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A61340	The state of Ireland, with a vindication of the Act of Settlement and commissioners proceedings, &c. also, reflections on the late Coventry-letter writ by an eminent councellor of that kingdom, wherein the said author endeavours to prove, that it was not for murther, nor rebellion, but religion that the Irish estates were sequestred by the forementioned act / by a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1688 (1688)	Wing S5301; ESTC R22558	20,095	100

Claimants been ready Pag. 10. The Fifty Two Nomenoes have not yet got Possession of a Cottage of their Ancient Estates This is false many of them have got a considerable part of their Antient Estates Pag. 15. Since the Cessation of Arms concluded in the Year 1643 there was no more Fighting between His Majesty's Protestant and Roman Catholick Subjects Here he justifies the breaking of the Peace in 1646 and the Wicked and Malitious Actions of the Nuntio's Party the attempt upon Dublin by O Neile and Preston Excommunicating all that adher'd to the King's Authority All which was it seems in this Gentleman's Thoughts no Fighting against the King Pag. 18. In this place he takes confidence to fix upon this King when Duke of York a foul Aspersion by saying The Lands of Miles Corbett and other the Regicides now in His Majesty's Possession by Vertue of the Act of Settlement were set out to those Regicides for no other Service but the Sentence of Death they gave against King Charles the First Which is a most gross Falshood for these Persons had these Lands His Majesty now enjoys for Adventurers Arrears Provisions and other Considerations common with them and others and not as a Reward for Murdering the King Pag. 19. By the Insurrection Four Hundred Englishmen could not be found Murdered in Ireland as appears by the Proceedings yet extant in Dublin 'T is certain for all this Affirmation That there were Examinations taken by Vertue of the King's Commission under the great Seal at Dublin which prove the Murder of many Thousands of the British in Ireland at the first Insurrection or Rebellion which you please Pag. 19. The Peace in 1648 was no sooner Published than all the Garrisons Cities and Magazines of the Irish were put under the Command of the King's Lieutenant This is not so the Confederates by the Articles reserved them in their own Power and Possession The Story is too well known how his Grace the Duke of Ormond a Person of Eminent Loyalty was most falsly abused in this Libel then the King's Lieutenant and how he was used at Limerick Waterford and Gallaway needs not be repeated Pag. 19. Notwithstanding the Confederates were offered any Conditions by the Usurper and Courted by the Parliament The Confederates were never offered any advantagious Conditions by the Usurper it is known he absolutely denied the Exercise of their Religion I wish some body to convince the World would give an Account of those favourable Conditions refused from the Usurper and of the glorious Courtships bestowed on them by the Parliament which are yet Secrets Pag. 20. Solicited by some Neighbouring Potentates There is good Evidence they Solicited France Spain Rome and Lorrain but that They were Solicited is not generally known It had been well if the Author had nam'd the Potentates Pag. 22. Most of the Young Nobility and Gentry having followed His Majesty into Foreign Countries The Irish Gentry is very numerous No Man was ever a Proprietor of Lands or related in any degree to or of the Name of a Proprietor in that Country but he is esteemed a Gentleman What a Noble Army would the greatest of these have amounted to at least Thirty Thousand And yet this very Author a few Pages before told us There were but Five Hundred Gentlemen with the King in Flanders and over-reckon'd them too by more than half It is certain many Irish Gentlemen Served the King beyond Sea who deserve much Praise without enquiring how many were forced to go over by their Articles with the Usurper 〈◊〉 have perused a List of those Gentlemen in Hi● Majesty's Declaration of the 30th of November 1660. and find them to be Two Hundred Twent● One of which there are of Original Irish Familie● One Hundred Thirty Eight and of the Old Englis● Eighty Three There is not of that List one Flemming Nugent Barnwel Tyrrel and only Mr. Nicholas Plunket of Dunshaghlin of the Sirname of Plunket whereas there are many more Gentlemen of those Names than the whole number in that Declaration amounts to From whence it follows That the Author is grosly mistaken in his Assertion Pag. 26. Presbyterian Lords Justices Deposed and Imprisoned by the King's Command There were no Lords Justices Imprisoned by the King's Command This is a Romance like the rest Here I cannot pass by that which is common to this Author with many of his Country-men the fixing upon all the British in Ireland the odious Appellations of Presbyterians Phanaticks and Cromwellians It hath been a Practice There formerly to call the English there amongst them by those they esteemed most Scandalous Names given to any of the Nation as in 1641. they were all stiled Puritans For my part I do not think it fit to bestow the title of Rebels Nuntioists so freely amongst them and yet they must remember that the Faults of the English who swerv'd from their Duty are forgiven and all Men forbidden to upbraid them by an Act of Oblivion which They cannot yet pretend to Pag. 27. The Earl of Clarendon made it his Business to Exalt the French King This is a high touch of Malice Rather than he will not rail against the Earl of Clarendon he will take occasion from that Earls pretended Kindness to the French King I am apt to believe tho' that he is out in this particular But that some of his Country-men has had a greater Kindness for that King will appear by an Authentick Piece I have put at the end of this Paper The Author has thought it fit through his whole Pamphlet to cast most false and scandalous Aspersions upon Persons of great Honor and Integrity of which I shall take no further notice but leave him to Scorn and Contempt which those Noble Persons have hitherto judged the best Answer to his Libel only observing his unparallel'd Impudence and Malice in charging the late Earl of Clarendon whose many Just and Famous Actions will make him Famous to Posterity with abominable Calumnies and that without any regard to Truth or Probability or Respect to the Royal Family to which He was so nearly Related By this Pamphlet and other Books Printed both at Home and Abroad the Conditions of the Irish Nation is described as the most Miserable and Oppressed as any People were ever in under the Sun I could not see what happened during the War yet have reason to believe some of them did more Mischief than they could suffer But since King Charles the Second's Restauration they have no occasion to complain they have been equally Protected by the Law The free Exercise of their Religion hath been conniv'd at There have still been Parish Priests in every Parish competently maintained by the Irish Farmers which the British Landlords suffered to their great Disprofit when Dissenting Protestants have been severely Prosecuted especially in the Province of Vlster and Indicted as Rioters for Religious Assemblies Great and frequent Meetings at Mass have not been taken notice of They have been allowed to keep the Holy-Days of their own Church and not forced to observe those of the Protestants I mean the Twenty Ninth of May nor the Thirtieth of January which I never could hear they minded The poor sort of Labourers and Farmers in their own Opinions lived better Lives than ever their Ancestors knew receiving Wages and having Terms of the Land they Manured Those sort of People being the most numerous wisht without doubt in their Hearts for the Continuance of the present Settlement The Artificers Tradesmen and Merchants were admitted freely to follow their respective Callings in Corporations if there were Laws to the contrary they were not put in Practice The Proprietors amongst them which proved their Innocency were Restored to their Possession without further Suit at Law and for the most part found their Land in better condition than when they lost them All difficulties in the Act of Settlement have been judged in their Favour Abundance of great Estates have been Restored to several of them who never proved their Innocency nay some of them have large Grants of the Forfeited Lands of their Country-men The most of the Forfeited Lands in the Counties of Galloway Clare and Roscommon are given to such Proprietors who lost their Estates in other Places with this particular Favour That if any of them before he had passed a Patent had conveyed his share to a Protestant the Purchaser was obliged to retrench a Third Part towards the satisfaction of those Irish But if the Irish Proprietors kept his Proportion he was allowed a Patent for the Whole All Free-holders without distinction were admitted to pass on Juries to be Electors of or Elected Parliament-men and none excluded out of the House of Lords for Religion I say nothing of their present Condition not having been lately There but certainly had they continued as they were they have not much reason to exclaim There are other Arguments against breaking of the present Settlement of more consequence than any herein mentioned which I purposely omit as not proper for me to meddle with Yet I cannot conclude without remembring once more the Opinion of James late Earl of Castle-haven who was himself not only a Roman Catholick but one of the most considerable of the Confederate Roman Catholicks of Ireland and one that knew their Designs as well as any amongst them He then has declared That it was most probable that if the Nuntio 's Party in the Year 1646. had had all Ireland it would have remained separate from England for ever Which Nuntio's Party at that Time consisted of all the Confederate Roman Catholicks in Ireland except this Earl of Castle-haven and some few others FINIS

A Defence of the Present Settlement in IRELAND BY a LETTER pretended to be written from COVENTRY dated the 26th of October 1686. and several other Papers which have been carefully dispersed by some Persons who seem disaffected that the British are Possess'd of so many Estates formerly belonging to Irish Proprietors and with the Present State of Affairs 'T is apparent That there are Those that endeavour as much as in them lies to break the Settlement of that Kingdom of Ireland from which His late Majesty reaped more Profit than all His Ancestors before Him ever receiv'd from that Island And England has been eas'd of those great Expences of Blood and Treasure that the frequent Rebellions of that Kingdom did formerly occasion And although I do not imagin That any Suggestions how confidently soever ●●serted will be able to divert our Soveraign from the Rules of Justice or the Interest of His Crown Yet I think it reasonable for the Satisfaction of Those to whom that Share I have in Ireland may come to set down what I know of that Settlement whil'st fresh in Memory that they may hereafter understand upon what Foundation their Title is built and endeavour and that without Scruple by all lawful Means to Enjoy and Defend It. I intend no Reflection upon any Particular Person nor can I without Trouble mention the Sad Accidents which happen'd between the Years 1640. and 1660. in Ireland Were I not forc'd to it I should esteem it indecent to use the term IRISH REBELLION but 't is now made necessary Let the Blame therefore lie on Him that gave the Occasion However I shall not offer any Thing but what I Know or have good Reason to Believe True and no more of That neither than is Pertinent The Question then being Whether it be Reasonable at this Time to break the Settlement of Ireland The Justice of it will first fall under Consideration In the next place Supposing some Objections might have been made to the Settlement at first Whether at this Time they can be justly hearken'd to Lastly I shall make some Observations on the Coventry-Letter and the Pamphlet from which the AUTHOR of that LETTER deriveth many of his Arguments call'd A Narrative of the Sale and Settlement of Ireland To prove the Settlement Just which is Founded upon the Forfeiture of a considerable Part of the Land of that Kingdom it will be necessary to shew That there was a Rebellion in Ireland which began the 23d of October 1641. and that almost general I. First For this I shall offer as the best Proofs that can be produc'd several Acts of Parliament as the Four Acts of Parliament Passed in England 17 0. Car. I. where this Rebellion is declar'd in the Judgment of that Parliament so general that many Millions of Acres would be Forfeited by it The Act of Settlement which is a brief Narrative of the Rebellion therein stiled almost National The Confederates being Represented in a General Assembly Chosen by Themselves and Acting by a Supream Councel Exercising the Power of Life and Death Making Peace and War Levying and Coyning Money Treating with Foreign Princes for their Government and Protection and Acting under a Foreign Authority Which are the Words of the Act not Words of course but of certain Truth as many could well remember that were living when the Act was agreed upon And the Irish Agents then disputed all particulars where they had the least pretence of Denyal yet these things were made good to their Faces and by the late King directed to be inserted as the Foundation of the intended Settlement The Act likewise that passed the 14 of King Charles the Second Cesse 23. For the keeping the 23. of October 1641. To Seize the Castle and City of Dublin and all other Cities in the Realm To cut off all the English in that Kingdom and to deprive King Charles the First of His Crown and Soveraignty Secondly The Irish do acknowledge that there was a Cessation a Peace made 1646 and another in 1648. between Them and King Charles the First or those Authorized by Him Doth not this necessarily Imply a War and what is a War by Subjects mannaged against their lawful King but a Rebellion These Transactions were in the Names of the General Assembly of the Confederate Roman Catholicks of Ireland which comprehended the whole Nation And if any of the Irish Confederates declared themselves against this Assembly as not included in it let those that know them Name them for their Eternal honour Thirdly The Rebellion was so General that in seven Counties of the Kingdom by the begining of the Year 1643 there were 3000 Outlawed for High Treason In eleven other Counties there were at least 3000 Outlawed for their Rebellion but the Power of the Rebels was so Great that they could not be Outlawed And as for the whole Province of Gonaught the Counties of Tippeary Limerick and Kerry and the rest of the Kingdom the Defection was so Universal that the King had neither Sheriffs Coroners nor any other Ministers of Justice to proceed against the Delinquents Fourthly The Oaths of Association That the General Assembly and Supream Council oblig'd persons within their Power to take directing them to be Administred by the Clergy in every Parish could not but Involve all that lived within their Quarters which first or last were almost over the whole Kingdom in an equal Guilt unless preserv'd by Miracle And if there be any such the Naming of them would give the World much Satisfaction Certainly from these Particulars considered together we may be satisfied of the Truth of that Expression in the Act of Settlement That the Rebellion spread it self universally over the whole Kingdom I shall say nothing of the Barbarous carriage of the Irish at the breaking out of the Rebellion to persons that had given them no Provocation which appeared by several Examinations taken upon Oath by vertue of the Kings Commission when things were fresh in Memory This only may be desired from those who deny any of the Relations published of those Cruelties to name the Places where any of the British were permitted to Live in Irish Quarters before the Cessation but were Murdered or utterly Ruin'd Many have been Inquisitive but could never hear of any one Family that escaped them unhurt unless they joyned with them except some few that were Protected by the late Earl of Clanriskard The Rebellion being so hainous and general as appears by the above Proofs It clearly appears that the Lands forfeited by the Rebels might justly be disposed to others That English Kings have disposed of Lands forfeited for Treason hath been every where so common but in England especially is a matter so well known that it needs no Evidence The King by the Law hath an absolute Right in such Lands which he may give as he thinks fit but those that were in Possession of those forfeited Lands in Ireland at King Charles the Seconds Restauration