that nature from them without some efficatious ground and reason This unexpected catastrophe as it suggested matter of admiration to all sort of people soe it hath struken even dumb his neerest relations and thes his friends that most dearely respected him in soe much as they durst not speake one woord in deffence of this his instabilitie I am confident his grace wanted not such persons his close sticklers men skil'd both in the english and lattin letters wch formerly with heat and zeale were in a readiness to maintaine by hooke or crooke with apparent and seeming ratiocinations his sinistrous doeyngs faults and faylings now in this matter they dare not appeare to justifie his running a way from the camp of israel to the phylistin's field from the association and amitie of honourable and honestly true men the kings good subjects and his owne steadfast frinds to à cromwelian faction that heald out soe long in bloudy rebellion against the crowne and royal family even father VVaylsh himselfe who beyound all mortals Sacrifices himselfe to Ormond and who have written soe much of that Noble mans constancie vertues and supereminent talents sits now mute and silent he sayes nothing gives not a word in vindication of his great patron's defection from his friends alliances and countriemen I perceave the fathers mind and the cause of his silence in this matter he knowes it is hard for him invita Minerva pessima existente causâ to lay hand to his pen. His Grac◠the duke himselfe is sensible there are several inducing and obliginge reasons for continuing his affection if he had been soe pleased and association with the catholicks of Irland as may be the antiquitie greatness and Catholick pietie of his familie and renowned Ancestours for soe many hundred yeares in that Kingdom of Irland his vast patrimonie the Noble houses of two Viscounts three Barrons and great number of rich and worthie families of Knights and Esquires descended lineally from his pedigree that his Noble brother Mr. Richard Buttler his vertuous sisters gallant Ladies were borne in that land and have theyr estates and beeing therin add to this the alliance of several other peers of the land to his familie all which are undeniable and strong inducements powerfull to move and bind such a person or any other to love the Catholicks of Irland and closely fasten unto them in all theyr just concernments and undertakings In this place I would faine Know what had Orrery Monthrath and the rest of that crue to doe with the house of Ormond did there by good lucke intervene at any time tuixt theyr families and his any concatenation of marriages any relation of consanguinitie any firme connection of unstained friendship not that euer I could heare off but all to the contrarie well Knowne they were his deadly enemies and stared with an envious eye vpon his Lustre and Splendour who like unto a procerous Cedar they percēaved did overtopp them selves His Grace I suppose will not say he deserted the Catholicks whose loyaltie to the crowne of England have been sufficiently Knowne even to the very rebells themselues to joyne in friendship with these freash men but stale rebells for better advancing and securi◠his Majesties interest certainly a man of my lord's Iudgement as I am confident wid blush to pretend any such excuse or to say soe my lord of right should a gon with more moderation in foe waightie a matter and nicely ponder before pacting friendship with them whether or noe they that have been for soe many yeares fyrie and sworne enemies to the King and crowne would at long triall prove worthie of his amitie or of any other man 's else that had
any time evermore some through ignorance of states affaires and intrigues obstructing as yet others through inconsideration of these wayes to you knowne much wiser though slower then folly and rashness could chalke out and some out of prejudice or an euil will which blinds them and makes them abuse the timorousness and credulity of all they can to lessen your esteeme and your dependence all they are able My lord these thoughts which more and more trâ—oubled me dayly because I have dayly new occasions â—o reflect on them and therefore would noe longer but give them your Excellency even in this method and writing that they may take the deeper impression as evry much concerning you since your one welfare and the kings and peoples in my jugment very much depend on a good esteeme of soe great a minister as your great deserts have made you But with all my lord I will give your Excellency my most earnest and most harty desire that you delay noe longer then shall be necessary to cleare these clouds of darkness and cleare them in this present conjuncture by an effectuall demonstration of the justice and favour you intend the Catholicks in your Articles of 48. when they soe freely put themselves and their power into your hands Father VVailsh your letter is well penn'd expressing exâ—â—llently the general feare that seazed vpon all the Catholicks of our nation in London a truer expression could not be I observe you say in the generality of Irland here even I say of those who have beene soe long as well yoâ—r constant beleevers as your stedfast frinds â— dimness c. And for the better persuading him to shew his vertue and affection to his Catholick frinds you tell him his owne webfare the kings c. did much depend on a great esteeme of soe great a minister as his great deserts have made him Nothing can be said in reason to moue a gallant man more then what you have said In the end of your letter you presse him closely to doe the Catholicks justice by vertue of the Articles of 48. saying when they put themselves and their power into your hands soe freely Certainly good fa had Ormond loved you and the Catholicks of Irland those you name his fastest frinds and sticklers as much as you and they loved him would he have giveÌ„ a good answer to your rational lines but you tell nothing of his answer if good or bad if it were good I am sure you would have published it amongst the rest of his great vertues soe as your silence in this argues noe good answer all your prayers good fa to Ormond are in vaine you have cast your seed in a barren land Hoc est supra Petram and your prayers withered and shrank Had Ormond been a worthy man and lover of his country he had dispersed those clouds of darkness as you desired him taking away those feares of his true frinds by appearing for the nation as behoved a just man and as he was bound by vertue of the articles of 48. himselfe being the kings commissioner vpon concluding that peace These are the affections and dutyes required at his hands by the Catholicks Doth his greatness thinke you give him a Privilege that the Catholicks should love him and he hate them that men nobly borne and many other worthy persons should for soe many years rely vpon him putting great trust in him and he in the end should betray them in the greatest concernment they had in the world if he hath in this done like a true Chriâ—â—iaâ— or gallant nobleman head of soe aâ—cient a family judge you and all others You speakâ— after of Ceremonies and Tenebrae all wee had from Ormond were but Tenebrae and Darkness nor did your glorious light in the Triangle ever shine propitious to the Catholicks his trusty frinds and sticklers have too long relyed vpon a reed of Egijpt a reed without stay or vertue such as your Ormond was and is Such in London of our Nation as you say that feared he would prove as he shâ—wed himselfe I see were wiser then you that trusted soe much in him and could not be persuaded he would play booty in the end and abandon the Catholiâ—ks thâ—ir feare was grounded in good reason and your confidence in him was vaine and you remaine still deceaved in that your confidence oh would to God the Catholicks had feared him in good time if soe Ormond had never come to the power of annoying them or to loose them but Serò sapiunt phrijges he deceaved the person most trusted in him and did beleeve as you doe that he would prove the deliverer of his country I meane the Earle of Clancarty then lord viscont Musgry his brother in law who seemed sore vexed in his dying bed for having placed trust in Ormond an errour destructive to his Nation and could his Excellency then was the time not to dissemble the heauyest feare that pâ—ssessed his soule goeing vnto an other world was for confiding soe much in him who deceaved them all and lost his poore country and countrymen It is plain truth and F. VVailsh you know it to be soe the great opinion very many of the assembly had of the sound jugement of my lord Clancarty speaking nothing of his high descent an fortune made many of the nobles and gentry follow him and in the end they all found themselves deluded You know well that young Musgry Clanâ—arty his heire who was Collonell in France a stout and valiant person one of the hopefullest men of his Nation who was killed in the first war at sea against the Hollanders could never indure his vncle Ormond after seeing his finistrous wayes his cunning artices and his deserting the Catholicks soe fouly You have indeed F earnestly prayed Ormond and conjured him to appeare for the Nation and to obtaine for them the benefit of the Articles of the peace of 48. which he himselfe was bound in honnor and conscience to doe and you constantly exspected their delivery by him and when shall that be thinke you even then when the Iews shall see their Messias long waited for Honest friar Ormond hath deceaved you and tooke a course to increase and secure his owne fortunes he collogued with your countrymen and in the end stuck to that side that preyed and robbed them of their estates and amongst all he had the greatest share as is well knowne to all yet not a woord of this in your writings of the high elogies you give of his wisedom vertue and most pretious qualities that can adorne a states-man CHAPT IX In this Chapter is clearly set downe Ormonds wrongfull in vasion and possession of several IIrish Catholick gentlemens estates well expressed in the case of Sr. Robert Lyunch Knight and Barronet ORmond hath invaded against conscience justice and honour the estates of hundreds of poore innocent Catholicks I beseech you what title or right had his Grace to the estate of Sr. Robert
and sake yet hee would not have his same to be taken away or stain'd Bonum est enim saith the Apostle mihi magis mori quam ut Gloriam meam Quis evacuet Saint Ierome in Imitation of Saint Paul sayes Ad Silentiam Apostolici et Exempli et Praecepti est ut Habeamus rationem non conscientiae tantum sed etiam famae Finally Saint Augustin Sermone tertio de vita Clericorum hath these words tenete quod dixi atque distinguite duae res sunt Conscientia et famae Conscientia Necessaria est tibi fama Proximo tuo qui fidens Conscientiae suae negligit famam suam credulis est The Bishops being innocent are to follow Saint Paules Example to defend theire fame against Ormond and a greater man then hee and theire Innocency Piety and knowne integrity will throughly defend then My opinion is that Ormonds vnquietness coms from the hight of his spirit for that the appetite of ambitious men is commonly soe inordinate theire will sâ—e vnbridled that they canÌ„ot indure to see themselves thwarted in the least or crossed soe thâ—t though they possess never soe much contentment in all things yet if in the least they finde themselves opposed all the rest seems noysome unto them an Example of which wee have in Holy Scripture in the book of Hester of Aman. who abounding in wealth and honour Pleasures and glories seeing that Mardochaus the poore Iew let him pass without doing him any reverence which Mardochans did out of feare of offending God knowing well Aman was a deadly enemie to God and to the Iewes was soe vexed therwith that hee assembled his wife Children and frinds having told them of all his Glories and Familiarity with the King Assuerus and how hee alone was inuited a long with the King to Queen Hesters banquet hee said and for all I have this pompe magnificence and Glorie I think I have nothing as long as I see Mardochaeus sitting before the Kings doore and performing mee noe reverence Even soe Ormond having all Glory and prosperity yett thinkâ— hee hath nothing while the Catholick Bishops that offended him not doe not prostrate themselves at his feet and submitt to his blindly trausported Iudgment Then Zares Amans wife and his frinds answered him saying commâ—und a beame to be raised of sixty cubits high and speak to the King on the morning that Mardochaeus may be hanged theron and soe thou shall goe Ioyfull and merily to the feast but all went quite to the contrary and to Amans expectation and to the expectation of all his frinds the Gibbet raiâ—ed by Aaman for Mardochaeus was turned to Aamons owne destruction That hee as I said before for his great ambition accompanied with a revenging minde can have but little ease or rest The Prophet says Impius quasi mare servens quod quiescere non potest The wicked man is like a * Isa cap 57. swelling Sea which cannot rest there can be noe greater executioners or torments to the minde of man then ambition enuy and anger this made Horace say Invidia sicult non invenere tyranni tormentum majus The tyrants of Cicilie never found agreater torment then enuy Seneca tells us the ambitious man receiveth not soe much contentement by seeing many behinde him as discontent by seeing any before him there are many great men in this age sick of this disease such as cannot know when they are well and though great they be will striue still to be greater soe that they can at noe tyme be at ease or at quietness much like that Italian who being well must needs take phisick and dyed therof upon whose sepulchre this Epitaphe was engraved I was well and would be better I tooke phisick and came to the phereter Plutharch expresseth naturally this unquietness of ambitious mindes in Pyrrhus King of Epirot who having greatly enlarged his Dominions with the conquest of the great Kingdom of Macedonia began alsoe to designe with himselfe the conquest of Italy and having Communicated his deliberation with his great counselour Cineas hee demaunded his advice whertoe Cineas answered that hee greatly desired to know what hee meant t doe when hee had conquered Italy Sir quoth Pyrrhus the Kingdom of Cisilie is then neere at hand and deserveth to be had in consideration as well for the fertility as for the riches and power of the Iland well quoth Cineas and when you have gotten Cicily what will you then doe Quoth Pyrrhus Africk is not farre of where there are divers goodly Kingdoms which partly by the fame of my former eonquests and partly by the valour of my souldiers may easily be subdued I grant it quoth Cineas but when all Asrick is yours what mean you then to doe when Pyrrhus saw that hee vrged him still with that question then quoth Pyrrhus thou and I will be merry and make good cheere wherunto Cineas replyed if this shall be the end of your adventures and labours what hindereth you from doeing the same now will not your Kingdoms of Epyras and Macedonia suffice you to be merry and make good cheere and if you had Italy Cicily Africk and all the World could you and I be merrier then wee are or make better cheere then wee doe will you therfore venter your Kingdoms Person Life Honour and all you have to purchase that which you have already Thus said wise Cineas to Pyrrhus reprehending his Immoderate ambition who knew not when hee was well neither yet what hee would have seeing hee desired noe more then that which hee had alleready which in the end cost him deare for following his owne ambition and unbridled appetite to amplify his Dominions as hee gott much soe hee lost much being able to conserve nothing any tyme and at length having entred the towne of Agros by force hee was killed with a brick batt throwne downe by a woeman from the top of a house heere you see the wretched end of Pyrrâ—us his ambition Had Ormond such a Counsellour by him as Cineas was heard unto him hee had lickly been happier then hee is at present such a Counsellour I mean as would say unto him intrepidly when hee tooke the course of stripping honest Gentlemen of theire estates my Lord I would desire to know what you resolve to doe when you have by hooke and Crooke ingrossed the lands and inheritances of Innocent persons poore widowes and Orphans unto your selfe when you have obtained all is the thing you ayme at only to make good cheare and be merry if this be your designe you need not trouble your selfe soe much nor expose your conscience to danger nor your honour to such an Ignominious shame and infamy which shall endure to all ages in taking away that which is not your owne farre better content your selfe as you are and feast upon that great patrimony your Predecessors left cannot that estate which maintained them honourably without damaging any other maintaine and content you but I