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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40454	A narrative of the settlement and sale of Ireland whereby the just English adventurer is much prejudiced, the antient proprietor destroyed, and publick faith violated : to the great discredit of the English church, and government, (if not re-called and made void) as being against the principles of Christianity, and true Protestancy / written in a letter by a gentleman in the country to a noble-man at court.; Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's settlement and sale of Ireland	French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing F2180; ESTC R6963	22,216	32

Oblivion so satisfactory to the Convention Agents if all other passages to his Majesties further Graces and Favours were not shut up against them And in order thereunto they prevailed with the first Minster of State whom they had gained to their side by what coloured Arguments he knows best himself to re-call the Commission of Lord Deputy which was formerly given to the Lord Roberts a person of known Honour and Integrity The Conventionists having observed that his Lordship was not to be won upon any account to forward their Design This grand obstacle being removed out of the way Broghil Anglesey Clotworthy and Mervin with the assistance of Steel Roberts and Petit after three Months labour brought forth that monstrous issue of their brain which was exposed to the World under the Name and Title of His Majesties most Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland This was their Master-piece and hath been ever since the ground-work of all subsequent Acts which were established for the farther Settlement of that Nation The first branch of the Declaration confirms the Adventurer in his possession the Second secures the Soldier in his Debenture the Third satisfies the 49 Men the Forth assures unto the Transplanted Irish the Land Decreed unto them in the Province of Conaught and County of Clare The Fifth makes mention of those Irish Officers who served his Majesty in Flanders as also the Generality of the Nation who pretend to Articles My Lord is not this a blessed Declaration which provides in so large a manner for so many different Interests A Declaration that satisfies the Natives and yet dispossesseth none of the Cromwellists To understand it well we must mount a little higher and call to our remembrance how the Rump-Parliament divided the spoils of that conquered Nation in the Year 1653. Ten Counties were allotted to the Adventurers Twelve conferred on Cromwel's Souldiers and three of the Barren Counties given by way of charity to the transplanted Irish These by computation make up 25 Counties the remaining seven for Ireland contains in all but 32 Counties together with all the Cities and Corporations of that Kingdom were reserved to the Common-wealth Now this Declaration confirms the Adventurers Souldiers and transplanted Irish in their present possessions And moreover it assigns to several other uses the Seven remaining Counties and all the great Towns of Ireland which were not disposed of by the Common-wealth One of the Counties being designed to supply the deficiency of the Adventurers Lots another to satisfie the Incumbrances on the Lands already laid out to Adventurers and Souldiers The third to reprize such as were removed from the Lord Duke of Ormond's Estate and the other Four Counties with all the Cities and Corporations of the whole Kingdom a pretty grant being assigned to the Protestant Officers who serv'd His Majesty in Ireland at any time before the year 1649. After this Solemn division and distribution made of every House and every Acre of Land over all the Kingdom of Ireland Some 500 Irish Gentlemen who also serv'd his Majesty in Flanders are named in the Declaration to be forthwith restored to their ancient Estates but not until Lands of equal value worth and purchase are first found out to reprize the Adventurers Souldiers and the rest now in possession a work no more nor less feasible than the creation of another Ireland My Lord this Declaration was published on the 30th of Novomber 1660. and at the same time Broghil created Earl of Orery and Sir Charles Coot made Earl of Montrath were joyned in Commission with the Lord Chancellor Eustace as his Majesties Lords Justices of that Kingdom Sir John Clotworthy who was also created Lord Viscount Masserene Sir Audley Mervin and some others of the Convention-Agents staid at Court to draw up privare Instructions for the better executing his Majesties Declaration And because Innocents viz. Such as never offended his Majesty or His Royal Father were the only people to be restored without previous reprisals the Conventionists made it their grand work to qualifie an Innocent that it should be Morally impossible to find any such in rerum natura virum innocentum quis inveniet Eleven qualifications were ordered for their Tryal and those so rigid and severe that Clotworthy and his Companions who had the wording of them did verily believe there could not be a man found in all Ireland that should pass untoucht through so many Pikes For not only the inoffensive persons who never took Arms who never enter'd into the Confederacy with the rest of their Countreymen if they did but pay them the least Contribution out of their Estates if they did but reside in the Irish quarters although in their own own houses not only these I say were declared to be no Innocents but such as lived all the War-time in England such as were with Hi● Majesty at Oxford and served in his Army if they received any Rent from their Tenants in Ireland were by virtue of one of the Eleven Qualifications to be held for Nocents But among all the other Qualifications that of taking an Engagement which was administred unto all his Majesties Subjects in the three Kingdoms was a very notable one This Engagement was forced upon the Irish in so high a nature that those who would not take it were debarred not only from the benefit of the Law but also exposed to an innevitable danger of death the Souldiers of Cromwels Army being commanded by publick Proclamation to kill all they met on the High-way who carried not a Certificate about him of having taken that Engagement Commands which were cruelly executed on silly Peasants who out of Ignorance or want of care having left their Tickets at home were barbarously murdered by the merciless Souldiers My Lord it is very remarkable that they who devised this Engagement who heartily subscribed unto it and forced others to take it shall not be questioned or held criminal and that those who never saw it before it was ministered unto them who abhorred it in their hearts and were forced to sign it to avoid a bloody and violent death shall be declared Nocents and an irrevocable sentence of losing their Estates given against them and the Estates so forfeited to be conferred on those very Persons who compelled the Proprietors to that Forfeiture By this Qualification alone a Man may judge of the rest To Crown this grand work of settling Ireland the Conventionists having worded the Declaration and Instructions to their own advantage prevailed with their great Patron to have themselves named the only Commissioners to put in Execution his Majesties Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland This un-usual and perhaps never before heard of course of Justice one of the parties being made Judge of the Case appeared so ugly and terrible to the Irish that many of them could hardly be perswaded to believe that his Sacred Majesty was restored to the peaceable and free possessession of his Crown and Kingdoms seeing