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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30918	Mephibosheth and Ziba, or, The appeal of the Protestants of Ireland to the King concerning the settlement of that kingdom by the author of The mantle thrown off, or, The Irish-man dissected.	H. B.	1689 (1689)	Wing B76; ESTC R8543	38,543	72

a Pardon to the Chief Lords and Men of Estates will not affect the Army for that few of them are consider'd there as Souldiers in regard that other men subordinate to them are the Commanders and Leaders in the Army so that pardoning them secures not the men of action who lie under such circumstances as a general Pardon will not free them from Secondly A Pardon for all Crimes and Misdemeanours relating to the Crown will be no Security to the private Souldiers Captains Lieutenants c. my Reason is For that all the Robberies and Spoils done to the English were committed by such though at the secret instigation and encouragement of their Great ones Now the English cannot prefer an Action at Law against any but these private men and if thereby they become obliged as in Justice they ought to make restitution of what they have made a violent Seizure from the other that must certainly bring on their inevitable Ruin which will make it as equal to them to die in the Field as in a Gaol And now as to the second Motive That a General Pardon will prevent Burning and other Devastations I answer That it will have the quite contrary effect and consequently be an occasion of more Mischief which I undertake to demonstrate from the following reasons First It is an unalterable Maxim rivetted amongst ●em as well by the Principles of their Religion as natural genius and common Custom to do as much Mischief as they possibly can to the Protestants and as soon as they receive an account of this Pardon will be very industrious to leave what marks they can of their inveterate Fury and 't is possible for them to effect this in a days time throughout the Kingdom and yet keep within the compass of their Pardon Secondly This General Pardon will not prevent Burning and other destructive Arts of the English Plantations but rather promote them for that their Lords being reinvested in their Estates will consider That if the English Houses and Improvements be destroyed their Estates will be the sooner inhabited for that the English coming in poor will have nothing to build or improve their Estates so that in course the Irish Lands must be first Peopl'd For these reasons it seems evident That a General Pardon will not have the effect propos'd neither as to the more expeditious reduction of that Kingdom nor for the preventing of the Ruin and Devastation feared from the Irish The next consideration in order to the former is What Mischiefs will attend a General Pardon and how it will affect the English or British Interest which shall be laid down in these seven following particulars First It will be an encouragement to the Irish to commit the same Outrages again and will animate them to an embracing of the first opportunity which they have now more reason to expect to prove favourable to them than formerly since that the French are engaged with them in one bottom and are link'd together in a general Interest as being as 't is said by vertue of the late Compact entituled to a share in the Kingdom Now if at any time the French should be at leisure by concluding of a Peace with his Enemies abroad he may at pleasure pour an Army into Ireland where the Natives there will be in a readiness to give them a kind reception and that without hardly exposing themselves to any hazard in regard that they will suppose that they will be no Losers by it Since a Pardon attends their greatest Outrages the worst that can ensue will be only to bring them in and to secure them from committing more Secondly It will enrich the Irish and impoverish the English who at a moderate computation may be deem'd to have lost in Personal Estates Money Goods and Cattel to a greater value than the Land of the whole Kingdom amounts to all which is in the possession of the Irish which as it renders the Protestants of little use in defence of the Kingdom so on the other side it strengthens the hands of the Irish and makes them formidable and very capable of raising disturbances in it Money commands Men and Men command Kingdoms and the Irish were never since the Conquest Masters of more if they pass unquestioned with the Personal Estates of the British Protestants Thirdly It will be the irresistible Ruin of the Protestants of that Kingdom seeing that all the Tenants are despoiled of their Stocks so that a Tenant having no Cattel to put upon his Land can consequently pay no Rent nor be capable of living in the Kingdom A Calamity better indeed exprest with Tears than Ink and 't is no small addition to so lamentable a subject to see some Thousands that twelve months ago and less lived perhaps as plentifully as any People of Europe at this day Wandring Beggars and some perishing in the Fields for want of Sustenance as they must inevitably do if Ireland were in the English hands tomorrow upon the Conditions of a General Pardon to the Natives Great I had almost said infinite numbers there are that in November last lost personal Estates to the value of Thousands not having now Clothes to their Backs nor Bread to eat They are now scattered through this Kingdom some relieved by the Benevolence of their Relations others by the publick Charity of the Kingdom and by reason of the distance of their abode are the less remarkable but when once they meet together in the same place from whence they were expell'd by Irish Robberies and the like acts of an inhumane violence it may reasonably be said of them as of the Prophet's dry Bones Can these live and his return will be the proper answer Thou Lord knowest For should they have no Reprize on the Irish Estates they must inevitably perish at the very doors of their Enemies Fourthly As this will ruin all men of Personal Estates so will it also have the same effect upon those of Real For their Tenants being lost their Lands must of Course lie waste and even quite depopulated For the Landlords of Ireland were as well stripped of their Personal Estates as their Tenants and generally came for England with as small a Provision for their Subsistence in it so that in their return they will not have a Penny to buy Stock nor a Bed to lie upon Fifthly As it destroys all the Protestants that have or had an Interest in the Kingdom so it for ever deterrs any new Planters It can never be forgotten That in the midst of Peace a Nation was destroyed in a day and the Authors indemnified that did it Who will adventure themselves in such a Country or at least attempt to go to a place that lies at the mercy and devotion of Savages and is not protected by its Friends Sixthly A General Pardon will make it a perpetual Charge to England as well as place it beyond a possibility of its reimbursing the expence its reduction will now contract

home when they are at their Devotion and lie at their mercy as now they must be own'd to do Besides the bringing in the common People by their Lords is to make them own their Deliverance to them and consequently to be under a stricter and more indispensable obligation of homage and subjection to them than formerly which I presume would be a thing neither honourable nor safe The ordinary People have no inclination to travailing no not so much as removing from one Province to another Let them but enjoy the conveniency of returning to their Cabins and of living quietly under the protection and security of the English Laws and Government and they will account to have made a very good and advantagious exchange Thus having in general terms described the present constitution and circumstances of the Irish I shall now descend to particulars and first look back into their ancient forms and modes of Government before the arrival of the English in that Kingdom which nearly resembled that of the Arabs though not so regular for their chief regard was to the Power and Force of him that govern'd not to the Right of Succession it was enough if he were of the same Family whether Brother or Son. Elder or Younger and in proportion to these wild Maxims they enjoyed their Estates He that was accounted the most Warlike or more truly speaking most barbarous the rest of the Family submitted to him This Savage Custom prevailed upon them till the coming of the English whose presence among them gave some check to it yet could never be extirpated till the English Laws and Government were established in their Country which to this day notwithstanding their present Usurpation they cannot but acknowledge to be an Happy Conquest but though the advantages of it be great to themselves yet there are many of them so unreasonably prepossest in favour of their former Confusion or rather in prejudice to their present Change because done by the English as to wish again for their Onions and Garlick of Aegypt and to anathematize the best Reform'd amongst them for introducing the English Customes and Restraints upon a Free People as they accounted themselves when indeed they were but Slaves to their own Brutality and Lust I shall not stuff Paper with what our Chronicles and Histories of Ireland relate as to the Title and Interest of England to that Kingdom nor repeat the Treasure of Blood and Coin it has cost to preserve it under the English Government but shall only observe to the Reader that it never continu'd so long without a Deluge of Blood as in the late Calm and peaceable Interval since the War of Forty One which was not ended till Fifty Three nor the Kingdom setled till Sixty Three So that by a proper computation it was not perfectly quiet in the possession of the British Protestants above Twenty Two years for we must commence the date of our Troubles in that Kingdom from the Late King 's ascending the Throne This is then but a short Rest of Twenty two years for that desolate Kingdom tired with the long fatigues of a constant War and almost all its British Veins quite emptied of Protestant Blood and yet the longest and most profitable that ever the English enjoy'd there much of which is attributed to the Conquest of Cromwell who thought it a diminution to his Honour to condescend to any terms with so base an Enemy and had not the Interest of their Patron the late King prevailed in the Settlement of that Nation but lest them in the same condition they were found in at the Restauration of King CHARLES the Second Ireland had been in the greatest Tranquillity of any of the three Kingdoms and consequently an entire Interest for our Deliverer His present Majesty It is now a matter deserving our consideration Whether that Kingdom as it remains in the Irish and French hands whether by both or either united it can be reasonably suppos'd to with stand His Majesty's Forces and Subjects in that Kingdom In order to which first reflect upon the Irish as to their Commanders and secondly as to their Troops First As to their Commanders Notwithstanding that they boast of some few Colonels and inferiour Officers yet they cannot nominate one Man that ever actually did or can Command a Field Their great Captain Justin Mac Carthy might be as good in a Cellar as any General in Europe but in a Field as the King of Denmark said of him when he was sent to him his Army must not be commanded by Glass-Eyes Their Offi●ers being thus mean their Troops are next to be considered and they perchance in the general are the most abject wretches in the world taken by force from the Spade and Cabin who by Blows and continual Instruction were brought to handle their Arms but not one in ten can fire a Musquet without shut eyes and a trembling hand I speak not this at randome or by hear-say but upon good grounds 'T is true their Horse are better but yet we have had a demonstration of their behaviour and all their actions in the North. This being a true Character of their own Force their dependence must be upon the French Auxiliaries to supply these Defects but how that suits with the Irish Interest and Design is not difficult to imagine The Irish Gentry for I must say that the common People desire not War with the English put themselves upon this Rebellion not so much out of a Loyal Adherence to their King as to be free Lords of the Soil and are now under no predominancy if they are capable by their own strength to continue their Deliverance otherwise they had better be under the English mild Government than the French Arbitrary Power whose cruel Tyranny to his native Subjects affords no Invitation or Encouragement to others to put themselves under it By this short Enquiry it seems plain That the present posture of Affairs in Ireland are not in so good a disposition as to entitle those wretched People to demand terms but rather to throw themselves upon and acquiesce in the King's Mercy and that to descend to Capitulations with them much more to give their Leaders Pardon is to encourage and revive a running Enemy If then it be granted That they are not in a capacity to oppose the Arms of England and that one Fourth of the Kingdom is already in the actual possession of the Protestants the best of the Irish Forces lost and that many of them living have laid down their Arms. This being premised the next thing to be considered is What Motives there are for giving Pardon to their Chief Commanders and those which are insisted upon are two The first is That by giving a General Pardon the Kingdom will be the sooner gain'd The second That a Pardon will preserve the Towns and Cities which the Irish will burn if made desperate To the first of these I shall return a two sold Answer First That